And neither of those live-action adaptions was the one it deserves. It deserves the "Lord of the Rings" treatment, the full 3 parts of the book made into a film each.
Film 1: "Dune -- Desert Planet" Film 2: "Dune -- Muad'Dib" Film 3: "Dune -- The Prophet"
I have no idea (was going to mod you insightful, btw), but I'm ready to sic the Daleks on manga/anime nerds. Some of them are wonderful people, but most just seem creepy... like they got into exported Japanese culture because they couldn't fit into their own. It has resulted in a cultural mixing of the creepiest nerds of the West with the disturbing pre-existing nerdiness of the Far East.
To solve it, I recommend a big-budget adaptation of "Dune". That'll give nerds a region to fall in love with that actually has a decent culture and a major impact on the world today!
Oh I know that. It's just that when you add those social elements to a population it appears to become much easier for the individuals in that population to personally achieve whatever makes them personally happy.
The irrelevance of social programs to individual happiness does not negate their clear relevance to population happiness.
Attitude in my post? Excuse my taking umbrage to yet another smug anonymous coward atheist who hasn't gotten past his teenage resentment of going to church. Just because I'm a happy person in general doesn't mean I never have "negative" emotions.
Honestly, whether you feel happy or not is your business. I just want people to acknowledge that religion actually correlates with happiness rather than modding "religion's all just a big guilt trip to make you miserable" to +2 insightful.
Universal health care, improved education and access to that education for all academically qualified, living wage laws, and maybe lightening up about sex (particularly the douchebags who treat it as a sacrament to be sought above all else).
Seriously -- is it better pay? Free sex? More leisure time?
Most of these, yes. Also, general social mobility so that people can pursue their own wants and dreams in life instead of spending all their time trying to just get by.
Good to see you acknowledging that most other people would feel happy in your situation, but you have to do what makes you happy -- not what everyone says or thinks should make you happy.
Oh shut the fuck up. Religious people tend to be happier. Maybe you'd feel happier if you learned to stop resenting those of us who choose to follow a God (Jewish, myself).
Were you part of the investigation? Did you have any inkling of what could've been done to catch them sooner? If they answer is no then you hardly have any right to criticize them. If the answer is yes then what kept from helping out? Oh wait, it was the money, right?
Yeah, here's how you catch terrorists: you train intelligence agents in detective work and in the languages you expect your enemies to use. Then you send people to infiltrate the terrorist cells.
But that requires paying humans a living wage to do real, human work! We can't do that! We'll have to rely on SIGINT machines.
Then the government complains that their intelligence is crap. The reason their intelligence is crap is straightforward: They underpay people who aren't qualified to do the job in the first place. I'll never forget the CIA's little career day at my University, many a winter moon ago, when I asked the spook behind the little folding card table how much a job in intelligence paid. 33K to start, he said. I laughed and moved on to the next table, where someone in the private sector was offering 100K for a similar, but much more interesting position that I didn't have to move to Virginia to take.
So the CIA guy went home with half a dozen apple-faced applicants who were only too glad to take a ridiculously tiny salary for their huge amounts of effort, all in the name of protecting the American Way.
Damn, is there any field left where employers will pay well for quality employees? Why do all jobs nowadays seem to expect that you'll take a ridiculously small salary because you work for some cause?
And I'm one, as I thought my name showed. I'm attempting to seed a meme of "Gottlieb's Law" to counter conspiracy crap: "As the length of a conspiracy-theoretic conversation or discussion grows, the probability of someone assigning blame to the Jews approaches 1".
It's called public services and infrastructure. They work most efficiently when run by the government, as proven by statistical evidence from some dozen First-World nations. Deal with it.
Hahaha, oh I always love that fantasy world you live in. Fortunately for America, you are wrong, and we will do just fine. We will be out of this recession in a year and a half, and Obama will look like a genius. He will sweep the next presidential election in a landslide, and we will get Universal health care. This will do so much to restore American competitiveness that we will experience huge economic growth before he leaves office, ushering in even more socialism, as people realize it just plain works.
OK, now I can't tell which of you is trolling harder.
COME ON PEOPLE. There is not going to be some kind of dramatic, miraculous movement in any direction. God will not reach out of the heavens and give a sign indicating which way the United States of America should go -- largely because Americans ain't the Chosen People;-). Stuff will be worked out to stop the recession/depression, and people will adopt it. Whoever invented it will see a fruitful political career, and their enemies will fall from power steadily. Life will go right back to normal. That is how reality works. Maybe we'll get universal health care, maybe we won't. It depends on who does what when in which context.
Learn some subtlety and nuance, ya partisan hacks!
No, the core underpinning of liberal values is "weakness makes right". I'm against the Iraq War as much as anyone, but I'm against it because invading other peoples' countries is wrong.
Why is there an inconsistency in your logic? Legalize marijuana, but outlaw or increase penalties for a different drug?
In the real world things are not all-or-nothing.
What business is it of the government or narrow minded moral idiots what substance I ingest?
It's everyone's business that we don't have a society full of manic douchebags with migraines.
That is the problem with the US today, small groups of bigots want to dictate to everyone else their moral and religious beliefs or assorted conservative or liberal ideologies. Fuck off with the "this drug is too dangerous" or "this activity is too dangerous, immoral etc" I am an adult with a rational mind, I don't need you or anyone else dictating my consumption of any chemical I may wish to take into my body. I am a free man, not your fucking slave or child. And yes, it is 7:02am and I have been drinking since I got up at 5:30am. Does that offend your authoritarian concepts of order and control?
And here you just stumble off into drunken rambling. I don't give a damn that you started drinking as soon as you got up, but it sure makes you look like a fool.
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God damn I wish I had mod points for you. Sorry, used 'em all.
Unfortunately when I solve those equations I get an identity. They're meaningless.
And neither of those live-action adaptions was the one it deserves. It deserves the "Lord of the Rings" treatment, the full 3 parts of the book made into a film each.
Film 1: "Dune -- Desert Planet"
Film 2: "Dune -- Muad'Dib"
Film 3: "Dune -- The Prophet"
May thy knife chip and shatter. And be EXTERMINATED.
Seriously, I think we see this on Slashdot at least once a year. Or at least, we definitely see a lame Manga Guide to SOMETHING once a year.
I have no idea (was going to mod you insightful, btw), but I'm ready to sic the Daleks on manga/anime nerds. Some of them are wonderful people, but most just seem creepy... like they got into exported Japanese culture because they couldn't fit into their own. It has resulted in a cultural mixing of the creepiest nerds of the West with the disturbing pre-existing nerdiness of the Far East.
To solve it, I recommend a big-budget adaptation of "Dune". That'll give nerds a region to fall in love with that actually has a decent culture and a major impact on the world today!
Oh I know that. It's just that when you add those social elements to a population it appears to become much easier for the individuals in that population to personally achieve whatever makes them personally happy.
The irrelevance of social programs to individual happiness does not negate their clear relevance to population happiness.
Attitude in my post? Excuse my taking umbrage to yet another smug anonymous coward atheist who hasn't gotten past his teenage resentment of going to church. Just because I'm a happy person in general doesn't mean I never have "negative" emotions.
Honestly, whether you feel happy or not is your business. I just want people to acknowledge that religion actually correlates with happiness rather than modding "religion's all just a big guilt trip to make you miserable" to +2 insightful.
Universal health care, improved education and access to that education for all academically qualified, living wage laws, and maybe lightening up about sex (particularly the douchebags who treat it as a sacrament to be sought above all else).
Seriously -- is it better pay? Free sex? More leisure time?
Most of these, yes. Also, general social mobility so that people can pursue their own wants and dreams in life instead of spending all their time trying to just get by.
Good to see you acknowledging that most other people would feel happy in your situation, but you have to do what makes you happy -- not what everyone says or thinks should make you happy.
Oh shut the fuck up. Religious people tend to be happier. Maybe you'd feel happier if you learned to stop resenting those of us who choose to follow a God (Jewish, myself).
Were you part of the investigation? Did you have any inkling of what could've been done to catch them sooner? If they answer is no then you hardly have any right to criticize them. If the answer is yes then what kept from helping out? Oh wait, it was the money, right?
Yeah, here's how you catch terrorists: you train intelligence agents in detective work and in the languages you expect your enemies to use. Then you send people to infiltrate the terrorist cells.
But that requires paying humans a living wage to do real, human work! We can't do that! We'll have to rely on SIGINT machines.
Then the government complains that their intelligence is crap. The reason their intelligence is crap is straightforward: They underpay people who aren't qualified to do the job in the first place. I'll never forget the CIA's little career day at my University, many a winter moon ago, when I asked the spook behind the little folding card table how much a job in intelligence paid. 33K to start, he said. I laughed and moved on to the next table, where someone in the private sector was offering 100K for a similar, but much more interesting position that I didn't have to move to Virginia to take.
So the CIA guy went home with half a dozen apple-faced applicants who were only too glad to take a ridiculously tiny salary for their huge amounts of effort, all in the name of protecting the American Way.
Damn, is there any field left where employers will pay well for quality employees? Why do all jobs nowadays seem to expect that you'll take a ridiculously small salary because you work for some cause?
It's because some religious people are crazy. We call them blackhats.
Hell no. Not because "Bacon Lung" is a bad name, but because Reddit sucks and can't be allowed to win anything.
Oh dear, but Abominations pass the Gom Jabbar easily. You need to put them through a spice overdose to check for Abomination.
OH DEAR GOD. Steve Jobs is going to create the Cybermen. I mean the Applemen.
And I'm one, as I thought my name showed. I'm attempting to seed a meme of "Gottlieb's Law" to counter conspiracy crap: "As the length of a conspiracy-theoretic conversation or discussion grows, the probability of someone assigning blame to the Jews approaches 1".
No, that stuff falls under "jews" ;-).
You forgot about the Holy Spice.
It's called public services and infrastructure. They work most efficiently when run by the government, as proven by statistical evidence from some dozen First-World nations. Deal with it.
Hahaha, oh I always love that fantasy world you live in. Fortunately for America, you are wrong, and we will do just fine. We will be out of this recession in a year and a half, and Obama will look like a genius. He will sweep the next presidential election in a landslide, and we will get Universal health care. This will do so much to restore American competitiveness that we will experience huge economic growth before he leaves office, ushering in even more socialism, as people realize it just plain works.
OK, now I can't tell which of you is trolling harder.
COME ON PEOPLE. There is not going to be some kind of dramatic, miraculous movement in any direction. God will not reach out of the heavens and give a sign indicating which way the United States of America should go -- largely because Americans ain't the Chosen People ;-). Stuff will be worked out to stop the recession/depression, and people will adopt it. Whoever invented it will see a fruitful political career, and their enemies will fall from power steadily. Life will go right back to normal. That is how reality works. Maybe we'll get universal health care, maybe we won't. It depends on who does what when in which context.
Learn some subtlety and nuance, ya partisan hacks!
My God how hard can you troll? It appears everyone's taking you seriously.
No, the core underpinning of liberal values is "weakness makes right". I'm against the Iraq War as much as anyone, but I'm against it because invading other peoples' countries is wrong.
Why is there an inconsistency in your logic? Legalize marijuana, but outlaw or increase penalties for a different drug?
In the real world things are not all-or-nothing.
What business is it of the government or narrow minded moral idiots what substance I ingest?
It's everyone's business that we don't have a society full of manic douchebags with migraines.
That is the problem with the US today, small groups of bigots want to dictate to everyone else their moral and religious beliefs or assorted conservative or liberal ideologies. Fuck off with the "this drug is too dangerous" or "this activity is too dangerous, immoral etc" I am an adult with a rational mind, I don't need you or anyone else dictating my consumption of any chemical I may wish to take into my body. I am a free man, not your fucking slave or child. And yes, it is 7:02am and I have been drinking since I got up at 5:30am. Does that offend your authoritarian concepts of order and control?
And here you just stumble off into drunken rambling. I don't give a damn that you started drinking as soon as you got up, but it sure makes you look like a fool.