no, Obi-Wan lied to Luke to prevent Luke from wanting to know anything about Vader or his father.
It doesn't take Sherlock Holmes to figure out that Lucas' grand pre-planned nine episode story was created on-the-fly AFTER the unintentional and accidental success of the first movie named "Star Wars", not "A New Hope." Every incongruous element in the series from Princess Lay-uh/Lee-uh's name pronunciation, to Obi Wan's bullshit explanation for his description of Anakin's "death" to Leia's unexpected sibling kinship to Luke was made up on-the-spot without regard to continuity, storyline development, or credibility. Ever wonder why Lucas stopped at RoTJ? He realized he had nothing. His nine episode fantasy was a financial goal, not any sort of developed story he had to tell.
Lucas had no friggin' clue where "Star Wars" was headed immediately after 1977. He had no epic story preconceived prior to "Star Wars" And he obviously didn't have the sense to make one up that was at least internally consistent with what was already created. The 3 prequels were just the exacerbation of his cluelessness begun with Empire. Why would anyone be surprised at midichlorians or some jacked-up rabbit-man with a Carribean accent and IQ below room temperature becoming a "Senator"? Or R2D2's sudden ability to fly which he seemed to forget in the later (earlier?) movies. The re-edits shouldn't surprise anyone. He lucked out mightily in the late 70's by co-opting Kurasawa and throwing in a little space shoot-em-up in the mix and rode out that luck despite having no idea what he was doing or where he was going with it.
We all cringed at the poor acting and dialog and the Deus ex machina and the internal inconsistencies in the original trilogy, but we swallowed hard and rationalized it all away. Then came the re-edits and we were all outraged. Then came the abomination of the prequels, but time had passed and Star Wars was no longer fresh and no amount of fandom could overlook the steaming pile of feces Lucas left on the floor. The signs were always there. We just conveniently ignored them.
Do you think its okay to let people fly into your house or car or you because its some random douche with an R/C airplane he bought and knows absolutely nothing about?
And if someone hits a baseball into your house, do you want the FAA involved? Or if you are involved in a wreck should the NTSB fine you? The failure is in scope and suitability. If your hypothetical "douche" endangers someone or damages property, local authorities should be involved, not the Feds.
No. Based on that logic, since there are no state laws prohibiting it [...]
There are no laws prohibiting it precisely because the FAA has taken it upon themselves to regulate ANYTHING in the airspace from the ground up. Had they not, there would be state laws. Do any states allow a free-for-all on local roads?
So you truly have ignored everything I've said about the difficulty of trying to regulate a national airspace at the state level. I can't fix that, I can only write off the wasted time.
Herein lies GP's exact argument in a nutshell. "Because it's easier" is not a justification of legal authority. That is the same reason why we are left fighting warrantless searches and seizures.
People don't throw phones away because the can't be repaired. They throw them away because they now have a newer nicer one.
Speak for yourself. I threw out my iPhone when the WiFi failed on it. I still have the Nexus 4 I bought. I don't buy the latest and greatest phone "just because" but then, I don't have a contract which encourages that kind of idiotic behavior.
ahem ahem.... next time you go to walmart, the cheapest microwave oven is going to be $800... ahem ahem, next time you go to buy a light bulb, the cheapest is going to be 3 for $25... ahem ahem.... next time you buy an iphone, it is going to be $0 which comes with 15 years contract... ahem ahem... just saying.
And since the prices go up and replacement is not something you want to have to do very often. Maybe we stop buying based upon what is cheapest and stop getting something that cannot be repaired and is essentially disposable after one use, and we start buying on quality and repairability. Everything is designed for the landfill these days. it didn't use to be that way before we started importing "cheap" junk.
Or a recognition that if the money goes in the bank your spouse will expand your expenses to match the income. The interest on the refund isn't nearly as much as I save by not letting my wife spend it for a year. It gives us a chance to buy something nice once in a while.
Amen brother. Or the alternative is she occasionally works part time for part of the year and claims the maximum exemptions, so she can max out her paycheck. My withholdings have to cover the both of us no matter the circumstances. I got burned on that one year too. Amazingly, at tax time the hand comes out expecting her "half" of the refund despite the fact she paid none or almost no taxes. And if I want to bank it to cover emergencies, the waterworks begin because she had busied herself planning how to spend her "half" months ago.
Damn I am so glad she is someone else's problem now. She and her new boyfriend are on the edge of bankruptcy and he had plenty of money when they met.
My ancestors used an outhouse from what I understand. It worked fine. Why should they upgrade? If they still used it today they would be the equivalent of people who use XP in 2014.
Bad analogy. Windows 8 is the equivalent of the basement of an outhouse. At least XP is on the first floor.
A week?! A month?!!
How do you propose to compensate me and others for the loss of value and liquidity created by your arbitrary market rules and centrally controlled economy? Will you or the government either put up part of the purchase price to compensate for your partial control, or allow me to write off losses caused by the proposed rules?
What's wrong with me immediately changing my mind after a trade?
How about instead a Ultra-Short Capital Gains tax rate at 100%. Trade as fast as you want but unless you hold it for a week or month, you pay out all your profits. You're as liquid as you need to be. You don't have to ban it, just de-incentivise it.
I don't see how acceptance of homosexuals would make you not able to be a leader
But that's not really the point is it? The question is whether the reverse is true. I suggest that there has been no proof that his personal belief taints his ability to be a good leader. The burden is on groups calling for his resignation or dismissal. In fact, he was already an employee and there was insufficient evidence to prevent his promotion. Calling for his ouster is simply a witch hunt.
The difference between accepting homosexuals and not accepting them is that one is is good and one is bad. I don't see them as two sides of the same coin. To me this is like the difference between firing someone for being racist and firing someone for not being racist.
Or firing someone for being Jewish or not. In all three cases, it has only to do with their personal held belief system. The only difference is that one will get you a lawsuit and the others will not. See my previous post about protected class and recognize the arbitrary definition thereof.
There is no reason to treat gays differently. Anything heterosexual couples are able to legally do, homosexuals should be able to do the same. There is no such equal protection at this point, even if you claim otherwise.
Why am I reminded of the following??
LORETTA: It's every man's right to have babies if he wants them.
REG: But... you can't have babies.
LORETTA: Don't you oppress me.
REG: I'm not oppressing you, Stan. You haven't got a womb! Where's the foetus going to gestate?! You going to keep it in a box?!
LORETTA: crying
JUDITH: Here! I-- I've got an idea. Suppose you agree that he can't actually have babies, not having a womb, which is nobody's fault, not even the Romans', but that he can have the right to have babies.
FRANCIS: Good idea, Judith. We shall fight the oppressors for your right to have babies, brother. Sister. Sorry.
In this instance we had literally millions of these switches sold, most of which performed exactly as expected. [...] Given the information available it is entirely feasible that GM and its employees were showing a good faith effort to exercise their duty of care.
Bullshit. As a Saturn Ion owner, I can verify that even though all of these switches may not have failed spectacularly, they have NOT functioned as expected and were know to be faulty. I have already replaced my own switch TWICE at my own expense. Spend a few minutes and surf the Ion web forums and you will see that bad switches are a know problem and have been for a very long time. GM denied there was a problem even when they were still under warranty (for Ions at least).
How many ignition switches have you ever had to replace on a vehicle? Counting the TWO I replaced on my Ion, I have replaced exactly two!
I'm not even sure what your "salient" point is. We have a $250,000 research NMR with a computer controlling it running XP. The upgrade to use Windows 7 requires a $50,000 investment in new hardware. We don't have that kind of money just hiding in the cracks of the sofa. That NMR doesn't stop running just because Microsoft is tired of playing with XP.
I have one researcher still using Windows 95 on a semiconductor test instrument. That's not getting upgraded either. The cost to "fix/recover" is much cheaper than upgrading. We keep spare drives and drive images and all data is copied off the machine. My biggest concern is replacing a bad motherboard and finding drivers that run the older OS.
Simply slapping a new fresh install of Win8.1 on a research instrument controller is not always an easy or cheap thing to do. Not everybody is just using their computer to surf the web and check email.
Amen Brother! My son (and others) will waste my time and distract my attention by texting constantly when a single 30 second phone call will do. When my son begins his text barrage, I try to intervene and make a voice call, but he will never answer. I just do not get it. And I can text with the best of them. I am as fast on the Google/swype keyboard as I am on a real one.
Now I'm curious how you can justify the ethics of bow hunting just for mere target practice in case civilisation somehow comes to an end.
I made no such assertion and I am therefore not in a position nor ethically required to justify anything. You, however, did make an assertion that humans who hunted with flint were concerned with the suffering of their prey. I merely asked for proof. Besides some nebulous hand waving regarding paleolithic art and ancient Jewish ritualistic sacrifice, you've offered no proof citation, as I expected. You have offered nothing to provide any proof that suffering avoidance was at any point involved or sought after in any method of flint arrow or flint spear hunting.
If you add to that other issues of convenience, I think you'll have your reasons why e-books haven't yet taken off. To read a book, you spend about three seconds in picking it up off the shelf and opening it. To read an e-book, you grab your tablet/computer/whatever, power it up, find your application for reading the book, and swipe through the screens until you reach the right spot.
No me. I just pick up my Kindle and open the case. The cover magnet causes the Kindle to turn on to the last page I read. If I want a different book, I press the top of the screen and push the home button and I have a list of books. Whichever book I select opens to the last page I read on the book I select. Simple...
In my experience, the typing experience on a Lumia 520 is a lot smoother than that on either an Android [...]
You need to try swype. You'll never peck out anything on an on-screen keyboard again. It's truly incredible. It's the killer app on Android. I cringe whenever I have to peck out anything on an iPhone or iPod touch now. Never used WP.
Yes, they absolutely need to be involved. It's specifically and exactly the sort of thing the FAA was created for and falls exactly within the FFA's jurisdiction.
No. No they don't. As GP stated there are plenty of reckless endangerment and negligence laws or are you suggesting the Department of Transportation should get involved every time a tractor trailer cuts me off in traffic?
Perhaps you also think paper airplanes should be heavily regulated too. You could lose an eye, you know.
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no, Obi-Wan lied to Luke to prevent Luke from wanting to know anything about Vader or his father.
It doesn't take Sherlock Holmes to figure out that Lucas' grand pre-planned nine episode story was created on-the-fly AFTER the unintentional and accidental success of the first movie named "Star Wars", not "A New Hope." Every incongruous element in the series from Princess Lay-uh/Lee-uh's name pronunciation, to Obi Wan's bullshit explanation for his description of Anakin's "death" to Leia's unexpected sibling kinship to Luke was made up on-the-spot without regard to continuity, storyline development, or credibility. Ever wonder why Lucas stopped at RoTJ? He realized he had nothing. His nine episode fantasy was a financial goal, not any sort of developed story he had to tell.
Lucas had no friggin' clue where "Star Wars" was headed immediately after 1977. He had no epic story preconceived prior to "Star Wars" And he obviously didn't have the sense to make one up that was at least internally consistent with what was already created. The 3 prequels were just the exacerbation of his cluelessness begun with Empire. Why would anyone be surprised at midichlorians or some jacked-up rabbit-man with a Carribean accent and IQ below room temperature becoming a "Senator"? Or R2D2's sudden ability to fly which he seemed to forget in the later (earlier?) movies. The re-edits shouldn't surprise anyone. He lucked out mightily in the late 70's by co-opting Kurasawa and throwing in a little space shoot-em-up in the mix and rode out that luck despite having no idea what he was doing or where he was going with it.
We all cringed at the poor acting and dialog and the Deus ex machina and the internal inconsistencies in the original trilogy, but we swallowed hard and rationalized it all away. Then came the re-edits and we were all outraged. Then came the abomination of the prequels, but time had passed and Star Wars was no longer fresh and no amount of fandom could overlook the steaming pile of feces Lucas left on the floor. The signs were always there. We just conveniently ignored them.
And if someone hits a baseball into your house, do you want the FAA involved? Or if you are involved in a wreck should the NTSB fine you? The failure is in scope and suitability. If your hypothetical "douche" endangers someone or damages property, local authorities should be involved, not the Feds.
I will be glad to accept your analogy when the Federal Railroad Administration starts fining people for operating unsafe garden and model railroads.
Perhaps the NTSB then? The point being that this is an overreach of power by an overzealous agency. There seems to be a lot of that these days.
There are no laws prohibiting it precisely because the FAA has taken it upon themselves to regulate ANYTHING in the airspace from the ground up. Had they not, there would be state laws. Do any states allow a free-for-all on local roads?
Herein lies GP's exact argument in a nutshell. "Because it's easier" is not a justification of legal authority. That is the same reason why we are left fighting warrantless searches and seizures.
People don't throw phones away because the can't be repaired. They throw them away because they now have a newer nicer one.
Speak for yourself. I threw out my iPhone when the WiFi failed on it. I still have the Nexus 4 I bought. I don't buy the latest and greatest phone "just because" but then, I don't have a contract which encourages that kind of idiotic behavior.
ahem ahem .... next time you go to walmart, the cheapest microwave oven is going to be $800 ... ahem ahem, next time you go to buy a light bulb, the cheapest is going to be 3 for $25 ... ahem ahem .... next time you buy an iphone, it is going to be $0 which comes with 15 years contract ... ahem ahem ... just saying.
And since the prices go up and replacement is not something you want to have to do very often. Maybe we stop buying based upon what is cheapest and stop getting something that cannot be repaired and is essentially disposable after one use, and we start buying on quality and repairability. Everything is designed for the landfill these days. it didn't use to be that way before we started importing "cheap" junk.
A large refund is a sign of poor tax planning.
Or a recognition that if the money goes in the bank your spouse will expand your expenses to match the income. The interest on the refund isn't nearly as much as I save by not letting my wife spend it for a year. It gives us a chance to buy something nice once in a while.
Amen brother. Or the alternative is she occasionally works part time for part of the year and claims the maximum exemptions, so she can max out her paycheck. My withholdings have to cover the both of us no matter the circumstances. I got burned on that one year too. Amazingly, at tax time the hand comes out expecting her "half" of the refund despite the fact she paid none or almost no taxes. And if I want to bank it to cover emergencies, the waterworks begin because she had busied herself planning how to spend her "half" months ago.
Damn I am so glad she is someone else's problem now. She and her new boyfriend are on the edge of bankruptcy and he had plenty of money when they met.
My ancestors used an outhouse from what I understand. It worked fine. Why should they upgrade? If they still used it today they would be the equivalent of people who use XP in 2014.
Bad analogy. Windows 8 is the equivalent of the basement of an outhouse. At least XP is on the first floor.
A week?! A month?!! How do you propose to compensate me and others for the loss of value and liquidity created by your arbitrary market rules and centrally controlled economy? Will you or the government either put up part of the purchase price to compensate for your partial control, or allow me to write off losses caused by the proposed rules? What's wrong with me immediately changing my mind after a trade?
How about instead a Ultra-Short Capital Gains tax rate at 100%. Trade as fast as you want but unless you hold it for a week or month, you pay out all your profits. You're as liquid as you need to be. You don't have to ban it, just de-incentivise it.
But that's not really the point is it? The question is whether the reverse is true. I suggest that there has been no proof that his personal belief taints his ability to be a good leader. The burden is on groups calling for his resignation or dismissal. In fact, he was already an employee and there was insufficient evidence to prevent his promotion. Calling for his ouster is simply a witch hunt.
Or firing someone for being Jewish or not. In all three cases, it has only to do with their personal held belief system. The only difference is that one will get you a lawsuit and the others will not. See my previous post about protected class and recognize the arbitrary definition thereof.
I see you got your wish granted.
How very enlightened of you. Agree with me or get fired (or not hired).
Why am I reminded of the following??
LORETTA: It's every man's right to have babies if he wants them.
REG: But... you can't have babies.
LORETTA: Don't you oppress me.
REG: I'm not oppressing you, Stan. You haven't got a womb! Where's the foetus going to gestate?! You going to keep it in a box?!
LORETTA: crying
JUDITH: Here! I-- I've got an idea. Suppose you agree that he can't actually have babies, not having a womb, which is nobody's fault, not even the Romans', but that he can have the right to have babies.
FRANCIS: Good idea, Judith. We shall fight the oppressors for your right to have babies, brother. Sister. Sorry.
Bullshit. As a Saturn Ion owner, I can verify that even though all of these switches may not have failed spectacularly, they have NOT functioned as expected and were know to be faulty. I have already replaced my own switch TWICE at my own expense. Spend a few minutes and surf the Ion web forums and you will see that bad switches are a know problem and have been for a very long time. GM denied there was a problem even when they were still under warranty (for Ions at least).
How many ignition switches have you ever had to replace on a vehicle? Counting the TWO I replaced on my Ion, I have replaced exactly two!
I'm not even sure what your "salient" point is. We have a $250,000 research NMR with a computer controlling it running XP. The upgrade to use Windows 7 requires a $50,000 investment in new hardware. We don't have that kind of money just hiding in the cracks of the sofa. That NMR doesn't stop running just because Microsoft is tired of playing with XP.
I have one researcher still using Windows 95 on a semiconductor test instrument. That's not getting upgraded either. The cost to "fix/recover" is much cheaper than upgrading. We keep spare drives and drive images and all data is copied off the machine. My biggest concern is replacing a bad motherboard and finding drivers that run the older OS.
Simply slapping a new fresh install of Win8.1 on a research instrument controller is not always an easy or cheap thing to do. Not everybody is just using their computer to surf the web and check email.
Jimmy Carter is the best ex-president we've ever had.
Amen Brother! My son (and others) will waste my time and distract my attention by texting constantly when a single 30 second phone call will do. When my son begins his text barrage, I try to intervene and make a voice call, but he will never answer. I just do not get it. And I can text with the best of them. I am as fast on the Google/swype keyboard as I am on a real one.
Now I'm curious how you can justify the ethics of bow hunting just for mere target practice in case civilisation somehow comes to an end.
I made no such assertion and I am therefore not in a position nor ethically required to justify anything. You, however, did make an assertion that humans who hunted with flint were concerned with the suffering of their prey. I merely asked for proof. Besides some nebulous hand waving regarding paleolithic art and ancient Jewish ritualistic sacrifice, you've offered no proof citation, as I expected. You have offered nothing to provide any proof that suffering avoidance was at any point involved or sought after in any method of flint arrow or flint spear hunting.
Even back when people were hunting with bits of flint on the end of sticks they cared about reducing the suffering of what they killed [...]
Citation?
No me. I just pick up my Kindle and open the case. The cover magnet causes the Kindle to turn on to the last page I read. If I want a different book, I press the top of the screen and push the home button and I have a list of books. Whichever book I select opens to the last page I read on the book I select. Simple...
You need to try swype. You'll never peck out anything on an on-screen keyboard again. It's truly incredible. It's the killer app on Android. I cringe whenever I have to peck out anything on an iPhone or iPod touch now. Never used WP.
Excuse me for a moment while I savor this moment.
Federal. Aviation. Admistration.
Yes, they absolutely need to be involved. It's specifically and exactly the sort of thing the FAA was created for and falls exactly within the FFA's jurisdiction.
No. No they don't. As GP stated there are plenty of reckless endangerment and negligence laws or are you suggesting the Department of Transportation should get involved every time a tractor trailer cuts me off in traffic?
Perhaps you also think paper airplanes should be heavily regulated too. You could lose an eye, you know.