I'm not religious myself, but I wouldn't say that religion is the only madness that leads to mass killings. Race, rich versus poor, anything that can be used to separate a group works.
Basically, any ideology that needs to be enforced with violence is a madness.
Considering the relative obscurity of the line, I thought you'd have to know the reference. I thought you'd find the link more bizzare than informative.
If you're into spotting old gadgets reused, you can't go past Dr Who (not the newer series). Army surplus everywhere in the earlier seasons, lots of electronic junk in the later shows; I almost used to weep seeing the amazing stuff that got torn to bits and called a temporal-whatsit or doohickey-polarizer just to provide a crisis to solve.
And did they really think no one would notice the Dalek's only means of interacting with the world was with a plunger? No wonder they just exterminated everything, it would be a huge time saver.
You silly man, you could have achieved the same effect with three cuts with a sharp knife.
Silly? Say that when you've cut notches in 200 disks by hand in one sitting. Three cuts sound trivial, but 600 is painful (and I understand 1000 cuts causes death).
The thing about near-future cinema is they always spend more time thinking about the big technology changes than the little ones.
Two possible reasons:
1) A future object has to look vaguely like its current equivalent, otherwise it takes time to explain what it is to an audience. Put it this way: to a 1950's audience, a computer looked like a room full of tubes with flashing lights and punch tape everywhere. By that standard, they wouldn't look at a MacMini* and immediately see a computer; it would need to be explained, and there isn't time in a feature film to introduce every little gizmo (or space to have big signs on everything).
2) Little detailed props for close up work can take as long to make as large sets. Which is cheaper: hiring someone to design and build (for example) a futuristic keyboard from scratch to sit on a desk, or taking an existing keyboard and hiring a guy with a jigsaw to cut a hole in a desk for it and throw a bit of putty around the sides to make it look sexy? (Now you know why nearly every movie computer room has big consoles.) Of course, this reason doesn't apply to animation, so here's my alternate hypothesis to the Evangelion puzzle: cell phones near the head were found to be dangerous after all.
Throw in laziness, lack of inspiration and simple forgetfulness (its easy to forget one item out of thousands), and you're pretty sure to find something out of place in almost any film if you look hard enough.
*Not pushing a brand bias, just exploiting the fact that the Mini is basically a tiny, featureless white half-cube that looks entirely unlike any sci-fi prediction of what an early 21st century computer should look like.
I'd add that floppies are only cheap now, but when the 5.25 inch disk appeared it was so hideously expensive it was actually worth paying $15 (in 80's money) for a disk notcher* so you could flip them over and use both sides.
A woman walked into the room and came up to where I was sitting: at a desk marked "COMPUTER HELP DESK" with computers on it, one of which I was using. "Excuse me," she asked. "Do you know anything about computers?"
Sometimes that isn't such a stupid question...unfortunately, the answer is always "yes", regardless of whether it's correct or not.
The British automotive industry has a real knack for designing aquaphobic cars; the electricals would flood after a heavy dew, and just showing them a photo of the ocean would make them rust.
That doesn't make all older cars similarly flawed. Some engineers actually designed cars to be driven, not just to be looked at (though Morris' weren't even designed that well).
I live in the southern hemisphere: still not worried;)
I see your point, but its far more likely for the virus to jump the species barrier in a region where there is a large population of birds in close, regular contact with humans (south east Asia springs to mind).
I'd point out the human-transmissable influenza virus was already in the region when the accident occured, and it hasn't mutated into something extra-nasty even after twenty years, despite some people moving back in. I'll concede that ordinarily the human population may not be large enough to allow the necessary genetic diversity in the virus, but surely this should be counteracted to a degree by the increased mutation rate if you're correct.
IMHO, I don't think short term irradiation of the virus in thousands of birds approaches the same potential for dangerous mutations as the non-irradiated virus in millions of birds elsewhere, unless the mutation rate is thousands of times higher.
Some of nonID folks still with have something to bother them and make them unhappy.
Some people are only happy when they have something to complain about.
I hadn't really considered the "partially" bit, but it seems to me that anyone who believes in a creator and still ends up in hell only has themselves to blame for believing in a code of conduct while ignoring it.
The flu virus mutates regularly anyway, and a mutated host will probably only show a changed susceptibility to the virus at most.
So I'm imagining another perfectly ordinary looking goose with bird flu; nothing extra scary there. You certainly won't see giant green viruses (with feathers) shouting "H5N1 SMASH!!!"
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I'm not religious myself, but I wouldn't say that religion is the only madness that leads to mass killings. Race, rich versus poor, anything that can be used to separate a group works.
Basically, any ideology that needs to be enforced with violence is a madness.
A: There may be two other entries, just below it.
And they're certain to be dupes.
Has anyone seen Eve of Destruction?
Cannot move lower body but can express pleasure. Odd.
Possibly because its female. For an accurate male android, the bulk of the processing power would have to be below the waist.
When will she be ready for sex?
As soon as someone invents a cure for a neural net with a headache.
Four stars does not make a galaxy.
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Considering the relative obscurity of the line, I thought you'd have to know the reference. I thought you'd find the link more bizzare than informative.
It was a confusing situation designed to leave the audience comically relieved.
http://www.poopreport.com/Ask/demolition_man.html
If you're into spotting old gadgets reused, you can't go past Dr Who (not the newer series). Army surplus everywhere in the earlier seasons, lots of electronic junk in the later shows; I almost used to weep seeing the amazing stuff that got torn to bits and called a temporal-whatsit or doohickey-polarizer just to provide a crisis to solve.
And did they really think no one would notice the Dalek's only means of interacting with the world was with a plunger? No wonder they just exterminated everything, it would be a huge time saver.
You silly man, you could have achieved the same effect with three cuts with a sharp knife.
Silly? Say that when you've cut notches in 200 disks by hand in one sitting. Three cuts sound trivial, but 600 is painful (and I understand 1000 cuts causes death).
The thing about near-future cinema is they always spend more time thinking about the big technology changes than the little ones.
Two possible reasons:
1) A future object has to look vaguely like its current equivalent, otherwise it takes time to explain what it is to an audience. Put it this way: to a 1950's audience, a computer looked like a room full of tubes with flashing lights and punch tape everywhere. By that standard, they wouldn't look at a MacMini* and immediately see a computer; it would need to be explained, and there isn't time in a feature film to introduce every little gizmo (or space to have big signs on everything).
2) Little detailed props for close up work can take as long to make as large sets. Which is cheaper: hiring someone to design and build (for example) a futuristic keyboard from scratch to sit on a desk, or taking an existing keyboard and hiring a guy with a jigsaw to cut a hole in a desk for it and throw a bit of putty around the sides to make it look sexy? (Now you know why nearly every movie computer room has big consoles.) Of course, this reason doesn't apply to animation, so here's my alternate hypothesis to the Evangelion puzzle: cell phones near the head were found to be dangerous after all.
Throw in laziness, lack of inspiration and simple forgetfulness (its easy to forget one item out of thousands), and you're pretty sure to find something out of place in almost any film if you look hard enough.
*Not pushing a brand bias, just exploiting the fact that the Mini is basically a tiny, featureless white half-cube that looks entirely unlike any sci-fi prediction of what an early 21st century computer should look like.
I'd add that floppies are only cheap now, but when the 5.25 inch disk appeared it was so hideously expensive it was actually worth paying $15 (in 80's money) for a disk notcher* so you could flip them over and use both sides.
url:http://8bit.dk/temp/sale_pic/disk_notcher.jpg
...are just too used to spammers. Sometimes leaving people to die in a sealed room doesn't go far enough.
We can sell it as a perfume for Mac addicts!
No point: Steve's farts don't stink.
From one link:
A woman walked into the room and came up to where I was sitting: at a desk marked "COMPUTER HELP DESK" with computers on it, one of which I was using. "Excuse me," she asked. "Do you know anything about computers?"
Sometimes that isn't such a stupid question...unfortunately, the answer is always "yes", regardless of whether it's correct or not.
The British automotive industry has a real knack for designing aquaphobic cars; the electricals would flood after a heavy dew, and just showing them a photo of the ocean would make them rust.
That doesn't make all older cars similarly flawed. Some engineers actually designed cars to be driven, not just to be looked at (though Morris' weren't even designed that well).
So is that the primordial bolognese?
"Fire up" a guillotine? I didn't introduce the word idiot, but if the shoe fits...
I live in the southern hemisphere: still not worried ;)
I see your point, but its far more likely for the virus to jump the species barrier in a region where there is a large population of birds in close, regular contact with humans (south east Asia springs to mind).
I'd point out the human-transmissable influenza virus was already in the region when the accident occured, and it hasn't mutated into something extra-nasty even after twenty years, despite some people moving back in. I'll concede that ordinarily the human population may not be large enough to allow the necessary genetic diversity in the virus, but surely this should be counteracted to a degree by the increased mutation rate if you're correct.
IMHO, I don't think short term irradiation of the virus in thousands of birds approaches the same potential for dangerous mutations as the non-irradiated virus in millions of birds elsewhere, unless the mutation rate is thousands of times higher.
Some of nonID folks still with have something to bother them and make them unhappy.
Some people are only happy when they have something to complain about.
I hadn't really considered the "partially" bit, but it seems to me that anyone who believes in a creator and still ends up in hell only has themselves to blame for believing in a code of conduct while ignoring it.
I recant every argument I've ever made for intelligent design.
That's one small victory.
And the boars used to serve up vodka at the local bar.
That isn't a mutation. All Soviet era waitresses looked like that.
No beach.
/.)
No mayor, either.
Couldn't say about teenagers having casual sex; they seem to turn up everywhere (except maybe on
The flu virus mutates regularly anyway, and a mutated host will probably only show a changed susceptibility to the virus at most.
So I'm imagining another perfectly ordinary looking goose with bird flu; nothing extra scary there. You certainly won't see giant green viruses (with feathers) shouting "H5N1 SMASH!!!"
One could argue that the animals who went back home to the creator before the other animals really had the better-designed DNA.
Or, put another way, if the intelligent design crowd just went away and died we'd all be happy...?