when you find that the drug has nasty side effects (cox-3 inhibitors).
Cox-3 inhibitors (such as Tylenol) are relatively safe. I believe you meant selective Cox-2 inhibitors such as Celebrex and Vioxx which have recently come under heat for their link to heart attacks. These drugs had a lot of potential for their ability to block Cox-2 withough affecting the Cox-1 enzymes. Asperin blocked both Cox-1 and Cox-2, so while it had good pain blocking abilities, it's interference with Cox-1 led to a number of side effects (Cox-1 enzymes help to protect the stomach lining from digestive acids and chemicals, as well as assisting in kidney function). So the ability to block Cox-2 without affecting Cox-1 was thought to be a great advancement in pain control while reducing the number of potential side effects.
I don't know whether your job description would allow this, but you could have a system of "office hours" for checking out and returning equipment. Say something like you'll be in the office from 8-9 in the morning and then again from 4-5 in the afternoon (and maybe during lunchtime too). People can submit their requests by E-Mail or other means ahead of time and you'll have it prepared the next morning, or they can come in during the appointed office hours to make a request in person. Professors do this all the time; it is their job to teach students, but they have other things to do as well, and they don't see it useful to committ their entire schedule to the possibility that a student might want to see them at any given moment. So they make office hours 2-3 times a week. They also tell the students that they are welcome to drop by his office whenever they want, and if he's in he'll answer whatever questions they have, but he doesn't make any garuntees outside of the times he's specifically mentioned.
Be careful with your generalization arguments. The wider the net you cast with your argument, the larger the holes are going to be.
By your argument, you would imply thatou are entitled to know where our covert spies are, or where our ships and armies are specifically deployed, since your tax dollars paid for all of that personel and equipment. Or that you are entitled to a free trip on Air Force One, since your taxes paid for it. I'm sure the secreat service would love to have the coordinates of Air Force One broadcast on the internet, because people feel they have a right to know everything all the time. The government does what they feel is in the best interest of their people. And if you feel that they are a bunch of buttmunchers who have more allegiance to the oil industry than to the american people, then vote them out. Otherwise, you have to understand that there's the possibility that there's more to governmental policy than they choose to let you know.
If there is some group out there looking out for these sort of things, they probably didn't have the means of getting the word out. They were probably derided as a bunch of kooks by the media or any kind of outlet they tried to talk to. Getting information out is hard if you don't have the infrastructure to get people to listen to you.
Here's an example of such a failure. In Hawaii, there is a tsunami monitering center, the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center, which moniters the west coast of the US, and pretty much all of the pacific basin for tsunami. I'll bet that after the massive seaquake, they knew what was coming. I'll also bet that there was no protocol for who they could contact to pass on this information. While they probably had a system for warning the continental US about dangers approaching the west coast, it doesn't seem like had a contact in the state department who could inform foreign governments about the information they had. With 2-3 hours notice, several thousand lives could have been saved in the affected regions. You can raise the point about not being able to help poor vilages who have no infrastructure and no ability to contact them, and that's a valid point. However, there were still thousands of casualities on resort beaches in tourist cities, places where communication infractructure wasn't a problem. The problem was that you had these group of people in Hawaii with lifesaving information who were likely shouting in the dark trying to get someone to listen to them, which is what likely happened to any watchdog group who may have known about this legislation.
Seriously. Not only are they diminishing, but arcades are made up of only three types of games: fighting games (Tekken, Marvel vs Capcom, etc), gun games (Time Crisis), and racing games, with a ratio of about 50:30:20, and all of them cost a buck to play, so much so that machines have dollar bill acceptors built into them. WTF is that? Gone are the good old quarter plunkers which I wasted my allowance on back in the day. Games like Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Alien vs. Predator, Golden Axe, Gauntlet (Oh man, so many quarters went into Gauntlet). Plus pinball, pinball is so hard to find these days. Every arcade will have maybe 1 token pinball machine, and it will be something lame like "Roller Coaster Tycoon Pinball". Not that I don't appreciate a good franchise pinball machine, "Star Trek: The Next Generation Pinball" kicks ass:-) Basically, there aren't any games out there that make me want to compulsively drop quarters in to the machine. Maybe I'll play a game at the movie theater before a movie, but I almost never feel like dropping more money in to continue. The last game I really liked was probably the Star Wars Trillogy game. And even that hasn't been popular in arcades since the late 90's.
The idea being that you can spend the time used training a policeman how to take and interpret a BAC on some other aspect of training that is glossed over or otherwise left out.
Using the book the professor wrote himself is probably the best in terms of learning material. Any material in the book is obviously material that the guy considers important, and anything not in the book is not going to be part of the course. I can recall many times when we were using some random textbook in a course, and a chapter will cover some material that the prof doesn't consider important, so you end up skipping it. Then there'll be some other topic that the prof does consider important but isn't in the textbook, so you end up getting pages and pages of handouts with badly drawn diagrams from the professor to cover this topic. Using a prof's book is really preferential to having to deal with the conflicting styles of your teacher and the author of the book you're using.
The death of the CD will come from RIAA tactics. Leave aside their random lawsuits of 80 year old grandmas, the reason people will stop buying CD's is because they are made to pay $20 for 15 tracks from an artist when only 1-2 of them are good. Back in the day when LPs were popular, you could buy a disc with just the one song you wanted. Now you're force fed tripe from the industry pushing their flavor of the month, big breasted, tiny brained, diva wannabes. Why would I want to pay $20 for a Jessica Simpson CD when there's maybe one track on there that I might like. Much better to be able to pay a buck and get the one song I want and put it on my Rio. That's actually another point, media size. When's the last time you've seen anyone walk around with a discman?
Sell Enterprise to Sci Fi. Shake up the writing and directing staff a bit, but keep things on the upward track it is on right now. Work Enterprise into their friday night lineup of Stargate, SG1, and Battlestar Galactica. They will have sole ownership of the sci fi crowd for that period of time. Four hours of solid male 18-45 demographic, advertisers will love that. And all of those programs will end up getting more viewers. Right now, Enterprise is competing with Stargate, and it's still pulling a few million viewers. If it was in a position to feed viewers to more sci fi shows, they'll all benefit.
That can't be the reason, otherwise B5 wouldn't have been popular. With enterprise recently, they were only 2-3 episode arcs, and even during the xindi story, it was still understandable, as long as you knew that "Enterprise is trying to find the Xindi, here is some stuff that happened along the way". With B5, the arc spanned 5 years, so in order to understand something that's happening in season 4, you needed to know about some battle/treaty/dramatic plot point that happened in season 2.
Because A) Congress is a bunch of old guys and B) The old guys in congress are put into office by being voted for by the heavily voting population of old people.
Creating new characters always comes with the risk of the project bombing. People need a reason to invest their money in different forms of media and entertainment. Think about it, when's the last time you pulled some unknown comic off the shelf and bought it, knowing nothing about it. When people have the option of buying the latest edition of X-Men, or perhaps splurging on "Super Bulldog Man" #1, what do you think they're going to do? X-Men has history and caracters that everyone knows and is familiar with, so each edition will make money. The whole key to making something a success is to make people want it, which is why everyone advertises things like critic's reviews and ratings and such, to convince people that there are many sources who say that their item is the best out there. To continue with Bulldog Man, if your friends said it was the awesomest comic of the year, then you'd probably go get it, wouldn't you? It's all about people believe that they will get their money's worth. Anyone who grew up with a Nintendo will definately have fond rememberances of Castlevania, and thus will probably buy the comic if the opportunity presents itself. The history is already planted, all they need to do is harvest the cash crop. As for developing new characters within the Castlevania world, well, you remember how much bitching there was when the Doom movie wasn't going to have demons or be on Mars. Geeks demand consistancy, and since only a very specific population buys comics, they have to cater to the comic buying geeks, unlike movies who are marketed to appeal to every Joe Average out there.
You joke, but it can be done. Take this site containing a few scans out of the Star Wars Manga Comic Book. Some of drawings work really well surprisingly.
Why can't they just take all the deleted characters and put them in some kind of recycle bin for two months before permanently deleting them. I can't really see the need to ever permanently delete a character. Sure some people may give up a particular game, but I assume they'd leave their characters intact so that if in the future they wanted to play again they wouldn't have to start from scratch. Character deletions are an impulse move that seem good for about 5 minutes, but I'd wager that most people who permanently delete their characters end up regreting it soon after.
Bones are alive. They have an inorganic calcium matrix true, but there are osteoblasts, osteoclasts, and osteocytes, within the matrix, continually building, maintaining, and destroying various sections of bone. Bone is so good at repairing itself that in surgery in the chest, they prefer to saw through the sternum and open the chest like a clam, since the bone is quite resiliant at repairing itself. I like to think that any tissue that would die without a blood supply can be considered alive. Bones are continually developing microcracks in them from daily use (like supporting your weight when walking), and without these osteo-cells to continually repair them, bones would become quite useless very quickly. The number of truly non-living tissues would be limited to cartilage and corneas (which is why corneal transplants are so successful, no blood means no immune response). Most everything else does require some living component to them.
A decrease in production costs in a product rarely results in the decrease in retail price. Or if anything, a $10 decrease in production cost will result in maybe a $1 retail price cost. The retail price will always be finagled to what the public will pay for a product, relatively independent of the production cost of the item. Cutting costs will mainly result in a higher profit margin for the company.
I wish that MMORPG's would offer a subscription based on the number of hours you play in a month. Similar to how Compuserve worked long ago, where you'd buy X number of hours a month with which you could use the service. My MMROPG of choice is City of Heroes, however in a given 2 month period of time, I only play for maybe 10 or 12 hours, and most of that happens in one weekend where I happen to not have any work to do. Yet I'm still paying a decent amount for continual monthly service. If there was someway to purchase a 48 hour pass for an MMORPG, that would be awesome. I would gladly pay $3 to play for a weekend, rather than having to pay $15 for a month, espically since I can go 1-2 months without playing the game at all.
Why would we willingly build into robots the limitations of humans? Think about how much of our schedules are based around our needs to eat and use the bathroom. Things like "Will I be back in time for dinner?" or "Should we have a restroom break at 10 or 10:30 in the meeting?" Every rest stop on a highway is based upon the physical limitations of a human's need to eat and pee every so often. Rather than trying to imbue these qualities in robots, I wish they'd figure out a way that made it so I didn't have to eat and excrete every day. And why even stop there? Why not make it so robots had to sleep every day; make a forced 6-8 hour period every day where the robot would shut down. While this might be necessary for recharging purposes, I'm guessing that there might be more efficient ways to do it.
JRD is awesome with his accents. He can do an arabic accent (Indiana Jones) to his scottish accent from WC3, to being a surly dwarf in LOTR (which I suppose is based on the scottish accent). Malcolm McDowell played a cool evilish admiral (Interestingly, he did WC3 during his apparent sci fi phase, where in 1994 he also did Star Trek Generations and the amazangly unpopular Cyborg 3 - The Recycler. As for Hamil, lets face it, he was as good an actor in WC3 has he was in Star Wars, but a story that good can do wonders, like turning a carpenter's assistant on the set into Han Solo. And the guy who played Eisen was cool. The acting was decent I thought. I would have prefered a wing commander movie made with those characters and the story from wing commander 1, 2, or 3 more than the craptastic movie that Hollywood actually released. Hell, they could have actually made a movie with just the WC3 film clips. Just splice together all the movie clips, and toss in some CG space battle scenes, and you'd have an awesome movie.
A vascectomy simply severs the vas deferens, which is where mature sperm are stored (well, technically, sperm undergo final maturation in the female reproductive tract in a process called capacitation, but that's where the most mature sperm in the male body are stored). All of the other seminal fluid that is part of semen is produced in the seminal vesicles, bulbourethral glands, and prostrate gland, and all function normally after a vascetomy. The average amount of ejaculate decreases only by about 3% after a vasctomy.
I'm not sure I'm going to want to see it when it comes out. Not because I don't like B5, but I don't get what's going on. I've tried several times to get into B5, but I keep finding myself not understanding what was going on. If I watch an episode in the middle of season 3, I don't get half the references to things that have happened already, so I don't understand what's being done in that episode. I have tried to watch it from the beginning when Sci-fi loops around and starts showing it from season 1 episode 1, but my schedule isn't such that I can set aside that same bit of time every day to watch it, so I invariably end up missing episodes. Being a poor student, I can't afford a TIVO, and I'm not going to buy a VCR just for this (and I'd probably forget to set it sooner or later anyway). Thus I'm continually left out of a series I really want to get into. So when this movie comes out, if I haven't seen B5 through, I don't know if I'd want to go to see this movie if I don't think I'd be able to get what they're talking about in the movie.
That was an interesting element in the first one, but it wasn't as good as it could have been. The choices were blindingly obvious for whether you wanted to be light or dark side. It was either "save the old man being mugged give him money to pay off his debt to the crime lord" or "Kill the muggers, take their stuff, kill the old man, take his stuff". Being on the dark side of the force does not mean you're supposed to be a dick all the time. The dark side is supposed to be seductive, the quick and easy path to power with disregard to the consequences, which is not inherantly evil (though it almost always involves stopming the weak and innocent in order to accomplish this goal). I would have liked more choices where the dark side was one of a quick and satisfying but barbaric solution to a problem, where as the light side was an ambiguous solution to the problem which would probably make things more difficult for you down the road.
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when you find that the drug has nasty side effects (cox-3 inhibitors).
Cox-3 inhibitors (such as Tylenol) are relatively safe. I believe you meant selective Cox-2 inhibitors such as Celebrex and Vioxx which have recently come under heat for their link to heart attacks. These drugs had a lot of potential for their ability to block Cox-2 withough affecting the Cox-1 enzymes. Asperin blocked both Cox-1 and Cox-2, so while it had good pain blocking abilities, it's interference with Cox-1 led to a number of side effects (Cox-1 enzymes help to protect the stomach lining from digestive acids and chemicals, as well as assisting in kidney function). So the ability to block Cox-2 without affecting Cox-1 was thought to be a great advancement in pain control while reducing the number of potential side effects.
I'd hit it....
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I don't know whether your job description would allow this, but you could have a system of "office hours" for checking out and returning equipment. Say something like you'll be in the office from 8-9 in the morning and then again from 4-5 in the afternoon (and maybe during lunchtime too). People can submit their requests by E-Mail or other means ahead of time and you'll have it prepared the next morning, or they can come in during the appointed office hours to make a request in person. Professors do this all the time; it is their job to teach students, but they have other things to do as well, and they don't see it useful to committ their entire schedule to the possibility that a student might want to see them at any given moment. So they make office hours 2-3 times a week. They also tell the students that they are welcome to drop by his office whenever they want, and if he's in he'll answer whatever questions they have, but he doesn't make any garuntees outside of the times he's specifically mentioned.
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Be careful with your generalization arguments. The wider the net you cast with your argument, the larger the holes are going to be.
By your argument, you would imply thatou are entitled to know where our covert spies are, or where our ships and armies are specifically deployed, since your tax dollars paid for all of that personel and equipment. Or that you are entitled to a free trip on Air Force One, since your taxes paid for it. I'm sure the secreat service would love to have the coordinates of Air Force One broadcast on the internet, because people feel they have a right to know everything all the time. The government does what they feel is in the best interest of their people. And if you feel that they are a bunch of buttmunchers who have more allegiance to the oil industry than to the american people, then vote them out. Otherwise, you have to understand that there's the possibility that there's more to governmental policy than they choose to let you know.
If there is some group out there looking out for these sort of things, they probably didn't have the means of getting the word out. They were probably derided as a bunch of kooks by the media or any kind of outlet they tried to talk to. Getting information out is hard if you don't have the infrastructure to get people to listen to you.
Here's an example of such a failure. In Hawaii, there is a tsunami monitering center, the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center, which moniters the west coast of the US, and pretty much all of the pacific basin for tsunami. I'll bet that after the massive seaquake, they knew what was coming. I'll also bet that there was no protocol for who they could contact to pass on this information. While they probably had a system for warning the continental US about dangers approaching the west coast, it doesn't seem like had a contact in the state department who could inform foreign governments about the information they had. With 2-3 hours notice, several thousand lives could have been saved in the affected regions. You can raise the point about not being able to help poor vilages who have no infrastructure and no ability to contact them, and that's a valid point. However, there were still thousands of casualities on resort beaches in tourist cities, places where communication infractructure wasn't a problem. The problem was that you had these group of people in Hawaii with lifesaving information who were likely shouting in the dark trying to get someone to listen to them, which is what likely happened to any watchdog group who may have known about this legislation.
Seriously. Not only are they diminishing, but arcades are made up of only three types of games: fighting games (Tekken, Marvel vs Capcom, etc), gun games (Time Crisis), and racing games, with a ratio of about 50:30:20, and all of them cost a buck to play, so much so that machines have dollar bill acceptors built into them. WTF is that? Gone are the good old quarter plunkers which I wasted my allowance on back in the day. Games like Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Alien vs. Predator, Golden Axe, Gauntlet (Oh man, so many quarters went into Gauntlet). Plus pinball, pinball is so hard to find these days. Every arcade will have maybe 1 token pinball machine, and it will be something lame like "Roller Coaster Tycoon Pinball". Not that I don't appreciate a good franchise pinball machine, "Star Trek: The Next Generation Pinball" kicks ass :-) Basically, there aren't any games out there that make me want to compulsively drop quarters in to the machine. Maybe I'll play a game at the movie theater before a movie, but I almost never feel like dropping more money in to continue. The last game I really liked was probably the Star Wars Trillogy game. And even that hasn't been popular in arcades since the late 90's.
The idea being that you can spend the time used training a policeman how to take and interpret a BAC on some other aspect of training that is glossed over or otherwise left out.
Using the book the professor wrote himself is probably the best in terms of learning material. Any material in the book is obviously material that the guy considers important, and anything not in the book is not going to be part of the course. I can recall many times when we were using some random textbook in a course, and a chapter will cover some material that the prof doesn't consider important, so you end up skipping it. Then there'll be some other topic that the prof does consider important but isn't in the textbook, so you end up getting pages and pages of handouts with badly drawn diagrams from the professor to cover this topic. Using a prof's book is really preferential to having to deal with the conflicting styles of your teacher and the author of the book you're using.
The death of the CD will come from RIAA tactics. Leave aside their random lawsuits of 80 year old grandmas, the reason people will stop buying CD's is because they are made to pay $20 for 15 tracks from an artist when only 1-2 of them are good. Back in the day when LPs were popular, you could buy a disc with just the one song you wanted. Now you're force fed tripe from the industry pushing their flavor of the month, big breasted, tiny brained, diva wannabes. Why would I want to pay $20 for a Jessica Simpson CD when there's maybe one track on there that I might like. Much better to be able to pay a buck and get the one song I want and put it on my Rio. That's actually another point, media size. When's the last time you've seen anyone walk around with a discman?
Sell Enterprise to Sci Fi. Shake up the writing and directing staff a bit, but keep things on the upward track it is on right now. Work Enterprise into their friday night lineup of Stargate, SG1, and Battlestar Galactica. They will have sole ownership of the sci fi crowd for that period of time. Four hours of solid male 18-45 demographic, advertisers will love that. And all of those programs will end up getting more viewers. Right now, Enterprise is competing with Stargate, and it's still pulling a few million viewers. If it was in a position to feed viewers to more sci fi shows, they'll all benefit.
That can't be the reason, otherwise B5 wouldn't have been popular. With enterprise recently, they were only 2-3 episode arcs, and even during the xindi story, it was still understandable, as long as you knew that "Enterprise is trying to find the Xindi, here is some stuff that happened along the way". With B5, the arc spanned 5 years, so in order to understand something that's happening in season 4, you needed to know about some battle/treaty/dramatic plot point that happened in season 2.
Because A) Congress is a bunch of old guys and B) The old guys in congress are put into office by being voted for by the heavily voting population of old people.
Creating new characters always comes with the risk of the project bombing. People need a reason to invest their money in different forms of media and entertainment. Think about it, when's the last time you pulled some unknown comic off the shelf and bought it, knowing nothing about it. When people have the option of buying the latest edition of X-Men, or perhaps splurging on "Super Bulldog Man" #1, what do you think they're going to do? X-Men has history and caracters that everyone knows and is familiar with, so each edition will make money. The whole key to making something a success is to make people want it, which is why everyone advertises things like critic's reviews and ratings and such, to convince people that there are many sources who say that their item is the best out there. To continue with Bulldog Man, if your friends said it was the awesomest comic of the year, then you'd probably go get it, wouldn't you? It's all about people believe that they will get their money's worth. Anyone who grew up with a Nintendo will definately have fond rememberances of Castlevania, and thus will probably buy the comic if the opportunity presents itself. The history is already planted, all they need to do is harvest the cash crop. As for developing new characters within the Castlevania world, well, you remember how much bitching there was when the Doom movie wasn't going to have demons or be on Mars. Geeks demand consistancy, and since only a very specific population buys comics, they have to cater to the comic buying geeks, unlike movies who are marketed to appeal to every Joe Average out there.
You joke, but it can be done. Take this site containing a few scans out of the Star Wars Manga Comic Book. Some of drawings work really well surprisingly.
Why can't they just take all the deleted characters and put them in some kind of recycle bin for two months before permanently deleting them. I can't really see the need to ever permanently delete a character. Sure some people may give up a particular game, but I assume they'd leave their characters intact so that if in the future they wanted to play again they wouldn't have to start from scratch. Character deletions are an impulse move that seem good for about 5 minutes, but I'd wager that most people who permanently delete their characters end up regreting it soon after.
Did anyone notice this on the top of the page?
FOR RELEASE: IMMEDIATE
March 2, 2004
Why wasn't this posted 10 months ago? More importantly, why is it being posted now?
Bones are alive. They have an inorganic calcium matrix true, but there are osteoblasts, osteoclasts, and osteocytes, within the matrix, continually building, maintaining, and destroying various sections of bone. Bone is so good at repairing itself that in surgery in the chest, they prefer to saw through the sternum and open the chest like a clam, since the bone is quite resiliant at repairing itself. I like to think that any tissue that would die without a blood supply can be considered alive. Bones are continually developing microcracks in them from daily use (like supporting your weight when walking), and without these osteo-cells to continually repair them, bones would become quite useless very quickly. The number of truly non-living tissues would be limited to cartilage and corneas (which is why corneal transplants are so successful, no blood means no immune response). Most everything else does require some living component to them.
A decrease in production costs in a product rarely results in the decrease in retail price. Or if anything, a $10 decrease in production cost will result in maybe a $1 retail price cost. The retail price will always be finagled to what the public will pay for a product, relatively independent of the production cost of the item. Cutting costs will mainly result in a higher profit margin for the company.
I wish that MMORPG's would offer a subscription based on the number of hours you play in a month. Similar to how Compuserve worked long ago, where you'd buy X number of hours a month with which you could use the service. My MMROPG of choice is City of Heroes, however in a given 2 month period of time, I only play for maybe 10 or 12 hours, and most of that happens in one weekend where I happen to not have any work to do. Yet I'm still paying a decent amount for continual monthly service. If there was someway to purchase a 48 hour pass for an MMORPG, that would be awesome. I would gladly pay $3 to play for a weekend, rather than having to pay $15 for a month, espically since I can go 1-2 months without playing the game at all.
Should Robots Eat? Shoult Robots Excrete?
Why would we willingly build into robots the limitations of humans? Think about how much of our schedules are based around our needs to eat and use the bathroom. Things like "Will I be back in time for dinner?" or "Should we have a restroom break at 10 or 10:30 in the meeting?" Every rest stop on a highway is based upon the physical limitations of a human's need to eat and pee every so often. Rather than trying to imbue these qualities in robots, I wish they'd figure out a way that made it so I didn't have to eat and excrete every day. And why even stop there? Why not make it so robots had to sleep every day; make a forced 6-8 hour period every day where the robot would shut down. While this might be necessary for recharging purposes, I'm guessing that there might be more efficient ways to do it.
JRD is awesome with his accents. He can do an arabic accent (Indiana Jones) to his scottish accent from WC3, to being a surly dwarf in LOTR (which I suppose is based on the scottish accent). Malcolm McDowell played a cool evilish admiral (Interestingly, he did WC3 during his apparent sci fi phase, where in 1994 he also did Star Trek Generations and the amazangly unpopular Cyborg 3 - The Recycler. As for Hamil, lets face it, he was as good an actor in WC3 has he was in Star Wars, but a story that good can do wonders, like turning a carpenter's assistant on the set into Han Solo. And the guy who played Eisen was cool. The acting was decent I thought. I would have prefered a wing commander movie made with those characters and the story from wing commander 1, 2, or 3 more than the craptastic movie that Hollywood actually released. Hell, they could have actually made a movie with just the WC3 film clips. Just splice together all the movie clips, and toss in some CG space battle scenes, and you'd have an awesome movie.
A vascectomy simply severs the vas deferens, which is where mature sperm are stored (well, technically, sperm undergo final maturation in the female reproductive tract in a process called capacitation, but that's where the most mature sperm in the male body are stored). All of the other seminal fluid that is part of semen is produced in the seminal vesicles, bulbourethral glands, and prostrate gland, and all function normally after a vascetomy. The average amount of ejaculate decreases only by about 3% after a vasctomy.
I'm not sure I'm going to want to see it when it comes out. Not because I don't like B5, but I don't get what's going on. I've tried several times to get into B5, but I keep finding myself not understanding what was going on. If I watch an episode in the middle of season 3, I don't get half the references to things that have happened already, so I don't understand what's being done in that episode. I have tried to watch it from the beginning when Sci-fi loops around and starts showing it from season 1 episode 1, but my schedule isn't such that I can set aside that same bit of time every day to watch it, so I invariably end up missing episodes. Being a poor student, I can't afford a TIVO, and I'm not going to buy a VCR just for this (and I'd probably forget to set it sooner or later anyway). Thus I'm continually left out of a series I really want to get into. So when this movie comes out, if I haven't seen B5 through, I don't know if I'd want to go to see this movie if I don't think I'd be able to get what they're talking about in the movie.
the good/evil path in it.
That was an interesting element in the first one, but it wasn't as good as it could have been. The choices were blindingly obvious for whether you wanted to be light or dark side. It was either "save the old man being mugged give him money to pay off his debt to the crime lord" or "Kill the muggers, take their stuff, kill the old man, take his stuff". Being on the dark side of the force does not mean you're supposed to be a dick all the time. The dark side is supposed to be seductive, the quick and easy path to power with disregard to the consequences, which is not inherantly evil (though it almost always involves stopming the weak and innocent in order to accomplish this goal). I would have liked more choices where the dark side was one of a quick and satisfying but barbaric solution to a problem, where as the light side was an ambiguous solution to the problem which would probably make things more difficult for you down the road.