Enterprise was hamstrung by the fact that the producers didn't want to adhere to that previously established continuity. A show leading up to the Romulan War and the founding of the Federation would've been very interesting; but instead we got some bullshit "temporal cold war" that the writers had no coherent plan for, a heavy-handed terrorism allegory, and finally a massive fanwank in the final season when they realized it was all going to hell anyway. Plus they were so completely uncreative that the technology was essentially the same as the previous Trek series.
Basically, Voyager and Enterprise were attempts to reclaim the wild popularity of TNG that failed miserably. DS9, especially in its later seasons, rigidly adhered to established continuity and also established some of its own. It is still considered among the best of the Trek series, even among non-fan publications like TV Guide. Go hunt down J. Michael Straczynski's original-series reboot proposal and tell me that same story couldn't be told without needlessly "reimagining" the well-loved TOS characters.
Natural resources and space will still be relatively scarce, while everybody has the capacity to understand and interpret ideas. Information will never be worth more in an economic sense than physical goods. What you espouse would be closest to the replicator-driven society of Star Trek, where any sort of matter can be transmuted into anything else. That might cause information to become more valuable to people, but it will still cost less in terms of energy to copy and understand the design specifications of something than it will to create it.
How can you kill something that's not technically alive? Furthermore, I was under the impression that it was a retrovirus, so its DNA is inscribed into infected cells of the patient which in turn produce more viruses. Does this treatment somehow reverse that? If so, one would think there would be huge implications for genetic engineering and virology.
Considering that Eben Moglen founded the Software Freedom Law Center in February 2005; and that he himself, "expects -- in fact, plans for -- a large turnover in the staff. After five years, he anticipates 20 to 30 lawyers will have passed through the Center," I doubt that he's leading some evil cabal of lawyers which seek to subvert the FSF.
But if you continually take advantage of the torque your electric motor provides, then your fuel mileage is going to take a noticeable hit as the gasoline engine must constantly recharge it. On the other hand, I can floorboard my TDI all the time and see only a minor ding in mileage, if any at all.
Naturally, one must question why one would constantly accelerate so in an urban environment, where a well-driven hybrid will typically come out ahead anyway.
Problem is that vacuum, by definition, does not contain any sort of matter that would exhibit an observable pressure. Vacuum is simply empty space. To metaphorically "compress" or "expand" vacuum (as in Star Trek) would require a deeper knowledge of the nature of space-time than we have now, if it was even possible then.
You could probably go back and find folk tales throughout history that are superficially the same, this just has a couple pertinent details changed. Oh, and I imagine that the rest of the story after the 30-year timeline has elapsed is a classic fish-out-of-water tale, like that one Brendan Fraser flick where he grows up in a fallout shelter?
I also thought that this was supposed to be covered by copyright law, but apparently this guy wants insurance in case somebody comes along with a better or more widely-acclaimed version of such a story.
Perhaps Roche should investigate methods by which they could profitably produce drugs without relying on the crutch of intellectual property law. As this example indiciates, patents are not guaranteed. However, there will always be a market for medicine. Perhaps there are a few highly-paid executives they could trim...?
[BLOCKQUOTE]Most Americans do not want to rule the world.[/BLOCKQUOTE]
The Americans who are currently in power, and most Americans who aspire to power, actually do want to rule the world. In addition, most Americans enjoy the fruits of globalism, meaning that they really wouldn't care for any change in the current unipolar nature of world politics. Therefore they want the US to rule the world, even if they don't know it.
Obviously, however, most people outside the United States (especially in the poorer areas of the world, like (gasp) the Middle East) would like to enjoy the same sense of national sovereignity and self-determination that America does. The power brokers in those nations recognize this and capitalize upon it. Of course this isn't limited to the Arab world. Look at the resurgence of nationalism in China since 1989. Since we're the richest nation in the world, and most of it is made off their backs, we're obviously target number 1. Once we're gone, they'll start squabbling amongst themselves. A new order will arise, and the cycle will repeat. There's no room for unity in the world when other men can be made out to be demons. But at least the coming destruction will make for good television.
It's a reminder of what Mars really represents. Think about it. The hazy red tint to atmosphere and surface alike, the uniformity of the boundless desert, the complete lack of any obvious habitation at all... the planet Mars obviously depicts the end stage of a Communist takeover. After all, all the workers will finally be equal when they're DEAD. And the means of production will be well out of the hands of exploitative capitalist pigs once they're blasted into to small bits of rock.
Face on Mars? Heh. Those fools should've been looking for a hammer and sickle on Mars.
I live in San Joaquin County, and the floodwaters in 1997 came within probably 1/4 mile of my house. Luckily I'm just off the flood plain, but unfortunately 1997 didn't change much in terms of development. Entire new neighborhoods are opening in the floodplains north and east of here, with nothing in the way of flood protection. Apparently those levees which didn't break in 1997 are suffering from seepage problems (keep in mind, new houses are being built right next to them), and there's no real money or initiative to get them fixed. A couple of developments have been proposed with ridiculous dike systems that would protect them at the expense of everything around them, and as far as I've seen they're sailing through approval. I certainly hope those aren't the new wave of development, because they stand to do a lot more damage than economic benefit.
Meanwhile local newspapers tend to carry articles about the red-hot housing market rather than the real danger people are buying into. I wouldn't be surprised if, in the next few years, we're faced with our own mini-Katrina in central California. The 1997 floods garnered some minor national attention, but it wasn't the wakeup call it should've been.
Obviously you don't grasp the full implication. Some malevolent alien race has a death ray capable of detonating stars. At least, that's what I infer from the scant information we're given in the original article.
I'll stick with the original theory because, oh I don't know, it MAKES FUCKING SENSE?!
I thought we had agreed that Slashdot should stop posting stories from the Onion. Looks like they've picked up feeds from any number of other wacky humor sites to compensate.
Good prank, ScuttleMonkey, but next time don't forget the Monty Python foot. You seem to be a new guy so I guess you're allowed a couple mistakes.
I think the guy writing the blog would strongly disagree with you. Were it a less stressful time, I would suggest that you take it up with him. If you had read his words, you would realize that chaos is the perfect description, and it's only getting worse. But of course, commenting on the article itself was never your intention.
Excellent troll, AC. Kudos to your bandwagon respondents too. An issue like this does not need to be politicized or taken over by ideologues. But as your foolishness demonstrates, inevitably it will be.
Which in turn will cause ANOTHER real estate boom, since a whole bunch of prime oceanfront property just opened up. I'm prepping my house to go on the market as we speak!
But minors WERE mining in the pre-electricity days. Before child labor laws and all that. I know the humanities do seem kind of imposing, but at some point you need to take a history class, man.
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Enterprise was hamstrung by the fact that the producers didn't want to adhere to that previously established continuity. A show leading up to the Romulan War and the founding of the Federation would've been very interesting; but instead we got some bullshit "temporal cold war" that the writers had no coherent plan for, a heavy-handed terrorism allegory, and finally a massive fanwank in the final season when they realized it was all going to hell anyway. Plus they were so completely uncreative that the technology was essentially the same as the previous Trek series.
Basically, Voyager and Enterprise were attempts to reclaim the wild popularity of TNG that failed miserably. DS9, especially in its later seasons, rigidly adhered to established continuity and also established some of its own. It is still considered among the best of the Trek series, even among non-fan publications like TV Guide. Go hunt down J. Michael Straczynski's original-series reboot proposal and tell me that same story couldn't be told without needlessly "reimagining" the well-loved TOS characters.
They should consider themselves lucky, then.
You mean glow plugs? I don't think a Golf TDI is gonna need spark plugs. :)
Natural resources and space will still be relatively scarce, while everybody has the capacity to understand and interpret ideas. Information will never be worth more in an economic sense than physical goods. What you espouse would be closest to the replicator-driven society of Star Trek, where any sort of matter can be transmuted into anything else. That might cause information to become more valuable to people, but it will still cost less in terms of energy to copy and understand the design specifications of something than it will to create it.
You know, if I could play as Harvey Bullock, this game might actually be interesting.
How can you kill something that's not technically alive? Furthermore, I was under the impression that it was a retrovirus, so its DNA is inscribed into infected cells of the patient which in turn produce more viruses. Does this treatment somehow reverse that? If so, one would think there would be huge implications for genetic engineering and virology.
Shouldn't they be worried about destabilization of the protomatter samples, though?
Long-distance call 10 years into the future? Can't even imagine how much that cost you...
Considering that Eben Moglen founded the Software Freedom Law Center in February 2005; and that he himself, "expects -- in fact, plans for -- a large turnover in the staff. After five years, he anticipates 20 to 30 lawyers will have passed through the Center," I doubt that he's leading some evil cabal of lawyers which seek to subvert the FSF.
But if you continually take advantage of the torque your electric motor provides, then your fuel mileage is going to take a noticeable hit as the gasoline engine must constantly recharge it. On the other hand, I can floorboard my TDI all the time and see only a minor ding in mileage, if any at all.
Naturally, one must question why one would constantly accelerate so in an urban environment, where a well-driven hybrid will typically come out ahead anyway.
Problem is that vacuum, by definition, does not contain any sort of matter that would exhibit an observable pressure. Vacuum is simply empty space. To metaphorically "compress" or "expand" vacuum (as in Star Trek) would require a deeper knowledge of the nature of space-time than we have now, if it was even possible then.
You could probably go back and find folk tales throughout history that are superficially the same, this just has a couple pertinent details changed. Oh, and I imagine that the rest of the story after the 30-year timeline has elapsed is a classic fish-out-of-water tale, like that one Brendan Fraser flick where he grows up in a fallout shelter?
I also thought that this was supposed to be covered by copyright law, but apparently this guy wants insurance in case somebody comes along with a better or more widely-acclaimed version of such a story.
Perhaps Roche should investigate methods by which they could profitably produce drugs without relying on the crutch of intellectual property law. As this example indiciates, patents are not guaranteed. However, there will always be a market for medicine. Perhaps there are a few highly-paid executives they could trim...?
Even if bestiality wasn't illegal, who would want to watch lemur porn anyway?
[BLOCKQUOTE]Most Americans do not want to rule the world.[/BLOCKQUOTE]
The Americans who are currently in power, and most Americans who aspire to power, actually do want to rule the world. In addition, most Americans enjoy the fruits of globalism, meaning that they really wouldn't care for any change in the current unipolar nature of world politics. Therefore they want the US to rule the world, even if they don't know it.
Obviously, however, most people outside the United States (especially in the poorer areas of the world, like (gasp) the Middle East) would like to enjoy the same sense of national sovereignity and self-determination that America does. The power brokers in those nations recognize this and capitalize upon it. Of course this isn't limited to the Arab world. Look at the resurgence of nationalism in China since 1989. Since we're the richest nation in the world, and most of it is made off their backs, we're obviously target number 1. Once we're gone, they'll start squabbling amongst themselves. A new order will arise, and the cycle will repeat. There's no room for unity in the world when other men can be made out to be demons. But at least the coming destruction will make for good television.
It's a reminder of what Mars really represents. Think about it. The hazy red tint to atmosphere and surface alike, the uniformity of the boundless desert, the complete lack of any obvious habitation at all... the planet Mars obviously depicts the end stage of a Communist takeover. After all, all the workers will finally be equal when they're DEAD. And the means of production will be well out of the hands of exploitative capitalist pigs once they're blasted into to small bits of rock.
Face on Mars? Heh. Those fools should've been looking for a hammer and sickle on Mars.
I live in San Joaquin County, and the floodwaters in 1997 came within probably 1/4 mile of my house. Luckily I'm just off the flood plain, but unfortunately 1997 didn't change much in terms of development. Entire new neighborhoods are opening in the floodplains north and east of here, with nothing in the way of flood protection. Apparently those levees which didn't break in 1997 are suffering from seepage problems (keep in mind, new houses are being built right next to them), and there's no real money or initiative to get them fixed. A couple of developments have been proposed with ridiculous dike systems that would protect them at the expense of everything around them, and as far as I've seen they're sailing through approval. I certainly hope those aren't the new wave of development, because they stand to do a lot more damage than economic benefit.
Meanwhile local newspapers tend to carry articles about the red-hot housing market rather than the real danger people are buying into. I wouldn't be surprised if, in the next few years, we're faced with our own mini-Katrina in central California. The 1997 floods garnered some minor national attention, but it wasn't the wakeup call it should've been.
Obviously you don't grasp the full implication. Some malevolent alien race has a death ray capable of detonating stars. At least, that's what I infer from the scant information we're given in the original article.
I'll stick with the original theory because, oh I don't know, it MAKES FUCKING SENSE?!
I thought we had agreed that Slashdot should stop posting stories from the Onion. Looks like they've picked up feeds from any number of other wacky humor sites to compensate.
Good prank, ScuttleMonkey, but next time don't forget the Monty Python foot. You seem to be a new guy so I guess you're allowed a couple mistakes.
I think the guy writing the blog would strongly disagree with you. Were it a less stressful time, I would suggest that you take it up with him. If you had read his words, you would realize that chaos is the perfect description, and it's only getting worse. But of course, commenting on the article itself was never your intention.
Excellent troll, AC. Kudos to your bandwagon respondents too. An issue like this does not need to be politicized or taken over by ideologues. But as your foolishness demonstrates, inevitably it will be.
Which in turn will cause ANOTHER real estate boom, since a whole bunch of prime oceanfront property just opened up. I'm prepping my house to go on the market as we speak!
But minors WERE mining in the pre-electricity days. Before child labor laws and all that. I know the humanities do seem kind of imposing, but at some point you need to take a history class, man.
I would hang onto the lead, just in case Superman comes around.
Quite possibly, but how does one ram a skyscraper using a television?
You got chopped in half by a Jedi and then fell down a ventilation shaft, what do you know?