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  1. Ahem. What they meant by "overpowered and overgunned" was that if you turned the engines on full power, they would proceed to repel each other and end up tearing the ship in half. Until of course Miles O'Brien managed to do one of those impossible fixes that Star Trek engineers do.
  2. I have commented before that "The Enterprise-D is a ship designed to fulfill all of the functions of a warship, a scout ship, a research laboratory and a cruise liner. Unsurprisingly, it fulfills none of these functions well." As for a specific design flaw outside of trying to excel at everything, obviously they should have done something about the starboard power coupling that failed every time the shields went down, instantly disabling the whole thing.
  3. Starting out captured is totally different from actually losing a fight and getting captured. That being said I have been captured and found it quite amusing since it was brief and effortlessly undone. As I recall, my character, Riptide before going ashore on Doctor Destroyer's island swam around and found the underwater coolant exhaust pipe for the island's power source and messed it up. Then the team went ashore and were defeated by Menton. We woke up in some kind of prison with a power suppressor and Riptide got to rant like an idiot at Destroyer and Menton. "So you've got a master plan do you! You guys always have a master plan! Well I've got a master plan too, and getting captured was all part of it! What do you think of that? Ha-ha! Ha-ha!" Destroyer snorts in contempt and leaves, and the power conveniently fails right after that, letting the strong man rip open the door so I can zip out and do a move-through on Menton before he even knows I'm coming. I run back and tell the other members of the team "OK, now for step four of my master plan." So I was having a great time. I don't think the others minded too much since our immurement was brief.
  4. http://images.ddccdn.com/images/pills/nlm/006033215.jpg
  5. Will Smith now occupies a position in Hollywood that is unrivaled by any other black performer. His films over the last eighteen years have grossed more than $5.3 billion, more than any other actor, with the exception of Johnny Depp (Smith 31). He commands a salary in excess of $20 million per film, which places him in the highest stratum of bankable actors.
  6. If there's a primary reason for ridiculously-high cable TV prices, it's sports content generally, and ESPN specifically. On one hand, sports programming is one of the biggest reasons that people continue to pay for traditional TV.
  7. Rose Quartz + Alexandrite =?
  8. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rational_basis_review
  9. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange_walk
  10. http://civilliberty.about.com/od/guncontrol/a/Gun-Rights-Ronald-Reagan.htm
  11. http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/richard-cohen-real-scandal-benghazi-probe-article-1.2377441
  12. The Ferguson case was no-billed by a grand jury opened by a prosecutor making the false claim that it was legal for cops to shoot suspects in the back. Regardless of the merits of the case, the prosecutor clearly had no intention of seriously scrutinizing any defense put up by a police officer for shooting a suspect.
  13. http://www.hyperhistory.com/online_n2/connections_n2/great_depression.html
  14. 21135357http://howlsinthedistance .deviantart .com/art/Transistors-521135357
  15. http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/teen-jailed-least-21-years-6468124
  16. Assuming it really is his opinion. I still haven't found anything beyond a general "Howe did things without Loghain's approval". Yes, I'm sure he did. Loghain probably didn't actually plan to have Howe loot Denerim and smuggle the gold north, torture their aristocratic prisoners for fun, or for that matter kill everyone in the castle at High Reach and their pets when the only thing that Loghain actually needed was to have the elder Cousland put out of way.
  17. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/prince-edward-island/alfred-guy-vuozzo-sentenced-to-life-for-double-murder-at-emotional-hearing-1.3030298
  18. out as the arbitrary cure for Man-Bat. Made no sense at all.
  19. http://elections.huffingtonpost.com/pollster/hillary-clinton-favorable-rating
  20. Certainly, the Bush administration's hawks hope the fall of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein would be the first domino to tip other autocratic states in the region toward democracy. Having felled the Taliban in Afghanistan, and insisted on new Palestinian elections, this White House drive to bring democracy to Iraq - as well as to disarm it of chemical and biological weapons, and end its support of terrorism - fits into an emerging United States strategy to push democracy into places that breed or support terrorists and the weapons of terror.
  21. Is Philosophy becoming a lost art in modern society?
  22. https://www.yahoo.com/tech/s/ap-sues-over-access-fbi-records-involving-fake-133731321--politics.html
  23. The Forgotten Speakeasy: An extradimensional drinking establishment which can be entered if if you speak the right password in front of the door that used to lead to any mundane speakeasy in the 20s. It contains a fair number of people dressed in the garb of the time who apparently never leave and never age. Whether they are ghosts, temporally arrested humans from the 1920s, or supernatural entities merely mimicking humans from the 20s is a mystery best left uninvestigated. Eclipse: A desert city under a peculiar effect that causes it to seem as if the sun is always entirely obscured by a total eclipse to anyone looking upward from inside the city. The primary local industries are gambling and the sex industry making it a magnet for the kind of tourists who do not bring their families, if they even have them. Eclipse is thoroughly dominated by a criminal syndicate run by a cabal of light-averse superhumans and it is said that those who who don't know their limits at gaming tables may find themselves wagering blood. Still an excellent destination for a someone looking for dodgier entertainments. Just don't get carried away and don't go there intending to cause trouble.
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