Four? I count three. ST: TOS, TNG, DSN. The "other" three were garbage...hell one doesn't even have Star Trek in the name.
TNG was the true triumph of the entire saga...the only one that defied Captain Syndrome (the asinine tendency of scifi captains to put themselves in ridiculously hostile environments and/or situations out of boredom...and somehow survive).
The only detractors from DSN were:
1) the horrible acting on the part of Dr. Julian Bashir (everyone else was superb, especially the lovely Terry Farrell aka Jadzia Dax and hilarious Jeffrey Combs aka Weyoun aka Brunt)
2) Sisko's uber captain syndrome...but atleast he plays a demigod of sorts so death isn't as much of an issue...:)
weirdly enough I was just rewatching old TNG episodes from the top, and yesterday I remember having to rewind and go through it again....I'd never noticed it when it was on television. I believe the shot is from the saucer separation, when the "battle" section turned to hold off Q while saucer escaped. This was one of the evacuation shots.
Really interesting that they would throw something like that in there...perhaps it was meant to be a scottish kilt rather than skirt?
Mod parent up and gp down. One particular bonobo -- Kanzi -- is remarkably human-like, having a capacity for deceit (he'll lie to your face) and the ability to distinguish between right and wrong (making him more "human" than many of those incarcerated in psych facilities). He's even able to recall past events, and to "plan" for the future (making him unique in the non-human world).
The little rogue watched researchers trying to teach his foster-mother how to use lexigrams. When she failed and was sent away, Kanzi started pecking away at the keyboard on his own -- with no human encouragement / motivation. To this day Kanzi is the only non-human I'm aware of who will work with researchers without a reward-based system. An anthropologist was able to teach him to create stone tools (setting him on par with Homo habilis -- or humans 2.5mya), and Kanzi has even played music with Paul McCartney.
A good site for info on Kanzi: http://www2.gsu.edu/~wwwlrc/biographies/kanzi.html
Even the slightly less intelligent and significantly more aggressive common chimps have social structures similar to our own (the 'alpha male' is determined by who has the most supporters / thugs).
If you have sex, you may have a child(even with preventive means).
Got something against vasectomies? Put some of the tadpoles on ice and bring on the orgies! If at a later date you want kids, just defrost a few.
Hell, pop a few Black Death tablets and you can lose the rubber!/sarcasm
Seriously though, vasectomies are underrated. I wouldn't be surprised if it became mandatory (that or chemical sterilization) in certain countries *cough* China *cough* in the near future.
As for the marriage bs, we really need personalized troll modifications. I've read content in trollings that's better than parent's preachings.
And because these people like to push their views on others from their own insecurities about the world, sometimes people fall for them and accept their views as truth. Don't be fooled by false views of the world. It seem be fun to lust, but you know the truth is to love. Again its very simple: If you have sex, you may have a child(even with preventive means). Every child is deserving of a loving home with two parents. The best way to attempt a lifelong relationship with someone is through marriage.
And the Hippocrite of the Year Award goes to....CrazyJim1! Um, if you're going to be preaching that kind of garbage in an attempt to convert the heathen hordes, you might want to leave out the the whole insecurities bit that leads into it....people might think that YOU'RE the one with the insecurities, and that your whole post is a cry for help.
God will forgive you if you need to take a few testdrives before settling down (or, for that matter, if you never settle down). After all, how many people buy a car without taking it out for a spin? Do you really want to find out on your honeymoon that your 'soulmate', whom you've committed to live the rest of your life with, is infact a pre-op named David? How much of a sin is THAT!?!
Now strike out into the world, and sleep with as many people as you can!
IIRC it was a vorta named Keevan, who was being held by the Ferengi (who were given the vorta by Starfleet as a gift). There was a prisoner exchange for Quark's mother, Moogie (sp?), but in a squabble right before the exchange one of the ferengi shot Keevan accidentally. "I hate Ferengi." - famous last words
The proposed solution by Rom was to hook up devices to electrically stimulate the muscles/neurons, and tie it all in to a remote control. That way they could "walk" Keevan's lifeless corpse over to the Vorta conducting the exchange, and take off before anyone was the wiser.
(what can I say, I'm a trekkie:-D)
hehe yup. I tend to leave my drink out for extensive periods of time (next to computer, in car, etc). I'd rather have room temperature soda than slightly chilled soda water (with a hint of brown, from syrup).
As for ice being same price as syrup, I had no idea. I realize the ice equipment is expensive stuff, and I worked in a fast food place when I was younger so I know how cheap the syrup is (and will rarely buy soda unless it comes with a meal/combo). Just didn't know how close they are in price, thanks for the info. I was always told by manager that it was a cost issue.:)
Not when the stuff induces vomiting, but to each his own.:)
I always ask "easy on the ice," otherwise you're right they'll just pile it on. And no we don't like ice, it's a way for fast food places to make more money (more ice ==> less soda ==> $$$$ profit). By your comparison I'm assuming all canadians are shareholders in Best Foods, eh?
btw no reason for the hostility/curtness, I was simply curious if it was a regional thing or more widespread.
Actually, that's exactly what happened. The tires are adaptations of predecessors: hyundais are crap cars (I recall a time when one of the original boxy ones caught fire while I was in it...owner was prepared with a fire extinguisher though...you gotta be, driving korean cars:) ) and are designed for maximum cheapness. In this example, the tires that honda modeled theirs on were viewed by the Hyundai car company as efficient/cost. But just to add that extra cheapness, they tossed the neighborhood cat into the vat instead of the last.1% of rubber. Honda did not see the need for the neighborhood cat, since their cars are merely "Economy". Both are descendants of the same original tires, but have slight alterations that set them apart.
DISCLAIMER: I have nothing against koreans, I just REALLY hate Hyundai. And I realize Honda and Hyundai don't make tires (hyundai makes just about everything else, oddly enough), it just fits nicely.
Speaking of which, I've been meaning to ask: do all Canadians load on the Mayo or is it just a B.C. tradition? Whenever I go to vancouver I get these gasps of horror from waiters (and any nearby canadian patrons) when I ask for NO MAYO on my hamburger/cheeseburger/sandwich/etc. It seems to be used for everything we Americans use butter for, and more.
Any Canadians care to take this one?
I opt for Soylent HMO! Reduce world hunger while simultaneously reducing the amount of $$$ that's taken out of my paycheck. Who can argue with that? ('think of it grandpa, now you can finally attain your life long dream of ending world hunger!')
They don't need thousands of nuclear warheads to take california, they're already here. Just a few firearms distributed to the right people (hell, just organize all the gangs and you're set! They come pre-armed!), and not a heck of a lot stands in their way. The military bases are stripped dry with Bush's War on, and New Orleans shows how law enforcement responds to real life-or-death situations.
And of course the obligatory comment:
I para uno bienvenido nuestros overlords ilegales nuevos!
When did california become independent of mexico, according to your logic?
Militarily all mexico has to do is start handing out firearms to all bordercrossers and we're screwed (there are already millions of 'insurgents' ready to rise up, many in powerful positions in local govt). Culturally, Mexico never left (and continues to grow stronger). Hell, I had to learn spanish just to order food at the drive-thru.
I agree, *knowing* you're wrong makes all the difference. The problem is that engineering schools (such as my own Henry Samueli @uci) are factories. Most of the people in my classes were there "to make lots of money." Nevermind the fact that engineers make less $ straight out of college than many receptionists I know...and not without reason. The profit-hungry engineering majors can and--in many cases--WILL get their degrees without learning squat, having gone through the program motivated by everything BUT interest in what they're doing. They may have decent GPAs, but in the real world that education, all that blood sweat and tears you go through, isn't worth a damn thing. Meanwhile, some of the most brilliant and innovative would-be engineers (like I imagine Kern was) are lost.
Reading that article was like reading a page out of the story of EtherealStrife's engineering days. When a 1 in 4 success rate is considered *average*, something's wrong (I refer to an engineering class in my 2nd year in which the final grade was curved to a 25%). That kind of success rate in the real world can (and WILL) get people killed. Not the kind of thing engineering hopefuls should be learning...
Uh it seems like you're just restating your gp post combined with the parent post and passing it off as a...correction? Or is the redundancy an effort to drive the point home?
Alas, you are partially incorrect. Mules can give birth (rare though it is), it's just the males that are 100% sterile.
Wiki:
"A female mule, called a 'molly,' has estrus cycles and can carry a fetus, as has occasionally happened naturally but also through embryo transfer. The difficulty is in getting the molly pregnant in the first place."
As for the rest, how does his comment imply that a mule isn't alive? I certainly wasn't lead to that conclusion...
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TNG was the true triumph of the entire saga...the only one that defied Captain Syndrome (the asinine tendency of scifi captains to put themselves in ridiculously hostile environments and/or situations out of boredom...and somehow survive).
The only detractors from DSN were: :)
1) the horrible acting on the part of Dr. Julian Bashir (everyone else was superb, especially the lovely Terry Farrell aka Jadzia Dax and hilarious Jeffrey Combs aka Weyoun aka Brunt)
2) Sisko's uber captain syndrome...but atleast he plays a demigod of sorts so death isn't as much of an issue...
And TOS was a classic, no matter how you spin it.
Really interesting that they would throw something like that in there...perhaps it was meant to be a scottish kilt rather than skirt?
The little rogue watched researchers trying to teach his foster-mother how to use lexigrams. When she failed and was sent away, Kanzi started pecking away at the keyboard on his own -- with no human encouragement / motivation. To this day Kanzi is the only non-human I'm aware of who will work with researchers without a reward-based system. An anthropologist was able to teach him to create stone tools (setting him on par with Homo habilis -- or humans 2.5mya), and Kanzi has even played music with Paul McCartney.
A good site for info on Kanzi:
http://www2.gsu.edu/~wwwlrc/biographies/kanzi.htm
Even the slightly less intelligent and significantly more aggressive common chimps have social structures similar to our own (the 'alpha male' is determined by who has the most supporters / thugs).
Got something against vasectomies? Put some of the tadpoles on ice and bring on the orgies! If at a later date you want kids, just defrost a few.
Hell, pop a few Black Death tablets and you can lose the rubber! /sarcasm
Seriously though, vasectomies are underrated. I wouldn't be surprised if it became mandatory (that or chemical sterilization) in certain countries *cough* China *cough* in the near future.
As for the marriage bs, we really need personalized troll modifications. I've read content in trollings that's better than parent's preachings.
And because these people like to push their views on others from their own insecurities about the world, sometimes people fall for them and accept their views as truth. Don't be fooled by false views of the world. It seem be fun to lust, but you know the truth is to love. Again its very simple: If you have sex, you may have a child(even with preventive means). Every child is deserving of a loving home with two parents. The best way to attempt a lifelong relationship with someone is through marriage.
And the Hippocrite of the Year Award goes to....CrazyJim1! Um, if you're going to be preaching that kind of garbage in an attempt to convert the heathen hordes, you might want to leave out the the whole insecurities bit that leads into it....people might think that YOU'RE the one with the insecurities, and that your whole post is a cry for help.
God will forgive you if you need to take a few testdrives before settling down (or, for that matter, if you never settle down). After all, how many people buy a car without taking it out for a spin? Do you really want to find out on your honeymoon that your 'soulmate', whom you've committed to live the rest of your life with, is infact a pre-op named David? How much of a sin is THAT!?!
Now strike out into the world, and sleep with as many people as you can!
"I hate Ferengi." - famous last words
The proposed solution by Rom was to hook up devices to electrically stimulate the muscles/neurons, and tie it all in to a remote control. That way they could "walk" Keevan's lifeless corpse over to the Vorta conducting the exchange, and take off before anyone was the wiser. :-D)
(what can I say, I'm a trekkie
Come on man, keep up! The Stargate is buried in Egypt, not Greece. The Greeks are the ones with the giant death rays...
As for ice being same price as syrup, I had no idea. I realize the ice equipment is expensive stuff, and I worked in a fast food place when I was younger so I know how cheap the syrup is (and will rarely buy soda unless it comes with a meal/combo). Just didn't know how close they are in price, thanks for the info. I was always told by manager that it was a cost issue. :)
I always ask "easy on the ice," otherwise you're right they'll just pile it on. And no we don't like ice, it's a way for fast food places to make more money (more ice ==> less soda ==> $$$$ profit). By your comparison I'm assuming all canadians are shareholders in Best Foods, eh?
btw no reason for the hostility/curtness, I was simply curious if it was a regional thing or more widespread.
DISCLAIMER: I have nothing against koreans, I just REALLY hate Hyundai. And I realize Honda and Hyundai don't make tires (hyundai makes just about everything else, oddly enough), it just fits nicely.
Speaking of which, I've been meaning to ask: do all Canadians load on the Mayo or is it just a B.C. tradition? Whenever I go to vancouver I get these gasps of horror from waiters (and any nearby canadian patrons) when I ask for NO MAYO on my hamburger/cheeseburger/sandwich/etc. It seems to be used for everything we Americans use butter for, and more.
Any Canadians care to take this one?
If you aren't joking, you've got some facts to check (and school to attend). Begone, creationist troll!
/. is peta's worst nightmare
Have you seen the Panama Canal? That lifts/lowers boats out of the sea with giant levers...
I opt for Soylent HMO! Reduce world hunger while simultaneously reducing the amount of $$$ that's taken out of my paycheck. Who can argue with that? ('think of it grandpa, now you can finally attain your life long dream of ending world hunger!')
I used to know one that barked...swear by my life :) Weird little kitties...
Are you sure he said *dyslexic* and not epileptic?
it keeps growing and growing and growing
And of course the obligatory comment:
I para uno bienvenido nuestros overlords ilegales nuevos!
Militarily all mexico has to do is start handing out firearms to all bordercrossers and we're screwed (there are already millions of 'insurgents' ready to rise up, many in powerful positions in local govt). Culturally, Mexico never left (and continues to grow stronger). Hell, I had to learn spanish just to order food at the drive-thru.
I agree, *knowing* you're wrong makes all the difference. The problem is that engineering schools (such as my own Henry Samueli @uci) are factories. Most of the people in my classes were there "to make lots of money." Nevermind the fact that engineers make less $ straight out of college than many receptionists I know...and not without reason. The profit-hungry engineering majors can and--in many cases--WILL get their degrees without learning squat, having gone through the program motivated by everything BUT interest in what they're doing. They may have decent GPAs, but in the real world that education, all that blood sweat and tears you go through, isn't worth a damn thing. Meanwhile, some of the most brilliant and innovative would-be engineers (like I imagine Kern was) are lost.
sorry, should've said *the crew of* the enterprise. :)
Reading that article was like reading a page out of the story of EtherealStrife's engineering days. When a 1 in 4 success rate is considered *average*, something's wrong (I refer to an engineering class in my 2nd year in which the final grade was curved to a 25%). That kind of success rate in the real world can (and WILL) get people killed. Not the kind of thing engineering hopefuls should be learning...
Enterprise
Uh it seems like you're just restating your gp post combined with the parent post and passing it off as a...correction? Or is the redundancy an effort to drive the point home?
Alas, you are partially incorrect. Mules can give birth (rare though it is), it's just the males that are 100% sterile.
Wiki:
"A female mule, called a 'molly,' has estrus cycles and can carry a fetus, as has occasionally happened naturally but also through embryo transfer. The difficulty is in getting the molly pregnant in the first place."
As for the rest, how does his comment imply that a mule isn't alive? I certainly wasn't lead to that conclusion...
You have no imagination. Think shotput!