Comment Re:Why not as civilians? (Score 1) 223
There could be caveats to this principle, though, like creating a training environment that somehow prevented my drone pilots from exhibiting PTSD, or some variant of Ender's Game.
To be fair: LOTR and The Hobbit are the best movie-adaptions of Tolkien to date.
I like Ralph Bakshi's cartoon. When I was a kid, I thought it was super-duper cool. He conveyed the feeling of ancient and powerful magic, and retained a feeling of naivete regarding the power of the ring and the involvement of Sauron. The world is much more magical if you are introduced to the ring as a curiousity, and then read LOTR and see how much deeper the world gets.
Jackson messed up some stuff pretty seriously. I hated the first new "Hobbit" movie. I didn't see the other two. I refuse.
It bears responsibility for helping turn the '80s into the "Cocaine Decade" in the U.S. because it became much more difficult to import the the heavy and bulky drug marijuana into the U.S. through Florida...
BS... THC is more psychoactive, by weight, than cocaine. By this logic, why didn't hash win out, or for that matter, heroin, or synthetic opiates active in the lower microgram range? People love coke, simple as that.
I pay for vaccines that are not covered by insurance.
I am speaking for myself and don't want to be construed as speaking for you, but I think this sucks. They ought to be free, considering that most of the people who are most at risk don't want to pay extra for them. I remember working public-facing jobs, not making much money, having to weigh the cost of getting a flu shot (or the extra effort of a free one, which amounted to roughly the same), against the risk of catching the flu (and possibly passing it on to my coworkers or the public).
deserves to be DRM'd (now a verb!).
Life is a healthy respect for mother nature laced with greed.