I'm behind 7 proxies!

Aye, it was a bit like the Dreamcast in that respect: it was an awesome piece of kit but just didn't sell well enough. Cult classic not best seller.

Officer: "What's your name, citizen?" Citizen: "Superman." Officer: "Very funny, what is your real name?" Citizen: "Superman." Officer: "I'm going to ask one more time, what is your real name?" Citizen: "Okay okay fine. It's Clark Kent."

On the Acorn Archimedes. The Archimedes didn't really *suck* per se but wasn't a massive success. I loved this version and many people consider it to be the best.

"Number of times featured/mentioned on The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe" is probably not too far off. He does say that it is a rough draft and will likely be revised and updated; he probably used the people he was most familiar with.

Congress should pass a mandate that all employees of the RIAA shal be fitted with FM receivers and cochlear implants. The receivers should automatically tune to the station in range that within the last 24 hours has played the highest number of tunes by RIAA affiliated artists. The noise will not be able to be turned off and tampering with the implants will carry the same penalty as sharing 10,000 songs.

Whenever someone advocates a viewpoint (or demonstrable fact) that they disagree with they will bring someone on who disagrees with said viewpoint or fact in order to "show both sides of the argument". When someone tries to portray the war on terror from the perspective of "the enemy", showing both sides suddenly becomes unacceptable.

It ends at the point where an item would not feasibly be used for anything other than illegal activities. One could use a crack pipe to smoke tobacco (probably, I havn't tried it but I see no reason why it wouldn't work) which is (or should be) perfectly legal. A few pounds of nuclear waste in the wrong hands, be they actively malicious or merely incompetent, could do considerable damage and therefore nuclear waste shoudl only be in the possession of properly trained (and licenced) entities.

A little bit like the myth that some swimming pools contain a chemical that changes colour when it reacts with urine, people are unsure enough that they don't want to try it to find out. I am sure enough that no such chemical is added that I would confidently pee in any pool without fear of the water around me turning a funny colour.

I can see one of the big drive makers at some point creating a drive that effectively is 2 drives in one case. Maybe 1/5 of it would be SSD, containing the OS and regularly used files, games the user is currently playing etc with the other 4/5 being a standard HDD used for "slow" storage. I know it's completely possible to set this up right now but as with everything, a plug and play solution is needed for the non-enthusiasts to adopt.

While we are on the topic: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novikov_self-consistency_principle Of particular interest (read: possible practical application) are time-loop logic processes exploiting this principle.

I quite like that scale. What would you rate as a +10? What rating would you give the most disturbing thing that you have ever seen (and what was it)? Also what would you rate commonly distributed shock videos as? I'd say "2 girls 1 cup" is about a -2.5, "1 guy 1 jar" a -4.

Who me? Never. Honest, guv.

4chan is pretty mild. It's pretty rare these days that I'll see something truly shocking on there. For the really bad stuff you'd do best to check out the lesser known chans. Anyone remember evilchan?

I know it's fashionable to bash sequels on here as not being new or original but I enjoyed X-Men 2 a lot more than the first one. 3 was a pile of crap, admittedly. Origins was even worse.