Its construction might have had less to do with Reagan and more to do with the fact that a single moment of restraint two years earlier had stopped a nuclear war. This is exactly the sort of almost-disastrous incident that this system was designed to address.
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It was also his right to sell his property to Marvel--which is exactly what he did. And his heirs have no more right to take it back now that I do to go demand back my old car that I sold to someone else years ago.
At the risk of being cited by the political correctness cops for pointing out an embarrassing reality, the "Jews control Hollywood" thing is actually true. It's (ironically) actually a result of anti-semitism in the early film industry, which was then centered in New Jersey. The jews wanted into the industry, the New Jersey film industry said no, so they packed up and went to Hollywood to form their own studios. Every major film studio in Hollywood (incl. Warner Bros., Paramount, Universal, MGM, etc.), with the sole exception of Disney, was founded by jews. And, keeping to their largely insular community, studio high level production staff has been dominated almost exclusively by jews ever since. If you look at a list of the major Hollywood producers even today, you'll find very few gentiles. It's a fact that few in Hollywood like to acknowledge, but everyone who isn't blind knows about it.
It's the same way with the gem trade, which jews have largely dominated for centuries (due again to their insular community and the fact that a common language gave them the ability to move gems on an international scale).
"A reality where Congress is owned an unshakable responsibility and loyalty to the people whom they represent. Where the people can ask Congress to intervene when companies serve themselves at the public's expense."
I think the only place where that has ever been presented as a reality is in high school civics classes. Learning how things REALLY work is one of the great disillusionments of growing into adulthood. If you ever were to achieve that in reality, you would have to find an unlikely way to elect non-politicians to politics (and keep them from changing). And that comes with its own downside (because only religious or social fanatics would agree to enter politics with no political agenda, and they're even MORE dangerous than politicians).
I don't even have a problem paying by the story if the charge is 1 or 2 cents. But as clueless as most newspapers and old media are, I suspect they'll do something monumentally stupid like trying to charge big subscription fees ("All you can eat for $100 a year!")or trying to charge $1 or more per story. They won't get the lesson that iTunes taught to the old media in music (that the old $15-a-CD model is dead but that people will still pay a REASONABLE amount to buy a song). They need a shift in thinking.
It's nice to have a chair that seems sincerely interested in consumer interests for once. But you know the telcoms will fight it, and they basically own Congress--so I don't hold out much hope. The FCC can be easily overridden by Congress at any time.
The problem is that some of these nutballs either have nuclear weapons, or will soon enough. It's bad enough that they lob conventional missiles back and forth at each other. What's REALLY scary is when Israel/Iran or Pakistan/India decide to start nuking each other over their competing sky gods, and we all have to deal with the fallout (literally and figuratively).
Yeah no kidding, I want to know what office this guy works in were everyone has not only heard of Brain Eno, but considers him a god too. I used to be a music geek and even I barely recognized the name (and only because he produced some U2 albums).
I heard the black one was showing pictures of his new boat to one of the other guys on the mission and saying "When we come back from this one, me and the wife are retiring to the islands."
Yes but, as I said, we learned that stuff years ago. We knew the answers to those questions before the ISS even went up (thanks to the marathon lifespan of Mir).
Low orbit missions are hardly cutting edge. And there is very little the space shuttle or ISS can teach us about going to the moon or Mars (that we haven't already learned many years ago anyway). If anything, NASA needs desperately to break out of a low orbit mentality and get back into the Apollo engineering mindset (which has long since been forgotten). ISS and the shuttle are just distractions--largely pointless distractions.
Yeah, but for every positive example of freedom, one can easily point out another example of a law or custom that is repressive. Every country has their ridiculous shit laws. Sure, the drinking age is 21 in the U.S. and drug laws are too harsh (in most states), but at least we don't outright outlaw videogames and movies that aren't passed through a ratings board (the way the UK, Germany, and Australia--among others--have been know to). Even a game or movie that is not submitted for a rating here can still be sold (though most mainstream retailers wouldn't carry it).
Oh like the guy ever even used it. Even in 1986 he was about a thousand years old. He probably spent his whole life typing on typewriters and scribbling on legal pads. The odds of him even being able to turn the damn thing on were probably about the same odds that he could write a decent script in 1986.
And even the few that *DO* live into adulthood usually just end up out on the wastelands, a white line nightmare where men kill one another for a tank of gas or a bite of food.
"Voicing support" doesn't mean jack squat. Put your money where your mouth is or sit down. For WAY too many years now, Congress and various presidential administrations have "voiced supprt for NASA and made grand promises about building moon bases, going to Mars, etc. But they've turned around and quietly kept the same anemic budget that's been in place since Nixon axed their budget after Apollo. And, for all the grand promises, all NASA has actually delivered were a few probes, a low orbit space station, and a "reusable" spacecraft that can only go into low orbit and has to be rebuilt after each mission. Politicians have coasted on bullshit promises for decades now, and NASA has been all too willing to go along with it.
This committee report is the first time that someone has so publicly pointed out what should have been obvious for a long time now--that NASA isn't going ANYWHERE on the current budget. So either give them the budget they need or own up to the fact that the era of manned space exploration is over. Either way, stop wasting resources on money sinks like the ISS and a pointless shuttle program. They're little more than giant PR programs.
It's kind of scary to even contemplate something with more broad appeal than WoW. It's sort of like a drug dealer announcing that Crack wasn't addictive enough, so he's working on a new "Super Crack."
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Is there anyone these days who ISN'T releasing a mobile OS?
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Its construction might have had less to do with Reagan and more to do with the fact that a single moment of restraint two years earlier had stopped a nuclear war. This is exactly the sort of almost-disastrous incident that this system was designed to address.
Star Raiders came out in 1979.
It was also his right to sell his property to Marvel--which is exactly what he did. And his heirs have no more right to take it back now that I do to go demand back my old car that I sold to someone else years ago.
At the risk of being cited by the political correctness cops for pointing out an embarrassing reality, the "Jews control Hollywood" thing is actually true. It's (ironically) actually a result of anti-semitism in the early film industry, which was then centered in New Jersey. The jews wanted into the industry, the New Jersey film industry said no, so they packed up and went to Hollywood to form their own studios. Every major film studio in Hollywood (incl. Warner Bros., Paramount, Universal, MGM, etc.), with the sole exception of Disney, was founded by jews. And, keeping to their largely insular community, studio high level production staff has been dominated almost exclusively by jews ever since. If you look at a list of the major Hollywood producers even today, you'll find very few gentiles. It's a fact that few in Hollywood like to acknowledge, but everyone who isn't blind knows about it.
It's the same way with the gem trade, which jews have largely dominated for centuries (due again to their insular community and the fact that a common language gave them the ability to move gems on an international scale).
"A reality where Congress is owned an unshakable responsibility and loyalty to the people whom they represent.
Where the people can ask Congress to intervene when companies serve themselves at the public's expense."
I think the only place where that has ever been presented as a reality is in high school civics classes. Learning how things REALLY work is one of the great disillusionments of growing into adulthood. If you ever were to achieve that in reality, you would have to find an unlikely way to elect non-politicians to politics (and keep them from changing). And that comes with its own downside (because only religious or social fanatics would agree to enter politics with no political agenda, and they're even MORE dangerous than politicians).
I don't even have a problem paying by the story if the charge is 1 or 2 cents. But as clueless as most newspapers and old media are, I suspect they'll do something monumentally stupid like trying to charge big subscription fees ("All you can eat for $100 a year!")or trying to charge $1 or more per story. They won't get the lesson that iTunes taught to the old media in music (that the old $15-a-CD model is dead but that people will still pay a REASONABLE amount to buy a song). They need a shift in thinking.
Tangerine Dream is a lot more well-known than Brian Eno. They did a ton of well-known movie soundtracks in the 80's.
There are different kinds of music geek. Not everyone has the same tastes, you know.
Great. Thanks for the pick-me-up, Debbie Downer!
It's nice to have a chair that seems sincerely interested in consumer interests for once. But you know the telcoms will fight it, and they basically own Congress--so I don't hold out much hope. The FCC can be easily overridden by Congress at any time.
It was brought there because no one else wanted it.
The problem is that some of these nutballs either have nuclear weapons, or will soon enough. It's bad enough that they lob conventional missiles back and forth at each other. What's REALLY scary is when Israel/Iran or Pakistan/India decide to start nuking each other over their competing sky gods, and we all have to deal with the fallout (literally and figuratively).
Yeah no kidding, I want to know what office this guy works in were everyone has not only heard of Brain Eno, but considers him a god too. I used to be a music geek and even I barely recognized the name (and only because he produced some U2 albums).
I heard the black one was showing pictures of his new boat to one of the other guys on the mission and saying "When we come back from this one, me and the wife are retiring to the islands."
Yes but, as I said, we learned that stuff years ago. We knew the answers to those questions before the ISS even went up (thanks to the marathon lifespan of Mir).
Low orbit missions are hardly cutting edge. And there is very little the space shuttle or ISS can teach us about going to the moon or Mars (that we haven't already learned many years ago anyway). If anything, NASA needs desperately to break out of a low orbit mentality and get back into the Apollo engineering mindset (which has long since been forgotten). ISS and the shuttle are just distractions--largely pointless distractions.
Yeah, but for every positive example of freedom, one can easily point out another example of a law or custom that is repressive. Every country has their ridiculous shit laws. Sure, the drinking age is 21 in the U.S. and drug laws are too harsh (in most states), but at least we don't outright outlaw videogames and movies that aren't passed through a ratings board (the way the UK, Germany, and Australia--among others--have been know to). Even a game or movie that is not submitted for a rating here can still be sold (though most mainstream retailers wouldn't carry it).
Oh like the guy ever even used it. Even in 1986 he was about a thousand years old. He probably spent his whole life typing on typewriters and scribbling on legal pads. The odds of him even being able to turn the damn thing on were probably about the same odds that he could write a decent script in 1986.
And even the few that *DO* live into adulthood usually just end up out on the wastelands, a white line nightmare where men kill one another for a tank of gas or a bite of food.
"Voicing support" doesn't mean jack squat. Put your money where your mouth is or sit down. For WAY too many years now, Congress and various presidential administrations have "voiced supprt for NASA and made grand promises about building moon bases, going to Mars, etc. But they've turned around and quietly kept the same anemic budget that's been in place since Nixon axed their budget after Apollo. And, for all the grand promises, all NASA has actually delivered were a few probes, a low orbit space station, and a "reusable" spacecraft that can only go into low orbit and has to be rebuilt after each mission. Politicians have coasted on bullshit promises for decades now, and NASA has been all too willing to go along with it.
This committee report is the first time that someone has so publicly pointed out what should have been obvious for a long time now--that NASA isn't going ANYWHERE on the current budget. So either give them the budget they need or own up to the fact that the era of manned space exploration is over. Either way, stop wasting resources on money sinks like the ISS and a pointless shuttle program. They're little more than giant PR programs.
It could be worse. Imagine if Sony Online Entertainment bought Blizzard out.
It's kind of scary to even contemplate something with more broad appeal than WoW. It's sort of like a drug dealer announcing that Crack wasn't addictive enough, so he's working on a new "Super Crack."