The sci-fi western is tough sod to trod. The winners (Firefly, Cowboy Bebop) have typically placed Cowboys into Outter Space, and not Aliens into the Old West.
and a foreign cartoon that only has cowboys in the name when talking about an unrelated movie.
Calling Cowboy Bebop a 'sci-fi western' is a bit of a stretch. I mean, they are bounty hunters, which is an Old West-y concept, and they call themselves cowboys, but that's about as far as the similarities go. It's hard to actually define which genre Bebop belongs to, it's sort of a mishmash of dystopian-scifi-anime-crime drama-adventure saga. Not much room for 'western' in there.
SOCA (Serious Organized Crime Agency)
Is this really an organization? In other words, are they srs?
Prison inmates will be forced to work to pay for their food, cells. No television, no books, no workout equipment, no basketball, no nothing. They get up, eat, work, eat, work, eat, go to bed, rinse, repeat.
Having been to jail a few times myself I can attest that a large selection of cheap paperbacks can make the experience a lot more bearable. Some kind of work during the day wouldn't hurt, either, but the ability to mentally remove oneself from the immediate surroundings is made possible for a very small expense, and does wonders for an inmate's state of mind. I've personally made quite a few donations of old paperbacks to local jails and juvenile halls for this very reason.
Linux was mostly faster than The Hurd while also having much better hardware support, multi-core SMP support, and other modern functionality.
Um, duh? 20+ years real-world testing and updates and bugfixes from pretty much the entire open-source community vs. something that was released last week? Why don't they benchmark it against Google Plus and Bitcoin while they're at it?
Eureka! -- Archimedes