Correct. As it says in the original post, "(that the company only ended quietly after massive outcry from gamers)". *That's* the remedy.
Market-based forces work.
One then wonders what kind of SUVs the Vikings were driving to cause all that warming. Surely the Earth wouldn't get that warm on its own, right? Right?
The point, if you read the link, is that in the 980s, the Vikings were harvesting wheat from Greenland. The name "Greenland" did not come from a real estate broker trying to unload the property; it was a description. Greenland was exporting wheat!
Warmists keep telling us that, after some tipping point, the Earth would not return to its current climate. They freak out over a tiny bit less ice in Greenland, but ignore entirely when it was warm enough to farm there, and yet the Earth survived just fine.
Well, the person I was replying to noted he'd only seen a couple of the first season eps of Fringe. If he'd only seen that much of B5 or Caprica, I think my description of what he would have thought is about right.
Your description of those series as a whole is right, but you wouldn't necessarily have gotten that from a couple of first seasons shows. My point being, again, that you need to give shows like these a chance.
You're correct. I was thinking mostly that B5's first season could have given a very wrong impression of how the whole show was going to be, not that Abrams had anything to do with it.
You needed to watch the series to understand the series. Indeed, much of the beginning of the first season was in "incident of the week" format, but it set up the character development and introduced many of the concepts (the Observer, for instance) for use later. In fact, the first incident turned out to be a foreshadowing of something we see with regularity in the alternate universe.
Never judge a J. J. Abrams project by a couple shows of the first season. This guy knows how to build a story. If you do jump to conclusions this easily, you might have thought "Lost" was just going to be a 21st century Swiss Family Robinson. That "Babylon 5" was just Star Trek at the United Nations. That "Caprica" was going to be one jumbled mismash of disjointed story lines.
In the news at this hour, columnist Robert Novak denies that the Half Life 2 source code was shopped to 6 other web sites before he posted it, and that the leak came from the Bush administration. "Karl Rove didn't even know there was a Half Life *1*, for goodness sake. Suggesting he is responsible for the leak is preposterous."
Bush administration officials were too busy playing Unreal Tournament 2004 to comment on the allegations.
So ironic that the same guys who debated and debated over the First Amendment also opened their sessions in prayer. Since they didn't consider it to violate the very Constitution they were taking such great pains to write, how is it that we know better?
I wonder if you're aware of the fact that the Continental Congress that debated over and hammered out the First Amendment was the same one that instituted those chaplins you have a problem with. The founding fathers were not trying to expunge all mention of religion from government (there are many things they did that point this out). What they were trying to do was keep corruption out of religion, and keep the requirement of a particular religion out of government.
The Church of England had been established as the official religion of England, and, seeing how that adversely affected both the church and the government, the founding fathers wanted to insure that no religion got some official governmental seal of approval. They did not want an established state religion. We do not have one. Creating a voluntary time to say the Pledge of Allegiance does not force anyone to align themselves with any religion that believes in a Supreme Being. Omit the phrase, or don't say the whole thing. That's freedom of religion.
By the way, Thomas Jefferson, who coined the phrase "seperation of church and state" was out of the country when the debate over the First Amendment took place. He used that phrase in a (very short) letter, and used it in a very limited sense. The Danbury, CT Baptists wanted assurances that government would not interfere with religion, and TJ was reassuring them that it wouldn't. That's all he meant by it in the letter. Others, of course, have projected their own definitions.
The term "under God" simply recognizes that the vast majority of those who founded this country did so with this guiding prinicipal; that this new country would only prosper and remain free if it was "under God". That's why any other "under X" is meaningless.
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Correct. As it says in the original post, "(that the company only ended quietly after massive outcry from gamers)". *That's* the remedy. Market-based forces work.
One then wonders what kind of SUVs the Vikings were driving to cause all that warming. Surely the Earth wouldn't get that warm on its own, right? Right?
The point, if you read the link, is that in the 980s, the Vikings were harvesting wheat from Greenland. The name "Greenland" did not come from a real estate broker trying to unload the property; it was a description. Greenland was exporting wheat!
Warmists keep telling us that, after some tipping point, the Earth would not return to its current climate. They freak out over a tiny bit less ice in Greenland, but ignore entirely when it was warm enough to farm there, and yet the Earth survived just fine.
If Greenland were to get warm enough to, say, farm wheat, surely we'd be seeing the end of civilization as we know it, right?
Right?
Well, the person I was replying to noted he'd only seen a couple of the first season eps of Fringe. If he'd only seen that much of B5 or Caprica, I think my description of what he would have thought is about right. Your description of those series as a whole is right, but you wouldn't necessarily have gotten that from a couple of first seasons shows. My point being, again, that you need to give shows like these a chance.
You're correct. I was thinking mostly that B5's first season could have given a very wrong impression of how the whole show was going to be, not that Abrams had anything to do with it.
I had no illusions of Galactica 2.0, rest assured. I really wanted to like Caprica.
You needed to watch the series to understand the series. Indeed, much of the beginning of the first season was in "incident of the week" format, but it set up the character development and introduced many of the concepts (the Observer, for instance) for use later. In fact, the first incident turned out to be a foreshadowing of something we see with regularity in the alternate universe.
Never judge a J. J. Abrams project by a couple shows of the first season. This guy knows how to build a story. If you do jump to conclusions this easily, you might have thought "Lost" was just going to be a 21st century Swiss Family Robinson. That "Babylon 5" was just Star Trek at the United Nations. That "Caprica" was going to be one jumbled mismash of disjointed story lines.
OK, that last one may have been right, actually.
I think Robert might disagree.
In the news at this hour, columnist Robert Novak denies that the Half Life 2 source code was shopped to 6 other web sites before he posted it, and that the leak came from the Bush administration. "Karl Rove didn't even know there was a Half Life *1*, for goodness sake. Suggesting he is responsible for the leak is preposterous." Bush administration officials were too busy playing Unreal Tournament 2004 to comment on the allegations.
So ironic that the same guys who debated and debated over the First Amendment also opened their sessions in prayer. Since they didn't consider it to violate the very Constitution they were taking such great pains to write, how is it that we know better?
The Church of England had been established as the official religion of England, and, seeing how that adversely affected both the church and the government, the founding fathers wanted to insure that no religion got some official governmental seal of approval. They did not want an established state religion. We do not have one. Creating a voluntary time to say the Pledge of Allegiance does not force anyone to align themselves with any religion that believes in a Supreme Being. Omit the phrase, or don't say the whole thing. That's freedom of religion.
By the way, Thomas Jefferson, who coined the phrase "seperation of church and state" was out of the country when the debate over the First Amendment took place. He used that phrase in a (very short) letter, and used it in a very limited sense. The Danbury, CT Baptists wanted assurances that government would not interfere with religion, and TJ was reassuring them that it wouldn't. That's all he meant by it in the letter. Others, of course, have projected their own definitions.
The term "under God" simply recognizes that the vast majority of those who founded this country did so with this guiding prinicipal; that this new country would only prosper and remain free if it was "under God". That's why any other "under X" is meaningless.