Comment Re:Montreal in October 1970 (Score 3, Insightful) 313
That and there were a few spies among them.
[Citation needed]. Though I suspect if there weren't spies among 'em when they were interned, there were when they were released.
That and there were a few spies among them.
[Citation needed]. Though I suspect if there weren't spies among 'em when they were interned, there were when they were released.
And if memory serves, as recently as the 1860's, the Brits were supplying arms to the Confederacy, so in the late 19th century, it wasn't all smiles and sunshine the way it has been since WW2.
There's also the 'Trent Affair'. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T... . The US stopped a British ship mid-Atlantic to take off a couple of confederate politicians. That got pretty heated, until Lincoln handled the incident (read the article...).
IMHO, the greatest accomplishment of the original Roddenberry Trek TV show was the mainstreaming of the concept of Star travel.
Nicely put and totally agree. I watched the originals when they came out, watch the reruns. I didn't bother with the rest (Next Generation, etc) as we'd done all that before.
You must mean Tiberian bats you insensitive clod!
Episode 67 clearly established they were Factarian moon bats. What you hear was an overdub based on a misspelling.
I'm sorry, I've got the Swedish dub and translates back to English as Fat, Aryan moon bats. This fits in with that Nazi vampire episode - the one that's only ever screened at Fan meetings.
I guess you have to be really geeky to remember the philosophical discussion between Spock and McCoy over this very question in the novel somewhat stupidly named "Spock must die!"
I remember it! McCoy pondered that he might have been a ghost (or whatever -- someone other than himself) since the first time he was teleported. Spock's final comment was that he'd have no way to test the argument one way or the other, so any answer was irrelevant.
Go on, ask me a hard one...
I'll flip it and open it with "999". Your move, atheists.
80085 ?
Yeah but with oil price per barrel hovering around $50 right now that might not be the case. However as many have warned, there's only so much oil in the ground. The smart money is on renewables.
I bought some oil shares once, with the thought that they're not making any more dinosaurs.
Actually what he said is you can't offend anyone.
PROBLEM: First of all, it's impossible to know with certainty what might possibly offend someone. Second, even if you knew someone would be offended, that doesn't mean their viewpoint isn't worthy of the examination and dissection that will cause the offense.
I'm pretty sure there are a lot of things that would have offended the members of the Spanish Inquisition that are damn well worthy saying!
Geez, I didn't expect the Spanish Inquisition.
If I where in charge there, it's what I would have done. Ask every form of media in the nation (print, paper, radio, tv, etc) to show the MOST controversial cartoons Charlie Hebdo printed for a 24-hour period in honor of those that died.
Fuck this 1 min of silence bullshit.
Make it clear to all that VIOLENCE will NEVER WORK TO SILENCE PEOPLE USING FEAR.
Totally agree (with everything except your typo/spelling mistake). A 'one minute's silence' doesn't do anything concrete. Everyone kick in a dollar to a bank and let's do something constructive in their memory is a better idea. Or clean up a beach. Or plant a tree. Or feed a homeless guy.
BTW, I think France (and Holland?) showed the Danish paper's 'Mohammed' cartoons after that country took the flak last time this sort of thing went down. Here in NZ the papers are standing 'solid' with 'Charlie' - but not showing any Mohammed sketches. I guess there's solid and there's solid...
Well, the problem happens when some technology evangelist or manager who doesn't know a damned thing about the existing system claims it's easy to migrate it to modern tools.
Sorry, disagree. Disclaimer: I work on legacy systems, and they've provided me with $$$ for many a year. But for 'legacy' I prefer 'industrial-strength, production' that happens to run on a mainframe (or Enterprise Server - whatever).
But I digress... these old systems are massively tailored (I'm on one now...) and have been doing the job for decades. But saying that they're not easy to convert or replace is obvious (if you mean it's difficult) or wrong (if you mean it will never happen). Modern IT tools and techniques (pick your favourite ones and insert in these brackets) can solve complex business problems. Might take a while to work out why the original did that thing it does on March 14th if it's a Tuesday... but that's tailoring.
If it's a problem that can be solved by IT, then IT can solve it.
Now another question
BTW, where do I apply for this GBP135,000 job?
To the systems programmer, users and applications serve only to provide a test load.
