dabrasha wrote:David Thomson: Why I Hate The Hunger GamesSaw this last night and disagree with the review. His complaints seem to be the characters (especially the lead) don't seem skinny enough, the violence isn't violent enough, the lead character is reserved for the lead in an action film, and th...

She's pretty great in Big Love.

(And by the way, American Psycho is a good movie.)

Hexpane wrote:Teaching evolution in america gets you fired

How often does that happen?

I'm not hugely upset by *anything* on this entire board. If I've given that impression, sorry about that. The reasons I find this topic worth posting about are (1) the entirely fallacious arguments that people cite to justify piracy shouldn't go unchallenged just in the interest of promoting rationa...

Breaking the EULA is NOT stealing. Prove to us that it is and I, for one, will shut up and forget about your big, thick skull forever. I didn't say breaking the EULA was stealing. I said breaking the EULA is breaking the EUlA, and stealing is stealing, and doing the former does not make one immune ...

I'm a lot more interested in supporting a peace process that has a chance of working. What do you think that such a process might need? In other words what would both sides need to do to give any peace process a chance to work? ... I suspect your peace process involves the fellas with the biggest g...

The UN is not a font of wisdom. It is not a place where people receive divine revelation. It is not a body that interprets religious texts. It is not even a justice system per se. It is a voting-based political institution that makes political decisions in the way that all voting-based political ins...

I'm going to ignore all the name calling. As much as others would like it to be, this isn't about me. (Except, perhaps, to the extent that I'm tired of paying for other people's software use.) Using OS X in ways not covered by the EULA is indeed theft. The fact that there is a EULA violation does no...

Do you really think the UN created Israel because each member state who voted "yes" did a biblical analysis and determined that it was God's will? Of course not. Those were not the "real questions" then, and they are no more "real" now. If Bob wants to tell us what he t...

Short progress report for anyone who might be following this. I hooked up my consumer 5.1 speaker system to my iMac using the optical interface. The 5.1 system is actually better than I remember it. It's a Boston Acoustic something 6000....a pretty early unit that got good reviews at the time. Not a...