Moonbase Alpha? ITV plc., the current rightsholder to ITC film library and thus Space:1999 should has an interest in this. Since NASA is a part of the US government, and with most works of the US government become part of the public domain would that not constitute some sort of infringement?

Now for the camp questions. Which soundtrack does it use, Barry Gray, Derek Wadsworth, or something from the Warner-Chappell music library? Do some of the Easter eggs include blowing people out from airlocks? Astronauts going berserk and smashing the windows with their space helmets? Doctor Russell screaming "Jooooooooohn!"?

Lord Grade **still** rules!

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A worldwide scattering/regathering was predicted in in the Torah proper (Ki-Tavo/Netzavim).

This is a rather interesting title which deserves an answer. It may be true that the specific document usually called "Revelation" (not plural) is not part of the Jewish canon, but the contents are actually within the sphere of Jewish thought. One must consider that the source is the same as the prophetic books of the Tanakh (Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Hoshea, Zecharia, etc.) Although Daniel is not organized under the Prophets but under the Writings, that too has perhaps the most important details of prophecy so much that there is a rabbinic injunction against using the text in chapter nine to know when the Messiah would come ("may his bones burn/explode"). Apocalypticism is not restricted to the Tanakh proper; please indulge in the following.

The key figure that links all Abrahamic eschatology is the antihero. That means that Jews, Christians and Muslims have a common enemy and perhaps to the dismay of some (even here), it is not each other. Whether he be called Antichrist, Armilus or Al-Dajjal, to paraphrase a popular T-shirt statement, this is the guy that our sages have warned us about. Him we must resist.

Always remember: The Bad Guy comes first to do his thing (including but not limited to the technology that is available), then the Good Guy follows to kick his backside.

Now having given an answer for the title, back to the topic with a bit of the above understanding. Information technology gives man pseudo-omniscience, pseudo-omnipresence, and pseudo-omnipotence. It is the power to rule as G-d over other people H"V. Remember what the sages had to say about Nimrod.

Behold the tag: "Any technology distinguishable from divine power is insufficiently advanced". Now that is dangerous.

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From what I have read some years ago, religious identity was removed from the Todat-zechut (ID cards). Religious identity may make a comeback in a hidden data field, which may automate discrimination. There are those in the Interior Ministry who are pissed at the Bagatz (Supreme Court of Israel) for the Steckbeck Decision permitting Jesus Believers to receive citizenship based on the descendancy clause in the Law of Return.

Those were the days before sovereignty-imparing deficits and debt.

So far, I have read nothing on this subject about the intractable DEBT that BHO (as well a majorities in the House and Senate) has incurred and how that ill affects USA policy vis-a-vis liberty issues around the world. It appears to me that all who are reading Slashdot (save myself) either are either not US citizens or US citizens that have (access to) an alternate citizenship. This would explain why the Bill of Rights has become a troll.

"Who is the President?" is not only a question, it is also a statement.

It's one of the first things people learn concerning the realm of human biology. Swarthy and short are dominant and fair and tall are recessive. The same holds true in the realm of politics, economics and sociology. Tyranny, poverty and squalor are dominant (and politically correct); liberty, prosperity and sanitation are recessive (not to mention so overrated). Ergo, mongrelization on all levels will surely guarantee nothing but short, fat, swarthy poor tyrants.

It's the New America...and all is right with the world.

This is about thirty-five years too late. IIRC the anime series Space Cruiser Yamato (for those of us in the USA it was called Star Blazers), part of the plot was to obtain Cosmo Cleaner D/ Cosmo DNA, a substance that would neutralize radioactivity from asteroid bombardment. There was even an episode that dealt with of all things iron-eating bacteria (the one with "space fireflies"). To extend the irony (commence groaning) further, there was another episode that brought into the culture the existence of an 'asteroid belt' beyond the orbit of Pluto. Someone read up on Gerard Kuiper.

File under Life imitating Art.

Use powdered anhydrous ammonium perchlorate with thermite. It needs a strong oxidizer to combust the the metals (aluminium, magnesium, iron, chromium, etc).

A black hole would have been my other choice but CERN is backordered at the moment.

There are protected ethnics that have a similar appearance. I had earlier posted a pecking order of protected classes. He could be seen as a European Muslim such as Albanian or Bosnian therefore complaints from these communities could still be lodged. Make the hair blond and the eyes blue and this will be a complaint-proof representation of evil notwithstanding Godwin's Law.

One must consider that a significant percentage of WASPs (humans and soon hymenopterans) are already obese and diabetic. I suggest a name change for the agency: Royal Society for the Protection of the Birds and the Bees.

Those changes have already happened. You all know where I am going with this...

Let's get it right:

Voting for opposition candidates gets your phone tapped.
Participating in a protest gets you points on your driver license.
Posting on the internet gets you a sneak-peek warrant.
Writing a letter to your representative gets you disappeared.

The rest of the world is already finished the race toward tyranny and the USA is already in the home stretch.

The problem is that there exists a critical mass of individuals who either derive wages from their employers that create intellectual property and/or have retirement and/or other investments in entities that produce intellectual property. We cannot have people toiling for seven plus years in college to practice law and others who "have to be weird be discovered" that bust their asses creating stuff only to have "fully informed people" (especially those of us who got screwed out of college) acquit defendants thus accused. With what else can the U.S. Dollar be backed other than pledging all federal lands to Chin[SLIT!Gush!Gush!Gush!Passout-THuD!]

Wrong. Never underestimate the power of government to call anything a crime, even the mere existence of certain people.

Godwin's Law is a cop-out.

A common sense definition of a clunker is a vehicle that is paid in full.

With the exception of New Jersey where dynamometer testing is done in all counties, the vast majority of states that have dual regions. An excellent example is (drum roll)...New York. Dyno testing is done in 'NYMA' (NY Metro Area i.e. NYC, Nassau, Suffolk, Rockland and Westchester counties) and the rest of the state performs only a physical presence check. Pennsylvania used to test only in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh and just a safety check elsewhere. Now all PA counties do at least a physical presence check. It seems like New Jersey was pressuring PA to institute testing so as to stop people moving out there to avoid enhanced testing and all the wonderful things for which the Garbage State is notorious. What many people have done is establish residency outside the metro areas and so avoid dyno testing for their 'affordable' vehicles.

For a while I was seeing a slew of instances where people were using art software to make their own inspection stickers a la "Screw the law, use CorelDRAW!". Sometimes the artwork would change slightly from year to year so as to throw off the counterfeiters. Most were printed on inkjet printers and the inks were not fadeproof. These would have make a sticker every month or so as not have a faded sticker garner police attention. No thanks to the 1990 Clean Air Act renewal with its enhanced testing procedures, many states have resorted to making inspection stickers using holograms, 2D bar codes, RFID chips and other anti-counterfeiting measures as enhanced testing is expanded to cover more of the registered vehicle fleet. Since a vehicle is the third most expensive purchase (after home and college), people have been "state shopping" to avoid among other things onerous I/M programs. Florida got smart about this and implemented an 'impact fee' for registering vehicles in Florida acquired elsewhere about twenty years ago.

One of the results of the Progressive Movement in the USA and elsewhere in the world in the opening years of the twentieth century was the assignment of strict liability to machines that allowed people to locomote apart from muscular power. Even as deaths, injuries, and loss statistics continue to decline throughout the decades, there will never be a time when governments concede that apart from commercial purposes the dour rejoinder of personal use of personal property for non-commercial purposes (what many call 'driving') being a privilege. A personally mobile populace is a threat to any government. Governments continue to support public transportation for among other reasons to continue to call this activity a privilege.