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Nine months for the Pixar crew is still several dozen person-years, so an endeavor of that scale is still going to need a crew size comparable to a regular studio.

Knowing the gummint, they may also have their own back doors installed on the "anti-bugging" phones, so Mr. Arthur may still be able to tap them. I would not want to say anything over those phones that I wanted to keep secret from the FBI. Sarah should probably limit discussion of her Mark to face-to-face meetings.

Yeah, the worst couple of days were of the "I wish I were unconscious so that I don't have to experience the pain" sort. Worst pain lasting more than a few hours that I have ever experienced.

"Muggles?" I knew it! Geocachers are wizards!

The deva probably were not expecting players to be using a setup other than mouse and keyboard. Touchscreens as a main interface for consumer devices was not yet a thing during the 1990s. As for the "640k is enough for anyone" line, it was enough for anyone who was running a first-generation IBM PC with DOS 1.x. The model 5150 (base 1st-generation model) shipped with no more than sixty-four kilobytes, so the designers were allowing for a tenfold expansion in RAM. Their error was in not future-proofing it, but this was back in the days when IBM made customized operating system versions for every new model of computer, so they probably figured that they would raise the ceiling in a later version, only they never bothered to do so.

Another fine example of why one should keep backups of anything that is not expendable.

TOS also suffered from an extremely low budget, even by the standards of 1960s network shows. The sets looked like cardboard and plywood because they were.

The new Ghostbusters may not be "Best Picture Award" material, but I found it to be entertaining to watch.

I have plenty of games from the DOS era that I still like to play, so I familiarized myself with DOSBOX early.

Eww. My worst dental adventure was having to put up with a toothache for three weeks because every available endodontist was on vacation due to it being Christmas time. That one had a lot of pain, a lot of swelling, and a lot of pus.

Then again, FAT was designed for low space consumption and low processor demand as its priorities, having been originally designed for systems whose total memory capacity was measured in kilobytes. Keeping track of fancy multi-pointer stuff was less important than the ability to be used on 180kB-per-side floppies without a hard drive.

Tedd as Zelda might be neat, but Tedd's hair makes me think more of Princess Hilda of Lorule.

Meh, the real reason, IMO, is because the folks financing the films don't want to take chances on anybody who doesn't resemble a previous or current big star--anything that The Producers and the Investors think will cause a net reduction in ticket sales is rejected. Straight cis whites make up the biggest market segment, therefore they are the ones who get catered to, because Hollywood fears losing their dollars more than they fear offending minorities.

You would ship too if it happened to you.

Welllll Istanbul was Constantinople Now it's Istanbul, not Constantinople Been a long time gone, old Constantinople Why did Constantinople get the works? That's nobody's business but the Turks

Some of that is a chicken and egg issue--The supply of competent Screen Actors Guild members is heavily biased toward straight cis white people, and the SAG prohibits the use of non-SAG actors in starring roles unless you want to entirely forego the SAG, which is trying to maintain a near-monopoly on actors. Want to bring in outsider actors? Then you can kiss goodbye to using any SAG members.

It's not just supporting the brain--it's also maintaining body heat. Water conducts heat away from a warm body much more rapidly than air does, so aquatic mammals retain heat by putting insulation (mainly blubber) under their skin. However, gills (or any other water-breathing structure) require that the water be separated from the blood only by very thin membranes (a fraction of a millimeter). This means that a large amount of body heat will be lost to the water. Replacing that body heat will require even more oxygen, which will require more gill area (or faster pumping of the water through the gills), which will result in more heat loss, which means more heat replacement, etc. in a vicious cycle, resulting in ultimately needing more calories than are feasible to acquire. For comparison, humans on land spend nearly half of our rest metabolic rate on replacing lost body heat (and the fraction is even higher for small mammals--the smallest rodents can spend over half their body weight in food per day on it). TLDR: In sum, water-breathing loses too much body heat to the water for a warm-blooded water breather to be practical.

There is more to hawtness than bare skin.

I like to think of Tedd's "extra-girly" forms as being her way of letting out that side that is suppressed by the need to act male. Basically, this is letting Tedd's "other half" have free reign for a while. No need to hide behind excuses such as "because it's hawt" as with the extra-sexy forms (for example, http://www.egscomics.com/index.php?id=666 ).

I think she's more mesmerized by the toy mousie hovering in midair.

If Pandora does reset, then I can see Adrian deliberately inverting the parent/child relationship by trying to care for his rejuvenated mother and sending her to school where his other "special" students could keep an eye on her.

Angle doesn't really matter anyway, since there is exactly one point in Euclidean 3D space that is exactly the specified distances from four other points (assuming that the four points do not share a single 2D plane). It may however be worthwhile to listen to a second quartet of satellites in order to get a second opinion (and thus greater precision, especially if there is signal distortion or interference).

Yes, it's hard to include EVERY group without having a larger cast than many stories would call for--how many ethnic groups could you represent in a movie with only three actors, without resorting to making them mixed-ancestry? Anyway, perhaps I should have said "superfluous" instead of "irrelevant". What I meant was that, if swapping a female character in place of a male character does not change the story, then there is no specific need to have the character be male. That is to say, female characters speaking of him within the story are not doing so (or choosing what they say about him) because of him being a male character.

What is a quad ale?

The key is that the satellite transmits its own coordinates instead of the receiver having to assume that its lookup tables are correct. This allows the receiver to extrapolate its own location using the time-of-transit of the radio signals.