Sisko: Threatened, or performed, violent action on omnipotent superdimensional beings regularly.
When they announced that the next Star Trek show would be on a space station, I was extatic! Those huge mushroom shaped space docks were awesome, I wanted to see more of those. Hell, they seem to be massive enough to hold the entire population of a small civilisation.
But they went with "crappy, ferengi-infested alien military surplus fixer-upper". That was the first disapointment... one of many.
All that needs to be done is instead of simply displaying "Windows is Shutting Down..." display what's going on.. Like "Flushing Disc Buffers..." then "Awaiting Disc OK "
But don't you trust Microsoft? Windows is shutting down, all is well. Worry not your pretty little user head, your big brother Bill is taking care of everything for you.
Anyone else think that having preview screenings in May for a film with a September release date is a bit insane? Why do it almost 5 months before it's released?
It was supposed to be released in late march. But their producer's marketing department got wind of how much Lucas was putting in his promos and they decided that there was no way they could compete with his advertising, so they pushed it back.
Fox blew their own series because they didn't know what they were doing.
Like someone mentioned above, it could either be superhuman incompetance, or some executive war where one was bright and produced a good show, and the other was cunning and got it on the random shifting time slot of death. In other words: Petty sabotage.
the pilot keeps wearing Hawaiian shirts
I wonder if he comes from a core planet of hawaiian shirt people and he got the frontiere job to show off his piloting skills in a less regulated and constricting environment than his tropical home. If you look at him in "out of gas", he seems the most bothered by the cold.
I hope that Serenity's storyline fits with the rest of the story and isn't just some random story made up just for a movie where the series can do without.
It takes place six month after "Objects in Space", and we get to learn River Tam's story.
You guys need to get the idea out of your head that a highly devoted fanbase is the same as a large fanbase. Just because some rather limited amounts of seats sell out instantly doesn't mean the movie can't flop.
I think those screenings a a viral marketing ploy: seeding word-of-mouth advertising.
This movie won't only be reviewed before it's release by a handfull of critics, but also by legions of fans!
(there are currently talks of having it be a trilogy)
To be fair, that is a trend in Hollywood right now. They all want to have the next magic money making trilogy, so they get all the actors to sign for 3 movies. If the first one is a phenomenal sucess: they make 2 more.
Yes the DVD has been a hit. In numbers. But you can't say it made fox a fortune. It more than likely is just covering the costs that the show LOST during its run.
The show lost no money to Fox. Fox choose to pay for production, and then did not air it. Or aired it at exotic times in the MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT. I'm wondering if did better or worse than the test pattern or the infomercial on the other channels. Since no one knew in advance it would be on at that time, how could anyone see it?
You clearly subscribe to the Michael Moore School of thought that says soldiers are idiots, and the lowest class. Michael Moore is a fat loser.
Wow, totally gratuitous Michael Moore hatred! When did he say that? I saw most of his movies and TV shows, I don't remember a bit on how dumb he thinks soldiers are.
The entire series is centered around an interesting crew of renegade smugglers in the distant future. There are strong elements of the Wild West. It's basicly a space opera, like star wars, but without all the lame acting.
But the debate was as much about religion and politics as science and education, with Mr. Irigonegaray pressing witnesses to find mentions of the theories they were denouncing, like humanism and naturalism, in the standards, and asking whether they believed all scientists were atheists.
The problem here is that this is an underhanded way to breach the separation of church and state. If you can't see why their new wording is a problem, don't worry, their next move will make it clear. I'm sure they had a lawyer word this just in the right way for the next legal blow.
That entire school board should be fired. They're putting superstition before education.
From TFA:
"For Kansas, the debate is déjà vu: the last time the state standards were under review, in 1999, conservatives on the school board ignored their expert panel and deleted virtually any reference to evolution, only to be ousted in the next election.
But over the next few years anti-evolution forces regained the seats."
Why are these breaches of the separation of Church and State allowed to go on? I guess because of a flaw in the system: The problem with democracy is that idiots breed and vote, and thus can create a tyranny of the majority. So long as one group manages to be bigger than any other group, and keeps the rest divided, they can rule.
Science will never present us with a peer-reviewed study proving once and for all that you should be good to your fellow man, and treat him like a brother.
Why not? I can think of a few psychological, economical and sociological reasons for this, and it shouldn't be hard to think up a study that would test these hypothesis together and conclude once and for all that it is in your best interest not to be a self-centered jerk.
On top of that, it has to be so bloody that we all lose hope. Otherwise, why would there be a "New" hope?
Oh, I lost all hope when I saw on the ep1 DVD a cut scene of Qui Gon sensing a camera drone, chopping it with a swift lightsaber swipe, and turning to Anakin to say "To the ship! We must hurry!"
In the movie theatre, without that scene, I was wondering "why are they running to the ship? How did Darth Maul know where the ship was?" because this scene, important to the story and chuck full of cool Jedi action, was cut "for time", whilst numerous scenes of Jar Jar stepping in shit, getting farted on, and so forth, weren't...
Clearly, Lucas choked on money and has suffered brain damage which impaired his ability to edit a movie. I had from then on no more hope.
1. No balance restored to the force (Lucas said point-blank that this was something resolved in ep 3, back when ep 1 came out).
Er, I've been telling people since ep1: Yoda is lying. He looks in Anakin future, and says he can't see anything. LIES!
He SAW the future! He knows! Anakin WILL bring balance to the force: There are thousands of Jedis (light) and only 2 Siths (dark). The imbalance favours the Jedis, by the time ep4 starts, there is balance: 2 Siths, 2 Jedis.
Yoda saw the awnser to the riddle of the balance of the Force, and he's not telling anyone because he's scheming to be one of the 2 surviving Jedis, the sneaky lil' bugger!
YOU called me ignorant and my post stupid. I simply stated that the post YOU called stupid was at the level of the post it was in reply to.
So, you have a problem, I gave you the benefit of the doupt for a rational conversation, but no: You insult, and then claim to have been insulted.
"The irony being that no doubt you would accuse me of precisely that." Grow up.
You keep changing the topic. So for some unknown reason you switched the topic to a discussion on the accuracy of the bible and the translations we have on hand now. So I point out some errors with what you are saying, and you then choose to insult me.
by dcam (615646) Alter Relationship on Wednesday May 04, @08:04PM (#12437013) Is this how you normally argue a point? Glib remarks and insults?
This is a stupid comment and you know it.
Clearly you haven't actually spent any time verify whether the bible is in fact badly translated, embellished and hearsay. But don't let your lack of knowledge in the area from spouting off.
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Sisko: Threatened, or performed, violent action on omnipotent superdimensional beings regularly.
When they announced that the next Star Trek show would be on a space station, I was extatic! Those huge mushroom shaped space docks were awesome, I wanted to see more of those. Hell, they seem to be massive enough to hold the entire population of a small civilisation.
But they went with "crappy, ferengi-infested alien military surplus fixer-upper". That was the first disapointment... one of many.
It's called Not Keeping Info from the User(tm).
All that needs to be done is instead of simply displaying "Windows is Shutting Down..." display what's going on.. Like "Flushing Disc Buffers..." then "Awaiting Disc OK "
But don't you trust Microsoft?
Windows is shutting down, all is well. Worry not your pretty little user head, your big brother Bill is taking care of everything for you.
By the way, do you watch the commercials that come with those downloaded broadcast episodes?
I don't watch commercials.
Downloaded, or otherwise.
Anyone else think that having preview screenings in May for a film with a September release date is a bit insane? Why do it almost 5 months before it's released?
It was supposed to be released in late march.
But their producer's marketing department got wind of how much Lucas was putting in his promos and they decided that there was no way they could compete with his advertising, so they pushed it back.
Fox blew their own series because they didn't know what they were doing.
Like someone mentioned above, it could either be superhuman incompetance, or some executive war where one was bright and produced a good show, and the other was cunning and got it on the random shifting time slot of death. In other words: Petty sabotage.
the pilot keeps wearing Hawaiian shirts
I wonder if he comes from a core planet of hawaiian shirt people and he got the frontiere job to show off his piloting skills in a less regulated and constricting environment than his tropical home.
If you look at him in "out of gas", he seems the most bothered by the cold.
I hope that Serenity's storyline fits with the rest of the story and isn't just some random story made up just for a movie where the series can do without.
It takes place six month after "Objects in Space", and we get to learn River Tam's story.
Also: Reavers!
You guys need to get the idea out of your head that a highly devoted fanbase is the same as a large fanbase. Just because some rather limited amounts of seats sell out instantly doesn't mean the movie can't flop.
I think those screenings a a viral marketing ploy: seeding word-of-mouth advertising.
This movie won't only be reviewed before it's release by a handfull of critics, but also by legions of fans!
No no no, we don't blame you: We blame Fox.
However, your geek badge is under review should you choose NOT to watch all the DVDs in less than a week: as per regular first-viewing habits.
(there are currently talks of having it be a trilogy)
To be fair, that is a trend in Hollywood right now. They all want to have the next magic money making trilogy, so they get all the actors to sign for 3 movies. If the first one is a phenomenal sucess: they make 2 more.
Yes the DVD has been a hit. In numbers. But you can't say it made fox a fortune. It more than likely is just covering the costs that the show LOST during its run.
The show lost no money to Fox. Fox choose to pay for production, and then did not air it. Or aired it at exotic times in the MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT. I'm wondering if did better or worse than the test pattern or the infomercial on the other channels. Since no one knew in advance it would be on at that time, how could anyone see it?
- Design. Totally opinionated. Creative Zen offers more color than every generation of iPod.
I am confused
I'll say, if you think "design" stops at "colour of casing", you've got a lot to be confused at when people discuss design.
You clearly subscribe to the Michael Moore School of thought that says soldiers are idiots, and the lowest class. Michael Moore is a fat loser.
Wow, totally gratuitous Michael Moore hatred!
When did he say that? I saw most of his movies and TV shows, I don't remember a bit on how dumb he thinks soldiers are.
Tracks are offered in 192Kbps WMA
We don't need your DRM!
I will get modded down by the mac zealots
You're begging for it too.
The entire series is centered around an interesting crew of renegade smugglers in the distant future. There are strong elements of the Wild West. It's basicly a space opera, like star wars, but without all the lame acting.
;-)
Or... all that in 2 words
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Wow! How did you do that? : )
Mmmm, steak and kidney and liver and entrail
I have a handy compression algorithm to list those ingredients (and many more!) in just two words: Hot dog.
The problem here is that this is an underhanded way to breach the separation of church and state. If you can't see why their new wording is a problem, don't worry, their next move will make it clear. I'm sure they had a lawyer word this just in the right way for the next legal blow.
From TFA:
Why are these breaches of the separation of Church and State allowed to go on? I guess because of a flaw in the system:
The problem with democracy is that idiots breed and vote, and thus can create a tyranny of the majority. So long as one group manages to be bigger than any other group, and keeps the rest divided, they can rule.
Science will never present us with a peer-reviewed study proving once and for all that you should be good to your fellow man, and treat him like a brother.
Why not? I can think of a few psychological, economical and sociological reasons for this, and it shouldn't be hard to think up a study that would test these hypothesis together and conclude once and for all that it is in your best interest not to be a self-centered jerk.
The problem is that the concept of a supernatural being begets far more questions than it answers.
But since in that philosophy the awnser invariably becomes "because God said so", it saves a lot of time you'd otherwise spend on tedious thinking.
On top of that, it has to be so bloody that we all lose hope. Otherwise, why would there be a "New" hope?
Oh, I lost all hope when I saw on the ep1 DVD a cut scene of Qui Gon sensing a camera drone, chopping it with a swift lightsaber swipe, and turning to Anakin to say "To the ship! We must hurry!"
In the movie theatre, without that scene, I was wondering "why are they running to the ship? How did Darth Maul know where the ship was?" because this scene, important to the story and chuck full of cool Jedi action, was cut "for time", whilst numerous scenes of Jar Jar stepping in shit, getting farted on, and so forth, weren't...
Clearly, Lucas choked on money and has suffered brain damage which impaired his ability to edit a movie. I had from then on no more hope.
1. No balance restored to the force (Lucas said point-blank that this was something resolved in ep 3, back when ep 1 came out).
Er, I've been telling people since ep1: Yoda is lying.
He looks in Anakin future, and says he can't see anything. LIES!
He SAW the future! He knows! Anakin WILL bring balance to the force: There are thousands of Jedis (light) and only 2 Siths (dark). The imbalance favours the Jedis, by the time ep4 starts, there is balance: 2 Siths, 2 Jedis.
Yoda saw the awnser to the riddle of the balance of the Force, and he's not telling anyone because he's scheming to be one of the 2 surviving Jedis, the sneaky lil' bugger!
Titanic featured a fully naked female(we are talking boobs, pubic hair etc)
WHAT? Crap, I must have zone out before the good part!
Well, I woke up before the ship sank at least.
YOU called me ignorant and my post stupid.
I simply stated that the post YOU called stupid was at the level of the post it was in reply to.
So, you have a problem, I gave you the benefit of the doupt for a rational conversation, but no: You insult, and then claim to have been insulted.
"The irony being that no doubt you would accuse me of precisely that." Grow up.
You keep changing the topic. So for some unknown reason you switched the topic to a discussion on the accuracy of the bible and the translations we have on hand now. So I point out some errors with what you are saying, and you then choose to insult me.
by dcam (615646) Alter Relationship on Wednesday May 04, @08:04PM (#12437013)
Is this how you normally argue a point? Glib remarks and insults?
This is a stupid comment and you know it.
Clearly you haven't actually spent any time verify whether the bible is in fact badly translated, embellished and hearsay. But don't let your lack of knowledge in the area from spouting off.