There are over two centuries of Supreme Court precedents to disagree with you about privacy. There are laws about the possession and the lack of privacy, and some of these have even gone before federal courts. The decisions made by these courts have helped shape the state of privacy in the eyes of the law, and even if…

I'd imagine it's like the differentiation in a water species when a population is divided and the new population goes its own way. There probably are one or two skink species at minimum that are genetically incapable of interbreeding, at least with each other.

I wonder if really successful skinks of one species (measuring successful by food intake and correlated growth) could be big enough to mate with another species that normally they couldn't. I'm sure examining the DNA of skink species would find some degree of interbreeding, no matter how rare or long ago.

Considering that French Bulldogs are typically bred through artificial insemination, a Chihuahua/Dane mix is hypothetically possible.

Oh, how could I forget American Voices?! Those are, with the Infographics, at the top of the queue for an Onion book all of their own.

I believe it's something called "satire". Literacy.

I'm dismayed. Being able to detect sarcasm is a hallmark of reading above a third-grade literacy level.

This is a very, very late reply, but Charles Stross is on the cutting edge of sci-fi, and he's pretty savvy about the internet. His work hardly, hardly qualifies as "popular" on the scale you're thinking of, though he's fairly successfuly as a writer.

Well I'll be, the stock model in the upper left hand corner is the same as the one used for the Friend Zone Fiona meme.

He means Game of Thrones, sorry to burst your bubble.

You're wrong. Devo and They Might Be Giants.

Singularity was so good. What a bizarre, deep book. I picked it up in a Buck-a-Book store, and I went on to read it more than a couple of times.

Also more practical— although that may be covered in your statement by the fact that the giant space umbrella is stupidly impractical.

I would suggest we find out what we need to produce... Something.

This is the Ultimate universe. It's not supposed to be a picture-perfect clone of the 616 universe. Its existence is an implicit admission that continuity and fan expectations make it harder to tell fresh or different stories. Things are supposed to be different. Things Marvel wouldn't do in 616 are done here because…

A basic idea of the plot— Hank Pym, the first ant-Man, will be the older Ant-Man, active in the 1960s, and he's supposed to pass on the mantle to Scott Lang in the modern day, who is the second Ant-Man in the comics.

I liked Wright's pitch for the script, too— very rich with possibilities. I'm glad it's on Wright's head now to get this thing done, instead of the studio being a turd about cost and the like, because that seems to make it much more likely that the film will in fact happen.

What it's like to lead the sad, reclusive kind of life that you do.

Not to mention, you don't even have to pump loads of cash into it for the effects, throwing off the box office gross— I don't know if a District 9 level of thriftiness could be reached, but a movie for Dr. Strange doesn't need to cost a whole lot.

Also, I don't think the goatee would work on him for the role of Dr. Strange. A goatee would work on him— oh god, yes, a goatee— but I don't think he should be Dr. Strange.