BTW the point of my other response was that even in a situation like mine where I have a fantastic network of trails, some assholes will still insist on riding in the street and causing drivers to consider all of us as a nuisance.
Honestly, why ride in the street when there's a trail running parrallel?
I've heard some guys go "I don't want to stop at every driveway/entrance"
Well golly gee. I thought we were doing this for excercise, at least in part. You're not running the Tour de France, so stop trying to be Lance fucking Armstrong on your way to work. Save it for the weekend when you're actually training for a race. And if you're not training, leave it out.
THat kind of shit helps nooone.
Sorry just frustrated that I live in one of the best locales for cycling via trail, and I have so many narcissistic fuckwads that insist on showing off in the street instead.
I've done it, and do ride part of the year, but during the summer in Florida it's not really possible. I don't want to work the day through all sweaty, and I dont' want to wait until 9 PM at night to go home because of the almost nightly thunderstorms.
I'm not willing to give up half of my free time to support bicycling to work.
on the positive side, when the weather is good I get to work faster on the bike, because it's 1/3 the distance by trail, and I only have to deal with one traffic light.
I hear you. In the US and some other countries, if you are on a bike, motorcycle or any kind of vehicle smaller than your opponents^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H fellow commuters, they seem to take sadistic pleasure in dangerous and threatening maneuvers.
I don't usually see sadistic pleasure, just angry frustration that a given driver is impeded and sometimes endangered because he has a bicycle in front of him in his lane.
THe bicycle is going slower than traffic, invariably, and the person stuck behind him is getting passed by people, without himself getting an opportunity to pass the cyclist.
This means the driver behind the cyclist is screwed. Of course he's going to be pissed.
Doesn't help that in my area, there's a cycle trail 15 feet to one side of the road, but most cyclists (not me for damned sure) insist on riding in the street to be "Seen" and to show off their fucking gay spandex suits, complete with fake endosement logos.
Newsflash Lance. If you're commuting to get excercise and save gas, you don't need the attention. Just admit you're showing off, and go drink bleach.
When I ride, I'm getting from point a to point b. I have no interest in becoming a spectical or demonstrating to the masses how healthy and pro-environment I'm being. Give me the lovely bicycle trail that the local government spent so much fucking money on, which I never have to leave to get where I'm going, and I'm happy.
Oh bullshit. Ortiz is trying to take credit for someone elses work. He's a fucking liar, and deserves to be treated as such. Stop trying to justify theft.
Precisely. He did not, therefore he no longer deserves to be refered to as a scientist. From here on out I will refer to Ortiz as a Charlatain, a Fraud, and a Thief. No "discovery" he announces will have any merit, because he has no credibility.
nonono. have to make it rhyme with the original....
"they didn't steal it, they Aquired it...
Nobody expects the Spanish Aquisition!!!"
That being said, Ortez should be blacklisted for attempting to do what he did. Trying to weasel another Astronomer's discovery is shitty behavior, no matter how you try to justify it.
Brown found it first, Ortez KNOWS he found it first, and he's trying to rules-lawyer some kind of triumph for himself.
May he die a thousand deaths in the eyes of the scientific community.
Yea... well in Florida, Rain usually = Thunderstorm, and I'm not too keen on riding through those. (we have a great suspension bridge over the freeway that makes my ride one mile, but no way I'm getting up on that thing with electricity arcing out of the sky... give me my nice rolling faraday cage, IC Engine and all on those afternoons)
I moved to be within bike distance of my office, but it's really only feasable during "dry" season.
Cooler then anyhow. I'm not real interested in being sweaty when I arrive at work.
Yea, they definitely aren't thinking the whole "promote the format" thing through. If they don't think beyond the PSP (which I quite enjoy as a gaming console btw) they will not get the market penetration they need.
Maybe they think they'll sell the format to TV stations like they did Betamax?
(for the uninformed, Betamax survives to this day in another form as a Broadcast format (or at least it did last time I set foot in a Television studio, which admittedly was several years ago)
Yup, got that. Confused a couple of franchises that came to light while I was not reading comics. Although the name Hellblazer explains why my aging brain thought Hellboy...
Only Vertigo titles I read are "Y the Last Man" and "Fables"
The "Shazam!" Captain Marvel was a Fawcett Comics character that was later bought by DC Comics. it is currently owned and published in comics that DC issues now. There was a lawsuit from Marvel at one point, and while the character can retain that name, when he has a comic of his own, the name can not be used, thus the use of "Shazam!" in the comic title in recent versions of the character.
There is a Captain Marvel in the Marvel Universe, but he is the son of the original, and an alien who (sometimes) exchanges places with his human counterpart with the use of his cosmic bands. The current version is Genis Vell, son of Mar Vell. He's kind of an amnesiac at the moment and calls himself "Photon" I belive.
Nah. Marvel and DC are back in a big way. THere's some signs that they're looking to repeat the big crash of the early 90's (seeing more and more alternate/incentive covers these days) but for the most part, it's much better and compelling than 10 years ago.
I just got back into buying/reading comics a couple years ago, things are pretty good right now, product wise. I just hope they don't contract retard-itis like around '93 again...
Yea I've managed to avoid that so far. My first hint that it was crap was having David Hasslehoff anywhere near the film.
Thankfully, Marvel is dealing with production personell who have actually made hit movies in the past now, rather than doing direct to DVD crap. Still, I can't figure out how they think Power Pack or Shang-Chi are going to be hits... Iron Fist maybe...
What other kind of heroes were you expecting? This is Marvel, not some Indy publishing "Love and Rockets" or some other alternative book. I understand if you like that (I personally never enjoyed it) but Main Stream (aka Profitable) comics are pretty much all action heroes.
If you rely on a crutch like the Flash plugin, you're really not a very good web designer.
The web was built on HTML, not on a proprietary format like Flash.
Of course your real beef is that people that block flash either cost you money by devaluing "shoskeles" or by pointing out to your clients that you're a fucking hack.
I've never met a "web designer" who relied on Flash where one or both of those cases was not true.
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BTW the point of my other response was that even in a situation like mine where I have a fantastic network of trails, some assholes will still insist on riding in the street and causing drivers to consider all of us as a nuisance.
Honestly, why ride in the street when there's a trail running parrallel?
I've heard some guys go "I don't want to stop at every driveway/entrance"
Well golly gee. I thought we were doing this for excercise, at least in part. You're not running the Tour de France, so stop trying to be Lance fucking Armstrong on your way to work. Save it for the weekend when you're actually training for a race. And if you're not training, leave it out.
THat kind of shit helps nooone.
Sorry just frustrated that I live in one of the best locales for cycling via trail, and I have so many narcissistic fuckwads that insist on showing off in the street instead.
I've done it, and do ride part of the year, but during the summer in Florida it's not really possible. I don't want to work the day through all sweaty, and I dont' want to wait until 9 PM at night to go home because of the almost nightly thunderstorms.
I'm not willing to give up half of my free time to support bicycling to work.
on the positive side, when the weather is good I get to work faster on the bike, because it's 1/3 the distance by trail, and I only have to deal with one traffic light.
I don't usually see sadistic pleasure, just angry frustration that a given driver is impeded and sometimes endangered because he has a bicycle in front of him in his lane.
THe bicycle is going slower than traffic, invariably, and the person stuck behind him is getting passed by people, without himself getting an opportunity to pass the cyclist.
This means the driver behind the cyclist is screwed. Of course he's going to be pissed.
Doesn't help that in my area, there's a cycle trail 15 feet to one side of the road, but most cyclists (not me for damned sure) insist on riding in the street to be "Seen" and to show off their fucking gay spandex suits, complete with fake endosement logos.
Newsflash Lance. If you're commuting to get excercise and save gas, you don't need the attention. Just admit you're showing off, and go drink bleach.
When I ride, I'm getting from point a to point b. I have no interest in becoming a spectical or demonstrating to the masses how healthy and pro-environment I'm being. Give me the lovely bicycle trail that the local government spent so much fucking money on, which I never have to leave to get where I'm going, and I'm happy.
"activist" bicyclists do none of us any good.
Oh bullshit. Ortiz is trying to take credit for someone elses work. He's a fucking liar, and deserves to be treated as such. Stop trying to justify theft.
Precisely. He did not, therefore he no longer deserves to be refered to as a scientist. From here on out I will refer to Ortiz as a Charlatain, a Fraud, and a Thief. No "discovery" he announces will have any merit, because he has no credibility.
He's a fucking liar.
nonono. have to make it rhyme with the original....
"they didn't steal it, they Aquired it...
Nobody expects the Spanish Aquisition!!!"
That being said, Ortez should be blacklisted for attempting to do what he did. Trying to weasel another Astronomer's discovery is shitty behavior, no matter how you try to justify it.
Brown found it first, Ortez KNOWS he found it first, and he's trying to rules-lawyer some kind of triumph for himself.
May he die a thousand deaths in the eyes of the scientific community.
Yea... well in Florida, Rain usually = Thunderstorm, and I'm not too keen on riding through those. (we have a great suspension bridge over the freeway that makes my ride one mile, but no way I'm getting up on that thing with electricity arcing out of the sky... give me my nice rolling faraday cage, IC Engine and all on those afternoons)
I moved to be within bike distance of my office, but it's really only feasable during "dry" season.
Cooler then anyhow. I'm not real interested in being sweaty when I arrive at work.
Yea, they definitely aren't thinking the whole "promote the format" thing through. If they don't think beyond the PSP (which I quite enjoy as a gaming console btw) they will not get the market penetration they need.
Maybe they think they'll sell the format to TV stations like they did Betamax?
(for the uninformed, Betamax survives to this day in another form as a Broadcast format (or at least it did last time I set foot in a Television studio, which admittedly was several years ago)
err I meant for what the whole game would cost, not half...
Promote the UMDs that no one wants, or sell a 3 level demo for half what the game would cost... either way, it's a shitty deal.
...and if you'd ever picked up "Power Pack" when it was being published, you'd know that one can be too many very easily. Kid or not.
That book was plain and simple CRAP.
Well as I said, I never actually watched the Hasselhoff "Nick Fury" but I'll give it a shot if SciFi runs it again based on your explaination.
I have to see who plays Dum-Dum.
Yup, got that. Confused a couple of franchises that came to light while I was not reading comics. Although the name Hellblazer explains why my aging brain thought Hellboy...
Only Vertigo titles I read are "Y the Last Man" and "Fables"
That explains why I haven't seen it. I had read somewhere that he was another character involved witht the Hellboy/BPRD thing.
I've not been a huge Alan Moore fan for the most part, so I guess I missed that character (I certainly didn't read the Swamp Thing comic he did)
Sacreledge I know, but his stuff just never clicked for me.
/pedantic comic geek mode on
The "Shazam!" Captain Marvel was a Fawcett Comics character that was later bought by DC Comics. it is currently owned and published in comics that DC issues now. There was a lawsuit from Marvel at one point, and while the character can retain that name, when he has a comic of his own, the name can not be used, thus the use of "Shazam!" in the comic title in recent versions of the character.
There is a Captain Marvel in the Marvel Universe, but he is the son of the original, and an alien who (sometimes) exchanges places with his human counterpart with the use of his cosmic bands. The current version is Genis Vell, son of Mar Vell. He's kind of an amnesiac at the moment and calls himself "Photon" I belive.
I belive that Constantine, like Hellboy, was a Dark Horse franchise.
As a side note, I haven't seen Constantine yet, I'll take your comment to indicate that it wasn't particularly good...
Nah. Marvel and DC are back in a big way. THere's some signs that they're looking to repeat the big crash of the early 90's (seeing more and more alternate/incentive covers these days) but for the most part, it's much better and compelling than 10 years ago.
I just got back into buying/reading comics a couple years ago, things are pretty good right now, product wise. I just hope they don't contract retard-itis like around '93 again...
Yea I've managed to avoid that so far. My first hint that it was crap was having David Hasslehoff anywhere near the film.
Thankfully, Marvel is dealing with production personell who have actually made hit movies in the past now, rather than doing direct to DVD crap. Still, I can't figure out how they think Power Pack or Shang-Chi are going to be hits... Iron Fist maybe...
What other kind of heroes were you expecting? This is Marvel, not some Indy publishing "Love and Rockets" or some other alternative book. I understand if you like that (I personally never enjoyed it) but Main Stream (aka Profitable) comics are pretty much all action heroes.
Have to agree. "Wes Craven Does Dr. Strange" is a porno flick I have no interest in. Not into sausage fests.
Ant Man I can see, lots of money in CGI effects films.
Power Pack though... Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, Batman!
Super-powered Toddlers has already been done one time to many.
I've had several messages left on my voice mail for my Cingular cellphone that were from the resort company named in the Fine Article.
Automated of course. Hopefully Cingular jumps on the bandwagon and sues these bastards as well.
They already have. It's called the Green Party.
If you rely on a crutch like the Flash plugin, you're really not a very good web designer.
The web was built on HTML, not on a proprietary format like Flash.
Of course your real beef is that people that block flash either cost you money by devaluing "shoskeles" or by pointing out to your clients that you're a fucking hack.
I've never met a "web designer" who relied on Flash where one or both of those cases was not true.
Still, that's a typo that brings to mind some odd imagery.