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http://www.tcm.com/this-month/... ...As many historians and movie critics have pointed out, Krakatoa is WEST of Java but veracity is not one of Hollywood's strengths in producing historical epics.

You miss my point: the problem isn't subtitles per se, but the fact that dialog in Klingon doesn't carry the expressiveness that even a foreign natural human language does. Compare the Discovery Klingon scenes to this one from Throne of Blood. It's in Japanese with subtitles, but between the actor's facial and vocal performances you're getting a lot more out of it, I guarantee you.

They made a whole movie about this one, on the Alabama border. But the franchise was for... sin! The Phenix City Story

Turner Classic Movies channel still exists and presents classic movies (as in ~1930's to ~1960's with the occasional contemporary film) commercial free.

your parents didn't have to worry about parenting. after all, why should they take an interest in what their child is reading?

You don't know my parents. (Specifically, my depression-raised grandparents who were always nosing around in my room, and wouldn't let me watch the 10PM TV shows when I was a young teen, or SNL when I was an older teen.)

i suppose if people like you had it your way there'd be no movies beyond PG-13

You need to watch Turner Classic Movies http://www.tcm.com/. Lots of great and powerful grown-up movies, and only a trifling few are TV-14 or above.

The Hayes Code forced writers to write smart, clever and witty dialog to suggest what is is now splashed across the screen. Think Jaws or the 1960 Psycho or The Birds instead of Saw. Another comparison: Double Indemnity vs. Basic Instinct.

all books/media/art would be insipid and uncontroversial--all so you can shelter your child in a Disney-ified world where everything is made for kids.

Have you ever had an original thought? Or do you just regurgitate the idiotic spew of incompetent writers who can't create drama without gore, nudity and foul language?

Dan McGinty's climb to electoral glory begins at a soup kitchen where he is recruited by a crooked politician to vote in various precincts under the names of recently deceased voters for the machine-run mayor. Impressed by McGinty's skill in voting thirty-seven times, as well as his lack of scruples, the political boss welcomes him to the party, and McGinty soon rises from extortion man to alderman.

What seems to be missing are compelling dramas with great actors. It is really something to watch movies on Turner Classic Movies cable channel, and see what could be today if only Hollywood could get it togther again.

Just in the last year I've seen some really awesome films: On The Waterfront with Marlin Brando and Eva Marie Saint; Cool Hand Luke with Paul Newman and Strother Martin; and yesterday, Cleopatra with Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton. (this is really an over the top cast of thousands "spectacle" like they don't make any more).

If your cable system has Turner Classic Movies, keep an eye on the schedule for the many gems that surface every week.

Things are not good in the computer history business. In part because the main-line companies that felt this was important have faded into oblivion (think mainframe and mini) and the dot coms are too interested in wasting their venture capital on roll-out parties.

The sadest example of the problem is the death of the Boston Computer Museum. Strongly supported by DEC, when DEC went away, so did their funding (and yes there were other reasons including some idiots for executive directors). I was in it several weeks before it closed and a pretty sad thing to see. It has been 'moved' to the Boston Science Center.

The actual museum for the BCM is in California and can be found at Computer History Center. It looks to be alive and interested in history, not 'gee, look, computer interactive toys for school bus loads of children to play with instead of learning how to add, subtract, multiply or heaven forbid divide without a calculator'.

Probably the most respected computer history place at the moment is the Charles Babbage Institute at the University of Minnesota.

In any case, learn more, subscribe to IEEE Annals of the History of Computing and remember that the dot comes have mostly forgotten/ignored all of this and so you can make money consulting on 'NEW' ideas that are actually old things revisited.

--multics.