The Venezuelan coup attempt of 2002 was a failed military coup d'état on April 11, 2002. It saw the brief overthrow and arrest of leftist Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez, the dissolution of the democratically elected National Assembly, the dissolution of the Supreme Court, and the repeal of the country's constitution.
Rightist businessman and Venezuelan Federation of Chambers of Commerce (Fedecámaras) president Pedro Carmona was subsequently installed as interim president for 47 hours. In Caracas, the coup led to riots and a pro-Chávez uprising that the Metropolitan Police attempted to suppress. Key sectors of the military and parts of the anti-Chávez movement refused to back Carmona. The pro-Chávez Presidential Guard eventually retook the Miraflores presidential palace without firing a shot, leading to the collapse of the Carmona government and the re-installation of Chávez as president.
The coup was publicly condemned by Latin American nations (the Rio Group presidents were gathered together in San José, Costa Rica, at the time, and were able to issue a joint communiqué) and international organizations. The United States, which had acknowledged the de facto Carmona government, condemned the coup after Chávez had been restored to power. Upon news of Chávez's return, Condoleezza Rice, then National Security Advisor to U.S. President George W. Bush, said: "We do hope that Chávez recognizes that the whole world is watching and that he takes advantage of this opportunity to right his own ship, which has been moving, frankly, in the wrong direction for quite a long time."
It's good that youTube is there to provide an outlet to anyone who has a video they'd like the world to see, and I'm sure the fans of that channel's shows will be happy to see them there. But considering that the station supported a coup to overthrow the democratically elected president of their nation, I can't blame him for taking their antennas away.
That in no way explains why they wouldn't plan out their 3D space mission on a non-networked computer. Given that the Galactica is clearly using WAY more powerful computers than what it would take to do 3D simulations. They explain it in the podcast: The audience needs to understand what the fuck is going on, so they dropped the super freaky 3d display project they had going and made something that works on TV: "Those ships here are gonna go behind that moon there..."
No he didn't Yes he did, at great lengths, in the relevant podcast. Kept saying how the cast was in shock, everyone was sad Katee was leaving the show, etc, etc, etc.
"Our only weapon against the machines is the EMP..."
Oh, and guns. Turns out that guns work just as well. No one wants to buy the third Matrix flick since they ruined the franchise by abandoning the entire premise in the third installment. So I'm not surprised that their box set isn't a top seller.
Maybe if they'd went with their better options instead of insisting that humans expand more energy than they consume they would still be raking in the mind boggling profits they were enjoying when I first read that story on their site, but they had to cheapen it all.
RDM confirmed it. [...] Most sensible people dismiss his mystic/occult side, except possibly for RDM and a large chunk of California. RDM also confirmed that Kara was dead dead dead. Guess what, genius, the writers are protecting their spoilers. Now, say it with me: I won't confuse the canon with the hype.
And as far as the mystic/occult stuff, that's a big part of the whole Galactica: Visions, prophecies, destinies, gods, etc. If you're too sensible for it, don't watch it, and don't troll the threads about it.
How characters like Tigh, who was alive before the beginning of the first Cylon War and decades before skinjobs were invented, could in fact be a skinjob, especially when RDM already stated that skinjobs are not based on any preexisting colonial humans. Or he could have been brainwashed to think that at camp MindFuck on New Caprica by his Cylon captors, in-between eye-gouging him and screwing his wife.
Making those people (in the finale) into Cylons, based on a decision made halfway through season 3, just kind invalidated everything that came before to me. And the idea of pulling the lyrics for "All Along the Watchtower" out of the "ethereal mix" that we're all tapped into was just too stupid for me 1- Just because they think they're cylons doesn't mean they're cylons. 2- You just called Pythagoras "too stupid for you".
No, Colonel Tigh. That sound you're hearing? That's the sound of the writers pissing away three years of hard-won credibility in the space of seven minutes. Care to explain?
Most of the DVR users I know seem to "forget" that they can fast forward and its not an issue. What I can't wait for is when viewership is actually tracked instead of by some representative selection of people who never seem to like the shows I like. I watch shows on DVD, and sometimes I wish that there was a commercial in there, so I can sit and digest the big shocking reveal that just occurred without being distracted with technicalities like finding the remote and the pause button.
Then again, I also watch regular broadcast TV, I wish I never had to switch channel to avoid an annoying ad for something I'll never ever even consider buying.
No, Kara Thrace is the 5th cylon. How do you think she came back from the dead? I don't think she did. I also don't think that the victims of cylon brainwashing (some of whom were alive during the first cylon war, before the cylons evolved into replicants) are cylons themselves.
I'll change my mind when they show me multiple copies (and not in a dream sequence).
So that's where all those old programmers went after Y2K!
Actually, the Cylons and colonials will reach earth in 2009, and the programmer Lords of Cobol will destroy the Cylons with their clock-fu and move to the other planet to restart the cycle;-)
Given what happpend in the season 3 finale, it's obvious that the Cylons have had contact with Earth already. Ok, er, spoiler, and HELLO, Kara's destiny is to find Earth. The Cylons have her AND superior FTL technology. They made it to the musical nebulae before the others and used Kara and whatever clue is to be found there to get to the end of the trail.
all the cast members could listen to some Jimi Hendrix music and decide that they're [SPOILER IN CAPS]
Hendrix didn't write "All Along the Watchtower". Troll -- A Troll is similar to Flamebait, but slightly more refined. This is a prank comment intended to provoke indignant (or just confused) responses. A Troll might mix up vital facts or otherwise distort reality, to make other readers react with helpful "corrections."
it was just some kind of CRAZY hallucination, like Starbuck really being dead! We see her hand on the ejector seat lever. There's a Cylon troop transport luring her there. She's been declared dead and was saved by a Cylon ship before. One of the Leobens is obsessed with getting Starbuck to fall in love with him. Her henpit pressure had equalized to the atmospheric level due to the hole in her windshield. She holds on to the very last second, and only when her ship breaks apart do we see her throw her brace for it. Due to the documentary-style special effects, the shaking camera put her viper at the top of the screen when it explodes.
It's weird how many people believe what the characters are telling themselves (she's dead, Jim) rather than what the filmmakers are deliberately showing us (stuff the characters don't know, but we were shown requires far more effort in prop making, filming and editing than stuff people say).
My money is on "Earth is the Cylon home world" or something similarly devious. For crying out loud. Earth is the 13th colony of Cobol, they say so all throughout the series.
The Cylons were using the fleet to find it (Kara's destiny is to find earth, that's why Leoben was so obsessed with getting her trust). And the Cylons were created by the colonies who have no idea where Earth is. There is no chance at all that it's their homeworld.
It's true. I used to go by the battery tunnel (between Brooklyn and Manhattan) on a daily basis. They still have stormtroopers (sorry. Military personnel) hanging around and big signs stating no pictures anywhere near the tunnel. Wow, ok, that must make people feel much safer.
I hope his wife isn't checking out this Google Street View. If you zoom in on the window sign, you can see that half of it is blacked out (presumably to hide the boobies). Obviously, Google has been removing "adult content" from their pictures, so they can remove private content if they want to. I'm sure the guy there might have appreciated another black rectangle in that picture, over his eyes, for example.
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The Venezuelan coup attempt of 2002 was a failed military coup d'état on April 11, 2002. It saw the brief overthrow and arrest of leftist Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez, the dissolution of the democratically elected National Assembly, the dissolution of the Supreme Court, and the repeal of the country's constitution.
Rightist businessman and Venezuelan Federation of Chambers of Commerce (Fedecámaras) president Pedro Carmona was subsequently installed as interim president for 47 hours. In Caracas, the coup led to riots and a pro-Chávez uprising that the Metropolitan Police attempted to suppress. Key sectors of the military and parts of the anti-Chávez movement refused to back Carmona. The pro-Chávez Presidential Guard eventually retook the Miraflores presidential palace without firing a shot, leading to the collapse of the Carmona government and the re-installation of Chávez as president.
The coup was publicly condemned by Latin American nations (the Rio Group presidents were gathered together in San José, Costa Rica, at the time, and were able to issue a joint communiqué) and international organizations. The United States, which had acknowledged the de facto Carmona government, condemned the coup after Chávez had been restored to power. Upon news of Chávez's return, Condoleezza Rice, then National Security Advisor to U.S. President George W. Bush, said: "We do hope that Chávez recognizes that the whole world is watching and that he takes advantage of this opportunity to right his own ship, which has been moving, frankly, in the wrong direction for quite a long time."
It's good that youTube is there to provide an outlet to anyone who has a video they'd like the world to see, and I'm sure the fans of that channel's shows will be happy to see them there. But considering that the station supported a coup to overthrow the democratically elected president of their nation, I can't blame him for taking their antennas away.
DOROTHY
No. But it wasn't a dream -- it was a place.
And you -- and you -- and you -- and you were
there.
PROFESSOR
Oh --
(others laugh)
DOROTHY
But you couldn't have been, could you?
AUNT EM
Oh, we dream lots of silly things when we --
DOROTHY
No, Aunt Em -- this was a real, truly live
place. And I remember that some of it
wasn't very nice....
No he didn't Yes he did, at great lengths, in the relevant podcast. Kept saying how the cast was in shock, everyone was sad Katee was leaving the show, etc, etc, etc.
"Our only weapon against the machines is the EMP..."
Oh, and guns. Turns out that guns work just as well.
No one wants to buy the third Matrix flick since they ruined the franchise by abandoning the entire premise in the third installment. So I'm not surprised that their box set isn't a top seller.
Maybe if they'd went with their better options instead of insisting that humans expand more energy than they consume they would still be raking in the mind boggling profits they were enjoying when I first read that story on their site, but they had to cheapen it all.
And that still doesn't explain any talk of "pissing away" anything.
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Most sensible people dismiss his mystic/occult side, except possibly for RDM and a large chunk of California. RDM also confirmed that Kara was dead dead dead. Guess what, genius, the writers are protecting their spoilers. Now, say it with me: I won't confuse the canon with the hype.
And as far as the mystic/occult stuff, that's a big part of the whole Galactica: Visions, prophecies, destinies, gods, etc. If you're too sensible for it, don't watch it, and don't troll the threads about it.
2- You just called Pythagoras "too stupid for you".
That sound you're hearing?
That's the sound of the writers pissing away three years of hard-won credibility in the space of seven minutes. Care to explain?
Then again, I also watch regular broadcast TV, I wish I never had to switch channel to avoid an annoying ad for something I'll never ever even consider buying.
The lesson is: Choice is good, anti-skip is evil.
How do you think she came back from the dead? I don't think she did.
I also don't think that the victims of cylon brainwashing (some of whom were alive during the first cylon war, before the cylons evolved into replicants) are cylons themselves.
I'll change my mind when they show me multiple copies (and not in a dream sequence).
So that's where all those old programmers went after Y2K!
Actually, the Cylons and colonials will reach earth in 2009, and the programmer Lords of Cobol will destroy the Cylons with their clock-fu and move to the other planet to restart the cycleHELLO, Kara's destiny is to find Earth. The Cylons have her AND superior FTL technology. They made it to the musical nebulae before the others and used Kara and whatever clue is to be found there to get to the end of the trail.
There's a Cylon troop transport luring her there.
She's been declared dead and was saved by a Cylon ship before.
One of the Leobens is obsessed with getting Starbuck to fall in love with him.
Her henpit pressure had equalized to the atmospheric level due to the hole in her windshield.
She holds on to the very last second, and only when her ship breaks apart do we see her throw her brace for it.
Due to the documentary-style special effects, the shaking camera put her viper at the top of the screen when it explodes.
It's weird how many people believe what the characters are telling themselves (she's dead, Jim) rather than what the filmmakers are deliberately showing us (stuff the characters don't know, but we were shown requires far more effort in prop making, filming and editing than stuff people say).
The Cylons were using the fleet to find it (Kara's destiny is to find earth, that's why Leoben was so obsessed with getting her trust). And the Cylons were created by the colonies who have no idea where Earth is. There is no chance at all that it's their homeworld.
A foreign cartel forcing a supposedly sovereign nation to change their law according to their whims, THAT is a big deal.
I'm sure the guy there might have appreciated another black rectangle in that picture, over his eyes, for example.