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I'd put a suitably bound large dog or pig in the passenger seat.

It's been done.

NCC-1701J - Alternative timeline in the 26th century, shown to Archer by a 29th century Federation temporal agent.

http://en.memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/USS_Enterprise_(NCC-1701-J)

"G" stands for Goodman right?

Don't worry, Elon Musk already has a contingency planto do just that. Orient it one way, it's a refreshing cool sunshade, swing it around the other, it's a searing Sun gun.
you are theenkenk I am making joke.

People have been making vector animations in Flash long before anyone thought of ruining web video by using Flash to play it

Agreed. But a lot of Slashdot users have recommended rendering vector animations to video and serving them to viewers as video, viewer's monthly caps be damned. That's how modern Flash cartoons such as My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic are produced. Apparently bloating the data size by a factor of ten (in my tests) is worth not having to worry about the speed of the viewer's computer.

and Flash excels at that purpose better than anything else.

Do you mean Adobe Flash is better for making them than Adobe Edge Animate, or Flash Player is better for playing them than HTML5 Canvas?

http://elite-dangerous.wikia.c...

Read the Wiki: http://darktower.wikia.com/wiki/Stephen_King_(Character)

Doctor Who's continuity situation can be explained away by the fact that when the Doctor, the Daleks and sometimes other Time Lords, and who knows who else travels in time and starts doing things this causes ripples throughout time.
http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/P...
Sarah suggests they should just leave in the TARDIS, because they know that the world did not end in 1911. The Doctor demonstrates otherwise by moving the TARDIS forward in time to 1980. There, the TARDIS doors open onto a blasted wilderness, with thunder, rain and lightning hammering down on to ash fields.

They are a space-faring race from the Alpha Quadrant. At least, that is what they will forever be to me, facts be damned.

"Wuh, I think so, Brain, but burlap chafes me so."

Ahhh ... Pinky

The Maker Event Horizon is an economic theory that draws a correlation between the level of economic (and emotional) depression of a society and the number of Hackerspaces the society has.

The theory is summarized as such: as a society sinks into depression, the people of the society need to cheer themselves up by making things. This is usually done with CNC routers, laser cutters and 3D printers. As more money is spent on these tools, more Makerspaces are built, and the quality of the maker tools begins to diminish as the demand for different types of tools increases. This makes people buy more tools.

The above turns into a vicious cycle, causing other industries to decline.

Eventually the titular Maker Event Horizon is reached, where the only type of store economically viable to build is a Makerspace. At this point, society ceases to function, and the economy collapses, sending a world into ruin. In the case of Brontitor and Frogstar World B, the population forsook tools and de-evolved into cavemen.

(reference, in case you haven't noticed it)

The episode you're thinking of is The Outcast. For the lazy, this episode features an alien from an androgynous race that illegally identifies as female. She is forced to undergo "psychotectic treatment" by her people and then no longer identifies as female, going as far as agreeing that she had a "sickness" before. The tone of the episode is clearly in favor of her having the choice to identify as she wished.

That said, I'm not sure I agree that treating social anxiety disorder is the same as "curing homosexuality;" it's a leap too far for me.

What the frak is this?

Ok, I recognize the GNAA trolling group, but the rest ...

Anonymous Coward, please, in the name of Ghu's Holy Purple Robes, learn two basic things:

1. Learn to use paragraphs.
2. Learn grammar. Any grammar. I'd take French grammar, if you know it

Oh, and one other suggestion:

Seek psychological help. Now.

Don't forget Wu's pigs on Deadwood: https://www.youtube.com/watch?... http://deadwood.wikia.com/wiki...

the famous scene in breaking bad has to do with hydrofluoric acid, not "chlorine acid" (assuming they mean hydrochloric acid)

in the breaking bad scene, jesse puts the body in a bathtub, instead of a plastic bin like he was was instructed to by walt. HF, unlike HCl, dissolves glass and ceramics. and so the partially dissolved body comes crashing through the ceiling

http://breakingbad.wikia.com/w...

mythbusters busted this though:

http://www.today.com/popcultur...

there is a nice combination of acids that apparently works great for dissolving bodies, but neither mythbusters nor breaking bad is going to tell us (probably some mix of acids, paying attention to the molar concentrations)

furthermore, the mafia has been dissolving bodies in acid for decades. breaking bad did not invent the concept, and these french goons did not necessarily get the idea form breaking bad

so the connection of this crime to breaking bad is complete bullshit, invented by some reporter who doesn't know his history of organized crime and is only familiar with tv shows

You're both right--it was an alicorn! Nothing but the best for our Glorious Leader!

Why not just save several thousands dollars and walk the cord over and plugin yourself

Yeah, yeah, bulky cables blah blah. The real reason is there were robotic gas/hydrogen/fusion stations in BTTF2, so get with the program we have to build it because 2015 is a theme year

Now if you'll excuse me, the Ayatollah wants to take my order.

Don't confuse Legendary items with Artifacts (or for that matter Heirlooms).

Artifacts were originally a tier above Legendary. There is still a reference to them in the current game:
If your the group/raid leader type: /script SetLootThreshold(6) and you (along with everyone in the group) will see:
Loot Threshold set to Artifact.

You can normally only use the UI to set the threshold to Epic.

See http://wowwiki.wikia.com/API_S...

Also, who, or what, is the "Dali" Lama?

Google is your friend

After reading that, I am stupider. And I find myself strangely expecting a Jägermonster rap solo...

Is this product available from my Nutri-Matic system? And if so, how close to the original product will the synthesized version be?

So Japanese politicians can exploit crises for gain too. Who knew?

Well, Japan is a very westernized nation. They learned from the best!

The alternative is the way of tyrannies, where they just exploit you right in your face, regardless if there's a crisis.

It's like Gork and Mork. One hits you when you aren't looking. One hits you harder when you are.

The lesson here is that the dream of liberty is just that: a dream.

This quote got me:

"Electric cars will be better than any alternative, including the loud, inconvenient, gas-powered jalopy,"

Seriously, do people not like the throaty growl of a well tuned engine? Heck, even kids today put the coffee can mufflers for at least that type sound (I don't find it as pleasant as better, large engine sound, but to each his own.)

I've never driven an actual car, but I bought the Voltic in GTA5 without knowing it was an electric vehicle. Despite the speed and good looks, I hated it. Without the engine sound it just seemed... wrong somehow. I think I ran it out of battery also which didn't help my impression.

Obvious farscape reference: http://farscape.wikia.com/wiki...

The Half-Life wiki has a good article called Future of the Half-Life series where you can follow the latest developments.

On March 19, Gabe Newell, when asked about Half-Life 3, replied: "The only reason we'd go back and do like a super classic kind of product is if a whole bunch of people just internally at Valve said they wanted to do it and had a reasonable explanation for why [they did]." This, like all of Valve's other statements regarding Half-Life 3, neither confirms nor denies the possibility that the game will eventually be made.

Like "Soylent Green is people" I thought everyone knew that.
http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/F...

Sold malware within the limits of the law? Whose law?

Brannigan's Law.

Who's going to cut your grass?

There's actually an answer to that: someone like Boothby. He was a recurring character that showed up in both TNG and Voyager.

I think the bias comes from the fact that 100% of the expected audience is human. Which will be fine until aliens inevitably see it, and we know what happens then.

"You seem angry. I've ordered you a free trial of a great new product, Pax! This should significantly start improving your user experience right away."

I bet all 11 accidents had females in the car.

Hence the car decided to go into stopping-short mode. Those quick stops guarantee rear-end accidents.

I think I would have taken amputation. Just so long as they set me up with some kind of sweet Deus Ex-style augmentations!

Are there even any viable theories on what is providing the energy to resurface such an old, far-out, isolated body?

A mass relay?

The droids in SW aren't supposed to be self-aware and emotional, droids are supposed to be high tech puppets or slaves if you will. The canon is that all droids are supposed to get a full data wipe on a regular basis otherwise their logic systems begin "corrupting". The consequence of this corruption is that they develop emotions and and their logic can start to "degrade" ala Hal 9000 or G0-T0. In the case of C3-PO and R2-D2, they didn't get this regular wipe and they also did not negatively degrade as part of the corruption. R2-D2 notably got wiser as he continued to collect data and experience over time.

Basically because P and Z aren't commonly available in food,...

No, but they are found in ketracel white,

http://ghostbusters.wikia.com/...

she had a hand in making this, I'm sure

http://batman60stv.wikia.com/w...

http://borderlands.wikia.com/w...

Claptrap would be ashamed to be lumped in with the likes of homeopathy, herbology, accupuncture and the use of cannabis.

That's Qwghlm. Did you mean Inner- or Outer Qwghlm?

But that's Star Trek TOS you're talking about.

First of all, old SF stuff tell us more about the time they were written in than about the actual future. And with Star Trek, We're talking about about Space race and cold war here.References and stereotypes from those subjects are kind at least understandable, like Stepin Fetchit movies (heard the first time of him today) told us about the actual racism in his time.

But episode one is a piece from the late 90s. If a cartoon character is shown with some possibly racist traits, this is simply sloppiness. Laziness to invent some actual accent, unthoughtfullness of noticing it how the characterizatzon and accent match a stereotype (it probably would have been noted if the role was casted with an actual black actor instead of blue-greyish a computer animation) and general cluelessnes of pushing that lazy, clumsy nuisance into the viewers field of vision at all.

OK, now back to Star Trek and why it can't be compared: The stereotypes in ST aren't (usually...) not Stereotypes used as a lazy way to make easy characterizations (see: James Bond: blonde guy with german accent --> evil, eyepatch: evil or a fake italian accent to depict some guy as 'funny') They're rather allegorys. Yes, Romulans are space russians, but if you want to tell about an utopia about all space races living happily federated together, you need someone to symbolize the warmongering people that has to be coped with, too.

And please note while the Romulans symbolize Cold war russia, it was poor Chekov who had all the stereotypical russian stuff!

And while Star Wars did their happy Science Fiction Fairy Tale, ST actually went onto the subject of racism (Let that be your last battlefield) - in al allegorical way with all stereotypical dead weight removed. So if someone in ST is symbolizing someone back here on earth, it can be done that it is on purpose.

And still my final point stands: If seeing a non-human character with some negative traits triggers some black/white stereotypes, it tells a lot about how deeply rooted these prejudices are within the recipient. (...maybe: too..)

But as a conclusion, I'd like to say the the whole Jar Jar character is SO annoying, and as a whole is a result of bad and uninspired writing, that perceived racist stereotype don't make the top ten on my list of reasons to wish him some unpleasant veneral diseases.

Is Northumbria somewhere in Middle Earth?

Of course. The Shire is a metaphor for England, the elves are Scandanavian, Minas Tirith is basically Constantinople...

In recent scifi I think this is classed as "turk" work, a unfortunate term based on the scam of the Mechanical Turk, which Amazon also adopted for one of their service offerings.

This term is used in at least the Metatropolis story anthologies by multiple authors (John Scalzi editing) and there's development on the theme in the plot of some stories (Detroit) so I don't want to give too many details.

http://www.goodreads.com/book/...

There's some parallel with "runners" from various cyberpunk scifi and gaming, too: Work for money with little formal relationship with the source of the contracts ("Mr Johnson") and a very simple professional code of ethics.

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmw...
http://shadowrun.wikia.com/wik...

Doomo chums!

Government-controlled brain network to analyze population behavior through sensors (for "criminal personality" detection and immediate police enforcement; dystopian universe):
http://psychopass.wikia.com/wiki/Sibyl_System (spoiler warning)

Psycho-Pass was a good cyberpunk anime in my opinion, interesting concepts with nice visuals.

Shaking my big bald head

Ah, but just think about it ... hook this puppy up to your webcam, and you can stare at yourself with flowing locks.

It'll be like the Mirror of Erised from Harry Potter. People will just wile away their lives basking in the glory of having Fabio hair.

The universe is Waldo.

http://bravestwarriors.wikia.c...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Because if I recall (though I haven't read it in forever), the previously-official-but-not-anymore Han Solo prequel story was actually a pretty fun story. It wasn't the Thrawn trilogy, but it was still pretty decent, and I would totally support there being a movie adaptation of it: http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki...

But again, not as much as I wanted to see Thrawn on the big screen. Star Wars the no-longer-extended-universe-that-has-no-Timothy-Zahn-in-it-anywhere is dead to me.

Oldie but goodie... Clippy and the suicide note.

Too bad it turned out to be bunk (in the episode).

Can't tell you how many times a day I hear or say "The 9".

You mean the Nazgul??

I always thought IBM was evil, but I never expected that.

A lot of the brainstorming and preliminary engineering requirements have already been rigorously tested.

http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki...