The questions-not-worth-their-own-thread question thread V

[Taras Bulba]

Whats the best Sci Fi original movie?

best sci-fi movie period

 

[Dachs]

That isn't a Sci-Fi (Syfy?) Original Movie. Try again?

 

[Taras Bulba]

That isn't a Sci-Fi (Syfy?) Original Movie. Try again?

GAH! my brain has successfully become mush.


but still... you can't talk about sci-fi movies of any kind without giving a mention to Blade Runner

 

[Sharwood]

Blade Runner - like many Ridley Scott films - is seriously overrated. A good film, but not nearly as good as people think. Ridley pays more attention to how things look than how they work.

Where is the best place to get some easy tail in Sydney? My backpacker pick-up joint is shut until ski season.

 

[salty mud]

You could discuss it with your doctor. But I don't think what you are describing is really out of the ordinary.

If it's normal, the worst they'll do is call you an idiot, and if not they might cure you of something really bad. I would tell your GP.

Thanks guys, next time I go to the doctors I'll bring the subject up. I've been cautious of my eyes since I first wore glasses, understandably I hope.

 

[gangleri2001]

Blade Runner - like many Ridley Scott films - is seriously overrated. A good film, but not nearly as good as people think. Ridley pays more attention to how things look than how they work.

Where is the best place to get some easy tail in Sydney? My backpacker pick-up joint is shut until ski season.

Blade Runner overrated? You've got to be kidding me!

 

[Mise]

@Shekwan: Watch anything with a snake in it and you're good.

 

[Brighteye]

Blade Runner overrated? You've got to be kidding me!

Indeed. What he meant to say is that it's so far beyond over-rated that we need a new description.
How one of the worst films I've seen can be regarded by many as of of the best classics is a mystery.

 

[Sharwood]

Indeed. What he meant to say is that it's so far beyond over-rated that we need a new description.
How one of the worst films I've seen can be regarded by many as of of the best classics is a mystery.

I wouldn't go so far as to call it a really bad film, although I personally find it mediocre at best. I have seen considerably worse, including by Ridley Scott, a director who certainly fits the description of "so far beyond over-rated that we need a new description."

The book's pretty good, but even it's not so great. Dick was good at developing original concepts, not so good at the actual writing something entertaining part.

 

[Mise]

It wasn't a great film, it was a cult film. Cult films don't have to be good.

That said I thought it was a pretty good. Not genius or anything, but pretty good.

 

[Taras Bulba]

well.... I was being sarcastic, because I thought it was really corny. But I can see how its a classic, I just like it because its one of those movies thats just so lame and not enough people know about it that its cool.


anyway...

does anyone here know anything about Fulbright Grants?

 

[Mad Man]

Whats the best Sci Fi original movie?

Dog Soldiers, It's basically Night of the Living Dead but with Werewolves!http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog_Soldiers_(film)

 

[Camikaze]

What's the difference between a degree and a diploma? Is a degree more a long course, whilst a diploma is something you get for a singular examination?

 

[Sharwood]

What's the difference between a degree and a diploma? Is a degree more a long course, whilst a diploma is something you get for a singular examination?

Wrong way around.

 

[Camikaze]

But one of my friends has a diploma, and he got that from sitting for one exam (it had prerequisite exams). Also, my parents had to do their three-year degrees before they could get a Dip. Ed. in one year. How does this work?

 

[Sharwood]

But one of my friends has a diploma, and he got that from sitting for one exam (it had prerequisite exams). Also, my parents had to do their three-year degrees before they could get a Dip. Ed. in one year. How does this work?

I'm just going from my TAFE experience, it may be different at universities and other establishments, but there were four levels:

1. Statement of attainment. This basically means you have the basic skills to do something, but aren't actually qualified in anything. Incidentally, this is what I have in IT and Secretarial Studies. For those wondering why I did Secretarial Studies, I thought learning how to type and various other skills would prove useful to me. I was right.

2. Certificate II. You're actually qualified in stuff.

3. Degree. A degree.

4. Diploma. A diploma.

 

[really]

That seems a bit different to Ireland and the UK.

Here broadly:
Certificate after 1 or 2 years post secondary study
Diploma after 2 or 3 years study
Ordinary Degree after 3 years study
Honours Degree after 4 years study
Postgraduate Diploma (degree + 1 year study - no research element -Higher Diploma in Education is what a lot of teachers study at this point)
Masters 1 or 2 years of taught classes with a significant thesis or purely by research

This it the Irish qualification structure which integrates the European Bologna process

 

[Camikaze]

So there are different levels of diploma? That would make sense. I mean, my friend got his music diploma (AMusA) when he was in Year 9, without doing any degree, or long course, but perhaps there is, as Sharwood says, diplomas after, and higher than, degrees.

 

[Phlegmak]

What's the cause of Holocaust denial? Why is that such a hot topic, and why does it last, as opposed to more mundane things?

 

[Flying Pig]

The idea of the Holocaust is, frankly, absurd and has played in the Jews' favour a lot; naturally sceptical people will naturally assume that it was a plot. There is also a Muslim doctrine for it, which is why it's so popular