You make it hard to tell left from right wing.

Why surprisingly? Cause Family Guy is all fart jokes...right?
Those ones with Stewie and the nerdy stuff like Star Trek and Star Wars are actually the writings of Seth Green who's known for his Phd. in Astrophysics and action figure collection.

Thank you, I +1 you 78k.

I've just been adding Cheap Whore to my abilities section. I'll try your method.

Well SlashDot's motto use to be "News for Nerds"... now it's blank? Maybe it should be "Vaguely geeky stuff that happened at some point."

You're thinking of the "gorilla in the corner". "Seeing pink elephants" is a euphemism for drunken hallucination, caused by alcoholic hallucinosis or delirium tremens. [Wiki]
Unless you meant Putin is a vodka swilling Russian who's off his rocker.

You scoff now, but Smell-O-Vision-Rama is the wave of the future my friend!

No, P2P sharing is still illegal: http://www.musicbymailcanada.com/privcopy.html
If you borrow your friend's CD and make a copy that's fine, but if you rip that CD (or MP3 from iTunes) and share that copy online, it's illegal.
That's what they are talking about in the article above. Canada has sane laws in regards to copyright, but it's not free-for-all anarchy either.

Sorta... well no, It's still highly illegal and you can get sued for making an illegal copy.
For example: some Canadians got sued for coping "Hurt Locker" (The erotic comedy about two gay shoe store employees and their love of leather uppers.)
The tax was a socialist attempt to remedy the issue but in reality it's just a tax for the sake of tax.
IMHO: I don't even think it's the money Sadam and the other organizations are after, it's more about the distribution control, since it gives them credence to exist at all.

Science fiction isn't about the science, it's about exploring the human condition using a back drop that is alien to our everyday experiences.

However, I think you should look into "hard science fiction", Wiki has a nice list of books: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_science_fiction

Is the only way now to be an immoral asshole that tramples humanity?

There's this theory floating around that the universe is a simulation on a computer, and that computer could be in a universe that is also a simulation, etc. A never ending series of Matryoshka doll universes.
So at first I thought it was just Will Wright saying this, and that he was off his rocker, but some actual scientific work is going to try and prove it.

What are your thoughts? Wagers? Derisive laughter perhaps?

Agree completely, and the problem with a civet battery-farm is that an element of why the coffee tastes good is lost.
It's not just that they eat and poop out the beans. It's also the fact they are picky about which beans they eat in the wild.

Range compression ( http://news.cnet.com/8301-13645_3-10360787-47.html ) has done more to destroy the subtitles of music than lossey/lossless formats.

No Billie Dee Williams? But he's got no work all the time.