statistics have shown that on average, identical twins tend to be around 80 percent the same in everything from stature to health to IQ to political views. The similarities are partly the product of similar upbringing. But evidence from the comparison of twins raised apart points rather convincingly to genes as the source of a lot of that likeness. In the most widely publicized study of this type, launched in 1979, University of Minnesota psychologist Thomas Bouchard and his colleagues have chronicled the fates of about 60 pairs of identical twins raised separately. Some of the pairs had scarcely met before Bouchard contacted them, and yet the behaviors and personalities and social attitudes they displayed in lengthy batteries of tests were often remarkably alike.
I heard about this a few years ago...I wonder how long it'll be before spouses are asking science to do gene therapy to fix their loved one.
grrr...as much as I believe cheating is bad for everyone involved, there has got to be evolutionary reasons why their are differences and fixing everyone to one type sounds like a dumb idea as a species.
I'm starting up a Pathfinder game as well in about 4 weeks (schedule conflicts..grr..)
I have the PDF of the beta and I love the changes to grapple and polymorph. I think it will solve several issues with the game.
I'm a total Paizo fan now. They have so many good names in the industry writing for them and I think they have captured the spirit of D&D. I hope Hasbro sells the D&D brand to them.
that's not always true. During a divorce is can be used to show character or intent.
It can also be used if you had permission, implied or otherwise.
So, someone said the were spying on you and you wanted to find out. Seems to me you did the right thing. I just don't know why you would feel bad about that. Maybe for the same reason most men in a divorces basically let themselves become whipped dogs.
TITLE 18 > PART I > CHAPTER 121 >  2701 Prev | Next  2701. Unlawful access to stored communications How Current is This? (a) Offense.â" Except as provided in subsection (c) of this section whoeverâ" (1) intentionally accesses without authorization a facility through which an electronic communication service is provided; or (2) intentionally exceeds an authorization to access that facility; and thereby obtains, alters, or prevents authorized access to a wire or electronic communication while it is in electronic storage in such system shall be punished as provided in subsection (b) of this section. (b) Punishment.â" The punishment for an offense under subsection (a) of this section isâ" (1) if the offense is committed for purposes of commercial advantage, malicious destruction or damage, or private commercial gain, or in furtherance of any criminal or tortious act in violation of the Constitution or laws of the United States or any Stateâ" (A) a fine under this title or imprisonment for not more than 5 years, or both, in the case of a first offense under this subparagraph; and (B) a fine under this title or imprisonment for not more than 10 years, or both, for any subsequent offense under this subparagraph; and (2) in any other caseâ" (A) a fine under this title or imprisonment for not more than 1 year or both, in the case of a first offense under this paragraph; and (B) a fine under this title or imprisonment for not more than 5 years, or both, in the case of an offense under this subparagraph that occurs after a conviction of another offense under this section. (c) Exceptions.â" Subsection (a) of this section does not apply with respect to conduct authorizedâ" (1) by the person or entity providing a wire or electronic communications service; (2) by a user of that service with respect to a communication of or intended for that user; or (3) in section 2703, 2704 or 2518 of this title.
Is it any wonder that they are doing this? I'm sure this has been in the works, but with what Russia is doing, how many things can the US be a watch dog on? I'm sorry world...but at some point y'all have to be concerned too...can't just rely on the US...and you shouldn't because by evidence of the Iraq War, we aren't always (or even close to) right.
I think those numbers are high, but I can understand it if they aren't. They mirror the divorce rate numbers.
Here's my tale of woe:
I feel horrible. I broke my own morals during my divorce. My ex threatened to have a PI follow me and just having that possibility hanging over my head ate away at me. I can justify it, but it still wasn't right...I gained access to her emails just to see if she was spying on me...it sucked.
All it did for me was make me feel worse about myself.
To anyone thinking about doing the same, I strongly recommend not doing it. Even if it wasn't against the law, nothing good is going to come from it. It won't make breaking up easier.
Over the years I've had many people come up to me and ask me how to do such things, I've always told them not to try....for one thing it isn't admissible in court and another it won't make you feel any better.
I know...I've been there and done it...I regret it and wish I could undo it. Now I'll have to live with it for the rest of my life. A divorce is a major life event and emotions run high.
My one advice for anyone going through a divorce is to not do anything that you will feel bad about years later and by that I mean don't break any moral codes that you would have had during the good years.
And guess what - they probably walked away with about the same amount of money that I'll get from social security!
I wouldn't worry...the politician that is willing to cut Social Security before other programs will be slitting their own political wrists.
At best they'll raise the age limit and it'll be something like if you were born before X then you'll have to be Y years old before you can claim full benefits.
I do not see what is wrong in discussing all the ramifications of this conflict.
Do you want us to not plan for the future at all until the conflict is over?
Besides this is a 'nerd' site...what do you expect us to discuss? ISS and space exploration are about as Nerdy as you can get. There is already a posting about the internet war between the two countries....do you know of any other nerdy subjects that might be affected by the war? if so, please post them. I'm sure/. would love to toss around the subject.
The GP said "Normal People" - vegetarianism and veganism are, for most of the world, unusual. I'm not going to enter into the debate as to whether they are desirable modes of living or not.
Forgot to mention that Humans are omnivores probably for a reason...so the question isn't 'to eat meat or not eat meat'. The question is how much meat is right for the human system...what is the balance.
As soon as it is affordable for the mega-churches, America won't have a problem any more.
People with that sort of mindset are only satisfied when they are running their own community...America isn't that community any more...(they want it to be...but there are too many of them competing for the same America)
and I'm pretty sure Universities are going to continue to offer it...heck, at most universities you can still Gopher (not sure why one would want to...but the point is you still can)
USENET isn't going away....there are too many uses for it. Heck I still occassionally see my posts from the early 90s...
I'm all for Google groups and others taping USENET. Google already filters spam so most of the major issue can be taken care of with USENET.
Personally I think the ISPs are shooting themselves in the foot. They should be using USENET and if they can't, they should be outsourcing it to people that can. Track it, monitor it, but don't get rid of it.
I watched a news clip during lunch today about 'tagging' where people spray paint as art in the urban setting....a cop called it 'a crime where the criminal signs his name.' If there is crime on USENET, they are definitely signing their name. Track it. Bust'em.
If people are not doing anything illegal and it is bringing people to your service, why would you cancel it.
Those are the words of "AK-47" -- a poster to the college-admissions web forum AutoAdmit.com. AK-47 was one of a handful of students heaping misogynist scorn on women attending the nations' top law schools in 2007, in posts so vile they spurred a national debate on the limits of online anonymity, and an unprecedented federal lawsuit aimed at unmasking and punishing the posters.
Now lawyers for two female Yale Law School students have ascertained AK-47's real identity, along with the identities of other AutoAdmit posters, who all now face the likely publication of their names in court records -- potentially marking a death sentence for the comment trolls' budding legal careers even before the case has gone to trial.
The unmasking of the posters marks a milestone in a rare legal challenge to the norms of online commenting, where arguments live on for years in search-engine results and where reputations can be sullied nearly irreparably by anyone with a grudge, a laptop and a WiFi connection. Yet a year after the lawsuit was filed, little else has been resolved -- and legal controversies have multiplied. The women themselves have gone silent, and their lawyers -- two of whom are now themselves being sued -- are not talking to the press. Legal experts are beginning to wonder aloud if there's any point in pressing the messy lawsuit.
"You have good lawyers putting their time in on the case, and in a policy sense, they are achieving something, says Ann Bartow, an associate professor at the University of South Carolina School of Law. "But in a victim sense -- assuming you think of the women as victims -- it's not clear what this is going to achieve."
The AutoAdmit controversy began even before one of the women, identified in court documents as "Jane Doe I," started classes in the fall of 2005, the lawsuit alleges. Doe I was alerted in the summer to an AutoAdmit comment thread entitled "Stupid Bitch to Attend Law School." The thread included messages such as, "I think I will sodomize her. Repeatedly" and a reply claiming "she has herpes." The second woman, Jane Doe II, was similarly attacked beginning in January 2007.
Both women tried in vain to persuade the administrators of the AutoAdmit.com site to remove the threads, according to the lawsuit. But then the story of the cyber-harassment hit the front page of The Washington Post, and the law school trolls became fodder for cable news shows. Soon after, the female law students, with help from Stanford and Yale law professors, filed the federal lawsuit in June 2007 seeking hundreds of thousands of dollars in damages.
The Jane Doe plaintiffs contend that the postings about them became etched into the first page of search engine results on their names, costing them prestigious jobs, infecting their relationships with friends and family, and even forcing one to stop going to the gym for fear of stalkers.
"We have never had such a way to lie and distort facts about people -- to spread lies and distortions in a way that is attached to them," says Bartow. "And you can game it to come up on the front page of Google."
Bartow believes the problem lies in technology outstripping the law and our cultural responses. George Washington University Law Professor Daniel Solove, who's been thinking about the issue long enough to have written a book called The Future of Reputation, agrees. He says the law needs to change.
"The internet isn't a radical-free zone where you can hurt people. But on the other hand, we can't have everyone rushing to the court, because the court is a blunt tool," Solove says. "We need something to help shape norms -- there needs to be some kind of push back against the notion that the internet is a place wh
"Google is arguing that in the modern world there can be no expectation of privacy."
Translation:
Google is arguing that in the modern world that 'evil' is a relative term.
No, they are stating what currently exists and not the pipe dream of the 50s.
Privacy is an illusion...we are all in a village now. Get over it!
There are two ways the loss of imaginary privacy will go....one way, people will be tolerate of differences because they see they are more prevalent than they believed....or the more likely 'evil' way of people finding things they consider objectionable....and working on curing the 'evils' of our society.
In some states it is illegal to film a government official.
Not that it will help them once it gets on youtube, but first you have to get it on youtube and not confiscated by the police.
What would you do if you filmed a cop beating someone and they asked for the video camera? If you answered anything but give the camera over, expect to be in pain and most likely jail.
Both my parents are in prison (my mom is guilty, but I believe my dad to be innocent)in Texas
My mom shared a story to me and it was many years go...in the 90s. The story is about how Texas uses live prisoners to test their tracking dogs.
There was a 60 year old women, with a PhD in some geology discipline, in jail. She was given a path to follow and told the dogs would try to follow her trail. She got to a swampy area and walked around it. They didn't like that so they had her do the course again but this time to go through the swampy area just to see if the dogs could track her. She did and got stuck up to armpits. She was frantic because if the dogs caught her she would be mauled. That was the least of her problems...turns out someone had been illegally dumping in the swamp and this 60 year old woman got chemical burns all over her body. She had to be flown down to Galveston for their burn unit to treat her.
that is cruel treatment....
another dog tracking tail....
a girl in her 20s was let loose into a field with grass higher than her and told a path to follow. The dogs were going to track her. She got lost and sat down. The dogs didn't find her and when she didn't turn up at the end where she was supposed to, they had to do a search...when they found her they treated her like she attempted to escape...they even took her to court to tack on more time. She was terrified when she sat down in the field because of the dogs, but she didn't know what else to do...luckly the dogs didn't find her
I have no understanding of why prisoners are needed to test dogs tracking abilities or why tracking bracelets weren't used on the prisoners.
inspired also means, it is not translated word by word. which would be very dangerous for people, reading a book that old, withouth knowing about the habits in this era, can lead to extreme one sided reading of the bible, and a lot of misunderstandings.
Very true...I always laugh when people talk about the virgin Mary....back then women with children before being married were called virgin mothers.
Then there is the whole was Jesus married. He had to be. He was a Rabi and back then to be a Rabi you had to be married. Then there is an entire gospel that is mostly destroyed/lost...Mary Magdalene's. With the whole fact that she kept saying her Lord which could mean her husband...
the whole thing is way too open for us from a modern perspective to get confused.
The best thing to do is take the parts that make your life better to heart and live it. Benjamin Franklin did. He crafted his own bible. The most important thing is to try to do better. To try to improve oneself.
Geoffrey A. Landis has summarized the perceived difficulties in colonizing Venus as being merely from the assumption that a colony would need to be based on the surface of a planet:
"However, viewed in a different way, the problem with Venus is merely that the ground level is too far below the one atmosphere level. At cloud-top level, Venus is the paradise planet."
He has proposed aerostat habitats followed by floating cities, based on the concept that breathable air (21:79 Oxygen-Nitrogen mixture) is a lifting gas in the dense Venusian atmosphere, with over 60% of the lifting power that helium has on Earth.[4] In effect, a balloon full of human-breathable air would sustain itself and extra weight (such as a colony) in midair. At an altitude of 50 km above Venusian surface, the environment is the most Earth-like in the solar system - a pressure of approximately 1 bar and temperatures in the 0ÂC-50ÂC range. Because there is not a significant pressure difference between the inside and the outside of the breathable-air balloon, any rips or tears would cause gases to diffuse at normal atmospheric mixing rates, giving time to repair any such damages. In addition, humans would not require pressurized suits when outside, merely air to breathe and a protection from the acidic rain. Alternatively two-part domes could contain a lifting gas like hydrogen or helium (extractable from the atmosphere) to allow a higher mass density[5].
Cloud-top colonization also offers a way to avoid the issue of slow Venusian rotation. At the top of the clouds the wind speed on Venus reaches up to 95 m/s, circling the planet approximately every four Earth days in a phenomenon known as "super-rotation".[6] Colonies floating in this region could therefore have a much shorter day length by remaining untethered to the ground and moving with the atmosphere. While a space elevator extending to the surface of Venus is impractical due to the slow rotation, constructing a skyhook that extended into the upper atmosphere and rotated at the wind speed would not be difficult compared to constructing a space elevator on Earth.
Since such colonies would be viable in current Venusian conditions, this allows a dynamic approach to colonization instead of requiring extensive terraforming measures in advance. The main challenge would be using a substance resistant to sulfuric acid to serve as the structure's outer layer; ceramics or metal sulfates could possibly serve in this role.
Landis has suggested that as more floating cities were built, they could form a solar shield around the planet, and could simultaneously be used to process the atmosphere into a more desirable form. If made from carbon nanotubes (recently fabricated into sheet form) or graphene (a sheet-like carbon allotrope), the major structural materials can be produced using carbon dioxide gathered in situ from the atmosphere. The recently synthesised amorphous carbonia might prove a useful structural material if it can be quenched to STP conditions, perhaps in a mixture with regular silica glass. According to Birch's analysis such colonies and materials would provide an immediate economic return from colonizing Venus, funding further terraforming efforts.
Some of the difficulties that/. posters have mentioned have been dealt with in the wiki, but there are some others that have not been mentioned that the wiki deals with.
Personally I think the most difficult aspect would be mining the surface (and that is mentioned in the wiki.) Until we get more data I think this is a pipe dream (that I really want to happen.)
What the government did to the author was really pretty horrible. Here's a commentary about his death:
THE MURDER OF PETER MCWILLIAMS
An Indictment, Not an Obituary
Peter McWiliams, 50, best selling author, poet, photographer, publisher, libertarian crusader, medical marijuana activist, AIDS patient and cancer survivor, was found dead on the floor of his bathroom, apparently having choked to death after vomiting, for want of medical marijuana.
There will be an autopsy, but whatever the immediate cause of death may have been, he was murdered by the United States Government as surely as if they shot him. Indeed, it would have been much more humane if they had just put a bullet in his head. No one should have to go through what he suffered at the hands of his country.
When I learned of his death yesterday, I was too angry to write about it. Even now, this is being written more in anger than in sorrow. Peter is where they can't hurt him anymore, but his murderers are still at large, and if there is anything that Peter would want, it would be for us to continue to speak the truth to power, to tyranny.
Of course, if Peter did choke after vomiting it would be directly the result of his having been denied the right to use medical marijuana. Peter was a part of the roughly 40% of those patients for whom the anti-viral drugs being used to treat AIDS can cause violent nausea. The government knew this from direct observation. During at least one court appearance he vomited into a wastebasket during the hearing.
Dealing with this nausea is one of the best documented uses of medical marijuana, and he had also used it during cancer chemotherapy, when he actually gained weight.
None of that mattered to the judge. None of that mattered to the prosecutor. After all, these are the same people who had held him in federal detention for months on a $250,000 bail, even though he posed no flight risk, the only justification for such a high bail.
Had he wanted to flee, he had plenty of time to do so before he was charged, but he is a world famous writer, so he could not hide. His publishing company was there in Los Angeles, and he was taking expensive anti-virals for AIDS. He really could not flee, but that did not prevent the government from violating his Constitutional rights.
Consider the lengths to which they went to keep him from raising the bail.
When his elderly mother pledged her house as security for the bail, they threatened that the government would seize her house if her son simply failed a drug test, not just if he were to flee. She would not be intimidated, but now her son is dead as the result of the conditions of the bail. These are the "family values" of America's war on the sick and dying.
See: "The federal prosecutor personally called my mother to tell her that if I was found with even a trace of medical marijuana, her house would be taken away." -- Peter McWilliams
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Congrats on the impossible to prove otherwise post!
There is no way to prove that your genes are not influencing you.
However since identical twins separated at birth have many mental similarities, I'm going to go with gene's influence you more than you know.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/twins/twins2.htm
I heard about this a few years ago...I wonder how long it'll be before spouses are asking science to do gene therapy to fix their loved one.
grrr...as much as I believe cheating is bad for everyone involved, there has got to be evolutionary reasons why their are differences and fixing everyone to one type sounds like a dumb idea as a species.
I'm interested in multi-player, but I want the co-op to be in the same room.
I really don't like playing on the Internet because that usually means my wife and I are looking at different screens.
I want another Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance or other SnowBlind engine games.
I'm starting up a Pathfinder game as well in about 4 weeks (schedule conflicts..grr..)
I have the PDF of the beta and I love the changes to grapple and polymorph. I think it will solve several issues with the game.
I'm a total Paizo fan now. They have so many good names in the industry writing for them and I think they have captured the spirit of D&D. I hope Hasbro sells the D&D brand to them.
"for one thing it isn't admissible in court .."
that's not always true. During a divorce is can be used to show character or intent.
It can also be used if you had permission, implied or otherwise.
So, someone said the were spying on you and you wanted to find out. Seems to me you did the right thing.
I just don't know why you would feel bad about that. Maybe for the same reason most men in a divorces basically let themselves become whipped dogs.
Maybe...but you'd have to get over this:
http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode18/usc_sec_18_00002701----000-.html
Is it any wonder that they are doing this? I'm sure this has been in the works, but with what Russia is doing, how many things can the US be a watch dog on? I'm sorry world...but at some point y'all have to be concerned too...can't just rely on the US...and you shouldn't because by evidence of the Iraq War, we aren't always (or even close to) right.
I think those numbers are high, but I can understand it if they aren't. They mirror the divorce rate numbers.
Here's my tale of woe:
I feel horrible. I broke my own morals during my divorce. My ex threatened to have a PI follow me and just having that possibility hanging over my head ate away at me. I can justify it, but it still wasn't right...I gained access to her emails just to see if she was spying on me...it sucked.
All it did for me was make me feel worse about myself.
To anyone thinking about doing the same, I strongly recommend not doing it. Even if it wasn't against the law, nothing good is going to come from it. It won't make breaking up easier.
Over the years I've had many people come up to me and ask me how to do such things, I've always told them not to try....for one thing it isn't admissible in court and another it won't make you feel any better.
I know...I've been there and done it...I regret it and wish I could undo it. Now I'll have to live with it for the rest of my life. A divorce is a major life event and emotions run high.
My one advice for anyone going through a divorce is to not do anything that you will feel bad about years later and by that I mean don't break any moral codes that you would have had during the good years.
I had issues with self-aware animals being used for testing or being killed for food or tusks....
Now I have to worry about magpies? damn....I loves me Magpie meat.
And guess what - they probably walked away with about the same amount of money that I'll get from social security!
I wouldn't worry...the politician that is willing to cut Social Security before other programs will be slitting their own political wrists.
At best they'll raise the age limit and it'll be something like if you were born before X then you'll have to be Y years old before you can claim full benefits.
I'll worry about myself - I can invest my money better than the government can - but why should I help you retire?
I'm sure many of the people that put their life savings in Enron felt the same....
From the article the issue was keeping the self-cleaning toilets clean...they got clogged with trash.
The drug use and prostitution bit was a worry in the original article when they were being installed.
Proxy Servers.....big freakin' proxy servers...
Heck I bet they'll be owned by Google because instead of just cataloging the internet, Google will be cashing the internet.
I do not see what is wrong in discussing all the ramifications of this conflict.
Do you want us to not plan for the future at all until the conflict is over?
Besides this is a 'nerd' site...what do you expect us to discuss? ISS and space exploration are about as Nerdy as you can get. There is already a posting about the internet war between the two countries....do you know of any other nerdy subjects that might be affected by the war? if so, please post them. I'm sure /. would love to toss around the subject.
The GP said "Normal People" - vegetarianism and veganism are, for most of the world, unusual. I'm not going to enter into the debate as to whether they are desirable modes of living or not.
Forgot to mention that Humans are omnivores probably for a reason...so the question isn't 'to eat meat or not eat meat'. The question is how much meat is right for the human system...what is the balance.
No, don't sue. Instead fund space research.
As soon as it is affordable for the mega-churches, America won't have a problem any more.
People with that sort of mindset are only satisfied when they are running their own community...America isn't that community any more...(they want it to be...but there are too many of them competing for the same America)
and I'm pretty sure Universities are going to continue to offer it...heck, at most universities you can still Gopher (not sure why one would want to...but the point is you still can)
USENET isn't going away....there are too many uses for it. Heck I still occassionally see my posts from the early 90s...
I'm all for Google groups and others taping USENET. Google already filters spam so most of the major issue can be taken care of with USENET.
Personally I think the ISPs are shooting themselves in the foot. They should be using USENET and if they can't, they should be outsourcing it to people that can. Track it, monitor it, but don't get rid of it.
I watched a news clip during lunch today about 'tagging' where people spray paint as art in the urban setting....a cop called it 'a crime where the criminal signs his name.' If there is crime on USENET, they are definitely signing their name. Track it. Bust'em.
If people are not doing anything illegal and it is bringing people to your service, why would you cancel it.
and again I'll say privacy is an illusion...case in point:
"Google is arguing that in the modern world there can be no expectation of privacy."
Translation:
Google is arguing that in the modern world that 'evil' is a relative term.
No, they are stating what currently exists and not the pipe dream of the 50s.
Privacy is an illusion...we are all in a village now. Get over it!
There are two ways the loss of imaginary privacy will go....one way, people will be tolerate of differences because they see they are more prevalent than they believed....or the more likely 'evil' way of people finding things they consider objectionable....and working on curing the 'evils' of our society.
In some states it is illegal to film a government official.
Not that it will help them once it gets on youtube, but first you have to get it on youtube and not confiscated by the police.
What would you do if you filmed a cop beating someone and they asked for the video camera? If you answered anything but give the camera over, expect to be in pain and most likely jail.
Both my parents are in prison (my mom is guilty, but I believe my dad to be innocent)in Texas
My mom shared a story to me and it was many years go...in the 90s. The story is about how Texas uses live prisoners to test their tracking dogs.
that is cruel treatment....
another dog tracking tail....
I have no understanding of why prisoners are needed to test dogs tracking abilities or why tracking bracelets weren't used on the prisoners.
inspired also means, it is not translated word by word. which would be very dangerous for people, reading a book that old, withouth knowing about the habits in this era, can lead to extreme one sided reading of the bible, and a lot of misunderstandings.
Very true...I always laugh when people talk about the virgin Mary....back then women with children before being married were called virgin mothers.
Then there is the whole was Jesus married. He had to be. He was a Rabi and back then to be a Rabi you had to be married. Then there is an entire gospel that is mostly destroyed/lost ...Mary Magdalene's. With the whole fact that she kept saying her Lord which could mean her husband...
the whole thing is way too open for us from a modern perspective to get confused.
The best thing to do is take the parts that make your life better to heart and live it. Benjamin Franklin did. He crafted his own bible. The most important thing is to try to do better. To try to improve oneself.
I'm surprised I haven't seen a copy & paste from a wiki...this is my favorite topic and I frequently refer people to this link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonization_of_Venus#Aerostat_habitats_and_floating_cities
Some of the difficulties that /. posters have mentioned have been dealt with in the wiki, but there are some others that have not been mentioned that the wiki deals with.
Personally I think the most difficult aspect would be mining the surface (and that is mentioned in the wiki.) Until we get more data I think this is a pipe dream (that I really want to happen.)
Speaking as someone t
I recommend that you read Ain't Nobody's Business if you do by Peter McWilliams.
I bought the hardback book when it came out and I had not even heard of it. It is that cool.
The next cool thing is...it is online and free! Here's a link:
http://www.mcwilliams.com/books/aint/toc.htm
And here's a link to the prostitution chapter:
http://www.mcwilliams.com/books/aint/306.htm
What the government did to the author was really pretty horrible. Here's a commentary about his death:
Funny thing...after the dvds of Buffy have been sitting on my shelf for over a year, my sister in law comes over and we start on the 6th season....
Once More with Feeling was awesome...and a problem child considering it plays in at an hour and 5 minutes....it got cut on reruns.
I had a couple of tactical issues with the movie....
#1 the princess should have knocked herself out or had someone do it for her. Keep her that way until they bind up the prince for all eternity.
#2 when Hellboy was revived, flame chick should have melted the 3rd piece of the crown and thus prevented the golden army from awaking.