Of course they aren't going to spend any air time on peaceful protesters peacefully protesting while the police stand by peacefully.
But, if the police are violent towards peaceful protesters, they'll be just as glad to air that. And once the public sees that the police are rioting, and not the protesters, they're going to start to wonder what it is that the protesters are saying that the police don't want us to know about. Then the news media start showing interviews with the protesters where they discuss what's being protested.
Of course if the non-peaceful "protesters" show up and fulfill the police's most pessimistic expectations, that makes for the kind of video that a calm explanation of the issues can't compete with in the contest for air time as it is presently conducted.
They also haven't mentioned The Invaders (original Roy Thinnes version, not that awful TV movie with Bakula a few years ago) or The Immortal (the one with Christopher George as a guy with some kind of special blood that the evil rich guys are chasing him for, not that current thing with Lorenzo Lamas).
We may be running into the problem of "Just what is or isn't Science Fiction" here. What qualifies The Prisoner? Those oversized bubble gum bubbles floating on the sea? Would the original Wild, Wild West television show qualify? It had as many "not supposed to have been invented yet back then" things as The Secret Adventures of Jules Verne or whatever the name of it is. What about The Man from Uncle or Get Smart? Perhaps even a few or more of the episodes of The Avengers.
The dividing line is awfully blurry.
Just for the heck of it I'm going to mention the 80's version of War of the Worlds. Oh yeah, and that English or Australian thing that PBS showed a few episodes of several years ago where they put metal plates in everybody's heads and made them look like bowling balls.
I was wondering if anyone was going to mention that show. I'd seen it in the listings and assumed that it was a remake of the old Christopher George show. Then I saw the last few minutes of an episode a couple of nights ago. Apparently it's a remake of Highlander. Too bad, the former could be a pretty good show re-set some 30 to 40 years later.
At least Lamas is finally getting enough age in his face that he can play more interesting characters than pouty stud pretty boy if someone will write something decent for him.
I see that I failed to make it clear that I'm talking about starting with regular pockets, not visible from the outside patch pockets, and that the patch pockets inside these pockets wouldn't be so that you can carry more but rather so that what you carry can be distributed vertically so that you don't look as though you were smuggling oranges.
Alien came out before most of the target demographic (not to mention Ms. Alba herself) were even born. Titanic is what Cameron has done *lately*, and in show biz, unfortunately, it's all about "what have you done for me lately".
Actually the Total Recall television series (which was nothing like the movie) wasn't bad at all but didn't build enough of a fan base to keep it around.
Speaking of the guy whose name I just went blank on, who played the first corporate bad guy on TR, he was the lead on a show called Stingray several years ago that was pretty good, although calling it sci-fi is somewhat of a stretch.
I'd like to see them bring back Boone. I'm still waiting for the guy who killed his wife to suffer some really horrible fate. Unfortunately when you kill off a character and then bring them back with some sort of gimmick it's usually shark tank and jump ramp time.
My only source for the show is WGN on cable and they usually move it around to make room for Cubs games or put it opposite 3 other things that I want to tape, and right now they seem to be running re-runs from previous seasons, so I'm having a little trouble keeping up with where things stand in that particular imaginary universe.
Well, if the Batman utility belt isn't an acceptable option, you'll just have to rely on a faithful sidekick who can also provide comic relief and draw minority viewers.
Don't carry cash in your wallet. If a pickpocket grabs your wallet hoping to get your cash as well as your credit cards you may be screwed regarding the cards and all your ID, but you've still got some cash to get things done with.
How about pants pockets (this would work better on pleated front dockers type than on jeans) with little pouches (like patch pockets. but no flaps) so that you can stick your keys in one, your change in another, long stuff like pens and combs in another, instead of it all winding up as a huge lump at the bottom of the pocket?
B5 is like West Wing, when a re-run comes on you wind up watching the whole episode in spite of having seen it already. That's due mostly, I firmly believe, to dialogue.
I was thinking yesterday that Earth: Final Conflict hadn't turned out as good as I had expected when it first started, and I suspect part of the problem is that its focus wanders because it isn't pre-planned the way B5 was, so each episode is written without enough regard to how it fits into the overall picture.
Wandering a little off-topic, how many machines out there have passwords known only to one person who has made no provision whatsoever for anyone else to have access to that password should they suddenly get hit by a bus or a meteorite, have a stroke or a coronary, or vanish in a puff of smoke due to insert your favorite religion here?
If you want to understand the thinking behind Fox News (or most anything from Fox) read Arthur C. Clarke's short story "I Remember Babylon". Then substitute profits for politics.
The Outer Limits imitates the original Outer Limits, and since I was around for that it's usually painfully obvious to me in the first five or ten minutes where an Outer Limits episode is going. Not always, but most of the time. This doesn't mean that the original and/or current versions aren't good shows, but Twilight Zone remains in a class by itself.
Whereas in North Carolina they ran Dr. Who for a few years, then used "The Five Doctors" during their annual fundraising to draw in all the sci-fi fans (and their money). They haven't aired any Dr. Who since.
Once protesters start using any level of physical force against "the authorities", we're no longer talking about "...the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievences.". we're talking about a mob.
I'm not talking about legitimate self-defense against excessive use of force by "the authorities", but the best answer to that is probably a hasty retreat followed by contacting the various news media who nowadays would just as soon air sensational footage of police violence and violation of the rights of peaceful protesters, complete with interviews of the peaceful protesters detailing the violence visited on them by the police, as they would footage of protesters crossing the line into rioting.
Attacking police, destroying public and private property, and attempting to silence any dissenting points of view don't seem to me to be the most effective way to convince others of the intellectual superiority of one's viewpoint. And if they only want to impose their will on others instead of persuading them, then how are they any better than those they criticise?
I didn't see the weird stories, just the default home page, it wouldn't let me log in, wouldn't let me change the view on this story down to negative one. Did a google on Anne Tomlinson, to see what other sites might be discussing Slashdot problems and when I went to check non-cached geekazoid, got a page saying they're being DoS'ed.
The most exciting use of the phone system? Being able to pick up the receiver and dial up family across town in the middle of a hurricane even though the electricity is out. Thank Heavens for twisted pair and that old brick building downtown that's full of tractor batteries.
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As I recall the original was "stuff that splatters", which really works better.
But, if the police are violent towards peaceful protesters, they'll be just as glad to air that. And once the public sees that the police are rioting, and not the protesters, they're going to start to wonder what it is that the protesters are saying that the police don't want us to know about. Then the news media start showing interviews with the protesters where they discuss what's being protested.
Of course if the non-peaceful "protesters" show up and fulfill the police's most pessimistic expectations, that makes for the kind of video that a calm explanation of the issues can't compete with in the contest for air time as it is presently conducted.
We may be running into the problem of "Just what is or isn't Science Fiction" here. What qualifies The Prisoner? Those oversized bubble gum bubbles floating on the sea? Would the original Wild, Wild West television show qualify? It had as many "not supposed to have been invented yet back then" things as The Secret Adventures of Jules Verne or whatever the name of it is. What about The Man from Uncle or Get Smart? Perhaps even a few or more of the episodes of The Avengers.
The dividing line is awfully blurry.
Just for the heck of it I'm going to mention the 80's version of War of the Worlds. Oh yeah, and that English or Australian thing that PBS showed a few episodes of several years ago where they put metal plates in everybody's heads and made them look like bowling balls.
At least Lamas is finally getting enough age in his face that he can play more interesting characters than pouty stud pretty boy if someone will write something decent for him.
Didn't Forever Knight have Nigel Bennett as the bad guy every season?
I see that I failed to make it clear that I'm talking about starting with regular pockets, not visible from the outside patch pockets, and that the patch pockets inside these pockets wouldn't be so that you can carry more but rather so that what you carry can be distributed vertically so that you don't look as though you were smuggling oranges.
Alien came out before most of the target demographic (not to mention Ms. Alba herself) were even born. Titanic is what Cameron has done *lately*, and in show biz, unfortunately, it's all about "what have you done for me lately".
Speaking of the guy whose name I just went blank on, who played the first corporate bad guy on TR, he was the lead on a show called Stingray several years ago that was pretty good, although calling it sci-fi is somewhat of a stretch.
My only source for the show is WGN on cable and they usually move it around to make room for Cubs games or put it opposite 3 other things that I want to tape, and right now they seem to be running re-runs from previous seasons, so I'm having a little trouble keeping up with where things stand in that particular imaginary universe.
Go back and check her out in Mann and Machine.
Well, if the Batman utility belt isn't an acceptable option, you'll just have to rely on a faithful sidekick who can also provide comic relief and draw minority viewers.
Don't carry cash in your wallet. If a pickpocket grabs your wallet hoping to get your cash as well as your credit cards you may be screwed regarding the cards and all your ID, but you've still got some cash to get things done with.
How about pants pockets (this would work better on pleated front dockers type than on jeans) with little pouches (like patch pockets. but no flaps) so that you can stick your keys in one, your change in another, long stuff like pens and combs in another, instead of it all winding up as a huge lump at the bottom of the pocket?
The way I heard it a jelly baby is what in the U.S. is called a Gummy Bear.
I was thinking yesterday that Earth: Final Conflict hadn't turned out as good as I had expected when it first started, and I suspect part of the problem is that its focus wanders because it isn't pre-planned the way B5 was, so each episode is written without enough regard to how it fits into the overall picture.
Wandering a little off-topic, how many machines out there have passwords known only to one person who has made no provision whatsoever for anyone else to have access to that password should they suddenly get hit by a bus or a meteorite, have a stroke or a coronary, or vanish in a puff of smoke due to insert your favorite religion here?
If you want to understand the thinking behind Fox News (or most anything from Fox) read Arthur C. Clarke's short story "I Remember Babylon". Then substitute profits for politics.
The Outer Limits imitates the original Outer Limits, and since I was around for that it's usually painfully obvious to me in the first five or ten minutes where an Outer Limits episode is going. Not always, but most of the time. This doesn't mean that the original and/or current versions aren't good shows, but Twilight Zone remains in a class by itself.
Whereas in North Carolina they ran Dr. Who for a few years, then used "The Five Doctors" during their annual fundraising to draw in all the sci-fi fans (and their money). They haven't aired any Dr. Who since.
You're a professional, but you have to rely on "free" hosting? Business must not be very good.
And letting people have multiple accounts isn't?
I'm not talking about legitimate self-defense against excessive use of force by "the authorities", but the best answer to that is probably a hasty retreat followed by contacting the various news media who nowadays would just as soon air sensational footage of police violence and violation of the rights of peaceful protesters, complete with interviews of the peaceful protesters detailing the violence visited on them by the police, as they would footage of protesters crossing the line into rioting.
Attacking police, destroying public and private property, and attempting to silence any dissenting points of view don't seem to me to be the most effective way to convince others of the intellectual superiority of one's viewpoint. And if they only want to impose their will on others instead of persuading them, then how are they any better than those they criticise?
I didn't see the weird stories, just the default home page, it wouldn't let me log in, wouldn't let me change the view on this story down to negative one. Did a google on Anne Tomlinson, to see what other sites might be discussing Slashdot problems and when I went to check non-cached geekazoid, got a page saying they're being DoS'ed.
You live somewhere where the phones go out and the cable stays up? On this planet?
The most exciting use of the phone system? Being able to pick up the receiver and dial up family across town in the middle of a hurricane even though the electricity is out. Thank Heavens for twisted pair and that old brick building downtown that's full of tractor batteries.