Nonsense. If she had told Poe the entire plan, instead of letting him get the wrong idea and then not setting the record straight, he would have helped. As soon as Leia told him the plan, he recognized it as having value. Maybe he would have even convinced Holdo to use the Raddus to ram Snoke’s fleet BEFORE they had…

The issue with the relative speed of the first order and resistance ships is even worse than this article recognizes. If the resistance ships are faster, they should continue to pull away from the first order; but they don’t. So apparently they travel at the exact same speed. Also, why doesn’t the first order just…

I simultaneously loved and hated the plot device of the Star Destroyers closing in on the Mon Cal cruiser. I loved it, because it felt like a genuine nod to the World War 2 Naval movies that served as the template for much of the original trilogy; and it was a really unique way to create tension. I hated it because it…

I was also very disappointed with Snoke. They set him up as this big mysterious baddie, left us guessing as to his back story and how he came to power, etc. Then he went out like a bitch without ever having actually DONE anything.

Ackbar getting what was essentially an off screen death was, in my opinion, this movies greatest sin.

Shouldn’t all that go in a time capsule for what sucked about 2016?

I think you can make the argument that John Williams had an equally important role in the movies success; but I get your point.

The problem for Trump is that we no longer have any sense of continuity between administrations. Unless Trump plans to get NASA back to the moon during his administration then he should probably expect the next administration to completely undue every decision he makes; which means this is all totally meaningless.

I bet if you did a QR code that linked to an online copy of a legitimate DNR that would scan, and maybe even hold water legally.

This is why nurses should be allowed to carry guns.

You’re missing an important distinction in the flame thrower v firearms angle here:

That flamethrower has a range of what? 4 ft? And if it hits someone it could cause some second degree burns. Maybe worse if they inhale the hot gases and their lungs collapse? That pistol can kill someone at what distance? 100 yards?…

By that definition, just the lighter is a flame thrower (it just doesn’t throw the flame particularly far).

Okay, does anyone else think he murdered that journalist?

It’s probably some bullshit degree like Jedi-American studies.

How are we not manufacturing our own drones from scratch (right down to the electronics) for this kind of application? That seems like the most obvious military spending project since ‘more guns.’

If there is anything we learned in the last election, its that democrats need to fight tooth and nail in the primaries to make sure we get the BEST POSSIBLE candidate into the general. The idea that ‘anyone but Trump’ will win is not good enough; not by a fucking long shot.

Phil Spektor (convicted murderer) produced the classic Beatles album Let It Be (among many others). Is listening to that album ‘repugnant’ because of his involvement?

But they already have the laser designed to accelerate them; why not just keep it on to bombard them with useful photons for their entire trip? I know that at some point it will become improbable to hit a target a few centimeters squared at a distance of tens of thousands of AU; but if the light source isn’t perfectly…

I feel like a MUCH better option was right in front of them here. Why not let Lyft drivers function as Taco Bell’s delivery drivers instead? Let people order and pay online, have the food ready when the Lyft driver arrives (and skips the drive through line) and the driver can deliver the food to your house; no eating…

Actually, Flash had a level of browser agnosticism that HTML5 has yet to achieve. The times where (back when I was writing Flash) I would have something work in one browser but not in another were basically non-existent. Normally HTML5 development still requires a little extra code here and there to handle the…