I couldn't agree more. Perhaps as they were writing it they had no idea how they were going to end it -- making it up as they go along. Maybe Purgatory was the only way they could think of. I really wish when they started writing series, they would have some coherent idea of what's going on in the show's universe -- some idea of the plot arc. Fringe suffered from the same flaw and inconsistencies in the way they ended it. Seems to be a JJ thing. I'm watching Revolution (don't recommend it) right now and I'm willing to bet it'll be more of the same. We're into the 2nd season and we still don't know what caused all the power on earth to suddenly stop workign (the main premise of the show). Characters hint that they know what happened and promise to explain it all later (as soon as JJ thinks up something). I'm willing to bet, JJ being such a massive troll, that God will end up having done that too.
Of course when I say something is "shit" it's my opinion. Something cannot be objectively shit unless it's literally shit. It's a qualitative statement. I shouldn't have to elaborate. To be fair, I never watched Warehouse after the first episode. It was just that bad the way I saw it. It was a cheap ripoff of Fringe and lacked it's humor, depth, and any attempt at scientific accuracy (though that's very hard to find these days). Maybe i'll give it another chance. Maybe it gets better.
And the shows I liked I watched far before they were cancelled. Hell. I was hoping they'd remake (and finish) V back after they cancelled the original (which was admittedly, cheesy and bad, although the miniseries was fantastic). Good sci-fi died with Star Trek. The best was TNG, especially the earlier seasons before Roddenberry died. Then it started going downhill -- less about sci-fi and philosophy and more about drama and action (not that there isn't a place for that). You won't find this speech on tv anymore (no, modern sci-fi respects the societal cancer known as religion). The Outer Limits was very good as well. Sci-fi used to present you with a scenario that made the viewer ask ethical, scientific, and philosophical questions. I like Sci-fi that makes you think, and there seems to be very little of that left.
That's true. You could do the same with Lost, I guess, and pretend something else happens at the end. Actually you could probably cut off the whole final season and leave it at that.
Oh. Warehouse is shit. Eureka is shit after the 3rd season. Fringe is ok but inconsistent and the ending doesn't make a whole lot of sense. Stargate Universe was good but got cancelled. Heroes was meh, and hardly sci-fi. V was good, but again, cancelled. Dollhouse was good but... you guessed it... cancelled. Seems anything good gets cancelled. I have high hopes for JMS and the Wachowskis. Hopefully it's good and by some miracle doesn't get cancelled.
It's good if politics interests knows and you have a decent attention span. You do have to pay attention to the show, but I've watched the series to the end and I think it's was worth it. Everything fits together at the end.
It's probably not the exact same swat team. Obviously it was staged, but there is no reason to doubt swat teams would be deployed against a data center hosting torrent sites. Just ask Kim Dotcom or TPB.
According to their specs it has air tight rooms and Nuclear/Biological/Chemical (NBC) air filtration. I don't think tear gas would do much of anything.
See here for links to two seperate accounts of attempts at police action. It seems there was a misunderstanding with the local authorities over their use of a hardened bunker as a data center but it was later cleared up. Given they've hosted some torrent sites, I don't find it unreasonable to think these accounts might be accurate. Just ask Kim Dotcom or TPB whether SWAT is out of the question.
You realize Cyberbunker is situated in a bunker designed to survive a nuclear war. It was designed to function independently for 10 years. Not sure how long that would work with the servers at full load, but i'd think they could still run their generators for quite some time without interruption.
I lived in southern California for a year. Can't agree more. There are third world countries I enjoy *far* more. Soul sucking, indeed. The vast majority of people there are completely hollow, emotionally and intellectually with generous helpings of "batshit insane".
Also "dick". You can't call a woman a dick. You can call a man a dick. This is considered acceptable. To call a woman a "cunt" on the other hand, is considered highly offensive. If women wish to be treated with equality, they need to stop with the double standard bullshit.
Have you found there is some music you just cannot appreciate? I ask because my partner has hearing aids and he seems to only appreciate percussive or very plain, melodic, music. If there is a lot of stuff going on, if the music is very layered, it's like he can't hear it, or the hearing aids flatten the music or cut out some important frequencies or... I don't know. Have you found an FM reciever for your aids helps you appreciate music more, if you have one, by bypassing the air gap? We've been thinking about saving up to get them, but they're very expensive. Are they worth it?
Mod parent as informative. I lived in Romania for five years. If you wanted something done, you needed to pay a bribe, even for things as mundane as getting your trash picked up properly. Even for things like medical treatment. That's how it was in the late 90s, and based on how saturated the society was in corruption, i seriously doubt anything has changed. It's just the culture. You could blame the culture on a reaction to the bureaucratic bullshit created by communism, but there was still a lot of corruption before. It was really bad when I was there, during the 90s, shortly after the fall of Ceausescu. I remember watching a TV report about a guy thrown off the back of an ambulance onto the street because he had no money. Once my cable was cut because we failed to properly bribe the cable installer (we paid the company, though). All this being said, the people are really nice once you get used to their quirks. They're oddities are kind of charming in a way, like the Ferengi. Once you speak the language the taxi drivers (and just about everybody else) will usually stop trying to rip you off.
Chinese and others got the rights to sell the oil. Halliburton got a very small contract to build the wells but they do not profit off the oil. Try again.
If we intervene and support the rebels, they will massacre the Alawates, Shiites, and Christians. All ensuring a fair election would do is accomplish this democratically. There is no good choice here.
And I'm glad it didn't pass, but it would have still required a constitutional amendment, which is a lot harder than just a simple vote. It would still have had to go to the states. In Europe, it only takes 51%.
Basically you're admitting they assaulted him after which he performed an act of speech by ripping up the Qur'an. The assault gets let go and the speech gets prosecuted. You defend this by saying "Well. He was a really bad nasty guy and he allegedly did some nasty thing in the past... also some nasty people keep repeating this story". And you don't see anything wrong with this. It doesn't matter what the person's political affiliation is. He's still entitled to exercise his free speech rights. Disrespecting religion is not a crime.
No. Not anywhere that I know of. Defamation requires a third party. If the "victim" publishes the material themselves, they consent to the publication and have no case. See here. However some countries have insult laws or torts concerning hurt feewings.
You're right. It has been abused but in practice, it could be worse. I've been on the receiving end of DMCAs before. It's easy enough to send a counter-notice. True, you have to identify yourself, but if you're really in fear of being identified (scientology, Islam) you can use a lawyer as a proxy. In the UK you can't even say "Scientology is a cult" without being prosecuted . Pick the redwood out of your own eye.
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I couldn't agree more. Perhaps as they were writing it they had no idea how they were going to end it -- making it up as they go along. Maybe Purgatory was the only way they could think of. I really wish when they started writing series, they would have some coherent idea of what's going on in the show's universe -- some idea of the plot arc. Fringe suffered from the same flaw and inconsistencies in the way they ended it. Seems to be a JJ thing. I'm watching Revolution (don't recommend it) right now and I'm willing to bet it'll be more of the same. We're into the 2nd season and we still don't know what caused all the power on earth to suddenly stop workign (the main premise of the show). Characters hint that they know what happened and promise to explain it all later (as soon as JJ thinks up something). I'm willing to bet, JJ being such a massive troll, that God will end up having done that too.
Of course when I say something is "shit" it's my opinion. Something cannot be objectively shit unless it's literally shit. It's a qualitative statement. I shouldn't have to elaborate. To be fair, I never watched Warehouse after the first episode. It was just that bad the way I saw it. It was a cheap ripoff of Fringe and lacked it's humor, depth, and any attempt at scientific accuracy (though that's very hard to find these days). Maybe i'll give it another chance. Maybe it gets better.
And the shows I liked I watched far before they were cancelled. Hell. I was hoping they'd remake (and finish) V back after they cancelled the original (which was admittedly, cheesy and bad, although the miniseries was fantastic). Good sci-fi died with Star Trek. The best was TNG, especially the earlier seasons before Roddenberry died. Then it started going downhill -- less about sci-fi and philosophy and more about drama and action (not that there isn't a place for that). You won't find this speech on tv anymore (no, modern sci-fi respects the societal cancer known as religion). The Outer Limits was very good as well. Sci-fi used to present you with a scenario that made the viewer ask ethical, scientific, and philosophical questions. I like Sci-fi that makes you think, and there seems to be very little of that left.
That's true. You could do the same with Lost, I guess, and pretend something else happens at the end. Actually you could probably cut off the whole final season and leave it at that.
Oh. Warehouse is shit. Eureka is shit after the 3rd season. Fringe is ok but inconsistent and the ending doesn't make a whole lot of sense. Stargate Universe was good but got cancelled. Heroes was meh, and hardly sci-fi. V was good, but again, cancelled. Dollhouse was good but ... you guessed it ... cancelled. Seems anything good gets cancelled. I have high hopes for JMS and the Wachowskis. Hopefully it's good and by some miracle doesn't get cancelled.
Lost might have been sci-fi but they fucked it all up at the end with the "god did it" bullshit.
5 meters of concrete? They could do it, sure, but it would take some time.
It's good if politics interests knows and you have a decent attention span. You do have to pay attention to the show, but I've watched the series to the end and I think it's was worth it. Everything fits together at the end.
It's probably not the exact same swat team. Obviously it was staged, but there is no reason to doubt swat teams would be deployed against a data center hosting torrent sites. Just ask Kim Dotcom or TPB.
According to their specs it has air tight rooms and Nuclear/Biological/Chemical (NBC) air filtration. I don't think tear gas would do much of anything.
The bunker is was designed to survive a nuclear war. I wouldn't be surprised if they have considerable fuel reserves.
See here for links to two seperate accounts of attempts at police action. It seems there was a misunderstanding with the local authorities over their use of a hardened bunker as a data center but it was later cleared up. Given they've hosted some torrent sites, I don't find it unreasonable to think these accounts might be accurate. Just ask Kim Dotcom or TPB whether SWAT is out of the question.
You realize Cyberbunker is situated in a bunker designed to survive a nuclear war. It was designed to function independently for 10 years. Not sure how long that would work with the servers at full load, but i'd think they could still run their generators for quite some time without interruption.
It is a bunker. And it's not so simple, as this swat team discovered.
I lived in southern California for a year. Can't agree more. There are third world countries I enjoy *far* more. Soul sucking, indeed. The vast majority of people there are completely hollow, emotionally and intellectually with generous helpings of "batshit insane".
Also "dick". You can't call a woman a dick. You can call a man a dick. This is considered acceptable. To call a woman a "cunt" on the other hand, is considered highly offensive. If women wish to be treated with equality, they need to stop with the double standard bullshit.
Read the xiph.org article. Yes. Debunked.
And the encoder. There are good mp3 encoders out there and there are some very very bad ones.
Have you found there is some music you just cannot appreciate? I ask because my partner has hearing aids and he seems to only appreciate percussive or very plain, melodic, music. If there is a lot of stuff going on, if the music is very layered, it's like he can't hear it, or the hearing aids flatten the music or cut out some important frequencies or... I don't know. Have you found an FM reciever for your aids helps you appreciate music more, if you have one, by bypassing the air gap? We've been thinking about saving up to get them, but they're very expensive. Are they worth it?
Mod parent as informative. I lived in Romania for five years. If you wanted something done, you needed to pay a bribe, even for things as mundane as getting your trash picked up properly. Even for things like medical treatment. That's how it was in the late 90s, and based on how saturated the society was in corruption, i seriously doubt anything has changed. It's just the culture. You could blame the culture on a reaction to the bureaucratic bullshit created by communism, but there was still a lot of corruption before. It was really bad when I was there, during the 90s, shortly after the fall of Ceausescu. I remember watching a TV report about a guy thrown off the back of an ambulance onto the street because he had no money. Once my cable was cut because we failed to properly bribe the cable installer (we paid the company, though). All this being said, the people are really nice once you get used to their quirks. They're oddities are kind of charming in a way, like the Ferengi. Once you speak the language the taxi drivers (and just about everybody else) will usually stop trying to rip you off.
Chinese and others got the rights to sell the oil. Halliburton got a very small contract to build the wells but they do not profit off the oil. Try again.
If we intervene and support the rebels, they will massacre the Alawates, Shiites, and Christians. All ensuring a fair election would do is accomplish this democratically. There is no good choice here.
And I'm glad it didn't pass, but it would have still required a constitutional amendment, which is a lot harder than just a simple vote. It would still have had to go to the states. In Europe, it only takes 51%.
Basically you're admitting they assaulted him after which he performed an act of speech by ripping up the Qur'an. The assault gets let go and the speech gets prosecuted. You defend this by saying "Well. He was a really bad nasty guy and he allegedly did some nasty thing in the past... also some nasty people keep repeating this story". And you don't see anything wrong with this. It doesn't matter what the person's political affiliation is. He's still entitled to exercise his free speech rights. Disrespecting religion is not a crime.
No. Not anywhere that I know of. Defamation requires a third party. If the "victim" publishes the material themselves, they consent to the publication and have no case. See here. However some countries have insult laws or torts concerning hurt feewings.
You're right. It has been abused but in practice, it could be worse. I've been on the receiving end of DMCAs before. It's easy enough to send a counter-notice. True, you have to identify yourself, but if you're really in fear of being identified (scientology, Islam) you can use a lawyer as a proxy. In the UK you can't even say "Scientology is a cult" without being prosecuted . Pick the redwood out of your own eye.