CAPRICA is old news. I've known about this prequel for at least two years now
Good for you, so have the rest of us. But, until yesterday, we all thought it wouldn't happen due to Sci-Fi's hardon for all things craptacular and SG-1.
Act as casual as you want, but this IS a big deal to BSG fans.
Hey, you know what? I'm willing to sacrifice a fairly decent chunk of secured real estate to store nuclear waste if it means we don't have to descend to Victorian-era levels of infrastructure. Hell, I'm Canadian, we got a ton of space and I'd vote for it in a heartbeat if it was the remaining hurdle to getting a nuclear power grid up and running.
And I'm especially pro-nuke because I know the lazy corporations are just going to fall back on the mountains of coal they've still got left lying around but was too dirty and inefficient to use while we still had cheap oil, and that'll definitely pump a lot more crap into the environment than a properly designed and run nuclear plant.
The work continues despite fears about security and nuclear proliferation.
Fer crying out loud. It's bad enough that we're running out of fossil fuels, but between the hardcore environmentalists and paranoid first world countries, we're not making much traction on the nuclear issue, which is a shame. Talk up your fave green project all you want, but all of us need to get on the nuclear power plant bandwagon sooner rather than later. cheap fusion's not going to be here for a while.
No I understand perfectly. And the fact remains that if weren't for this protectionist system in place, ESPN would quickly realize they're pricing themselves out of the market.
That may be true, but why does the consumer have to pay for it? Either ESPN (or whoever) lowers their prices to be competitive, or understands that for that kind of pricing, they'll have less orders.
With money you can buy sex, so it's still all about the money.
Feh, that may be alright for the second raters, but a true smoothie uses whatever power and juice he has to get the sex, not pay for it. It's still about the sex, money's just the conduit for those without charm and skill.
I was about to make fun of you for having Hotmail in the number 2 position, but now that I think about it, Yahoo mail has gone to seed lately whereas Hotmail has improved.
How would you suggest we implement "proportional representation"? When you say "proportional", are you talking about party affiliation or ethnicity or religion or what?
Clueless pussy? Should be just carry his own gun, get certified as a cop or armed security guard and and patrol the streets himself?
I'm not sure what point you're trying to make here, since I already suggested he do some of these things.
What exactly make this clueless or an act of a pussy?
It's vigilantism. I don't care how benign it is.
Simply put, a failing system which is failing because it's not being implemented properly is not the fault of the system, it's the fault of the maintainers. And hassling vagrants with Twiki the bar robot alleviates the situation superficially and temporarily at best while legitimizing behaviour that can quickly spiral to greater problems.
Understand that I know where this guy's coming from. You can't be sane and the slightest bit caring without ever having felt the same desire to do the right thing as far as I'm concerned, which is why so many of us are cheering this guy on. I just don't think he's either all that special (mostly due to his half-assed methodology. I mean come on, run for office, then do this? There's nothing in between?) nor should we be congratulating him without mentioning the side effects.
I hope that, as commented above, the publicity will be a positive side effect instead, but you and I both know nothing's really going to come of this. So frankly, fuck him, let's act like grownups and maybe, try and discover exactly where and why these junkies come from? Is there a way to spend x dollars for rehab and halfway houses instead of spending 2, 3 or 4x on more police, equipment, campaigns? Is more law enforcement cheaper and more effective? I swear to god, I'm almost convinced it's simple laziness that creates most of these problems (and yes, I'm aware of the unintended irony in that sentence).
I don't know what inner-city your basing this from, but it isn't the entire inner city that's a problem. It typically get's confined to a few dozen blocks. It is possible that you just never went that direction enough times to see it.
Agree with you on the 12 block thing, which just underscores how overblown and over reported these kinds of things are. You can't have a multi-million populated urban environment - that's growing, no less - without having some rough spots here and there. As for my credentials, I had a halfway house next door and prostitutes in the street, although admittedly, I was on the "nice" side of the block;)
Split hairs much? I suspect you're being a contrarian for its own sake (I can smell my own!). Anyway...
like this article is not just unbiased, but also fairly unimportant as it's target audience doesn't even care what they are saying.
Good thing the article is about a Doctor who wrote a book, which will be discussed and read by a much different, and by your metric, important audience, eh?
Well, I guess you got some nice mod point out of that, but next time, RTFS.
Like I said in my other reply, if it's that bad, these people need to harass their politicians, start campaigns, do one of the million, legal things to fight this thing, not ignore the rule of law themselves and make a little extra on the side out of it.
I really don't think you have a handle on how bad some of these neighborhoods are
Actually I've got plenty of experience in inner-city living, thanks. Doesn't mean I get the right to act like a clueless pussy when the tone starts lowering in my neighbourhood.
Them maybe you should, I don't know, write your politician? Run for office yourself? Join the police force?
I've got no problem with you or anyone trying to change a bad situation. There's plenty you can do. Building a fucking waterhosing robot to attempt to scare off a some junkies and vagrants is waaaay down on the list of things to try, and I guarantee you this guy didn't even try half of them.
Hell, I bet you 10 bucks the old duffer doesn't even vote. The dude's a jackass, and the only reason it's a humorous story is because he's thankfully mostly harmless.
But I'll also bet business has been pretty good for him of late;)
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Hercules! Hercules! Hercules!
2GB is the new 1GB
You're not joking. My 512MB XP laptop barely runs adequately, and that's after stripping it down to within an inch of its life.
One Terabyte ought to be enough for anybody.
Obviously you're running windows XP, not Vista!
How about Worker loyalty?
LOL. Thanks to this dumbfuck, we're all just replaceable cogs as far as corporate goes.
CAPRICA is old news. I've known about this prequel for at least two years now
Good for you, so have the rest of us. But, until yesterday, we all thought it wouldn't happen due to Sci-Fi's hardon for all things craptacular and SG-1.
Act as casual as you want, but this IS a big deal to BSG fans.
That will give support hell for Microsoft
;)
Uhh, that's what you get for pioneering and dominating the market for an OS that's supposed to run on thousands of hardware configurations?
Or, to put it another way, maybe those guys over at Apple aren't so crazy after all
Doubt it, not when the laptop market is in full speed ahead mode to sub-$500 prices.
Obviously you've had a humour bypass and have NOT understood that if you can't laugh at yourself, who can you laugh at?
You are correct! We would have also accepted:
Bob, tell him what's he won!
Hey, you know what? I'm willing to sacrifice a fairly decent chunk of secured real estate to store nuclear waste if it means we don't have to descend to Victorian-era levels of infrastructure. Hell, I'm Canadian, we got a ton of space and I'd vote for it in a heartbeat if it was the remaining hurdle to getting a nuclear power grid up and running.
And I'm especially pro-nuke because I know the lazy corporations are just going to fall back on the mountains of coal they've still got left lying around but was too dirty and inefficient to use while we still had cheap oil, and that'll definitely pump a lot more crap into the environment than a properly designed and run nuclear plant.
The work continues despite fears about security and nuclear proliferation.
Fer crying out loud. It's bad enough that we're running out of fossil fuels, but between the hardcore environmentalists and paranoid first world countries, we're not making much traction on the nuclear issue, which is a shame. Talk up your fave green project all you want, but all of us need to get on the nuclear power plant bandwagon sooner rather than later. cheap fusion's not going to be here for a while.
No I understand perfectly. And the fact remains that if weren't for this protectionist system in place, ESPN would quickly realize they're pricing themselves out of the market.
That may be true, but why does the consumer have to pay for it? Either ESPN (or whoever) lowers their prices to be competitive, or understands that for that kind of pricing, they'll have less orders.
With money you can buy sex, so it's still all about the money.
Feh, that may be alright for the second raters, but a true smoothie uses whatever power and juice he has to get the sex, not pay for it. It's still about the sex, money's just the conduit for those without charm and skill.
Sex is the ultimate mover and shaker in DC, as Gov Spitzer as proven this week .
Fixed that for you.
I was about to make fun of you for having Hotmail in the number 2 position, but now that I think about it, Yahoo mail has gone to seed lately whereas Hotmail has improved.
Crazy.
They have things called "ranks"
Golly gee, really?
So we're praising Lts now? Whoopee fucking do.
missing limbs
pick up a gun
That's one of the subtlest trolling attempts I've seen in years. Kudos to you, sir.
That's ok - he'll still put his life on the line to protect your right to continue to whine.
LOL, he's a general. What, he's going to get gangrene due to a splinter from his desk?
quite informative
So tell me, what did you learn, other than the good general is well practiced in PR-fu?
How would you suggest we implement "proportional representation"? When you say "proportional", are you talking about party affiliation or ethnicity or religion or what?
You could always look it up.
Ethnicity or religion? *rolls eyes* Come on, man, you're not that stupid.
Clueless pussy? Should be just carry his own gun, get certified as a cop or armed security guard and and patrol the streets himself?
;)
I'm not sure what point you're trying to make here, since I already suggested he do some of these things.
What exactly make this clueless or an act of a pussy?
It's vigilantism. I don't care how benign it is.
Simply put, a failing system which is failing because it's not being implemented properly is not the fault of the system, it's the fault of the maintainers. And hassling vagrants with Twiki the bar robot alleviates the situation superficially and temporarily at best while legitimizing behaviour that can quickly spiral to greater problems.
Understand that I know where this guy's coming from. You can't be sane and the slightest bit caring without ever having felt the same desire to do the right thing as far as I'm concerned, which is why so many of us are cheering this guy on. I just don't think he's either all that special (mostly due to his half-assed methodology. I mean come on, run for office, then do this? There's nothing in between?) nor should we be congratulating him without mentioning the side effects.
I hope that, as commented above, the publicity will be a positive side effect instead, but you and I both know nothing's really going to come of this. So frankly, fuck him, let's act like grownups and maybe, try and discover exactly where and why these junkies come from? Is there a way to spend x dollars for rehab and halfway houses instead of spending 2, 3 or 4x on more police, equipment, campaigns? Is more law enforcement cheaper and more effective? I swear to god, I'm almost convinced it's simple laziness that creates most of these problems (and yes, I'm aware of the unintended irony in that sentence).
I don't know what inner-city your basing this from, but it isn't the entire inner city that's a problem. It typically get's confined to a few dozen blocks. It is possible that you just never went that direction enough times to see it.
Agree with you on the 12 block thing, which just underscores how overblown and over reported these kinds of things are. You can't have a multi-million populated urban environment - that's growing, no less - without having some rough spots here and there. As for my credentials, I had a halfway house next door and prostitutes in the street, although admittedly, I was on the "nice" side of the block
Split hairs much? I suspect you're being a contrarian for its own sake (I can smell my own!). Anyway...
like this article is not just unbiased, but also fairly unimportant as it's target audience doesn't even care what they are saying.
Good thing the article is about a Doctor who wrote a book, which will be discussed and read by a much different, and by your metric, important audience, eh?
Well, I guess you got some nice mod point out of that, but next time, RTFS.
give a lot of the areas a wide berth
Like I said in my other reply, if it's that bad, these people need to harass their politicians, start campaigns, do one of the million, legal things to fight this thing, not ignore the rule of law themselves and make a little extra on the side out of it.
I really don't think you have a handle on how bad some of these neighborhoods are
Actually I've got plenty of experience in inner-city living, thanks. Doesn't mean I get the right to act like a clueless pussy when the tone starts lowering in my neighbourhood.
Them maybe you should, I don't know, write your politician? Run for office yourself? Join the police force?
;)
I've got no problem with you or anyone trying to change a bad situation. There's plenty you can do. Building a fucking waterhosing robot to attempt to scare off a some junkies and vagrants is waaaay down on the list of things to try, and I guarantee you this guy didn't even try half of them.
Hell, I bet you 10 bucks the old duffer doesn't even vote. The dude's a jackass, and the only reason it's a humorous story is because he's thankfully mostly harmless.
But I'll also bet business has been pretty good for him of late