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Actually, it was last weeks NCIS:LA "Zero Days", which aired 3/25/14, and involved the NCIS techies corrupting GLONASS to divert a missile aimed at San Francisco. See TVRage

Gee, he doesn't look like a dick at all!

http://www.tvrage.com/person/i...

It's Kane!

Gee, he doesn't look like a dick at all!

http://www.tvrage.com/person/i...

You'd be shocked to discover he had a Trilby (not even a proper Fedora) - I feel like I can guess everything else about this guy's life at this point.

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I'm reminded of the Better Off Ted episode Get Happy

Linda suggests that Veridian let its employees have decorations in their company. Veronica agrees, but the company selects the decorations and assigns them to the employees. Linda discovers that she's suddenly a cat person, while other employees have cars, Green Bay Packers, or space decorations.

... Linda bonds with her fellow cat employees who start obsessing about cats... At lunch, Linda decides to talk with the outer space employees. They think they're too smart for her, and the cat employees see her as a traitor... Later, Linda discovers that the cat people have destroyed her cat decorations.

"Veridian Dynamics. Teamwork. It keeps our employees gruntled."

Meanwhile, back in Klingon space, the legend of Worf's further adventures has already been scripted by Michael Dorn for pitching to CBS:

http://www.tvrage.com/news/7790/michael-dorn-has-written-a-star-trek-series-about-worf-your-move-cbs

I'd never heard of that, but your response made me think of this Twilight Zone episode:

"Probe 7 - Over and Out"
http://www.tvrage.com/The_Twilight_Zone/episodes/212863

I think of the government as theoretically, ideally "good" because it's a mutual social contract between all citizens. At least in theory government is simply people organizing themselves. If all people simply cooperated peacefully and honestly without coercion, then that decision of them would be what governs them and how they interact. You might as well ask what cooperation or self-restraint are useful for... isn't it obvious?

While I agree that "our" (this is true in most industrialized countries I'd assume, I don't mean a specific country here) political system is kinda bonkers and not even *trying* to be that structured expression of self-governance and mutual responsibility -- but if people buy into the whole "us vs. the government" mentality they're kinda fucked. THESE PEOPLE are where governments derive their justification from in the first place. You cannot let someone take your mirror image away and talk with and about it like it's not you. That's fucking crazy. Just because it's widely accepted to be sane doesn't make it less crazy.

In the sense of self-governance and mutual cooperation a "strong government" simply means a healthy society. Not that every single bit is regulated; ("the more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the state") but let's say if someone commits an utter atrocity, punishment (or even better, repair) will be sure and swift. Aha!

The opposite of that would be... oh I dunno, societies split up in parties and groups who constantly bicker about who is utterly perfect, or who is to blame -- instead of simply agreeing we all are derps at heart, and seeing where we can go from there. Maybe it would even have lots and lots of mass media which constantly churn out trivial distractions or even fabricate blatant lies (by omission or otherwise). While a bunch of shark smile poopyheads use this disarray to stuff their jerkfaces full of delicious pie! Now that'd be a weak state of self-governance. Surely we must not let it come to th-- oh shit.

Anyways, freedom isn't the complete absence of all restraints, that'd just be entropy and death. It's rather the quest for a set of rules (not final, but quested for... let's go all out and call them "living agreements", which are confirmed constantly and gladly by those who enjoy their fruits, how's that for something warm and fuzzy) that allows all humans to thrive and live in peace, while still being free to do their own unique things, insofar that is possible without restricting the others.

But to just say "fuck it, everybody do what they consider best, without organizing that at all", that'd be naive at best. To moan and whine about government all day (I don't mean you, I mean the general hipness of it) without lifting a finger to improve it is actually playing into the hands of much more sinister forces who would love to shed all these pesky regulations. As pitiful as our laws and our political practice may be, they're better than the abyss below them.

If the world was a village of 50 peeps, and the majority would allow 3 people to rule them who take food and work, and give lies and poison, while raping the women and beat the dudes -- and all of that works via words and obeying orders -- then they'd be just as, if not more guilty of what is going on than those 3 self-appointed, and tolerated, rulers. They're actually, literally, using our hands for it. The mind asplodes! /rant ^^

Mythbusters tested this a few years ago:
http://www.tvrage.com/MythBusters/episodes/1064992029

They said this myth has repeated about many, many different cars, but most commonly for a 70s Porsche 928. They tested it, and found it to be wrong. The car was significantly less aerodynamic when backwards.

Unfortunately, Grant, Kari and Tori were allowed to do that one, so their experiment had gaping holes and proved inconclusive.

I know you're right, but I don't always care... Kari Byron

and 1/3 just watched the movie adaptation when it was available.

I'm definitely not defending the practice, but heck, that idea goes back almost 50 years for a well known pop culture example.. (and of course there are probably even older examples of a kid watching the play version of a book!)

Leave It to Beaver: The Book Report
http://www.tvrage.com/shows/id-4213/episodes/101879

The Twilight Zone did it back in 1960.

Five years ago? Lies! Veridian Dynamics is the pioneer in cow-less meat.

Is this pic better?

http://www.tvrage.com/person/id-63226/gallery/?view=82232

Outer Limits Season 2 Episode 8 "Wolf 359" http://www.tvrage.com/The_Outer_Limits_1963/episodes/200967 You've been warned. ;)

yeah, but a dingo still ate your baby!!!1

you can never take that from us
oh, and have from complimentary "CP"

The Simpsons - Season 12 - Episode 16 - Bye Bye Nerdy