Long answer: Gravity is about as close as Hollywood's *ever* come to doing it right, and will probably be as close as anyone's ever going to get, until the day you can actually shoot your movie in space itself.

But by then it'll probably be a reality TV show -- "the real housewives of the moon", or something like that....

And you know, now that I think about it, the Bible has an awful lot of "begats" with underage women. Think it's time to ban that for sure!

So at what temperature does an e-book burn?
Montag, you're a fireman!

So, lemme get this straight, they are going to ban all erotica, but "50 Shades of Grey" is still a top seller, right?

Only books from relatively unknown authors, eh? Yeah, that's not showing any favoritism... Why not shut down the entire Amazon self-publishing arm?

There's this book I'd like to ban... It's called the Bible, and more people have been murdered via this book than all the guns, videogames, territorial wars, and other sources combined. It is truly evil and needs to be abolished.

I remember reading "War By Other Means" (http://www.amazon.com/War-Other-Means-Economic-Espionage/dp/0393318214/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1381510831&sr=8-3&keywords=war+by+other+means) more than 10 years ago.

The book starts off with how the USA, during it's early years, sent "spies" to European nations to gather their technology regarding weaving and agriculture, as well as the start of the industrial revolution, and how that enabled the USA to become a superpower, and now it's being turned around on us that other countries such as China are doing the same thing, except that they are doing it on a much larger scale.

That this is happening on a small scale in the valley is no surprise, since the lead-time on new tech is now incredibly small. Look how Samsung introduced a "smartwatch" based on a RUMOR that Apple was doing that.

We're here poo-pooing Saudi Arabia while the US exhibits exactly the same asinine policies *and* has a non-functional government?

How about Virginia, which tried to pass a law outlawing any kind of sexual activity that wasn't straight vaginal intercourse? This means a private couple enjoying a blowjob could be arrested. Sounds like Saudi Arabia as well to me. North Carolina has the strictest anti-abortion laws in the nation, essentially bringing most women into the fray of 'property' regarding their own bodies should they ever find themselves impregnated, regardless of circumstance. Hell, it looks as though the rapist now has visitation rights to the offspring if he so choses.

And the federal government, millionaires that only represent other millionaires, is run by a fanatical faction called the Tea Party that would like to run our entire country like Saudi Arabia. Women have no rights, only the rich can rule, moochers have no place in society, and we'd be better off if they were all executed. We're here only to provide a labor force to corporations and we are required to give them our money so that they can have the profits they feel entitled to.

USA, fix your own house first before you denigrate the actions of any other government or society. But of course, you think you're perfect -- "murica fuck yeah!" -- half your population lives in trailer parks and 20 million children live in poverty, Walmart is your biggest employer, and *you're* telling other people how to run their countries? You've got to be kidding me.

So, the obvious solution is to counterfeit $1 bills.

Let's see if I can educate the Slashdot crowd today, be sure to Google my headline "Mr. 880".

Even China will eventually replace a half billion workers with robots.

When the global population is 10 billion, 7 billion of those people will have no job and either have to rely on handouts or they still starve (or start to eat each other).

There will not be enough natural resources, and even if there were, all those resources would be retained by the upper echelons, essentially the top 5%.

I predict a global version of the French Revolution, and there will be a lot of head chopping after the authorities have run out of bullets to control the mobs.

And CNN is 48 hours behind facebook.

Which means that anything I see on Facebook is reported by Slashdot a week late. Holy fracking catfish, it's time to stop coming to this website.

So long term, we're contaminating the underground water table, which will eventually rise to the surface, and contaminate the food supply -- Can't you just wait until corn, even grown for livestock feed starts showing trace amount of these chemicals?

Or should we not worry since America doesn't make anything anymore, not even food, and we'll import all of our food from China?

People right now are all up in arms over Fukishima, but I see this fracking as much much worse for us long term -- so bad that it'll make nuclear energy look incredibly clean by comparison.

I guess someone went too far even on the comments page, because on the link you provided, there are no comments.

It's as simple as that. The 3 hedge fund managers are interested in looting the company's bank account, saddling the company with outrageous debt, and then cutting it up and selling off the pieces. It's the Mitt Romney strategy. Or rather, and more accurately, the standard wall-street tactic. It's why America doesn't make anything anymore, and the greedy bastard 1% fuckers should all be lined up against a wall and executed.

During the last round of elections in the USA, I heard from some brain surgeons, particularly from the right-wing, claiming similar lunacy, including the idea that women don't get pregnant from rape -- that a woman's body has ways to shut that whole thing down during a legitimate rape.

Then there was the allegation that children develop autism from vaccinations.

And yet, the number of comments from the holier than thou, American number one fuck yeah! crowd completely dismiss that their religious leaders and their politicians say PRECISELY the same stupid crap, and yet, I'm willing to bet that some here swallow it hook line and sinker, as long as it was said on Fox News.....

Have you noticed that anyone the government doesn't like gets either a kiddie porn charge or a rape charge thrown against them? Meanwhile actual government contractors get away with rape, human trafficking and actual kiddie-porn & pedophilia with no consequences (DynCorp, Haliburton).

The US government is very, very corrupt and run by some nasty-ass evil fucks. And I don't mean the "elected" officials, I mean the lobbyists who really run things.

I'm sure this is the same type of officer who pulls people over for the crime of "Driving While Black". Here in NJ, I see it all the time, usually with THREE cop cars to pull over one dude in a toyota.

Fortunately; Star Trek shows us how exactly to defeat killer robots or computers of any kind. You simply make them explode using illogical arguments.

Captain Kirk: "Everything Harry Mudd says is a lie"
Mudd : "Now listen carefully. I'm lying"

Captain Kirk: "You've murdered hundreds of men"
M5 : "Murder is contrary to the laws of man and God."

And if that doesn't work, try the Chewbacca Defense!