clearly, tracking students based on their thumbprint, rather than by their student ID, which is exactly as linked to them, personally, is a bad thing.

The main download page? you mean "some guy's personal web page on a site that looks like it hasn't been updated since 1982, served over plain HTTP"?

chiark.grenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html ? looks like a legit, right?

Yes, it is entirely possible to create a nuclear shaped charge. The Orion project was going to use quite a bit of them to launch a spacecraft with a payload of 6100 Tons to 300 Mile Low Earth Orbit.

one of those parties is the customer, though

They weren't blacklisted. Stop with your damn conspiracy. IT was a movie in an industry that knows full well beginning actors aren't in the union.

You get your card AFTER you have done some work.

SHe is actually pretty good. The professional, Heat she is really good.

I suspect she has just picked poor scripts in most her roles.

Hey now! Teak has character. That's why it make beautiful furniture.

" Empire Strikes back is jumbled; no real beginning or end."

It's not supposed to. I understand that some people need simple stories wrapped up in a neat package, but don't blame the oive.

Just stick you your sitcom and laugh tracks, let the adults enjoy a story.

Maybe you should learn to enjoy build up and tension and not just pretty lights and explosions?

You're right about his acting ability, but the killer for the movie was direction. Portman is a much better actor, but lame script and mediocre director was what really did it in. I suspect if she was more mature at the time she could have pushed back on some of the script and direction choices.

All the hot grits in the world can't save her from that script.

And that skill is 23 throat punches a minute.

The first set dealt with unknowns in lead roles. The fact that one of them became a megastar is pretty good.

The last three where horrible directed.

Yeah, a 'eager' 125,000 for an entry level position.

Actors are paid too damn much.

Thanks to tunable lasers, it is now possible to selectively ionize by isotope and immensly simplify the process of enrichment.

and creating code which can be easily refactored is, itself, the key to maintainable code.

Agents don't care if you are good, only that you make money. There are a lot of mediocre actors that make their agents a lot of money.