Recent content by talideon

Quick correction: Gabriel isn't a Catholic priest, he's an Episcopalian priest. Sure, the line between Catholicism and Anglicanism/Episcopalianism is pretty thin all things considered, but they're not the same thing.

I have to say, I kinda guessed most of the spoilery stuff from the trailer anyway. Still plan on seeing it to find out how it ultimately ends.

Well, at least that made more sense than the average Uwe Boll film.

Good to see somebody else bringing up the Inhumans. The other nice thing about them is that they neatly sidestep the whole 'mutant' label.

I have to say: after an initial bumpy start, AoS is turning into a fine show. I can't see how they could possibly redeem Ward, but I do thing there's a good chance they'll move him more from black to grey, a dark shade of grey, but grey nonetheless, possibly an anti-villain.

That's happening already: when I recently got my Moto G, it came with no charger and only a USB cable. And that's the rule rather than the exception here in Europe these days.

Jim wins through the power of meta!

When it comes to Archer, need anybody say more? QED.

The latter would be the most accurate historical interpretation. It literally means 'The Lord who is Protector of the Realm', and was typically given to a regent. However, the position of 'Lord Protector' was not necessarily reserved for nobles. Oliver Cromwell, the most famous Lord...

The truly screwed up thing about this is that is makes a system meant to be method to prevent theft and piracy of copyrighted material is effectively a mechanism for theft of people's just earnings! If Google were going to implement this, they should've implemented an earnings escrow system...

It's not the length of the swing, it's the length of the pendulum. It doesn't matter so long as the period is the same. Yes, they can. That's why a more reliable mechanism was ultimately chosen, but the original pendulum measurement gave the initial measurement. However, in a single...

It wasn't arbitrary. There was a reason behind it: the idea behind using the pendulum was reproducibility. Nobody chose a metre as a good length, it was simply a measurement that could be easily and repeatedly derived from physical phenomena using a simple apparatus. why not London or New...

That's only a rough approximation to use as a rule of thumb though. Eh... it's less arbitrary than that. In fact, the definition of the metre has always been an attempt to find a non-arbitrary measurement based off of natural constants. The real original proposal for the metre came from...

We wouldn't say that. 'Kilometre' in English tends to be abbreviated to 'k' ('kay'), which rolls off the tongue quite nicely, just as 'kilo' does as an abbreviation of 'kilogramme'.

Eh... stone is a UK imperial measurement with nothing to do with SI units. I think your anger might be misplaced.