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May. 10th, 2009 10:47 amPalin's comment about Texas being Alaska's "little sister" state is getting more and more appropriate, as rape victims in Houston are being billed for evidence collection.
May. 10th, 2009
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May. 10th, 2009 06:10 pmThe physics! The physics are EATING MY BRAIN. Did not a single person involved in the writing of that movie know what a supernova, a black hole, an interplanetary distance, or a vacuum was?
(No, wait, they had no sound in space, twice. So they knew what a vacuum was SOME of the time. That makes it worse!)
It was a fun enough movie as long as you could turn off the educated part of your brain, completely. Seriously, so much of that film was just like Michael Bay's Batman script for sheer nonsense value. And once you accept that none of the things they're discussing are anything like the things they're discussing, there are a couple of clunky incidents of Explaining The Carburator for the slower children in the audience.
But, hey, fun story, very good special effects, the stupidity is limited to a complete inability to understand basic astrophysics and a little suspension of disbelief about the chain of command, and once you get past that it's not like there's an Idiot Plot running things. So, it's basically the best Star Trek movie currently possible.
(No, wait, they had no sound in space, twice. So they knew what a vacuum was SOME of the time. That makes it worse!)
It was a fun enough movie as long as you could turn off the educated part of your brain, completely. Seriously, so much of that film was just like Michael Bay's Batman script for sheer nonsense value. And once you accept that none of the things they're discussing are anything like the things they're discussing, there are a couple of clunky incidents of Explaining The Carburator for the slower children in the audience.
But, hey, fun story, very good special effects, the stupidity is limited to a complete inability to understand basic astrophysics and a little suspension of disbelief about the chain of command, and once you get past that it's not like there's an Idiot Plot running things. So, it's basically the best Star Trek movie currently possible.
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May. 10th, 2009 10:51 pmFrom A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages:
1980 - Alan Kay creates Smalltalk and invents the term "object oriented." When asked what that means he replies, "Smalltalk programs are just objects." When asked what objects are made of he replies, "objects." When asked again he says "look, it's all objects all the way down. Until you reach turtles."
