The very many questions-not-worth-their-own-thread question thread XXVIII

[sophie]

Presumably when they picked Paul Verhoeven to direct.

I actually highly recommend you take a look at "The Story of Film: An Odyssey". There's a section where they interview the screenwriter for Starship Troopers about the inspiration for the film. Essentially Verhoeven and the screenwriter wanted to make a movie about what it must have been like to have been a young man in 1930s Germany. The naÏveté and general excitement surrounding the environment. But they knew that Hollywood was never going to let them make a film about 1930s Nazi Germany. So then they found the novel, saw that it had a lot of elements in it that they could rework, especially since the source material is essentially a fascist fan-[onanism]. And the result is that glorious piece of satire that we now have.

 

[Cutlass]

And Heinlein was supposedly a libertarian.

 

[Traitorfish]

I actually highly recommend you take a look at "The Story of Film: An Odyssey". There's a section where they interview the screenwriter for Starship Troopers about the inspiration for the film. Essentially Verhoeven and the screenwriter wanted to make a movie about what it must have been like to have been a young man in 1930s Germany. The naÏveté and general excitement surrounding the environment. But they knew that Hollywood was never going to let them make a film about 1930s Nazi Germany. So then they found the novel, saw that it had a lot of elements in it that they could rework, especially since the source material is essentially a fascist fan-[onanism]. And the result is that glorious piece of satire that we now have.

That sounds pretty interesting, yeah, I'll have to check it out!

 

[Takhisis]

If it's on YouTube I must watch it.

 

[sophie]

If it's on YouTube I must watch it.

I know it's available on Netflix. Beyond that I do not know. The whole series is fantastic and I highly recommend it to anybody even vaguely interested in film or its history.

 

[Takhisis]

I will heed that recommendation.

 

[Farm Boy]

And Heinlein was supposedly a libertarian.

Heinlein was a sci-fi writer. I'm not sure he's my favorite one, but I like that he could approach different books with different takes so he's not just one more pathetic huckster lined up on the shelf selling bad political propaganda.

 

[Cutlass]

Heinlein was a sci-fi writer. I'm not sure he's my favorite one, but I like that he could approach different books with different takes so he's not just one more pathetic huckster lined up on the shelf selling bad political propaganda.

Most of the time he wasn't selling political propaganda at all.

He was selling male adolescent fantasies.

 

[Tee Kay]

Which of the people who responded here are actually Muslim? Just curious.

Only jackelgull so far.

 

[Farm Boy]

Most of the time he wasn't selling political propaganda at all.

He was selling male adolescent fantasies.

Smut is nobler.

 

[Kennigit]

So this has bothered me for a little while:

I live in a populace enough area. Been here more than 1 handful of months. It's in the 10^5s in population. But people around here weirdly leave out area code when handing out phone numbers or manually inputting mine at businesses that prompt for it.

E.g. I give my phone number verbally to a person at front desk at a legitimate business (say Dentist office, doctor office, brothel, whatever):

"K what's your phone"
"XXX-YYY-ZZZZ"
"Huh? um could you repeat that" [note: they were inputting local area code and just assumed I would only provide YYY-ZZZZ portion, so they ran out of characters in their form to type it in...]

Getting people's cell phones at work:
"My cell number is YYY-ZZZZ". Note I also dislike just saying extension # rather than full number for intra-office communication, but I understand that. And I'm even in the wrong on that probably, just I don't like ambiguity.

Even takeout menus at restaurants: "Call YYY-ZZZZ OPEN 8-10pm" [I also miss past 22:00 food.....]

Is this a thing I've never experienced before, being in metropolitan areas, and is completely common? Or do weird backwards sand bunker people just leave out the area code because "well everybody has this area code, it's redundant to say it"

A shorter version of this question is in the rant thread

 

[Browd]

You only need to provide area code if there is 10-digit dialing in your local area, which is usually only the case if you have an area code overlay or your local calling area contains multiple area codes. So, for example, if you are anywhere in Vermont (one area code - 802 - for the entire state), why waste your breath saying your area code? It isn't needed for dialing and, well, what else would your area code be?

 

[Kennigit]

Many people's cell phone number corresponds to roughly where they lived 5 years ago.

 

[sophie]

Where I live the call literally will not go through unless you include the area code. Is it not like that where you are?

 

[Browd]

You live in an area where 10-digit dialing is mandatory, presumably because your local calling area includes multiple area codes (408, 831, 669, perhaps others?). That is not the case everywhere. In some locations, all you have to dial is the 7-digit local subscriber number.

 

[Ajidica]

Most of the time he wasn't selling political propaganda at all.

He was selling male adolescent fantasies.

Especially when he entered his dirty old man phase.
"Screw it, lets just add more sex and boobies."

 

[Takhisis]

Sounds like a perfume ad to me, Ajidica.

 

[Traitorfish]

Many people's cell phone number corresponds to roughly where they lived 5 years ago.

Wait, cell phones have area codes in the US? How does that work?

 

[Samson]

Wait, cell phones have area codes in the US? How does that work?

Yeah, they have the area code of where you are billed. I have bought a pay as you go one before, paid cash, and they ask you what city you live in. I THINK there is a way you can tell it is a mobile phone from the remaining 7 digits, as it does not count as a free local number.

 

[bhsup]

Wait, cell phones have area codes in the US? How does that work?

Wait... your cell phones adhere to a different numbering scheme than your land lines? How does THAT work?