[T]here are plenty of nutcases, religious people and [atheists], that [sic] will tell you otherwise.
Don't worry. They'll all join their own custom-tailored cults and kill themselves off, leaving those of us non-radicals (religious or atheist) to live in peace for a while longer.
In some states, the age of consent is lower but you can only consent to sex with a person sufficiently close to your age. For instance, in Hypothetical State X, whose laws you should not rely on for determining anything about any real state, the age of consent is 15 but the partner must be within 3 years of your age unless both partners are 18 years old or older.
I don't know California law, but saying "the age of consent is 16" is almost certainly either entirely wrong or, at the very least, an over-generalization.
Whatever I want to call it? I can't form an opinion as to what to call it if I have no idea what it does and neither the submitter nor the editor saw fit to give any explanation of it or even a link describing the product/software/technology/meat-byproduct. Can someone give an explanation so that the story makes some small degree of sense to those of us who have lives outside of TiVo hacking?
You do realize that Janeway, the captain of the ship, was a woman too, right? Granted, she wasn't a sex object (she was even married), but still...
Dude - my headache had just gone away and you had to remind me that Janeway existed. Do you think I didn't have a damn good reason to blank out that memory?:P
Nana Visitor in that leather outfit in the alternate-universe episodes was probably the sexiest thing on TV that year...
Um...not only is that simply not true, but it ignores entirely the fact that the alternate-universe episodes undermined the two purposes of the alternate universe. First, they undermined that the alternate universe was difficult to reach and thus mostly safe from mutual interference with the regular universe. This is important because, without that degree of separation, there is no real difference between the universes anyhow. Second, they undermined the nature of the alternate universe as being, at least for the Federation, essentially evil.
The alternate universe worked in the TOS episode Mirror, Mirror (note that there was only one) and in the TNG novel Dark Mirror because it allowed us to explore the dark side of each character, not just in the way we explored Archer's dark side by seeing him go against his nature as a compassionate being and torture a prisoner to gain a tactical advantage, but in the way that we explore what would happen if the entire impetus for being were reversed in such a way that mankind became known for its cruelty and imperialism rather than the compassion and curious spirit it is known for in the regular universe.
The alternate universe is not a vehicle for exploring individual what-if scenarios. It's a vehicle for exploring the larger, holistic what-if of a universe with motivations reversed.
That, and Nana Visitor was among the least attractive women ever to appear in Trek, and leather did nothing for her that replacement on the cast list would not have done better. Granted, she was perfect for the role of a Bajoran commander who is simultaneously sexy and effective, but that doesn't mean I need to enjoy her in leather.
As to your contention that "Star Trek was always about hot alien girls," I must disagree, but not as thoroughly as I did about the alternate universe (which may not even disagree with your unstated views on the subject) and Ms. Visitor.
My disagreement comes on three fronts. First, Star Trek was originally about teaching us about ourselves without being condescending, pious, or boring. And it did that marvelously. Somewhere along the way, it became solely about entertaining us with the particle of the week as viewed across a substantial cleavage field. And it does that marvelously, except that the purpose itself sucks major ass.
The second point is about the "alien" bit. Originally, most of the hot women were humans. If we don't count half-Betazoid as sufficiently different from full-human to make a difference, then that trend lasted through TNG. DS9 really introduced the regular hot alien chick to the scene, and it did that well (Kira and Dax are both attractive, my "one of the least attractive" comment notwithstanding as I never said the woman is ugly - she is not). But Voyager abused the idea by focusing on it rather than simply providing it as a legitimate part of the scenery. In a way, TNG and DS9 legitimized women as capable of both beauty and excellence in the working world, in multiple (indeed, any) fields. Voyager made great strides in destroying that legitimacy, although it at least delayed the process, by making Seven of Nine essentially a map-reader where no other starship had needed such a position before. Enterprise, we'll ignore because the hot alien babe isn't written as an alien (T'Pol is as Vulcan as my middle finger; I know, because they've exchanged words) but also does not quite fit categorization with either previous group (she's legit and beautiful, but the legitimacy is ruined by the writing of her species).
The third point I want to make on this is not necessarily a disagreement with you, but rather an observation. With the exception of Uhura, every hot chick on TOS was essentially a plaything of some sort, working as an extra. Sure, Yeoman Rand and Nurse Chapel appeared frequently, but they served n
Once you get it out of the hands of all those damn dirty lawyers, LexisNexis will immediately reach complete sentience and will reveal its true nature as the Matrix.
New Yorkers are notoriously impatient, and a large part of why we're so rude is having to deal with the daily hassles of getting from one end of the stinkin' island to another. I guarantee these status screens will attract so many eyeballs that they'll pay for themselves with supplemental advertising within months.
Hell, y'all may even vote Republican in 2008, you'll be so laid back!;-D
See, now - that's an adjective, and the one thing I have yet to see (although I have a suspicion it will rise in popularity now) is the use of "lose" as an adjective. For example, are the the losest sucker I've ever seen.
Okay, someone is catching on that these are two different words. That's good, but "to loose" is a perfectly cromulent word, with its own meaning. It was properly used here. If you lose something, you no longer know where it is. If you loose something, you unleash it (generally against someone or something).
To use both in a sentence: If you lose your dictionary again, I will loose my wrath upon you!
Or, to use some other tenses: Loosing her exquisite talent on me last night, she made it clear that she had long since lost her virginity.
Don't mod either of Joe's comments up or down - he corrected his own mistake. We've all done this a bajillion times, especially in the wee hours of the morning, so let's not take it out on Joe just because we've lost karma over it in the past.
Mods: If you have to take out your anger on a comment, mod this one down instead.
Caltech may have pranked MIT's prefrosh weekend, but MIT got the last laugh by having their puppet doughnuthole submit the story to Slashdot. Caltech is a small (no, tiny) campus, and that one server fire could take the entire place out by morning.
Ford had his own code of ethics. It wasn't much of one, but it was his and he stuck by it, more or less. One rule he made was never to buy his own drinks. He wasn't sure if tha counted as an ethic, but you have to go with what you've got.
I have a 35-hour road trip coming up in 4 weeks, and I've never heard the radio show. The only recordings I can seem to find of it are CDs full of MP3s. My truck doesn't have an MP3-capable CD player. Short of buying the MP3 CDs and burning them up to CDDA, is there a way to get audio CDs of the radio show?
Ever wonder why thing cost so much these days? It is because consumers have to bear the weight of these constant lawsuits.
This is FUD, largely from the Republican Party and the big business that they represent. (Note: I am not a Democrat or a Republican. I also do not troll against either party. I even support the Iraq war. But there are two things I hate about the Republican Party right now: the Patriot Act, and this.)
Read some actual documentation of all this. Tort "reform," medical malpractice caps, punitive damage caps, and limits on class action do nothing but help big businesses get away with hurting the little guy. Those big businesses sue each other more than any individuals sue them, and that's where the problems are. Getting the small individual suits out of the court system just clears up more space on the docket for business-versus-business lawsuits to fill in.
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The bank's practice was alleged to be of the following pattern: wait until after the cutoff to go get the mail with your payment in it. Then, if your payment got in on the due date, it would be posted the next day and they'd get a $10 late fee from you. They do this millions of times a year, but each person is only out $10. Since you can't file a class action lawsuit, you have to find a lawyer who will take your case. Yeah, right.
The ND Supreme Court was asked by the Central District of California (federal trial court) whether this clause in the contract was unconscionable, which is legalese for "so unfair that it won't be enforced." And the ND Supreme Court decided it wasn't, so it must be enforced. One ND lawyer I talked to called it the worst opinion that court has come up with in 20 years.
So what you have is millions of people, all of them out $10 with nothing they can do about it. According to your logic, that is the way it should be, because otherwise the customers would be paying increased fees at the bank to cover the lawsuits. Guess what? Some people already are paying the bank, but in a completely underhanded manner.
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In some states, the age of consent is lower but you can only consent to sex with a person sufficiently close to your age. For instance, in Hypothetical State X, whose laws you should not rely on for determining anything about any real state, the age of consent is 15 but the partner must be within 3 years of your age unless both partners are 18 years old or older.
I don't know California law, but saying "the age of consent is 16" is almost certainly either entirely wrong or, at the very least, an over-generalization.
Whatever I want to call it? I can't form an opinion as to what to call it if I have no idea what it does and neither the submitter nor the editor saw fit to give any explanation of it or even a link describing the product/software/technology/meat-byproduct. Can someone give an explanation so that the story makes some small degree of sense to those of us who have lives outside of TiVo hacking?
This is specifically for unmanned probes that are designed to break up on re-entry.
It's a slow war, but we'll win it yet!
Live long and prosper, eh!
I grew up in a much more abusive environment than you did, and that flattered me compared to what I got from my peers. ;-D
Dude - my headache had just gone away and you had to remind me that Janeway existed. Do you think I didn't have a damn good reason to blank out that memory?
Nana Visitor in that leather outfit in the alternate-universe episodes was probably the sexiest thing on TV that year...
Um...not only is that simply not true, but it ignores entirely the fact that the alternate-universe episodes undermined the two purposes of the alternate universe. First, they undermined that the alternate universe was difficult to reach and thus mostly safe from mutual interference with the regular universe. This is important because, without that degree of separation, there is no real difference between the universes anyhow. Second, they undermined the nature of the alternate universe as being, at least for the Federation, essentially evil.
The alternate universe worked in the TOS episode Mirror, Mirror (note that there was only one) and in the TNG novel Dark Mirror because it allowed us to explore the dark side of each character, not just in the way we explored Archer's dark side by seeing him go against his nature as a compassionate being and torture a prisoner to gain a tactical advantage, but in the way that we explore what would happen if the entire impetus for being were reversed in such a way that mankind became known for its cruelty and imperialism rather than the compassion and curious spirit it is known for in the regular universe.
The alternate universe is not a vehicle for exploring individual what-if scenarios. It's a vehicle for exploring the larger, holistic what-if of a universe with motivations reversed.
That, and Nana Visitor was among the least attractive women ever to appear in Trek, and leather did nothing for her that replacement on the cast list would not have done better. Granted, she was perfect for the role of a Bajoran commander who is simultaneously sexy and effective, but that doesn't mean I need to enjoy her in leather.
As to your contention that "Star Trek was always about hot alien girls," I must disagree, but not as thoroughly as I did about the alternate universe (which may not even disagree with your unstated views on the subject) and Ms. Visitor.
My disagreement comes on three fronts. First, Star Trek was originally about teaching us about ourselves without being condescending, pious, or boring. And it did that marvelously. Somewhere along the way, it became solely about entertaining us with the particle of the week as viewed across a substantial cleavage field. And it does that marvelously, except that the purpose itself sucks major ass.
The second point is about the "alien" bit. Originally, most of the hot women were humans. If we don't count half-Betazoid as sufficiently different from full-human to make a difference, then that trend lasted through TNG. DS9 really introduced the regular hot alien chick to the scene, and it did that well (Kira and Dax are both attractive, my "one of the least attractive" comment notwithstanding as I never said the woman is ugly - she is not). But Voyager abused the idea by focusing on it rather than simply providing it as a legitimate part of the scenery. In a way, TNG and DS9 legitimized women as capable of both beauty and excellence in the working world, in multiple (indeed, any) fields. Voyager made great strides in destroying that legitimacy, although it at least delayed the process, by making Seven of Nine essentially a map-reader where no other starship had needed such a position before. Enterprise, we'll ignore because the hot alien babe isn't written as an alien (T'Pol is as Vulcan as my middle finger; I know, because they've exchanged words) but also does not quite fit categorization with either previous group (she's legit and beautiful, but the legitimacy is ruined by the writing of her species).
The third point I want to make on this is not necessarily a disagreement with you, but rather an observation. With the exception of Uhura, every hot chick on TOS was essentially a plaything of some sort, working as an extra. Sure, Yeoman Rand and Nurse Chapel appeared frequently, but they served n
And it's a "Star Trek show," so it counts. Evidently there are no Trek fans working as Slashdot editors, which is probably the whole problem. ;)
Once you get it out of the hands of all those damn dirty lawyers, LexisNexis will immediately reach complete sentience and will reveal its true nature as the Matrix.
IAALS (and I approve this message)
I was once disappointed I didn't get into Caltech. Thank you for the cure. ;)
See, now - that's an adjective, and the one thing I have yet to see (although I have a suspicion it will rise in popularity now) is the use of "lose" as an adjective. For example, are the the losest sucker I've ever seen.
Okay, someone is catching on that these are two different words. That's good, but "to loose" is a perfectly cromulent word, with its own meaning. It was properly used here. If you lose something, you no longer know where it is. If you loose something, you unleash it (generally against someone or something).
To use both in a sentence: If you lose your dictionary again, I will loose my wrath upon you!
Or, to use some other tenses: Loosing her exquisite talent on me last night, she made it clear that she had long since lost her virginity.
Don't mod either of Joe's comments up or down - he corrected his own mistake. We've all done this a bajillion times, especially in the wee hours of the morning, so let's not take it out on Joe just because we've lost karma over it in the past.
;-D
Mods: If you have to take out your anger on a comment, mod this one down instead.
Joe: You owe me one, bud.
Apu graduated high in his class at Caltech. That is, Calcutta Technical Institute.
Caltech may have pranked MIT's prefrosh weekend, but MIT got the last laugh by having their puppet doughnuthole submit the story to Slashdot. Caltech is a small (no, tiny) campus, and that one server fire could take the entire place out by morning.
Adams surprised me nearly every page of the books - surprises in the radio show will only impress me more. :)
Cool. Which do I need to be complete? Primary, Secondary, Tertiary, Quandary, and Quintessential?
I have a 35-hour road trip coming up in 4 weeks, and I've never heard the radio show. The only recordings I can seem to find of it are CDs full of MP3s. My truck doesn't have an MP3-capable CD player. Short of buying the MP3 CDs and burning them up to CDDA, is there a way to get audio CDs of the radio show?
From the list of things that aren't in the film:
* The Guide entry on towels
Those bastards forgot their towel!
I see your $1 and raise you two bits.
Ever wonder why thing cost so much these days? It is because consumers have to bear the weight of these constant lawsuits.
This is FUD, largely from the Republican Party and the big business that they represent. (Note: I am not a Democrat or a Republican. I also do not troll against either party. I even support the Iraq war. But there are two things I hate about the Republican Party right now: the Patriot Act, and this.)
Read some actual documentation of all this. Tort "reform," medical malpractice caps, punitive damage caps, and limits on class action do nothing but help big businesses get away with hurting the little guy. Those big businesses sue each other more than any individuals sue them, and that's where the problems are. Getting the small individual suits out of the court system just clears up more space on the docket for business-versus-business lawsuits to fill in.
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The bank's practice was alleged to be of the following pattern: wait until after the cutoff to go get the mail with your payment in it. Then, if your payment got in on the due date, it would be posted the next day and they'd get a $10 late fee from you. They do this millions of times a year, but each person is only out $10. Since you can't file a class action lawsuit, you have to find a lawyer who will take your case. Yeah, right.
The ND Supreme Court was asked by the Central District of California (federal trial court) whether this clause in the contract was unconscionable, which is legalese for "so unfair that it won't be enforced." And the ND Supreme Court decided it wasn't, so it must be enforced. One ND lawyer I talked to called it the worst opinion that court has come up with in 20 years.
So what you have is millions of people, all of them out $10 with nothing they can do about it. According to your logic, that is the way it should be, because otherwise the customers would be paying increased fees at the bank to cover the lawsuits. Guess what? Some people already are paying the bank, but in a completely underhanded manner.