Thanks for the link. That was also the first I've ever seen of the crow making its own tools (in the "related videos" links). Really interesting stuff.

The artists already know that the record labels are scum. They just think the huge piles of money that get waved around in front of them are more important.

IANAPhysicist/Cosmologist/whatever applies here, so please do verify this yourself.

The star isn't IN the black hole . . . yet. The black hole is somewhere close to the star, and we're seeing the energy being thrown off by the stuff being pulled into it. There's an awful lot of colliding going on, so stuff is getting thrown around in a lot of directions at once.

Light (and other stuff) outside of the event horizon can escape. That's my understanding of the definition of "event horizon" . . . the proximity to the black hole at which light can no longer escape the black hole's gravitational pull. As long as stuff happens outside of that region, we can observe it.

hehe :P quick answer yes, long answer: 0e1e76ac3b5744a8a84c40112510ad21

In the *nix world, everything is pretty self contained within its own directory.

You must be talking about some crazy, bizarro *nix world, as the one in this world tends to split directories up by what the files are for, not by application.

For example, /etc has configuration files, /usr/bin and /usr/local/bin tend to have executables, /var/log has log files... I could go on.

Very infrequently, apps will install their entire directory structure into something like /opt, but that's very, VERY rare.

The whole "Bad Stuff in the water supply" bit. The problem with every scenario that I've ever seen for poisoning the water supply was that the sheer volume of toxin that would be needed to bring the concentration to anything near a harmful amount is always just plain enormous. Even if you used strychnine, you'd need to pull up to the reservoir with multiple tanker trucks and start dumpin'. You don't need fiber optics and infrared light to see guys dumping thousands of gallons of something into a large lake.

Mmm, you didn't think the T-1000 in Season Two was good?

Granted, the T-1000 wasn't shown doing Terminator-like things in every episode...

Also, Cromartie and Cameron were T-888s... the upgraded version of the kind Arnold is in the movies.

That can always say it was a concession to the other side so that it could get passed. There is still a large block of voters (a significant power) who want government heavily involved in marriages, and who think government force should be used to prevent some marriages, but they might favor government force in some situations (e.g. incest) more passionately than others (e.g. gay). By giving that block a prohibition against incest, the ones who want to overall lessen regulation may be able to do so.

Sure, somebody had to be victimized, but the deregulators are doing a "needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few" thing. Winning liberty isn't easy, and they can come back for incest later when more of the pro-government voters/reps have aged and died off.

God damn it's hard to write that w/out sounding like a troll. In fact, I probably didn't succeed. ;-)

Are you sure? I'm fairly certain that, outside of satirical use of a laugh track, a lot of shows still pad the audience reactions with canned laughter if the audience doesn't react quite the way the producers hoped they would. I do think it would be hard to tell, and I'm mostly basing this off assumption.

I will say that I'm almost certain that Chappelle's Show had at least some canned laughter inserted. It was a bit too well-timed and consistent to have been natural. If it was meant as satire, it obviously flew right over my head.

Heh, yeah. I wondered if the Colbert Christmas stuff was a jab at the whole idea of auto-tune, too.

WRT the Joel stuff, I don't really know how much input the artist gets at gigs like that. I would guess it's not that much, though.

It's already here, and it sucks. Give a listen to Billy Joel's singing of the national anthem at the super bowl.

That performance would have undoubtedly been better without auto-tune.

(what's the opposite of coffee?)

Powdered water?
Perhaps we've solved Stephen Wright's problem!

You may want to check up on what a command line is. I'm pretty sure that what is described in your quote isn't it.

I don't quite know where you got that idea.

People are complaining, "That's not what the word means!" The GGP's post shows that it does mean that. Maybe tomorrow it'll mean something completely different . . . how is my post suggesting that it shouldn't?

That was only a few centuries ago, NOT A LONG TIME (I'm european)

I'd love to know what exactly that's supposed to mean. Does time work differently in Europe than it does in the rest of the world?
These definitions were in use generations ago. Propaganda or not, it's part of the language now.