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I have my old laserdisk player and a few LDs.

They appeal to different aspects of entertainment. Other than being scifi franchise from the 70s that have lasted through today they are completely different types of shows.

I don't want to bash you for likeing Star Wars but I'm the exact opposite in what I want. I find Star Wars dull and uninteresting and love the dialog, mystery, and problems of Star Trek. (I can't deal with nutrek)

I think it's like pizza vs sushi. You can like one, both, or none but one is never going to satisfy if you are in the mood for the other.

We have ships with city destroying weapons now. Rouge captains and crews don't go around turning cities or even islands into glass just because.

Damn. Thanks that's a perspective I'd never have thought of. Though I'd also have kept Tuvix around.

It think the Dominion war works but as a framework for some of the more complicated choices the characters need to make. It also give us a chance for decisions to not play out in an hour episode.

It gave us the most interesting human klingon stories since TOS. Allies with different views and where the klingon perspective has more value.

I agree the actual battle scenes and episodes are usually week.

I also agree Sisko and the wraith / prophets stuff was terrible though. Though I always hated the prophet stories not just the end. I would have loved to see a better ending to Dukat and Winn than blasted with space magic.

Totally agree about Cumberbatch.

In what way?

Sentience is the ability to experience feelings and sensations. it's a pretty low bar. I think the word you are looking for is sapience.

I so want more travelers.

Occasionally in response to things like floods and other disasters. Though then it's usually local and short lived.

The secret to good engineering is to know when 1+1 should be 3 and when it should be 1.

Yeah but what they are going to do is make sure they get those protections back. They aren't going to get better.

There was at least one attempt. Back before git the linux kernel was in 1 central repo. There was also a backup repo. It was compromised with a very clever backdoor.

The backdoor was caught but only because it didn't have a reference to the mainline repo.

if ((options == (__WCLONE|__WALL)) && (current->uid = 0)) retval = -EINVAL;

Note the user uid is being set (=) to root instead of being checked(==) for root.

The full story.

https://freedom-to-tinker.com/2013/10/09/the-linux-backdoor-attempt-of-2003/

It goes in some cool and unexpected directions.

I was in the line to get tickets for Leeds Castle in UK. Some guy got off a bus ran past the line to the ticket guy. He started slamming his hands down and yelling "Fish and Chips" over and over again.

The ticket guy wasn't selling any food and wasn't going to sell him a ticket unless he got in line. After about 2 minutes of this he just got back on the bus.

Like the guy who cut down the oldest know tree to find out how old it was. It wasn't known how old it was at the time. (They have found probably older but don't want to cut them down to find out.)

People die of old age, car accidents, etc. Those are hardly big pharma's fault.

Yeah that happened to me. Never finished it and wonder why it's so loved.

Yeah I decided to run away when asked to pay the bill. Failed the roll and while jumping and giving a double bird to the manager crashed into and old lady in a wheelchair. Manager was so upset he gave me a huge discount on the bill.

10/10 would play again.

Baguette, butter, brie.