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His Divine Shadow wrote: ↑2019-11-12 07:33am The last Star Wars movie I watched was revenge of the sith. After that I just felt completely drained of any star wars interest and it has never come back.

Well, it was the last actual "Star Wars movie" anyway. In the sense of being part of the story Lucas started with ANH.

I think I watched about 400-500 movies from the 2010s, but that is including some short films (like the masterpiece that is less than 30 minutes long Little Witch Academia short film). It is hard for me to rate the best movie of each year but we had a lot of good movies but fewer masterpieces if com...

As long as you do not spend the money on consumption goods you are investing it. Smart investment in capital assets improves the quality of capital allocation and raises overall productivity of the economy. It's true the assets are under his name, but since he is not spending the assets they are bei...

LadyTevar wrote: ↑2019-05-25 12:57pm STOP PUTTING MOVIES AND TV IN OFF-TOPIC!!
Moved to Fantasy where it belongs!

I would think Akira is science fiction? I mean science fiction if full of settings of people with psych powers, so I don't think of it automatically as fantasy.

I wouldn't go so far as to say that Biden is Trump-lite. But that's where the strategy you're proposing would ultimately take us, in my view. Trump is an anti-stablishment postmodern populist. Biden is a stablishment old school liberal. Biden is pretty much the anti-Trump. Other democrat candidates...

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This is basically the traditional Centrist Democrat "wisdom"- the moderate will always win, experience is more important than principles, never do anything bold, the only votes that matter are a relatively small group of mostly white independents, the key to winning is to be in the Center...

Perhaps the UED developed long-range scans? If psionics isn't a Koprulu-only phenomenon maybe the UED has some psi-corps of Cleos and Minority Reporters doing recon-seances to determine what's up. Maybe the Confederacy and even proto-Confed/pre-modern-K-Sector-polities actually built these arrays t...

I though the trilogy was pretty fun. It was written by Urobuchi who likes that kind of heavy handed philosophical approach to fiction: it is uncompromising in its lack of ambiguity, almost as if he where writing a technical manual instead of a movie series. While I don't think the last movie made a ...

Among the current favorites for the nomination I think that only Biden has high chance of beating Trump. Others are either too radical or lack the political skills or the charisma to beat Trump in debates from the perspective of the average voter. You need an old school politician with experience to...

I very much doubt that even extreme climate change will wipe out the human race. We're too widespread and too adaptable, and generalists tend to be the ones that survive mass extinctions. I do believe it could devastate our numbers - if everything between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capr...

Besides, has the question of preserving continuity of conscience while transferring from "vessel" to "vessel" has been seriously considered by anybody?

"They are still born as babies then their minds are supposedly "digitized" at the age of 60 days" The human mind is not developed fully until, what, the early to late teens? What is the point of even conceiving the babies and bringing them to term? Is it that the computer needs ...

The anvil lifting scene shows a lot more than just lifting strength for data. His hands and fingers have to be strong enough not to lose his grip. His back and legs as well. That's general toughness since even a professional weight lifter would have to worry about permanently damaging his back (at ...

The wiki page for the movie: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expelled_from_Paradise I watched this science fiction movie recently because it's script was written by Urobuchi (yes, that was the only reason), but it's very different from his other work (though that perhaps means that he did not have that...

Ironically, Elysium basically had the same plot as the anime Battle Angel Alita - you have your ground-based society, where all the dregs live, and you have you sky-city, where all the wealthy/elite live, and who have great medical technology. That type of scenario is already a standard trope in sc...

Some nice assumptions on global energy stocks used in the model: Another key parameter is the size of the oil reserve. BP (2010) reported that proven global reserves of oil amount to 181.7 gigaton. However, these figures only aggregate reserves that are economically profitable to extract at current ...

For those interested in the handling of global warming problem there is this nice paper that came out in Econometrica in 2014: http://hassler-j.iies.su.se/PAPERS/ECTA.pdf "OPTIMAL TAXES ON FOSSIL FUEL IN GENERAL EQUILIBRIUM" We analyze a dynamic stochastic general-equilibrium (DSGE) model ...

That's not true, Mr. G. You cannot just pour money to get results. There are industrial development and expansion curves which in heavy industry are not nearly as elastic as they are in software tech, the existence of which has been the bane of realism for the past two decades when dealing with eco...

And again, Normandy '43 was not about liberating all of France. It was about securing Normandy and Cherbourg. Even if the Germans pile 60 Divisions just outside the bocage it doesn't really help them - they're charging into a narrow front that's bocage defensive terrain, and as they get near the be...

Let us say that after going into Russia the higher ups in the German military decide that what the german army needs is quantity of vehicles, as such they decide to do two things... 1: Make as many Panzer-IVs as possible and modernize them on the same lines that they did OTL to better fight T-34s 2...

One philosophical point that people here apparently missed is that a perfectly realistic virtual reality, including perfectly realistic simulations of human beings, would involve reproducing the full complexity of human minds, among other things. It wouldn't be a "virtual reality" but just...

Who cares, Hollywood has been dead for a couple of decades now.

You could always start them off with something like this— http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZuSaudKc68 —and then move on to actual modern compositions. Ease them into it, so to speak. Metal always has a certain similarity to classical music. Like classical, it takes itself seriously and is characteri...

That's not true, Mr. G. You cannot just pour money to get results. There are industrial development and expansion curves which in heavy industry are not nearly as elastic as they are in software tech, the existence of which has been the bane of realism for the past two decades when dealing with eco...