So the moral of the story is ‘don’t try’?

That’s Melissa Gilbert playing Laura Ingalls, both very feminine names.

I agree. But to be fair, I think the idea in ST is all the defense comes from the shields. Once the shields are down, ship-mounted weapons like phasers and photon torpedos are so powerful that it doesn’t really matter what the hull is made of or designed like. It might as well be tin foil as that point. So having a…

In light of, well, the entire history of Trek starship design, this complaint seems somewhat arbitrary.

My god, the “famous person says something fundamentally supportive in an imperfect* way so let’s shit on him” genre has to die.

Gyroscopic stability has nothing to do with it. In investigations with bicycles wheels were added that ran the opposite direction to cancel the gyroscopic effects with equal and opposite ones. The bicycles were just as stable with and without the extra wheel and with or without the extra wheel spinning.

As a Canadian, this fucking pisses me off. I know it’s not just you, I’ve been hearing stories of Americans doing this for over 30 years. Just stop it. Do some personal diplomacy and show the world how decent, kind, and warm an American can be.

Intersectional Feminist Writer: Ugh, I can’t even with these people who won’t wake up and see the sexism all around them!

Hopefully this will open her eyes to the absurdity of believing in an invisible sky-god. Hopefully this will reveal to her the deep-seated bigotry and hatred that underlies the vast majority of religions. Hopefully this will make her realize that what they preach is not what they practice. Hopefully she will go on…

I think you have to defend on a thing on its own merits. Invoking cultural relativism means you also have to accept things like genital mutilation, sharia law, etc.

You remember differently than I do. Rambo was huge when it came out. It dumped the first movie’s (First Blood) real world setting to go full on 80s action flic and it was rewarded very handsomely and had everybody buying “Rambo knives”.

Does that mean he’s not coming on then?

Agreed (well, except that those uncomfortable-looking black strips are meant to be the grips), but in fairness it was built by and for someone with a mechanical right hand, one which didn’t have even cosmetic “flesh”. Anakin built this after losing his hand to Dooku in Episode II, remember. Maybe it fits his…

Heh. I was determined not to like it either, but it grows on you. The procedural aspect remains the weakest note, which would be a problem if the procedural were the point, but I get the sense that much like Person of Interest before it that the procedural is to satisfy the network suits who are uncomfortable with…

When I hear him talk, I remember that he is coming from a place of justifiable fear......that the ignorant, superstitious science-hating general populace is about 2 years away from burning scientists as witches...and posting a YouTube video of it afterword.

If you want a commuter, consider. Honda Helix CN250, considered the most reliable motorscooter ever made and the most fun you ever have at 75mph.

And if you do a really good job at failing, you get to be president!

He raised his voice while being non-white.

Agreed, although if we’re making rule changes to bullfighting, what about: it’s fucking banned, and if you try to hold a bullfight you get put in prison.

Are you really saying jokey pictures of naked cartoon characters (in an article you have to choose to click on, with a NSWF warning) are in any way comparable to rape and gore gifs of actual people sent to people without warning?