Because they tried it already, in Thor no less, with Valkyrie.
She was basically a sex object in the Ultimate-verse. And she was a muscle-man with boobs and a vagina in 616 (mainstream) continuity and that was about the limit of her development.
This is a gimmick. They're going to turn Thor into a guy with a vagina and do some crude stab at "gaining understanding of the female condition". In short, it's pandering of the worst and creepiest sort.
While I'm not a woman, I'd find this sort of treatment both idiotic and insulting in the extreme. Since I'm a guy I just think it's idiotic and creepy.
I listened to this earlier today. I had to stop listening after about a minute because just listening to it made me angry enough to want to break things and kill people (not exaggerating).
Had I been the caller, I'd have been frothing at the mouth at this jackass. Or I'd have hung up before I threw the phone, and called back to talk to someone else.
If there's global warming, I honestly don't give a flying fuck (or even a ground-based one) about whether it is human-caused or not.
I want to know the plans for actually DEALING with it.
"Carbon credits" isn't the answer. All CC are is a gigantic profiteering tool that does little to actually help the problem. Worse, it diverts funding away from real solutions into what is, effectively, a betting pool.
Reduction in power consumption. Sorry but that just is NOT going to happen. Our lives are getting more and more energy dependent every year. Reduction in consumption, at its core, reduces to the idea of (as someone else put it) "shivering in caves, waiting for the clean energy utopia".
Coal, Oil, Natural Gas. These technologies aren't going to get us "there". And the industries they've spawned are holding us back from cleaner solutions. And big hydro power is pretty much tapped out. Plus hydro power has its own ecological problems that set the enviro-nuts wrangling amongst themselves instead of being productive members of society.
What the world needs is a clean, modern nuclear system for baseline power, augmented by wind, solar, and existing hydro. And, if we can find another form of clean, renewable power that doesn't damage the environment, for fucks sake, add it in there too!
The fact is, the people in power don't WANT clean energy. Not really. Because the status quo is too financially renumerative for them. They can also make political hay about it REGARDLESS of which side of the idiotic "debate" they're on. Meanwhile, they, at every turn, castrate any and every industry that has a chance of providing humanity with clean, renewable power.
About the only government that ISN'T doing this is China. Yeah, they're chugging out massive pollution right now. But they're putting money and research into clean technology. Because they HAVE to. They have too many people and their power requirements are too high to get it done with non-renewables. Worse, the non-renewables, at this juncture, become a point over which their government could be toppled (if supplies dry up or become too expensive).
Right now the US on a fast track to become a nuclear technology CLIENT STATE instead of pioneering the tech themselves.
They aren't really comparable. Netflix and Amazon won't get shows until they are about a year old. Hulu get's shows when they are as little as one day old.
Which these other services could do if they weren't trying to be hamstrung by Old Media.
Then when they do get shows, they release the whole season at once, and you will binge watch them. I don't want to concentrate my shows like that.
If you binge, that's on YOU, not the medium. Sorry, but I find this a fairly pathetic argument. The medium is bad because you can't control yourself?
Plus you can't talk about the shows with anyone else, and you have to constantly watch out for spoilers.
I guess. I tend to work, a lot. And I'm fairly antisocial to begin with. So this isn't even a problem for me.
I pay for Hulu Plus, because it's way convenient. No need to turn the computer on to stream it, keeps track of which episodes you've watched, has high quality video, includes closed captions, etc.
And you can stream Amazon and Netflix from various devices as well. Hell, I have my parents' smart TVs hooked up to Amazon through their own account and to Netflix through mine.
Whereas if I pirate a show, gotta download it, gotta rename the file so my TV can recognize it, turn on the laptop to stream it to the TV with DLNA, can only use 720p, because 1080p won't stream well over a wireless network, etc.
Who said anything about pirating?
It costs extra against the data usage quota.
Yeah. I could talk about why this is anticompetitive behavior by your ISP. But it's been hashed over here on/. almost endlessly.
They take up precious room on your tiny SSD.
If you're going to pirate shows, why in the name of god would you put them on an SSD? A decent bulk storage drive is more than sufficient unless you're throwing multiple streams.
Sure it comes without commercials, but it also comes without closed captioning, and I like closed captioning.
You *like* closed captioning? Uh. Okay, I call Troll. Even if the other mediums I was talking about DIDN'T include it, this isn't a reason. I'm sorry, it just isn't.
As you're trolling, I'm going to stop replying now.
Sorry, but Hulu's add-supported format sucks so hard you're expecting it to eat a bird and explode like a jet engine. And any sub fees for Hulu Plus don't make those stupid, repetitive ads go away or decrease in frequency. You're just paying for access to more ad-infested content.
If that's competition, I'll stick with Amazon Prime and Netflix.
Considering how bookshops have been obliterated by Amazon in the US and the UK I don't think the French attitude towards restraining Amazon is bad. It simply puts everyone on the same playing field. And before you Yanks scream of communist plot know that Italy and Germany both have laws that limit the maximum discount on books. Around 15% or so. This ensure really big companies like Amazon can't destroy local shops only on price. But then Europe is not the US.
if amazon and others giants really paid their taxes in the countries where they do business, this law does not exist.
Bullshit. First to last.
The idea that protectionist laws favoring home-grown business over large, well organize foreign ventures with low overhead if only they were bribed with even more taxes?
Daikatana failed because it sucked, and was three years late.
Romero's skills were GROSSLY oversold The game was GROSSLY overhyped. And they burned through an obscene amount of money trying to be a "rockstar" studio (spending lavishly on facilities and trinkets, rather than putting the money where it belonged, in the game. On top of that, the studio couldn't deliver titles on time to save their lives and was basically had all the makings of a terrible reality TV show with constant infighting, turmoil, etc, etc.
Basically the only thing Ion Storm did RIGHT was to found their Austin office (which kept its nose clean of all the bullshit coming and going from the main Dallas office). Ion Storm Austin actually gained a rep for producing solid work.
But why build a Lamborghini only to put an 8 track player in it
Because a Lambo will do 220mph and you can READILY assimilate the experience and tell the difference from a Volkswagen Beetle doing 90.
For most of the people out there who aren't wanking their audiophile, they can't tell the difference between decent onboard sound and a high end sound card without lots and lots of expensive audio equipment and an oscilloscope.
Maybe with crappy OEM motherboards and stuff from Dell.
Take a look at people who spend between $100-$400 on a motherboard plus for a decent power supply.
Not all that prone to electrical noise.
I'm running a well cable-routed system with 6 large fans in there (including the CPU fan). Electrical noise is basically nill. My audio lines coming out of the box are DEAD SILENT with no distortion detectable by the Mark 1 Ear. And if I need to bust out an oscilloscope to detect it, it's effectively zero.
Funny you mention that. Because the entire article IS audiophile wank.
Most of the variance between the aural experience of onboard and that of said SB card can only REALLY be differentiated with specialized audio equipment.
With a Mark 1 Ear (your ear, whatever condition it's in, pristine or blown out from rock concerts or too loud a radio), you're going to be DAMN hard-pressed unless you're also one of those poofy little wankers who spends a year's pay on their sound system and faps over how "good" vinyl sounds compared to CD or DVD audio.
Nigh infinite duration. Poor review with an unfunded regulation body. A crippling, life-destroying penalties structure. Fair use? Son? What do you think this is? You're dreaming. Now go to jail! Because we have the patent on that and don't want you using it.
The Earth was Young and Hot. But later, Earth got into drugs and became like Lindsey Lohan.
Yeah, she's in the middle bingeing on a nasty piece of candy called Homo Sapiens right now. It's not pretty and could fuck her up for a few centuries to come.
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Because they tried it already, in Thor no less, with Valkyrie.
She was basically a sex object in the Ultimate-verse. And she was a muscle-man with boobs and a vagina in 616 (mainstream) continuity and that was about the limit of her development.
I'm sorry, but I think sexconker is right.
This is a gimmick.
They're going to turn Thor into a guy with a vagina and do some crude stab at "gaining understanding of the female condition".
In short, it's pandering of the worst and creepiest sort.
While I'm not a woman, I'd find this sort of treatment both idiotic and insulting in the extreme.
Since I'm a guy I just think it's idiotic and creepy.
I listened to this earlier today. I had to stop listening after about a minute because just listening to it made me angry enough to want to break things and kill people (not exaggerating).
Had I been the caller, I'd have been frothing at the mouth at this jackass. Or I'd have hung up before I threw the phone, and called back to talk to someone else.
NO! WE CAN"T!
But hey! He'll save us all! Right?
Face it. We're stuck with YAP (Yet Another Politico).
Screw what The People want. It's all about that special interest fat cash!
DEALING with it?
One word: Latitude.
Now fuck off.
Yep. Very helpful, cogent response there.
Now, would you care to actually make some sense?
If there's global warming, I honestly don't give a flying fuck (or even a ground-based one) about whether it is human-caused or not.
I want to know the plans for actually DEALING with it.
"Carbon credits" isn't the answer. All CC are is a gigantic profiteering tool that does little to actually help the problem. Worse, it diverts funding away from real solutions into what is, effectively, a betting pool.
Reduction in power consumption. Sorry but that just is NOT going to happen. Our lives are getting more and more energy dependent every year. Reduction in consumption, at its core, reduces to the idea of (as someone else put it) "shivering in caves, waiting for the clean energy utopia".
Coal, Oil, Natural Gas. These technologies aren't going to get us "there". And the industries they've spawned are holding us back from cleaner solutions. And big hydro power is pretty much tapped out. Plus hydro power has its own ecological problems that set the enviro-nuts wrangling amongst themselves instead of being productive members of society.
What the world needs is a clean, modern nuclear system for baseline power, augmented by wind, solar, and existing hydro. And, if we can find another form of clean, renewable power that doesn't damage the environment, for fucks sake, add it in there too!
The fact is, the people in power don't WANT clean energy. Not really. Because the status quo is too financially renumerative for them. They can also make political hay about it REGARDLESS of which side of the idiotic "debate" they're on. Meanwhile, they, at every turn, castrate any and every industry that has a chance of providing humanity with clean, renewable power.
About the only government that ISN'T doing this is China. Yeah, they're chugging out massive pollution right now. But they're putting money and research into clean technology. Because they HAVE to. They have too many people and their power requirements are too high to get it done with non-renewables. Worse, the non-renewables, at this juncture, become a point over which their government could be toppled (if supplies dry up or become too expensive).
Right now the US on a fast track to become a nuclear technology CLIENT STATE instead of pioneering the tech themselves.
Maybe for flat-text documents, this'll work okay.
But I'm fairly sure intel documentation is a damn sight richer than "wall of text" in many cases.
They aren't really comparable. Netflix and Amazon won't get shows until they are about a year old. Hulu get's shows when they are as little as one day old.
Which these other services could do if they weren't trying to be hamstrung by Old Media.
Then when they do get shows, they release the whole season at once, and you will binge watch them. I don't want to concentrate my shows like that.
If you binge, that's on YOU, not the medium. Sorry, but I find this a fairly pathetic argument. The medium is bad because you can't control yourself?
Plus you can't talk about the shows with anyone else, and you have to constantly watch out for spoilers.
I guess. I tend to work, a lot. And I'm fairly antisocial to begin with. So this isn't even a problem for me.
I pay for Hulu Plus, because it's way convenient. No need to turn the computer on to stream it, keeps track of which episodes you've watched, has high quality video, includes closed captions, etc.
And you can stream Amazon and Netflix from various devices as well. Hell, I have my parents' smart TVs hooked up to Amazon through their own account and to Netflix through mine.
Whereas if I pirate a show, gotta download it, gotta rename the file so my TV can recognize it, turn on the laptop to stream it to the TV with DLNA, can only use 720p, because 1080p won't stream well over a wireless network, etc.
Who said anything about pirating?
It costs extra against the data usage quota.
Yeah. I could talk about why this is anticompetitive behavior by your ISP. But it's been hashed over here on /. almost endlessly.
They take up precious room on your tiny SSD.
If you're going to pirate shows, why in the name of god would you put them on an SSD? A decent bulk storage drive is more than sufficient unless you're throwing multiple streams.
Sure it comes without commercials, but it also comes without closed captioning, and I like closed captioning.
You *like* closed captioning? Uh. Okay, I call Troll. Even if the other mediums I was talking about DIDN'T include it, this isn't a reason. I'm sorry, it just isn't.
As you're trolling, I'm going to stop replying now.
Yeah. But it's Hulu.
Sorry, but Hulu's add-supported format sucks so hard you're expecting it to eat a bird and explode like a jet engine.
And any sub fees for Hulu Plus don't make those stupid, repetitive ads go away or decrease in frequency. You're just paying for access to more ad-infested content.
If that's competition, I'll stick with Amazon Prime and Netflix.
Since when have things like factual information and exposure of lies ever made a difference to the Chinese? (or Apple for that matter?)
Considering how bookshops have been obliterated by Amazon in the US and the UK I don't think the French attitude towards restraining Amazon is bad. It simply puts everyone on the same playing field. And before you Yanks scream of communist plot know that Italy and Germany both have laws that limit the maximum discount on books. Around 15% or so.
This ensure really big companies like Amazon can't destroy local shops only on price.
But then Europe is not the US.
And how many buggy whips do you buy annually?
if amazon and others giants really paid their taxes in the countries where they do business, this law does not exist.
Bullshit. First to last.
The idea that protectionist laws favoring home-grown business over large, well organize foreign ventures with low overhead if only they were bribed with even more taxes?
Naive at best. Idiotic in reality.
Is Deus Ex merely considered "solid work" now?
I have yet to play a game I'd term a "masterpiece". And Deus Ex wasn't really my cup of tea.
Daikatana failed because it sucked, and was three years late.
Romero's skills were GROSSLY oversold
The game was GROSSLY overhyped.
And they burned through an obscene amount of money trying to be a "rockstar" studio (spending lavishly on facilities and trinkets, rather than putting the money where it belonged, in the game.
On top of that, the studio couldn't deliver titles on time to save their lives and was basically had all the makings of a terrible reality TV show with constant infighting, turmoil, etc, etc.
Basically the only thing Ion Storm did RIGHT was to found their Austin office (which kept its nose clean of all the bullshit coming and going from the main Dallas office). Ion Storm Austin actually gained a rep for producing solid work.
Burrito-fueled rockets to get illegals in across the border.
But why build a Lamborghini only to put an 8 track player in it
Because a Lambo will do 220mph and you can READILY assimilate the experience and tell the difference from a Volkswagen Beetle doing 90.
For most of the people out there who aren't wanking their audiophile, they can't tell the difference between decent onboard sound and a high end sound card without lots and lots of expensive audio equipment and an oscilloscope.
Maybe with crappy OEM motherboards and stuff from Dell.
Take a look at people who spend between $100-$400 on a motherboard plus for a decent power supply.
Not all that prone to electrical noise.
I'm running a well cable-routed system with 6 large fans in there (including the CPU fan). Electrical noise is basically nill. My audio lines coming out of the box are DEAD SILENT with no distortion detectable by the Mark 1 Ear. And if I need to bust out an oscilloscope to detect it, it's effectively zero.
Klugwallah Sound Reproducing System (stereo is for sissies!)
Ask Daniel Pinkwater and Bentley Saunders Harrison Matthews!
The /. writeup sounds like audiophile wank to me.
Funny you mention that. Because the entire article IS audiophile wank.
Most of the variance between the aural experience of onboard and that of said SB card can only REALLY be differentiated with specialized audio equipment.
With a Mark 1 Ear (your ear, whatever condition it's in, pristine or blown out from rock concerts or too loud a radio), you're going to be DAMN hard-pressed unless you're also one of those poofy little wankers who spends a year's pay on their sound system and faps over how "good" vinyl sounds compared to CD or DVD audio.
Sorry that should be "Poor review with an unfunded, rubberstamp regulation body.
Nigh infinite duration.
Poor review with an unfunded regulation body.
A crippling, life-destroying penalties structure.
Fair use? Son? What do you think this is? You're dreaming. Now go to jail! Because we have the patent on that and don't want you using it.
The Earth was Young and Hot. But later, Earth got into drugs and became like Lindsey Lohan.
Yeah, she's in the middle bingeing on a nasty piece of candy called Homo Sapiens right now. It's not pretty and could fuck her up for a few centuries to come.
Or are we going to have to put up with an idiotically asynchronous connection like we already do with DSL (768K) now?
Hopefully the machines are a bit tougher and can take the work conditions a bit longer before chucking themselves off the roof.
She's not going to be happy about this. Not at all.
Bing maps isn't even a poor second to S&T for route planning. Not even an "also ran".