Let's hope we have a democrat president when this is passed so Fox News can fight this.

I think it doesn't happen often enough that the cliche works as a shorthand. Bentham had the panoptikon concept, as mentioned by others. Also... I think it does speak to the illiteracy/something of the audience. Just look at fantasy and the RA Salvatore /whatever stuff. And let's not get into what Twilight tells us…

Scammerman, scammerman. Radioactive scammerman.

how. fucking. old. are you?

Um... I eat cow, and they are quite big and beautiful beasts.

Well I know in the US Rush would have a field day about the chink-lovers in the SPCA.

Wonder which Solaris you prefer.

I thought the two mediums involved would be space and hyperspace/whatever it is in this series, I don't watch it. Edit: didn't read the article properly. I get his point now regarding the need for a flight deck etc.

to be fair re the sex is fun thing, much oldie porn adopted the trope of the moral lesson

"is". and "and".

I've got a really smart Russian friend from the industrial hub of Siberia who is a fan of Stalin, doesn't think Russia was occupying Germany and Poland but was just helping them, and doesn't believe in global warming. Although I guess if he were born in Texas he'd have more recognisable opinions. As far as being a…

Susan Sontag has tons of opinions. Fricking tons. I don't trust anything in any of her books unless I already agree with her, and then that agreement would lead me to question that position.

The bible is fucking metal dude. I mean it's the real clown feed.

I think it'd be more like how people pick up smoking here in Singaporean national service in basic training. Plus you don't all have to run off and find a tiny, overcrowded designated area before you can pull out a book (you could only smoke in designated areas in our BMT).

GOJEEERA

I get his transhumanist motivations.

"...advocates expressed over the stressful conditions"... the Milchcow Council of Cow Rights?

You forgot the zombies playing video games.

Last one: climate change and overpopulation.