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... And the latest warning about this new fanatized mob justice wave come back, already depicted multiple times in the literature and cine always with dire consecuences, is exposed in an episode from The Orville S01E07 Majority Rule, that is just one step ahead of real life.

Don't say later that you have not been warned. *Repeatedly*

He's not a Keebler elf. He's a Khee'Bler elf.

Already been done in a galaxy far, far away. http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki...

"Wes then says that from looking at the warp equations he thinks time and space and thought are all one thing. This surprises the assistant, who tells him never to say such a thing again "in a world that's not ready for it.""

The last quote should really be: "Shut Up, Wesley!".

http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/...

Don't forget rule 35: Peace is good for business

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availability [of free software for a field] is affected by the correlation of coding ability with interest in that field. This correlation is high in text editors, operating system kernels, web servers. Low in image editors, CAD software, tax software.

A lot of coders are also gamers. So why aren't there more notable free video games that aren't clones of tabletop games, clones of old arcade games, or text-based turn-based roguelikes? Where are the free MMOs to replace the pay-to-play MMOs, which are "Forced Subscription-Only Software"?

That was before they knew that nuclear powered cars wouldn't use reactors but by Mr. Fusion!

People have talked to their cars for generations now, sometimes naming them ("Come on Betsy, start up").

I think you meant Bessie. People have been talking to inanimate objects for ever.

Automated killbots.

Killbots have a built-in limit of 999,999 kills each.

You mean this dude? If so, we are fscked.

I watched the Star Trek where Riker gets horribly raped by a woman. But it's ok he was raped because all men want it (Though he specifically says no just before the rape) and we all know women can't commit sexual crimes. Even afterward on the show, everyone is just fine and happy whereas if you reversed the gender roles it's textbook rape. We aren't going to get anything fixed while male rape is so funny victims can't even go to the police because thier ass will be laughed out to the curb. The golden rule only works if you use it uniformly.

Wait, you think you saw the whole mining ship? From the size of it (9,368.7 meters according to http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/...), I'm thinking you barely saw the bridge in the movie.

They shit all over the intricately woven story spanning dozens of authors that had been wrought over the 15ish years

OMFG you precious entitled snowflake.

You can still enjoy all those stories.

The Expanded Universe was *never* the same level of canon as the films, and it would've been an idiotic decision on their part to be slavishly beholden to decades of EU stories. Do you actually think Lucas would've let new story ideas be rigidly boxed in by the EU if he had made these new films instead of Disney? Are you fucking high?

Although George Lucas permitted the Expanded Universe to run parallel to his personal Star Wars creations, he never considered its stories to be part of his official canon.

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

I can understand the problems they're having....

1. It's some kind of Starseed

2. It's a sentient organic star ship like Gomtuu

3. its something totally natural but really, really, really weird that is going to have people discussing/arguing over what it is for years to come.

My moneys on 3, but 1 and 2 are more fun to think about.

1. It's some kind of Starseed

2. It's a sentient organic star ship like Gomtuu

3. its something totally natural but really, really, really weird that is going to have people discussing/arguing over what it is for years to come.

My moneys on 3, but 1 and 2 are more fun to think about.

I've already seen the documentary on this. First the asteroid enters the solar system. Then the Bad Carrots arrive. And finally Lyekka eats Tokyo. Fortunately, we are a type 13 plant, so our suffering shouldn't last to much longer.

I've already seen the documentary on this. First the asteroid enters the solar system. Then the Bad Carrots arrive. And finally Lyekka eats Tokyo. Fortunately, we are a type 13 plant, so our suffering shouldn't last to much longer.

So by that definition no one can be trusted since everyone lies at some point.

Dr. House asserted that for 8 years...

So, Salacious Crumb it is, then.

Probably not. The most important part of this, however, is that Xenomorph XX121 (The alien from Alien, Aliens, etc) is now a Disney princess, as it was born by a queen and is owned by Disney.

Questionable.

I would say that the most important part is the wasted hope it gives to firefly fans.
They know that if the show is rebooted or continued where it ended it will still never be as good as the first half season, but that doesn't mean that they wouldn't watch it only to have the show ruined for them.
There is a lot of suffering to be had if Disney starts to milk that cow.

Regarding the queen thing it is specifically mentioned in Moana that she isn't a princess but would typically be listed among Disney princesses so I guess the line is a bit fuzzy.
I would say that we need a proper definition of the requirements for being a Disney princess before we add the xenomorph to that group.

Probably not. The most important part of this, however, is that Xenomorph XX121 (The alien from Alien, Aliens, etc) is now a Disney princess, as it was born by a queen and is owned by Disney.

Blake's 7, a motley crew of renegades and smugglers trying to escape an evil totalitarian empire in a salvaged spaceship. The Liberator

Star Wars, a motley crew of renegades and smugglers trying to escape the evil empire in a stolen spaceship Millennium Falcon

Blake's 7, a motley crew of renegades and smugglers trying to escape an evil totalitarian empire in a salvaged spaceship. The Liberator

Star Wars, a motley crew of renegades and smugglers trying to escape the evil empire in a stolen spaceship Millennium Falcon

Dystopian would be hiring ED209 for the job, not some thing covered in kitty pictures. "You have 10 seconds to comply"

They had an episode of Star Trek exploring this issue 27 years ago. Lieutenant Reginald Barclay creates a holodeck version of the crew including his erotic fantasy version of Deanna Troi

http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/...

BeauHD is probably a disgruntled, neglected cryptid

These scientists better hope the Krogan don't find out. They are still mad about the genophage.

Not sure on Rigel, but I know what they call it in Theta 116: http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/...

Just how far does this guy have to go before he lacks the support to continue?

I don't know, he could probably be revealed as a space alien and his supporters would endorse him, but in this case, the idea isn't even original, he's just stealing the idea fromTom Clancy.

This is awesome

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

And Shia cracked up completely a few weeks after

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

On March 8, 2017, the stream resumed from an "unknown location," with the artists announcing that a flag emblazoned with the words "He Will Not Divide Us" would be flown for the duration of the presidency. The camera was pointed up at the flag, set against a backdrop of nothing but sky. Reporting on the move, Nylon reflected that "in tumultuous times like these, it's encouraging to see that art finds a way to exist and artists find a way to create, even when their work and message are under attack." Within 38 hours of resuming transmission, the flag was located by a collaboration of 4chan users, who used airplane contrails, celestial navigation, and other techniques to determine that it was located in Greeneville, Tennessee. In the early hours of March 10, 2017, an unknown person took down and stole the flag, replacing it with a red 'Make America Great Again' hat and a Pepe the Frog shirt. These were later removed, and the stream continued broadcasting an empty flag pole. Following escalating threats coordinated via 4chan and 8chan, and after a field at the location was set on fire, the artists were again forced to relocate the project.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

On June 26, 2014, LaBeouf was charged with disorderly conduct and criminal trespass at New York's Studio 54 theater. He was reported to have been "acting disorderly, yelling and being loud". He refused to leave the theater, so the police were called. In the arrest report it was stated that LaBeouf spat at arresting officers. The report also details LaBeouf using an impolite slur and swearing at arresting officers. He was arrested and held at the Midtown North police station to later appear in court. Following the incident, LaBeouf voluntarily began seeking outpatient treatment for alcoholism, becoming involved in a 12-step program.

On July 8, 2017, around 4 a.m. LaBeouf was arrested in Savannah, Georgia, for public drunkenness, disorderly conduct and obstruction. Bodycam footage was released of LaBeouf's profane tirade against the arresting officers following his arrest. In October 2017 LaBeouf was found not guilty on one charge of public intoxication and pleaded no contest to disorderly conduct, for which he was fined $1,000, and will spend 12 months on probation minus time served. He was also required to attend anger management counseling.

Result : Decisive victory for Kekistani forces.

I'm still using FriendFace.

Well that's a horse of a different color!

Slashdot has become Facebook.

I can't count the number of times I've seen this question/meme on my FB newsfeed.

And yes, I can count, I was a math major waaaay back when before I became a CS major.

It's not Facebook or anything in particular.

South Park sort of nailed it on the head with their Memberberries episodes.

There's been a huge wave of nostalgia going on in the last few years. Remakes, reboots, alternate universe settings, etc.

We got remakes, reboots or sequels for Star Wars, Blade Runner, Jurassic Park, Jumanji, etc.
We got classic videogame consoles from Nintendo and others.

I think Agent Smith was sort of telling the truth in The Matrix when he said the peak of human evolution was around the mid 1990's.

After that, we had businesses, marketing and governments take over everything, so everything is depressing and sucks, thus the urge to recall the "simpler modern times" is very strong... and businesses are marketing the hell out of it while the government is making notes of who's eating memberberries.

http://southpark.wikia.com/wik...

Rather than banning phones how about mandating an official Trump admin phone, like the Dethklok's Dethphone

http://dethklok.wikia.com/wiki...

It'd be pretty brütal

There is nothing more useless than a lock with a voiceprint. -- Fourth Doctor, The Invasion of Time.

You are right.

I was mostly riffing on the irony of having the directory and cast from Alien in the movie version of a game that ripped off Alien.

http://metroid.wikia.com/wiki/...

Just because some of what the government does is a money and power grab does not mean that all of them are.

Just like replacing coal and nuclear with wind and solar is not a "power grab". You contradicted your own thesis.

Can we let the market and not the government decide that?

Has it ever occurred to you how much money is SAVED by regulation? Do you really think that if TEPCO and Japan's government had to do it all over again, that they wouldn't have spent a few hundred million on a higher seawall and better backups instead of a few hundred BILLION cleaning up up a disaster?

But even if you eliminated regulations and let every nuclear Dr. Nick build a plant, nuclear power would never be cost effective because of the costs of plant decommission and waste storage.

They agreed to inspections as a trade for civilian nuclear power technology. They've been caught violating this agreement several times and a report from 2015 shows them to be uncooperative at best in holding up their end on openness of their civil nuclear power program. If they want civil nuclear power so badly then they are going the wrong way about it.

That's Trump's spin on it, which is naturally bullshit. Not only have they been in compliance, the "deal" despite being hailed as Obama being the peacemaker was in fact Obama being a neocon warmonger.

Again: both the CIA and Mossad have said for 15 years that Iran has had no nuclear weapons program, but Obama spent years illegally threatening Iran with military force for weapons he knew Iran was not trying to obtain. He also crashed their economy with sanctions, blackmailed Iran with its own money, and if he didn't sign off on the CIA murdering Iran's nuclear scientists in terrorist attacks, he knows who did.

You want to look at a country in flagrant violation of the NPT, look in the mirror as the U.S. has not only been violating the disarmament provisions of the treaty, it's spending a trillion dollars to upgrade its own nuclear arsenal.

I don't care if they aren't building nuclear weapons. So long as they chant "death to America" in their parliament I see no reason for any Western nation to trade with them. That counts double for anything of military value.

Are you a hypocrite of Biblical proportions or just ignorant? Serious question. The United States overthrew Iran's government in '53, backed a torture-loving dictator for decades, backed Iraq when it invaded Iran (and used chemical weapons in the process), shot down an Iranian passenger plane murdering all aboard, invaded two countries on Iran's border for bullshit reasons, and then engaged in Obama's neocon warmongering as mentioned above.

Iranians have a very, very long list of perfectly legitimate reasons to resent the United States.

North Korea has nuclear weapons because the nation is run by an increasingly paranoid group of little dictators.

Since you dodged the facts I'll just copy and paste them again:

1) they remember the U.S. flattening all of their cities and killing millions of Koreans, even if your American Exceptionalist ass does not
2) the United States has been practicing invasions of North Korea every year since the 90's - look up Foal Eagle
3) Insurance against regime change - American Exceptionalists may have forgotten that the Iraq, Libya and Syria wars have all been based on total bullshit, but they haven't

It's not paranoia when the U.S. is literally out to get you.

I see, you equate a policy of issuing licenses as lifting all regulation completely.

I see you're trying t

All I've seen are somewhat vague artists' renderings. From the description, it could be shaped like a giant Bugles snack.

Reminds me of this song:

Do not ask me to write you a song as one is supposed to / Correct, white, soft, very clean, very light / Sounds, words, are razors / And I can not sing as it should be done / Not wanting to hurt anyone.

Is this like Millennium Challenge where swarms of small, fast boats were able to disable/sink numerous simulated ships? Or, during that same exercise, swarms of cruise missiles overwhelmed the fleet defenses?

I guess, in one respect, at least someone's talking about it.

http://hitchhikers.wikia.com/w...

The kinetic energy of a planet in orbit is humongous, about 2.7x10^33 Joules. If you wanted to change that kinetic energy by 1%, and you had access to all the solar energy hitting the Earth, 3.2x10^20 J/h (89,000 TW), it would take nearly 10^12 h, over 100 million years. And that's without figuring out what to use for reaction Mass. Nope. Terraforming has to be a whole lot easier.

That or we buy a planet mover from the Outsiders. http://larryniven.wikia.com/wi...

...and... controlled!

http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Mudd_androids?li_source=LI&li_medium=wikia-footer-wiki-rec

> The only director I could see doing this well is Ridley Scott.

>...

> As for as actresses playing Samus, the actress that first pops into my my head is Scarlett Johansson.

I was thinking Sigourney Weaver.

Well, if he really wants to build a city with a dome over it, he should contact someone with experience like the EPA.

Oh, it's a lot worse than that, I am afraid!

Frankie and Benjy are calling the Vogons - the experiment is a failure!

http://villains.wikia.com/wiki...

Oh yeah, because "Quark" is from Star Wars.

I hold your Star Trek reference and raise you a Star Wars reference.