All these nutters think the moon landings were faked. But it seems that not a one of them so much as adjusts their tinfoil hat when we hear about the latest accomplishment from some probe. Are all you "The shadows are in the wrong place!!" types only up for disproving the really sexy missions??!?
I've always heard the story that what really set Takai off was that Shatner convinced Nicholas Meyer to cut almost all Takai's scenes from Star Trek 2. Supposedly, there was a subplot where Sulu was taking command of his own ship, and Shatner wanted it cut. Personally, I'm not sure Takai is being fair. Meyer was pretty good about standing up to Shatner on that set (wearing him down with dozens of takes sometimes to get a decent performance out of him). This sounds more like the kind of thing Meyer might have implicated to Takai just to get him off his back, when in fact it was Meyer himself who wanted the scenes cut (and for good reason, the movie is pretty tight as is and I just can't picture some lame Sulu subplot mucking it up).
I suspect the Takai's beef started on the set of the TV series, but apparently it was ST2 that really drove it off a cliff for good.
I had a boss like that once. He thought his "openly asshole" style of management was helpful because it "encouraged competition." In reality, the only thing it encouraged was hatred. It brought us closer as a team, but only in hating him. Half the employees were stealing from him, the other half were actively plotting against him. Basically, he created an environment where retaining talent was impossible, and only the dregs who couldn't get hired anywhere else stayed behind. He thought he was being clever, but he was only costing the company all its promising talent (including me).
It's one thing to be a no-nonsense boss with high standards, it's quite another to be an obnoxious asshole who drives away all your best employees.
In your early days, there were only a few major television networks, and it was much more difficult to move back and forth between television and movies. Today, with so many cable shows, the internet, and with actors moving much more freely between movies and television, do you think young actors have it easier? Or do you think that the proliferation of reality television and the "noise" of so many channels/series has actually made things harder for scripted actors?
That whole university system is almost as crazy politically-correct as Berkley. How many times have they tried to ban fraternties and sororities because some emo pussies might get their feelings hurt if they don't get a bid? How many times have they tried to silence *any* dissent outside of the most batshit crazy Che-Guevara-t-shirt-wearing hippies screaming about oppressive capitalism? How many times have they taken liberal stances on matters that shouldn't even be a university's business (like wars, union organizing, etc.)? You're talking about a conglomeration of tens-of-thousands of smug trust-fund liberals pushing each other out of the way to tell you how anti-corporation they are--and then tweeting about it on their band-new Macs and iPads (with absolutely no sense of irony).
Christ, I think Madison was the *birthplace* of the smelly drum circle.
If I offended any Wisconsin alum with this post, my apologies. If traumatized, please have a good cry and seek out your nearest grief counselor for immediate treatment. Remember what they told you at university orientation: Not being offended is a *right*, not a privilege!
And I guess you were too lazy to click on the link?
No, I'm just not stupid enough to buy into a bunch of "social media and open source will save us!" Genration-Y horseshit. Are you really fucking batshit enough to think that politicians and parties will EVER support something that strips them of power? In your retarded world, do you think you can tweet your way to political change?
Ask all those dead Libyan rebels if Facebook pages were enough to effect change.
No, they'll just wait and see if it's even practical to manufacture large scale. If it is, they'll either swoop in and buy up all the companies/patents involved or have their government lapdogs in Congress bury it under volumes of obstructive laws and regulations (you see they DO believe in govt regulation, just as long as it effects competitors but not themselves).
Isn't it amazing that everyone knows that our government is for sale, but nobody wants to do anything about it?
The rest of us don't "do anything about it" because we've long ago realized that nothing short of a revolution will change anything (since the people who would have to vote for this are the very people who benefit the most from the old system). And since the American people are way to fat and lazy to pick up rifles like the Libyans, we've decided it's not worth bothering. Besides, even if we did have a revolution, how would you get anyone to agree on a government afterwards? You would just end up with a bunch of new factions fighting each other. Eventually, you would end up with a government that was just as corrupt (or even worse) than the old one.
"In another universe (Arthur C. Clarke's 2011), it would be on its way to Europa by now.
Clarke naively believed NASA and the U.S. government when they said that the space race WASN'T just a Cold War pissing contest. He never figured in the possibility that once the U.S. had the capability to plant the Stars and Stripes on the moon that funding would be slashed.
If I was the curmudgeonly luddite, I would be bitching about e-readers in general. It's a pretty big stretch to call someone a "luddite" for preferring a particular feature on one.
But then again, maybe you're just one of those old luddites who still thinks that calling people luddites on/. didn't become a cliche ten years ago.
The reason (I believe) is that CO2 is not the only greenhouse gas. The other ones have a dampening effect
That sounds a lot to me like cooking the data to meet your hypothesis, when real science is supposed to be done the other way around.
Scientist: If the data is such, it will bolster my hypothesis. Other Scientist: The data is not such. Scientist: My hypothesis is still valid, you just have to factor in these other things that I just came up with. Other Scientist: The data still doesn't match up Scientist: Jeez, give me a minute, let me come up with some other shit to throw in there. Other Scientist: Maybe you should consider the possibility that your hypothesis is wrong. Scientist: DENIER!!!
I must be an *ancient* fogey, because I've never even played a FF game. Something about playing a Japanese hermaphrodite who spouts poorly-translated dialogue just never seemed very appealing to me.
The corridors add to the feeling of being led on by some undefinable scheme. The static pace and nonexistent room for deviation are the characters' unescapable fate.
That's the most elaborate excuse for yet-another-fucking-on-rails-Japanese-RPG I've ever heard. You, sir, must be a stand-up philosopher.
In a similar vein, I would like to point out that all those wooden crates in my favorite FPS represent the boxed-in lives we all lead.
"Customized" in the same sense as the Apple App Store is "customized" (I.e. "Shut up and give us your money!"). Expect Amazon to take their cut of everything installed.
Am I the only one who actually *liked* the physical keyboard and buttons on the old Kindle? I don't want my greasy fingerprints all over my screen and I like the tactile feel of a physical keyboard. And the Kindle's physical keyboard was a pretty good one too.
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All these nutters think the moon landings were faked. But it seems that not a one of them so much as adjusts their tinfoil hat when we hear about the latest accomplishment from some probe. Are all you "The shadows are in the wrong place!!" types only up for disproving the really sexy missions??!?
I've always heard the story that what really set Takai off was that Shatner convinced Nicholas Meyer to cut almost all Takai's scenes from Star Trek 2. Supposedly, there was a subplot where Sulu was taking command of his own ship, and Shatner wanted it cut. Personally, I'm not sure Takai is being fair. Meyer was pretty good about standing up to Shatner on that set (wearing him down with dozens of takes sometimes to get a decent performance out of him). This sounds more like the kind of thing Meyer might have implicated to Takai just to get him off his back, when in fact it was Meyer himself who wanted the scenes cut (and for good reason, the movie is pretty tight as is and I just can't picture some lame Sulu subplot mucking it up).
I suspect the Takai's beef started on the set of the TV series, but apparently it was ST2 that really drove it off a cliff for good.
I had a boss like that once. He thought his "openly asshole" style of management was helpful because it "encouraged competition." In reality, the only thing it encouraged was hatred. It brought us closer as a team, but only in hating him. Half the employees were stealing from him, the other half were actively plotting against him. Basically, he created an environment where retaining talent was impossible, and only the dregs who couldn't get hired anywhere else stayed behind. He thought he was being clever, but he was only costing the company all its promising talent (including me).
It's one thing to be a no-nonsense boss with high standards, it's quite another to be an obnoxious asshole who drives away all your best employees.
In your early days, there were only a few major television networks, and it was much more difficult to move back and forth between television and movies. Today, with so many cable shows, the internet, and with actors moving much more freely between movies and television, do you think young actors have it easier? Or do you think that the proliferation of reality television and the "noise" of so many channels/series has actually made things harder for scripted actors?
We need to cut taxes on the job creators
That might work if the jobs they were creating were in the U.S., and not in China and India.
That whole university system is almost as crazy politically-correct as Berkley. How many times have they tried to ban fraternties and sororities because some emo pussies might get their feelings hurt if they don't get a bid? How many times have they tried to silence *any* dissent outside of the most batshit crazy Che-Guevara-t-shirt-wearing hippies screaming about oppressive capitalism? How many times have they taken liberal stances on matters that shouldn't even be a university's business (like wars, union organizing, etc.)? You're talking about a conglomeration of tens-of-thousands of smug trust-fund liberals pushing each other out of the way to tell you how anti-corporation they are--and then tweeting about it on their band-new Macs and iPads (with absolutely no sense of irony).
Christ, I think Madison was the *birthplace* of the smelly drum circle.
If I offended any Wisconsin alum with this post, my apologies. If traumatized, please have a good cry and seek out your nearest grief counselor for immediate treatment. Remember what they told you at university orientation: Not being offended is a *right*, not a privilege!
And I guess you were too lazy to click on the link?
No, I'm just not stupid enough to buy into a bunch of "social media and open source will save us!" Genration-Y horseshit. Are you really fucking batshit enough to think that politicians and parties will EVER support something that strips them of power? In your retarded world, do you think you can tweet your way to political change?
Ask all those dead Libyan rebels if Facebook pages were enough to effect change.
No, they'll just wait and see if it's even practical to manufacture large scale. If it is, they'll either swoop in and buy up all the companies/patents involved or have their government lapdogs in Congress bury it under volumes of obstructive laws and regulations (you see they DO believe in govt regulation, just as long as it effects competitors but not themselves).
Hey, it's not like we can make those LCD TV's here anymore. Walmart will stop any war.
Isn't it amazing that everyone knows that our government is for sale, but nobody wants to do anything about it?
The rest of us don't "do anything about it" because we've long ago realized that nothing short of a revolution will change anything (since the people who would have to vote for this are the very people who benefit the most from the old system). And since the American people are way to fat and lazy to pick up rifles like the Libyans, we've decided it's not worth bothering. Besides, even if we did have a revolution, how would you get anyone to agree on a government afterwards? You would just end up with a bunch of new factions fighting each other. Eventually, you would end up with a government that was just as corrupt (or even worse) than the old one.
"In another universe (Arthur C. Clarke's 2011), it would be on its way to Europa by now.
Clarke naively believed NASA and the U.S. government when they said that the space race WASN'T just a Cold War pissing contest. He never figured in the possibility that once the U.S. had the capability to plant the Stars and Stripes on the moon that funding would be slashed.
"Press Has Forgotten Five-Year-Old NASA Promise"
If I was the curmudgeonly luddite, I would be bitching about e-readers in general. It's a pretty big stretch to call someone a "luddite" for preferring a particular feature on one.
But then again, maybe you're just one of those old luddites who still thinks that calling people luddites on /. didn't become a cliche ten years ago.
Dr Pulley’s report also stated that there needs to be in excess of ten million small cells worldwide by end of 2015
They can have some of mine. I shed way more than that each year just from my skin.
The reason (I believe) is that CO2 is not the only greenhouse gas. The other ones have a dampening effect
That sounds a lot to me like cooking the data to meet your hypothesis, when real science is supposed to be done the other way around.
Scientist: If the data is such, it will bolster my hypothesis.
Other Scientist: The data is not such.
Scientist: My hypothesis is still valid, you just have to factor in these other things that I just came up with.
Other Scientist: The data still doesn't match up
Scientist: Jeez, give me a minute, let me come up with some other shit to throw in there.
Other Scientist: Maybe you should consider the possibility that your hypothesis is wrong.
Scientist: DENIER!!!
a bit of science has been lying around for 150 years - and there are still people who try to disclaim it
I agree. Global warming is our enemy and has always been our enemy. Anyone who says otherwise is doubleplus wrong.
Why you got to hate on Pony porn?
angsty teenage heroes
Hey, don't you realize that those obviously closeted homosexuals are on a never-ending quest to SAVE THEIR GIRLFRIENDS!
I must be an *ancient* fogey, because I've never even played a FF game. Something about playing a Japanese hermaphrodite who spouts poorly-translated dialogue just never seemed very appealing to me.
The corridors add to the feeling of being led on by some undefinable scheme. The static pace and nonexistent room for deviation are the characters' unescapable fate.
That's the most elaborate excuse for yet-another-fucking-on-rails-Japanese-RPG I've ever heard. You, sir, must be a stand-up philosopher.
In a similar vein, I would like to point out that all those wooden crates in my favorite FPS represent the boxed-in lives we all lead.
I get the feeling they don't actually want people to sign these things.
Ha, like they're even ever going to READ them if you did.
and all of us who aren't in the US are getting this rammed down our throats
All of us who *are* in the US are getting this rammed down our throats too.
"Customized" in the same sense as the Apple App Store is "customized" (I.e. "Shut up and give us your money!"). Expect Amazon to take their cut of everything installed.
Am I the only one who actually *liked* the physical keyboard and buttons on the old Kindle? I don't want my greasy fingerprints all over my screen and I like the tactile feel of a physical keyboard. And the Kindle's physical keyboard was a pretty good one too.
I'm celebrating by getting a book banned. After all, they're not calling it "Read a Book Week."