True. Which means we can probably expect Harry Potter to come whizzing by on his Firebolt and nail the Cylons with an Avada Kevadra spell or two if the crew of the good ship Galactica gets in over their heads.
How ironic that your reply contains a paraphrase of a line from a classic science fiction movie that didn't depend on FTL travel, "warp drive", waving a magic wand, clicking one's ruby-clad heels together, or other such gimcrackery to tell a compelling and entertaining story.
And to think that my original, first reply in this thread was simply to another poster who questioned if religion was a valid sub-premise for a science fiction story. From thread-drifting little acorns...
1) The Galactica somehow instantaneously achieves faster-than-light velocity from a subluminal start (which besides being impossible according to our science, means that the crew gets instantly rendered into chunky salsa if the inertial dampeners ever crap the bed).
Or 2) It accelerates from subluminal start to FTL, passing through C, which means that Einstein bites them in the ass as they whiz by and everybody gets a whole lot fatter (like Americans in the Red States) as they go. And the chunky salsa danger still holds true in this case too.
Why not religious issues? The Galactica's mass isn't shown as increasing to infinity when it travels at superluminal velocities. Why would portrayals of some Imaginary Sky Creature® be any more egregious than depictions of a mode of travel which is impossible for anything but a tachyon?
If you are going to rape reality in a television show, you might as well be hung for a goat as for a sheep.
Well, how about a new Teddy-bashing quip then? I have to admit that whistling up a taxpayer-funded helicopter ride home to the tune of $2490.00 on the taxpayer's dime is better from a public safety standpoint than letting that fat old drunk sit behind the wheel of a car.
I would kick in to save Enterprise if their next story arc comprised 52 episodes and consisted solely of Rick Berman getting captured by the Klingons and being sentenced to 46 minutes of Pain Stick-Fu at every Klingon outpost in the galaxy. Kind of like the old penalty of "Flogging Around the Fleet" in the British Navy of the 18th Century.
I am not angry. I reserve my anger only for special occasions.
In my opinion, the key term in the parent post was "desperate". I donated money to 9/11 and tsunami victims, but would not describe my state of mind while doing so as "desperate". "Purposefully determined", maybe.
My point is that the AC's apparent attempt to equate the true desperation of these victims with that of a few uber-fanbois losing a television show was a remarkably silly comparison. While anybody who would actually cut a check of any substantial amount in furtherance of such an effort is free to do so, suffice to say that some people have more money than sense, and ratholes abound.
Considering that the show's ratings have fallen faster than Janet Jackson's decolletage, these couch potatoes will each have to be Bill Gates to have a chance of pulling this off.
(I just said "Janet Jackson" and "pulling this off" in the same post. Somebody mod me down NOW - I deserve it).
Are you seriously trying to compare an effort to assuage the misery of hundreds of thousands of destitute victims of a natural disaster with saving a failing television show?
In some cases, posting as an AC is a good thing. Karma is not just a concept on Slashdot.
I use a good visa card and I know that (should I need to) I can rely on them to invoke a charge-back.
Then you are smarter than me. I failed to notice that my former bank would not do chargebacks on credit card transactions. I found the relevant codicil in 2-point agate type in the middle of my cardholder agreement. As a result, I ate a $40 charge when I won a merchant's auction and paid for but never received the merchandise. The merchant pleaded empty pockets but merely cancelled their name and popped up under another one. And EBay's claim submission mechanism is useless unless you pay a nonrefundable $20 (half the transaction cost in this case) to "validate" the claim.
That was my only bad EBay experience. I have a new bank too - one that pursues and honors chargebacks.
- Who unsuccessfully pressured the writing staff of his 'TV Nation' not to join the Writer's Guild.
- Whose bodyguard got arrested for carrying an unlicensed firearm at JFK airport. A FIREARM? For the writer/author of "Bowling for Columbine"? No more tinfoil for you - you've obviously ODed on the stuff.
- Whose own hometown high school refuses to induct him into its Hall of Fame.
YOU grow up and stop whining. Bush won, Kerry lost. Get over it.
The difference is that gun control is a law and order issue, and that ice-cream control is a health issue.
Both are actually Constitutional issues, at least where I come from. The right to bear arms is not one grudgingly allowed to me by the latest politician flavor-of-the-month in Washington DC, it is granted to me by my God. I still have the right in a free society to wolf down as much B&Js as I can hold, and I have a similar right to own and legally use firearms. And as long as I don't use them to unlawfully injure or kill others, it is frankly none of your business or none of Sarah Brady's business how many I have.
I own and/or control a lot of property, I have a lot of firearms, I have barrels of cosmoline, and I have plenty of buriable containers. The nanny state busybodies will never, EVER legislate my Constitutional rights out from under me. And if they somehow manage to rewrite the law here to do so, they will light a match that sets off the largest popular protest and resistance movement in the US since the US Civil War. Bank on it.
Do you need a fully automatic, or even a semi-automatic weapon to enjoy target shooting?
We, Your Government, have decreed that you no longer "need" Ben & Jerry's brand ice cream. It is chock-full of dangerous, obesity-causing fat, it costs a fortune, and it rots your teeth. We have determined that you instead "need" to consume official Government-approved low-calorie ice cream snacks (and your ration is one per day, citizen). Therefore, to protect you from yourself, Your Government is going to nationalize B&J and confiscate every pint of their ice cream still in your grocer's freezer section.
Now knuckle your forehead like a good serf and show some gratitude that Your Government knows better than you what's good for you. You know we are right.
Now you've put that "I'm Just a Bill" song from Schoolhouse Rock into my head. And its an earworm - its just going to keep playing and playing and playing...
Trek never really recovered from Shatner's "Get a Life" joke.
Mod parent up.
When Shatner said that on SNL, I followed his advice and got a life. A life that doesn't include even a single sou of my money ever being deposited into a bank account of his again.
The federal government is considering outlawing this abusive practise.
Which "federal-ation?" Which government? Contrary to popular belief, not every computer on the planet is located within the borders of that nation-state known as the United States of America. (I have it on the best of authority that there are actually one or two computers in France).
The idea of "outlawing" CAPTCHAs is as remarkably silly as the concept of outlawing spam. It ain't gonna happen.
Count your lucky stars that Windows is NOT the OS here.
(annoying popup)
"Hi! I'm Clippy the official Microsoft paper fastener mascot! It looks like you are trying to use your computer while in a vehicle that is in motion. Are you:"
- Wardriving? Unauthorized use of a wireless connection is a federal offense, buster. Just so ya know.
- Operating your computer while talking on a cell phone, using an electric razor, applying chapstick, and drinking a latte? Get a friggin' chauffeur.
- About to throw up? Turn your head - its not easy to get used penne pasta alfredo out of a laptop keyboard.
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True. Which means we can probably expect Harry Potter to come whizzing by on his Firebolt and nail the Cylons with an Avada Kevadra spell or two if the crew of the good ship Galactica gets in over their heads.
How ironic that your reply contains a paraphrase of a line from a classic science fiction movie that didn't depend on FTL travel, "warp drive", waving a magic wand, clicking one's ruby-clad heels together, or other such gimcrackery to tell a compelling and entertaining story.
And to think that my original, first reply in this thread was simply to another poster who questioned if religion was a valid sub-premise for a science fiction story. From thread-drifting little acorns ...
1) The Galactica somehow instantaneously achieves faster-than-light velocity from a subluminal start (which besides being impossible according to our science, means that the crew gets instantly rendered into chunky salsa if the inertial dampeners ever crap the bed).
Or 2) It accelerates from subluminal start to FTL, passing through C, which means that Einstein bites them in the ass as they whiz by and everybody gets a whole lot fatter (like Americans in the Red States) as they go. And the chunky salsa danger still holds true in this case too.
If you are going to rape reality in a television show, you might as well be hung for a goat as for a sheep.
I don't know about that. With all that Helium-3 supposedly up there, you would at least get to sound like Donald Duck right up to the end.
Well, how about a new Teddy-bashing quip then? I have to admit that whistling up a taxpayer-funded helicopter ride home to the tune of $2490.00 on the taxpayer's dime is better from a public safety standpoint than letting that fat old drunk sit behind the wheel of a car.
There's a call for you - Snake Anti-Defamation League on Line Two. Call marked "URGENT"
Only if you're a passenger in Teddy's car. And then only if you don't have gills.
I would kick in to save Enterprise if their next story arc comprised 52 episodes and consisted solely of Rick Berman getting captured by the Klingons and being sentenced to 46 minutes of Pain Stick-Fu at every Klingon outpost in the galaxy. Kind of like the old penalty of "Flogging Around the Fleet" in the British Navy of the 18th Century.
And none of them are ever portrayed as going to the bathroom.
In my opinion, the key term in the parent post was "desperate". I donated money to 9/11 and tsunami victims, but would not describe my state of mind while doing so as "desperate". "Purposefully determined", maybe.
My point is that the AC's apparent attempt to equate the true desperation of these victims with that of a few uber-fanbois losing a television show was a remarkably silly comparison. While anybody who would actually cut a check of any substantial amount in furtherance of such an effort is free to do so, suffice to say that some people have more money than sense, and ratholes abound.
(I just said "Janet Jackson" and "pulling this off" in the same post. Somebody mod me down NOW - I deserve it).
In some cases, posting as an AC is a good thing. Karma is not just a concept on Slashdot.
Then you are smarter than me. I failed to notice that my former bank would not do chargebacks on credit card transactions. I found the relevant codicil in 2-point agate type in the middle of my cardholder agreement. As a result, I ate a $40 charge when I won a merchant's auction and paid for but never received the merchandise. The merchant pleaded empty pockets but merely cancelled their name and popped up under another one. And EBay's claim submission mechanism is useless unless you pay a nonrefundable $20 (half the transaction cost in this case) to "validate" the claim.
That was my only bad EBay experience. I have a new bank too - one that pursues and honors chargebacks.
Prove it. The only proven vote fraud is being done by Democrats (remember "Votes for Cigarettes 2000" for homeless people and tire slashing by Democrat-paid thugs in 2004 in Wisconsin?).
Let's not even talk about Catherine Harris, who outright stole the election by selectively obeying the intent of the law.
Prove it. (And its spelled "Katherine". Try to keep up.)
This is now a one party dictatorship, using the law as window dressing to get anything it wants and destroy whomever it hates.
Prove it.
accepted by the Katie Courics of the news media almost immediately.
You honestly believe that Katie "... they haven't been able to confirm reports [Saddam] was taken to Tikrit, and then Mosul, and then hopefully Syria" Couric is right wing? ROFL!!!!
Snip remainder of Michael Moore-inspired paranoia. That by the way would be the corpulent propagandist Michael Moore:
- Who sends his own daughter to private school .
- Who unsuccessfully pressured the writing staff of his 'TV Nation' not to join the Writer's Guild.
- Whose bodyguard got arrested for carrying an unlicensed firearm at JFK airport. A FIREARM? For the writer/author of "Bowling for Columbine"? No more tinfoil for you - you've obviously ODed on the stuff.
- Whose own hometown high school refuses to induct him into its Hall of Fame.
YOU grow up and stop whining. Bush won, Kerry lost. Get over it.
Both are actually Constitutional issues, at least where I come from. The right to bear arms is not one grudgingly allowed to me by the latest politician flavor-of-the-month in Washington DC, it is granted to me by my God. I still have the right in a free society to wolf down as much B&Js as I can hold, and I have a similar right to own and legally use firearms. And as long as I don't use them to unlawfully injure or kill others, it is frankly none of your business or none of Sarah Brady's business how many I have.
I own and/or control a lot of property, I have a lot of firearms, I have barrels of cosmoline, and I have plenty of buriable containers. The nanny state busybodies will never, EVER legislate my Constitutional rights out from under me. And if they somehow manage to rewrite the law here to do so, they will light a match that sets off the largest popular protest and resistance movement in the US since the US Civil War. Bank on it.
We, Your Government, have decreed that you no longer "need" Ben & Jerry's brand ice cream. It is chock-full of dangerous, obesity-causing fat, it costs a fortune, and it rots your teeth. We have determined that you instead "need" to consume official Government-approved low-calorie ice cream snacks (and your ration is one per day, citizen). Therefore, to protect you from yourself, Your Government is going to nationalize B&J and confiscate every pint of their ice cream still in your grocer's freezer section.
Now knuckle your forehead like a good serf and show some gratitude that Your Government knows better than you what's good for you. You know we are right.
Damn you ;)
Is that pronounced "mowt" in the US?
Mod parent up.
When Shatner said that on SNL, I followed his advice and got a life. A life that doesn't include even a single sou of my money ever being deposited into a bank account of his again.
Which "federal-ation?" Which government? Contrary to popular belief, not every computer on the planet is located within the borders of that nation-state known as the United States of America. (I have it on the best of authority that there are actually one or two computers in France).
The idea of "outlawing" CAPTCHAs is as remarkably silly as the concept of outlawing spam. It ain't gonna happen.
(annoying popup)
"Hi! I'm Clippy the official Microsoft paper fastener mascot! It looks like you are trying to use your computer while in a vehicle that is in motion. Are you:"
- Wardriving? Unauthorized use of a wireless connection is a federal offense, buster. Just so ya know.
- Operating your computer while talking on a cell phone, using an electric razor, applying chapstick, and drinking a latte? Get a friggin' chauffeur.
- About to throw up? Turn your head - its not easy to get used penne pasta alfredo out of a laptop keyboard.