Build an absolutely perfect Federation and then hurl seriously gigantic threats at it.
Yawn. An even more preachy Federation, astonishingly smug and arrogant, facing the new threat de jour. Yawn. I can't even believe how boring that Federation would be...and the current iteration is as boring as hell.
How about we just kill off Star Trek for good? The horse has been ridden to death, let's find a new horse.
I thought DS9 was the gem in the group, but almost no one agrees there; oddly, some geeks just can't handle a coherent plot.
I agree with you. I always thought that DS9 was the standout of all the series. Yeah, the first few seasons were a little shakey but after that it found its groove.
So what you are saying is that Wilmore is just minutes away from a town of 20,000, which is less than the people who live in one section of the city I live in? So what makes Wilmore a village?
Look, if you want to go to a store, you aren't going to drive 16 miles, you're going to walk down the street. That makes Wilmore the centre of your universe, not Lexington or even Nicholasville.
What I do get at the ma and pa store is a friendly face and great service. They usually are very knowledgable about the product they sell, and many times are willing to go the extra length if I have any problems at all with my purchase.
The last time I went into a walmart (with a friend, I never buy there and avoid it like the plague), the place was dirty, shelves were disorganized, and no one was willing to help other than to point down an isle. Price isn't always more important, although I believe that through advertising the american public is being brainwashed into thinking it is.
Oh please, another paean to the mom and pop store! They used to hand out candy to the children! The place was neat and clean!
I'm not cheerleading for Wal-Mart, Costco or another big box chain but this nostalgic stuff about mom and pop stores is ludicrous. Sure, some stores were run well and the owners kind but by in large they were the same kind of jerks that Wal-Mart are except writ small. Chances are some pimply faced teenager was behind the counter and didn't give a damn what you wanted, the prices were too high, and mom and pop looked at you suspiciously as soon as you entered the store. The product selection was awful and it was no cleaner than any other store, big box or otherwise.
Sorry mate, but Wal-Mart isn't the rise of the beast and mom and pop weren't the Jesus Christ's of retail.
> Google at least has a track record of fighting the government when it feels they have no business to ask for the information. Most of the telcos simply rolled over when the government started tapping phone calls without warrants.
Yeah, they were hardcore with the Chinese government, weren't they?
All my college friends incurred serious debt in college - in fact most of their debt was acquired in school.
I guess none of your friends bought houses and cars. My home was easily several multiples of my tuition and fees and I live on Baltic Avenue, not Park Place.
I have to agree with you. I used to *love* going to see movies but in the past few years I'd much rather wait for it on DVD and watch it from the peace and quiet of my home. It's just not worth it going to a theatre anymore expect for those rare releases you know you want to watch on a big screen.
The real lawsuit should be filed by anyone who has read the book against Dan Brown for stealing the ideas of a French conman who most of this modern "bloodline of Christ" crap in the 1960s with his faked list of "Priory grandmasters".
Hey, I love Firefox (gaze at the sig for proof), but it is no more secure than IE is. The rise of Firefox didn't make us necessarily more secure, it only gave us a better browser.
The thousands of scientists who have degrees directly related to the field of climatology and atmospheric sciences -- and disagree with James Hansen -- get the same worshipful treatment from the media that men like Hansen regularly receive.
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Battlestar Galactica yes, the first two no. IMHO anyway.
How about we just kill off Star Trek for good? The horse has been ridden to death, let's find a new horse.
I have Kerio Personal Firewall and an Nvidia video card and my system is running fine. I guess I got lucky.
And you can buy dildos in vending machines there, so what? When did Japan become the arbiter of what happens in the rest of the world?
PDAs have their place. Not in my life, but plenty of people still seem to like them.
> Jamie adds: and all it took was twelve years of overwhelming scientific consensus.
Everything is overwhelming when you only look at one side of the argument.
So what you are saying is that Wilmore is just minutes away from a town of 20,000, which is less than the people who live in one section of the city I live in? So what makes Wilmore a village? Look, if you want to go to a store, you aren't going to drive 16 miles, you're going to walk down the street. That makes Wilmore the centre of your universe, not Lexington or even Nicholasville.
Oh please, another paean to the mom and pop store! They used to hand out candy to the children! The place was neat and clean!
I'm not cheerleading for Wal-Mart, Costco or another big box chain but this nostalgic stuff about mom and pop stores is ludicrous. Sure, some stores were run well and the owners kind but by in large they were the same kind of jerks that Wal-Mart are except writ small. Chances are some pimply faced teenager was behind the counter and didn't give a damn what you wanted, the prices were too high, and mom and pop looked at you suspiciously as soon as you entered the store. The product selection was awful and it was no cleaner than any other store, big box or otherwise.
Sorry mate, but Wal-Mart isn't the rise of the beast and mom and pop weren't the Jesus Christ's of retail.
> Google at least has a track record of fighting the government when it feels they have no business to ask for the information. Most of the telcos simply rolled over when the government started tapping phone calls without warrants.
Yeah, they were hardcore with the Chinese government, weren't they?
I guess none of your friends bought houses and cars. My home was easily several multiples of my tuition and fees and I live on Baltic Avenue, not Park Place.
I'm not opposed to the foundation making money I just want to know where it's going. Why is the foundation so fucking circumspect about telling us?
Time to switch to Opera I guess...at least I know who is making what there.
That's precisely the reason why I don't want to watch it. The last good movie they made was in 1999.
I have to agree with you. I used to *love* going to see movies but in the past few years I'd much rather wait for it on DVD and watch it from the peace and quiet of my home. It's just not worth it going to a theatre anymore expect for those rare releases you know you want to watch on a big screen.
I wish I had mod points for you.
The real lawsuit should be filed by anyone who has read the book against Dan Brown for stealing the ideas of a French conman who most of this modern "bloodline of Christ" crap in the 1960s with his faked list of "Priory grandmasters".
Sigh, everyone knows Springfield is in ....
Nazi Germany couldn't have done it without the Soviet Union either.
Wow, the Club of Rome updated, and just as wrong.
Because they didn't wait until 2010 when it would have been down to 32 nanometers or 2016 when it would have been down to 10 nanometers!
That logic is stupid...why then didn't they wait until neural computing was a reality? Imagine OS XXI on that!
Hey, I love Firefox (gaze at the sig for proof), but it is no more secure than IE is. The rise of Firefox didn't make us necessarily more secure, it only gave us a better browser.
I'd say $3 million in donations to the Democrats from Abramoff disproves your statement of "Yet". Henry Reid got nearly $70G alone.
The thousands of scientists who have degrees directly related to the field of climatology and atmospheric sciences -- and disagree with James Hansen -- get the same worshipful treatment from the media that men like Hansen regularly receive.
Except when the government says they can't. I guess that means their guns aren't quite so strong.
> Actually it's a bit more complicated than that...China (and Japan I believe) bought the US debt, at around 1 trillion dollars.
I hope to Christ that you aren't in any way involved with economics.