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We agree again, Myles. I saw it in glorious 2-D, quite deliberately. I'm not a fan of 3-D.

Tim

I saw this with my son Sunday night. I couldn't disagree more with this review. I think, by finally taking the fantasy seriously, by skipping the camp and the easy humor and giving the story some...

I have no problem with dropping the term "real." You guys are right. It defines the opposite as "unreal," "fantasy," "delusion," etc. Very negative and not helpful. I prefer audible. If you can...

Nice. The short-term threat, however, is politicians killing stimulus and promoting austerity because they have nothing left to run on but the national debt. The saving grace is that they're...

Blind tests are flawed. Even when they are very carefully designed and executed and repeated enough with enough subjects and subject matter that they are nearly impossible to deny (though the...

Yep. It's called "national interests" and it isn't pretty either. Our interest in ME oil has put us in nearly as many unholy alliances that have come back to bite us in the ass in the last 20 years...

Correct. Knowing when you're listening to what you most desperately want to believe in is much more objective.

Tim

Semantics. Clearly having a definition of genocide and getting the members of the Security Council to agree when it is occurring are two very diffferent things. So we agree. But I don't think it's a...

Wow. So America is in an era of Tinkerbell politics?

:)

Tim

I've tried 3 audiophile players -- Amarra, Pure Audio and a third thats name escapes me. Every one of them had legions of internet audiophile fans who heard what couldn't be measured. I compared...

I never quite got this Tinkerbell effect. Believing in what you want to believe is easy, not hard. Facing facts that don't serve your interests or support your argument, that's the hard stuff.

Tim

Given the Bizantine quality of your argument and the complete absence of supporting data (or did I miss that technical detail?), I thought the virtues of simplicity and the commonness of perceptual...

The history of the audiophile endeavor is filled with long, detailed, seemingly technical, psedo-scientific explanations of possible reasons for things people hear which channot be explained,...

I'm not sure we do agree, actually. What the UN will probably do is nothing of consequence. The UN is a systemically dysfunctional organization, with the dysfunction cooked into its design. UN action...

Elves.

Tim

You're too kind, Amir. My reaction was simply "what a crock." And I haven't a fraction of your technical knowledge and ability to recognize the nuanced BS in that crock.

Tim

Which is one of several good reasons why the US should never become involved in such a crisis. Is it a horrible human tragedy? Yes, it is. Would it be an even greater human tragedy if it escalated...

There's your sign. No "moderates" ran for president of Iran. That would never have been allowed. Will this guy's education be helpful? Who knows, but this sure doesn't open up any great opportunity...

Neil is very opinionated, not always consistent, and....I think the word is eccentric. And he is on record more than once confusing bad mastering to CD with CD. I think he's still confusing good...

Yeah, I know you know that, Amir. But I had to ignore it long enough to get to the international Harvester on a Jaguar iine. And I know you want to cook Shabu Shabu. Don't be a denier. :)

Tim

Jessica, when you want to run a Windows-only app on a Mac, you run Windows. In a window (smal w, stands for "where Microsoft got this idea). On a Mac. With OSX and its app running in another widow....

Fresh air, sunshine If you can get it there, dryness. These are the end of moisture-based odors. I'd pull everything in the double-wide out on the grass on a day when the weather man says there...

Was it necessary to stretch The Hobbit? No. But it was well done. Jackson dug deep into Tolkien's lore to show a bigger piece of his world and mythology than that first small book revealed; he didn't...

I've seen some NCIS in cable re-runs, watched 3-4 episodes of Walking Dead on Netfliz. I'm completely out of touch.

Tim

I feel fortunate if I can remember lunch. I think when people "remember" the sound of system, they're just remembering their impression of listening to that system, that day. Fair enough. Could...