AAAAAHHH!!!
Fox cut out during the last few minutes of Futurama for f*cking "Election Alert!!!"
At the worst f*cking possible spot! I thought it was part of the show as a gag because it was timed along with a key part of the episode! This is ridiculous! Katherine Harris couldn't wait three freaking minutes to make whatever lame announcement she has to make!
<Katherine Harris couldn't wait three freaking minutes to make whatever lame announcement she has to make!>
That George Bush may have won, but he kind of sort of may not.
~DarthArada~ "Snuh!" Homer Simpson "We have all the time in the world..." ~George Lazenby/James Bond "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" MUSSOLINI TO EMBARK ON CHEST EXPANSION CAMPAIGN ~The Onion
Personally, I thought that the interruption would leave the East Coast audience into imagining what happened at the end (a la a rocket crashing towards Castle Forrester on a Season Nine episode of MST3K.) However, it would be nice if a West Coaster supplied the info on what happened at the end of the episode.
Joe Klemm
If anyone needs the complete episode I have it. Please e-mail me.
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This post on Sun, 26 Nov 2000 19:33:31 -0500 would probably sound more commanding if Fen Phen wasn't wearing the Yummy Sushi Pajamas:
But when Bender says "ass", Katherine Harris appears.
Fen Phen wrote:
Yea your right. What were they thinking Interrupting a cartoon. They have no taste. Those morons.
This was sarcasm. Get a life it's just a TV show.
"Get a life?"
I could just as well read your News Radio quote and tell YOU to "get a life, it's just a TV show," and you would think I'm a jackass the way I think you're a jackass now for saying "get a life." If you're posting to a fan newsgroup, the phrase "get a life" means nothing.
In any case, there's no reason why the Harris announcement couldn't wait two more minutes till commercial. Does the fact that Bush "officially" wins Florida make any difference in my life if I find out two minutes sooner? If I cared that much, I would be watching CNN. Sure, if a news bulletin may save my life (weather warning, etc.), by all means, interrupt, but there's no reason why the network should cut in before commercial.
Fen Phen wrote:
Your right it was a stupid way to end that post and I apologize.
It's the national government they Don't run on any TV network's schedule. Their just a bit more Important then that.
Ok here's a scenario for you. Let's assume I care about what's happening in my own country, and I don't have cable. How do you propose I get up to the minute information?
Except perhaps oh say the network's obligation to keep people informed of important information 24 hours a day as it happens? The world doesn't run only during commercial breaks arbitrarily assigned by each network independently of each other. There's a lot more important things going on in the world then a TV show.
"Mike Zaite" wrote in message news:[email]...
Thank you.
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Yeah but... Futurama is a forecast of things to come. Everything that happens in Futurama will happen later, so we must learn the valuable lessons it has to offer before we make more boneheaded mistakes. Note "A Head In The Polls." People didn't listen to the whole one-vote-makes-a-difference message. Now look at the mess we're in. If people just watched more Futurama and if Fox would stop giving it the shaft, the world would be a better place. Because of tonight's interruption, people on the East Coast will never know what to do if they encounter a bomb that's triggered by the word "ass" (and don't think that won't ever happen).
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Watch FOX news at 9:00? It may not be up to the minute, but at least it is the most recent news they have available. Alternatively, you could listen to the radio.
This wasn't important information. They said Bush won Florida. Big deal. We knew that on election night.
Paul
Paul Tomko wrote:
Maybe you like digested mass disseminated information spewed out of some Prick Talking head on the "News we feed you Hour". But I like to see this stuff on a live feed. For Free. On my TV. I don't need to sit through "Human Interest" B.S. and What athletes were caught taking Cocaine rectaly in the back of movie theater, Or All the other 10:00pm News shit. To see something I could have seen as it happened.
Most people in the general population agree with me.
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Tell you what. You can come over tomorrow and watch me and some of my friends sign some papers. We'll even make an announcement that George W. Bush has won Florida, although we knew that already on election day.
No. Most people agree with me. Hey, that's pretty easy to say when you don't have to back it up.
Paul
Paul Tomko wrote:
Nah event's that involve you affect the nation about as much as Kraft Cheese Food Product affects the nutritional value of Shredded Wheat.
And I suppose you have a majority number of the populations names who were pissed that they missed their regularly scheduled programs to be able to see live the events of a major event in the U.S. Government?
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Yes, and a bunch of folks sitting around signing papers doesn't appear to have any affect on who won the election. Bush won in the first place, so it didn't affect him. And Gore is still trying to get recounts, so it didn't affect him either. All in all, it did nothing for anybody, so why interrupt a good TV show for it?
No I don't. No more than you have numbers of the population that were glad that Futurama was interrupted.
"Paul Tomko" wrote in message news:3a246e38$0$69895$[email]...
It did have an effect. Maybe it wasn't 100%, but the whole point *was* to make a big show of signing the papers in *public*. *This* is *it*. It is *OVER*. Show's over, go home. Quitcher bitchin'. Whatever you think of it, that's why they busted in and made such a fuss over signing the papers.
Paul Tomko wrote:
Hello!!! It's what's happening in my country. How myopic are you? Are you so brainless that you can't grasp the fact that they interrupted a show that's not what could be called important, that's on at the exact same time as about 50 other shows, in one time zone? Their not going to say. "Well were ready but hey let's wait until Futurama is over in the east coast first. The American public deserves, NO NEEDS to see the end of that." Come on! With every post about this you make yourself off to be more and more of a fool. Futurama is not important in any meaningful sense of the word!!!!! Deal with it.
Well I could pull any almanac and give you a big fat number of people who were completely indifferent to Futurama's even existence. And could care less if a cartoon show got interrupted in one time zone for something of national importance.
I see a moderate amount of Disappointed people, And only a few people who are making fools of them self by implying that a cartoon is more important then national news coverage.
Have you looked at the rating's? Right now if they were giving a way a free blow job to every viewer, Futurama couldn't make the general public watch. And that's the point. Why the hell should ANYONE much less a state legislature set their schedule around a small group of fans' TV show. The idea is so far beyond Ludicrous it makes me sick.
Well, President Ford delayed a speech for half an hour so that a new Smothers Brothers variety show wouldn't be preempted.
DGH
PS: All three of them met with early cancellation anyway :b
doug holverson wrote:
Well it was Ol' Jerry F. He doesn't count:)
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My point is that that news break-in established absolutely nothing about the result of the election, so why break into Futurama and whatever might have been on the other channels that I never watch. That news conference didn't make an iota of difference to Gore, as he is still fighting for recounts, and also didn't make any difference to Bush, since he already knows he won. Why waste peoples time showing a news break that isn't news?
Paul
Paul Tomko wrote:
Im done! That's it. You don't get it, and I'm not going to waste time pretending that anything I say is going to make you understand how things work in the world.
If truth be told, you held on longer than I had expected.
I wish you would stop saying this until and unless it's actually true.
Yeah, the TV said so. And it's never wrong.
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And I was watching Fox News. When I sat down to watch Futurama on tape later, I was extremely displeased to have lost the end of it to a news interruption that was neither timely nor urgent. There was no reason whatsoever to interrupt network programming (on any of the networks) to show that signing ceremony. And I say that as someone that was watching the damn thing. Any who were interested in watching (ok, let us say most who were interested in watching) were already seeing it on one of the myriad news channels...
"Lyfwork" wrote in message news:[email]...
Of course there was. It was the end of the election, at long last, hallelujah! </sarcasm> But then I can be objective since here they didn't interrupt Futurama, they interrupted the fucking bullshit game was over but let's fucking flap our mouths till 7:30 and make sure noone even sees the CREDITS to Futurama pissant gallery of hasbeen football players. Hmmm...yep, I'm still pissed.
You're wrong. Mike's .SIG quote is merely a reminder, for him if not for others, of a funny moment from a TV show he likes. Your ludicrous post blasting FOX for having the nerve to break away from a TV show for news that most certainly affects the entire country, if not most of the civilized world, deserved Mike's scorn.
I'm guessing she wasn't watching Futurama at the time.
Try turning this around. Does your watching a show make any difference in anyone's life compared to an announcement concerning the results of a US Presidential election? It's not even a blip on the radar.
On the contrary, there's every reason in the world. You remind me of the people 30 years ago who bitched that coverage of the moon landing interrupted their soap operas.
That news story didn't affect anybody at all. They released the same information that we have had ever since the election night.
Paul
Of course they did.
Oh, if only Brian Williams had thought to call up Paul on the 7th, imagine the trouble we could have saved!
"Dave" wrote in message news:[email]...
HOW did it affect the entire country? Do we have a President-Elect yet? No. Yesterday's "official announcement" did nothing. I don't deserve anyone's scorn. If I want to bitch about it, I'm allowed to bitch about it. Hell, Mike even apologized.
Yes, it makes a difference to me and other Futurama fans that were on the East Coast (see other posts). Does yesterday's "official" announcement make any difference for anybody? Maybe to Harris because she gets to stay on Bush's good side. Did it affect the rest of the world? No.
What if I stormed into your house and interrupted your dinner to tell you that I successfully filled up the gas tank in the van that will take astronauts to the rocket that will take them to the first manned mission to Mars... two days before the scheduled launch? Wouldn't you be a little upset?
Fen Phen wrote:
Hate to tell you but we do have a President Elect now. It's being contested but Bush is officially "President Elect Dubya Bush"
If you were able to interrupt my dinner I'd be in shock. Because I don't think I ever officially have dinner. And If we were going to mars I'd have a TV glued to my head so I wouldn't miss even the tinniest bit of it from the day they officially started the mars program. I'd want interviews by the guy who changes the tires on the gas tanker that hauled the gas to the tank you fueled the van that took the astronauts to the rocket with.
"By rocket to the moon By airplane to the rocket By taxi to the airport By front door to the taxi By throwing back the blanket Hanging down the legs"
"Mike Zaite" wrote in message news:[email]...
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How about the guy who fixed the astronaut's e-mail? <g>
http://www.geocities.com/loosechanj/Funny/dpu2.jpg
I didn't actually meet him till the next monday, I had a job on his secretary's machine and he came in and was going over his schedule with her (it was his first day in a new job) and complained they'd forgotten to put lunch on it.
LooseChanj wrote:
But he's not going to Mars is he? NO! :) But any astronaut news is cool.
"Mike Zaite" wrote in message news:[email]...
No, but he's been in space *5* times and to the space station twice. Sheesh, what does it take to impress you, something like this:
http://www.geocities.com/loosechanj/Tour/FD801001.JPG
I'm on the right. :-P
LooseChanj wrote:
Yea that'd do it :)
"Mike Zaite" wrote in message news:[email]...
Btw, that's the one going up thursday. And I fiddled with the lights. Weeeeeee. If you look at the pic again, there's a bar right about where you'd expect a rear view mirror on a car. It's for chinning up into the seat when it's vertical. Those seats are damn uncomfortable too, imagine your car seat rotated into the full push your face into the dashboard position, and that's about the feel. Right underneath my hand is the 'puter keyboard, it's in hex. Oh the joys of bragging...<g>
LooseChanj wrote:
Well they only technicaly "Sit" in the seats for a small about of time. Most of the time their more kind of teathered to them. And the rest of the time their in their pressure suits and are much more uncomfortable to begin with anyways to be bothered. I have the Old Shuttle simulator from Virgin Shows every panel in the shuttle and models most of the systems. Except the Rudder on landing. That's annoying. But I have the input codes for every part of flight. Not that I can stand playing it that long.
When's the Shuttle ever going to get a 90's cockpit? They still trucking along with those old IBM AP-101's and the Monochrome CRT's? That thing is in desparate need of a modern panel system.
"Mike Zaite" wrote in message news:[email]...
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Technically "small amount of time"? You don't count the several hours during the countdown? :-P Actually, I was thinking they might be more comfortable when the vehicle is vertical. What's funny about all those panels is everything's a power switch, literally. Except for the flight controls. And no, I didn't hit the red button. And yes, there really is one. Our tour guide gave us a rundown on the "escape" system, and even kinda chuckled about it. I think he said something like if you've got enough control to be able to do this, you're not gonna be doing it. But oh well, I guess it sounds better to know they could get out if they really didn't need to.
along
The displays are monochrome yep, green. Atlantis has a "glass cockpit", and Columbia should be coming back in a few months with one as well. But most of it it is still really old technology. The computers still use tape, and had core memory up until about 5 years ago. Most of it was torn apart when we got our tour, so we could see behind where they put the lockers at the front of the mid-deck were to where they keep the avionics. It's like bookshelves of stuff even the guy on watch said probably belonged in a museum. <g> And yep, those are still the same old computers as always. Just think...I've touched a couple of them. *sigh* They're really only used for flight control, all the payloads and stuff are run off of laptops.
And just for a little on topicality, I just managed to get a copy of War is the H-word, in divx format. I'd prefer a Real movie, but at least I've seen it now. And oh man it mighta been actually worth it to have seen it cut away to Harris for Paris. <g>
LooseChanj wrote:
That's Laying not siting :)
Of course not, because who uses he Flight controls? :)
What system? The gantry zoom chair? Or the main abort stuff?
I have to take a look on Nasa.gov and see that. I remember when the Beech Starship came out some folks at nasa were drooling and day dreaming about a full glass cockpit in Popular Science. But I didn't hear much more about it and didn't know when they were finally going to be able to install it.
But wouldn't you feel much more comfortable with Fully debugged Assembly code instead of Microsoft Shuttle 2000? Even still they should get a fully integrated and triple G&N backed up, Complete computer system for G&N, and Payload in there. It would probably weigh less then the current system and cause much less hassle from not having to chase down badly velcroed lap tops.
Im lucky I got a buddy on the west coast shipping me "War is the H-word" Priority Mail. So no painfull download for me.
"Mike Zaite" wrote in message news:[email]...
Neither. There's a panel at the top of the cockpit that blows out, and a pole they stick out for ya to slide across, far enough away from the vehicle to survive (as opposed to whacking against the side on your way down). Like I said, if you've got enough control over the vehicle to utilize the escape method, you won't need to use it. I really think it's because such a system might actually have given the Challenger bunch a chance. I've read accounts there were some indications they'd been trying to get out on the way down.
a full
http://oea.larc.nasa.gov/news_rels/2000/art/glasscockpit/KSC-99PP-0479.JPG
Jeez, and the guy one the left is the one I fixed the e-mail for.
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Well, there's people lots smarter than the 2 of us making those kind of decisions. But if you had any idea how long it takes stuff to get flight certified...like I said, they've only just gotten rid of core memory in the last 5 years. And that's the stuff IBM was using in the *50's*.
http://www.science.uva.nl/faculteit/museum/CoreMemory.html
Did I say it was painful? The hardest part is finding a damn site. And I still wanna get that ep in real format.
LooseChanj wrote:
Yea that's a pretty wild escape route that would take some time. It's kind of strange that they don't have a more "ballistic" means of escape. But that would probably be a lot of weight.
Ohh that's sharp. Why's it Boeing tan? Or is that just the way the picture came out?
Heheh They can put a man in space but E-mail is still a pain.
And a whole army of bureaucrats to filter out all the good ideas:)
I know how long it takes to certify through the FAA. Im sure it grows exponentially as altitude increases.
Silicon memory is a beautiful thing.
I'm easily impatient with downloads.
"Mike Zaite" wrote in message news:[email]...
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Wired had a story about one of the guy's e-mail choking whilst in orbit. I'll have to look around for the mp3. "Uh...Houston...microsoft outlook". Swear to god.
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LooseChanj wrote:
heh heh
And it better go through about 765 tests first before it's even considered. :) But it helps keep things ticking along and safe.
*sneer* *Mumbuh mumbah mubah fast site* ;)
"Mike Zaite" wrote in message news:[email]...
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Found it. Do you get alt.binaries.multimedia.futurama?
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Hey, I'm also a hell of a lot more generous now. :-)
LooseChanj wrote:
yea
LooseChanj: now with 50% more generosity.
"Mike Zaite" wrote in message news:[email]...
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Look for it there shortly.
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I'd say it's more like several 1,000%. Hell, I sign on to napster just to let people leech.
LooseChanj wrote:
Got it. Good stuff. Thanks.
On Tue, 28 Nov 2000 23:44:29 -0500, "LooseChanj" wrote:
There is a detailed description of the escape system in use during a fictional shuttle failure in "Encounter With Tiber" where the main engines fail. They are too far out to return to Florida and not far enough to land in Africa. The crew is forced to bail out over the Atlantic. I am assuming it's pretty accurate since Buzz Aldrin co-authored it.
Excellent sci-fi book BTW, I recommend it very highly.
--Larry
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Actually, not until after December 12th when the Electoral College votes.
Actually, he's not President Elect until the electors cast their ballots.
"Mike Zaite" wrote in message news:[email]...
no
Interrupting? Shit, where I am they forced the fucking post-game blabbering's of some has-been football players to cut short for Harris for Paris, then proceed to just show everything else in it's entirety. This is a fucking station which shows TWO Simpsons every weeknight, AND TWO Drew Careys, AND TWO Third Rocks. And NO Futurama this week, even though it was a NEW episode. Bleh, I still say the Futurama team should pack up for a new network that'll actually SHOW the episodes. And take the Simpsons with'em.
LooseChanj wrote:
But Howie Long IS Duke Nukem. You can't Hate Duke Nukem. Unless your alien Bastard's.
<conan quote>"Makeup Annie"</conan quote>
Ah Ha!!! Where are you at, what affiliate call letter's are you watching on? I knew my affiliate wasn't the only one who did that! Unless your watching on WWJW in which case never mind it's just us.
Except that Matt doesn't own 'The Simpsons" That's why they were invented in the first place. To prevent FOX from owning his "Life in Hell" characters who they originally wanted for the Ullman Shorts. But minutes before his meeting he realized what he was about to do and created OFF out of the �ther for the pitch. That's why their all named after members of his family. They were the first names that came to his mind.
His hand's are tied and they have him by the balls. There's no way he can retaliate to anything FOX does to him or his shows.
"Mike Zaite" wrote in message news:[email]...
He is? Oh shit. Collinsworth can suck my dick tho'. (Seriously. I probably wouldn't feel the slighest hint of homophobis either. She's a babe.) Bradshaw I hate on principle, since he played for the Steelers. Saw his ass lose once I did. Haha. And that other asshole has hosted a lamest wanna be funniest home video show. Fuck him. Can you tell I'm still pissed? Be honest. I feel like flaming anything that doesn't love Futurama from the bottom of its heart.
And don't you *ever* fucking sleep?
LooseChanj wrote:
Im mildly getting that impression.
I love Futurama (Not in that weird way Leela Lover Matt does though;) And it's just bullshit what FOX is doing to it.
I work late shift so I tend to sleep mostly in the daytime. Except when I have things to do then I sleep exclusively in the morning. But I just posted some really incoherent stuff at Flightsim.com im talking stuff that makes Denis Miller make sense by comparison. so I'm thinking sleep may be a good Idea soon.
So Duke Nukem does Radio Shack commercials with Teri Hatcher?
Rich Bunnell wrote:
You've seen the commercials. So you know the answer already.