I hope you've finished Ghost Story then, because Penguin has removed all of their books from Overdrive: http://www.kindleboards.com/index.php/topic,92091.75.html/

And Obama just told us that he can build a new department, completely out of congressional oversight, and then bypass the congress when they don't confirm his choice to lead it.

By the way, Obama thought that convening the congress every third day (pro forma sessions) to eliminate the possibility of recess appointments was just fine when they did it to Bush in 2007-08.

He took the line in The Princess Bride that went something like 'they had the best swordfight ever', and turned it into the best sword fight on film I've ever seen.

Cary Elwes and Mandy Patinkin practiced constantly for that fight scene, during breaks in filming, and it shows. Nothing beats doing something for real. Saying "we'll fix it in post" using CGI has become a crutch, I think.

Granted. But KOTOR 3 (if written like KOTOR) would have just had one character, one story. Now, I've got 8. Eight full storylines, written and voiced with good voice actors, with more freedom to go places than I ever had in a KOTOR game.

I know it's 'the thing' to trash the game du jour, but this is getting ridiculous.

I would. In a heartbeat.

Nothing that a spell check can't fix? Eye don't think ewe know what a proofreader does.

Novell's suit was precluded because of the anti-trust federal suit which was in progress. When that suit was completed, it was then allowable for Novell to file, and they did.

I kid you not, the real reason that we're graduating people who can't read? Lower and middle schools are promoting children who are failing for two reasons:
1. to preserve their "self esteem" 2. holding back children reflects poorly on the school

Then, when the kids get to high school, they can't be sent back to the schools that didn't teach them, and it's now the high school's problem.

Ah, the ubiquitous assumption that student's grades are a function of teacher quality, and teacher quality alone.

I hate to break it to you, but there is a substantial fraction of kids who just don't give a shit. You can be the best teacher in the world, but if there's no will from the student to learn, they won't do well.

An education is like a stool. To get a good, solid one, you need three legs: a committed student, a good teacher, and supportive parents.

Wow. The problem with Fukushima was a quake larger than anyone ever anticipated, along with a tsunami far higher than anyone in Japan saw coming.

If the quake had happened by itself? No issue. If the tsunami had happened by itself? A likelihood that power would have been interrupted temporarily, but not an issue.

I am with those who insist that the main technical problem with nuclear energy is a sound regulatory framework. I don't see it. And without it, it is unsafe technology.

Your thoughts on risk assessment are part of what makes our society so litigation intensive - if one child gets harmed by something, no matter what the rate of incident is, by God, sue those people into the ground, there should be NO harmful incidents using product X! I don't care if there's a 0.00001 incident rate, we need to spend hundreds of millions of dollars fixing the problem!

That sound you hear? That's the whoosh of wind as low-flying concepts part your hair.

You do realize that they have to maintain two residences, and one of those in Washington, which has a really high cost of living?

For those of us used to the waits George gives us, 2 years is a piece of cake.

If you like Sanderson, definitely read "The Way of Kings". The magic system in that world is different.

But then again, a lot of people in this thread are leery of beginning series that are just on their first book.... :)

Actually, part of what made this book so long in coming was the fact that GRRM initially wanted the 4th book to skip ahead years, with some of the intervening detail revealed in flashbacks. He got partway into writing it, and realized that wouldn't work.

So, he started over. Then he realized that this new approach required him to fill out all sorts of stuff that he hadn't counted on, which made the book length explode. Then he seperated them into two, and "A Feast for Crows" was born.

He has stated many times that he wrote himself into a corner (my words, not his), referring to the issue as a "Meerenese Knot". It appears he's finally resolved this, and now is comfortable setting a hard date to be finished with the manuscript.