Of course - yes - everything has been done.

Colonizing to most would have too many rules... except to those that have read 'Heart of Darkness'.

If you want to see what's next, just follow the arc of any reboot lasting longer than six seasons.

And the fact that the intelligence operations for that department were historically given/recommended to be given to civilians, with the idea that they would be a bit more objective than dyed-in-the-wool military vets.

Home server with unique password generating algorithm tied to a set of supremely unique identification data. A key synced to any enabled hardware on your person serves as authentication for any physical and virtual interface you encounter on a daily basis.

Oh man! Jared Leto as The Riddler will be amazing!

Or an octopus.

Character assassination is so easy, it's one of The Social Ten (a term I just made up here on the spot) that people like to drop in when conversations start dying to both make themselves sound smart and allow themselves to keep enjoying the free booze at the party they should have left two hours ago...

"... unfairly increased sales of iPods between 2006 and 2009 by hundreds of millions of dollars..." Despite what paranoid right-wing theorists, corporate heads, and the manager at your retail day-job think, an increase in sales by hundreds of millions comes from straight demand, not coercion. End of story.

No no no...

For some reason I don't mind goat eyes - they look like octopus eyes - which I always thought seemed wry, clever, and wise.

I'm actually surprised he did not go for what I would have fixed first (and the thing that annoys me most in any game): the fact that the soldier appears like he's floating above the floor - because he technically is.

The public can AND SHOULD request every bit of information outlined in the proposal under the Freedom of Information Act.

Or, you know, if they were actually serious about cutting costs in the long run and not covering tracks, they could just throw some defense spending money at better and more efficient ways of data storage and archive.

For a second I read, "Cows," and in a moment you confirmed what I have known since I was five.

Nope. Not as along as every country has the chance at developing that power equally.

While most of the comments are meant in jest, how is anyone going to start a career in science, let alone get a nation interested in the process of critical thinking and discovery when any little exercise of the human intellect is decried with, "Man, lay off the weed," or, "What a bunch of pretentious pricks."

I was assuming those three things could be immediately conceptualized without bias by y'all, the general readership. I never said I thought they couldn't carry bias, I just said one word instead of the many it would take to fully describe my point, as I had already written a book.

The only fear is seeing the movie start dating the book, eventually allowing people to forget why we remember the story in the first place.

"But critics say it will reduce the participation of independent scientists in favor of those with financial ties to industry."