"A hundred and forty-eight years on the wall, A hundred and forty-eight years, If one of those years should happen to fall, A hundred and forty-seven years on the wall."
My advice is not to look to the movies and games but to the predator pulp novels which are alien _and_ predator books (not a spoiler as such. That's the series' whole universe.) Basically, human female warrior protagonist surviving a precarious acceptance among the predators sporting against aliens.
I had _such_ a kick-ass AvP movie sketched out in my own mind following on that universe that I perceived the first AvP movie as one of the worst pieces of crap I've ever sat through. In fact, it fascinates me and if anyone knows the back story, I'd love to hear it. I can remember when Harlan Ellison was on the Tom Snyder TV show back in the 70s talking about walking off the Star Trek One team because the producers had idiots like the guy who wanted "pyramids, at the dawn of the universe, with, like, Mayans, man!" Is it possible there was some fool with taste up his ass who hung around Hollywood for 30 years until he finally talked some bigger fools into bankrolling his vision with the first AvP movie?
Yeah, I'm digressing. Anyway, I'm just saying that the aliens franchise has wandering down some unfortunate paths, but there are still plenty of good possibilities waiting to be explored if they leave the gate shining enough to shake off the stench of the crappy failures.
is this really a need crying out to be filled? I thought a smart car was already plastic hung on a metal frame. Maybe for things like the seats materials science could come up with a durable and rigid foamed substance that was still light but wasn't actually inflatable? Same for the dashboard. Why not a rigid material?
Remember, they circled the moon more than once before they landed. Lots of stuff that can get ironed out just on the journey and we all know a Martian landing is uniquely tricky.
First, the Supreme Court has made it clear that 'grossly excessive' punitive damage awards (e.g., $2 million award against BMW for selling a repainted BMW as 'new') violate the Due Process clause of the US Constitution.
Totally different situation when it's a corporation.
And when they were the most popular computer in the world, they released the Plus/4 with integrated (and quite buggy in ROM) "Productivity software." And the system's ROM addresses, particularly for the graphics library, were different so virtually all the C64 software was incompatible. Not only did they release a computer to compete with their own cash cow, they released a computer that was incompatible with their star performer.
And I think they were in stores for about three months. Did I pay retail for one? Of course. It wasn't all loss because it also had a disassembler in ROM, a person could halt program loading part way, and I learned quite a bit about Commodore disk and program security back in the day -- which could also be thought of as a blunder by Commodore.
"They found that while bituminous roads have high initial costs, gravel roads cost more for ongoing, routine annual maintenance in later years. The graph of cumulative maintenance costs from one county (Figure 1) verifies that annual maintenance costs per mile for a gravel road increase with traffic volume."
Because it's pretty easy to get people to agree to spend the necessary money, if it might save their, or their children's, lives.
Depends on perceived immediacy and plenty of legislation gets pushed through on public innumeracy. We'll all die of heart disease, stroke or cancer before we find Saddam Hussein's WMDs but lots of luck getting universal health care much less a _return_ to common intellectual property coming out of universities. The Manhattan Project and Apollo were before Saint Ronald Reagan proclaimed that research should be private and universities themselves should be run as a business.
I remember ClariNet. I remember thinking, "why in God's name should I pay for something that I can get for free?"
Some of us always did pay. 20 years ago I was well out of school and paying something like $10/hr to GEnie at home for 2400 bps on my Commodore -- more to CompuServe.
Critics, who are unaware that most college students don't become liberal arts majors...
After all, it _is_ possible for people to double major, a liberal education is a wonderful thing, blah-de-blah, but paying kids just makes too much sense to get side tracked. Just look at how cheaply results are attained at a few hundred dollars/student, and it places the responsibility and motivation exactly where they should ultimately reside. Giving kids money for achievement just means they can have pride in achievement -- and money. The two are synergistic, not exclusive.
Something has to be done. When I graduated decades ago I was one of 10 honor students among 81. This year my small town graduated 41 honor students among 62. And still flunked No Child Left Behind for the second year. It's all B.S. right now. I think we do need objective measurements of success because otherwise local schools will call everyone an honor student and proclaim excellence achieved -- but NCLB isn't being funded and has its own issues. So if it works, pay the students.
Most people over the age of about 12 (well 16 in some places) understand that you won't get all the detail from a popular article.
Never been to a Mensa meeting, eh? Not to knock a group I belong to, and where I met my wife, but the Expert-on-Everything is common. Really, it's just GIGO at work coupled with a state of mind. Reading widely does not make one literate if the content read is Time, Newsweek, Reader's Digest and Discover. However, the sad thing is that said Mensan can be excused in American culture because reading Time, Newsweek, Reader's Digest and Discover actually is relatively elite. A soc professor I had got off topic many years ago and asked our class what we thought were the most popular American reading materials. Some people were coming up with outrageous answers like the New Yorker. I thought I was being sociologically clever with the supermarket shelf Reader's Digest. I was on the right track but he said it was the National Inquirer. That makes me conclude that a large part of the sociology of the pop expert is that the standard for popular reading is so abysmal in America that a person can feel justified as a lay expert merely by reading faithfully from among a selection of the mediocre.
I was on hiatus from SciFi in the 70s, but the two books recommended to me that I did read were The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldrich (a whole different story) and A for Anything by Damon Knight. Basically, the premise is that when goods can be copied and produced on a whim, the only remaining valuable commodity is slave labor. Pretty prescient for a book written in 1959 by a guy who died around 80 seven years ago.
According to a BBC Horizon show, you are very wrong. We desperately need fusion.
Say equality is a force in world peace. Say you want Americans to cut their consumption in half through conservation and allow everyone in the world to have that lower standard by something like 2020 (global warming and all). The fission plant per WEEK built and the acreage of solar, wind and bio per DAY built would be astronomical.
In my opinion, that is why Obama is allowing Big Coal to continue topping mountains. Nobody wants to be honest about how demand outstrips probable clean supply.
Bear in mind that my sources are sci fi convention panels over a number of years on the future of warfare but it is my understanding the army has been all over linux -- but as an embedded system. One would think there would be some intelligence in an SElinux military desktop but, remember, we've had 25 years of "privatize everything" and having the government develop what they want themselves isn't the way we do things around here.
Elton John, being a fan and thinking it would be a nice bit of PR for Iggy Pop, jumped onto the stage unannounced in a gorilla costume. Not realizing Iggy, as was sometimes the case at the time, was performing on LSD it turned into a show stopper.
I can imagine by the time I'm old in the home, have Alzheimers, and they try to drop some advanced bit of furry robot squirm into my lap, I'll probably react like Iggy on acid. Great, just great.
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"A hundred and forty-eight years on the wall,
A hundred and forty-eight years,
If one of those years should happen to fall,
A hundred and forty-seven years on the wall."
[Repeat into the 23rd century]
My advice is not to look to the movies and games but to the predator pulp novels which are alien _and_ predator books (not a spoiler as such. That's the series' whole universe.) Basically, human female warrior protagonist surviving a precarious acceptance among the predators sporting against aliens.
I had _such_ a kick-ass AvP movie sketched out in my own mind following on that universe that I perceived the first AvP movie as one of the worst pieces of crap I've ever sat through. In fact, it fascinates me and if anyone knows the back story, I'd love to hear it. I can remember when Harlan Ellison was on the Tom Snyder TV show back in the 70s talking about walking off the Star Trek One team because the producers had idiots like the guy who wanted "pyramids, at the dawn of the universe, with, like, Mayans, man!" Is it possible there was some fool with taste up his ass who hung around Hollywood for 30 years until he finally talked some bigger fools into bankrolling his vision with the first AvP movie?
Yeah, I'm digressing. Anyway, I'm just saying that the aliens franchise has wandering down some unfortunate paths, but there are still plenty of good possibilities waiting to be explored if they leave the gate shining enough to shake off the stench of the crappy failures.
is this really a need crying out to be filled? I thought a smart car was already plastic hung on a metal frame. Maybe for things like the seats materials science could come up with a durable and rigid foamed substance that was still light but wasn't actually inflatable? Same for the dashboard. Why not a rigid material?
Remember, they circled the moon more than once before they landed. Lots of stuff that can get ironed out just on the journey and we all know a Martian landing is uniquely tricky.
For the joy your friggin' phone is bringing to those around you when it goes off? ASCAP should be forced to set aside a fund to pay _US_.
The Bradbury cyberpunk sequel?
Exactly:
First, the Supreme Court has made it clear that 'grossly excessive' punitive damage awards (e.g., $2 million award against BMW for selling a repainted BMW as 'new') violate the Due Process clause of the US Constitution.
Totally different situation when it's a corporation.
My classics prof said the Inquisition only paradigm-shifted when the church started trying to torture and burn the kids of the nobles.
Yes, Harvard has caught up with the Grateful Dead. But I'll bet the Harvard study publishes in approved form and cites references.
And when they were the most popular computer in the world, they released the Plus/4 with integrated (and quite buggy in ROM) "Productivity software." And the system's ROM addresses, particularly for the graphics library, were different so virtually all the C64 software was incompatible. Not only did they release a computer to compete with their own cash cow, they released a computer that was incompatible with their star performer.
And I think they were in stores for about three months. Did I pay retail for one? Of course. It wasn't all loss because it also had a disassembler in ROM, a person could halt program loading part way, and I learned quite a bit about Commodore disk and program security back in the day -- which could also be thought of as a blunder by Commodore.
"They found that while bituminous roads have high initial costs, gravel roads cost more for ongoing, routine annual maintenance in later years. The graph of cumulative maintenance costs from one county
(Figure 1) verifies that annual maintenance costs per mile for a gravel road increase with traffic
volume."
http://www.lhtac.org/publications/tech%20news%20articles/2006/When%20is%20it%20Time%20to%20Pave%20a%20Gravel%20Road.pdf
"Because it's there." A reminder that you never ask a scientist "why?"
Because it's pretty easy to get people to agree to spend the necessary money, if it might save their, or their children's, lives.
Depends on perceived immediacy and plenty of legislation gets pushed through on public innumeracy. We'll all die of heart disease, stroke or cancer before we find Saddam Hussein's WMDs but lots of luck getting universal health care much less a _return_ to common intellectual property coming out of universities. The Manhattan Project and Apollo were before Saint Ronald Reagan proclaimed that research should be private and universities themselves should be run as a business.
I remember ClariNet. I remember thinking, "why in God's name should I pay for something that I can get for free?"
Some of us always did pay. 20 years ago I was well out of school and paying something like $10/hr to GEnie at home for 2400 bps on my Commodore -- more to CompuServe.
Critics, who are unaware that most college students don't become liberal arts majors...
After all, it _is_ possible for people to double major, a liberal education is a wonderful thing, blah-de-blah, but paying kids just makes too much sense to get side tracked. Just look at how cheaply results are attained at a few hundred dollars/student, and it places the responsibility and motivation exactly where they should ultimately reside. Giving kids money for achievement just means they can have pride in achievement -- and money. The two are synergistic, not exclusive.
Something has to be done. When I graduated decades ago I was one of 10 honor students among 81. This year my small town graduated 41 honor students among 62. And still flunked No Child Left Behind for the second year. It's all B.S. right now. I think we do need objective measurements of success because otherwise local schools will call everyone an honor student and proclaim excellence achieved -- but NCLB isn't being funded and has its own issues. So if it works, pay the students.
You could be right. But I'd really prefer an owl. (Bladerunner)
Strange Days, dude. I suppose it will be up to the CIA to get the squid to send. Then the technology will leak same as LSD.
One more time:
Republicans: Oil and gas
Democrats: Hollywood, the movies and recording industry
_Never_ be surprised at Democratic support for DRM, the RIAA or MPAA.
Most people over the age of about 12 (well 16 in some places) understand that you won't get all the detail from a popular article.
Never been to a Mensa meeting, eh? Not to knock a group I belong to, and where I met my wife, but the Expert-on-Everything is common. Really, it's just GIGO at work coupled with a state of mind. Reading widely does not make one literate if the content read is Time, Newsweek, Reader's Digest and Discover. However, the sad thing is that said Mensan can be excused in American culture because reading Time, Newsweek, Reader's Digest and Discover actually is relatively elite. A soc professor I had got off topic many years ago and asked our class what we thought were the most popular American reading materials. Some people were coming up with outrageous answers like the New Yorker. I thought I was being sociologically clever with the supermarket shelf Reader's Digest. I was on the right track but he said it was the National Inquirer. That makes me conclude that a large part of the sociology of the pop expert is that the standard for popular reading is so abysmal in America that a person can feel justified as a lay expert merely by reading faithfully from among a selection of the mediocre.
I was on hiatus from SciFi in the 70s, but the two books recommended to me that I did read were The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldrich (a whole different story) and A for Anything by Damon Knight. Basically, the premise is that when goods can be copied and produced on a whim, the only remaining valuable commodity is slave labor. Pretty prescient for a book written in 1959 by a guy who died around 80 seven years ago.
According to a BBC Horizon show, you are very wrong. We desperately need fusion.
Say equality is a force in world peace. Say you want Americans to cut their consumption in half through conservation and allow everyone in the world to have that lower standard by something like 2020 (global warming and all). The fission plant per WEEK built and the acreage of solar, wind and bio per DAY built would be astronomical.
In my opinion, that is why Obama is allowing Big Coal to continue topping mountains. Nobody wants to be honest about how demand outstrips probable clean supply.
Take your bicycle out for a long ride on a hot day and tell me the water from bottle doesn't have a "plasticy" taste.
Bear in mind that my sources are sci fi convention panels over a number of years on the future of warfare but it is my understanding the army has been all over linux -- but as an embedded system. One would think there would be some intelligence in an SElinux military desktop but, remember, we've had 25 years of "privatize everything" and having the government develop what they want themselves isn't the way we do things around here.
Why not in the stalls in BOTH sexes
You don't get out much on the internet, do you? Homeland Security is finally catching up with the pornographers.
Elton John, being a fan and thinking it would be a nice bit of PR for Iggy Pop, jumped onto the stage unannounced in a gorilla costume. Not realizing Iggy, as was sometimes the case at the time, was performing on LSD it turned into a show stopper.
I can imagine by the time I'm old in the home, have Alzheimers, and they try to drop some advanced bit of furry robot squirm into my lap, I'll probably react like Iggy on acid. Great, just great.