However, this wouldn't be a criminal matter... the guy isn't going to jail for theft. It is a civil matter, and in a civil suit the litigant must prove the case by a 'preponderance of the evidence,' which basically means more than 50 percent. Which also means that if there is a large and damning body of evidence against you in a civil case, you actually have to prove your innocence or lose the case. Getting found innocent of a crime does not mean you were not guilty of that crime. It only means you were found innocent of the specific criminal charges brought against you in a court of law. There are numerous examples out there... Remember The Juice? OJ and the glove?
Did the guy in question in the article steal? Only he and that Staples know for sure. However, they would not have sent that internal email to their employees if they did not feel they had sufficient evidence to back up their stance. The fact that the ruling gives this joker the right to shut Staples up EVEN IF IT IS TRUE (key phrase in this) leans toward it being true that he stole from the company. If he hadn't stolen, the whole truth thing wouldn't even be an issue. He would be fighting this case tooth and nail... he would be fighting to sue them for actual Libel... because what they would be saying would be false.
So, we can call him a thief. If he and his lawyer are trying to Silence Staples from telling the truth about his being a thief... we can call him a thief.
First... how did Bush get into office the second time? The Electoral College. So if someone stood up and voted against him.... in fact if a majority of the population stood up and voted against him it made no difference. He manipulated the system, and got the right votes to put him in office.
So, all those people who stood up and voted against... what are THEY supposed to do now, so you don't lob them into that guilty bucket? They tried. They attempted to use the system. They did what they could do without getting shot.
I am an adult, and I am in the US. I am innocent of any of the crimes of my government. If it was in my power to stop those crimes from happening, I would have done it. However it was NOT in my power to be able to stop my government from doing any and/or all of the things I found to be wrong and/or offensive. If I do anything more, I'll end up behind bars indefinitely under the Patriot Act.
Nothing that Obama does is going to make a difference for the better. As long as we attempt to work within the corrupt and broken system to fix it, we are going to fail. We proved once before that it took a bloody revolution to make the necessary changes. We proved that Revolution works. The country as it is, is not the country our founding fathers intended, in any way. We are in need of another revolution, to fix our current government.
With the growing popularity of UDF http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Disk_Format and the fact that M$ doesn't have the patent for it, and M$ supports it in their OS releases, and it is currently being looked at as a universal replacement on flash media... I don't know why TomTom and everyone else didn't just push a little harder to use UDF over FAT.
Hmm.. well, I'm in the US, I went to a High School for a career day demonstration, and I had an old Pentax K-1000 with me. The first kid to ask about it did not believe that it did not have an LCD screen, nor that it was not a DSLR. I did not meet one kid that day at that high school that had heard of 35mm film, or had touched a camera that used film.
So your example is most definitely not the norm. Neither is mine.
I'd agree with you that it is not that hard to push a button... I mean, you STILL have to push a button to take the picture... but the fact that there was a need, and this this app was developed to suit that need, proves that it *is* too hard to just press a button.
She refuse to stop doing something she was not supposed to be doing, after being told to stop.
She lied about even having the phone.
I'd say that since nothing had worked to get her to behave up to this point, that police and court time was not wasted at all.
At what point do you just throw up your hands and give up? I understand that this is what YOU think should have happened... that the adults should have just given up and let her do as she pleased... because this is what you want people to let YOU do.
The fact is, she had to learn that if you disobey, you face punishment.
I think more people need to go to jail for speeding. Nothing else seems to be doing the trick in stopping it.
hmm.... let's see. Hookers? You get more action from them than a tease from a pole dancer. Food? Better buy than pole dancer time. Umm.. maybe spend more money gambling, and less on bimbos who won't put out?
Prison Guards benefit from having a job, because someone was found guilty. Victims benefit from knowing justice was served in a case where someone was found guilty.
Oh, you don't mean that... you mean the OTHER people that benefit...
How easy is it to change the oil in your car? It is actually very easy, even considering all the different locations that the Oil filter can be placed in. The procedure is simple. Most people , even though after 5 minutes they could be doing it themselves, would prefer to bring it into the local Jiffy Lube and pay someone else to do it. How about rotating your tires? Same difference. Simple procedure. It only requires the time and labor. Most people still pay for the convenience.
Now, we can debate whether or not there *should* be malware and spyware to be cleaned from machines... but the fact is that this already exists, and it must be dealt with. You say Best Buy. I say small, local repair shops. Geek Squad charges more than twice what we charge for the same services, and they even charge for some things we think are no more than "Muffler Bearings" scams.
You think everyone should know enough to be able to keep their machines clean? I think everyone should know enough to be able to change their own oil. People should know enough to be able to cook their own food... this doesn't stop them from having someone else cook it for them.
Work dries up, and instead of being laid off or assigned to another department, you are told NOT to work and just wait and get paid for waiting.
You state you would appreciate some compensation for all you have saved the company.
Is there any particular reason why you do NOT see the apparent job security you have, as compensation? I mean, most people would enjoy getting paid for NOT working. That's a pretty big perk. It's like getting a bonus check. I mean, it is literally money you did not have to work for... because you were paid while you were told NOT to work.
So just how greedy are you? I bet you are greedy enough to STILL not see what I'm saying, and eventually you are going to put yourself in a position where you lose this job... only then are you going to see how good you had it.
People are being denied jobs because what they post about themselves on their own social networking pages. Oh... you obviously didn't know that. People are facing being judged by the community they live in.. well, people other than you. Living in the basement of your parent's house does lend credibility to your "I just don't give a shit" attitude.
You don't give a shit what an Internet Troll says. You can't speak for anyone else, regardless of how elite you believe yourself to be. It doesn't matter if you don't think Trolls should be held accountable for what they say... the fact of the matter is that EVERYONE should be accountable for what they say, whether they hide behind the internet, or step out in the open.
Now, you are implying that if a person walks into a crowded theatre, disguises their identity, and shouts "Fire!" causing a panic and causing people to die... just because he is a hidden Troll, that makes it all ok. I mean, if we knew who this person was, THEN this person would be accountable... but if we can't identify the person, because they chose to hide their identity, then we should just blow off what they said... because it OBVIOUSLY could not cause anyone any damage. Right? I mean, you *are* saying that we should all just completely ignore anonymous trolls, because... why? Because they are anonymous? That's fuckin stupid. Someone's status has nothing to do with the validity of what they say. Judges, lawyers, and cops can be corrupt, and thieves can tell the truth and be profound.
This couple has EVERY right to go after the people who made erroneous statements and false accusations against them, regardless of whether those doing the posting were Anonymous or not. If they do not, they are encouraging more of the same behavior.
The world is a bigger place than you realize. More people care about more things than you can ever hope to care about. You have proven that. Now, all you have to do is stop assuming that everyone is like you, and that if someone hides their face their words mean nothing. These people purposely hid behind their anonymous status because they believed this would protect them from any fallout regardless of what they said or did. Just because you have the ability to hide and do horrible things, does not mean it should be acceptable to hide and do horrible things. I suspect that is too difficult for you to understand.
If it was your job to track satellites, because you were part of the department that launched the satellite that fell on your car.. then YES, it would be your fault that you did not move your car out of the way.
Now, since the people who owned the Iridium Satellite were ALSO in charge of maintaining it... which includes knowing it's position in the sky... they were responsible for making sure that it did not collide with anything. In a perfect world (or above it) there would have been people closely monitoring both trajectories, with the ability to adjust each satellite.
So either no one was watching at Iridium, which means someone needs to be sacked for not properly monitoring the unit... or those who were watching assumed that the Russian satellite was going to be the one that moved, and someone needs to be sacked for THAT decision.
But if you want an analogy that involves cars... Two cars head for the same parking spot. If one of those cars has no driver, and is just rolling in that direction (the dead Russian satellite that was probably identified long before the collision) and you did NOTHING after identifying that there was no one behind the wheel, then it would be your fault when that car collided with you.
Still want a car analogy? Ok. You are in a car, heading to cross railroad tracks. You can see quite a bit of the road ahead, and you can see a train coming. You can even tell that you are going to cross the tracks just in time to get hit by that train. Now... why would you assume that the other guy is going to move? In this case, it can't. It won't even be able to slow down in time. You are the one with maneuverability. Thus, if you do collide with that train, it will be your fault.
Yeah, maybe they did not KNOW that the Russian Satellite was dead. So you assume the conversation went like this? "Hey, our satellite is gonna hit a Russian bird." "Hmmm... they had better alter that orbit" "Why don't we alter our orbit?" "What? That's crazy talk. No reason OUR orbit should be altered. Let them move theirs."... time passes... "They didn't change their orbit." "Well, we aren't altering ours."
Don't forget Harlan Ellison and Alan Dean Foster. They also wrote some heavy science fiction. Oh wait... I understand why you forgot them. They also wrote Star Trek script material.
But, you could have saved yourself some time and typing, if you simply reminded the parent that he forgot two words from the end of the passage you quoted. Those two words being "on television". Go ahead. Add them to the end of what you quoted. I'll wait.
Now, when I read what he originally wrote, I never got the impression in any way that he was challenging some of the greats like A.E. Van Vogt or Zelazney, or Asimov, or Heinlein. I got the exact impression that the parent wanted to send... that Star Trek had kicked Sci-Fi out of the way, and had instead brought Science-Fiction to the little screen.
The funny part, is the Wikipedia article you link to, has THIS to say on the subject...
"Before Star Trek, Tom Corbett -- Space Cadet was the most scientifically accurate series on television."
This is important, because the article YOU mention, points out the Importance of Star Trek and science fiction on television... and the article isn't even about Star Trek. If you read... actually read... with the Jungles on Venus and the Space Pirates living on asteroids, you find that the phrase "Scientifically accurate series on television" doesn't mean all that much. If no other show on TV was showing that gravity actually does work, the only show that did would be the most scientifically accurate one. Or rather, if Every show on TV is scientifically inaccurate, the title of Most Accurate doesn't mean all that much.
You are right, in that there was Sci-Fi before Trek.
ALL Hail You, for mentioning that there was Sci-Fi before trek.
Now, get off your lazy ass and acknowledge that Trek did FAR MORE for bringing science and real science fiction into more American Homes than practically any other source at the time. Because if you don't, you are blind.
Did you know... The Microsoft Malicious Software Removal Tool now removes Antivirus 2009 and it's variants? That means as long as people update Windows, they is a measure of protection offered. However, if people do not understand that they must make sure that Windows is up to date by actually running the update utility, how are they going to keep their system protected?
I currently make a living removing spyware and malware from infected machines. Did you know that the majority of people think that malware and spyware are the same as a virus? Did you know that the majority of people out there think that a Virus removal tool also removes spyware and malware? Every day, machines are brought in running XP that is still using service pack 1 or 2. People bring in machines that are running a copy of Norton that expired 2 years ago... and they think that they should still be protected, because they have Norton.
The only ignorance here that matters, is YOURS. As has been pointed out in many different ways... the problem is between the keyboard and the chair... not with the Operating system.
{sarcasm} now Mailman is a much better response than Alcohol. Because we ALL know there are no married mailmen.
That must be it. All married men stop having sex after the first child. All subsequent children are fathered by mailmen. No Married man has an interest in sex after the first child... therefore All Mailmen are single.
That makes perfect sense. I knew the mailmen who delivered the mail here (I'm on a training route) and were wearing wedding rings, were only wearing them to attract women... although married men don't have sex and we've established that... well, they must be wearing their fake wedding rings to scare off... something. {/sarcasm}
So you are saying that Dad forgot he had a kid already? That could happen. Why would he regain interest then? Wouldn't just the mere presence of children itself on the planet be enough to kill interest, if children killed interest in sex? Or are you saying that Dad forgot he wasn't interested in inserting his penis into anything female? Because if he forgot he wasn't interested anymore and went and had more sex... he was OBVIOUSLY interested... and this proves my point that just having the first child doesn't kill interest.
How could the national average for the number of children in an American Household be 2.3 kids... if it hadn't been proven already that married men do NOT lose interest in sex?
Sorry... you might fight it just because proving something to Slashdot expectations is impossible and you are simply trolling... but the numbers prove me out. All over the world.
Your comment, although humorous, falls completely apart under the most basic of observation. For example... How does your statement explain the 2nd child? And the 3rd? I'm a 4th child of a married couple. So there is ample precedent that a married man continues to bury the seed in fertile soil, long after the first puppy has been pushed out the play-dough fun factory of life.
Where would the urban myth be of how wearing a wedding ring works out to be a great way to attract women... if married men were known for their abstinence?
Why do women divorce their husbands for cheating, if the husbands in fact have no interest in that kind of thing after they have their first kid?
These are just a couple of the obvious barriers to believing him.
So don't trust the GP(P). He was just being funny. He definitely still has an interest in insertions.
Let's see. That gamer there... HE bought that wide screen TV, and that console... plus he's got a PC for some games too that he bought... then there is the food he buys... oh and he pays for his WoW account...
Not much leeching going on there. You might want to re-evaluate your definition of a Leech. A Welfare Mother who is having another kid to cap out on the limit of money the state is going to give her to survive and raise these fatherless children... THAT'S a leech.
Who did the gamer get to pay for his gaming systems? WHo did the gamer get to pay for his games? Who does the gamer get to pay for his food, and rent, and everything else? Because that gamer most likely has a job, he pays for his stuff.
I could be taking about my manager, who bought his own 42 inch TV, and two 22 inch LCD monitors, and is working on his second Nvidia 9800 machine... all purchased (just like his PC games) with the money he made here. He is a hard-core gamer. I don't know one gamer who is a leech on society.
Couch potatoes? You mean, if you have had a hard day at work, and you flop down on the couch to spend a few hours doing nothing but eating cheese curls... and your girlfriend calls you a couch potato because you don't want to go to the bar with her... you are a leech on society?
Dude... you have problems. You are a bigot... just not necessarily one motivated by race. You seem to think you know all about these gamer people, and these couch potato scum. Well, your ignorance of the truth of things is a bigger drain than anything you have imagined that has been created by these fictional leech gamers, and fictional leech couch potatoes. There are actual leeches out there... politicians, presidents, gold-diggers, gamblers, thieves... and you want to incorrectly point the finger at gamers and people who spend too much time on the couch? Dude...
Apparently it isn't easy enough for college students to build one. They are being nationally acknowledged for the ability to purchase the right off-the-shelf equipment and follow the instructions in how to use it.
There are lots of things I find easy. But, I'm not blind enough to assume that these things are easy for everyone else. If what I thought was easy, was *actually* easy, I'd be out of a job.
Glad you find it easy to build a radio powerful enough to talk to the space station. Where is the news article about you? Because if 4 college students can get this kind of attention for doing something that has been done before, and building a radio was too hard for them... then you should be all over the news considering your skills are greater than theirs, and thus you must have accomplished more than they have.
The entertainment server for the house is named Jester. My laptop is named Exodus. My main workhorse windows box is always named named Clyde (short for Clydesdale), one housemate has an Asus laptop named Easy (because she's 63, can't install windows, and she installed Linux Mint on my suggestion), her main Windows box is Holly (short for Holiday, she loves British humor, and she relaxes at the computer playing games), my gaming machine is always named Glam (It's all flash and show) and the firewall/router box is Floyd (Pink I say, and a popular album... eh?). That one is a stretch, but noone in the house references that machine aside from me. The file server is Cabinet (or *the* cabinet as we call it), and in a fit of nostalgia and comprehension, my housemate insisted that the guest terminal be named Mork (visiting alien).
Of course, Lea (the other housemate) just wanted to be simple... so his Acer bears his name.
But the idea of naming internal machines something individualistic AND meaningful is not bad... especially when those who interact with them will understand and remember the names. I can understand when those names are meaningless to those who must interact with them, that it can be frustrating... but I'm definitely with you that under the right circumstances, unconventional names are perfectly acceptable.
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There. Fixed that for ya.
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However, this wouldn't be a criminal matter... the guy isn't going to jail for theft. It is a civil matter, and in a civil suit the litigant must prove the case by a 'preponderance of the evidence,' which basically means more than 50 percent. Which also means that if there is a large and damning body of evidence against you in a civil case, you actually have to prove your innocence or lose the case. Getting found innocent of a crime does not mean you were not guilty of that crime. It only means you were found innocent of the specific criminal charges brought against you in a court of law. There are numerous examples out there... Remember The Juice? OJ and the glove?
Did the guy in question in the article steal? Only he and that Staples know for sure. However, they would not have sent that internal email to their employees if they did not feel they had sufficient evidence to back up their stance. The fact that the ruling gives this joker the right to shut Staples up EVEN IF IT IS TRUE (key phrase in this) leans toward it being true that he stole from the company. If he hadn't stolen, the whole truth thing wouldn't even be an issue. He would be fighting this case tooth and nail... he would be fighting to sue them for actual Libel... because what they would be saying would be false.
So, we can call him a thief. If he and his lawyer are trying to Silence Staples from telling the truth about his being a thief... we can call him a thief.
Absolute BS.
First... how did Bush get into office the second time? The Electoral College. So if someone stood up and voted against him.... in fact if a majority of the population stood up and voted against him it made no difference. He manipulated the system, and got the right votes to put him in office.
So, all those people who stood up and voted against... what are THEY supposed to do now, so you don't lob them into that guilty bucket? They tried. They attempted to use the system. They did what they could do without getting shot.
I am an adult, and I am in the US. I am innocent of any of the crimes of my government. If it was in my power to stop those crimes from happening, I would have done it. However it was NOT in my power to be able to stop my government from doing any and/or all of the things I found to be wrong and/or offensive. If I do anything more, I'll end up behind bars indefinitely under the Patriot Act.
Nothing that Obama does is going to make a difference for the better. As long as we attempt to work within the corrupt and broken system to fix it, we are going to fail. We proved once before that it took a bloody revolution to make the necessary changes. We proved that Revolution works. The country as it is, is not the country our founding fathers intended, in any way. We are in need of another revolution, to fix our current government.
With the growing popularity of UDF http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Disk_Format and the fact that M$ doesn't have the patent for it, and M$ supports it in their OS releases, and it is currently being looked at as a universal replacement on flash media... I don't know why TomTom and everyone else didn't just push a little harder to use UDF over FAT.
Hmm.. well, I'm in the US, I went to a High School for a career day demonstration, and I had an old Pentax K-1000 with me. The first kid to ask about it did not believe that it did not have an LCD screen, nor that it was not a DSLR. I did not meet one kid that day at that high school that had heard of 35mm film, or had touched a camera that used film.
So your example is most definitely not the norm. Neither is mine.
I'd agree with you that it is not that hard to push a button... I mean, you STILL have to push a button to take the picture... but the fact that there was a need, and this this app was developed to suit that need, proves that it *is* too hard to just press a button.
What a waste?
She refuse to stop doing something she was not supposed to be doing, after being told to stop.
She lied about even having the phone.
I'd say that since nothing had worked to get her to behave up to this point, that police and court time was not wasted at all.
At what point do you just throw up your hands and give up? I understand that this is what YOU think should have happened... that the adults should have just given up and let her do as she pleased... because this is what you want people to let YOU do.
The fact is, she had to learn that if you disobey, you face punishment.
I think more people need to go to jail for speeding. Nothing else seems to be doing the trick in stopping it.
hmm.... let's see.
Hookers? You get more action from them than a tease from a pole dancer.
Food? Better buy than pole dancer time.
Umm.. maybe spend more money gambling, and less on bimbos who won't put out?
Prison Guards benefit from having a job, because someone was found guilty.
Victims benefit from knowing justice was served in a case where someone was found guilty.
Oh, you don't mean that... you mean the OTHER people that benefit...
Worked out pretty well against weed in 1937. It only failed with Prohibition because it was an attack on alcohol... not on private party transactions.
How easy is it to change the oil in your car? It is actually very easy, even considering all the different locations that the Oil filter can be placed in. The procedure is simple. Most people , even though after 5 minutes they could be doing it themselves, would prefer to bring it into the local Jiffy Lube and pay someone else to do it. How about rotating your tires? Same difference. Simple procedure. It only requires the time and labor. Most people still pay for the convenience.
Now, we can debate whether or not there *should* be malware and spyware to be cleaned from machines... but the fact is that this already exists, and it must be dealt with. You say Best Buy. I say small, local repair shops. Geek Squad charges more than twice what we charge for the same services, and they even charge for some things we think are no more than "Muffler Bearings" scams.
You think everyone should know enough to be able to keep their machines clean? I think everyone should know enough to be able to change their own oil. People should know enough to be able to cook their own food... this doesn't stop them from having someone else cook it for them.
You prove useful and an asset to the company.
Work dries up, and instead of being laid off or assigned to another department, you are told NOT to work and just wait and get paid for waiting.
You state you would appreciate some compensation for all you have saved the company.
Is there any particular reason why you do NOT see the apparent job security you have, as compensation? I mean, most people would enjoy getting paid for NOT working. That's a pretty big perk. It's like getting a bonus check. I mean, it is literally money you did not have to work for... because you were paid while you were told NOT to work.
So just how greedy are you? I bet you are greedy enough to STILL not see what I'm saying, and eventually you are going to put yourself in a position where you lose this job... only then are you going to see how good you had it.
you are an ignorant and blind... in my opinion.
People are being denied jobs because what they post about themselves on their own social networking pages. Oh... you obviously didn't know that. People are facing being judged by the community they live in.. well, people other than you. Living in the basement of your parent's house does lend credibility to your "I just don't give a shit" attitude.
You don't give a shit what an Internet Troll says. You can't speak for anyone else, regardless of how elite you believe yourself to be. It doesn't matter if you don't think Trolls should be held accountable for what they say... the fact of the matter is that EVERYONE should be accountable for what they say, whether they hide behind the internet, or step out in the open.
Now, you are implying that if a person walks into a crowded theatre, disguises their identity, and shouts "Fire!" causing a panic and causing people to die... just because he is a hidden Troll, that makes it all ok. I mean, if we knew who this person was, THEN this person would be accountable... but if we can't identify the person, because they chose to hide their identity, then we should just blow off what they said... because it OBVIOUSLY could not cause anyone any damage. Right? I mean, you *are* saying that we should all just completely ignore anonymous trolls, because... why? Because they are anonymous? That's fuckin stupid. Someone's status has nothing to do with the validity of what they say. Judges, lawyers, and cops can be corrupt, and thieves can tell the truth and be profound.
This couple has EVERY right to go after the people who made erroneous statements and false accusations against them, regardless of whether those doing the posting were Anonymous or not. If they do not, they are encouraging more of the same behavior.
The world is a bigger place than you realize. More people care about more things than you can ever hope to care about. You have proven that. Now, all you have to do is stop assuming that everyone is like you, and that if someone hides their face their words mean nothing. These people purposely hid behind their anonymous status because they believed this would protect them from any fallout regardless of what they said or did. Just because you have the ability to hide and do horrible things, does not mean it should be acceptable to hide and do horrible things. I suspect that is too difficult for you to understand.
You must enjoy being wrong most of the time.
If it was your job to track satellites, because you were part of the department that launched the satellite that fell on your car.. then YES, it would be your fault that you did not move your car out of the way.
Now, since the people who owned the Iridium Satellite were ALSO in charge of maintaining it... which includes knowing it's position in the sky... they were responsible for making sure that it did not collide with anything. In a perfect world (or above it) there would have been people closely monitoring both trajectories, with the ability to adjust each satellite.
So either no one was watching at Iridium, which means someone needs to be sacked for not properly monitoring the unit... or those who were watching assumed that the Russian satellite was going to be the one that moved, and someone needs to be sacked for THAT decision.
But if you want an analogy that involves cars...
Two cars head for the same parking spot. If one of those cars has no driver, and is just rolling in that direction (the dead Russian satellite that was probably identified long before the collision) and you did NOTHING after identifying that there was no one behind the wheel, then it would be your fault when that car collided with you.
Still want a car analogy? Ok. You are in a car, heading to cross railroad tracks. You can see quite a bit of the road ahead, and you can see a train coming. You can even tell that you are going to cross the tracks just in time to get hit by that train. Now... why would you assume that the other guy is going to move? In this case, it can't. It won't even be able to slow down in time. You are the one with maneuverability. Thus, if you do collide with that train, it will be your fault.
Yeah, maybe they did not KNOW that the Russian Satellite was dead. So you assume the conversation went like this? ... time passes...
"Hey, our satellite is gonna hit a Russian bird."
"Hmmm... they had better alter that orbit"
"Why don't we alter our orbit?"
"What? That's crazy talk. No reason OUR orbit should be altered. Let them move theirs."
"They didn't change their orbit."
"Well, we aren't altering ours."
Moving isn't rocket science. People have been moving from one place to another longer than we have had a spoken language.
Don't forget Harlan Ellison and Alan Dean Foster. They also wrote some heavy science fiction. Oh wait... I understand why you forgot them. They also wrote Star Trek script material.
But, you could have saved yourself some time and typing, if you simply reminded the parent that he forgot two words from the end of the passage you quoted. Those two words being "on television". Go ahead. Add them to the end of what you quoted. I'll wait.
Now, when I read what he originally wrote, I never got the impression in any way that he was challenging some of the greats like A.E. Van Vogt or Zelazney, or Asimov, or Heinlein. I got the exact impression that the parent wanted to send... that Star Trek had kicked Sci-Fi out of the way, and had instead brought Science-Fiction to the little screen.
The funny part, is the Wikipedia article you link to, has THIS to say on the subject...
"Before Star Trek, Tom Corbett -- Space Cadet was the most scientifically accurate series on television."
This is important, because the article YOU mention, points out the Importance of Star Trek and science fiction on television... and the article isn't even about Star Trek. If you read... actually read... with the Jungles on Venus and the Space Pirates living on asteroids, you find that the phrase "Scientifically accurate series on television" doesn't mean all that much. If no other show on TV was showing that gravity actually does work, the only show that did would be the most scientifically accurate one. Or rather, if Every show on TV is scientifically inaccurate, the title of Most Accurate doesn't mean all that much.
You are right, in that there was Sci-Fi before Trek.
ALL Hail You, for mentioning that there was Sci-Fi before trek.
Now, get off your lazy ass and acknowledge that Trek did FAR MORE for bringing science and real science fiction into more American Homes than practically any other source at the time. Because if you don't, you are blind.
Did you know...
The Microsoft Malicious Software Removal Tool now removes Antivirus 2009 and it's variants? That means as long as people update Windows, they is a measure of protection offered. However, if people do not understand that they must make sure that Windows is up to date by actually running the update utility, how are they going to keep their system protected?
I currently make a living removing spyware and malware from infected machines. Did you know that the majority of people think that malware and spyware are the same as a virus? Did you know that the majority of people out there think that a Virus removal tool also removes spyware and malware? Every day, machines are brought in running XP that is still using service pack 1 or 2. People bring in machines that are running a copy of Norton that expired 2 years ago... and they think that they should still be protected, because they have Norton.
The only ignorance here that matters, is YOURS. As has been pointed out in many different ways... the problem is between the keyboard and the chair... not with the Operating system.
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now Mailman is a much better response than Alcohol. Because we ALL know there are no married mailmen.
That must be it.
All married men stop having sex after the first child.
All subsequent children are fathered by mailmen.
No Married man has an interest in sex after the first child... therefore
All Mailmen are single.
That makes perfect sense. I knew the mailmen who delivered the mail here (I'm on a training route) and were wearing wedding rings, were only wearing them to attract women... although married men don't have sex and we've established that... well, they must be wearing their fake wedding rings to scare off... something.
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Alcohol? Clever, witty response.
Oops... falls apart upon examination. One word kills it.
Muslim.
Remember? They reproduce... they have more than one child per family... and they DON'T DRINK...
wait... you are a slashdotter... you aren't expected to remember there is a world outside the US. My bad.
So you are saying that Dad forgot he had a kid already? That could happen. Why would he regain interest then? Wouldn't just the mere presence of children itself on the planet be enough to kill interest, if children killed interest in sex?
Or are you saying that Dad forgot he wasn't interested in inserting his penis into anything female? Because if he forgot he wasn't interested anymore and went and had more sex... he was OBVIOUSLY interested... and this proves my point that just having the first child doesn't kill interest.
How could the national average for the number of children in an American Household be 2.3 kids... if it hadn't been proven already that married men do NOT lose interest in sex?
Sorry... you might fight it just because proving something to Slashdot expectations is impossible and you are simply trolling... but the numbers prove me out. All over the world.
If you aren't contributing to the proliferation of the species, you are contributing to it's demise.
Save your money. Try Suicide instead. No kids, and much cheaper.
Stop. Think.
Your comment, although humorous, falls completely apart under the most basic of observation. For example... How does your statement explain the 2nd child? And the 3rd? I'm a 4th child of a married couple. So there is ample precedent that a married man continues to bury the seed in fertile soil, long after the first puppy has been pushed out the play-dough fun factory of life.
Where would the urban myth be of how wearing a wedding ring works out to be a great way to attract women... if married men were known for their abstinence?
Why do women divorce their husbands for cheating, if the husbands in fact have no interest in that kind of thing after they have their first kid?
These are just a couple of the obvious barriers to believing him.
So don't trust the GP(P). He was just being funny. He definitely still has an interest in insertions.
Let's see. That gamer there... HE bought that wide screen TV, and that console... plus he's got a PC for some games too that he bought... then there is the food he buys... oh and he pays for his WoW account...
Not much leeching going on there. You might want to re-evaluate your definition of a Leech. A Welfare Mother who is having another kid to cap out on the limit of money the state is going to give her to survive and raise these fatherless children... THAT'S a leech.
Who did the gamer get to pay for his gaming systems? WHo did the gamer get to pay for his games? Who does the gamer get to pay for his food, and rent, and everything else? Because that gamer most likely has a job, he pays for his stuff.
I could be taking about my manager, who bought his own 42 inch TV, and two 22 inch LCD monitors, and is working on his second Nvidia 9800 machine... all purchased (just like his PC games) with the money he made here. He is a hard-core gamer. I don't know one gamer who is a leech on society.
Couch potatoes? You mean, if you have had a hard day at work, and you flop down on the couch to spend a few hours doing nothing but eating cheese curls... and your girlfriend calls you a couch potato because you don't want to go to the bar with her... you are a leech on society?
Dude... you have problems. You are a bigot... just not necessarily one motivated by race. You seem to think you know all about these gamer people, and these couch potato scum. Well, your ignorance of the truth of things is a bigger drain than anything you have imagined that has been created by these fictional leech gamers, and fictional leech couch potatoes. There are actual leeches out there... politicians, presidents, gold-diggers, gamblers, thieves... and you want to incorrectly point the finger at gamers and people who spend too much time on the couch? Dude...
Apparently it isn't easy enough for college students to build one. They are being nationally acknowledged for the ability to purchase the right off-the-shelf equipment and follow the instructions in how to use it.
There are lots of things I find easy. But, I'm not blind enough to assume that these things are easy for everyone else. If what I thought was easy, was *actually* easy, I'd be out of a job.
Glad you find it easy to build a radio powerful enough to talk to the space station. Where is the news article about you? Because if 4 college students can get this kind of attention for doing something that has been done before, and building a radio was too hard for them... then you should be all over the news considering your skills are greater than theirs, and thus you must have accomplished more than they have.
I'm with you on the personal side...
The entertainment server for the house is named Jester. My laptop is named Exodus. My main workhorse windows box is always named named Clyde (short for Clydesdale), one housemate has an Asus laptop named Easy (because she's 63, can't install windows, and she installed Linux Mint on my suggestion), her main Windows box is Holly (short for Holiday, she loves British humor, and she relaxes at the computer playing games), my gaming machine is always named Glam (It's all flash and show) and the firewall/router box is Floyd (Pink I say, and a popular album... eh?). That one is a stretch, but noone in the house references that machine aside from me. The file server is Cabinet (or *the* cabinet as we call it), and in a fit of nostalgia and comprehension, my housemate insisted that the guest terminal be named Mork (visiting alien).
Of course, Lea (the other housemate) just wanted to be simple... so his Acer bears his name.
But the idea of naming internal machines something individualistic AND meaningful is not bad... especially when those who interact with them will understand and remember the names. I can understand when those names are meaningless to those who must interact with them, that it can be frustrating... but I'm definitely with you that under the right circumstances, unconventional names are perfectly acceptable.