Well it's more refined than brown rice etc and has most of the fibre/vitamins and minerals milled out and is pretty much the definition of an empty calorie. To the extent in the past some south-east Asian countries have had issues with white rice consumption being so high and basically making up the diets of much of…

Nah it's the opposite. They look silly now (although I think the Shard in particular looks fantastic, the gherkin and some of the others less so it's a mixed bag) but they'll become part of the landscape and a lot of them you won't even bat an eye-lid at anymore than you bat an eyelid at any of the crazy buildings…

I've just realised that's an anachronism.

The last HP book is set 97/98 and that's the millenium bridge and that didn't exist till the millenium (and probably some of those sky scrapers as well).

However that might be a deliberate inclusion and a joke referencing the fact it was known for ages as the wobbly bridge and…

Things don't change when you have kids. If they do that means you were a cunt before (and so likely are now).

This isn't to criticize the stance taken, just that it's the lamest, worst most hypocritical stance to take if it's only taken because you got some sexcrament (aka children).

Rough sleeping is distinct from homelessness in the UK.

Officially homelessness in the UK is basically where someone doesn't have a permanent residence and covers a wide array of situations and includes people couch surfing, or living in temporary accommodation.

Rough sleeping is literally those who sleep outside on the…

The best video on why Hollywood action movies suck is by the Every Frame a Painting youtube channel/guy who probably is best known for his analysis of Edgar Wright's visual comedy, and the look at Michael Bay cinematography (but they are all worth a watch).

The video is Jackie Chan - How to do Action Comedy from a…

Except the puppets just had big heads, full of character they looked great.

You do realise driverless cars exist now right?

You can go to California and they are there driving on the roads that have been mapped.

They are in development and not ready for commercial implementation yet but they exist in the world. I've read at least 10 articles/videos over the past few years about journalists etc…

Parental (via environmental/social factors and genetic factors at a very rough estimate of about 50:50 weighting)

What by going through a curiously unguarded Star Gate in a very convenient location?

But hyperspace is so fast there wouldn't be anything in the area for them to taget.

The only way they could win would be to not drop out of warp and be in the right place.

But hyperspace is so many orders of magnitude faster there is no way warp and hyperspace could interact, it's not like they could even be detected until they arrive let alone shot at.

The Empire could win by just jumping in, attacking and jumping out again. Attacking all the unprotected worlds (which is most of them,…

What is never explained (altohugh we can assume because of some plot) is why phaser fights don't just end in smouldering buildings or they turn them up to 10, wide spread and vaporise everything in front of them.

If you read the extended universe stuff there is definite tech advances in the space of a lifetime etc and the films sort of show it as well (in some things). However for some reason the Bioware stuff is like 10,000 years before and is identical so it all depends.

But there are only a few hundred ships in star Fleet. It's tiny.

Going on EU numbers that the films don't make explicit there is likely to be a fleet star destroyers for every federation ship.

Well if you want to go by results as seen in tv books and the like you seem to have held Star Wars up to the highest of standards and not even close to the same. Both are pretty explicitly based on 20thC military stuff and experiences and little on screen persuades otherwise or gives any real indication of clear tech…

They aren't Magnum ice creams (aka posh choc-ices) but they look like them and magnums have off centre sticks which mean it's easy to lick the ice cream on the wrong side and compromise the structural integrity of the ice cream and it fall off the stick.

But Starship Troopers isn't just fun. It's the most prescient and insightful piece of satire of the 90s.

It's a far better more interesting film than a more loyal adaption the source material ever could be.

I despite Oxford Street in London for many reasons but in the rain as well as being a tourist ridden hell hole (that is unfortunately often the best way to go to get to a few places) it's an actual danger to my person. There are absurdly high numbers of Chinese, Japanese and South Korean tourists. Probably the biggest…

#2 isn'tthe implication they need to be there to gain the knowlwdge and evolve into the 5 ddimensional beings?