The SyFy channel just tried that w/Ascension...

At this point, I'd probably more enjoy watching the Muppets do Star Trek.

I think many of your (valid) complaints stem from weak and/or immature writers relying on "magical" things and/or super tech to achieve the desired story line. I dislike "magic" in most stories as it seems to be used mostly as a crutch for weak writing, or a writer unwilling to deal with unpleasant consequences in a story.

My understanding is that the transporter was originally used to workaround using a shuttle craft for all extra-vehicular excursions (for screen-time efficiencies) and later became a useful story device. But, you're right that this new trans-warp beaming-device is simply "plot magic". Kahn could have beamed to a near-by ship and flown to Klingon space. (Furthermore, why didn't an Enterprise retrieval party simply re-use the trans-warp transporter to beam themselves as did Kahn... saving themselves the trouble of the trip.

The two J.J. Abrams ST films seem full of unnecessary / stupid things - like parking the Enterprise underwater to avoid being seen by natives when parking it in *orbit* would have accomplished the same thing. Granted, watching the ship rise from the ocean was a ST boner moment, but still technologically unnecessary. (JJ's signature move seems to be having the Enterprise rise up through clouds, water, etc...)

What if you don't habitually use your computer/tablet outdoors?

The sooner you pop off the better, it's poisonous little shits like you that make humanity look bad tbh. Age brings experience and knowledge of the mistakes that were made by others, mistakes like believing whatever the nearest demagogue is trying to sell. This is knowledge that must be passed on to young people so they don't end up making the same mistakes.

So eh did he not pay taxes on his earnings to date? Is he not going to pay money for the cures which will also benefit everyone else? Do you feel you have the right to somehow demand more?

How did a comment this ignorant get modded up?

From Schneier on Security:

The chainsaw is for dealing with a seat in front of you that's reclined a bit too far...

Yup Connections and The Day the Universe Changed were two of my favorite shows.

[ Don't really understand why I got modded Flamebait for my original post... ]

Thanks. I have my moments. Not many, mind you, but some, like this Re:Horrible idea. in a thread about "Better Living Through Nukes?" from 2009.

WHOOOOOSH!!!

That was GP's whole point: anybody stupid enough (or forgetful enough) to try to carry something like this onto a plane just isn't much of a threat.

TFA in a nutshell:

"We're going to discover all these neat behavioral things via neurobiology, and change the world!"

It doesn't say they've actually discovered any of these things yet. Just that they plan to.

It reads very much like this.

This is a common syndrome in erstwhile free societies: the police are always complaining that they can't catch criminals, that they need more leeway and exemptions from the law themselves in order to do so.

And when people believe them, the inevitable result is less freedom and more Big Brother.

Anybody who thinks Snowden did not ultimately do us all a huge favor isn't seeing straight.

Oh look, here come the same "social engineers" that brought us soaring male suicide rates and burgeoning single motherhood with it's associated social outcomes, except this time they want to get their clammy hands on the children. They even use the same postmodernistic deconstructivist language as every likeminded gang of merry marxists.

Stop trying to redefine things through ideological lenses you muppets, science doesn't work that way even if you do manage to convince the gullible that it does for a while.

Congratulations, someone watched the How We Got to Now episode, Cold.