Growing weed is easy. Growing good weed is pretty involved.
As far as tobacco, my understanding is that the difficulty is not in growing it (provided you’re in an appropriate zone,) but in the processing of it. It has to be hung up and cured without getting moldy, for one thing.
Don’t be dense. “Should” in this usage has nothing to do with “deserve.” Poster meant that citizens of any continent where a disease has been almost entirely eradicated shouldn’t get that disease, much as you shouldn’t be attacked by a crocodile in the Himalayas.
if they had wanted a Star Trek pilot to be made, they could have commissioned one on their own. If they're not willing to commission one, they're probably not willing to buy one either.
That’s how Hollywood works for people with no connections, not previous stars of the franchise with name recognition to the fans. They will at a minimum get a look-see and meetings with the honchos.
Bit of a false dichotomy. You can have overaching stories without turning it into a soap opera. Each episode being understandable and watchable on its own, with added layers for those who are following the show regularly.
I think Farscape did this moderately well, and Firefly pretty much nailed it. X-Files oscillated between the poles. But every time I tried to watch B5 or later season episodes of DS9 I had absolutely no idea what was going on. (Not that rehashing a bunch of exposition in every ep for the casual viewers’ sake is the answer.) Lengthy serials are fine for what they are, and easier to approach in our Netflix/Bittorrent/etc era besides, but they aren’t the only alternative to completely self-contained episodes.
Can’t they just leave Staten Island off of there altogether? That’s not part of the subway, and it only got included on the official map after it won the mayoral office for Giuliani, who is a total asshole.
Even with FTL ships, you’d have to be able to spin up the engines and get to c+ between when the laser is fired and when it reaches you. The only ship I can think of capable of that would be the Heart Of Gold, and that drive has potential side effects a lot more significant than getting hit by a laser beam.
“Sent up the river” refers to being sent to prison (originating from Sing Sing, as you point out,) but “sold down the river,” which has come to mean betrayal, referred to the slave trade on the MIssissippi. http://www.grammarphobia.com/blog/2011/11/river.html
Why has “get off my lawn” become code for cranky senior citizen? What the fuck do those kids think they’re doing tearing up my meticulously-mown property, and why is it unreasonable to object to trespassers?
I mean, if you’re just picking up a wayward frisbee or something, fine, but other than that, unless I invited you, seriously, stay off my lawn.
For voice, there is NO proper call history. NO CALL HISTORY!!?? There is a "dialer" and a "quick dial" but no way to call someone back based on history.
What? I’m looking at my call history right now and I can call or text back any number on it. Back out all the way to the main menu, it's the third entry, after Inbox and Starred. Below that you can filter just Voicemails, Texts, Placed, Received, or Missed.
1) No, competently run small businesses by definition do not ever run week-to-week.
2) He didn’t say the guy was doing “no work,” he said he wasn’t pulling his weight.
3) I didn’t “demand” anything, I called out what by all appearances was a dick move. I don’t know what the fallacy is called where only people who have done a particular thing can say anything about it, but it’s a dumb one and you stepped right in it. I’ve never risked my life to save child drowning in a pool, yet somehow I know that would be the right thing to do. I wouldn’t “demand” that anyone else do the same, but I reserve the right to judge an able-bodied person who did nothing a sociopathic monster. If that’s moral superiority, I’ll take it.
Maybe I’m wrong and he did the guy a favor by ensuring he’d be unemployed for the divorce proceedings/negotiations. Maybe you’re right and one should, for example, avoid hiring women because they might get pregnant and go on maternity leave, and why should a business risk any profit to behave with human decency?
Businesses exist for people, not the other way around.
It doesn’t read like he’s the business owner. Regardless, if the business is on such shaky ground that a single underperforming employee ^Wcontractor would drive it into bankruptcy, there is a hell of a lot more going wrong than the one divorced guy.
I had one guy who got divorced weeks after I contracted him and just lost all ability to focus. Unfortunate circumstances but life happens and you've got to roll with it. Had to let him go. Wasn't pulling his weight.
I'm sure getting fired right after a divorce helped him learn the lesson of “just rolling with it.” How come you didn't “just roll with” the guy’s temporary difficulty? Oh right, because you didn’t have to. Your livelihood didn’t depend on it so that made it okay to shit on other people. Compassion and accomodation are only for people who have no other choice.
You don’t understand the main purpose of providing entertainment (and gyms, libraries, other privileges) to prisoners. It is a tool of control — something the authorities can take away. If the prisoners are all kept in the bare-minimum conditions sufficient to technically sustain life, they will have nothing to lose, nothing to dissuade them from rioting or going insane, costing the state far more than a population of relatively docile inmates would. Furthermore, upon release they will be even less suited to rejoin society, all but guaranteeing recidivism. If you’ve already survived however long you spent in a hellhole, it’s not much of a deterrent to risk having to do it again when your other option is sleeping under an overpass and begging for alms because you’re far too damaged to get a straight job.
No, I don’t have facts and evidence to support any assumption about the development of artificial intelligence in a fictional distant alien galaxy. That’s why I posited a hypothetical question instead of making an assumption.
What is the functional difference between an emotion and a simulated emotion anyway? If the robot feels sad, then it is sad. You might as well dismiss human emotions as mere illusory products of chemical processes in the brain.
What if the only way to achieve the artificial intelligence necessary for them to be useful in their intended role is through processes which mimic biological development? What if having emotions and the ability to suffer are integral to an android whose main task (as a protocol droid) is to facilitate communication between natural biological entities?
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Seriously? Movies and TV shows get produced on budget on time??? You could have fooled me...
http://articles.latimes.com/1995-07-29/entertainment/ca-29112_1_films-waterworld-schedule
Parent specifically references Waterworld as a production that went over budget and schedule.
Why don’t they buy their own armored cars? You only need to be licensed and bonded to carry other people’s money or do bank-to-bank transfers.
Growing weed is easy. Growing good weed is pretty involved.
As far as tobacco, my understanding is that the difficulty is not in growing it (provided you’re in an appropriate zone,) but in the processing of it. It has to be hung up and cured without getting moldy, for one thing.
“Cultural artifact” has a specific meaning: A remnant of something created by a culture.
Hm, what if he’s on to something?
ALL THESE WORLDS ARE YOURS, SAVE FOR THE ONE THAT’S RELATIVELY EASY TO GET TO
Don’t be dense. “Should” in this usage has nothing to do with “deserve.” Poster meant that citizens of any continent where a disease has been almost entirely eradicated shouldn’t get that disease, much as you shouldn’t be attacked by a crocodile in the Himalayas.
if they had wanted a Star Trek pilot to be made, they could have commissioned one on their own. If they're not willing to commission one, they're probably not willing to buy one either.
That’s how Hollywood works for people with no connections, not previous stars of the franchise with name recognition to the fans. They will at a minimum get a look-see and meetings with the honchos.
To paraphrase: “Do you ever read short stories? Then go back to People Magazine and leave those of us reading Infinite Jest alone.”
Bit of a false dichotomy. You can have overaching stories without turning it into a soap opera. Each episode being understandable and watchable on its own, with added layers for those who are following the show regularly.
I think Farscape did this moderately well, and Firefly pretty much nailed it. X-Files oscillated between the poles. But every time I tried to watch B5 or later season episodes of DS9 I had absolutely no idea what was going on. (Not that rehashing a bunch of exposition in every ep for the casual viewers’ sake is the answer.) Lengthy serials are fine for what they are, and easier to approach in our Netflix/Bittorrent/etc era besides, but they aren’t the only alternative to completely self-contained episodes.
Can’t they just leave Staten Island off of there altogether? That’s not part of the subway, and it only got included on the official map after it won the mayoral office for Giuliani, who is a total asshole.
Even with FTL ships, you’d have to be able to spin up the engines and get to c+ between when the laser is fired and when it reaches you. The only ship I can think of capable of that would be the Heart Of Gold, and that drive has potential side effects a lot more significant than getting hit by a laser beam.
I Thought He Was With You
“Sent up the river” refers to being sent to prison (originating from Sing Sing, as you point out,) but “sold down the river,” which has come to mean betrayal, referred to the slave trade on the MIssissippi. http://www.grammarphobia.com/blog/2011/11/river.html
I thought this story was going to be about SoCal Lyft cars overheating due to those giant mustaches blocking the airflow to the radiators.
Scan a giant tortoise or a bowhead whale and you may well see one.
Why has “get off my lawn” become code for cranky senior citizen? What the fuck do those kids think they’re doing tearing up my meticulously-mown property, and why is it unreasonable to object to trespassers?
I mean, if you’re just picking up a wayward frisbee or something, fine, but other than that, unless I invited you, seriously, stay off my lawn.
For voice, there is NO proper call history. NO CALL HISTORY!!?? There is a "dialer" and a "quick dial" but no way to call someone back based on history.
What? I’m looking at my call history right now and I can call or text back any number on it. Back out all the way to the main menu, it's the third entry, after Inbox and Starred. Below that you can filter just Voicemails, Texts, Placed, Received, or Missed.
1) No, competently run small businesses by definition do not ever run week-to-week.
2) He didn’t say the guy was doing “no work,” he said he wasn’t pulling his weight.
3) I didn’t “demand” anything, I called out what by all appearances was a dick move. I don’t know what the fallacy is called where only people who have done a particular thing can say anything about it, but it’s a dumb one and you stepped right in it. I’ve never risked my life to save child drowning in a pool, yet somehow I know that would be the right thing to do. I wouldn’t “demand” that anyone else do the same, but I reserve the right to judge an able-bodied person who did nothing a sociopathic monster. If that’s moral superiority, I’ll take it.
Maybe I’m wrong and he did the guy a favor by ensuring he’d be unemployed for the divorce proceedings/negotiations. Maybe you’re right and one should, for example, avoid hiring women because they might get pregnant and go on maternity leave, and why should a business risk any profit to behave with human decency?
Businesses exist for people, not the other way around.
It doesn’t read like he’s the business owner. Regardless, if the business is on such shaky ground that a single underperforming employee ^Wcontractor would drive it into bankruptcy, there is a hell of a lot more going wrong than the one divorced guy.
I had one guy who got divorced weeks after I contracted him and just lost all ability to focus. Unfortunate circumstances but life happens and you've got to roll with it. Had to let him go. Wasn't pulling his weight.
I'm sure getting fired right after a divorce helped him learn the lesson of “just rolling with it.” How come you didn't “just roll with” the guy’s temporary difficulty? Oh right, because you didn’t have to. Your livelihood didn’t depend on it so that made it okay to shit on other people. Compassion and accomodation are only for people who have no other choice.
You don’t understand the main purpose of providing entertainment (and gyms, libraries, other privileges) to prisoners. It is a tool of control — something the authorities can take away. If the prisoners are all kept in the bare-minimum conditions sufficient to technically sustain life, they will have nothing to lose, nothing to dissuade them from rioting or going insane, costing the state far more than a population of relatively docile inmates would. Furthermore, upon release they will be even less suited to rejoin society, all but guaranteeing recidivism. If you’ve already survived however long you spent in a hellhole, it’s not much of a deterrent to risk having to do it again when your other option is sleeping under an overpass and begging for alms because you’re far too damaged to get a straight job.
No, I don’t have facts and evidence to support any assumption about the development of artificial intelligence in a fictional distant alien galaxy. That’s why I posited a hypothetical question instead of making an assumption.
What is the functional difference between an emotion and a simulated emotion anyway? If the robot feels sad, then it is sad. You might as well dismiss human emotions as mere illusory products of chemical processes in the brain.
What if the only way to achieve the artificial intelligence necessary for them to be useful in their intended role is through processes which mimic biological development? What if having emotions and the ability to suffer are integral to an android whose main task (as a protocol droid) is to facilitate communication between natural biological entities?
They pasted his face onto a younger guy’s body in Salvation, some other Austrian bodybuilder.
Why does Java need its own tzdata instead of using what the OS provides?
Cue cases are too long for carry-on anyway.