I feel the need to point out that a lot of those movies Mark mentioned weren't produced by Warner Bros. Superman IV was a Cannon Films production, League of Extraordinary Gentlemen was Fox, Green Lantern and Steel were pure DC Entertainment (their version of Marvel Films), and Batman Forever was Polygram (distributed…

The PR flack said they have had 450-500 deaths "since 2011." I calculated 3,500 deaths PER YEAR, in 2011, 2012, and 2013. That's assuming the population of Indian workers has been stable at 500,000 each year. That may not be the case, but that's the information he gave us.

If these numbers are true, the US should be begging Qatar for its secrets on preventing deaths. The death rate for Americans aged 25-54 (probably the rough age of foreign workers in Qatar) in 2007 was 710 per 100,000. The rate is probably higher for men only, but let's just use 700. At 700 deaths per year per…

I certainly think it will make a profit. After all, the bulk of the production costs were already covered by the Kickstarter project. I'm just saying that this probably isn't going to be a box office "hit" by any means if only because of the extremely limited release. It's more of a case study in crowd-funding and…

Doubtful. I don't even think it's opening in that many theatres. It's not even coming to my city. According to Box Office Mojo, it's only opening in 291 theatres, compared with 3,115 for Need for Speed and 1,896 for Tyler Perry's movie. It might do the best per-screen average of those films, but I'd say $2-3…

This is what happened to me. I had two 768 games within the first three days (including one game with a 768 and a pair of 192s) and I haven't seen one since.

Of course that paper is gibberish. Everybody knows it's "a Euclidean," not "an Euclidean."

My point was more that "aliens who look just like us except for one little thing" is a classic science fiction trope. In fact, there's a trope for that. You see it in Star Trek, Star Wars, Battlestar Galatica, Doctor Who, Superman, and many others.

You know who else thinks the notion that aliens look just like us except for weird face tattoos is kind of odd and thinks weird anti-alien racism doesn't quite ring true?

There seems to be a major flaw in this study which they briefly remark on, but which is likely to be lost in discussion, which is this:

Seems kind of a waste to show the US in standard time when we spend 8 months of the year in Daylight Saving Time. Solar noon for my city on March 9th will be 1:40pm with the earliest coming on the last day of DST at 1:13 pm, as opposed to the 12:15-12:45 range we see during Standard Time.

I will quibble with one piece here: do not butter your bread. Melt the butter in the pan and sauté the sandwich in the butter. When it's ready to flip, pull the sandwich out, melt some more butter in the pan and repeat the process with the other side. You can thank me later.

There are actually two interpretations of why Lot's wife turned to salt. The first, as used here, is the interpretation that she was being punished for disobeying God. In which case, as a parable, the point of the story is not whether Lot's wife misinterpreted a vague statement from an angel. It is that she…

I knew I shouldn't have posted that and then left for lunch so that I have to post from my phone. I found the oldest complete Hebrew version and ran the verse through Google Translate. It was mostly jibberish but one of the Hebrew phrases did translate directly to "look back" or something like that, so I would assume…

Nor was Lot's family warned about looking back. Maybe Lot's wife wanted to see Sodom and Gomorrah get what was coming to it. Maybe she was thinking wistfully of the things she had to leave behind. Maybe she wondered if she left the oven on. We'll never know, because God turned her into seasoning for breaking a rule…

Hate to burst your bubble, but:

Sorry, I wasn't clear. I was pointing out that the worst-case scenario statement was based on them both getting the answer wrong.

Of course, the strategy was irrelevant in this case, because Chu was the only person to get the right answer, but you can see why he bet what he did—if they had both been wrong, a tie would be the worst-case scenario, and if they had both been right, he'd win.

Perhaps I should have been clearer. I didn't have any problem with Nikki and Paolo. I, too, thought the fan reaction was ridiculous. I thought the worst sin was introducing these characters and then not doing anything interesting with them.

I totally agree. There are rare occasions when a part of the show is so bad that it's actually taking enjoyment from the rest of the show (most notably to me: Nikki and Paolo on Lost) and you may want to listen to the audience and critics to see if that change is detracting from the story you're really trying to tell.