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  1. The 1997 film wasn't faithful to the book

    The MI weren't in amoured suits.

    They got the characters of the teacher (of history and moral philiosophy) and the Leiutent mixed up

    RAH must have been spinning in his grave.

    The award of best Heinlein adaptation goes to The Puppet Masters with Donald Sutherland as 'the old man

  2. If the Macedonians want Trump as their leader, they can have him.

    I don't think he will be leading their army into battle like Alexander, in spite of his rhetoric.

  3. millions of years ago? on A Naked Black Hole Is Screaming Through the Universe (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 2

    The collision must have happened more than 2 billion years ago, or we wouldn't know about it yet.

    Speaking of galactic collisions, theres a new eBook out from Ian Douglas called Altered Starscape
    (Ian Douglas is the author of the Star Carrier series and also writes under his real name of William H Keith)
    This new series is called "Andromeda Dark" so its probably not much of a spoiler to tell you that the other galaxy involved is M31

    Highly recommended for fans of Space Fleet / Galactic Empire science fiction

  4. wromg word on UK's Brexit Cannot Pass Without Parliament Approval (aljazeera.com) · · Score: 1

    "an elite ruling counsel"

    I think you mean council

  5. ". Like the old Norse saying goes, from the wife to her husband as he goes on a viking: Come home successful, on your shield, or not at all."

    THe Romans said something like that 5 centuries before the Vikings

  6. If we find the Mark Wayne McGinnis scrapyard se would be set.

  7. so everybody would go north of the river, on Tim Berners-Lee Warns of Danger of Chaos in Unprotected Public Data (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    The (Red( River flows north, all the way to Hudson Bay
    There are no roads north of Hudson Bay AFAIK

  8. Remember remember the 5th of November on SpaceX Plan To Fuel Rockets With People Aboard Raises Alarm Bells (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    Do people in The British Commonwealth still celebrate Guy Fawkes Day

  9. Re: Signed Off? on CETA Signed Off As Wallonia Folds Under Pressure (freezenet.ca) · · Score: 1

    I had heard of Walloons, I just didn't know they had a separate country.
    I guess the EU is taking advantage of Brexit to reorganize .
    Catalonia is also seeking independence.

    Maybe they should let Kurdistan join, since Turkey had a coup.

  10. Last bit of data on NASA's New Horizons Spacecraft Sends Back Last Bit of Data From 2015 Pluto Flyby (go.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    Was it a 1 or a 0

  11. What are 'work hours' on Seoul Considers Messaging Ban After Work Hours (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    wpuldn't that depend on which shift you were on?

  12. Apple and cash on Apple CEO Tim Cook: 'We're Going To Kill Cash' (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Are they going to bring their billions back into the USA and pay the tax thats owing on it?

    And nobody accepts cheques these days.

  13. "The only technology i can thank you Americans for is the depleted uranium still poisoning our children and generations that you dropped on us."

    The only depleted uranium munitions I can think of were KE rounds fired at Iraqi tanks in the 2 gulf wars.

    and if you're an Iraqi you've got more to worry about than the USA

  14. Most of them never come to trial

    Terrorist like IISIS and Boko Haram will die rather than be captured

    The leaders of large countries (eg Putin, GWB and the chinese) never submit to international tribunal

  15. "but actually turning free hydrogen and oxygen in the atmosphere into water."

    What planet are they from?
    Jupiter? Saturn?

    Or the next planet out after that

    I

  16. White text on a black background please

    Or at least make it easy to cut/copy text from a page and paste into another program that I can set the size font and color

  17. Note to Czar Vladimir on Russians Seek Answers To Central Moscow GPS Anomaly (yahoo.com) · · Score: 0

    Our old Minuteman III missiles were made before GPS, and don't rely on it for terminal guidance

    and in spite of your meddling , The Donald won't be getting his finger on the launch button any time soon

  18. " If you don't want to get sprayed, don't steal bikes!"

    It could be used to lock up somebody elses bike
    or something else, like a gate

    ISIS would be interested for sure

  19. Venus and Mars are all right to-night! on Venus May Have Been the First Habitable Planet In Our Solar System, Study Suggests (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    "Like Ringo Said"

    Wrong Beatle

    Venus and Mars was the title track or the 1975 album by Paul Mcartney and Wings

  20. Hotel Tango Foxtrot do they know this? on Firefox Users Reach HTTPS Encryption Milestone (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Is FF phoning home wto mozilla with this statistic, and if so is there a setting we can turn off to stop it?

  21. Rediculous on Accused British 'Flash Crash' Stock Trader To Be Extradited To The US (zerohedge.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    "a possible maximum sentence of 380 years."

    You don't even get that for murder

  22. "Federal Reserve starts cranking up interest rates,"

    When did that happen?

    or are you in some alternate universe

  23. won't TSA screeners just confiscate Note7 phones (along with nail scissors and family sized toothpaste etc)

  24. I guess Note7 burns not as bad as napalm

  25. Expect a shower in about a months time - I think its the Leonids

    Probably named after the guy who played Spock