I love Sweden, my people are on the right track.

Burma is best known for speaking Burmese?

Yep, Picard is at his most fun when he unapologetically encapsulates the Federation's ideals in glaring contrast to all the 80s and 90s childish obsession with darkness and angst.

What could possibly go wrong??

I like how it's so uncompromising with its moral stance (hedonism, materialism, transhumanism, anti-death), to the point where it's willing to do troubling things to give that benefit to everyone else. And it does trouble them, not a moment goes by where his characters aren't questioning everything they do, but they…

Ian M Banks' Culture novels show an optimistic view of the future, where civilisations can overcome the scarcity era and blossom into era of leisure and altruism. Okay, so there's often quite a bit of fatalism in there and it doesn't avoid conflict, but for the average Culture citizen the future is rosey.

Then explain the decline of churchgoers in the last 40 years or so. This is a chart from 3 years ago...

What if That Lamer means that having dominant females such as this one be the norm for a couple of hundred/thousand years will even things out, as it were? I'm not saying it makes perfect sense. A balance between both will probably be hard to achieve in the foreseeable future, though.

That's crazy talk...I mean, if that were true, you would expect the various gods throughout history to reflect the particular superstitions and prejudices of the societies that created th—

Better, the whole corpus delecti dei.

What if God were one of us? And we found his skull?

You could make this argument about any form of data storage. That's a commitment that civilization needs to make going forward, not something you can solve right now.

I know they're not technically hovercrafts, but I find the Russian Ekranoplans to be awesome "hover planes" in their own right.

This is a hovercraft!

It didn't solve it, it's still an issue with the HD version.

"I hope they release a lot of games that utilize the Kinect."

"Is it fun as hell though?" To many people yes. Yes it is.

I believe he refers to him as Will because it was Capt. Swenson's preference, not because he was being disrespectful. I imagine he considers it a honor to be referred to so personally by the President.