The humans are actually cylons built by the the lords of kobal who are actually true human colonists from earth. the humans-who-are-really-cylons rebelled, thus leading to their exile to the 12 colonies, however they still remember the lords as gods. the 13th colony decided to retrace their steps back to earth in union with the 13th lord of kobal and found transcendance. reaching across the galaxy they engineering the homeworld pilgrimage as a trial of worthiness appealing to the cylons need of purpose and monotheism. in the final battle over earth between the cyclons and the battlestar, the cylons and the cylon sympathisers submit to the 13th lord of kobal, the true god, and are transcended/destroyed. the human survivors settle on Earth and begin anew, free from the cylon threat, and learn to love cylons and make cylon babies. none of this matters in the long run because i'm just trying to waste time at work, and none of this really gets me any closer to getting laid this weekend. Fascinating.
genetically engineered floating microscopic algae filled with hydrogen that live in clouds that can be harvested by giant flying mesh nets. Of course, this would cause massive droughts thus killing millions of people. also they would... i dunno... filter the sun's light, shifting it red... taking away superman's powers. thus solving everything. Global warming, and how to kill superman. awesome.
I kind of feel like I'm in that one episode of Futurama with the time skips...
Jack Thompson says video games are evil...
ZZZZZT
Jack Thompson brings lawsuit against video game companies.....
ZZZZZT
Found dead in a hotel bathtub....
i think, it was more like, no one gave a damn what is basically a cartoon targeted at young adults with nothing better to do after midnight, and then someone said, "hey, how long has that weird thing on that support beam been there?" TERRORISM
the sad part is, I'm afraid that this will affect adult swim and I will no longer be able to get my dose of robot chicken and futurama....
actually now that I've seen the flickr pictures, i realized my mistake. They're freaking portable neon lights, like the ones you see in bars and whatnot. wow. From the article and statements by Boston officials they made it seem like these things were intentionally made to look like bombs, a sort of thing "mooninites" might think funny (which is what i thought the advertising campaign was about). These things are barely thick enough to hold the diodes in place, and there's 4 D batteries, a combined power which could literally devastate if not obliterate everything within a radius of 1 maybe 2 cm.
so to retract my previous statements, yes everyone is overreacting, but I'm not going to hazard a guess to the source of the hysteria. Although the fact that they keep refering to "Turner", "corporate greed", etc over an advertising done by a studio who's mandate is literally "make programming for as little money as bloody possible" makes me think that what they really want is some payolla to pay for all this mobilization.
Still i think the marketing campaign was in bad taste. It was wholey designed to garner this kind of attention and I don't really find it funny that a large chunk of taxpayer's money is being spent investigating what is effectively a burning paper bag full of doo doo.
Then again, you're taking about an advert that probably cost $12.50 to do, and got exposure that probably reached millions of people. So kudos PR marketing firm, you've earned that B.A.
I guess it really boils down to how funny people think terrorism is. If you think it's hilarious, don't be too surprised if no one else is laughing. Comedy's hard enough without dealing with an audience that thinks constitutional rights are really just guidelines, and liberalism is the forefront enemy in the unspoken war on cultural values. And i don't really feel like defending someone else over a joke. That's the ACLU's job and they might be a little too busy trying to get basic humanitarian/legal rights for people in gitmo among other things.
Also Aqua Teen Hunger Force sucks. there. i said it. god.
Okay I wrote like a 2 page essay criticizing your post, your logic, and the sexual proclivities of your mother, however, having calmed down a tad, I posted this instead:
The difference is that here if I speak my mind, I may lose my job, assuming I did it at work, on a blog, with my name on it, which was critical of the current administration and the president's policies concerning national security, also my PageRank probably had to be high.
In China I might get shot.
For you Westside people it's the Compton difference that makes all the difference for us.
I think history will show that the shovel wasn't invented so much so that digging a trench will be easier, rather that digging 10 trenches would be possible. Again, the backhoe wasn't invented simply to make digging canals easier, but to allow construction at a larger, grander scale.
Eli Whitney graduated from Yale with honors. For those of you who don't remember, back then, you had to know at least 3 languages to get into college. English, French, Latin. He was a rigorous inventor who invented the cotten gin and interchangable parts.
Fulton was indeed a slacker, having invented the steamboat he immediately wooed politicians into giving him government subsidies and a monopoly on all steamboat traffic. When the supreme court overruled the arrangement, Fulton couldn't compete with the faster, cheaper competition.
Edison was a slacker in that he really didn't invent much, most of his 'inventions' were improvements on already existing inventions which profited from their marketability. But I don't think even Telsa would characterize Edision as a true blue slacker.
Anything really worthwhile in life came about because of effort, not lazy guile. None of the people who ever made the world a better place was a slacker. They may have enjoyed leisure, philosophy, or other things, but I argue they all worked goddamn hard to be that lazy.
Slackers also invented slavery. Easier getting some other sucker to do your work for you.
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The humans are actually cylons built by the the lords of kobal who are actually true human colonists from earth. the humans-who-are-really-cylons rebelled, thus leading to their exile to the 12 colonies, however they still remember the lords as gods. the 13th colony decided to retrace their steps back to earth in union with the 13th lord of kobal and found transcendance. reaching across the galaxy they engineering the homeworld pilgrimage as a trial of worthiness appealing to the cylons need of purpose and monotheism. in the final battle over earth between the cyclons and the battlestar, the cylons and the cylon sympathisers submit to the 13th lord of kobal, the true god, and are transcended/destroyed. the human survivors settle on Earth and begin anew, free from the cylon threat, and learn to love cylons and make cylon babies. none of this matters in the long run because i'm just trying to waste time at work, and none of this really gets me any closer to getting laid this weekend. Fascinating.
or a republic, depending on your view
genetically engineered floating microscopic algae filled with hydrogen that live in clouds that can be harvested by giant flying mesh nets. Of course, this would cause massive droughts thus killing millions of people. also they would... i dunno... filter the sun's light, shifting it red... taking away superman's powers. thus solving everything. Global warming, and how to kill superman. awesome.
To suggest they were lost would embolden the enemy and weaken the resolve of the Roman allies.
I kind of feel like I'm in that one episode of Futurama with the time skips... Jack Thompson says video games are evil... ZZZZZT Jack Thompson brings lawsuit against video game companies..... ZZZZZT Found dead in a hotel bathtub....
who marked that comment troll? misguided and something a wooden parrot might say, but hardly a troll.
i think, it was more like, no one gave a damn what is basically a cartoon targeted at young adults with nothing better to do after midnight, and then someone said, "hey, how long has that weird thing on that support beam been there?" TERRORISM the sad part is, I'm afraid that this will affect adult swim and I will no longer be able to get my dose of robot chicken and futurama....
actually now that I've seen the flickr pictures, i realized my mistake. They're freaking portable neon lights, like the ones you see in bars and whatnot. wow. From the article and statements by Boston officials they made it seem like these things were intentionally made to look like bombs, a sort of thing "mooninites" might think funny (which is what i thought the advertising campaign was about). These things are barely thick enough to hold the diodes in place, and there's 4 D batteries, a combined power which could literally devastate if not obliterate everything within a radius of 1 maybe 2 cm. so to retract my previous statements, yes everyone is overreacting, but I'm not going to hazard a guess to the source of the hysteria. Although the fact that they keep refering to "Turner", "corporate greed", etc over an advertising done by a studio who's mandate is literally "make programming for as little money as bloody possible" makes me think that what they really want is some payolla to pay for all this mobilization.
back in the day, that list used to include Monty Python and Star Wars
Still i think the marketing campaign was in bad taste. It was wholey designed to garner this kind of attention and I don't really find it funny that a large chunk of taxpayer's money is being spent investigating what is effectively a burning paper bag full of doo doo. Then again, you're taking about an advert that probably cost $12.50 to do, and got exposure that probably reached millions of people. So kudos PR marketing firm, you've earned that B.A. I guess it really boils down to how funny people think terrorism is. If you think it's hilarious, don't be too surprised if no one else is laughing. Comedy's hard enough without dealing with an audience that thinks constitutional rights are really just guidelines, and liberalism is the forefront enemy in the unspoken war on cultural values. And i don't really feel like defending someone else over a joke. That's the ACLU's job and they might be a little too busy trying to get basic humanitarian/legal rights for people in gitmo among other things. Also Aqua Teen Hunger Force sucks. there. i said it. god.
Okay I wrote like a 2 page essay criticizing your post, your logic, and the sexual proclivities of your mother, however, having calmed down a tad, I posted this instead: The difference is that here if I speak my mind, I may lose my job, assuming I did it at work, on a blog, with my name on it, which was critical of the current administration and the president's policies concerning national security, also my PageRank probably had to be high. In China I might get shot. For you Westside people it's the Compton difference that makes all the difference for us.
I think history will show that the shovel wasn't invented so much so that digging a trench will be easier, rather that digging 10 trenches would be possible. Again, the backhoe wasn't invented simply to make digging canals easier, but to allow construction at a larger, grander scale.
Eli Whitney graduated from Yale with honors. For those of you who don't remember, back then, you had to know at least 3 languages to get into college. English, French, Latin. He was a rigorous inventor who invented the cotten gin and interchangable parts.
Fulton was indeed a slacker, having invented the steamboat he immediately wooed politicians into giving him government subsidies and a monopoly on all steamboat traffic. When the supreme court overruled the arrangement, Fulton couldn't compete with the faster, cheaper competition.
Edison was a slacker in that he really didn't invent much, most of his 'inventions' were improvements on already existing inventions which profited from their marketability. But I don't think even Telsa would characterize Edision as a true blue slacker.
Anything really worthwhile in life came about because of effort, not lazy guile. None of the people who ever made the world a better place was a slacker. They may have enjoyed leisure, philosophy, or other things, but I argue they all worked goddamn hard to be that lazy.
Slackers also invented slavery. Easier getting some other sucker to do your work for you.