You are the same guys who blindly accept every single global warming scam based on the infallibility of science, right?

If only TVs had a way to change what you see, or be turned off.

Purple hair, too. That Colonel Lake was one of the most attractive ladies on TV at the time, as far as I am concerned.

        It was a lot like a live-action version of "Captain Scarlett" and really creepy. They kidnapped people for *spare parts* and breath that green liquid.

My first reaction was that it was incredibly juvenile and poor quality with the obvious puppet strings, etc. Of course, I had no idea who Anderson was and assumed that what I was watching was a current production. I did a little research and realized who he was and what I was seeing.

I realized just how amazing it is that so much creativity can be wrung out of a medium which has fairly severe inherent limitations, at least when compared to live actors or animation.

      Needless to say, you were not the target audience. But as you say, a lot of creativity and they made good use of what they had. The Supermarionation process was actually quite technically advanced. The mouth movements were electro-mechanically synched with the sound. The heads on the early puppets were so large because the necessary solenoids and electronics were big. Later, with Captain Scarlett, they were able to shrink it down to anatomically accurate dimensions. But it lost something - it's like hand-drawn cartoons VS the God-awful computer animation. The first one you know is fake and you get past it, the second is in the "uncanny valley" - not quite real but not quite fake enough.

Thunderbirds was *extremely* popular in the US. It was on every afternoon for a long time. It was one of my favorites as a kid - when I see the old ITC logo/bump hear the music, I still get a bit of a jump, because it immediately preceded Thunderbirds. If it came on right now, I would watch it.

The others, not so much. Fireball XL-5 and Captain Scarlet were pretty well-known and UFO was pretty obscure.

    Space:1999 was well known although most people thought it was garbage and some of the episodes were just embarrassing from start to finish - a few examples:

they go through a field that "de-evolves" some of them to cavemen, and it also "devolves" their CLOTHES. I even called that one as it happened "don't make their clothes change, too!" and yet it happened anyway.

  one had some aliens make an atmosphere on the Moon (so they would stay up there, and not land on the planet until they were out of range), and we found that they built Moonbase Alpha with WINDOWS THAT OPEN, and that the staff *brought beach toys and bikinis*. On a trip to the moon.

I don't know if he is "Go!" but he is certainly not F.A.B.

The interstate highway system is a brilliant economic success. Passenger trains haven't be financially viable for 100+ years.

I've used it, its not any crazier or complex than anything else.

The article appears to mostly be self-indulgent/elitist crap, but there is a kernel of reality in it.

      What some of my colleagues and I have done to avoid the "obscure features" problem of "expert coders" is to ban their use. A particular language we use permits many fairly obscure features that lend themselves to writing mystery code. We simply don't use them unless absolutely necessary. This is embedded spacecraft code, we only need basic relational statements, math functions, and minimal pointer use. So we don't use some of the more obscure features (doubly-defining tables, unnecessarily complex data structures, the more bizarre capabilities of pointers, etc). The code is still maintainable 30 years later, people can pick it up and read it from cold, and modify it with ease and safety.

I haven't paid any attention to the calculator market recently, but TI is still around? When I was in high school the TI-30 came out, and almost everyone had one, because it was $2 cheaper than a National Semiconductor equivalent and $20 cheaper than an HP. So that's what everybody's mom bought them. They were/are such crap that I have seen more than one of them thrown across the room into a cinder block wall because the keys didn't register correctly, either missing keystrokes or repeating keys. A guy at work had one - a new one that looked like it was made by Fisher-Price, I tried using it the other day, and it *still* frequently missed keystrokes and repeating. He had another, bigger one that may have been some model of the TI-84, and it did the same damn thing. And it's still fucking algebraic, for God's sake, you have to write out equations like you are still in elementary school.

        Just get an HP like a grown-up and move on with your life.

While it is still unconfirmed as to whether or not North Korea actually put a satellite into orbit, it seems clean that sanctions have failed to curb North Korea's quest for more powerful weaponry."

        No kidding? Because I figured that cutting them off would strangle their weapons programs and starve out the current government. Why, it almost seems as of the economic sanctions only hurt the hoi polloi, and that the leaders kept what little resources there were for themselves and let the rest of the country go hungry. What a completely odd and unpredictable event!

Certainly, because when a company goes to buy heavy construction equipment, environmental and and "social responsibility" (code for leftist values) is certainly high on their list.

        I almost think your post is a parody of a effete worthless ignoramus, if it were not posted here.

Some fuels. Not the fuels used in the descent thrusters.

Now they have done it! 5-party negotiations, the world community, that they can ignore. Disney lawyers, however, are not to be trifled with.

      Brett

The SEC will likely be interested in this topic as well. Maybe whoever did it can get the cell next to Martha Stewart.