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Last figure I saw said half a billion for each of these."The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
Ben Kenobi: "That means I'm doing something right. "Comment
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I fail to see how the US is not as militaristic as nations like North Korea or the former Soviet Union. Instead of parading our latest equipment through the streets, such hardware is showcased in the latest Hollywood CGI suckfest. I only say this because this ship reminds me of the new naval railgun ship I saw in Transformers. The media mocks North Korea by showing clips of soldiers marching in their version of Red Square. But the US fawns over the latest toilet we've flushed our billions down just like those people. We just like to do it in an air conditioned theater while eating overpriced popcorn and drinking high fructose corn syrup cocktails.To us, it is the BEAST.Comment
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Originally posted by Sava View Post
Asher has it right. I might add that this is for the base model, without the mission modules. The "economic benefit" from these is the extremely low personnel costs, which absorb a plurality of the budget.Today, you are the waves of the Pacific, pushing ever eastward. You are the sequoias rising from the Sierra Nevada, defiant and enduring.Comment
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You went to "Transformers 2," thus the above post and everything else you say can be summarily disregardedI fail to see how the US is not as militaristic as nations like North Korea or the former Soviet Union. Instead of parading our latest equipment through the streets, such hardware is showcased in the latest Hollywood CGI suckfest. I only say this because this ship reminds me of the new naval railgun ship I saw in Transformers. The media mocks North Korea by showing clips of soldiers marching in their version of Red Square. But the US fawns over the latest toilet we've flushed our billions down just like those people. We just like to do it in an air conditioned theater while eating overpriced popcorn and drinking high fructose corn syrup cocktails.
"The DPRK is still in a state of war with the U.S. It's called a black out." - Che explaining why orbital nightime pictures of NK show few lights. Seriously.Comment
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I think I may hate you.Originally posted by Patroklos View PostYou went to "Transformers 2," thus the above post and everything else you say can be summarily disregarded
Today, you are the waves of the Pacific, pushing ever eastward. You are the sequoias rising from the Sierra Nevada, defiant and enduring.Comment
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Please tell me you didn't validate the hollywood summer **** fest phenomenon by going to see that POS? At least tell me you thought it was a POS...
"The DPRK is still in a state of war with the U.S. It's called a black out." - Che explaining why orbital nightime pictures of NK show few lights. Seriously.Comment
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I saw it on the IMAX at Udvar-Hazy. The one that(in the film) is located in Virginia but the outside resembles an aircraft boneyard in the Southwest.Originally posted by Patroklos View PostPlease tell me you didn't validate the hollywood summer **** fest phenomenon by going to see that POS? At least tell me you thought it was a POS...
Today, you are the waves of the Pacific, pushing ever eastward. You are the sequoias rising from the Sierra Nevada, defiant and enduring.Comment
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Lonestar likes all special effects heavy, plotless childrens' movies like Star Wars..."The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
Ben Kenobi: "That means I'm doing something right. "Comment
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Originally posted by Asher View Post
I enjoy movies for what they are. Same with the other guys who plopped down three quarters of a billion dollars to see it this summer.
Today, you are the waves of the Pacific, pushing ever eastward. You are the sequoias rising from the Sierra Nevada, defiant and enduring.Comment
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I think it's genious psychological warfare.Originally posted by Sava View Post
Wouldn't you think it is genius if N. Korea produced propaganda films in which it successfully beats even the most uber-advanced space aliens constantly promoting the idea it has the most advanced technology on earth and the most loyal and ingenious citizens? And wouldn't that be even more genius of everyone paid incredible money to see those propaganda films?Comment
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I saw Dark Knight there. Definitely the best theater in the area for summer blockbusters.Originally posted by Lonestar View Post
John Brown did nothing wrong.Comment
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I also saw the new Star Trek movie there. Twice.Originally posted by Felch View PostI saw Dark Knight there. Definitely the best theater in the area for summer blockbusters.
Today, you are the waves of the Pacific, pushing ever eastward. You are the sequoias rising from the Sierra Nevada, defiant and enduring.Comment
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I once worked with an Algol compiler that could take an expression as a value parameter - the expression would be evaluated when used and it was possible to modify the involved variables before evaluation. Don't know why, but I think that you could have fun with such a facilityOriginally posted by KrazyHorse View Post
With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
Steven WeinbergComment
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BlackCat is describing the defining property of functional languages, i.e. that functions are first-class objects. This means you can generate new functions at runtime, assign them to variables, and pass them into functions as arguments.
e.g. you could have a function map(func,list) that would behave as such:
map(lambda x: x+1, [0, 3, 17]) would return [1, 4, 18]Comment
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