No no no, they'll tell you that its better that they vote for what's good for you as a minority and non popular vote winner while at the same time you're an elitist who should stop telling them what to do. Makes total sense. Not hypocrisy! Winning!
Remind me of the time I drop rock on friend Grog. He not like rock smash him. He beat me with club. Then saber tooth tiger eat whole family. Me laugh last!
Think about how much material/resources its required to build a space ship from raw lumps of iron. All the processing, all the tooling, etc etc etc. Now think about the cost of moving all the infrastructure of the entire supply chain for that material into orbit, and doing everything without gravity. Now factor in the cost of building on earth, lifting the partial products of the "thing" you actually want to build, and assembling in orbit, and compare that to building the infrastructure in space before you get one piece of your "thing" built.
Unless everyone suddenly gets cool with something equivalent of the defense budget going to space factories, that ain't happening.
It's whatever version it was around the age you turned ~38. Everything after that is terrible - the worst piece of shit those know nothing idiots could come up with. Everything before it was built rock solid, to last, by the last great generation of people who actually knew what they were doing.
See also: cars, computer HW, entertainment etc etc etc.
What's more, the infrequency of this type of event, plus the geographic remoteness might allow them to offload the cost completely to service organizations that take on contracts to repair stranded robot ships. You don't keep a full time staff on board to go fix the ship, you have a standing retainer with a series of service orgs that can get to a ship along its route.
I'm envisioning a scene like in Forest Gump where every member of Lt. Dan's family died in a war, except its every member of your family going back to the stone age and standing next to some invention saying the exact same thing.
Are you counting films or television? I've seen numerous mentions of a "golden age" of scripted television ( a far cry from doomsday predictions of everything becoming reality TV a decade ago).
What would you point to in terms of originality/plot/content in previous decades that is unmatched in the current one. Not being argumentative - I see these kinds of statements all the time and wonder if its just rose colored glasses on the past or folks having legitimate points. Certainly you can point to sequelitis, remakes, etc, but those are certainly not new in Hollywood, certainly not in the past 60-70 years. I think there's probably more of them because of the much larger market for these types of things, but does that mean there's an absolute lesser number of quality films being made each year? I'm pretty skeptical of that statement.
Also, Stallone established himself right out of the gate with Rocky, which he got an oscar nod for. I think he'd still get a nod if they made that movie today, and probably Talia Shire too.
> I mean, considering the wooden acting that is the standard these days
Are you just being controversial or do you actually consider there being a strong decline in acting in film/TV since....? I'm trying to figure what decade you'd be setting as "peak non-woodeness" (50s, 60s 70s?) and when and how this decline actually came into play. Also, is there a total higher volume of media produced, thus dropping the overall average? Curious to hear your methodology for this explosive statement!
Oh no you don't get to explain shit! You get exactly one slashdot article per topic ever, lest we cry dupe immediately from a keyword match! There's no such thing as building on research, especially not when it only says that in TFA. You think I'm going to read the article? Nah, I'm going to read ANOTHER article, do a few searches, just to post how this is late and irrelevant. Improved breakthroughs huh? Let me tell you sir, unless its a minor Linux kernel upgrade, a story about menu changes in the Tesla cafeteria, or a bitcoin price update, I only want to hear about a story twice: the first time someone thinks about it ever, and when its been discounted at Fry's. Now off with your "research" and "paths of innovation", I see me a story about Elon's new menu item in the Tesla Model X in yonder firehose!!!
That is a shitty car analogy and you know it. It would be "why do people buy new cars with old car parts put in them" or "why do people buy replicas of old cars but without any modern conveniences". This is digital music converted to vinyl, not old vinyl people buy to appreciate.
Its amazing how Random Capitalization of Words almost always indicates a crank or conspiracy theorist. Suddenly Everything That Matters becomes worthy of Capitalization for Emphasis. A friend of mine who's gone of the deep end started doing this, and now I know she's Truly Lost.
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No time like the present to get started! You seem very sure of yourself, let me know when I can order one!
Not a problem. What, you think all the sudden ethics are going to come into play when its time to get rid of some "mistakes"?
No no no, they'll tell you that its better that they vote for what's good for you as a minority and non popular vote winner while at the same time you're an elitist who should stop telling them what to do. Makes total sense. Not hypocrisy! Winning!
Remind me of the time I drop rock on friend Grog. He not like rock smash him. He beat me with club. Then saber tooth tiger eat whole family. Me laugh last!
Think about how much material/resources its required to build a space ship from raw lumps of iron. All the processing, all the tooling, etc etc etc. Now think about the cost of moving all the infrastructure of the entire supply chain for that material into orbit, and doing everything without gravity. Now factor in the cost of building on earth, lifting the partial products of the "thing" you actually want to build, and assembling in orbit, and compare that to building the infrastructure in space before you get one piece of your "thing" built.
Unless everyone suddenly gets cool with something equivalent of the defense budget going to space factories, that ain't happening.
Hey, just curious, do you not watch today's television programs too?
Let me guess you clip it to your belt, for style and comfort.
It's whatever version it was around the age you turned ~38. Everything after that is terrible - the worst piece of shit those know nothing idiots could come up with. Everything before it was built rock solid, to last, by the last great generation of people who actually knew what they were doing.
See also: cars, computer HW, entertainment etc etc etc.
Ummm...I'm guessing not you or anyone else with out a soon to be bigass payday.
What's more, the infrequency of this type of event, plus the geographic remoteness might allow them to offload the cost completely to service organizations that take on contracts to repair stranded robot ships. You don't keep a full time staff on board to go fix the ship, you have a standing retainer with a series of service orgs that can get to a ship along its route.
Let's generalize that to "all medicine".
I'm envisioning a scene like in Forest Gump where every member of Lt. Dan's family died in a war, except its every member of your family going back to the stone age and standing next to some invention saying the exact same thing.
MOD UP. (No points, but everyone "in the biz" needs to read this important testimonial)
Are you counting films or television? I've seen numerous mentions of a "golden age" of scripted television ( a far cry from doomsday predictions of everything becoming reality TV a decade ago).
What would you point to in terms of originality/plot/content in previous decades that is unmatched in the current one. Not being argumentative - I see these kinds of statements all the time and wonder if its just rose colored glasses on the past or folks having legitimate points. Certainly you can point to sequelitis, remakes, etc, but those are certainly not new in Hollywood, certainly not in the past 60-70 years. I think there's probably more of them because of the much larger market for these types of things, but does that mean there's an absolute lesser number of quality films being made each year? I'm pretty skeptical of that statement.
Also, Stallone established himself right out of the gate with Rocky, which he got an oscar nod for. I think he'd still get a nod if they made that movie today, and probably Talia Shire too.
> I mean, considering the wooden acting that is the standard these days
Are you just being controversial or do you actually consider there being a strong decline in acting in film/TV since....? I'm trying to figure what decade you'd be setting as "peak non-woodeness" (50s, 60s 70s?) and when and how this decline actually came into play. Also, is there a total higher volume of media produced, thus dropping the overall average? Curious to hear your methodology for this explosive statement!
Oh no you don't get to explain shit! You get exactly one slashdot article per topic ever, lest we cry dupe immediately from a keyword match! There's no such thing as building on research, especially not when it only says that in TFA. You think I'm going to read the article? Nah, I'm going to read ANOTHER article, do a few searches, just to post how this is late and irrelevant. Improved breakthroughs huh? Let me tell you sir, unless its a minor Linux kernel upgrade, a story about menu changes in the Tesla cafeteria, or a bitcoin price update, I only want to hear about a story twice: the first time someone thinks about it ever, and when its been discounted at Fry's. Now off with your "research" and "paths of innovation", I see me a story about Elon's new menu item in the Tesla Model X in yonder firehose!!!
"I fail to see how this harms the environment except for the way which it currently does. Why should we change?"
FTFY.
ATM. Can get money any time I want from a ton of places.
Less people post on Sunday, so you likely didn't see it on your first day. But congrats on almost finishing week 1!
Wrong, its pedantic slashdot argument comment threads first, snowflakes second, and THEN coastlines.
That is a shitty car analogy and you know it. It would be "why do people buy new cars with old car parts put in them" or "why do people buy replicas of old cars but without any modern conveniences". This is digital music converted to vinyl, not old vinyl people buy to appreciate.
Or they could do what every other kid did in the suburbs before bike lanes, rid their damn bike in the street. WTF.
Greek Gods or Mariachi Bands? I think we know which one was the true intent.
Again, see, it's the capital "R" in "Reality". Crank crank crank. I'm sure there was a really good justification for the Emphasis.
Its amazing how Random Capitalization of Words almost always indicates a crank or conspiracy theorist. Suddenly Everything That Matters becomes worthy of Capitalization for Emphasis. A friend of mine who's gone of the deep end started doing this, and now I know she's Truly Lost.