I wonder if:-) means anything in cultures of semitic language speakers (Arabic speaking countries, Israel, etc.) where the written language is written right to left instead of left to right?
When I was in college, EVERYTHING was done by SSN. SSN's were frequently public posted (with names associated) on everything from tests to dorm sign-in sheets. It was amazing that there wasn't more identity theft back then (this was when the internet was just hitting). No way would I toss around my SSN today like I did then. I even made my workplace stop using full SSN's on their training sign-ins. SSN's have been used WAY too much in the past on stuff where there wasn't even really any need for them.
The funny thing is that Benedict was not only in a promotional documentary for the new series (meeting at a coffee shop with the new Starbuck, Katee Sackhoff, and offering her advice on playing Starbuck), but he was also slated to play a big role in the new series at one point (supposedly he was going to play some incarnation of the Cylon god). So when or why he suddenly became so bitter about the whole thing is unclear, but it doesn't seem to be for the reasons he later claimed.
And if anyone had any reason to be bitter, it was Hatch. He had written a sequel to the original BSG and even done a teaser trailer on his own dime. And, unlike Benedict, he never really had any other series after the original BSG (like Benedict had with The A-Team). Yet he managed to make his peace with the new series and turned in the best performance of his career on the show, no less.
What bothered me most about the original was the way the Colonials just seemed to brush off the almost complete destruction of the human race and everyone they loved as if it were nothing. One minute their whole world has been destroyed, the next they're hanging out in an outer space disco making light-hearted jokes. After about the first hour of the series, no one seems to give much of a shit that the world has just ended. I bought that as a kid, when I didn't know better. But looking back at it now as an adult, especially after the comparatively minor events of 9-11 and the reverberations that caused, it's impossible to believe those characters are human beings or living in any sort of reality.
A hundred-year-old Mormon and veteran of the cheeseball TV era objecting to a modern show with complex characters who actually have S-E-X and real character arcs? I'm shocked, I tell you--just SHOCKED!
Actually, I really like the Caprica pilot. I too expected it to be just another attempt to keep beating a dead horse, but they really took it in a much different direction. It's a surprisingly powerful piece (not as good as the BSG miniseries, but deserving *way* better than a straight-to-dvd release). I don't know if they would be able to sustain it over a whole series, but it's a great pilot.
Bryan Singer is a fool to take this on. He wasn't a fool to be attached to it before the new series, but he is now. The most he can possibly hope for is a decent action flick. Nothing in his career suggests he has the capacity to top or even equal the brilliant first season of the new BSG series (aside from The Usual Suspects, which was really more about the script and acting than the direction). The whole thing just looks like a big cash-in on Glen Larson's part (since he owns the movie rights but not the new series).
In wake of the groundbreaking new series, there was absolutely no reason to make this movie.
To those who say that digital property is meaningless and nothing but bytes in a computer, I ask this:
What is the money in your wallet but paper? What is the money in your bank account but bytes? What is the real world property you own but words on a deed?
It all comes down to how much you and others value it. There is no objective value to it.
No one really learns anything at the primary/secondary level anyway (aside from basic stuff like how to read, basic math. etc.). If you really want to learn about any given subject, you have to go to college--period. Schools are too burdened down with issues of conformity, discipline, teaching to too broad a spectrum of students, etc. In public schools at least, you can be a really bright kid--but how are you going to learn anything when you're sitting right next to several moronic hillbillies who disrupt class and suck up all the teacher's time. And that assumes that your teacher even CARES or KNOWS anything about the subject they're teaching. Keep in mind that most teachers' knowledge of the subject they're teaching is limited to maybe 16-32 hours of course work taken years or decades earlier when they were undergrads (and almost no course work in the field they're teaching if they're teaching below the secondary level). Most teachers who go on to advanced degrees or who make any effort to learn anything new after their undergrad degree pursue EDUCATION coursework, not coursework in the subject they're teaching.
So you've got a science class filled primarily with dullards and average kids (many of whom have discipline problems and learning disabilities), taught by a teacher who hasn't learned a thing about science since she was an undergrad in 1960 (and has forgotten much of what she DID learn), using a textbook written by a committee (which is bland and careful to avoid any subject which might offend ANYONE). How on EARTH would intelligent kids learn anything in that environment, unless they struck out and learned it on their own (in which case they don't even need the school anyway--except maybe for the library)?
any significant processor upgrade is going to mean a new mobo too. Unless you're upgrading your processor every few months, it's almost always stupid to keep a mobo that's probably just as obsolete as your old processor (if the new processor will even work with it at all) just to save the relatively trivial cost of a new mobo.
This wasn't your typical "employed by the semester/year" TA/GA position. It was an open-ended position on the senior staff of a research facility. The only thing that let the university get away with it was that I was a grad student (they listed the post-docs with the same positions/salaries as full time employees).
Universities themselves engage in all these shenanigans all the time for their own student workers. I worked several years as a high level graduate assistant and TA at a major university (making about $35,000 a year). They paid me without taking out FISA, which I knew about. What I *didn't* know about was the fact that they didn't even pay unemployment insurance on anyone listed as a student worker. So when my area closed and I lost my job, I found out that I wasn't even eligible for unemployment. The university claimed that my job wasn't a job at all--but part of my education, as if it were just another class (sure seemed like a real job to me).
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Apples and oranges. Japan doesn't have Lindsey Lohan as a citizen.
It's funny. I was just about to bring up Keyser Söze before I saw your sig.
I wonder if :-) means anything in cultures of semitic language speakers (Arabic speaking countries, Israel, etc.) where the written language is written right to left instead of left to right?
My first thought was to just model Paris Hilton's brain. Then I realized the obvious flaw in that idea.
When I was in college, EVERYTHING was done by SSN. SSN's were frequently public posted (with names associated) on everything from tests to dorm sign-in sheets. It was amazing that there wasn't more identity theft back then (this was when the internet was just hitting). No way would I toss around my SSN today like I did then. I even made my workplace stop using full SSN's on their training sign-ins. SSN's have been used WAY too much in the past on stuff where there wasn't even really any need for them.
...and oh such luxurious feathered hair.
...and as you catch your reflection in your ridiculously oversized sword, you see that you look like a hermaphrodite with really silly hair.
The funny thing is that Benedict was not only in a promotional documentary for the new series (meeting at a coffee shop with the new Starbuck, Katee Sackhoff, and offering her advice on playing Starbuck), but he was also slated to play a big role in the new series at one point (supposedly he was going to play some incarnation of the Cylon god). So when or why he suddenly became so bitter about the whole thing is unclear, but it doesn't seem to be for the reasons he later claimed.
And if anyone had any reason to be bitter, it was Hatch. He had written a sequel to the original BSG and even done a teaser trailer on his own dime. And, unlike Benedict, he never really had any other series after the original BSG (like Benedict had with The A-Team). Yet he managed to make his peace with the new series and turned in the best performance of his career on the show, no less.
What bothered me most about the original was the way the Colonials just seemed to brush off the almost complete destruction of the human race and everyone they loved as if it were nothing. One minute their whole world has been destroyed, the next they're hanging out in an outer space disco making light-hearted jokes. After about the first hour of the series, no one seems to give much of a shit that the world has just ended. I bought that as a kid, when I didn't know better. But looking back at it now as an adult, especially after the comparatively minor events of 9-11 and the reverberations that caused, it's impossible to believe those characters are human beings or living in any sort of reality.
A hundred-year-old Mormon and veteran of the cheeseball TV era objecting to a modern show with complex characters who actually have S-E-X and real character arcs? I'm shocked, I tell you--just SHOCKED!
Actually, I really like the Caprica pilot. I too expected it to be just another attempt to keep beating a dead horse, but they really took it in a much different direction. It's a surprisingly powerful piece (not as good as the BSG miniseries, but deserving *way* better than a straight-to-dvd release). I don't know if they would be able to sustain it over a whole series, but it's a great pilot.
It was all part of Lucas's plan to make Solo look like even MORE of an idiot than he did in the originals.
Bryan Singer is a fool to take this on. He wasn't a fool to be attached to it before the new series, but he is now. The most he can possibly hope for is a decent action flick. Nothing in his career suggests he has the capacity to top or even equal the brilliant first season of the new BSG series (aside from The Usual Suspects, which was really more about the script and acting than the direction). The whole thing just looks like a big cash-in on Glen Larson's part (since he owns the movie rights but not the new series).
In wake of the groundbreaking new series, there was absolutely no reason to make this movie.
Seeing how vastly superior the new series was compared to the original, I would rather the original be stripped of the name.
I'll tell you what all the fuss is about, it's about the secret
#AT%$#NO CARRIER
To those who say that digital property is meaningless and nothing but bytes in a computer, I ask this:
What is the money in your wallet but paper? What is the money in your bank account but bytes? What is the real world property you own but words on a deed?
It all comes down to how much you and others value it. There is no objective value to it.
No one really learns anything at the primary/secondary level anyway (aside from basic stuff like how to read, basic math. etc.). If you really want to learn about any given subject, you have to go to college--period. Schools are too burdened down with issues of conformity, discipline, teaching to too broad a spectrum of students, etc. In public schools at least, you can be a really bright kid--but how are you going to learn anything when you're sitting right next to several moronic hillbillies who disrupt class and suck up all the teacher's time. And that assumes that your teacher even CARES or KNOWS anything about the subject they're teaching. Keep in mind that most teachers' knowledge of the subject they're teaching is limited to maybe 16-32 hours of course work taken years or decades earlier when they were undergrads (and almost no course work in the field they're teaching if they're teaching below the secondary level). Most teachers who go on to advanced degrees or who make any effort to learn anything new after their undergrad degree pursue EDUCATION coursework, not coursework in the subject they're teaching.
So you've got a science class filled primarily with dullards and average kids (many of whom have discipline problems and learning disabilities), taught by a teacher who hasn't learned a thing about science since she was an undergrad in 1960 (and has forgotten much of what she DID learn), using a textbook written by a committee (which is bland and careful to avoid any subject which might offend ANYONE). How on EARTH would intelligent kids learn anything in that environment, unless they struck out and learned it on their own (in which case they don't even need the school anyway--except maybe for the library)?
any significant processor upgrade is going to mean a new mobo too. Unless you're upgrading your processor every few months, it's almost always stupid to keep a mobo that's probably just as obsolete as your old processor (if the new processor will even work with it at all) just to save the relatively trivial cost of a new mobo.
Now the children's minds will become corrupted by images of porn....and democracy.
This wasn't your typical "employed by the semester/year" TA/GA position. It was an open-ended position on the senior staff of a research facility. The only thing that let the university get away with it was that I was a grad student (they listed the post-docs with the same positions/salaries as full time employees).
According to the Ninja Party, they are indeed extremists.
Are you joking, or is that even POSSIBLE?
Universities themselves engage in all these shenanigans all the time for their own student workers. I worked several years as a high level graduate assistant and TA at a major university (making about $35,000 a year). They paid me without taking out FISA, which I knew about. What I *didn't* know about was the fact that they didn't even pay unemployment insurance on anyone listed as a student worker. So when my area closed and I lost my job, I found out that I wasn't even eligible for unemployment. The university claimed that my job wasn't a job at all--but part of my education, as if it were just another class (sure seemed like a real job to me).
Sorry, WRONG. Thanks for playing, though.
I'm just worried that that freaky Pre chick knows where I live now.