I went to a Jesuit University in New York. Sex in a dorm was a violation of Residential Life policy. If you were caught, you could be written up - and it's happened.
... that a lease can prohibit sex between consenting adults (no-cohabitation clauses in many dorms), but not the operation of 802.11b wireless access points?
No. They have arbitrarily decided to ban access points from their dorms. They can do that because it's their land and they can do whatever the hell they want with it, including telling you you're not allowed to have phone books or any other damn thing. You *always* have to abide by the rules of the dorm. Yes, it's absurd, for example, to tell adults that they are not allowed to have sex in a dorm they have paid to live in, but nevertheless a court will support the school's right to tell them so.
If this were only a matter of signal, then yes, the students would win. But the students are putting a banned object onto school property. Not ok.
... is the fact that T'Pol is not a stereotypical Vulcan.
Yes. God forbid we show that not every Vulcan is the same.
I wonder if anyone who has been complaining about the show reads the books. It's become more or less an accepted fact in general in the books that different Vulcans have different degrees of control over their emotions, and T'Pol has been having trouble because of her whole drug abuse thing anyway.
It spoils continuity with the original series because the original series had *TERRIBLE* special effects compared to what we have now.
It makes NO SENSE for a 22nd, 23rd, or 24th century starship to be using knobs, dials and big clunky push-buttons as a control interface when in the 21st century we have reliable touchscreens and computer systems that sure as hell seem to be advanced further beyond what the original Constitution-class Enterprise had.
You have to look at the shows as windows onto the worlds they depict that are colored by the time they were produced. If we can do better now, we should.
Seriously though, are you going to try to tell me Enterprise is not a better show than Voyager? It's good SF - not GREAT SF, with a few exceptions - but it's well-written and well-acted.
Can you people give me some good reasons why you seem to hate Enterprise so much?
Turn the saturation, brightness and contrast all the way up on your monitor. You can see them against the starfield then.:D
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"GIIIIIIVE MEEEEEE GENESIIIIIIIIIS!"
Oh, for God's sake.
Lameness filter encountered. Post aborted!
Reason: Don't use so many caps. It's like YELLING.
Yes, that was the idea, you son of a targ.
Why are the library patrons INSIDE the walls more important than the library patrons OUTSIDE the walls?
What does the library gain by having me inside rather than outside? It's not a commercial entity. Being inside doesn't force me to watch advertisements that generate revenue for the library.
Either way, they are providing a taxpayer service to taxpaying citizens who have come to the library for a specific purpose.
You know far too much about nukular explosions to be a normal, God-fearing American. You must be a terrorist.
Guards! GUARDS!!! HOMELAND SECURITY ALERT!
So I was under the impression that the reason we have a hot, molten core is that the radioactive elements inside it are causing a sustained fission reaction that's generating the heat. I'm guessing what you just said means that's not entirely accurate? I.E., if the threshold ("critical mass," if I understand the term correctly) for a fission reaction WAS crossed, our core would currently be generating well in excess of enough energy to blow the planet apart?
Hey, I'm in Staten Island and curious about this NYMPHS thing, which sounds like it'd be a good bit more active (and less rigid) than NYLUG. Are you guys still recruiting?:)
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... of David Brin's Transparent Society, which basically says that since we can't avoid being watched, we should also demand to watch the watchers.
I think it's the most positive outcome we can hope for with the trend toward ubiquitous surveillance.
I went to a Jesuit University in New York. Sex in a dorm was a violation of Residential Life policy. If you were caught, you could be written up - and it's happened.
... that a lease can prohibit sex between consenting adults (no-cohabitation clauses in many dorms), but not the operation of 802.11b wireless access points?
Probably trying to dodge University restrictions on P2P or other things.
If it's in the contract that you sign when you move in, yes, they *can*, because you told them they could.
Ugly blue alien is willing to give Nazis weapons and technology of astoundingly incalculable power.
That's about 500 points in its favor.
No. They have arbitrarily decided to ban access points from their dorms. They can do that because it's their land and they can do whatever the hell they want with it, including telling you you're not allowed to have phone books or any other damn thing. You *always* have to abide by the rules of the dorm. Yes, it's absurd, for example, to tell adults that they are not allowed to have sex in a dorm they have paid to live in, but nevertheless a court will support the school's right to tell them so.
If this were only a matter of signal, then yes, the students would win. But the students are putting a banned object onto school property. Not ok.
... is the fact that T'Pol is not a stereotypical Vulcan.
Yes. God forbid we show that not every Vulcan is the same.
I wonder if anyone who has been complaining about the show reads the books. It's become more or less an accepted fact in general in the books that different Vulcans have different degrees of control over their emotions, and T'Pol has been having trouble because of her whole drug abuse thing anyway.
Open your Goddamned minds, people.
"Hitler had brown eyes and brown hair."
Is it surprising to you that the Nazis were dazzlingly hypocritical? Come on.
It spoils continuity with the original series because the original series had *TERRIBLE* special effects compared to what we have now.
It makes NO SENSE for a 22nd, 23rd, or 24th century starship to be using knobs, dials and big clunky push-buttons as a control interface when in the 21st century we have reliable touchscreens and computer systems that sure as hell seem to be advanced further beyond what the original Constitution-class Enterprise had.
You have to look at the shows as windows onto the worlds they depict that are colored by the time they were produced. If we can do better now, we should.
Why can't we hire Farscape's writers for Enterprise?
Anyone?
Bueller?
I think you mean "death rattle."
;)
Seriously though, are you going to try to tell me Enterprise is not a better show than Voyager? It's good SF - not GREAT SF, with a few exceptions - but it's well-written and well-acted.
Can you people give me some good reasons why you seem to hate Enterprise so much?
(I mean, hell, I'll give you Voyager
Turn the saturation, brightness and contrast all the way up on your monitor. You can see them against the starfield then. :D
"GIIIIIIVE MEEEEEE GENESIIIIIIIIIS!" Oh, for God's sake. Lameness filter encountered. Post aborted! Reason: Don't use so many caps. It's like YELLING. Yes, that was the idea, you son of a targ.
It goes. Into. The Earth's. Mantle. Where it is melted down and diffused throughout the entire thing.
Not really a big deal. Zero-sum system. Actually, no - in the long run, we are removing radiation.
... there's this idea, which I've always been rather partial to.
Put the stuff back where it came from. What could be more environmentally conscious?
He did mention USB 2.0.
I disagree. I can browse porn in a corner inside and no one will ever know.
I might be significantly LESS inclined to use the connection inappropriately sitting on a park bench where everyone can see me.
You'd be hard-pressed to get me riled up about someone from Jersey City using my local library (NYC) for wi-fi access.
I'm sorry, but I just. Don't. Care.
Why are the library patrons INSIDE the walls more important than the library patrons OUTSIDE the walls?
What does the library gain by having me inside rather than outside? It's not a commercial entity. Being inside doesn't force me to watch advertisements that generate revenue for the library.
Either way, they are providing a taxpayer service to taxpaying citizens who have come to the library for a specific purpose.
... we already produce WAY too much food as it is, don't we? Aren't we still paying farmers NOT to grow crops?
You know far too much about nukular explosions to be a normal, God-fearing American. You must be a terrorist.
Guards! GUARDS!!! HOMELAND SECURITY ALERT!
So I was under the impression that the reason we have a hot, molten core is that the radioactive elements inside it are causing a sustained fission reaction that's generating the heat. I'm guessing what you just said means that's not entirely accurate? I.E., if the threshold ("critical mass," if I understand the term correctly) for a fission reaction WAS crossed, our core would currently be generating well in excess of enough energy to blow the planet apart?
Boy, I bet there'd be some great fishin' on that planet. ... ::runs::
I thought G-type yellow dwarves were fairly commonplace.
Hey, I'm in Staten Island and curious about this NYMPHS thing, which sounds like it'd be a good bit more active (and less rigid) than NYLUG. Are you guys still recruiting? :)