So storm troopers are actually going to bleed now? Most people want a dark script of evil overtaking the good, not necessary violence, with the good prevailing. I'm not looking to see just basic violence, any action film offers that with a lame script. Hopefully they went back to what make Empire such a success. It was the darkest of all SW movies to date. If they are marketing "blood bath" it seems they are not getting it yet again.
I hope this advertisement disguised as a story isn't what we can expect from/. in the future. They could have at least posted what would look like a real story and then let people comment on it. By shoving it in our faces with images, they are ruining the/. culture of the comment system. They could have at least advertised in a more subtle way like I do in my signature.
On a visit to India's southern technology hub of Bangalore, Premier Wen Jiabao said the two nations should put aside their historic rivalries for the venture and welcome a new "Asian century."
Stern, who signed a five-year deal with the other satellite company, Sirius, worth an estimated $500 million, left no doubt about his allegiance at the event. "Once you start listening to (satellite), it's like crack," Stern said to cheers. "You will be addicted."
XM has to do something to stay competitive with Sirius to stay on the map.
XM Satellite Radio has added more than a half million subscribers in the last 3 months and shares of XM have quintupled over the last 2 years. Questions discussed in the npr broadcast: Can XM continue its meteoric growth? When will satellite radio become profitable? Is there room for both XM and rival Sirius?
Under the 1996 rewrite of the nation's basic communications law, the FCC is required to streamline its regulations and phase out any that aren't conducive to competition. The FCC has argued that any regulation will stop broadband deployment. This is just what the biggest cable-telecom companies want it to say.
However, if I was a cable company and I personally laid thousands of miles of cable lines, I'd be royally ticked off if the government forced me to offer the lines as free grass to any Joe Schmoe with an internet hookup.
Most of the cable companies now are large conglomerates who did not lay the actual cable, but bought out those original companies who did.
I live in a region that Comcast monopolizes. They've been doing all they can to kill RCN who has tried to offer competitive rates and have succeeded by keeping them 30 miles away from here. It's just too much power to give a company if they supply you with phone, cable, internet, news media. If I wanted that I would just have moved to one of the last remaining communist countries where I could be given all of that by one source, the government.
You're right on with this. I really enjoyed the SciFi version. Good acting, great set, great costumes AND actually following the original story for a change. Considering they named it, Frank Herbert's Dune, it would have been crazy not to just follow the story. Too bad William Hurt died so early on. I haven't seen Children of Dune yet, so I can't comment on the sequel.
I'm with you. I hardly ever get spam. I just don't ever enter a real email address when it asks for one in forms. You know who you are people, who sign up for every contest. This is where you are essentially signing up for spam. I just put a fake address in when I have to fill out a form. I have two addresses, the real one that is just for friends and family and another that I use in cases where I have to use a real address on the web. But I rarely ever use that account.
I have seen every episode and don't recall one time they have resolved the English problem. GateWorld is a good site. (I vaguely recall them making a joke about the English problem once. Does anyone remember what episode that was?) Even the show Farscape had a great idea with injecting the translator microbe. Not to mention hordes of novels with interesting ideas. Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy had the Babel fish worm. I just cannot understand why Stargate cannot come up with any idea of how to explain them understanding Alien speak. I think they realize it is to late to explain it now. Otherwise, a terrific show, SG1, that hasn't lost any humor over the years either.
Trek must work on having great storylines, new ideas, more Romulans, things it's been lacking. I'd like to see Star Trek back to the level it should be someday. I think it will be back because it's how we envision the future to be.
The American Enterprise has an article on why the Kyoto deserved to die.
Reasons:
1. Kyoto "Would have exempted China and other developing nations entirely (despite the fact that their growing emissions would have swamped the reductions from the developed nations)."
2. "Long before President Bush acted, this approach had been rejected by the U.S. Senate in a vote of 95-0, which is why President Clinton never submitted the treaty for ratification."
The American Enterprise has an article on why the Kyoto deserved to die.
Reasons:
1. Kyoto "Would have exempted China and other developing nations entirely (despite the fact that their growing emissions would have swamped the reductions from the developed nations)."
2. "Long before President Bush acted, this approach had been rejected by the U.S. Senate in a vote of 95-0, which is why President Clinton never submitted the treaty for ratification."
Donations to great causes would be more worthwhile than to executives to bring back a poorly written show. Besides, I don't trust my money with someone who just puts up a website to collect money. Who knows how much of it would go towards getting Trek back. The show was mismanaged. The stories not intruiguing enough for the smart audience that SciFi audience is. They tried to dumb down the plots and failed.
Might I suggest SciFi Friday... SG1... Atlantis... Battlestar Galactica
I agree. I watch SciFi Friday, although I wish it was on a different night. SG1 and Atlantis are great shows and I have followed every episode. At one time I even bought Showtime just to get SG1 and have been glad SciFi bought it so I could cancel Showtime.
My biggest gripe: Every Alien they meet speaks English. At least with Trek you had the Universal Translator. With SG1 and Atlantis they completely ignore this. After many episodes it really bothers me.
Star Trek has suffered from poor writing since after TNG. Even Deep Space Nine still had some good plots that made you interested. Another problem with Enterprise is that they have bores like Trip and Malcom. I loved B5. Loved it. I am sure JMS would make sure that the writing wasn't lame. How? Because with little money to work with he concentrated on the storylines. I think they should stop spending so much money on the props, sets, makeup, etc., and start spending it on the writing. I also loved the original Trek which became classic because of the writing again, certainly not the props.
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So storm troopers are actually going to bleed now? Most people want a dark script of evil overtaking the good, not necessary violence, with the good prevailing. I'm not looking to see just basic violence, any action film offers that with a lame script. Hopefully they went back to what make Empire such a success. It was the darkest of all SW movies to date. If they are marketing "blood bath" it seems they are not getting it yet again.
I hope this advertisement disguised as a story isn't what we can expect from /. in the future. They could have at least posted what would look like a real story and then let people comment on it. By shoving it in our faces with images, they are ruining the /. culture of the comment system. They could have at least advertised in a more subtle way like I do in my signature.
On a visit to India's southern technology hub of Bangalore, Premier Wen Jiabao said the two nations should put aside their historic rivalries for the venture and welcome a new "Asian century."
I for one will welcome our new Asian masters.
Stern, who signed a five-year deal with the other satellite company, Sirius, worth an estimated $500 million, left no doubt about his allegiance at the event. "Once you start listening to (satellite), it's like crack," Stern said to cheers. "You will be addicted."
XM has to do something to stay competitive with Sirius to stay on the map.
Listen to the XM CEO on NPR.org
XM Satellite Radio has added more than a half million subscribers in the last 3 months and shares of XM have quintupled over the last 2 years. Questions discussed in the npr broadcast: Can XM continue its meteoric growth? When will satellite radio become profitable? Is there room for both XM and rival Sirius?
I agree. They need to stop worrying about acronyms and start doing something about all of these overused and misplaced quotation marks.
Under the 1996 rewrite of the nation's basic communications law, the FCC is required to streamline its regulations and phase out any that aren't conducive to competition. The FCC has argued that any regulation will stop broadband deployment. This is just what the biggest cable-telecom companies want it to say.
However, if I was a cable company and I personally laid thousands of miles of cable lines, I'd be royally ticked off if the government forced me to offer the lines as free grass to any Joe Schmoe with an internet hookup.
Most of the cable companies now are large conglomerates who did not lay the actual cable, but bought out those original companies who did.
So that's what they meant by Crouching Tiger and why the Dragon was hiding?
I live in a region that Comcast monopolizes. They've been doing all they can to kill RCN who has tried to offer competitive rates and have succeeded by keeping them 30 miles away from here. It's just too much power to give a company if they supply you with phone, cable, internet, news media. If I wanted that I would just have moved to one of the last remaining communist countries where I could be given all of that by one source, the government.
You're right on with this. I really enjoyed the SciFi version. Good acting, great set, great costumes AND actually following the original story for a change. Considering they named it, Frank Herbert's Dune, it would have been crazy not to just follow the story. Too bad William Hurt died so early on. I haven't seen Children of Dune yet, so I can't comment on the sequel.
I'm with you. I hardly ever get spam. I just don't ever enter a real email address when it asks for one in forms. You know who you are people, who sign up for every contest. This is where you are essentially signing up for spam. I just put a fake address in when I have to fill out a form. I have two addresses, the real one that is just for friends and family and another that I use in cases where I have to use a real address on the web. But I rarely ever use that account.
I have seen every episode and don't recall one time they have resolved the English problem. GateWorld is a good site. (I vaguely recall them making a joke about the English problem once. Does anyone remember what episode that was?) Even the show Farscape had a great idea with injecting the translator microbe. Not to mention hordes of novels with interesting ideas. Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy had the Babel fish worm. I just cannot understand why Stargate cannot come up with any idea of how to explain them understanding Alien speak. I think they realize it is to late to explain it now. Otherwise, a terrific show, SG1, that hasn't lost any humor over the years either.
Trek must work on having great storylines, new ideas, more Romulans, things it's been lacking. I'd like to see Star Trek back to the level it should be someday. I think it will be back because it's how we envision the future to be.
The American Enterprise has an article on why the Kyoto deserved to die.
Reasons:
1. Kyoto "Would have exempted China and other developing nations entirely (despite the fact that their growing emissions would have swamped the reductions from the developed nations)."
2. "Long before President Bush acted, this approach had been rejected by the U.S. Senate in a vote of 95-0, which is why President Clinton never submitted the treaty for ratification."
The American Enterprise has an article on why the Kyoto deserved to die.
Reasons:
1. Kyoto "Would have exempted China and other developing nations entirely (despite the fact that their growing emissions would have swamped the reductions from the developed nations)."
2. "Long before President Bush acted, this approach had been rejected by the U.S. Senate in a vote of 95-0, which is why President Clinton never submitted the treaty for ratification."
Donations to great causes would be more worthwhile than to executives to bring back a poorly written show. Besides, I don't trust my money with someone who just puts up a website to collect money. Who knows how much of it would go towards getting Trek back. The show was mismanaged. The stories not intruiguing enough for the smart audience that SciFi audience is. They tried to dumb down the plots and failed.
Might I suggest SciFi Friday ... SG1 ... Atlantis ... Battlestar Galactica
I agree. I watch SciFi Friday, although I wish it was on a different night. SG1 and Atlantis are great shows and I have followed every episode. At one time I even bought Showtime just to get SG1 and have been glad SciFi bought it so I could cancel Showtime.
My biggest gripe: Every Alien they meet speaks English. At least with Trek you had the Universal Translator. With SG1 and Atlantis they completely ignore this. After many episodes it really bothers me.
Star Trek has suffered from poor writing since after TNG. Even Deep Space Nine still had some good plots that made you interested. Another problem with Enterprise is that they have bores like Trip and Malcom. I loved B5. Loved it. I am sure JMS would make sure that the writing wasn't lame. How? Because with little money to work with he concentrated on the storylines. I think they should stop spending so much money on the props, sets, makeup, etc., and start spending it on the writing. I also loved the original Trek which became classic because of the writing again, certainly not the props.