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@Toastie: Well, he's always been repetitive, but repetitive AND boring is new. Well, new-ish.

I liked Wanted (comic) and Kick-Ass (comic), but I have to be honest: Millar is starting to get really boring and repetitive.

@caincha: I'm not suggesting that anyone is planning to do that- but people have done that. Allowing rainwater to pass off of your land is, in many places, absolutely required by law, in part because people have captured rainwater in significant enough quantities to dry out places below them.

It isn't all that crazy, actually. Imagine, for example, that you live uphill from a farmer. All the water that ends up on his land must cross yours at some point, so hey- maybe you'll collect as much of it as possible, whether through rain or stream diversion, and then make him pay you for the privilege of watering

@JimmyBanks: White paint is chemically very different from other colors. The black paint can be applied via electrolysis, but white paint has to be directly applied. Which is nearly impossible to do with tight tolerances.

I look forward to the eventual parody, which will be even catchier, with a more sarcastic take on the whole thing. It's called Get Up and Go.

If there's an inappropriate time or place to use "SPOOOOOOOOOON!" I have yet to know what it is.

@RizzRustbolt: I always was fond of, "You take that one, Little Wooden Boy!"

@Alee Karim: Yes. The emphasis placed on the verb turns it into a Maury episode.

@Zot: And the State Department and Joe Biden disagree with him. It's almost like, during a speech to a large swath of the population, the President made statements that would appeal to as many of them as possible...

No.

@ApollyonBoB: One doesn't need a PI license to tail someone. It falls under the whole public place logic. Which, again, is the logic the courts used to find that the tracking device was legal- despite requiring trespass onto private property, simply replaced an activity that a human being could do without that

@ApollyonBoB: Ah, but the government, when not acting with a special warrant, is fairly limited. They can, for example, put a tail on someone without a warrant, but they can't search his home.

@theroselli: Less the FBI and more the courts. Imagine if a regular citizen tried planting a tracking device on someone's car. There's no way that they'd get away with that, regardless of where the vehicle was parked.

It's a public place. You're in public.

@Edman: Although the noble savage trope is offensive in its own right too.

@skywalker993: I'm not saying that 2D film isn't limited- but 2D film provides a convincing and consistent illusion. Moving around while watching it, or changing your point of focus, behaves in a very predictable and reasonable way- nothing really much happens. Coupled with a century of visual language and

@skywalker993: Every time I shift in my chair, I expect the parallax to change, and it never does.

3D does not present a convincing illusion. When you turn your head, or shift in your seat, the illusion breaks. That isn't to say that it doesn't work- it obviously does- depending on how you define "work".