Valid point. I had forgotten my history when I posted this earlier, thanks. And you're right, finger point doesn't help, but it's often too easy not to do first.
Also that is a nice idea, and it could work, I doubt it would, but it has merit.
It's only easier to fire a rocket off the surface of the moon, however, setting up the launch pad, facilities, living quarters, etc on a non-terrestial body that is currently inhospitable, though while not exactly rocket science (okay, it is, but you know what I mean), it's not exactly as simple as the current model. It may be cheaper in the long-run, once you've built everything you need on the moon, but initially, it's going to be very costly, I'd imagine.
And I'd much rather have a space-escalator. Led Zepplin comments aside, I think it'd usher-in a new "X-treme Sport" of Banister Sky-Sliding.
Of course, MacGuyver doesn't have a cellphone, it's just a Snicker's bar, a few M&M's, and a Twizzler for an antenna. Didn't you ever see the episode where he had to escape from the renegade Oompa-Loompa terrorists?
Well, technically, no atmosphere is less harsh than one comprised of gasses a human can't breathe. It's like saying "Holding your breath until you asphixiate is less harsh than the cyanide in a gas chamber."
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Osama hasn't spent any time behind bars...
Neither did George Washington that I know of, but he still fought for what he felt was the benefit of "his people".
"...neither have most Palestinian terrorists..."
Being forced out of their homes so Israelis could move further into their territory seemed to make them angry enough, then they became terrorists.
Yes, but that doesn't mean he sees himself as some super-cool secrent agent. If you look at "007" right, sorta resembles an Asian-style emoticon of a very surprised looking person waving a flag of surrender...
I know this isn't the point you were making, but in Jason X, there was an explanation as to how he got on the space-station. In the opening of the film it depicted Jason caught and held by "the military" (you know, the same branch that always appears in movies like this), and after a quick series of events, he was frozen cryogenically. Roughly 500 years later, a 'Cosmo High' archeology class visits the ruins of Earth and find Jason and bring him back to the ship where he thaws out.
Very poor film, but ya had to love the line: "Hey guys, it's okay. He just wanted his machete back...*gurk*"
I used to work at a grocery store myself, and the one thing that bothered me was the music. They would always begin the Christmas selection of music on Black Friday. One year, the station that broadcast the music/ads for the area stores didn't program the selection very well. There was a total of four songs that looped for the entire day (aside from the sales-notices that were inserted at ten minute intervals). Four songs, Frosty, Winter Wonderland (Dolly Parton version), Jingle Bell Rock, and some horrible attempt at a hip-hop version of Rudolph. I was stuck there for a ten hour shift that day.
Inconspicuous
adj : not prominent or readily noticeable;
Funny, we're arguing about the contents of a book and you decry me for being literal. Tell you what, if you can point to the exact passage (chapter and paragraph number) of the book(s) or scene# from the television series, track position of the radio show where your claim is supported, I'll buy you a Killian's.
"He had made one careless blunder though, because he skimped a bit on his prelimanary research. The information he had gathered had led him to choose the name 'Ford Prefect' as being nicely inconspicous." - Directly from the book.
The TV series says the same thing, as does the radio series, and nowhere does the narration or Ford say anything about him thinking that cars were the dominant life-form. Could you offer an exact quote from the radio series (or at least, what episode) or chapter from any of the books that suggests otherwise?
Although I mostly despise cell phones, if I ever did decide to get one, I would immediately load the "Share and Enjoy" ring-tone as depicted in Fit the Twenty-Second.
Actually, the "cars as the dominant life form" joke was from the film only, as I don't recall it used in the radios series or the book, and in the television series, the Guide entry showed that Ford chose the name as a variation of known humans whose surname was Ford.
A very valid and interesting point. However, as far as the "cultural lean" I mentioned goes, the usage of the "u" is correct. Unless you mean to imply that "your" is appropriate when meaning "you are", I don't think many of the spelling issues we see everywhere can be chalke-up as the "l33t" culture.
Could be USian as well, I prefer spelling in that manner myself. Eitherway we have someone that's a) standing up for US citizens, b) using proper spelling (albiet, with a cultural lean) and grammar...on Slashdot.
You could even make it *impossible* for children to find porn online and the brats would still find it under their fathers' mattresses like children did before the advent of the net in the first place.
What he means is that you'd be telling the truth in order to proft from that warm fuzzy feeling of having "done the right thing". In cases such as that however, I don't think it's a bad thing at all, even if society gets to the point where everyone is doing "the right thing" only to get that warm fuzzy feeling, it wouldn't change the fact that the right thing was getting done and everyone walks away happy.
If "predict" is the right word, Adams predicted a hell of a lot of stuff.
To name a few:
1) The Guide - bluetooth/wifi enabled PDA with Wikipedia embedded.
2) Smart Elevators.
3) Nutrimat - Starbucks (almost, but not quite, entirely unlike coffee).
Now if only his "prediction" for B-Ark comes true... If it does though, I'd reccomend keeping the Lysol handy...
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Valid point. I had forgotten my history when I posted this earlier, thanks. And you're right, finger point doesn't help, but it's often too easy not to do first.
Also that is a nice idea, and it could work, I doubt it would, but it has merit.
It's only easier to fire a rocket off the surface of the moon, however, setting up the launch pad, facilities, living quarters, etc on a non-terrestial body that is currently inhospitable, though while not exactly rocket science (okay, it is, but you know what I mean), it's not exactly as simple as the current model. It may be cheaper in the long-run, once you've built everything you need on the moon, but initially, it's going to be very costly, I'd imagine.
And I'd much rather have a space-escalator. Led Zepplin comments aside, I think it'd usher-in a new "X-treme Sport" of Banister Sky-Sliding.
Of course, MacGuyver doesn't have a cellphone, it's just a Snicker's bar, a few M&M's, and a Twizzler for an antenna. Didn't you ever see the episode where he had to escape from the renegade Oompa-Loompa terrorists?
Well, technically, no atmosphere is less harsh than one comprised of gasses a human can't breathe. It's like saying "Holding your breath until you asphixiate is less harsh than the cyanide in a gas chamber."
"... Osama hasn't spent any time behind bars...
Neither did George Washington that I know of, but he still fought for what he felt was the benefit of "his people".
"...neither have most Palestinian terrorists..."
Being forced out of their homes so Israelis could move further into their territory seemed to make them angry enough, then they became terrorists.
Yes, but that doesn't mean he sees himself as some super-cool secrent agent. If you look at "007" right, sorta resembles an Asian-style emoticon of a very surprised looking person waving a flag of surrender...
Well, joke aside, in a list greater than two, removing the second often makes the third the new two.
All in a day's work for Captain Obvious.
Holodecks were shown in both the test episode as well as the two-part pilot Encounter at Farpoint.
I know this isn't the point you were making, but in Jason X, there was an explanation as to how he got on the space-station. In the opening of the film it depicted Jason caught and held by "the military" (you know, the same branch that always appears in movies like this), and after a quick series of events, he was frozen cryogenically. Roughly 500 years later, a 'Cosmo High' archeology class visits the ruins of Earth and find Jason and bring him back to the ship where he thaws out.
Very poor film, but ya had to love the line: "Hey guys, it's okay. He just wanted his machete back...*gurk*"
Of course, if something went wrong with that, you'd end up with Fluffy the Infinitely Prolonged.
I used to work at a grocery store myself, and the one thing that bothered me was the music. They would always begin the Christmas selection of music on Black Friday. One year, the station that broadcast the music/ads for the area stores didn't program the selection very well. There was a total of four songs that looped for the entire day (aside from the sales-notices that were inserted at ten minute intervals). Four songs, Frosty, Winter Wonderland (Dolly Parton version), Jingle Bell Rock, and some horrible attempt at a hip-hop version of Rudolph. I was stuck there for a ten hour shift that day.
No, I don't think he's an asshole. Look at his punctuation. See? No colon.
Either that, or we ought to get out to Alpha Centari more often, after all, it's only four light years away...
Inconspicuous
adj : not prominent or readily noticeable;
Funny, we're arguing about the contents of a book and you decry me for being literal. Tell you what, if you can point to the exact passage (chapter and paragraph number) of the book(s) or scene# from the television series, track position of the radio show where your claim is supported, I'll buy you a Killian's.
"He had made one careless blunder though, because he skimped a bit on his prelimanary research. The information he had gathered had led him to choose the name 'Ford Prefect' as being nicely inconspicous." - Directly from the book.
The TV series says the same thing, as does the radio series, and nowhere does the narration or Ford say anything about him thinking that cars were the dominant life-form. Could you offer an exact quote from the radio series (or at least, what episode) or chapter from any of the books that suggests otherwise?
Although I mostly despise cell phones, if I ever did decide to get one, I would immediately load the "Share and Enjoy" ring-tone as depicted in Fit the Twenty-Second.
Actually, the "cars as the dominant life form" joke was from the film only, as I don't recall it used in the radios series or the book, and in the television series, the Guide entry showed that Ford chose the name as a variation of known humans whose surname was Ford.
Of course, it was probably spelled "Raymond Luxury-Yacht"...
A very valid and interesting point. However, as far as the "cultural lean" I mentioned goes, the usage of the "u" is correct. Unless you mean to imply that "your" is appropriate when meaning "you are", I don't think many of the spelling issues we see everywhere can be chalke-up as the "l33t" culture.
Could be USian as well, I prefer spelling in that manner myself. Eitherway we have someone that's a) standing up for US citizens, b) using proper spelling (albiet, with a cultural lean) and grammar...on Slashdot.
You could even make it *impossible* for children to find porn online and the brats would still find it under their fathers' mattresses like children did before the advent of the net in the first place.
That was in English, or something like it. (As much as an orange is like a carburetor.) I think what you wanted was proper English.
What he means is that you'd be telling the truth in order to proft from that warm fuzzy feeling of having "done the right thing". In cases such as that however, I don't think it's a bad thing at all, even if society gets to the point where everyone is doing "the right thing" only to get that warm fuzzy feeling, it wouldn't change the fact that the right thing was getting done and everyone walks away happy.
If "predict" is the right word, Adams predicted a hell of a lot of stuff.
To name a few:
1) The Guide - bluetooth/wifi enabled PDA with Wikipedia embedded.
2) Smart Elevators.
3) Nutrimat - Starbucks (almost, but not quite, entirely unlike coffee).
Now if only his "prediction" for B-Ark comes true... If it does though, I'd reccomend keeping the Lysol handy...
Beat me to it. Are we Adams fans so one-track minded?