And if you stick a really nasty looking syringe on it, it makes a great Deathstar interrogation system.

Fox News didn't start leaning to the left. The intent from the start was not to provide news made up of facts, but to provide "news" that helped that group feel good about their beliefs and standings. There's an article on the Rolling Stone website, I think it's current now (5/31/11) on Roger Ailes. His intent from the start was to present the news as he saw it, with is anything but fair and balanced.

Fox News was never intended as anything more than a propaganda machine for the Republican Party. It's based on fear, and so is the internal organization. Even Rupert Murdoch thinks Ailes is kind of whack because of the things he believes, but as long as Fox News brings in more money than any other part of Fox, including the movie division, they're going to get whatever they want.

I know it won't help, but I've been to Germany, Luxembourg, France, Andorra, Spain, Switzerland, Italy, Yugoslavia and even Lichtenstein.

I've seen them and most of those countries are quite beautiful. Yes, even Yugoslavia.

I know he'll say I'm a liberal plant, but if he has the balls, he can always go himself and see. If he's right, he'll see it. If he's wrong -- well, he won't be able to accept it.

Do they think people are really that unaware of the problems with their network that they'll believe that AT&T LTE will work any better than AT&T as it is?

How do you seize communication?

I know how they can cease communication, but that's a whole different thing.

It's all in the question -- ask the right question and the answer is obvious.

It's not if something happened because you're in Vegas.

It's not what we should do.

It's who we can contact for help -- in other words, "Who ya gonna call?"

And that question pretty much tells us who should be dealing with this whole thing.

It seems you are not clear on the difference between "free as in speech" and "free as in beer."

Projects need funds to support themselves and sometimes a FOSS project has to ask for donations. It's not against the spirit of FOSS, it's just that you have a misunderstanding of what "free" means.

Nah, I know a few chicks who want much more than just babes in spandex or leather. So I figure there's gotta be lasers and spaceships.

I hate to agree.

I don't think the people behind SyFy now have the brains to make it work as a premium network. They're stuck with a genre network and they know nothing about the genre and just need to rebrand it as "20-something and Stupid!" and get it over with.

It'd be cool to find a real SF network that played old classics (like UFO or others you don't see much or at all) as well as new and original productions.

Caprica shot themselves in the foot by running 3-4 episodes in a row that did nothing but give you reasons to not trust or despise characters.

But, and speaking from the point of view of someone with a writing, literature, and film background, SG:U was actually very well written and acted and once I saw that, I didn't expect it to last long on SyFy. And, honestly, I didn't expect many "SF fans" to go for it, since, as much as many protest they want something that challenges them intellectually, all many of them want are lasers, spaceships, and babes in spandex or leather.

Guess you made your point. It's fixed now.

And this thread will look silly to anyone reading it with the correct veresion in place.

Use rsync to backup and don't use the --delete option. That's worked well for me.

You can also always add a script or something that monitors what you have and warns you if files or folders vanish.

I'm glad to hear from someone else who likes DS9.

I came within a hair's breadth of writing for TNG, but they shut the door on all freelancers to rush through the 2 parter with Spock in it, then Roddenberry died, and by the time they would even talk to freelancers again, I was dealing with a divorce and not at a point where I could worry about anything but the immediate issues around me.

While I loved TNG, I think DS9 showed a higher level of quality than any of the other Trek shows, and I always suspected that's why many Trekkies didn't like it: It actually was outside the box and had real, flawed characters with ongoing conflicts that were about more than phasers and variable-tri-phase inverters. Speaking critically, the writers had more freedom on DS9 and I think that led to a higher quality of writing than on the other shows. Part of that was it wasn't constrained by Roddenberry's later limits he put on TNG. (And boy, did I hit those limits every time I pitched -- it's interesting that one of the big TNG writers, Ron Moore, later got notice for running what was often called "the best sf show on TV" by breaking the very limits he was required to follow while working on TNG.)

And even in the USA, I just checked. In spite of what the article says, the original is NOT available, at least not yet on my account. It's still DVD only.

The only version of Trek available for Instant Watch on my USA account is the 2009 movie.

I guess FF people think so. Why else would each version require more and more and MORE memory and CPU time?

I can't even use FF in a multi-tasking environment anymore because it's gotten so big.

He was originally VERY opposed to creating the charity and it was his Father and wife who convinced him to do it.

His kids are also not going to inherit much. Both he and his Father are quite active in insisting on high inheritance taxes because they believe the next generation should not inherit much wealth.

Considering how much he has, he really won't notice it at all in his lifestyle if he gave away 3/4 of his wealth.