"What Are Little Girls Made Of?" has a blatant upskirt scene involving Majel Barrett. Then there's the whole stalactite-phallus later in the same episode.

The ugly truth is anything can be porn. Are you shopping for shoes, or do you have a high heel fetish? Hard to tell simply because you have the Christian Louboutin website on your computer's display.

Looks like Ultraman to me. I would expect noodle restaurants using this robot to be free of angry monsters.

I don't recall Hernandez and Carranza lobbing pipe bombs at the LAPD, nor did they return fire. Did I miss something?

I believe the previous poster is suggesting that the presumption of innocence is significantly reduced when you have explosive devices and toss them at the cops.

I was advised that "a boat is a hole in the water into which you throw money."

I'll cite the Webster dictionary for the definition -
WEAPON : something (as a club, knife, or gun) used to injure, defeat, or destroy.

For an item to be a weapon, it needs to be applied in a specific manner. The hammer, sitting on the table, won't jump up and bop you on the head all by itself. Neither will the firearm, nor the table itself, nor this nifty rock I have here. All of these items can be weapons when applied properly. The application (and intent) makes it a weapon.

I have personally survived two home invasions ... both occurred while I was home. One was in New York outside of Albany. The other was in the suburbs of Washington DC. Your unwillingness to accept the reality of the situation is not justification to dictate what my defensive posture should or shouldn't be.

Why would you want to put a hole in something from a distance?

Because that something is holding a knife to your daughter's throat? And because that something is unlikely to wait for you to go to the garage and get the extension cord for your drill because he's on the other side of the room?

As much as you don't like it, a gun is a tool for defending against a threat. It is highly optimized to he effective and reliable. It is the wrong tool to choose should you need to machine a hole in something, just as a square tipped shovel is the wrong tool for that job.

Maybe if the researchers had a serious talk with the cows, and explained that they wouldn't get to wear big-cow underpants until they used the cow-potty properly, they would have better results. Pointing out that their cow-peers were wearing big-cow underpants can be an effective peer-pressure motivation. Also, there's generally a cow-kindergarden prohibition if cows can't use the cow-potty by themselves. And they do want to go to cow-kindergarden, right?

Offering pop-culture stylized big-cow underpants as a reward/bribe should only be used as a last resort, as it sets a bad precedent.

Further, last time I checked, Assange didn't have a police force or military with which to enforce his Rule of Law upon his subjects.

I would imagine that this situation exists for games featuring cars, airplanes, or any other product that has a corporate brand identity. But a headline decrying "Video Games Fund the Automotive Industry" just doesn't have any punch.

You beat me to the Tragedy of the Commons reference. In every experience I have with shared property or resources, we humans seem to gravitate toward depletion. I purchased some tools to be shared amongst a few friends. One took a screwdriver and hacked the handle off because he needed a piece of steel. The drawer full of drill rod was 3m away, but he destroyed the tool (and its availability to others) because:
- there were plenty more in the toolbox
- the drill rod is "way over there"
- "Why do you care? It's not like it was *your personal* screwdriver."

And don't get me started on how ugly freebie handouts can get.

I'm pretty sure plasma confinement can be achieved by routing secondary power through the ventral relays (so say the historical documents.)

Not miracles, but I can certainly create, produce and distribute episodic content at the level of Sid and Marty Krofft's 1970s TV series from the comfort of my mom's basement. (Big props to Deidre Hall and Judy Strangis ...) Yes, fairly primitive by today's broadcast standards, but 100% attainable for a vary small capital investment. You'll still need the people in front of and behind the cameras, but the supercomputer on my desk makes up for a whole lot of infrastructure requirements.

Gimme a compelling story, and I'll engage my brain's suspension-of-disbelief-engine in return.

Once you have successfully accomplished the "sex" objective, the "sleep" objective moves abruptly to the front of the list (as your offspring will deprive you of any opportunities to do so.)