Something like this is probably the only chance the U.S. has. However, this strategy is also pretty close to suicidal. Sounds like a plan though, I like it.

Neo-Nazis, White Nationalists and their ilk use “88" as kind of a code for “Heil Hitler” because H is the 8th letter of the alphabet. If you see a guy with a big “88" tat, you can be pretty sure this is the reason.

They do get a payday, if they can make it to South Korea. However, if they defect, and if they have any family in North Korea, they will be sent to the camps. So, that’s a pretty strong disincentive.

WRONG! I am a mellow, cool dad with a law degree.

By far published the most games that influenced my youth, from the earlier sim games like F-19 (back when the stealth fighter was still classified and people just had to guess about it), Gunship, Red Storm Rising and the action-y Airborne Ranger, later to Civilization and then X-Com (probably my all time favorite).…

He is not capped yet!

It seems to me that defending free kicks, because of the static nature, is something that could actually be based on computer modeling to find the optimum pattern.

Dammit, I just posted the same thing then scrolled down to see you’d beat me to it.

Are you sure that’s a piece of metal and not actually an inanimate carbon rod?

Alex Gibney, not Alex Blibney

the area in between the testicles

Depends, but this usually means they bought it outright, and they will get to distribute into perpetuity. I think these deals can differ a lot in the details though.

Good time to point out the more interesting 20/20 awards, which re-do the Oscars 20 years later when time and perspective allow a better appreciation of artistic merit.

What is the proper response for a politician here? Being totally dismissive either makes you look insensitive to understandable curiosity and/or fuels the UFO conspiracy theorists. Being too deferential to UFO types might make you look naive or disingenuous or a push-over. Further, there is actual, real secret stuff…

I can verify that there is a ton of Star Wars merchandise for sale all over the Disney parks and I did not see a *single* piece of Jar Jar merchandise. And believe me, Disney is all about merchandising absolutely everything they can, if it will sell. My Han-Solo-frozen-in-carbonite popcorn bucket will attest to that.

It’s randomized, there are multiple segments and each ride gets two. There are even a couple of (minor) alternate endings within some segments.

Well, it is a fan-project so there are limitations. I personally don’t claim that the Despecialized editions are “superior” (though I have seen and enjoyed them, and vastly prefer them to anything 1997 or later) and would never use that word in comparing the various edits that were released and have floated around at…

You are correct. It is a reconstruction, involving a lot of different elements, and some of those elements are altered in an effort to achieve the final goal - the best quality, most faithful recreation of the original 1977 film release possible given the material at hand.

I also was at Disney World last week. They definitely focus on the original trilogy and the new movie. Lots of original trilogy merch, and a fair amount for the new movie, but next to none for the prequels. However, the prequels aren’t being ignored totally - they were represented at the the exhibits to the Star Wars…

Perhaps. But only in the broadest strokes. In the details of the story the prequels, especially TPM were so, so problematic. Still, I stand by the idea that he has always been a top-class editor.