Speed limits are funny things. We have to remember that they're not only set for safety reasons, but many limits are holdovers from the oil crises of the 70's. Speed limits were a great way of getting consumers to limit their consumption.
Granted we should still be limiting our consumption, but I would suggest technology is slowly taking care of that through low-emissions vehicles, hybrids, and the (hopefully) soon to be next generation of alternative fuel autos.
It's naive to say that anyone who breaks the speed limit is driving dangerously. Often on the 401 from Montreal to Toronto the average flow of traffic is approximately 125 km/h. Anyone driving at 100 (the posted limit) is actually posing a bigger danger than those going with the flow. Drivers need to use their discretion and decide what speed is safest for any given situation.
And what happens when I'm driving fifty in a fifty zone and there's a slight downward grade that causes me to speed up ever so slightly to 52 or 53? If there are sensors to see that, and I get a ticket in the mail, I don't see it standing up in court.
Laws are not black and white, though they may appear to be so. This kind of tracking system is going to cost a lot of money, many people would get pissed off at getting tickets for perfectly safe driving, and I'm sure there will be many legal challenges.
Driving safely is about making smart choices, not about blindly following rules.
If it's the FedEX guy who makes a stop on his route to burn a couple of DVD's then repacks them discretely, then this isn't going to stop.
However, if it's the actor, this kind of publicity is going to make many in his industry think twice. Reputation is the only way an actor can make a living, and having this kind of monkey on his back is bound to leave him floating without any job prospects.
Imagine how many other Hollywood types who happen to "release" a screener from time to time notice this article (and future ones like it I'm sure) and realize their careers could be next? It's sure to make them all think twice and likely decide it's not worth the risk.
BTW for the record, while I do believe movies cost too much to make and market, that doesn't justify this kind of blatant piracy.
Could inexpensive cruises to the moon happen within our lifetimes?
I highly doubt it. As the last twenty years have shown, it's not the level of technology that determines how easily we get into space, it's the cost. And concepts such as these, while interesting to think about and develop, are ultimately going to take that many more decades to become proven.
Add to all this that the public would need a near-100% safety record in order to buy into a space tourism industry, and we're looking at more decades added onto the R&D and testing.
However, this kind of engine if developed properly COULD lower costs for putting satellites in orbit. So what's our benefit in the end? Lower satellite TV, telephone, and internet costs perhaps... But that's being optomistic.
I'm no laser expert, but by the description in the article, it sounds like this kind of technology could be applied to all sorts of food. If it isn't actually burning a slice, but rather "blasting" the molecules apart, couldn't it be used for meat, bread, whatever else has similar issues with bacteria?
Seems to me the higher energy costs in these factories would be offest by the gain in work hours that would have before been used for cleaning, disinfecting, sharpening, replacing etc of the blades.
A corporation moving back toward imagination and away from limiting corporate tie-ins, don't see too much flowing in that direction these days. The "themed" Lego sets were the worst thing to happen to toys in my lifetime.
I'm beginning to have faith that I may be able to buy new Lego for my future children, as opposed to having them play with my mess of a collection.
You obviously didn't read my "don't get me wrong" paragraph. There is such a thing as sustainable development, but we tend to learn how to do a thing much quicker than how to do it safely. I'm not saying we shouldn't develop these kinds of technologies, but simply that we need to fully consider the ramifications of such permanent ideas on future generations.
Or are you more of a living in the now kind of guy?
Wow. Neat! It's incredible to see the strides forward that both meteorogical and seismic forecasters have made in the past 50 years. To crunch those kinds of numbers and actually predict the result accurately is very impressive.
What other fields are we going to be able to do full accurate predictions in? I'd imagine biological ones are a bit more random, but that's not my field...
You know, with this development, and all the recent talk about gecko super-tape being developed... it makes me feel a little uncomfortable. We're developing products that make structures, installations etc. more and more permanent.
We all talk about expanding recycling programs, and cutting down on fossil fuels, but then build structures that have such highly developed components, they can never be re-used or perhaps even dismantled (without disintegration, probably releasing even more agents into the biosphere).
Now don't get me wrong, with the right regulation and foresight, these kind of developments can be true breakthroughs. But forging ahead without considering whether an invention can be dismantled or reduced to its original components is not good engineering these days.
But hell, my field is ancient history, what do I know...
If this is true, it's ludicrous. If these cases go to court, I forsee many of these vendors getting off without a hitch. If the RIAA had developed agreements with regional police authorities to work in tandem, then perhaps it would be a good tactic. As it stands, it's simply more scare tactics from an organization that seems bent on making itself the public enemy.
Besides, since when were street vendors the ones that were sharing tens of thousands of tracks per day? I imagine they are hardly the largest part of the problem. Hiring trained security officers to tackle such a small issue is a waste of their money... hmm... wait. Why am I complaining?
All of the spectacular Hubble images that have been released over the past few years have been composites of various grayscale images each falsely-colored by whatever elements or wavelengths they represent. The result is a truly spectacular image that is accessible to people who have no interest in what the images actually show, but in just the beauty of the image itself. The exact same thing is true of the Spirit images.
We here on Slashdot rant about NASA budgets, and lack of interest in a manned space program. The only way to increase public interest is by catching their attention. Grayscale images simply are not going to cut it. I see no problem at all in colorizing images if it means more viewers are going to be interested, and therefore want to learn more.
Sure, the purist in me finds it a bit irritating, but as with many things, the pros far outweigh the cons.
Honestly, as a Canadian this all kind of blows my mind. Granted, we have 1/10 the population of the States, but whenever there's a federal election we manage to find out who the next governing party and prime minister all within the same day as voting. The same goes for provincial elections.
This seems like a lot of cost for very little (if any) benefit. The list of things that can go wrong with a paper/pencil system is much shorter than that for an electronic system.
What's that saying... If it ain't broke, don't fix it? Or perhaps, keep it simple stupid? Don't we listen to our own cliches anymore?
We went out to shop for my little cousin's birthday a few months ago, and figured Lego was a great idea. I had been raised on it, and we all know it's the one toy that never gets old because of the endless possibilities.
But now it seems it's impossible to buy a set that isn't "themed" with dozens of proprietary parts that only really work within their designated set. Any attempt to mix sets now results in even more of a Frankenstein creation than I remember being possible when I was a kid. We eventually gave up, realizing that (as other posters have pointed out) the only way to get a real good "set" of Lego is to buy bulk on e-Bay.
Moral of the story, whatever you do, DO NOT throw old Lego away. The primary color simple blocks don't come in regular sets anymore, but are probably the most valuable pieces around (and I don't mean in terms of cash value).
The team were refused time on a US telescope because many American astronomers believed the observations were technically impossible
This is just sad. I sometimes think we'd be centuries ahead in science if theorists could lay aside their egos and realize that hardly any theory lasts forever in its entirety. Refusing time to a group of astronomers who think they may have found something new is not so different from burning heretics who claimed the world was a sphere.
Gives me a 10 Gb limit (each way) per month. Each gig above that costs approximately $8. While I don't find this limit too much of a problem (there are only so many torrents I can let fly at once) I do object to the fact that these limits are NEVER advertised.
I had to look through the fine print at the back of the manual they sent me to find what the limits were, and also found a URL that tracked my usage for me (useful, I admit).
Gotta look at it from the perspective of the ISP. They can't possibly support all the activity of the torrent/warez kidz, and if they don't impose limits it's going to fall on the backs of the regular users. Isn't 10 Gb enough? If everyone was actually using the net for legal purposes, I'd imagine only a very small minority would be finding that limit constricting.
I say this is all fair, though it should be made much more clear to the consumer what they're paying for at the time of sign-up.
All good points. Though I wasn't dissing the player so much as wondering what place it has. I suppose my argument in return would be that the iPod (and the like) should be able to record on the fly also, via a line in (without an expensive adapter I might add).
But for all your good arguments, I still don't want to take a couple of pounds worth of MD's with me on vacation just to have maximum music selection.
But I'm just one consumer. I suppose we can agree that there are markets for both systems.
Man, I hate moving. Each time, I have to lug my boxes of hundreds of CD's, it's just ridiculous. Thankfully my new iPod has changed all that.
So I ask, isn't this a step backwards? A 1GB disc for $7 seems like a good deal, but a HD-based digital music player with 40GB is already available... let's do the math.
[$7 (per disc) x 40 (GB)] + $200 (player) = $480
Which, while just over half the cost of a 40GB iPod at the moment, hardly seems worth it given the lack of convenience. Am I missing something? Why move back to a removable storage based system, something we've been moving away from for the last decade?
The stories of New Line and the producers of the pictures, and their doubts and thoughts throughout the process.
A great quote near the end: 'I mean, how many things can you really franchise except the Bible?' he says. After considering it a moment, he adds, 'Although that's a good idea.' - Bob Shaye, New Line Co-chief Executive
Like most long-time LOTR fans, I'd love to see the resolution of Saruman. But the fact is, like most long-time LOTR fans, I'm going to buy the DVD special edition when it comes out. In my eyes, the extended versions of FOTR and TTT are the real cuts of the films, not the theatrical cuts. But for most who haven't read the books, the theatrical cuts will be just great!
So this is only an issue to complain about in principal, not in practice. Those of us who actually CARE about the scene will get to see it as it was intended anyway.
So relax. The movie will be good. What we should really be talking about is what Christopher Lee said on TV about the premier of ROTK, and whether he would attend given that he is cut out of the film: "No. What would be the point?" link. THAT is kind of sad, if you ask me.
I don't know much about microwaves, but this story at ABC News seems like a pretty amazing idea (Summary: cover swaths of the moon with solar panels and beam the energy back to Earth via microwaves). What's 150 billion in the grand scheme of things?
There'll still be the idealists who scream about defacing the surface of the moon, but it would be relatively low maitenance (no elements to damage the panels, except for the occasional meteorite) and wouldn't take up precious space here on Earth, where things can grow or live. As romantic as some of us can be, the moon is still just a big chunk of lifeless mafic rock.
Anybody actually have an idea how well this would work?
Just put every 1 in 10 or so hardcore file traders in stocks in the public square for 18 hours a day, have them all listen to the mountain of pop fluff that they've been constantly downloading. Public humiliation beats lawsuits anyday!
Do they honestly expect to get any cash out of a 13 year old kid in his basement, trading 50 cent and Shakira tracks? I realize these lawsuits are meant to target the 'worst' of the filetraders, but quantity shouldn't define level of illegality, should it?
Though backpacking through Canada in the winter isn't personally my idea of fun, one of the most exciting museums in the country is in Ottawa (well... actually across the river in Gatineau, Quebec). The building itself is something to see, glorious organic design. There are countless museums in this city, but if you're passing through, this is the one to spend some time at.
And finally, the further you go north, the more stars there are in the sky... (well not really, but there aren't too many cities up there to light pollute, if you see what I mean). Algonquin park at night is a sight to behold... Have fun!
This has been hammered down our throats since we were in grade school, but we often forget that Reduce and Reuse come first. Reduction isn't really an option these days, as everyone "needs" the fastest machine, and for most people scared of upgrades and custom-built systems, that means a brand new computer.
Instead of throwing them in landfills, spending a lot of money to recycle them, or leaving them to be smashed to bits by 10 year old Chinese girls trying to earn 15 cents for a teeny bit of copper, why can't we just set up an effective reuse program?
You can't tell me that there aren't millions of people all over the world who could make effective use of a 486 with a dot-matrix printer and open-source software, let alone the number of Pentium I & II's that are being abandoned left and right by the upper middle class in America.
It would cost less to ship them overseas than pick them apart, and actually HELP people.
Although the manned space program has been ridiculously successful in terms of preventing accidents, there have been 3 instances where small decisions have led to fatal mishaps. The Apollo launchpad fire, the Challenger, and of course Columbia. The more times we attempt these types of activities, the more accidents we will have. That said...
I'm a space junkie, I love reading about anything exploration related. But national pride is not a good excuse for spending billions to go into space. Should we be celebrating the Chinese, or asking them why they aren't instead working on a way to contribute to the ISS program? Europe is heading for Mars news story, and the US has already been there. How many different times do we need to accomplish the same goal under different flags?
I applaud the Chinese for getting a man into space, this is by no means an easy task. But we have to look at priorities. I'd love to live in a world where competition wasn't the driving reason to succeed!
Just a brief correction. Spy Kids 2 was released August of 2002, Spy Kids 3D is in fact Spy Kids 3. Though sequels can be faulted for a lack of originality, this series is a great bunch of movies for preteens. Wacky, great acting, non-predictable, and good pacing.
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Speed limits are funny things. We have to remember that they're not only set for safety reasons, but many limits are holdovers from the oil crises of the 70's. Speed limits were a great way of getting consumers to limit their consumption.
Granted we should still be limiting our consumption, but I would suggest technology is slowly taking care of that through low-emissions vehicles, hybrids, and the (hopefully) soon to be next generation of alternative fuel autos.
It's naive to say that anyone who breaks the speed limit is driving dangerously. Often on the 401 from Montreal to Toronto the average flow of traffic is approximately 125 km/h. Anyone driving at 100 (the posted limit) is actually posing a bigger danger than those going with the flow. Drivers need to use their discretion and decide what speed is safest for any given situation.
And what happens when I'm driving fifty in a fifty zone and there's a slight downward grade that causes me to speed up ever so slightly to 52 or 53? If there are sensors to see that, and I get a ticket in the mail, I don't see it standing up in court.
Laws are not black and white, though they may appear to be so. This kind of tracking system is going to cost a lot of money, many people would get pissed off at getting tickets for perfectly safe driving, and I'm sure there will be many legal challenges.
Driving safely is about making smart choices, not about blindly following rules.
If it's the FedEX guy who makes a stop on his route to burn a couple of DVD's then repacks them discretely, then this isn't going to stop.
However, if it's the actor, this kind of publicity is going to make many in his industry think twice. Reputation is the only way an actor can make a living, and having this kind of monkey on his back is bound to leave him floating without any job prospects.
Imagine how many other Hollywood types who happen to "release" a screener from time to time notice this article (and future ones like it I'm sure) and realize their careers could be next? It's sure to make them all think twice and likely decide it's not worth the risk.
BTW for the record, while I do believe movies cost too much to make and market, that doesn't justify this kind of blatant piracy.
Could inexpensive cruises to the moon happen within our lifetimes?
I highly doubt it. As the last twenty years have shown, it's not the level of technology that determines how easily we get into space, it's the cost. And concepts such as these, while interesting to think about and develop, are ultimately going to take that many more decades to become proven.
Add to all this that the public would need a near-100% safety record in order to buy into a space tourism industry, and we're looking at more decades added onto the R&D and testing.
However, this kind of engine if developed properly COULD lower costs for putting satellites in orbit. So what's our benefit in the end? Lower satellite TV, telephone, and internet costs perhaps... But that's being optomistic.
But the design itself? Neat.
I'm no laser expert, but by the description in the article, it sounds like this kind of technology could be applied to all sorts of food. If it isn't actually burning a slice, but rather "blasting" the molecules apart, couldn't it be used for meat, bread, whatever else has similar issues with bacteria?
Seems to me the higher energy costs in these factories would be offest by the gain in work hours that would have before been used for cleaning, disinfecting, sharpening, replacing etc of the blades.
A corporation moving back toward imagination and away from limiting corporate tie-ins, don't see too much flowing in that direction these days. The "themed" Lego sets were the worst thing to happen to toys in my lifetime.
I'm beginning to have faith that I may be able to buy new Lego for my future children, as opposed to having them play with my mess of a collection.
You obviously didn't read my "don't get me wrong" paragraph. There is such a thing as sustainable development, but we tend to learn how to do a thing much quicker than how to do it safely. I'm not saying we shouldn't develop these kinds of technologies, but simply that we need to fully consider the ramifications of such permanent ideas on future generations.
Or are you more of a living in the now kind of guy?
Wow. Neat! It's incredible to see the strides forward that both meteorogical and seismic forecasters have made in the past 50 years. To crunch those kinds of numbers and actually predict the result accurately is very impressive.
What other fields are we going to be able to do full accurate predictions in? I'd imagine biological ones are a bit more random, but that's not my field...
You know, with this development, and all the recent talk about gecko super-tape being developed... it makes me feel a little uncomfortable. We're developing products that make structures, installations etc. more and more permanent.
We all talk about expanding recycling programs, and cutting down on fossil fuels, but then build structures that have such highly developed components, they can never be re-used or perhaps even dismantled (without disintegration, probably releasing even more agents into the biosphere).
Now don't get me wrong, with the right regulation and foresight, these kind of developments can be true breakthroughs. But forging ahead without considering whether an invention can be dismantled or reduced to its original components is not good engineering these days.
But hell, my field is ancient history, what do I know...
If this is true, it's ludicrous. If these cases go to court, I forsee many of these vendors getting off without a hitch. If the RIAA had developed agreements with regional police authorities to work in tandem, then perhaps it would be a good tactic. As it stands, it's simply more scare tactics from an organization that seems bent on making itself the public enemy.
Besides, since when were street vendors the ones that were sharing tens of thousands of tracks per day? I imagine they are hardly the largest part of the problem. Hiring trained security officers to tackle such a small issue is a waste of their money... hmm... wait. Why am I complaining?
All of the spectacular Hubble images that have been released over the past few years have been composites of various grayscale images each falsely-colored by whatever elements or wavelengths they represent. The result is a truly spectacular image that is accessible to people who have no interest in what the images actually show, but in just the beauty of the image itself. The exact same thing is true of the Spirit images.
We here on Slashdot rant about NASA budgets, and lack of interest in a manned space program. The only way to increase public interest is by catching their attention. Grayscale images simply are not going to cut it. I see no problem at all in colorizing images if it means more viewers are going to be interested, and therefore want to learn more.
Sure, the purist in me finds it a bit irritating, but as with many things, the pros far outweigh the cons.
Honestly, as a Canadian this all kind of blows my mind. Granted, we have 1/10 the population of the States, but whenever there's a federal election we manage to find out who the next governing party and prime minister all within the same day as voting. The same goes for provincial elections.
This seems like a lot of cost for very little (if any) benefit. The list of things that can go wrong with a paper/pencil system is much shorter than that for an electronic system.
What's that saying... If it ain't broke, don't fix it? Or perhaps, keep it simple stupid? Don't we listen to our own cliches anymore?
Come on, you must mean "ancient" or perhaps "veteran", maybe "venerable" or even "superannuated". But not "old".
:)
Get with the program
We went out to shop for my little cousin's birthday a few months ago, and figured Lego was a great idea. I had been raised on it, and we all know it's the one toy that never gets old because of the endless possibilities.
But now it seems it's impossible to buy a set that isn't "themed" with dozens of proprietary parts that only really work within their designated set. Any attempt to mix sets now results in even more of a Frankenstein creation than I remember being possible when I was a kid. We eventually gave up, realizing that (as other posters have pointed out) the only way to get a real good "set" of Lego is to buy bulk on e-Bay.
Moral of the story, whatever you do, DO NOT throw old Lego away. The primary color simple blocks don't come in regular sets anymore, but are probably the most valuable pieces around (and I don't mean in terms of cash value).
The team were refused time on a US telescope because many American astronomers believed the observations were technically impossible
This is just sad. I sometimes think we'd be centuries ahead in science if theorists could lay aside their egos and realize that hardly any theory lasts forever in its entirety. Refusing time to a group of astronomers who think they may have found something new is not so different from burning heretics who claimed the world was a sphere.
Maybe overdramatic, but my point stands.
Gives me a 10 Gb limit (each way) per month. Each gig above that costs approximately $8. While I don't find this limit too much of a problem (there are only so many torrents I can let fly at once) I do object to the fact that these limits are NEVER advertised.
I had to look through the fine print at the back of the manual they sent me to find what the limits were, and also found a URL that tracked my usage for me (useful, I admit).
Gotta look at it from the perspective of the ISP. They can't possibly support all the activity of the torrent/warez kidz, and if they don't impose limits it's going to fall on the backs of the regular users. Isn't 10 Gb enough? If everyone was actually using the net for legal purposes, I'd imagine only a very small minority would be finding that limit constricting.
I say this is all fair, though it should be made much more clear to the consumer what they're paying for at the time of sign-up.
All good points. Though I wasn't dissing the player so much as wondering what place it has. I suppose my argument in return would be that the iPod (and the like) should be able to record on the fly also, via a line in (without an expensive adapter I might add).
But for all your good arguments, I still don't want to take a couple of pounds worth of MD's with me on vacation just to have maximum music selection.
But I'm just one consumer. I suppose we can agree that there are markets for both systems.
Man, I hate moving. Each time, I have to lug my boxes of hundreds of CD's, it's just ridiculous. Thankfully my new iPod has changed all that.
So I ask, isn't this a step backwards? A 1GB disc for $7 seems like a good deal, but a HD-based digital music player with 40GB is already available... let's do the math.
[$7 (per disc) x 40 (GB)] + $200 (player) = $480
Which, while just over half the cost of a 40GB iPod at the moment, hardly seems worth it given the lack of convenience. Am I missing something? Why move back to a removable storage based system, something we've been moving away from for the last decade?
The stories of New Line and the producers of the pictures, and their doubts and thoughts throughout the process.
A great quote near the end:
'I mean, how many things can you really franchise except the Bible?' he says. After considering it a moment, he adds, 'Although that's a good idea.'
- Bob Shaye, New Line Co-chief Executive
I'm not sure what the big deal really is.
Like most long-time LOTR fans, I'd love to see the resolution of Saruman. But the fact is, like most long-time LOTR fans, I'm going to buy the DVD special edition when it comes out. In my eyes, the extended versions of FOTR and TTT are the real cuts of the films, not the theatrical cuts. But for most who haven't read the books, the theatrical cuts will be just great!
So this is only an issue to complain about in principal, not in practice. Those of us who actually CARE about the scene will get to see it as it was intended anyway.
So relax. The movie will be good. What we should really be talking about is what Christopher Lee said on TV about the premier of ROTK, and whether he would attend given that he is cut out of the film: "No. What would be the point?" link. THAT is kind of sad, if you ask me.
I don't know much about microwaves, but this story at ABC News seems like a pretty amazing idea (Summary: cover swaths of the moon with solar panels and beam the energy back to Earth via microwaves). What's 150 billion in the grand scheme of things?
There'll still be the idealists who scream about defacing the surface of the moon, but it would be relatively low maitenance (no elements to damage the panels, except for the occasional meteorite) and wouldn't take up precious space here on Earth, where things can grow or live. As romantic as some of us can be, the moon is still just a big chunk of lifeless mafic rock.
Anybody actually have an idea how well this would work?
Just put every 1 in 10 or so hardcore file traders in stocks in the public square for 18 hours a day, have them all listen to the mountain of pop fluff that they've been constantly downloading. Public humiliation beats lawsuits anyday!
Do they honestly expect to get any cash out of a 13 year old kid in his basement, trading 50 cent and Shakira tracks? I realize these lawsuits are meant to target the 'worst' of the filetraders, but quantity shouldn't define level of illegality, should it?
Though backpacking through Canada in the winter isn't personally my idea of fun, one of the most exciting museums in the country is in Ottawa (well... actually across the river in Gatineau, Quebec). The building itself is something to see, glorious organic design. There are countless museums in this city, but if you're passing through, this is the one to spend some time at.
Canadian Museum of Civilization
For further geeky/educational good time, check out the Biodome in Montreal:
Montréal Biodome
And if you're travelling out west, definitely the Vancouver Aquarium...
Vancouver Aquarium
And finally, the further you go north, the more stars there are in the sky... (well not really, but there aren't too many cities up there to light pollute, if you see what I mean). Algonquin park at night is a sight to behold... Have fun!
This has been hammered down our throats since we were in grade school, but we often forget that Reduce and Reuse come first. Reduction isn't really an option these days, as everyone "needs" the fastest machine, and for most people scared of upgrades and custom-built systems, that means a brand new computer.
Instead of throwing them in landfills, spending a lot of money to recycle them, or leaving them to be smashed to bits by 10 year old Chinese girls trying to earn 15 cents for a teeny bit of copper, why can't we just set up an effective reuse program?
You can't tell me that there aren't millions of people all over the world who could make effective use of a 486 with a dot-matrix printer and open-source software, let alone the number of Pentium I & II's that are being abandoned left and right by the upper middle class in America.
It would cost less to ship them overseas than pick them apart, and actually HELP people.
Reduce, Reuse, THEN Recycle.
Although the manned space program has been ridiculously successful in terms of preventing accidents, there have been 3 instances where small decisions have led to fatal mishaps. The Apollo launchpad fire, the Challenger, and of course Columbia. The more times we attempt these types of activities, the more accidents we will have. That said...
I'm a space junkie, I love reading about anything exploration related. But national pride is not a good excuse for spending billions to go into space. Should we be celebrating the Chinese, or asking them why they aren't instead working on a way to contribute to the ISS program? Europe is heading for Mars news story, and the US has already been there. How many different times do we need to accomplish the same goal under different flags?
I applaud the Chinese for getting a man into space, this is by no means an easy task. But we have to look at priorities. I'd love to live in a world where competition wasn't the driving reason to succeed!
Just a brief correction. Spy Kids 2 was released August of 2002, Spy Kids 3D is in fact Spy Kids 3. Though sequels can be faulted for a lack of originality, this series is a great bunch of movies for preteens. Wacky, great acting, non-predictable, and good pacing.
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