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Bashir of course! (Score:5, Insightful)
As a fictional doctor and not for his sucky fictional intelligence operations.
Re:Bashir of course! (Score:5, Funny)
Definitely Bashir. "I'm a doctor, not a historian."
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For making the world a better place (regardless how you rate his asshatness level)
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Well, except Assange's alleged victims weren't children.
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And that makes rape OK?
I also believe murder is worse than armed robbery..
Care to apply that same "logic" to that?
Give Assange his due (Score:5, Insightful)
I voted for Assange, in spite of his personal flaws, because he has performed the important service of helping air government secrets that we need to know; and he has suffered considerably for it.
Yeah, he's far from perfect, but most of us imperfect people can live our lives in relative peace. He's paying a much larger price for his imperfections. I see it as a sacrifice he's made, willingly or not, in standing up to powerful interests.
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You see running from the legal system of two countries, both of his choosing, over him F*ing a sleeping girl to work around her refusal to consent to his preferred form of sex, to be "a sacrifice he's made, willingly or not, in standing up to powerful interests"?
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he went from being the slow kid with the helmet to being an accomplished physician
By the time you're a slow kid with an apparent problem it's waaaaaay too late for genetic engineering. That stuff needs to be done at the time of fertilization.
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Re:Bashir of course! (Score:5, Insightful)
...So you don't find that, among your club, DS9 is the runaway favourite of the various series? Because that's certainly the case among those I know.
I've encountered a few (mostly online) who rant bitterly that it was a terrible soap opera of a series, and that the only real Star Trek had Kirk and Spock, but I think most fans these days are more interested in what actually makes good stories and good television than holding onto a particular image of "what Star Trek should be" that's now nearly 50 years old. (If only because there are more people left alive who grew up with actual good television than those who grew up with what was available when the original Trek came out...)
Dan Aris
Re:Bashir of course! (Score:4, Insightful)
I also found it odd that despite being such a critical part of space even before the wormhole was discovered, there was no one higher-ranked than Commander in-command. There should have been a flag officer in charge of the sector based at the station, and the station was woefully under-equipped when the show started, even as a newly acquired outpost. It couldn't even really defend itself, let alone serve as a defensive node for the region. After the wormhole's discovery it should have been loaded with scientists, first-contact specialists, diplomats from every Alpha-quadrant race with their own consulates or embassies, and a more significant military presence.
I get that it's hard to write when the station and crew generally don't go anywhere; that was a problem with Space: 1999 and even occasionally with Babylon 5, and absolutely doomed some other shows like Mercy Point, but other shows like Stargate and its spinoffs managed to get twenty years of seasons without a ship, with basically a wormhole as the plot device.
Re:Bashir of course! (Score:5, Interesting)
DS9 was as understated as it's foremost character, a humble tailor
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Robinson was our substitute Guest of Honor at a local convention back in 1996 or so, we'd booked Alexander Siddig but Nana Visitor's due-date was too close to the convention and as the father of the baby he couldn't come. Robinson was very interesting, but it would have been nice to have gotten the actor we paid for rat
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Admittedly, Garak was not central to the 'human' storyline, but he was the son of the head of the Obsidian Order, led the Cardassian counter-attack against the Dominion and eventually sought to become the Cardassian's leader... all introduced to the audience as a simple tailor
Similarly, DS9 introduced us to new sectors of the galaxy, stood as a bulwark against an indomitable foe and served as a rallying point for the Federation and their erstwhile enemies against the Dominion... all introduced to the audien
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There should have been a flag officer in charge of the sector based at the station, and the station was woefully under-equipped when the show started
Except the locals who owned it weren't a member state for most of the series; they just contracted out station management to starfleet. What flag officer wants to be the space equivalent of a local franchise Securitas manager?
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The less-stable the sector, the more important it is to bring in the decision-makers, especially when long-distance communication of that magnitude probably won't be in real-time and with the gamma quadrant angle will be even worse.
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Good television? Today? I'll agree some of it is good but 90 percent is pure mental drivel. The wildly popular Kardashians make me want to vomit. If that was all that was on I'd have no TV. Watching grass grow or maybe watching paint dry is more interesting than most of what passes for entertainment today.
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Good television? Today? I'll agree some of it is good but 90 percent is pure mental drivel. The wildly popular Kardashians make me want to vomit. If that was all that was on I'd have no TV. Watching grass grow or maybe watching paint dry is more interesting than most of what passes for entertainment today.
TV today is better than it was 5-10 years ago. The reality show craze has faded somewhat, and though the genre is clearly going to stick around, we still have some damn good shows on TV today—things like Mad Men, Game of Thrones, and The Walking Dead, just to name a few.
Yeah, there's crap on TV. There's going to be crap in the visual programming lineup as long as there remains a visual programming lineup, because some people will pay to see crap.
All that said, what I was mainly talking about was the t
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Two words: Doran Martell.
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You going to watch the new Game of Thrones then?
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Yep - I was going to say Bashir also.. I noticed there are a lot of "other" in the poll.. I bet most of those other are for Julian.
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I was going to write in Julienne Fries, until I realized that it was spelled differently
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julian (Score:2, Insightful)
Fellowes
Trailer Park Boys Julian. (Score:5, Insightful)
Very skilled at always carrying a drink around but never spilling.
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I *love* that show, especially Ricki and his "Ricky-isms"
Flavius Claudius ... (Score:4, Insightful)
Ratz! (Score:2)
Re:Flavius Claudius ... aka the Apostate (Score:2)
As emperors go, Flavius Claudius Julianus, aka the Apostate, was certainly not the worst. He worked for religious freedom and the acceptance of both Paganism and Christianity in a time and empire where this wasn't a given.
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He's certainly one of the extremely interesting ones. Gore Vidal's book "Julian" is quite entertaining (and is not that bad, historically speaking).
my dad.... (Score:1)
is a Julian,
Patrick Swayze (Score:1)
Julian from the Trailer Park Boys, AKA Patrick Swayze
King Julian, of course (Score:5, Funny)
I like to move it, move it!
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Stupid foosa!
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Trailer Park Boys (Score:5, Insightful)
John Paul Tremblay's Sexian... I mean Julian.
But what about King Julian, hmmm? (Score:3, Insightful)
Another Julian missed (Score:2)
Might not be so well known in the US, as in UK and Australia Not my favourite, but was the first one that I though of.
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As an Australian, Clary is a camp UK stand-up comedian I vaguely remember from the 1990s.
Julian Morrow [wikipedia.org] would have the be the second-most revered Julian in Australia.
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Julian Morrow [wikipedia.org] would have the be the second-most revered Julian in Australia.
And Julian Knight [wikipedia.org] quite possibly the most reviled.
I have kids, so (Score:5, Insightful)
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Julian Simon's Long Boom (Score:2)
Wired had an article back in the late 90s about Julian Simon's predictions of "The Long Boom", where our high-tech economy with the Internet connecting everybody and delivering education and liberal economics was going to keep growing and making the world a better place indefinitely. Wasn't the Late 90s a great time!
Yeah, unfortunately, several sets of thugs decided war was a much better way to run a world, but even before that hit us, we'd started to question the value of buying dogfood online, and the p
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Bust cycles make it easy for old-money to take control of new-money ventures for pennies on the dollar
Long booms are far to inclusive for people who want to pull all the strings
Who are the alternatives? (Score:1)
Ok, I know Assange. And the Julian calendar. But who the phuck are the rest?
And where is Bashir. This is news for nerds, right? ... right?
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This is news for nerds, right? ... right?
Nope. Not anymore. They haven't had that masthead for a long time; probably since Dice bought them out.
Fries (Score:1)
hands down delicious, nutritious, and everything a growing boy needs to put hair on his chest.
Barratt (Score:2)
: explorer.
Gore Vidal's work (Score:3)
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I thought he was a hairdresser.
Fries (Score:5, Funny)
My beloved son (Score:5, Funny)
No one would be interested in it, I think. But being himself a slashdoter, hope he has a sight of his dad saying that publicly.
Re: My beloved son (Score:2)
Fans: phmarr (694695) is either loved by all, or just invisible.
Foes: phmarr (694695) loves everyone or plays their cards very close to their chest.
Freaks: phmarr (694695) is hated by no one.
Ouch.
The Emperor Julian (Score:2)
(known to the Christian churches as "The Apostate" because he tried to restore the official religion of Greece and Rome for the previous thousand years).
Educated, cultured, humane, civilized: along with Marcus Aurelius, a living proof that near-absolute power does not always have to corrupt absolutely. Sadly, he was murdered by Christians to prove that their religion (which mandates peace, forgiveness, and non-violence) was better than his.
Re:The Emperor Julian (Score:5, Informative)
Both of Julian's parents were Christians, and he was a student of the Bible. He essentially rejected Christianity; that is the definition of "apostate". So the term is appropriate. If he had been a secular ruler, rather than politically targeting Christians in an effort to to reverse the religious course of the empire, it might not have been such a sticking point. A just ruler, perhaps-- but apostate.
Christianity was not the only, nor the dominant, religion of the Persian empire. And all but one historian believed that he was killed in battle, not assassinated by a Christian (or Christians). That one historian could be right, but it doesn't justify your confident position. I suspect your grasp on history is colored by your own religious beliefs.
Re:The Emperor Julian (Score:4, Informative)
Both of Julian's parents were Christians, and he was a student of the Bible. He essentially rejected Christianity; that is the definition of "apostate". So the term is appropriate. If he had been a secular ruler, rather than politically targeting Christians in an effort to to reverse the religious course of the empire, it might not have been such a sticking point. A just ruler, perhaps-- but apostate.
By his own accord, Julian never accepted Christianity, so it could be said that the term apostate doesn't apply. Julian's father was not initially Christian, but a convert. He was the half-brother of Constantine who also famously converted. There is therefore no evidence of Julian ever being Christian.
This is of course mostly relevant if you consider the term apostate a pejorative, which is very much a Christian stance. Therefore only Christians at the time and later Christians make a case of arguing the point. It reminds me a bit of the nazi "accusing" Chaplin of being a Jew.
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Christians flop like Ginóbili, and throw just as many elbows
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The King (Score:2)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com]
Bream (Score:2)
A fine classical guitarist.
of Amber (Score:5, Informative)
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Son of Oberon, grandson of Dworkin & the Unicorn (eww), brother of Corwin and Benedict and Gerard and Random and Eric and Osric and Finndo and Brand and Blayze and
You need to get out more. Unfortunately, so do I. (You omitted Florimel, Fiona, Deidre ... and that's Bleys, not to mention Caine... and wasn't there another sister? )
The Julian... (Score:2)
Supercala.. (Score:5, Funny)
I'm a mushroom cloud-layin' motherfucker (Score:2)
I'm a mushroom cloud-layin' motherfucker (Score:2)
Julian the Apostate (Score:3)
A Julian who didn't live in the basement (Score:2)
Julian Castro (Score:1)
I'd take Julian Castro over a pie-in-the-sky loon like Julian Simon any day of the week.
of Amber? (Score:3)
Julian ockegheim (Score:2)
Julian, of Julian and Sandy (Score:4, Interesting)
Good thing I read the comments first (Score:2)
Julian Barratt from The Mighty Boosh! (Score:2)
Howard Moon is not interested in your stupid dreams!
Bashir (Score:2)
Gollop (Score:2)
Creator of many awesome computer games - Chaos, Rebelstar, X-Com.
Check out Chaos Reborn, his latest project.
Gaius Julius (Score:2)
Duh!
Re:Gaius Julius (Score:2)
Gaius Julius (Caesar) had Julius (Jullii) as family name, and as such it was subject to declension and other changes.
The original J (Score:2)
Julius Caesar
Yes, yes, he wasn't a Julian per se, but I stand by my answer.... (grin)
Julian Glover! (Score:3)
Can't believe no one's mentioned him yet. Guy's done Star Wars, Doctor Who (twice), Indiana Jones, Game of Thrones... He's basically living our dreams.
Julianne Moore (Score:3)
Emperor! (Score:3)
Emperor Julian the Apostate! (AD 332 - AD 363)
"He is clearly Rome's second ever philosopher-ruler, after the great Marcus Aurelius. But if Marcus Aurelius was weighed down by war and plague then, Julian's greatest burden was to be that he belonged to a different age. Trained classically, learned in Greek philosophy he would have made a fine successor to Marcus Aurelius. But those days had gone, now this distant intellect seemed out of place, at odds with many of his people, and certainly with the Christian elite of society. "
http://www.roman-empire.net/co... [roman-empire.net]
--nice bio by Gore Vidal, too.
Julian as in Sandy (Score:2)
-- the one from Round The Horne ;)
Fries (Score:2)
Really, you guys missed that option, you insensitive clods!
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No, no, the other west!