"I couldn't wait to see more of him and that last bit with him and the Yellow Power Ring was awesome."

While it was certainly cool, I didn't see a connection for him using it based in the movie plot. Hal makes the guardians and Sinestro see that Will is good enough and they don't need fear to beat fear. Sinestro even shows up to rescue Hal at the end...there is no plot connection between that and him putting on the yellow ring. Why did he do it? There was no sign of any temptation. No voice in his head egging him on, nothing. He just does it....I don't get it. There is nothing there showing me any reason he would turn at that point in the movie

Black Hole: Star, What's your favorite color?
Star: Red no Yellow no Blue no Black? aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah

There are mods that allow for quick building and protection of blocks as well as a lot of other useful stuff. You might check out bukkit as a place to start. It is a modding framework w/ a bunch of really useful plugins already made.

You wonder why Batman always caught those super-villains? They loved bragging about their exploits. If the Riddler had simply absconded w/ some cash from a bank and not left a calling-card, Batman would have had a far harder time figuring out... Lulzsec obviously has a modicum of skill but all their bragging is going to do is get them caught.

"First they came for the Jews,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a Jew.

Then they came for the trade unionists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a trade unionist.

Then they came for the communists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a communist.

Then they came for me
and there was no one left to speak out for me."
-attributed to Pastor Martin Niemöller

Some time try standing up for the rights of someone other than yourself.

I can testify that planned obsolescence of cameras is already happening. I have a working digital camera from about 1998/1999 era. I still have original cd w/ the drivers and software. It was designed for use w/ windows 98 via a USB cable. It also worked fine with windows 2000/xp. When I built my most current machine w/ windows 7 pro on it, I could not get the camera to work with windows 7. After finding documentation both by Microsoft and Kodak that stated in no uncertain terms that this camera amongst many others would not be supported, I wrote to kodak asking for help (I had nothing to lose), I got a form letter basically saying they were more interested in their newer models. I ended up having to purchase a 3rd party card reader to read the old card that it uses in order to pull pictures off of it.

I foresee some very scary circumstances coming out of this patent from the US dictatorship err *cough* government. I realize there would be ways to stop infrared feeds from getting into a camera that has this technology enabled but the masses won't bother or care.

Obvious Liberal Democrat alert...
Can't help but tax everything.

hping/nping FTW

Definitions: Civil War - 2 factions vying for control of the same government(or football dominance if you live in Oregon and are a college football fan ;-p) through military means (See Ivory Coast of late). Mutiny - Crew rebels against officers and/or Captain on a ship or other crewed vehicle. (See Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl) Barratry - Officers and/or crew rebel against the authority they purport to serve...usually a government (See Hunt for Red October) Note that the so-called US Civil War meets none of these definitions. It is more properly termed a war of secession as one side (The Southern Confederacy) wanted out of the United States to form a separate country...not to overthrow it. Moving on to Anonymous. They claim to have no one in overall control thus none of the 3 terms above should theoretically apply. Dissension in the ranks or secession might describe the situation.

Doesn't matter what he's doing. The US constitution says the government has no right to invade the privacy of a free citizen w/o a warrant which has to have probable cause and judicial approval. These warrantless trackers are blatantly unconstitutional.

Starbase? Captain's Log, Stardate 2054.6. Visited orbiting refueling station on the way to a planned stop at Mars. The attendant did a horrible job on the windshield. Can't see a damn thing...I need better service station attendants. Mr. Spock, windshield status?....

Did they happen to mention anything about cake being available after the press release? Maybe they have the wrong sentient AI computer? ;-p

You obviously don't know very many then. I know plenty who are kind, generous and intelligent people.

You think that's bad, try to find real biographical data on a pro wrestler for fun. Most of what you get is a blow by blow of their wrestling careers as if everything was real. Matches, feuds, story-lines, etc...You have to filter a lot out to get the sparse actual biographical data.