Perhaps you should read the comic book before you bash it instead of reading just the show summary.
Sure, the show summary sounds like more of the same, but the book dealt with issues like bioterror weapons in a large populated city, memetic viruses (ideas that reproduce and self propogate in a malignant way), and the terror organizations who carry out mass bombings.
But then again, you don't seem to be one of those people who'd actually read instead of reading a blurb.
Actually, you're wrong.
The plot likes to deal with man-made problems to show that not every threat is external. The pilot dealt with an old Soviet EM channeler that was implanted in the head of a sleeper Soviet agent who defected, never realizing that the bomb in his skull will eventually detonate as it decomposed in brain tissue.
The closest the series ever got to aliens was when an Alien meme took over a couple blocks of the city, turning them into mindless animals.
Thankfully, though, the WB has released the pilot back to the company that produced it instead of holding onto it like some networks to prevent it from ever being made.
Right now, Ellis and the folks are negotiating with other television stations with the pilot, which Ellis remarked as impressive. There's still hopes yet, folks. You might still be on the Global Frequency.
The audit of the unprecedented use of electronic voting would be a pretty good learning experience for us as a potential nation of future electronic voters.
However, I wonder what the potential political repercussions of an audit would be should the audit find inconsistencies or possible voter problems that skewed a state to the candidate that lost after the fact. Would Kerry renounce his concession?
Not to sound like a horrible pessimist, but I think this channel would have a great deal of trouble if it were Nation wide. For far too long, science has become stigmitized by popular culture, and the education system, into being something regarded as work. It's too bad that when people watch TV and see something that tries to show them how beautiful the world is, their eyes gloss over.
Of course, I am generalizing a lot of people in the US. But Americans don't place as much emphasis on science and mathematics anymore. Unlike during the Cold War, where science was encouraged to kids (to beat the Russians), science today has become another class you have to take for your report cards. I don't think people would want to bring what they regard as work into their vegetative times.
Another problem I see with the youth today is that they tell themselves "Math is hard. Science is hard." If they keep telling themselves that, how would they ever watch a channel devoted to it? There's a horrible self-fulfilling prophecy at work. It doesn't help that the popular culture likes to impress onto kids that being bad in math or science is something to be proud of.
It seems to be that the RIAA's suing organizations with the hope that eventually one of the suits would stick and an sympathetic judge that they bought would rule in their favor. After all, there's no shortage of P2P protocols and networks to go after, right?
And if that doesn't work, they can still blanket-change the legislation by paying Orrin Hatch to be what he is best as, an agent against change.
Most people who argue against the current Chinese regime make the mistake that China is a culture that is similar to Western cultures. China is not and have never been individualist as Western civilizations; rather, it is a collectivist culture.
The Western civilizations exalt the individual while the Chinese exalt the whole. To try and force a form of government where the individual is the focus of power and not the group is as problematic for China as if the US started becoming a totalitarian government.
Remember Richard Garriot AKA Lord British? He used to sell his Akalabeth game with a plastic baggie and Xeroxed manuals. If the game is good enough, someone will buy it, no matter how bad the presentation.
Just think. If Legislation pushes it to 100 years, then we might have to wait a few years to hear Edison sing "Mary had a Little Lamb" without having to worry about copyrights.
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Perhaps you should read the comic book before you bash it instead of reading just the show summary.
Sure, the show summary sounds like more of the same, but the book dealt with issues like bioterror weapons in a large populated city, memetic viruses (ideas that reproduce and self propogate in a malignant way), and the terror organizations who carry out mass bombings.
But then again, you don't seem to be one of those people who'd actually read instead of reading a blurb.
Actually, you're wrong. The plot likes to deal with man-made problems to show that not every threat is external. The pilot dealt with an old Soviet EM channeler that was implanted in the head of a sleeper Soviet agent who defected, never realizing that the bomb in his skull will eventually detonate as it decomposed in brain tissue.
The closest the series ever got to aliens was when an Alien meme took over a couple blocks of the city, turning them into mindless animals.
Thankfully, though, the WB has released the pilot back to the company that produced it instead of holding onto it like some networks to prevent it from ever being made.
Right now, Ellis and the folks are negotiating with other television stations with the pilot, which Ellis remarked as impressive. There's still hopes yet, folks. You might still be on the Global Frequency.
The audit of the unprecedented use of electronic voting would be a pretty good learning experience for us as a potential nation of future electronic voters.
However, I wonder what the potential political repercussions of an audit would be should the audit find inconsistencies or possible voter problems that skewed a state to the candidate that lost after the fact. Would Kerry renounce his concession?
Not to sound like a horrible pessimist, but I think this channel would have a great deal of trouble if it were Nation wide. For far too long, science has become stigmitized by popular culture, and the education system, into being something regarded as work. It's too bad that when people watch TV and see something that tries to show them how beautiful the world is, their eyes gloss over.
Of course, I am generalizing a lot of people in the US. But Americans don't place as much emphasis on science and mathematics anymore. Unlike during the Cold War, where science was encouraged to kids (to beat the Russians), science today has become another class you have to take for your report cards. I don't think people would want to bring what they regard as work into their vegetative times.
Another problem I see with the youth today is that they tell themselves "Math is hard. Science is hard." If they keep telling themselves that, how would they ever watch a channel devoted to it? There's a horrible self-fulfilling prophecy at work. It doesn't help that the popular culture likes to impress onto kids that being bad in math or science is something to be proud of.
It seems to be that the RIAA's suing organizations with the hope that eventually one of the suits would stick and an sympathetic judge that they bought would rule in their favor. After all, there's no shortage of P2P protocols and networks to go after, right? And if that doesn't work, they can still blanket-change the legislation by paying Orrin Hatch to be what he is best as, an agent against change.
After companies sell my private information 50 times, I can manage to buy some nickel candy! Sounds like a sweet deal to me!
The RIAA has decided that the holiday season is a season of giving...subpeonas.
Most people who argue against the current Chinese regime make the mistake that China is a culture that is similar to Western cultures. China is not and have never been individualist as Western civilizations; rather, it is a collectivist culture. The Western civilizations exalt the individual while the Chinese exalt the whole. To try and force a form of government where the individual is the focus of power and not the group is as problematic for China as if the US started becoming a totalitarian government.
Huzzah, I have now lost all reason to move from my computer. Now, if this thing would fix me a sandwich...
China is definitely sending manned missions and no wussy probes. Why is everyone copying China?
Remember Star Trek and its cheesy effects?
Remember Richard Garriot AKA Lord British? He used to sell his Akalabeth game with a plastic baggie and Xeroxed manuals. If the game is good enough, someone will buy it, no matter how bad the presentation.
It's also been his first work in years.
Well, we broke up Humpty Dumpty (Bell) and now we're putting them back together again. Yeah, the US is definitely in the consumer's corner.
Just think. If Legislation pushes it to 100 years, then we might have to wait a few years to hear Edison sing "Mary had a Little Lamb" without having to worry about copyrights.
It'd be sad when one day your computer will be telling you, "I'm not in the mood, I have a headache."
A computer that understands what it means when I hold a shotgun to it.
Yet so far... Anyway, I'm quite looking forward to the Tablet PC, it seems logically where the PC is meant to go.
First time I built a machine, I kept my other machine on and logged into chat so I can get realtime advice from the geeks.