Somebody mod this guy up. This is about the clearest, most concise explanation of the functions of and the need for labor unions I have heard in a long time. Thank you.
(1) It was J. Edgar Hoover who had the bra collection. Herbert Hoover was just an asshole who did nothing while the country went down the tubes.
(2) We can defeat this quite simply by using two computers. The first would not be connected to the Internet at all, but would be used to create stuff which would then be encrypted and transferred to floppy/ZIP/CD/whatever. The other computer, which is connected to the Internet, would be used to transmit the encrypted data.
Of course, steganography is so simple a comp. sci. undergrad could do it, so if you REALLY wanted to foil the FBI, it would indeed be possible.
What I want to know is, whether Wow! went under for lack of interest/money, or if Big Bro paid Compuserve off to shut down all those mall kiosk terminals that could be used anonymously.
What is important to one person isn't so important to another. Clearly the First Amendment is very important; it affects all of us in ways that we often take for granted. In most countries, you can get thrown in jail or worse over something as trivial as a personal website. The only reason that is not the case here in the USA is because people are vigilant in its defense.
The radical right wing, led by people like Attorney General John Ashcroft is now running the government in the US. Without the protection of the First Amendment, we would quite quickly descend into a fascist hell like Germany did in the 1930's. Believe me, these people have no respect whatsoever for civil rights. Don't believe me? Go surf at Democratic Underground for awhile and you will see what I mean.
That means the Mona Lisa is a collection of paint smears, and that Beethoven's 5th Symphony ceases to be an artistic work once the orchestra begins playing. Preposterous.
If enough people write/email/call Congressman X about Issue/Bill/Exec. Order Y, he gets the gist of how his constituents feel, one way or another. You might feel your "boilerplate reply" was insufficient, but writing your Congressman is like voting; one letter might not make much impact, but a couple of thousand letters might make the difference on how your Congressman votes.
Of course, if Corporation Z greases the Congressman's palm enough (through soft money), all bets are off. Here's hoping for campaign finance reform in our lifetimes.
instead of a glorified circus clown, I'd take this a bit more seriously. Truth is, Yahoo! is an acronym.
Another question that might clarify this, what would prevent me from changing my name to Yahoo notSerious? People can't register their first names as trademarks, can they?
The theme should be pared down to about half it's current length. Perhaps a SHORTER montage of former ships named Enterprise with the NX-01 leaving spacedock at the end. The music has to go. I nominate Fire On High by the Electric Light Orchestra (New World Record - 1975).
At least McCoy knew when to add "colorful metaphors" when they were needed.
Deforest Kelley's acting career prior to Star Trek was mainly playing black hats in Westerns. He had plenty of practice in "colorful metaphors" that Bakula lacks.
OF COURSE, since this is my first Enterprise post, let me weigh in on the rubdown scene. (1) It was gratuitous in the extreme. (2) It did NOTHING for the story. (3) Gratuitous sex is a Trek tradition. Kirk probably laid more pipe in 79 episodes than Magic Johnson did in his career. (4) I must stress that 99% of Kirk's pipe was laid offscreen.
Analysis: Do I object to cheesecake on Trek? Hell no, but at least have it be somehow pertinent to the story.
How about a manned spacecraft colliding with one of these mini-sats? How small are we talking about? Baseball size? In any case, smaller (read: cheaper) satellites mean MORE sattelites, and that means the volume of space junk increases exponentially, thus the sharply increased risk of collision.
How can a computer predict the behavior of a complex system such as the Earth? I can see a simulator such as this being somewhat useful in predicting large-scale phenomenon such as global warming, but I don't see it predicting, for example, next year's Atlantic hurricanes, with any reasonable accuracy.
We have about as much chance of seeing intelligent androids such as those in A.I. as we have a machine that can predict the weather a thousand years out.
if George Lucas had called back Haley Joel Osment, who I just heard last night had auditioned for the part of Anakin Skywalker. This is the equivalent of the Red Sox selling Babe Ruth to the Yankees.
Of course, then he probably would not have been able to act in The Sixth Sense, which came out the same year, and made him a really HUGE star.
May the Curse of the Bambino II follow LucasFilm for the remainder of its existence. What is the nature of this curse? That no film in which LucasFilm was involved with in any way receive one single iota of attention from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, no matter how Oscar-worthy it might be.
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Somebody mod this guy up. This is about the clearest, most concise explanation of the functions of and the need for labor unions I have heard in a long time. Thank you.
Those were not misspellings, but an approximation of Joiseyese.
- obviousman
What I mean is, more like a wooden exterior, like an old radio set. Perhaps in Art Deco style.
http://www.way2muchsense.com
9/11 didn't change diddly-squat.
(1) It was J. Edgar Hoover who had the bra collection. Herbert Hoover was just an asshole who did nothing while the country went down the tubes.
(2) We can defeat this quite simply by using two computers. The first would not be connected to the Internet at all, but would be used to create stuff which would then be encrypted and transferred to floppy/ZIP/CD/whatever. The other computer, which is connected to the Internet, would be used to transmit the encrypted data.
Of course, steganography is so simple a comp. sci. undergrad could do it, so if you REALLY wanted to foil the FBI, it would indeed be possible.
What I want to know is, whether Wow! went under for lack of interest/money, or if Big Bro paid Compuserve off to shut down all those mall kiosk terminals that could be used anonymously.
What is important to one person isn't so important to another. Clearly the First Amendment is very important; it affects all of us in ways that we often take for granted. In most countries, you can get thrown in jail or worse over something as trivial as a personal website. The only reason that is not the case here in the USA is because people are vigilant in its defense.
The radical right wing, led by people like Attorney General John Ashcroft is now running the government in the US. Without the protection of the First Amendment, we would quite quickly descend into a fascist hell like Germany did in the 1930's. Believe me, these people have no respect whatsoever for civil rights. Don't believe me? Go surf at Democratic Underground for awhile and you will see what I mean.
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That means the Mona Lisa is a collection of paint smears, and that Beethoven's 5th Symphony ceases to be an artistic work once the orchestra begins playing. Preposterous.
If enough people write/email/call Congressman X about Issue/Bill/Exec. Order Y, he gets the gist of how his constituents feel, one way or another. You might feel your "boilerplate reply" was insufficient, but writing your Congressman is like voting; one letter might not make much impact, but a couple of thousand letters might make the difference on how your Congressman votes.
Of course, if Corporation Z greases the Congressman's palm enough (through soft money), all bets are off. Here's hoping for campaign finance reform in our lifetimes.
instead of a glorified circus clown, I'd take this a bit more seriously. Truth is, Yahoo! is an acronym.
Another question that might clarify this, what would prevent me from changing my name to Yahoo notSerious? People can't register their first names as trademarks, can they?
I suppose your Moonie paper, the Washington Times is just chock full of Pulitzer-worthy investigative reporting. Ass.
The theme should be pared down to about half it's current length. Perhaps a SHORTER montage of former ships named Enterprise with the NX-01 leaving spacedock at the end. The music has to go. I nominate Fire On High by the Electric Light Orchestra (New World Record - 1975).
At least McCoy knew when to add "colorful metaphors" when they were needed.
Deforest Kelley's acting career prior to Star Trek was mainly playing black hats in Westerns. He had plenty of practice in "colorful metaphors" that Bakula lacks.
OF COURSE, since this is my first Enterprise post, let me weigh in on the rubdown scene. (1) It was gratuitous in the extreme. (2) It did NOTHING for the story. (3) Gratuitous sex is a Trek tradition. Kirk probably laid more pipe in 79 episodes than Magic Johnson did in his career. (4) I must stress that 99% of Kirk's pipe was laid offscreen.
Analysis: Do I object to cheesecake on Trek? Hell no, but at least have it be somehow pertinent to the story.
He's not even a good Neelix. They really need to do something about that ASAP.
Of course the idea that Phlox uses stuff like alien leeches and such to fix people up is interesting.
How about a manned spacecraft colliding with one of these mini-sats? How small are we talking about? Baseball size? In any case, smaller (read: cheaper) satellites mean MORE sattelites, and that means the volume of space junk increases exponentially, thus the sharply increased risk of collision.
I think I will launch Front Page Express, type the following:
Micro$oft $ucks!
This page composed with Front Page.
and see if MicroSuck will come after me.
The next thing you know, they'll say you can't use Windows to rip on MicroSuck either.
How can a computer predict the behavior of a complex system such as the Earth? I can see a simulator such as this being somewhat useful in predicting large-scale phenomenon such as global warming, but I don't see it predicting, for example, next year's Atlantic hurricanes, with any reasonable accuracy.
We have about as much chance of seeing intelligent androids such as those in A.I. as we have a machine that can predict the weather a thousand years out.
if George Lucas had called back Haley Joel Osment, who I just heard last night had auditioned for the part of Anakin Skywalker. This is the equivalent of the Red Sox selling Babe Ruth to the Yankees.
Of course, then he probably would not have been able to act in The Sixth Sense, which came out the same year, and made him a really HUGE star.
May the Curse of the Bambino II follow LucasFilm for the remainder of its existence. What is the nature of this curse? That no film in which LucasFilm was involved with in any way receive one single iota of attention from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, no matter how Oscar-worthy it might be.