I love this croupier!

@Machiavelli: This is America, a land where an 18 year old with no job can get approved for twenty credit cards and rack up thirty grand in debt all within a single day.

@ExtensionOfBob: True, but we already learned from Groundhog Day that the classy way to rob in a time loop is to perfectly time the caper so that the guards don't even notice. Running in with guns costs you major style points.

The Borg Queen has a visually stunning design, but she's an idiotic concept. The mass mind of the Borg, what made them a unique enemy, was replaced with a much less interesting intelligent Master Queen dumb Roboslaves set-up.

Why would you need to rob a store/bank/etc for money when you could max out your credit cards every day?

@theLaika: It would probably have to be the 100 Greatest Fictional Inventors to get close to being comprehensive. Just off the top of my head:

@ads2k2.1: They're actually not trapped in a tiny room. It's more of a sprawling series of passages. They're just cut off from the entrance, but there's still a lot more of the mine. My guess, they'll poo in some distant tunnel. Probably still won't be pleasant in the long run though.

"Report: More Americans Preparing for Zombie Apocalypse Than Retirement"

@ReverendLoki: Actually, the one place where Galactica excels technologically is its FTL system. It appears to instantaneously jump over several light years, while the Enterprise would have to travel for a period of time to cover that same distance.

@Al Swearengen hates cocksuckers v2: I certainly had the same reaction.

@oskiee: Picard a bitch? Dude got stabbed through the heart and lived to tell about it. He survived torture and refused to incorrectly count lightbulbs. He's been a genocidal cyborg. And as far as I know, Picard has never broken down crying and painted a bulkhead.

@Brandroid: It's not a quote. Well, I guess it is now. You can quote me if you like.

@Brandroid: "If Vanderbilt charges too much to use his railroads, why not switch to Carnegie?"

@AvenueOfTheStrongest: And Close Encounters of the Third Kind...

@Brian Hogg: Well, there's Contact...

What's really scummy is that these crops are all patented. Monsanto owns any plants with their genes, even from seeds the farmers grew themselves. This means that farmers have to pay a licensing fee each year to Monsanto in perpetuity. This effectively strangles traditional selective breeding techniques because even…

@waclark57: I suppose the justification is that having a pool means you draw more than an average share from the public water supply, thus you owe more to the government to compensate.

@hwilam: Sure, if you have a refinery.

There are a few other rationalizations (not sure whether you dislike all of these or not):

I think the problem with sweeping CGI vistas is that whenever they're introduced the director might as well announce "BEHOLD!" over the soundtrack. It's pretty but it takes you out of the movie.