Well I've got a 14 hour day time flight next week, so I'm tempted to buy a game for the first time in years.

Looks like I can buy it online at http://store.steampowered.com/app/225420, rather than find a store here in whatever city I'm in today.

This concerns me though:
Other Requirements: Broadband Internet connection

Obviously I don't have a Broadband Internet connection when I'm 40,000 foot above the indian ocean somewhere south-west of Australia.

Land of the wimp, home of the scared

Yes, the Enterprise had several deflector dishes (main deflector for one) for moving things out of the way
Yes it had ramscoops for collecting things

It (at least the D, the greatest of all Enterprises) also specifically had low power navigational shields

I've just taken flight 57 of the year. I last saw a customs agent at heathrow 18 months ago. I went through the red channel and had to phone them up to get them to come out and stamp a carnet.

22 years means you can send a message and get a response in your lifetime.

Ahh yes

Stan: In the 80s there was Cold War drama.

We fought the Commies inside Nicaragua.

Our friends were the Contras. Freedom was their mantra.

So we sent them lots of money for guns and landmines.

But Congress stopped the Contra money flow

Just 'cause they moved a teeny bit of blow.

But then a hero came forth.

His name was Oliver North.

He and Reagan went around the sissy Congress.

OLLIE NORTH! OLLIE NORTH!

Stan (speaking): You see, North secretly sold missiles to a harmless country called Iran who would always be a grateful ally. Then he gave the profits to the Contras. Genius!

Stan: But the sales were uncovered by the press.

Contras: Awwww.

Press: He he.

Stan: Reagan and North began to stress.

Reagan: Well...

North: Nyaay!

Stan: 'Cause what they did was technically high treason! (But it was totally justified.)

Stan: North volunteered to take the blame,

to save Reagan from prison rape shame.

The truth he did bury with his hot secretary.

Thanks to her shredder, he got off totally scot-free!

OLLIE NORTH! OLLIE NORTH!

He's a soldier!

And a hero!

And a novelist!

And now he's on Fox News!

You realise all news organisations use the same sources? Certainly the Bbc didn't have anyone on the plane (not enough notice I guess, even if they had someone that could transit in Russia without a visa).

It's like the old tale, channel A report a rumour, channel b repeat it, channel a report that it's confirmed based on channel b's report.

Running a raytrace of Natille Portman, Naked and Petrified!

Oooh it's enough to put hot grits down your pants (pants are optional, but recommended for you)

$100 billion is about 12 hours of earth's output, It's peanuts.

If money could solve the energy crisis, it would be solved.

Yet India never had Harold Wilson as PM

Surely you mean a thousand million. A billion Indians would be 1,000,000,000,000, unless you accept the U.S. Billion is the default.

And therefore better than nemesis, and dare I say it: first contact.

Generations, insurrection, first contact, nemesis.

So they made episode IV, V and VI. That's two sequels.

Expendebles 2 has a scene where Arnie is not impressed by a smart car. How can you say it's a bad film?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2UtgJlfKiA

"My shoe is bigger than this car"

And Generations had Whoopi Goldberg AND Malcolm McDowell, and is therefore a win.

Well I installed linux when I got my current laptop in October 2010. Everything just worked.

I'm sure windows is fine too, I'm just happy with linux, been using it exclusively on my main computer for 13 years.

I do have a small windows desktop now, I use it to run a program called the dude, which gives me real time network monitoring of my offices from my desk at home.

I'd love something a bit better, with a better name, but aside from a bash script wrapped around snmpwalk, I haven't found anything