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Of course if the Cylons don't go off on their own, the regenerating base ship could probably go back and forth between Terra and Caprica without too much trouble. In fact, since it was apparently able to regrow arms that normally contain weapons and raider hangars, it might be a renewable factory on...

For those who would like a coherent quotation: John Oliver Helps Rally 45,000 Net Neutrality Comments To FCC by Elise Hu June 03, 201411:56 AM ET Things are running smoothly now, but the Federal Communications Commission's public commenting system was so waylaid by people writing in on Monday that t...

Regarding mental illness, in the U.S. criminals are sentenced to mental hospitals instead of prison when found not guilty due to insanity. Many jurors are reluctant to acquit a killer even if he is completely out of his head. Compounding this is a general cultural disdain for mental illness. A lot o...

I think je is just the Cyrillic name of epsilon / e , which is backwards above. The letter above the 0 might be a . Originally they were based on Greek uncial rather than Carolingian miniscule, basically the same forms used in Coptic: #1028 and #11392 . Yes, but there is no 'je' in Serbian Cyrillic...

My russian is quite rusty but the kyrilic letters should be #1088 = "r" and #1069 = "JE". So the statue could read: "R JE 0 | 1" (Are you Zero or One). Or "JE R 1 | 0" (You are One or Zero -> You are someone or nobody?) This is Serbian Cyrillic, with Latin ba...

Here's a video captured by a friend of a friend of the NYPD protecting and serving: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10202392388963371 Have a very nice day. -fgalkin Why is this one posted here? Do you have more information because I'm not seeing the brutality or the abuse. It depends on what i...

... It can be safely argued that the CEO's job is far more than what the average team member does; running a corporation is a very different job from putting together a burger. ... More what? That is a matter that very much annoys me. There is this assumption that working in an office is obviously ...

So plot question that I didn't get: ... 2) How does this get past the limited number of regeneration, I thought it would be retconned in this episode, did I miss something? ... That wasn't retconned. When the Doctors saved Gallifrey, the one officer stated that "all thirteen" were present...

My eyesight is bad, so maybe I just missed it, but during the battle scenes I couldn't help but wonder why there were no signs of anyone regenerating. Even if the Daleks had weapons that could stop it, what about people hit by debris or thrown by explosions? I really hope they retcon the Lord Presid...

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Dartzap wrote:They just aired the infamous-for-not-appearing Comicon trailer on BBC1.

I suspect that will be UK viewers only

Surprisingly it's not restricted.

In our rush to condemn pedophiles and sexual predators, we kind of left some loop holes. Poor kids. No, this was not a loophole in a law solely intended to protect children from adults. According to the article: [emphasis added] ... Children aged 14 or 15 can be charged with unlawful conduct with a...

BBC doesn't let anyone outside the U.K. see videos on their website you know. Is it available anywhere else?

Reading other places, it's amazing how many fans still have faith that Moffat's going to come through and pull everything together satisfactorily. They analyze every episode, and anything that seems odd or an inconsistent, like the legs under the Tardis in the scrap heap or his tie in the pocket dim...

When we were first told that the enemy was going to be Snowmen, I thought at first we were facing the Yetis revamped. If I recall, the Yetis were controlled by a non-corporeal entity called the Great Intelligence, which wanted to make for itself a physical form. When one of the robots was brought t...

I'm not sure I've ever heard anyone claim the old series had good acting before. Maybe you've never seen it? Heaps of it was fucking ropeable. Not to long ago I rewatched The Daleks . To me "bad acting" sometimes comes across as much more natural than polished, perfect delivery. Ian and B...

Based on this picture, I think I like this one better than the other two. It's closer to the classic look, with a tidy console and no weird organic shapes, so far as I can tell. I do wish it had a simple roundel pattern without the hexagons, as well as the massive internal doors.

Oh, but where did those other Daleks come from? It seems like they're all well accounted for. Every post-Time War dalek apart from those three Davros-daleks is dead. Where would they find an entire parliament's worth of Daleks made from the original Kaled flesh that the Victory Daleks wouldn't just...

So this is just a heavily modded version? I don't see why I should pay for slightly improved graphics and a little new content with all the mods that already exist. Maybe if they created a new engine with a 3D view, or wrote a version for the Aurora engine, it might be worth some money.

What if the Aliens weren't weapons, but the Space Jockeys' gods? The script for the first movie had a sequence in which the humans explore a temple with depictions of the Jockeys willingly serving as hosts. Maybe they created humans specifically to be hosts/food for their masters. It wasn't that the...

Of course he really didn't have a huge change of heart as much as admitted that this one study was deeply flawed and had no real value, and he regretted how it was used politically. I remember seeing a brief interview with him at the time the study was released and he kept saying that this didn't me...

Here's an interesting account describing a scientist who discovered that he may well be a sociopath. It supports the proposition that intervention might be able to make a sociopath less dangerous. One tantalizing case study suggests that not everyone with psychopath-style brain damage gravitates to ...

The Germans had lios-alfar, light elves, nature spirits associated with fertility and the sun. Their best modern equivalent would be little winged fairies with nature powers. The dwarves of course were the svart-alfar, chthonic spirits associated with darkness and metallurgy. Tolkien's elves have mo...

A good rule of thumb is not to take anything on Cracked.com seriously. They evidently don't employ crack researchers.

This is why I've sometimes thought we should change the wording to guilty due to mental illness. As Aharon pointed out, people found not guilty due to insanity typically spend more time locked up than they do if convicted. I don't know what it's like in Norway, but in the U.S. there is a powerful re...

I think the evacuation and the use of the school happened after the shootout during the siege.