Companies normally *do* hold subcontractors responsible for how they market their products. But those subcontractors may sub the work out to another company, who subs it out to another, who subs it out to someone who has a couple million email addresses. The Spammer is seldom just a one-off from the producer.
An outright invasion would have brought the Rebublic forces in instantly. But remember, this is all part of the Sith master plan. The crisis started as a legal trade embargo. However, when the schedule had to be shortened and invasion was imminent, Sidious himself hamstrung the Senate to prevent them from acting to defend Naboo.
PANAKA: Our security forces will be no match for a battle-hardened Federation army.
---
AMIDALA: We will take back what is ours.
PANAKA: But we have no army!
Yes, sociologicaly, this is a simplistic way of looking at it. The whole Gungan/Naboo story isn't a dissertation on Xenopolitical relations. It's a narrative element. Lucas wanted to show that the Naboo and Gungans would stand united, or fall divided. The maligned Jar-Jar had to be the go-between for the two societies. Noone trusted Jar-jar, not Obi-wan, not the Queen, not his own people. He was nothing but a "pathetic lifeform". But Qui-gon had the foresight to know that his position could be vital for the survival of the Blockade. Just like Anakin, he saw a future that no-one else did. However, like Anakin, he didn't see the dark road ahead. It was Jar-jar who effectively voted for the end of the republic. Lucas is famous for this. Taking common themes and repeating them for different situations.
Unless the resources required for two life forms is remarkably different or there is a truly symbiotic relationship...
OBI-WAN : You and the Naboo form a symbiont circle. What happens to one of
you will affect the other. You must understand this.
I think that clears up that question.:)
The gungans were ocean-dwelling amphibians. The naboo were urban humans. It stands to reason that there would be a demarcation of the resources that they consumed. Their differences appeared to be totally social. The Naboo didn't trust the Gungans because they kept a standing army. And the Gungans thought the Naboo thought themselves superior.
Well, if your expendatures that normally generate the revenue (R&D, Marketing, Sales), are instead going to pay off your lawyers, this can have an impact. Footing huge legal bills does nothing to increase or maintain revenue. Making and marketing a product people *want*, does.
Well, considering that on Tuesday, they were granted a patent on marshaling XML to and from objects, I'd guess they still have their bases covered. Yeah, the XML is "open", but you can't write an application to convert that XML into an object map without violating their new "intellectual property".
The shooting script of ep3 had quite a bit of dialog dealing with the formation of the Rebellion. It started with Bail Organa, Padme, Mon Mothma, et al organizing to petition Palpatine to release his new executive powers. Eventually, this led to murmurings of an "alliance of senators out to prolong this civil war indefinitely". This was capped of as one of the reasons Palpatine gave for declaring the Empire - to protect the 'republic' from these unscrupulous senators.
Unfortunately, this all wound up on the cutting-room floor. I'm sure part of this arc will wind up in the deleted scenes of the DVD.
Bullshit! Rules of Evidence 101 will tell you that Circumstantial Evidence is *just as valid* as direct evidence. The questions are 1) Is the evidence relevant to the case at hand. 2) How much faith does the jury put into it.
Tell Scott Peterson that Circumstantial evidence is inadmissable. I'm sure he'll get a chuckle
Exactly. The Sith will generally keep a potential apprentice "on deck" when it comes time to either give yourself a promotion from Apprentice to Master, or to wipe out an apprentice that becomes too ambitious/innefectual.
What the Jedi failed to realize in the prequels was that it wasn't just the Sith that were causing imbalance. The Jedi were doing their fair share of it too. Dooku knew that the Jedi were heading down a dark path by acting as the personal emisarries of a corrupt Senate. He tried to do something about it, and wound up being consumed by the very corruption he was trying to stop. This "rebellious" streak was found in Qui-Gon as well. But at the end of "Sith", Yoda admits to Obi-Wan that Qui-gon has learned something of the nature of the Force that even the most High-and-Mighty jedi council members were unaware of. The Jedi were well meaning, but rested on their laurels and precious "Jedi Code" when the times called for "thinking outside the box". Yoda and Kenobi do just this by training a much-too-old Luke Skywalker in the ways of the Jedi.
You realise, I hope, that: a) the original Star Wars was always called "A New Hope",
BZZZZT WRONG!
and b) it was always episode 4.
WRONG AGAIN!
The first few seconds of the movie (even in the original theatrical release) make that very clear.
STRIKE THREE! Kindly turn in your geek card at the front desk. The initial theatrical release of Star Wars was *just that*, "Star Wars". There was neither "Episode IV", nor was there "A NEW HOPE" attached to the opening crawl. These weren't added until the 1979-1980 re-release to build up the excitement for "Empire".
While this generation of young 'uns might not take Star Wars as close to their hearts as we did...
I disagree. If anything, today's kids are able to enjoy the films as a collective whole. They don't know about waiting 17 years for a prequel, building up the anticipation to it in such a way that the resulting film can *never* live up to your expectations. My kid thought of Jar Jar the same way I though of Ewoks when I was 9 - pretty damn cool! It wasn't until I was in my jaded tweens that I thought that Ewoks were, well, lame. I think their fandom will be just as honest as ours.
I've read Brin's comments about SW before, and honesly, most of his critizisms amount to nothing more than "I'm a Ph.D, and I say you should write a story *this* way". In his AOTC review, he criticises Lucas for showing that Anakin will be damned for being "Human". Well - Duhhhh!! Anakin's fault is that he is *filled* with the Human Experience. Love, attachment, anger - these make for normal people, but terrible Jedi. And part of *why* the Jedi fall is because they are so very disconnected from the people they are supposed to be serving. Rather than confronting the Dark Side threat that they feel growing *directly*, they put faith in some prophecy. "Let the Chosen One deal with it, it's his job".
And as far as "the ones who were born to be powerful". Sorry, that argument's a crok of shit. We've known since RoTJ that force potential is present from birth: "The Force runs strong in my family. My father has it. I have it. And my sister has it." Midichlorians do nothing to change this.
Well, it's Lucas' story. He can do whatever the hell he wants with it. I've been a fan since '77 and had no problem with the midichlorian idea, once it had a little bit of time to sink in, and I got a broader view of where the story was going.
I don't like the idea of Greedo shooting first either, but I'm not about to let a couple of mis-steps prevent me from enjoying the story told in all six films.
And yes, midichlorians *will* be mentioned in "Sith". Try not to scream like a bitch when George rapes your childhood again, mmmkay?
No, what I'm saying is that the members of the Open Source community who want to guide the development of the Java platform do so by working with Sun and the JCP than just simply bitching, whining, and moaning about Sun having the extreme audacity to maintain some level of control of their own intellectual property. Big difference. If you take off your "if-it-isn't-open-source-it-sucks" blinders for a moment, you'd see it instantly. But I'm not gonna hold my breath...
Before Lucas went with this whole ridiculous "mitochondria" nonsense...
You know, I never really understood the whole "Midichlorian Bashing" nonsense that prequel haters continuously spout. All it does is give a name and a little elaboration on what we already knew from the OT:
Obi-Wan: It is an energy field created by all living things
Yoda: Life creates it, makes it grow.
Qui-Gon: Midi-chlorians are a microcopic lifeform that reside within all
living cells... Without the
midi-chlorians, life could not exist, and we would have no knowledge of the
Force. They continually speak to us, telling us the will of the Force.
Noone bitched or moaned when Both Yoda and Obi-wan mention a link between Life and the Force. But as soon as Qui-gon gives a name to that link, all the fair-weather-fans start rioting in the streets.
"Your father's Lightsaber. It is the weapon of the Jedi Knight. Not as clumsy or random as a blaster; an elegant weapon, for a more civilzed age."
- Obi-wan Kenobi, Outspoken proponent of the Force
The reason Java is so hard to reimplement by the OSS community is the same reason Windows is: a big company keeps fiddling with it in order to maintain control.
File that one under "Bullshit". Some of the most active contributors to the JCP (The governing body that guides Java technology) come from the Apache group and other OSS organizations. OSS advocates are there every step of the way when a new JDK is being designed.
"Java is hard to reimplement" because Sun "keeps fiddling with it?" Puh-leeze. The cycle between major releases is running between two and three years, with legacy support running for about another two years.
Now, the FIRST bullet point of the release notes from EVERY Sun release since Java 1.1.8 *clearly* reads:
THOU SHALT NOT USE sun.* PACKAGES, AS THEY ARE EXPERIMENTAL AND MAY BREAKETH UPON YOU WITHOUT WARNING!
Now seriously, rub two brain cells together and come up with whose fault this is: Is it Sun's for providing unsupported libraries for developers to play with, or the OO.o developer who disregarded the warning that every Java codemonkey with more than a week's experience knows by heart and went ahead and used sun.* packages in a production-bound system. He shoots his own code in the ass, and it comes out to be Sun's fault. Fucking brilliant!
And certainly, users of these systems can't run MS Office on them either. I can get Java for my Linux PC, my Win32 PC, my Solaris workstation, even my PDA and Cell phone....
...Wait a minute! My MP3 player doesn't run Java! Goddamn Sun and their POS proprietary Language!!
You're kidding, right? SLES is being shipped with all new Netware subscription renewals. Trashtalk Netware all you want, it still has a sizable installation base. Novell's goal is to get *all* of their Novell customers migrated to SuSE. Novell also has an internal initiative to get all of their employees migrated to using Linux on their desktop. Part of their corporate directory includes the level of Linux use that *each* employee uses in their daily work. Not to mention the fact that Novell are perhaps the *best* corporate stewards of an Open Source product. Much of their proprietarty technology, once it is certified for SLES, is be given back to the OSS community under the GPL. Novell have bet their farm on Linux's success. They aren't just going through the motions!
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Companies normally *do* hold subcontractors responsible for how they market their products. But those subcontractors may sub the work out to another company, who subs it out to another, who subs it out to someone who has a couple million email addresses. The Spammer is seldom just a one-off from the producer.
An outright invasion would have brought the Rebublic forces in instantly. But remember, this is all part of the Sith master plan. The crisis started as a legal trade embargo. However, when the schedule had to be shortened and invasion was imminent, Sidious himself hamstrung the Senate to prevent them from acting to defend Naboo.
Use the Script, Luke!
PANAKA: Our security forces will be no match for a battle-hardened Federation army.
---
AMIDALA: We will take back what is ours.
PANAKA: But we have no army!
Yes, sociologicaly, this is a simplistic way of looking at it. The whole Gungan/Naboo story isn't a dissertation on Xenopolitical relations. It's a narrative element. Lucas wanted to show that the Naboo and Gungans would stand united, or fall divided. The maligned Jar-Jar had to be the go-between for the two societies. Noone trusted Jar-jar, not Obi-wan, not the Queen, not his own people. He was nothing but a "pathetic lifeform". But Qui-gon had the foresight to know that his position could be vital for the survival of the Blockade. Just like Anakin, he saw a future that no-one else did. However, like Anakin, he didn't see the dark road ahead. It was Jar-jar who effectively voted for the end of the republic. Lucas is famous for this. Taking common themes and repeating them for different situations.
OBI-WAN : You and the Naboo form a symbiont circle. What happens to one of you will affect the other. You must understand this.
I think that clears up that question. :)
The gungans were ocean-dwelling amphibians. The naboo were urban humans. It stands to reason that there would be a demarcation of the resources that they consumed. Their differences appeared to be totally social. The Naboo didn't trust the Gungans because they kept a standing army. And the Gungans thought the Naboo thought themselves superior.
Well, if your expendatures that normally generate the revenue (R&D, Marketing, Sales), are instead going to pay off your lawyers, this can have an impact. Footing huge legal bills does nothing to increase or maintain revenue. Making and marketing a product people *want*, does.
Well, considering that on Tuesday, they were granted a patent on marshaling XML to and from objects, I'd guess they still have their bases covered. Yeah, the XML is "open", but you can't write an application to convert that XML into an object map without violating their new "intellectual property".
Arcade-Bar-Restaurants like GameWorks and Jillian's have a fair collection of the Classics. I just hope you don't mind shelling out $0.50 per credit
Unfortunately, this all wound up on the cutting-room floor. I'm sure part of this arc will wind up in the deleted scenes of the DVD.
Tell Scott Peterson that Circumstantial evidence is inadmissable. I'm sure he'll get a chuckle
Exactly. The Sith will generally keep a potential apprentice "on deck" when it comes time to either give yourself a promotion from Apprentice to Master, or to wipe out an apprentice that becomes too ambitious/innefectual.
What the Jedi failed to realize in the prequels was that it wasn't just the Sith that were causing imbalance. The Jedi were doing their fair share of it too. Dooku knew that the Jedi were heading down a dark path by acting as the personal emisarries of a corrupt Senate. He tried to do something about it, and wound up being consumed by the very corruption he was trying to stop. This "rebellious" streak was found in Qui-Gon as well. But at the end of "Sith", Yoda admits to Obi-Wan that Qui-gon has learned something of the nature of the Force that even the most High-and-Mighty jedi council members were unaware of. The Jedi were well meaning, but rested on their laurels and precious "Jedi Code" when the times called for "thinking outside the box". Yoda and Kenobi do just this by training a much-too-old Luke Skywalker in the ways of the Jedi.
BZZZZT WRONG!
and b) it was always episode 4.
WRONG AGAIN!
The first few seconds of the movie (even in the original theatrical release) make that very clear.
STRIKE THREE! Kindly turn in your geek card at the front desk. The initial theatrical release of Star Wars was *just that*, "Star Wars". There was neither "Episode IV", nor was there "A NEW HOPE" attached to the opening crawl. These weren't added until the 1979-1980 re-release to build up the excitement for "Empire".
I disagree. If anything, today's kids are able to enjoy the films as a collective whole. They don't know about waiting 17 years for a prequel, building up the anticipation to it in such a way that the resulting film can *never* live up to your expectations. My kid thought of Jar Jar the same way I though of Ewoks when I was 9 - pretty damn cool! It wasn't until I was in my jaded tweens that I thought that Ewoks were, well, lame. I think their fandom will be just as honest as ours.
The security tapes were not from Palpatine's office. They were from Palpatine surveying the destruction in the Jedi Temple.
And as far as "the ones who were born to be powerful". Sorry, that argument's a crok of shit. We've known since RoTJ that force potential is present from birth: "The Force runs strong in my family. My father has it. I have it. And my sister has it." Midichlorians do nothing to change this.
I don't like the idea of Greedo shooting first either, but I'm not about to let a couple of mis-steps prevent me from enjoying the story told in all six films.
And yes, midichlorians *will* be mentioned in "Sith". Try not to scream like a bitch when George rapes your childhood again, mmmkay?
No, what I'm saying is that the members of the Open Source community who want to guide the development of the Java platform do so by working with Sun and the JCP than just simply bitching, whining, and moaning about Sun having the extreme audacity to maintain some level of control of their own intellectual property. Big difference. If you take off your "if-it-isn't-open-source-it-sucks" blinders for a moment, you'd see it instantly. But I'm not gonna hold my breath...
You know, I never really understood the whole "Midichlorian Bashing" nonsense that prequel haters continuously spout. All it does is give a name and a little elaboration on what we already knew from the OT:
Obi-Wan: It is an energy field created by all living things
Yoda: Life creates it, makes it grow.
Qui-Gon: Midi-chlorians are a microcopic lifeform that reside within all living cells... Without the midi-chlorians, life could not exist, and we would have no knowledge of the Force. They continually speak to us, telling us the will of the Force.
Noone bitched or moaned when Both Yoda and Obi-wan mention a link between Life and the Force. But as soon as Qui-gon gives a name to that link, all the fair-weather-fans start rioting in the streets.
Isn't it amazing how simply these questions can be answered by simply paying attention to the story...
"Your father's Lightsaber. It is the weapon of the Jedi Knight. Not as clumsy or random as a blaster; an elegant weapon, for a more civilzed age."
- Obi-wan Kenobi, Outspoken proponent of the Force
File that one under "Bullshit". Some of the most active contributors to the JCP (The governing body that guides Java technology) come from the Apache group and other OSS organizations. OSS advocates are there every step of the way when a new JDK is being designed.
"Java is hard to reimplement" because Sun "keeps fiddling with it?" Puh-leeze. The cycle between major releases is running between two and three years, with legacy support running for about another two years.
THOU SHALT NOT USE sun.* PACKAGES, AS THEY ARE EXPERIMENTAL AND MAY BREAKETH UPON YOU WITHOUT WARNING!
Now seriously, rub two brain cells together and come up with whose fault this is: Is it Sun's for providing unsupported libraries for developers to play with, or the OO.o developer who disregarded the warning that every Java codemonkey with more than a week's experience knows by heart and went ahead and used sun.* packages in a production-bound system. He shoots his own code in the ass, and it comes out to be Sun's fault. Fucking brilliant!
...Wait a minute! My MP3 player doesn't run Java! Goddamn Sun and their POS proprietary Language!!
You're kidding, right? SLES is being shipped with all new Netware subscription renewals. Trashtalk Netware all you want, it still has a sizable installation base. Novell's goal is to get *all* of their Novell customers migrated to SuSE. Novell also has an internal initiative to get all of their employees migrated to using Linux on their desktop. Part of their corporate directory includes the level of Linux use that *each* employee uses in their daily work. Not to mention the fact that Novell are perhaps the *best* corporate stewards of an Open Source product. Much of their proprietarty technology, once it is certified for SLES, is be given back to the OSS community under the GPL. Novell have bet their farm on Linux's success. They aren't just going through the motions!
Well, he is a slow learner!