Karl Marx's Communist idealogies are regarded as portraying a utopia, now, a utopia has never been acheived. This begs the questions; are utopias possible? Was Leninism and later Stalinism completely inevitable, due to human nature, our own perceived "imperfections"?
This got modded flamebait? What the hell this was one of the best comments in the whole topic! Flamebait my Orwell worshipping ass...
I know its hard for Oceanics to grasp the concept of wit and outspokenness, but come to Britain/Airstrip One whatever for awhile before you reach the age of eight. We might, just might be able to instill some wit and perhaps guile in your infantile minds so such moddings don't occur in the far future.
Twenty years on...shiny happy geeks!:)
Am I the only person who finds the term "Nazi mods" highly ironic for this topic at least?
Funny, I don't see any Terrorist Code on "how to manipulate attitude in said Democratic nations". Infact its persons like yourself procrastinating over the issue instead of ignoring the tin hats that contribute to it the most. Ironic or what eh?
In my opinion, the Internet is largely inclined towards Democracy and Democratic ideals, because it originated from the USA, and was invented by Al Gore!
Seriously though, the only real danger of having your identity exploited in a serious manner, coupled with a negative consequence, is when corporations get hold of your personal details...So ironically the finest place to have the internet identity protection wise is in China or another Communist regime - there are simply a lot less corporations checking up on you.
And the State? Well as we can deduce from the recent RealID scheme, are close to having all the information they'll ever need for us plebs.
I myself gave up on Enterprise midway through Season 2, disgusted with the Suliban/Daniels arc. It took the sentiments of an old friend to lure me back into it at the end of Season 3, and what a treat it was too...
Aside from a couple of stonkers (notably the first two episodes), Season 4 was an awesome piece of work that harked back to TOS/TNG a heck of a lot, the critique of the Mirror Universe episodes is largely from the elite core of fans who can't seem to realize that occansionally writers like to have fun, and feel a lot of fans will be able to have fun with them...sadly that concept is lost among some Trekkies.
In short both Mirror Universe eps were fantastic, they had a sort of quality about them only classic Trek can retain, their well worth watching.
Its also quite accurate that a lot of "serious" Trekkies are greatly in favour of Picard. Why? Well his steadfast, obedient, and intellectual nature seems to appeal to a lot of dedicated Trekkers.
Kirk for most was a less serious take on Trek, in that he basically slept with an alien chick every third episode, and battled for the rest!:)
What a lot of dedicated fans have to realize is that TOS is a series of pure fun and games, that is why Kirk is slightly better, and always will be to the casual and well rounded Trek fan.
Largely it was the fact writers like Berman and Braga were left in charge so long, put simply, what creativity and imagination they had dried away completely by Voyager. As soon as they were succeeded by different writers the show became a show again, not some disgrace of a drama, packed to the gills with cliches and plot errors.
Season Four proved that the concept of Enterprise was hugely workable, ideally the show would have been great from the very start and ran for seven seasons.
The corporate need for team leaders and hierachy is to blame here, not show context or chronological period, any Trek fan who believes the 22nd century setting was to blame is nothing short of delusional.
When Roddenberry said "Okay we're setting TNG in the late-24th Century, Kirk and Spock might not even appear as they'll be very elderly/deceased altogether", Trek fans left right and center rebelled against his judgement. Seven years of wonderful shows later, most were silent in awe.
I agree with your points, but its important we be clear that the "They" of Seasons 1 - 3 and the "They" of Season 4 were completely and utterly different (the team of writers was changed around completely as you likely know). The problem with most writers is that they eventually run out of creative talent and we end up with episodes like those in Season's 1-3, but as we saw with Berman/Braga a lot of writers don't want to let go of their franchise and move on, as it means quitting their jobs basically.
With Brannon Braga, we saw his tendency to producing Time/Time Travel related episodes reach a new low, whereas he used to deliver excellent material (like TNG's Paralels) he was soon totally out of ideas, which is why Season 1/2 had all that Suliban/Daniels bullshit, cheesy cliches and the whole mysterious aspect that accompanies true Star Trek diminished completely.
But in all, Season 4 was so much better, it was apparant the writing staff knew of the cancellation prior to the announcement in February, as they were trying to fit so many things into just a few scores of episodes! That said, in a few years we'll have a fresh, new Trek hopefully set around the turn of the 25th century.
I strongly suggest checking out the recent Mirror Universe episodes, as these represent some of the strongest points of all Season four. Also theres a rather amusing episode regarding Archer receiving some Orion slave girls (from the orig. series), and lots more.
There isn't much in the way of crap in Season 4, the only truly bad episodes were Storm Front pt. 1 & 2, but then that was when the new writing team were trying to dig the series out of the hole B&B had dug so...
All in all this season was fantastic, and no doubt a lot of seasoned Trekkies will be getting this season alone on DVD and putting 1,2 and 3 out of their minds, myself included.:)
Oh and regards the basketball scene, it did hark back to those holodeck fantasys or Data with his cat/on Ten Forward, again a great addition to the show.
Although Enterprise has been a downright awesome show this last season, even ressurecting some of the philosophical and mysterious tendancies that made TNG so great and bringing in some elements linking with the original Trek (and not just those Orion slave girls;) ), we will certainly be dissapointed with "These are the voyages" for the obvious reasons...
However, season 4 proved a fantastic point for a lot of Trekkies out there; that with enough good, fresh writers a show can improve again. As soon as Berman and Braga were hastily ushered out (after THREE seasons of the most gut-wrenching awful Trek we fans have ever been subjected to) the show became a heck of a lot better.
Since Star Trek has a timeless nature and a huge fanbase we can always count on new, fresh and innovative fans coming forward as writers with some brilliant material...and who knows? In a few years we might have another TNG that even the most cynical fans can enjoy...if not, well theres always re-runs.:)
In my experience, a large percentage of people play PS1 games on their PS2, but mostly just classics. Like with any major industry at its peak/s, there were a lot of classics during the PS1 era, as a seasoned gamer/geek yourself I won't need to name such titles.
Admittedly classics are few and far between during the 00's, but that does by no mean make the feature a non-starter. Obviously M$ are out for profits, as most people find the idea of backwards compatability really cool when they hear of it, so its a nice selling point.
Get this, you don't have to go see this film, or even think about it after this topic is yesterdays news, and next time another wonderful piece of fiction is announced for bastardization, you can just not give a fuck about posting a formula or anything cynical.
Why is that? Well like most other Disney adaptations, this will receive a lukewarm reception and in a few years will be forgotten, destined for an occansional screening on TNT in a decade or two...
Theres more to life than E rated bollocks my good friend.:) Even if the theme does entail a beautiful series of books that we read and have good memories of. (Btw to all nazi-mods, this isn't a troll, its called advice)
I for one am sick of having to rid myself of casino adverts and pop ups with adaware, aswell as declining access to parts of my browser cache to keep the clever stuff out.
Lets hope that in less than a decade, malware and spyware is banned too, this is just one small step in the right direction.
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Karl Marx's Communist idealogies are regarded as portraying a utopia, now, a utopia has never been acheived. This begs the questions; are utopias possible? Was Leninism and later Stalinism completely inevitable, due to human nature, our own perceived "imperfections"?
Didn't President Bush announce a large increment in Nasa's budget back in January of 2004?
This got modded flamebait? What the hell this was one of the best comments in the whole topic! Flamebait my Orwell worshipping ass...
:)
I know its hard for Oceanics to grasp the concept of wit and outspokenness, but come to Britain/Airstrip One whatever for awhile before you reach the age of eight. We might, just might be able to instill some wit and perhaps guile in your infantile minds so such moddings don't occur in the far future.
Twenty years on...shiny happy geeks!
Am I the only person who finds the term "Nazi mods" highly ironic for this topic at least?
Funny, I don't see any Terrorist Code on "how to manipulate attitude in said Democratic nations". Infact its persons like yourself procrastinating over the issue instead of ignoring the tin hats that contribute to it the most. Ironic or what eh?
You know you are going to cry at some point in the episode.
Yeah, but for completely different reasons.
And no I didn't believe that was a troll.
In my opinion, the Internet is largely inclined towards Democracy and Democratic ideals, because it originated from the USA, and was invented by Al Gore!
Seriously though, the only real danger of having your identity exploited in a serious manner, coupled with a negative consequence, is when corporations get hold of your personal details...So ironically the finest place to have the internet identity protection wise is in China or another Communist regime - there are simply a lot less corporations checking up on you.
And the State? Well as we can deduce from the recent RealID scheme, are close to having all the information they'll ever need for us plebs.
A mood-swing prone, semi-delusional, prime directive violating, technobabble spewing excuse for a captain! :-D
I myself gave up on Enterprise midway through Season 2, disgusted with the Suliban/Daniels arc. It took the sentiments of an old friend to lure me back into it at the end of Season 3, and what a treat it was too...
Aside from a couple of stonkers (notably the first two episodes), Season 4 was an awesome piece of work that harked back to TOS/TNG a heck of a lot, the critique of the Mirror Universe episodes is largely from the elite core of fans who can't seem to realize that occansionally writers like to have fun, and feel a lot of fans will be able to have fun with them...sadly that concept is lost among some Trekkies.
In short both Mirror Universe eps were fantastic, they had a sort of quality about them only classic Trek can retain, their well worth watching.
Its also quite accurate that a lot of "serious" Trekkies are greatly in favour of Picard. Why? Well his steadfast, obedient, and intellectual nature seems to appeal to a lot of dedicated Trekkers.
:)
Kirk for most was a less serious take on Trek, in that he basically slept with an alien chick every third episode, and battled for the rest!
What a lot of dedicated fans have to realize is that TOS is a series of pure fun and games, that is why Kirk is slightly better, and always will be to the casual and well rounded Trek fan.
Largely it was the fact writers like Berman and Braga were left in charge so long, put simply, what creativity and imagination they had dried away completely by Voyager. As soon as they were succeeded by different writers the show became a show again, not some disgrace of a drama, packed to the gills with cliches and plot errors.
Season Four proved that the concept of Enterprise was hugely workable, ideally the show would have been great from the very start and ran for seven seasons.
The corporate need for team leaders and hierachy is to blame here, not show context or chronological period, any Trek fan who believes the 22nd century setting was to blame is nothing short of delusional.
When Roddenberry said "Okay we're setting TNG in the late-24th Century, Kirk and Spock might not even appear as they'll be very elderly/deceased altogether", Trek fans left right and center rebelled against his judgement. Seven years of wonderful shows later, most were silent in awe.
Sisko was a commander, not a captain for the majority of Deep Space Nine, in the view of us Trek fanatics, he doesn't qualify! :)
I agree with your points, but its important we be clear that the "They" of Seasons 1 - 3 and the "They" of Season 4 were completely and utterly different (the team of writers was changed around completely as you likely know). The problem with most writers is that they eventually run out of creative talent and we end up with episodes like those in Season's 1-3, but as we saw with Berman/Braga a lot of writers don't want to let go of their franchise and move on, as it means quitting their jobs basically.
With Brannon Braga, we saw his tendency to producing Time/Time Travel related episodes reach a new low, whereas he used to deliver excellent material (like TNG's Paralels) he was soon totally out of ideas, which is why Season 1/2 had all that Suliban/Daniels bullshit, cheesy cliches and the whole mysterious aspect that accompanies true Star Trek diminished completely.
But in all, Season 4 was so much better, it was apparant the writing staff knew of the cancellation prior to the announcement in February, as they were trying to fit so many things into just a few scores of episodes! That said, in a few years we'll have a fresh, new Trek hopefully set around the turn of the 25th century.
I strongly suggest checking out the recent Mirror Universe episodes, as these represent some of the strongest points of all Season four. Also theres a rather amusing episode regarding Archer receiving some Orion slave girls (from the orig. series), and lots more.
:)
There isn't much in the way of crap in Season 4, the only truly bad episodes were Storm Front pt. 1 & 2, but then that was when the new writing team were trying to dig the series out of the hole B&B had dug so...
All in all this season was fantastic, and no doubt a lot of seasoned Trekkies will be getting this season alone on DVD and putting 1,2 and 3 out of their minds, myself included.
Oh and regards the basketball scene, it did hark back to those holodeck fantasys or Data with his cat/on Ten Forward, again a great addition to the show.
Although Enterprise has been a downright awesome show this last season, even ressurecting some of the philosophical and mysterious tendancies that made TNG so great and bringing in some elements linking with the original Trek (and not just those Orion slave girls ;) ), we will certainly be dissapointed with "These are the voyages" for the obvious reasons...
:)
However, season 4 proved a fantastic point for a lot of Trekkies out there; that with enough good, fresh writers a show can improve again. As soon as Berman and Braga were hastily ushered out (after THREE seasons of the most gut-wrenching awful Trek we fans have ever been subjected to) the show became a heck of a lot better.
Since Star Trek has a timeless nature and a huge fanbase we can always count on new, fresh and innovative fans coming forward as writers with some brilliant material...and who knows? In a few years we might have another TNG that even the most cynical fans can enjoy...if not, well theres always re-runs.
In my experience, a large percentage of people play PS1 games on their PS2, but mostly just classics. Like with any major industry at its peak/s, there were a lot of classics during the PS1 era, as a seasoned gamer/geek yourself I won't need to name such titles.
Admittedly classics are few and far between during the 00's, but that does by no mean make the feature a non-starter. Obviously M$ are out for profits, as most people find the idea of backwards compatability really cool when they hear of it, so its a nice selling point.
Not even this great code can prevent slashdotting.
Removed his head you say?
THIS WE GOTTA SEE.
From dozens of other responses, we can deduce the national ID card scheme isn't good for...
:)
Controlling Immigration
Preventing Terrorist Attacks
Convincing Elected Officials if not bungled with military spending
Preventing Fraud
Improving Overall Security
Helping Law Enforcers
I'm starting to think this bill will strengthen our civil liberties! Whats all the fuss about?
Also, the fact cash got it through contradicts the Big Brother theory. Absolute power corrupts Capitalists absolutely, that is all.
Welcome to the world of stale legislation fellow geeks, park yourself next to the Patriot Act and make yourselves right at home.
Get this, you don't have to go see this film, or even think about it after this topic is yesterdays news, and next time another wonderful piece of fiction is announced for bastardization, you can just not give a fuck about posting a formula or anything cynical.
:) Even if the theme does entail a beautiful series of books that we read and have good memories of. (Btw to all nazi-mods, this isn't a troll, its called advice)
Why is that? Well like most other Disney adaptations, this will receive a lukewarm reception and in a few years will be forgotten, destined for an occansional screening on TNT in a decade or two...
Theres more to life than E rated bollocks my good friend.
Rainbow Screen of Death?
:)
Wow man.
I for one am sick of having to rid myself of casino adverts and pop ups with adaware, aswell as declining access to parts of my browser cache to keep the clever stuff out.
Lets hope that in less than a decade, malware and spyware is banned too, this is just one small step in the right direction.
TRANSLUCANT BUTTONS!!! :)
Whatever the film's nature....
:)
MAY THE 4TH BE WITH YOU!
Stella's you say? I had a few of those tonight...
*burrrrrrp*
zZZZz
**Bender stands in a desolate building on robot planet, reading robot circuit board pr0n scraps**
"OOooooh yeah! You've been a naughty girl haven't you?!"
Leela; "Bender is that you?
**Bender stashes robot pr0n for later**