Superman II is, to my mind, still the best of all the comic book films, and General Zod, as played by Terence Stamp, is right up there with Khan in the list of the great science fiction villains.

Superman II, particularly the restored Richard Donner cut, is a pretty fine film. The first one was, well, Superman, and like the first Star Wars was big more because it was the first in the series, and a major commercial success. But the second one gives a glimpse of a character that is ultimately pretty conflicted about himself and his role, and really eyes humans with a bit of jealousy.

And who asked the chimps if they wanted to be used in medical experiments?

When it comes to the Great Apes, I think there are serious ethical questions to be raised. These animals are our closest relatives, sharing, even if in lesser degrees, many of our cognitive and psychological features. I don't think it is going too far to call them sentient, and while I realize that this very close physiological and neurological relationship to humans make them valuable as test subjects, I just can't support their continued use in such a way.

There's nothing more fun than watching ignorant bigots parade just how contemptibly stupid they really are. Thank you for sharing you small minded bigotry.

So the real solution is to start killing lawyers...

Ah well, there's always Quickoffice.

Offtopic? Boy oh boy, there sure are some youngins here.

There's got to be a morning after
If we can hold on through the night
We have a chance to find the sunshine
Let's keep on lookin' for the light

Oh, can't you see the morning after
It's waiting right outside the storm
Why don't we cross the bridge together
And find a place that's safe and warm

It's not too late, we should be giving
Only with love can we climb
It's not too late, not while we're living
Let's put our hands out in time

There's got to be a morning after
We're moving closer to the shore
I know we'll be there by tomorrow
And we'll escape the darkness
We won't be searchin' any more
There's got to be a morning after

Even there, however, the government can still potentially gain information on who you may be sharing the data with. We have encrypted VPN pipes to our branch offices. Yes, the government cannot (likely) determine the content that goes through those encrypted pipes, but it can sure tell where the data is going. You only gain partial privacy. Even anonymizing networks are potentially vulnerable at their boundaries.

I'll have you know I copy big files back and forth all day long, you insensitive clod!

Is it wrong for me to hope you die of the most unimaginably awful cancer, that will cause you to ooze horrible puss-like fluids that reek so awfully you're family won't be able to bear to be around you, and they will pray to God each and every night that you finally die... but you don't, and just linger in that state for years.

Is that wrong?

That a government may want something kept secret hardly means that it is wrong to reveal the secret. Yes, it will be a crime, but the debate here is not whether he committed a crime ore not, but whether what he did was right or not.

Good thing we have ice cores, ocean sediments and the like.

Ever actually considers reading something by a climatologist?

Can't we blame them both?