I just watched this tonight with a lady friend. I was bored enough to browse/. on my phone for a little while. Then she grabbed my hand and whispered that I'm supposed to be watching the movie. So, I watched the rest of it. I'm not really impressed - it just stretched the imagination.
Sort of spoiler alert ahead - not this movie but another movie...
I'm reminded of another silly movie that I saw but the name escapes me. It was fairly recent and a guy gets tricked into time traveling space mission stuff and comes back (through the power of love) and returns home in time to witness the death of his now elderly daughter. The whole thing was silly and the big thing about it was that 'it doesn't violate any laws of physics.' Which, while true, is about as applicable as saying that the idea of a God doesn't violate physics - pretty much an entirely meaningless sentiment. I mean, you could probably state the same thing about the Matrix movie.
Anyhow, it was akin to that in my mind. It was kind of a "sure but I'm not seeing anything close to reality here" type of thing for me.
I shan't spoil The Martian, however. If you like nice graphics, not bad acting actually, and some neat special effects then it's worth a few dollars I guess. I wasn't able to get immersed in it and I didn't want to see it in 3D. (I should look to find out if they have prescription 3D glasses, they give me headaches.)
I'm not sure if I'd recommend saving it to watch at home. Honestly, unless you've a decent home theater then I don't see any reason to even bother. I'd say it's marginally watchable on the big screen simply because it's on the big screen. There's no compelling reason to watch it at home, however. It's just not worth watching for the story line. The acting was good, I'll give it that. I do really enjoy Damon quite a bit. Sean Bean is also pretty good and has an excellent history of quality work.
Anyhow, I think it's documentary time. I need to clear my head a little. The movie wasn't horrific but I was seriously hoping for better. It might have helped if I'd read the book or done more than watch a single trailer before agreeing that it was worth a shot. I'd probably give it a 3 out of 5 stars (where 2.5 is average). So, yes, it's agreed - we'll find a documentary. What can be more fun than sitting in a small hotel suite, eating left over Chinese, with another human being, and watching educational television?
*sighs* Yes, yes I do need professional help.;) The worst part is I'll probably be poking at my laptop while doing so.
An entirely off topic aside, The Martian sucks - don't go see it. I like Matt Damon even but this is just doesn't impress me. Now I remember why I don't go watch movies normally.
Either way, you go from astrophysics, theoretical even, to chemistry, to propulsion science, to where next? I'm glad I flagged you - I can see your posts better. Still, I'm not sure how your head doesn't explode.
What's funny is that they don't think a majority can be the party discriminated against. I should go there and point out the traits of South Africa during the Apartheid. The black people were the majority yet were openly and ruthlessly oppressed. I'm not even white, well not entirely - I'm mixed, and even I see white people being subjected to biases because of their race. The minute you assume something about a person's being based on their skin color is the minute you become racist. If they're going to be that way then be that way openly and don't try to couch it in terms of equality and meritocracy.
I gotta finish getting ready for a movie but I'll try reading the thread first. I've only made it this far and felt compelled to reply.
I sat here for about five minutes trying to process that. I currently have a guest and we're debating your motive. All we can figure out is that you are probably on the left wing, probably extreme left wing, and trying (somehow?) to make the right look bad with a bunch of assumptions.
She says I shouldn't bother to reply and so I have no spent like another half hour of my time explaining why it's sometimes fun to feed the trolls. After all, trolling is a art. For the sake of brevity, I'll spare you the details of the conversation.
However, we've decided that the reasonable, and measured, response is to reply to let you know that your point is well taken and I'll certainly give everything you said due consideration as, I'm sure, will my children. I'm sure you absolutely understand the intricacies of our relationships, how the future will develop, and are more than qualified to opine on such and so, frankly, I'm a bit curious as to how I can repay you for your words of wisdom.
Anyhow, we have Chinese on the way. She's a local and tells me the food is good. Then we're going to shuffle off and watch a movie. However, I will - and this is a promise, check back to see if you've replied with any more pearls of wisdom, insight, and recommendations. Really, do I send you a check or something? If, for no other reason, thanks for the chuckles and giving us an inspiring and good topic for conversation.
Well, I'm pretty pissed off with my government which is why I am running for State office - it's a start. You can try to solve violence with the violence you seem to profess to hate with one side of your mouth but I don't really think that's a solution. Well, at least as far as I can tell, it's an unlikely solution.
You probably felt pretty smart typing out that reply, didn't you? *sighs* I suppose you just want to be the new boss because, you know, you're way is so much better. After all, you're just suggesting we kill more people for a cause you think is just. How about you just stop killing people and invading places or suggesting such? You know, try to do something productive instead of pissing your pants and whining on the sideline?
I can only assume you've never been in a combat zone or near one. I hate to say it but, realistically, shit happens. That doesn't make it better. It doesn't make it right. That's just how it is and there's not going to be any major change in this so long as we still have violent conflicts. Shit happens.
Remember, "There but by the Grace of God, go I." (Substitute FSM, Dumb Luck, Statistics, or Intelligent/Able to Relocate for God, I guess. It's an old adage hung on the wall in the barracks where I worked as a transport officer in a detention facility.)
If you want to stop shit from happening then stop people from being violent and necessitating a violent response. I'm open to suggestions on how to realistically achieve what's never, in our entire history, been done.
My wife and I divorced and my kids came to live with me after they figured out that I had the coolest toys. My son was into these things. He was still fairly young at the time. For a while I had him convinced that they got the name for the show from that period when you sit on the toilet and aren't actually able to go. He was convinced it was a "peek-a-pooh."
Yes, yes he does sometimes abhor my very existence but I don't regret it one bit. I am still waiting for the right time. for my daughter to be around a few of her friends, so that I can ask her to explain what "twerking" is.
This is my parental obligation. They're both adults now but I still have my job to do. I can't wait until they have children. I'm going to buy them each a drum kit and spoil them beyond belief. That part is not my obligation. That part is purely revenge. If you have kids, you might understand.
Nope, you are correct. I guess I pay a higher percentage than you. Should I do the "libertarian thing" and yell at you to stop leeching off my tax dollars or something? *sighs* There was a time when the Libertarian Party was fairly close to the Democrats but actually too liberal for them. See, I support allowing people to control their own bodies (and that includes such things as wanton drug abuse - again, far cheaper to regulate quality and treat the addiction than it is to criminalize it) and all those great things.
A small government would be nice but, realistically, we don't have a small country. We need minimal government and, perhaps, to reconsider the rights of the individual States within the Union. I absolutely share many ideals with Socialists (and many with other ideologies) and I am, for the most part, a good representation of the sane Classic Libertarian. (I'm going to just start using that name now. I give up.) As I said, I'd happily pay more in taxes assuming they were spent wisely. They aren't. Instead, I pay a goodly sum to a variety of charitable causes (as well as make numerous investments via my own portfolios and as a board member of my credit union) and I actually consider that a part of the social contract. Yes, yes I am OBLIGATED to donate.
I think a big issue is, and I'm meandering a bit off topic - as I'm wont to do, that people don't understand the differences between liberties and freedoms. Or, if you wish, rights and freedoms. We take all of our freedoms and put them into a communal pot and, from that pot, we withdraw our liberties and rights. We take these while ensuring this communal pot remains and that a balance is achieved - ideally. In a quick and simple way to say it, I'm free to kill you but I do not have the liberty to do so. I am a Libertarian. I want you to be able to remove as much as possible from the communal pot as is possible and limit you to making sure there's enough remaining in the pot to serve other people...
I'm not sure if that is all that well written but, alas, I'm not a skilled author.
In addition, there's no way you can be a self-made anything these days. I'm not sure it was ever possible. With my business I didn't have employees so much (I had a couple hundred at the end and they were distributed around the country) but I had people that I worked with. They didn't work for me, they worked with me. Some of them actually had a higher pay rate than I had, at least technically. Obviously, I still owned the cookie jar.
So, good luck with your business. I hope you're decent at delegation, able to give respect, willing to accept accountability, willing to listen and know when to listen, and able to handle your finances. Those are, in a nutshell, my sage words of wisdom or something like that. May your business be geeky and your creditors trusting.;)
I'll see if I can get my hands on one. I'll quite likely buy one to play with, at any rate. If I don't like it then I have a kid who mows my lawn, shovels, and what not. I've turned him into quite a geek and he graduates this year. I'll give it to him if I don't like it. I treat him pretty well, I gave him a car he admired and am going to send him to trade school so he'll get a kick out of me "playing with a kids toy" or similar. However, little does he know - though I've tried to explain, I'm still, very much, a child.
Alright. The crowd is safe then. I used to tell civilians, frequently, "No, no... Just pet him and feed him a biscuit. He doesn't bite." We were very drunk. We still chill together. After boot we ended up stationed with each other for the entire duration of my stay. We took leave together, raised hell together, and drank a whole ton of beer together.
The "he doesn't bite" bit was sort of his nickname for a while. Of course, he finally did bite someone. We were in a bar, in Quantico area, where he had egged on a local and managed to get them to swing first. He ended up biting the guy's calf and I'm slamming him on the head yelling "No Boddie, no bite!" At the top of my lungs. We were still laughing about it when the MPs came and scooped us up. Off to sober up we went - they didn't even cuff us. We still giggle at it from time to time - sometimes I send that, and only that, in a text message. The funny thing is that that was just how Boddie played, he was a huge wrestler, had even spent a few years in college on a scholarship, and was being gentle. Well, gentle by Boddie standards.
Given your username, I'm guessing you understand or can at least appreciate the story so I figured I'd type it out for you. I could go on for days but, frankly, it would probably bore you and it would take too much time. Either way, I'd been meaning to mention that for a while and finally got around to it. Great memories. No bite!!!
We broke these bastards up once. They're just recombining - you know that they're going to end up being purchased by AT&T or someone. This time it's "mobile" and "internet connectivity" sectors. They'll just need to be torn down, again... Rinse, lather, repeat. It's going to keep going until we force real change.
You could just patch your router yourself and save everyone the hassle of needing/wanting to author malware (and anything that changes code without permission is malware regardless of intent).
While I can't really say that I'm anti-Zionist I can say that I'm none too pleased with their behavior but, at the same time, I kind of understand why they are the way they are. However, it's certainly meant as a pejorative, in it's current meaning, in my usage but I was unaware of the history. An interesting read.
I wrote this once already but I somehow lost it. I don't know... Stupid ALT key...
Anyhow, I'm 57. I've seen so many things change in my life. I wasn't around for the great invention of automobile travel, flight, telegraph, or electricity. However, I've seen the world shrink in so many ways. I've seen the culture change, I've seen the people change. I've seen fear turn into begrudging respect. I've seen colors and genders blend. I've seen real aggression and televised police brutality as they beat hippies senseless.
I saw them put a man on the moon. I saw the internet created and then the advent of broadband. I saw cell phones and touch screens. I saw miniaturization that was unthinkable. I've seen Moore's Law play out for quite a while.
I've been across the globe and back again. I can communicate with anyone, anywhere, for the most part. I have vast stores of knowledge available in formats I don't even need. I can type random gibberish (i don't even have to type it) and get a reasonable answer at a search engine. I have more storage than I'll ever need. I have vehicles that perform better than ever before and are more connected than ever while also having greater safety than ever dreamed about.
It has been awesome and I eagerly await the next turn of events.
No, no... I have no racial connotations with that as I've seen neo-conservatives come in a variety of flavors. In fact, I happen to like Jewish people as a general rule. I can even sort of, almost, understand (albeit not accept) Israel's recent behavior.
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Well, I assume they're chewing them and not swallowing them whole.
I just watched this tonight with a lady friend. I was bored enough to browse /. on my phone for a little while. Then she grabbed my hand and whispered that I'm supposed to be watching the movie. So, I watched the rest of it. I'm not really impressed - it just stretched the imagination.
Sort of spoiler alert ahead - not this movie but another movie...
I'm reminded of another silly movie that I saw but the name escapes me. It was fairly recent and a guy gets tricked into time traveling space mission stuff and comes back (through the power of love) and returns home in time to witness the death of his now elderly daughter. The whole thing was silly and the big thing about it was that 'it doesn't violate any laws of physics.' Which, while true, is about as applicable as saying that the idea of a God doesn't violate physics - pretty much an entirely meaningless sentiment. I mean, you could probably state the same thing about the Matrix movie.
Anyhow, it was akin to that in my mind. It was kind of a "sure but I'm not seeing anything close to reality here" type of thing for me.
I shan't spoil The Martian, however. If you like nice graphics, not bad acting actually, and some neat special effects then it's worth a few dollars I guess. I wasn't able to get immersed in it and I didn't want to see it in 3D. (I should look to find out if they have prescription 3D glasses, they give me headaches.)
I'm not sure if I'd recommend saving it to watch at home. Honestly, unless you've a decent home theater then I don't see any reason to even bother. I'd say it's marginally watchable on the big screen simply because it's on the big screen. There's no compelling reason to watch it at home, however. It's just not worth watching for the story line. The acting was good, I'll give it that. I do really enjoy Damon quite a bit. Sean Bean is also pretty good and has an excellent history of quality work.
Anyhow, I think it's documentary time. I need to clear my head a little. The movie wasn't horrific but I was seriously hoping for better. It might have helped if I'd read the book or done more than watch a single trailer before agreeing that it was worth a shot. I'd probably give it a 3 out of 5 stars (where 2.5 is average). So, yes, it's agreed - we'll find a documentary. What can be more fun than sitting in a small hotel suite, eating left over Chinese, with another human being, and watching educational television?
*sighs* Yes, yes I do need professional help. ;) The worst part is I'll probably be poking at my laptop while doing so.
Seriously, you know too much stuff.
An entirely off topic aside, The Martian sucks - don't go see it. I like Matt Damon even but this is just doesn't impress me. Now I remember why I don't go watch movies normally.
Either way, you go from astrophysics, theoretical even, to chemistry, to propulsion science, to where next? I'm glad I flagged you - I can see your posts better. Still, I'm not sure how your head doesn't explode.
What's funny is that they don't think a majority can be the party discriminated against. I should go there and point out the traits of South Africa during the Apartheid. The black people were the majority yet were openly and ruthlessly oppressed. I'm not even white, well not entirely - I'm mixed, and even I see white people being subjected to biases because of their race. The minute you assume something about a person's being based on their skin color is the minute you become racist. If they're going to be that way then be that way openly and don't try to couch it in terms of equality and meritocracy.
I gotta finish getting ready for a movie but I'll try reading the thread first. I've only made it this far and felt compelled to reply.
I sat here for about five minutes trying to process that. I currently have a guest and we're debating your motive. All we can figure out is that you are probably on the left wing, probably extreme left wing, and trying (somehow?) to make the right look bad with a bunch of assumptions.
She says I shouldn't bother to reply and so I have no spent like another half hour of my time explaining why it's sometimes fun to feed the trolls. After all, trolling is a art. For the sake of brevity, I'll spare you the details of the conversation.
However, we've decided that the reasonable, and measured, response is to reply to let you know that your point is well taken and I'll certainly give everything you said due consideration as, I'm sure, will my children. I'm sure you absolutely understand the intricacies of our relationships, how the future will develop, and are more than qualified to opine on such and so, frankly, I'm a bit curious as to how I can repay you for your words of wisdom.
Anyhow, we have Chinese on the way. She's a local and tells me the food is good. Then we're going to shuffle off and watch a movie. However, I will - and this is a promise, check back to see if you've replied with any more pearls of wisdom, insight, and recommendations. Really, do I send you a check or something? If, for no other reason, thanks for the chuckles and giving us an inspiring and good topic for conversation.
Well then you qualify. What are you waiting for? It might be a shitty plane but, dude, it has rockets and stuff! It must be awesome.
Don't they grow faster at that age?
Also, I see someone found the troll modifier. *jumps up and yells, I spotted the fat guy with no sense of humor!*
Well, I'm pretty pissed off with my government which is why I am running for State office - it's a start. You can try to solve violence with the violence you seem to profess to hate with one side of your mouth but I don't really think that's a solution. Well, at least as far as I can tell, it's an unlikely solution.
You probably felt pretty smart typing out that reply, didn't you? *sighs* I suppose you just want to be the new boss because, you know, you're way is so much better. After all, you're just suggesting we kill more people for a cause you think is just. How about you just stop killing people and invading places or suggesting such? You know, try to do something productive instead of pissing your pants and whining on the sideline?
Well, that cut off is approximately your average seven year old American, so we should be good to go.
I can only assume you've never been in a combat zone or near one. I hate to say it but, realistically, shit happens. That doesn't make it better. It doesn't make it right. That's just how it is and there's not going to be any major change in this so long as we still have violent conflicts. Shit happens.
Remember, "There but by the Grace of God, go I." (Substitute FSM, Dumb Luck, Statistics, or Intelligent/Able to Relocate for God, I guess. It's an old adage hung on the wall in the barracks where I worked as a transport officer in a detention facility.)
If you want to stop shit from happening then stop people from being violent and necessitating a violent response. I'm open to suggestions on how to realistically achieve what's never, in our entire history, been done.
Typographical error. That is "surgeon strikes."
My wife and I divorced and my kids came to live with me after they figured out that I had the coolest toys. My son was into these things. He was still fairly young at the time. For a while I had him convinced that they got the name for the show from that period when you sit on the toilet and aren't actually able to go. He was convinced it was a "peek-a-pooh."
Yes, yes he does sometimes abhor my very existence but I don't regret it one bit. I am still waiting for the right time. for my daughter to be around a few of her friends, so that I can ask her to explain what "twerking" is.
This is my parental obligation. They're both adults now but I still have my job to do. I can't wait until they have children. I'm going to buy them each a drum kit and spoil them beyond belief. That part is not my obligation. That part is purely revenge. If you have kids, you might understand.
Nope, you are correct. I guess I pay a higher percentage than you. Should I do the "libertarian thing" and yell at you to stop leeching off my tax dollars or something? *sighs* There was a time when the Libertarian Party was fairly close to the Democrats but actually too liberal for them. See, I support allowing people to control their own bodies (and that includes such things as wanton drug abuse - again, far cheaper to regulate quality and treat the addiction than it is to criminalize it) and all those great things.
A small government would be nice but, realistically, we don't have a small country. We need minimal government and, perhaps, to reconsider the rights of the individual States within the Union. I absolutely share many ideals with Socialists (and many with other ideologies) and I am, for the most part, a good representation of the sane Classic Libertarian. (I'm going to just start using that name now. I give up.) As I said, I'd happily pay more in taxes assuming they were spent wisely. They aren't. Instead, I pay a goodly sum to a variety of charitable causes (as well as make numerous investments via my own portfolios and as a board member of my credit union) and I actually consider that a part of the social contract. Yes, yes I am OBLIGATED to donate.
I think a big issue is, and I'm meandering a bit off topic - as I'm wont to do, that people don't understand the differences between liberties and freedoms. Or, if you wish, rights and freedoms. We take all of our freedoms and put them into a communal pot and, from that pot, we withdraw our liberties and rights. We take these while ensuring this communal pot remains and that a balance is achieved - ideally. In a quick and simple way to say it, I'm free to kill you but I do not have the liberty to do so. I am a Libertarian. I want you to be able to remove as much as possible from the communal pot as is possible and limit you to making sure there's enough remaining in the pot to serve other people...
I'm not sure if that is all that well written but, alas, I'm not a skilled author.
In addition, there's no way you can be a self-made anything these days. I'm not sure it was ever possible. With my business I didn't have employees so much (I had a couple hundred at the end and they were distributed around the country) but I had people that I worked with. They didn't work for me, they worked with me. Some of them actually had a higher pay rate than I had, at least technically. Obviously, I still owned the cookie jar.
So, good luck with your business. I hope you're decent at delegation, able to give respect, willing to accept accountability, willing to listen and know when to listen, and able to handle your finances. Those are, in a nutshell, my sage words of wisdom or something like that. May your business be geeky and your creditors trusting. ;)
I'll see if I can get my hands on one. I'll quite likely buy one to play with, at any rate. If I don't like it then I have a kid who mows my lawn, shovels, and what not. I've turned him into quite a geek and he graduates this year. I'll give it to him if I don't like it. I treat him pretty well, I gave him a car he admired and am going to send him to trade school so he'll get a kick out of me "playing with a kids toy" or similar. However, little does he know - though I've tried to explain, I'm still, very much, a child.
Alright. The crowd is safe then. I used to tell civilians, frequently, "No, no... Just pet him and feed him a biscuit. He doesn't bite." We were very drunk. We still chill together. After boot we ended up stationed with each other for the entire duration of my stay. We took leave together, raised hell together, and drank a whole ton of beer together.
The "he doesn't bite" bit was sort of his nickname for a while. Of course, he finally did bite someone. We were in a bar, in Quantico area, where he had egged on a local and managed to get them to swing first. He ended up biting the guy's calf and I'm slamming him on the head yelling "No Boddie, no bite!" At the top of my lungs. We were still laughing about it when the MPs came and scooped us up. Off to sober up we went - they didn't even cuff us. We still giggle at it from time to time - sometimes I send that, and only that, in a text message. The funny thing is that that was just how Boddie played, he was a huge wrestler, had even spent a few years in college on a scholarship, and was being gentle. Well, gentle by Boddie standards.
Given your username, I'm guessing you understand or can at least appreciate the story so I figured I'd type it out for you. I could go on for days but, frankly, it would probably bore you and it would take too much time. Either way, I'd been meaning to mention that for a while and finally got around to it. Great memories. No bite!!!
All indications are that this is the likely course we will follow. Don't blame me, I didn't vote for the bastards.
It should be. I'm functionally retarded. Hell, I'm not even functional.
We broke these bastards up once. They're just recombining - you know that they're going to end up being purchased by AT&T or someone. This time it's "mobile" and "internet connectivity" sectors. They'll just need to be torn down, again... Rinse, lather, repeat. It's going to keep going until we force real change.
Your name sure as hell better not be Boddie.
You could just patch your router yourself and save everyone the hassle of needing/wanting to author malware (and anything that changes code without permission is malware regardless of intent).
While I can't really say that I'm anti-Zionist I can say that I'm none too pleased with their behavior but, at the same time, I kind of understand why they are the way they are. However, it's certainly meant as a pejorative, in it's current meaning, in my usage but I was unaware of the history. An interesting read.
I wrote this once already but I somehow lost it. I don't know... Stupid ALT key...
Anyhow, I'm 57. I've seen so many things change in my life. I wasn't around for the great invention of automobile travel, flight, telegraph, or electricity. However, I've seen the world shrink in so many ways. I've seen the culture change, I've seen the people change. I've seen fear turn into begrudging respect. I've seen colors and genders blend. I've seen real aggression and televised police brutality as they beat hippies senseless.
I saw them put a man on the moon. I saw the internet created and then the advent of broadband. I saw cell phones and touch screens. I saw miniaturization that was unthinkable. I've seen Moore's Law play out for quite a while.
I've been across the globe and back again. I can communicate with anyone, anywhere, for the most part. I have vast stores of knowledge available in formats I don't even need. I can type random gibberish (i don't even have to type it) and get a reasonable answer at a search engine. I have more storage than I'll ever need. I have vehicles that perform better than ever before and are more connected than ever while also having greater safety than ever dreamed about.
It has been awesome and I eagerly await the next turn of events.
No but I'd blame the company for not funding testers properly and a bug getting through QA.
No, no... I have no racial connotations with that as I've seen neo-conservatives come in a variety of flavors. In fact, I happen to like Jewish people as a general rule. I can even sort of, almost, understand (albeit not accept) Israel's recent behavior.
I think the important question, and the most important question, is can I surf on one?
Ha! Just kidding. I can't surf worth a damn. I have a scar to prove my ineptness.