I don't even see how this yielded negative results. What did they expect would happen? I mean the summary says they expected the dead phytoplankton to sink to the bottom of the ocean. Ok, so instead it was eaten, how is that negative?
They attempted to use the ecosystem to do one one thing and they expected something but it turns out their understanding of the ecosystem was WAY off: FAIL!
Also, animals tend to release carbon into the fluid of their liking. They'll bring in oxygen from the water to combine it with the carbon the plankton ingested and release it back into the water as a dissolved gas. The cycle went 360 on them. They probably burned a whole lot of fuel to do this experiment on top of that.
No, you're still misusing that term. It's used for resolution, not additional complication.
I'm not misusing anything, the people at the SyFyLys station are misusing the concept: it's a botched deus ex machina. Anyway, ask the jeebus crowd, they loved the resolution: God did it; pretty SFX. No questions raised for the, they have that all sorted out.
by "gratuitous violence" I mean violence that could be shown in a less explicit manner without forfeiting the original intention of the author. Some of the violence in Watchmen (the movie) is there only to shock
See! It's not gratuitous, it's there to make you feel shocked. The movie wants you to feel uncomfortable about the level of violence used by the heroes. Same with the big blue waggle, it makes you feel uncomfortable when he's around.
It's not a story of good triumphing over evil that makes you feel happy, it's a story to make you think about morality and cause and effect. All it was missing was a giant psychic alien genegineered squid of sexual-looking doom for the movie to be perfect. And maybe a pirate or two...
How big is Google's network compared to most companies?
Erm... Epic?
The hardest part of deploying IPv6 is actually getting IPv6 network transit... Very few ISPs will offer it, or charge a high premium for it ontop of their ipv4 charges such that it isn't worth the expense.
Well there's your problem right there. It's not that it's hard, it's that people would punish you if you tried.
I don't think that an 11 year old would be able to see beyond the violence, to the roll that violence is playing in advancing a premise.
I'm not saying it's an appropriate movie for an 11yo, I'm saying that it is not obligatory to use the word "gratuitous" in front of the word "violence" when discussing a movie.
The violence in that story is not gratuitous, it's integral.
Films should not be made to fit a certain rating. A rating should be assigned based on the content within the film. That content should be the artist's vision.
Hollywood movies are not made by artists, they are made by corporations who invest money in order to get a return of more(money).
I just can't bring myself to let my kids watch the Dark Knight though, it's too violent-in-mindset (worse than fake blood in my opinion). I -LOVED- the movie, but I cannot shake the feeling that we're robbing the next generation because we don't want to grow up, but we want grownup things.
The 30's Batman killed people, and the 30's Superman tortured people.
A generation later, they were whitewashed into parodies of themselves.
A generation later still, some of them are back to their darker selves, and you lament it. Don't worry, soon enough superheroes will be back to campy inoffensive stories suitable for 5 year olds.
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Now I need a bigger piece of tinfoil!
Shiny side out! Take THAT, laser.
Though a tinfoil covered laptop might get lousy wifi reception...
And the keystroke that was planted in my brain
Still remains
Within the cone... of silence.
Just type with l33t text or other slang what words ain't on the dictionary and they just cant find out what you are typing.
The invisible lasers are listening. Write in codes and speak in tongues!
Gods, we sound like madmen.
Bummer.
My favorite keyboards are always the loudest ones.
And your recorded keyboard sounds of innocuous typing will become your new favorite background music.
I don't even see how this yielded negative results. What did they expect would happen? I mean the summary says they expected the dead phytoplankton to sink to the bottom of the ocean. Ok, so instead it was eaten, how is that negative?
They attempted to use the ecosystem to do one one thing and they expected something but it turns out their understanding of the ecosystem was WAY off: FAIL!
Also, animals tend to release carbon into the fluid of their liking. They'll bring in oxygen from the water to combine it with the carbon the plankton ingested and release it back into the water as a dissolved gas. The cycle went 360 on them. They probably burned a whole lot of fuel to do this experiment on top of that.
Then again, poo sinks, so it's not a total loss.
I think i want to create a service that will be known as spaz, so that new hardware spazzes out when XXXX happens.
Race you to the trademark office!
No, you're still misusing that term. It's used for resolution, not additional complication.
I'm not misusing anything, the people at the SyFyLys station are misusing the concept: it's a botched deus ex machina. Anyway, ask the jeebus crowd, they loved the resolution: God did it; pretty SFX. No questions raised for the, they have that all sorted out.
Action Comics #1: Page 12
I was thinking of him beating people to talk that one time, but that'll do nicely.
by "gratuitous violence" I mean violence that could be shown in a less explicit manner without forfeiting the original intention of the author. Some of the violence in Watchmen (the movie) is there only to shock
See! It's not gratuitous, it's there to make you feel shocked. The movie wants you to feel uncomfortable about the level of violence used by the heroes.
Same with the big blue waggle, it makes you feel uncomfortable when he's around.
It's not a story of good triumphing over evil that makes you feel happy, it's a story to make you think about morality and cause and effect. All it was missing was a giant psychic alien genegineered squid of sexual-looking doom for the movie to be perfect.
And maybe a pirate or two...
How big is Google's network compared to most companies?
Erm... Epic?
The hardest part of deploying IPv6 is actually getting IPv6 network transit... Very few ISPs will offer it, or charge a high premium for it ontop of their ipv4 charges such that it isn't worth the expense.
Well there's your problem right there.
It's not that it's hard, it's that people would punish you if you tried.
There's a long standing tradition of allowing just this kind of twist to an ending in modern story telling
Yup, in fact that tradition has been going on for so long that the name for it is in Latin.
Since when?
tweet = buzzword(new); seems more like it.
I wouldn't call something that take 18 months to do "easy". :-|
Maybe that's why I don't work at google
The carbon is still being sequestered, just not where they expected it.
It depends, do squid (and whatever eats squid) and whales sink to the bottom when the die?
Yes, and their bodies are eaten as they lie on the bottom. It's the ciiiiIIIIIIRCle of liiIIIIIfe!
I don't think that an 11 year old would be able to see beyond the violence, to the roll that violence is playing in advancing a premise.
I'm not saying it's an appropriate movie for an 11yo, I'm saying that it is not obligatory to use the word "gratuitous" in front of the word "violence" when discussing a movie.
The violence in that story is not gratuitous, it's integral.
The police actively don't hire people that are too smart. Which scares the shit out of me.
You're talking about US police. The requirements for aspiring police officers in Germany are significantly higher.
They only let in ubermensch?
You want a story that matches up with this and is kid safe? Watch The Incredibles. It has a similar timeline but leaves out all the confusing parts.
Oddly enough, when Incredibles came out, there was talk of how it wasn't kid-friendly enough (there's a skeleton, etc.).
P.S. "oddly" is not the perfect word for the feeling I wish to express. Brain no work today, me no find better word.
Films should not be made to fit a certain rating. A rating should be assigned based on the content within the film. That content should be the artist's vision.
Hollywood movies are not made by artists, they are made by corporations who invest money in order to get a return of more(money).
Watch Kevin Smith, who knows this first hand, explain it. "All you have to do to make more money is not curse as much."
it was Dr. Manhattan's package that those seven people were turned off by (my sister said it was like watching porn)
If your sister likened the Doctor's blue dong to porn, she is into some freaky shit.
Maybe she just watched a lot of scrambled porn back in the analog days? : )
I just can't bring myself to let my kids watch the Dark Knight though, it's too violent-in-mindset (worse than fake blood in my opinion). I -LOVED- the movie, but I cannot shake the feeling that we're robbing the next generation because we don't want to grow up, but we want grownup things.
The 30's Batman killed people, and the 30's Superman tortured people.
A generation later, they were whitewashed into parodies of themselves.
A generation later still, some of them are back to their darker selves, and you lament it. Don't worry, soon enough superheroes will be back to campy inoffensive stories suitable for 5 year olds.
Screw the children.
(not literally, please).
I'll twist them through two separate objects in order to secure them together if I so please.
I'll also mock your lack of understanding of the meaning of the word 'literally' every chance I get ;-)
I guess I just want my kid to be able to watch the heroes I grew up with.
Go rent the hero movies you grew up with.
Heck, I agree with you: Watchmen is not suitable for an 11 yo. There is too much gratuitous violence
No. No, no, no and no.
There was a lesson about violence in that story, and you missed it.
we don't even start to become sexual beings until the early teen years
That is complete bullshit. Educate yourself: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_sexuality
the main thing I hear is, the company was contractually obligated to pay these bonuses.
The main thing you're hearing is any damn thing they can come up with to justify their actions.
If you have no specific facts to support their justifications, don't believe it outright.