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Was there a reason the Night's Watch couldn't just retreat up the wall, and raise the elevator with them? If the only control for it was on the ground in the small fort, then that's a really bad design. If they retreat to the top, then the wildlings on this side can easily open up the games and all...

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Flagg wrote:Here's Queens.

Part of Queens. I really need to know a good piece of Queens is OK, at least until my nephew checks in. That's the burned neighborhood, right?

Flushing looks fine , so does Elmhurst from what I heard.

My problem with watching DKR in theater is I'd have to watch it in 3D, especially if I want to watch it in english. Now there's nothing inherently evil with 3D and most people (including on this board) say it looks awesome, but I'd rather have a choice, and I seriously doubt a Batman movie seriousl...

It also appears that I should stop calling her "Not-Jeyne-Westerling", since they doubled-down on her Volantene origins (after the hint about the Crag in the last episode, which was strange). Actually I thought that background exposition was brilliantly done! Remember in the books that Je...

I guess this means they are completely removing Meera and Jojen Reeds?

In some way I really don't like this episode because the way the changes they made to some character just really put me off...

Indeed, Apple is not blameless, but rather, we should hold every other technology company to the same standard as well. But I also think at this point it's rather pointless to blame the American companies alone. Foxconn is such a huge part of the manufacturing-chian that it should've been enough to ...

which time period would you consider to be their height?

Although, I just want to point out, and to paraphrase the guide, that because of the proliferation of time-travel, every period is now pretty much like all the others......

They cut Tower of Joy, and Whispering Woods, and most of the fun banter between Walder Frey and Catelyn (although they did get the point across). I never really notice any of the cut bits before but all these really standout in this episode. Given WW was the last major engagement in GoT I think it's...

now if the Lannistars have been going the anchient egypt route for that long, why haven't they gotten more fucked up than that? So how many generations before we have a house full of bleeding, rejects from deliverance? The only Lannisters engaging in incest are Cersei and Jamie. Targaryens on the o...

People tend to view Eddard revealing what he knows to Cersei based on what happened afterwards, and that is just flat out wrong. At the time when Eddard confront Cersei, it was the merciful things to do. Roberts is coming back in a few days, and once he heard about this revelation, his wrath will be...

I gave it some thoughts after watching it and I think I found where this movie doesn't work for me while the first one did: 1. Jack Sparrow isn't crazy enough. The London scene , while great, still can't quite compare to the hijinks from the original. Even worse for me personally, it was weird seein...

I was expecting a better plan at the hospital than a bunch of russian special force parachuting in... That being said, I like the finales. and I LOVE the idea of Morgan being the new Intersect. The possibility (of screw ups or otherwise) seems endless. Besides, I think of this as a way to finally le...

And just like that , Isner is out. But this Wimbledon is already defined by this match though, unless we see another great epic in the final with Federer and Nadal..

As for the hundreds of millions of Fremen, I have no clue. I know there was no census on the Fremen, but I bet that the Fremen population couldn't support those kind of numbers without someone noticing. Dune actually has a very large population of Freman beyond the great desert. No one ever notice ...

If you go down that route we end up arguing with a "no limits fallacy." Now the rules of magic are a bit strange, but if you are going to try and do analysis in fantasy, generally if a spell is more powerful (ie does more damage) and be countered, then it would seem that whatever brute fo...

My two cents: A planned economy will never work as well as a perfect market. This is even assuming that people are all nice and honest and follow the plan to the dot without question. The reason for so is very simple: In a planned economy, it is required for you to know beforehand how capable each p...

I live in new york city, and on a average day I might pass by half a dozen homeless people either on the street, at the park, or in the subway station, or even on the train. They might be sitting, hunched down, or laying down. They might be exposed, or they might be covered in blanked or newspaper.....

Like the episode. I actually had low hope going in, since I am not sure how mixing River Song and Weeping Angel can turn out well, seem too gimiky to me. but it worked rather well, not as good as blink, but still nice. Also, don't Weeping Angels breaks the ultimate 4th wall with the Audience? Rememb...

Problem is can the buyers actually dig into the synthetic CDO and get at the underlying? In this case the synthetic CDO written by GS is actually a series of credit default swaps which were written against a reference set of toilet paper mortgage bonds. The cashflow from the buyers of the CDSs is t...

On the surface it made sense: Goldman sold these investor security that later crashed in values, and they know these are junks before hand, therefore it must be fraud!! But the reality is actually a lot different. Goldman Sachs is acting basically as a market maker here. John Paulson want to bet sho...

"Democracy is two wolves and one sheep voting on what's for lunch. Liberty is the sheep having the means to defend itself"
I forgot where I saw this quote, but I'm always remind of this whenever anyone brought up the Tyranny of Majority issue.

I think in 3D Movies in general ,there is really a big problem as far as the viewing experience goes. With a space as big as a movie theater, you really need to projects almost different sets of images for different seating location to create the same sense of depth or pops. This is especially obvio...

Just saw the movie earlier this week and loved it. The story might be simple but I think , like many have pointed out, it is exactly what it need, so you can focus on the spectacular visual instead of worrying about what's happening. Also my 2 cents on the whole conflict over the unobtanium: It's pr...

How's this for a mundane use: Making superhero movies! Think about it, you don't need expensive CGI or stunt man to do many of the effects anymore, you can just have the guy with the superpower doing it for real! Of course, it's trickier with the super villain part, especially if they decide to take...

Maybe someone can help me out here. While I agree whole heartily that there should be no "BAN" on local government deciding what they want to do. I wonder why there weren't any private investor who step up to the task here. If the demand is really there, why couldn't the concerned citizens...