this puts some of the U.S.-bashing we've heard recently into perspective. As you say: `` All democratic countries have screwballs lobbying for this kind of stuff.'' It's not just the U.S.
The point is that to the rest of the world they are screwballs. To you they are mainstream and pass those laws!
Sometimes it seems you guys will vote for anything if it's got a star spangled flag waving in the background.
But I thought it was the U.S. with the totalitarian, authoritarian government?
Who do you think is pressuring them to do this? The same people who pressured them to go face-recognition on their passports, that's who.
"Nice economy you got there, wouldn't any trade disputes to happen to it... lots of border crossings too. It'd be a shame if someone were to crack down and have every single vehicle searched, really..."
to escape the Bush/Cheney/Ashcroft religious right-wing fascists
Yeah, 'cause these guys sure stay put at home, they don't meddle in other countries' affairs! No siree Bob! No nation building or vague threats or "repercussions" to neighbouring countries for those guys! No way!
That we don't have to worry about being eaten alive by the Giant Solar Frogs anymore?
SIgh... I hate that feeling when I read an article that solves a mystery I never even heard of. There's the sense of loss: All the wild speculations that never were. The info is still interresting, but I feel like I just walked in when someone was telling the punch line of a joke.
The problem with Enterprise is, the studio knew that there was this already existing rabid fanbase for all things Trek, so they figured that they could put any old crap on TV, put the Trek name on it, and they would have a built-in fanbase. Sadly, all of these protests have proven them right.
I used to be one of those fans. But I used to like Star Trek because it was a good sci-fi action show with a message of hope for the future: It will all work out, we humans will one day learn to work with each other and get off this rock.
Rick Berman decided to kill all of that and aim for the lowest common denominator. Well, he got what he deserved: You gave us low quality, you got low ratings. The thing is, he won't be deposed. They'll fire the crew, the actors, the writers, the makeup guys, and the guy responsible for making them loose their jobs keeps his power, and his seven digit salary.
No wonder he didn't like the message of hope: He's the kind of guy who's absence would make Gene's future eutopia possible.
Stop with the blind loyalty to a 'brand'. Let's get some loyalty to quality.
Amen, brother!
I remember one of the weeks when Firefly didn't air, the local station tried to shove an ep of Andromeda down my throat. As if! Do they really think we'll watch anything with a spaceship in it?
"Incompetance"? Live action sports gets much higher rating and a more desirable demographic than the average slop of network programming. Do you expect them to show Baseball Playoff Games at 12AM because of "B" show like Firefly?
Yes, incompetance. Either air the show at the time advertised, or don't advertise it for that timeslot when you know that you have baseball playoffs that day.
And I'm not kidding, they had ads for "firefly, friday at 8" DURING baseball. It's either gross incompetance, or deliberatly machiavellian.
It sucked, period. Real fans of Star Trek wouldn't be fighting to keep that piece of crap on. The Star Trek empire needs to take a break and stew in creative juices for a while.
It did suck, but word on the street is it stopped sucking... so I can how frustrating it is that they waited for it to get better before cancelling it.
However, what ST need isn't a break, it's to be freed from the clutched of Rick Berman: The man who works hard to make it suck (and rankly, I think sucking is part of his job description... he seems the kind of hollywood exec that owns several pairs of knee pads).
TURN OFF YOUR TV! The best sci-fi is in BOOKS not TELEVISION. Pick up a book, read some Philip K Dick, do something, just stop wasting your grey matter on tv shows!
I read books, plenty of books... I'm running out of places to put them, really. But it's still true that A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words. I'd much rather look at these eyes than read them described:
shows that have a bit more of a paranormal twist, like the (now defunct) Buffy and Angel, and shows like Charmed.
Charmed, in fact, is really "The Alyssa Milano sexy costume dress-up show"!
The paranormal stuff is just an excuse to dress her up as a mermaid one week, an amazon the next, a superhero after that... hmmm... Milano wet, and scaly... Good times.
Ratings are the only things that matter. An OTA show has only one mission: to get people to watch commercials. If not enough people see the commercials, the show isn't doing its job, and it goes off the air. So if you want the show to stay on the air, the only real solution is to get more people to watch it.
Remember when Futurama changed timeslot every week for a few months, then settled in a spot where it was pre-empted by football overtime week after week after week?
Remeber how Fox claimed they aired Firefly on fridays at 8, but would instead put baseball on? And when they did air firefly, it was at 12:03am, or 12:17am, with the episodes out of order?
We have a conundrum here: Is it superhuman incompetance +1, or is it a deliberate act by an exec to kill another exec's project? Hard to tell really, but one thing is for sure: If these shows got bad rating, it wasn't the shows themselves that caused it.
And ratings... how many organisations determine ratings? One? And the ONLY thing that matters is ratings? Then... that company can make or break a show, on any network, by fudging it's numbers... That seem right to you?
am I the only one who finds the new Wells Fargo ATM key response time to be laggardly?
I dunno the make of the new ATMs around here, but you are not alone.
It is incredibly annoying to have the "beep" of a pressed key come as I'm one or two keypresses further along. I have to stop and wait for all the beeps to catch up, look closely at the screen, make sure it's all ok. Very, very annoying. I'm thinking of changing banks just to save me the frustration.
But I thought we hate the FCC! I just don't know what to believe anymore!
We hate the FCC when they are an obstacle to free speech, not when they are fining others for being obstacles to new tech.
In this case, they did the right thing by protecting the lil' guy. But in the cases where they want to tell you what your content can or can't be, as Eric Idle says: fuck you very much, the FCC.
They might commit a crime after playing them, they might commit a crime that is easthetically similar to the game, but the game isn't a magic mind-bending game making people do things against their will.
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this puts some of the U.S.-bashing we've heard recently into perspective. As you say: `` All democratic countries have screwballs lobbying for this kind of stuff.'' It's not just the U.S.
The point is that to the rest of the world they are screwballs. To you they are mainstream and pass those laws!
Sometimes it seems you guys will vote for anything if it's got a star spangled flag waving in the background.
But I thought it was the U.S. with the totalitarian, authoritarian government?
Who do you think is pressuring them to do this?
The same people who pressured them to go face-recognition on their passports, that's who.
"Nice economy you got there, wouldn't any trade disputes to happen to it... lots of border crossings too. It'd be a shame if someone were to crack down and have every single vehicle searched, really..."
to escape the Bush/Cheney/Ashcroft religious right-wing fascists
Yeah, 'cause these guys sure stay put at home, they don't meddle in other countries' affairs! No siree Bob! No nation building or vague threats or "repercussions" to neighbouring countries for those guys! No way!
Sigh.
That's "bio-neural gel packs", actually. Do I get modded down for being too Trekkie (especially considering that's ST:VOY)?
If I had mod points, you'd get slapped with a "-1: Reminding us of the dread of the inevitable episode where the ship would catch a cold".
Fortunatly they did it not too far in the series and we could groan through it, and then move on. But you reminded us! You BASTARD!
How the hell can they tell it's there if they can't even read it?
If 10GB of MP3s are written on a wire, and there is no reader to play it. Does it make a sound?
That we don't have to worry about being eaten alive by the Giant Solar Frogs anymore?
SIgh... I hate that feeling when I read an article that solves a mystery I never even heard of. There's the sense of loss: All the wild speculations that never were. The info is still interresting, but I feel like I just walked in when someone was telling the punch line of a joke.
There's not enough "sci-fi fans" or "trekkies" to keep this stuff on the air so you have to have cross-over appeal.
That's true. But they abandoned the fans in a bid to attrack "commoners".
Guess what: The non-trekkies won't watch your Trek show if their Trekkie aquaintances tell it's crap!
The problem with Enterprise is, the studio knew that there was this already existing rabid fanbase for all things Trek, so they figured that they could put any old crap on TV, put the Trek name on it, and they would have a built-in fanbase. Sadly, all of these protests have proven them right.
I used to be one of those fans.
But I used to like Star Trek because it was a good sci-fi action show with a message of hope for the future: It will all work out, we humans will one day learn to work with each other and get off this rock.
Rick Berman decided to kill all of that and aim for the lowest common denominator. Well, he got what he deserved: You gave us low quality, you got low ratings. The thing is, he won't be deposed. They'll fire the crew, the actors, the writers, the makeup guys, and the guy responsible for making them loose their jobs keeps his power, and his seven digit salary.
No wonder he didn't like the message of hope: He's the kind of guy who's absence would make Gene's future eutopia possible.
Stop with the blind loyalty to a 'brand'. Let's get some loyalty to quality.
Amen, brother!
I remember one of the weeks when Firefly didn't air, the local station tried to shove an ep of Andromeda down my throat. As if! Do they really think we'll watch anything with a spaceship in it?
"Incompetance"? Live action sports gets much higher rating and a more desirable demographic than the average slop of network programming. Do you expect them to show Baseball Playoff Games at 12AM because of "B" show like Firefly?
Yes, incompetance.
Either air the show at the time advertised, or don't advertise it for that timeslot when you know that you have baseball playoffs that day.
And I'm not kidding, they had ads for "firefly, friday at 8" DURING baseball. It's either gross incompetance, or deliberatly machiavellian.
It sucked, period. Real fans of Star Trek wouldn't be fighting to keep that piece of crap on. The Star Trek empire needs to take a break and stew in creative juices for a while.
It did suck, but word on the street is it stopped sucking... so I can how frustrating it is that they waited for it to get better before cancelling it.
However, what ST need isn't a break, it's to be freed from the clutched of Rick Berman: The man who works hard to make it suck (and rankly, I think sucking is part of his job description... he seems the kind of hollywood exec that owns several pairs of knee pads).
Getting worked up to the point of all caps and an exclamation point in your brain is ... mildly neurotic.
;-)
Well, to be fair, he only had the one exclamation point.
I start to worry at 3, and at 5 I run for the hills
The best sci-fi is in BOOKS not TELEVISION.
Pick up a book, read some Philip K Dick, do something, just stop wasting your grey matter on tv shows!
I read books, plenty of books... I'm running out of places to put them, really. But it's still true that A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words.
I'd much rather look at these eyes than read them described:
: )
shows that have a bit more of a paranormal twist, like the (now defunct) Buffy and Angel, and shows like Charmed.
Charmed, in fact, is really "The Alyssa Milano sexy costume dress-up show"!
The paranormal stuff is just an excuse to dress her up as a mermaid one week, an amazon the next, a superhero after that... hmmm... Milano wet, and scaly... Good times.
Ratings are the only things that matter. An OTA show has only one mission: to get people to watch commercials. If not enough people see the commercials, the show isn't doing its job, and it goes off the air. So if you want the show to stay on the air, the only real solution is to get more people to watch it.
Remember when Futurama changed timeslot every week for a few months, then settled in a spot where it was pre-empted by football overtime week after week after week?
Remeber how Fox claimed they aired Firefly on fridays at 8, but would instead put baseball on? And when they did air firefly, it was at 12:03am, or 12:17am, with the episodes out of order?
We have a conundrum here: Is it superhuman incompetance +1, or is it a deliberate act by an exec to kill another exec's project? Hard to tell really, but one thing is for sure: If these shows got bad rating, it wasn't the shows themselves that caused it.
And ratings... how many organisations determine ratings? One? And the ONLY thing that matters is ratings? Then... that company can make or break a show, on any network, by fudging it's numbers... That seem right to you?
am I the only one who finds the new Wells Fargo ATM key response time to be laggardly?
I dunno the make of the new ATMs around here, but you are not alone.
It is incredibly annoying to have the "beep" of a pressed key come as I'm one or two keypresses further along. I have to stop and wait for all the beeps to catch up, look closely at the screen, make sure it's all ok. Very, very annoying. I'm thinking of changing banks just to save me the frustration.
Moderation -1
100% Overrated
Like that makes any sense.
Abusing the "overrated doesn't get metamoderated" loophole, are we?
the Apple option costs more than a non-Apple option.
The simple and elegant option costs more than the cludgy, infuriating option.
I consider it an investment in health care: all that stress has got to be bad for your heart.
TOS - Blusey Song, words about space flight.
Next Gen - Symphonic, no words, no meaning
No words? Hello? EXACT same words as TOS except for "continuing" instead of "five year" in the first sentence and "one" instead of "man" in the last.
Lawyers call such experts 'whores.'
Takes one to know one, huh?
But I thought we hate the FCC! I just don't know what to believe anymore!
We hate the FCC when they are an obstacle to free speech, not when they are fining others for being obstacles to new tech.
In this case, they did the right thing by protecting the lil' guy. But in the cases where they want to tell you what your content can or can't be, as Eric Idle says: fuck you very much, the FCC.
They're eager to show that nothing is rotten in the state of Denmark. :)
;-)
You forgot Polland!
No one commits a crime "because of playing them"!
They might commit a crime after playing them, they might commit a crime that is easthetically similar to the game, but the game isn't a magic mind-bending game making people do things against their will.
You do the crime: YOU do the time.
While that is quite a good connection, we were talking about Enterprise not Nemesis or did I just fall into another dimension?
Hmmm...
It appears that this isn't a Reman after all.
Just another great example of "original" alien design. Ah well.
Natalie Portman will actually be on topic...
;-)
Wait, they don't mean that kind of internet body?
From the pictures I've seen, bodies is right
I wonder if the lawyers for the IANA ever abbreviate their titles to IANAL.
;-)
The first few times I saw that abbreviation, I thought it was like the "I [heart] Hucklebees" thing and my browser was dropping the heart character.
Didn't know why people were so proud of it... figured it was something to do with goats