@zegota: He also wrote for Fringe, which gets much io9 love. So I think he's pretty much neutral in this issue.

I trust Howard (sure he's had some duds, but over all his resume is pretty kick-ass) a lot more than I trust Abrams.

The first half of that synopsis makes me want to watch Lost Boys.

@VioletArrows: Which is why in an ideal society we give government support to people in this situation, so they can transition to new work.

@ParryLost: Well, you did make the point (that from a logical standpoint is very sound) that companies should be given other incentives, like better research and development and a more educated workforce to stay; with the idea that it will equal long term profits. The problem is these people don't care about long…

@ParryLost: In the long run we are better of if companies, their taxes, their need for labor, and their local products are here in America. We really should be trying to keep them here.

@ParryLost: I agree on many points. You can look at British steel (or more controversially the American car industry) to see what happens to a sector when they are propped up by government support too long. After a while someone is going to cut the legs out from under the government funding and the sector will…

Though I'm sad for the individual people who will lose work, this sort of free labor pool is very good in a healthy economy. The theory is these workers will now be available to bolster some emerging sector.

@cljohnston108: You could use the ones that came packaged with your copy of Corline.

"a darker, more "existential" place."

@8x10: Because Lucas put him in the old movies somehow, right?

@they call me ginger: Exactly. This can happen during any kind of invasive procedure, it can happen to any kind of patient of either gender. To assume that it is only 'vulnerable women' being hurt missing the much larger picture.

New addition to the list of jobs I don't want, person at the IVF office who has to sort through the donated porn.

Way to make me want an animated series set in the time of Luke and Leia and Han.

@twophrasebark: So they can burn it in the heart of a sun.

@bug: Maybe I'm just biased against the film. I tried to read the book it was based on, hoping to get something deeper than the film experience. The dedication in the front of the book said "Drugs killed my brother, this book is about how drugs kill people."

@mannequin: Only if you try to claim all your wives as legal wives. There are some states that have laws against this kind of polygamy, but not all of them.

@wendigo69: Everything I know about the Northern Territores I've learned from this man.

@Ken: As much as I still don't really like the film (I just can't bring myself to like it) I think everyone should watch it, if only so I can talk to them about it. It's very worth seeing.

@andrew01g: Should they have done it? No.