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All of that needed to be thrown out.

If they wanted to sneak something in, why not some form of amphetamines? My God! Will the Snake Oil never go away?

...it means this is going to be the third time we see a big screen Spider-Man tackling high school drama and crimefighting.

Reconsider. A discussion goes two ways. You gave me some genuinely new information that legitimately altered my point of view, and I appreciate that. I'm not going to apologize for using that information to draw conclusions that you might not agree with. That is hardly trolling.

Interesting article. I can certainly buy the idea that government subsidies of roads and parking causes the unintended consequence of overcrowded freeways and parking lots. I find it unfortunate that they discard the "libertarian fantasy land" solution in favor of more manipulation of our lives. How much longer are we…

We are not finding any such thing. That isn't even a logical hypothesis.

I'll leave this here. Free Range Kids.

That just tells me that the Left needs to get behind the 2nd. The Second Amendment is the way we defend the First; all the rest for that matter. We have quite a few of these armed protests in my state, in defense of Second Amendment rights, not white supremacy. The guns are not a threat. No one intends to assault…

That's because the creation of a Wellsian utopia would require coercion to create, likely ensuring a system more like the old USSR or Chairman Mao's attempts at the same.

Here's my question. Is The Moon is a Harsh Mistress acceptable "visionary" science fiction.

What are the false equivalencies. Socialist firebrands, fascist authoritarians, religious extremists; they always end up with the same result. The real obstacle isn't money, it's the lack of respect for individual autonomy.

Is that a bad thing? I don't really see things being better in any of those more liberal countries.

He backed some other cool movies. Timerider didn't age well, but was great at the time.

This won't end until we start taking people as individual instead of what group we think they come from.

It was an exciting and fun read but, Stephenson's Snow Crash was poking fun at the conventions of Cyberpunk. It came out in '92. Neuromancer, out in '84 established the conventions Stephenson exploited, to good effect no doubt.

This stuff is weird, but not cringe inducing like the Eighties. I can't even watch some Eighties movies because of the fashions.

all the people aboard Ascension know is the culture prior to their launch in the 1960s.

My new favorite song.

That's the way we work here, look a the lowest common denominator and base our understanding and eventually rule making on that.