Hollywood has set the bar so low you'd need trenching equipment not to clear it. Every big-budget movie in 2015 will be a sequel or reboot. Pretty much the only Hollywood fare that I expect to be a little original are the superhero movies, which while they'll be a predictable sack of tropes, we've seen new stories within the established comic book worlds, so at least some original writing within that constraint (plus utter shit like the Spiderman stuff).

Ooooh, obscure web reference for the win :)

The Borg is authoritarian. Starfleet is, ostensibly, Democractic. Both are communist. It works well because there are unlimited, cheap resources, so everyone gets everything. Of course it's science fiction :)

Humorously enough, the joke capitalist enemy (really, all of STTNG season 1 was garbage, not just that episode) became perhaps the best character in DS9, and the only one who really seemed to have his act together.

Really, I'm leaning the same way but if they did...my question is how stupid do you have to be do to it. As well hotwheels has something up as well, telling mootles to talk to him about something a mod or couple of mods sent him. A lot of stuff flying around the biggest theory is that the ddos against infinite chan was done by a group of mods with his consent. Whether or not that holds true, we'll find out in the next day and a half.

Yep. Here's one if you haven't seen it yet, the sql database for "lizard stresser" is in the wild now, and there's apparently some very interesting email addresses in there. Including information on the person who paid $500 to DDoS 2ch and 8ch.

So I guess that means there's no child porn on infinite chan right. In other words, he made it all up in order to slander gamergate and infinite chan. Well that sure make it easy doesn't it? It's always nice when people come right out into the clear like that, and simply prove what everyone already knows. That when someone doesn't have something substantive, their only recourse is slander and libel.

No it's a euphemism for a group of people who whine, bitch and moan because they think they're special snowflakes and would rather the world work on their idea of justice, or promotion. Instead of merit, and law. Note that the UVA scandal is an example of SJW's in action, so was the whining and moaning over Mozilla's president being fired for making donations on his own time to a group.

You can try and label it as the "scary conservative bogyman" but you're only proving one thing. That you actually have no substantial argument that people are right in calling them the bottom feeders of society.

Gawker lost 7 figures in ad revenue in a couple months after the "bring back bullying" comment. You'd think /. could take the hint about which side of these issues has the money. This site has been in "controlled flight into terrain" since Taco left. Now we know why - I never had such respect for him as I do now, seeing what he chose to avoid.

It isn't often that we actually use a wordprocessor now, its all done online...

Who exactly is this "we"?

"Critics who treat 'adult' as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up."

-- C.S. Lewis

They sang that lyric, but the printed lyric books read "You cannot have made a choice". I've always loved the fact that they described agnosticism both ways.