Actiually, the animation in Final Fantasy wasn't all that good. Sure, people had realistoc skins with warts and acne and all other kinds of imperfections, but the character movement, especially the bad guy, were way off. Noone in that movie had any mass at all. FF made for great still images and some of the sequences were very impressive, but overall the animation wasn't very good.
An idea I've been batting around would be to toss the spent fuel into the sun. The coronasphere of the sun would blast the waste into atoms and scatter them across the universe. By the time the atoms got back to earth the density levels would be so low that we might encounter on or two atoms out of a multi-ton cargo. And if we lobbed the payload at the sun's poles we'd never see any of the waste again.
The problem, of course, is that rocket launches into space are not the most reliable ventures at this time and we'd still have to get the waste to the launch facilites. Though, we could use one of Dr. Bull's super guns to fire the waste into orbit and then collect them from there and push them into the sun.
I liked THX-1138 and hated Gattaca. The problem with Gattaca, besides the fact that nothing ever happens is that the space program consists of a few guys sitting around desks doing nothing. That and the Highlander-2 idea that we'll all drive older cars in the future. Gattaca had an interesting idea but completely failed to create a believable world to house it in.
There are some of us, like myself, that value freedom and individuality. But many of my fellow Americans are terrified sheep who still see the Twin Towers falling and have let the government blind them with fear that this impending doom will be heading their way any second now. They honestly do not care about losing their freedoms as long as they think they'll be safer for it. They refuse to observe the historical evidence that disproves thier ideas.
But why are they so stupid and short-sighted? A combination of a school system designed to create an unthinking and docile workforce for 19th century factories and a media owned by large corporations intent on keeping people afraid and under control.
They are no different from any other extremist group. Christiand and Jewish extremists would love to do teh very same things to the unwashed hordes. And some of them are trying.
How do we deal with them? Killing them just produces more of them. So that's not going to work.
How about dealing with the socio-economic conditions that created them in the first place? Without a reason to hate us their nuimbers will dwindle.
The character of Luke was originally supposed to be a woman. I had a portfolio of production paintings from Star Wars ("A New Hope" for you youngin's) and there are several pictures where Luke's character was painted as a woman.
And it certainly would have changed the whole love-triangle dynamic. Instead of Lucas copping out by making Luke and Leia (sp?) brother and sister, it could have been lucky Han Solo and the Skywalker Twins!
Yes and no. It is all Lucas' fault that Episode One is a complete and utter ball of festering badger vomit. It is the movie-going publics' fault that Episode Two is just as foul.
Why? Because so many people went to see Episode One over and over that Lucas believed that he had sucseeded in making a good movie.
But even so, it is unfair to put 100% of the blame on the movie going public for Episode Two. Remember that Lucas was aware of the blacklash about Episode One. Instead of learning from it, however, he decided to blame the Internet or claim that it was just a children's movie, depending on the day of the week.
The fact that Americans will see almost any pile of garbage movie and excuse the complete lack of quality with a dismissive "it's just a movie, chill out!" is the reason so many shitty movies get made. But Lucas is a special case because he finances his movies all by himself and even a complete boycott of his movies couldn't stop him from making them and making them so badly.
Any movie that can be ruined in any way by a spoiler isn't a very good movie in the first place. Even knowing who Kaiser Soze really is does not spoil The Usual Suspects in any way.
The volcano has been common knowledge since 1977 or 1978.
It's not that Lucas "ruined" anything. It's that Episode 1 and 2 were crap! They were badly acted (from actors we KNOW can do better!), badly written, badly directed and badly concieved. The only good thing about Star Trek were the special effects, but SFX are a dime a dozen. Good stories are much harder to find.
And yes, I'd rather not have to wade through pools of drek and offal when I want to indulge my craving for science fiction. I would rather have a few well crafted diamonds than a mountain of coal.
That mountain of coal exists because there are some people, myself NOT included) who will tolerate anything, no matter how badly made, just because it is science fiction.
Please, just put us out of its misery. The last two series have been horrid crap. Let Star Trek fade into myth with what little dignity it still has left.
I wouldn't put ANY computer, no matter what the OS, onto a network without a forewall between it and the Outside World. Not Windows, not Linux, not *BSD, not Mac OS X, not BeOS, not my XBox, not my ReplayTV, not anything with a TCP/IP stack. Period.
To just plug into the Internet with no hardware security is like dropping the soap in a prison shower.
Or try a recumbant. Great on the flats. Fast as hell on the downhills. Suck ass on the uphills. But they won't mash your gonads or beat the crap out of your hands.
Soil created through natural processes requires erosion. God is not a natural process. He can make soil out of nothing. He doesn't need sedimentary layers to make the earth support plants.
You are handicapping God by making Him work within the laws of nature. God is all-powerful (according to His followers), He is above and beyond the laws of nature.
But Pixar's kids' films bring parents into the cinema too.
And that does not diminish their quality in any way. I'm an adult with no children and I go to every Pixar film as soon as it comes out. They are among the best written movies being made today in America.
Sceince is not about disproving the existence of God. Science is about, and only about, understanding how the universe around us works. The conflict between science and religion is that science says "this is the best answer we have now that fits the data and our experiments, but if we get more/better data or more refined tests, or discover errors in eith our data or tests, this answer could be wrong." while religions say "This is the correct answer because we say so no matter what the imperical evidence says."
The problem is that science keeps finding out that what most religions claim to be the truth simply does not hold up to investigation. The data does does not support the hypothesis.
Many religions, Catholosism included, feel backed into a corner and threatended when science says that contrary to their religios texts the earth is not the center of the solar system, and by extension not the center of the universe. These religions tend to strike out at science and declair scientists to be heretics. Like the Cathiolic church has done so many times in its past.
The basic fact is that most sceintists, like most people, do beleive in one religion or another. They are not out to disprove their own faith. They are trying to figure out how everything works. And for some of them, science is the art of understanding the grand beauty and unimaginable complexity that is the mind of God.
Now, some individual scientists might have agendas that don't agree with this, but scientists are human beings and all human beings have their own agendas.
The only thing that seemingly prevents the classification of Buddhism as a religion is the lack of a creator God.
That would also mean that Atheism is not a religion, either. Yet Christians keep trying to tell me that I have a religion because I'm an Atheist. And here I though that Atheism simply meant that I did not beleive in any religion/god/etc...
But the Bible is the Word of God! How can it possibly be misunderstood? Shoudl not the message of God Himself be above the inability of human translators to update to new languages? Should not the true meaning shine through no matter how incompitent the men rewriting it?
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Actiually, the animation in Final Fantasy wasn't all that good. Sure, people had realistoc skins with warts and acne and all other kinds of imperfections, but the character movement, especially the bad guy, were way off. Noone in that movie had any mass at all. FF made for great still images and some of the sequences were very impressive, but overall the animation wasn't very good.
An idea I've been batting around would be to toss the spent fuel into the sun. The coronasphere of the sun would blast the waste into atoms and scatter them across the universe. By the time the atoms got back to earth the density levels would be so low that we might encounter on or two atoms out of a multi-ton cargo. And if we lobbed the payload at the sun's poles we'd never see any of the waste again.
The problem, of course, is that rocket launches into space are not the most reliable ventures at this time and we'd still have to get the waste to the launch facilites. Though, we could use one of Dr. Bull's super guns to fire the waste into orbit and then collect them from there and push them into the sun.
I liked THX-1138 and hated Gattaca. The problem with Gattaca, besides the fact that nothing ever happens is that the space program consists of a few guys sitting around desks doing nothing. That and the Highlander-2 idea that we'll all drive older cars in the future. Gattaca had an interesting idea but completely failed to create a believable world to house it in.
There are some of us, like myself, that value freedom and individuality. But many of my fellow Americans are terrified sheep who still see the Twin Towers falling and have let the government blind them with fear that this impending doom will be heading their way any second now. They honestly do not care about losing their freedoms as long as they think they'll be safer for it. They refuse to observe the historical evidence that disproves thier ideas.
But why are they so stupid and short-sighted? A combination of a school system designed to create an unthinking and docile workforce for 19th century factories and a media owned by large corporations intent on keeping people afraid and under control.
They are no different from any other extremist group. Christiand and Jewish extremists would love to do teh very same things to the unwashed hordes. And some of them are trying.
How do we deal with them? Killing them just produces more of them. So that's not going to work.
How about dealing with the socio-economic conditions that created them in the first place? Without a reason to hate us their nuimbers will dwindle.
"Insightful"? That, my moderating little friends, is pure comedy!
Well played, kfg. Well played.
Now, who's up for Adam's Ribs?
The character of Luke was originally supposed to be a woman. I had a portfolio of production paintings from Star Wars ("A New Hope" for you youngin's) and there are several pictures where Luke's character was painted as a woman.
And it certainly would have changed the whole love-triangle dynamic. Instead of Lucas copping out by making Luke and Leia (sp?) brother and sister, it could have been lucky Han Solo and the Skywalker Twins!
Yes and no. It is all Lucas' fault that Episode One is a complete and utter ball of festering badger vomit. It is the movie-going publics' fault that Episode Two is just as foul.
Why? Because so many people went to see Episode One over and over that Lucas believed that he had sucseeded in making a good movie.
But even so, it is unfair to put 100% of the blame on the movie going public for Episode Two. Remember that Lucas was aware of the blacklash about Episode One. Instead of learning from it, however, he decided to blame the Internet or claim that it was just a children's movie, depending on the day of the week.
The fact that Americans will see almost any pile of garbage movie and excuse the complete lack of quality with a dismissive "it's just a movie, chill out!" is the reason so many shitty movies get made. But Lucas is a special case because he finances his movies all by himself and even a complete boycott of his movies couldn't stop him from making them and making them so badly.
Even knowing who Kaiser Soze really is does not spoil The Usual Suspects in any way.
PItch Black is garbage. It' sonly wirth watching if you are really hard up for bad Sci-Fi and Enterprise isn't on that day.
If you disagree with me state your arguments. Moderating me down as a troll because you don't agree with me is immature at best.
It's not that Lucas "ruined" anything. It's that Episode 1 and 2 were crap! They were badly acted (from actors we KNOW can do better!), badly written, badly directed and badly concieved. The only good thing about Star Trek were the special effects, but SFX are a dime a dozen. Good stories are much harder to find.
And yes, I'd rather not have to wade through pools of drek and offal when I want to indulge my craving for science fiction. I would rather have a few well crafted diamonds than a mountain of coal.
That mountain of coal exists because there are some people, myself NOT included) who will tolerate anything, no matter how badly made, just because it is science fiction.
Please, just put us out of its misery. The last two series have been horrid crap. Let Star Trek fade into myth with what little dignity it still has left.
It's long been known that the Tooth Farie is a drag queen. Santa and Toothy got married today in Boston.
Windows 2K service Pack 4 is 129 megabytes.
I wouldn't put ANY computer, no matter what the OS, onto a network without a forewall between it and the Outside World. Not Windows, not Linux, not *BSD, not Mac OS X, not BeOS, not my XBox, not my ReplayTV, not anything with a TCP/IP stack. Period.
To just plug into the Internet with no hardware security is like dropping the soap in a prison shower.
Or try a recumbant. Great on the flats. Fast as hell on the downhills. Suck ass on the uphills. But they won't mash your gonads or beat the crap out of your hands.
You are handicapping God by making Him work within the laws of nature. God is all-powerful (according to His followers), He is above and beyond the laws of nature.
- A Bug's Life - P.T. Flea
- Toy Story / Toy Story 2 - Hamm
- Finding Nemo - School of silvery fish
- Monster's Inc. - Yeti (Want a snow cone?)
That's all I can remember.After I got a digital camera I switched to YYYYMMDD. Now all my pictures sort themselves.
And that does not diminish their quality in any way. I'm an adult with no children and I go to every Pixar film as soon as it comes out. They are among the best written movies being made today in America.
Sceince is not about disproving the existence of God. Science is about, and only about, understanding how the universe around us works. The conflict between science and religion is that science says "this is the best answer we have now that fits the data and our experiments, but if we get more/better data or more refined tests, or discover errors in eith our data or tests, this answer could be wrong." while religions say "This is the correct answer because we say so no matter what the imperical evidence says."
The problem is that science keeps finding out that what most religions claim to be the truth simply does not hold up to investigation. The data does does not support the hypothesis.
Many religions, Catholosism included, feel backed into a corner and threatended when science says that contrary to their religios texts the earth is not the center of the solar system, and by extension not the center of the universe. These religions tend to strike out at science and declair scientists to be heretics. Like the Cathiolic church has done so many times in its past.
The basic fact is that most sceintists, like most people, do beleive in one religion or another. They are not out to disprove their own faith. They are trying to figure out how everything works. And for some of them, science is the art of understanding the grand beauty and unimaginable complexity that is the mind of God.
Now, some individual scientists might have agendas that don't agree with this, but scientists are human beings and all human beings have their own agendas.
That would also mean that Atheism is not a religion, either. Yet Christians keep trying to tell me that I have a religion because I'm an Atheist. And here I though that Atheism simply meant that I did not beleive in any religion/god/etc...
I'm confused.
But the Bible is the Word of God! How can it possibly be misunderstood? Shoudl not the message of God Himself be above the inability of human translators to update to new languages? Should not the true meaning shine through no matter how incompitent the men rewriting it?
Well said. I've tried many times to say the exact same thing.