Maybe the waiters only do 1 hr shifts, twice a week? So it's kinda like a hobby while they get to hang out with Janeway and co? - Or maybe it's x hrs of crap work per week if you want to in the crew at all (and at the bottom of the pecking order) ?

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Damn! Now we're going to see this in an episode!

Redistribution of wealth? In China? What are you? Some kind of *commie*? ;-)

I'd rather see HDR and framerates of over 50 FPS. Personally, I think that would make for better viewing than 3d. d no special glasses required.

I believe he was being ironic.

See: http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/Article14996.html http://viewzone2.com/fakegoldx.html http://gold-quote.net/en/articles/fake-tungsten-gold-bars.php http://news.coinupdate.com/largest-private-refinery-discovers-gold-plated-tungsten-bar-0171/ http://www.gata.org/node/8390 Some people are suggesting that the businesses offering cash for gold jewellery are doing so because there is less likelihood that they will be deceived than they would be if buying bullion. Also, in related news: http://bbs.chinadaily.com.cn/viewthread.php?tid=658195 http://dailypaul.com/99841/where-is-our-gold-that-is-missing-from-fort-knox http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=45782 BTW, I couldn't find any of this referred to on any mainstream site, so I leave it to others to determine if this is rumour or not.

Hmm, didn't I see that in Heavy Rain?

Would "size" be a moot point, since in some theories, one of the space-like dimensions becomes time-like and time becomes space-like within the black hole?

Emotion circuits aren't needed for motivation. It's pleasure and pain that drives all living things to behave as they do. That's why humans seek out each other, or why caterpillars eat leaves, or why birds build nests and why people do home renovation. -Beats me how you design a pleasure circuit though. Or a pain circuit for that matter.