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You may never have seen Blake's 7, but if you have, you'll remember the cheesy sets and dodgy props and I bet you loved it. Partly due to the actor Gareth Thomas as Roj Blake. Sadly passed away today, aged 71. RIP[^]
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I saw him the other day in a trailer for something ... how strange. I used to watched Blake's Seven just to see Servelan[^].
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Going to see her at Comic Con in October. Well, her and Nicola Bryant 
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![Rose | [Rose]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif) - Blake's 7 was fantastic.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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I always liked Blake's 7, but I'm sure that if I were to review it today, it would seem pretty lame, just like my other childhood favourites, Space 1999 and Buck Rogers in the 25th Century... 
RIP Blake!
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
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That one wasn't shown in Denmark. Doctor Who was, but only very shortly, so I only saw a few episodes from the time when Tom Baker was the Doctor...
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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The head of drama at my 6th Form college was also called Gareth Thomas (and a brilliant actor) so I always had to check which one was appearing whenever the name came up. Surprised that he was only 71 as it feels like he's been the mature lead, shall we say, all my life.
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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I think I need to re-watch Blake's 7, the last time I do remember being able to identify most of Orac (the weird plastic box) guts...Ah fun times...also hairy house mate also has the complete thing on DVD.
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I recall it being AMAZING! Probably pretty cheesy and poorly produced if I were to watch it now. Maybe they should remake it.
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No, remakes never match the originals. And they would replace every potentially sexist or non-PC bit of dialogue with some pathetic piece of mealy-mouthed drivel.
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Richard MacCutchan wrote: No, remakes never match the originals
Not sure I agree with that 100%.
Richard MacCutchan wrote: And they would replace every potentially sexist or non-PC bit of dialogue with some pathetic piece of mealy-mouthed drivel.
Sure I agree with that 100%.
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It would be impossible for an original to match anything that was not in and of itself, the original; whether it was a movie, book, song, etc. Just saying.
So Richard's comment holds true in fact, not opinion. Remakes "never" match the original, and can never match the original, because it is not the original.
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Slacker007 wrote: It would be impossible for an original to match anything that was not in and of itself, the original; whether it was a movie, book, song, etc. Just saying.
Just refuting. e.g. The new Star Trek franchise is orders of magnitude better than what came before. The new Superman (Henry) is by far and away the best Superman. Daniel Craig is by far the best Bond.
An original can always be improved upon. Look at Windows.
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R. Giskard Reventlov wrote: An original can always be improved upon.
Where did I say this was not true?
Richard's original comment I believe was remakes matching the originals, which is impossible, and I agree with this statement. Remakes can never match the original.
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And I disagree, I think remakes can both match and surpass.
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Today, I'm diverging from posting programming books to highlight the phenomenon of online shaming. I'm a big fan of Jon Ronson as an author, and his book So You've Been Publicly Shamed[^] covers what happens to people when they face a massive attack over the internet.
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Yes, An interesting and frightening read.
I'd rather be phishing!
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Love the description..
"A great renaissance of public shaming is sweeping our land. Justice has been democratized. The silent majority are getting a voice. But what are we doing with our voice? We are mercilessly finding people's faults. We are defining the boundaries of normality by ruining the lives of those outside it. We are using shame as a form of social control."
Shame used to be a form a social control long before the internet, mainly to discourage the majority from doing things that generally harmed society.
I'm not sure the internet is about that though - it seems to be more about oppressing those with different opinions and forcing everyone to go with the popular view regardless of whether it is right or wrong (or good or bad).
I've always loved technology, but I think the internet has enabled an awful lot of damage to be done to societies all around the world. I'm not sure how we'll recover from it. ![Java | [Coffee]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/coffee.gif)
The whole thing's rigged to blow, touch those tanks and "boooom"!
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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nicely stated
Brent Jenkins wrote: I'm not sure how we'll recover from it. [Coffee]
that wont be an issue when skynet takes over
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Garth J Lancaster wrote: when skynet takes over
I wouldn't worry about AI (especially considering Microsoft's recent Tay debarcle  ) but things like the so called "Arab Spring" and the current migration crises have been enabled by social media and instant messaging.
The whole thing's rigged to blow, touch those tanks and "boooom"!
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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does looks like it could be an interesting read!
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It certainly is. It's an interesting insight into the mob mentality of internet shaming. Some of the people in the book, you end up feeling really sorry for. Others.... well, less so.
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And that clarifies why essentially everyone on CP uses an alias.
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