Did Nader get on the ballot in any state? He didn't even get on the ballot in Oregon (yes, it was on a technicality, but a legit one, as radical parties and lobbyists on both sides of the spectrum have played games in the past with petition signatiures).
And I'm sure his calling the Oregon election board "facists" didn't help things any (to my knowledge, the only people in Oregon who throw "facist" around with regard to the state government are the local Anarchists - though almost everyone calls the Portland Police Department that, but not to their faces).
Okay, so I take it you hated DS9 with a firey vengence too, along with all the other good Sci-fi series that rode Next Gen's wake (Babylon 5, for instance).
For that matter, we wouldn't have Terminator 1 & 2, and (here's the biggie), no LOTR Films.
Why, you ask? Because thanks to the Star Wars trilogy, special effects became an industry, rather than just something they did occassionally when one film or another called for it (meaning no WETA Digital).
Seriously, it's not a particularly big deal. It's not like the whole Hacker=cracker problem of the Media's. The difference is harmless. And, if it causes people to watch and read real SF, than all the better.
By the way, if you really want to nit-pick, it's SF, not Sci-Fi. Thibbith!
Definatly news crews and anyone who's giving on-site coverage/footage for a fire. This thing could be a life-saver.
I live in Oregon, and one of our local news crews was one of the first to get the FLIR cameras when they were brand new for their News Choppers (IIRC the station was KATU). The camera even saved peoples lives during a fire in Portland.
I don't necessarily see how this camera can be a major privacy threat. I do see it being lifesaver.
Better idea: Do it with ECW/CZW rules, but before the wimpy Pennsylvania Athletic Committee forbade wrestling federations from Floricent (sp) light bulbs (the tube type), in wrestling matches, and limited the use of "Death Matches" (matches in which the ropes are replaced with, or supplimented by, barbed wire; or in the case of "Cage of Death" matches, the Cage is supplemented with barbed wire).
Is anyone else getting the sneaking hunch that the computer is going to be as frelled up, hardware wise, as some of Compaq's crap? (i.e. stops working if you try to wipe the hard drive and install Linux)
If do see a good, independent review of the computer that says that it's not total crap, I will change my mind about the computer. However, until that review comes out, I'll be telling my friends who aren't as computer literate as me and are thinking about buying one of these, to hold off until a review comes out.
As an alternative. Would Frank get in trouble for his watching movies with his friends on his 2000" TV (IIRC approx. the size of a Drive-in movie theater screen, or so I was told by a friend), that can be seen from 7 blocks away?
Dentist: (looking over chart) Hmm... yes... Mr. Wilde, I've heard that name before. Where was that?
Bruce: Oh, no place in particular.
Dentist: Oh yeah, you work at SOCAN! (looks at X-Rays), it looks like you're in need of a Root Canal!
Bruce: But it's just a cavity!
Dentist: No, no, no. You need a root canal! (looks at chart again, notes non-lethal allergy to novocaine). I'll have to start immediatly. (reaches for Novocaine). Don't worry, this won't hurt (under breath) me a bit.
Personally, I don't particularly give a flying fuck whether the un-altered version is avalable. I'm waiting for Lucas to put the scene on Tatooine between Biggs and Luke back in. Having the scene back in, in addition with the scene added on Yavin in the Special Edition (one of the few scenes that I think many of the/.ers wouldn't complain too much about being put in the Special Edition) would definatly add weight to Biggs death at the Death Star.
Episode 3 & 6? Will 3 follow the layout of episode 6?
Does it seem like Lucas is using the cookie cutter approach?
Hopefully in Episode 3, instead of the "cute" (to George Lucas) creatures (which would be, in this case, the Gungans) triumphing, they will be instead driven to extinction by Empire rendering Naboo uninhabitable. Jar-Jar gets a magnificently prolonged death scene where, due to his stupidity, he believes Anakin is still a good guy throughout the course of the film, but finally figures it out when Anakin Force Chokes Jar-Jar to death in a magnificent death scene that takes 5 minutes for Jar Jar to die agonizingly in great physical and psychological pain.
And finally, as Jar-Jar expels his last breath and slumps to the ground, the audience will rise as one... in a standing ovation, for the most hated and reviled one is dead. ^_^
I've worked in my college's library and I have to agree. Since this system is designed to still allow patrons to browse shelves while the robot is working, this means that should a patron accidentily push a book so far back that it goes behind the other books, then the robot would be unable to find it.
This would also cause a problem with libraries like the one at my college which use the Library of Congress system instead of the Dewey Decimal System. At my library, we've asked most patrons to not reshelve their books if they don't intend to check them out. This could cause problems with the robot, and asking patrons to take books they aren't interested in checking out up to the front desk anyway seems a bit excessive, and likely wouldn't be followed.
This would also cause problems with materials with libraries who have ESL reading materials, which are usually small books, the size of a children's book, with a single chapter from a novel, or occasionally the junior novelization of a film. These books are not only always unorganized, but also are so small that the spine of the book is not large enough to be useful to the robot. RFID could solve this problem though, with each chip being encoded with the Library of Congress code and title information, so the robot can go through them easier.
As it is, I doubt the jobs of librarians will actually be endangered with this technology. People will still enjoy browsing the shelves, and will need librarians to help them find books. Not necessarily a book, but books about certain topics. Furthermore, robots could help deal with some of the more tedious parts of the job, like collecting books from that library which someone has put on hold. However, there are many other parts of the librarian's job which would be far to difficult to automate, at least until we invent the android.
U2 is showing their true colors, now, by fleecing us with their name.
How is releasing their album in it's raw form if the stolen version ends up on a P2P service fleecing us. It's not like their threatening mass lawsuits like Metallica was. Furthermore, aren't we trying to get the music industry to imbrace pay-per-song download services as the future?
That's not entirely true. Apple sued for creating a theme for XP that was a duplicate of their theme for Aqua. Phrase these things better before you post, 'kay?
The one time I remember playing with a Brazilian person online was on a FPS (specifically, "America's Army"), and the guy was a TKer. He didn't go out of his way to kill team members, but if you were between him and his target, he would just shoot through you.
Suprisingly, he managed to avoid getting votekicked.
Um... that piece of music you're thinking of, from the beginning of the trailer, that's "On Her Majesty's Secret Service", from the movie of the same name. Still Bond, but different Bond film.
Um... IIRC, Pixar chose to split with Disney, they weren't kicked out (unless Eisner did a immature little thing like going "You can't quit, you're fired!").
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And I'm sure his calling the Oregon election board "facists" didn't help things any (to my knowledge, the only people in Oregon who throw "facist" around with regard to the state government are the local Anarchists - though almost everyone calls the Portland Police Department that, but not to their faces).
Okay, so I take it you hated DS9 with a firey vengence too, along with all the other good Sci-fi series that rode Next Gen's wake (Babylon 5, for instance). For that matter, we wouldn't have Terminator 1 & 2, and (here's the biggie), no LOTR Films. Why, you ask? Because thanks to the Star Wars trilogy, special effects became an industry, rather than just something they did occassionally when one film or another called for it (meaning no WETA Digital).
Seriously, it's not a particularly big deal. It's not like the whole Hacker=cracker problem of the Media's. The difference is harmless. And, if it causes people to watch and read real SF, than all the better.
By the way, if you really want to nit-pick, it's SF, not Sci-Fi. Thibbith!
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Well, if you want to be nitpicky it was created by millions of monkey's banging on typewriters... but I digress...
For a better analogy, Microsoft is refusing to pay Child Support for its bastard child.
I live in Oregon, and one of our local news crews was one of the first to get the FLIR cameras when they were brand new for their News Choppers (IIRC the station was KATU). The camera even saved peoples lives during a fire in Portland.
I don't necessarily see how this camera can be a major privacy threat. I do see it being lifesaver.
Better idea: Do it with ECW/CZW rules, but before the wimpy Pennsylvania Athletic Committee forbade wrestling federations from Floricent (sp) light bulbs (the tube type), in wrestling matches, and limited the use of "Death Matches" (matches in which the ropes are replaced with, or supplimented by, barbed wire; or in the case of "Cage of Death" matches, the Cage is supplemented with barbed wire).
2001 has a plot. It's just a little tricky to figure out if you haven't read the novel. 2010 helps clear things up a little (but not by much).
What, no Destination Moon?!
If do see a good, independent review of the computer that says that it's not total crap, I will change my mind about the computer. However, until that review comes out, I'll be telling my friends who aren't as computer literate as me and are thinking about buying one of these, to hold off until a review comes out.
As an alternative. Would Frank get in trouble for his watching movies with his friends on his 2000" TV (IIRC approx. the size of a Drive-in movie theater screen, or so I was told by a friend), that can be seen from 7 blocks away?
Nahh... this is more like what Ward Weaver was saying to the press, both before and after they found Ashley and Miranda.
Bruce: I'm here for my checkup.
Dentist: (looking over chart) Hmm... yes... Mr. Wilde, I've heard that name before. Where was that?
Bruce: Oh, no place in particular.
Dentist: Oh yeah, you work at SOCAN! (looks at X-Rays), it looks like you're in need of a Root Canal!
Bruce: But it's just a cavity!
Dentist: No, no, no. You need a root canal! (looks at chart again, notes non-lethal allergy to novocaine). I'll have to start immediatly. (reaches for Novocaine). Don't worry, this won't hurt (under breath) me a bit.
Sort of, the bad guy's escape vehicle from the police station was a mainance vehicle. Same principle though.
Personally, I don't particularly give a flying fuck whether the un-altered version is avalable. I'm waiting for Lucas to put the scene on Tatooine between Biggs and Luke back in. Having the scene back in, in addition with the scene added on Yavin in the Special Edition (one of the few scenes that I think many of the /.ers wouldn't complain too much about being put in the Special Edition) would definatly add weight to Biggs death at the Death Star.
Does it seem like Lucas is using the cookie cutter approach?
Hopefully in Episode 3, instead of the "cute" (to George Lucas) creatures (which would be, in this case, the Gungans) triumphing, they will be instead driven to extinction by Empire rendering Naboo uninhabitable. Jar-Jar gets a magnificently prolonged death scene where, due to his stupidity, he believes Anakin is still a good guy throughout the course of the film, but finally figures it out when Anakin Force Chokes Jar-Jar to death in a magnificent death scene that takes 5 minutes for Jar Jar to die agonizingly in great physical and psychological pain.
And finally, as Jar-Jar expels his last breath and slumps to the ground, the audience will rise as one... in a standing ovation, for the most hated and reviled one is dead. ^_^
This would also cause a problem with libraries like the one at my college which use the Library of Congress system instead of the Dewey Decimal System. At my library, we've asked most patrons to not reshelve their books if they don't intend to check them out. This could cause problems with the robot, and asking patrons to take books they aren't interested in checking out up to the front desk anyway seems a bit excessive, and likely wouldn't be followed.
This would also cause problems with materials with libraries who have ESL reading materials, which are usually small books, the size of a children's book, with a single chapter from a novel, or occasionally the junior novelization of a film. These books are not only always unorganized, but also are so small that the spine of the book is not large enough to be useful to the robot. RFID could solve this problem though, with each chip being encoded with the Library of Congress code and title information, so the robot can go through them easier.
As it is, I doubt the jobs of librarians will actually be endangered with this technology. People will still enjoy browsing the shelves, and will need librarians to help them find books. Not necessarily a book, but books about certain topics. Furthermore, robots could help deal with some of the more tedious parts of the job, like collecting books from that library which someone has put on hold. However, there are many other parts of the librarian's job which would be far to difficult to automate, at least until we invent the android.
Darl's hiding under his bed muttering, "They're out to get me!"
How is releasing their album in it's raw form if the stolen version ends up on a P2P service fleecing us. It's not like their threatening mass lawsuits like Metallica was. Furthermore, aren't we trying to get the music industry to imbrace pay-per-song download services as the future?
That's not entirely true. Apple sued for creating a theme for XP that was a duplicate of their theme for Aqua. Phrase these things better before you post, 'kay?
Suprisingly, he managed to avoid getting votekicked.
This one was.
Um... that piece of music you're thinking of, from the beginning of the trailer, that's "On Her Majesty's Secret Service", from the movie of the same name. Still Bond, but different Bond film.
Um... IIRC, Pixar chose to split with Disney, they weren't kicked out (unless Eisner did a immature little thing like going "You can't quit, you're fired!").