> My opinion is that "First Contact" is the best Star Trek movie we have seen so far.

If you totally ignore what they did to Picard's character, I would agree.Watch the RedLetterMedia for a thorough accounting of what they did to Picard.

Are the Myth Busters going to have to find another giant hangar for their large scale experiments?

This matters much more than Google getting a price break on some jet fuel.

Steve Jobs may have been many things, but Pablo Picasso is not one of them.

"Windows ain't done 'til Lotus don't run"

> we just need to look at how often the patent database is used by inventors as a resource when they're looking for solutions to problems they have.

This has probably been brought up before, but typically companies will instruct their people to _not_ look at existing patents. The reason for this is that if they do create something that is similar to an existing patent, they can justifiably claim ignorance and avoid the treble damages associated with 'willful infringement'.

>then the photographer owns the copyright. I don't see how that can be undone.

It can't. The problem is that there is (generally) no model release form. Posting photos anywhere would require written content of the model. I'm surprised I haven't heard of any cases using this idea. Or am I missing something.

>Actually (to answer the AC), Wesley Crusher was the annoying one, mostly due to the Mary-Sue-ing scriptwriters

The glut of Wesley episodes (many substandard) came about like this: A writer writes a WC episode that's well received so producers tell writers to whip up some more. Writers' Strike comes along and all they have all these WC scripts which end up getting aired as a result. Or something like that.

We have different "languages": Legalese, Tech speak, memes, Diplomatic speak. I would expect that such would be the case here. The metaphor speak may be their formal form. At least, that's my take on it.

Favorite episodes: The Inner Light, Best of Both Worlds, Family

Another protip: suck on ice cubes. It deaden the receptors.

> So I wiped them. With the hand I'd been holding the pepper with.

My wife does this with jalapenos more of than she should. She did it with habaneros. Once.

I am a self-admitted troll but I do it for the lulz, never maliciously. There are different kinds of trolls and this study does not differentiate between them, unfortunately.

There are times where "double jeopardy" (seemingly) does not apply. Specifically, if a judge is corrupt and has been paid off to throw a case for a defendant, the case can be tried again once the corruption has been revealed. This admittedly is a borderline situation but it does happen.

>, especially the 3rd is so irrelevant

Not true. There is a civil case ini the northeast where somebody is suing the police on 3rd amendment grounds. The police wanted to use this guys house as a part of some police operation. He refused but the cops intruded anyway and the guy got arrested.