I appreciate your myth-busting (though I still think Sealand is pretty cool). Did you have some sort of personal dispute with them at some point? You seem to know a lot about the true history of the platform.
he didn't even give Fendchurch a proper exit, just erased her like a bad core dump.
Actually, it's worse than that. Re-read the section that takes place on NowWhat (I think that's the planet's name: the one that's at ZZ9pluralZAlpha instead of Earth). There's a disgusting local life form that communicates by biting. One breaks into Arthurs room, and bites him, i.e. tries to communicate with him. Arthur bashes its skull in. I'm pretty sure that the bog critter is supposed to be Fenchuch, or some analogue of her.
So, essentially, Arthur accidentally kills Fenchurch and never knows it. MH is darrrrrk.
As a Brit in America, I suspect my non-American friends are reading this entire thread bemused. "Well, of course it's an effing hoax!" they're exclaiming. "It's too over the top! You Americans are {...}"
Response: Nope. There really are people like that around here, especially in the South and the mid-West. Even many "moderate" Christians see concepts like evolution as major threats to their beliefs and are actively trying to remove it from public education (sometimes successfully.) And moderate Christians do sometimes seem to form the minority of Christians in this God-forsaken country...
He is NOT saying "The Brits are gullible too", which is what I was saying. My "spaghetti trees" reference is to a ridiculous hoax that many of the "less gullible" British people bought hook, line and sinker.
And as far as Screwy beliefs: IIRC, the founder of the Flat Earth Society was a Brit.
As a Brit in America, I suspect my non-American friends are reading this entire thread bemused. "Well, of course it's an effing hoax!" they're exclaiming. "It's too over the top! You Americans are {...}"
Two words: "spaghetti trees." USians have not cornered the market on being gormless gullible morons.
"I'm gonna get modded to hell for this..." But I've always felt that the whole nine movie plan was a bit of revisionist history after people didn't get the "Episode IV" joke-cum-homage to old time serials ("...our story so far:"). Maybe I'm just looking for evidence of my own crackpot theory, but the movie is full of stuff like that: irising in and out, deliberately clunky cross screen fades, villains in crazy costumes, hysterical cliffhangers (the compactor scene mentioned in the article for instance)...it's all from those fun old serials. Doesn't lessen the impact of the movies for me, but by the same token, the Campbell/Jung stuff doesn't increase it.
Same thing is happening with UltimateTV. Big initial push, but just try to find mention of it in the advertising marketplace now.
IIRC, UltimateTV has been officially discontinued. Conspiracy tyoes suggest that this is to keep the market clear for the HomeStation, MS' convergence box that is supposed to follow the X-Box.
"Look, if I ask this they'll know I'm just a wannabe!" "Aw, quitcherbitchin' and just ask."
So, I haven't been able to find out anywhere, does this card handle PAL to NTSC transfers (like a region 2 PAL disk to an NTSC TV), or would a body need more hardware than this?
Now consider that if your local news station can't compete in its market against some station from New York, you aren't going to get local news.
But would anyone besides dish users see the NY station? I don't think we're dealling with enough eyeballs here to significantly damage the local channel's standing. Cable and plain old antenna are still in the majority from what I remember. This could possibly be the killer app for dish tho'. My town (Belleville, Michigan) doesn't have a TV or radio presence that I'm aware of. If you want to know about local government, you read the paper. I'm betting it's the same in a large chunk of the US.
this is so weird, it might actually NOT be an April Fools' joke...
I'm thinking this one was put up today as a sort of "Meta-Fool". It's an April Fools joke precisely because there will be lots of "It's just a stupid joke" posts on this thread, when the story is actually true. Very clever, good social engineering (knowing the geek penchant for scepticism and knowitallitis).
Let me expand on this a little (the brevity of my original post did make it a little flamebaity). In the days and weeks after 9/11, some businesses with a national or even global presence were paralyzed because their nerve centers in NY were destroyed. If those same nerve centers were duplicated in other cities or countries (or if one nerve center was distributed across several offices) business could have continued, during those days (certainly on a reduced scale). This would have had some impact on the economic and morale hits of 9/11 in my opinion.
A boon for telecom and video conferencing companies and systems. Not only will many corporations choose to do business without sending executives on the road, but such systems are seen as increasingly vital communications backups in the event of widespread attacks on an existing communications infrastructure.
Hopefully, this will also lead to the decentralization of business. There's a danger of increased "sprawl", but the dispersal of urban centers means less large critical targets, a good thing in my view.
If you add a 'sixth sense' would the strength of your five basic senses be diminished? Would they become 'lazy'?
Oh that's no problem: you just graft in a cybernetic replacement for that sense. Of course, one of your other senses would then become lazy. So you'd have to replace that, which would lead to another sense becoming lazy...
Oooo, upgrade spiral. Warwick's gonna end up looking like Tetsuo (The Iron Man).
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and broadcast giants like Clear Channel Communications Inc. would be on the hook for 70 cents for each song played to an audience of 1,000 listeners.
Would this be a textbook example of an "unintended consequence?"
Haven't tried this site, but I'm finding that the U/P combinations of "Slashdot/slashdot" or "metafilter/metafilter" work quite often.
Spider-Man is the next generation after Star Wars? Maybe I'm being nitpicky, but isn't Spider-Man an older story?
Actually, it's worse than that. Re-read the section that takes place on NowWhat (I think that's the planet's name: the one that's at ZZ9pluralZAlpha instead of Earth). There's a disgusting local life form that communicates by biting. One breaks into Arthurs room, and bites him, i.e. tries to communicate with him. Arthur bashes its skull in. I'm pretty sure that the bog critter is supposed to be Fenchuch, or some analogue of her.
So, essentially, Arthur accidentally kills Fenchurch and never knows it. MH is darrrrrk.
You'd be like the Santa Claus of dreadful softcore!
Ah yes. Appears I was spoiling for a fight. How 'Merican of me. I particularly like the "Flat Earth Society" diversion. Apologies all round.
As a Brit in America, I suspect my non-American friends are reading this entire thread bemused. "Well, of course it's an effing hoax!" they're exclaiming. "It's too over the top! You Americans are {...}"
Response: Nope. There really are people like that around here, especially in the South and the mid-West. Even many "moderate" Christians see concepts like evolution as major threats to their beliefs and are actively trying to remove it from public education (sometimes successfully.) And moderate Christians do sometimes seem to form the minority of Christians in this God-forsaken country...
He is NOT saying "The Brits are gullible too", which is what I was saying. My "spaghetti trees" reference is to a ridiculous hoax that many of the "less gullible" British people bought hook, line and sinker.
And as far as Screwy beliefs: IIRC, the founder of the Flat Earth Society was a Brit.
Two words: "spaghetti trees." USians have not cornered the market on being gormless gullible morons.
But I've always felt that the whole nine movie plan was a bit of revisionist history after people didn't get the "Episode IV" joke-cum-homage to old time serials ("...our story so far:"). Maybe I'm just looking for evidence of my own crackpot theory, but the movie is full of stuff like that: irising in and out, deliberately clunky cross screen fades, villains in crazy costumes, hysterical cliffhangers (the compactor scene mentioned in the article for instance)...it's all from those fun old serials. Doesn't lessen the impact of the movies for me, but by the same token, the Campbell/Jung stuff doesn't increase it.
IIRC, UltimateTV has been officially discontinued. Conspiracy tyoes suggest that this is to keep the market clear for the HomeStation, MS' convergence box that is supposed to follow the X-Box.
"Aw, quitcherbitchin' and just ask."
So, I haven't been able to find out anywhere, does this card handle PAL to NTSC transfers (like a region 2 PAL disk to an NTSC TV), or would a body need more hardware than this?
But would anyone besides dish users see the NY station? I don't think we're dealling with enough eyeballs here to significantly damage the local channel's standing. Cable and plain old antenna are still in the majority from what I remember. This could possibly be the killer app for dish tho'.
My town (Belleville, Michigan) doesn't have a TV or radio presence that I'm aware of. If you want to know about local government, you read the paper. I'm betting it's the same in a large chunk of the US.
It certainly won't have any applications outside of Oz, that's for sure...
No wonder the first 100 hits for "monitors" are from the Viewsonic site...
I'm thinking this one was put up today as a sort of "Meta-Fool". It's an April Fools joke precisely because there will be lots of "It's just a stupid joke" posts on this thread, when the story is actually true. Very clever, good social engineering (knowing the geek penchant for scepticism and knowitallitis).
Maybe I'm giving the eds too much credit, tho'.
Funny thing was, I could totally see how someone would consider it flame bait (in a "Walter Bell" kind of way). So no harm done.
Hopefully, this will also lead to the decentralization of business. There's a danger of increased "sprawl", but the dispersal of urban centers means less large critical targets, a good thing in my view.
Oh that's no problem: you just graft in a cybernetic replacement for that sense. Of course, one of your other senses would then become lazy. So you'd have to replace that, which would lead to another sense becoming lazy...
Oooo, upgrade spiral. Warwick's gonna end up looking like Tetsuo (The Iron Man).