I'm pretty sure it's a legal issue. You're rarely allowed (by 1 government or another) to give away prizes to citizens of a country different than the one in which the contest occurs.

Giveaways are usually hampered by international laws on gambling, prizes, and whatnot. I know that PC Gamer fields this complaint a lot, and it turns out that they simply can't legally give something to a Canadian citizen.

True, but in all unbiased honesty... would a Sandman movie really sell well? It would probably require a fairly high set/costume/effects budget, and I really can't see it being a mass-market crowd pleaser.

That last one's actually pretty cool, except for the cockface. That just makes the whole thing... well, not creepy, just ridiculous and weird.

Wait, doesn't 8,000 miles an hour seem... well, rather slow? Is there a missing decimal place there, or something? orbital velocity is like 18,000 MPH, and escape velocity is (I think) around 25,000 MPH... seems odd that the craft would travel at less than escape velocity!

The word Anarchy means lawlessness and chaos, so if Anarchists insist that it just means "anti-government" then they're using it wrong. Besides, if there's any stability/control, then by definition it's being exerted by someone... and there will always be enough psychos around to insure that a lack of laws will…

No, it just doesn't looks as tiny as it would be if drawn in a comic book. This happens all the time—when we see depictions of heroic characters that use realistic proportions, we think that their heads look too big because we're so conditioned to the proportions of comic-book and similar heroes.

Yeah, I'm so glad they took time away from showing the opening ceremony to interview someone. I mean, if only they movie theater would cut out several minutes of the middle of whatever film I've gone to see in order to show me an interview with one of the stars, without even pausing the film in progress to do so! …

The stars are a tad bigger. I mean yeah, the distances are literally astronomical, but so is the difference in size when you look at it in terms of factors.

Megapixels really aren't all that important. You can have a zillion MP and still get a grainy, washed-out, or blurry image. Up until recently most professional-grade cameras were only around 5-6 MP. Blu-ray & HDTV are "only" 2 MP.

Really? I just figured this was an in-progress collision, and all the spewing lava and fire hasn't made it up/out far enough to be visible from space yet. After all, on planetary scales, and from orbital altitudes, collisions (and explosions) would appear to be very slow.

I dunno, I think "we're better than you, so nyah" is a fairly simple concept. Now I'll grant you, it's basically never *correct*, so the fact that people can fervently cling to it can be perplexing. But when a religion gives insecure people a form of "proof" that they are, in fact, the Chosen, they tend to latch…

Just to be the wet blanket... you are aware that Serenity (which I own in 3 different formats, mind you) failed to cover its production costs in the box office? Even taking DVD/etc. sales into account, I doubt it covered the combined cost of production, marketing, and distribution.

I dunno, I'd argue that both of these are actually the rare, GOOD reasons for reboots. The originals sucked, so let's try to get them right this time & pretend the old ones never happened.

Or maybe they're all space-hippies and this is one of the last places to get un-gene-modified, organically-grown, minimally-processed foods (because their own planet no longer has a natural biosphere and all their food is chemically built in labs). After all, they only seem to land in fields and only talk…

I'm honestly sort of expecting the first AI within my lifetime (I'm 38 now); I wouldn't be at all surprised if it happened within the next 30 years.

For starters, their astronomical medical bills will drive up insurance rates for the rest of us, and their work absenteeism will hurt their employers' bottom line, and thus the economy in general. Maybe a small effect, but might be substantial in cumulative effect.

So it's totally OK for a bunch of infants to die from renal failure because of melamine in their baby formula, as long as the company that produced it gets slapped with legal action after the fact?

Even the Hensen Company is doing CGI these days (Sid the Science Kid and Dinosaur Train on PBS come to mind.) Just a gentle prod that maybe if they have embraced it, you could too. ;-)

I wouldn't go so far as to say that settlements should be illegal—but plaintiffs should be much less willing to accept them, at least in mattes of public health and safety, and especially when the plaintiff is (or is represented by) the government.