They are very good. They get all the notes of the original as close to exactly-right as you could possibly expect of a production. I would go so far as to say a studio would do worse because they'd want to interject some new concept.

It takes me 5 minutes of each episode to get used to "Kirk's" higher-pitched voice, but that incongruity fades rather quickly. And, sorry, but I keep expecting Grant to unleash a robot.

Regardless, the first three were better "TV" than most of what's on broadcast today. And I suppose there's an outside chance that the success of "Continues" will have an influence on how Paramount views the fanbase.

Nero had his fiddle. History rhymes.

Look, if there's a need for cyberwarfare (let's assume the premise) then bring it under the Pentagon and let the NSA get back to purely defensive infrastructure stuff. There should not be a rogue civillian agency making War, if for no other reason than that the real Generals need full situational awareness.

That means better/more efficient distribution and smarter inventorying, and clearly they're not interested ... Lowes seems to be able to stock copper parts at $0.15-0.40 a piece, and you can buy a whole range of bolts, screws, and nuts for as little as $0.05 a piece.

Hrm. I was going to argue but you convinced me. +1

If only, with small parts costing 10-100 times as much on Digikey, which is often not even the cheapest US online source.

Uh, yeah, I guess one time Digikey had a 1 cent part and Radio Shack was charging a dollar for it...

Until you figure in shipping, convenience, or maintaining a thousand storefronts instead of a catalog warehouse.

Were you actually implying this is an intelligent comparison? Nobody goes to RadioShack to look for parts to build a new consumer electronics device for their employer.

When did the Iron Curtain between Russia and U.S. went up on the International Space Station?

Don't worry, they had to show their papers at the border. We're still safe from external threats - support your local Congressman.

In related news, Wiktionary has been forced to drop 10% of its words due to storage space limitations...

I'm imagining that "Junior" dictionaries are things distant aunts buy their nieces and nephews whom they don't really know, such that the aunt should really be the target market of the demographic research on word inclusion.

The spectrum should never ever have been sold off. Only licensed and regulated to prevent conflicts.

But the purpose of a government is to privatize profits and socialize risks. Other arrangements don't require violence to back them.

But what's done is done. We all have to live with the consequences of this and many other short-sighted actions.

There's never been a permanent government in the history of the human race.

Cute. Meanwhile, if they live under any kind of fascist government regime, they usually have minimum seven-year retention policies on many kinds of data, or risk facing prison sentences.

I know, if she didn't want her emails stolen, she shouldn't have been using such a cute ad-dress.

Indeed. Humans are returning to the Moon.

That is not a skill set most IT departments have.

Many IT departments don't even have enough skill overage to deal with one guy being sick, much less have excess expert capacity.

Back in the 90's I watched a big medical center show the door to the guy who maintained the disaster recovery plan. He was "a cost center and never produced anything that anybody used."

That's about the timeframe when professional IT ended in the general population. Or maybe it's just when the general population got an IT staff.

If you're self-employed, have investment income, or asset depreciation, you probably already do your taxes with a real CPA. If you aren't, you probably should.

This is bad advice for typical small businesses. I once paid a CPA $1200 only to find that he missed all sorts of deductions that Turbotax found.

Hire a pro when it goes beyond the scope of what a computer program can do and hire a computer program when exhaustive rote is called for.

It's not a given that low voter turnout is a problem. We don't need more low-information voters (89% agree that DHMO should be banned) and we don't need to coerce those who do not vote to signal their non-consent to the system.

Blockchain technology could make voting more reliable, but that's a separate issue - don't confuse the two.

There is on the other hand a societal problem of people abusing those who don't or can't conform. It doesn't matter if its the color of your skin or your sexual interests.

Well, of course, that's the whole point - to marginalize the "out group" and in this case, gain political favor by oppressing them.

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights to which Russia is a signatory, says:

Article 13: You have the right to move about freely within your country. You also have the right to travel to and from your own country, and to leave any country.

And this has always been interpreted to mean "in the common manner of travel", not that humans must be allowed to crawl from place to place through a forest while dragging a dead ox. So Russia's claim is a clear human rights violation by the standards of International Law (not that it has power) even if they aren't protected by their own laws.

But propaganda is a powerful thing. You should hear the number of Americans who parrot the "driving is a privilege" propaganda that Drivers Ed. courses teach, despite the UDHR and the 5th Amendment to the US Constitution. It's a powerful technique, and even after people have had the logic shown to them, they will still argue for the diminution of their own rights, because to acknowledge them would be to create a moral imperative to action, and that's not entertaining.

I was going to comment on the fact that a large proportion of the poor pay no income taxes

You all need to just stop with this nonsense already. When a poor single mother buys a $2.50 loaf of bread to make her kids sandwiches, 55 cents of that is going to pay the income taxes of the people in the production chain of getting that loaf of bread to the grocery store shelf. The income tax system imposes an effective but hidden retail sales tax-equivalent of 22%, which is incredibly regressive.

until the property tax rate is increased or a levy is passed to cover it, nobody will be paying extra for this :spring breaks: Where will this money come from that pays for everything associated with providing the education? Please don't say "Obama money". And don't say "print it" - that makes her loaf of bread go up in price.