I'll go one further. I don't see the evidence that Melissa McCarthy is some comedic genius like we all want her to be. Is she funny? Yes, probably. She did a good job on SNL and absolutely owned her character in Bridesmaids. But Mike and Molly is painfully bad, and wringing laughs out of a supporting character that…

I feel like most of my dislike of Amy revolves around Rory. Not that I really disliked Rory, I just thought it was ridic that the writers seemed to think they needed some other character to explain why Amy and the Doctor weren't hookin up.

Yep, I was gonna say if you ran the poll on io9 Firefly would've won

That works for some people. Other people need a regimen of some sort to control their eating habits, whether that means 3 square meals and no snacks a day or something else is really an individual thing. I know for me personally, "eat when you're hungry" works great when you've got things to do but when you've got…

Out of curiosity, does it make a difference to you if the minimum wage is not $2.50 (or whatever morally repugnant amount it is in many US jurisdictions) but something more similar to the normal minimum wage (I believe here in Ontario minimum for servers is around 9 bucks)?

True, which is why HDTV will be the single greatest driver of new fans over the next several years. Anyone who's grown up watching the game doesn't really need to see the puck, since to them it's obvious where it is 98% of the time. But to someone new to hockey it sounds stupid to say "ya the point of the game is to…

Nope look closer. Gillis said the offer was for a good player and an overpaid player. Not a good overpaid player. Washington maybe?

"I Know A Liar Since I'm An Aground One."

Just hazarding a guess, but maybe it's because of what we now know about Willow's sexual preference? I mean, Willow and Oz were great together since they seemed perfect for each other, but in retrospect maybe not so much?

The suspension was only expected to last for one night, but managed to last for eight nights

In the CFL we call a fire that goes out the back of the endzone a Rouge

So uh, no one's gonna mention how awful Helena's American accent is?

I'll plead ignorance on the question of wrestling since I really know nothing about it, but the US Army has a MMA-style tournament (I don't know the exact term they use) each year with no gender divisions. Their solution is that the weight classes are 10lbs or so higher for women, so that a 150lbs woman would fight in…

You know, I'm not so sure that's really the (largest) issue. I mean sure, it would be great if Women's pro sports got attention more often than just during the Olympics, but it seems to me that a bigger issue is the way we treat kids and youth sports. I certainly can't speak for surfing, but in almost all team sports…

There still are legal hangups to advertising on online streams. For example, many of the ESPN3 feeds you can get online are simulcasts of other networks, EPSN blacks out the channel with a "we will return shortly" message. Same deal with NHL CentreIce's online streams.

I'd go even further and say that this is worse since it actually affects the outcome of a game, unlike showboating. I'm struggling for a great comparable, but maybe a base runner calling a pop-fly?

I don't know what your source is for that, but if I had to guess I'd say you're probably using the sort of numbers utilities and grid operators use for planning purposes. By definition they're low numbers to ensure system stability.For example ERCOT will count on at least 8.7% of installed capacity to be spinning…

That's a problem that is somewhat specific to California. Sure, any non-dispatchable resource will fail to follow demand, but due to local weather conditions wind in California blows much more strongly at night. If you ask someone in, say, Oregon they'll tell you that their biggest wind generation profile issue is…

Ratings have been pretty mediocre so far and falling steadily, although there was some bounce back this week so maybe they've stabilized? I don't think this show survives drawing a 1.5 share, even though it's done middle-of-the-pack against its time slot.

Fair enough. I think that her thought experiment worked best in a small, self-contained experiment. And yes it was interesting to learn about different factions. I just thought that when the camera zoomed out, so to speak, the concept became less theoretical and grounded itself poorly in a realistic scenario.