I found that one to be a weak example. The kiss was coerced. ST's most acclaimed stories have historically pulled their punches. The sparse attention to the problem of drug addiction that eventually made it to the screen in "City on the Edge of Forever" is the canonical example of this.
In a science fiction / fantasy setting, ST had much more opportunity to explore social issues openly in the plot, without wishy-washy excuses to the easily offended. "Well, Kirk was forced into it. He wasn't really into black chicks. Every other object in the universe with a hole at the bottom of it is in his gunsights. Including other crewmembers who directly reported to him. But not Uhura."
What they did was great, but they could have done so much better. Then and now.
Oh, and the last movie sucked. Genocide --without so much as a tear shed. Oops--no more Vulcans. Well, better get on with business. Got a lot of rebuilding to do. Or, maybe (again) they're trying to tell us something about what we're doing right now...
I would expect a typical steam catapult to be WAY more reliable and maintainable than a linear motor.
I worked with a couple of them in an auto plant over a decade ago. Its job was to shuffle 3 tooling skids around among 3 robot station and one operator load station.
The design needed linear motors so the skids could travel uncoupled. The sequence of motion would have wound up any permanently attached cords or linkages in about 1/2 cycle.
The tools were clearly labeled with official signage as "TFH North" and "TFH South". It was only after working there for several months that I actually heard their real name.
"TFH" stood for "Tool from Hell". They were replaced with a different design next time I worked in that plant.
It's a neat trick and if they can get some benefit out if it, maybe it can be useful.
If they allow swastikas, Microsoft are Nazis. The folks at MS probably think that would make them look bad, damage the brand, hurt sales, etc. So they don't allow swastikas.
I think it was actually called Star Trek at the time, but at some point, people started calling it "Space War". We had eliza, and dungeon, too, and a chat program called "connect". Once the connect fans had a party in the basement of one of the dorms, because they had really nice computer equipment. VT50s. They all sat at their terminals and "chat"ted with each other. While in the same room.
For that reason, a person may not want to have their fingers linger too long on the screen after they make a selection at any time
They admit the machine will record an erroneous selection (vote) if a user (voter) leaves their fingers on the screen after a previous selection. For something critical to the function of the system (both the voting machine and the democracy), "people are pressing the buttons wrong" is NOT acceptable.
While the EPA hasn't rated 2011 cars for gas mileage yet, Mazda expects it to come in at 28 mpg city, 35 mpg highway with the five-speed manual, and 1 mpg less on highway mileage with the automatic.
Not even close to what we got over a decade ago. WTF happened? Environmental restrictions? I have to get my car smogged every 2 years in the county where I live. It passes first time every time. What's the problem with the new cars?
I've got a 1998 Nissan 200SX in the garage right now. This was the cheap POS Nissan at the time--more of a student's car than a smugmobile. 40MPG without even trying, and I can get 42 out of it if I keep the speed down and coast a lot. WHY, 13 years later, do I have to pay $40K for a giant toxic battery that will wear out after 5 years in order to get the same damned mileage I already get?
I don't believe the 70MPG claim. If they made a car where trip odometer / gas pump number = 70 every time, they'd tell us it was a hundred. If the damned thing gets fifty, that's an improvement.
I could give a shit about the super duper pooper scooper engine. Is it functional and durable? Safe and effective? The rest is lies from managers and salesmen.
Sure--I'll buy one. After they've been out for a year or two and we see what's the truth and what's a lie. And definitely not before the wheels fall off of the Nissan.
Pretty cool; When do the 2nd law deniers get in?
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I sincerely enjoy reading about new technologies and techniques as presented by the free-energy charlatans. Good entertainment and exercise.
Run your car on water! Generate free electricity; get off the grid!
Supervillains don't look like supervillains from up close. In fact, they look a lot like superheroes.
Think of all the injustice (however you choose to define it) in the world. Now, if you could get away with it, would you punish the perpetrators? Would you murder Hitler? Where would you stop?
This is the scene I see when I hear stories like this:
When I was about nine, my parents took me with them to visit friends. Their friends had a son my age and little girl, about 5 years old, who was quite simply an ill-behaved brat. Her brother and I caught her in the kitchen eating a bowl of chocolate frosting. So, we (the slightly older, and no less ill-behaved brats) smugly trotted her over to our folks.
Little sister stood there, smeared from head to foot in chocolate frosting and denied everything. Her mom gave her a bath and changed her clothes then made a new batch of frosting. Our parents could have given a shit about her brother's and my "helpful" revelation of his sister's activities. Looking back on it, I can see they were pretty fed up with EVERYONE involved.
And it does. All I'm seeing here is that your online reputation is visible to anybody you're likely to meet. As long as accountability and reputation work in a vaguely consistent manner, the potential for abuse is reduced.
The companies you're worried about not hiring you are subject penalties enforced by reputation, too: "Don't go work for Evilbastards Inc.; you can do much better here." "Don't accept any contract except T&M for Passthebuck, Ltd., bill them net14, and walk off the job when they miss the first check." "If you take a PO from Mortgagedtothehilt, LLC; make them prepay."
I always liked him as a comically kitschy author--I like really bad fantasy and skiffie. He went out and did it. Doesn't matter what "it" is (OK, maybe not infantaphagia or similar...)--kudos to anyone these days who gets off their butt and goes out and does it.
You're only asking for what you believe is reasonable, fair and just. You're not getting what you want when you want it on the terms you want it by using legal channels. Therefore, you are justified in pursuing whatever methods you like in order to get what you want. This is EXACTLY the same argument put forth by the people you're fighting against!
We're done here. It's broken. Strip copyright law. The public hates it. The studios hate it. It does not fulfill its constitutional mandate--to promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries.
Public proposals of new laws, frank and open discussions, and execution of the legislative process are in order! (Not, BTW, secret backroom "treaties" that are nothing more than an end-run around the legislative process.)
This is the next step to the stars, folks. Not by government-funded scientists and dreamers, but by entrepreneurs. Government funding is still driving the process; what we're seeing here is the handoff.
Back when the USSR was the bugaboo, we were told the enemy was a cloak & dagger type. So, we played TAG.
Now, we're told the enemy is a mad bomber. We should be playing TTG.
Maybe you have 1 team of "defenders" (team D) vs. "attackers" (team A). Members of team D are chosen from the student body by popular vote or faculty appointment.
Team A can be anyone from the student body, (including members of team D), students, faculty, or students from other schools. There is no process for joining team A, and members of team A do not need to say that they are on the team.
Victory requirements for team A involve placing gravel-filled bright red containers at in a public place. The gravel is a clearly harmless simulated bomb, as the squirt guns used in TAG. Revealing the red surface of the container means the bomb has been set off and the points are awarded.
More gravel or more public or more sensitive places score more points.
Bonus points for getting anyone to say they are afraid of a "terrorist".
Victory requirements for team D are to get elected again.
Every time the team A scores a point, each member of the student body has to pay team D a nickel.
If any single event scores team A a lot of points (team D decides what is "a lot") then the recess time, gets shortened by 1 minute. This must be announced as "reducing exposure to attack." Whenever this happens, each member of the student body must pay team D a dollar.
Members of team D can use the collected money however they want but if any of them directly pockets the money, they are subject to a penalty to be decided by the rest of team D.
I have disabled Comments on this post so that respectable visitors do not have to read the remarks made by a small number of extremely ignorant, rude, malicious and disingenuous individuals who cannot tolerate people expressing opinions that do not concur with their own.
The sexy meme will propagate much faster than the rational one! How do you get people to listen to the rational answer--especially when the rational answer is "Don't make decisions based on that--I don't know it and neither do you. You're a hazard to all of us while you're flying blind!"
"Up To" means absolutely nothing. If it's less than that, they told the truth. If it's more than that, you're getting something for free. Where's the damages?
Note that the price you pay is never "up to". That's always "starting at"...
For a panel. The panel has been developed by a series of electricians over the past two years, with multiple changes and comments by various clients during the construction, installation, commissioning, and buyoff process.
The panel is now installed and it's been bought off.
The BOM was printed out at the beginning of the project and has a thousand pencil marks, changes, and references stapled to it.
You must build an identical copy of the existing panel using this BOM. THEN talk to me about your plans to reconstruct the brain of an advanced flatworm from its genome.
We can worry about mammals later. I don't think you'll get past the panel.
After God had finished the rattlesnake, the toad, and the vampire, he had some awful substance left with which he made a scab. A scab is a two-legged animal with a corkscrew soul, a water brain, a combination backbone of jelly and glue. Where others have hearts, he carries a tumor of rotten principles. When a scab comes down the street, men turn their backs and Angels weep in Heaven, and the Devil shuts the gates of hell to keep him out....
Attributed to Jack London, but there's not really any proof he wrote it.
Beautiful. An accurate and descriptive term. Anything else would detract from the truth--something simply is what it is.
We must get sales and marketing involved for the next one, though! We need a snappy name--something that really pops--for several of them working together, perhaps arranged in some sort of an array?
For vaccine delivery. I wonder how difficult it would to make something similar in a very small, low-cost lab. This could be really good thing in places where a lot of people who don't have a lot of money need a vaccine.
My Dad can exercise his rights under copyright law with his VCR. Not with his comcast DVR (CGMS). Certainly not with his HD recorder (HDCP). If he wants to hack around these restrictions, he must develop everything himself. Nobody can sell him equipment to circumvent an access-control technology (DMCA)--even for the purpose of exercising his rights under the law.
Will you have the right to connect your general-purpose computer to the internet next year? Almost certainly. Will your ISP permit only connection of "trusted" or locked-down "appliance" type devices in the near future? Why would they do such a thing? Bandwidth costs money. Defending lawsuits costs money. So the answer is maybe. Depends on what you do about it. Consumer rejection killed DivX. TCPA has so far been a flop due to both political and technical reasons. Lack of interest made V-Chip largely irrelevant. Sony got egg on its face for their rootkit. BUT... DMCA, CGMS, HDCP and any number of draconian to the point of bizarre restrictions on games are right here in front of you today.
RMS may successfully appeal to the crackpot geeks (one of which I am proud to call myself) on/. with The Right to Read, but this is preaching to the choir.
So, again-- It is important that the general public be aware of these sorts of shenanigans. And that they make their outrage known by walking away from the culprit vendors and speaking simply, directly, and clearly to other potential customers.
Saying: That "app" you just paid $9.99 for in your iPhone--do you know that in any other environment--including your own laptop computer, you can have this and an almost infinite number of others like it for free?... This accomplishes a whole lot more than saying "Well, as long as I can build a computer from parts there is no problem!"
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I found that one to be a weak example. The kiss was coerced.
ST's most acclaimed stories have historically pulled their punches. The sparse attention to the problem of drug addiction that eventually made it to the screen in "City on the Edge of Forever" is the canonical example of this.
In a science fiction / fantasy setting, ST had much more opportunity to explore social issues openly in the plot, without wishy-washy excuses to the easily offended.
"Well, Kirk was forced into it. He wasn't really into black chicks. Every other object in the universe with a hole at the bottom of it is in his gunsights. Including other crewmembers who directly reported to him. But not Uhura."
What they did was great, but they could have done so much better. Then and now.
Oh, and the last movie sucked. Genocide --without so much as a tear shed. Oops--no more Vulcans. Well, better get on with business. Got a lot of rebuilding to do. Or, maybe (again) they're trying to tell us something about what we're doing right now...
I would expect a typical steam catapult to be WAY more reliable and maintainable than a linear motor.
I worked with a couple of them in an auto plant over a decade ago. Its job was to shuffle 3 tooling skids around among 3 robot station and one operator load station.
The design needed linear motors so the skids could travel uncoupled. The sequence of motion would have wound up any permanently attached cords or linkages in about 1/2 cycle.
The tools were clearly labeled with official signage as "TFH North" and "TFH South". It was only after working there for several months that I actually heard their real name.
"TFH" stood for "Tool from Hell". They were replaced with a different design next time I worked in that plant.
It's a neat trick and if they can get some benefit out if it, maybe it can be useful.
If they allow swastikas, Microsoft are Nazis.
The folks at MS probably think that would make them look bad, damage the brand, hurt sales, etc.
So they don't allow swastikas.
What is this so hard for you to understand?
I think it was actually called Star Trek at the time, but at some point, people started calling it "Space War".
We had eliza, and dungeon, too, and a chat program called "connect".
Once the connect fans had a party in the basement of one of the dorms, because they had really nice computer equipment. VT50s.
They all sat at their terminals and "chat"ted with each other. While in the same room.
For that reason, a person may not want to have their fingers linger too long on the screen after they make a selection at any time
They admit the machine will record an erroneous selection (vote) if a user (voter) leaves their fingers on the screen after a previous selection.
For something critical to the function of the system (both the voting machine and the democracy), "people are pressing the buttons wrong" is NOT acceptable.
While the EPA hasn't rated 2011 cars for gas mileage yet, Mazda expects it to come in at 28 mpg city, 35 mpg highway with the five-speed manual, and 1 mpg less on highway mileage with the automatic.
Not even close to what we got over a decade ago.
WTF happened? Environmental restrictions?
I have to get my car smogged every 2 years in the county where I live. It passes first time every time.
What's the problem with the new cars?
I've got a 1998 Nissan 200SX in the garage right now.
This was the cheap POS Nissan at the time--more of a student's car than a smugmobile.
40MPG without even trying, and I can get 42 out of it if I keep the speed down and coast a lot.
WHY, 13 years later, do I have to pay $40K for a giant toxic battery that will wear out after 5 years in order to get the same damned mileage I already get?
I don't believe the 70MPG claim. If they made a car where trip odometer / gas pump number = 70 every time, they'd tell us it was a hundred. If the damned thing gets fifty, that's an improvement.
I could give a shit about the super duper pooper scooper engine. Is it functional and durable? Safe and effective?
The rest is lies from managers and salesmen.
Sure--I'll buy one. After they've been out for a year or two and we see what's the truth and what's a lie.
And definitely not before the wheels fall off of the Nissan.
I sincerely enjoy reading about new technologies and techniques as presented by the free-energy charlatans.
Good entertainment and exercise.
Run your car on water!
Generate free electricity; get off the grid!
Supervillains don't look like supervillains from up close.
In fact, they look a lot like superheroes.
Think of all the injustice (however you choose to define it) in the world.
Now, if you could get away with it, would you punish the perpetrators?
Would you murder Hitler?
Where would you stop?
This is the scene I see when I hear stories like this:
When I was about nine, my parents took me with them to visit friends.
Their friends had a son my age and little girl, about 5 years old, who was quite simply an ill-behaved brat.
Her brother and I caught her in the kitchen eating a bowl of chocolate frosting.
So, we (the slightly older, and no less ill-behaved brats) smugly trotted her over to our folks.
Little sister stood there, smeared from head to foot in chocolate frosting and denied everything.
Her mom gave her a bath and changed her clothes then made a new batch of frosting.
Our parents could have given a shit about her brother's and my "helpful" revelation of his sister's activities.
Looking back on it, I can see they were pretty fed up with EVERYONE involved.
And it does.
All I'm seeing here is that your online reputation is visible to anybody you're likely to meet.
As long as accountability and reputation work in a vaguely consistent manner, the potential for abuse is reduced.
The companies you're worried about not hiring you are subject penalties enforced by reputation, too:
"Don't go work for Evilbastards Inc.; you can do much better here."
"Don't accept any contract except T&M for Passthebuck, Ltd., bill them net14, and walk off the job when they miss the first check."
"If you take a PO from Mortgagedtothehilt, LLC; make them prepay."
Welcome back to the small town.
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I always liked him as a comically kitschy author--I like really bad fantasy and skiffie.
He went out and did it.
Doesn't matter what "it" is (OK, maybe not infantaphagia or similar...)--kudos to anyone these days who gets off their butt and goes out and does it.
Webwasher flags it as something I should not be looking at.
I wonder what Dr. Allen is up to...
You're only asking for what you believe is reasonable, fair and just.
You're not getting what you want when you want it on the terms you want it by using legal channels.
Therefore, you are justified in pursuing whatever methods you like in order to get what you want.
This is EXACTLY the same argument put forth by the people you're fighting against!
We're done here. It's broken. Strip copyright law. The public hates it. The studios hate it. It does not fulfill its constitutional mandate-- to promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries.
Public proposals of new laws, frank and open discussions, and execution of the legislative process are in order!
(Not, BTW, secret backroom "treaties" that are nothing more than an end-run around the legislative process.)
This is the next step to the stars, folks.
Not by government-funded scientists and dreamers, but by entrepreneurs.
Government funding is still driving the process; what we're seeing here is the handoff.
Back when the USSR was the bugaboo, we were told the enemy was a cloak & dagger type. So, we played TAG.
Now, we're told the enemy is a mad bomber. We should be playing TTG.
Maybe you have 1 team of "defenders" (team D) vs. "attackers" (team A). Members of team D are chosen from the student body by popular vote or faculty appointment.
Team A can be anyone from the student body, (including members of team D), students, faculty, or students from other schools. There is no process for joining team A, and members of team A do not need to say that they are on the team.
Victory requirements for team A involve placing gravel-filled bright red containers at in a public place.
The gravel is a clearly harmless simulated bomb, as the squirt guns used in TAG. Revealing the red surface of the container means the bomb has been set off and the points are awarded.
More gravel or more public or more sensitive places score more points.
Bonus points for getting anyone to say they are afraid of a "terrorist".
Victory requirements for team D are to get elected again.
Every time the team A scores a point, each member of the student body has to pay team D a nickel.
If any single event scores team A a lot of points (team D decides what is "a lot") then the recess time, gets shortened by 1 minute. This must be announced as "reducing exposure to attack." Whenever this happens, each member of the student body must pay team D a dollar.
Members of team D can use the collected money however they want but if any of them directly pockets the money, they are subject to a penalty to be decided by the rest of team D.
I have disabled Comments on this post so that respectable visitors do not have to read the remarks made by a small number of extremely ignorant, rude, malicious and disingenuous individuals who cannot tolerate people expressing opinions that do not concur with their own.
The sexy meme will propagate much faster than the rational one!
How do you get people to listen to the rational answer--especially when the rational answer is "Don't make decisions based on that--I don't know it and neither do you. You're a hazard to all of us while you're flying blind!"
"Up To" means absolutely nothing.
If it's less than that, they told the truth.
If it's more than that, you're getting something for free. Where's the damages?
Note that the price you pay is never "up to". That's always "starting at"...
For a panel.
The panel has been developed by a series of electricians over the past two years, with multiple changes and comments by various clients during the construction, installation, commissioning, and buyoff process.
The panel is now installed and it's been bought off.
The BOM was printed out at the beginning of the project and has a thousand pencil marks, changes, and references stapled to it.
You must build an identical copy of the existing panel using this BOM.
THEN talk to me about your plans to reconstruct the brain of an advanced flatworm from its genome.
We can worry about mammals later. I don't think you'll get past the panel.
After God had finished the rattlesnake, the toad, and the vampire, he had some awful substance left with which he made a scab. A scab is a two-legged animal with a corkscrew soul, a water brain, a combination backbone of jelly and glue. Where others have hearts, he carries a tumor of rotten principles. When a scab comes down the street, men turn their backs and Angels weep in Heaven, and the Devil shuts the gates of hell to keep him out....
Attributed to Jack London, but there's not really any proof he wrote it.
Beautiful.
An accurate and descriptive term.
Anything else would detract from the truth--something simply is what it is.
We must get sales and marketing involved for the next one, though!
We need a snappy name--something that really pops--for several of them working together, perhaps arranged in some sort of an array?
For vaccine delivery.
I wonder how difficult it would to make something similar in a very small, low-cost lab.
This could be really good thing in places where a lot of people who don't have a lot of money need a vaccine.
google or wikipedia can help you with the concept of a general-purpose computer.
With regard to your personal attack and argument from adverse consequences, resorting to this sort of thing shows you have no real basis for your position.
My Dad can exercise his rights under copyright law with his VCR. Not with his comcast DVR (CGMS). Certainly not with his HD recorder (HDCP). If he wants to hack around these restrictions, he must develop everything himself. Nobody can sell him equipment to circumvent an access-control technology (DMCA)--even for the purpose of exercising his rights under the law.
Will you have the right to connect your general-purpose computer to the internet next year? Almost certainly.
Will your ISP permit only connection of "trusted" or locked-down "appliance" type devices in the near future? Why would they do such a thing? Bandwidth costs money. Defending lawsuits costs money. So the answer is maybe. Depends on what you do about it.
Consumer rejection killed DivX. TCPA has so far been a flop due to both political and technical reasons. Lack of interest made V-Chip largely irrelevant. Sony got egg on its face for their rootkit. BUT...
DMCA, CGMS, HDCP and any number of draconian to the point of bizarre restrictions on games are right here in front of you today.
RMS may successfully appeal to the crackpot geeks (one of which I am proud to call myself) on /. with The Right to Read, but this is preaching to the choir.
So, again--
It is important that the general public be aware of these sorts of shenanigans.
And that they make their outrage known by walking away from the culprit vendors and speaking simply, directly, and clearly to other potential customers.
Saying: ...
That "app" you just paid $9.99 for in your iPhone--do you know that in any other environment--including your own laptop computer, you can have this and an almost infinite number of others like it for free?
This accomplishes a whole lot more than saying "Well, as long as I can build a computer from parts there is no problem!"