I got JLA last week, and I'd be exaggerating if I said I was underwhelmed. If I'm feeling like losing another four bucks and ten minutes I may keep going just long enough to see the cast in place.

No, one about Batman, silly!

Man. I wish werewolves had descended on my town when I was in High School.

How's that sad?

>>I'm a firm believer in aggressive R&D to identify alternative and innovative solutions, even if you don't use them.<<

Yeah... I think 'Belle was directly on point.

I don't think Funky proves the theory at all. Reasonable criticism is not the same as bias.

Can I come work at your company?

Yeah, it would be interesting to see the same test run with a nanotech toilet that would provide sanitation to areas with little water, and decrease the load on sewage systems in areas that do. Pretty difficult to argue that such a thing would be an idiotic waste of resources.

I was actually being sarcastic. The "market" has no inherent advantage in efficiency unless it's very dangerously unregulated, such that it can gain efficiency by cheating on contracts and killing workers. For instance, Europe and Asia are full of publicly held utilities that provide much better service than our…

Yes. You know, I'm starting to think I can read the future in all of Lee's little scritchy scritchy marks, like tea leaves. Bad portents.

On that point I generally agree, but one of my all time favorites was based on the idea that we humans were messing around in space with tech we didn't understand. Macross!

Don't you know that the private market does everything better?

I think that was Harry, and no she wasn't underage. Pete didn't start hanging with that crowd until college.

Yeah, there's always this Red Skull guy, and he's got a cube. Captain America hits him. The rest is all just detail, right?

Gwen Stacy.

That was what I thought.

Good points, but I inferred that the Cube was channeling energy from Asgard... though I admit I may be conflating the comics continuity and/or MAU with the MCU.

Moffat needs to stop "killing" people. it's cheap, and by this point it just elicits a groan. During "Let's Kill Hitler" my GF literally just exclaimed, "Again?!?! Seriously?"

Lolz.