These "archetypes" predated Joseph Campbell by about 2500 years. I suspect Lucas managed to "stumble" upon them by finding a script or seeing the movie "The Hidden Fortress".
Those pretentious schmucks are the FANBOYS of the original trilogy, who treat Jedi like a real religion and consider Empire Strikes back high art. They were the kids who were about 11 when Star Wars came out. They then had 30 years to fantasize about it and grow up, and when the prequels came out with far fewer gaping plot holes than the originals, they were sacrilege. A bunch of retarded teddy bears defeated the empire in the original, for God's sake. And I hate to break it to you, but Jar-Jar was hardly any worse than R2D2. Who makes a repair robot that makes baby-like cooing noises when scared? I can assure you that the plethora of cute robots were just as idiotic to grownups in 1977 as Jar-Jar was to grownups in 1999 and worse, led to a bunch of other even more ridiculous cute robots in the (endless) rip-offs.
That's not to say this "Secret life of toenail fungus" concept by Lucas is any good, either, but for goodness sake, aside from the cool effects of spaceships getting blown up, ALL of the movies were pablum. This recent batch is worse precisely because they take themselves too seriously, because the fans expect them to be taken seriously, and all the fun has been sucked out them - by fanboy demand.
Important development on the week that Time magazine posts a completely fake photo (perhaps obvious) of an event that did not happen (not at all obvious) as its cover. And then fails to issue a retraction.
These people are sociopaths or fools. Everything they, and everyone reading this, has, loves, cares about in this world is courtesy of the competence of the US Military.
Everyone is mocking it, but this has been coming for a long time. Space is already a separate command in the Air Force, formed about 15ish years ago, more-or-less, to consolidate space acquistion (Los Angeles, mostly) and operations (Colordao, mostly). It's a logical development, they really are separate disciplines.
You are going to run a fiber network 300 miles into a desert to serve 100 people? Because there are plenty of examples like that.
I don't think you grasp how big the country is, because you are from Western Europe, which is just a bit bigger than the state of Texas, depending on where you draw the line at "western". You can drive on a single interstate highway (I-10) for 890 or so miles/1400 Km without leaving the state of Texas, and about 800 miles/1300 Km on Interstate 5 all within the state of California. It's 1400 Km from Berlin to Madrid - and that is a common one-day driving distance in the USA. And I have to do that *3 straight days* to get from California to Indiana, and have done it something like 20 times.
There are places along major highways with no significant population centers, or even a gas station, for 100 miles. Around California, it is not unheard of to do a 200 mile round trip just to go to dinner.
This is why many Europeans fail to grasp why the solutions that work there, do not work here.
I would think dust and dirt would be a bigger problem than humidity. This time of year, dew points are in the 50s and during the day the humidity is reasonably low, and fairly consistent. As above, the first problem is going to be the temperature - so far this year, temperatures have been abnormally cool, but its going to be consistently in the 90s and up into the low 100s as far as the temperature goes before too long. The last week has indeed been really nice, cool with some wind. But that will not last all summer.
LI-Ion/LI Polymer batteries don't have quite the power/weight of conventional fuel, but it's perfectly acceptable for low-performance airplanes even now. The issues are more economic - the initial cost, the cost of time on the ground charnging, and safety - like the tendency to burst into flames for no adequately-explained reason.
In fact, all the three-letter agencies work in a similar way. They ostensibly let "experts" in various areas generate regulation, rather that requiring congressmen and senators to be experts in any topic. Of course, it also removes any electoral accountability for their actions.
The effect has to been to create a class of unelected regulators that serve the same purpose as the "civil servant" class in European/other socialist countries. The civil servants are the real power, and decide what happens, the elected officials are mostly figureheads who come and go. This class is the proverbial "swamp".
The constitution was intended to prevent exactly this arrangement. It would be literally impossible for Congress to generate laws at this rate and volume, and that was intentional. It more or less worked until the New Deal, where Roosevelt, etc, took advantage of the panic and desperation to create this arrangement. The effect was to "not let a crisis go to waste" and it managed to extend the depression until an even bigger crisis came along (World War II).
The people giving advice on Korea have been fucking it up for 60-ish years, and REALLY fucking it up for 25 resulting in a viable nuclear program. So I wouldn't listen to them either.
More than that, the bastard at Parkland had raised *every possible red flag* and had been reported to the responsible authorities multiple times by multimple people - and they still did nothing. Now, you see an alumnus on a camera, and you are going to rush in with the SWAT team in a few tens of seconds? When you have no idea why he is there or what he plans?
No kidding. De Beers is like the worst caricatures of evil capitalists. They have no interest in anything aside from their bottom line, they will and have done nearly anything and everything rotten and immoral to maintain their monopoly.
The EU is seemingly hell-bent to extort money from every other big business, they should turn their ire in De Beers and wipe it out, they richly deserve it.
I don't think it should be taught at all, for any reason, until the schools have completely mastered the teaching of math, English, history, etc. They continue to degenerate in those areas, they don't need to waste time on what amounts to vocational training. Anyone who has fundamentals and logical thought processes can learn to write computer programs in a few minutes or hours, and without the fundamentals, there is no reason to write computer programs.
London is being crushed by one violent knife attack after another, the murder rate is astronomical and rising rapidly - and not coincidentally, the city is almost universally known as Londonistan. The entire country is being overrun by Muslim extremists. And getting cashless payments to street bums is something they consider important?
"Biodegradable" means that the chemicals in the product are released into the environment quickly. And paper and wood products are *loaded* with processing chemicals, paper being particularly egregious. Biodegradable plastic is even worse.
Conventional plastics degrade/release the chemicals very very slowly, causing very little actual chemical harm to the environment.
So what this would/will do is make things *look* better more quickly, while flooding the environment with chemicals that would never have been there otherwise.
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These "archetypes" predated Joseph Campbell by about 2500 years. I suspect Lucas managed to "stumble" upon them by finding a script or seeing the movie "The Hidden Fortress".
Those pretentious schmucks are the FANBOYS of the original trilogy, who treat Jedi like a real religion and consider Empire Strikes back high art. They were the kids who were about 11 when Star Wars came out. They then had 30 years to fantasize about it and grow up, and when the prequels came out with far fewer gaping plot holes than the originals, they were sacrilege. A bunch of retarded teddy bears defeated the empire in the original, for God's sake. And I hate to break it to you, but Jar-Jar was hardly any worse than R2D2. Who makes a repair robot that makes baby-like cooing noises when scared? I can assure you that the plethora of cute robots were just as idiotic to grownups in 1977 as Jar-Jar was to grownups in 1999 and worse, led to a bunch of other even more ridiculous cute robots in the (endless) rip-offs.
That's not to say this "Secret life of toenail fungus" concept by Lucas is any good, either, but for goodness sake, aside from the cool effects of spaceships getting blown up, ALL of the movies were pablum. This recent batch is worse precisely because they take themselves too seriously, because the fans expect them to be taken seriously, and all the fun has been sucked out them - by fanboy demand.
Important development on the week that Time magazine posts a completely fake photo (perhaps obvious) of an event that did not happen (not at all obvious) as its cover. And then fails to issue a retraction.
These people are sociopaths or fools. Everything they, and everyone reading this, has, loves, cares about in this world is courtesy of the competence of the US Military.
Maybe just a speaker and a microphone?
Probably not by the end of the year.
Everyone is mocking it, but this has been coming for a long time. Space is already a separate command in the Air Force, formed about 15ish years ago, more-or-less, to consolidate space acquistion (Los Angeles, mostly) and operations (Colordao, mostly). It's a logical development, they really are separate disciplines.
You are going to run a fiber network 300 miles into a desert to serve 100 people? Because there are plenty of examples like that.
I don't think you grasp how big the country is, because you are from Western Europe, which is just a bit bigger than the state of Texas, depending on where you draw the line at "western". You can drive on a single interstate highway (I-10) for 890 or so miles/1400 Km without leaving the state of Texas, and about 800 miles/1300 Km on Interstate 5 all within the state of California. It's 1400 Km from Berlin to Madrid - and that is a common one-day driving distance in the USA. And I have to do that *3 straight days* to get from California to Indiana, and have done it something like 20 times.
There are places along major highways with no significant population centers, or even a gas station, for 100 miles. Around California, it is not unheard of to do a 200 mile round trip just to go to dinner.
This is why many Europeans fail to grasp why the solutions that work there, do not work here.
Less than a year ago, as I recall. That's Fremont, same day it was *111* here in Sunnyvale.
I would think dust and dirt would be a bigger problem than humidity. This time of year, dew points are in the 50s and during the day the humidity is reasonably low, and fairly consistent. As above, the first problem is going to be the temperature - so far this year, temperatures have been abnormally cool, but its going to be consistently in the 90s and up into the low 100s as far as the temperature goes before too long. The last week has indeed been really nice, cool with some wind. But that will not last all summer.
He knows that, he's just an asshole.
Thanks for that very helpful contribution, posts like this are why slashdot is held in such high regard.
Kudos, sir.
Union or no, you don't increase productivity by having people keel over from heat prostration!
The temperature topped out at about 75 degrees today. Let's see how much better it is when its 105+.
LI-Ion/LI Polymer batteries don't have quite the power/weight of conventional fuel, but it's perfectly acceptable for low-performance airplanes even now. The issues are more economic - the initial cost, the cost of time on the ground charnging, and safety - like the tendency to burst into flames for no adequately-explained reason.
Classic sociopath.
Socialist, so of course it is totalitarian.
In fact, all the three-letter agencies work in a similar way. They ostensibly let "experts" in various areas generate regulation, rather that requiring congressmen and senators to be experts in any topic. Of course, it also removes any electoral accountability for their actions.
The effect has to been to create a class of unelected regulators that serve the same purpose as the "civil servant" class in European/other socialist countries. The civil servants are the real power, and decide what happens, the elected officials are mostly figureheads who come and go. This class is the proverbial "swamp".
The constitution was intended to prevent exactly this arrangement. It would be literally impossible for Congress to generate laws at this rate and volume, and that was intentional. It more or less worked until the New Deal, where Roosevelt, etc, took advantage of the panic and desperation to create this arrangement. The effect was to "not let a crisis go to waste" and it managed to extend the depression until an even bigger crisis came along (World War II).
The people giving advice on Korea have been fucking it up for 60-ish years, and REALLY fucking it up for 25 resulting in a viable nuclear program. So I wouldn't listen to them either.
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More than that, the bastard at Parkland had raised *every possible red flag* and had been reported to the responsible authorities multiple times by multimple people - and they still did nothing. Now, you see an alumnus on a camera, and you are going to rush in with the SWAT team in a few tens of seconds? When you have no idea why he is there or what he plans?
No kidding. De Beers is like the worst caricatures of evil capitalists. They have no interest in anything aside from their bottom line, they will and have done nearly anything and everything rotten and immoral to maintain their monopoly.
The EU is seemingly hell-bent to extort money from every other big business, they should turn their ire in De Beers and wipe it out, they richly deserve it.
I don't think it should be taught at all, for any reason, until the schools have completely mastered the teaching of math, English, history, etc. They continue to degenerate in those areas, they don't need to waste time on what amounts to vocational training. Anyone who has fundamentals and logical thought processes can learn to write computer programs in a few minutes or hours, and without the fundamentals, there is no reason to write computer programs.
London is being crushed by one violent knife attack after another, the murder rate is astronomical and rising rapidly - and not coincidentally, the city is almost universally known as Londonistan. The entire country is being overrun by Muslim extremists. And getting cashless payments to street bums is something they consider important?
"Biodegradable" means that the chemicals in the product are released into the environment quickly. And paper and wood products are *loaded* with processing chemicals, paper being particularly egregious. Biodegradable plastic is even worse.
Conventional plastics degrade/release the chemicals very very slowly, causing very little actual chemical harm to the environment.
So what this would/will do is make things *look* better more quickly, while flooding the environment with chemicals that would never have been there otherwise.
But I did see Worm Sign.