About the only way I could see this working within the TMNT mythos would be if the "ooze" that turns the Turtles into human-sized, talking, ninja-capable creatures was from some crashed alien ship. Something along the lines of: Alien ship crashes, government transports strange substance to secret lab in New York City, canister falls off truck into sewer, canister breaks open oozing slime onto turtles, turtles mutate into TMNT. Therefore, the turtles would be part-alien in a manner of speaking...
So basically Issue #1 of almost every Marvel comic book in the '60s?
Truth is stranger than fiction. The Onion has had so many stories end up coming true over the years they are at risk of becoming a legit news source.
True that.
Just go read their early January 2000 article about the upcoming inauguration of G.W.Bush, entitled "Our Long National Nightmare of Peace and Prosperity Is Finally Over", especially the part about using the military.
The recent (2009?) reboot of Star Trek was to the original as the recent Jason Bourne movies (and EVL novels) are to the original Ludlum trilogy, only more so.
Yes, it was, and then about 3 years ago someone made Star Trek 90210, which, if there had never been any version of Star Trek ever before, even if Gene Roddenbury had never been born, would still be a terrible movie.
There was a second notable exception several years ago, the details of which I remember only very dimly, but I'm pretty sure it wasn't in response to the threat of legal action. There was some post that started so much trouble that I think the entire article eventually got "disappeared" and someone wound up with a permanent -50 karma or something like that and anybody who posted in defense of the OP or tried to discuss the matter in other threads got all their karma points wiped as well.
I think I was one of them.
Wish I could remember more about it.
The article you link to which explained why they removed a post full of stuff copywrited by the Scientologists has a comment from Hemos replying to Multics, but apparently Multics' post got modded under +1, so it doesn't show up. I hate that about Slashdot archiving, and do not consider it honest.
Yep, just when my personal experience teaches me to go with (pre-4k) WD and Samsung, and avoid Seagate and Hitachi, the bad is going to pollute the good.
No doubt others are thinking that WD is going to ruin Hitachi and Samsung is going to ruin Seagate.
That's the thing about hard drives. Some brands work for some people and other brands work for other people, and there's seemingly no rhyme or reason to it.
The phrase is actually "short-sighted", as in, failure to see far enough clearly. When used metaphorically, substitute time (in the future) for distance. If you fail to save for your retirement, you are being short-sighted.
Le secret des grandes fortunes sans cause apparente est un crime oublié, parce qu'il a été proprement fait (The secret of grand fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, for it was properly done.)~Honoré de Balzac, Le Père Goriot (1835)
I, of course, immorally stole that from somewhere on the interwebs.
It's not just being better able to afford the consequences, it's having the resources and connections to avoid a lot of those consequences in the first place.
I get more of these calls on my cell phone than our land line since we finally got around to submitting the landline number to the government no-call list a couple of years ago.
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"Personally, I think most people will be happier with the country broken up..."
The few of them who actually survive the process?
"His faith might have been shaken by the fact that his acquittal rate was due to the number of guilty people he let walk."
Prosecutors get to let people walk, but public defenders do not.
Prosecutors have conviction rates, public defenders have acquital rates.
The FBI has been a corrupt investigative agency since the 1960s...
Oh, it goes way back before that.
Maybe "shake hands" is a euphemism for "get involved in a land war"?
And the Sicilians fit into this, how, exactly?
I was replying to New Here's reply to your reply.
Assuming you and they are two different persons.
You never get tired of that, do you?
About the only way I could see this working within the TMNT mythos would be if the "ooze" that turns the Turtles into human-sized, talking, ninja-capable creatures was from some crashed alien ship. Something along the lines of: Alien ship crashes, government transports strange substance to secret lab in New York City, canister falls off truck into sewer, canister breaks open oozing slime onto turtles, turtles mutate into TMNT. Therefore, the turtles would be part-alien in a manner of speaking...
So basically Issue #1 of almost every Marvel comic book in the '60s?
Really, if they're aliens from outer space, how can you tell if they're mutants or not?
Truth is stranger than fiction. The Onion has had so many stories end up coming true over the years they are at risk of becoming a legit news source.
True that.
Just go read their early January 2000 article about the upcoming inauguration of G.W.Bush, entitled "Our Long National Nightmare of Peace and Prosperity Is Finally Over", especially the part about using the military.
The recent (2009?) reboot of Star Trek was to the original as the recent Jason Bourne movies (and EVL novels) are to the original Ludlum trilogy, only more so.
Sacrilege and heresy.
You're forgetting one thing, Star Trek was good..
Yes, it was, and then about 3 years ago someone made Star Trek 90210, which, if there had never been any version of Star Trek ever before, even if Gene Roddenbury had never been born, would still be a terrible movie.
There was a second notable exception several years ago, the details of which I remember only very dimly, but I'm pretty sure it wasn't in response to the threat of legal action. There was some post that started so much trouble that I think the entire article eventually got "disappeared" and someone wound up with a permanent -50 karma or something like that and anybody who posted in defense of the OP or tried to discuss the matter in other threads got all their karma points wiped as well.
I think I was one of them.
Wish I could remember more about it.
The article you link to which explained why they removed a post full of stuff copywrited by the Scientologists has a comment from Hemos replying to Multics, but apparently Multics' post got modded under +1, so it doesn't show up. I hate that about Slashdot archiving, and do not consider it honest.
I believe the quote you want is, "Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge." - Charles Darwin
Darwin lived long enough to meet G.W.Bush? Who knew?
Get you a bumper sticker that says "Vote for Ken Carpetbagger".
That's not a Southern name unless you mean southern Italy.
But his fans can't get mad at you for making fun of him, 'cause you said to vote for him.
His foes can't get mad at you for saying to vote for him, 'cause you made fun of him.
Win-win
"I go to Huffington post just to make sure that their posters are just as racist, bigoted, niece, and hateful as they were the day before."
You get HuffPo to work properly two days in a row?!?
Too bad football coach isn't one of those professions.
You do know about wdidle3, don't you?
Yep, just when my personal experience teaches me to go with (pre-4k) WD and Samsung, and avoid Seagate and Hitachi, the bad is going to pollute the good.
No doubt others are thinking that WD is going to ruin Hitachi and Samsung is going to ruin Seagate.
That's the thing about hard drives. Some brands work for some people and other brands work for other people, and there's seemingly no rhyme or reason to it.
The phrase is actually "short-sighted", as in, failure to see far enough clearly. When used metaphorically, substitute time (in the future) for distance. If you fail to save for your retirement, you are being short-sighted.
What, you've never heard of KelvinHertz?
How do you know how hot the color of the frequency is?
Le secret des grandes fortunes sans cause apparente est un crime oublié, parce qu'il a été proprement fait (The secret of grand fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, for it was properly done.)~Honoré de Balzac, Le Père Goriot (1835)
I, of course, immorally stole that from somewhere on the interwebs.
It's not just being better able to afford the consequences, it's having the resources and connections to avoid a lot of those consequences in the first place.
Whose definition?
I get more of these calls on my cell phone than our land line since we finally got around to submitting the landline number to the government no-call list a couple of years ago.
In Soviet Pre-K, lunch sends you home!