You forgot to mention the part where production and sale of neonicitonoids is a huge business, and the pesticide industry is attacking entomologists who are studying the effects of this class of pesticides on bees and other pollinating insects with as much fervor as the fossil fuel industry attacks climatologists.
This is a basic tenet of the Church of the Invisible Hand. There's no problem that can't be solved by destroying nature and replacing it dollar-generating industries.
Red herrings? Really, aren't climatologists part of a scheme to destroy our economy? Sure, the bumblebees may be mindless servants, but still, they're flagrant dying out is clearly intended to make carbon-emitting industries, who, as we all know, cannot possibly have any effect of climate at all, makes them collaborators. We should immediately defund climate research, because all it does is come up with evil Commie lies.
English is not an agglutinative language, it is a language, that many languages in many different families that can use agglutination in word creation. You're deliberately confusing two separate, though related concepts, to try not to look like a fucking idiot.
Bumblebees are clearly Communist Ecoterrorists out to destroy our fine, God-fearing Capitalist agricultural industry. We should immediately start executing those evil climatologists. God and the Invisible Hand would never permit massive CO2 emissions to effect humans, and anyone that says so should be taken out and beaten to death.
Because they paid Lucas the equivalent of the GDP of some small countries. They're going to milk this baby for every penny, and they know those of us of that special generation from about 43 to 55 will pay to see whatever crap they stick a Star Wars logo on. Yes, I admit it, I'm that pathetic.
But Lucas put multiple theme worlds in each film. Episde IV had two, Episode V had 3, Episode VI had two. I'm trying to remember the prequels, I think Episode I had three, Episode II had three, and I can't even remember how how many Episode III had.
A good, a Star Trek-Star Wars mashup. I like the scene where Riker and Han get in a fight over a scantily clad Troi, as Jabba's band plays Born To Be Wild. Admiral Kirk finally wins the day by forcing Jabba's protocol droid into a logic loop that causes its head to explode, bringing down Jabba's palace.
Oh god. The whole romance angle in the second prequel was a masterstroke of hackneyed, butchered, gawdawful and outright flat dialog. The first time around I was just too overawed by the awfulness to know what was hitting me, but the second watching was where the full extent of Lucas's incapability of writing decent dialogue.
Even better was Padme's death scene in the final prequel:
MEDICAL DROID: Medically, she is completely healthy. For reasons we can't explain, we are losing her.
OBI-WAN: She's dying?
MEDICAL DROID: We don't know why. She has lost the will to live. We need to operate quickly if we are to save the babies.
Every time I watch them, I come up with another reason to loathe them. Mind you, it's been about five years since the last viewing of any Star Wars film, so I'll probably have forgotten half the reasons the prequels stunk so very very badly.
I remember clearly watching The Phantom Menace and realizing the extent of the suckage when C3PO turns out to be Darth Vader's droid. I was still reeling from the midichlorians nonsense, and then that. Of course, by the time pod-racer video game advertisement had taken up most of the second act, I realized that George Lucas wasn't just a greedy bastard, but well and truly had no fucking idea how to make an at least enjoyable film anymore. Two more prequels and the last Indiana Jones movie convinced me that Lucas was done even as an action-adventure director (the latter demonstrated that he had lost even the basic concept of pacing).
Make more theme worlds, because apparently the universe is populated by jungle worlds, metal worlds, forest worlds, magma worlds, ice worlds and desert worlds.
I don't really get it. In the same cantina scene, our fearless retconner George "I Don't A Flying Fuck What Fans Think" Lucas got Greedo to shoot first, but he didn't bother altering a small awkward bit of dialogue. But then again Lucas never met a piece of dialog so horrible that it didn't end up in the final cut.
Though for some it will feel as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror, and were suddenly silenced, I think the Extended Universe is dead in the water. No way Abrams is going to be constrained by what amounts to maybe a small handful of passable SF novels and an overwhelming amount of utter crap.
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You forgot to mention the part where production and sale of neonicitonoids is a huge business, and the pesticide industry is attacking entomologists who are studying the effects of this class of pesticides on bees and other pollinating insects with as much fervor as the fossil fuel industry attacks climatologists.
This is a basic tenet of the Church of the Invisible Hand. There's no problem that can't be solved by destroying nature and replacing it dollar-generating industries.
Red herrings? Really, aren't climatologists part of a scheme to destroy our economy? Sure, the bumblebees may be mindless servants, but still, they're flagrant dying out is clearly intended to make carbon-emitting industries, who, as we all know, cannot possibly have any effect of climate at all, makes them collaborators. We should immediately defund climate research, because all it does is come up with evil Commie lies.
English is not an agglutinative language, it is a language, that many languages in many different families that can use agglutination in word creation. You're deliberately confusing two separate, though related concepts, to try not to look like a fucking idiot.
Bumblebees are clearly Communist Ecoterrorists out to destroy our fine, God-fearing Capitalist agricultural industry. We should immediately start executing those evil climatologists. God and the Invisible Hand would never permit massive CO2 emissions to effect humans, and anyone that says so should be taken out and beaten to death.
Ah yes, the Organic Mental Cores.
Great novel too.
On Ship's Pandora, Raja Flattery's you!
We never were the dominant species. I'd say E. coli, or possibly some underground species of Archae are the dominant life on Earth.
In Soviet Russia, rats' brains you!
It was identified as a "standard" because Redmond gamed the system through its "business partners".
Has Microsoft even fully implemented it yet?
Of what, that you come on a day old thread and amuse yourself by mocking other people?
Like I said, you are the one that appears easily amused.
As are you, apparently.
That may actually be the funniest thing I've read in several months! Bravo, sir, bravo.
I'd like to hear how the BRIC currency is going to wipe out the USD and take over the world.
You don't hear that particular canard anymore.
Because they paid Lucas the equivalent of the GDP of some small countries. They're going to milk this baby for every penny, and they know those of us of that special generation from about 43 to 55 will pay to see whatever crap they stick a Star Wars logo on. Yes, I admit it, I'm that pathetic.
But Lucas put multiple theme worlds in each film. Episde IV had two, Episode V had 3, Episode VI had two. I'm trying to remember the prequels, I think Episode I had three, Episode II had three, and I can't even remember how how many Episode III had.
A good, a Star Trek-Star Wars mashup. I like the scene where Riker and Han get in a fight over a scantily clad Troi, as Jabba's band plays Born To Be Wild. Admiral Kirk finally wins the day by forcing Jabba's protocol droid into a logic loop that causes its head to explode, bringing down Jabba's palace.
Great, so we end up with Darth Binks.
NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!
Oh god. The whole romance angle in the second prequel was a masterstroke of hackneyed, butchered, gawdawful and outright flat dialog. The first time around I was just too overawed by the awfulness to know what was hitting me, but the second watching was where the full extent of Lucas's incapability of writing decent dialogue.
Even better was Padme's death scene in the final prequel:
Every time I watch them, I come up with another reason to loathe them. Mind you, it's been about five years since the last viewing of any Star Wars film, so I'll probably have forgotten half the reasons the prequels stunk so very very badly.
I remember clearly watching The Phantom Menace and realizing the extent of the suckage when C3PO turns out to be Darth Vader's droid. I was still reeling from the midichlorians nonsense, and then that. Of course, by the time pod-racer video game advertisement had taken up most of the second act, I realized that George Lucas wasn't just a greedy bastard, but well and truly had no fucking idea how to make an at least enjoyable film anymore. Two more prequels and the last Indiana Jones movie convinced me that Lucas was done even as an action-adventure director (the latter demonstrated that he had lost even the basic concept of pacing).
Make more theme worlds, because apparently the universe is populated by jungle worlds, metal worlds, forest worlds, magma worlds, ice worlds and desert worlds.
Unfortunately, he will be constrained by the Prequels.
I don't really get it. In the same cantina scene, our fearless retconner George "I Don't A Flying Fuck What Fans Think" Lucas got Greedo to shoot first, but he didn't bother altering a small awkward bit of dialogue. But then again Lucas never met a piece of dialog so horrible that it didn't end up in the final cut.
Meesa thinking Han movie going to be mooie mooie good! Gonna have meesah and Han fighting all the bad guys!
The only question is where they'll fit the singing animals in.
Though for some it will feel as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror, and were suddenly silenced, I think the Extended Universe is dead in the water. No way Abrams is going to be constrained by what amounts to maybe a small handful of passable SF novels and an overwhelming amount of utter crap.