The real question is, with this thing looking so little like a normal gun, who might be sneaking on the aircraft (with screeners not even recognizing it as a gun)?
If BSG had been on HBO, it probably wouldn't have made it past the second season. With rare exceptions like The Sopranos, HBO has a long history of canceling great shows at about the 2nd season mark. They're still a lot better than Fox (where a typical show is lucky if it even gets to air more than 4-7 episodes before getting the axe), but not the kind of place where BSG would have gotten 5 seasons.
There is an episode of Galactica 1980 (the one where the Galactica superkids become a Bad-New-Bears-esque little league team) that makes the Star Wars Christmas Special look like Citizen Kane.
Most people don't know about it because it was never officially called "Galactica 1980" until recently. When it originally aired, it was just called "Battlestar Galactica" as if the series had returned from cancellation. Fans of the REAL series didn't buy the ruse though, and it was put out of its misery pretty quickly.
Both have something already in common. They're both being sold to their networks as cheaper-to-produce versions of their predecessors. SciFi is probably thinking "If we set it on a planet and forgo all the FX, it will attract the same old Galactica audience but be a lot cheaper to make." Unfortunately for them, that is exactly what NBC execs told themselves about Galactica 1980. The audience won't follow over if the material is crap, Galactica name or not.
As a racist myself, I really resent the way the term is tossed around in this modern day politically-correct world. When I was younger, you had to EARN your racist moniker. I had to actually burn crosses on people's lawns, threaten them if they voted, burn down their barn if they got all uppity, etc. That was fucking WORK, man. The KKK doesn't just let anyone in, you have to go to the meetings and buy robes and shit (not to mention raise money with those damned candy sales once a year). Nowadays, any old innocent yahoo who tells a joke or makes a movie or TV show that shows blacks/latinos/etc. in anything less than the most positive light gets labeled a racist. That's such bullshit!
It's just damned unfair to call someone a "racist" for portraying Africans or Haitians as poor, largely uneducated, slum dwellers--as opposed to opulent, college-educated, people living in vast mansions on piles of money and dignity. It's damned unfair to *ME*! I worked hard at becoming a racist and now I have to share the same footing with some lazy dipshit whose only racism was a crime of *omission* as opposed to my actual *commission*?!?!?
Now, if you'll excuse me I have to go spraypaint "Nigger, get out!" on someone's front door. That's the kind of thing those of us who actually *EARNED IT* have to do to be called a racist.
Once again the guise of stopping child porn and terrorists will be used as cover to do the bidding of big business and lobbyists for the music/movie/software studios who want to block torrent sites. I doubt the U.S. and E.U. will be far behind Australia's lead, sadly.
A lot of early morning hallucinations probably also come when a person is still asleep, but doesn't realize it. I saw a documentary on sleep research not long ago where they showed that during certain phases of a sleep cycle, a person could actually be asleep and still think they're awake. People in these phases would often interpret lingering sleep paralysis as some weight on their chest, not realizing it was just the remnants of them dreaming.
In the same way a human brain seems wired to see recognizable patterns in random material, I think a part of us is also hard-wired to seek familiarity and anticipate familiar sights by "seeing" them before they actually appear. That's why it's so shocking (or even traumatizing) when you see the same sight your whole life, only to have it disappear or radically change one day. I remember one story from a New Yorker after 9-11 who said he occasionally still spotted the towers out of the corner of his eye because he was so used to them being there.
Most humans find comfort in the familiar. And when it's not there, it can be very hard for us to accept--and take even more time for the brain to adjust to that absence.
They should do this for every federal/state/city agency that's getting hammered by cuts now. What's wrong with a prisoner being held at the "OfficeMax Federal Penitentiary"? And do you really care if the state trooper that pulls you over has a few logos on his car or not?
I think it's less a "good news for Apple" story as it is a "bad news for MS" story. Apple gained a slight bit of market share. But MS is in a much more vulnerable position. MS's entire business model is pretty much PREDICATED on the proposition that they pretty much own the OS market (and has been for a long time now). Anything that threatens that share, even just a little, threatens the very underpinnings of the company.
God, it was hard getting through that paragraph with no sarcasm.
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the scum that is an Australian politician.
Wow, I think scum might actually object to that metaphor. Pond scum, for example, has WAY more human compassion than any politician.
All modern commercial blocking software also blocks by IP address.
But what of the pro-bulimia sites?!?!? I really NEED those, dammit!
My feelings exactly. The logical response to trolls taking over your village's bridges isn't "Don't worry, we can still swim."
I hate trolls.
What's to stop the Australian filter vendors from adding those cheap VPN tunnel sites to their blacklists?
The real question is, with this thing looking so little like a normal gun, who might be sneaking on the aircraft (with screeners not even recognizing it as a gun)?
What's wrong with produc--this comment brought to you by Toyota, Moving Forward!--t placement?
I just pray it's even half as good as the film adaptation of The Phantom.
He was separating out the false believers from the flock.
If BSG had been on HBO, it probably wouldn't have made it past the second season. With rare exceptions like The Sopranos, HBO has a long history of canceling great shows at about the 2nd season mark. They're still a lot better than Fox (where a typical show is lucky if it even gets to air more than 4-7 episodes before getting the axe), but not the kind of place where BSG would have gotten 5 seasons.
What they really need is a cute, precocious kid to offer funny quips and one-liners. Everyone loves a cute kid.
There is an episode of Galactica 1980 (the one where the Galactica superkids become a Bad-New-Bears-esque little league team) that makes the Star Wars Christmas Special look like Citizen Kane.
Most people don't know about it because it was never officially called "Galactica 1980" until recently. When it originally aired, it was just called "Battlestar Galactica" as if the series had returned from cancellation. Fans of the REAL series didn't buy the ruse though, and it was put out of its misery pretty quickly.
Makes sense. Joan Collins' body is mostly made up of synthetics at this point. Once she gets the new hip, it'll be pretty much a done deal.
Both have something already in common. They're both being sold to their networks as cheaper-to-produce versions of their predecessors. SciFi is probably thinking "If we set it on a planet and forgo all the FX, it will attract the same old Galactica audience but be a lot cheaper to make." Unfortunately for them, that is exactly what NBC execs told themselves about Galactica 1980. The audience won't follow over if the material is crap, Galactica name or not.
As a racist myself, I really resent the way the term is tossed around in this modern day politically-correct world. When I was younger, you had to EARN your racist moniker. I had to actually burn crosses on people's lawns, threaten them if they voted, burn down their barn if they got all uppity, etc. That was fucking WORK, man. The KKK doesn't just let anyone in, you have to go to the meetings and buy robes and shit (not to mention raise money with those damned candy sales once a year). Nowadays, any old innocent yahoo who tells a joke or makes a movie or TV show that shows blacks/latinos/etc. in anything less than the most positive light gets labeled a racist. That's such bullshit!
It's just damned unfair to call someone a "racist" for portraying Africans or Haitians as poor, largely uneducated, slum dwellers--as opposed to opulent, college-educated, people living in vast mansions on piles of money and dignity. It's damned unfair to *ME*! I worked hard at becoming a racist and now I have to share the same footing with some lazy dipshit whose only racism was a crime of *omission* as opposed to my actual *commission*?!?!?
Now, if you'll excuse me I have to go spraypaint "Nigger, get out!" on someone's front door. That's the kind of thing those of us who actually *EARNED IT* have to do to be called a racist.
Once again the guise of stopping child porn and terrorists will be used as cover to do the bidding of big business and lobbyists for the music/movie/software studios who want to block torrent sites. I doubt the U.S. and E.U. will be far behind Australia's lead, sadly.
Okay, who let Joan Baez on slashdot?
Obama can't be an alien. I heard it on good authority that he's a Muslim.
Wait...OMG....Muslims are ALIENS!!!!
As long as we have Bruce Willis, I'm not worried.
That would be one cat you would be HONORED to have pee on your rug.
A lot of early morning hallucinations probably also come when a person is still asleep, but doesn't realize it. I saw a documentary on sleep research not long ago where they showed that during certain phases of a sleep cycle, a person could actually be asleep and still think they're awake. People in these phases would often interpret lingering sleep paralysis as some weight on their chest, not realizing it was just the remnants of them dreaming.
In the same way a human brain seems wired to see recognizable patterns in random material, I think a part of us is also hard-wired to seek familiarity and anticipate familiar sights by "seeing" them before they actually appear. That's why it's so shocking (or even traumatizing) when you see the same sight your whole life, only to have it disappear or radically change one day. I remember one story from a New Yorker after 9-11 who said he occasionally still spotted the towers out of the corner of his eye because he was so used to them being there.
Most humans find comfort in the familiar. And when it's not there, it can be very hard for us to accept--and take even more time for the brain to adjust to that absence.
They should do this for every federal/state/city agency that's getting hammered by cuts now. What's wrong with a prisoner being held at the "OfficeMax Federal Penitentiary"? And do you really care if the state trooper that pulls you over has a few logos on his car or not?
I think it's less a "good news for Apple" story as it is a "bad news for MS" story. Apple gained a slight bit of market share. But MS is in a much more vulnerable position. MS's entire business model is pretty much PREDICATED on the proposition that they pretty much own the OS market (and has been for a long time now). Anything that threatens that share, even just a little, threatens the very underpinnings of the company.
God, it was hard getting through that paragraph with no sarcasm.