Kel Varnsen

Then I thought they could have been more clear with that. I mean I think what they wanted to say was that she was the only one that could do it, but apart from her talking better in her class there was nothing to show that she was a better computer engineer than anyone else at the company. And if you are just going to lie anyways why not get someone closer to you rather than this imitation Robin Sparkles. I sort of got what they said about the patent. The only thing IBM had the patent on was the chip. Beard guy just figured out what the chip did, and I think Cameron's job is to design a chip from scratch that can do the exact same things. As long as it is not a direct copy and doesn't do the same things the same way then it does not infringe on the patent. Also aren't patent documents public domain, so couldn't the two guys have just looked up the patent filings for the IBM chip and then made some changes and called it an all new computer?

Yea it didn't make a lot of sense to me either. I mean if Cardiff's lawyer was basically instructing Cameron to make false statements, and potentially commit perjury, why did they need her at all? Why not just pull some existing Cardiff engineers and get them to do it, since getting someone who already has a job and is loyal to teh company would probably be easier. By the way everytime I hear Cameron talk she sounds like Cobie Smulders. From what I can remember from a documentary I watched like 10 years ago, the real way the IBM PC was cloned was a lot more air tight legally, since they basically did like a double blind research study, with one group being like the bearded dude and figuring out what the IBM does, then another group, completely separate from the first figuring out how to make a computer that can do the exact same thing.

I had the same problem with man of steel. I finally watched it last weekend and while I liked some of the concepts (like the whole thing about how proof of an alien would really change the world). But there was too much Zack Snyder flash to it. Like annoying close ups of clocks or that whole dream sequence where Superman was sinking in the skulls. I just found it all irritating and kind of distracting. I can only imagine what kind of "symbolic" crap he will add for Batman.

It seemed to me that Jin's dad had some debts to some very bad people? But Voight and the rest of the Intelligence Squad were always asking Jin for off the books favours. Did he not understand how favours work? Why not call in one of those favours and have Voight, or Alvin or someone make the gambling debts (or the people who want to collect them) go away?

I read it last week and I pretty much liked it up until the end which kind of bugged me a bit. The possibility of tacking on a kid to Veronica's life seems like of annoying. Then again the idea that Lianne might go to jail as an accessory makes me laugh as well. I mean the woman has no criminal record, is primary care giver to a 6 year old (especially after her husband does go to jail). Plus the fact that there was only one plane ticket out of town (in her husband's name) would be pretty good evidence that she wasn't involved. No way any prosecutor would want to take that to trial and risk having the sobbing testimony of a now single mom whose husband screwed her over happen in a court room. Especially since she could potentially be a witness against her husband or step-daughter. Then again it also kind of bugged me that there was no real mention of how the last time Veronica saw Lianne, she skipped town with a crapload of money that was her's and Keith's. It also kind of bugged me that there was little or no mention of trying to figure out who killed Sacks and almost killed Keith. As determined as Veronica is, you would think she would be spending all her free time trying to figure out who almost killed her dad.