It was really X-Force for like half its run. The good half, at that!

I assume that you are referring to Squirrel Girl? Where's her tail, anyway?

One of our cats would stare us down with cruel judgment when we had a crying infant!

Let's go ahead and call it X-Force! It was a beautiful reboot. They took the crass direction of our culture in the early 2000's and coupled it with the habit of writers to kill off characters before developing them, then, they flipped it on its head without letting the reader know it was coming!

Bitten by a radioactive James Spader, he can't help but ham it up, charmingly!

I wish I disagreed with you, but he'd have to be speaking reasonably for me to do that.

That's an excellent point, but Lionshead is much more in line with macrobrew Pilsners. Yeungling has a little more color.

In PA, Yeungling was generally as cheap as the cheaper and objectively worse beers, making it a preferable choice for budget-conscious drinkers. Not sure it's cheaper now.

I follow you, but I already think of the phone as a terminal. I just think we could go a long way without FTL communication. I don't think we can invent any FTL technology, right now. We can learn about the possibility of it, but practically, we should start a little smaller.

I think that our phone handsets should only handle i/o. We could keep the processor, memory, radio, etc. on our person (pocket purse, belt, whatever).

I just want my phone's processor in my pocket with a very thin elegant handset that only handles i/o

When I was a kid, my dad always would threaten to donate to Jessie Helms if he didn't lose weight. It always worked!

Right, why discuss the ethical implications of this, at all?

Thanks, I hoped it captured his essence!

I know. He's my favorite detective, too!

I love it. Was going to post Hari Seldon, but hey!

Arthur Dent. His greatness is the greatness of a man who can wake up in an amazing place, close his eyes, and hope that he wakes up in a poorly made bed, not on a Thursday.

Look into fiduciaries. They are fee only advisors, so they don't receive money when you buy stocks or funds. Legally, they have to keep your interests first.

While I tend to agree with you, there are financial advisors with fiduciary obligations, which legally require them to keep your best interests in mind. I still advocate learning for yourself and taking care of finances on your own, but there are a lot of times where other people take better care of you than you can…

I love the ACT TO READ, CURRENTLY format, here. Gives us a place to catch up, if we've missed a character!