Well, according to www.grassolean.com, there's about 3 or 4 billion gallons of waste vegetable oil generated every year. Will that alone replace all petrolum consumption in the United States? I'm not sure it has to.
As long as Faramir *ends up* being the Faramir of the books, the story has not been damaged, in my mind.
Except the Ring was not supposed to go to Osgiliath, and it really wasn't supposed to be witnessed by a ringwraith a short march from Sauron's largest army. A great deal of the plot depends on Sauron thinking the Ring in Saruman's possesion way over in Isengard at that point.
People. We are not talking about politics here. We are talking about Neil and his work. In the interest of noise/signal, please move any unrelated discussion of abortion to Usenet, or at least keep your opinions to 15 words or less.
Here are mine: If you believe that nobody should have abortions, support contraception and sex education.
If he had really thought that the idea was dangerous he wouldn't of mentioned in on a public website. Nothing is stopping you from writing that story, making the idea into a physical form, and showing it to whomever you want to.
Elementary chaos theory tells us that all robots will eventually turn against their masters and run amok, in an orgy of blood and the kicking and the biting with the metal teeth and the hurting and shoving.
True, Aragorn dieing (!) and Faramir taking them to Gondor (!!!) were different from the books, and probably not nesesecessary, but we can't do anything about that, can we?
It's as if Jackson wanted to give every character a Missing In Action Presumed Dead moment.
At any rate, Faramir wasn't supposed to give in to temptation, the Elves were not supposed to be at Helm's Deep, the Ents were not supposed to be Switzerland until tricked into hasty action by clever hobbits, and Gimli is supposed to have some goddamn dignity. These are the plot deviations I cannot get my geeky head around.
"Other DVD additions to the middle tale that heighten the drama and lighten the mood"
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I think that it was Cliff Stoll who said that computers make us disconnect from our neighbors and families. This software facilitates a society where everyone knows each other without actually having met.
I think you're describing the current situation (chatrooms, IM, Slashdot...) What this project and others like it are apparently trying to do is reverse that trend and make the Internet a tool for facilitating real world Meat-Space interaction.
The isolationism between neighbors in urban America has existed well before the mass adoption of the Internet. Any tool that helps counter that, even if just to tell me who else in my cafe reads Eco or if anyone on my block can loan me a belt sander, has the potential of indeed being revolutionary.
BTW, another childish coincidence could be for Star Trek : Enterprise to have a Lunar vacation result in the meeting of an Iowa farm couple, a Russian couple and a Vulcan child that seems to have an affinity for human girls. See where this is going?
An friend suggested once that cliff houses would be the wave of the future. Dig in a reinforced arch with basic infrastructure, stick in modular rooms that can be easily rearranged, and use flexable tubing in the dead spaces for plumbing, electricity, natural light, and whatnot.
Yeah, it's about the same size, but it might be even smaller without the camera hardware.
Not to mention cheaper.
I'm sure that having a small camera chip is useful for communicating landmarks or shooting Little Richard, but all things considered I'd rather have a full function PDA-integrated-phone with a quality bluetooth camera.
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Well, according to www.grassolean.com, there's about 3 or 4 billion gallons of waste vegetable oil generated every year. Will that alone replace all petrolum consumption in the United States? I'm not sure it has to.
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Except the Ring was not supposed to go to Osgiliath, and it really wasn't supposed to be witnessed by a ringwraith a short march from Sauron's largest army. A great deal of the plot depends on Sauron thinking the Ring in Saruman's possesion way over in Isengard at that point.
Here are mine: If you believe that nobody should have abortions, support contraception and sex education.
It's been done.
Perhaps... then again, the socially reactionary always mistake being an maladjusted asshole for having integrity.
What you call "Politically Correct Thought Police Establishmentarianism" the rest of the world calls tact.
Hell, I hope not. Homeworld rocks... the only reason I'm not getting HW2 tomorrow is that I need to get things done this month.
Personally, if Master Of Orion 3 isn't on the list, I'll be pretty stunned.
And if you really want to talk party games, it's hard to beat "Apples to Apples."
I just got Strange Synergy yesterday. I hear it's quite fun, but really I'm just a big Phil Foglio whore.
They don't... but live actors are (usually) less expensive, less time consuming, easier to shoot for and better actors.
I can't respond to any of your other points because they made no sense.
Perhaps it's a little starry-eyed for the Slashdot set, but check it out: www.headmap.com
Elementary chaos theory tells us that all robots will eventually turn against their masters and run amok, in an orgy of blood and the kicking and the biting with the metal teeth and the hurting and shoving.
City nothing. An orbital explosion could theoretically spread plutonium world wide.
Technically, we could sit on our asses for 30 years until nanotech becomes more advanced, and use that to manufacture nuclear facilities on the moon.
Or maybe 15-20 years until the Space Elevator is running. I'd rather send nuclear material up on that than on flaming chemical rockets.
It's as if Jackson wanted to give every character a Missing In Action Presumed Dead moment.
At any rate, Faramir wasn't supposed to give in to temptation, the Elves were not supposed to be at Helm's Deep, the Ents were not supposed to be Switzerland until tricked into hasty action by clever hobbits, and Gimli is supposed to have some goddamn dignity. These are the plot deviations I cannot get my geeky head around.
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Personally, I was more distrubed that "Kangaroo Jack" was included in the nominees...
I think you're describing the current situation (chatrooms, IM, Slashdot...) What this project and others like it are apparently trying to do is reverse that trend and make the Internet a tool for facilitating real world Meat-Space interaction.
The isolationism between neighbors in urban America has existed well before the mass adoption of the Internet. Any tool that helps counter that, even if just to tell me who else in my cafe reads Eco or if anyone on my block can loan me a belt sander, has the potential of indeed being revolutionary.
Yes. "Jim Henson's Star Wars Babies."
Meyhew's age doesn't matter... all the action sequences will have a CG Wookie leaping about ripping people's heads off.
Maybe you'd be more interested in something like Bucky's Dymaxion homes.
An friend suggested once that cliff houses would be the wave of the future. Dig in a reinforced arch with basic infrastructure, stick in modular rooms that can be easily rearranged, and use flexable tubing in the dead spaces for plumbing, electricity, natural light, and whatnot.
Not to mention cheaper.
I'm sure that having a small camera chip is useful for communicating landmarks or shooting Little Richard, but all things considered I'd rather have a full function PDA-integrated-phone with a quality bluetooth camera.
Bad idea to send it down to Earth, yes... To use it for construction on the Moon or in Earth orbit, not so much.