Surely they aren't going to sell off Sheinhardt Wigs though - right?
https://youtu.be/G03R3fvLIhI?s...

Where are Beowulf Shaefer, Carlos Wu and Sigmund Ausfaller when we really, really need them?

I don't pretend to understand the science, but plants turn CO2 back into O2 by removing the carbon atom right? And they do it without any power other than sunlight and soaking up water and nutrients from the soil. How is it we can't come up with some sort of process that imitates this process that plants do to combat CO2 levels?

Obviously planting trees and whatever else that does this process naturally and the most efficiently seems like a no brainer for cost. But don't we understand HOW they do it that we can do that on an industrial level artificially?

I've seen these big facilities that are supposed to extract carbon from the air and pump it into the ground, but those things seem futile looking and nothing more than curious oddities that will never be scaled up.

I'd really love to read an explainer on how plants do this and we can't replicate it sans just planting more trees and stuff. It seems like we should be able to do it with all the brains scientists have.

How do we protect ourselves against the attacks?
Is there a tool to scan for and remove these trojans?
"Hey there are hackers after you specifically because of LINUX" but nothing on who, where, what and how to protect ourselves - so thanks for the paranoia?
Pretty terrible journalism if you ask me...

Spoiler phobic people amuse me. I didn't really need spoilers to tell me the way this was going to go.

But I'll try not to spoil it for people haven't seen this colossal mess yet.

Let's think - What's the bargain with the audience that Tom Baker proclaimed eons ago?

Does the Doctor always win? Check - unless it's cliffhanger to create FALSE JEOPARDY! That was why when you hid behind the sofa you knew not to be too scared because your HERO was on it. He'd save the day. Some kettle and as string, a screwdriver and loads of overconfidence. Sorted.

What did everyone know about the Meep who didn't live under a rock?

Doesn't everyone know that the Meep is bad from like how many years ago? 40 or more - so not a very original story for Russell to steal, er I mean, copy - er borrow... It's a total cop-out ripoff!

And WHAT saves the day? You knew it wouldn't really be the Doctor in an RTD story who is a straight white guy right?
Hmm, what could it be that saves the day in this one? The most preposterous character of all?
I HATED it. It was pandering at it's finest I'll give RTD that.

The new Rose is a terrible actor and the writing can't help but make it a wooden performance. She saves the day because - reasons that make NO SENSE WHATSOEVER!

I'll say something nice though. The new TARDIS interior is nice - RTD selling out to Disney brought in really big bucks this time. But this seems only a poke in the eye to all the white boys and white men that ever watched the show, following in the madness that Chibnall introduced. Timeless Child my tokus!
I think RTD and his woke and LGBTQ buds equate a straight white man now with Donald Trump as if none of us are remotely liberals who voted for them to get equal rights or the right to be married and so on. Like the show had a sexiset agenda of the worst streak from the start.

It's the "OUR TURN" -ism of outraged woke people and its just glaring. RTD was out of there in 2009 -he was done - on to bigger and better things! And surprise - no one wanted anything he turned out. He was a big flop without Doctor Who and he was barely anybody before it either.

How did we get here? In the PANIC of Chibnall making a mess of things, CRATERING the merchandise sales which the Beeb really had come to rely on for funding it, so they asked him RTD back in a panic and he took the BBC's money, created Bad Wolf and immediately sold half out to Disney for the payday he desperately needed. And when Doctor 15 flops, I think people will flee from watching it, then he sells the rest out and Disney has the show to reboot into something as stupid as another Willy Wonka movie and whatever they churn out will be even more terrible.

I already have nightmares of Timothée Chalamet as the First Disney+ Doctor...

Like a lot of fans, Doctor Who has been dead to me since 2017. Moffat was peak Doctor Who and the 11th and 12th Doctors remain my ultimate favorites.
It was nice to see David and Catherine and I look forward to seeing Bernard as Wilf one last time, but they really didn't need this did they? I think it was a fun lark for them, so I hope they enjoyed it, but if Donna's last proper story back in the day was the last proper story I liked where they left the Noble family. I didn't need to see this really.

I went in skeptical that this would be good or all the things I thought would happen in it that were bad and they all came true... This sucked.

There's a link to still download the pdf and epub editions of this book at Archive.org and I've been reading it since I first saw this story on Slashdot this morning.

https://archive.org/details/we...

I'd have to say it's only fair to middling as a work of fan fiction. I could probably use a few rewrites, mainly to expunge and omit the useless profanity in the Admiral briefings that were going on during the Borg/Enterprise encounter. I'm no prude and don't mind R-rated books or movies, but the attempt to bring out what such meetings would probably really be like doesn't feel like Star Trek or the TNG era frankly,

And a lot of the "interviews" don't ring true to the level of writing Ron Moore and the writers brought to TNG either. An interview with Guinan feels particularly terrible about that last meeting where she talks about the Nelson at Trafalgar and other stuff. It doesn't have the cagey feel that Whoopi brought to the part and I can't imagine her describing it all so literally, blow by blow.

Read the scripts and think about how honed and spare a lot of dialogue was for TV. A lot of critical moments are more the actor's performance than the dialogue as well.

For first time writers, for fan-fiction I will say it's awfully good as a first start. It desperately needs editing and rewrites though. It's a fantastic concept for sure.

Paramount is stupid to not really reach out and bring projects like this into the fold.

I think it would be fantastic to see all the living actors perform this as though it were a documentary. Paramount could make a bundle off things like this getting fans to recreate the sets and FX so all sorts of fan effort beyond writing could have a moment of glory and everyone could make some money in the process and Paramount could recruit new fresh ideas.

One thing that cheap CGI could do is instead of inserting shots from the Best of Both worlds recreate footage as though it was from say a Bridge flight record where we saw digital shots like fight recorder surveillance footage. Things shot over shoulders or looking down on the Bridge from angles never shot in the show or "camera" footage with bits of recognizable hull or stuff mounted on the nacelles so we'd see shots never before "shown" in-Universe. This shown to the characters being interviewed or inserted to prompt us to remember the events of BoBWs.

Obviously doing more or getting one or even two cast members in to shoot this stuff would be expensive, but it's the sort of off-beat thing that fans would buy if it was well made.

This "documentary" featuring characters like Shelby would have been "made" before the events of "Picard" and it would be fun to see the interviews be digitally manipulated to have been conducted at various times in the 33 years since BoBW. I'd love to see Brent Spiner do his and be deaged back to the time of say "First Contact". Or Worf just pre-Picard with his stately grey hair.

Giving the advances in AI image generation it's possible a faux documentary will still be possible years or decades from now when we are all dead!

I can imagine some gifted kid in his garage will be single-handedly remaking all the shows and episodes someday in interactive hologram form. Maybe by then Paramount in 2123 will have learned their lesson and not sue him or her into oblivion...

It would be in the interest of national security to make other nations believe we might have alien tech even if we don't. Nothing in any of these UFO UAP vids are beyond the scope of modern computer special effects and it's demonstrably laughable to believe aliens if they existed and had the tech to actually visit us or probe the anuses of trailer park alcoholics who mostly seem to be who believe in abductions. Hey, sci-fi is fun, but it's silly to think they'd come here and probe people or draw crop circles or buzz airplanes and whatever idiots dream up next...

The Auralnauts did this a few weeks ago and honestly I can't wait to see what AI absurdity they come up with next. https://www.youtube.com/watch?... If I knew how to do this I'd give all those Star Wars prequels a "What's Up Tiger Lily" make over

I once worked in a Directv call center and I'd never work another call center job ever again. You get screamed at by frustrated customers all day long and abused by companies that run these thing - National Electronics Warranty or NEW ran the one I worked in. They are horrible human beings insisting that you can deal with the elderly, uncooperative and technologically incompetent in an average of 700 seconds or less. Which is impossible, but achieved by most CSRs by telling customers to do something that typically doesn't work, like hit the red reset button and giving them the bums rush off the phone. The whole thing is structured with tedious grading systems and spreadsheets and monitoring tracking your every second inside these buildings. The place I worked was like a high-school study hall left in the charge of the most viciously cliquish kids in the class. Don't get me totally wrong though, some of it was entertaining. Constant visits to the parking lot of trailer trash spouses and lovers that resulted in the police being called to break up these domestic violence away from home incidents. The best was the original manager's wife causing an eruption of screaming, throwing & breaking everything in reach tantrums when she caught the 50-something manager was screwing around with a 20 something CSR. Or the day some chick decided to leave the job in spectacular fashion by writing obscenities on the ladies room wall in her on feces. It was like working in the monkey house of a zoo. The hell of "Office Space" looked tame compared to my call center. Bottom line, most of the people that work in a call center aren't smart enough to want a labor union and corporations that run these junk job centers are sufficiently evil that they are confident that they can keep it that way.

What judge and jury thinks some everyday person could ever pay this sort of damages fine in their lifetimes? I mean really? Hey you owe record company a million dollars! Really, good luck with collecting that. Maybe the accused can get a loan from China...

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