No need to apologize, and thanks for the thoughtful post. I agree on all counts. It's astonishing that a couple reg'lar citizens like us understand the utter, demonstrable futility of our current military interventions, but the powers in D.C. do not. It beggars the imagination to think of how those funds and resources…

I dunno...sounds like a damn clever heist to me.

"Either way we can't win."

Curves...you're NIGERIAN???

Good god.

I didn't know Morgans had that kind of torque...

Probably because he loves the idea...another way for the blow hard to blow hard.

Hemsworth played the father.

Only the part about getting bit on the hand. Everything else was true.

@Zanzan42: Again, I concur with your general argument. But the only reason "Slumdog" or "Greek Wedding" succeeded was because of the story, not the actors.

@Zanzan42: While I agree with your general posit, I'm going to respectfully disagree with your statement that the actor is most responsible for the delivery of the story. The person most responsible is THE PERSON WHO WROTE THE STORY. How an actor, working for a few weeks, can make 20 times more than the writer (who…

@Wade McGillis: "The keyboard?! How quaint."

@Murray Hewitt: Oh, I don't know...I suspect if you really want a BIG Big Bang, interpenetration is the way to go.

@BrownDanielUSN: "The first successful commercial GUI product was the Apple Macintosh, which was heavily inspired by PARC's work; Xerox was allowed to buy pre-IPO stock from Apple, in exchange for engineer visits and an understanding that Apple would create a GUI product."

Sick, racist fuckshits. I hope Black Panther makes it into the forthcoming Avengers movie. And opens up a 55-gallon-drum of "burn off your righteous, redneck, smelly Sarah Palin cunt" on these animals.

@Eustace Silly: You said it. The very best chefs use two, at most three knives in their entire arsenal. A santoku (or equivalent) and a good paring knife. Anything more is a masturbatory exhibit of hardware.

@Zanzan42: 1. Don't propose unless you already know the answer.

@OMG_cartman: Gates never went to PARC. Jobs did, asked them why they weren't developing it further. Xerox management wouldn't support it, so Jobs took the ball and ran.

Once again, Darwin delivers the verdict...

@Cheeseslap was scolded for driving his ACR in the snow.: Agreed, and thank you for pointing it out. The first time I saw the production version I thought, "I've seen this already, in about 10 different cars." Bits n' pieces of Saleen S7, F430, R8, NSX, even the aforementioned Kia. A sexed-up revision of the F1…