Correct me if I'm wrong, but is this the core of the problem?

"I contract people to do a set amount of work at a fixed rate, and have no problem getting them to work for me. After that's done I offer them a new contract where they continue working for an unspecified time and not get paid at all, but for some reason they refuse to do it. What is wrong with them?"

If this is really what you're asking, and you actually have to ask it, then I think I see where the problem lies.

And you just referred to them. That's a second source, so we have confirmation. Let's print it!

The problem is that you're comparing Star Trek (1966 - 1969) to television from this century.

Seriously, compare the role of Uhura to anything else that was on the air or in the theatres at that time.

She wasn't the mom or the maid. She wasn't blonde. She was a female character in a position of responsibility, even if her job was just to repeat everything the computer says, and did things which were more important than baking cookies for the male characters or screaming whenever the villain showed up.

You didn't see much of that on "The Lucy Show", "The Jackie Gleason Show", "The Beverley Hillbillies", "Hogan's Heroes", "Hawaii Five-O", "Casino Royale", "Thoroughly Modern Millie", or "Lost in Space".

But don't listen to me, listen to what Dr. Martin Luther King had to say about it.

Isn't there already a perfectly good forum for outing suspicious people in Florida?

And they will send you a copy of a rental contract with your signature on it in which you agreed to pay any fines.

Next bright idea?

Please, tell me the name of this rental company which is so kind and generous that they will hand you the keys to a car in exchange for only a small handful of cash and not even ask to see a credit card. I would like to see them while they are still in business.

So this unfortunate image should be gone before it causes anyone from NASA any embarrassment.

Right. "Ryan Ackroyd, Jake Davis and Mustafa al-Bassam were charged" and as a result of this "Cleary also pleaded guilty to possession [...]"

So the missing detail here is "Who's Cleary"? Everyone else gets to have a full name while Cleary is just the fourth crewmember who beams down wearing a red shirt and gets eaten by a monster.

Indeed. And brave Americans like John Steele are at the forefront of protecting that 50% from the world's other 94% who want to take away.

Go USA.

That's a good idea, but can I suggest a small change? Make three of them and call them stable, unstable and testing. Then you can have one distribution that is well tested and reliable which people can use as a reliable, long lasting platform, one which is more up to date while still being fairly solid, and another which can have the latest features but which may not have all the issues straightened out. The alternative, having two completely different distributions called "Debian Enterprise Linux" and "Debian Fedora", has already been tried by another group and has somehow failed to bring about an age of universal peace and contentment.

If they were so blind, it would be because they weren't paying attention to the popularity contest. Yes, 15% of packages are installed on 95% of the systems surveyed. What of it? Not all users have the same needs. 95% of the adult male population of the USA is under 190cm is height. Does it also trouble you that the remaining 5% are able to find pants in their size?

According to every movie I have ever seen about the Vietnam war, the best way is to have your newly appointed Lieutenant shout his own map coordinates at a hand cranked radio and hope that the pilots will figure out what he meant.

Since the Cylons were able to dominate the colonial computer networks because they manufactured most of the key parts, wasn't the lesson of Battlestar Galactica more like "Hey, maybe it might not be such a good idea to outsource production of all of your really important defense stuff to the people you are going to use it to defend yourself against?"

If this kind of thing gets people arrested and tried as adults, how come this guy is still walking free?

Of course it's not an IED. The proper government term is "WMD".

I think if you look in the House Rules you will find that that group is officially called the "House Committee vs. Science".

The only difference between "Science" and "Recklessly mixing chemicals" is whether or not you take notes and share your results after you're done.