Hate to tell you- but NBC owns Sci-Fi network, and in the New BattleStar Galactica, we already have a Latino Adama, a female Starbuck, and an asain female cylon Boomer. Plus, NBC has already played the pilot- just before SCI-FI released the first episode of the new series. For those who hate moral relativism- it's already shaping up to be just as bad as you say- a holy war between the monotheistic Cylons and the polytheistic humans- with an emphasis in the last episode on God wanting to wipe both races out (and they are truly races, the Cylons are biological in this one, if all clones) to create a new cross-breed race.
I doubt it- the first one, the 3D half-hour version of the Clone Wars is likely to be limited to the Cartoon Network. The live action series is likely to survive only in syndication- much as Legend and The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles did. I really doubt it will be over any of the networks. More likely it will play after midnight on whatever station picks up the syndication.
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Now SF is not a gamble TV and is all over the place.
Really? I can't name a single space-opera style show OTHER than Trek that has made it more than two seasons on broadcast network TV since Babylon 5 ended. Not everybody knows enough about sci-fi to spend money subscribing to a cable or sattelite service just to watch BattleStar Galactica on Friday nights.
For entry-level kid sci-fi, there is nothing on broadcast OTHER than Enterprise right now- and while I agree with the Bring Back Firefly or at least something better than Trek clan- there is an evolutionary niche for space opera.
Depends on the country you're in- English Scouts were the first I think.
Alos your word doesnt matter because your a commy.
Exactly my point- corrupted by the corporate oligarchy to do their bidding. Though I'm begining to think that the corporate oligarchy is more like those in the Kremlin than they want to admit. After all- communism in the Soviet Union was just a few con artists using the dream of Marx to steal money for a small minority- just as Wall Street uses the dream of getting rich to steal money from rubes who think they are "investing" it to provide a lavish lifestyle for a small minority.
So what if you call me a fascist it still better bering a facsist than a rusky.
I'm sorry, I must have completely missed the corporate oligarchy part. I learned how to tie knots, and do first aid.
What, you missed walking little old ladies across the street, being truthfull and upright, and following the law (the last of which was written by the corporate oligarchy for their own interests)?
What kind of Boy Scout troop were YOU in?
Maybe an overly moral one- but I'm talking more about stereotypes than reality anyway.
The problem though comes from a friend who doesn't have the money for cable or Satelite. Unless NBC starts carrying BattleStar Galactica, Enterprise is the ONLY current BROADCAST space-opera style sci-fi. When you consider that there will always be a younger generation of kids discovering science fiction for the first time, space opera still has a place. Maybe not Star Trek- which is particularily bad space opera- but space opera all the same.
With Firefly and Enterprise canceled- and fewer stations than ever before carrying the syndicated version of Stargate and Andromeda (the second of which I'm sure Mr. Card would say suffers from the Roddenberry curse) what can step up to take the hole?
"Corrupted" in this case means being fine, upstanding, law abiding peons and slaves to the corporations.
IP merit badge or not- the Boy Scouts have been the very model of training young boys to become fine upstanding "citizens" to our corporate oligarchy for 150 years now- no matter which country they are in. An IP Merit Badge fits that stereotype so well that I'm actually suprised that Hong Kong is the first country to think of it.
It's a point of view (alternate universe) problem in reality- if you're a moral relativist, then shaping young men to be steadfast and moral is indeed corrupting them.
START?!?!? For those of us who grew up in the tin foil hat crowd, the Boy Scouts were corrupted long ago- this is just putting that corruption to a new use.
And when it switched to Friday Night- was when I lost track of it. When it finally went back to Sunday Nights, I had lost the story line to the point that I couldn't follow it.
Enterprise was the same way- Wednesday Nights it was ok, it was the only Sci-Fi in it's timeslot (even Sci-Fi channel runs paranormal/horror on Wednesday Nights). If they had left it there, it would have survived.
McDonald's does this- in select locations, free two hours of net access with purchase of extra value meal. I think they're using a custom version of NoCatAuth- anway, all I have to do is enter the username/password from my cupon into the intital web page, and I've got access.
Got to be the best purchase for my Pocket PC I've ever made. Hands down. Snapstream's Beyond TV is as good as TIVO- better in one way for me, it doesn't try to guess what I like to watch. I just enter the names of shows I like, give them a priority rating, and it gets them- it schedules itself a window where it can record that show, squeezes it to a VERY clear 200x120 WMV file, and lets me download it to my CF-sized Hitachi hard drive. I can then watch the video on the commute on the train. Brilliant!
Yep- saw the big cloud while riding home on Max last night. Thanks to our wierd weather pattern this winter- all the ash went to the underpopulated east. Not a single flake fell on my property in Beaverton. Damn- I was looking forward to getting a serious case of Dementia Concretia thus using a Roadside Attraction to seal my escape from the common economy....
If you don't have time to release your foot from the clutch, what makes them think you'll have time to release your foot from the throttle to use engine braking (which takes a good deal longer than standard braking)?
All the developments between "an ape-like ancestor" and modern humans could not have occurred in one giant leap.
Actually, the only difference between chimps and humans is three "bits" of DNA (DNA is much like computer coding, only base 4 instead of base 2). Theoretically, our closest living great ape species actually came from a common ancestor that was much closer to modern humans than to apes- chimpanzees are two mutations off from that common ancestor, modern humans are one. So maybe NOT one giant leap- but easily three leaps, just based on the genetic evidence alone and not taking any fossils into account. I'd post a link- but I'm at work and "Homo Human Evolution" is a blocked search for me (gee, wonder why).
The argument for a missing link is not unreasonable (although arguing Homo floriensis is one would be).
That's for sure- our best evidence at this point is that the hobbits died out either 14,000 years before modern humans arived on their Island, or shortly thereafter (depending on whether you believe fossil evidence or anthropological mythological evidence). There hasn't been a hobbit living for at least 400 years, and they sure as shooting didn't leave any descendants.
And then there are Catholics and the Pope- who believe in Creative Evolutionism- God created the big bang and the cosmic constants, and everything else came from that. The book of Genesis is just a spritual allegory to account for the phenomenon of sin.
You don't have to put up with accelerating like an anemic grandmother, if you've got a manual transmission. Use the fuel for acceleration, then shift to neutral for downhill/flat coasting will really decrease your car's fuel consumption- though I'm in Western Oregon, we have more hills here to take advantage of, might not work in the plains.
Manual tranmission all by itself will increase your energy-to-movement conversion by 50% as well, as we found out the hard way when my brother converted my grandmother's Datsun 720 to electric (we wondered why it only got 26 miles to a charge- then realized that the electric engine was never generating low enough torque to get the automatic to shift out of first gear).
I agree- anybody smart enough to read a EULA, already uses either Hijack This! or Linux- thus eliminating the need for a user-friendly point-and-click spyware removal tool.
Seems to me there was a slashdot story that could fix much of this- something about running a 10Mbit Ethernet Connection through your skin. But I agree- it ain't here yet.
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Hate to tell you- but NBC owns Sci-Fi network, and in the New BattleStar Galactica, we already have a Latino Adama, a female Starbuck, and an asain female cylon Boomer. Plus, NBC has already played the pilot- just before SCI-FI released the first episode of the new series. For those who hate moral relativism- it's already shaping up to be just as bad as you say- a holy war between the monotheistic Cylons and the polytheistic humans- with an emphasis in the last episode on God wanting to wipe both races out (and they are truly races, the Cylons are biological in this one, if all clones) to create a new cross-breed race.
I doubt it- the first one, the 3D half-hour version of the Clone Wars is likely to be limited to the Cartoon Network. The live action series is likely to survive only in syndication- much as Legend and The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles did. I really doubt it will be over any of the networks. More likely it will play after midnight on whatever station picks up the syndication.
Now SF is not a gamble TV and is all over the place.
Really? I can't name a single space-opera style show OTHER than Trek that has made it more than two seasons on broadcast network TV since Babylon 5 ended. Not everybody knows enough about sci-fi to spend money subscribing to a cable or sattelite service just to watch BattleStar Galactica on Friday nights.
For entry-level kid sci-fi, there is nothing on broadcast OTHER than Enterprise right now- and while I agree with the Bring Back Firefly or at least something better than Trek clan- there is an evolutionary niche for space opera.
Its also under a 100 years not over 150.
Depends on the country you're in- English Scouts were the first I think.
Alos your word doesnt matter because your a commy.
Exactly my point- corrupted by the corporate oligarchy to do their bidding. Though I'm begining to think that the corporate oligarchy is more like those in the Kremlin than they want to admit. After all- communism in the Soviet Union was just a few con artists using the dream of Marx to steal money for a small minority- just as Wall Street uses the dream of getting rich to steal money from rubes who think they are "investing" it to provide a lavish lifestyle for a small minority.
So what if you call me a fascist it still better bering a facsist than a rusky.
Incorrect- like Marx himself, I'm a moralist.
I'm sorry, I must have completely missed the corporate oligarchy part. I learned how to tie knots, and do first aid.
What, you missed walking little old ladies across the street, being truthfull and upright, and following the law (the last of which was written by the corporate oligarchy for their own interests)?
What kind of Boy Scout troop were YOU in?
Maybe an overly moral one- but I'm talking more about stereotypes than reality anyway.
The problem though comes from a friend who doesn't have the money for cable or Satelite. Unless NBC starts carrying BattleStar Galactica, Enterprise is the ONLY current BROADCAST space-opera style sci-fi. When you consider that there will always be a younger generation of kids discovering science fiction for the first time, space opera still has a place. Maybe not Star Trek- which is particularily bad space opera- but space opera all the same.
With Firefly and Enterprise canceled- and fewer stations than ever before carrying the syndicated version of Stargate and Andromeda (the second of which I'm sure Mr. Card would say suffers from the Roddenberry curse) what can step up to take the hole?
"Corrupted" in this case means being fine, upstanding, law abiding peons and slaves to the corporations.
IP merit badge or not- the Boy Scouts have been the very model of training young boys to become fine upstanding "citizens" to our corporate oligarchy for 150 years now- no matter which country they are in. An IP Merit Badge fits that stereotype so well that I'm actually suprised that Hong Kong is the first country to think of it.
It's a point of view (alternate universe) problem in reality- if you're a moral relativist, then shaping young men to be steadfast and moral is indeed corrupting them.
START?!?!? For those of us who grew up in the tin foil hat crowd, the Boy Scouts were corrupted long ago- this is just putting that corruption to a new use.
Not more American. Or more British. LESS OFFENSIVE- back in an earlier gentler time when even books were self-censoring due to editors.
It's interesting that the Tertiary Phase of the radio series used the ORIGINAL wording....shocked a few people that I listened to it with.
And when it switched to Friday Night- was when I lost track of it. When it finally went back to Sunday Nights, I had lost the story line to the point that I couldn't follow it. Enterprise was the same way- Wednesday Nights it was ok, it was the only Sci-Fi in it's timeslot (even Sci-Fi channel runs paranormal/horror on Wednesday Nights). If they had left it there, it would have survived.
McDonald's does this- in select locations, free two hours of net access with purchase of extra value meal. I think they're using a custom version of NoCatAuth- anway, all I have to do is enter the username/password from my cupon into the intital web page, and I've got access.
I think you lost two years in there. Comparing current value to 1998 would be solid growth over the last 7 years.
Got to be the best purchase for my Pocket PC I've ever made. Hands down. Snapstream's Beyond TV is as good as TIVO- better in one way for me, it doesn't try to guess what I like to watch. I just enter the names of shows I like, give them a priority rating, and it gets them- it schedules itself a window where it can record that show, squeezes it to a VERY clear 200x120 WMV file, and lets me download it to my CF-sized Hitachi hard drive. I can then watch the video on the commute on the train. Brilliant!
Quite a few of the new additions, in fact the entire new additions page, seems to be down for the count. Quickest slashdotting EVER.
Yep- saw the big cloud while riding home on Max last night. Thanks to our wierd weather pattern this winter- all the ash went to the underpopulated east. Not a single flake fell on my property in Beaverton. Damn- I was looking forward to getting a serious case of Dementia Concretia thus using a Roadside Attraction to seal my escape from the common economy....
If you don't have time to release your foot from the clutch, what makes them think you'll have time to release your foot from the throttle to use engine braking (which takes a good deal longer than standard braking)?
On Slashdot? Last I heard, that manufacturer was still shilling to get you tied into extremely expensive internet access contracts....
Halflings now seem a lot more like Kender from Dragonlance.
Halflings are now all gay?
All the developments between "an ape-like ancestor" and modern humans could not have occurred in one giant leap.
Actually, the only difference between chimps and humans is three "bits" of DNA (DNA is much like computer coding, only base 4 instead of base 2). Theoretically, our closest living great ape species actually came from a common ancestor that was much closer to modern humans than to apes- chimpanzees are two mutations off from that common ancestor, modern humans are one. So maybe NOT one giant leap- but easily three leaps, just based on the genetic evidence alone and not taking any fossils into account. I'd post a link- but I'm at work and "Homo Human Evolution" is a blocked search for me (gee, wonder why).
The argument for a missing link is not unreasonable (although arguing Homo floriensis is one would be).
That's for sure- our best evidence at this point is that the hobbits died out either 14,000 years before modern humans arived on their Island, or shortly thereafter (depending on whether you believe fossil evidence or anthropological mythological evidence). There hasn't been a hobbit living for at least 400 years, and they sure as shooting didn't leave any descendants.
And then there are Catholics and the Pope- who believe in Creative Evolutionism- God created the big bang and the cosmic constants, and everything else came from that. The book of Genesis is just a spritual allegory to account for the phenomenon of sin.
You don't have to put up with accelerating like an anemic grandmother, if you've got a manual transmission. Use the fuel for acceleration, then shift to neutral for downhill/flat coasting will really decrease your car's fuel consumption- though I'm in Western Oregon, we have more hills here to take advantage of, might not work in the plains.
Manual tranmission all by itself will increase your energy-to-movement conversion by 50% as well, as we found out the hard way when my brother converted my grandmother's Datsun 720 to electric (we wondered why it only got 26 miles to a charge- then realized that the electric engine was never generating low enough torque to get the automatic to shift out of first gear).
I agree- anybody smart enough to read a EULA, already uses either Hijack This! or Linux- thus eliminating the need for a user-friendly point-and-click spyware removal tool.
Seems to me there was a slashdot story that could fix much of this- something about running a 10Mbit Ethernet Connection through your skin. But I agree- it ain't here yet.
Isn't this about 18 days early? Yet another Star Wars Tradition Falls to George Lucas's black hole of an ego.
Who needs to enrich it? The mildly radioactive stuff, spread about town in some fashion, is good enough isn't it?