Well, maybe they'll take this time to re-mold RiD to make it fit into the Transformers timeline. Ya know, put them on some other planet, change their names back to Fire Convoy and God Magnus [Probably wouldn't go over too well here].. just something where fanboys such as myself don't get pissed off because for the sake of marketing or todays trendy cartoons (i know,i know...its a kids cartoon and needs to reflect the kidsblah blah blah.) they don't mess up the whole transformers timeline - which has been established since 1984! I mean, jeez, even BWTF doesn't fit in with this!
Its off topic, i know. but i wanted somewhere to vent my frustrations over Car robots [RiD].
Katz has began placing his memory engrams into Taco. Its actually a plot by Katz to take over the world, one slashdot drone at a time. Invade the collective at the top level, and it shall spread down. Now before long well all be makeing speling and grammur err.. OH NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Maybe they saw that the entire world was rallying behind America, that instead of kicking America and hurting them, they awoke and angered a sleeping giant. They may have assumed the US's response would be similar to those of "Country X" - A quiet, sulking period in which everyone tries to ignore the shame that was incurred.
My only fear is that now that one group has been so massively successful, others may be encouraged. I'm all for justice - However, i'm more for safeguarding our shores against terrorists. There really hasn't been a disaster movie to parellel what happened yesterday. Nobody dared dream that horrible. Between "Executive Decision" and "The Seige", we see other ways that terrorists could attack us. Granted, they could be much, much more successful than these fictional stories show.
Thats why I agree with the government - This is an act of war, not of splinter terrorism. And we should retaliate, quickly and harshly, in a way that will make an impact on those responsible - and its an Islamic minority on a holy war - Simple death would not suffice. We have to find some way to injure their culture. Convential weapons just won't have any impact besides the instant bloodlust gratification that the US is screaming for.
How do you win against people who don't mind dying for their cause? Perhaps finding a way to instill terror in them is our only viable weapon in the quest for vengence. Which is what a LOT of america is calling for right now, my views aside.
Granted, if you go after justice, not vengence, we're stuck with the slow cogs of the US Judicial System.
Will this event become a rallying point for more Carnivore, Echelon, and all those other things the paranoid masses love to hate? This could be blamed on all those SIGs that state "HITLER KKK WHITE SUPREMACY ASSASSINATE YADA YADA SHRUBYA". I don't want to get the conspiracy theorists and GNUzlots started, but, geez, maybe if you guys wouldnt have stopped them from doing their jobs..
[This message NOT smiley captioned for the intelligence-impared. If you can't figure out which parts are sarcastic, you shouldn't be moderating!]
How will the structure of websites change, in light of the horrific nightmare of traffic today. CNN and ABCNews QUICKLY ditched all the flashy stuff on their page and adhered to the KISS Principal - apparently, they werent fully prepared - maybe they will be now, and they'll keep a "Emergency Situation" page on standby. For once,./'s relative simplicity wins out.
Now if only we could get katz to STFU and stop telling us how to interpret events that are already etched in our minds for good.
[tag:bitchin] On a side note, my company (an unnamed broadcasting network) decided today would present a good opportunity to shut down and do major work on our systems. We sent our entire staff home early, quit broadcasting, etc, etc, etc... but noooooooooo, i'm here till god knows when tonight fixing servers on a day when i'd rather be at home with my thoughts ARGH! Anyone in the southeast need a good solaris admin!? [tag:quitcherbitchin]
Im sure one of you people out there have a link to some scientific article about the closeness of molecular construction of whatever we want/transporters/etc.... I wonder how close we are to a real replicator.. or, more importantly, a real holodeck. You know everyone would have one, and nobody would leave.
You'd have to spend 8 hours a day though in it running an "Office" program you can't cancel.
Well.. even microsoft doesnt produce products with as much bloat as the US Gov't has. I say let them install M.S. Bob Dole [Demopublican Edition] in the white house for a term and see how things work out?:)
The star trek books are of a much higher quality than most of the episodes, IMHO - Plus, its much more fun to interpret the events in your own view. And many of the books i've read recently don't give away the ending too early in the book, either.
I've recently read 3 of the "Section 31" books. A very interesting way of explaining certain things in the star trek timeline.
The same pseudological reason that the ability for phasers to fire in a wide-beam is lost between TOS and TNG [besides dramatic effect]
Also the reason why the ships phasers can't be used to stun an entire feild of people [ again, TOS ]
Why can't the doctor be backed up in voyager [ Except, of course, for that one convienent period in "Living Witness" ]
Why haven't the borg absolutely PUMMELED earth? Past, present, or future... Get a few tactical cubes [ why do the borg need tactical cubes ] and just let earth have it once and for all.. GO BORG!
Why the enterprise-D didn't have multiple phaser emitters on the saucer rather than two large ones - it would have made more tactical sense, both/all could fire at the same time, hitting the same target! argh!
And i still stand by my idea that they should have made a few mini-movies centering around the excelsior.
P.S. I am the prototypical Simpson's "Comic Store guy".
DS9 Was okay in the last season. I never liked the religous overtones in it - I mean, it was present like EVERY EPISODE!?.. It was one of the basis' of the entire plotline. It was old. The last season really was awesome in some places, especially the Seige of AR-558 & Field of Fire [ Though i have issues with that episode ].
Why is it that everyone who wants to genetically enhance some people is automatically classified as being a monomaniacal fascist who wants to take over the country/world/universe/whatever? Hey, I'm for revising the human race's source code, but not for upgrading by humanity by force. Why can't we have one scifi show or movie that shows modified people in a good light.
That mirror universe is actually the fruition of our current course of evolution. Trekkies will eventually take over the world. No women will want to sleep with them, for obvious reasons (a humourous Comcast cable commercial comes to mind.) The women will all give up on men and begin using DNA Sequencing technologies to conceive more humans. etc, etc.:)
My favorite theory, propsed by someone on here, was that the klingons of that era were more into espionage than their latter-day counterparts - Therefore, altering their appearance would make it much easier to mingle with other humanoid races. Arne Darvin [Trouble w/ Tribbles [tos]] is a perfect example of this.
In reality, Roddenberry supposively said that he had always intended klingons to have obvious appearances, but the makeup/fx budget of TOS was limited.
In my humble opinion...
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WAAAAAAAAAAH! MOMMY!!!!!
Seriously... The entire reason i've bought ANY of the previous game systems was Zelda, Mega Man [sob] and Metroid... Occasionally Mario. I'm not a huge gamer, but those are the only games i've ever played since I was 5 years old. I'm not a huge fan of 3D worlds - My favorite zelda of all had to be Link to the Past. Theres something to be said about the flat overheads that i just didnt get from N64. I disliked Ocarina of Time's gameplay enough that i sold my N64 and didnt even bother playing the new zelda.
The approach of this new game is just too odd for my comfort - What i'd love to see them do though is bundle that cartridge with a "Super mario all-stars" like redo of all the previous games (well, maybe they can leave out Adventure of Link). Then i'd buy it.
Such a queue would severely cut down the amount of propaganda and possibly increase the amount of "News for nerds" and "Stuff that matters". In other words, no, they will never have it here.:)
What happens if something bad happens to, say, the phone part (provided the keys arent on the blasted touch screen) - If you wish to have it fixed... wouldnt you need to send in the entire unit?
Please, please, PLEASE try to look at the articles objectively before posting. Don't read the article and turn every little vauge remark into some sort of OSS Slander..
Real Headline: "Microsoft employee accidently drops large box on foot of stranger on the street".
Slashdot Headline: "Microsoft now physically harming others to get their way"
Slashdot User: "Well, that stranger could have been a leet linux coder.. Microsoft is stifleing innovation by causing that coder to go to the hospital! He could have been producing CODE at that time! (like a good communist!)"
My point.. this article was more or less void before it was even an issue. Plus, it doesnt directly pertain to all downloads. Read the patent. If you can get all the way through it without feeling drowsy, that is. legaleese.. blech! Slashdot something useful. Management is not a tunable parameter.
2. Something that I can talk about in public without seeming like a social outcast. Maybe they should do a sitcom -- "Star Trek: Friends" with the lovely Jennifer Aniston as Yeoman Rachel.
ROFL.. How about:
"Touched by a Borg"
"As the dyson sphere turns"
"The Section 31 Files"
"Bajoran Hills, 90210"
"Wesley in the middle"
Personally, I thought first contact was an okay movie, better than generations and much better than insurrection. The only things i wish were different were
1: The borg movie should NOT have introduced the borg queen.. The borg queen gave the borg a "weak spot", both in their infrastructure AND in their plotline.. The borg in "Best of Both Worlds" were MUCH MUCH more menacing. Though its hard to complain about 44dd of 9.
2: No time travel. For once, do something in trek that DOESNT DO TIME TRAVEL! I'd much prefer it if they would stick to one method of time travel if they even do that - slingshot around a sun, its got some danger associated with it. Slashdot something useful. Management is not a tunable parameter.
I forgot to mention - it was touched on in one of the books that the first "Q" was Trelane, from The squire of Gothos. So, it may come to pass that we see some Q, but not identified as "Q".
The romulan war hasn't happened yet in this timeline, according to an article i read. im sure it will be a point of conflict later in the series - and it may be a great one, if properly executed.
I'm going to wax theoretical..
I hope the klingons have their nose ridges, for one, and their sense of "Honor". I've always thought of it kind of like this.. Perhaps the klingons from the original series, identified as being from the planet "Khlinzahi", were an offshoot bunch - Klingons, without honor, perhaps some form of half-breed (perhaps with romulans? It might explain why they were allies in most of TOS [They shared the same ship design]).. If i remember correctly, they seemed to have some romulan personality traits. Somewhere between TOS and TMP, the klingons from Qo'nos became dominant again, either through politics (Perhaps all of the old klingons were from another "house") Perhaps thats why we see the "Old" klingons as the "modern rendition". Perhaps it was considered so dishonorable that klingon blood mixed with romulan blood that Worf mentioned "We don't speak of it.".
Well, im sure the engines will be less efficient. And keep in mind, the saucer section & Engineering hull didnt "change" between Star Trek: TOS and TMP, just the deflector, nacelles, interior, and bridge module "changed" (while in reality, the entire model was upgraded. you werent supposed to consider it being an entirely new hull).
But your right, the saucer (at least in the views i've seen) are a little too thin-faced for my liking. Slashdot something useful. Management is not a tunable parameter.
Slashdot Mirror
Well, maybe they'll take this time to re-mold RiD to make it fit into the Transformers timeline. Ya know, put them on some other planet, change their names back to Fire Convoy and God Magnus [Probably wouldn't go over too well here].. just something where fanboys such as myself don't get pissed off because for the sake of marketing or todays trendy cartoons (i know,i know...its a kids cartoon and needs to reflect the kidsblah blah blah.) they don't mess up the whole transformers timeline - which has been established since 1984! I mean, jeez, even BWTF doesn't fit in with this!
Its off topic, i know. but i wanted somewhere to vent my frustrations over Car robots [RiD].
Katz has began placing his memory engrams into Taco. Its actually a plot by Katz to take over the world, one slashdot drone at a time. Invade the collective at the top level, and it shall spread down. Now before long well all be makeing speling and grammur err.. OH NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
:]
Maybe they saw that the entire world was rallying behind America, that instead of kicking America and hurting them, they awoke and angered a sleeping giant. They may have assumed the US's response would be similar to those of "Country X" - A quiet, sulking period in which everyone tries to ignore the shame that was incurred.
My only fear is that now that one group has been so massively successful, others may be encouraged. I'm all for justice - However, i'm more for safeguarding our shores against terrorists. There really hasn't been a disaster movie to parellel what happened yesterday. Nobody dared dream that horrible. Between "Executive Decision" and "The Seige", we see other ways that terrorists could attack us. Granted, they could be much, much more successful than these fictional stories show.
Thats why I agree with the government - This is an act of war, not of splinter terrorism. And we should retaliate, quickly and harshly, in a way that will make an impact on those responsible - and its an Islamic minority on a holy war - Simple death would not suffice. We have to find some way to injure their culture. Convential weapons just won't have any impact besides the instant bloodlust gratification that the US is screaming for.
How do you win against people who don't mind dying for their cause? Perhaps finding a way to instill terror in them is our only viable weapon in the quest for vengence. Which is what a LOT of america is calling for right now, my views aside.
Granted, if you go after justice, not vengence, we're stuck with the slow cogs of the US Judicial System.
Will this event become a rallying point for more Carnivore, Echelon, and all those other things the paranoid masses love to hate? This could be blamed on all those SIGs that state "HITLER KKK WHITE SUPREMACY ASSASSINATE YADA YADA SHRUBYA". I don't want to get the conspiracy theorists and GNUzlots started, but, geez, maybe if you guys wouldnt have stopped them from doing their jobs..
[This message NOT smiley captioned for the intelligence-impared. If you can't figure out which parts are sarcastic, you shouldn't be moderating!]
Ponderence:
./'s relative simplicity wins out.
How will the structure of websites change, in light of the horrific nightmare of traffic today. CNN and ABCNews QUICKLY ditched all the flashy stuff on their page and adhered to the KISS Principal - apparently, they werent fully prepared - maybe they will be now, and they'll keep a "Emergency Situation" page on standby. For once,
Now if only we could get katz to STFU and stop telling us how to interpret events that are already etched in our minds for good.
[tag:bitchin] On a side note, my company (an unnamed broadcasting network) decided today would present a good opportunity to shut down and do major work on our systems. We sent our entire staff home early, quit broadcasting, etc, etc, etc... but noooooooooo, i'm here till god knows when tonight fixing servers on a day when i'd rather be at home with my thoughts ARGH! Anyone in the southeast need a good solaris admin!? [tag:quitcherbitchin]
Remember that the internet was ment to withstand a nuclear attack in its original conception -
Today there was so much traffic that we couldn't even resolve many, many sites.
Im sure one of you people out there have a link to some scientific article about the closeness of molecular construction of whatever we want/transporters/etc.... I wonder how close we are to a real replicator.. or, more importantly, a real holodeck. You know everyone would have one, and nobody would leave.
You'd have to spend 8 hours a day though in it running an "Office" program you can't cancel.
Well.. even microsoft doesnt produce products with as much bloat as the US Gov't has. I say let them install M.S. Bob Dole [Demopublican Edition] in the white house for a term and see how things work out? :)
::Looks in crayola box:: I don't have "Pissed Off".. How's about Maroon?
The star trek books are of a much higher quality than most of the episodes, IMHO - Plus, its much more fun to interpret the events in your own view. And many of the books i've read recently don't give away the ending too early in the book, either.
I've recently read 3 of the "Section 31" books. A very interesting way of explaining certain things in the star trek timeline.
Theres got to be a pseudological reason for it.
The same pseudological reason that the ability for phasers to fire in a wide-beam is lost between TOS and TNG [besides dramatic effect]
Also the reason why the ships phasers can't be used to stun an entire feild of people [ again, TOS ]
Why can't the doctor be backed up in voyager [ Except, of course, for that one convienent period in "Living Witness" ]
Why haven't the borg absolutely PUMMELED earth? Past, present, or future... Get a few tactical cubes [ why do the borg need tactical cubes ] and just let earth have it once and for all.. GO BORG!
Why the enterprise-D didn't have multiple phaser emitters on the saucer rather than two large ones - it would have made more tactical sense, both/all could fire at the same time, hitting the same target! argh!
And i still stand by my idea that they should have made a few mini-movies centering around the excelsior.
P.S. I am the prototypical Simpson's "Comic Store guy".
DS9 Was okay in the last season. I never liked the religous overtones in it - I mean, it was present like EVERY EPISODE!?.. It was one of the basis' of the entire plotline. It was old. The last season really was awesome in some places, especially the Seige of AR-558 & Field of Fire [ Though i have issues with that episode ].
Why is it that everyone who wants to genetically enhance some people is automatically classified as being a monomaniacal fascist who wants to take over the country/world/universe/whatever? Hey, I'm for revising the human race's source code, but not for upgrading by humanity by force. Why can't we have one scifi show or movie that shows modified people in a good light.
Julian Bashir, DS9
That mirror universe is actually the fruition of our current course of evolution. Trekkies will eventually take over the world. No women will want to sleep with them, for obvious reasons (a humourous Comcast cable commercial comes to mind.) The women will all give up on men and begin using DNA Sequencing technologies to conceive more humans. etc, etc. :)
My favorite theory, propsed by someone on here, was that the klingons of that era were more into espionage than their latter-day counterparts - Therefore, altering their appearance would make it much easier to mingle with other humanoid races. Arne Darvin [Trouble w/ Tribbles [tos]] is a perfect example of this.
In reality, Roddenberry supposively said that he had always intended klingons to have obvious appearances, but the makeup/fx budget of TOS was limited.
WAAAAAAAAAAH! MOMMY!!!!!
Seriously... The entire reason i've bought ANY of the previous game systems was Zelda, Mega Man [sob] and Metroid... Occasionally Mario. I'm not a huge gamer, but those are the only games i've ever played since I was 5 years old. I'm not a huge fan of 3D worlds - My favorite zelda of all had to be Link to the Past. Theres something to be said about the flat overheads that i just didnt get from N64. I disliked Ocarina of Time's gameplay enough that i sold my N64 and didnt even bother playing the new zelda.
The approach of this new game is just too odd for my comfort - What i'd love to see them do though is bundle that cartridge with a "Super mario all-stars" like redo of all the previous games (well, maybe they can leave out Adventure of Link). Then i'd buy it.
Or it could go to show that Taco doesn't read the articles before he posts them. :)
BTW.. I love your sig.
Such a queue would severely cut down the amount of propaganda and possibly increase the amount of "News for nerds" and "Stuff that matters". In other words, no, they will never have it here. :)
What happens if something bad happens to, say, the phone part (provided the keys arent on the blasted touch screen) - If you wish to have it fixed... wouldnt you need to send in the entire unit?
Please, please, PLEASE try to look at the articles objectively before posting. Don't read the article and turn every little vauge remark into some sort of OSS Slander..
Real Headline: "Microsoft employee accidently drops large box on foot of stranger on the street".
Slashdot Headline: "Microsoft now physically harming others to get their way"
Slashdot User: "Well, that stranger could have been a leet linux coder.. Microsoft is stifleing innovation by causing that coder to go to the hospital! He could have been producing CODE at that time! (like a good communist!)"
My point.. this article was more or less void before it was even an issue. Plus, it doesnt directly pertain to all downloads. Read the patent. If you can get all the way through it without feeling drowsy, that is. legaleese.. blech!
Slashdot something useful.
Management is not a tunable parameter.
2. Something that I can talk about in public without seeming like a social outcast. Maybe they should do a sitcom -- "Star Trek: Friends" with the lovely Jennifer Aniston as Yeoman Rachel.
ROFL.. How about:
"Touched by a Borg"
"As the dyson sphere turns"
"The Section 31 Files"
"Bajoran Hills, 90210"
"Wesley in the middle"
Slashdot something useful.
Management is not a tunable parameter.
Personally, I thought first contact was an okay movie, better than generations and much better than insurrection. The only things i wish were different were
1: The borg movie should NOT have introduced the borg queen.. The borg queen gave the borg a "weak spot", both in their infrastructure AND in their plotline.. The borg in "Best of Both Worlds" were MUCH MUCH more menacing. Though its hard to complain about 44dd of 9.
2: No time travel. For once, do something in trek that DOESNT DO TIME TRAVEL! I'd much prefer it if they would stick to one method of time travel if they even do that - slingshot around a sun, its got some danger associated with it.
Slashdot something useful.
Management is not a tunable parameter.
I forgot to mention - it was touched on in one of the books that the first "Q" was Trelane, from The squire of Gothos. So, it may come to pass that we see some Q, but not identified as "Q".
The romulan war hasn't happened yet in this timeline, according to an article i read. im sure it will be a point of conflict later in the series - and it may be a great one, if properly executed.
I'm going to wax theoretical..
I hope the klingons have their nose ridges, for one, and their sense of "Honor". I've always thought of it kind of like this.. Perhaps the klingons from the original series, identified as being from the planet "Khlinzahi", were an offshoot bunch - Klingons, without honor, perhaps some form of half-breed (perhaps with romulans? It might explain why they were allies in most of TOS [They shared the same ship design]).. If i remember correctly, they seemed to have some romulan personality traits. Somewhere between TOS and TMP, the klingons from Qo'nos became dominant again, either through politics (Perhaps all of the old klingons were from another "house") Perhaps thats why we see the "Old" klingons as the "modern rendition". Perhaps it was considered so dishonorable that klingon blood mixed with romulan blood that Worf mentioned "We don't speak of it.".
Slashdot something useful.
Management is not a tunable parameter.
Well, im sure the engines will be less efficient. And keep in mind, the saucer section & Engineering hull didnt "change" between Star Trek: TOS and TMP, just the deflector, nacelles, interior, and bridge module "changed" (while in reality, the entire model was upgraded. you werent supposed to consider it being an entirely new hull).
But your right, the saucer (at least in the views i've seen) are a little too thin-faced for my liking.
Slashdot something useful.
Management is not a tunable parameter.