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Posted on 08/24/2005 9:50:25 PM PDT by HairOfTheDog
Heh, fun weekend!
First and second seasons were the two best seasons of "24", I think.
I have to go to work for a few hours tomorrow... I dislike starting a job on Friday.
I'm going to get the second season next. This is currently the third season, right?
New "Survivor" started tonight, woohoo!
Hmmm... we'd been thinking about signing up for Netflix again just to catch up on 24. Let us know when you're done with it. ;~D
By the way, we just got Hitchhiker's Guide too. We need to come up there sometime for some movie viewing.
Yah... I'm up for it. I'm home this and next weekend. The following weekend I'll be staying here in SF. Doing a two-week stint. Maybe I'll finally "go into town". :-)
Never been there.
Heh...Netflix says I can come back for $9.99 a month (only one DVD at a time). I'll prolly do it to catch season 4 of "24."
But I know what you mean Ramius, it's hard to not go on to the next episode. I lost a lot of sleep watching that first season on DVD.
The final episode really pi$$ed me off. :-)
Damn them.
Yep. Did you get the version that has the alternate ending?
It would really screw up the second season tho. Kinda like Bobby coming back to Dallas.
IIRC, they filmed two endings to Season 1 in order to confuse leakers who might give away the ending. The DVD was supposed to have both endings as a bonus feature...
The version I got from Netflix had both endings.
I think that's the standard.
Yes. the DVD has two endings. The 'alternate' one was the one where [she] lives.
But that wasn't the part that ticked me off. It was the german mole that ticked me off.
Yeah, we got the same offer from Netflix.
Ruthy, could you be a reference for Rosie???
This is off topic... but an interesting thing was said the other day, if any of you saw the [discovery channel?] show called "Grounded"... about 9/11 and the air traffic controllers and airlines and the scramble to get over 4,500 airplanes on the ground all across the country. I thought it was a pretty well-done show.
But there was an interesting thing they said, in the "planning is overrated" department.
Nobody, but nobody had ever really contemplated any such order ever happening. There was no plan. There was no set of guidelines. Nothing. YET-- they all managed to get it done in only about three hours. Not one accident, no midairs, no real problems at all except of course some inconvenience for people suddenly stuck in the wrong city.
It was masterful, when you think about it. More interesting yet-- the 9/11 commission started down the road of establishing a committee to design some plans and rules and guidelines should it ever need to be ordered again.
Then a totally astonishing thing happened. Somebody... some unnamed staffer in some unnamed meeting, piped up on the conference call and said something to the effect of "how about we *don't* do it". His point was that rulebooks and plans and procedures and protocols were *manifestly* unnecessary on 9/11. In fact, having such encumbrances probably would have merely gotten many people killed. If people can hide behind a plan and procedure they will. It was the seat-of-pants creativity and damn-it-just-do-it-because-I-said-so attitude that really made it work.
And, miracle of miracles... the commission abandoned any effort to build such a plan.
Pretty cool. IMHO. :-)
but they had a plan. They just didn't have people that could or would do it.
You're right: It's the competence of the people that matters, not the completeness of the plan.
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