Firefly was one of the best shows on TV the past few years - I'm especially surprised there's so much negativity here over it...
the whole cowboy theme -- if you watch past the 4th or 5th episode that's all explained -- the alliance terraforms then drops civilians on the planent with nothing...
Plus, it's intentionally cheesy at times.
I highly recommend the show -- okay, there's one or two stupid (A-Team hokiness) episodes, but overall a great series.
keep in mind too that they originally played out of order, so the storyline didn't really fit. Hopefully the movie will renew interest and get a second season in the works... Although the movie will probably be lame...
i like the way you think. so many people hear "child molestor" and want to kill them. sure, it's an awful, sick crime, but you see all the people here shooting from the hip, and then wonder why presidents get elected on the platform of anti-gay-mariage.
when did this country officially stop being rational?
also - and again, this is on your brief aside - i've been preaching about money management high school curriculums since i got my first credit card... 18-year-olds are preyed upon the second they step on campus, and they have no idea that it's not 'free money.' we should be learning about how to manage money in school, before we're allowed to have credit cards.
sure, that makes sense... most states don't even give the death penalty for killing a person... so you're giving the molester the incentive for killing the kid instead of letting him/her go.
molestation is an awful, awful thing, true... but i think you're going a little far.
then why not leave them in prison forever? why not give them the death penalty?
this is silly. either they've served their time or not. what's next? manditory breathalizer for any ex-con drunk driver when he gets into his car for life? manditory daily urine tests for ex-con drug users for life? key-logging for any convicted computer crackers for life?
how about whenever someone gets out of jail, we give them a second, less-harsh sentence for life, making sure they never repeat their crimes?
you can't do this. this is why there's sentences in the first place. you have to let people live their lives after they've paid for their crimes.
think this out before you support something that seems so simple like this..
as soon as i read this article i was thinking the same thing -- i was thinking how cool it'd be to at least recharge my batteries off the landline...
then i found this link... it says that when the fone is "on hook", you can only draw 5 microamps. when it's "off hook", you can draw current, but it'll degrade your signal.
yup yup. though if i was producer, and my options were a stupid CG second head like in Star Wars 1 or 2, or just say "well, the second head is in his nose"... i'd probably go with the latter. at least we can get over it in the beginning of the movie, rather than be forced to think about how fake the second head looked...
or they could just cast a two-headed actor... tho they're _really_ expensive, ya kno?
ya, that's what i thought at first too, but they're _really_ far out there... i think most moviegoers wouldn't know what to think about a trailer w/o any space sound
it's not a big deal, it was just cool to see a series try to show some respect for science:)
although, maybe i should let it go -- this isn't apollo 13, it's a scifi flic.
oh, hehe, please remember this thread, and let me know after you've seen H2G2 what ya thought. lemme know if you've read the books, cause that'll make a big difference in your opinion
btw, ya, that's what i thought too - that they were on the edge of an atmosphere so that's where the sound came from, but i don't think that's it. they're way too far out, and the whole trailer shows outer space scenes making sound..
have you read the reviews? heard how all the good dialog was mangled? see the trailer promotes mainly just slapstick?
zaphrod's got one head? i read somewhere the other head is in his nose? face it, man. it's gonna suck.
but, if it'll make ya feel any better... "it's going to be the best movie ever!" oh, and, "santa claus is real!"... but not the easter bunny... that's a crock of ish.
man, i was so happy to see the series not have sound in space, and now the movie does? ugh, guess the 15-year-olds' tickets need to be sold...
ugh..
if this movie is as good as the trailer makes it seem, at least we can get over the failure of h2g2 (i refuse to pay money for that, already knowing it's gonna suck):)
Everyone here knows his was a stupid quote, but from a marketing standpoint, it's valid... None of us are going to buy Linspire -- we'll run our slack/deb/rh/fedora -- but, cheap newbies will, and to them, it's no different than running their existing OS, Windows 98...
There's no chance Robertson actually means what he's saying though. The CEO of a linux company can't possibly be that stupid.
I'm using the Hauppauge 250 and 350 for video inputs for MythTV, and the 350 for TV Out and hardware mpeg2 decoding. Love the cards, they're great. The ivtv drivers seem to bug out every once in a while, especially when I abuse the FFWD/RWD functions, but I gotta give it to the guys workin on the drivers - esp. Chris Kenedy, who seems to be the maintainer.
I don't remember if it was MAPS that I ended up on.. but the problem was that I opened up a web-based proxy server (or something, I dont remember, it was a while ago)... I didn't realize at the time that it could be used to forward mail. One of the RBLs picked up on this, and banned my server's IP. When I tried getting off the list, the web form to do this sends a confirmation email to postmaster@[the results of their reverse dns lookup], which ended up going to Rackshack, the server hosting company, rather than to me.
Ugh, was frustrating.
Also, my old company had a problem with one of these RBLs -- there was a spammer somewhere on our subnet or something at one point. We had such a hard time getting off the lists.
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Firefly was one of the best shows on TV the past few years - I'm especially surprised there's so much negativity here over it...
the whole cowboy theme -- if you watch past the 4th or 5th episode that's all explained -- the alliance terraforms then drops civilians on the planent with nothing...
Plus, it's intentionally cheesy at times.
I highly recommend the show -- okay, there's one or two stupid (A-Team hokiness) episodes, but overall a great series.
keep in mind too that they originally played out of order, so the storyline didn't really fit. Hopefully the movie will renew interest and get a second season in the works... Although the movie will probably be lame...
oh well
maybe they're a profitable company because they forsee losses and cut staff to avoid them?
agreed.
i like the way you think. so many people hear "child molestor" and want to kill them. sure, it's an awful, sick crime, but you see all the people here shooting from the hip, and then wonder why presidents get elected on the platform of anti-gay-mariage.
when did this country officially stop being rational?
also - and again, this is on your brief aside - i've been preaching about money management high school curriculums since i got my first credit card... 18-year-olds are preyed upon the second they step on campus, and they have no idea that it's not 'free money.' we should be learning about how to manage money in school, before we're allowed to have credit cards.
i'd like to gauge where you're coming from...
would you like to pretend that molesting kids is worse than killing someone?
clever girl.
sure, that makes sense... most states don't even give the death penalty for killing a person... so you're giving the molester the incentive for killing the kid instead of letting him/her go.
molestation is an awful, awful thing, true... but i think you're going a little far.
then why not leave them in prison forever? why not give them the death penalty?
this is silly. either they've served their time or not. what's next? manditory breathalizer for any ex-con drunk driver when he gets into his car for life? manditory daily urine tests for ex-con drug users for life? key-logging for any convicted computer crackers for life?
how about whenever someone gets out of jail, we give them a second, less-harsh sentence for life, making sure they never repeat their crimes?
you can't do this. this is why there's sentences in the first place. you have to let people live their lives after they've paid for their crimes.
think this out before you support something that seems so simple like this..
thx for the review.. i can't decide whether it's worth the $9 to go see h2g2... it'll probably be on rental in a few weeks if it's that awful :)
i think it's DC... which would be... 0hz.
as soon as i read this article i was thinking the same thing -- i was thinking how cool it'd be to at least recharge my batteries off the landline...
then i found this link... it says that when the fone is "on hook", you can only draw 5 microamps. when it's "off hook", you can draw current, but it'll degrade your signal.
that woulda been cool though.
yup yup. though if i was producer, and my options were a stupid CG second head like in Star Wars 1 or 2, or just say "well, the second head is in his nose"... i'd probably go with the latter. at least we can get over it in the beginning of the movie, rather than be forced to think about how fake the second head looked...
or they could just cast a two-headed actor... tho they're _really_ expensive, ya kno?
ya, that's what i thought at first too, but they're _really_ far out there... i think most moviegoers wouldn't know what to think about a trailer w/o any space sound
:)
it's not a big deal, it was just cool to see a series try to show some respect for science
although, maybe i should let it go -- this isn't apollo 13, it's a scifi flic.
oh, hehe, please remember this thread, and let me know after you've seen H2G2 what ya thought. lemme know if you've read the books, cause that'll make a big difference in your opinion
cheers
hahah, awesome post.
a little tired, yes, but i didn't smell the sarcasm at all till the end there...
very nice, and good point.. still, cmon, you gotta hate the hollywood bastardization process... no?
not even a little?
btw, ya, that's what i thought too - that they were on the edge of an atmosphere so that's where the sound came from, but i don't think that's it. they're way too far out, and the whole trailer shows outer space scenes making sound..
dunno man.
have you read the reviews? heard how all the good dialog was mangled? see the trailer promotes mainly just slapstick?
... but not the easter bunny... that's a crock of ish.
zaphrod's got one head? i read somewhere the other head is in his nose? face it, man. it's gonna suck.
but, if it'll make ya feel any better... "it's going to be the best movie ever!" oh, and, "santa claus is real!"
man, i was so happy to see the series not have sound in space, and now the movie does? ugh, guess the 15-year-olds' tickets need to be sold...
:)
ugh..
if this movie is as good as the trailer makes it seem, at least we can get over the failure of h2g2 (i refuse to pay money for that, already knowing it's gonna suck)
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what's wrong with this?
:)
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Everyone here knows his was a stupid quote, but from a marketing standpoint, it's valid... None of us are going to buy Linspire -- we'll run our slack/deb/rh/fedora -- but, cheap newbies will, and to them, it's no different than running their existing OS, Windows 98...
There's no chance Robertson actually means what he's saying though. The CEO of a linux company can't possibly be that stupid.
I'm using the Hauppauge 250 and 350 for video inputs for MythTV, and the 350 for TV Out and hardware mpeg2 decoding. Love the cards, they're great. The ivtv drivers seem to bug out every once in a while, especially when I abuse the FFWD/RWD functions, but I gotta give it to the guys workin on the drivers - esp. Chris Kenedy, who seems to be the maintainer.
... because most shoplifters usually make their get-away by road ...
k. thanks for the advice.
I don't remember if it was MAPS that I ended up on.. but the problem was that I opened up a web-based proxy server (or something, I dont remember, it was a while ago)... I didn't realize at the time that it could be used to forward mail. One of the RBLs picked up on this, and banned my server's IP. When I tried getting off the list, the web form to do this sends a confirmation email to postmaster@[the results of their reverse dns lookup], which ended up going to Rackshack, the server hosting company, rather than to me.
Ugh, was frustrating.
Also, my old company had a problem with one of these RBLs -- there was a spammer somewhere on our subnet or something at one point. We had such a hard time getting off the lists.
Ugh, was frustrating.