White roofs? Really? That's the closest you could get to insulation? You've got a long way to troll before you troll, troll.

Never ascribe to stupidity that which can be explained by greedy self-interest. She's not disconnected from reality, she's trying to disconnect you and me from reality.

She doesn't seem to be very good at it.

With a little more insulation than usual, you can do that pretty much anywhere in the USA. Oddly, California has higher standards for insulation than pretty much anywhere in the USA. We would very much like the rest of you to catch up sometime.

Right, just the majority of available coal. We've used up the most convenient deposits of it, just like everything else.

Which suggests the question, is that actually that wonderful? Also, whether it's being collected. Maybe in Germany. Not in the USA or China, though.

...make poisonous drywall out of it, as they have done in China?

Assuming you believe those figures.

You can mostly thank our massive population. There are more people living in and around Los Angeles alone than the population of at least half the states in the nation — probably far more if you count illegals correctly, something the census can never possibly accomplish.

Indeed, California is 49th in per capita energy use, no doubt due in large part to having the largest population in the nation.

Japan announced it was cancelling Christmas today. I was so happy until I remembered what the date is. Damn you, April Fools, for getting my hopes up.

It's not so much sequels, it's a desire to see the story played out to conclusion and then ended without pointless cash-ins. Trek was cancelled too early, many of the sequel/remake movies are pointless.

The guy who plays Kirk in Continues is a better Shatner than Shatner is. He has all the mannerisms and speech patterns down perfectly. I could believe it was the same character, the same person. Only, he's actually slightly better, slightly less camp and with a more expressive face.

A good actor can bring something special to a film, but for something like Star Wars they don't need that. In fact if you look objectively at the original films the acting was pretty terrible, but that didn't really matter. A lot of movies are like that these days.

It's the same with music. A lot of modern stuff has very "powerful" vocals with lots of acrobatics, but it's all just AutoTune and half a dozen takes stitched together. Around 1990 there was a switch from writing music for the vocals to writing vocals for the music, and at that point vocal talent started to matter much less. Like movies, for some bands it was never very important anyway.

Depends which movie star you mean. Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson? Vin Diesel? Wouldn't be hard to find better actors than those guys.

The Rock is famous because he was a wrestler. Some actresses are famous for being naked and having fake boobs. I think Megan Fox is only famous because her arse looks nice on a bike or something... Acting ability is not important for many roles. Schwarzenegger can't act but was perfect in the role of an emotionless machine that can't act.

All the FIVE EYES countries get other countries to spy on their own citizens when they can't, so even if what you say is true it just means that the NSA does likewise and asks GCHQ for intel on US citizens that it isn't allowed to gather. It ignores security laws to allow GCHQ to do that on its behalf.

The NSA also helps GCHQ and other national crime^H^H^H^H^Hspy agencies subvert and pervert the laws of their own countries through its foreign spying programmes.

Right, the government said so, so don't worry, taxpayer!

You just cited a document that relies on arguments like " Radioactive elements in coal and fly ash should not be sources of alarm. The vast majority of coal and the majority of fly ash are not significantly enriched in radioactive elements, or in associated radioactivity, compared to common soils or rocks." That's nice. We're not burning common soils or rocks and dispersing them into the atmosphere. The whole fucking article is like that, and you are a useful idiot at best.

If it also replaces chromecast by accepting screencasts from Android devices, then I'm in. I was going to buy a Razer Forge, but that was supposed to be out already and it isn't, so I guess Razer just sucks eggs like usual

A number of the kids from the Potter movies have actually gone on to get work, and meanwhile pretty much everyone else in both movies was famous before they were in either picture.