Slashdot is not majority left-leaning, though thank God it manages to be better than Reddit most of the time.

Like most of the internet, Slashdot unfortunately leans mostly "libertarian" (ie: proprietarian anarcho-capitalist).

Because Snow Crash is the first piece of science-fiction I've ever read, and then reflected that it actually predicted its future pretty well.

Name one.

Cambridge, Massachusetts

Bicycle commuting to work can burn 400-700 kcal/day.

Ok, but now add on snow, ice, and broken glass in the road. I tried biking to work in the Boston area, and quickly learned that I would be paying a lot of money quite regularly for new bike tires :-(.

Actually, yeah. "Oceans Unmoving", definitely. Self-contained, and one of the most downright original pieces of science-fiction I've seen in my life.

I'm sorry, but you just can't do Thorgirl. The whole point of Thor was that it's a bro movie to watch with your bros about a really cool bro and his manly exploits -- preferably while quaffing ale. Making Thor a woman completely ruins it.

I'd laugh my butt off at a Sluggy Freelance film.

Let me check my notes...

You mean kind of like how The Last Airbender didn't suck?

You just don't adapt anime into live action. It's just not done (no matter how much I'd love to see a full-scale Hollywood-grade photorealistic CGI rendering of the Super Galaxy Gurren Lagann).

You mean Office Space?

And, let's face it, the sheer fact that most standard-issue Pokemon video games are fairly decent turn-based party-battle RPGs, completely aside from any Pokemon-specific aspects.

You may saaaay I'm a dreeaaameeeerrr....

I did my Google Summer of Code project under Sam. He's a great guy, and he basically wrote SDL from nothing. Hell, as far as I'm aware, he's possibly the only living person who understands its autotools-based build system ;-).

He won't just be able to port games. If the rumors are true and Valve is building their own full-scale gaming platform (a Valve console, say), then putting Sam Lantinga with the Source engine for starters will be a great start to their platform's API.

They can't support themselves because we keep manipulating their markets, overthrowing their governments, and burdening them with "debts" from "loans" they didn't want to take.

You're right. I'm right. They're not mutually exclusive. The Dems are "incompetent" (scare-quotes because I swear they're doing it deliberately) and the Repubs are evil. Sum the two and you get 90% evil.

East Coast Ivy League? That's what they're throwing at Obama? Didn't Romney go to freaking Harvard?

In 2004 we had Yale versus Yale. In 2008, Harvard versus US Naval Academy. Now, Harvard versus Harvard. Now I like my academic elitism, but if you don't, I recommend voting for someone who didn't go to the Ivy League, ever.