Wrong context. MoS2 is currently competing with Cap 3 for the release date.

Somehow I instinctively knew he was saying that, without any translation.

(Christian here, with a strong anti-laïcité peeve, just wanted to offer some side-line encouragement for your posting streak)

Canada is hella racist. Or at least Quebec is.

Can you take a picture of what it is supposed to look like? I'm guessing columns of some kind of "runes", but I'm not getting good rendering.

10's pacifism is also a direct consequence of the evolution of his character as a response to the horror of the Time War. 11's ethical pendulum has returned a bit more to center.

She's exactly 2 days younger than me. Kind of cool.

I've had very enjoyable reads of the Silmarillion in under 6 hours. Hobbit or LotR are fluff by comparison. Time-to-completion all depends on who's doing the reading.

I was excited until I heard "writer from Eragon". HELL NO. That man should never be allowed to touch a script again. I still don't understand how you ruin a movie with Jeremy Irons, John Malkovich, and Robert Carlyle in your cast, but he did it with terrifying ease.

Loved that book, still haven't seen the movies.

This point exactly.

You're right about the usual rhetoric, but "conceived this way" is a step up from "born this way" on the strength-of-rhetoric scale.

It's PR/tactical. It's a lot easier to convince people that you have a right to act the way you do if it's an immutable property that's been assigned to you since you first began to exist. Speaking from a purely legal point of view, as a libertarian I don't care either. From the point of view of science and ethics and…

Like someone just said this is going to empower Christian Fundies

Did you even read the article? This comment is entirely irrelevant.

Seems like pretty solid research. On the other hand, hopefully nobody is surprised by the lack of a "gay gene". I suspect the hard-core gay-rights activists will have mixed reactions.

Prime Directive was good. I also read/enjoyed Imzadi. Doomsday World was the TNG novel that introduced me to Star Trek.

That's exactly what I thought!

I also suspect it may have had something to do with Inara being a prostitute.

I've actually done a decent amount of research in this area specifically (from the mathematics side of things, not the chemistry side of things), though working with a different set of geometries. We can actually build computers and recursive structures and stuff like that, not just bricks. Check out the work Ned…