Offtopic, but . .. Do you know what a screwball comedy is? I'm serious. One of the defining elements is a substitution of wit for overt sexiness, due to the Hays Code in effect when the classic screwball comedies were made (1934 through WWII, with a few stragglers coming in through the war years). A "teen sex comedy" pretty much can't be a screwball.
"Here's hoping, but I rather doubt there'll be 7-9 sadly. After all, it has been denied for so long, and Star Wars seems to have become "The life and death of Anakin Skywalker" so Ep 6 concludes it I suppose. Who knows?"
Also, the actors are getting too old to play the principals. Can you picture Han breaking a hip and Luke's arthritis getting so bad he can't hold a lightsaber? I mean, it would have to be at least 2006 or so before they could start shooting the films. It might work out okay artistically if they recast the parts, and they seem to have done well in the prequels in that department, other than Anakin. But could you get people to turn out at the theatre with a different Luke, Han, and Leia?
On a slightly related note, I am hopeful about a possible fourth Indiana Jones movie. Especially if they get Connery to reprise his role from Last Crusade, though that may be wishful thinking. And Ford has said he'd do another Indiana Jones while refusing to do another Star Wars.
In an online forum it might be considered polite to assume that a small mistake such as leaving out a single letter is a typo rather than a misspelling due to lack of knowledge. They're easy to make and sometimes go right by you even if you preview your comments.
I'm pretty anal at times about these sorts of things but sometimes use "could care less" when my actual meaning is that I could not as a way of emphasis through sarcasm. I imagine the common usage of the phrase is a corruption of that usage.
"People also has varied responses to drugs. A drug that will help most people may be fatal to a small subgroup. In the case of caffeine, which for most people is a stimulant, merely focuses the attention of those with ADD/HD."
Any background on this? I was diagnosed with ADD when I was younger and it wasn't to the point it got to in the 90's where every kid with a behavior problem was told he had it and as a college student I'm still plagued with it.
I also feel no effects from caffeine. I don't get hyper or excitable, I can go to sleep after drinking multiple pots of tea, and I can go for months without it with no withdrawal effects.
I've been wondering since high school whether these two things might be related. After all, Ritalin is a stimulant that act totally unlike a stimulant for the truly ADD afflicted, might caffeine not be similar, especially considering the somewhat indirect way it acts? And sometimes I do feel I focus better when I'm drinking tea, but I think it's mostly (if not totally) a result of the "ceremony" that surrounds making it and also just because the act of making/drinking it provides stimulus for my sometimes hyperkinetic (though rarely productive) mind.
Anyone have any information on ADD and it's effects on caffeine reactions or on similarities in the ways caffeine and Ritalin act on the brain?
But the movies aren't Lord Of The Rings; they're movie adaptations of the basic plot through which Tolkien presented his true creation, which is Middle Earth (A lot of this isn't original to me, but was presented by Andrew Rilestone on www.aslan.demon.co.uk). What amazes in the book isn't all the races and the epic battles, but the world created for those races and which those battles aim to preserve as much as possible. The overriding sense with which one walks away from the book isn't "Wow, that was exciting!" so much as a sadness for a world that is passing away.
The story of LOTR, like The Hobbit, Silmarillion, and the rest of the published material, is only a way to present Middle Earth. And while you can set a film in Middle Earth and create the parts you need to film realistically, you can't get it across the way Tolkien does in the novel. You can only suggest it. Even the best movies can't realize the entire world in which they're set. After watching The Bicycle Thief, I may have an excellent idea of what life was like in post-war Italy, but I don't really experience it as real.
This is not to disparage the movies: Fellowship was amazing and Two Towers was good, even though it was almost as much Jackson's creation as Tolkien's. They just aren't Lord Of The Rings.
And I haven't liked fantasy since I was about fifteen, and didn't read LOTR until I was almost old enough to drink and had just seen Fellowship.
I never saw a full episode of the original and missed this one, though I intend to check it out when it's re-aired. But all this talk of Boomer and robots keeps making flash back to Bubblegum Crisis.
My personal fantasy ending was one I knew Hollywood wouldn't have the guts for:
The machines win. Zion's destroyed. Most, if not all. of the "free" humans are wiped out . . . including Neo, because he wasn't the One (maybe Morpheus is a survivor if there are any and he blames his belief in Neo, and thus himself, for the defeat).
The last scene if the free humans are wiped out is of an Agent, not the now dead Smith, interrogating a hacker and the final shot is a zoom out and a door closing in front of the camera.
The last shot if any free humans survive is of a young teenager pulling herself out of some rubble and looking around and then up, looking tough as fuck and determined. She's already been introduced BTW.
Neither one's totally hopeless, but way too dark for a Hollywood film.
This isn't really ontopic, but I recently spent a ferry ride listening to old stories from a few Air Force guys and one of them had served under Chuck Yeagaer for a while. He was apparently a really great guy personally. Also, durimg the time this guy served under him, Yeager set one of his speed records having to do with reaching a certain altitude. The only problem was that the plane couldn't sustain flight for very long and Yeager had to bail out.
Seriously, reach behind you and yank that stick out. I mean, this is Slashdot: EVERYBODY HERE KNOWS THERE'S NO SOUND IN SPACE. WE'VE ALL KNOWN THAT SINCE WE WERE WETTING OUR BEDS.
Nobody's impressed by your talk of the absurdity of Star Trek technical terms or how great "real physics" is. Calm down.
Didn't she actually repeat what the computer said?
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I haven't checked in a while, probably two years, so I guess it's back in print. And academic papers, which is what this really is, generally don't worry about looking pretty.
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That's a pretty decent summary, yes. There's a whole section talking about how the Iliad documents this phenomena of people having no free will, but rather "hearing" the gods and obeying that instruction. This is essentially what happens to those "infected" in Snow Crash.
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Just to clarify for those who haven't heard of it before, the title is _The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind_. It's a fascinating read and fairly detailed, though still accessible to a nontechnical audience. It's also unfortunately out of print, so try your local university library.
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Offtopic, but . . .
Do you know what a screwball comedy is?
I'm serious. One of the defining elements is a substitution of wit for overt sexiness, due to the Hays Code in effect when the classic screwball comedies were made (1934 through WWII, with a few stragglers coming in through the war years). A "teen sex comedy" pretty much can't be a screwball.
"Here's hoping, but I rather doubt there'll be 7-9 sadly. After all, it has been denied for so long, and Star Wars seems to have become "The life and death of Anakin Skywalker" so Ep 6 concludes it I suppose. Who knows?"
Also, the actors are getting too old to play the principals. Can you picture Han breaking a hip and Luke's arthritis getting so bad he can't hold a lightsaber? I mean, it would have to be at least 2006 or so before they could start shooting the films. It might work out okay artistically if they recast the parts, and they seem to have done well in the prequels in that department, other than Anakin. But could you get people to turn out at the theatre with a different Luke, Han, and Leia?
On a slightly related note, I am hopeful about a possible fourth Indiana Jones movie. Especially if they get Connery to reprise his role from Last Crusade, though that may be wishful thinking. And Ford has said he'd do another Indiana Jones while refusing to do another Star Wars.
"Having the power to move an entire planet is just too ridiculous, even for extreme science fiction."
Except in Moving Mars, although the attraction to that book was the politics as much as the physics. Echoes at times of The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress.
Yeah I'm offtopic, sorry.
An American version?!?
Great. This will be even better than the US version of Coupling. Oh, wait. . .
No. This is referring to Ryu from Ninja Gaiden. Understandable mistake, though.
Or we could use the Lunar version of Robert Zubrin's Mars Direct plan and have the supplies there first.
Yeah, but that's only so exciting because it seems to be the only place the English allow themselves to show emotion.
OHH!!!
Lockheed-Martin. I get it now.
You my friend are evil. Pure evil.
Though I'd do the same in your position.
In an online forum it might be considered polite to assume that a small mistake such as leaving out a single letter is a typo rather than a misspelling due to lack of knowledge. They're easy to make and sometimes go right by you even if you preview your comments.
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But then, when has politeness been valued on
I'm pretty anal at times about these sorts of things but sometimes use "could care less" when my actual meaning is that I could not as a way of emphasis through sarcasm. I imagine the common usage of the phrase is a corruption of that usage.
"El Ninjo" is Spanish for "the Ninjo"!!!
"People also has varied responses to drugs. A drug that will help most people may be fatal to a small subgroup. In the case of caffeine, which for most people is a stimulant, merely focuses the attention of those with ADD/HD."
Any background on this? I was diagnosed with ADD when I was younger and it wasn't to the point it got to in the 90's where every kid with a behavior problem was told he had it and as a college student I'm still plagued with it.
I also feel no effects from caffeine. I don't get hyper or excitable, I can go to sleep after drinking multiple pots of tea, and I can go for months without it with no withdrawal effects.
I've been wondering since high school whether these two things might be related. After all, Ritalin is a stimulant that act totally unlike a stimulant for the truly ADD afflicted, might caffeine not be similar, especially considering the somewhat indirect way it acts? And sometimes I do feel I focus better when I'm drinking tea, but I think it's mostly (if not totally) a result of the "ceremony" that surrounds making it and also just because the act of making/drinking it provides stimulus for my sometimes hyperkinetic (though rarely productive) mind.
Anyone have any information on ADD and it's effects on caffeine reactions or on similarities in the ways caffeine and Ritalin act on the brain?
But the movies aren't Lord Of The Rings; they're movie adaptations of the basic plot through which Tolkien presented his true creation, which is Middle Earth (A lot of this isn't original to me, but was presented by Andrew Rilestone on www.aslan.demon.co.uk). What amazes in the book isn't all the races and the epic battles, but the world created for those races and which those battles aim to preserve as much as possible. The overriding sense with which one walks away from the book isn't "Wow, that was exciting!" so much as a sadness for a world that is passing away.
The story of LOTR, like The Hobbit, Silmarillion, and the rest of the published material, is only a way to present Middle Earth. And while you can set a film in Middle Earth and create the parts you need to film realistically, you can't get it across the way Tolkien does in the novel. You can only suggest it. Even the best movies can't realize the entire world in which they're set. After watching The Bicycle Thief, I may have an excellent idea of what life was like in post-war Italy, but I don't really experience it as real.
This is not to disparage the movies: Fellowship was amazing and Two Towers was good, even though it was almost as much Jackson's creation as Tolkien's. They just aren't Lord Of The Rings.
And I haven't liked fantasy since I was about fifteen, and didn't read LOTR until I was almost old enough to drink and had just seen Fellowship.
First, you're replying to a lame troll. That only encourages them.
And, just to be my nitpicky self, Tolkien was a philologist rather than a linguist. Not quite the same thing, but close enough.
I never saw a full episode of the original and missed this one, though I intend to check it out when it's re-aired. But all this talk of Boomer and robots keeps making flash back to Bubblegum Crisis.
My personal fantasy ending was one I knew Hollywood wouldn't have the guts for:
The machines win. Zion's destroyed. Most, if not all. of the "free" humans are wiped out . . . including Neo, because he wasn't the One (maybe Morpheus is a survivor if there are any and he blames his belief in Neo, and thus himself, for the defeat).
The last scene if the free humans are wiped out is of an Agent, not the now dead Smith, interrogating a hacker and the final shot is a zoom out and a door closing in front of the camera.
The last shot if any free humans survive is of a young teenager pulling herself out of some rubble and looking around and then up, looking tough as fuck and determined. She's already been introduced BTW.
Neither one's totally hopeless, but way too dark for a Hollywood film.
Offtopic, but I love the sig. Sealab is one of the best shows Cartoon Network's got.
This isn't really ontopic, but I recently spent a ferry ride listening to old stories from a few Air Force guys and one of them had served under Chuck Yeagaer for a while. He was apparently a really great guy personally. Also, durimg the time this guy served under him, Yeager set one of his speed records having to do with reaching a certain altitude. The only problem was that the plane couldn't sustain flight for very long and Yeager had to bail out.
Helping the poor is a Christian principal. Likewise, zakat or alms-giving is one of the five pillars of Islam.
Yes, you're very smart. You sure did impress us.
Seriously, reach behind you and yank that stick out. I mean, this is Slashdot: EVERYBODY HERE KNOWS THERE'S NO SOUND IN SPACE. WE'VE ALL KNOWN THAT SINCE WE WERE WETTING OUR BEDS.
Nobody's impressed by your talk of the absurdity of Star Trek technical terms or how great "real physics" is. Calm down.
Didn't she actually repeat what the computer said?
I haven't checked in a while, probably two years, so I guess it's back in print. And academic papers, which is what this really is, generally don't worry about looking pretty.
That's a pretty decent summary, yes. There's a whole section talking about how the Iliad documents this phenomena of people having no free will, but rather "hearing" the gods and obeying that instruction. This is essentially what happens to those "infected" in Snow Crash.
Just to clarify for those who haven't heard of it before, the title is _The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind_. It's a fascinating read and fairly detailed, though still accessible to a nontechnical audience. It's also unfortunately out of print, so try your local university library.