I seriously doubt this. Harrison was recording with Lennon on "Imagine" (remember 'How do you sleep?') soon after the Beatles broke up, Paul was over at the Lennon residence in NY a coupla times (apparently, he'd drop by a lot, and John would have to shoo him off), and Ringo was always close with all the other Beatles. I don't think they'd have a problem meeting in India or Tahiti, unless Lennon was worried that the US govt would pull a Charlie Chaplin on him - revoke his re-entry permit while he was outside the country.
My favourite Beatles re-union story is the one Lennon mentions in his final (playboy) interview: once, Paul and him were at his house, watching TV, and a TV announcer offered the Beatles a huge sumo of money to play together one last time. Apparently the two were tempted to drive down to the studio right then and claim the amount (or atleast half), but didn't even get as far as the cab.
It's not about his death (which was pretty straightforward, yeah). In the early 1970s, the FBI were investigating Lennon and other rock-n-rollers with political interests. You can get more information here and here.
True, but like another poster mentioned, it also gives me lots of links. There have been many times when I've used Google news to get news I'm interested in from either a cleaner website (like Reuters) or a reg-free one. That choice is what will scare most news people, I think.
I'm not clicking on that link unless I see the whole friggin' link. (LOOK at the URL for \deity's sake, are they planning on cataloging the universe or what?) A year on Slashdot without a single Goatse image, and I intend to *keep* it that way...
Not that this isn't an extremely impressive move, but seriously - they're going to spend all this money trying to compete with NASA to get to Mars?
Yes, the fulfilment of human greatness, scientific forethought and everything, but c'mon - I could think of a thousandbetterwaysofspendingthatmoney. This is sad.
My favourite was the news story which would turn up in the 1990s in SimCity 2K, where the "Sims" in your city were getting nervous breakdowns after playing a new computer game released recently, wondering whether like the game, they too were only simulated cretins inside a computer game.
I suppose with all the backstories and history, JRRT will be particularly amenable to this... if you look at the "extras", about half are production details, the rest is documentaries on Middle Earth and how they brought it to life... very interesting, but I'd rather wait for Discovery Channel's "How they did it" and chat about the series with my other nerdy friends.
Those who've read the book will know that the Return of the King is (almost exactly!) 1/4th a set of exhaustive appendices of every king of the humans, elves and dwarves, a guide to elven, notes on the script, et cetera ad nauseum... hmmm...
We're just playing to the underdog on this one. Why? First law of economics: the greater the competition, the more the consumer benefits. I bet there's an equivalent of Slashdot somewhere where CEOs sit and giggle about how much better Intel is doing this quarter or how enormously gigantic the market for an absolutely cruddy piece of crap can be...
One can only imagine the "In Soviet Russia..." equivalent in the anti-slashdot...
The HUMANS were the backup on this one. This baby could land by herself.
Also from the official website:
The main differences between the space aeroplane Buran and Suttle-orbiter are follows:
the automatic landing of Buran from orbit onto airdrome;
the absence ot the main rocket engine on the orbital aeroplane. The main engine was placed onto a central block of a carrier-rocket ENERGIA which is able to launch into an orbit 120 tonns of payload against 30 tonns for Space Shuttle;
the hight lift-drag ratio of the space aeroplane Buran is 6.5 against 5.5 for Space Shuttle;
the space aeroplane Buran returned 20 tonns of payloads against 15 tonns for Space Shuttle orbiter from an orbit to an aerodrome;
the cutting lay-out pattern of thermoprotection tiles of Buran is optimal and longitudinal slits of tile belts are orthogonal to the flow line. Sharp angles of tiles are absent. The tile belts of the Buran fuselage and fin have an optimal position.
"I've always wondered what the problem is with the IE team," one respondent wrote in a feedback thread on IE evangelist Dave Massy's blog. "I mean, it's just a browser. You need to render a page based on well-documented standards...and that's it! You've opted to not have tabbed browsing or any other personalization. It's just a window shell and the browser content...I wonder if there are only like four people who work on IE or something? I seriously don't get it."
That many?:) And I like Dave's blog's subtitle... "Internet Explorer moving forward!". Looks like this bugger might have some competition...
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Could someone please explain?
I seriously doubt this. Harrison was recording with Lennon on "Imagine" (remember 'How do you sleep?') soon after the Beatles broke up, Paul was over at the Lennon residence in NY a coupla times (apparently, he'd drop by a lot, and John would have to shoo him off), and Ringo was always close with all the other Beatles. I don't think they'd have a problem meeting in India or Tahiti, unless Lennon was worried that the US govt would pull a Charlie Chaplin on him - revoke his re-entry permit while he was outside the country.
My favourite Beatles re-union story is the one Lennon mentions in his final (playboy) interview: once, Paul and him were at his house, watching TV, and a TV announcer offered the Beatles a huge sumo of money to play together one last time. Apparently the two were tempted to drive down to the studio right then and claim the amount (or atleast half), but didn't even get as far as the cab.
Wops, no karma for +5 Funnies. Sorry, mate.
It's not about his death (which was pretty straightforward, yeah). In the early 1970s, the FBI were investigating Lennon and other rock-n-rollers with political interests. You can get more information here and here.
True, but like another poster mentioned, it also gives me lots of links. There have been many times when I've used Google news to get news I'm interested in from either a cleaner website (like Reuters) or a reg-free one. That choice is what will scare most news people, I think.
Wikipedia confirms this, but you'd have to be a fanatic to actually make the distinction. Still, definately not flamebait.
Google is, as always, your friend ...
Don't you mean ... brought to you by Microsoft: Where do you want to go today -- how about Mars?
Not that this isn't an extremely impressive move, but seriously - they're going to spend all this money trying to compete with NASA to get to Mars? Yes, the fulfilment of human greatness, scientific forethought and everything, but c'mon - I could think of a thousand better ways of spending that money. This is sad.
Ah, but how's that different from now? :-/
My favourite was the news story which would turn up in the 1990s in SimCity 2K, where the "Sims" in your city were getting nervous breakdowns after playing a new computer game released recently, wondering whether like the game, they too were only simulated cretins inside a computer game.
... :)
Man, love that recursion
I suppose with all the backstories and history, JRRT will be particularly amenable to this ... if you look at the "extras", about half are production details, the rest is documentaries on Middle Earth and how they brought it to life ... very interesting, but I'd rather wait for Discovery Channel's "How they did it" and chat about the series with my other nerdy friends.
Those who've read the book will know that the Return of the King is (almost exactly!) 1/4th a set of exhaustive appendices of every king of the humans, elves and dwarves, a guide to elven, notes on the script, et cetera ad nauseum ... hmmm ...
... ?
Arwen teaching high elven, eh
... on those electrodes? This could be an interesting subject for an April 1st RFC ...
Actually, in the reality distortion field, you only get 15 megs.
We're just playing to the underdog on this one. Why? First law of economics: the greater the competition, the more the consumer benefits. I bet there's an equivalent of Slashdot somewhere where CEOs sit and giggle about how much better Intel is doing this quarter or how enormously gigantic the market for an absolutely cruddy piece of crap can be ...
One can only imagine the "In Soviet Russia ..." equivalent in the anti-slashdot ...
no, but it might make you spell better. We hope.
That many? :) And I like Dave's blog's subtitle ... "Internet Explorer moving forward!". Looks like this bugger might have some competition ...
Same way he deals with everything else: RDF.
Wait, are you criticizing Google for blocking websites or for illegally showing websites which ought to be blocked ... ?
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So they can either stay with the law or with Slashdot? My, that must be a touch decision
With a some more work, they might even discover Ping Pong!
Of course, you can always be your own source for news.