They will keep doing this as long as people pay to see the results. The second best thing you could do is to not pay money for it when you know something fits in your described category. This is second best because if no one sees the movie they may believe it to be because of not enough explosions/deviations from the original.

The best thing you could do is to not pay for it, and write them to tell them why. When enough people say "keep the original, and i'll pay for it", they will to exactly that.

Not that I expect a large group of people to come to that conclusion.

They all apply to just about every movie made today. However, I feel a focus on science should be necessary to call it science fiction, and not just fiction.

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Good wine is cheap, bad wine expensive.

Because vinmonopolet ("the wine monopoly", the only place to get wine) is stately driven its prices are regulated by law. Everything gets a tax depending on the alcohol content and then a flat fee is added on top of that. The trick is that noting of this is connected to what polet (or "the pole" as it is know) actually paid for the wine.
When they have a really good wine they cannot point to demand and raise the prices as a private store owner would do. This makes cheap high-end wine. I have heard tales of Frenchmen coming up here to buy expensive wine and sell with a profit back home, but have not been able to confirm this.

Sadly, I cannot afford the high-end stuff. I am stuck with the pricey low-end.

We are beginning to catch up. The words "terrorist" and "pedophile" are used as often as possible to get what you want politically.

Smalahove. How could you not mention the smalahove?

Actually I am trying this for the first time in a couple of weeks. I really really want to eat the eye for the bragging rights, but somehow I don't think I am going to do it. It might depend on this little fellow

Maybe the scientists at CERN can discover some hidden force of nature, a Force that may be with them in their fight against the Avian Empire?

Or maybe we could genetically modify this swineflu into something that kills birds...? That would be awesome, and it's pretty safe to assume nothing can go wrong.

A couple of years ago, readers was doing LOTS of duplicate posts and that has been cleaned up tremedously. It's kinda nice to see a dupe now and then to remind me of those heady days of 2007, ahhhh, how I miss them

That was smart!
Find all the +5 funny replies from yesterday and repost them!

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I just type /. and Opera takes me here.

Wouldn't it be better if they embraced their foreign readers? They are getting so desperate for readers these days they are putting cracked.com lists on the front page!

That FAQ-post is 5 years old. What is the geographical distribution today? Time to tone down the arrogance?

I find it OK. Not great, not bad. I usually just enable GPS, go to training-mode, lock the bezel ring (as they call it) and push the start button.

I have ventured into the various menus and changed miles to metric etc, so I have some experience with it. It is easy to touch the bezel and change a value when you wanted to go the the next menu item instead, though. It works the other way too. Once in training mode I can easily unlock, tap to the screen I want and lock again.

As a reference, I have used the interface for some menu-exploring and about 6 hours of exercise.

I have the Forerunner 405, and I am quite pleased. You can dump the data as an xml-file with GPS-coordinates, heart rate, elevation etc for each logged point. (I dont have en example at the moment)

The garmin site for publishing tracks is somewhat cumbersome to use, but works nicely when you get used to it. It has functionality for both importing and exporting.

However, as with the iphone, the elevation tracking jumps wildly. I know from painful experience that the Berlin Marathon is quite flat, but it keeps on insisting I had a 2000m ascend.

yay, more norwegians! With at least 3 of us/europeans here you could force /. to use metric right?

What would you need to write with for it to show up in the scan?

After they started banning all forms of liquids (over 100cl), I have felt the urge to show up with a big block of ice and send it through. Might start an interesting discussion.

Could someone (with a lot of free spare time) try this for me?

I remember installing DVD Genie on my computer many years ago. Besides letting me change my region settings as times as i wanted, it did the nice assumption of thinking non-skippable content was crap, and skipped it for you.