I've never seen any of his stuff. I've seen previews and such.
From the outside looking in, it seems like his career is based on setting up situation where a hot young chick in a tight outfit kicks people (and things that aren't exactly people) a lot.
I'm being sincere, here. Are Joss Whedon fans just a bunch of guys with young-hot-chicks-who-kick-a-lot fetishes, or is there some deeper thread I'm missing?
Don't get me wrong, I dig young hot chicks in tight pants. Nothing wrong with that. I'm just trying to figure out what gives him the tight-panted-girl-kicking-a-lot midas touch.
Your being attacked by Klingons. You eject your warp core. While the Klingons gloat over their victory five guys swing out from behind the warp core on wires they stole from a restricted area.
[Some guy] was born [in some backwater town] and raised in [some slightly larger jerkwater]. He was named after his father, [some guy], a travelling salesman who had been killed in a car accident in Scott County, Missouri between the towns of Sikeston and Morley just three months before his son was born. His mother, born Virginia Dell Cassidy, remarried in 1950 to [some other guy. [something], as he was called, was raised by his mother and stepfather, using the last name "[other guy]" throughout elementary school, but not formally changing it until he was 15. [He] grew up in a turbulent family. His stepfather was a gambler and alcoholic who regularly abused his wife, and sometimes [his] half brother Roger, Jr. (born 1956).
Clearly the pedigree of a "have", right?
Sure, this is an extreme example, but fortunes rise (and fall) in this country in a way unlike any other time or place in the world.
I have a buddy, a native Parisian, who moved here to escape the socioeconomic stratification in Paris.
I have a friend, an Ethiopian, who moved here after a coup. He's doing great. From NOTHING except a barely passable command of English (and a hell of a lot of determination).
I was in the army with a bunch of guys who had nothing going for them. (About half the guys I'm thinking of were poor white kids from rural areas, and the other half poor black kids from urban areas.) These guys had fire in their eyes, and were set on getting their G.I. Bill money and doing something with their lives.
I went to the Austin Community College with a bunch of people (mostly young women) who grabbed onto Pell Grants with both hands, and were doing what they had to do to get some education.
There's plenty of opportunity for those who will grab it. There's also plenty of misery for those to latch onto it.
Well said. I didn't mean to excuse the businesses.
As I said in a sibling (cousin?) to this post: I do, however, think that a greater blame goes to government for creating the moral jeopardy by putting their thuggery up for auction in the first place.
You misread me. Corporations (and more specifically, the people who run them) are culpable for their immoral actions in all cases.
My point was that we shouldn't blame corporations for governments acting like thugs.
I do, however, think that a greater blame goes to government for creating the moral jeopardy by putting their thuggery up for auction in the first place.
Microsoft is trying to strong-arm the industry into the adoption of an incomplete and not accepted standard.
This is a huge improvement over the status quo, namely, Microsoft trying to strong-arm the industry into the adoption of incomplete, closed, patent-encumbered, poorly documented, and not accepted standard.
I did my five jumps at Benning out of a C-130. A few years later I re-deployed from the Balkans and took the trip from Tazar to K-town in a C-130. After we were in flight I realized that it was my sixth trip in a C-130, but would be my first landing.
Frankly, that was the most frightening of the six trips.
What's the MOS of the guy that goes around making sure every bolt is 1/4 turn from tight on those things?
Actually you can brace yourself that you can survive a fall.
I'm not sure if "brace" is the right word.
I took Airborne school in '93. We jumped T-10 'chutes. According to some random page I found with google, the terminal velocity of a T-10 with an equipped soldier hanging off of it is 22-24 feet per second (6.7 to 7.3 m/s^2). Sadly my Physics is too rusty to figure out the height from which an unrestrained fall would produce that velocity on impact.
Understand that this is a fall that a parachutist should be able to walk away from with some regularity. (In Jump Week twice a day on each of Monday and Tuesday.)
The strategy for walking away from this fall was, long story short, fall over on impact.
We were taught to make five discrete impacts with the ground, reducing the force of each. (For reference, the points are the balls of the feet, the side of one calf, the side of the upper part of that leg, the ass cheek on that same side, and the same side of the back.*)
Anyway, "bracing" one's self is likely to end in at least one broken leg.
-Peter
PS: Before anyone asks, yes, I'm a five jump chump . . . but at least I'm not a leg!
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I've never seen any of his stuff. I've seen previews and such.
From the outside looking in, it seems like his career is based on setting up situation where a hot young chick in a tight outfit kicks people (and things that aren't exactly people) a lot.
I'm being sincere, here. Are Joss Whedon fans just a bunch of guys with young-hot-chicks-who-kick-a-lot fetishes, or is there some deeper thread I'm missing?
Don't get me wrong, I dig young hot chicks in tight pants. Nothing wrong with that. I'm just trying to figure out what gives him the tight-panted-girl-kicking-a-lot midas touch.
-Peter
Hmm. It's been a while since I read Ender's Game, but I though he got the wires by crawling through the ventilation system.
I gave my copy to my kid step-brother. Guess it's time to buy a new one.
-Peter
They were smart, but they were also sons-of-bitches.
By the way, watch your butt, AC is watching.
-Peter
Man, you're making this tough on me.
Your being attacked by Klingons. You eject your warp core. While the Klingons gloat over their victory five guys swing out from behind the warp core on wires they stole from a restricted area.
-Peter
And now, for today's obscure Rocky Horror Picture Show reference:
.] heavy, black, and pendulous.
Audience: Describe your balls!
Expert: [. .
-Peter
Wait, Klingon attacks usually happen in 3D, don't they?
How about, "You're getting blown up by Klingons, but you intentionally froze your legs first."?
-Peter
Watch your butt, Bernard is watching.
-God
PS: I know there is no mod for "I Don't Get It." Please don't substitute "Off Topic".
Thanks,
Peter
I think we have to hope for leather godesses, but plan for daemons.
-Peter
Are you serious?
From Wikipedea:
Clearly the pedigree of a "have", right?
Sure, this is an extreme example, but fortunes rise (and fall) in this country in a way unlike any other time or place in the world.
I have a buddy, a native Parisian, who moved here to escape the socioeconomic stratification in Paris.
I have a friend, an Ethiopian, who moved here after a coup. He's doing great. From NOTHING except a barely passable command of English (and a hell of a lot of determination).
I was in the army with a bunch of guys who had nothing going for them. (About half the guys I'm thinking of were poor white kids from rural areas, and the other half poor black kids from urban areas.) These guys had fire in their eyes, and were set on getting their G.I. Bill money and doing something with their lives.
I went to the Austin Community College with a bunch of people (mostly young women) who grabbed onto Pell Grants with both hands, and were doing what they had to do to get some education.
There's plenty of opportunity for those who will grab it. There's also plenty of misery for those to latch onto it.
-Peter
Is there some place I can download that so I can print it?
-Peter
I agree. My previous reply was pretty flip.
I do think that governments are more to blame, for putting themselves on the auction block.
-Peter
Well said. I didn't mean to excuse the businesses.
As I said in a sibling (cousin?) to this post: I do, however, think that a greater blame goes to government for creating the moral jeopardy by putting their thuggery up for auction in the first place.
-Peter
Well, it's nice that we agree anyway!
The only elected official in Washington worth his pay is Ron Paul.
-Peter
You misread me. Corporations (and more specifically, the people who run them) are culpable for their immoral actions in all cases.
My point was that we shouldn't blame corporations for governments acting like thugs.
I do, however, think that a greater blame goes to government for creating the moral jeopardy by putting their thuggery up for auction in the first place.
-Peter
I'm not sure how much of a distinction you were trying to draw with the word "current", but the last guy was convicted of war crimes.
Hell, if there was any justice in the world Andrew Jackson would have hanged.
Government is a seemingly insoluble problem.
-Peter
Okay, but businesses are supposed to act in self-interest. Governments are supposed to serve the people.
Who's doing the wrong thing?
-Peter
I'm glad you asked, because I have an answer to that too!
I think Penn Jillette summed it up nicely.
Why do campaign contributions from businesses get people elected?
-Peter
Let's lay the blame where it belongs. Sure the businesses are acting in self interest, but it's the government acting like thugs.
-Peter
This is a huge improvement over the status quo, namely, Microsoft trying to strong-arm the industry into the adoption of incomplete, closed, patent-encumbered, poorly documented, and not accepted standard.
-Peter
Is the spelling "gaol" still in common usage in the UK?
-Peter
I did my five jumps at Benning out of a C-130. A few years later I re-deployed from the Balkans and took the trip from Tazar to K-town in a C-130. After we were in flight I realized that it was my sixth trip in a C-130, but would be my first landing.
Frankly, that was the most frightening of the six trips.
What's the MOS of the guy that goes around making sure every bolt is 1/4 turn from tight on those things?
-Peter
I'm not sure if "brace" is the right word.
I took Airborne school in '93. We jumped T-10 'chutes. According to some random page I found with google, the terminal velocity of a T-10 with an equipped soldier hanging off of it is 22-24 feet per second (6.7 to 7.3 m/s^2). Sadly my Physics is too rusty to figure out the height from which an unrestrained fall would produce that velocity on impact.
Understand that this is a fall that a parachutist should be able to walk away from with some regularity. (In Jump Week twice a day on each of Monday and Tuesday.)
The strategy for walking away from this fall was, long story short, fall over on impact.
We were taught to make five discrete impacts with the ground, reducing the force of each. (For reference, the points are the balls of the feet, the side of one calf, the side of the upper part of that leg, the ass cheek on that same side, and the same side of the back.*)
Anyway, "bracing" one's self is likely to end in at least one broken leg.
-Peter
PS: Before anyone asks, yes, I'm a five jump chump . . . but at least I'm not a leg!
-P
'Cause he can't armor his head? And maybe something about his left arm being numb?
Miller's DKR and Year One are my two favorite (sequential art) books.
-Peter
Your. I was typing too fast.
-Peter
So you're thesis is that some lawyer, able to lawyer his way all the way to the supreme court was too fucking stupid to pick a better argument?
In any case, under what law does the state have such a duty, in A.C. Esq.'s esteemed legal opinion?
Of course, since you posted this anonymously I have no way of knowing if the same AC replies. *sigh*
-Peter