Boris London
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we did the bagger over 3 years ago before the purge
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People like this make me physically ill. They have all this money and it's all about me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, meaningless me.
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you have it about right..
Bourne set the bar at a new level... though you could argue the arc came via the vastly underrated RONIN, which was a homage mash up itself.
the suspending disbelief issue failed in bond movies when they became too comedy orientated... you could kid yourself about the volcano base and gadget stuff but if the film makers didn't take it seriously anymore why should we? the invisible car jumped the shark...
Bourne started to fail in the third outing as Bournes skill set was becoming increasingly ridiculous... do they really teach motorbike trial skills at Langley to MK ultra super spys?... along with free running (which copied the Bond reboot to be fair)
the first outing of Bourne was good because the action progressed us through the narrative rather than the plot just a device to steer us into set piece action pieces.. the exception being the Ronin lite car chase with the italian job mini copper.
the first fight scene didn't relie on fast cutting and its utcome displayed the differences in character between Bourne and the girl (why why why did they kill her off!).. their first kiss is a classic piece of cinema.
the bond franchise needs to re-introduce us to the character bond traits... the sophistication etc... even the austin power quiffs after killing someone... but in a re-invented way.
I didn't get the opera house shot out at all.. sub mtv BS trying to do a luc besson or somefink
continually dreaming up new ways of doing action and trumping the other rival efforts is an ask...
underplay the extravaganza and do it more "real" so minor displays of bravado under pressure appear genuinely cool... which is how they really are.
neil armstrong going to manual while the landing radar crashed the computer on the eagle as it headed into a boulder field.
thats pulling the fat out of the fire...
how to make this exciting in cinema terms is not impossible, BoB displayed being cool while the world collapses around your ears was quite convincing (though not necessarily realistic)
that combination of action combined with suspension of disbelief is what makes a action film cutting edge IMO.
I quite liked some of the new bond stuff... specter is super secret diffuse network/old boys club rather than some centralized cartoon show shacked up in a volcano base..
they can do a lot with that.
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spotify
cut out the hassle
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it what it is.. I'm not that down on the US guy... not stirling work but its a heartfelt expression and at least its some sort of communication
I don't pretend to know how much he is on the money but not far off is not out of the question...
the thing is it just highlights how difficult it task it was from the start with the skill set you have.
the us (military) are not renowned for tact or social insight into other cultures never mind trying to fixing them....
on a aside there is concern in kurdish areas that a us withdrawal will trigger civil war between the central gov and kurdistan... from kurds themselves that rumor.
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its like an episode of star trek
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I thought we were seafaring and commercial
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earthlike gas giant moons would never develope complex life because they would be too prone to impact events caused by gas giants hoovering up interplantary objects of significant size..asteroids comets etc...
no you need a earthlike plasnet screened by gas giants as we have in this solar system
you also need a Iron core/magnetic field and a disproportionally large moon /double planet system as the terra-luna system
the list of things required to make survival likley is pretty improbable
we are alone or effectivily alone.. don't talk to me about eclipses either...
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I'm moving on after 3.5 years with my current employer. Any advice for the last day here? Currently I'm:
*Purging my email
*Copying off about 20 GB of music onto the shared network drive so everyone can pinch what they want
*Going out for lunch with the team
*Going out for drinks after work
*Slipped a knife into a few ribs during my exit interview
Anybody got any good last day on the job stories?
what are you off to?
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The New Scientist arriving today has features on all the renewable technologies and it will take some time to encapsulate the reports. However on energy transmission over distance the prime answer appears to be to go to DC rather than use AC as you will have much lower transmission losses.
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that is already done
Boris
london
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we are all stuck with each other on this pebble
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the singularity.. "the rapture for nerds"
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I reiterate: "Frying" water with electricity to split it is a brute force approach, whereas "tickling" it with vibratory methods will get you the same result, but for a tiny fraction of the energy your brute force approach would otherwise require. This IS how you can do the seemingly impossible. If you read what's at the links, this man publicly, time and again did many "impossible things," to include antigravity.
"tickling" the bond apart could for the sake of argument be the most efficient way of breaking the bond but the net energy gain recovered from recreating it will never exceed zero...
comparing the efficiencies of two methods does not alter the task... or the energy stored in the bond... or the energy released upon recreating it
Boris
London
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There are other ways to get the job done, but you won't find them them as long as you have a toolbox with nothing in it but a hammer.
define the job?
you seem to be confusing technique and task
if the task is breaking the hydrogen oxygen bond of water that task is fixed...
the method will not change the task.
what is the energy potential in that bond?
any method must deliver that energy to the bond... the task doesn't change
Boris
London
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interesting... can you find some more links
Boris
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apparently the LHC caused a time portal to open and transport lance armstrong back into professional cycling along with Floyd Landis
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But overall, left or right, the rest of the world looks at America's poltical and military religous zealotry and shudders.
what this guy said
are they really going to wheel this insanity into the white house?
ok we know she is there to appease the religious GOP voters who think McCain is a communist fag but that says it all.....
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I like it
I liked the elephant and all
can't wait to see this one moving around
Boris
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Any reporter with even a shred of experience with non-democratic regimes will tell you, the democratic ones are by far the more effective liars. Not the authoritarian ones. The authoritarian regimes are clumsy and easy to contradict, and at the end of the day they don't care much what the world thinks, just the official truth inside the country.
thats quite a quote
Boris
London
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Bolts was a highlight but its a sad and cynical world..
Jamica used to train its sprinters with US sprinters on the notorious drug rife US circuit..
what happens? drug scandals in US squad lead to US cleaning up its act with decent out of competition testing (OOC) to avoid the repertition of the now regular scandals...
hello... the Jamaicans all of a sudden decide to stop training in the US and go back to Jamaica to train... where Jamaican Athletics refuses to sign up to the Regional anti doping organization (RADO) and instead relies on the IAAF (notoriously s**t)
come the olympics
US sprinters = zero
Jamaican sprinters = 5
coincidence? you decide............
well you can take heart that the US medals were cleaner (for once)
British boxing gold = bollocks... our guy clinched and ref did nothing but fair play for getting away with it
mens pole vault was a good event..
UK track cycling was awesome.. rob hayles quietly bundled out of the team (aging guy desperate to make team tests with suspicious blood values)
thats how thorough the UK velodrome squad were to present a totally clean team... on paper Hayles was better than manning or thomas for the 4000m team pursuit and was not "positive" just suspicious and was dropped... can't say the same for
who is presented by the BBC as the face of honor
in the end China let itself down on the world stage with its cheating.. which occurred a fair bit... will they learn that transparencey is something they are going to have to get used to...
you can't pull off this outrageous 1984 rejig history crap and expect to get away with it when the worlds media is on your case...
still an enjoyable games .. hell of a relief from the impending economic/political doom and gloom
Boris
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I think china should have all its gymnastic medals revoked.. at the very very very least the chinese gymnastic team misses out the next olympics.. systematic falsification of documents relating to age is just cheating that one step to far.. especially getting caught out...
the entire greek weight lifting squad was banned from competing because of systematic cheating.. so the precedent is there..
Boris
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oppps!
yes thats a 12 ton D9 bulldozer accidently eaten by the bagger 288