This was actually more or less my original point, but I wasn't even talking about man on top good-ol missionary style sex. I was talking about a person stepping out of the shower naked in a soap commercial. I frankly wouldn't mind if my four boys were inspired to take bath...it would remove one power struggle from my evenings!
ever shown a direct shot of someone getting shot, stabbed, sliced, or any amount of bloodshed
Agreed, they do not show the slow-mo head explosion. As Hitchcock demonstrated with his craft (e.g. the famous shower stabbing scene) though, the psychological impact can be even greater even if the blood and guts is removed. As the original post of this thread a few particular examples...some of the CBS criminal investigation show trainlers had sprawled murder victims in the early weekend afternoon. There was one ad for a prime time show with a woman being dragged from her home while a child his in shadow in the corner watching. These are not the kind of images a 3 year old child is prepared to understand. In terms of movie trailers, many of the halloween crop of horror films had trailers during NFL games. Movie trailers even without the direct graphics are flashy with compressed audio and plenty of explosions....not for little kids.
I actually tried to file a complaint with the FCC. The only thing they allow you to report is nudity and off color language.
A person stepping out of the shower is natural, legal and a very real part of millions of people's lives and yet it is "indecent" to show on television. On the other hand, an action sequence with some demon from the pits of hell tearing a person apart in front of their children is fine for a Sunday afternoon movie promotion. I like to watch an occasional sporting event with my kids (11,6,2,2 years old) and have to have a hand on the remote. It would be one thing at 9:00pm, but quite another at 2:00 on Sunday. I would like to let my oldest watch a football game (he is more into it than I am), but you can actually see a response to the flashing explosive movie trailers in my younger kids.
I am frustrated as a parent that the human body and sexuality that is natural, legal, etc...is considered too dirty for television, but antisocial violent behavior that is both illegal and unnatural is "fine for family viewing". It's a strange world we live in!
A buddy of mine made the best $5 investment ever on a practical joke. His roomy swore Coke would desolve silverware. The bet was on and they put a food service knife in a Coke bottle and put it in an out of the way spot. My friend found it (completely unharmed by the way) while packing up at the end of the year. He took it out, and put the bottle in the original location. When his room mate returned he made a show of "remembering" the bet. He lost the bet, but the reaction of winner was priceless. It would be an interesting under/over on how much the sucker would loose if he ever tried to repeat the bet!
The downside is that there are about 4 investigative journalists left that will take the time (sometimes many months) on a project to dredge up facts.
Online or in the paper it is a big circle jerk of NYT reporting on CNN response to article in News Week that was whispered by some un-named "official" on background. Whether it is a pecker tracked dress or the folks keeping us safe from the bad guys commiting treason, the reporting is the same lazy high volume low quality garbage.
I have heard interviews from NASA astronauts that have the utmost respect for the Russians. They have experience operating in space over the long haul (e.g. Mir) where they don't have the option of a complete overhaul every 4-7 days of operation like the shuttle. It is a completely different mode of thinking.
This is actually the Russian's style. We American's always believe we can do something better, so for each major space program they start with a clean sheet of paper and come up with a design that is bigger, better, faster...
On the other hand, once the Russians solve a problem they reuse the design. The engines used for the boosters that launched Sputnic were fundamentally the same as those used for every subsequent vehicle for decades. Need more thrust, add more engines. If it ain't broke don't fix it.
Shouldn't it be telling that people that use a product and "...it just works" and "I like it..." appears to be commonplace with respect to Mac and less common with windows.
I have used both platforms and have thrown my mouse against the wall with a "Fuck You Bill Gates" more than once and have never been so provoked by frustration with Mac. Is this due to media spin or my user experience?...I think the later.
The interesting thing is the g-forces involved. Impulsively (1 ms) give yourself a sufficient boost to be rocketed 1000 feet into the air. I think more likely your shoes would cause your legs to explode from the knee down.
In my woodworking, IT and flyfishing magazines there are some good ads. A good one is:
Relevant to Audience (woodworkers are interested in table saws, not on-line gambling, punching the bouncing kangaroo for lower mortgage rates...)
Informative
At their best, some ads can be as educational and useful as an article in the magazine. Provided full disclosure to differentiate an ad and an article, good ads are welcome.
In other words, when the "stone" definitions don't present themselves scientist find themselves in the land of fudge factors, dimensional analysis and curve fitting observation...or as Einstein himself would have called it...the "wood".
All of which reduces their freedom of action and consumes their resources.
If you think we are going to beat an insurgent "war" based on a cold war philosophy of economic attrition you're fooling yourself. If the bad guys were smart, a few well placed phone calls at 5 cents a minute would send the department of homeland security into a absolute tizzy spending millions/day to assess and counter the threat. Plastic explosives and brainwashed idealist kids are far cheaper to deploy and support than a platoon of reservists.
Not only do I hear chatty Cathy's running monologue on her post menopausal hot flashes and yeast infections with her girlfriends, but I get it in club mix stereo....great!!!
He is right, you don't want heros. What you want are leaders and people with the ability to project their insight, skill, knowledge so that it can be amplified beyond what a mere mortal can accomplish in 24 hours.
Suppose I have a flash of inspiration for a new design concept. If I can't communicate that idea and inspire others to jump along with me, it will take me far longer to do the analysis, experimentation, fabrication...to validate the theory if I am off in a corner or working in the middle of the night on it.
With respect to the "repeatable process" mantra I think it is symptom of bloated mediocrity. I had the pleasure of working with an individual that did skunkworks high speed config work for what became the F-18. In terms of engineering content 5 people did the work of 50 Boeing Aero E's (more due to process, administrative limitations than talent). At GM it would take 1,000 to accomlish the same task. The problem is that the 5 people were unencumbered by many of the things those at say GM would be...but with that freedom comes a level of commitment and competence that is rare.
Co-op let me realize how the system worked before I graduated
It is a rare company that does much engineering any more. I was an Aerospace Engineer at Boeing. It was a "love team" in that the people were very competent, had a great work ethic, cared about what they did etc. Other areas in Boeing (structures etc) and in the automotive industry (GM, Ford et al) there is not much engineering going on in proportion to the bodies in the buildings.
By engineering I refer to the processes of decision making and analysis that require an understanding of the fundamental physics of your discipline and insight into its application to a design solution. The fun and exciting work that requires thought has been smoothered in mindless multimatrixed useless organizational structurers. You could take a typical group of 100 employees and replace them with five. Four to do the work and one to say no to useless requests. The amazing thing is that these people could come from the original organization! Since companies compensate management on the size of their empire rather than their ability you will not see this happen.
I wonder how long it will take for the consolations Yahoo, Microsoft, et al have made to make the web "safe" for Chinese browsers are imposed by the Department of Homeland Security to make us safe from internet terrorists.
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This was actually more or less my original point, but I wasn't even talking about man on top good-ol missionary style sex. I was talking about a person stepping out of the shower naked in a soap commercial. I frankly wouldn't mind if my four boys were inspired to take bath...it would remove one power struggle from my evenings!
Agreed, they do not show the slow-mo head explosion. As Hitchcock demonstrated with his craft (e.g. the famous shower stabbing scene) though, the psychological impact can be even greater even if the blood and guts is removed. As the original post of this thread a few particular examples...some of the CBS criminal investigation show trainlers had sprawled murder victims in the early weekend afternoon. There was one ad for a prime time show with a woman being dragged from her home while a child his in shadow in the corner watching. These are not the kind of images a 3 year old child is prepared to understand. In terms of movie trailers, many of the halloween crop of horror films had trailers during NFL games. Movie trailers even without the direct graphics are flashy with compressed audio and plenty of explosions....not for little kids.
A person stepping out of the shower is natural, legal and a very real part of millions of people's lives and yet it is "indecent" to show on television. On the other hand, an action sequence with some demon from the pits of hell tearing a person apart in front of their children is fine for a Sunday afternoon movie promotion. I like to watch an occasional sporting event with my kids (11,6,2,2 years old) and have to have a hand on the remote. It would be one thing at 9:00pm, but quite another at 2:00 on Sunday. I would like to let my oldest watch a football game (he is more into it than I am), but you can actually see a response to the flashing explosive movie trailers in my younger kids.
I am frustrated as a parent that the human body and sexuality that is natural, legal, etc...is considered too dirty for television, but antisocial violent behavior that is both illegal and unnatural is "fine for family viewing". It's a strange world we live in!
....and don't mention the countless fuzzy bunnies that died in the animal testing phase of Barbara Streisand's latest release.
A buddy of mine made the best $5 investment ever on a practical joke. His roomy swore Coke would desolve silverware. The bet was on and they put a food service knife in a Coke bottle and put it in an out of the way spot. My friend found it (completely unharmed by the way) while packing up at the end of the year. He took it out, and put the bottle in the original location. When his room mate returned he made a show of "remembering" the bet. He lost the bet, but the reaction of winner was priceless. It would be an interesting under/over on how much the sucker would loose if he ever tried to repeat the bet!
Online or in the paper it is a big circle jerk of NYT reporting on CNN response to article in News Week that was whispered by some un-named "official" on background. Whether it is a pecker tracked dress or the folks keeping us safe from the bad guys commiting treason, the reporting is the same lazy high volume low quality garbage.
I'll collect my winnings later.
I have heard interviews from NASA astronauts that have the utmost respect for the Russians. They have experience operating in space over the long haul (e.g. Mir) where they don't have the option of a complete overhaul every 4-7 days of operation like the shuttle. It is a completely different mode of thinking.
On the other hand, once the Russians solve a problem they reuse the design. The engines used for the boosters that launched Sputnic were fundamentally the same as those used for every subsequent vehicle for decades. Need more thrust, add more engines. If it ain't broke don't fix it.
I have used both platforms and have thrown my mouse against the wall with a "Fuck You Bill Gates" more than once and have never been so provoked by frustration with Mac. Is this due to media spin or my user experience?...I think the later.
The "if you have nothing to hide" apologists for elimination of freedoms is a slippery slope to totalitarianism. Orwell would snicker!
Maybe Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) laws are more appropriate than anti-trust avenues.
The interesting thing is the g-forces involved. Impulsively (1 ms) give yourself a sufficient boost to be rocketed 1000 feet into the air. I think more likely your shoes would cause your legs to explode from the knee down.
At their best, some ads can be as educational and useful as an article in the magazine. Provided full disclosure to differentiate an ad and an article, good ads are welcome.
In other words, when the "stone" definitions don't present themselves scientist find themselves in the land of fudge factors, dimensional analysis and curve fitting observation...or as Einstein himself would have called it...the "wood".
"Surplus that Corba and refresh them with some Duff's devices. I think we ought to get the multi-core ones to cut down on licensing costs."
If you think we are going to beat an insurgent "war" based on a cold war philosophy of economic attrition you're fooling yourself. If the bad guys were smart, a few well placed phone calls at 5 cents a minute would send the department of homeland security into a absolute tizzy spending millions/day to assess and counter the threat. Plastic explosives and brainwashed idealist kids are far cheaper to deploy and support than a platoon of reservists.
I wonder if this would handle concurrent programming and constraint-based inference Mozart far better than existing chip architectures.
Not only do I hear chatty Cathy's running monologue on her post menopausal hot flashes and yeast infections with her girlfriends, but I get it in club mix stereo....great!!!
He is right, you don't want heros. What you want are leaders and people with the ability to project their insight, skill, knowledge so that it can be amplified beyond what a mere mortal can accomplish in 24 hours.
Suppose I have a flash of inspiration for a new design concept. If I can't communicate that idea and inspire others to jump along with me, it will take me far longer to do the analysis, experimentation, fabrication...to validate the theory if I am off in a corner or working in the middle of the night on it.
With respect to the "repeatable process" mantra I think it is symptom of bloated mediocrity. I had the pleasure of working with an individual that did skunkworks high speed config work for what became the F-18. In terms of engineering content 5 people did the work of 50 Boeing Aero E's (more due to process, administrative limitations than talent). At GM it would take 1,000 to accomlish the same task. The problem is that the 5 people were unencumbered by many of the things those at say GM would be...but with that freedom comes a level of commitment and competence that is rare.
It is a rare company that does much engineering any more. I was an Aerospace Engineer at Boeing. It was a "love team" in that the people were very competent, had a great work ethic, cared about what they did etc. Other areas in Boeing (structures etc) and in the automotive industry (GM, Ford et al) there is not much engineering going on in proportion to the bodies in the buildings.
By engineering I refer to the processes of decision making and analysis that require an understanding of the fundamental physics of your discipline and insight into its application to a design solution. The fun and exciting work that requires thought has been smoothered in mindless multimatrixed useless organizational structurers. You could take a typical group of 100 employees and replace them with five. Four to do the work and one to say no to useless requests. The amazing thing is that these people could come from the original organization! Since companies compensate management on the size of their empire rather than their ability you will not see this happen.
Rather than making the elephant bigger and bigger it needs to become a coordinated herd of ...Gnus' maybe?
I wonder how long it will take for the consolations Yahoo, Microsoft, et al have made to make the web "safe" for Chinese browsers are imposed by the Department of Homeland Security to make us safe from internet terrorists.
And along the lines of "Can God make a sandwich so big he can't eat it?"...what would the Flying Spaghetti Monster say if struck in the tenticles?