Sorry, Cobb was the one I meant, not Cameron. Same point stands.

I didn't have that impression at all. It shows a world in which Asian culture became a very large Western influence at some point - basically a tacit extrapolation from the trends at the time it was made, and in fact still a legitimate extrapolation today - but I think equating Asians to the bad guys is totally…

Really? I once heard some guy proclaim that chewing gum was totally unrelated to the bullet that killed JFK. But in actual fact, they are both made of atoms! Man, that guy must have been so dumb not to know that! And I was so smart to point it out!

That's my point. You're not really talking about science fiction, you're talking about story telling.

Because Star Wars is best known for its high brow intellectual themes?

Epistemology, huh?

My understanding was that there is some (disputed) historical evidence for Archimedes' death. You can't really call it an urban legend...

Quick answer... yes.

In the TF2 commentary Gabe says he hopes the game'll be worth the wait. A few YouTube mashups later and unsurprisingly, given his record of making people wait, it became a kind of catchphrase for Gabe. And then of course it naturally mutated into "worth the weight".

That definitely took me far longer to catch on than it should have.

That's fascinating. Did you study this for your PhD? Which educational institution did you learn physics at?

Except the book got glowing reviews.

Mystery and detective work were a large part of the Harry Potter books, so yes.

Apparently all of you are so desperately eager to score some liberal cred that you didn't have time to read the actual facts of the case. A few of these comments seem to have decided her innocence as soon as they saw that she was black (regardless of the fact that her husband was also black and the jury was mixed…

Er... but her husband is black, not white..? Race has nothing to do with this.

Really? I thought we were talking about judging people based on actions which they then rescinded.

You're saying people shouldn't have the freedom to play a game in their preferred fashion if Nintendo didn't sanction it?

So if I held a knife to your throat, and then a bunch of passers by loudly protested, and so I dropped it... you're telling me you'd be cool with me?

Erm... yes it is? Perhaps try sending out a CV where 23% of the words are spelled wrong and see how many employers you impress.

Either that or you misunderstood a relatively simple post in your eagerness garner some egalitarian cred.