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- nestafett, on 10/12/2007, -0/+21Where's leah in her bikini!
now theres something i wouldn't mind licking!
(i'm sorry, I had to) - decepticrat, on 10/12/2007, -2/+17My vote is for Han/Chewey one. How awesome is that stamp?
FWIW, If Darth Maul wins I'll go postal! He does NOT deserve a stamp! He lasted less than half of one movie, and pretty much got his ass handed to him. He's a disgrace. - nestafett, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13Reasons Grayone sucks
1. Doesn't realize that movies are fun and fantasy movies call for some suspension of reality.
2. Doesn't understand that since star wars was made over 20 years ago they could not possibly predict how computers would be in our lives nowadays
3. likes to try to take theories of science we have now days and apply them to movies that take place in a galazy far far away (which may explain why the technology doesn't match ours) that may have differant laws, way things work, etc...
4. mentions things like usb ports, again, differant galazy, differant time, etc...
5. Was probably not even born when the originals were made so has no sense of what they meant for that time period.
6. Has no childhood sense of wonder
7. Thinks that movies have to be 100% scientifically accurate in order to be good.
I couldv'e gone point by point, but whats the point? you'll be dugg down in about 2 minutes anyways.
p.s. you should watch ed wood, its a movie about someone who had what we call "dreams" and understood the magic of filmmaking, even if he was terrible at it. - jewdiknight, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7I love me some Wookiee, but now nearly as much as I would love to see my sexy Princess Liea whenever I get the mail. On that point, why is there no Metal Bikini stamp?
- PLUMCRAZY, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8Flashpoitbob, you are an idiot . . . Boba Fett was Darth Vaders bitch.
Nobody was more bad-ass than the man in black. He once killed a guy from a light-year away using only the force. - BlackCow, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Dude... its a movie.
- flashpointbob, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8ARE YOU SERIOUS?
There is a Boba Fett stamp and you jokers are talking about Han and Chewie?
I mean it's BOBA FETT the most bad ass bounty hunter/ Star Wars character ever, ever. - starguy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Everybody's going to vote for Yoda, but getting the Darth Vader face stamp at the top would be a thousand times cooler. What better symbol for the evil empire. Mad scientiests and evil villians everywhere would finally be able to pay their bills in style. I for one am sick of paying my bills with those ubiquitous US flags... Vader stamps would be a thousand times cooler and I'd demand them by name. Don't be a Vader hater. All the stamps are cool, but you got to admit, if you boiled all of Star Wars down to one notion identified associated by the public with Star Wars, its Darth Vader.
- bandersnatchi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4There's only one stamp that would be a shoe-in for the best, and the USPS didn't produce it...as Nestafett pointed out...
- hokeywebb22, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5I wonder if this has anything to do with a mailbox I saw.
The other day outside the mall here in Tempe looks like R2D2. - Splitter402, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5I'm sorry, you all meant to say Boba Fett.
- Coven, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4A rebuttal to "Why Star Wars Sucks"
1. An enslaved child creates an artificially intelligent robot in his spare time. (Said enslaved child works in a junkyard with easy access to parts and has an affinity for working with mechanical devices)
2. That robot is an effeminate pseudo homosexual with an aversion to work. (ok, i'll give you that one)
3. People live in mud houses but have electronically controlled automatic doors. (it is a dessert planet)
4. An enslaved child creates an anti gravity race car in his spare time. (see #1)
5. Somebody creates an artificially intelligent robot but, they only give it a beeper instead of voice emulation. (astromech units are designed to communicate with spacecraft systems, not sentient beings)
6. People pick up "power converters" for fun. (when you work on speeders all day, yes buying parts is fun)
8. People uses the ***** holographic video conferring. Our modern day H.323 using H.264 at 1Mbps looks 10x better (the movie was made in 1977. for the prequels they had to keep it uniform)
9. They have robot warriors however, instead of being T-1000 style killing machines, they are weak little sub-Asimo strength, just above Roomba intelligence devices, that make funny little jokes and noises when they are destroyed. (episode 1 was a kids' movie)
10. Faster than light spaceships have become such a consumer level product that a man with a high school education and an ape can pilot and maintain one. (Han Solo went to the Imperial Academy on Carida. Wookiees are highly adaptable to working with mechanical and electrical devices)
11. "The Force" is absolute *****. (its a ***** movie)
12. A plasma sword could easily be defeated by a little thing called bullets. Could you imagine Luke Skywalker being slowly burned to death by little splashes of molten lead (assuming his reflex time was quick enough to block them with his plasma sword). (the bullets would most likely vaporize, not become molten.)
13. A person can block a laser pulse with a plasma sword. (its a ***** movie)
14. They make people pilot attack spaceships. (huh? what is your argument here?)
15. The attack spaceships have no laser or homing missiles just machine gun style laser blasts. (concussion missiles, proton torpedoes...)
16. The laser blaster is not automatically aimed at the target by the computer using a turret system. It is affixed in a single position in front of the craft and the pilot has to maneuver his ship to aim. (the same way modern day pilots have to maneuver their aircraft to use their guns...)
17. An organization somehow gets the funds to build a Ten Trillion Dollar+ spaceshipmoon device but leaves a literal hole that goes straight into some sort of "reactor." (they are the empire. they take the funds from their thousands of worlds. the exhaust port was a convenient plot driven oversight)
18. Apparently in Star Wars, judging by screens in the ships, people started using Microsoft DOS 6.22 and decided to stick with it. (1977...again)
19. R2D2 had no USB ports?!?! (he's an astromech droid, not a ***** webcam)
20. The entire movie has no memorable lines (except for "I am your father" and "Great shot kid"). ("May the Force be with you"; "I love you" "I know"; "Its not my fault!"; "Its a trap!!"; "That's no moon, that's a space station!"; "I've got a bad feeling about this"; "I am NOT a committee!", etc)
21. Storm troopers wear ridiculous plastic outfits that server no apparent function except to look strange. (theyre expendable troops, effective in great numbers)
22. They have the technology to give Darth Vader artificial limbs but, they can't use genetic engineering and plastic surgery to just reconstruct him. (Also a gripe I have against Star Trek) (in Star Trek they have the ability to instantly repair minor wounds and eventually have the technology to give Geordie new eyes. in star wars....remember Luke's new hand? they eventually get good enough technology to replace limbs realistically.)
23. Space apparently carries sound as well or maybe even better than air. (Lucas addressed this as [paraphrased] "It is a different galaxy with different laws of physics", and ITS A ***** MOVIE)
24. No TV, Internet, Radio or any other form of mass media. (Holonet)
25 ... I could go on but I think you understand. (i just debunked most of your arguments, please keep going, that was fun) - nestafett, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3"Well the USB and DOS thing was a joke but, Anakin was a SLAVE and a CHILD and managed to build an artificially intelligent robot"
so the movies are bad because there was a slave who managed to get free? or is it because the slave child was smart? cause thats kinda an intergal part of the plot, but i guess you dont like movies where there are gifted children?
"He also does live in adobe house with an automatic powered sliding door. All things that don't make sense."
why doesn't it? because they don't have those here? remember, at the beginning it says a galaxy far far away, in this other galaxy maybe the evolution of homebuilding was different than on earth, maybe it wasnt even adobe. you are way to literal to be able to enjoy fantasy movies so just dont watch them.
and are you really knocking unbelievability in star wars but saying you like a show where people are beamed all over the place to fight men in bad plastic masks before talking into there electric razors to be beamed back up to there ship?
p.s. the force is *****? why?
and am i really debating the plausability or quality of star wars vs. star trek?
i need a woman - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I gotta tell my lawyer to start using the Darth Vader stamp.
- Nothlit, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3May 14, 2007
- evileamon, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4http://www.theforce.net/image_popup/image_popup_global.asp?image=http://www.collectinghq.com/im/0008979.jpg
- ColinCampbell, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6Voted for Yoda, I did.
- kiantech, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3when did stamps become 41cents?
- Sethbacca, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Gets my vote too! Chewbacca FTW!!!!
- ChaserHimself, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2http://www.usps.com
- alecperkins, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I voted for Vader for the sheer iconic nature. He's probably the most recognizable of all of them (though Yoda is no doubt a close second) and it's fitting since the entire saga is arguably about him. Admittedly I would love to have voted for all of them. Oh well.
- aviazn, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4The binary sunset is probably the most beautiful image in the whole series.
- drdank, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2No Admiral Akbar stamp?
- axonal, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2"He does NOT deserve a stamp!"
So since Jar-Jar was in two movies, he deserves it more? - AoiTakuma, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2he missed #7
completely ruins any legitimacy his arguments MAY have had. why should i trust someone's opinion when that person can not count? - arsheroica, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Finally someone thinks to combine two of the nerdiest hobbies in the world; Star Wars and stamp collecting.
- scratched, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Everyone who saw the original Star Wars knows that Han is the most bad ass person in the galaxy and in the Star Wars universe. He kicked Boba Fett's ass in Episode VI (by accident ;-))
Oh, and by the way...
Han shot first! - VaporBro, on 10/26/2007, -0/+2Boba Fett all the way. You kidding me? There is NO other choice other than Boba.
- nestafett, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"The point is in a society, so scientifically advanced, that children can build artificially intelligent humanoid robots there would be no need for slavery."
-I dont think scientific advancement gets rid of human nature or makes a society more advance, i.e..the 20th century and ww1,2, etc.., or if your saying that robots could just do the work, we dont know the details of how that world works, maybe electronics are scarce or people are cheaper to buy then robots. and anakin was able to make one out of garbage parts because he was gifted
"The Force is ***** because is has no basis in reality at all, it only serves a jury rigged plot device for that no-talent ass clown Lucas."
-or no basis in our world or our galazy, maybe its quantum physics power, string theory-ish stuff, remember, the whole point in the middle 3 star wars movies was that the force was an ancient religion, and most of the people in those movies said what you are saying. besides there are many things about the force taken from Buddhism, so it does have some basis in reality. (The ewoks language is based on Tibetan, so theres another Buddhist connection)
"It doesn't make sense that they would give slaves a home, made out of mud, and then give them the convenience and luxury of powered sliding doors."
Maybe they were indentured servants, maybe they were something similar to slaves but not quite, maybe the slave structure is completely differant in that world, maybe its not made of mud, maybe the dirt from that planet is more sturdy than wood, maybe there is no wood on that planet, maybe sliding doors are as common as non sliding ones in our world, or maybe its a frickin movie! not every second of every movie is going to make sense especially in a genre that is called FANTASY.
Teleportation is something that most physicists think is theoretically possible."
-Ive actually heard the exact opposite, that there is no way, once the molecules are loose, to corral them back together, but you know what? i know its a show and doesnt have to be 100% correct so I dont really care
and about the cell phones, i honestly dont care that that inspired him, its an interesting fact but i was just making a joke about the way they looked. Logically both Star Wars and Star Trek are unrealistic, but i dont care, you know why?
they are both FICTION, and fiction means that something is not true.
when it comes down to it. its a movie and if you dont understand how fantasy works, please just go away and stop pissing on our parade.
p.s. and stay away from comics, greek mythology, the illiad, the bible, the koran, well, to be on the safe side stay away from all fiction and art.
they requires imagination and the ability to see metaphors
=) - Solardog, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Are they gonna sell those sheets too? It'd look cool hung up in my office.
- HairyPoter, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1the post office spending taxpayers money in crap produced by a business.
what about stamping a face of a great man or woman that is doing something for the human kind?
I'm sick of all this business stuff. - nkthen, on 05/13/2008, -0/+1Great for all collectors... http://www.stampcollectinghobby.net
- cdharrison, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@ nestafett - "i need a woman " dugg up, because you do.
- Kronos6948, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Alright, I see the whole thing WASN'T a joke...so I take back what I said...Now that this is degrading into a SW/ST argument..before everyone gets their panties in a bunch, SW : Old Flash Gordon :: ST : Wagon Train. AKA, one was space fantasy, the other was Wagon Train to the Stars.
- nestafett, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I dont think he/she was joking though, that looks like a pretty genuine criticism to me. and if it was a joke, then it wasn't a very clever one and i still would've dugg it down for being long and not very clever.
so i guess if it was a joke than grayone should take a course on humor, cause there not very good at it =) - Waterispoison, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3It's all about Obi-wan bitches.
- Puttockc, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1YODA!!!!
all they way!
that little green guy is the ***** - 2gunnZ, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3I cant decide, Vader, Han, Storm troppers, Yoda, Falcon.
- benitojuarez, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I have a set of some 23 cent stamps that came with a book or maybe it was the vhs release of star wars, i forget, maybe thoser worth money now.
- alecperkins, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1There's one on the RPI campus too. I had been wondering what it was all about. I thought it was a prank by a student at first but then noticed the url and official logo on the side uspsjedimaster.com.
http://images.google.com/images?q=r2d2%20mailbox&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&sa=N&tab=wi - supervapio, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1So... I was waiting for this for a very long time... http://musiclabs.blogspot.com
- mikehartor, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I can't believe it! How the hell did this get such many diggs?
- GrayOne, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2"so the movies are bad because there was a slave who managed to get free? or is it because the slave child was smart? cause thats kinda an intergal part of the plot, but i guess you dont like movies where there are gifted children?"
The point is in a society, so scientifically advanced, that children can build artificially intelligent humanoid robots there would be no need for slavery.
"p.s. the force is *****? why?"
The Force is ***** because is has no basis in reality at all, it only serves a jury rigged plot device for that no-talent ass clown Lucas.
"why doesn't it? [Adobe Houses] because they don't have those here? remember, at the beginning it says a galaxy far far away, in this other galaxy maybe the evolution of homebuilding was different than on earth, maybe it wasnt even adobe. you are way to literal to be able to enjoy fantasy movies so just dont watch them."
It doesn't make sense that they would give slaves a home, made out of mud, and then give them the convenience and luxury of powered sliding doors.
"and are you really knocking unbelievability in star wars but saying you like a show where people are beamed all over the place to fight men in bad plastic masks before talking into there electric razors to be beamed back up to there ship?"
Teleportation is something that most physicists think is theoretically possible. The show even goes to great lengths to make it seem believable by having things like "Heisenberg compensators" and pseudo scientific jargon. The bad plastic masks were a result of a low budget. The "electric razors" inspired Star Trek fan and Motorola employee Martin Cooper to invent the cell phone, which eventually introduced to the RAZR, so I think you might have a point with the razors. - VaporBro, on 10/26/2007, -1/+2Cheeseburger > GrayOne
Gray...you done pissed me off again. It's the ban list for YOU - Coffeedemon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1As a Canadian can I buy US stamps from the USPS? I'd like one of those sheets when they get out.
vote: 1) Han/Chewie 2) Yoda 3) Leia putting the plans in R2. - kingmad, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1This is the last thing that Watto Murray needs especially cause his father works for the post office. Soon his floors, walls, and ceilings will be full of stamps! He probably has the R2-D2 mailbox somewhere in his house already too...still in the box of course!
- Rtothe2, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1*waits for the BSG nerds to cry about their lame show not having any stamps*
- Coven, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1These aren't commemorative. They're promotional.
- cdharrison, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1You walked by an R2D2 mailbox without trying to steal it? That takes some serious frickin willpower.
- Coven, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Its a trap!
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