About the only actor in the reboots that I feel comes anywhere close to the original is Karl Urban as McCoy. Pine is just awful, and other than wearing the same shirt, has nothing in common with Shatner's Kirk. Zachary Quinto could probably be a passable Spock, if he wasn't waited with bad dialogue and pointless asides like the romantic angle with Uruha.

All in all, the reboots to me are little more than a series of films that vaguely resemble Star Trek, but in no substantial way evoke the original series' strengths, or even attempt to create the kind of chemistry that the Kirk-Spock-McCoy triad had. Now maybe it is impossible, as chemistry between actors isn't something you can really force, but heck these fan productions do a far better job of evoking the friendship than a multi million dollar film with one of Hollywood's "ace" directors and a cast filled with all the young beautiful people that one could possibly get under one roof.

I have as well. I feel it's money better spent than the money I forked over for the reboot films. At least when I look at the screen, I'm seeing what I consider the Star Trek experience, as opposed to a generic action film that happens to have the USS Enterprise.

Unlike the two reboot films.

They're okay, but not nearly enough lens flare, and man oh man, shot length is insane. I really do demand far more quick cuts and dialogue needs to be cut to about three words per cut. Being a modern viewer, I don't want to hear all that blah-blah-blah, and just want to be nailed with a solid hour of uninterpretable action, shallow dialogue, even shallow characterization, and bad (or possibly even missing) plotting.

Because Alzheimer's doesn't cause "retardation".

Sure, but the telco should still sanity check the ANI provided to make sure it's a number permitted over that PRI (or whatever you're calling with). IE: if you order a PRI with a 100 block of DIDs, the telco should reject any number that's not within your block of DIDs. If you want outbound calls to match your toll free, fine, but you should have to register that with the telco to permit it.

I think an argument can be made for keeping imams known to preach violent jihad under surveillance, much as the FBI probably keeps a close eye on white suppremacist preachers who preach violent overthrow of government and racial violence.

I've even seen such complex documents munged in Word. Modern word processors really do suck at large complex documents, which is why there is Latex.

I can't speak to docx compatibility, but I know xlsx compatibility has some sharp limitations where newer features in later versions of Excel are present.

Indeed. This comes awfully close to Thought Crime.

What I could understand, though I do struggle with it, is identifying those that appear to approve of terrorism, and keeping an eye on them. But of course that would be abused.

Applying the Cameron Solution, all we need to do is ban spam... or email. I confess I'm not quite clear.

Or in Canada it would be 150 yards (110 yards for the playing surface, and 20 yards for each end zone). I still don't understand how the damned yanks can play on such a postage stamp of a field...

Do you apply your nihilistic philosophy to all branches of science?

And what exactly does that mean? I can give you a list of biologists who claim Intelligent Design is true. It's a small list, dwarfed by the number of biologists who outright repudiate ID.

The funny thing about science is that it doesn't give a fuck about your ideology.