Re: Deep space
Yep, deep space should refer to any area outside the solar system, (beyond the perimiter of solar influence, whatever you want to argue that is). It's a long walk home, wherever it is.
Shields up, Mr Sulu!
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"re-imagine" should be slapped about the face with a bag of salad leaves from the chilled vegetable section of any of the major supermarkets and then have houmous slathered through their hair and made to stand outside in a municipal car park saying sorry, while a crowd of children dressed as Victorian street urchins point and laugh and occasionally throw half-eaten fruit and potato peelings. Ideally this would take place at a weekend.
The BBC should employ Lord Reith lookalikes to wander the corridors of it's buildings and randomly hit employees with a large rubber stamp with the word 'nobber' embossed in reverse on it's head.
I think William Gibson used a similar idea in one of his novels.
Basically there was a database of criminals and each had a list of similar looking celebs, so the cops could say, "Have you seen this guy? He looks like a young Christopher Walken / Marty Feldman / Ethel Merman, etc."
Why do we always assume someone else will be the aggressor?
Russia are more likely to be invaded by us for their gas and oil resources (and China aren't going to attack anyone as long as they can sell us stuff). So on reflection, we probably do need those Eurofighters after all.
..when I was a kid. They laugh at the funny bits and get scared at the scary bits. So it's pretty much doing it's job then.
A fair few of Russell T Davies scripts have been toss, but the show overall has been great. All credit to him and his team for making it fun and bringing some drama to Saturday nights, instead of Ant and bloody Dec. (Bringing back Dr Who also gave us Primeval, which is good fun as well.) Also, just think about the utter shite the BBC show on a Saturday night when Dr Who isn't on.
I like Catherine Tate in Doctor Who as well and Torchwood has improved immensely since it's first season. So there.
It's just improbable enough to be possibly true. Some kind of insane agreement over the Bolivian Marching Powder by the higher ups foisted on the lower orders who then have to lie, bribe and cheat the general public just to keep their jobs. Which incidentally, they hate. TV has more looneys and egos working for it than any other profession I know.
Not sure what you mean by being monitored by the government due to my lack of porn/alcohol usage prior to turning 18. Are you monitored in some way? Do they know you have access to the internet?
I'm not sure how the government monitoring my teenage porn-buying escapades would have any bearing on whether or not I turned out as shockingly dull as I am. I wasn't tall enough to reach the top shelf either.
Going back to the original post, we don't actually know how old the kid in question is. You said you wouldn't mind a 14 year old playing GTA4. What if he's 8? Is that young enough? If he's not old enough to earn the cash to buy it himself, then he shouldn't be playing it. Is that a better benchmark? I don't know. Anyway, I'm off to catch up on my drinking. I didn't start 'til I was 18, you see.
Tell youngest son no. It's an 18 title. You have to be 18 years old to buy it. Unless of course you let him watch porn, smoke, have sex, vote on your behalf and drive to the off-license to buy booze, then go right ahead.
I've never understood folk that can't read labels. I know for a fact there will be dick-headed parents in those queues buying GTA IV for their kids. Those morons are the ones that cause folk like Vaz to get their trolleys in a knot, ultimately spoiling it for the rest of us who want to play stuff like GTA.
Hellboy is an ace film, and Pan's Labyrinth is wonderful. If he can bring some of that to The Hobbit, all well and good. Not sure about a sequel idea, but if anyone can pull it off, it's Jackson and Del Toro.
>SAY TO BARD "SHOOT DRAGON"
I never got any futher than that, as Bard invariably couldn't be arsed shooting Smaug and Bilbo got fried.
I have a mate who lives in Japan can confirm this attitude up to a point. Conservative members of Japanese society are shit-scared of immigration.
It doesn't suprise me that they'd rather decant their brains into cybernetic bodies than accept foreigners into their society. It's a typically skewed solution, but don't take my word for it: http://www.wordpress.tokyotimes.org
especially: http://www.wordpress.tokyotimes.org/?p=2087
I'm sure the people doing research into alzheimers don't give a monkeys.
As to charity, I'm pretty sure Pratchett has done a bit of work with charities dedicated to saving the Orang-Utan, so he's hardly Montgomery Burns
Is it cynical of me to hope Pratchett's money finds a cure then he can churn out a couple more novels, which I happen to enjoy?
Mark Zuckerberg means nothing. Facebook means nothing.
Bill was King Evil because he was the overlord of Microsoft, architect of pain for a million Windows and Office users, not some website for fannying about in your dinner hour.
Honestly, it's like comparing that thing out of Cloverfield with a mildly perturbed Yorkshire Terrier.