This is actually a pretty good experiment. I'm pretty sure a fifth of Jack would cost more than $20 here in Wichita (I'm thinking it's probably $23-25 depending on the store), but the fact that Overland Park is right on the border with Missouri (which has lower excise and sales taxes and fewer restrictions on liquor…

Oh, yeah, I definitely spent $90 on the last DS9.

It used to be that way, certainly, but Paramount has come way down in recent years. The TNG Blu-Ray sets are listed for $75 and you can find them $40 pretty easily. And that's for 22 episodes. It just doesn't make sense to me that they would price it that high when I can get the season for ~$40 on Amazon Prime (in…

Jesus, the Doctor Who sets (and BBC series in general) have the stupidest prices. $100 MSRP for a 13-episode set and $65 on sale? That's just ludicrous.

I don't necessarily disagree, but I do think it's worth pointing out that the only reason their business model is struggling is because of illegal activity. I mean, if the US Government suddenly stopped enforcing patents and Apple started losing revenue because companies were making iPhone clones for cheaper, we…

Oh, I completely agree, I just think its a bit disingenuous to point to the few micro ways in which piracy can help companies while ignoring the macro trends that hurt them. It's been good for consumers (at least in music) but you can't deny that it's been extremely harmful to companies.

This biggest harm piracy has done to the media industry is to introduce and further the idea of unbundling. People will argue that piracy didn't damage the music industry when the truth is that the worst thing piracy ever did is allow people to get individual songs. Once that happened, and once the industry followed…

According to AdAge, Arrow gets about $50,000 for a commercial spot. At ~15 minutes per episodes that's about $750k per episode and about $17m per season. Back end sales (Netflix, DVDs, etc.) might double that, but I'd be surprised if they make more than $35-40m per season.

I love doing this with bocconcini (the little mozzarella balls). You have to leave them out to dry out a bit, since they come packaged in water, but they ease up the cutting part and make the end product a little more consistent, since all the pieces are roughly the same size.

Is the iPhone article talking about the Rokr? Everything fits: based on the E398, released in 2005, first phone with iTunes.

According to the university she got into a tiff with the coaching staff and that's why she left. They granted her a release from her scholarship but didn't support her waiver because she never gave them any documentation for the hardship she was claiming. Whether you believe that, I don't know, but it makes things…

The alternate, of course, is to jack up your cable rates.

You're right. It does resolve. However, an "infallibly logical" dragon would deduce that attempting to deduce the answer could lead to his nonexistence and would logically come to the conclusion that

Since he can see that the other 99 dragons all have green eyes, he believed that he was the only one who didn't - 99:1 then.

they never talk about eye color

No dragon has to leave. Based on the statements given, none of them knows, for certain, that he/she has green eyes. None of them even knows, for certain, that the lack of a dragon disappearing means that he/she has green eyes because everybody has green eyes.

How about an NSFW tag there, guys?

Yeah, I have no desire to argue about it either, it's just the way I feel. This show means so many things to so many different people and every possible aspect has been pored over again and again that nothing new ever comes of it.

This ought to be fun. The final season had a lot of issues, most notably the temple and the final maguffin, but I love the idea that the afterlife is what we make of it and that no matter what happens in our lives or when or how we leave them, our friends and family are always there for us in the end.

See also: Matthew Lewis.