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Fuckin' correlation and causation - how do they work?
@EBone: Err... what are you talking about? The 70s had some awesome - and I mean genuinely awesome - TV. You had comedies like The Odd Couple, WKRP, Taxi, MASH, Sanford & Son, All In The Family, The Jeffersons, and The Muppet Show. You know what? I'll even put Threes Company in there. Sure, it was kinda dumb, but John Ritter was an intensely gifted physical comedian, and the episodes were usually really funny, even if they were fluff. For action, you had really terrific shows like The Rockford Files, The Streets of San Francisco, and the original Hawaii Five-O. And it was also an age when you had real, actual sci-fi on network television. Was some of it mindless pap like Buck Rogers or Supertrain? Sure. But some was actually pretty smart stuff that holds up well today, like The Six Million Dollar Man.
And that's just in the US. In the UK, you had the Tom Baker years of Doctor Who (arguably the best years of that show ever), Blake's 7, The New Avengers, The Sandbaggers, and The Sweeney. In Japan, great classic anime series like Gatchaman, Galaxy Express 999, Captain Harlock, Space Battleship Yamato, Rose of Versailles, and the first series of Gundam appeared.
No, the 70s were actually pretty great, TV-wise.
And that's just in the US. In the UK, you had the Tom Baker years of Doctor Who (arguably the best years of that show ever), Blake's 7, The New Avengers, The Sandbaggers, and The Sweeney. In Japan, great classic anime series like Gatchaman, Galaxy Express 999, Captain Harlock, Space Battleship Yamato, Rose of Versailles, and the first series of Gundam appeared.
No, the 70s were actually pretty great, TV-wise.
What are you talking about? 2010-2011 was the best season of TV in *years*. Boardwalk Empire, Walking Dead, Mad Men... even the Hawaii Five-O reboot has been pretty dang good, and Shatner's $#!& My Dad Says has been the first new sitcom I've found genuinely funny since Seinfeld went off the air. Sure, its humor is basically just Shatner being Shatner - but that's plenty for me.
As the great Pat Paulson once said: You know the trouble with you? You're picky, picky, picky...
As the great Pat Paulson once said: You know the trouble with you? You're picky, picky, picky...
Wait... Research In Motion is hiring?
"You know the Funthes boy? Wimac? Well, he's a good boy and all, but he done gone down to the Costco in Pascagoula and got hisself a blaster. And he been playing that music. LOUD! "I Left My Wallet in El Segundo." Hippity-hop music! You know, they calls it hippity-hop music, but it don't make me want to go hippity-hop!"
Was his name Da5id?
So... it's Facebook Wave.
@Calcifer (Hawks): That argument can (and apparently does) justify posting virtually anything. There's science to food too. When will io9 start posting cupcake recipes?
Again, the lack of editorial focus on Gawker websites is appalling.
Again, the lack of editorial focus on Gawker websites is appalling.
So... I guess asking what this has to do with science fiction would be useless, right?
Gawker has the worst editorial staff on the planet.
Gawker has the worst editorial staff on the planet.
So let me get this straight...
The left-leaning media in this country has concentrated virtually all their time and energy on obsessively going after one single Republican candidate who, running in a heavily Democratic state, was probably to lose no matter what - all while the numbers for Democratic candidates as a whole across the country got worse and worse?
So... who exactly is the "stupid party" again?
The left-leaning media in this country has concentrated virtually all their time and energy on obsessively going after one single Republican candidate who, running in a heavily Democratic state, was probably to lose no matter what - all while the numbers for Democratic candidates as a whole across the country got worse and worse?
So... who exactly is the "stupid party" again?
Whaddaya know... he finally found a place where "WMD" does exist!
In other breaking news: Water wet, Pope Catholic. Film at 11.
Size DOES matter.
This would be a disaster in Europe. European countries tend to be small, and people cross borders all the time - so often, in fact, that many people have cellular service accounts in multiple countries, and carry multiple SIMs with them. An acquaintance of mine, for example, lives in Belgium and works in Germany. Halfway through his morning commute, he'll stop for coffee and swap out his Belgium SIM for his Germany SIM, doing the reverse on his way home. For him, it doesn't matter that the internal SIM would be reprogrammable - he can't exactly walk into an Apple Store at 7AM every weekday and hang around a half hour while they reprogram his SIM.
And of course, he's far from a unique case, especially among the kind of affluent, technophilic class of people that buy iPhones. This would basically make the iPhone unusable for a very large swath of Apple's prime demographic. It would certainly destroy it as a businessman's phone in Europe.
I have real doubts that Apple would be that stupid. more likely, they're just making stuff up to pressure European carriers with.
And of course, he's far from a unique case, especially among the kind of affluent, technophilic class of people that buy iPhones. This would basically make the iPhone unusable for a very large swath of Apple's prime demographic. It would certainly destroy it as a businessman's phone in Europe.
I have real doubts that Apple would be that stupid. more likely, they're just making stuff up to pressure European carriers with.
Google has a successful business, and has decided to put some of its money into keeping high-value employees happy, so they have a better shot at retaining them. That's capitalism. If you don't like it, move to Cuba or North Korea, or some other Communist craphole, and see how that works out for you. We'll be waiting when you come running back.
Long story short, it's a private business, and they can run it any way they want. If you don't like it, nobody's forcing you to work there. If you really, really don't like it, you're free to take your business elsewhere.
Long story short, it's a private business, and they can run it any way they want. If you don't like it, nobody's forcing you to work there. If you really, really don't like it, you're free to take your business elsewhere.
