I wouldn't have approved of Caprica. At least, not as a prequal to BSG.

Prequals suck. They are too restrictive. You already know the ending. It is just a way to cash in on family names and familiarity and such.

I might have approved of a show with Caprica's premise set in its own "universe", not trying to cram the Adama family into the history.

And if anyone wants to see why exactly this "business model" would sink like a rock, look at how badly the Humble Indy Bundle did. All the high moral reasons and justifactions people try to give for piracy go straight to hell when actually try to cater to them.

I was referring to the claim that Anon did any real damage to CoS. Not Simmons. Of course it is easy for a bunch of script kiddies to crash someone's personal website. Simmons is probably using the cheapest service he could find to set it up.

No. Not at all

Which Anonymous doesn't do. Not on any large scale. They can piss off one aging rock star and make some self involved teenage girls cry, but they bring no real change to society.

Ding-dong-ditch is not guerilla warfare. Guerilla warfare actually causes lasting damage or achieves some sort of tangiable goal.

"4 lulz" is not a tangiable goal.

As well as Anonymous themselves. They've lashed out blindly to hurt people they thought were offenders to whatever cause they were touting that day. Just look at their counter attack on Regency. They ended up publishing the personal info of some retired couple.

No, not at all. "takes on" = "confronts" in the world of grown ups.

"stays ahead of"= "gets the best of"

Anon almost had some their identities revealed by Regency and CoS until Youtube took down the video. Which of course, no one on Anonymous ahd a problem with

Anon basically did the cyber version ding-dong-ditch. Annoying, inconsequential children.

Not that this isn't already brought up in every topic dealing with Wikileaks but here http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703428604575419580947722558.html?mod=WSJEUROPE_hpp_MIDDLESecondNews

No, they admitted to having undercover cops at that protest. There has never been any real evidence the guys with rocks were cops.

Drakkenmensch was claiming that they "regularly take on" and "stay ahead" of Scientology. My point was, Anon actually has hardly any real effect on the outside world at all. They have their little circle jerks, put up some e-graffiti andfd take a nap.

They might be able to hurt individuals who aren't savvy about them, but they can't hurt actually prepared organizations with real resources

Except that they didn't put a dent in Scientology. You think a one day DDoS really slows them down? Some yahoos in Guy Fawkes masks? The Church of Scientology still enjoys tax exempt status and truck loads of money. All the big talk about having a campaign planned out for years turned out to be vapor.

In fact, CoS and some associated groups nearly turned the table on Anon itself.

The majority of Anonymous' "success" involves berating teenage girls for self indulgent YouTube vidoes.

There is just too much of a difference between internet famous and really famous.

Ya, we know. That proves Dead Pixels' point. If they really were so evil and powerful they would have

1 Generated a lot more ineternational support for the invasion of Iraq

2 Planted evidence of NBC weapons or simply have claimed to have found them

Actually, Amnesty International doesn't think much of him either.

All these people bitching about lies and propoganda from the government and MSM are whole heartidly believing a story on CNN of a Pentagon statement.

Nope. Assange is still an asshole. He's like a drunk driver that managed not to kill anyone. Unless you expect groups like Amnesty International and Reporters Without Broders and the London Times to kiss your ass. And I find it funny your spouting the mantra about FOX News. As if that was the only place this accusation was made.

No, Assange's still a douche. It wasn't just the pentagon and the US media slamming him. It was Amnesty International, Reporters without Borders and other NGOs that usually defend journalists from government attacks. People within Wikileaks even have spoken out.

This guy didn't get anyone killed. That's great. But not by his own dilligence. It's like saying a drunk driver didn't do anything wrong because he managed not to kill anyone. It was still reckless and irresponsible.

Besides, do really believe what the Pentagon is telling you? For all we know, this is just an attempt at damage control to make people think the info is worthless and protect their informants

Engineers don't bring in investors. They use company resources to produce product that may attract clients. Investors want to see product, a healthy company, good marketing etc etc. You need leadership to get that stuff done. I'm not saying they aren't valuable, if you are a manufacturing company, you obviously need them. But, they make product, not the company. Apple wasn't a player until Jobs left his garage and he didn't do that alone.

Cuz Ed from Receiving brings in the investors.