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"Abuse of power" is an oxymoron/redundancy, and the new opiate for the social media sheepy masses. Power, or the pursuit thereof, by virtue of itself (sic), is corrupt and abuses those without it, by definition. Just like rich & poor - if everyone was rich, it wouldn't even be a term. Peter...

Daymn. I was just watching DS9 S1-4 on Netflix for the first time (I think I only started with S5 bak in the day, eh). RIP Rene/Odo, on that final nebula somewhere in the Omega quadrant mate...

No probs, because I'M Spartacus! ;-p

Is this a bonafide article by Ars...?

"I find your lack of faith disturbing". ;) But seriously, your theological shortcomings aside, even if we could get out of our solar system, the effects we may experience leaving Sol's sphere of influence, not to mention the debris we would need to safely circumnavigate or shield a ship against...

Eta Car is 7500 lys from us. So, for all intents & practical purposes, we will never get anywhere near it. Unless someone actually finally invents a working wormhole generator or some form of hyper/sub-space or teleport sci-fi drive! ;) Current state of astrophysics makes it quite clear that we...

The more you tighten your grip, AzureMarquis, the more star systems will slip through your fingers.

The whole game is a massive exercise in smoke & mirrors marketing I say. They claim 18 *trillion* star systems you can visit (procedurally generated of course). Even if you only need 1KB storage for each star system (once generated), you would need 16+ *petabytes* of space to store the...

The secret to mmo success: 1. make the character feel heroic 2. provide lots of stuff to killify 3. regular content updates (sans bugs) 4. rinse, repeat

Is anyone really surprised? The food cartels force-feed us sugar & flour products, because hey, they're far cheaper to mass produce than meat & fresh fruit & vegetables, or anyting else healthy. In the near future, human will fondly remember a time when not everyone was diabetic and celiac, ahem.

I'd prefer they wasted their time on fixing really annoying bugs, such as the laptop wake-from-sleep delay since the Anniversary update (latest KB still hasn't fixed it on mine). Also, an option to get rid of the stoopid splash screen pre-login screen, which I find extremely useless and...

What could possibly go wrong...? 8-/

Correct. If it was simple or easy it would be called rocket science. But it's not. It's complex & hard, so we call it computer science. :)

Has any of the science ever addressed why ocean-dwelling dinosaurs also died out at about the same time/rate as did the land-bound ones...? Surely the asteroid impact (pardon the pun!) would have been much less in the oceans...or am I missing something obvious...? :-/

Yeah, the only mystery here is that java still exists as an open platform after 6 years. It's only open about a nanometre crack still, but nonetheless...what are the real alternatives? LibreOffice has flourished after the OO debacle, MySQL is still kicking (limping?) along. Is there anything...

So it was a Crying Game type scenario then...?

Was that intended as a double-entendre, or just a Freudian slip? ;) Everyone is missing the whole point here guys - it's all about sharing! Can someone please drop some links to quality X-Art files, preferably tall redheads with green eyes & excellent frontal features (I like high cheek bones...

I vote for Charon: No noisy neighbours, always easy to sleep in if you have a good doona, cheap real estate you won't have fight anyone for.

To be sure, to be sure. This last ep for me brought home Cersei's off-the-cuff from a couple eps ago with a very big bang: "I choose violence" - boy, did she ever! Hardhome is hard to pass up as one of the, if not the best episode, along with last week's BotBs. Not that GoT is all about action...

There has to be a Game of Thrones object lesson or morality play in all that somewhere, I'm sure...