Elsewhere I suggested Jones and his dad in the European theater during WWII, but pre-Pearl Harbor run-ins with Imperial Japan would work too. Kind of like the old Brass Monkey bar scene.
If you shoot them in real zero gravity, wouldn't the blood just sort of hang in globs in mid-air, or would the pumping of the heart cause a rocket-type push as it left the body and cause the shootee to fly around like an deflating balloon?
That was what made home videotape machine demand sufficient to justify mass production, bringing the price down for everybody.
That's one of the biggest reasons for the rapid advances in internet-related hardware and software.
Maybe that's what will jump-start a space program that's been losing momentum since July of '69.
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Lou Perlman naming a group "Natural" goes so far beyond irony and even satire that it qualifies as otherworldly logic, so maybe space is the right place.
Since he knew a lot more about Nazis and the geography of the areas they occupied than the average Allied officer, chances are that Indiana Jones spent WWII in the OSS, and then the Occupation in one of those Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives outfits that hunted up Nazi loot and records in abandoned mines. His father probably served in a similar capacity for England.
Some Hollywood makeup magic could condense that 12 years to 4 to 6.
A good script could have Indy and Dad racing against the Allied advance and the Nazi scramble for survival, escape, and Swiss bank accounts in the last months of the war to get to the spear they stabbed Jesus in the side with or some Norse mythology artifact to keep Adolf from using it to complete some supernatural A-bomb strength super weapon.
Maybe while they're at it they could single (or double)-handedly prevent the Alpine Redoubt that Ike feared from coming into existance.
And of course the film could throw in some foreshadowing of the cold war to come.
So if 1. We manufacture the solar cells, semiconductors, and plastic cases and cabinets here where it not only involves nasty chemicals that may eventually wind up in the air or the water but requires energy created by burning stuff as well, and 2. We continue to rely almost totally on a petroleum based economy and infrastructure, while 3. The third world keeps on having cleaner air and water and less vulnerability to being blackmailed by OPEC,
are we making it possible for them to outcompete in the "information age", as the very rich and the very technically talented leave the polluted first and second worlds for islands with 1. pristine beaches, 2. state of the art communication infrastructures (no legacy systems to support), 3. electrical systems that are back up the day after a hurricane (with battery backup during the hurricane and no worries about backfeeding transformers and killing power company linemen), and 4. banking and legal structures they can control instead of having to let the "great unwashed" exercise any real political power, while 5. spending enough money buying our politicians to shift their defense needs and expenses to us,
is it going to be a case of "last one to leave what used to be called civilization, don't forget to turn out the lights, assuming any are still working" ?
And, of course, when they confiscate those machines they'll take *everything*-monitor, spoeakers, power cord, everything they can grab, because when the cops sell it at auction they get more money for complete systems.
Buffy goes, Angel stays. The network isn't selling "Buffy", they don't own it. The studio that does is selling it to a different network (UPN) than they had been previously. For an interesting write-up about why the series is changing networks, read this article from the Washington Post
I've never watched either show or felt any desire to do so, but I try to keep track of broadcasting shenanigans.
They always use the melody of songs that have been around long enough to be in public domain so that they don't have to pay anyone anything (same reason cartoons used various classical pieces), but can, of course, copyright the version with their lyrics.
Barney *was* on the grassy knoll. Barney Fife that is. Think about it. They came up with the "single bullet theory". Who's most closely associated with a single bullet? Barney Fife! Is there any hard evidence that he was really in Mayberry on that day? If he says he was staying at the Raleigh YMCA, how do we know that the guest register wasn't doctored? How do we know that the bumbling deputy persona wasn't just a cover for the most cunning, cold-hearted secret operative this nation has ever known?
To whom did you write the letter? The lawyer who sent the email? The recipient who apparently is somehow connected with UM's physics deparment? Your reasoning here escapes me.
If they have a patent on giving preferential treatment to those who give you the most money, will they be getting a cut from all the big special interest campaign donations? Will you have to buy a license from them to be a politician?
If solar cell and battery technology ever advance enough you probably could have a small quiet computer and LCD monitor without power cables and with some sort of RF or IR link between them.
...there is now a heading about it being "put on ice"
insert ice cube joke here
When I saw this story on the register I thought about submitting it to Slashdot(considering the Cube's physical appearance) with the headline "Cube is toast".:-)
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In which case the destruction and disappearance of Atlantis was a mercy from
Divine Providence.
Elsewhere I suggested Jones and his dad in the European theater during WWII, but pre-Pearl Harbor run-ins with Imperial Japan would work too. Kind of like the old Brass Monkey bar scene.
As many as their menu provides assaults on our appetites?
They would have done it years ago if we'd offered enough money.
If you shoot them in real zero gravity, wouldn't the blood just sort of hang in globs in mid-air, or would the pumping of the heart cause a rocket-type push as it left the body and cause the shootee to fly around like an deflating balloon?
Indiana Jones and the CGI character from Hell :-)
And it won't necessarily be their own body fluids clogging those sinuses with eveything free floating.
That's one of the biggest reasons for the rapid advances in internet-related hardware and software.
Maybe that's what will jump-start a space program that's been losing momentum since July of '69.
Lou Perlman naming a group "Natural" goes so far beyond irony and even satire that it qualifies as otherworldly logic, so maybe space is the right place.
His father probably served in a similar capacity for England.
Some Hollywood makeup magic could condense that 12 years to 4 to 6.
A good script could have Indy and Dad racing against the Allied advance and the Nazi scramble for survival, escape, and Swiss bank accounts in the last months of the war to get to the spear they stabbed Jesus in the side with or some Norse mythology artifact to keep Adolf from using it to complete some supernatural A-bomb strength super weapon.
Maybe while they're at it they could single (or double)-handedly prevent the Alpine Redoubt that Ike feared from coming into existance.
And of course the film could throw in some foreshadowing of the cold war to come.
Hey, if you think the Borg are scary, wait'll you get a load of their lawyers.
So if
1. We manufacture the solar cells, semiconductors, and plastic cases and cabinets here where it not only involves nasty chemicals that may eventually wind up in the air or the water but requires energy created by burning stuff as well, and
2. We continue to rely almost totally on a petroleum based economy and infrastructure, while
3. The third world keeps on having cleaner air and water and less vulnerability to being blackmailed by OPEC,
are we making it possible for them to outcompete in the "information age", as the very rich and the very technically talented leave the polluted first and second worlds for islands with
1. pristine beaches,
2. state of the art communication infrastructures (no legacy systems to support),
3. electrical systems that are back up the day after a hurricane (with battery backup during the hurricane and no worries about backfeeding transformers and killing power company linemen), and
4. banking and legal structures they can control instead of having to let the "great unwashed" exercise any real political power, while
5. spending enough money buying our politicians to shift their defense needs and expenses to us,
is it going to be a case of "last one to leave what used to be called civilization, don't forget to turn out the lights, assuming any are still working" ?
"No, please, have you no mercy? Don't turn me over to the Boy Scouts of America!"
And, of course, when they confiscate those machines they'll take *everything*-monitor, spoeakers, power cord, everything they can grab, because when the cops sell it at auction they get more money for complete systems.
I've never watched either show or felt any desire to do so, but I try to keep track of broadcasting shenanigans.
No, Anne Tomlinson will. She recently decided to change careers.
They always use the melody of songs that have been around long enough to be in public domain so that they don't have to pay anyone anything (same reason cartoons used various classical pieces), but can, of course, copyright the version with their lyrics.
Barney *was* on the grassy knoll. Barney Fife that is. Think about it. They came up with the "single bullet theory". Who's most closely associated with a single bullet? Barney Fife! Is there any hard evidence that he was really in Mayberry on that day? If he says he was staying at the Raleigh YMCA, how do we know that the guest register wasn't doctored? How do we know that the bumbling deputy persona wasn't just a cover for the most cunning, cold-hearted secret operative this nation has ever known?
To whom did you write the letter? The lawyer who sent the email? The recipient who apparently is somehow connected with UM's physics deparment? Your reasoning here escapes me.
Don't tell us, tell Lyons. Write them a letter and tell them why.
If they have a patent on giving preferential treatment to those who give you the most money, will they be getting a cut from all the big special interest campaign donations? Will you have to buy a license from them to be a politician?
Maybe that's what kept Alexander Calder from building a "mobile" computer. :-)
If you use UPS it'll arrive pre-crashed anyway. :-)
If solar cell and battery technology ever advance enough you probably could have a small quiet computer and LCD monitor without power cables and with some sort of RF or IR link between them.
insert ice cube joke here
When I saw this story on the register I thought about submitting it to Slashdot(considering the Cube's physical appearance) with the headline "Cube is toast". :-)