Yes, but in the end they ultimately discover a way to use the drive without annihilating the target on impact, leading to peaceful exploration of the galaxy.

Only if you're considering site-to-site teleportation. These concerns may not be relevant in a technology that teleports between two locations that are linked by a wire, for example. Then you merely need to transport the matter from one "pad" to the other, and at that point it doesn't matter where the pads are in relation to each other. This could even be extensible to wireless teleportation in which a transmitter/receiver acts as the transport medium.

But if you're talking about beaming down to a random planet, then yes, I agree that would be a little tough to do without working out the geometries.

It's not your fault, it is Slashdot not dynamically updating a rapidly changing comment stream. My post was only three minutes after your original, and two minutes after your correction, but your correction wasn't on my screen until I had finished reading the comments and came back later on a refresh. I guess I could refresh before commenting.

But would Tipper Gore?

The story in "linear" mode boils down to extremely basic, but you get to see Natalie and Teddy's motivations as they unfold. Watching it linear essentially does the hard part for your brain, which allows you to watch the movie. It puts the cause before the effect. I like it, and have made several friends who didn't like Memento sit down and watch it linear, and it usually results in them understanding it a bit better.

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Point to the line in your post where tattoos are either explicitly or implicitly implied as one of the innumerable protections you list.

Not to mention that Futurama has distinct passage of time (in show years, they are currently in the year 3010) while the Simpsons has no linear timeline. Bart is still 10, Lisa is still 8, Maggie is still a baby.

Or Los Estados Unidos for The United States? Or more egregiously, estadounidense/norteamericano for American?

Pound-mass is a unit of mass. lb is a unit of weight that is equivalent to the lbm on Earth.

1 lbm = 1 lb on Earth at sea level. In either event, I agree with the GP that the GGP is being pedantic.

I have an unlocked NAM Motorola Milestone, which is essentially the Droid but works on AT&T 3G. It is entirely unbranded except for the firmware version which has the word "Telus" (The Canadian carrier the phone was originally made for), but I haven't updated mine to Android 2.1 yet so maybe that goes away.

Additionally, since AT&T doesn't know I have it, I only pay $15/mo for unlimited data access versus the $30/mo they want. As long as this continues, I see this as my unsubsidized out of contract price.

The fakes are not worthless, they could technically be considered "art", which is the point of claiming that they have value as a collectible. They may not have value to you or me, but then again I don't have any particular urge to hang the Mona Lisa in my living room, either.