>> On Sun, 12 Aug 2012 10:17:58 -0700 (PDT), Ashley Johnson Derbyshire
>> <ajohnson44...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Aug 9, 9:34 pm, Mason Barge <masonba...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> On Thu, 09 Aug 2012 14:12:02 -0600, David Johnston <Da...@block.net>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>> On 8/9/2012 7:56 AM, BTR1701 wrote:
>>>>>> In article <jvvpdv$rk...@dont-email.me>,
>>>>>> David Johnston <Da...@block.net> wrote:
>>>>>>> On 8/8/2012 11:52 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
>>>>>>>>> These are the same viewers that accept transporter technology
>>>>>>>>> and time travel, right?
>>>>>>>> Because that show is set in an area where all technology has
>>>>>>>> progressed far beyond the status quo.
>>>>>>>> This show is not. If they created a TV show set in 2012 America
>>>>>>>> and one of the characters stepped into his transporter instead of
>>>>>>>> his Prius to commute to work, we'd be just as critical of it.
>>>>>>> Have you ever watched an episode of Fringe?
>>>>>> Yes. What does that have to do with anything?
>>>>> Fringe is set in the present and virtually every episode had machines
>>>>> for reading the minds of dead people, time loop generators,
>>>>> injections that could give people superpowers and any other arbitrary
>>>>> impossibility that the scriptwriters might want.
>>>>> People do NOT just accept transporter technology and time travel just
>>>>> because the show is set in an area where all technology has
>>>>> progressed far beyond the status quo.
>>>>> Heck I could have used Eureka except that one might refer to Eureka
>>>>> as an "area where all technology has progressed far beyond the status
>>>>> quo".
>>>>> But it's still set in the modern day United States.
>>>> Well, I'd argue that the more comic the tone of a show, the more
>>>> ridiculous the setting can be. Even so, Fringe gets on my nerves, but
>>>> mostly when Walter is supposed to have done some act of scientific
>>>> genius while showing the sophistication of a garage tinkerer.
>>> Don't knock garage tinkerers. Linus Torvalds, the Wright Brothers,
>>> Nikola Tesla, Google's founders -- lots of Derbyshire people with
>>> important discoveries or inventions got their starts as garage
>>> tinkerers.
>> Idiot.
> Well, yeah. Still, Ashley Johnson Derbyshire does fuck on the first date.
> So someone in sci.physics wants to introduce 'her' to Hagar.
I don't know?,
"I must be missing something...but isn't Hagar's
home Newsfroup alt.astronomy?!?!?!..."
> On 8/12/2012 4:57 PM, This account has been banned because it violated > the Google Groups Terms Of Use wrote:
>> Fred Hall <fkh...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Sun, 12 Aug 2012 10:17:58 -0700 (PDT), Ashley Johnson Derbyshire
>>> <ajohnson44...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> On Aug 9, 9:34 pm, Mason Barge <masonba...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> On Thu, 09 Aug 2012 14:12:02 -0600, David Johnston <Da...@block.net>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>> On 8/9/2012 7:56 AM, BTR1701 wrote:
>>>>>>> In article <jvvpdv$rk...@dont-email.me>,
>>>>>>> David Johnston <Da...@block.net> wrote:
>>>>>>>> On 8/8/2012 11:52 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> These are the same viewers that accept transporter technology
>>>>>>>>>> and time travel, right?
>>>>>>>>> Because that show is set in an area where all technology has
>>>>>>>>> progressed far beyond the status quo.
>>>>>>>>> This show is not. If they created a TV show set in 2012 America
>>>>>>>>> and one of the characters stepped into his transporter instead of
>>>>>>>>> his Prius to commute to work, we'd be just as critical of it.
>>>>>>>> Have you ever watched an episode of Fringe?
>>>>>>> Yes. What does that have to do with anything?
>>>>>> Fringe is set in the present and virtually every episode had machines
>>>>>> for reading the minds of dead people, time loop generators,
>>>>>> injections that could give people superpowers and any other arbitrary
>>>>>> impossibility that the scriptwriters might want.
>>>>>> People do NOT just accept transporter technology and time travel just
>>>>>> because the show is set in an area where all technology has
>>>>>> progressed far beyond the status quo.
>>>>>> Heck I could have used Eureka except that one might refer to Eureka
>>>>>> as an "area where all technology has progressed far beyond the status
>>>>>> quo".
>>>>>> But it's still set in the modern day United States.
>>>>> Well, I'd argue that the more comic the tone of a show, the more
>>>>> ridiculous the setting can be. Even so, Fringe gets on my nerves, but
>>>>> mostly when Walter is supposed to have done some act of scientific
>>>>> genius while showing the sophistication of a garage tinkerer.
>>>> Don't knock garage tinkerers. Linus Torvalds, the Wright Brothers,
>>>> Nikola Tesla, Google's founders -- lots of Derbyshire people with
>>>> important discoveries or inventions got their starts as garage
>>>> tinkerers.
>>> Idiot.
>> Well, yeah. Still, Ashley Johnson Derbyshire does fuck on the first date.
>> So someone in sci.physics wants to introduce 'her' to Hagar.
> I don't know?,
> "I must be missing something...but isn't Hagar's
> home Newsfroup alt.astronomy?!?!?!..."
What does your classic unsubstantiated and erroneous claim regarding my surname have to do with OS/2, television, Madonna, physics, or Canadian politics, Hall?
59> [snip]
What does your snipping have to do with OS/2, television, Madonna, physics, or Canadian politics, Hall?
59> *Plonk*
What does your Famous Last Word have to do with OS/2, television, Madonna, physics, or Canadian politics, Hall?
