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Yeah, I suspect they'll be recasting all of the roles, which is a shame, because the casting was actually the only thing I really liked about those movies.

Does Chris Evans have a twin we don't know about?

What kind of whacky trading did you use? 4, 6, or 8 all make sense. Odd numbers only make sense if you were trading with other players, but I wouldn't refer to that as "placing down" the cards.

Some of us appreciate "Comic book movies".

I thought X1 and X2 were actually quite good. But I was definitely bummed about the lack of Sentinel, particularly when they went through the effort of introducing Bolivar Trask.

I loved Caprica. What specifically did you have in mind as "so far behind"?

Homelessness sucks, but there are still plenty of states and towns giving away land to anyone willing to live there, build something on it, and garden there.

Of course, but I would still find it deeply ironic if that turned out to be the case.

Because, of course, as a consumer, you're totally powerless to decide which companies to support with your money; and because, of course, companies can operate without any employees at all; and because, of course, it's totally outrageous to even consider planting a garden of some kind with all that extra time when…

My problem with Citizen's United is not that it grants rights to the people in the corporation, it's that it does so to exclusively rather than overturning campaign donation limits entirely. Find me ANYWHERE that Cato or, preferably, Reason (there is some reason to be suspicion that Cato has been compromised as a…

Oh, I don't think it's a simulation (and actually, I strongly dislike that idea). But I like the idea that physicists have actually been screwing up all this time by taking continuum limits instead of discrete summations and differences.

There are lots of limited-government ideologies that people often confuse with libertarianism, and there are lots of modifiers that you can attach to describe sub-philosophies within libertarianism. For example, a pro-life libertarian believes that a fetus is a human being and therefore deserves the same protection…

I certainly hope so! :) The computer scientist half of me is irrationally excited by the prospect that our universe might be fundamentally discrete.

I adore LQG, but at this point it isn't any more of a testable theory than is M-Theory.