Maybe I exaggerated a little bit. :)

    They were cargo vans without side windows. The rear window was obscured by gear in the back. The mirrors were (hopefully) adjusted for the tech who drove them, but not for me moving it to where I was installing gear.

the potential for some conspiratards to see themselves as they talk about "the government"

because it's all the same paranoid bullshit

Nope sorry, because you are ignoring the fact that he made one of the most blatant cardinal sins of any bad guy which is lampooned even today, so sure by his time he would have actually read a book or seen a film and known that was a bad idea, which was you NEVER assume your plan is gonna work so you at the very least have a backup plan.

I mean we are talking about the complete wiping out of his home planet and everyone he has ever loved for piss sake, you do NOT leave that much up to chance! I mean you go ask anybody who hasn't seen the movie what they would do and they will ALWAYS give you the same answer "Warn everybody", when every person comes up with the same obvious answer and your bad guy doesn't do that with ZERO explanation? I'm sorry but that is a plothole you can drive a truck through, right up there with Picard going back in time 3 minutes when if he would have went back 2 weeks he would have saved his family, the research station AND got the bad guy.

the only way for that plot to work would be if the guy is completely batshit or a drooling moron and he never struck me as either of those so I'm gonna chalk it up to shitty writing. Lets face it most time travel in ST has been piss poor at best, but this is "I have no time to explain!" while setting in a time machine level of stupid in my book.

I don't know if you are joking or not, if not it was established several times that one of the reasons the federation didn't trade tech was that "That replicator that can give you food can just as easily give you a gun" so once they had the template (which again was stated was in their database which was how the Vulcan made it) they could have cranked that thing out like flapjacks.

So this isn't even an "it would be immoral" like using Saron's sun exploder tech that Picard found to take out the home system of the enemy, this is a gun that would give your troops a HUGE advantage against an enemy that is bred in tanks to be disposable (and thus you should feel no guilt in wasting, as they are programmed to obey their "gods" and can't be reasoned with) so the only reason NOT to use this tech would be the leaders are retards.

This of course isn't even getting into the fact that the federation knew how to use time travel which meant that when it looked like they were gonna lose the war all it would have took is sending back a single ship to before the Dominion ever came through and closing the wormhole. Any way you slice it the federation comes off being like Chuck at SFDebris described the republic in the prequels "who deserve to lose because its just run all stupid".

Thank you. this is why I refuse to watch ANYTHING by Bay or Abrams in theaters, because at least when I play it on a PC I can use the player to tone down the bright flashing bullshit so I don't end the evening with a skull thumper from hell. My Ex GF used to complain about that so i said "Fine, Transformers 2 is playing at the theater, lets go" and sure enough after walking out she said "Okay I get it, now my eyes hurt and my ears are ringing"

This is coming from somebody who LOOOVVVVVEEESSS Action and Sci-Fi, hell I went to see the original Predator and First Blood like half a dozen times each just so I could enjoy the big screen, but Abrams and Bay are like being assaulted by the movie, Abrams with a billion damned flashing lights and lens flares and Bay with blasting sound effects and jump cuts making shit look like it was shot by an epileptic. I'm sorry but that is not pleasant and NOT what Star Trek was about, watch Wrath or Undiscovered again and see what the difference a decent director makes.

Well considering that in the Bill & Ted "perfect future" they had a council with time travel i always figured they would just stick someone which had broken the law someplace in the past where he couldn't do any harm, after all if you dropped him on an uninhabited island 200k plus years ago with nothing but the clothes on his back all evidence that he ever existed would be gone by the time anybody inhabited that island and it didn't matter how much future knowledge he had if he was dropped so far back he had no way of building any kind of warning that would survive that long.

But at the end the point I was trying to make was that Bill and Ted was a COMEDY and even THEY got it more right than these guys writing what we are supposed to take as a serious story? I'm sorry but suspension of disbelief only goes so far, especially if what you are doing not only defies the rules you have already established for your universe but simple common sense as well. I'd put this one on the "Hirogen making Voyager a giant holodeck even though size has never been an issue on holodecks" level of dumb because even 5 seconds worth of thought would have caused the plothole to bitchslap you in the face.

Actually when my oldest went to college i saw where that is heading, and its online. Damned near every kid there was playing online games, from your girls playing second life to guys having giant TF2 fragfests its ALL online. Add this to the fact that pretty much any $400 AMD laptop can play most online games just fine and its not hard to have everybody in the same room playing,hell the dorm rooms and break rooms were filled with kids playing together online.

Do you want to point out something that was wrong in my post, or are you just trolling?

There are plenty of service jobs which require local talent. Add HVAC, and CDL licensed truck drivers to your list.

    Ummm.. I worked with a plumbing company for a while.. There was a whole lot of shit, literally. I was lucky, I just did their IT work. I could talk to the techs who had done messier jobs from a distance. If their blue uniform is now brown, don't get too close. :)

    It was entertaining, and absolutely disgusting, watching them clean out of of the tank trucks. It registered something like 10k pounds overweight, because of the sewage sludge that had built up in the bottom of the tank. At least the guy who went in to clean it got to wear a biohazard suit and respirator.

    I only had to deal with the trucks while I was wiring up their GPS tracking. It was the first chance I had to drive a 10 speed truck. (private property, CDL be damned). The drivers were gone for the day, and the other staff present were afraid to try to drive it up to the shop. The work/cargo vans were harder to drive. Their blind spot is anything but in front of them.

Actually I think that the first 2 years of high school should focus on things you will need to survive: money management, how financing works and why revolving credit is not a good thing; reading and writing.
The second 2 years should allow either continued academic *or* tradescraft. fo you go the tradescraft route you'll get two years focused on only the stuff you need for a particular field. Plumbing: math and geometry (drain slopes), chemistry (solvents and glues, interaction with metals), and of course hands on.
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The internet was doing just fine before cunts starting flooding its bandwidth with adverts. But hey, thanks for subsidising the running costs of some of the services I use.

Given the millions of people that already wear corrective spectacles, the number of people that wear sunglasses and the number of people stupid enough to think that all of them are trying to record their cock in a bathroom, I think you're safe.

If not, use the existing laws on assault, or just shoot the person that punched you. Isn't that the American way?

People ALREADY have cameras on them all the time. They can ALREADY record live video with head mounted cameras, and youtube has a fuckload of content recorded in that manner.

Stop being a paranoid cock.

I don't see why two factor authentication isn't standard across the web, what with flash chips being so cheap. i mean if i can get a 16GB USB drive that is so thin and small it fits in the card holder of my wallet why we can't have something similar that works with any website? And public/private keys are frankly more complex than most users could handle, at least from the ones I've looked at.

As for TFA you just hit the nail on the head when you mentioned FB because what I'm seeing is more and more people that let FB handle it and if there isn't a FB option they pass. Should we consider this good or bad? On the one hand FB knows too damned much about people as it is but on the other hand at least they aren't reusing passwords constantly

The second experiment added some Linux laptops that ping-flooded to generate lots of network activity. The second experiment showed a clear increase in plant "damage" /lack of development.

Were the laptops located so that their fans wouldn't be blowing hot air past the seeds, heating them and sucking the moisture out of them?