Except that the old saying was originally to do with physical possibilities and team effort. If a special forces member loses an arm, he is no good in the field, but very useful at boot camp. Do you think that Stephen Hawking was taught his theories or did he learn the lesser stuff then develop his theories on the basis of that earlier knowledge ? As usual, the meaning has been twisted and now it is a pejorative term, instead of a cooperative one. None of you would be anywhere without your teachers, whether that be family or school variety.
From each according to their ability, to each according to their need.
Did you watch that video ? It came out of the crash better than the S class. Didn't you know that small things have less mass, and so suffer less deceleration stress in impacts ? Not to mention the full body cage installed in the smart. It is good enough to score 4 stars on ncap which I believe is a better standard than the US version. And the smart version they tested was 2 years ago.
Europeans == Americans with a pathetic defense industry and high priced gas.
And Europeans have higher standards of education, healthcare, safety, and cooperation. We actually care about the planet we share, and we try not to use every resource in sight just because we can. Americans == virtually bankrupt, selfish, greedy bigots, whose biggest exports are violence both real and imaginary and Imaginary, sorry, intellectual property. People who think you can own thoughts and mathematics. People who want to charge families for singing happy birthday. Yeah, you really get my respect. BTW, when was the last time your armed forces were used for defence ? Not since 1945 in my opinion.
You seem to be the one who's uninformed. There certainly is a point to it, many points in fact. You just don't understand or even care. You would rather have constant war I suppose. Consider how much money was won and lost everyday on the stock market through people trading individual currencies. All going to private profit. How much time and expense spent on individual border controls, how many product types and regulations had to be observed for each individual country. It started as a free trade area, and has grown from that.
You also seem to fear a global government. Well, buddy you had better get used to the idea, because it will happen. As we start to understand more and more about global climate, food distribution and wealth too, it will become obvious that a unified control organisation is the only rational thing to have. But rational you clearly ain't. Name me one reason why a national government is better than a international federation. I bet you come up with shit like heritage or racist dogma.
Also, copyright terms were set at the length they were, because printing was a very expensive process, so the length of time allowed to recoup costs reflected that. Reproducing electronic works is virtually free these days, and even printing is far less expensive. Given those facts, if copyright were to be enacted for the first time now, the term would probably only be 5 years. And IIRC, there was no mention of profit at all. The term was meant to allow the creator time to recoup their costs so that the benefit of their creation could be shared. Now that's irony.
Not only that, but the early US didn't respect copyright of other nations and so many works that are now copyrighted to US entities were originally produced by Europeans either through direct means (publishing) or as a result of traditional culture. Disney has a long history of copyrighting traditional European mythology and culture.
So the question we should be debating is, whether the US should be allowed to hold copyright on things that they actually stole from others ? Maybe the internet and bittorrent are just cosmic karma...
Fun fact - did you know the author of the music for the star spangled banner was English ?
Who said they had complete control ? Or indeed that they should have ? When Adobe goes bust maybe I'll believe that the tiny minority who downloaded Photoshop for free had something to do with it. But they won't go bust, because the ones who really wanted it usually end up as customers later on - the first hit is free remember. This is not about profit or no profit - this is about "either you pay or you do without". You can never win that fight. Back in the 1800s children were sentenced to transportation for stealing an apple from a market stall. Is that the degree of control you wish to see here ? In the grand scheme of things, no-one suffers from a minority downloading movies. I don't regard making 1 million less* on a profit of 20 or 200 million, suffering. In fact it just highlights the all consuming greed of the media companies that they should make such a fuss about it. They are relying on the slippery slope fallacy to predict doom for their businesses, when in fact they are all making healthy profits. If they weren't they wouldn't be doing it at all.
*They think they are making 1 million less, when in fact they are making just as much as the market will bear. If downloads and copying dvds disappeared tomorrow, their profits would not jump by 1 million. It is entirely notional and wishful thinking on their part. They can test this quite easily, just don't release the movie on DVD, only release in cinemas. But then they'll make less money, something MUST be wrong with their assumptions. Speculate to accumulate - but they are trying to get rid of the speculation and change it to "invest to securely accumulate". Business doesn't work like that. Short of the govt. mandating compulsory attendance at cinemas to view the latest blockbuster, they will never have the profits they seem to be expecting as their right. All companies have margins for "wastage", these assholes are expecting the govt. to reduce their wastage margins to zero at the expense of our liberty and heritage.
Fucking Harry Potter - a book about a wizard at school - written in the english language. Does JK Rowling have copyright on English words ? (Duh !) Has there ever been a book written about a child wizard at school (yes, lots). So how come she suddenly OWNS the concept ? Where would she be without the education she received free of personal cost ? Or without the inspiration she received from other peoples works dating back millennia. Limited time it says and limited time it should be. Copying by a minority for non-profit personal use has no appreciable effect on the value of a work worthy of protection. If they don't get rich instantly, maybe the work is crap, or they have unreasonable expectations. Try creating another work. If that doesn't sell either, then you are in the wrong trade. Asimov started writing (Sci-fi) for magazines. He could knock out a story in a few hours. It was that background that gave him an idea that maybe he could write longer stuff and publish it as books. People today think they can burst into the market and instantly demand top dollar, and if anybody actually reads their stuff for free, then they are being stolen from. What about Asimovs early work languishing in a doctors waiting room ? Should he have demanded payment for every pair of eyes that happened to stray across the page his story was on ?
You know full well that many (though certainly not all) downloads do represent a lost sale. You're simply trying to justify your actions, 'cuz you want free stuff.
That's crap, but as they say, where there's muck there's brass. I'm currently downloading a torrent of all available BBC horizon programs. If you can point me to the place where I can legally buy copies of those programs, I would be glad to pay. Oh, they don't offer them for sale ? Oh, AND I've paid for those programs through the licence fee for the last 20 years ?
Fuck 'em then.
As for tens of thousands at that instant downloading any recent movie, you obviously haven't been near a tracker site for ages. The most populated torrent I can find on TPB right now has ~7000 seeds and about the same in leeches. The average is more like 100 leeches to 5 seeds. How many people are there in the world ? And what percentage of the world population is 14,000 ? How many of those 14,000 are completely unable to purchase that movie in their local market ? Do you really believe they are causing the industry to go broke ? Maybe the figures you have so obviously swallowed are bullshit ? Do you think that if your apartment overlooks a football ground you should be forced to pay because you can see the action ? Maybe the only reason so many people are downloading it is because it is free. If they had to pay they would do without. That does not represent a lost sale, other than if the price was right, maybe they could capture more customers. Supply and demand 101. If you don't supply it, someone else will. Message to all media magnates - pick up your ball and go home. You WILL be replaced.
No, I expect microsoft to disable the network stack if it detects conficker type activity. Simple really. Contain the infection. Those who don't maintain their computers adequately should not be allowed to have free rein. They've proved themselves inadequate by not applying patches.
Microsoft are a monopoly. Apple and Canonical are not.
You lot bleat about how there is not enough choice in the telecoms/broadband market and applaud the break up of Ma Bell, but for some reason you are turning a blind eye to exactly the same anti-competitive practices by microsoft. How would you be reacting if Ma Bell had been a foreign corporation controlling the US telecom market ?
So if Windows wasn't popular, it wouldn't be a problem to bundle IE in?
Windows isn't popular in the generally accepted sense. It has a de facto monopoly, which means that because it has been dominant for so long, people just expect to use windows. They don't agonise over whether windows is any good, they just buy a computer and expect it to have it. Part of that is its dominance in the workplace which is also due to having historical dominance.
If microsoft don't like EU law, then they can fuck off and take their business elsewhere. Instead they deliberately twist the EU decision to make things seem as bad and as inconvenient as possible. Same as with the ODF debacle. Instead of being part of a solution, they twist things to their benefit and try to lock others out.
I would be interested to learn exactly how much of the fines awarded against them have actually been paid. I would not be surprised if they haven't actually paid a penny. In which case all the whining about how they are constantly being punished is so much hot air. Why should we forget the past on the grounds that they have already been punished, when they never underwent any punishment or paid their dues ?
Hah, I just googled for "microsoft eu fines paid" and the best result was this - notice the bottom line on that page. Sometimes it writes itself...
Bollocks ! Yes I know this is a UK site, but do you really think these won't be on the market in the US ? I've been watching digital tv in my truck for over 3 years. I have a 7" combined dvd/freeview/analogue/music playing/games tv with a rechargable battery pack and also a 12/24v 15" combined dvd/freeview/analogue tv. Not watched while moving, because that's an offence, but the nature of the tech is the limiting factor there. You can get auto tracking sat tv if you're really desperate but it will cost you a lot more. And BTW, satellite is digital too these days. I have a "satellite suitcase" with a 39cm dish which I use when out of range/sight of a terrestrial transmitter. Runs off 12v, couple of hundred channels.
That says more about you than anyone else. Do you believe women are inferior ? If not, why can't they have their own titles ? What about hero and heroine ? It's simply a way of making each word more than the sum of its letters, but of course, especially in US english, you can't do that because it confuses the proles. So you end up with 2 words in the same sentence that mean the same thing. "And I also installed a new video card as well". Seriously, watching the discovery channel makes me mad. They pretend they are being serious and scientific and speak like uneducated street kids, reading it from a card. Quite often making huge logical blunders as a result. And as for things like CSI etc, don't get me started. One memorable one was Grissom saying, "terminal velocity is 9.8m/s" NO IT ISN'T ! Acceleration due to gravity is 9.8m/s/s and terminal velocity is the speed reached DUE to that acceleration. Or on Numbers where gimboid explains how a rainbow works - "the water droplets split each colour up into its component parts" NO THEY DON'T ! the water droplets split white light into its component colours. I don't care if it matters to the story, stupid errors like that are indicative of how dumb the writers are. </RANT>
BT Vision is Freeview TV, with a hard drive. The part that needs broadband is minimal. Here are a list of "Features":
Pause rewind and record Live TV
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Record and store up to 80 hours of Freeview TV with the huge 160 GB hard drive.
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Combined with bittorrent, I already have what they are offering. Except their speeds are derisory. I recently switched provider to Be, and experienced a doubling in download bandwidth, and a trebling in upload bandwidth, for 25% less per month including a fixed IP. Plus BT claimed that "it was not possible to get faster speeds on my line". Funny that, considering you need a BT phone line to sign up with Be. But now I'm not with BT broadband, I can't get BT Vision. So there was no net neutrality in this case. All their stuff was prioritised already.
If you're too lazy to read that, the short version is: "we had an enlightenment; they didn't."
The "enlightenment" is so called because it defined the end of "the dark ages". You're right, the arabs didn't have a dark age, they just kept going with science, astronomy, mathematics etc. Our enlightenment comes in no small part from their culture where it mixed with ours, in spain. And their culture was mixed with indian culture, and the indians culture was mixed with oriental culture.
The fact that Dune describes a feudal society does not make it fantasy.
No-one said it did. Your comment makes no sense. If you mean because it describes a feudal society then it isn't fantasy then you are wrong. It's a feudal society in an imaginary universe, where they inhabit imaginary planets, with imaginary mystic powers, with imaginary creatures roaming the desert. Science fiction is usually described as a story taking place in a believable setting with only the science extrapolated beyond current levels. Fantasy has no such constraints. I suppose you would regard Harry Potter as Sci-Fi then, after all schools are real !
If there was ever such a thing as a Dyson Sphere, we would never see the stars again. Or if we enclosed the planet like Asimovs Trantor. Only the wealthy and privileged would get to see the sky let alone the stars. I can imagine that in the interests of gathering solar energy and increased efficiency, we can look forward to a time when the whole earth is exposed to sunlight constantly instead of 12 hours a day. Large mirrors constructed in space that orbit the earth once per year keeping the "night" side lit. Once again, we would not see the stars.
Cars don't need reflectors; either it's light outside, or they have LIGHTS which everyone can see from any angle around the vehicle.
What about when it's dark and you're not driving the car ? You need reflectors on the back to stop other vehicles driving into them. It's even law ! That's why you're supposed to park facing the direction of travel (the correct side of the road).
I agree that cyclists should be held more responsible for their conduct on the road, but the rest of your post is pure shite.
I just did that. After a year, there was still no regular employment in sight. That's when the shit hits the fan. If you have bills, you have to work, even if it's part time or you WILL run out of money. Don't waste a year thinking it will be ok later, coz it won't !
The episodes I've seen of Futurama have been good. I've not seen many, as I don't subscribe to pay tv. The episodes I've seen of Family Guy uniformly suck. And WTF is "The Life and Times of Tim" ? If that is a "hit US comedy", then they missed an S in the summary. Furthermore, if that's a hit, I would really hate to see the misses. Bring back Ren and Stimpy !
CFM International is working on a software modification for its CFM56-5B engines after a series of engine stalls on Airbus aircraft in 2008.
Evendale-based CFM is a joint venture of GE Aviation and France's Snecma. The high-pressure compressors and combustors for CFM56 engines are produced by GE, and the engines are assembled in Evendale and France.
The Airbus A320 can be powered by either two CFM56-5 engines or two IAE V2500 engines. Regardless of the engines, the plane has the same operating specifications, and the casual passenger notices no difference.
Fiat ???
In 1982, attention was focused on developing an engine in the 25,000 lbf (111 kN) thrust class for the 150 seater market. The engine was initially called the RJ500-35, but when Pratt & Whitney, MTU and FIAT joined the consortium some time afterwards the engine was renamed the V2500. V denotes the five original partners, whilst 2500 symbolizes the original thrust level of 25,000 lbf (111 kN). FIAT later withdrew from the consortium.
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Judging by the comments posted so far, if it is a super volcano, and it does blow, nothing of value will be lost.
That is all.
Wow, I bet you're competent !
Except that the old saying was originally to do with physical possibilities and team effort. If a special forces member loses an arm, he is no good in the field, but very useful at boot camp. Do you think that Stephen Hawking was taught his theories or did he learn the lesser stuff then develop his theories on the basis of that earlier knowledge ? As usual, the meaning has been twisted and now it is a pejorative term, instead of a cooperative one. None of you would be anywhere without your teachers, whether that be family or school variety.
From each according to their ability, to each according to their need.
Note that's need not want or desire.
Did you watch that video ? It came out of the crash better than the S class. Didn't you know that small things have less mass, and so suffer less deceleration stress in impacts ? Not to mention the full body cage installed in the smart. It is good enough to score 4 stars on ncap which I believe is a better standard than the US version. And the smart version they tested was 2 years ago.
And Europeans have higher standards of education, healthcare, safety, and cooperation. We actually care about the planet we share, and we try not to use every resource in sight just because we can.
Americans == virtually bankrupt, selfish, greedy bigots, whose biggest exports are violence both real and imaginary and Imaginary, sorry, intellectual property. People who think you can own thoughts and mathematics. People who want to charge families for singing happy birthday. Yeah, you really get my respect.
BTW, when was the last time your armed forces were used for defence ? Not since 1945 in my opinion.
You seem to be the one who's uninformed. There certainly is a point to it, many points in fact. You just don't understand or even care. You would rather have constant war I suppose. Consider how much money was won and lost everyday on the stock market through people trading individual currencies. All going to private profit. How much time and expense spent on individual border controls, how many product types and regulations had to be observed for each individual country. It started as a free trade area, and has grown from that.
You also seem to fear a global government. Well, buddy you had better get used to the idea, because it will happen. As we start to understand more and more about global climate, food distribution and wealth too, it will become obvious that a unified control organisation is the only rational thing to have. But rational you clearly ain't. Name me one reason why a national government is better than a international federation. I bet you come up with shit like heritage or racist dogma.
So google breaks the law every time they spider private pages where the owner has neglected to use htaccess ?
Also, copyright terms were set at the length they were, because printing was a very expensive process, so the length of time allowed to recoup costs reflected that. Reproducing electronic works is virtually free these days, and even printing is far less expensive. Given those facts, if copyright were to be enacted for the first time now, the term would probably only be 5 years. And IIRC, there was no mention of profit at all. The term was meant to allow the creator time to recoup their costs so that the benefit of their creation could be shared.
Now that's irony.
Not only that, but the early US didn't respect copyright of other nations and so many works that are now copyrighted to US entities were originally produced by Europeans either through direct means (publishing) or as a result of traditional culture. Disney has a long history of copyrighting traditional European mythology and culture. ...
So the question we should be debating is, whether the US should be allowed to hold copyright on things that they actually stole from others ? Maybe the internet and bittorrent are just cosmic karma
Fun fact - did you know the author of the music for the star spangled banner was English ?
Who said they had complete control ? Or indeed that they should have ? When Adobe goes bust maybe I'll believe that the tiny minority who downloaded Photoshop for free had something to do with it. But they won't go bust, because the ones who really wanted it usually end up as customers later on - the first hit is free remember. This is not about profit or no profit - this is about "either you pay or you do without". You can never win that fight. Back in the 1800s children were sentenced to transportation for stealing an apple from a market stall. Is that the degree of control you wish to see here ? In the grand scheme of things, no-one suffers from a minority downloading movies. I don't regard making 1 million less* on a profit of 20 or 200 million, suffering. In fact it just highlights the all consuming greed of the media companies that they should make such a fuss about it. They are relying on the slippery slope fallacy to predict doom for their businesses, when in fact they are all making healthy profits. If they weren't they wouldn't be doing it at all.
*They think they are making 1 million less, when in fact they are making just as much as the market will bear. If downloads and copying dvds disappeared tomorrow, their profits would not jump by 1 million. It is entirely notional and wishful thinking on their part. They can test this quite easily, just don't release the movie on DVD, only release in cinemas. But then they'll make less money, something MUST be wrong with their assumptions. Speculate to accumulate - but they are trying to get rid of the speculation and change it to "invest to securely accumulate". Business doesn't work like that. Short of the govt. mandating compulsory attendance at cinemas to view the latest blockbuster, they will never have the profits they seem to be expecting as their right. All companies have margins for "wastage", these assholes are expecting the govt. to reduce their wastage margins to zero at the expense of our liberty and heritage.
Fucking Harry Potter - a book about a wizard at school - written in the english language. Does JK Rowling have copyright on English words ? (Duh !) Has there ever been a book written about a child wizard at school (yes, lots). So how come she suddenly OWNS the concept ? Where would she be without the education she received free of personal cost ? Or without the inspiration she received from other peoples works dating back millennia. Limited time it says and limited time it should be. Copying by a minority for non-profit personal use has no appreciable effect on the value of a work worthy of protection. If they don't get rich instantly, maybe the work is crap, or they have unreasonable expectations. Try creating another work. If that doesn't sell either, then you are in the wrong trade. Asimov started writing (Sci-fi) for magazines. He could knock out a story in a few hours. It was that background that gave him an idea that maybe he could write longer stuff and publish it as books. People today think they can burst into the market and instantly demand top dollar, and if anybody actually reads their stuff for free, then they are being stolen from. What about Asimovs early work languishing in a doctors waiting room ? Should he have demanded payment for every pair of eyes that happened to stray across the page his story was on ?
Get some perspective !
That's crap, but as they say, where there's muck there's brass.
I'm currently downloading a torrent of all available BBC horizon programs. If you can point me to the place where I can legally buy copies of those programs, I would be glad to pay. Oh, they don't offer them for sale ? Oh, AND I've paid for those programs through the licence fee for the last 20 years ?
Fuck 'em then.
As for tens of thousands at that instant downloading any recent movie, you obviously haven't been near a tracker site for ages. The most populated torrent I can find on TPB right now has ~7000 seeds and about the same in leeches. The average is more like 100 leeches to 5 seeds. How many people are there in the world ? And what percentage of the world population is 14,000 ? How many of those 14,000 are completely unable to purchase that movie in their local market ? Do you really believe they are causing the industry to go broke ? Maybe the figures you have so obviously swallowed are bullshit ? Do you think that if your apartment overlooks a football ground you should be forced to pay because you can see the action ? Maybe the only reason so many people are downloading it is because it is free. If they had to pay they would do without. That does not represent a lost sale, other than if the price was right, maybe they could capture more customers. Supply and demand 101. If you don't supply it, someone else will. Message to all media magnates - pick up your ball and go home. You WILL be replaced.
No, I expect microsoft to disable the network stack if it detects conficker type activity. Simple really. Contain the infection. Those who don't maintain their computers adequately should not be allowed to have free rein. They've proved themselves inadequate by not applying patches.
Read this very carefully
Microsoft are a monopoly. Apple and Canonical are not.
You lot bleat about how there is not enough choice in the telecoms/broadband market and applaud the break up of Ma Bell, but for some reason you are turning a blind eye to exactly the same anti-competitive practices by microsoft. How would you be reacting if Ma Bell had been a foreign corporation controlling the US telecom market ?
Windows isn't popular in the generally accepted sense. It has a de facto monopoly, which means that because it has been dominant for so long, people just expect to use windows. They don't agonise over whether windows is any good, they just buy a computer and expect it to have it. Part of that is its dominance in the workplace which is also due to having historical dominance.
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If microsoft don't like EU law, then they can fuck off and take their business elsewhere. Instead they deliberately twist the EU decision to make things seem as bad and as inconvenient as possible. Same as with the ODF debacle. Instead of being part of a solution, they twist things to their benefit and try to lock others out. I would be interested to learn exactly how much of the fines awarded against them have actually been paid. I would not be surprised if they haven't actually paid a penny. In which case all the whining about how they are constantly being punished is so much hot air. Why should we forget the past on the grounds that they have already been punished, when they never underwent any punishment or paid their dues ?
Hah, I just googled for "microsoft eu fines paid" and the best result was this - notice the bottom line on that page. Sometimes it writes itself
Bollocks !
Yes I know this is a UK site, but do you really think these won't be on the market in the US ? I've been watching digital tv in my truck for over 3 years. I have a 7" combined dvd/freeview/analogue/music playing/games tv with a rechargable battery pack and also a 12/24v 15" combined dvd/freeview/analogue tv. Not watched while moving, because that's an offence, but the nature of the tech is the limiting factor there. You can get auto tracking sat tv if you're really desperate but it will cost you a lot more. And BTW, satellite is digital too these days. I have a "satellite suitcase" with a 39cm dish which I use when out of range/sight of a terrestrial transmitter. Runs off 12v, couple of hundred channels.
That says more about you than anyone else. Do you believe women are inferior ? If not, why can't they have their own titles ? What about hero and heroine ? It's simply a way of making each word more than the sum of its letters, but of course, especially in US english, you can't do that because it confuses the proles. So you end up with 2 words in the same sentence that mean the same thing. "And I also installed a new video card as well". Seriously, watching the discovery channel makes me mad. They pretend they are being serious and scientific and speak like uneducated street kids, reading it from a card. Quite often making huge logical blunders as a result. And as for things like CSI etc, don't get me started. One memorable one was Grissom saying, "terminal velocity is 9.8m/s" NO IT ISN'T ! Acceleration due to gravity is 9.8m/s/s and terminal velocity is the speed reached DUE to that acceleration. Or on Numbers where gimboid explains how a rainbow works - "the water droplets split each colour up into its component parts" NO THEY DON'T ! the water droplets split white light into its component colours. I don't care if it matters to the story, stupid errors like that are indicative of how dumb the writers are.
</RANT>
The Vision+ box is a digital TV recorder that lets you pause, record and rewind live TV.
Record and store up to 80 hours of Freeview TV with the huge 160 GB hard drive.
The Vision+ box's dual tuners can record one or two programmes at once while you watch another recording.
The TV guide shows scheduling 14 days in advance. Simply press the R button twice to record a whole series.
The HD Vision+ box gives you selected films and TV in crystal clear, High Definition picture and sound quality.
Any pay per view movies, sport, music or TV shows you watch will be added to your next BT Vision bill. If you take one of our Value Packs, you will be billed in advance each month.
Combined with bittorrent, I already have what they are offering. Except their speeds are derisory. I recently switched provider to Be, and experienced a doubling in download bandwidth, and a trebling in upload bandwidth, for 25% less per month including a fixed IP. Plus BT claimed that "it was not possible to get faster speeds on my line". Funny that, considering you need a BT phone line to sign up with Be. But now I'm not with BT broadband, I can't get BT Vision. So there was no net neutrality in this case. All their stuff was prioritised already.
Is Opera open source now ? And if the OS gets crippled by the removal of the browser, it can't be a very good OS.
The "enlightenment" is so called because it defined the end of "the dark ages". You're right, the arabs didn't have a dark age, they just kept going with science, astronomy, mathematics etc. Our enlightenment comes in no small part from their culture where it mixed with ours, in spain. And their culture was mixed with indian culture, and the indians culture was mixed with oriental culture.
In short, fuck off, you bombastic prick.
No-one said it did. Your comment makes no sense. If you mean because it describes a feudal society then it isn't fantasy then you are wrong.
It's a feudal society in an imaginary universe, where they inhabit imaginary planets, with imaginary mystic powers, with imaginary creatures roaming the desert. Science fiction is usually described as a story taking place in a believable setting with only the science extrapolated beyond current levels. Fantasy has no such constraints. I suppose you would regard Harry Potter as Sci-Fi then, after all schools are real !
If there was ever such a thing as a Dyson Sphere, we would never see the stars again. Or if we enclosed the planet like Asimovs Trantor. Only the wealthy and privileged would get to see the sky let alone the stars. I can imagine that in the interests of gathering solar energy and increased efficiency, we can look forward to a time when the whole earth is exposed to sunlight constantly instead of 12 hours a day. Large mirrors constructed in space that orbit the earth once per year keeping the "night" side lit. Once again, we would not see the stars.
What about when it's dark and you're not driving the car ? You need reflectors on the back to stop other vehicles driving into them. It's even law ! That's why you're supposed to park facing the direction of travel (the correct side of the road).
I agree that cyclists should be held more responsible for their conduct on the road, but the rest of your post is pure shite.
I just did that. After a year, there was still no regular employment in sight. That's when the shit hits the fan. If you have bills, you have to work, even if it's part time or you WILL run out of money. Don't waste a year thinking it will be ok later, coz it won't !
The episodes I've seen of Futurama have been good. I've not seen many, as I don't subscribe to pay tv. The episodes I've seen of Family Guy uniformly suck. And WTF is "The Life and Times of Tim" ? If that is a "hit US comedy", then they missed an S in the summary. Furthermore, if that's a hit, I would really hate to see the misses.
Bring back Ren and Stimpy !
CFM International is working on a software modification for its CFM56-5B engines after a series of engine stalls on Airbus aircraft in 2008.
Evendale-based CFM is a joint venture of GE Aviation and France's Snecma. The high-pressure compressors and combustors for CFM56 engines are produced by GE, and the engines are assembled in Evendale and France.
The Airbus A320 can be powered by either two CFM56-5 engines or two IAE V2500 engines. Regardless of the engines, the plane has the same operating specifications, and the casual passenger notices no difference.
Fiat ???
In 1982, attention was focused on developing an engine in the 25,000 lbf (111 kN) thrust class for the 150 seater market. The engine was initially called the RJ500-35, but when Pratt & Whitney, MTU and FIAT joined the consortium some time afterwards the engine was renamed the V2500. V denotes the five original partners, whilst 2500 symbolizes the original thrust level of 25,000 lbf (111 kN). FIAT later withdrew from the consortium.
Troll.