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  1. Solo is unlike the rest of the Star Wars movies because it's not about magical force-wielding Jedi/Sith

    Only EP8 - The Last Jedi - became all about magical force-wielding. So much in fact that's Jedi's became a new sort of super-heroes; Marvel Style. The original trilogy is a Space Opera heavily grounded on the classical Western. The characters are not super-heroes and are definitely flawed. It sprinkled that with a balanced layer of action-film humor.

    Last Jedi broke major universe rules and had a sort of Disney humor that is a bit more childish than the rest. Solo, apparently was also going down the rabbit whole in terms of Disney gags thus all the cuts during major action scenes.

    In my opinion, Solo is a perfect classic of what a new SW film should be. It's not gonna be the best movie ever, that place is taken by the original three but it's entertaining and doesn't spoil the future of the saga with such nonsense as exponential force wielding powers.

    If they go the way of EP8 what's to prevent a single Jedi from remotely exploding Star Destroyers? After all the force controls everything around us.

  2. There's more to IMDB rating than linear ponderatio on Hollywood Is Losing the Battle Against Online Trolls (hollywoodreporter.com) · · Score: 1

    IMDB vote rate wages a lot of factors including the top 1000 voters, etc. That rating will soon go up or down to reflect the actual quality of the movie. Good or bad.

  3. Re: Suzie can vote. Suzie can get a pitchfork. on Fast-Food CEO Invests In Machines Because Regulation Makes Them Cheaper Than Employees (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    Say Suzie earns 6 and makes 9 to the burger joint. If you replace Suzie with a machine the machine can make 18 to the burger joint which makes the burger joint 9 more than by employing Suzie as a burger flipper. The burger joint then can hire Suzie back to clean the machine, still pay 6 for the guy that built the machine and take home 3 more. This conversation seams perpetual. Mail by horse, carriage driver, telephone operator, morse operator, tailor, home cook, etc etc. on every single decade we've been saying that the new technological wave will spiral society into chaos and yet people are richer, have more time, live longer, are more educated, less violent and less famine than ever.

  4. all your units are belong to us on 6 Tiny Robotic Ants, Weighing 3.5 Oz. In Total, Pull a 3900-lb. Car (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    The mechanical ants weight 0.099kg and have 200N of force which translates to roughly 20.4kgf (kilogram-force).

    That would put a 75kg adult being able to apply 15450kfg.

    A very far cry from the 7.3 million kg the Eiffel tower weights but, nonetheless, absolutely impressive.

  5. Re:Slap on the wrist on Volkswagen Diesel Scandal Spreads To Porsche and Audi · · Score: 1
    True! Wrist slapping should be common practice for all industrial consciously wrong-doing!

    Give them a slap on the wrist. Do we really stand to gain more by dragging these guys over the coals.

  6. Let me see, the Indian Institute of Planning and Management (IIPM) deliberately and for years on a row cheats and bend information in their favour on Wikipedia and probably elsewhere. Wikipedia takes action. Wikipedia is to blame for having messed up the lives of 15k students. Right.

  7. As seen on TV? on Creationism Conference at Michigan State University Stirs Unease · · Score: 1

    The only problem I can see arising from this is gluing the university's name to the idea.

    Creationism; as talked on Michigan State University.

  8. Re:Fristy Pawst! on Ebola Has Made It To the United States · · Score: 1

    Why SHOULDN'T first world countries get to share the misery of their less fortunate bretheren, anyway?

    Well, while the media didn't focus much on the subject there are some religious practices that DO MATTER when it comes to spreading disease. Washing the dead and then drinking that same water is one of them. Natural selection will take care of it though. Pretty much the same deal that happened with cannibalism.

  9. Re:And the US could turn Russia into vapor on Russian State TV Anchor: Russia Could Turn US To "Radioactive Ash" · · Score: 1

    Imagine the Russians selling all their US dollars, China following them, and bringing the value of a dollar bill cheaper than paper toilet...

    If the dollar bill sinks, US exports soar.
    If US exports soar, US economy boosts.

    Top US imports are Oil, Machines, Electronics and Vehicles.
    Makes the country pretty self-sufficient in case of such a mishap.

  10. Let me SKIP! on Ask Slashdot: Are There Any Good Reasons For DRM? · · Score: 1

    One thing I DON'T STAND is when you buy a DVD and you're forced to watch a 3 minutes video stating that piracy is illegal. Come on! I just bought the fu***** thing and am still bothered with a warning I CAN'T SKIP?

  11. Re:Thoughts on What Will NASA Do With Its Gifted Spy 'Scopes? · · Score: 1

    Think of it the other way round; we need two Hubbles protecting us to be able to have one for science. War, greed and all in the mix are far more intrinsically human than science.

  12. Why Europe will not fail... on Is Net Neutrality Really Needed? · · Score: 1

    Blame AT&T and blame Google.

    The real issue here is cable vs mobile. Apple has been clever enough to force AT&T into a flat-rate program where there is no reward whatsoever for AT&T to speed up its lines. In Europe (where I live), users are charged by GB so the cellphone groups are actually putting pressure in users to use more data.

    Google is seeing YouTube growth in the mobile "trend" threatened and wants to speed up things. They will even go to the extent of paying ISP's to do it.

    Like fixed phones (who uses them anymore?) in the near future so will mobile net access dominate. The big players will then have established themselves in such a way that there is no way a "youtube"-like startup will be able to compete as it's site will be excruciatingly slow.

    This is an establishment-play by Google. A greedy play by the ISP's. A power-need play by the Government. And a suck-it-up-play for the rest of us.

  13. Re:Konqueror and Epiphany browsers on Do Firefox Users Pay More For Car Loans? · · Score: 1

    This whole article is bogus.
    The results are random then fixed to the browser via session.
    They are even experiencing with different versions of the UI.

    These values are ALL for FIREFOX

    attempt / new loans
    001 / 3.50%
    002 / 2.30%
    003 / 2.70% - UI 2
    004 / 3.10% - UI 2
    005 / 3.50%
    006 / 2.70%
    007 / 3.50%
    008 / 3.50% - UI 2
    009 / 3.50%

    Nothing new. Move along.

  14. Re:Can the Poor SOB sue for damages? on Bank Goofs, and Judge Orders Gmail Account Nuked · · Score: 1

    If the address was not a Gmail the company would probably have praised the banks requests and handle the bank all of your private information plus a good solid background on your persona and all of your emails so that the bank could backfire in court (in case it would turned to that) saying you were not as innocent as you seem.

    That message to your girlfriend saying, "woooah you can't believe the email I just got" would probably put you 5 years behind the bars. Just to be safe. :)

  15. grandmoter uses it... on Configuring a Windows PC For a Senior Citizen? · · Score: 1

    My grandmother who's 86 got her hands on a computer when she was 84. My instructions were quite simple. Do whatever you feel like doing. Mess it up as you wish. She uses it daily to email. From my experience Google services (gmail - google docs) work great. a) very intuitive b) little data loss (elder people hardly understand the save concept) c) you cant pull the menus up and down and mess it up so it just works. How I did it. Had a ghost image of the system (vista) to do a weakly restore. Firefox as browser. Gmail as her homepage. And let them learn how to use it themselves. I cant cope with touchpad she cant cope with the mouse. Give them the option and free will to choose. My 5 cents.

  16. Re:The most likely reason on Why Do We Have To Restart Routers? · · Score: 1

    I also had my router rebooted about once a week but since I've plugged everything into the UPS it keeps giving and giving...

    UPS the world!

  17. Latency anyone? on Does 802.11n Spell the 'End of Ethernet'? · · Score: 1

    Everyones talking about bandwidth... ... what about latency?