Supposedly the donations will be returned (minus expenses). I'll be curious to see how quickly (or slowly) that happens and how big a bite gets taken out for "expenses", and I hope someone in a position to do so keeps a very close eye on this.
Have you noticed how "Earth-like" almost all of the civilian clothing on the new BSG is? Especially the "journalists" who look like they stepped off of a '70s used car lot?
"They won't bring back Firefly. They won't bring back Vengeance Unlimited. They won't bring back Stingray."
I'm assuming that Vengeance Unlimited is one of those shows like 7 Days that ran on networks that weren't available in my market at the time and was replaced by something lame about celebrities by the time that network was available around here, but just to be sure, we're talking about the Stephen Cannell created "guy who drives around in a black '63 vette" Stingray, right?
"Almost all tv shows die the same death, declining ratings and cancellation."
That's the fate of many but others suffer from not having the 'right' high ratings. CBS was still getting lots of viewers for "Beverly Hillbillies", "Green Acres", etc. but they weren't within the narrow age range (something like 18-25) that would get them ad buys from the 'right' companies, so they just replaced several successful shows one season.
" Lightly rehased(?) western set in space?...original Star Trek was just a lightly rehased(?) cop show set in space."
Roddenberry pitched the original series as "Wagon Train" in space. You may need to find someone who has been around a half century or more to tell you about Wagon Train.
Oh, it's "re-hashed", as in hashed yet again. Consult picture on can of corned beef hash to grasp concept.
"I put the entire list on shuffle and love the result. My friends think it's a train wreck. "How can you listen to punk followed by bluegrass, followed by Classical? What do you mean "Living Loving Maid" doesn't follow "Heartbreaker"?"
HB and LLM are really just one song, which should be played in its entirety. Then you play "Rockytop" and Al Kooper's version of "Western Union Man".
" Where's that been used? I recognise it and I'm sure I haven't seen Sneakers."
I've seen Sneakers but I remember that phrase or something very similar (like, "My voice is my authority", or "my voice is my security clearance", or something like that) from some other movie or, more likely, television show, but struck out with Google so I guess it's just going to drive me nuts trying to remember (have sneaking suspicion that it might have been from the TV version of Total Recall, I seem to associate it with what's his name that was the star of the show "String Ray" and was the villian during the first season of TR.)
" Many of the larger fords had their gearing such that the would run at the engines sweet spot at 70 mph and running at 55 was much worse for them."
I had a '65 Chevelle (283) that ran so-o-o-o smoothly at 60 mph and then they instituted the 55 mph law and I discovered it vibrated horribly at that speed.:-(
"If you can find a way for everyone to download thier music for free and still make the artists rich, please suggest it because that would fix the problem right away."
What's needed is a way for everyone to download for free and still make the trained attack lawyer employing record companies and music publishers rich, at which point it will become apparent that they are (to steal someone else's sig) concerned about the artists in the same way that cattle ranchers are concerned about the cattle.
The flaw in your reasoning is that the internet wasn't really invented so much as assembled from a bunch of other inventions.
Henry Ford said "I invented nothing new. I simply assembled into a car the discoveries of other men behind whom were centuries of work."
Gore was one of the people who helped get all the ducks in a row appropriations-wise. This might not be the same as single-handedly finding a universal cure for cancer on your day off, but there were lots of other people in Congress at that same time who didn't do what he did.
"In fact, some states had their own organized churches (which kinda shoots down the "separation of church and state" thing, but that's another rant)."
The Constitution only bars Congress from getting the federal government into the religion business, it doesn't say that the individual states can't make that mistake. That idiot judge in Alabama that blew $30,000 of the taxpayers' money on a chunk of marble actually had support from that state's constitution to do so.
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Right after we imagine that Sony had developed VHS instead of Beta.
" Before we know it, Richard Stallman's semiannual shower will be a televised event!"
No wonder "... Americans overwhelmingly support strong censorship for blogs"
Well if you don't care about your desktop being restricted to 800 x 600 you can use one of the old ATI All-In-Wonder cards (at least with W95 or 98).
Supposedly the donations will be returned (minus expenses). I'll be curious to see how quickly (or slowly) that happens and how big a bite gets taken out for "expenses", and I hope someone in a position to do so keeps a very close eye on this.
Have you noticed how "Earth-like" almost all of the civilian clothing on the new BSG is? Especially the "journalists" who look like they stepped off of a '70s used car lot?
I'm assuming that Vengeance Unlimited is one of those shows like 7 Days that ran on networks that weren't available in my market at the time and was replaced by something lame about celebrities by the time that network was available around here, but just to be sure, we're talking about the Stephen Cannell created "guy who drives around in a black '63 vette" Stingray, right?
Maybe that's what Enterprise needed, a theme song with that Mike Post sound!
That's the fate of many but others suffer from not having the 'right' high ratings. CBS was still getting lots of viewers for "Beverly Hillbillies", "Green Acres", etc. but they weren't within the narrow age range (something like 18-25) that would get them ad buys from the 'right' companies, so they just replaced several successful shows one season.
Roddenberry pitched the original series as "Wagon Train" in space. You may need to find someone who has been around a half century or more to tell you about Wagon Train.
Oh, it's "re-hashed", as in hashed yet again. Consult picture on can of corned beef hash to grasp concept.
HB and LLM are really just one song, which should be played in its entirety. Then you play "Rockytop" and Al Kooper's version of "Western Union Man".
I've seen Sneakers but I remember that phrase or something very similar (like, "My voice is my authority", or "my voice is my security clearance", or something like that) from some other movie or, more likely, television show, but struck out with Google so I guess it's just going to drive me nuts trying to remember (have sneaking suspicion that it might have been from the TV version of Total Recall, I seem to associate it with what's his name that was the star of the show "String Ray" and was the villian during the first season of TR.)
Too true, too true.
Consistent? Microsoft?
" But, that wouldn't really be electric, would it?"
Of course, I was forgetting that he used one of the few steam-powered phonographs in existance.
Well, of course. MS has a bunch of them they obtained dirt cheap.
I had a '65 Chevelle (283) that ran so-o-o-o smoothly at 60 mph and then they instituted the 55 mph law and I discovered it vibrated horribly at that speed. :-(
Can't speak for anywhere else but it's not at all uncommon in eastern North Carolina.
What's needed is a way for everyone to download for free and still make the trained attack lawyer employing record companies and music publishers rich, at which point it will become apparent that they are (to steal someone else's sig) concerned about the artists in the same way that cattle ranchers are concerned about the cattle.
Of course not, Jim Steinman did :-)
Henry Ford said "I invented nothing new. I simply assembled into a car the discoveries of other men behind whom were centuries of work."
Gore was one of the people who helped get all the ducks in a row appropriations-wise. This might not be the same as single-handedly finding a universal cure for cancer on your day off, but there were lots of other people in Congress at that same time who didn't do what he did.
The Constitution only bars Congress from getting the federal government into the religion business, it doesn't say that the individual states can't make that mistake. That idiot judge in Alabama that blew $30,000 of the taxpayers' money on a chunk of marble actually had support from that state's constitution to do so.
...or who else's plug has been in it. :-)
You think that was insulting, wait'll someone asks if that's one person or two.
Actually he started by jamming a phonograph's needle into the body of a regular guitar.
Too bad De Forest didn't understand his own invention well enough to actually make it useful in radio. Fortunately we had Edwin Armstrong for that.