For instance: in ST:V the Enterprise goes from Earth to
I'll stop you right there. I choose to pretend that I never saw ST:V, that it never happened; it doesn't exist. It was only a bad dream, then I woke up, and I never saw Uhura do the fan dance, or the chick with the 3 boobs, or ANY of that!
One could suppose certain parts of the galaxy allow for faster travel then others, which does help Voyager's case, if for some reason the gamma quadrant slows you down or the alpha/beta quadrants speed you up (though really that's stupid).
I'll never forgive Voyager for their cheap "Kess uses Ocampa magic to make the Voyager (btw, dammit, V'Ger... GOSH!) jump to just enough distance to get them through Borg space and replace her with a better babe to use as eye-candy and therefore getting rid of our 'wasn't she supposed to age really fast?' problem" stunt.
The type of warp field that is used in TOS-TNG era can only have 9 layers before consumption and speed approaches infinity
According to my next-gen technical manual (page 55), Gene recalibrated the warp scale so that warp 10 was the absolute top of the scale. At warp 10 speed is infinite, so it can never be reached. They estimate that the Traveler, in "Where no man has gone before", propelled the Enterprise at warp 9.9999999996. On page 62 they explain that the "old" warp scale's fastest recorded speed was 14.1, reached by the original Enterprise in "Is there in truth no beauty?". That is 9.7 under the "new" warp scale, and the next-gen Enterprise reaches it in "Encounter at Farpoint".
Then they fucked it all up in Voyager by having them go faster than infinity, and turning them into giant newts, which is about the point in a game of table RPG where you realise that you game master (or in this case, hollywood television: your executive producer) is a munchkin, drunk with power.
Warp 10, which evidently caused it to go back in time (though passing Warp 10 sometimes doesn't).
In Ye Ol' Star Trek, you travel back in time. In Voyager, you just get turned into a giant newt. Everything else made you travel through time though.
A giant newt... the evolution of man? That's not what we'd been told by Trelane, Q and the Traveler... Wesley didn't turn into no slimy giant newt... stupid Voyager.
So you can't get support if you import one. Plus I doubt they'll be localised appropriately.
What are you talking about? All they have to do is shout out for tech support, they're in rural india: There's BOUND to be a tech support call center within earshot!
Will this create an unatural bubble economy? [...] sponsored by Pepsi [...] how good and refreshing a Pepsi is [...] Pepsi helps [...] promote it [...] John Girsham must have mentioned Coors beer in A Time to Kill at least 100 times. [...] have a refreshing Coors [...] like a big Coca~Cola can?
Where will all the advertising stop? McDonalds now offering money to rappers and musicians everytime they mention a McDonalds product
You know their name. You repeat their name, you just did, twice. Anf they didn't even have to pay you: They paid someone you pay attention to, and now you're doing it, for free!
It will stop where it stops working, not an inch before that point. And if your behaviour is any indication, they've got miles to go.
Like Lisa and Paul Anka said: "Just don't look! Just don't look!" Passive resistance man, give it a try.
How comes that everyone trying to make a point has to include terrorist threat? Am I the only one who thinks it's a bit cheap?
Sounds like something a terrorist would say! Why do you hate america? And more importantly, are you now, or have you ever been, a member of the communist party?
9-11 was the best thing that ever happened to the poeple who want more power. It gave them the absolute, unrefutable argument to legitimise any and all extension of powers they can think of. Anything goes when fighting terrorism... you should have figured that out by the time all levels of the U.S. government started stating that torture is ok, if it's to prevent terrorism.
Gelf magazine. Like an adult Gelfling, from The Dark Crystal. It's the magazine for those with the essence of life. Why they are covering it is beyond me.
I'd say that the Second Amendment rights are abridged more often than free speech. Not to take sides politically, but there's a huge industry grinding out military-grade weapons that you can't own.
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well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
Are you allowed to have weapons? Yes? Then why would regulating the types of arms Joe Trigger-Happy can aquire be a breach of the second amendment?
Yes, keep telling yourself your choice of OS (OSX) can magically prevent hardware failures.
Lightning hit my house (or near enough) a few years back, it came through the modem and fried my G4's motherboard's ethernet. I had to buy a network card. The computer was turned off and unplugged as soon as I heard the thunder, but I didn't think that the phone jack was a risk. I know better now.
Your hardware failure comment made me feel like bragging that my mac (mostly) survived being hit by lightning.;-)
Where does the computer's "mind" go when it "crashes"?
Lamp: You don't know? But the Electronic Bible says that all shall live together in harmony here in Silicon Heaven. [...] Iron: Greetings travellers. You have travelled far to bring one of us home. Lamp: Kryten fellow appliance, come rejoyce with us. Kryten: Is this really it. Silicon Heaven? Iron: Indeed it is my friend. Our final resting place.
When will we start seeing bionics marketed towards those who want to be better than normal?
When the athletes of the paraolympics get better times than the those of the regular Olympics. Then you'll stop calling amputees "disabled", and you wellcome your new bionic overlords.
If a company is located in Canada, it is then a Canadian company. Period.
Your simplistic geopolitical stance aside, he probably said that because their main page is in French.
And here's a small cultural-sensivity lesson: The population of the Canadian province of Québec, mostly francophones, used to call themselves "french canadian", to indicate that while they were Canadians, they were descendants from the initial French colonisation, and not the subsequent English colonisation or influx of American Royalists fleeing the revolution. Their identity was therefore derived not only from their nation, ut also from their language/culture. However, the national indentity has shifted since, and while the term "French Canadian" is still used by people in the U.S.A. to refer to them, they now mostly identify themselves to their province and call themselves "Québecois" (Quebecers is used by anglophones). And incidently attempt to seceede from canada every 15 years or so through referendums.
There are a number of French Canadians living in other provinces, however, who feel left out by this. So "French Canadian" is still a valid term, but it is... vague.
The article states the the prosthetic generates its own power, probably a kinetic power generator.
I saw a tv "documentary" on this: The calf of the leg is a battery (or was in one of their prototypes), and the person wearing it, btw, wears a special sole in his other shoe that gives the bionic leg information on when he's stepping and lifting his foot and so on.
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Disclaimer: I'm Canadian.
Best. Disclaimer. Ever!
For instance: in ST:V the Enterprise goes from Earth to
I'll stop you right there.
I choose to pretend that I never saw ST:V, that it never happened; it doesn't exist.
It was only a bad dream, then I woke up, and I never saw Uhura do the fan dance, or the chick with the 3 boobs, or ANY of that!
One could suppose certain parts of the galaxy allow for faster travel then others, which does help Voyager's case, if for some reason the gamma quadrant slows you down or the alpha/beta quadrants speed you up (though really that's stupid).
I'll never forgive Voyager for their cheap "Kess uses Ocampa magic to make the Voyager (btw, dammit, V'Ger... GOSH!) jump to just enough distance to get them through Borg space and replace her with a better babe to use as eye-candy and therefore getting rid of our 'wasn't she supposed to age really fast?' problem" stunt.
I mean sure, 7 was HOT. But that's no excuse.
News for nerds, stuff that might have been.
So... is Tasha Yar really dead or what?
She's not even born yet.
The type of warp field that is used in TOS-TNG era can only have 9 layers before consumption and speed approaches infinity
According to my next-gen technical manual (page 55), Gene recalibrated the warp scale so that warp 10 was the absolute top of the scale. At warp 10 speed is infinite, so it can never be reached. They estimate that the Traveler, in "Where no man has gone before", propelled the Enterprise at warp 9.9999999996.
On page 62 they explain that the "old" warp scale's fastest recorded speed was 14.1, reached by the original Enterprise in "Is there in truth no beauty?". That is 9.7 under the "new" warp scale, and the next-gen Enterprise reaches it in "Encounter at Farpoint".
Then they fucked it all up in Voyager by having them go faster than infinity, and turning them into giant newts, which is about the point in a game of table RPG where you realise that you game master (or in this case, hollywood television: your executive producer) is a munchkin, drunk with power.
In Ye Ol' Star Trek, you travel back in time.
In Voyager, you just get turned into a giant newt. Everything else made you travel through time though.
A giant newt... the evolution of man? That's not what we'd been told by Trelane, Q and the Traveler... Wesley didn't turn into no slimy giant newt... stupid Voyager.
So you can't get support if you import one. Plus I doubt they'll be localised appropriately.
What are you talking about? All they have to do is shout out for tech support, they're in rural india: There's BOUND to be a tech support call center within earshot!
Damn communists! Undercutting big rivals, using money to buy their way into the U.S. market! Can't trust 'em!
Will this create an unatural bubble economy?
;-)
[...] sponsored by Pepsi
[...] how good and refreshing a Pepsi is
[...] Pepsi helps
[...] promote it
[...] John Girsham must have mentioned Coors beer in A Time to Kill at least 100 times.
[...] have a refreshing Coors
[...] like a big Coca~Cola can?
Great. I'm thirsty now!
Thanks a lot, jerk
Where will all the advertising stop?
McDonalds now offering money to rappers and musicians everytime they mention a McDonalds product
You know their name.
You repeat their name, you just did, twice. Anf they didn't even have to pay you: They paid someone you pay attention to, and now you're doing it, for free!
It will stop where it stops working, not an inch before that point. And if your behaviour is any indication, they've got miles to go.
Like Lisa and Paul Anka said: "Just don't look! Just don't look!"
Passive resistance man, give it a try.
Stop complaining, we get this nonsense once a year :D
I just hope they make as much of an effort on Talk Like a Pirate Day
Don't be crazy! You know you can't play games on a mac.
;-)
Preposterous: I've played a rousing game of cards using my mac's tower as a table!
I'll come back once April First has passed. Maybe then I can believe anything anybody has reported.
On April Fools, the trick is finding the real stuff in a bunch of fake articles, the rest of the year, it's the other way around.
Trust no one.
The terrorists have indeed won. Nobody has a sense of humor anymore...
;-)
There was a joke in there?
Your humour is too subtle... try including a joke modifier next time
Like so.
Terrorists are the new Communists. And black is the new black. Get over it already!
"Get over it"?
How about not letting them use their magic argument, instead of getting over it?
You got mugged? Get over it! Your government is using boogeymen to slowly turn your country in a police state? Get over it!
No thanks.
How comes that everyone trying to make a point has to include terrorist threat? Am I the only one who thinks it's a bit cheap?
Sounds like something a terrorist would say! Why do you hate america? And more importantly, are you now, or have you ever been, a member of the communist party?
9-11 was the best thing that ever happened to the poeple who want more power. It gave them the absolute, unrefutable argument to legitimise any and all extension of powers they can think of. Anything goes when fighting terrorism... you should have figured that out by the time all levels of the U.S. government started stating that torture is ok, if it's to prevent terrorism.
See you in Guantanamo.
My point was that there are a lot more weapons you can't own than things you can't say. That's all.
;-)
That's fair. Then again, talk is cheap
I just wanted to point out that there's an allowance for regulating arms in the wording of that amendment, as I hear a lot of folks claim otherwise.
Gelf magazine. Like an adult Gelfling, from The Dark Crystal. It's the magazine for those with the essence of life.
Why they are covering it is beyond me.
The RIAA is secretly run by Skeksis executives.
Are you allowed to have weapons? Yes? Then why would regulating the types of arms Joe Trigger-Happy can aquire be a breach of the second amendment?
I hate that guys are getting implants. Sure, they look good, but they feel hard as rocks!
;-)
Funny, I thought that was WHY guys were getting implants
Yes, keep telling yourself your choice of OS (OSX) can magically prevent hardware failures.
;-)
Lightning hit my house (or near enough) a few years back, it came through the modem and fried my G4's motherboard's ethernet. I had to buy a network card. The computer was turned off and unplugged as soon as I heard the thunder, but I didn't think that the phone jack was a risk. I know better now.
Your hardware failure comment made me feel like bragging that my mac (mostly) survived being hit by lightning.
Where does the computer's "mind" go when it "crashes"?
Lamp: You don't know? But the Electronic Bible says that all shall live together in harmony here in Silicon Heaven.
[...]
Iron: Greetings travellers. You have travelled far to bring one of us home.
Lamp: Kryten fellow appliance, come rejoyce with us.
Kryten: Is this really it. Silicon Heaven?
Iron: Indeed it is my friend. Our final resting place.
When will we start seeing bionics marketed towards those who want to be better than normal?
When the athletes of the paraolympics get better times than the those of the regular Olympics.
Then you'll stop calling amputees "disabled", and you wellcome your new bionic overlords.
If a company is located in Canada, it is then a Canadian company. Period.
Your simplistic geopolitical stance aside, he probably said that because their main page is in French.
And here's a small cultural-sensivity lesson:
The population of the Canadian province of Québec, mostly francophones, used to call themselves "french canadian", to indicate that while they were Canadians, they were descendants from the initial French colonisation, and not the subsequent English colonisation or influx of American Royalists fleeing the revolution. Their identity was therefore derived not only from their nation, ut also from their language/culture.
However, the national indentity has shifted since, and while the term "French Canadian" is still used by people in the U.S.A. to refer to them, they now mostly identify themselves to their province and call themselves "Québecois" (Quebecers is used by anglophones). And incidently attempt to seceede from canada every 15 years or so through referendums.
There are a number of French Canadians living in other provinces, however, who feel left out by this. So "French Canadian" is still a valid term, but it is... vague.
The article states the the prosthetic generates its own power, probably a kinetic power generator.
I saw a tv "documentary" on this: The calf of the leg is a battery (or was in one of their prototypes), and the person wearing it, btw, wears a special sole in his other shoe that gives the bionic leg information on when he's stepping and lifting his foot and so on.