Are you really SURE that you want a legal solution to a technological problem?
Remember, most laws tell you what you CANNOT do...not what you CAN.
All we have to do is get another law passed... That should be illegal...
Instead of doing what most people do and get Uncle Sam (or your own national mascot) to try to solve their problems...Go around your own neighborhood and offer to secure computer systems...patch your neighbor's/family's/friend's computers...War-drive and offer to close up open WAPs... Do it for free...Make a little money...Just get the power (and responsibility) back into the individual's hands, not the Governments.
OK, I'll probably gett modded down for this one, but personally, I think getting some bad sci-fi is better than that desert wasteland of broadcast TV with NO Sci-Fi. Heck, I even watch Enterprise and Jake 2.0 when I get the chance;-)
I admit that I am old enough to remember watching the original series and enjoying it very much. Of course I was pretty young and would probably think it was pretty hokey if I had the chance to watch it as an adult. I think overall, they did a good job of remaking the the Battlestar Galactica universe.
One of the things I try to explain to people who care (and a lot who don't) is that good Sci-Fi is typically what is called Social Sci-Fi. This is where the author takes an aspect of his society and either extrapolates it to ridiculous proportions or puts it onto an alien species. This way, when he tells the story, we are able to look at that aspect of ourselves a little more objectively. Crude examples of this abounded in the Original Star Trek where we had numerous episodes which portrayed the US vs. USSR in various ways. A better example is Niven/Pournelle's Mote in God's Eye which dealt with population issues.
Unfortunately, most people in this world don't like to think...at all... So, you through in the sex scenes, make Starbuck a girl, add sexual tension and make it more palatable to the Days of Our Lives crowd. Do I like that? No (although the girl/cylon IS pretty cute) Am I intelligent enough to look past it and enjoy the finer points buried underneath? I like to think so.
Consider it the same as the AOL'ization of the Original Internet. Any good and pure thing will be diluted and perverted so that the great unwashed mass of humanity can understand it.
Obviously, you know very little about Sam Walton (the founder of the Wal-Mart chains). He was VERY into MADE IN AMERICA for those of you old enough to remember. It was only AFTER his death that it has become impossible to find something there which is NOT Made In China.
Please do not curse someone because their legacy has been corrupted.
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Are you really SURE that you want a legal solution to a technological problem?
Remember, most laws tell you what you CANNOT do...not what you CAN.
All we have to do is get another law passed...
That should be illegal...
Instead of doing what most people do and get Uncle Sam (or your own national mascot) to try to solve their problems...Go around your own neighborhood and offer to secure computer systems...patch your neighbor's/family's/friend's computers...War-drive and offer to close up open WAPs... Do it for free...Make a little money...Just get the power (and responsibility) back into the individual's hands, not the Governments.
I agree...see my comments on Social Science Fiction.
OK, I'll probably gett modded down for this one, but personally, I think getting some bad sci-fi is better than that desert wasteland of broadcast TV with NO Sci-Fi. Heck, I even watch Enterprise and Jake 2.0 when I get the chance ;-)
I admit that I am old enough to remember watching the original series and enjoying it very much. Of course I was pretty young and would probably think it was pretty hokey if I had the chance to watch it as an adult. I think overall, they did a good job of remaking the the Battlestar Galactica universe.
One of the things I try to explain to people who care (and a lot who don't) is that good Sci-Fi is typically what is called Social Sci-Fi. This is where the author takes an aspect of his society and either extrapolates it to ridiculous proportions or puts it onto an alien species. This way, when he tells the story, we are able to look at that aspect of ourselves a little more objectively. Crude examples of this abounded in the Original Star Trek where we had numerous episodes which portrayed the US vs. USSR in various ways. A better example is Niven/Pournelle's Mote in God's Eye which dealt with population issues.
Unfortunately, most people in this world don't like to think...at all... So, you through in the sex scenes, make Starbuck a girl, add sexual tension and make it more palatable to the Days of Our Lives crowd. Do I like that? No (although the girl/cylon IS pretty cute) Am I intelligent enough to look past it and enjoy the finer points buried underneath? I like to think so.
Consider it the same as the AOL'ization of the Original Internet. Any good and pure thing will be diluted and perverted so that the great unwashed mass of humanity can understand it.
Cheers!
Obviously, you know very little about Sam Walton (the founder of the Wal-Mart chains). He was VERY into MADE IN AMERICA for those of you old enough to remember. It was only AFTER his death that it has become impossible to find something there which is NOT Made In China. Please do not curse someone because their legacy has been corrupted.