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Buddy, you are taking about Toph Beifong. Look at all the references and citations provided. Are you claiming internet is lying?

http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/...

I just assumed they meant THE Finn.

http://williamgibson.wikia.com...

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Even in Middle Earth. This can't be classed as a problem with the movies, the issue exists in the source material as well.

Throughout both The LoTR and The Hobbit, the heroes are mostly invincible. Aragorn and the Nazgul on Weathertop, the Mines of Moria, the Orcs at Amon Hen, Gimli and Legolas at Helm's Deep, and so on and so on.

Even Boromir was nigh-on unkillable at Amon Hen and only died because Tolkien needed him to. The book has him "pierced by many arrows" and the heroes there had a kill-ratio of at least 10-1. More if you discount the hobbits.

If anything, the kill-ratios were lowered for the movies. Read the LOTR Wikia entry for Amon Hen http://lotr.wikia.com/wiki/Skirmish_at_Amon_Hen for a comparison.

So, Metro City, the movie version.

or "L. Bob Rife's Raft, a flotilla of ships circulating the in the pacific, bringing immigrants in search of a better life from the Third World to the California coast. These immigrants are known as Refus. The Raft is a lawless, sprawling, entangled mess of boats of all sizes, all connected eventually to the aircraft carrier piloted by L. Bob. Rife himself, which has only a tangential influence on the actual navigation of the Raft." https://mslinder.wikispaces.co... Crash by Neal Stephenson-Plot Summary-The Raft

So, Metro City, the movie version.

You should beware the library and its librarians if you visit Night Vale: they are quite dangerous!

http://nightvale.wikia.com/wik...

http://non-aliencreatures.wiki...

Self-transforming magic machine-creatures from another dimension.

Can we get this statement certified? http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/...

http://en.memory-alpha.org/wik... "Guinan was the mysterious bartender in Ten Forward, the lounge aboard the USS Enterprise-D. She was well known for her wise counsel, which had proven invaluable many times. She was an El-Aurian, a race of "listeners" who were scattered by the Borg. Q, however, once suggested that there is far more to her than could be imagined. "

Or consider Vincent's sometimes influential role in Eureka's Cafe Diem:
http://eureka.wikia.com/wiki/C...
"Cafe Diem is the cafe of Vincent, on the main street of Eureka. It's the place where everybody meets to eat one of Vincent's extraordinary meals or have a cup of his signature "Vinspresso". "

James P. Hogan in "Voyage From Yesteryear" provides other examples of why some people wait tables in a gift economy -- even when robots could easily do it.

Also, in a post-scarcity future many undesirable aspects of any tasks can be engineered out. Tables might be built of materials that were easy to clean. Cleaning cloths might be super-absorbent. You might wear technology that made taking orders easy. You boosted immune system would make catching disease from a diner unlikely. And so on...

See Bob Black on this:
https://www.whywork.org/rethin...
"Liberals say we should end employment discrimination. I say we should end employment. Conservatives support right-to-work laws. Following Karl Marx's wayward son-in-law Paul Lafargue, I support the right to be lazy. Leftists favor full employment. Like the surrealists -- except that I'm not kidding -- I favor full unemployment. Trotskyists agitate for permanent revolution. I agitate for permanent revelry. But if all the ideologues (as they do) advocate work -- and not only because they plan to make other people do theirs -- they are strangely reluctant to say so. They will carry on endlessly about wages, hours, working conditions, exploitation, productivity, profitability. They'll gladly talk about anything but work itself. These experts who offer to do our thinking for us rarely share their conclusions about work, for all its saliency in the lives of all of us. Among themselves they quibble over the details. Unions and management agree that we ought to sell the time of our lives in exchange for survival, although they haggle over the price. Marxists think we should be bossed by bureaucrats. Libertarians think we should be bossed by businessmen. Feminists don't care which form bossing takes, so long as the bosses are women. Clearly these ideology-mongers have serious differences over how to divvy up the spoils of power. Just as clearly, none of them have any objection to power as such and all of them want to keep us working. "

Or listen to or read "The Skills of Xanadu" by Theodore Sturgeon:
https://archive.org/details/pr...
https://books.google.com/books...

Why do people host dinner parties for friends when they involve "work"?

Why do people knit when they can buy machine-woven cloth for less than that of the raw yarn?

In some ways, waiting tables and preparing food are far more important jobs than most of what most people do for "paid" work these days... As Bob Black wrote in the above-linked essay:
"I don't suggest that most work is salvageable in this way. But then most work isn't worth trying to save. Only a small and diminishing fraction of work serves any useful purpose independent of the defense and reproduction of the work-system and its political and legal appendages. Twenty years ago, Paul and Percival Goodman estimated that just five percent of the work then being done -- presumably the figure, if accurate, is lower now -- would satisfy our minimal needs for food, clothing and shelter. Theirs was only an educated guess b

http://dragonball.wikia.com/wi...!

they want E and I devices, cookie clicker and kesha.

Tell me with a straight face that doing well at Orteil's Cookie Clicker doesn't need a knowledge of data flow.

Conveniently, we already have a name for it.

Larry Niven Wiki

Not specifically. Dark Elves in the elder scrolls universe are just another race of 'mer' with no innate evil or goodness. Technically even the dwarves and orcs are mer-types, what you'd consider 'elves': http://elderscrolls.wikia.com/...

At the point of the the skyrim game, dark elves are basically Haitian refugees, as their entire country has gone to hell and is covered in yards of black ash from a volcano. People hate them because they're penniless, non-job-having, homeless beggars who often resort to thievery. They don't even burn as well as other races because of some innate fire resistance. ... but they do eventually burn.

http://axdroid.wikia.com/wiki/... However it looks like nothing has happened for years... I own an Axim X51v and would like to give it a second life.

AxDroid project to bring Android to the Dell Axim line. I had an Axim x50v and it was a nice little computer at the time, but I wouldn't want to use it today.

Rather than using Simpsons names, they chose a fake name "Travis Tea" that sounds like the word "travesty".

Why not both? http://simpsons.wikia.com/wiki...

Pixel Dungeon on Android - wikia page

It was the Golgafrinchan ark http://hitchhikers.wikia.com/w...

Good point. Now be a dear and go sanitize my telephone...

I never thought this article would be useful research.

Essentially what was happening was that a bunch of publishers were putting out a flood of poorly balanced me-too games for Atari 2600, and retailers grew tired of allocating valuable shelf space to games that weren't selling. Distributors tried to reassure retailers by offering money back for returned unsold inventory, but then a bunch of distributors went bankrupt in order not to have to honor this guarantee. For more, see "1983 crash" in Wikipedia or All the Tropes. It took Nintendo and its "Official Nintendo Seal" imprimatur to bring some level of trust back to the North American video game market.

Don't become a leaf in the wind. Take charge.

Better than being a "leaf on the wind" -- that didn't work out so well for Wash

Actually that's a good point, and bring to mind a 'role model' which bridges the two, namely princess bubblegum from 'Adventure Time': http://adventuretime.wikia.com...

...on Endor.

Or was that AND-OR?
Which one's a logic gate and which one had the holocaust of savage bear-people happen on it?

Going by stuff in the SW-universe, the more complex the weapon the more you have to be proficient at using it, so you don't kill yourself by accident. Light whips are a good example of this.

Something about clone production ceasing after the clone wars. That wasn't really all the clear. In the EU (including a couple of the video games) all the cloning facilities are destroyed by the time the Empire dissolves the senate, but I don't remember any harder canon saying anything either way. Wookiepedia has a section on it

That's not something you can do to a lightsaber goddammit.

Ahem. Actually, it makes a kind of sense: it always bothered me how Star Wars lightsabers didn't have any kind of hilt/crossguard, which should have made it almost trivially easy for their opponent's to simply slide their lightsaber down the blade and slice off their opponents hand. Maybe someone in the universe finally realized that with a crossguard every lightsaber duel wouldn't end with someone loosing a hand?

It's the big "robotic appendage replacement" that's trying to keep jedis' down.

Not sure about the S-Foils... but according to wookiepedia, they were deployed for "high stress situations" -- whatever that means. So considering that in space, there is no G-Force, there can be no exertion of "stresses" -- unless by "stress" they simply mean combat. But the X-Wings at least have control surfaces and afterburners -- and they show them flying in atmosphere in Ep IV and V So I can overlook that. The TIE Fighters on the other hand... totally bogus.

That's not something you can do to a lightsaber goddammit.

Ahem. Actually, it makes a kind of sense: it always bothered me how Star Wars lightsabers didn't have any kind of hilt/crossguard, which should have made it almost trivially easy for their opponent's to simply slide their lightsaber down the blade and slice off their opponents hand. Maybe someone in the universe finally realized that with a crossguard every lightsaber duel wouldn't end with someone loosing a hand?

If you don't get reference you're missing out ;)

http://personofinterest.wikia.com/wiki/The_Machine

Although I wish they'd focus 100% on the bigger story and stop with the crime of the week crap.

contrary to what they thought, such events are not random,

Random? Ask the good people on the Rodger Young who were attacked by a lobbed meteor from the Klendathu system, or the near 10 million lives lost in Buenos Aires when that rock landed. Good people. Innocent people. The SkyMarshal is gathering for an all out retaliatory strike to avenge the deaths. It would be an excellent time to step up and serve and become a citizen! Do your part now!

Would you like to know more?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...
http://starshiptroopers.wikia....

Me too. http://jamesbond.wikia.com/wik...

http://steins-gate.wikia.com/w...

But security can jump on you or hit you with something, etc. even if "unarmed." This robot seems pretty useless without some sort of human incapacitator.

As an aside, Daleks use static electricity to recharge when moving around.

Reminds me of the Weeble ghost, with a different paint job and some blue lights.

I think they should have gone more for ED-209.

Whenever I see a challenge like electric fences and moats I always take a note from Jeremey Clarkson's book and say "how hard could it be"?

It seems he's already answered, with the Toybota.

So, a mini-windtrap? Kinda cool.

This Amygdala

"If you're not exchanging germplasm, you're cutting your own throat."

'That's what I always say too! '

Is this you, Claude Maximillian Overton Transpire Dibbler?

For the lametards who don't know him
http://discworld.wikia.com/wik...

All of them. A *real* woman wouldn't be mindlessly chasing her prince charming... she'd be building a tyrannical empire on her own power, maybe displaying the severed head of Prince Charming on a pike next to her throne built of skulls, and have a horde of male slaves who would...

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Does a catering empire count?
She already had the empire, what next?
Won a war, didn't claim the empire though
Yup, she's Disney now

All of them. A *real* woman wouldn't be mindlessly chasing her prince charming... she'd be building a tyrannical empire on her own power, maybe displaying the severed head of Prince Charming on a pike next to her throne built of skulls, and have a horde of male slaves who would...

Close
Does a catering empire count?
She already had the empire, what next?
Won a war, didn't claim the empire though
Yup, she's Disney now

All of them. A *real* woman wouldn't be mindlessly chasing her prince charming... she'd be building a tyrannical empire on her own power, maybe displaying the severed head of Prince Charming on a pike next to her throne built of skulls, and have a horde of male slaves who would...

Close
Does a catering empire count?
She already had the empire, what next?
Won a war, didn't claim the empire though
Yup, she's Disney now

All of them. A *real* woman wouldn't be mindlessly chasing her prince charming... she'd be building a tyrannical empire on her own power, maybe displaying the severed head of Prince Charming on a pike next to her throne built of skulls, and have a horde of male slaves who would...

Close
Does a catering empire count?
She already had the empire, what next?
Won a war, didn't claim the empire though
Yup, she's Disney now

All of them. A *real* woman wouldn't be mindlessly chasing her prince charming... she'd be building a tyrannical empire on her own power, maybe displaying the severed head of Prince Charming on a pike next to her throne built of skulls, and have a horde of male slaves who would...

Close
Does a catering empire count?
She already had the empire, what next?
Won a war, didn't claim the empire though
Yup, she's Disney now

Maybe a Variable Sword?

http://news.larryniven.net/con... [larryniven.net]

I was thinking that such an incredubly thin and strong filament would make an ideal ultra-sharp cutting edge for a Vibroblade type of weapon utilizing ultrasonic vibration to multiply the cutting effectiveness even more..

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

Now, if one were to have a handle from which sprang an end-disc by a telescoping rod, and attached to the circumference of that disc, and extending back down to the handle, were these insanely-sharp nano-threads, heated possibly by electricity akin to an everyday electrical heating element, or by the energy of the ultrasound energy itself such that it appeared like a column of glowing light growing out from the handle, you'd have a good approximation of a Light Saber.

Heck, the slight differences in the precise frequency each thread would be vibrating at would likely cause relatively-low frequency harmonic notes equal to the difference in frequency between each thread. You would have the humming and slight frequency & phase shifts produced by light sabers being swung around.

Wish I had the resources to throw at the problem. Heck, even if it didn't turn out to be exactly a "light saber", an ultrasonic nano-thread sword that could slice through heavy armor like butter would be awesome, not to mention all the practical industrial and medical potential such a tool would posses.

Strat

But at that point, we risk pulling the comet out of its orbit due to Kim Kardashian's massive ass.

Good one, made me chuckle. Kindda reminds me of Gravitina from the old Buzz Lightyear cartoon. Except she was massive on the other end.

If you ask me the big scandal here is that we're assuming the ISPs have any ability whatsoever to tell streaming video from VOIP, web traffic or email. That they can, tells us the internet is fundamentally insecure which is the problem at its core.

I'm going to assume that you aren't familiar with the communications protocols in use on the Internet. While it is possible to disguise the network traffic going to/from your home network (generally this is accomplished via a VPN connection -- but that can be identified as a VPN connection as well), during normal internet usage, there are a number of ways the data can be identified as one application or another. Some of those are necessary to the normal operation of the applications (e.g., VOIP, web surfing, various forms of file transfer, email, etc., etc., etc.), others can be inferred from the connection end-points, metadata as well as analysis of the data itself. (such as video or audio streaming).

This isn't a weakness, per se, it's just how the Internet Protocol Suite works. This information can be used for a variety of perfectly valid purposes. For example, network traffic prioritization (video and VOIP traffic are more sensitive to delays and dropped packets than an email or a web page, so that sort of traffic can be marked as more "important"), although that sort of prioritization (called Quality of Service or QoS) is generally not honored between disparate networks.

Your point about the "insecurity" of the Internet is actually quite a bit more nuanced than you're making it out to be.

There are many layers of security which can be deployed, however, many of them will not be unless you take proactive steps to use them (e.g., PGP for encrypted/authenticated email, for encrypted web browsing, SSH for a variety of tasks, IPSec for VPN connections) There are many host and network based security applications and tools which can be hardware, software, processes, procedures and even (or possibly, most importantly) user education.

In any case, the issues you bring up are far more complex than (based on your post) you realize, and I've over-simplified here quite a bit.

TL;DR: If you don't want your data read by others, there are a variety of steps (encryption, strong authentication, Anti-virus/antimalware software, software updates and a plethora of other technical and non-technical means) you can take to mitigate that, but just like in life, there is no such thing as perfect security.

Fouad, is that you?

http://familyguy.wikia.com/wik...

Reboot did it.

At least Millennium Falcon seems to be in the correct shape.

You mean a hamburger with an olive on top ? Lousy shape for a spaceship. Especially for one that can do the Kessel run in 12 parsecs. The original design was so much classier. Maybe to classy for Star Wars.

You know that a parsec is a measure of distance, not time, right? Also take a look at the article on Wikia

Yes thank you very much. I know that a parsec is a mesure of distance like a light-year. What I wrote was a direct reference to what Han Solo says to Luke Skywalker in the cantina. But thank you very much for being pedantic, as if it were necessary in a Star Wars thread of all things.