Sorry to get you so riled up- I didn't mean to. I will clarify:
They said it was for farmers, but that is ridicerous.
Who the hell is "They"? DST was never for farmers, nor did any intelligent person ever claim it was. Saying "They said" implies some authority figures used this as the rationale, which is patently ridiculous. I have no doubt the representatives who decided on DST understood the complex issue, and "farmers" never entered into it.
Actually my friend, much like today, misinformation has always been a part of politics. Those (they) who wanted daylight savings time to save electicity and spend more time on the golf course, spread disonformation that farmers wanted DST. Many people, when polled, still assume that DST was done for the Farmers.
My solution? "Fall Back" a half hour one year, and just leave it there permanently. Right in the middle....
Proving conclusively that you have NO IDEA AT ALL what DST is for.
Okay Matlock, calm down- How is anything proved conclusively? The only thing proved conclusively is that you are riled. Please don't kick a dog or anything. I suggested the half hour fallback in jest. The best solution, in my mind would be to use Zulu time. No, it will never happen, because no one wants to get all new clocks.
Like the article asks: where's the calculation of how much time we all spend answer work e-mail at home?"
Anyone who works by the billable hour has a pretty good idea of the answer to that one- If you make $5 an hour and the company bills clients $10 an hour for your time, your company wants you to keep track of the time spend checking things at home.
What I wonder is this- is the amt of time used to calculate the lost revenue assuming that we would be working during the time we are surfing? For me, a lot of my surfing time at work comes out of time other people are wasting time doing other things- I check the news, the guy in the next office talk to his girlfriend on the phone for 5 minutes, or goes outside and smokes a cigarette or daydreams. Lets be honest, no matter how much we work, if we didn't waste any time at all (water cooler, getting coffee etc.) how many fewer hours a week could we work and still get the same amount of work done. (this is not even counting 3 hour meetings that could be done in 15 minutes...)
Seems like there is a rush to blame the web, when people have always found time to shirk.
I have always hated the switch- They said it was for farmers, but that is ridicerous. (Farmers get up when the cows need to be milked- it doesn't matter what a chronometer says.)
My solution? "Fall Back" a half hour one year, and just leave it there permanently. Right in the middle....
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Astronomy Hacks
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· Score: 4, Insightful
If you think about it, the night sky is a lot like the internet- You can look at it for hours and lose yourself in it....
As far as the book goes- a lot of these hacks come in handy- a lot of equipment that would have been out of reach for the hobbyist/am astronomer a few years ago are now somewhat affordable, so it may actually come in handy to know how to polish a 10 pound mirror.
And believe me, you want a highly polished mirror in the summer, when blinds are left open and the neighbour's daughter is out sunning.... Speaking of polishing, I'll be back in a few minutes....
Exactly- and to capitalize on the Ipod craze- The Ipod could be great marketing for the Ibook- A nice white laptop to take back to school with the nice white Ipod. You have to have a new product to sell to the trendy kids. (Not a dig at Mac people.... I am just saying if you can sell you product to the faithful, and get to people who want the latest thing (fashion wise) you can make some $$$$. Hopefully this will convert some people to Mac-
In my day, after walking uphill to school, we used macs exclusively- they used to be the education machine, remember?
I got the crazy idea from Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt...
Link here....
http://news.com.com/Quote+of+the+day+Cant+see+your +swing+set/2110-1029_3-5713885.html
Text:
Quote of the day: 'Can't see your swing set'
Published: May 19, 2005, 12:00 PM PDT
By CNET News.com Staff
Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt, in defending his company's privacy policies at a symposium Thursday, said the detail on the new map-linked satellite imagery is deliberately limited.
"We cannot see your swing set, and we're not trying to," he said, adding that Google has complied with government agency requests to blank out areas of its satellite maps. "The value of more information so overwhelms its misuse that we've not had material problems there."
Google has a man on the moon as it's cartoon today....
This moon feature is beyond cool- but may be another productivity sapping item for me at work. What I wonder is if we will get full zooming. My understanding is that google maps is purposely limited so people can't "see swingsets" in back yards (i.e. pedophiles).
What will this do to Hoagland's career if they do this for other planets, say Mars? Is Cydonia over?
What is the point of this? Why modify something to do something at a sub par level when one can just design something to do the job well.... (I know the answers- to see if it can be done, to have fun etc.... but still, why?)
Wouldn't this be like modifying a Ferrari with off road tires and using it for Baja racing, when you would just be better off buying a truck?
I wish they would focus more on making the spam filter work well, rather than diddling with a chess-bot. I still find important email in my spam folder, while still having spam in my inbox...
Sort of like when I go a new cell phone- the chap at the store told me about all the bells and whistles, whilst all I wanted was a phone that worked as a phone and didn't drop calls....
Um, and also, it easier for a youngin to get a firearm than it is to get an M game most of the time....
I love how congress focuses on violence in video games, when, I believe 400 people a day are murdered in the US.
Obligitory analogy: Hey, lets stop all these street racing video games, and ignore the street racing taking place in our own city!
Two quick points:
1- if kids were more into emulating video games, maybe we wouldn't have some of the recruiting shortfalls in the US military that we do. (Don't be fooled by the media, although new recruits are low, re-ups are huge)
2- i don't care what your political affiliations are- there is a great deal of irony over Hillary Clinton being the lead attack dog on this issue- I mean, it was Bill that made it okay to discuss fellatio (tounging the tubage) and semen (baby juice) on the front page of major newspapers, on every news show etc. Like I said thats not a Dem, Repub, or independent issue, thats an irony issue.
And correct me if I am wrong, but isn't the sex in GTA a download... Aren't there worse things that kids could be downloading than grainy simulated sex between cartoons>
We get heat lightning out here in Ohio from time to time, separate from storms.
I have what may be a dumb question (There are no dumb questions... Just dumb people asking questions...) but if this thing has rubber tires, couldn't they just put a roll bar on the next one with a lightning rod, and shoot the electricity right out the bottom? Or is the equipment to sensitive to be around a discharge? Electricity has always been something a bit over my head, so if someone on here knows, please share.
That being said- I am glad that we are continuing to check out Mars- I wonder if there will be as much excitement over a manned Mars landing as there was over the Lunar landing...
Especially when the site is Firefox- It seems to me that people who kack would get more notoriety and pleasure out of hacking a the site of a product a lot of techies love, rather than hacking, say, the local super market site.
People who do this type of thing, ie commit a dime for notoriety and attention tend to pick not the most $$$ lucrative targets, but the ones their peers will notice the most...
Sort of like stealing hubcaps from a police car- the hubcaps aren't any more valuable, but it gets you a bit more "props" than stealing them off an old man's crown victoria.
I wonder how dependent upon contractors this will be...
I think a lot of security is independent of lawmakers... The old quote that the president isn't the seat of power, he is there to draw attention away from power....
If I didn't believe that somewhere out there there are people in charge who truly care about our security and not just politics and sound bites, I couldn't sleep at night.
And yes, i do wear a tinfoil hat, but I think we can be pretty sure that a lot of this is already being conducted under a mountain somewhere.
Good point- Showing me ads for Maxi Pads when they could be showing me ads for beer is a waste of my time and their money.
I believe what we are forgeting for advertising is product placement. Hey look, Hobie on Baywatch just drank a YooYoo chocolaty drink, now I want one! This is common in films, companies pay to put products in movies all the time. I for one, would never have bought a Pontiac Aztek if it hadn't been featured on Survivor. This can be as simple as a billboard in a wide pan shot or seeing the table ads during a basket ball game, to being as complex as having those two big engine things on the back of the Enterprise being coke cans....
The advertising world will have to change.... But they will.
I agree with you on your point of having all of us responsible for the network, however, I would rather see something like NATO in charge.
(Your post is very funny. I love the British wit- I spend a lot of time watching British TV here (Are you being served, and Keeping up Appearances... I do hope that those aren't the equivelant of us here laughing at people who watch Baywatch in other nations...)
Plus, keep in mind, a lot of people in the US feel like we pay something like 70% of the UN budget, and then get kicked in the cajones by them. I guess I just don't like the idea of some of the dictatorial (is that a word) countries having a say.
And the world tax, any world tax- is wrong in my mind.
PS- My great grandfather, George Mackay was a pilot in the RAF, before becoming a US citizen. (He always loved GB, according to my grandfather, he just wanted to be with my great grandmother.)
You said it better than I my friend. When one has rules and has to face consequences, it is very difficult to have an adversary who has no rules and doesn't care about consequences.
Trip is a nickname for "The third"
The biggest issue to me is the worldwide tax for universal access. There is a similar proposal for a worldwide tax on airline tickets, to help the less fortunate. Any way you slice this to me, it is a very dangerous precedent and gets us moving down a slippery slope.
I don't see the similarity between the New World and the Internet issue, although your post is creative and a funny parody of my post- a hearty laugh was enjoyed by me, a laugh hearty enough that a coworker asked me what was so funny- The New World wasn't given up, we forcibly took it. If someone stomps me and takes my bike, I didn't give it up, I was stomped on and my bike was taken.
Britain and the US are very strong allies. If you are American and ever, ever have an anti-British Sentiment, think of Bill Wilson and the Highlanders marching through gunfire to meet the Rangers as they took the cliffs.
One of the main problems with this, in my OPINION, is that corporations can't keep up with individuals. It is sort of like how Geurrilas, from the time of the US colonies to Vietnam, have been able to put a hurting on huge armies.
Corporations aren't as light on their feet as spammers and internet miscreants (for the most part- I know I am speaking in generalities).
It takes many meetings over years it seems (Meetings- None of us is as dumb as all of us...) to come up with a new policy or system regarding spam etc.- commitees are formed, proposals made etc. Then, someone (or group) without meetings, without authorizations, comes up with a way around the new system.
As has been said a zillion times before on here, by people more intelligent than I- the only way to stop Spam is to make it not pay, by having no one respond to it. It is like Drugs or Prostitution- if there were no client base, there would be no sellers....
I recognize that the rest of the world makes a valuable contribution to the internet, however:
The United States developed the internet, with many large investments (DARPA etc.), and now we are expected to just give it up?
The United States has perhaps the most to lose, economically, if the internet were to "go down(whatever that means)"
The universal access tax scares me. You don't need a tinfoil hat to see why a worldwide tax is a bad idea and an awful precedent.
The internet has become a security issue- Aside from all the defense networks etc, we need to be able to keep tabs on extremist groups on the web, note that there is a widely circulating how to video about how to cause the most damage with a b#mb on a bus.
As popular as "America is an Imperialist" sentiment has become, we still believe in freedom of speech. What happens when China decides that no one should use the word democracy? What happens when France decides that the word Nazi can't be used?
Just some thoughts.
This will do fine, hopefully.
I am not a marketing expert, but I imagine a lot of us 23-35 somethings (even the non nerds- the jerks even: the slightly balding 30 year olds who wear their baseball caps backwards and big knee braces and yell a lot while playing a pick up game of basketball-we all know people like that) will see it because we all watched as youngsters (I loved the action figures).
Seems that the Pokeman/ Power Rangers ages would see it, plus any movie kids will like doubles the receipts because a parent has to go with them. And parents in my opinion will be more likely to take their kids to see this, because, well a lot of us would be happy to sit through with the wee ones this as opposed to, say Strawberry Shortcake.(If you have kids in your life, be they yours, or nephews and nieces, you know about sitting through awful kids movies)
I just hope the live action isn't like the old Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movies...
Short and sweet: This is what happens when legislation can't keep up with tech, and legislators don't understand tech
Look at some of the stuff here in the states- I mean, a bunch of 200 year old Supreme court judges making laws about P2P when they dont even use email????
I thought Canadians had a reputation for being reasonable....
If Google is outlawed, only Outlaws will Google.
I have to go, I need to google tyrany.
A lot of people think a middle initial adds a touch of class...
In my mind, a middle initial adds a touch of crime, as law enforcement, when putting out a bulletin, uses all three names to avoid confusion. That is why most notorious criminals go by all three names when discussed in the media...
I for one am looking forward to this series- I hope it does for us (nerd persecution must end) what inside the actors studio did for obscure hollywoodians.
I just hope that it gets hard hitting... think the spin stops here, but with a nerdy twist.
Good point- although I wish to take it a step further. Yes any vehicle a few decades old will show some bumps, even if maintained (My grandmother's 78 Caddy, only 32,000 miles, but a few bumps), but even well maintained vehicles (My Pick Up, Used to plow snow for extra money in winter- beat to heck- well maintained though). The severity of what the shuttle goes through is also a huge factor I imagine. Amazing temps and pressures. I don't pretend to have the knowledge about rocket science others here do, but I do know the shuttle goes through some majorly extreme stress and conditions...
It isn't "funny," as nothing that has to do with lefe and death of the crew members is funny, however, I feel like NASA keeps having these setbacks in an almost tragicomic way. I mean, a cover falling off a window and damaging heat tiles? I read that the cover is to prevent dust- so why does it need to be made of something hard that can damage the shuttle? Wouldn't cotton have done as nicely? If someone knows, I really am curious, I am not being a jack-a##
My dad, now retired, always talks about when they developed the space shuttle. (He was a SR VP of a space and defense contractor who also had a credit reporting business, so figure out which one...) They were trying to get NASA to go with a solid fuel rocket. You light it and it goes. When the they designed the lunar lander, they had to have something that would work 100% to get off the moon, and they used... a solid fuel rocket.
Why we have this complex, unbelieveably expensive shuttle, I will never know. Whether it is a car or a space craft, the more parts, the more that can go wrong....
I hope that they replace this with a more reliable vehicle...
What about the outer beacon? (Sorry, Die Hard II)
Because this is going over the airwaves, and in the US the gov't owns/controls the airways, why is this even an issue?
It also seems to me that since most planes, and thus their transmissions cross state lines, the Interstae Commerce Clause should give the Fed jurisdiction...
Then again, I am not a lawyer... I just tell coeds at the bar(no pun intended) that I am one, well, that or a doctor....
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Sorry to get you so riled up- I didn't mean to. I will clarify: They said it was for farmers, but that is ridicerous. Who the hell is "They"? DST was never for farmers, nor did any intelligent person ever claim it was. Saying "They said" implies some authority figures used this as the rationale, which is patently ridiculous. I have no doubt the representatives who decided on DST understood the complex issue, and "farmers" never entered into it. Actually my friend, much like today, misinformation has always been a part of politics. Those (they) who wanted daylight savings time to save electicity and spend more time on the golf course, spread disonformation that farmers wanted DST. Many people, when polled, still assume that DST was done for the Farmers. My solution? "Fall Back" a half hour one year, and just leave it there permanently. Right in the middle.... Proving conclusively that you have NO IDEA AT ALL what DST is for. Okay Matlock, calm down- How is anything proved conclusively? The only thing proved conclusively is that you are riled. Please don't kick a dog or anything. I suggested the half hour fallback in jest. The best solution, in my mind would be to use Zulu time. No, it will never happen, because no one wants to get all new clocks.
Like the article asks: where's the calculation of how much time we all spend answer work e-mail at home?"
Anyone who works by the billable hour has a pretty good idea of the answer to that one- If you make $5 an hour and the company bills clients $10 an hour for your time, your company wants you to keep track of the time spend checking things at home.
What I wonder is this- is the amt of time used to calculate the lost revenue assuming that we would be working during the time we are surfing? For me, a lot of my surfing time at work comes out of time other people are wasting time doing other things- I check the news, the guy in the next office talk to his girlfriend on the phone for 5 minutes, or goes outside and smokes a cigarette or daydreams. Lets be honest, no matter how much we work, if we didn't waste any time at all (water cooler, getting coffee etc.) how many fewer hours a week could we work and still get the same amount of work done. (this is not even counting 3 hour meetings that could be done in 15 minutes...)
Seems like there is a rush to blame the web, when people have always found time to shirk.
I have always hated the switch- They said it was for farmers, but that is ridicerous. (Farmers get up when the cows need to be milked- it doesn't matter what a chronometer says.)
My solution? "Fall Back" a half hour one year, and just leave it there permanently. Right in the middle....
If you think about it, the night sky is a lot like the internet- You can look at it for hours and lose yourself in it....
As far as the book goes- a lot of these hacks come in handy- a lot of equipment that would have been out of reach for the hobbyist/am astronomer a few years ago are now somewhat affordable, so it may actually come in handy to know how to polish a 10 pound mirror.
And believe me, you want a highly polished mirror in the summer, when blinds are left open and the neighbour's daughter is out sunning.... Speaking of polishing, I'll be back in a few minutes....
Exactly- and to capitalize on the Ipod craze- The Ipod could be great marketing for the Ibook- A nice white laptop to take back to school with the nice white Ipod. You have to have a new product to sell to the trendy kids. (Not a dig at Mac people.... I am just saying if you can sell you product to the faithful, and get to people who want the latest thing (fashion wise) you can make some $$$$. Hopefully this will convert some people to Mac-
In my day, after walking uphill to school, we used macs exclusively- they used to be the education machine, remember?
I got the crazy idea from Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt...r +swing+set/2110-1029_3-5713885.html
Link here.... http://news.com.com/Quote+of+the+day+Cant+see+you
Text: Quote of the day: 'Can't see your swing set' Published: May 19, 2005, 12:00 PM PDT By CNET News.com Staff
Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt, in defending his company's privacy policies at a symposium Thursday, said the detail on the new map-linked satellite imagery is deliberately limited. "We cannot see your swing set, and we're not trying to," he said, adding that Google has complied with government agency requests to blank out areas of its satellite maps. "The value of more information so overwhelms its misuse that we've not had material problems there."
Google has a man on the moon as it's cartoon today....
This moon feature is beyond cool- but may be another productivity sapping item for me at work. What I wonder is if we will get full zooming. My understanding is that google maps is purposely limited so people can't "see swingsets" in back yards (i.e. pedophiles).
What will this do to Hoagland's career if they do this for other planets, say Mars? Is Cydonia over?
What is the point of this? Why modify something to do something at a sub par level when one can just design something to do the job well.... (I know the answers- to see if it can be done, to have fun etc.... but still, why?)
Wouldn't this be like modifying a Ferrari with off road tires and using it for Baja racing, when you would just be better off buying a truck?
I wish they would focus more on making the spam filter work well, rather than diddling with a chess-bot. I still find important email in my spam folder, while still having spam in my inbox...
Sort of like when I go a new cell phone- the chap at the store told me about all the bells and whistles, whilst all I wanted was a phone that worked as a phone and didn't drop calls....
Um, and also, it easier for a youngin to get a firearm than it is to get an M game most of the time....
I love how congress focuses on violence in video games, when, I believe 400 people a day are murdered in the US.
Obligitory analogy: Hey, lets stop all these street racing video games, and ignore the street racing taking place in our own city!
Two quick points:
1- if kids were more into emulating video games, maybe we wouldn't have some of the recruiting shortfalls in the US military that we do. (Don't be fooled by the media, although new recruits are low, re-ups are huge)
2- i don't care what your political affiliations are- there is a great deal of irony over Hillary Clinton being the lead attack dog on this issue- I mean, it was Bill that made it okay to discuss fellatio (tounging the tubage) and semen (baby juice) on the front page of major newspapers, on every news show etc. Like I said thats not a Dem, Repub, or independent issue, thats an irony issue.
And correct me if I am wrong, but isn't the sex in GTA a download... Aren't there worse things that kids could be downloading than grainy simulated sex between cartoons>
We get heat lightning out here in Ohio from time to time, separate from storms.
I have what may be a dumb question (There are no dumb questions... Just dumb people asking questions...) but if this thing has rubber tires, couldn't they just put a roll bar on the next one with a lightning rod, and shoot the electricity right out the bottom? Or is the equipment to sensitive to be around a discharge? Electricity has always been something a bit over my head, so if someone on here knows, please share.
That being said- I am glad that we are continuing to check out Mars- I wonder if there will be as much excitement over a manned Mars landing as there was over the Lunar landing...
Especially when the site is Firefox- It seems to me that people who kack would get more notoriety and pleasure out of hacking a the site of a product a lot of techies love, rather than hacking, say, the local super market site.
People who do this type of thing, ie commit a dime for notoriety and attention tend to pick not the most $$$ lucrative targets, but the ones their peers will notice the most...
Sort of like stealing hubcaps from a police car- the hubcaps aren't any more valuable, but it gets you a bit more "props" than stealing them off an old man's crown victoria.
I wonder how dependent upon contractors this will be...
I think a lot of security is independent of lawmakers... The old quote that the president isn't the seat of power, he is there to draw attention away from power....
If I didn't believe that somewhere out there there are people in charge who truly care about our security and not just politics and sound bites, I couldn't sleep at night.
And yes, i do wear a tinfoil hat, but I think we can be pretty sure that a lot of this is already being conducted under a mountain somewhere.
Good point- Showing me ads for Maxi Pads when they could be showing me ads for beer is a waste of my time and their money.
I believe what we are forgeting for advertising is product placement. Hey look, Hobie on Baywatch just drank a YooYoo chocolaty drink, now I want one! This is common in films, companies pay to put products in movies all the time. I for one, would never have bought a Pontiac Aztek if it hadn't been featured on Survivor. This can be as simple as a billboard in a wide pan shot or seeing the table ads during a basket ball game, to being as complex as having those two big engine things on the back of the Enterprise being coke cans....
The advertising world will have to change.... But they will.
I agree with you on your point of having all of us responsible for the network, however, I would rather see something like NATO in charge.
(Your post is very funny. I love the British wit- I spend a lot of time watching British TV here (Are you being served, and Keeping up Appearances... I do hope that those aren't the equivelant of us here laughing at people who watch Baywatch in other nations...)
Plus, keep in mind, a lot of people in the US feel like we pay something like 70% of the UN budget, and then get kicked in the cajones by them. I guess I just don't like the idea of some of the dictatorial (is that a word) countries having a say.
And the world tax, any world tax- is wrong in my mind.
PS- My great grandfather, George Mackay was a pilot in the RAF, before becoming a US citizen. (He always loved GB, according to my grandfather, he just wanted to be with my great grandmother.)
You said it better than I my friend. When one has rules and has to face consequences, it is very difficult to have an adversary who has no rules and doesn't care about consequences.
Trip is a nickname for "The third"
The biggest issue to me is the worldwide tax for universal access. There is a similar proposal for a worldwide tax on airline tickets, to help the less fortunate. Any way you slice this to me, it is a very dangerous precedent and gets us moving down a slippery slope.
I don't see the similarity between the New World and the Internet issue, although your post is creative and a funny parody of my post- a hearty laugh was enjoyed by me, a laugh hearty enough that a coworker asked me what was so funny- The New World wasn't given up, we forcibly took it. If someone stomps me and takes my bike, I didn't give it up, I was stomped on and my bike was taken.
Britain and the US are very strong allies. If you are American and ever, ever have an anti-British Sentiment, think of Bill Wilson and the Highlanders marching through gunfire to meet the Rangers as they took the cliffs.
One of the main problems with this, in my OPINION, is that corporations can't keep up with individuals. It is sort of like how Geurrilas, from the time of the US colonies to Vietnam, have been able to put a hurting on huge armies.
Corporations aren't as light on their feet as spammers and internet miscreants (for the most part- I know I am speaking in generalities).
It takes many meetings over years it seems (Meetings- None of us is as dumb as all of us...) to come up with a new policy or system regarding spam etc.- commitees are formed, proposals made etc. Then, someone (or group) without meetings, without authorizations, comes up with a way around the new system.
As has been said a zillion times before on here, by people more intelligent than I- the only way to stop Spam is to make it not pay, by having no one respond to it. It is like Drugs or Prostitution- if there were no client base, there would be no sellers....
I recognize that the rest of the world makes a valuable contribution to the internet, however:
The United States developed the internet, with many large investments (DARPA etc.), and now we are expected to just give it up?
The United States has perhaps the most to lose, economically, if the internet were to "go down(whatever that means)"
The universal access tax scares me. You don't need a tinfoil hat to see why a worldwide tax is a bad idea and an awful precedent.
The internet has become a security issue- Aside from all the defense networks etc, we need to be able to keep tabs on extremist groups on the web, note that there is a widely circulating how to video about how to cause the most damage with a b#mb on a bus.
As popular as "America is an Imperialist" sentiment has become, we still believe in freedom of speech. What happens when China decides that no one should use the word democracy? What happens when France decides that the word Nazi can't be used?
Just some thoughts.
This will do fine, hopefully.
I am not a marketing expert, but I imagine a lot of us 23-35 somethings (even the non nerds- the jerks even: the slightly balding 30 year olds who wear their baseball caps backwards and big knee braces and yell a lot while playing a pick up game of basketball-we all know people like that) will see it because we all watched as youngsters (I loved the action figures).
Seems that the Pokeman/ Power Rangers ages would see it, plus any movie kids will like doubles the receipts because a parent has to go with them. And parents in my opinion will be more likely to take their kids to see this, because, well a lot of us would be happy to sit through with the wee ones this as opposed to, say Strawberry Shortcake.(If you have kids in your life, be they yours, or nephews and nieces, you know about sitting through awful kids movies)
I just hope the live action isn't like the old Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movies...
Short and sweet: This is what happens when legislation can't keep up with tech, and legislators don't understand tech
Look at some of the stuff here in the states- I mean, a bunch of 200 year old Supreme court judges making laws about P2P when they dont even use email????
I thought Canadians had a reputation for being reasonable....
If Google is outlawed, only Outlaws will Google.
I have to go, I need to google tyrany.
A lot of people think a middle initial adds a touch of class...
In my mind, a middle initial adds a touch of crime, as law enforcement, when putting out a bulletin, uses all three names to avoid confusion. That is why most notorious criminals go by all three names when discussed in the media...
I for one am looking forward to this series- I hope it does for us (nerd persecution must end) what inside the actors studio did for obscure hollywoodians.
I just hope that it gets hard hitting... think the spin stops here, but with a nerdy twist.
Good point- although I wish to take it a step further. Yes any vehicle a few decades old will show some bumps, even if maintained (My grandmother's 78 Caddy, only 32,000 miles, but a few bumps), but even well maintained vehicles (My Pick Up, Used to plow snow for extra money in winter- beat to heck- well maintained though). The severity of what the shuttle goes through is also a huge factor I imagine. Amazing temps and pressures. I don't pretend to have the knowledge about rocket science others here do, but I do know the shuttle goes through some majorly extreme stress and conditions...
It isn't "funny," as nothing that has to do with lefe and death of the crew members is funny, however, I feel like NASA keeps having these setbacks in an almost tragicomic way. I mean, a cover falling off a window and damaging heat tiles? I read that the cover is to prevent dust- so why does it need to be made of something hard that can damage the shuttle? Wouldn't cotton have done as nicely? If someone knows, I really am curious, I am not being a jack-a##
My dad, now retired, always talks about when they developed the space shuttle. (He was a SR VP of a space and defense contractor who also had a credit reporting business, so figure out which one...) They were trying to get NASA to go with a solid fuel rocket. You light it and it goes. When the they designed the lunar lander, they had to have something that would work 100% to get off the moon, and they used... a solid fuel rocket.
Why we have this complex, unbelieveably expensive shuttle, I will never know. Whether it is a car or a space craft, the more parts, the more that can go wrong....
I hope that they replace this with a more reliable vehicle...
What about the outer beacon? (Sorry, Die Hard II)
Because this is going over the airwaves, and in the US the gov't owns/controls the airways, why is this even an issue?
It also seems to me that since most planes, and thus their transmissions cross state lines, the Interstae Commerce Clause should give the Fed jurisdiction...
Then again, I am not a lawyer... I just tell coeds at the bar(no pun intended) that I am one, well, that or a doctor....