I have a subscription, but i don;t block ads with it. ABP does that. :)

OK, now i see it. I was looking at my homepage and the "older" button. Sheesh, /. is confusing.

I can go back to 99. Wow, here's my pre-karma comment. I wonder if i was onto something. :P

Here it is! Thanx for the encouragement.

If you can name the process that shows the banner, just kill it. That's what i did under XP when there was an annoying process running. A friend kindly wrote the script for me.

Option Explicit

Dim objWMIService, objProcess, colProcess
Dim strComputer, strProcessKill
strComputer = "."
strProcessKill = "'***filkename***.exe'"

while (true)
        Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:" _
                & "{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\" _
                & strComputer & "\root\cimv2")

        Set colProcess = objWMIService.ExecQuery _
                ("Select * from Win32_Process Where Name = " & strProcessKill )

        For Each objProcess in colProcess
                objProcess.Terminate()
        Next

        WScript.sleep 20000
wend

c/here is the funny part/ironically/

Running Fedora, a cute hat trick.

the Captain has to sign a fuel-consumption report every shift.

That doesn't matter. In fact, it's anti-matter.

Sew, knot to be weft out of the warped logic taken so lightly here, and to tie up loose ends, the ships often shuttle at sub-warp speed when they weave interstellar space and to weave through a solar system.

Good point though. :)

What makes the same people eat up LOTR or the Hobbit with total suspension of disbelief, but grouse incessantly about flowing hair?

• Gravity intends to be accurate about our world. LOTR is somewhere else.
• Gravity explores real-world possibilities. LOTR explores fantasy worlds.

"My pet peeve is inertia," says Trollope. "There are many good reasons for keeping your engines on in space, but 'maintaining speed' is not one of them. If you turn your engines off, you don't stop."

I have *years* of experience watching Star Trek to know that isn't true. Indeed, the only thing inertia can do for space travel is keeping horrid shows about it from being cancelled.

That is, of course, without sending them into space for the duration of the film.

That doesn't seem like such a bad idea.

'm pretty sure i posted a JE on that point, but i can't seem to find it just now.

I post just to get thoughts out. Comments are an added benefit.

If not for that, i'd never post. :)