Mod points. Mod points!! My kingdom for mod points!!!

You are so right - it's amazing to think I've been playing Wasteland off and on for almost 23 years. Yikes!

So after reading your post and battling a fit of nostalgia, I was lamenting that I can't play my old DOS games on my Mac without some serious tweaking to Parallels. So I did a quick search, and found Boxer. It took me less than four minutes from finding the website to having Wasteland running in an OSX-native window.

I am in love.

Here are a couple:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1265676/Britney-Spears-releases-airbrushed-images-digitally-altered-versions.html

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/11/photo-alteration-analysis/?intcid=story_ribbon&pid=2550&viewall=true

I'm a musician as well, and I agree - it should apply to all media, not just music.

I have bought lim->(0) new CDs in the past five years. But every time I go to a show or meet a musician whose music I like, I will buy merchandise and/or give a donation directly to the artist. Usually that donation is about $10-$20, which is the revenue equivalent (in most cases) to buying 20-40 CDs. I support the artists I like directly and generously, without benefiting the major labels and their litigious associations. No one should confuse my lack of support for the labels as a lack of support - monetary support - for the artists themselves.

"How is it sane to rip artists off and never pay them for their work?"

You're right, it's insane. Someone really needs to prevent the major labels and their *AA thugs from doing that.

...and why Citigroup, General Motors, Chrysler, and Bank of America aren't.

I can't speak for anyone else, but I bought a PS3 (and PS2 and Playstation) specifically to play a couple of select games. Since I've already made the investment, I'll probably continue to buy those games in new installments when they're released. However, I will make damn sure that I test each game before I buy it, so I don't make any more mistaken purchases (Black Ops, anyone?). This policy will also prevent me from purchasing any games on impulse, which I've done often in the past. (I bought Stuntman: Ignition on a whim, and it's one of the most fun games I've played on the PS3.)

So Instead of being the center of my video gaming universe, my PS3 is now relegated to being a niche piece of hardware for playing a couple of games. Kind of sad, really.

Science and religion/philosophy fundamentally ask different questions. Philosophy attempts to address the question 'why are we here?', while science looks for answers to 'how are we here?'. Science and religion only seem to be mutually exclusive when someone crosses domains and attempts to explain the other's question with the wrong tool - and it's in this way that people like Richard Dawkins and the medieval Catholic Church are unfortunately very closely related. Allow science to explore only the mechanism of life, and religion to explore only the mysteries of being, and you'll never find a conflict.

All right, so what is the correct Latin term?

It was all about the shiny colors. (Which, to be fair, were gorgeous.) And that it was done by Cameron, because, hey, it's Cameron, right? It must be Oscar-worthy! (Don't even get me started on why in Titanic there was noticeable reverb on people's voices IN THE MIDDLE OF THE OCEAN.)