I know they are there. I have had some startlingly unpleasant interactions with a handful of them. I don't know enough about them yet. Probably someone else should handle that side of the problem.
Well I'll tell you what, Bruce. Just as soon as "someone else" gets to work on fixing women's attitude problems and female dominated professions, I'll get right to work on fixing men's attitude problems and male dominated professions. Or is it that your version of "equality" is that only men have problems, only male-dominated fields need fixing, and that only men should bear the responsibility of fixing them?
Haven't you heard? According to SJW's, all men are misogynists. Therefore all fields dominated by men are, by definition, full of misogynists.
Of course, according to them, there is also no such thing is misandry. So fields dominated by women don't have any problems at all. Nursing, elementary education, etc. are all sunshine and rainbows for men in the field.
The problem that I had with it is that it really wasn't fun (maybe for kids, but not for me as an adult). I wanted to wait for it to come to blu-ray, and the only reason I went t see it in a theater was because I knew I wouldn't be able to avoid spoilers for that long and because I wanted to give it the benefit of its best presentation with an enthusiastic audience. But I at least expected a fun experience.
I knew that early reviews are worthless these days. The big studios are masters of buying reviews now, and so brainwashing everyone with hype that even honest reviewers get caught up in it. So I certainly didn't expect it to live up to the reviews, and adjusted my expectations accordingly.
But what I didn't expect it to be was so...boring. The plot was just a retread of the original trilogy (seriously, yet another Death Star, REALLY?). The characters were either paper-thin or annoying. The whole thing left me wondering about all the scenes that must have been left on the cutting room floor so they could focus on the big action set pieces and moving the plot along. It really does feel like a 4+ hour movie that's been cut down to 2 hours, with a plot that moves WAY too fast.
This constant need to keep the plot moving at a break-neck pace left a bunch of characters that are hard to really care about, relate to, or even understand. Finn's character transformations are so ridiculously abrupt that he comes off as mentally ill. Poe and Rey are so paper-thin that they could have been CGI-generated and I wouldn't have even noticed. And Kylo Ren is such a whiny emo that it was hard to even take him seriously, much less find him at all intimidating.
And all the fan service was really more sad than anything. Does no one else find it painful to watch a 73-year-old Han Solo who doesn't seem to even realize that 32 years have passed? Why does no one else in the movie notice that this cocky young pirate is now almost an octogenarian (and still playing the character as the exact same cocky young pirate)? His time on screen was at once painful to watch and unintentionally funny. And the requisite cameos from everyone else just felt forced and compulsory. I would have rather have only seen C3PO and R2D2, and left the original cast in the original trilogy where they belonged.
All-in-all, it wasn't a TERRIBLE movie (like The Phantom Menace). It was just boring and hollow. I wasn't going into it expecting a thoughtful movie (this is Star Wars after all, and produced by Disney no less). But I did expect to have fun, and to care about at least one of the characters. But at the end I walked out of the theater feeling like I hadn't really watched anything. It was like eating cotton candy without even the sugar taste.
Tell that to all the SJW's who treat the appointment of every female CEO as if it were the second coming of Jeebus. They act like a vagina is some sort of magic wand that can only do good things. And way too many Silicon Valley liberals are buying into the hype.
Every time I hear these stories, I think of the speech from Wargames where General Barringer says he sleeps well at night knowing humans are controlling the missiles in the silos, not computers. Little did the writers of that film know how right they were.
This. I love the delightful irony of him blasting NASCAR for being wasteful, considering how much fuel the average rocket launch burns. Not to mention the fact that at least NASCAR doesn't add to the national debt that our grandkids will be stuck with.
And, let's face it, a NASCAR race is no more useless to science than another trip to the ISS. And just imagine the resources that Mr. Nye wants to burn just to send a man to Mars so he can stand there and say "Yep, it's a rust desert alright."
I've heard quite a bit about that actually. Sad and tragic accidents to be sure. But not exactly the same as people willfully murdering civilians en masse in the streets of a major European capital city.
There is no "that money"; we are running a huge deficit, and this is just placing a burden on future generations.
Don't worry, eventually we won't be able to make the minimum payments on the national credit card, and then the party will be over. Then the big corps will move on to some other country to rape and the U.S will turn into a 3rd-world country.
The party won't last forever, people. Eventually the credit will run out and the bills will come due. Let's see how long our great military power lasts when our noble soldiers and the contractors who supply them start getting paid in dollars that are worthless.
Oh, give me a break. They didn't quit, they got cancelled. If they had any integrity they would have quit back when Discovery first started forcing them to do all those promo episodes, instead of continuing for several more seasons.
It wasn't just the firing. They also almost exclusively started doing episodes that were nothing more than shameless promos for movies and TV shows. They had done some of these before in earlier seasons (presumably at the insistence of their Discovery masters). But now that's ALL they do. Just fucking sad to see a show I once loved resorting to unabashedly whoring themselves like that. It's like seeing the cute, sweet girl next door who everyone loves become a crack whore.
Used to love that show. Then they fired Grant, Kari, and Tory and started doing nothing but shameless promo episodes for movies and TV shows. It's sad to see a once-great show having sunk so low. Now if we can just find someone with a time machine to go back to 1999 and kill Matt Groening, all will be right in the universe.
I just want a manual override for that 1% of the time when the software is NOT the better driver (like when it glitches, which it ABSOLUTELY SOMETIMES WILL).
Maybe you missed his first sentence, which was wrong. Whether or not there are bail-bondsmen in the UK is irrelevant, since the original commenter said nothing about them, merely saying that the people who posted his bail were losers in the deal (which was absolutely correct). The GP was being a snide dick, and now you're being one too. And double dicking is something only admirable in porn.
Well, at least I will be able to put them on the magazine rack in my church now. But it's really going to lose its allure with 12-year-olds going through their dad's closet.
You don't have to be faster than the bear, just faster than the other human being. The cars' don't need to be perfect - they just need to beat a human mind that is NOT an expert. If the car by itself can do better than a human without the AI, than it is sufficiently good to replace the current model that is human without the AI.
I'm not keen on dying in a car accident as the result of a software glitch--because no manual override was included, because ON AVERAGE the software does much better than humans. Autonomous AI driving will be great 99% of the time, I'm sure. But in that 1%, I sure as shit want a manual override available. If I die in a videogame because the software glitched, I get at least get a respawn. Real life is somewhat less forgiving.
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Asshollery has a strong positive correlation to the Y chromosome and testosterone.
It's statements like this that make me wish there were a much stronger word in the English language than "bullshit."
I know they are there. I have had some startlingly unpleasant interactions with a handful of them. I don't know enough about them yet. Probably someone else should handle that side of the problem.
Well I'll tell you what, Bruce. Just as soon as "someone else" gets to work on fixing women's attitude problems and female dominated professions, I'll get right to work on fixing men's attitude problems and male dominated professions. Or is it that your version of "equality" is that only men have problems, only male-dominated fields need fixing, and that only men should bear the responsibility of fixing them?
Haven't you heard? According to SJW's, all men are misogynists. Therefore all fields dominated by men are, by definition, full of misogynists.
Of course, according to them, there is also no such thing is misandry. So fields dominated by women don't have any problems at all. Nursing, elementary education, etc. are all sunshine and rainbows for men in the field.
That's the SJW version of "equality."
It was just fun...
The problem that I had with it is that it really wasn't fun (maybe for kids, but not for me as an adult). I wanted to wait for it to come to blu-ray, and the only reason I went t see it in a theater was because I knew I wouldn't be able to avoid spoilers for that long and because I wanted to give it the benefit of its best presentation with an enthusiastic audience. But I at least expected a fun experience.
I knew that early reviews are worthless these days. The big studios are masters of buying reviews now, and so brainwashing everyone with hype that even honest reviewers get caught up in it. So I certainly didn't expect it to live up to the reviews, and adjusted my expectations accordingly.
But what I didn't expect it to be was so...boring. The plot was just a retread of the original trilogy (seriously, yet another Death Star, REALLY?). The characters were either paper-thin or annoying. The whole thing left me wondering about all the scenes that must have been left on the cutting room floor so they could focus on the big action set pieces and moving the plot along. It really does feel like a 4+ hour movie that's been cut down to 2 hours, with a plot that moves WAY too fast.
This constant need to keep the plot moving at a break-neck pace left a bunch of characters that are hard to really care about, relate to, or even understand. Finn's character transformations are so ridiculously abrupt that he comes off as mentally ill. Poe and Rey are so paper-thin that they could have been CGI-generated and I wouldn't have even noticed. And Kylo Ren is such a whiny emo that it was hard to even take him seriously, much less find him at all intimidating.
And all the fan service was really more sad than anything. Does no one else find it painful to watch a 73-year-old Han Solo who doesn't seem to even realize that 32 years have passed? Why does no one else in the movie notice that this cocky young pirate is now almost an octogenarian (and still playing the character as the exact same cocky young pirate)? His time on screen was at once painful to watch and unintentionally funny. And the requisite cameos from everyone else just felt forced and compulsory. I would have rather have only seen C3PO and R2D2, and left the original cast in the original trilogy where they belonged.
All-in-all, it wasn't a TERRIBLE movie (like The Phantom Menace). It was just boring and hollow. I wasn't going into it expecting a thoughtful movie (this is Star Wars after all, and produced by Disney no less). But I did expect to have fun, and to care about at least one of the characters. But at the end I walked out of the theater feeling like I hadn't really watched anything. It was like eating cotton candy without even the sugar taste.
Let's not put the female part into it.
Tell that to all the SJW's who treat the appointment of every female CEO as if it were the second coming of Jeebus. They act like a vagina is some sort of magic wand that can only do good things. And way too many Silicon Valley liberals are buying into the hype.
Yeah, it took Ellen Pao at least 4 or 5 jobs to show how incompetent she really was.
Every time I hear these stories, I think of the speech from Wargames where General Barringer says he sleeps well at night knowing humans are controlling the missiles in the silos, not computers. Little did the writers of that film know how right they were.
This. I love the delightful irony of him blasting NASCAR for being wasteful, considering how much fuel the average rocket launch burns. Not to mention the fact that at least NASCAR doesn't add to the national debt that our grandkids will be stuck with.
And, let's face it, a NASCAR race is no more useless to science than another trip to the ISS. And just imagine the resources that Mr. Nye wants to burn just to send a man to Mars so he can stand there and say "Yep, it's a rust desert alright."
Why are they attacking France? What do they hope to achieve?
Terror
That's why they call them "terrorists", Kent,
I've heard quite a bit about that actually. Sad and tragic accidents to be sure. But not exactly the same as people willfully murdering civilians en masse in the streets of a major European capital city.
Still need to work on their Godzilla preparation, though
Real science is never "settled".
There is no "that money"; we are running a huge deficit, and this is just placing a burden on future generations.
Don't worry, eventually we won't be able to make the minimum payments on the national credit card, and then the party will be over. Then the big corps will move on to some other country to rape and the U.S will turn into a 3rd-world country.
The party won't last forever, people. Eventually the credit will run out and the bills will come due. Let's see how long our great military power lasts when our noble soldiers and the contractors who supply them start getting paid in dollars that are worthless.
Oh, give me a break. They didn't quit, they got cancelled. If they had any integrity they would have quit back when Discovery first started forcing them to do all those promo episodes, instead of continuing for several more seasons.
Some sacrifices have to be made for the greater good.
It wasn't just the firing. They also almost exclusively started doing episodes that were nothing more than shameless promos for movies and TV shows. They had done some of these before in earlier seasons (presumably at the insistence of their Discovery masters). But now that's ALL they do. Just fucking sad to see a show I once loved resorting to unabashedly whoring themselves like that. It's like seeing the cute, sweet girl next door who everyone loves become a crack whore.
Be glad you missed the last few seasons.
Used to love that show. Then they fired Grant, Kari, and Tory and started doing nothing but shameless promo episodes for movies and TV shows. It's sad to see a once-great show having sunk so low. Now if we can just find someone with a time machine to go back to 1999 and kill Matt Groening, all will be right in the universe.
I just want a manual override for that 1% of the time when the software is NOT the better driver (like when it glitches, which it ABSOLUTELY SOMETIMES WILL).
I'm fine with self-driving cars, as long as there is a manual override.
Maybe you missed his first sentence, which was wrong. Whether or not there are bail-bondsmen in the UK is irrelevant, since the original commenter said nothing about them, merely saying that the people who posted his bail were losers in the deal (which was absolutely correct). The GP was being a snide dick, and now you're being one too. And double dicking is something only admirable in porn.
Well, at least I will be able to put them on the magazine rack in my church now. But it's really going to lose its allure with 12-year-olds going through their dad's closet.
You don't have to be faster than the bear, just faster than the other human being. The cars' don't need to be perfect - they just need to beat a human mind that is NOT an expert. If the car by itself can do better than a human without the AI, than it is sufficiently good to replace the current model that is human without the AI.
I'm not keen on dying in a car accident as the result of a software glitch--because no manual override was included, because ON AVERAGE the software does much better than humans. Autonomous AI driving will be great 99% of the time, I'm sure. But in that 1%, I sure as shit want a manual override available. If I die in a videogame because the software glitched, I get at least get a respawn. Real life is somewhat less forgiving.
Wrong:
http://www.theguardian.com/med...
Political Correctness teaches us that women CEO's are always great. So we should hire her, right? I mean, what could possibly go wrong?