WHEN will we have a practical HUD or other type of head mounted display?

They always seem to be "almost ready". Frankly, I am ready to be a Gargoyle.

They go into the juvie system, and wind up criminals? The article did not say that, but it was implied.

Well, let's see: you are enough of a thug to get sent to juvie, and dumb enough that you got caught and sent to juvie. In juvie, your hand was lightly slapped, and you were turned loose. Get caught again, get lightly slapped again. While there, hang out with more thugs.

Later, you turn 18, and SURPRISE, you get sent to REAL JAIL. Where you become "bubba's bitch".

Point is, if you weren't a dumbass thug to begin with, you would not be sent to juvie.

Is that the stuff Helo kept shooting up while he was stranded on Caprica?

It's funny because Comcast has been the most reliable ISP I've ever had.

Well, Mussolini made the trains run on time.

(Next up, a Hirohito reference. Stay tuned!)

When Comcast took over from Time Warner here, I bailed.

I mean, Time Warner is evil. AT&T (who I switched to), is evil.

But Comcast is Motherfucking Sith Lord EVIL.

Scary fucking eeeeevil. Nazi evil. RIAA evil.

The first couple of seasons of DS9 were mostly character development and talk. When they FINALLY got the Dominion War started, the action started. There may be more space battles in DS9 as in the rest of the franchises combined.

And, Voyager actually has quite a bit of action. Not that I'm a massive Voyager fan.

It did go by fast. I saw it with fellow fanatics and non-fanatics, and both groups liked it. If I had to say, I would say the non-fans liked it more than the fans. Which is good news for the word-of-mouth, after opening weekend crowd.

Frankly, it was a fun movie to watch. Lots of action, lots of flash. Enough old-school Trek to satisfy all but the unsatisfiable basement dwellers.

I plan to take my sons to see it this weekend. My 15yo thinks Star Wars has more action than Trek, he says Trek is just "people sitting around, talking". A viewing of the new movie and a few select Dominion War episodes should set his ass straight!

Oh, give Rob a break.

It can be hard to type with a boner. Especially if you are holding on to it...

Well OK, I guess.

So far, all my lines that have been turned into sigs have referenced testicles or high explosives, but go for it.

The whole programming team got to see it on company time, on the companies nickel. I work for a good company, and have a GREAT manager. I told him I had to take the afternoon off, for "Religious Reasons", while pointing to a pic of the Enterprise in my cube. He sent the whole team, and paid.

SPOILER TIME:

Uhura is HOT, and almost gets nekkid, while my namesake hides under a bed (he was banging her roommate, a green chick, natch).

MANY decent fist fights, pretty good ship to ship fights, Vulcan turns into a sphincter in space (Uranus?). New Spock, Spock Classic, Peg is very funny, the new Bones will make you do a double take, LOTS of funny stuff and everybody gets to speak at least some of their classic lines.

I have to agree with Rob, the time travel WORKS this time. It lets JJ play and not piss us fanatics off.

So, get your asses out of Mom's basement and go see it NOW, cupcake!

I am seeing it in 50 minutes. Why am I, like a dumbass, even looking at this thread? I managed to close my eyes and post. Thank Dog for tuoch tpying@

There are approximately two dozen Democratic Senators that are more conservative that that former RINO. Specter would not have voted to maintain a filibuster, ever. Frankly, I am pleased he has "come out of the closet". He was only a "Republican" to get elected, anyway. Also, the only reason he did change parties was the fact he would probably get his ass handed to him in the next primary.

George Bush did many dumb things. Backing Specter in his last primary was among the dumbest. Specter promptly turned around and knifed Bush in the back, and continued to do so.

When dealing with any *AA, you really can't go wrong assuming the worst.

Nyuk, Nyuk, Nyuk!

No mod points today, sorry.

You know, contrary to the liberal hype, firearms are NOT that difficult to use properly. US Army basic training includes an grand total of three weeks basic rifle marksmanship. Frankly, I could take a willing subject and teach them the basics in an afternoon. Every ship should have some crewmen cross trained in firearms usage. Weapons lockers should be on each ship, with locks and seals when in port. If a port city or country refused to allow such secured firearms, ships would simply no longer stop there. That would last, oh, a day before they changed their minds.

A firearm is simply a tool. The function of a hammer is to drive a nail. The function of a rifle is to send a projectile down range at a high rate of speed. Or, as the SEAL's recently showed, to rapidly empty the cranial cavities of pirates.

Firearms are not "evil", no more than a hammer is "evil". A hammer, properly handled, can drive a nail, or crack a skull. A rifle, properly handled, can do the same.