[1] I said Democrats invariably overspend. To an intellectually sound mind, this does not imply the opposite. I did NOT say the Republicans never overspend. I did not mention the Republicans at all. This strawman was a product of your own ideologically fogged mind. That being said, Democrats, when unrestrained, will invariably overspend. Their brutal anal rape of the California budget is on the level of the criminal, and makes the federal GOPers look like amateurs.
[2] Re: abortions. Aw, did I tread on your little plastic moralities? Boo hoo, pussy. Suck me, swallow, cook me a steak and then die. But I tease.
And, yes, there are some women in this world who should have forced abortions so the rest of us don't have to pay for their little bratty living arguments for putting birth control into the water systems of the planet. Abortions are cheaper than jail terms for the little ones that grow up to be serial thugs. Hell, I'd make abortion leagl through the fifty-seventh trimester.;-)
I wish people would top being "technically correct" and discuss the real issue at hand...
That's a wonderfully Orwellian statement. Congrats. Well, that might happen if the initial posting didn't claim that the testing was "outlawed". There's nothing wrong with people setting the record straight.
Here in California we passed some funding bonds for stem cell research. While I support the research (Personally, I'd set up free abortion kiosks on the street in order to harvest them. I consider "ethics" on these issues to be the domain of the weak and intellectually stunted) I voted against it because it was too much credit spending at a time we are trying to dig out from the pit that unrestrained Democratic governance invariably digs. Maybe next time. If the treatments stem cells promise are so wonderful, then the private sector can foot some of the bill.
Oh, don't single out one group. It's pointless. Everyone claims victimhood. The Christians claimed it this last Christmas, but so did the athieists who were somehow oppressed by someone putting a fucking nativity scene in a park. All sides are guilty. Madison's divide and conquer approach to controlling a citizenry is out of control and has gone pathologically fractal.
And we are a nation of pussies. This is the heart of the Info Age. JoeBob in his trailer gets live images from around the world every day. People know what it's like out there. They know we have it better than, say, 95%.
And although I have no use for Republicans, I get the huffiest reactions when I disagree with Democrats. Oh, my great fluffy, bouncing baby Jehovah, go to a Democrat dominated town hall type discussion and suggest any sort of private sector solution to anything and they're ready to drag out the stake, gasoline and matches.
Really? I expected to be flamed and modded into oblivion (not that I care).
People here think the RIAA sniffing around for debatable file sharing is facism. No, having your family raped and murdered by state thugs before your eyes simply because you exist is facism, and happens every single day in this world.
Wow. You shiver in fear over what thee next FCC chairdroid might think about boobies in the Superbowl. I'll be sure to alert all the people in the Sudan, where the cultural war there results in human beings sold into slavery. Jesus Tap Dancing Christ, are we a pack of soft pussies in this country.
And that's the heart of the problem. Too many of you people exist in the demon haunted wolrd described by Sagan for religous types, except you construct human demons.
I had zero use for Powell or Ashcroft, but, curiously, the skies failed to split asunder and horns of the Apocalypse failed to sound under their reigns. Fancy that.
You all need to calm down and cut the histrionics. It does not gain converts. I feel your pain, but you only drive others away with the heated and vulgar rhetoric that shows up here and elsewhere. Polls seem to show that Farenheit911 probabaly was a net plus for Bush. I'd wager money that Penn & Teller's "Bullshit!" on Showtime has not turned very many people away from paranormal flim-flam relative to those who were pushed more deeply into it.
Culture war happens everywhere, and has been happening as long as we higher primates have been coherent enough to have culture. The EU loudly makes fun of ours in a desperate attempt to ignore their own problems, some of which run deeper into the past than the USA has existed. China slaghters her own citizens in her periodic bouts of cultural unrest. And what do you think Islamofacism has doing these past 14 centuries?
Culture war? Buddy, on that front, we in the USA are rank amateurs in a world of heavily seasoned professionals where cultural hatreds seem to have become a genetic memory.
It's stuff like that that prevents me from being fully Libertarian. If you take the collective whole of these people's ideas and actually implement them, you wind up with chaos and feifdoms. They sit in their little think-tanks and spin their dreamy-dreams, but they're no better than the authoritarians in thinking any of these things through. This is why I will rarely listen to an academic on any topic where equations cannot be written or algorithms constructed.
I agree the FCC should not be regulating content, but the frequency spectrum is fixed resource that must be managed. If you can't see that, well, there's nothing to be done with you, I guess. Besides, the Internet has long since given voice to those who were not heard when the broadcast spectrum was the sole vehicle of widespread meme dispersal.
And I can say that our state legislature is the biggest pack of useless motherfuckers ever to hold office. People have made fun of Arnold, but he's been a friggin breath of fresh air.
This is the legislature that wants to give driver's licenses to illegal aliens. One of them wanted to design government buildings according to the "rules" of fung shui. They wanted to raise gas taxes while driving state funded SUVs and luxury cars and exempting themselves from the tax. They had laws that allowed shady law firms to openly blackmail small businesses and had to be dragged kicking and screaming into fixing iy by local media activists.
I could go on for 50 pages. People call Bush dumb. Cripes, Bush is Descartes and Pascal combined compared to the dumbass piles of brainless drooling shit that sit in our statehouse. And we can't get rid of them because of the gerrymandered districts. Even if they get tossed out via term limits, the ideologically based districting just projectile vomits up another extremist.
I'm amazed the law didn't call for $2,000,000 in fines and life in prison without parole.
Pronounced teedris. My parents work on the space segment for TDRSS in, geez, the late 70's? Early 80's? I still have a sticker for the program somewhere.
Good point.:-) OK, it's REALLY REALLY REALLY darker and gritter than the original.
The Cylon attack in the original was a cheap SFX lightshow.
The Cylon attack in the new show is really nasty: nuke after nuke after nuke right in the heart of population centers. It makes "The Day After" look like Mary Poppins. You really get the sense that this is not war- this is an attempt at complete extermination. The original was too cheesy to accomplish that.
One thing I don't see mention much is the virtual zoom lens activity in the spaceFX shots. It really gives a greater sense of 3D and more more solid feel to the spacecraft than previous shows.
is the fanboys of the older series huffing and puffing about violating the purity of the original (like making Starbuck a girl or some other thing that got their pink panties all wrapped around the axle, to mix a metaphor).
I guess in a world where Britney Spears or Adam Sandler can have millions of devoted fans, even the original Battlestar Galactica can have them, too.
The scene in the new miniseries, with a horizon filled with mushroom clouds and desperate people blindly fleeing, by itself kicked the ass of the entire original series.
And don't even argue with me or I'll bring up Galactica 1980. AND I'll bitch slap your sorry ass, punk, and then make you cook me a steak.
Appple always does this. The 1.0 product has some weel done essentials. Then they add stuff, like the way GarageBand got added to the iLife collection.
I may get iWork. I've been looking for a way to do animated, standalone presentations.
After playing too much Solitaire and Freecell at a waiting for an antenna repair at a remote test site, I began to have Alice In Wonderland waking dreams. I became convinced that the woman in the control room was the Red Queen. I could swear she said "Eat me", but I was not prepared to follow the white rabbit.
I'm this way naturally. I don't use any chemicals.
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Maybe I just woke up extra cynical today, which you wouldn't think possible.
The rest is probably just random. There may be no ghost in the shell at all.
[1] I said Democrats invariably overspend. To an intellectually sound mind, this does not imply the opposite. I did NOT say the Republicans never overspend. I did not mention the Republicans at all. This strawman was a product of your own ideologically fogged mind. That being said, Democrats, when unrestrained, will invariably overspend. Their brutal anal rape of the California budget is on the level of the criminal, and makes the federal GOPers look like amateurs.
[2] Re: abortions. Aw, did I tread on your little plastic moralities? Boo hoo, pussy. Suck me, swallow, cook me a steak and then die. But I tease.
And, yes, there are some women in this world who should have forced abortions so the rest of us don't have to pay for their little bratty living arguments for putting birth control into the water systems of the planet. Abortions are cheaper than jail terms for the little ones that grow up to be serial thugs. Hell, I'd make abortion leagl through the fifty-seventh trimester. ;-)
That's a wonderfully Orwellian statement. Congrats. Well, that might happen if the initial posting didn't claim that the testing was "outlawed". There's nothing wrong with people setting the record straight.
Here in California we passed some funding bonds for stem cell research. While I support the research (Personally, I'd set up free abortion kiosks on the street in order to harvest them. I consider "ethics" on these issues to be the domain of the weak and intellectually stunted) I voted against it because it was too much credit spending at a time we are trying to dig out from the pit that unrestrained Democratic governance invariably digs. Maybe next time. If the treatments stem cells promise are so wonderful, then the private sector can foot some of the bill.
Can I join you? We could start a vast, wasteland roaming posse. I've actually built pneumatic arrow launchers, so I'm handy.
Right there.
*BONK* No one *BONK* likes *BONK* an *BONK* ideology *BONK* geek. *BONK* *KICK* *WHAM* *WHAM* *WHAM* *WHAM* *WHAM* *WHAM* *WHAM*
And we are a nation of pussies. This is the heart of the Info Age. JoeBob in his trailer gets live images from around the world every day. People know what it's like out there. They know we have it better than, say, 95%.
And although I have no use for Republicans, I get the huffiest reactions when I disagree with Democrats. Oh, my great fluffy, bouncing baby Jehovah, go to a Democrat dominated town hall type discussion and suggest any sort of private sector solution to anything and they're ready to drag out the stake, gasoline and matches.
You heard me, bitches.
People here think the RIAA sniffing around for debatable file sharing is facism. No, having your family raped and murdered by state thugs before your eyes simply because you exist is facism, and happens every single day in this world.
Wow. You shiver in fear over what thee next FCC chairdroid might think about boobies in the Superbowl. I'll be sure to alert all the people in the Sudan, where the cultural war there results in human beings sold into slavery. Jesus Tap Dancing Christ, are we a pack of soft pussies in this country.
And that's the heart of the problem. Too many of you people exist in the demon haunted wolrd described by Sagan for religous types, except you construct human demons.
I had zero use for Powell or Ashcroft, but, curiously, the skies failed to split asunder and horns of the Apocalypse failed to sound under their reigns. Fancy that.
You all need to calm down and cut the histrionics. It does not gain converts. I feel your pain, but you only drive others away with the heated and vulgar rhetoric that shows up here and elsewhere. Polls seem to show that Farenheit911 probabaly was a net plus for Bush. I'd wager money that Penn & Teller's "Bullshit!" on Showtime has not turned very many people away from paranormal flim-flam relative to those who were pushed more deeply into it.
Culture war happens everywhere, and has been happening as long as we higher primates have been coherent enough to have culture. The EU loudly makes fun of ours in a desperate attempt to ignore their own problems, some of which run deeper into the past than the USA has existed. China slaghters her own citizens in her periodic bouts of cultural unrest. And what do you think Islamofacism has doing these past 14 centuries?
Culture war? Buddy, on that front, we in the USA are rank amateurs in a world of heavily seasoned professionals where cultural hatreds seem to have become a genetic memory.
I agree the FCC should not be regulating content, but the frequency spectrum is fixed resource that must be managed. If you can't see that, well, there's nothing to be done with you, I guess. Besides, the Internet has long since given voice to those who were not heard when the broadcast spectrum was the sole vehicle of widespread meme dispersal.
This is the legislature that wants to give driver's licenses to illegal aliens. One of them wanted to design government buildings according to the "rules" of fung shui. They wanted to raise gas taxes while driving state funded SUVs and luxury cars and exempting themselves from the tax. They had laws that allowed shady law firms to openly blackmail small businesses and had to be dragged kicking and screaming into fixing iy by local media activists.
I could go on for 50 pages. People call Bush dumb. Cripes, Bush is Descartes and Pascal combined compared to the dumbass piles of brainless drooling shit that sit in our statehouse. And we can't get rid of them because of the gerrymandered districts. Even if they get tossed out via term limits, the ideologically based districting just projectile vomits up another extremist.
I'm amazed the law didn't call for $2,000,000 in fines and life in prison without parole.
I imagine it needs an upgrade, yes?
Honestly, fanboys, the party has been over for a long time. DS9 was the last ST series to have any merit, and only in the first two or three seasons.
The Cylon attack in the original was a cheap SFX lightshow.
The Cylon attack in the new show is really nasty: nuke after nuke after nuke right in the heart of population centers. It makes "The Day After" look like Mary Poppins. You really get the sense that this is not war- this is an attempt at complete extermination. The original was too cheesy to accomplish that.
One thing I don't see mention much is the virtual zoom lens activity in the spaceFX shots. It really gives a greater sense of 3D and more more solid feel to the spacecraft than previous shows.
(phone rings)
"This is Jack Bauer."
"Jack! The Cylons-"
*BOOM*
I guess in a world where Britney Spears or Adam Sandler can have millions of devoted fans, even the original Battlestar Galactica can have them, too.
The scene in the new miniseries, with a horizon filled with mushroom clouds and desperate people blindly fleeing, by itself kicked the ass of the entire original series.
And don't even argue with me or I'll bring up Galactica 1980. AND I'll bitch slap your sorry ass, punk, and then make you cook me a steak.
Welcome to the American legal system.
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Hey, if we could send the poor and the children to Titan, we would.
Eh. Whatever. Where do I send my resume?
This of course assumes that every location on the planet is stored somewhere from multiple angles. I guess you can scale in software.
Do I get eggroll with that?
I may get iWork. I've been looking for a way to do animated, standalone presentations.
I'm this way naturally. I don't use any chemicals.