Have you seen the kinds of robots they have over there? The ones that are captained from a cockpit inside the head of the 6 story-high transforming bot? Why haven't we got any of that?
Because they can only be piloted by 15 year old japanese kids with some form of mental angst....
"Japanese Cell Phones Offer a Glimpse of the Future"
Um, the Japanese cell phone market has been providing glimpses into the future for quite a while now. They are regularly on the bleeding edge of industry technology. Freakin' duh, man.
Please don't misunderstand me-- I don't have a shoot first, ask later mentality. I am, however, a huge fan of letting the people who would think to screw around with us know that there is a potentially a huge hammer hanging over their heads.
""they" apparently referring here to muslims in general""
Well, you can try to put those words in my mouth but you'll end up looking like an ass doing so. And where the heck did this "Don't keep shooting the messengers with this totalitarian "either you're with us or you're against us" war cry" crap come from? Every incident cited was a terrorist act, notably incited by an "Al-Qaeda like" group. At no time did I even imply lumping the rest of the Arabic world with these savages as you so blindly assume. If it really makes you feel better to assign a racial profile, you can lump members of the IRA to the same catagory; good wholesome white european stock. Don't miss the sarcasm now.
And guess what? Once they start targeting the civilan populace with their military actions, why they hate no longer matters because obviously the only meaningful thing you can do for them is die. If that's the case, I have no problems.
You can attempt to load all the middle easts problems on the evil western super powers as well, but it doesn't fly. Hey, i'll be happy to admit the US has made it's share of forgeign policy mistakes in the region, but they, nor the others hardly share all the blame. As you mentioned, oil is perhapse the worlds number one most valuable commodity, But for such a massive revenue generating resource, the Middle East (with very few exceptions) is surprisingly poor. It's people are supressed. In poverty. You make it sound like everybody is just robbing them blind when they are actually making billion. You make it sound like they are helpless when they wield considerable sway on the world economy. Speaking of which, you're right, LET'S brush up on history and current events and remember the 70s oil crisis. Or how gas is pushing $2 a gallon today because of OPEC's manuvering. And that's just off the very top of my head.
Honestly, if the Middle East is a terrorist cest pool, I have to say it's rulers share an equal, if not greater share in creating that situation. Being oppressed by the Evil Western Empire is an excuse that ceased being viable after the 1960s, especially with the wealth and opportunity they have had access to all this time.
"Why" just doesn't rest soley in the hands of foreigners here.
Clue Time-- "They" hate everybody. "They" hate Britain, and have proclaimed their determination to turn it into an Islamic state, not to mention the 90s embassy siege they suffered a while back. "They" hate Spain, their hate spanning years before the latest bombing. "They" hate Isreal, stating their goal to wipe this tiny little country from the face of the Earth after severval comprimises on Isreals part. "They" hate Russia, as evidenced by the theater hostage taking of recent memory.
Get some persective, Top Gun. The list of people "they" hate is a very, very, very long one and America was by no means the first on it. Maybe you should ask yourself why "they" are reactionary savages to everybody else. I know, it can't be because "they" are just as fucked up as you claim everybody else is, right? Sure, all the countries you listed indiscriminatly target the civilian populace in order to "get their point across", right? RIGHT????
I'm sorry, but fuck you and the horse you rode in on, you cluless bastard. If it takes a gun to the head or a golf ball sized chunk hafnium to keep these freaks in line, so be it.
"and what is the 'god squad' theme song all about then"
Um, you could look at it that way, but then it is very poetic given the central theme of Enterprise; That being Earths first real footsteps into the stars beyond. I thought it was a nice break from yet more of the vanilla orchestra we've been hearing for the last 15 years, not to mention fitting. Too bad the series couldn't keep that promise. It sucks.
At the rate Andromeda is going, it may very well be for the best... Am I the only one seeing a marked decline in the script quality over the last season? A lot of the episodes are so disjointed that it's almost a chore to follow anymore. They're nothing like the previous seasons episodes, whose plot and overall story arc were coherant and watchable. Like Enterprise. It's to the point where I can't stand another season like the last one.
If they actually want an audience, NEVER LET THE MONKIES WHO WROTE THE LAST SEASON TOUCH ANOTHER SCRIPT. EVER. Or tell em to lay off the crack.
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"Sure you've got your Evercrack players getting counciling and stuff..."
Yeah, that stuff just being death binges in front of their computer, right? The best you can do is a homeless guy??? HA!
I know we're all throwing around the word genius and all, but exactly how hard was it to make the steering independent from the drive mechanism again? Left hand turns only? Hello? I'll give you the fact that the damn thing was WAY ahead of it's time, but really now...
Or he had sense of humor enough to screw with our heads a few hundred years into the future:p
Not to nitpick (we are anyway), but since there are no gallons, it is impossible to derive mile from them, thus no miles per gallon. granted, the statment is redundant, but fairly accurate at anyrate.
"These tapes are copies of reel to reel recorded in 1971, and they are still in excellent shape."
Really now. And in exactly what kind of environment did you keep these reels in? Relatively unmolested? Out of the elements? Reasonably protected? Why do I have the sneaking suspicion that if the CDs you're maligning were kept in the same conditions, they'd be equally- if not better -preserved? Let's subject your tape reel and a CD to the same amount of general wear and usage and see which one lasts longer, kay?
"TNG had excellent continuity with storyline...The characters progressed and grew..."
You have got to be kidding. With probably the notable exception of Wesly, Barkley, and maybe a certain holographic doctor, nearly every Trek character has been as static as a maniquin. Their actions from episode to episode did nothing to affect donwline events, nor did these events have any affect on their personalities. Each show was self contianed and the Riker you knew in one episode would be exactly the same in the others. And as much as you malign Voyager (rightfully so n some cases) it probably had the most character development I've ever seen in a Trek series and the most reactive plot to boot. They were normally short range arcs, but at least they stepped out of their own airtight compartment for a change.
Frankly, I'm tired of trek in general. Most of the plot is self contained and most of the characters are static. You can only do it so many times before it gets stale. At least do it right.
Have you seen the CEO's past buisness track record? It's not too shabby if I recall correctly.
That said, won't it be virtually impossible for the average joe to buy stock? From what I heard (which may be way off base), first the employees will have a crack at it, then a few select companies and finacial institutions. By the time it reaches "street level", you won't be picking it up for a song and a dance...
Ok, you just lost 5,000 local jobs to a call center in India. Yep, it sucks. But half of the people that complain about the outsourcing phenomenom don't realize one very important fact that has been happening for a long time now-- These 3rd world countries have been outsourcing their best and brightest to first world countries for years. It goes both ways. the opportunities in the US, Britain and other countries are so attractive and lucritive that they are quite literally losing their most important resource- Their FUTURE -to other countries. In fact, it's so prevelant that pop culture recognizes it in shows like The Simpsons. You know, the Indian 7-11 owner?
Ok, so we just lost 5,000 $7.00/hour jobs (hello, $7.00 an hour???). In exchange we are getting hard working citizens dying for a success they can only dream of in their country. Business men. Store owners. Free enterprise.
Yes, I know some of the jobs lost are worth more than $7.00, but frankly, it's still a fair trade. Go find another one. If you can't, you're not trying hard enough... After all, they are, on less, and succeeding, in your back yard.
Hello? We're monitoring the comings and goings of non-citizens. What does that have to do with people who already live here?????????? IT DOESN'T. It's designed to prevent foreign problem childern from ENTERING the US.
Why not fingerprint the entire US populace?? Maybe you haven't heard, but we already have a police force that handles problem childern within the US. Since you already live here, it's kind of assumed that your good unless you cause a problem where upon you are fingerprinted. The same can't be assumed said about forgien nationals whom we have no backgroun on whatsoever.
And please, give up the "You'd obviously be good with building a wall around the United States!!" rebuttal. It's childish and has no bearing on anything.
Fingerprinting is an infrastructure already in place world wide throughout a number of professions, making it an easily shared medium across agencies (hello?) Plus the technology has been tweaked over the last few years to provide a high degree of success in software matching.
I never said it was the end all be all of security, but it is another layer that will undoubtably help in the long run.
This is a lot of sobbing over nothing. A visitor's freedoms within this country aren't being hampered. Infact, the only thing that's really happening here is keeping track of who is coming an going and comparing it to a database of known criminals. Unless you get pulled in by the police for something completely unrelated, this is never going to affect 99.5% of the people who enter the US.
If a freakin fingerprint is all you have to worry about entering this country, you're still doing pretty damn good.
I'm leaning towards April Fools myself, but I don't see it being out of the realm of society. Literally on the bleeding edge of societle, evolution enough to have enough people talking behind your back sayng how much of a freak you are for naming your kid that. It's like my brother-in-law named his daughter Shao Lin. You know, like Kung Fu? Which I'd normally wouldn't bat an eye at except for the fact that he isn't Asian. His wife isn't Asian. The daughter isn't Asian.
Common, do your kid a favor and name him something other that just what you think is cool.
At the risk of making the submitter sound terminally naive, where else would their cash go besides the company coffers? Heck, Gunbound works the same way now. You pay to dress your character up in fancy items, which can affect your gameplay. While you can get the items foor free it take a hellva lot longer. it's digital, has no real world value, but people buy anyway.
Kinda like people buying/selling Diablo items, I imagine.
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Ok, fine. They just need to speak japanese then. AND have mental angst. That's a must.
Have you seen the kinds of robots they have over there? The ones that are captained from a cockpit inside the head of the 6 story-high transforming bot? Why haven't we got any of that?
Because they can only be piloted by 15 year old japanese kids with some form of mental angst....
"Japanese Cell Phones Offer a Glimpse of the Future"
Um, the Japanese cell phone market has been providing glimpses into the future for quite a while now. They are regularly on the bleeding edge of industry technology. Freakin' duh, man.
Please don't misunderstand me-- I don't have a shoot first, ask later mentality. I am, however, a huge fan of letting the people who would think to screw around with us know that there is a potentially a huge hammer hanging over their heads.
""they" apparently referring here to muslims in general""
Well, you can try to put those words in my mouth but you'll end up looking like an ass doing so. And where the heck did this "Don't keep shooting the messengers with this totalitarian "either you're with us or you're against us" war cry" crap come from? Every incident cited was a terrorist act, notably incited by an "Al-Qaeda like" group. At no time did I even imply lumping the rest of the Arabic world with these savages as you so blindly assume. If it really makes you feel better to assign a racial profile, you can lump members of the IRA to the same catagory; good wholesome white european stock. Don't miss the sarcasm now.
And guess what? Once they start targeting the civilan populace with their military actions, why they hate no longer matters because obviously the only meaningful thing you can do for them is die. If that's the case, I have no problems.
You can attempt to load all the middle easts problems on the evil western super powers as well, but it doesn't fly. Hey, i'll be happy to admit the US has made it's share of forgeign policy mistakes in the region, but they, nor the others hardly share all the blame. As you mentioned, oil is perhapse the worlds number one most valuable commodity, But for such a massive revenue generating resource, the Middle East (with very few exceptions) is surprisingly poor. It's people are supressed. In poverty. You make it sound like everybody is just robbing them blind when they are actually making billion. You make it sound like they are helpless when they wield considerable sway on the world economy. Speaking of which, you're right, LET'S brush up on history and current events and remember the 70s oil crisis. Or how gas is pushing $2 a gallon today because of OPEC's manuvering. And that's just off the very top of my head.
Honestly, if the Middle East is a terrorist cest pool, I have to say it's rulers share an equal, if not greater share in creating that situation. Being oppressed by the Evil Western Empire is an excuse that ceased being viable after the 1960s, especially with the wealth and opportunity they have had access to all this time.
"Why" just doesn't rest soley in the hands of foreigners here.
"life is a life is a life from my point of view, and the unjustified theft of life is immoral, period."
Good. Now just keep saying that as you walk through Saddam's mass graves. Let's paint with that brush for a little bit.
Clue Time-- "They" hate everybody. "They" hate Britain, and have proclaimed their determination to turn it into an Islamic state, not to mention the 90s embassy siege they suffered a while back. "They" hate Spain, their hate spanning years before the latest bombing. "They" hate Isreal, stating their goal to wipe this tiny little country from the face of the Earth after severval comprimises on Isreals part. "They" hate Russia, as evidenced by the theater hostage taking of recent memory.
Get some persective, Top Gun. The list of people "they" hate is a very, very, very long one and America was by no means the first on it. Maybe you should ask yourself why "they" are reactionary savages to everybody else. I know, it can't be because "they" are just as fucked up as you claim everybody else is, right? Sure, all the countries you listed indiscriminatly target the civilian populace in order to "get their point across", right? RIGHT????
I'm sorry, but fuck you and the horse you rode in on, you cluless bastard. If it takes a gun to the head or a golf ball sized chunk hafnium to keep these freaks in line, so be it.
Yes, lets move towards software patents while forcing MS to reveal their source code to the world at large...
"So while all the other Star Treks were about mindless exploration"
Kinda missed the point of the franchise there, didntcha?
"and what is the 'god squad' theme song all about then"
Um, you could look at it that way, but then it is very poetic given the central theme of Enterprise; That being Earths first real footsteps into the stars beyond. I thought it was a nice break from yet more of the vanilla orchestra we've been hearing for the last 15 years, not to mention fitting. Too bad the series couldn't keep that promise. It sucks.
At the rate Andromeda is going, it may very well be for the best... Am I the only one seeing a marked decline in the script quality over the last season? A lot of the episodes are so disjointed that it's almost a chore to follow anymore. They're nothing like the previous seasons episodes, whose plot and overall story arc were coherant and watchable. Like Enterprise. It's to the point where I can't stand another season like the last one.
If they actually want an audience, NEVER LET THE MONKIES WHO WROTE THE LAST SEASON TOUCH ANOTHER SCRIPT. EVER. Or tell em to lay off the crack.
"Sure you've got your Evercrack players getting counciling and stuff..."
Yeah, that stuff just being death binges in front of their computer, right? The best you can do is a homeless guy??? HA!
I know we're all throwing around the word genius and all, but exactly how hard was it to make the steering independent from the drive mechanism again? Left hand turns only? Hello? I'll give you the fact that the damn thing was WAY ahead of it's time, but really now...
:p
Or he had sense of humor enough to screw with our heads a few hundred years into the future
Not to nitpick (we are anyway), but since there are no gallons, it is impossible to derive mile from them, thus no miles per gallon. granted, the statment is redundant, but fairly accurate at anyrate.
"These tapes are copies of reel to reel recorded in 1971, and they are still in excellent shape."
Really now. And in exactly what kind of environment did you keep these reels in? Relatively unmolested? Out of the elements? Reasonably protected? Why do I have the sneaking suspicion that if the CDs you're maligning were kept in the same conditions, they'd be equally- if not better -preserved? Let's subject your tape reel and a CD to the same amount of general wear and usage and see which one lasts longer, kay?
Sorry man, I gotta say you're full of bullshit.
"TNG had excellent continuity with storyline...The characters progressed and grew..."
You have got to be kidding. With probably the notable exception of Wesly, Barkley, and maybe a certain holographic doctor, nearly every Trek character has been as static as a maniquin. Their actions from episode to episode did nothing to affect donwline events, nor did these events have any affect on their personalities. Each show was self contianed and the Riker you knew in one episode would be exactly the same in the others. And as much as you malign Voyager (rightfully so n some cases) it probably had the most character development I've ever seen in a Trek series and the most reactive plot to boot. They were normally short range arcs, but at least they stepped out of their own airtight compartment for a change.
Frankly, I'm tired of trek in general. Most of the plot is self contained and most of the characters are static. You can only do it so many times before it gets stale. At least do it right.
Like Firefly.
Technology Makes New Cars Too Expensive to Fix
Funny, I thought it was those $2,000 plastic fenders...
Have you seen the CEO's past buisness track record? It's not too shabby if I recall correctly.
That said, won't it be virtually impossible for the average joe to buy stock? From what I heard (which may be way off base), first the employees will have a crack at it, then a few select companies and finacial institutions. By the time it reaches "street level", you won't be picking it up for a song and a dance...
"Apple Rejects RealNetwork's Pleas"
Mmmm, nothing like the smell of fresh fanboy spin to wake you up in the morning. Yes, i'm sure Real was just begging on their hands and knees too...
Ok, you just lost 5,000 local jobs to a call center in India. Yep, it sucks. But half of the people that complain about the outsourcing phenomenom don't realize one very important fact that has been happening for a long time now-- These 3rd world countries have been outsourcing their best and brightest to first world countries for years. It goes both ways. the opportunities in the US, Britain and other countries are so attractive and lucritive that they are quite literally losing their most important resource- Their FUTURE -to other countries. In fact, it's so prevelant that pop culture recognizes it in shows like The Simpsons. You know, the Indian 7-11 owner?
Ok, so we just lost 5,000 $7.00/hour jobs (hello, $7.00 an hour???). In exchange we are getting hard working citizens dying for a success they can only dream of in their country. Business men. Store owners. Free enterprise.
Yes, I know some of the jobs lost are worth more than $7.00, but frankly, it's still a fair trade. Go find another one. If you can't, you're not trying hard enough... After all, they are, on less, and succeeding, in your back yard.
Hello? We're monitoring the comings and goings of non-citizens. What does that have to do with people who already live here?????????? IT DOESN'T. It's designed to prevent foreign problem childern from ENTERING the US.
Why not fingerprint the entire US populace?? Maybe you haven't heard, but we already have a police force that handles problem childern within the US. Since you already live here, it's kind of assumed that your good unless you cause a problem where upon you are fingerprinted. The same can't be assumed said about forgien nationals whom we have no backgroun on whatsoever.
And please, give up the "You'd obviously be good with building a wall around the United States!!" rebuttal. It's childish and has no bearing on anything.
Um, fake passports, birthdays and names, maybe?
Fingerprinting is an infrastructure already in place world wide throughout a number of professions, making it an easily shared medium across agencies (hello?) Plus the technology has been tweaked over the last few years to provide a high degree of success in software matching.
I never said it was the end all be all of security, but it is another layer that will undoubtably help in the long run.
This is a lot of sobbing over nothing. A visitor's freedoms within this country aren't being hampered. Infact, the only thing that's really happening here is keeping track of who is coming an going and comparing it to a database of known criminals. Unless you get pulled in by the police for something completely unrelated, this is never going to affect 99.5% of the people who enter the US.
If a freakin fingerprint is all you have to worry about entering this country, you're still doing pretty damn good.
I'm leaning towards April Fools myself, but I don't see it being out of the realm of society. Literally on the bleeding edge of societle, evolution enough to have enough people talking behind your back sayng how much of a freak you are for naming your kid that. It's like my brother-in-law named his daughter Shao Lin. You know, like Kung Fu? Which I'd normally wouldn't bat an eye at except for the fact that he isn't Asian. His wife isn't Asian. The daughter isn't Asian.
Common, do your kid a favor and name him something other that just what you think is cool.
At the risk of making the submitter sound terminally naive, where else would their cash go besides the company coffers? Heck, Gunbound works the same way now. You pay to dress your character up in fancy items, which can affect your gameplay. While you can get the items foor free it take a hellva lot longer. it's digital, has no real world value, but people buy anyway.
Kinda like people buying/selling Diablo items, I imagine.