However, if someone made a film of the film VALIS from the book VALIS, that might be a little bit awesome.
Radio Free Ablemuth has been made into a film, which was used as the basis of the film VALIS in the book VALIS.
Also, "If Radio Free Albemuth is successful, VALIS the book would form the basis for the sequel to VALIS the movie. In other words, the story of VALIS would form the basis for VALIS 2." So looks like there could be a VALIS movie.
I agree it will be near impossible to succusfully turn VALIS into a movie. But from what I can tell of the Radio Free Ablemuth movie, it looks like a small independent production. They probably have the best chance, compared to a largish Hollywood production.
I think The Divine Invasion could be successfully made into a movie. Maybe that can be the second sequel?:)
But lets be honest, he stories are raided and the screen adaptations are nothing like the prose.
There is nothing wrong with movies based on a book that have been modified heavily. The medium is completely different. You can't convey the same ideas in a movie as you can with text.
Hollywood is lazy, or maybe Philip's family are very well connected.
It's the first. Blade Runner was a success, therefore producers are more willing to make a PKD book into a movie. Hollywood is very unwilling to try untested writers/directors/etc.
If he above statements by the TV crew are true, the police covered up the fact that this guy fired four shots first. Why would the police cover this up if the shooter was just a normal student photographer? They would do the exact opposite, i.e. expose him as the shooter, which would semi-validate the National Guard's decision to open fire.
It probably will. They will probably keep the embargo going until the WTO threatens to issue a sanction. China is flexing their muscle. They are saying to Japan that they have power over them. Their goal isn't to permanently block supply to Japan.
FYI, the US has does the exact same thing. IE creating a tariff that is against WTO rules, then only removing the tariff 1-2 years later when the WTO finally reacts. You can get away with it if you are a powerful economy.
What has happened here is that China, again, produces things in an environmentally unfriendly way (since they apparently don't care much about the cost of crapping on their own country), and thus does so with cheap labor, thus becoming the most economically viable producer.
China doesn't care about being "economically viable" with things like this. I'm sure that when they flooded the market with REE, therefore reducing the price, therefore causing other mines to become uneconomic, that they were operating at a loss.
After all, most of the businesses within China are state owned. State owned enterprise does not need to return a profit to the share holders.
The Mt Weld mine in Australia is under construction. They claim to be able to supply 20% of global production. The Mountain Pass mine is to re-open next year as well.
I believe they would be. I think they became federal in 86. But the number isn't used like an SSN. I believe the only time you would absolutely need a birth certificate is for your passport, TFN, welfare and a public health care card. All other things can be a mix of other stuff. For example, you could use a birth certificate to get a driver's licence, then use the driver's licence to get a bank account. So the bank doesn't have your birth certificate details.
I believe the government here has problems because it can't put everyone in a master database connecting everything to everything, and they wanted to introduce a "national ID card" to fix this, but no one wanted it so they trashed the idea. I guess the current system is better for us in terms of privacy.
What is the exact purpose of a SSN? In Australia, we have a tax file number (TFN), which seems equivalent. This is only used for taxation purposes. You would never use it for ID, unless you are identifying yourself to the tax department. You only give it to your bank if you earn interest, but you don't have to if you don't want to. Birth certificates are used as a baseline ID.
For example, how are the published estimates of the US Department of Energy regarding US uranium reserves wrong, and why?
They aren't wrong, just incomplete. It would just be estimates on what is currently known. There could be a massive deposit of uranium (or gold, copper, etc) that is discovered tomorrow that was previously completely unknown.
Contrast this with oil. Most oil is found in rocks of specific type, age and depth. This is because oil needs specific conditions to form. Since oil is vital to society and it generates easy profits, every rock on the planet that meets the criteria of possibly hosting oil has got a drillhole in it. The exception would be deep oceans, Antarctica, Alaska, etc. Any further oil discoveries are going to be small (in between existing drillholes) or expensive to exploit.
Uranium has not had such an intense exploration effort as oil and uranium can be found in a much larger variety of rocks. This is why they are different. I'm sure uranium will peak like oil, but I don't think anyone can accurately predict when based on current knowledge.
Uranium deposits are not like oil. If you believe this, you are the one who needs to educate yourself. And reading a few websites is not an education.
FYI, I am a geologist who works in mineral exploration. I do know a little bit about how exploration, economic viability, and classifying material as a 'reserve' works.
Explain to me how you can estimate how much "cheaply available ore" there is in the world? Uranium (and other metals) are not like oil, where all the main deposits are known and nothing big is likely to ever be discovered again.
As someone who has been following peak oil and the 'global financial crisis' since 2004, before they both reached 'critical mass' in 2007 and late 2008 respectively, the GFC is separate from peak oil. The boom previous to the GFC did cause a spike in oil prices, but the GFC was clearly caused by excessive bad debt handed out during the period of 2001-2008.
How do you 'survey' worker rights? America doesn't have regulated annual leave, sick leave, notice, unfair dismissal, etc. Something that pretty much every developed nation has. Yet other developed nations have manufacturing industries. Yes they are struggling to compete against China and they are reducing in size, but any worse compared to the US?
Do people pronounce this 'a-suhs' or 'a-zoos'?
I pronounce it the first way. I've heard people use the second way. If it is from 'Pegasus', then the first way would be correct.
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How many people per second can this new dock transfer? And does it support hot swapping?
However, if someone made a film of the film VALIS from the book VALIS, that might be a little bit awesome.
Radio Free Ablemuth has been made into a film, which was used as the basis of the film VALIS in the book VALIS.
Also, "If Radio Free Albemuth is successful, VALIS the book would form the basis for the sequel to VALIS the movie. In other words, the story of VALIS would form the basis for VALIS 2." So looks like there could be a VALIS movie.
I agree it will be near impossible to succusfully turn VALIS into a movie. But from what I can tell of the Radio Free Ablemuth movie, it looks like a small independent production. They probably have the best chance, compared to a largish Hollywood production.
I think The Divine Invasion could be successfully made into a movie. Maybe that can be the second sequel? :)
But lets be honest, he stories are raided and the screen adaptations are nothing like the prose.
There is nothing wrong with movies based on a book that have been modified heavily. The medium is completely different. You can't convey the same ideas in a movie as you can with text.
Hollywood is lazy, or maybe Philip's family are very well connected.
It's the first. Blade Runner was a success, therefore producers are more willing to make a PKD book into a movie. Hollywood is very unwilling to try untested writers/directors/etc.
If he above statements by the TV crew are true, the police covered up the fact that this guy fired four shots first. Why would the police cover this up if the shooter was just a normal student photographer? They would do the exact opposite, i.e. expose him as the shooter, which would semi-validate the National Guard's decision to open fire.
Precious metals are not a rare earth elements/metals/minerals.
It probably will. They will probably keep the embargo going until the WTO threatens to issue a sanction. China is flexing their muscle. They are saying to Japan that they have power over them. Their goal isn't to permanently block supply to Japan.
FYI, the US has does the exact same thing. IE creating a tariff that is against WTO rules, then only removing the tariff 1-2 years later when the WTO finally reacts. You can get away with it if you are a powerful economy.
What has happened here is that China, again, produces things in an environmentally unfriendly way (since they apparently don't care much about the cost of crapping on their own country), and thus does so with cheap labor, thus becoming the most economically viable producer.
China doesn't care about being "economically viable" with things like this. I'm sure that when they flooded the market with REE, therefore reducing the price, therefore causing other mines to become uneconomic, that they were operating at a loss.
After all, most of the businesses within China are state owned. State owned enterprise does not need to return a profit to the share holders.
The Mt Weld mine in Australia is under construction. They claim to be able to supply 20% of global production. The Mountain Pass mine is to re-open next year as well.
I believe they would be. I think they became federal in 86. But the number isn't used like an SSN. I believe the only time you would absolutely need a birth certificate is for your passport, TFN, welfare and a public health care card. All other things can be a mix of other stuff. For example, you could use a birth certificate to get a driver's licence, then use the driver's licence to get a bank account. So the bank doesn't have your birth certificate details.
I believe the government here has problems because it can't put everyone in a master database connecting everything to everything, and they wanted to introduce a "national ID card" to fix this, but no one wanted it so they trashed the idea. I guess the current system is better for us in terms of privacy.
What is the exact purpose of a SSN? In Australia, we have a tax file number (TFN), which seems equivalent. This is only used for taxation purposes. You would never use it for ID, unless you are identifying yourself to the tax department. You only give it to your bank if you earn interest, but you don't have to if you don't want to. Birth certificates are used as a baseline ID.
To me, politicians and media share the blame on this one.
The media is a reflection of their audience. We are to blame.
And Iraq didn't lose the first (second) Gulf War. They just had their army obliterated by UN forces then managed to scare them off towards the end.
For example, how are the published estimates of the US Department of Energy regarding US uranium reserves wrong, and why?
They aren't wrong, just incomplete. It would just be estimates on what is currently known. There could be a massive deposit of uranium (or gold, copper, etc) that is discovered tomorrow that was previously completely unknown.
Contrast this with oil. Most oil is found in rocks of specific type, age and depth. This is because oil needs specific conditions to form. Since oil is vital to society and it generates easy profits, every rock on the planet that meets the criteria of possibly hosting oil has got a drillhole in it. The exception would be deep oceans, Antarctica, Alaska, etc. Any further oil discoveries are going to be small (in between existing drillholes) or expensive to exploit.
Uranium has not had such an intense exploration effort as oil and uranium can be found in a much larger variety of rocks. This is why they are different. I'm sure uranium will peak like oil, but I don't think anyone can accurately predict when based on current knowledge.
Uranium deposits are not like oil. If you believe this, you are the one who needs to educate yourself. And reading a few websites is not an education.
FYI, I am a geologist who works in mineral exploration. I do know a little bit about how exploration, economic viability, and classifying material as a 'reserve' works.
Peak oil is a myth and there is very strong evidence of abiotic oil. See http://www.viewzone.com/abioticoilx.html for example.
You took geology, but aren't a geologist? I am a geologist and abiotic oil is laughably wrong...
The made up numbers...?
Explain to me how you can estimate how much "cheaply available ore" there is in the world? Uranium (and other metals) are not like oil, where all the main deposits are known and nothing big is likely to ever be discovered again.
As someone who has been following peak oil and the 'global financial crisis' since 2004, before they both reached 'critical mass' in 2007 and late 2008 respectively, the GFC is separate from peak oil. The boom previous to the GFC did cause a spike in oil prices, but the GFC was clearly caused by excessive bad debt handed out during the period of 2001-2008.
requires a huge and very expensive infrastructure to get it out of the earth
Does it? http://www.uraniumsa.org/processing/insitu_leaching.htm
The real enemies are those who scream bloody murder whenever the N-word is brought up.
Naggers?
How do you 'survey' worker rights? America doesn't have regulated annual leave, sick leave, notice, unfair dismissal, etc. Something that pretty much every developed nation has. Yet other developed nations have manufacturing industries. Yes they are struggling to compete against China and they are reducing in size, but any worse compared to the US?
Do you understand what the word "worker" means?
Basically the US is losing manufacturing jobs because we don't let business completely stomp all over the rights of the workers anymore.
From what I understand, worker rights in the US are the worst compared to any Western/Developed nation.
I stand corrected. That is making me Macrohard.
I don't believe that for one second. How did he get a girlfriend before Microsoft made him a crapload of cash?
Do people pronounce this 'a-suhs' or 'a-zoos'? I pronounce it the first way. I've heard people use the second way. If it is from 'Pegasus', then the first way would be correct.