If it’s earning 15% less, and it cost 35% less to make, those numbers suggest it’s doing better. It is clearing the (admittedly low) bar.

1. “ocean worlds are way more common than ours with land” - I took that to mean there was no dry land for them to get access to.

1. How would ocean life get technology? How would they figure out how to smelt iron underwater? How would they develop electronics? How could they do chemistry when all the chemicals float away? I can see space-faring dolphins if someone else gives them the tech (eg, Brin’s Uplift series), but not how they’d develop…

Why would anyone think that was a good line to open the trailer with?

I wouldn’t go that far, but as long as Billie Lourd (earmuffs) is back, I’m in.

What you got from the “Red in my ledger”/“Mewling quim” dialogue was “generic deadpan action chick”?

I tried to upgrade a few weeks ago. The first time, it failed with no explanation. I went online and found a long list of things that might have caused it, such has having Vive plugged it or remapping the My Games folder. I changed those. Second time it worked, but there was no way I could get my NVidia card to work.…

I think your “biding our time” part is right, and this non-contamination rule is part of an early phase that will end. Which makes it the right thing to do now.

It helps that Corbyn was one of the few politicians against the Iraq war, back when there was a chance to do something about it, and the Chilcott report has just come out confirming that he was right to oppose it. It’s hard to find another senior Labour politician who isn’t tainted by that history.

I don’t agree that Dexter deserves a happy ending. And so the ending he got is fine with me, at least in concept. He spent the entire show trying to turn into a real boy, with feelings, and yes, in the last few seasons he managed it And it is both poetic and just that his feelings were of guilt and shame, and caused…

You can do some adjustments at draw time, but the distance between cameras was fixed when the video was first recorded.

I read this after the article on VR. Now I think VR will also be used for training soldiers. So there are going to be some realistically gory VR experiences existing.

Apparently the VR videos work for some people. They don’t for me. I have a Vive, and have tried a few, but I’ve never had a sense of presence from one. From what I’ve read, part of the problem is that the separation of the twin cameras needs to match the interpupillary distance of your eyes, which means no one video…

Stories where the aliens don’t win - I disagree that part is silly. I find it interesting that the aliens are not actually sentient. They are little more than animals, and they don’t have a plan beyond getting to the mate before their rivals. They don’t beat us because they aren’t trying to.

Now that is a lot more interesting, especially about the Scotland act. I hadn’t been aware; thanks.

Yeah, some people want a redo. Tough. It’s too late now. (I say this even though I voted to remain.) There will only be another referendum if something materially changes.

The two years is a deadline set by Article 50. If/when Article 50 is invoked, then leaving becomes certain. We can’t invoke it and then change our mind. We plan to delay invoking it until we get a new Prime Minister, but that also prolongs the uncertainty which is also damaging.

All new EU members have to adopt the Euro. If Scotland refused, they might not be allowed to join. Scotland might agree, since they need a currency and using sterling would have its own issues after leaving the UK, but personally I’d be very wary of joining the Eurozone just as it seems to be imploding.

Nobody became an illegal immigrant overnight. This vote had no legal effect whatsoever. It will be at least 2 years before laws change, and what they change to depends on what is negotiated during that time.

I’d guess not. Mainly because driving a car is pretty abstract, and most people think they are immortal. (Certainly I’d expect to be able to drive into a brick wall at 40 mph without dying. Or into a lake.) Also, I think people are just going to avoid the obstacle regardless. In other words, people will swerve to…