Did they ever explain what biological function was being exploited to harvest that energy? It seems like the human body is full of potential energy. The machines could be using some sort of full-body muscle stimulus to harvest more kinetic energy or something- Neo was in pretty good shape even after supposedly being immobile in a gel-pod his whole life, certainly didn't look atrophied like one might expect. Or maybe some sort of chemical interception of nutrients and oxygen headed for cells? Or maybe they've amplified the electricity generated in the brain and neurons and harvest a portion of that? No reason they have to be using a passive wave generator, which is really not a very rapid method of power generation.
That is really too bad. GW has made some great games over the years, I really enjoyed Warhammer and Space Hulk as a kid. Now, I HATE Games Workshop and hope their offices get infested with lice and skunks.
I can't remember if it was specifically mentioned in the Russian "Solyaris" (subtitled movies don't seem to stick as well in my memory) but in the American remake it was suggested by one character that the "visitors" were a result of a "Higgs field". Later a device is constructed based on that assumption that is able to destroy at least one visitor.
I agree that its awful, but the premise of your analogy is flawed because copyright and patent are not the same thing. As I understand it the law would likely support their assertion that this website is hosting unauthorized derivative works.
So, if a man tackled a women, zip-tied her hands behind her back, pulled off her clothes, maybe licked on her boobs for a while, tongued her clit, then jacked off onto her face, that's not rape? Ok.
Which really does beg the question- why are you making judgements about the merits of a movie you have never even seen? You might want to just sit the rest of this one out.
Of course, I've been watching Star Wars almost my whole life and my only experience with Firefly was an episode where a Muppet seemed to have a problem with exploding urine. Probably not the franchise's finest moment.
Um, you're talking about Farscape, which is waaaay on the other end of scifi, campy as hell. Firefly had no "muppets", or aliens at all for that matter.
Plot was good enough, I thought. It wrapped up threads from the series quite nicely, which was the intent.
Special effects were as good as any other major scifi picture of the time.
Memorable characters- The Operative was an impressive villain, and the main cast performed well. I'm not a big fan of all of the actors but I Jayne is one character I will never forget.
Cultural Significance- Um, huh? It was a scifi/action pic, not a Kubrick LSD film. It has significance as entertaining piece of scifi.
Filmographic achievements- Making an enjoyable film, which is so damn rare these days.
I liked the series alot, and I'll admit that I enjoyed the movie more because I knew the characters and cared about them already. You disagree? Fine, but don't discount everyone else's opinions, because that's all they are.
I think that might also show the difference between Star Wars and this movie I think the difference in that case is that the Star Wars franchise is almost ten times older than Serenity. I think at least part of the reason you didn't enjoy the movie is that you'd never seen Firefly. It's like watching Return of the Jedi before seeing any other Star Wars material.
"Ten years from now people will still be talking about Star Wars, Blade Runner, Planet of the Apes, and pretty much everything else on the list. Serenity won't even be a foot note."
Out of all the other hyperbole in your post, this stands out as the most inaccurate. Serenity was an important scifi film and will be talked about still in ten years, as will the Firefly series. Perhaps not as much as Star Wars, but it doesn't help your argument any to overstate your case and alienate fans of both properties.
f I was wrong, it was because that part of your life is slightly out of your normal character.
My "normal character"? Hahahahaha! Do you realize how ludicrous you sound?
No sir, YOU lost the plot. She wanted you to slow down because your car's so damn loud that, whether or not your'e exceeding posted limits, it's that much more intimidating of her and her children.
Wow, you have PSYCHICALLY READ HER MIND! Seriously, how the fuck do you know what she was thinking?
There are *already* noise ordinances regarding your unmuffled[1] truck. The problem is that the police just aren't empowered to do much when they get a report of an errant, random jerk bragging to the world about how powerful his truck is.
Huh? What truck? It's a sedan, pretty average-sized. You've DEFINITELY lost the plot now.
So, she did the next best thing and asked you to actually for once in your life be aware of your surroundings and drive slower.
Nope, she was just a moron. Like you.
Yeah, yeah, you claim it's muffled. But come on, I'm kinda going out on a limb to believe you're as clueless about your surroundings as you have revealed you are, BUT that you are correctly representing the state of your engine's muffling.
Nope, you're just wrong. Clearly you have no problem simply inventing facts to ensure that at least in your mind, you've won the battle. Hooray, even when you totally lose, you still win!
I mean, in your whimsical wonderland I drive a super-loud unmuffled truck that scares children and mothers! Well, I'm glad we've established that your reality is very very different from the one the rest of us live in. Have a time in your state of delusion!
Well I dunno, you made the comment about the muffler, not me. Clearly you felt it was important, so why don't you explain why you brought it up?
The noise is what's probably bothering them. I know noisy vehicles certainly annoy the hell out of me.
Wow, somewhere here you really lost the plot. The point is, I WAS NOT GOING OVER THE SPEED LIMIT AND THIS WOMAN YELLED AT ME TO SLOW DOWN. If you are the type of person who assumes someone is speeding because their engine is loud (and it's no louder than any other diesel sedan, it's a Mercedes Turbo) then you're a jackass just like her. If she doesn't like vehicles that are louder than her stupid minivan she should write her senator, and so can you.
Uh, it's not unmuffled. Not sure why you assumed that- perhaps because presupposing it might be the crux of your argument? Because it, like most other older diesel engines, is louder than a standard gasoline engine, but that doesn't mean I'm going fast, and speed limits are based upon velocity, not sound.
I hear ya. I almost never speed except on freeways, and certainly never in residental streets. However, that hasn't stopped a few concerned parents from yelling at me to SLOW DOWN even when I'm going exactly the speed limit (or less). Of course, they couldn't see my speedometer and were mostly alarmed by the simple fact that my diesel engine is very loud, but it still pisses me off.
I'm not a Bostonian and only followed this story vaguely during its occurrence, but the Wikipedia article mentions steel hangars and bolt fixtures weakening and failing. That would indicate that something other than glue was involved. Unless they glued the steel hangars and bolts on.
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Did they ever explain what biological function was being exploited to harvest that energy? It seems like the human body is full of potential energy. The machines could be using some sort of full-body muscle stimulus to harvest more kinetic energy or something- Neo was in pretty good shape even after supposedly being immobile in a gel-pod his whole life, certainly didn't look atrophied like one might expect.
Or maybe some sort of chemical interception of nutrients and oxygen headed for cells? Or maybe they've amplified the electricity generated in the brain and neurons and harvest a portion of that?
No reason they have to be using a passive wave generator, which is really not a very rapid method of power generation.
All I want to know is how the damn Zulu spearman could possibly defeat ALL my tanks. HOW!?!?!?
That is a lot of severed arms.
That is really too bad. GW has made some great games over the years, I really enjoyed Warhammer and Space Hulk as a kid. Now, I HATE Games Workshop and hope their offices get infested with lice and skunks.
haha, in hindsight i see why you thought that, but i was actually giving him a compliment. sounds like a summer blockbuster to me!
imaginative.
alex chiu was the magnetic ring guy i thought. maybe you're mixing him up with john titor?
Perhaps they toggled it off for the media footage? it seems odd not to have one available.
But Jesus and the Bible and Heaven.
I can't remember if it was specifically mentioned in the Russian "Solyaris" (subtitled movies don't seem to stick as well in my memory) but in the American remake it was suggested by one character that the "visitors" were a result of a "Higgs field". Later a device is constructed based on that assumption that is able to destroy at least one visitor.
I agree that its awful, but the premise of your analogy is flawed because copyright and patent are not the same thing. As I understand it the law would likely support their assertion that this website is hosting unauthorized derivative works.
So, if a man tackled a women, zip-tied her hands behind her back, pulled off her clothes, maybe licked on her boobs for a while, tongued her clit, then jacked off onto her face, that's not rape? Ok.
Which really does beg the question- why are you making judgements about the merits of a movie you have never even seen? You might want to just sit the rest of this one out.
Of course, I've been watching Star Wars almost my whole life and my only experience with Firefly was an episode where a Muppet seemed to have a problem with exploding urine. Probably not the franchise's finest moment.
Um, you're talking about Farscape, which is waaaay on the other end of scifi, campy as hell. Firefly had no "muppets", or aliens at all for that matter.
Plot was good enough, I thought. It wrapped up threads from the series quite nicely, which was the intent.
Special effects were as good as any other major scifi picture of the time.
Memorable characters- The Operative was an impressive villain, and the main cast performed well. I'm not a big fan of all of the actors but I Jayne is one character I will never forget.
Cultural Significance- Um, huh? It was a scifi/action pic, not a Kubrick LSD film. It has significance as entertaining piece of scifi.
Filmographic achievements- Making an enjoyable film, which is so damn rare these days.
I liked the series alot, and I'll admit that I enjoyed the movie more because I knew the characters and cared about them already. You disagree? Fine, but don't discount everyone else's opinions, because that's all they are.
I think that might also show the difference between Star Wars and this movie
I think the difference in that case is that the Star Wars franchise is almost ten times older than Serenity. I think at least part of the reason you didn't enjoy the movie is that you'd never seen Firefly. It's like watching Return of the Jedi before seeing any other Star Wars material.
"Ten years from now people will still be talking about Star Wars, Blade Runner, Planet of the Apes, and pretty much everything else on the list. Serenity won't even be a foot note."
Out of all the other hyperbole in your post, this stands out as the most inaccurate. Serenity was an important scifi film and will be talked about still in ten years, as will the Firefly series. Perhaps not as much as Star Wars, but it doesn't help your argument any to overstate your case and alienate fans of both properties.
try RTFEOTA (yes, thats read the fuckin end of the article)
just remember to wear the adjustable sliding-knot neckstrap!
I bet you're super-proud of your 100% win record in arguments against the straw people in your head, huh?
f I was wrong, it was because that part of your life is slightly out of your normal character.
My "normal character"? Hahahahaha! Do you realize how ludicrous you sound?
No sir, YOU lost the plot. She wanted you to slow down because your car's so damn loud that, whether or not your'e exceeding posted limits, it's that much more intimidating of her and her children.
Wow, you have PSYCHICALLY READ HER MIND! Seriously, how the fuck do you know what she was thinking?
There are *already* noise ordinances regarding your unmuffled[1] truck. The problem is that the police just aren't empowered to do much when they get a report of an errant, random jerk bragging to the world about how powerful his truck is.
Huh? What truck? It's a sedan, pretty average-sized. You've DEFINITELY lost the plot now.
So, she did the next best thing and asked you to actually for once in your life be aware of your surroundings and drive slower.
Nope, she was just a moron. Like you.
Yeah, yeah, you claim it's muffled. But come on, I'm kinda going out on a limb to believe you're as clueless about your surroundings as you have revealed you are, BUT that you are correctly representing the state of your engine's muffling.
Nope, you're just wrong. Clearly you have no problem simply inventing facts to ensure that at least in your mind, you've won the battle. Hooray, even when you totally lose, you still win!
I mean, in your whimsical wonderland I drive a super-loud unmuffled truck that scares children and mothers! Well, I'm glad we've established that your reality is very very different from the one the rest of us live in. Have a time in your state of delusion!
So?
Well I dunno, you made the comment about the muffler, not me. Clearly you felt it was important, so why don't you explain why you brought it up?
The noise is what's probably bothering them. I know noisy vehicles certainly annoy the hell out of me.
Wow, somewhere here you really lost the plot. The point is, I WAS NOT GOING OVER THE SPEED LIMIT AND THIS WOMAN YELLED AT ME TO SLOW DOWN. If you are the type of person who assumes someone is speeding because their engine is loud (and it's no louder than any other diesel sedan, it's a Mercedes Turbo) then you're a jackass just like her. If she doesn't like vehicles that are louder than her stupid minivan she should write her senator, and so can you.
Uh, it's not unmuffled. Not sure why you assumed that- perhaps because presupposing it might be the crux of your argument? Because it, like most other older diesel engines, is louder than a standard gasoline engine, but that doesn't mean I'm going fast, and speed limits are based upon velocity, not sound.
Think about it.
I hear ya. I almost never speed except on freeways, and certainly never in residental streets. However, that hasn't stopped a few concerned parents from yelling at me to SLOW DOWN even when I'm going exactly the speed limit (or less). Of course, they couldn't see my speedometer and were mostly alarmed by the simple fact that my diesel engine is very loud, but it still pisses me off.
I'm not a Bostonian and only followed this story vaguely during its occurrence, but the Wikipedia article mentions steel hangars and bolt fixtures weakening and failing. That would indicate that something other than glue was involved. Unless they glued the steel hangars and bolts on.