San Francisco Police Sgt. Tom Lee just opened up the door to a constitutional challenge for anyone who gets a ticket in San Francisco County now. (The 14th amendment guarantees equal protection. If the law is being enforced selectively, it opens it up to challenge. Or so I've been told by legal-type people in the past.)

Tom@21 -- the series stated at one point that they added gravity to moons. Given what we see of the ship... the only way that universe can work is if it has dirt-cheap energy, and dirt-cheap gravity control. (Dirt-cheap gravity control may result in dirt-cheap energy, of course; and if you can manipulate gravity, and have dirt-cheap energy, then that could follow.)

Given that the show (series and movie) dealt with physics in space better than almost everyone else, in almost every other aspect... I'm willing to give them that one thing. It was obviously a scientific breakthrough just before everyone left Earth. :)

I think they confused movies and tv shows, at least for Stargate. The original movie is pretty good SF (if you accept the wormhole and Ra's largely unexplained physiology)... but it took place on a single planet (which, having been picked to be a save / host breeding ground of course has gravity similar to Earth's!), and the "aliens" were simply humans. Who spoke ancient Egyptian. Which was only understood by a specialist, and even then only after some difficulty.

Major silliness on their part.

Would that be the same basic that makes it clear that torturing a prisoner -- e.g., by filling their nasal passages with water and preventing them from breathing -- is a crime?

It is made clear that watching an HD program over DVI or HDMI requires HDCP.

I was curious (and still am, after this information-light article) whether component would work. I'm sure i won't at some point.

(This isn't saying HDCP isn't a pain, or useless -- all of that is true. But this isn't a surprise.)

ActBlue is, to the best of my knowledge, trustworthy. Their purpose in life is to support politicians and candidates who support certain platforms; they collect money and funnel it on.

You can, of course, make your own judgment, but I do trust them to send the money where they say they will.

(Most of my knowledge of ActBlue comes from DailyKos. They're obviously biased ;).)

I'm hesitant to use the web sites, due to politicians and political organizations choosing to spam me despite frequent and blatant requests to not do so... is there a physical location I can mail a check or letter to?

Yes, Eric Flint has amassed a pretty considerable amount of data. He's biased, of course, but he's convinced reluctant authors to try it, and I think every one of them has noticed a statistically-unusually increase in sales. (Mercedes Lackey was the biggest one at the time.)

I signed up for this after reading about it on John Scalzi's blog, and they haven't emailed me anything they said they wouldn't.

Okay, I was pretty sure I'd see this movie, but if it upsets the administration, I will see it.

Add me to the list of people apologising for comments about Yoko Ono. Her objection is entirely valid, and I wish all of them the best of luck.