You can back up your DVD to your laptop, the trick is to avoid calling up Dan Glickman and letting him know to torrent it off your comp.

It's only illegal if you get caught. As long as you're the only one watching them, I'm pretty sure you're not going to turn yourself in.

Helmsman: "But sir, she'll fly apart!"

Cpt. Sulu: "Fly her apart then!"

Isn't leadership the ability to convince a lot of other people (who may or may not agree with you initially) that what you want is actually what they all want?

I like how you can present this as if it were fact or in anyway demonstrable through evidence. Or that the corollary, that businesses are superior at managing, would also be true.

Organizations, both public and private, are as good or as poor as the people that make up the organization. I think the current economic crisis would be an excellent example of how private organizations can be as terrible at their task as you think all public organizations are.

If you had been reading the Consumerist recently, you would have known that they recently updated Michael Dell's email address. "michael@dell.com" is the direct line.

Depends if the mammoths will greet us as ressurectors once we get there. I think we could get the whole species going for $80 billion, at most! Even better, once we get their population stable once again, they'll be able to start underwriting our initial investment in their country... Wait, what were we talking about again?

You weren't forced to make an Avatar. When I did my update, I wanted to get to test Netflix as quickly as possible, so I just pulled up the guide and exited out of the Avatar builder to the dashboard. Just like before with any other application.

You're complaining about having to do too many clicks around the interface? With the old blades, you had to cycle to the blade you wanted, say Marketplace, and then scroll down to the category you wanted. Same with the new system, but instead of moving through the categories horizontally, you scroll through them vertically and then choose your category or item by scrolling horizontally. Except now the categories and items are laid out in only two axes rather than having items scattered all through out the blade they were on. The layout is cleaner and more logical because of the changes.

MSFT didn't promise that they were keeping the blades. They specifically said that the NXE was to replace the blade system and that the blades would only be preserved in the Guide system.

The Avatars may be useless and silly, but really, an "eyesore"? Maybe you should make a better looking one?

I'm happy to finally have an OS that's responsive and allows me to scroll through and read descriptions for items quickly. I think you're a bit worked up over the idea of "change" so much that you can't see the improvements.

I can buy the retconning of Kirk being a classic car gear head. ST:TWOK established that Kirk was big on antiques and other items of historical significance. It makes sense that Kirk had an early interest in more exciting forms of antiques (e.g. classic hot rods). He probably needed that excitement out in Iowa and that region would have certainly given him the space to have such a hobby (in contrast to someone who grew up in San Francisco or on a starbase).