But if they really want low-tech, why aren't they using VAWT? If you have the tech to build a bycycle and generator, you have VAWT, which is a hell of a lot more than you can say fr solar....
You know, I wish that, both in the UK and in my own country (the US, quelle surprise), that there was a nationally required, five year course beginning in 8th grade (or UK equivalent) each year consisting of watching, in oder, the 5 series of "Yes, Minister" and "Yes, Prime Minister", followed by intensive discussion of the issues, asides, ramifications, etc. Requiring a student to go up against Sir Humphrey Appleby would be singularly formative to critical thinking.....
Even the reviewer says it's only Trek-by-fiat, Trek-because-we-put-the-label-on-it.
Don't reward a money-making business by giving it money when sells you a cheap imitation labelling it genuine.
Fine, it's a great space opera. So is "Star Wars". In fact, "Star Wars" is a _better_ space opera. I suspect JJ will get those movies right, because all it will really take is a big SPFX budget, lots of pyrotechnics, and a half-dozen cliff-hangers and weird-ass plot-twists with no real regard for faithfulness to the original.
But a Rolecks is not a Rolex, no matter how shiny the micro-thin gold-plate is. If you buy the Rolecks, you kill craftmanship and vision. Watch it? Fine, but borrow the DVD from the library. Download it from any free source. But *don't*, by the Great Bird, *pay* for a bleedin' ticket. Use the only stick you have to make them start *doing* *it* *right*.
Now, A side note to JJ: Dear JJ- Next time you feel the need to make a Trek movie, don't. Just don't. But, if you can't resist the paycheck, or the fanboi ego trip ("Look, Mom! I'm makin' a Trek movie!") then here's the backup suggestion - Gather the group that did the digital remastering of ST:TOS and give them final approval on any aspect of the movie they want - script approval, casting, but especially final cut approval. Nobody overrides them, no contractual sleight-of-hand. Become "JJ Abrams Presents" a Trek movie, not "A JJ Abrams Film" Trek movie, OK? Because that group gets two things you don't - Trek and Art. Yes, they left in cheese in the remastering. most of that was deliberate. Respect paid to the original artists who did what they could with what they had. Most of it was "cleaning the painting". But what they enhanced, they enhanced. Yep, some of those old episodes are crap. Escaping the Network/Studio-Exec-Dumbs-It-Down-or-Cuts-The-Budget-to-Shreds curse is impossible. But that remastering group gets Trek. And you don't.
The most dangerous line of scientific inquiry is a scientific inquiry into "dangerous" lines of scientific inquiry. It's OK, I'll wait till you catch up.
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But if they really want low-tech, why aren't they using VAWT? If you have the tech to build a bycycle and generator, you have VAWT, which is a hell of a lot more than you can say fr solar....
Makes a noise like a Dalek? :D
You know, I wish that, both in the UK and in my own country (the US, quelle surprise), that there was a nationally required, five year course beginning in 8th grade (or UK equivalent) each year consisting of watching, in oder, the 5 series of "Yes, Minister" and "Yes, Prime Minister", followed by intensive discussion of the issues, asides, ramifications, etc. Requiring a student to go up against Sir Humphrey Appleby would be singularly formative to critical thinking.....
"Bottom line: go see it."
Wrong.
Even the reviewer says it's only Trek-by-fiat, Trek-because-we-put-the-label-on-it.
Don't reward a money-making business by giving it money when sells you a cheap imitation labelling it genuine.
Fine, it's a great space opera. So is "Star Wars". In fact, "Star Wars" is a _better_ space opera. I suspect JJ will get those movies right, because all it will really take is a big SPFX budget, lots of pyrotechnics, and a half-dozen cliff-hangers and weird-ass plot-twists with no real regard for faithfulness to the original.
But a Rolecks is not a Rolex, no matter how shiny the micro-thin gold-plate is. If you buy the Rolecks, you kill craftmanship and vision. Watch it? Fine, but borrow the DVD from the library. Download it from any free source. But *don't*, by the Great Bird, *pay* for a bleedin' ticket. Use the only stick you have to make them start *doing* *it* *right*.
Now, A side note to JJ: Dear JJ- Next time you feel the need to make a Trek movie, don't. Just don't. But, if you can't resist the paycheck, or the fanboi ego trip ("Look, Mom! I'm makin' a Trek movie!") then here's the backup suggestion - Gather the group that did the digital remastering of ST:TOS and give them final approval on any aspect of the movie they want - script approval, casting, but especially final cut approval. Nobody overrides them, no contractual sleight-of-hand. Become "JJ Abrams Presents" a Trek movie, not "A JJ Abrams Film" Trek movie, OK? Because that group gets two things you don't - Trek and Art. Yes, they left in cheese in the remastering. most of that was deliberate. Respect paid to the original artists who did what they could with what they had. Most of it was "cleaning the painting". But what they enhanced, they enhanced. Yep, some of those old episodes are crap. Escaping the Network/Studio-Exec-Dumbs-It-Down-or-Cuts-The-Budget-to-Shreds curse is impossible. But that remastering group gets Trek. And you don't.
The most dangerous line of scientific inquiry is a scientific inquiry into "dangerous" lines of scientific inquiry. It's OK, I'll wait till you catch up.