Petrol combustion releases mostly Carbon Monoxide, Sulfer Dioxide, and various nitrogen compounds (diesel and gas release diff kinds/amounts of nitrogen) that are very difficult for the environment to breakdown or assimilate.
However, Carbon Dioxide and Water are easily broken down and assimilated in nature. Trees breath Carbon Dioxide and drink it for instance.
This is the kind of thing Farscape fans should be saved from
Exactly! This is what I was reffering to with the whole reference to Moonlighting and Roswell. Both shows started out with great promise, then sputtered and died becuase the characters got muddled in emotional battles.
What made the shows so great was how the characters reacted in extrodinary circumstances. Then the shows focused on their personal issues, and all the action and excitment went down the crapper and the shows become soap operas.
They still show Moonlighting on Cable here in the states. It's on a 'for women' channel called Lifetime. Apparently, cable operators think the show only appealed to women, but really only the last 2 1/2 seasons did. Alas, since I have no Cable...I must stare at my Cybil Shepard poster.
I'm trying to sum up all my Moonlighting memories from when I was 13 (season 3-4). The last thing I remember was David and Maddie arguing at Maddie's house, and David walking out on her and the show was over. I was like, "what the hell...that's it!" That made no sense. Why'd he leave?
That's exactly how I felt when Erin took off and left John stuck in space with no gas. She should just be happy there is still a John clone, or was he the real John. I thought they were the same. Who knows. Bring back the hot nymph with the white makeup, and shave the vegetable chicks head please (or was I hallucinating hair, can't remember).
"Blue Moon Detective Agency. Whenever there's trouble, we're there on the double!"
Wow, this whole posts made almost no sense...cool.
I have no Cable, were do I send the Tabasco?
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I wish I could watch Farscape I really do. But the Gods have conspired to take away my illegal cable connection.
The John and Erin(sp?) romance is kinda getting stale anyway. I just want to scream "Fuck already David and Mattie!"
See what happens when you cancel a good TV show on a impressionable 10 year old? They grow up and expect TOO much from their sci-fi.
I can't wait to see Jersey Girl. I hate Kevin Smith.
Anybody remember the explosion that happened in Las Vegas in 1988? It was a couple megaton blast produced by conventional explosives...well solid rocket fuel anyway. It is recorded as one of the largest explosions of all time.
I nearly shit myself when I was watching an old Perry Mason episode and I saw him using a car phone! This is like the late 50's, so I didn't realise they had that tech back then. In the same episode, Him and Paul make a big deal out of some guys "Hi-Fi" stereo setup...like the car phone wasn't a big deal. And what about the wind-up phone in MASH that was always in the Blake/Potter's office. That was cool.
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But why would they want to travel to the past? Time Travel is kinda pointless because of paradoxies.
I've read some stuff on the net that says the 'greys' are from the 4th planet of Zeta-Reticuli 2. One star in a binary star system about 37 light years away. Here's the link. The map is some very convincing evidence.
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...life this planet has produced capable of utilising technology. Maybe all the "Aliens" are a previous species from this planet that relocated to let us evolve in peace. Just as wacky as any other theory.
Maybe I don't give a fuck about my spelling on slashdot. I'm not getting paid to post. However, I was getting paid by Amazon so I double checked my correspondence. Do you see the difference?
it goes to credibility
Hmmmm...I thought that was what Karma: Excellent (mostly affected by moderation done to your comments) was for.
Besides, it's fun to see anal limies like you get all worked up over a couple misspelled words. Hahahahaha!
Oh yeah...this was like in jan - april of 1999...the peak of the dotscam. I haven't worked at Amazon for years, but I knew a lot about the review system. The original reason I got brought in as a temp was to help reduce the review load that came in over the holidays (30,000!). And they just kept finding more for us to do.
Based on what I know and saw...they don't have the manpower to pull those kinda backhanded tricks (they'd get caught fast). It's cheaper to keep the reviews in tact and try to ignore them, then to mess with em. Trust me. They have millions of entries to mess with, no way could they pull it off. They aren't the US gov.
The customer reviews really don't have much of an impact book sales. It's usually the little unknown books when it matters. When nobody knows anything about a book, and word of mouth is everything. Stuff that appears on bestseller list sells itself.
Off the mark? WTF? Are you serious? Do you think the stupid reviews are really that important? Man, find a way to return back to earth.
had there been a conspiracy taking place in Amazon, I have the feeling that you were not high enough to be in on it.
Your right, I had nothing to do with Oprah's Book Club. But it would've been pretty easy to find out if the reviews were being feltched in the position I was in. All I'd have to do is look at the site and I'd know. It's not rocket science. And you give Amazon WAAYYY to much credit to think they have the time/money/inclination to sit around and alter the reviews that come in for "big releases". Big Releases sell themselves, that's why you consider them "big releases". How would a few altered customer reviews make a difference? Think about it.
In fact, you probably won't believe this, but Amazon spends time/money making sure that authors and they're friends don't post positive reviews for their publications, to artificially alter the books ratings.
Gimmie a break. I write in syntax for a living, not words. Either way my meaning was clear, and that is the point of communication you pendantic $unflattering_noun.
Juxtapose:
cuase = cAUse
relavence = relEvAnce
barley = barELy
Is that better $unflattering_noun? Dyslexia is not an eastern-bloc country.
Amazon has an editorial staff of hundreds that review the various things they sell. That does not mean they only get paid for writing favorable reviews.
This lady is not an Amazon employee or on their payroll, she is just looking for validation for her meaningless life by publishing reviews and GIVING them to web sites. GIVE is the important qualifier here.
...you have a fair point, but you didn't read amazon's conditions of use. Had you done so, you would see that they are not allowed to post defamitory reviews. If you have a crusade, then build a website of your own, instead of highjacking someone elses.
Becuase I know you won't read it on your own, I've posted the relavent portion of Amazon's policy.
"Visitors may post reviews, comments, and other content; send e-cards and other communications; and submit suggestions, ideas, comments, questions, or other information, so long as the content is not illegal, obscene, threatening, defamatory, invasive of privacy, infringing of intellectual property rights, or otherwise injurious to third parties or objectionable and does not consist of or contain software viruses, political campaigning, commercial solicitation, chain letters, mass mailings, or any form of "spam." You may not use a false e-mail address, impersonate any person or entity, or otherwise mislead as to the origin of a card or other content. Amazon.com reserves the right (but not the obligation) to remove or edit such content, but does not regularly review posted content."
Does this seem like a reasonable explaination for your review not getting posted? Or is it more reasonable to assume that a whole company supports crimes against children? Get some counciling blockhead.
Your so full of it. Just becuase you submit a some reviews to Amazon(and save them editorial fees probably) doesn't mean you know the process it takes to put it on the site.
However, I was a 'Catalogue Specialist' (the people who post new listings) at Amazon for a few months and I can confirm you don't have a clue. You seem to think that Amazon has a whole staff of people making sure that product rankings are high, when in fact, they could give a shit what the ranking is. The only people I've ever heard of bitching about ranking and reviews were authors, complaining about their books negative listing.
In fact I have a memorable and funny story to illustate just how much Amazon could care less about the reviews and rankings.
There was a book about female orgasms that a married couple had written that was supposed to teach you a technique for giving her more pleasure during sex. Well, several reviews of the book went like this: "Hey ladies, save yourself the time and money on this book, and just rub your clit during sex."
So the authors send us an email saying to take the reviews down cuase it basically gives away the reason for reading the book, which was basically telling women they'll have better sex if they rub their clit during intercourse.
I was the one that had to answer the author, and I was at a loss. a) Lose books sales on a stupid book and keep the review up or b) take the reviews down and let people get screwed. I asked my supervisor. He couldn't stop laughing. So after the whole dept comes and laughs the request from these 2 moron authors, it was decided to leave the reviews up becuase they were legit critiques of a rather silly book.
So what was the point of that story...to a) illustrate how Amazon could really care less about ranking and b) that there is no review/rating conspiricy at Amazon.
I have a feeling the reviews in 'question' were like this, "This thing sucks, and it took an extra day to get here." Or some similar crap. In that case, yeah it gets rejected cuase it's a space waster.
They are the department in charge of posting the reviews. (Note: I was a temp there for a couple months)
In early '99, they were getting about 5000 reviews in a day. Each review is checked twice, once by a filter(dirty words), and the other by eyes(relavence). There were about 20 catalogue people then. They post all book listings, CD's, products, answer crazed author questions(my fav part)...and if they have time, post reviews.
If you guys think Amazon is trying to pursuade you with reviews...your high on conspiricy juice. They are pure fluff for your sake. We barley had enough time to add new products to the site, let alone check reviews. Trust me, Amazon would LOVE to get rid of the review system, cuase it is a pain in the ass to maintain and labor intensive. But they keep it cuase customers wanted/want it.
And no, we didn't re-order the reviews and put the good ones at the top. It is a pure FIFO (First-In-First-Online) system. People just usually post if they really hate, or really like something. So the reviews are more rants than critiques and tend to be very biased...just like/.
...I noticed you math wizards spewing out formulas n shit, but the only way to measure how much energy your absorbing from the quark passing through you is to measure it's speed before and after passing through you. If it sails through you, without losing velocity or mass, it wouldn't be transfering any kinetic energy into you, so it wouldn't do a thang (i.e you wouldn't feel it).
When you get hit by a bullet, you absorb most of the kinetic energy carried by the bullet, so it tends to rip you apart. Your body structure is too dense for a bullet to pass through without energy loss, not true for a quark. If this quark had slowed down signifigantly or stopped in the planet, then it's energy would've been transfered into the planet, resulting in a 50kt blast (i.e. Second Impact, har). But it sailed right through, so we didn't feel much.
Remove the wristbands, and attach a gold chain. Viola! Pocket watch.
Or you could swap the gear guts in an old watch for the PDA guts. That'd be too cool to bust out an old brass pocket watch, pop it open, and check you appointments. For full effect you'd have to do this is a room full-o-geeks.
You missed my point. What should it matter if 3,000 people died here or there, what color they are, or the justifications for doing it. You seem to think that human life has different values depending on were you come from. It needs to be stopped. They killed our people, they want to die doing it, how else are we going to stop them if they don't value life?
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Petrol combustion releases mostly Carbon Monoxide, Sulfer Dioxide, and various nitrogen compounds (diesel and gas release diff kinds/amounts of nitrogen) that are very difficult for the environment to breakdown or assimilate.
However, Carbon Dioxide and Water are easily broken down and assimilated in nature. Trees breath Carbon Dioxide and drink it for instance.
Exactly! This is what I was reffering to with the whole reference to Moonlighting and Roswell. Both shows started out with great promise, then sputtered and died becuase the characters got muddled in emotional battles.
What made the shows so great was how the characters reacted in extrodinary circumstances. Then the shows focused on their personal issues, and all the action and excitment went down the crapper and the shows become soap operas.
They still show Moonlighting on Cable here in the states. It's on a 'for women' channel called Lifetime. Apparently, cable operators think the show only appealed to women, but really only the last 2 1/2 seasons did. Alas, since I have no Cable...I must stare at my Cybil Shepard poster.
I see IIRC a lot, what does it mean.
Erin should get over it. The doubles were the same person. Drama I guess.
They should bring the wormholes, Tallon, Craise, and Scorpious back. That'd get the show on track again.
That's exactly how I felt when Erin took off and left John stuck in space with no gas. She should just be happy there is still a John clone, or was he the real John. I thought they were the same. Who knows. Bring back the hot nymph with the white makeup, and shave the vegetable chicks head please (or was I hallucinating hair, can't remember).
"Blue Moon Detective Agency. Whenever there's trouble, we're there on the double!"
Wow, this whole posts made almost no sense...cool.
The John and Erin(sp?) romance is kinda getting stale anyway. I just want to scream "Fuck already David and Mattie!"
See what happens when you cancel a good TV show on a impressionable 10 year old? They grow up and expect TOO much from their sci-fi.
I can't wait to see Jersey Girl. I hate Kevin Smith.
The Enterprises Gel Packs are living tissue that is part of the computer memory. Never said if they were Bacteria or Neurons though.
Anybody remember the explosion that happened in Las Vegas in 1988? It was a couple megaton blast produced by conventional explosives...well solid rocket fuel anyway. It is recorded as one of the largest explosions of all time.
I nearly shit myself when I was watching an old Perry Mason episode and I saw him using a car phone! This is like the late 50's, so I didn't realise they had that tech back then. In the same episode, Him and Paul make a big deal out of some guys "Hi-Fi" stereo setup...like the car phone wasn't a big deal. And what about the wind-up phone in MASH that was always in the Blake/Potter's office. That was cool.
I've read some stuff on the net that says the 'greys' are from the 4th planet of Zeta-Reticuli 2. One star in a binary star system about 37 light years away. Here's the link. The map is some very convincing evidence.
...life this planet has produced capable of utilising technology. Maybe all the "Aliens" are a previous species from this planet that relocated to let us evolve in peace. Just as wacky as any other theory.
it goes to credibility
Hmmmm...I thought that was what Karma: Excellent (mostly affected by moderation done to your comments) was for.
Besides, it's fun to see anal limies like you get all worked up over a couple misspelled words. Hahahahaha!
Based on what I know and saw...they don't have the manpower to pull those kinda backhanded tricks (they'd get caught fast). It's cheaper to keep the reviews in tact and try to ignore them, then to mess with em. Trust me. They have millions of entries to mess with, no way could they pull it off. They aren't the US gov.
The customer reviews really don't have much of an impact book sales. It's usually the little unknown books when it matters. When nobody knows anything about a book, and word of mouth is everything. Stuff that appears on bestseller list sells itself.
had there been a conspiracy taking place in Amazon, I have the feeling that you were not high enough to be in on it.
Your right, I had nothing to do with Oprah's Book Club. But it would've been pretty easy to find out if the reviews were being feltched in the position I was in. All I'd have to do is look at the site and I'd know. It's not rocket science. And you give Amazon WAAYYY to much credit to think they have the time/money/inclination to sit around and alter the reviews that come in for "big releases". Big Releases sell themselves, that's why you consider them "big releases". How would a few altered customer reviews make a difference? Think about it.
In fact, you probably won't believe this, but Amazon spends time/money making sure that authors and they're friends don't post positive reviews for their publications, to artificially alter the books ratings.
No...I can't remember the title. I'll have to go digging for it. Damn, where's the 'pubgrep' tool when I need it.
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Is that better $unflattering_noun? Dyslexia is not an eastern-bloc country.
This lady is not an Amazon employee or on their payroll, she is just looking for validation for her meaningless life by publishing reviews and GIVING them to web sites. GIVE is the important qualifier here.
Becuase I know you won't read it on your own, I've posted the relavent portion of Amazon's policy.
Does this seem like a reasonable explaination for your review not getting posted? Or is it more reasonable to assume that a whole company supports crimes against children? Get some counciling blockhead.
However, I was a 'Catalogue Specialist' (the people who post new listings) at Amazon for a few months and I can confirm you don't have a clue. You seem to think that Amazon has a whole staff of people making sure that product rankings are high, when in fact, they could give a shit what the ranking is. The only people I've ever heard of bitching about ranking and reviews were authors, complaining about their books negative listing.
In fact I have a memorable and funny story to illustate just how much Amazon could care less about the reviews and rankings.
So what was the point of that story...to a) illustrate how Amazon could really care less about ranking and b) that there is no review/rating conspiricy at Amazon.
I have a feeling the reviews in 'question' were like this, "This thing sucks, and it took an extra day to get here." Or some similar crap. In that case, yeah it gets rejected cuase it's a space waster.
In early '99, they were getting about 5000 reviews in a day. Each review is checked twice, once by a filter(dirty words), and the other by eyes(relavence). There were about 20 catalogue people then. They post all book listings, CD's, products, answer crazed author questions(my fav part)...and if they have time, post reviews.
If you guys think Amazon is trying to pursuade you with reviews...your high on conspiricy juice. They are pure fluff for your sake. We barley had enough time to add new products to the site, let alone check reviews. Trust me, Amazon would LOVE to get rid of the review system, cuase it is a pain in the ass to maintain and labor intensive. But they keep it cuase customers wanted/want it.
And no, we didn't re-order the reviews and put the good ones at the top. It is a pure FIFO (First-In-First-Online) system. People just usually post if they really hate, or really like something. So the reviews are more rants than critiques and tend to be very biased...just like /.
P.S. I still smell like the Art Bar too!
I noticed that Bill spelled Wil 'Will'. Maybe being in orbit has something to do with it.
When you get hit by a bullet, you absorb most of the kinetic energy carried by the bullet, so it tends to rip you apart. Your body structure is too dense for a bullet to pass through without energy loss, not true for a quark. If this quark had slowed down signifigantly or stopped in the planet, then it's energy would've been transfered into the planet, resulting in a 50kt blast (i.e. Second Impact, har). But it sailed right through, so we didn't feel much.
Or you could swap the gear guts in an old watch for the PDA guts. That'd be too cool to bust out an old brass pocket watch, pop it open, and check you appointments. For full effect you'd have to do this is a room full-o-geeks.
You missed my point. What should it matter if 3,000 people died here or there, what color they are, or the justifications for doing it. You seem to think that human life has different values depending on were you come from. It needs to be stopped. They killed our people, they want to die doing it, how else are we going to stop them if they don't value life?
Lot's of innocent bystanders in manhatten too. Over 3,000 thousand of them as well. War is hell, welcome to Earth.