I enjoy the fact that, in a post titled "Color Me totally unsurprised", you mention how surprised you are.

That's how I remember it with pretty much everyone but Jack, but IIRC it got to a point where he became almost whiney when he didn't have a zat and had to resort to his p90, to the point where it became comical.

Of course it was ignored. Most of the time they didn't bother to shoot twice, nevermind three times. Ain't nobody got time for that. Not even Richard Dean Anderson.

I wouldn't say "safely"...

You rarely saw the zat gun used? Is that because you didn't watch too many episodes or just blinked often?

I believe that's why there was an emphasis on *true vaporization*. I don't have a guess on what they're talking about, however, as my understanding of vaporization aligns quite nicely with yours.

I think his/her intention was not to think.

Consider yourself sued!

We could alternatively settle out of court with a game of Quake 3.

I imagine this excludes Earth, but if not it would explain a lot of the smells.

A Highlander reference in a post that I already agreed with? You've made my day, sir.

Because then the steampunks will be PISSED. Could you imagine spending that much money on a fantasy hobby and then turn around to find out it's become reality? Not only will it not be cool anymore, but they won't even get any credit for pushing the idea into (sorta) pop-culture.

Oh, the humanity...

Oh, well... I don't know, AC. It's a tough one. I think I'm gonna go with... troll???

omg omg omg... don't keep me in suspense!

I thought we settled that with me promising to switch to Netscape.

I knew you'd hold it over my head...

My kingdom for some mod points. +1 funny, my friend.

Even older laptops are fine. I've got a 4 year old Dell Inspiron 9600 that has Ubuntu 10.04 installed and it works great. The only issues I have with it are persistent with any OS and caused by the laptop itself.