Since Tony Blair's election, the UK has firmly and clearly been headed straight for a new Dark Ages. This is just another sign of the impending apocalypse.
The fat, retarded, drunken, violent UK youth of today will have no need of telescopes in the future -- other than to spy on each other, of course.
If you are a scientist, if you have a brain, make plans to leave the UK -- it's your only hope.
I hope Galileo is celebrated with his right arm raised and his middle finger extended, in the time honored way. I'm sure if he were alive that's what he would want.
We've yet to see any artist make big bucks without, at some point, the benefit of the record company marketing machine.
Yes. This is still the glaring hole in the plan. It's true for indie filmmakers too -- and actually, any individual creative enterprise on the web, blogs even.
Marketing needs to break free from the dinosaurs. I'm not sure that anyone in advertising or marketing has really, truly understood the Internet yet. They all seem to be thinking in old media models. It's curious that some young enterprising marketing person has figured that out, it's not as though there's any technological barrier to that happening. Even basing marketing around the theatrical agent model would work. Someone just has to be the pioneer. A very rich someone, ultimately.
Seriously though, doesn't this happen every day? Why is this more newsworthy than the the usual background level of social network hacking attempts and ActiveX suckiness?
I'd like to agree with you. Unfortunately, I am occasionally forced to use IE through some lousy developers use of ActiveX or mediaplayer drm.
The day that web developers all reach a "standard" where they refuse to implement these things will be a joyful day for humanity. They all have the power to do that now, but it seems that some developers are not at the same standard as the rest.
... the best protection against botnets is never install Windows? I've really never understood why some law firm hasn't had a go at a class action against MS. Botnets, viruses, id thieveng trojans etc etc etc, ultimately they do bear a share of the responsibility, and thus surely the costs?
And if the solution to any problem is installing something Symantec, I'll live with the problem thank you.
as if I'm supposed to sympathize with the humans? They're more vicious than the cylons..
I wouldn't try to dig too deeply into BSG. While some aspects of the story and characterization has been well written, the majority of it hasn't been well thought out. There are MASSIVE plot holes. There are many aspects of human behavior shown that are untruthful, unbelievable, or badly written. It looks very much that for the miniseries, and maybe the first season, they took the original series stories and tried to superimpose elements of truth. However, for some reason they stopped halfway.
Now, by the third season, because there's not enough care gone into the details and the story arcs to drive the show forward, it's dying a death. I enjoyed the mini series, the 1st season and some of the 2nd, but I'm done with it. I'm not watching it anymore. It's a shame because great acting, great camerawork and vfx -- but the writing is NOT of that same standard.
Can people here please stop proffering wikipedia links as evidence? Truth is rare on wikipedia, the articles there prove nothing -- other than how easy people will believe in information that basically looks correct, even when it's rarely no more than a pile of badly-written lies. It saddens me, but doesn't surprise me that joe sixpack uses wikipedia as evidence, given the fact that Wikipedia tries hard to disguise it's bias and shortcomings and appear as legitiate. But people here really should know better. Especially considering how many times (only some of) the flaws in wikipedia have been exposed here.
It's complete garbage. "Insignificance" isn't defined, and it's a subjective term. Wooden toys extinct? This blogger must be working class. Ashtrays extinct in a few years? Sure in some countries maybe -- in most? Not a snowball's chance in Hell. He's never visited Europe evidently.
These are trivial examples. The whole Timeline is so laughably retarded that it's unbelievable that anyone would post it here other than to promote their lame blog, and to sell their books -- which are no doubt written by the same intellectual dwarf.
Yes it certainly is, and it appears to have been created by "some guy". If he has any academic qualifications and credibility it's not immediately obvious. I have the sense that the blog hosting the Timeline is written by someone who looks like he has all the credibility of an NLP snake-oil positive motivation seminar leader.
I strongly suspect sock-puppetry is somewhere at the root of this "article".
... hopefully the spin-off features original characters, concepts and comedy. Or does this spin-off involve a robot, and one-eye girl, a lobster guy and a elderly professor?
How do large companies get away with selling then delivering crap? I always have to make my stuff work before I get paid.
Pareto Optimality. It's what corporations live for. They have stats that prove around 80% of their customers are happy. Never mind that no-one in the company cares about the other 20%, nor is making any effort to increase quality into that margin. No-one in a corporation is trying to be perfect, they are all trying to be good enough to meet the 80% service level target. If you are a perfectionist in a corporation you'll be a very unhappy person.
Hence, anything from a corporation is only 80% worthwhile. This virtual wall probably does stop 80% of Mexicans. It is thus probably sold as a success to Boeing Shareholders. The fact that is obviously pointless, ineffective, and a ridiculous waste of money is irrelevant.
I'm against censorship, but some people lack any perspective whatsoever...
I understand what you're saying and why you're saying it, but I don't agree with you. Censorship is always wrong. As one who has lived in Berlin for a long time and seen a great deal of Neo-Nazi activity, I know it is terrifying, and it is getting much worse. However, the censorship is part of the problem, it's encouraging it and not preventing it.
You add censorship then you add mystery, glamor and excitement of breaking a taboo. You also drive the Nazis underground and make them hard to find.
I tell you now the Nazis will be back in power in Germany within the next 20 years max, and it is the censorship laws that are making it easy to happen. It's is a dumb, dumb, dumb policy that is well-intentioned but is having the opposite effect.
You do know that the G8 consists of: Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, the United Kingdom and the United States.
That is true for the G8, but the G8 is an artificial economic group. It's really the G7 plus Russia. Russia isn't anywhere near the economies of the rest, nor is it anything like the 8th largest economy. They just had lots of weapons and wanted in during the time of the Cold War.
Thus the EU does dominate the G7, it's more than half. Although the US has a bigger economy that the rest put together. It's all a question of perspective really.
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In the UK we call that small a number of cameras "freedom".
Since Tony Blair's election, the UK has firmly and clearly been headed straight for a new Dark Ages. This is just another sign of the impending apocalypse.
The fat, retarded, drunken, violent UK youth of today will have no need of telescopes in the future -- other than to spy on each other, of course.
If you are a scientist, if you have a brain, make plans to leave the UK -- it's your only hope.
I hope Galileo is celebrated with his right arm raised and his middle finger extended, in the time honored way. I'm sure if he were alive that's what he would want.
Marketing needs to break free from the dinosaurs. I'm not sure that anyone in advertising or marketing has really, truly understood the Internet yet. They all seem to be thinking in old media models. It's curious that some young enterprising marketing person has figured that out, it's not as though there's any technological barrier to that happening. Even basing marketing around the theatrical agent model would work. Someone just has to be the pioneer. A very rich someone, ultimately.
... Facebook et al has unsophisticated users?
... ActiveX is an insecure technology?
I'm shocked I tell you!!!
Seriously though, doesn't this happen every day? Why is this more newsworthy than the the usual background level of social network hacking attempts and ActiveX suckiness?
I'd like to agree with you. Unfortunately, I am occasionally forced to use IE through some lousy developers use of ActiveX or mediaplayer drm.
The day that web developers all reach a "standard" where they refuse to implement these things will be a joyful day for humanity. They all have the power to do that now, but it seems that some developers are not at the same standard as the rest.
You can add patronizing to that list.
If students are so dumb that they need to be told basic smarts by a blog (fake or otherwise) then they should not be in University.
... actually there is high quality content Youtube -- the copyrighted stuff.
... the best protection against botnets is never install Windows? I've really never understood why some law firm hasn't had a go at a class action against MS. Botnets, viruses, id thieveng trojans etc etc etc, ultimately they do bear a share of the responsibility, and thus surely the costs?
And if the solution to any problem is installing something Symantec, I'll live with the problem thank you.
Now, by the third season, because there's not enough care gone into the details and the story arcs to drive the show forward, it's dying a death. I enjoyed the mini series, the 1st season and some of the 2nd, but I'm done with it. I'm not watching it anymore. It's a shame because great acting, great camerawork and vfx -- but the writing is NOT of that same standard.
...or indeed the lack of any forward direction or momentum in their scriptwriting.
Or, most importantly, the whole jimi hendrix / jumping the shark moment.
Just because it's sci-fi doesn't make it good.
Can people here please stop proffering wikipedia links as evidence? Truth is rare on wikipedia, the articles there prove nothing -- other than how easy people will believe in information that basically looks correct, even when it's rarely no more than a pile of badly-written lies. It saddens me, but doesn't surprise me that joe sixpack uses wikipedia as evidence, given the fact that Wikipedia tries hard to disguise it's bias and shortcomings and appear as legitiate. But people here really should know better. Especially considering how many times (only some of) the flaws in wikipedia have been exposed here.
It's complete garbage. "Insignificance" isn't defined, and it's a subjective term. Wooden toys extinct? This blogger must be working class. Ashtrays extinct in a few years? Sure in some countries maybe -- in most? Not a snowball's chance in Hell. He's never visited Europe evidently.
These are trivial examples. The whole Timeline is so laughably retarded that it's unbelievable that anyone would post it here other than to promote their lame blog, and to sell their books -- which are no doubt written by the same intellectual dwarf.
I strongly suspect sock-puppetry is somewhere at the root of this "article".
... hopefully the spin-off features original characters, concepts and comedy. Or does this spin-off involve a robot, and one-eye girl, a lobster guy and a elderly professor?
Hence, anything from a corporation is only 80% worthwhile. This virtual wall probably does stop 80% of Mexicans. It is thus probably sold as a success to Boeing Shareholders. The fact that is obviously pointless, ineffective, and a ridiculous waste of money is irrelevant.
You add censorship then you add mystery, glamor and excitement of breaking a taboo. You also drive the Nazis underground and make them hard to find.
I tell you now the Nazis will be back in power in Germany within the next 20 years max, and it is the censorship laws that are making it easy to happen. It's is a dumb, dumb, dumb policy that is well-intentioned but is having the opposite effect.
Thus the EU does dominate the G7, it's more than half. Although the US has a bigger economy that the rest put together. It's all a question of perspective really.