Since she's essentially playing herself, one must question whether this is is really acting.
So, you know her in real life then?
I thought not. Look at her other work (I somehow doubt you've seen any of it) and you'll see just how wide her range is. "Donna Noble" is not Catherine Tate.
For some reason she is now slated to be a more permanent companion for the fourth year of the New Series.
Obviously you're not much of a fan if this is news to you. She's not eyecandy like Billie Piper(Rose) or Freema Agyeman (Martha), but she certainly can act.
displayed page, and therefore they format the page based on the printer definitions. You move the file from one computer to another and they have different printers, then the page is reformatted to fit that printer.
I don't buy that. For one thing, Word doesn't even seem to notice the page size on the printer (mine is A4) is not the original size (Letter, in many documents I get). It will try to compensate at print time by scaling, but not reformatting, unless I explicitly change the page setup. And as long as you use Truetype (or Opentype, or Type 1) the printer is basically irrelevant. (However, if the local Windows does not have the specific fonts used in the originator, you will get messed up.)
Anyway, I hardly ever use Word for layout, just editing text. There are DTP apps that do real layout.
... he hasn't blown himself up or let himself be killed in some Jihad or on the front lines. However, they all call upon their minions to do so
Sure, they'll cheerfully send people to die for their cause. My point is they won't really start an Armageddon, (that would kill them, personally), despite their rhetoric. Not to say it isn't possible -- when Adolf knew he was going to lose, he wanted to kill himself and take his whole country with him. He might have pressed the button if he had some nukes. But fortunately most dictators are rather more concerned with self-preservation.
And by this theory, violent acts depicted in cartoons are incitations to commit murder.
As an Australian, I'm deeply ashamed at this idiocy. Child porn is bad because it hurts REAL CHILDREN when they make it. The belief that the image of a thing is the same as a thing is magical thinking. It's literally how voodoo works. (Well, if voodoo worked.)
Some of the fundamentalists BELIEVE in their god. They don't care if they all die, so long as they go to heaven.
Right. And you know this how? The Saudis are rich enough to have bought all the nukes they wanted (from Pakistan, North Korea, say). And they're as devout as they come. But they haven't sent us all to paradise/hell.
Funny thing, fundamentalist leaders don't sacrifice themselves. And that goes for Muslims as well as Christians and Communists.
I think the biggest threat of nuclear war isn't a few bombs
Actually, if you survive the blast and fallout, the big problem is nuclear winter. A full nuclar exchange would cause huge, continental fires, smoke and block sunlight for long enough to trigger an ice age. You're pretty much screwed if you crawl out of your bunker to rebuild civilisation and to find 6 feet of snow covering everything.
Carl Sagan did some work on this some decades ago.
I know that alcohol's not going to get banned again, but you wonder how many lives it would save if it did?
Did you RTFA? One reason Prohibition was repealed was that it was killing a lot more people. People were poisoned by bad moonshine. Crime flourished, supported by the bootlegging profits. The kind of people who are problem drinkers now -- likely to drive drunk, get into fights, etc -- still drink. So my answer is: none.
I've lived in Muslim countries, where alcohol is officially banned. Everyone who wanted to could still get a drink. Including cops. How much corruption of law enforcement did Prohibition cause?
Unvaccinated, breastfed kids don't generally get sick. (very rarely)
Herd immunity (or community immunity) describes a type of immunity that occurs when the vaccination of a portion of the population (or herd) provides protection to unprotected individuals. Herd immunity theory proposes that, in diseases passed from person-to-person, it is more difficult to maintain a chain of infection when large numbers of a population are immune. The more immune individuals present in a population, the lower the likelihood that a susceptible person will come into contact with an infected individual.
As more take advantage of the free ride, however, eventually you reach the point where it fails, and you get epidemics.
Plenty of Third World countries have breasfeeding and low immunisation rates. Their kids die at a much higer rate than the Western countries.
Look in an old graveyard. See all the 19th C gravestones of infants who died from disease. All breasfed and unimmunised. Ask your grandmother about infant mortality when she was young.
What about Thunderbirds (1965)? Jeff Tracy and his five sons...
Lost in Space (also 1965) -- John Robinson, his wife and three kids.
Plenty of "families" in SF, depends how you define "saga", which on TV usually means "multi-generational soap opera". If so, not really a drawcard, I think.
On a smaller level, societies where people own guns are usually more peaceful ones. Why? Because people can see them. Just the threat of being shot is enough to deter people from starting shit.
Yeah, countries like Somalia, (former) Yugoslavia, Iraq... really peaceful. Not to mention the USA, highest murder rate in the first world.
Funny, I've never seen that "increase resolution" button in photoshop before
Do you think the DoD helpfully distributed before and after versions in full resolution? Fairly obviously someone at AP got suspicious and snooped around, perhaps found the original version on a web page -- "original" in content, but obviously a low resolution copy.
But as for "increase resolution", you can fake a little. Try Image/Image size, then a bit of unsharp mask. Then careful cloning, brush, etc. if you have the time.
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Correct me, but are all these breathless announcements still vapourware?
I'm getting a bit tired of this bullshit. It was just a stunt, it looked cool but completely impractical. And it's not like "Minority Report" (2002) actually invented the idea, even in the movies. Off the top of my head, same concept was used in "Johnny Mnemonic" (1995), Disclosure (1994), "Hitchhiker's Guide" (1978 (radio version)).
Actually the price should be at least double that, because if they really want to ressurect the species, they need two, a male and a female.
Once you've got one, cloning more will be much cheaper than starting from scratch. Mixing in a few new elephant genes for diversity would probably be a good idea.
!? Huh? I couldn't even make it through the first episode of Firefly because the "space western" theme was so god damned cheesy it made me gag.
Depends which "first episode" you're talking about. The original pilot, "Serenity" (same title as the movie"). Fox thought it was "too dark", so they got Joss to write a "caper" episode, "The Train Job". Serenity shows final battle of the civil war that haunts Mal, and introduces the crew. Still, the "Western" aspect is certainly in your face: cattle, rustlers, horses, shotguns, and of course the clothes. But I find the day-glo spandex futures in most other TV SF even cheesier myself. And as for Star Wars faux medievalism....
Skynet was basically the the (Strangelove) Doomsday Device. And even more similar to
Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970).
Too bad no mention of Doctor Who. They had a universe-destroying threat at least once every season. This year, in "Journey's End" Davros has created a "reality bomb" which cancels out the electrical field binding atoms, reducing the whole of creation to nothingness.
For once, the summary is correct "in the EU member states, Switzerland, Russia, and Turkey." This is a list, meaning "in the EU member states AND Switzerland AND Russia and Turkey", not a definition. If it were, it would use a colon, like "in the EU member states: Switzerland, Russia, and Turkey". I mean, who would imagine that Russia was in the EU (aside from Sarah Palin)?
The basic premise of Jurassic Park wasn't dumb. The science background was,
? The "science" WAS the premise. But the STORY was dumb too. It could have been a jungle movie made on the back lot in the 50s, with lions instead of dinosaurs. And he used the almost identical plot in "Westworld".
Spielberg made it entertaining, but sorry, still dumb.
Well, he's dead. His feelings can't be hurt. And really, he hadn't written anything worthwhile in the last 20 years. And some really awful stuff, most notably "State of Fear", a very dishonest attack on the global warming idea, presented as fiction, so his bogus science can't be questioned, yet often cited as fact. Like a lot of thriller writers he started with some great ideas and treatments of old themes, then with his name established and fat advance checks guaranteed for anything he put his name to, ended up with tedious sequels and curmudgeonly diatribes. (c.f. Frederik Forsyth, Tom Clancy.)
Jurassic Park succeeded because of Spielberg and CGI, not really much to do with the story, which was, if you think about it for a moment, dumb. But some of his early stuff -- books and movies like Andromeda Strain, Westworld -- was really entertaining and had a few decent ideas.
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So, you know her in real life then?
I thought not. Look at her other work (I somehow doubt you've seen any of it) and you'll see just how wide her range is. "Donna Noble" is not Catherine Tate.
For some reason she is now slated to be a more permanent companion for the fourth year of the New Series.
Obviously you're not much of a fan if this is news to you. She's not eyecandy like Billie Piper(Rose) or Freema Agyeman (Martha), but she certainly can act.
I don't buy that. For one thing, Word doesn't even seem to notice the page size on the printer (mine is A4) is not the original size (Letter, in many documents I get). It will try to compensate at print time by scaling, but not reformatting, unless I explicitly change the page setup. And as long as you use Truetype (or Opentype, or Type 1) the printer is basically irrelevant. (However, if the local Windows does not have the specific fonts used in the originator, you will get messed up.)
Anyway, I hardly ever use Word for layout, just editing text. There are DTP apps that do real layout.
Sure, they'll cheerfully send people to die for their cause. My point is they won't really start an Armageddon, (that would kill them, personally), despite their rhetoric. Not to say it isn't possible -- when Adolf knew he was going to lose, he wanted to kill himself and take his whole country with him. He might have pressed the button if he had some nukes. But fortunately most dictators are rather more concerned with self-preservation.
Sagan was a self-publicist, but he didn't cut his science to fit his politics. Or just what are you implying?
Thus far, there has been no good proof that there's any sort of reality in it.
Of course not. The only "good proof" would be seen after a massive nuclear exchange.
Don't confuse scientists speculating on things with real empiricism.
Don't be so patronising.
String theory would be a good example.
A good example of a straw man that has absolutely nothing to do with this topic.
As an Australian, I'm deeply ashamed at this idiocy. Child porn is bad because it hurts REAL CHILDREN when they make it. The belief that the image of a thing is the same as a thing is magical thinking. It's literally how voodoo works. (Well, if voodoo worked.)
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I'm sure you haven't.
Some of the fundamentalists BELIEVE in their god. They don't care if they all die, so long as they go to heaven.
Right. And you know this how? The Saudis are rich enough to have bought all the nukes they wanted (from Pakistan, North Korea, say). And they're as devout as they come. But they haven't sent us all to paradise/hell.
Funny thing, fundamentalist leaders don't sacrifice themselves. And that goes for Muslims as well as Christians and Communists.
Actually, if you survive the blast and fallout, the big problem is nuclear winter. A full nuclar exchange would cause huge, continental fires, smoke and block sunlight for long enough to trigger an ice age. You're pretty much screwed if you crawl out of your bunker to rebuild civilisation and to find 6 feet of snow covering everything.
Carl Sagan did some work on this some decades ago.
Did you RTFA? One reason Prohibition was repealed was that it was killing a lot more people. People were poisoned by bad moonshine. Crime flourished, supported by the bootlegging profits. The kind of people who are problem drinkers now -- likely to drive drunk, get into fights, etc -- still drink. So my answer is: none.
I've lived in Muslim countries, where alcohol is officially banned. Everyone who wanted to could still get a drink. Including cops. How much corruption of law enforcement did Prohibition cause?
Lost in Space (also 1965) -- John Robinson, his wife and three kids.
Plenty of "families" in SF, depends how you define "saga", which on TV usually means "multi-generational soap opera". If so, not really a drawcard, I think.
Yeah, countries like Somalia, (former) Yugoslavia, Iraq... really peaceful. Not to mention the USA, highest murder rate in the first world.
Oh gee. Here I was thinking it was a charity.
I can and often do record TV shows and skip the ads entirely when I watch them. And as for radio, a couple of local stations have no ads.
I pay zero to watch movies on (broadcast) TV, or listen to music on the radio.
Do you think the DoD helpfully distributed before and after versions in full resolution? Fairly obviously someone at AP got suspicious and snooped around, perhaps found the original version on a web page -- "original" in content, but obviously a low resolution copy.
But as for "increase resolution", you can fake a little. Try Image/Image size, then a bit of unsharp mask. Then careful cloning, brush, etc. if you have the time.
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Correct me, but are all these breathless announcements still vapourware?
I'm getting a bit tired of this bullshit. It was just a stunt, it looked cool but completely impractical. And it's not like "Minority Report" (2002) actually invented the idea, even in the movies. Off the top of my head, same concept was used in "Johnny Mnemonic" (1995), Disclosure (1994), "Hitchhiker's Guide" (1978 (radio version)).
Once you've got one, cloning more will be much cheaper than starting from scratch. Mixing in a few new elephant genes for diversity would probably be a good idea.
That would be startling. There aren't any Grizzly Bears in Europe.
And Joe's holiday snaps will have his name, address, phone number attached. No chop-licking forensics team required to find out who took it.
Depends which "first episode" you're talking about. The original pilot, "Serenity" (same title as the movie"). Fox thought it was "too dark", so they got Joss to write a "caper" episode, "The Train Job". Serenity shows final battle of the civil war that haunts Mal, and introduces the crew. Still, the "Western" aspect is certainly in your face: cattle, rustlers, horses, shotguns, and of course the clothes. But I find the day-glo spandex futures in most other TV SF even cheesier myself. And as for Star Wars faux medievalism....
Too bad no mention of Doctor Who. They had a universe-destroying threat at least once every season. This year, in "Journey's End" Davros has created a "reality bomb" which cancels out the electrical field binding atoms, reducing the whole of creation to nothingness.
Duh. Who said it was?
For once, the summary is correct "in the EU member states, Switzerland, Russia, and Turkey." This is a list, meaning "in the EU member states AND Switzerland AND Russia and Turkey", not a definition. If it were, it would use a colon, like "in the EU member states: Switzerland, Russia, and Turkey". I mean, who would imagine that Russia was in the EU (aside from Sarah Palin)?
I know nothing about Crichton personally. I'm only discussing his published work. I didn't kanme the tag, but I can see some justice in it.
I said "worthwhile". Bestsellers are mostly just ways to pass the time on a commute.
all the anti-global warming stuff is properly cited and logically argued.
Bullshit.
? The "science" WAS the premise. But the STORY was dumb too. It could have been a jungle movie made on the back lot in the 50s, with lions instead of dinosaurs. And he used the almost identical plot in "Westworld".
Spielberg made it entertaining, but sorry, still dumb.
Jurassic Park succeeded because of Spielberg and CGI, not really much to do with the story, which was, if you think about it for a moment, dumb. But some of his early stuff -- books and movies like Andromeda Strain, Westworld -- was really entertaining and had a few decent ideas.