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Here's a post from Slashdot.org when the news first broke that gives a good discussion on what can be considered a "planet."

Oh if that happens, then I'd be so pissed. Pretty much for the sole reason that Ben Parker is the one dead guy in comics left (other than Barry Allen and Jason To...oh wait) who has to stay dead because he means so much more to the character that way. Bringing back a character like him only provides a few stories that are of any worth, but at the same time completely destroys so much of the main character's (in this case Spiderman) personality/motivation/characterization that it harms them in the long run. 10, 20, 50 years from now will it be more worthwhile to have a Spiderman walking around with that deep history behind him, or just have another minor character in the book. Plus bringing back "Alternate Universe" versions of dead people is so tacky and uninspired. Goddamnit, how is Bendis so popular and powerful?

Man, this is like the biggest NHL news week since Gretzky went to LA, and it doesn't look like it's slowing down. The league is going to be very interesting next season. So what's this about Kariya going to Edmonton? What's his contract status, still with the Avs? It seems that Colorado is focused on keeping Sakic and Blake.

That song Northern Touch by Rascals, Choclair, Kardinal, etc had the line: I like chillin, monday night Raw watching me and Daneo at the Sky Dome when it's in town my peoples know I just be regular so haters start dissin

Warning! This post has HoM and IC spoilers from weeks old comic books so if you're bitchy about that sort of stuff stop...... Yeah, I'm not a fan of marvel at all, the only Marvel stuff I ever really bought was The Ultimates but House of M was sort of intriguing to me when I first started hearing all the hype about it. So I was considering looking in to it. Then I hear that it's just another Alternate Reality story. That reaks of uncreativity. The whole thing seems to be a big What If? to me at this point. Ooooh what if Parker was married to Gwen Stacy, ooooh what if Uncle Ben was still alive, ooooh what if Dr Doom led the F4, ooooh what if Magneto ruled the world, ooooh what if I gave a damn. And what's supposed to be the big deal with Hawkeye being alive? A bunch of other people who should be dead are alive too. The whole storyline just reaks of a Deus Ex Machina way of bringing about a bunch of Shocking Swerves. But wait! Marvel says that everyone will remember what happened in the HoM universe (unlike Age of Apocalypse)! So what? How is that going to do anything effective? Everything's going to go back to normal (except Hawkeye will probably stay alive) and I guess characters will just break out the "hey remember that time we were in that alternate universe? Yeah, that was wierd huh?" from time to time. Now I'm all for alternate universe stories as long as they're well written and entertaining. But for Marvel to hype this thing up like some giant mega "nothing will ever be the same" crossover, then come out with some glorified What If? story that takes all it's drama from Russo-ish swerves just makes me uninterested. Whereas DC's Infinite Crisis seems to actually be drawing on real character interactions and histories. I mean , the betrayal of Batman by the Justice League, and all the other character driven storylines are not derived from some alternate reality or cosmic event. The writing just seems a hell of a lot more intruiging. Now I'm sure alternate realities and cosmic events will come into play in IC, but the story isn't completely derived from those plot devices. Look and everything that's happened so far. The Infinite Crisis hasn't even started yet.

And didn't some people have lord Alfred Hayes?

Yeah, but didn't that whole deal go down right before Robin's dad was iced in Identity Crisis? That's gotta change Tim's outlook on everthing. I haven't been following Robin or Teen Titans since the aformentioned future arc, so I don't really know how he's dealing with all that, but it had to have dramatically changed his character. I'm not saying that DC would necessarily put Tim in the Batman suit, but I just think that that whole motivation not to become the Batman has been shot down after the death of his father. However, it's obvious to me that any change to the man under the Batman mask would be temporary. Batman will always be Bruce Wayne. That is one of the status quos that DC comics will always come back to no matter what the changes. Especially with the new movie being so successful. Oh and I just cannot see Ted Kord as the Spectre's host.

There's that Outkast song, I can't remember the title (on of their earlier ones), that has the line "Drop them 'bows like Dusty Rhodes/ then I say woh."

Exactly, the "dings" in the hull and the falling foam are only being discovered now because of all the insanely thorough new precausions NASA is taking. Which is the right thing to do following a disaster.

Oh please, NASA does not "kill astronauts." You wanna see how good NASA is? Compare how many people they've lost compared to the Soviet programs. They had rocket after rocket just blowing up on the launch pad. And a lot of their accident were repressed from the public at the time too. Tragedies have happened and will happen in the future. It sucks, but people have to come to terms with that. NO sientific progress will ever be made without risks. Would people have ever found the New World if they'd sat in Europe thinking "hmmm those sea's seem rough, I think we'd better hang out here"? Launching spacecraft is so incrediably complex that there are bound to be accidents. NASA is not some screw up entity sucking money like some people like to claim. Look at the Deep Impact and 2 Mars Rover missions. They were resounding sucesses, far exceeding expectations and mission objectives. NASA is definately not "dead on it's feet and waiting for the glue factory." That's such stupid ignorant statement. I'm fucking sick of people with no technical or scientific knowledge writing editorials in newspapers and such claiming that they know all the answers on how to run this multi-billion dollar, super technical institution. Are you people aerospace engineers? This IS fucking rocket science. People can't come out and say "oh NASA's useless, they should have done this or that." Hindsight's 20/20.

Yeah, I don't see anything too suspicious in the log file. Though there are programs and stuff there that I'm not familiar with. You say you've had the computer for 5 years? If you havn't changed Hard Drives in that time, it seems like you could be well on the road to a dead one. Any wierd noises? That's good advice right there. The next time your comp freezes immediatly reset it and check the temperature. Could be that the heat sink has come off a little bit or something. But it's more likely it's a dying Hard Drive than that I think. That's...............good......

No, they've run 8. This is from the web sites episode guide (episode "9" is 2x01): 09 The Boys are Back in Town 10 My Maserati Does 185 11 Aquamansion 12 An Offer Refused 13 Neighbors 14 Chinatown 15 The Sundance Kids 16 Oh, Mandy But the front page says there's an episode 17 this week now. So anyone know how many episodes this season has?

I'm LOVING Entourage. They show new episodes up here in Canada on Movie Central, and I downloaded the whole first season. I can't get enough of this show. Does anyone know if the 2nd season is over now? They've done 8 episodes and that's all the first season had.

How about Vancouver/Colorado? That has been heating up pretty nicely over the past couple seasons. And it just completely exploded in that game where the Avs were destroying the Canucks and all the fights broke out at the end culminating with Bertuzzi killing Steve Moore. People in Van HATE the Avalanche.

Just finished finally reading "Watchmen" for the first time. Damn

Hey man, how come whenever something comes up to do with Albertans, the headline always makes some satement about "western voters?" Like Alberta is "western Canada." I mean, here in BC people are down with same sex marriage, we were the 2nd province to legalize it. And opinion poles put the Conservatives (and especially Steven Harper) at pretty damn low levels of popularity currently. We're very very different from Alberta and the prairie provinces politically. I mean, we don't even really have a provincial conservative party, its either Liberal or NDP. So come on Canada, stop using "the West" to describe Alberta.

Yeah, I'D buy the next PPV if it had that match, but would Joey Mark buy it? Does the average audience memeber "get" what would make it so hot? Who knows, it could be a hugely successful fued, or it could not draw a dime. I think we all know what would happen if it DID turn into a hugely successful fued though: "Matt-uh, it was me-uh all along-uh. The Game-uh was the one-uh who stole Lita.......uh."

Aw man! That's lame. I was expecting a sweet story about killer undead beasts but it's just an advancement in suspended animation. It's still pretty cool from a scientific perspective, but why must the news articles always use titles that are way cooler than the actual article.

Yeah, Harper can't seem to keep his foot out of his mouth. I mean, he acted like a total psycho when he tried to bring down the government, he made an ass out of himself with the whole Grewal tapes affair, and now this moronic statement. I wonder if he's curious about why the Cons. Party are bombing in the poles? It seems as if he attaches himself to an issue that he thinks will be his golden ticket to success and just keeps pushing to the point where Canadians just get sick of his lies and rhetoric and more and more lose respect for him. Jeez, he's turned into the Tom Cruise of Canadian politics. Supposedly the thing is, he has a very close knit circle of advisers who are essentialy yes men who shield him from any criticism from the sane members of the Conservative party. The latest obsessive point for him seems to be that the Liberals are "in bed with the separatists" because they voted together on ONE ISSUE. Does he actually think that people aren't going to see the hipocracy in that considering the Conservatives have been allied with the Bloc for the past 6 months. So the same sex bill won't be legitimate because it has Bloc support but your power grab last month to topple the government would have been? Can't have it both ways. I don't see Stev-o leading the party for much longer.

I'm sorry but that is such a moronic sentiment. So what defines a character as "A-list" or whatever, is whether someone who has no clue about the work in it's original medium knows about them? Hell, Riddler (ok, pre Hush) and Penguin are pretty much complete jokes in the comics, yet they're "A-List" because joe moviegoer knows who they are? Well then I guess Ras and Scarecrow are A-list now, because they were just in a movie. These movies are taking the stories and characters from another medium, thus the rules are defined by that source material.

I put forward that this thread is in a persistave vegetative state and should have it's life support systems shut down. The thread would want it that way and should be allowed to die with dignity. But first let's see what Doktor Frist has to say about that diagnosis eh?

After seeing epIII and now knowing that R2 is not mind wiped, I take the "I don't remember owning any droids" scene as Obi-Wan just employing his sense of dry humour. Sir Alec says that line with sort of a twinkle in his eye as well, and he never does say anything about knowing R2 and 3P0, just that he never owned droids. So what he said was true, from a certain point of view. I actually really like the way that little segment plays out now knowing what we know from the prequels. However, I always thought that the perfect way to deal with this little continuity hiccup would be to have had the Ewen Mcgregor Obi-Wan somehow work in saying the "I don't remember owning any droids" line to R2 in ROTS. This would make it like the two of them had a little running joke going on.

We already established the answer to all that. It took months to get to CC for the Falcon (during which wacky sitcom hijinks ensued), so Luke's training went on during that trip. And then when Luke needed to get there, his X-Wing still had a working hyperdrive.

I always thought that Leia was talking about Bail Organa's wife, who she thought was her mother all that time.

What the Fuck?! How do you come up with that analogy? Their social/environmental/foreign policies are as different as night and day. I mean, the Liberals are legalizing gay marriage for God's sake! Do you see the Republican Party ever doing that? Their economic policies are pretty damn different as well. What's your basis for that comparisson? I do see the Conservatives (Tories) = Democrats comparisson though.