Reviewer abused for Serenity Review

As described here. Now, this is nothing unusual. Many enthusiasts can be as accepting of differences in opinion as a Stalinist judge at a a show trial (Just try expressing the idea that Very Special Musical Episodes are best if the actors in them can actually sing and dance). What makes this particular example interesting is that the offending review
was a _positive_ review.

Reviewer abused for Serenity Review

As described here. Now, this is nothing unusual. Many enthusiasts can be as accepting of differences in opinion as a Stalinist judge at a a show trial (Just try expressing the idea that Very Special Musical Episodes are best if the actors in them can actually sing and dance). What makes this particular example interesting is that the offending review
was a _positive_ review.

Reviewer abused for Serenity Review

As described here. Now, this is nothing unusual. Many enthusiasts can be as accepting of differences in opinion as a Stalinist judge at a a show trial (Just try expressing the idea that Very Special Musical Episodes are best if the actors in them can actually sing and dance). What makes this particular example interesting is that the offending review
was a _positive_ review.

Twenty Years Ago Today

Francis R. Scobee
Gregory B. Jarvis
Ronald E. McNair
Ellison Onizuka
Judith A. Resnick
Christa McAuliffe
Michael J. Smith

Despite the cost, the unworkable complexity, the proven inability to meet program targets and the unreliablity of the Space Shuttle, NASA would continue to use shuttles into the early 21st century.

Twenty Years Ago Today

Francis R. Scobee
Gregory B. Jarvis
Ronald E. McNair
Ellison Onizuka
Judith A. Resnick
Christa McAuliffe
Michael J. Smith

Despite the cost, the unworkable complexity, the proven inability to meet program targets and the unreliablity of the Space Shuttle, NASA would continue to use shuttles into the early 21st century.

Twenty Years Ago Today

Francis R. Scobee
Gregory B. Jarvis
Ronald E. McNair
Ellison Onizuka
Judith A. Resnick
Christa McAuliffe
Michael J. Smith

Despite the cost, the unworkable complexity, the proven inability to meet program targets and the unreliablity of the Space Shuttle, NASA would continue to use shuttles into the early 21st century.

No Reason

If you have two worlds, one tide-locked to the other but not vice versa, that's fine. In fact, that's a lot like the situation with the Earth and the Moon: the Moon is tide-locked but the Earth is not.

That said, if a satellite is tide-locked to a larger planet, that does not therefore mean one side of the tide-locked planet is in eternal night and the other is in perpetual day.

No Reason

If you have two worlds, one tide-locked to the other but not vice versa, that's fine. In fact, that's a lot like the situation with the Earth and the Moon: the Moon is tide-locked but the Earth is not.

That said, if a satellite is tide-locked to a larger planet, that does not therefore mean one side of the tide-locked planet is in eternal night and the other is in perpetual day.

No Reason

If you have two worlds, one tide-locked to the other but not vice versa, that's fine. In fact, that's a lot like the situation with the Earth and the Moon: the Moon is tide-locked but the Earth is not.

That said, if a satellite is tide-locked to a larger planet, that does not therefore mean one side of the tide-locked planet is in eternal night and the other is in perpetual day.

Constructive Post-Holocaust Stories

That's a lousy term but what I mean is the sort of story that is set after some great calamity where the point isn't to rack up as high a body count as possible fighting over dog-food tins, to show how nomadic barbarism is the true state of manly men or to demonstrate how awful _those people_ are without society keeping a boot on their necks [1]. Instead, the idea is to recover from the disaster, to preserve what is worth preserving and to create that which was lacking the first time round to enable the disaster to occur [2].

What made me think about this was that the University of Nebraska recently reprinted the Pelbar Cycle (Paul O. Williams) as part of their Beyond Armagedon series, and the Pelbar Cycle is all about E Pluribus Unuming: the stage starts off with two different flavours of nomadic barbarians (One set descended from feral Minnesotans and the other from Boy Scouts gone dingo) and a few thousand matriarchal town dwellers (ranging from stuffy to actively malign) and ends up by book five

Yeah, a spoiler warning should go here: SPOILER WARNING

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Constructive Post-Holocaust Stories

That's a lousy term but what I mean is the sort of story that is set after some great calamity where the point isn't to rack up as high a body count as possible fighting over dog-food tins, to show how nomadic barbarism is the true state of manly men or to demonstrate how awful _those people_ are without society keeping a boot on their necks [1]. Instead, the idea is to recover from the disaster, to preserve what is worth preserving and to create that which was lacking the first time round to enable the disaster to occur [2].

What made me think about this was that the University of Nebraska recently reprinted the Pelbar Cycle (Paul O. Williams) as part of their Beyond Armagedon series, and the Pelbar Cycle is all about E Pluribus Unuming: the stage starts off with two different flavours of nomadic barbarians (One set descended from feral Minnesotans and the other from Boy Scouts gone dingo) and a few thousand matriarchal town dwellers (ranging from stuffy to actively malign) and ends up by book five

Yeah, a spoiler warning should go here: SPOILER WARNING

( Read more... )

Constructive Post-Holocaust Stories

That's a lousy term but what I mean is the sort of story that is set after some great calamity where the point isn't to rack up as high a body count as possible fighting over dog-food tins, to show how nomadic barbarism is the true state of manly men or to demonstrate how awful _those people_ are without society keeping a boot on their necks [1]. Instead, the idea is to recover from the disaster, to preserve what is worth preserving and to create that which was lacking the first time round to enable the disaster to occur [2].

What made me think about this was that the University of Nebraska recently reprinted the Pelbar Cycle (Paul O. Williams) as part of their Beyond Armagedon series, and the Pelbar Cycle is all about E Pluribus Unuming: the stage starts off with two different flavours of nomadic barbarians (One set descended from feral Minnesotans and the other from Boy Scouts gone dingo) and a few thousand matriarchal town dwellers (ranging from stuffy to actively malign) and ends up by book five

Yeah, a spoiler warning should go here: SPOILER WARNING

( Read more... )

Speaking of stress and heads of government

Harper has had asthma since he was a kid and as many people know (well, in Canada and only as it wasn't covered while Channel 39 had the spanking lesbians on**) it sent him to hospital on Thursday. Now, this particular attack wasn't serious and there's no reason to think that future attacks will side-line him but it's interesting in the context of a previous discussion that this was a problem for him within three days of winning the election, given that one trigger for asthma is stress and being PM, even of a small nation, is probably not the least stressful job that he could have.

We don't do dead serving PMs in Canada, at least not since the era of Conservative dominance in the 1890s, and I trust Mr. Harper will stick to traditional not-dying-in-office-ism.




* Actually, it wasn't so much Lesbian Spank Inferno as it was an extended discussion about who last cleaned the tea cups.

Speaking of stress and heads of government

Harper has had asthma since he was a kid and as many people know (well, in Canada and only as it wasn't covered while Channel 39 had the spanking lesbians on**) it sent him to hospital on Thursday. Now, this particular attack wasn't serious and there's no reason to think that future attacks will side-line him but it's interesting in the context of a previous discussion that this was a problem for him within three days of winning the election, given that one trigger for asthma is stress and being PM, even of a small nation, is probably not the least stressful job that he could have.

We don't do dead serving PMs in Canada, at least not since the era of Conservative dominance in the 1890s, and I trust Mr. Harper will stick to traditional not-dying-in-office-ism.




* Actually, it wasn't so much Lesbian Spank Inferno as it was an extended discussion about who last cleaned the tea cups.

Speaking of stress and heads of government

Harper has had asthma since he was a kid and as many people know (well, in Canada and only as it wasn't covered while Channel 39 had the spanking lesbians on**) it sent him to hospital on Thursday. Now, this particular attack wasn't serious and there's no reason to think that future attacks will side-line him but it's interesting in the context of a previous discussion that this was a problem for him within three days of winning the election, given that one trigger for asthma is stress and being PM, even of a small nation, is probably not the least stressful job that he could have.

We don't do dead serving PMs in Canada, at least not since the era of Conservative dominance in the 1890s, and I trust Mr. Harper will stick to traditional not-dying-in-office-ism.




* Actually, it wasn't so much Lesbian Spank Inferno as it was an extended discussion about who last cleaned the tea cups.