This is just silly. The Drake equation has always been a joke. It's an extrapolated tautology that the chances for life on other planets are based on the chances for life on other planets.
I never believed the Fermi paradox was interesting. It seems clear that traveling between stars may be prohibitively difficult even for "advanced" civilizations. To me that alone would explain it. Add to that some of the filters, for example that evolution tends to create short sighted, greedy, and competitive species good at accidental mass suicide, and you're done.
I look forward to an era of actual autonomous vehicles, but I think it may never happen at least on roads as they are now. Won't the driver have to constantly attentive in case he or she has to suddenly take over manual control? If not why not and if so then what's really the point?
I think you mean "anything too seriously". I suggest people like you should have some kind of symbol by their names indicating your lack of discernment so people can skip your posts in any thread involving aesthetics. Also, I'll save you some money on internet dating services. Here is your perfect match, someone who enjoyed the Star Wars Holiday Special without irony: http://entertainment.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1473900&cid=30388352
Meet other people who are the reason why so much popular culture sucks! partoftheproblemdating.com
I'm sick to death of this incessantly repeated annoying excuse from apologists who can't tell the difference between shite and shineola. TPM just plain sucks. If you enjoyed it then your standards are too frikkin' low and I thank the force you aren't allowed to create popular entertainment. I also hope for the good of the culture that you are not part of a Nielsen family.
To the extent that your comment is a judgment upon those who enjoyed the prequels, either on their own or vicariously through their easy to please children, your point is well taken.
Dear RobbieCrash: Your unbelievably low standards must make it fun to live in this often crappy world. I mean every big mac must be like some 12 course ambrosial repast for you, every commercial-ridden episode of Two And A Half Men as good (or better!) than any Shakespeare play. Heck, you probably love the commercials too! In some ways I really envy you, Robbie Crash!
This is the oldest apologia for the prequels and has been well debunked. Watch the 70 minute review and see for yourself how idiotic it is to assert that they're all equally good/bad. You know, for kids!
That's the great thing about this 70 minute takedown of Phantom Menace! It proves conclusively and methodically that those who can't differentiate between the quality or eps 4-6 vs eps 1-3 are either willfully ignorant or naturally ignorant. Just because you can't taste the difference between a big mac and filet mignon doesn't mean there is no difference.
It's not the handling it's the whole package. The 900/93 is an awesome everything car with huge cargo area, decent mileage and the feel of a luxury sports car. What else offers that?
Wow. Well, this is proof of the old saying - can't remember it exactly - something like "There's no idea so bizarre that it doesn't have its own constituency." Internet comment streams make that all too clear. On the other hand this really helps explain why there are fans of Ewoks and the Prequels.
Are you a performance artist trying to conclusively prove that there is no absolute standard for "bad" in matters of taste? I mean if we can't all agree that the Star Wars Holiday Special is perhaps the most purely horrible, terrible, awful, so awful it sort of transcends itself and can be enjoyed ironically thing in the known universe of culture, then I have little hope for our species.
In the immortal words of Foghorn Leghorn, I say, I say, slow down there, boy! Do you have a bone to pick with the idea of addiction as a disease as opposed to a personal failing? It's a legitimate topic for debate, but the poster didn't make a statement one way or the other. Or are you a WoW fanboi leaping to its defense reflexively? Because the poster never really disparaged the game either, just his own experiences playing it.
Well, until this derivative is identified, we are stuck with anecdote. I think this post really says it all and your answer doesn't even begin to refute it:
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Sad. Once the internet was opened to the general public it began its rapid decline into heat death.
This is just silly. The Drake equation has always been a joke. It's an extrapolated tautology that the chances for life on other planets are based on the chances for life on other planets.
I never believed the Fermi paradox was interesting. It seems clear that traveling between stars may be prohibitively difficult even for "advanced" civilizations. To me that alone would explain it. Add to that some of the filters, for example that evolution tends to create short sighted, greedy, and competitive species good at accidental mass suicide, and you're done.
Actually I mean like this http://science.slashdot.org/st...
Oh, yeah, I remember all of those amazing "Lithium batteries get 3% cheaper and 5% more energy dense" stories in Slashdot over the years. I apologize.
I wish I had an actual breakthrough battery for every battery breakthrough story I've seen on Slashdot for the last ten years...
I guess the assumption is that the driver is probably texting anyway, so, wht, what's one more touchscreen?
I've heard it comes sweeping down the plain. https://youtu.be/ZbrnXl2gO_k?t...
I look forward to an era of actual autonomous vehicles, but I think it may never happen at least on roads as they are now. Won't the driver have to constantly attentive in case he or she has to suddenly take over manual control? If not why not and if so then what's really the point?
I think you mean "anything too seriously". I suggest people like you should have some kind of symbol by their names indicating your lack of discernment so people can skip your posts in any thread involving aesthetics. Also, I'll save you some money on internet dating services. Here is your perfect match, someone who enjoyed the Star Wars Holiday Special without irony: http://entertainment.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1473900&cid=30388352
Meet other people who are the reason why so much popular culture sucks! partoftheproblemdating.com
I'm sick to death of this incessantly repeated annoying excuse from apologists who can't tell the difference between shite and shineola. TPM just plain sucks. If you enjoyed it then your standards are too frikkin' low and I thank the force you aren't allowed to create popular entertainment. I also hope for the good of the culture that you are not part of a Nielsen family.
To the extent that your comment is a judgment upon those who enjoyed the prequels, either on their own or vicariously through their easy to please children, your point is well taken.
Dear RobbieCrash: Your unbelievably low standards must make it fun to live in this often crappy world. I mean every big mac must be like some 12 course ambrosial repast for you, every commercial-ridden episode of Two And A Half Men as good (or better!) than any Shakespeare play. Heck, you probably love the commercials too! In some ways I really envy you, Robbie Crash!
This is the oldest apologia for the prequels and has been well debunked. Watch the 70 minute review and see for yourself how idiotic it is to assert that they're all equally good/bad. You know, for kids!
That's the great thing about this 70 minute takedown of Phantom Menace! It proves conclusively and methodically that those who can't differentiate between the quality or eps 4-6 vs eps 1-3 are either willfully ignorant or naturally ignorant. Just because you can't taste the difference between a big mac and filet mignon doesn't mean there is no difference.
It could only help the prequels.
I find the superficial and pointless level of twistedfuck's analysis to be even more disturbing.
Mod this up please.
Not to mention the impossibility of the average kid (or adult for that matter) parsing the phrase "phantom menace."
It's not the handling it's the whole package. The 900/93 is an awesome everything car with huge cargo area, decent mileage and the feel of a luxury sports car. What else offers that?
Wow. Well, this is proof of the old saying - can't remember it exactly - something like "There's no idea so bizarre that it doesn't have its own constituency." Internet comment streams make that all too clear. On the other hand this really helps explain why there are fans of Ewoks and the Prequels.
Are you a performance artist trying to conclusively prove that there is no absolute standard for "bad" in matters of taste? I mean if we can't all agree that the Star Wars Holiday Special is perhaps the most purely horrible, terrible, awful, so awful it sort of transcends itself and can be enjoyed ironically thing in the known universe of culture, then I have little hope for our species.
In the immortal words of Foghorn Leghorn, I say, I say, slow down there, boy! Do you have a bone to pick with the idea of addiction as a disease as opposed to a personal failing? It's a legitimate topic for debate, but the poster didn't make a statement one way or the other. Or are you a WoW fanboi leaping to its defense reflexively? Because the poster never really disparaged the game either, just his own experiences playing it.
There has to be some kind of award that this post deserves. (Not to mention the girlfriend.) Mod this up. Is there an 'amusingly horrid' designation?
Well, until this derivative is identified, we are stuck with anecdote. I think this post really says it all and your answer doesn't even begin to refute it: