+5 Funny is not enough. I bestow the title upon you, "Today's winner of the internet". Bravo!

We should be able to directly image the spaghettification of Matthew McConaughey's bad acting!

The thing that struck me about those pics, was the distance the star moved from Jan 2014 to Aug 2014. It appeared to cover roughly 5-10% of the outer diameter of the host galaxy (although the star could be very well be deeper inside the galaxy). The Solar System takes about 226 million years to orbit the Milky Way. This thing appears to orbit at 13 years!

That makes me think their preliminary analysis of these being two separate events is correct. Although, I am not an astrophysicist, so what do I know?

In US law, libel is a written defamatory statement (as opposed to slander, which is a verbal defamatory statement). So in the US, I believe this would be considered a libel case. Gstoddart is correct in that truth is a complete defense against a libel suit...in the US. I have no idea what the courts consider adequate defense against libel in Japan. The doctor stating "nuh uh" may be all it takes.

This is the ever-growing problem with a global system of instant communication in a civilization that has no laws to deal with such a thing. Should a lone judge in Japan have dominion over information every human being from now until the end of time sees if it walks into his/her court? If not, and if the court deemed the posts as defamatory and libelous, shouldn't the plaintiff be protected?

And why didn't anyone warn this physician of the Streisand effect? I would have never known about this clinic or any negative reviews about it. Now, guilty or innocent, I'm not going to any clinics in the Chiba district.

Was a simple, after-school detention not an option for some reason? I mean, really? You called the police? Did da big bad hacker scare you wif his eweet skills? Jumping Jesus on a pogostick! They're kids, mischievous by nature. Give the kid a detention, and institute a sane fucking password policy!

If I were a parent of a child in this school, I'd be outraged. I'm outraged right now, and I don't live anywhere near Florida!

I can't tell if you are being sarcastic. All net neutrality does is ensure the playing field stays level. You have to keep in mind that cable companies/broadcasters want to be the sole content provider, and they want you to pay them for it. They don't want Netflix; they don't want YouTube. You may not be old enough to recall when the cable providers tried very hard to degrade service to customers requesting Netflix because it was eating into their own pay-per-view model. When that didn't work, they decided to extort money from content providers and degrade the service until they got paid. Comcast was caught unambiguously doing this.

As netizens, we want the packets we request delivered unimpeded and unscrutinized to our browser. Tiered pricing takes care of getting video at the desired quality over simpler sites. If I'm only browsing eBay I'll get the low-end. If I'm viewing Netflix, I'll have to pay for the turbo-whatever. That should be my choice as a consumer.

Net neutrality makes it far easier for smaller players to compete. They don't have to have the muscle to negotiate with major ISPs they would otherwise need to in a non-nn environment.

Pointing to the LA Times article is weird too, if you weren't being sarcastic. It's basically a highly speculative non-issue, endorsed by a representative whose top contributing industry is the movie/television/music industry. The top 3 of Rep Walden's 4 contributors are the National Association of Broadcasters, Comcast, and 21st Century Fox. I wouldn't exactly call him "impartial" on the matter.

Easy spelling!

There are 26 letters in the English alphabet, but 44 phonemes. I'd start there. Expand the alphabet to 44 letters; one letter per sound and double le(tt)ers are not necessary. Thus no ambiguity on how to spell a word; you spell it like it sounds. It would be like a metric system for speaking/spelling...in that it makes sense. So "two" becomes "tu" or maybe just "2" (wi yuz tu karakters wen won wil du?), "too" becomes "also", and "to" becomes anything...maybe "tob".

RDJ just got serious points with me. I'll bet the list of requests he must get to do things like this is unending. Very, very cool of him to take the time. I couldn't help but be a little disappointed when Alex said his name was Robert instead of Tony.

Drum breaks, chord progressions, melodies, and of course tempo...aren't they all just functions of math? And the ones that we find most pleasing, tend to be the ones that make sense mathematically.

Sell your greatest weakness like it's your greatest strength. I'm not in marketing, but I see this all time.

Actually, I was thinking of the scene in K-PAX where Kevin Spacey shows the astrophysicists how the celestial mechanics of his multi-stellar system worked.

Survive this!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Burn the land, boil the sea; you can't take the sky from me.

I'd like to introduce you to a personal friend of mine. It's the M-41A pulse rifle, with over and under pump action grenade launcher.

When it hits the fan, and it will, you'll almost certainly see this:

"Mars One, Earthlings Zero"