The MOR for TSG shows total assets as $0 (yes, that's "zero"), down from $1,326,293 on petition date, and total liabilities of $1,119,238, up from $418,965 on petition date. The MOR for TSG Operations shows total assets as $1,515,129, down from $15,493,080 on petition date, and total liabilities of $9,739,295, up from $4,311,640 on petition date. Go SCO! It was not bankrupt when it entered bankruptcy protection, but it surely is now.

Total assets: $1,515,129. Total Debt: $10,858,533

Hmm... SCO's in a world of hurt. I'm trying to figure out how they can even get lawyers to work with them at this point, unless they're using a 'We don't get paid unless you get paid!' ambulance chaser-type personal liability attorney.

Hey, IBM. That's a total of $12,373,662. According to your 2010 income report, it looks like you're making a net of about 14 billion dollars a year... literally more than a thousand times that. And I'm thinking that at least some of that $10.9m is owed to you. If you guys negotiate a bit with the other creditors, I'm betting you could simply up and purchase all SCO's assets for about $2-4m.

That's lunch money for a company like IBM. It's less than a certain Kickstart project we've all been reading about.

Think about the good will you could create by taking a dump truck to what's left of SCO and then public-domaining the entire shebang.

And while all this fear mongering, submission to armed authority, 'convenience arrests', and security theater is happening, thousands of Americans will be singing

"mumble mumble mumble something something Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave!"

*shakes head sadly*

Yeah. Enjoy the game. Really. There's not a lot else left now, is there?

Phil,

I was recently reading through some of the '2012 hysteria' on your site and your affiliates... mostly responses to uneducated or superstitious people who've bought into the 'The End is Nigh' madness.

Since I grew up in a similar environment, I've also been watching the apocalyptic religious fervor surrounding people like Harold Camping with some horror.

My understanding is that this kind of thing tends to peak near century markers... 'End of the Century == End of the World', so theoretically, the silliness should be tapering off. Right?

What is your experience on this? Are we seeing a slowdown to the 'End of World' craziness, or is it going to get worse?

Yeah, Sony earned my ongoing boycott well before the 'Other OS' fiasco. I've refused to buy Sony anything since the rootkit'd CDs incident. I haven't regretted my decision once.

I even try to avoid purchasing anything that pays a license to Sony. That's more difficult, but doable if you do the research.

1. Pick a substance that can be shipped to space fairly gracefully in large, thin, flexible sheets. You'd need BIG sheets. This can either be something that is already adhesive or can be activated or coated with adhesive in orbit. Either way, it should be cheap and disposable. The edges of this material should be fairly durable so that if it tears, the torn bits will hang on to the edges. High relative-velocity impacts should either go right through the material or stick to it.

2. Attach a small, single-use, steerable rocket to one corner of each sheet. These need not be designed to stand the test of time but should be durable enough not to break apart on use.

3. Ship many of these to a 'messy' orbit as cheaply as possible. Deploy, unfold, and activate the adhesive as necessary, preferably without any kind of human-aided EVA. Ideally this should be done with the cheapest, lightest of rockets, and activation and unfolding is something that should happen entirely electronically.

4. Let these orbit a few times, sweeping up crap. Monitor from the ground via telescope.

5. Activate the single-use rocket remotely to nudge the whole mess into reentry.

6. Repeat as necessary to clean the orbit.

Well, EXCUUUSE ME
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First, how the hell is 'supernatural' not the same thing as 'possessed'? Y'wanna quibble on fine points or personal definitions?

Second, anyone who wants the long version of the story is more than welcome to click the link. I didn't feel the need to discuss the merits of loli-vampires, loli-snakes, the almost-entirely conversation-driven nature of the story, its light-novel origins, or even Studio Shaft's over-the-top psychedelic animation. This is a discussion on the merits of breaking copyright for the greater good.

If you want to pit Araragi-kun against Mr. Cullen, or want to talk shit on the story, /a/ is on a different website.

You think U.S. fans would know what to expect from a title like Bakemonogatari is without having seen a fansub first?

Turns out that the aforementioned title is a popular romantic fantasy story about a young ex-vampire and the various supernatural girls he meets. Its title is probably best translated as 'Ghost Story'.

Despite the relative obscurity of both the story and the source material, It has a fairly strong U.S. fanbase that will likely make publishing a run of Region 1 DVDs profitable for both the Japanese and North American companies involved.

Without fansubs, that market simply wouldn't exist and everyone would miss out.

I've always thought that Child's Play was the most fantastic take on this. Video games distract you from the suck when you're sick or in pain. Gabe, Tycho, and thousands of gamers have grown up in the last couple decades experiencing that and have brought the same relief to lots of kids.

These guys are in Seattle. They need to hook up.

Can't we just save the effort and convict 'Anonymous' in absentia? It'd be much more efficient.

Err... no. No you can't, at least in the U.S.. I'm not sure if you Limeys still enjoy the right since you've gutted the Magna Carta so well, but in the U.S., it's coded into the Constitution that anyone charged with a crime has the right to face their accuser and defend themselves in a fair trial.

You can bring charges against a 'John Doe', here, but you can't convict or sentence them before they have a chance to go before a jury.