That crap gets rated as Insightful and gets 5 points? Wow. Tell you what. Name ONE, just one, UN resolution considered to be against North Korea that they have willingly obeyed. In fact, to be blunt, the whole reason that there are two Koreas instead of one unified and horribly backwards united Korean under Kim family despotism is because the UN Security Council authorized the use of force against North Korea's invasion when the Soviet Union infamously boycotted the meeting, only to find out the Security Council actually could take a vote without them there.

Wherever you get your degree, don't run up a fortune in debt to pay for it. It would be better to not get it at all then to run up, say, $30,000 or more of debt to pay off - in my opinion. I do agree with you that it probably really is harder and harder to get jobs without a 4 year degree. I've seen this happen to IT people I know who don't have 4 year degrees and get laid off.

And he forgot to call Obama a "socialist". Also some kind of shot at "Obamacare" is always called for in such matters.

Here's the truth about Beowufl. The poem sucks. Even if it's in a language you can read, it still sucks. When I was in college I read some of the great historical works of the past in Europe, some in translations, some in the original language (if I knew it), and Beowulf was by far the least interesting "classic" work I have ever read. The fact that Tolkien cared about it means nothing to me nor most people. Want proof that while this is of interest to the Tolkien fan boys, nobody else cares? Some years ago Robert Zemeckis, who is a directory I generally like, decided that everybody was just dying to see an adaptation of the film. It made about 60% of what it cost to make it. The truth is, most people don't care. The story sucks and few are interested in it.

And exactly how much, fan boys, do you think his translation is going to bring to the table any way? If it's vastly different than what came before it, then somebody blew it. Either Tolkien's is different because the people before him were really bad at translation and botched it, his is different because he is taking massive liberties with his translation and making assumptions that the original text may not actually support, or it's going to be barely different at all because there's just not that much difference between proper translations. I've done some translation work in my day and if done properly, there just shouldn't be all that much variation between different translations. I suppose Tolkien might use a word order better suited for modern readers or use less complicated words that convey the same meaning as previous translations, and I'd praise him for that, but such things should really be fairly minor versus previous translations.

One of the problems is that the number of people who are actually eager to work under these conditions is quite large. I've found that some people like startups because they cannot handle working for large companies at all. Also, I've found that some people who work for a startup that actually made it get very arrogant and decide that it succeeded because they were geniuses and any old company they join in the future simply cannot fail because they'll be part of it. It's been a little amusing to watch from a distance as some of these people have to keep looking for new jobs because the new startups they went to don't make it.

Fox does whatever it takes to get viewers/readers, including playing both sides of the issue. This was vividly demonstrated to me a few years ago when a guy I knew in high school and is a Facebook friend was posting some anti-vaccine nut job article to support his view. He posted a link to an article on Fox News from a NY pediatrician who was warning parents that the flu vaccine (this when during the flu scare of a few years ago when the government recommended getting children immunized against the flu) was likely to lead to autism and all kinds of nasty things. At the exact same time there was a different article written by Fox New's own Dr. Manny touting the benefits of the flu vaccine for everybody, including children.

Unfortunately our question has been modded way down and he'll probably never see it because it's more important for him to have 50 questions on Bab5 trivia.

Here's my question - What's the deal with the Forbidden Planet prequel/sequel/remake/reimagining/whatever your name was linked with some years ago? I've heard all kinds of rumors. One was that you finished a script but it got stolen and posted on the internet and that killed the project, Other rumors have this being a prequel, a sequel, a film set in the same universe and all kinds of things. I love the original film so if there's ever a chance of you being involved in something related, I'd love to know whatever you can tell, even if it's not much.

I know you are joking, but actually Jesse and others have an ongoing issue with MLB (Major League Baseball) that Blacks are "underrepresented" right now. What they fail to mention is that there are actually plenty of Blacks and Latinos in MLB right now. If anything, they are maybe overrepresented, but many Blacks in MLB are not American, they are from other countries, mostly the Dominican Republic. MLB leaders take Jesse seriously and they throw up their hands and cry "Woe is us! We must fix this heinous problem!" but people have looked into it and nobody really knows what is going on. There doesn't seem to be any discrimination at all going on with the players and all anybody can figure is that young Black guys in the US simply don't play baseball in large numbers any more. But MLB has a program to "change this" so it seems for the moment to have pacified Jesse and his buds. If I remember correctly, a few years ago the Atlanta Braves were specifically mentioned as an example of this kind of supposed discrimination but at the time they had plenty of players of color on the team, it's just that none of them were American born. That is not currently true as they have several American born Black players on the current team.

Correct. And the scientist in question said it may indicate the presence of waves, giving him some wiggle room if a future mission goes there and finds that basically everything is frozen solid.

If you have a plan that can actually "force" politicians to eliminate the loopholes, please post it, but I've come to the conclusion that it doesn't matter anyway. The rich (including corporations) will always find a way to avoid paying taxes and if you eliminate these loopholes, they'll find some others that nobody knows exist right now. Lawyers and accountants both excel at this. In the past when politicians have tried to plug holes in laws, somebody comes right behind them and drills a legal hole in the plug.

As someone who actually been to that part of the world, I can assure you that very few Russians would actually take advantage of it as believe it or not, most of them are not very interested in living in the USA and they don't see themselves living under an "oppressive government". The ones who don't like the government and have real skills have already left for other parts of Europe. The ones who probably would come here under your offer are people you'd likely regret being here as they wouldn't really be coming for love of America and its freedom but for some less honorable reason like escaping military service.

Yes. Basically there are 3 major health issues involving children that seem (more on that later) to have just exploded in the last 20 years and medical science have no answers as to why. They are:
1) Peanut allergies.
2) ADHD.
3) Austism.
As an American, I can only give my personal experience, but if you ask anyone over the age of 40 if as a child they ever knew anybody with a peanut allergy, you'll hear "No". I suppose someone might be the exception, but this was just simply unheard of anywhere when I was a child. Peanuts were ubiquitous as was peanut butter.

For many decades now, Americans have been struggling to determine why their kids are messed up. Each decade comes up with a different answer. In the 1990s and maybe early 2000s, the easy answer was to declare any problem to be the result of ADHD. Even things that were just normal life events (ie. a kid doesn't pay attention in class because he is bored) were chalked up to ADHD. This just became the medical world's and parents' answer to any problem at all. Junior threw a fit because you wouldn't give him $10? Well, it's not his fault. He's got ADHD. Every school room in America had multiple kids diagnosed as ADHD. Now I'm not saying it doesn't exist, but I don't believe for a minute it exists in the numbers claimed.

Then there was an explosion in autism. Just this week I read that 1 in 55 kids is autistic to some extent. That is just a staggering number. It raises questions that we have no answers for at this time. Are those diagnoses correct? Is something causing autism to be more prevalent today than in the past? Was autism around in the past in the same numbers but we just weren't very good at detecting it? Nobody knows. So now there are all these seriously messed up kids in numbers seemingly never detected before and parents want to know why. So that UK doctor kook came out with his paper showing that vaccinations were to blame because they all used mercury. People generally don't like getting injections, so that was all they needed to hear that those vaccines must be causing it. Plus the fact that they were effective meant that since nobody knew anybody who actually had the diseases, the idea came out that we were risking health of the children for nothing. Finally, due to poor science teaching in the US, it became a general belief among the stupider parts of the US that vaccines were black magic anyway and nobody knew why they worked or if they worked and the whole thing wasn't any more scientific than being told to drink stump water under the light of a full moon. So all that has combined to create a climate in which significant numbers of people actually believe that vaccines are harmful and it's so obvious that they do much more harm than good that only crazy people would give them to their kids.

I enjoy class warfare at times, but you are just dead wrong here in two ways. First of all, the flight was going from Malaysia (I assume Kuala Lumpur) to Beijing. This is not a "trans-pacific" flight. Second, as someone who is hardly rich and has actually flown trans-pacific, the flights are expensive but not insanely so. It is possible for average people to afford to fly such routes.

My ISP, who is not Comcast but another major American ISP, also blocks certain websites via DNS failures. Simply switching DNS to Google's DNS servers or FreeDNS resolved the problem.