Yeeeah... you better hide.

I'd really like to see an objective measure so we can better determine what people ought to suck up and what they really need attention for. I, apparently, have a high pain threshold and sometimes don't even recognize what I would describe as "discomfort" to be what other people say should be painful. I've had…

I think that the difference here is that they really want to stay with a particular creative team... that happens to be incredibly in demand. No other Trek movie was so dependent on having the same people show up, who had their own plans outside of Trek.

You have summarized about 1 in 5 meetings I have at work.

Yeah, my only problem is that all this wacky shit needs at least some minimal capitol to investigate, and I got none of that.

This is an idea birthed from Reagan's slippery and slimy dogma.

Well, respectfully agreeing to disagree then.

Really it's about ego. What Americans actually need to get around and do what needs doing in our poorly planned, infrastructure-poor built environment is station wagons. But those were seen as hopelessly uncool because of their association with suburban moms. So for a while we had minivans, but those quickly…

There are a couple of very good reasons that Social Security has no means test. The first is that no matter how rich you are, your fortunes can reverse. You may need SS in your later years, and you should have paid in. The second is that since its for everyone, everyone supports it. The entire program will be gone…

Yeah, I do really dig the idea, I just don't think that's where Nolan is headed. Maybe in Batman 4, and that can be secondary plot instead of a second or third villain.

"without the Defense Department it would be awful hard to do your research from a Chinese (or Russian) gulag or with half your researchers in burkhas and unable to get to the lab."

And raise the retirement age and peg it to average life expectancy under 5 or 10 year review.

"Taxing the rich only became an utterly profane concept during the Libertopian reign of Reagan. Since that time, no one dares breath those word for fear being cast as a witch or worse, a socialist!"

"MYTH: If we cut government spending on the sciences, private funders will step up to fill in the gaps, and they'll do it without all that wasteful spending."

"the technology that will drive the next wave of economic growth will happen somewhere else, like China"

I very much agree. this is just the most recent part of a concerted, decades-long effort to pull our polity apart.

I like your idea very much, and would support it's implementation, but you're missing the point. What's at risk here is basic not applied research. Even though all applications flow fundamentally from basic research, it is by it's nature to unpredictable to aim at a particular problem. Sometimes necessity is the…

THat would indeed be pretty damn cool.

...or a hundred years too early?

While the internet is full of shit, I think it might have you on the Batgirl question. As always, I like how Simone writes, and the art is good, too (though I dislike the new costume for her)... but it's too random. She's healed after three years, but how- and was she ever Oracle, because they seem to have just…