...thank God.

I think you misunderstand my meaning. The people who had slaves were not worrying about taking Saturday and Sunday off because they had slaves. It was a seven-day weekend for them.

I think "weekend" is a more recent development. More likely, they traveled out to the villa in the 'burbs when the smell in the city got to be too much or there was sweltering heat. I wonder if people who owned slaves back then even thought in terms of "workday" or "vacation".

These are the stories I want to see

"Never let the truth get in the way of a good story." - Mark Twain.

Telling such a complex story in 90 minutes is not trivial. All dramatizations require fictional mechanisms that leave certain things out and include other things. I will bet that even those wikipedia entries you describe are incomplete, self-serving, and miss the truth by varying degrees. It's OK. Stories are how we pass along meaning. An exact 1:1 match with reality is not desirable, nor does it make it more likely that the viewer will come away with understanding. And devotion to the precise truth will definitely not make for indelible absorption of meaning.

If someone saw The Imitation Game and learned of Turing and then went on to maybe read a book or look him up online, then it's done its job. People who are not curious enough to do that will probably not be harmed by being told a good story.

The Imitation Game has been out almost six months and there are no new Turings yet! It has clearly failed to inspire the next Turing.

Also, the magic green beans I planted yesterday still haven't grown, so I'm gonna chalk that up as a failure, too. The subzero temperatures should not matter.

Has the internet made everyone stupid, or just headline writers?

I'm not joking but what the hell are they going to get by attacking a mall for god sakes!

Mentioned on Slashdot?

Seriously, I think it's all about being as shitty as possible. It's like 8chan with religious self-justification.

What could be funnier that exploding babies?

We have that game already: http://youtu.be/RH1u2kzd0Zg

Arranged marriage: worked for me. But failed for a lot more

I guess it matters who's doing the arranging. One of the happiest couples I know were an arranged marriage, but the parents who did the arranging were some extraordinary people with great sensitivity, understanding of their young people and remarkable wit.

I shudder to think who my mom would have arranged me with. Certainly not with the woman I've been married to for 27 years, that's for sure. Don't get me wrong, I love my mom, but she didn't know what I like in women. And my wife's parents certainly would never have chosen me.

I had one of the Sony "tummy buster" portable TVs when I was a young'n. Used to watch White Sox games in bed on school nights.

Carbon HDMI cable

A steal at $144.75.

But then this is for people that buy those Monster HDMI, Ethernet and other digital signaling cables.

Don't you dare make fun of my $120 cable elevators.

http://www.musicdirect.com/p-9...

How did you go about that? It sounds like EVP for chips?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

With the knowledge we now have about the level and expertise of the NSA / CIA et al to access most so-called "secure drop boxes", why would any sane person use such a "drop box"?

Unless you believe the ongoing Snowden revelations are part of an elaborate false flag operation, there are still precautions that can be taken to get the information out.

The question is, does selling secrets via bitcoin make us more secure or less secure, as opposed to giving those secrets away, especially through a selected group of trusted journalists, like Bart Gellman, Laura Poitras, etc? You let the journalists make decisions regarding whether information therein put anyone's life in danger, and you build in redundancy by using more than one journalist at more than one news organization.

You've gotta admit, the system Snowden and Poitras et al designed to get that information public was pretty elegant. Especially in an age of ubiquitous surveillance and endangerment to whistleblowers.

As I said, if you're responsibly leaking stolen secrets, you're a hero. If you're selling stolen information, you're a scumbag. The profit motive makes all the difference in the world, and completely poisons the well when it's the whistleblower making the profit.

The fact is, sites like this and Wikileaks are no longer useful for this sort of thing.

When every major news organization has its own secure drop box, there's less of a need. But there is still a need for an anonymous place for whistleblowers to share leaks with the world. Fortunately, there will be lots of those.

whistleblowers aren't criminals, deviants, seditionists, terrorists, or perverted sex fiends.

Correct. You just described the people who will be using Darkleaks.