"I think the case can be made. Japan was looking to surrender when we bombed them. They had let the US know of that fact too."
I'm not a WWII history buff, so would you mind providing a credible source for that? Because from what I know Japan was preparing both their military and civilians to fight tooth and nail against invasion and occupation.
Do you, or anyone else, have a list of some of these tools? I'm thinking specifically of ones in the "free" category. I don't necessarily need the best thing, but something easy to learn to use. I'm probably not going to use it to actually make the music, but as a writing tool. I can't be more specific, because I don't really know what the tools are or what they can do for me yet.
I'm sure all these suggestions are great, and I intend to check some of them out myself as a comic reader who's lapsed for about seven years. But a good resource on the characters and some storyline is marveldirectory.com.
And, I know I've asked this elsewhere, does anyone know who the kid watching television in the middle of the night was? The one who told Logan he didn't sleep.
I was pretty sure we were gonna see Phoenix in the next one by the end, though unfortunately I looked away right before the shot of the lake. But can they really explain the Phoenix Force, Madeline Pryor, what happens to Jean and everything else in two hours? Backstory has been implicit in the first two movies, that kinda needs to be explicit. There've been hints of what we geeks know (Nightcrawler and Mystique's moment together, for example), but to put Phoenix in, can they DO that yet?
And I haven't read the comics in years so I can't figure out who the hell the kid with the glasses was. The one who told Logan he didn't sleep. Anybody wanna fill me in?
Futurama was deliberately killed by Fox. An unheard of timeslot (what besides Wheel of Fortune, news and reruns is on at 7?) and regular preempting (enough to have a season's worth left over) killed what started as a promising series. No one I know disliked it and most agree that it was better than The Simpsons (except for maybe seasons 2 through 4). I can only assume that Fox did it because they hate Groening.
I know you're not bringing Back To the Future into this. The movies are great (the best time travel movies after Bill and Ted), but they aren't consistent. If OUR Marty and Doc went back to Biff's paradise (which was a separate timeline), why weren't their other selves there, Marty's anyway. And anyway, if you can change the future you're not in a uni(multi?)verse with different timelines. If you are, no matter what you do, one you still lives out each life. All Marty did was create better and worse lives for his selves. Leaving aside the discussion of whether or not which foot I put on the stairs first creates two timeline, and the validity of time travel itself, there are only two ways you can seriously look at it. One is that there's one timeline, the one we're on. The other is pantheistic multiple-ego solipsism.
And how can anything have existed before the timeline was polluted?
Also, is time traveling the only way to create separate timelines. If so does each time traveler (or to simplify here, group of travelers) get to create one? One where the Borg win and one where Our Heroes do? Plus the original?
I can't follow the whole discussion because I'm always at work when Enterprise is on but if it does take place in another timeline, that sucks. But fits right in and at least gives the writers a reason to be inconsistent for once.
I can't trade kung fu VOD with people at work. I can't take it on vacation. And most importantly, I can't prominently display my VOD collection for visitors to marvel at.
I dunno,that would be pretty long. I still have Carmen Sandiego (among others) on several 5.25's. And two, at least, drives, although they're in the closet.
To tell you the truth, I was almost disappointed until, towards the end of his lecture, he showed how the Mars Direct technology could similarly be used for moon landings with the only major difference being the equipment for moon-specific chemical reactions for the things we'll need. The twin beauties of the plan to me are that it's do-able in the way the government-suggested plans are not (being orders of magnitude cheaper and faster) and that it always, except in case of the prepared for emergency using an Earth Return Vehicle, leaves a habitat and vehicles fresh for the next crew. See, you can have cheaper, faster, and better. But I don't think there's enough on the Moon for private enterprise to go there first and develop the technology to do it. We could have a moon base in under a decade with currently available technology, but I can't see any way it might be profitable for decades, plural, if then. I need to read more widely on the subject, but I'm convinced Mars is nearly as easy, plus there's stuff there to use and stuff to do. The main use I see for the moon is telescope placement.
While I may be wrong, I think all three of your examples relied heavily on government initiative. I KNOW communications did.
And yeah, question his assumptions. He wants to go to Mars. Bad. Maybe that causes him to focus on it to the exclusion of the other possibilities, that's how people work. But as someone who has wondered since I was little why the hell we didn't have a Moon base, I now think that Mars is a much better place to concentrate out efforts, with the technology also giving us easy access to the Moon. My favorite book is set on the Moon (The Moon is a Harsh Mistress) but I'm afraid it is going to be the Tristan da Cunha of the Solar System.
To bring this back to the starting point, X-Prize and its ilk are vitally important: they stimulate the private sector to do these things it might not otherwise attempt and use the frontier spirit to bring space to the people in a way government won't. But if we rely on private enterprise to go boldly beyond, we won't reach beyond what we already have
Yes, private enterprise will EVENTUALLY take over certain tasks as it becomes possible to do so. But because of the huge costs in money and energy, it will only follow government's lead. I think specifically of "The Man Who Sold the Moon" type colonization as ideal, but unrealistic. The next major frontier--like the last, the New World-- will be opened up by government projects and only later, when the feasability of space travel and its potential profits have been demonstrated, will private groups follow the trail, like pioneers boldly going (and staying) where Lewis and Clark's government venture had, very haphazardly and incompletely, gone before. Government will do the impossible, I hope. Private enterprise will make it affordable later.
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Don't know much about Buddhism, do you?
Imagine that, misinformation on Slashdot!
Mods, throw some points his way: it's funny and interesting (for a two-liner). Plus he'll hurl game systems at you if you don't!
Kickass. Thanks man.
"I think the case can be made. Japan was looking to surrender when we bombed them. They had let the US know of that fact too."
I'm not a WWII history buff, so would you mind providing a credible source for that? Because from what I know Japan was preparing both their military and civilians to fight tooth and nail against invasion and occupation.
Do you, or anyone else, have a list of some of these tools? I'm thinking specifically of ones in the "free" category. I don't necessarily need the best thing, but something easy to learn to use. I'm probably not going to use it to actually make the music, but as a writing tool. I can't be more specific, because I don't really know what the tools are or what they can do for me yet.
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I'm sure all these suggestions are great, and I intend to check some of them out myself as a comic reader who's lapsed for about seven years. But a good resource on the characters and some storyline is marveldirectory.com.
And, I know I've asked this elsewhere, does anyone know who the kid watching television in the middle of the night was? The one who told Logan he didn't sleep.
I know I'm going way OT, forgive me.
Oh, and very oblique spoilers.
I was pretty sure we were gonna see Phoenix in the next one by the end, though unfortunately I looked away right before the shot of the lake. But can they really explain the Phoenix Force, Madeline Pryor, what happens to Jean and everything else in two hours? Backstory has been implicit in the first two movies, that kinda needs to be explicit. There've been hints of what we geeks know (Nightcrawler and Mystique's moment together, for example), but to put Phoenix in, can they DO that yet?
And I haven't read the comics in years so I can't figure out who the hell the kid with the glasses was. The one who told Logan he didn't sleep. Anybody wanna fill me in?
Futurama was deliberately killed by Fox. An unheard of timeslot (what besides Wheel of Fortune, news and reruns is on at 7?) and regular preempting (enough to have a season's worth left over) killed what started as a promising series. No one I know disliked it and most agree that it was better than The Simpsons (except for maybe seasons 2 through 4). I can only assume that Fox did it because they hate Groening.
I believe that works either way. If you use "is" you consider "new writers" a thing: what they need.
No, he just said they didn't like to talk about it.
But they can't show Romulans, remember.
I know you're not bringing Back To the Future into this. The movies are great (the best time travel movies after Bill and Ted), but they aren't consistent. If OUR Marty and Doc went back to Biff's paradise (which was a separate timeline), why weren't their other selves there, Marty's anyway. And anyway, if you can change the future you're not in a uni(multi?)verse with different timelines. If you are, no matter what you do, one you still lives out each life. All Marty did was create better and worse lives for his selves. Leaving aside the discussion of whether or not which foot I put on the stairs first creates two timeline, and the validity of time travel itself, there are only two ways you can seriously look at it. One is that there's one timeline, the one we're on. The other is pantheistic multiple-ego solipsism.
And how can anything have existed before the timeline was polluted?
Also, is time traveling the only way to create separate timelines. If so does each time traveler (or to simplify here, group of travelers) get to create one? One where the Borg win and one where Our Heroes do? Plus the original?
I can't follow the whole discussion because I'm always at work when Enterprise is on but if it does take place in another timeline, that sucks. But fits right in and at least gives the writers a reason to be inconsistent for once.
No. That's for Slashdot interviews where we get to ask the questions.
I can't trade kung fu VOD with people at work. I can't take it on vacation. And most importantly, I can't prominently display my VOD collection for visitors to marvel at.
I dunno,that would be pretty long. I still have Carmen Sandiego (among others) on several 5.25's. And two, at least, drives, although they're in the closet.
I rarely rent movies. I prefer to buy; anything worth seeing is worth owning. But is I remember correctly, isn't Blockbuster 5 days or a week now?
MUCH less than half, which shouldn't be a problem with all the costs of physical production replaced by the smaller electronic distribution ones.
Yeah, if you say so. . .
I don't know whether to laugh or beat your ass.
To tell you the truth, I was almost disappointed until, towards the end of his lecture, he showed how the Mars Direct technology could similarly be used for moon landings with the only major difference being the equipment for moon-specific chemical reactions for the things we'll need. The twin beauties of the plan to me are that it's do-able in the way the government-suggested plans are not (being orders of magnitude cheaper and faster) and that it always, except in case of the prepared for emergency using an Earth Return Vehicle, leaves a habitat and vehicles fresh for the next crew. See, you can have cheaper, faster, and better. But I don't think there's enough on the Moon for private enterprise to go there first and develop the technology to do it. We could have a moon base in under a decade with currently available technology, but I can't see any way it might be profitable for decades, plural, if then. I need to read more widely on the subject, but I'm convinced Mars is nearly as easy, plus there's stuff there to use and stuff to do. The main use I see for the moon is telescope placement.
While I may be wrong, I think all three of your examples relied heavily on government initiative. I KNOW communications did.
And yeah, question his assumptions. He wants to go to Mars. Bad. Maybe that causes him to focus on it to the exclusion of the other possibilities, that's how people work. But as someone who has wondered since I was little why the hell we didn't have a Moon base, I now think that Mars is a much better place to concentrate out efforts, with the technology also giving us easy access to the Moon. My favorite book is set on the Moon (The Moon is a Harsh Mistress) but I'm afraid it is going to be the Tristan da Cunha of the Solar System.
To bring this back to the starting point, X-Prize and its ilk are vitally important: they stimulate the private sector to do these things it might not otherwise attempt and use the frontier spirit to bring space to the people in a way government won't. But if we rely on private enterprise to go boldly beyond, we won't reach beyond what we already have
Yes, private enterprise will EVENTUALLY take over certain tasks as it becomes possible to do so. But because of the huge costs in money and energy, it will only follow government's lead. I think specifically of "The Man Who Sold the Moon" type colonization as ideal, but unrealistic. The next major frontier--like the last, the New World-- will be opened up by government projects and only later, when the feasability of space travel and its potential profits have been demonstrated, will private groups follow the trail, like pioneers boldly going (and staying) where Lewis and Clark's government venture had, very haphazardly and incompletely, gone before. Government will do the impossible, I hope. Private enterprise will make it affordable later.
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