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3rd Rock from the Sun
1996 · TV series · 22 min episodes · 6 seasons
Created by Terry Turner, Bonnie Turner
FamilyScience FictionFantasyComedyDrama
The high commander of an alien expedition lands on Earth -- what he considers to be the least-important planet -- in human form as Dick Solomon. Along for the ride are his alien compatriots Harry, Sally and Tommy -- who is the eldest of the group but is now angrily trapped in a teen's body.
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> Outdated ffmpeg, good for dated formats, not good for new stuff
Just how new does the new stuff have to be? I use VLC daily (because even though we have 4x streaming services, when I want to watch 3rd Rock from the Sun, it's not on any of them.
Some of the very new movies are also not on any of the streaming services, so I am left wondering, if I downloaded a movie that was only torrented a few days ago, just how new does the movie have to be to be unsupported by VLC?
Demonstrating the technology, Welborne stood proudly beside a prototype of the Presario 6000 as it displayed an eight-minute segment from a recent 3rd Rock From The Sun episode, downloaded from an NBC server in under 75 minutes.
lol
If you went to blockbuster, you could move 4.7 gb to your home in half the time (unless your family was involved in choosing the movie which would slow you down)
Perhaps a relevant bit of trivia. William Shatner was on the tv series. John Lithgow remade the same scene for the twilight zone movie. i was never much of a fan of 3rd rock from the sun, but they did have this adorable little (20 second) callback: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTNOihQnqVQ
I found it really interesting that someone piped up in the blog comments disagreeing with the measure for overweight: "Since so-called overweight – BMI 25-30 – is the longest-lived cohort, parents aren’t the only ones with screwed up perceptions, IMO."
Denial's everywhere, I guess.
Assuming that the claim is true that people with a BMI of 25-30 live longer than any other BMI range, how is believing that claim denial? Or in other words, what do you think that poster is denying?
So even sizes in stores work to make people feel they're ok. 1X isn't "extra large" It's "woman sized". WTF?
There are communities where that's considered a good thing. I recall an episode of 3rd Rock from the Sun where one character was looking for a dress, and was dismayed to find that the standard sizes were designed to make women fill overweight and inadequate (it turned out that the store had been taken over by impossibly-thin supermodel aliens, IIRC).
If the trade-off is between being happy and size X, but dying early, or unhappy and size X, and dying early, which is better? How do you convince people to be happy about where they are by being happy about where they're going?