This is an *offer*. I had a feeling that Sterling was trying to negotiate in the press when he pointed out he's been offered as much as $2.5B (probably a lie). I don't think he's as dead set against the sale as he says. We'll see that when he gets the price he was asking for.

He's one nutjob who had mental issues. I don't ascribe anything in his story to male-female relations in general. I got through about 10 seconds of his rant and couldn't tolerate his smug entitlement. Lots of people have dating problems. Very few of them write manifestos and even fewer start killing.

I could've sworn I watched a documentary that stated gamma ray bursts are only observed at extremely long distances so there's little likelihood of one occurring close enough to be a threat to us. Right or wrong?

Slashdot has tanked in the last few years, but this is a new low and the anonymous comments...

I think I'm going to take a break from you for a while, Slashdot. *Maybe* I'll come back...

It'll stop the ESPNs and CNNs from extorting cable providers. ESPN charges a BOATLOAD for licensing because they know that cable providers can't risk losing the 33% or so of their base for whom that would be a showstopper. Now, if we have a la carte, do you think that 1/3 of the customer base will pay 3 times as much each for ESPN (that would probably be about $25/month) to maintain pricing parity? NO!

It'll also eliminate the garbage channel suites (with clones repeating the same content) as well has putting pressure on content providers to produce stuff we want to see. I really don't give a damn if 50% of channels go away since we're not watching that filler anyway!

Perfectly stated. I played for less than my 3 months and quit with zero interest in returning. Any criticisms are dismissed as the semi-intelligent whining on another inferior mind who just can't "get" it.

Right! I don't drive my car anymore because of all the jerkwad drug dealers transporting with cars and giving them a bad name.

Interesting point, but quality isn't the only part of the dining experience. There's the service, people watching, having a night out, etc.

That being said, if I could replicate meals that I know are simple yet I don't have the recipes for (e.g. the Thai "fast food" place on the other side of town), I would probably *never* go there again because of the inconvenience.

He didn't really direct the prequels either. He was more a supervisor and the guy doing final approvals.

I actually liked the prequels ,as do a lot of fans. Some of them are so revisionist they'll try to claim they didn't like some of the *originals* now. Honestly, take out Jar Jar and the TPM is my 2nd favorite. Take out the terribly-acted romantic scenes by Christensen, and the prequels are on a par with the originals, for me.

I was with you until your Blackfish comment. That IMO is *exactly* what CNN should be focusing on. If I want breaking news nowadays I'm not getting it from CNN scroller. TV news networks have the ability to take on long form documentaries that can go indepth and be visual and appealing. Blackfish and Pandora's Promise were fantastic and a hell of a lot of people cared about the former.

You can't quit us!

He knows all about recycling salty fluids.

You mean the A4 on the A4 on the A4?

We're ALL on the "list." The only difference is what degree of escalation your monitoring is at. And, we're mostly accepting that. I listened to some comments last week by Samuel Jackson rephrasing the old "hey if you're not a terrorist you have nothing to worry about" refrain.

Very disheartening and depressing. People are just whistling past the liberty graveyard.