I've had many years in which to think of a suitable explanation (read: implausible rationale) for how the Millenium Falcon might have made the Kessel Run in less than twelve parsecs. And for your future debating pleasure, here it is:

It's not really an opinion to state that the COO is bigoted against gays and lesbians - he freely admits as much. Whether that bigotry is justified on the basis of some non-disprovable invisible man in the sky's alleged writings from several thousand years ago might be up for debate.

Well, clearly a lot of people do give a shit. In the same way that it was consumers who ultimately pressured companies out of apartheid South Africa, which led to the country's transition away from institutionalized racism. Ultimately, Chik-fil-A will be pressured as well, especially since their target customers are…

He didn't say that "bigoted against homosexuals == racist", he was (obviously, to everyone but you) making a somewhat tongue-in-cheek question about companies, bigotry and PR in general.

Were you ever really in any doubt that some people would be so stupid (or, more accurately, so ignorant of technology) that they'd fall for this? Whoever makes the cables has a brilliant marketing team - they know that anyone under 50, probably, will just ignore that blurb, but plenty of us have parents that would…

I actually liked Insomnia, but then, I really like Robin Williams in a serious role. Also, it's got a 93% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, and 7.2 out of 10 stars on IMDB, both of which are in "good" territory (and above average). So, while not his best film by a long shot, I think it's fair to say that it wasn't a "bad…

If it's just a firmware issue dealing with the calibration of the display, it wouldn't be a huge amount of money for the next batch or production run to be adjusted, since it wouldn't involve any changes to the hardware. And assuming Google and the OEM spent a quarter-million dollars in labor costs for the change,…

Looks a little bit like a Farscape Peacekeeper suit, but in white...

Not if you instantly start sprinting at some (arbitrarily) high speed the very moment the first drops start to fall, in which case, the number of rain-drops directly in your path would be very small (approaching zero as your responsiveness to the first rain-drop approaches perfection, assuming that the rain begins…

When regimes start partitioning themselves (and their local networks) from the internet, it's a sign that their own end is near. The same thing happened, to some extent, in Egypt (when Hosni Mubarak's government attempted to cut themselves off) and then again in Libya.

I see what you did there, Cypher

While I understand Daniel Wilson is an expert, and I'm not, I do wonder if he's been so engrossed in current robotics tech that he's sort of unable to see beyond the near-term horizons of what is possible. Not to say that I disagree with him on building robots that have a humanoid form on that scale - which doesn't…