Reading this I'm reminded that before the era of the personal computer, it was mainly audiophiles who spent a large percentage of their time writing about things most people couldn't give a shit about.
I guess UPenn students desperately grasp at that ivy league moniker.
This fellow feels he is the first person in SAT history to score so low, but I suspect he is merely the first person to do so intentionally and then try to make something clever of it on the internet.
Someone attempting to get the right answers and still failing so miserably would be much more noteworthy.
Well, I haven't investigated this in OS X, but in OS 9 and before there were pinyin fonts you could easily get that showed proper tone marks (for example, Rich's Pinyin fonts ).
science is funny: you can actually make stuff work, without understanding why it works.
To take simply one silly comment from your opus, science isn't a special area in this regard.
People enjoy music without understanding how to play an instrument, or even knowing which instruments are being played sometimes.
People can enjoy foods which they have no idea how to cook.
People can reproduce without understanding the process.
If you were to try and understand how every process you are involved in works from the ground up, you would very quickly run out of time to do things and be paralyzed by a kind of analytical, investigatory paranoia.
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It's not only a little silly to offer a comment on something you have no interest in, it's also a waste of space.
And in the end you're not against Tivo; you're against television. As the preceding reply to your comment noted, Tivo has the opportunity to free up more "fresh air" time if your program viewing doesn't broaden after getting it.
And unless you're typing your comments on a laptop with wireless access, maybe you should get outside more often.
I only watch Enterprise about once a month and I have to say I was very impressed by the non-copout last night. It came close to revolutionary for this show.
Usually they will let the character, Trip in this case, just plod along repeating the same dumb behavior season after season.
I kept on waiting for Archer to add "Yeah, you were wrong. And I would have made the same mistake" at the end of his speech. But no, he left him hanging high and dry.
Of course, they had to alienate themselves from that race, otherwise there would be no explanation for why the humans didn't get a shitload of the cool technology.
The Blueair rings up at just around $500: it is beautiful, quiet at lower levels and sucks up a truckload of dust into its four easily replaceable HEPA filters. They get changed at least 2x a year and one batch costs around $70. They'll even set up up with a subscription program that sends them automatically.
You'll note that the plot element thing was something I added at the end.
My main point is not that the story is unoriginal; it's that the trailer, the tiny snippets that the studio shows you because they think it will totally hook you and make you want to shell over your lucre, features a look and stunts that have been excessively exploited in recent cinema.
I should have left out the last part of my complaint because all plots come from other plots. I agree with you on that. But the special effects genre of film thrives on one thing: showing you things you haven't seen, or even imagined, before. My point is that this film isn't even doing this in its trailer, so it's sure to be lame.
Others have noted the extensive ripping off from The Matrix look, both in terms of costumes and in the slo-mo etc. camera work.
I can't believe the lame stunts that we've seen 20 times before: the ol' punch through the roof of the car and the ol' shoot a circle through the floor (The Fifth Element and even, I think, Bugs Bunny).
Wasn't that big leap off the building done in The Crow, too?
Gee, and that ol' mortals caught in between a super-war is trés Highlander and even Terminator.
It's one thing to watch a movie and condemn it as derivative; it's another to watch the trailer and be able to voice the same complaint.
One on hand I do see this as another manifestation of the "Footloose" theory of evil teen influences (i.e., dancing=Satan).
However, I do myself play Soldier of Fortune II and so I can understand that some might be concerned that kids playing a game all day long that involves shooting your opponent might somehow be predisposed to shooting someone in real life.
But training, as the D.C. snipers have suggested? That's crazy. Even after playing so much that my right wrist aches, I can't imagine that I'm now more capable with an AK47 than I was before SOFII.
Furthermore, when I was a kid, trying not to get eaten by Tyrannosaurus Rex, we actually ran around outdoors with fake guns or BB guns and stalked each other. Those low-tech methods were surely more effective at grooming future killers than the sit-on-your-ass and get fat video alternatives.
Yes, it is a stupid argument. But I used it purposefully because you seem to be under the impression that you have your fingers on the pulse of the world. How do you know that most people think planes are cool? You think they're cool, I don't. That's all you can say.
And another thing: my point was that people were getting their shorts all twisted about the loss of the Concorde, when to the majority of people it doesn't mean a thing. It's not turning their world upside down.
I won't deny that people love using planes to get places.
The biggest lesson to be learned from frequent travels to far-away places is that, as was stated in Buckaroo Banzai,, "wherever you go, there you are." Most places are DIFFERENT and our minds interprets that as "cool and exciting." But people have had very fulfilling and wonderful lives without the constant mind rush of flying to another country every month.
There is, in my mind, a real colonial aspect to poking around in other "exotic" countries. Most people in the world can't afford an international plane ticket and if they could, wouldn't have the money for a vacation once they get to wherever they were going.
Once you've seen American tourists clamoring to get into the Beijing McDonalds because they haven't had their precious Big Mac for two weeks, you get very jaded about the value of travel.
Please don't inflate the loss of the Concorde into something it is not. And, if as some have suggested, the space shuttle is next, so what?
Do all our dreams have to focus on big metal thingies that soar up in the sky? It's not like Captain Kirk is explaining how poverty was eliminated on earth in the 21st (?) century. Many of you are romanticizing air travel. There are some people whose dreams consist of three squares a day and a bath.
Personally, I don't think air travel is all that. As someone who for a while took a few trips to Asia each year, I can say that being able to get there in 14 hours devalued the experience. I would have preferred a week on an ocean liner.
And business travel pre-9/11 was totally out of control. It's wasteful and a distraction in many cases.
Before you get so incredibly high and mighty, you might recall that when Kennedy was running for president, there were those who were concerned his loyalty be first be to the pope.
I'm not equating the two situations. And I'm not sticking up for the socialists. But the Chinese government's mentality comes from a historical perspective different than, say, the American goverments.
Someone already commented on the longwindedness of the article, and someone else objected to the color choices.
I went to the article to find out what exactly these wonderful modest proposals for the finder were...and I gave up after four pages. I've got a to-do list that doesn't spare me enough time to read such exhausting prose.
Why not put the new wonderful ideas for the finder FIRST, then spend the rest of the dictionary defending/supporting them?
Although perhaps initially using waste from animals that would be slaughtered for meat, I can see that if this trend continued, one day the impetus for the slaughter would be solely to drive the machines.
In which case, yes, we would need to have fuel labelled as to how it was produced, because some people would not be interested in furthering a system by which animals were murdered to enable someone to drive to a bowling alley.
Social pressures? That doesn't even work to maintain consistent non-odor-producing hygiene in public and offices! Social pressure doesn't work to stop people from screaming on cell phones in bookstores (last week I was in a Borders, next to me was a woman yelling "Yeah, I'm in the bookstore!!! THE BOOKSTORE!!! YEAH!!!", then a guy starts whistling "Every Breath You Take," finally I turned to two women sitting next to me and said, "I'm going to jump up on this table and start tap-dancing...won't bother you, will it?")
Guess I'm a little pessimisstic about the effectiveness of social pressures.
Not quite; your net profit is $3,950 worth of merchandise, unless you do a cash advance. I wonder which is being done: are thieves purchasing easily resold goods and making their money that way, or through cash advances? Or, another possibility, are some of these identity thieves just doing it for the STUFF, symptomatic of our consumer/materialistic society?
I've been investigating gestation periods with a variety of squirrels in the Ohio Valley, and not only haven't the periods changed over the last 10 years, but I haven't been able to get a single one pregnant yet.
Yes. Well-said and I agree that is what s/he was saying.
While I believe we have the right to boycott anything we wish, I feel our responsibility to use that right in an ethical fashion is of great importance. Americans have a tendency to assert their rights first and consider the consequences second.
You'll have to bring me up-to-date on the history of "insane" boycotting "for any reason" being a "proud American tradition".
Are you saying it is RIGHT to boycott WB because they have too many shows featuring African-Americans? Is it right to boycott Outback Steakhouse because they make donations to the Special Olympics and you think that the mentally retarded should be euthanized?
I never said the poster didn't have a right to boycott; but is the basis of his/her boycott ethical? Is it decent? If you're for free speech and the freedom to pursue your preferred religious faith, then it becomes problematic if you suggest that believers in a certain faith should not be allowed to obtain a certain kind of employment.
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Reading this I'm reminded that before the era of the personal computer, it was mainly audiophiles who spent a large percentage of their time writing about things most people couldn't give a shit about.
I guess UPenn students desperately grasp at that ivy league moniker.
This fellow feels he is the first person in SAT history to score so low, but I suspect he is merely the first person to do so intentionally and then try to make something clever of it on the internet.
Someone attempting to get the right answers and still failing so miserably would be much more noteworthy.
This brief collection of pages at Yale gives more info about OS X and Chinese inputting.
To take simply one silly comment from your opus, science isn't a special area in this regard.
People enjoy music without understanding how to play an instrument, or even knowing which instruments are being played sometimes.
People can enjoy foods which they have no idea how to cook.
People can reproduce without understanding the process.
If you were to try and understand how every process you are involved in works from the ground up, you would very quickly run out of time to do things and be paralyzed by a kind of analytical, investigatory paranoia.
And in the end you're not against Tivo; you're against television. As the preceding reply to your comment noted, Tivo has the opportunity to free up more "fresh air" time if your program viewing doesn't broaden after getting it.
And unless you're typing your comments on a laptop with wireless access, maybe you should get outside more often.
Usually they will let the character, Trip in this case, just plod along repeating the same dumb behavior season after season.
I kept on waiting for Archer to add "Yeah, you were wrong. And I would have made the same mistake" at the end of his speech. But no, he left him hanging high and dry.
Of course, they had to alienate themselves from that race, otherwise there would be no explanation for why the humans didn't get a shitload of the cool technology.
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But you are a little wrong; in the first Matrix, the real neo didn't have hair.
My main point is not that the story is unoriginal; it's that the trailer, the tiny snippets that the studio shows you because they think it will totally hook you and make you want to shell over your lucre, features a look and stunts that have been excessively exploited in recent cinema.
I should have left out the last part of my complaint because all plots come from other plots. I agree with you on that. But the special effects genre of film thrives on one thing: showing you things you haven't seen, or even imagined, before. My point is that this film isn't even doing this in its trailer, so it's sure to be lame.
I can't believe the lame stunts that we've seen 20 times before: the ol' punch through the roof of the car and the ol' shoot a circle through the floor (The Fifth Element and even, I think, Bugs Bunny).
Wasn't that big leap off the building done in The Crow, too?
Gee, and that ol' mortals caught in between a super-war is trés Highlander and even Terminator.
It's one thing to watch a movie and condemn it as derivative; it's another to watch the trailer and be able to voice the same complaint.
LOL. I set you up for that one, saw it coming myself but was too lazy to rephrase it.
However, I do myself play Soldier of Fortune II and so I can understand that some might be concerned that kids playing a game all day long that involves shooting your opponent might somehow be predisposed to shooting someone in real life.
But training, as the D.C. snipers have suggested? That's crazy. Even after playing so much that my right wrist aches, I can't imagine that I'm now more capable with an AK47 than I was before SOFII.
Furthermore, when I was a kid, trying not to get eaten by Tyrannosaurus Rex, we actually ran around outdoors with fake guns or BB guns and stalked each other. Those low-tech methods were surely more effective at grooming future killers than the sit-on-your-ass and get fat video alternatives.
And another thing: my point was that people were getting their shorts all twisted about the loss of the Concorde, when to the majority of people it doesn't mean a thing. It's not turning their world upside down.
I won't deny that people love using planes to get places.
The biggest lesson to be learned from frequent travels to far-away places is that, as was stated in Buckaroo Banzai,, "wherever you go, there you are." Most places are DIFFERENT and our minds interprets that as "cool and exciting." But people have had very fulfilling and wonderful lives without the constant mind rush of flying to another country every month.
There is, in my mind, a real colonial aspect to poking around in other "exotic" countries. Most people in the world can't afford an international plane ticket and if they could, wouldn't have the money for a vacation once they get to wherever they were going.
Once you've seen American tourists clamoring to get into the Beijing McDonalds because they haven't had their precious Big Mac for two weeks, you get very jaded about the value of travel.
Then again, also in the minority is almost every human being who ever existed pre-1900. Note we're talking about planes, not flight.
Thanks anyway, by the way, I already live somewhere really exciting and cool...Cleveland.
"Everywhere there is a love of man-made things that are large and complicated and fun." LOL. That sounds like something from a Japanese tee-shirt.
Do all our dreams have to focus on big metal thingies that soar up in the sky? It's not like Captain Kirk is explaining how poverty was eliminated on earth in the 21st (?) century. Many of you are romanticizing air travel. There are some people whose dreams consist of three squares a day and a bath.
Personally, I don't think air travel is all that. As someone who for a while took a few trips to Asia each year, I can say that being able to get there in 14 hours devalued the experience. I would have preferred a week on an ocean liner.
And business travel pre-9/11 was totally out of control. It's wasteful and a distraction in many cases.
I'm not equating the two situations. And I'm not sticking up for the socialists. But the Chinese government's mentality comes from a historical perspective different than, say, the American goverments.
I went to the article to find out what exactly these wonderful modest proposals for the finder were...and I gave up after four pages. I've got a to-do list that doesn't spare me enough time to read such exhausting prose.
Why not put the new wonderful ideas for the finder FIRST, then spend the rest of the dictionary defending/supporting them?
Although perhaps initially using waste from animals that would be slaughtered for meat, I can see that if this trend continued, one day the impetus for the slaughter would be solely to drive the machines.
In which case, yes, we would need to have fuel labelled as to how it was produced, because some people would not be interested in furthering a system by which animals were murdered to enable someone to drive to a bowling alley.
Yes, gentle reader...sarcasm.
Social pressures? That doesn't even work to maintain consistent non-odor-producing hygiene in public and offices! Social pressure doesn't work to stop people from screaming on cell phones in bookstores (last week I was in a Borders, next to me was a woman yelling "Yeah, I'm in the bookstore!!! THE BOOKSTORE!!! YEAH!!!", then a guy starts whistling "Every Breath You Take," finally I turned to two women sitting next to me and said, "I'm going to jump up on this table and start tap-dancing...won't bother you, will it?") Guess I'm a little pessimisstic about the effectiveness of social pressures.
Good point. Those idiots bombed with the iPod and now they'll repeat that disaster.
Not quite; your net profit is $3,950 worth of merchandise, unless you do a cash advance. I wonder which is being done: are thieves purchasing easily resold goods and making their money that way, or through cash advances? Or, another possibility, are some of these identity thieves just doing it for the STUFF, symptomatic of our consumer/materialistic society?
I've been investigating gestation periods with a variety of squirrels in the Ohio Valley, and not only haven't the periods changed over the last 10 years, but I haven't been able to get a single one pregnant yet.
Maybe it's me.
Yes. Well-said and I agree that is what s/he was saying.
While I believe we have the right to boycott anything we wish, I feel our responsibility to use that right in an ethical fashion is of great importance. Americans have a tendency to assert their rights first and consider the consequences second.
That is a bad thing, IMHO.
You'll have to bring me up-to-date on the history of "insane" boycotting "for any reason" being a "proud American tradition".
Are you saying it is RIGHT to boycott WB because they have too many shows featuring African-Americans? Is it right to boycott Outback Steakhouse because they make donations to the Special Olympics and you think that the mentally retarded should be euthanized?
I never said the poster didn't have a right to boycott; but is the basis of his/her boycott ethical? Is it decent? If you're for free speech and the freedom to pursue your preferred religious faith, then it becomes problematic if you suggest that believers in a certain faith should not be allowed to obtain a certain kind of employment.