Right? What's the point of having a totalitarian regime if you can't lock a few doors? Or build a fence! Either way seems to be a whole lot easier than constructing an elaborate safety net.

Or Foxconn could just lock the door to the roof. Problem solved.

Option #2: Put a blank white shipping label on it, cut to size.

"Are you saying we can't look that up and plan our weekend accordingly?"

Because balloons go UP - they don't go AROUND. Satellites are travelling thousands of miles an hour to avoid falling back into the Earth. You send a magical* balloon that can go 200 miles out of the atmosphere and into space, and it's going to plummet right back down once that magical balloon fails.

"Exploiting a game's flaws is never good for the community."

"Bout"?

"They also don't have a very significant overhead either."

Other ideas:

"and having lots of leftover citrus peels"

But Chewbacca is a wookie!

I wonder if the Kinect would work if they had it measure mass via projecting something of known mass at an astronaut, and measure his angle of reflection and velocity?

Where did I call for a law about it?

Has anyone commented on the fact that they screwed up the brackets? 1/8 should be paired up against 4/5, with 2/7 v. 3/6.

From IMDB: "Neverending Story runtime: 102 minutes."

Are you unfamiliar with the way competition works? I'm not sure if you've noticed, but the airline industry is one of the most-used examples of supply-demand price structuring in economics, and possibly one of the most cut-throat industries in the country. Of COURSE an airline is going to pass savings on to the…

...and then watch them subsequently decrease as their insurance premiums for killing thousands of people are drastically reduced, and the cost of repairing severely damaged aircraft is replaced by the much cheaper replacement of foamed concrete.

Yes, it is. "33" is a great episode (the first episode, in fact) - but you should have started with the ACTUAL first episode, the miniseries. It's not entirely necessary, but a) is self-contained and b) sets up the universe the story takes place in.

No, Evdor is thinking of The Running Man. The Long Walk is excellent, and has quite a few other parallels to The Hunger Games, but in terms of fight-to-the-death gladiator-like plot, The Running Man is a good comp.

Sir, they've gone plaid.