Here’s my take away: “better than expected” does not mean selling WELL. I hope they ARE selling well, but if the company is saying “better than expected”, that could be placation speech to the share holders: “We knew this would be a loss leader, but it didn’t do as poorly as we expected. Despite initial loses during…

So...Detroit, huh? Now “Robot” is a Czech word for slave, so maybe there was a conscious decision to make all the robots non-representative of African Americans. That’s...cool, I guess.

the gist I was going for is that “bad” is the qualitative opposite of “good”. Since the accepted societal norm is “all murder is bad”, can a “bad” murder be bad compaired to...a “good” murder? No. That’s not a thing. (And if you think that is a thing, you probably should seek the services of a mental health provider)…

Damn. And I was waiting all day to get done with work to make this (incredibly relevant) meme

I don’t get it. What is “bad” cosplay? I mean, that sounds like a “bad” murder. Or a “Good” blizzard. She wore a costume. She played around in it. I don't get where she went wrong.

I think you are the closest to winning that discussion, but I have two questions (and “no” is acceptable): does the game developer have a right to dispute YouTube’s broadcast to a public audience if the original license agreement states that the game is intended for private viewing? Or does the game developer have a…

Did I just repost?

There are a lot people playing “football politics” right now; Internet-quarterbacking with a very weak idea of the rules of the game. I blame the media, mostly. We’ve pretty much made sportcasters and political correspondents interchangeable. So when social media and the bloggers and memeratzi start their…

You are also a practiced story teller! First, there had been only about 100 successful launches of the STS when the Columbia disaster occurred, not “hundreds”. [Foam] had been observed falling off, in whole or in part, on four previous flights: STS-7 (1983), STS-32 (1990), STS-50(1992) and most recently STS-112 (just…

Right, mean old Obama canceled the Constellation program Bush had proposed: an incredibly complex and wildly expensive prospect that Bush’s administration hadn’t ACTUALLY funded, and just left as an albatross for the next POTUS carry on. When Bush left office, the Constelation project wasn’t 2 years away: it was an…

Obama killed the space shuttle? Must have been when he was president in 2004 http://history.nasa.gov/Bush%20SEP.htm

But... “It wasn't 1080p! It was ALL the p’s!” made the video worth watching.

To be fair, I had never heard of Fieg or Wigg before Ghostbusters. But I’m sure someone thought “Let’s get Brad Bird to direct George Clooney and Hugh Laurie from House in something. Each of those names is worth $200M at the box office.” That, on paper, is actually quite true, they all have significant following...but…

False.

I have an aunt who worked high high up in Chrystler Motors in the 80s and 90s and early 00s. They were having terrible terrible quality issues, then Daimler stepped in. The company was very excited: they were going through a new vehicle design renaissance and the Germans had very strong reliability ratings. The Krauts…

But how...did they go...to the “loo”?

So, I am an unabashed lover of tactical nukes. Not for war, but for interplanetary impulse drives. In modern chemical rockets you take 10 pounds of hydrogen gas and mix it with 40 pounds oxygen to get so much less energy output then if you detonate a 50lb tactical nuke behind your spaceships’ blast shield.

See, you are told point blank he wants to be on the dark side (and is frustrated that he’s temped by the light), but you don’t get a “why” out of any of this. Is it personal glory? Is it to fulfill grandpa Vader’s birthright? Is it to bring order (First Order) to the galaxy?

What in the hell is a “Anna Paquin Skywalker”?

Soundwave: Superior. All other Decepticons: Inferior.