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This show is certainly a weird show. It's good, and I'm glad we have a tv climate where a show like this can thrive. But because we can rewatch, tweet, and talk about any given show, we tend to see things that aren't there. I don't think Louie is making a statement about racism either. Given the recent #YesAllWomen and UCSB events, it's hard not to view the recent episodes through that lens, even though Louis made the show way before any of this happened. If anything, I think Louis is saying that guys are stupid, which, really, we are, and that because guys are stupid they can easily cross the line. It doesn't excuse the behavior, nor should it, but being a stupid guy, I was like, 'shit, I hope I haven't done something like that.' And I haven't, but I think Louis is saying, 'don't be that guy.' And it goes both ways because in the past season, he actually got punched and forced to go down on a woman. That's just as bad.

I think that was the point. Louis probably is going somewhere with this, since it was only part 1.

The city was excommunicated at the time and there was no trade. The bank was breathing down his neck. He went to Naples and rolled the dice. There wasn't much else to do. He had to show the king that he was 'worthy' of negotiations, and had they not ripped his eyes out, he may have made an alliance with Naples.

He walked into Naples, survived an extreme flogging scene, then managed to kill a galloping (away from him) horse who was going to snap his neck in about 30 seconds. Then he disarmed Alfonso and had a sword to his neck in about 5 seconds. I don't think he did that bad.

If Harkness showed up this could be The Best Show Ever.

I don't know that it needs to be fanwanked. This seems like a sensible interpretation to me. This is a take-off on the classic "prisoner's dilemma" example in game theory.

I learned BASIC too on the Apple II in like 5th, 6th grade and on my cousin's Commodore. Now I know python! I actually used the Apple IIc for word processing up till 11th grade I think (1990). Then my parents' bought me an actual word processor/electric typewriter thing that I used till senior undergrad.

No, it really isn't. And if Marcy and Runkle are into it, what's the big deal? I didn't like Hank being so disapproving of it. It's not like Marcy didn't want to have sex with Runkle anymore. Lots of couples have kinky fantasy play as a way to spice things up.

Getting grant money is a very arduous process. One does not just get grant money. Your proposal has to be vetted thoroughly by other scientists who judge very harshly.

Honestly, if he pulls that with Pamela again, she needs to kick the shit out of him.

This is strictly a 'throw your dicks on the table' move. That's all it is.

No, they wanted the assembly language on the chip; i.e., what was in the big binder that they printed out in the garage. That's what's patented, and if it's proprietary, it might not be publicly disclosed. The gist is, if some computer genius came up with the code all on their own, w/o even looking at the IBM material, then they can clone it. Figuring, I think, the odds of exactly replicating 65000 lines of code is near zero, then they can just maybe change a line or two and say it's not a violation.

If I was in a restaurant, and someone came in with guns, I'd just get up and walk out. (I'd throw some money down on the table.) I don't know if I'd go through the trouble of posting it on FB and telling people not to go to that restaurant, but I'd think about it. Screw bad guys and good guys with guns, the only way I'm sure I won't be shot is to just not be around anyone with a gun. It's kind of laughable if we haven't had 100s of shootings because of this garbage already. JS was correct on both counts. How do we know if the person carrying the gun is a good guy or a bad guy? And really, the NRA is a shill for the gun industry. What this boils down to is a bunch of scared, white guys clinging to their version of some idealized past that never existed. Society is changing pretty fast nowadays and they just can't deal. I almost want there to be some big shoot out at a restaurant or bar as a result of all these people carrying guns, over something really, really stupid

I actually could buy that Riario lost his faith in the Americas. It was a slow build up to that with his flashbacks, and with the Book of Leaves not being there, he was like, 'wtf am I doing?' Tthen being rejected by the true pope was the final straw. Throughout the series so far, he's been proto-Machiavellian, but not a true Machiavellian Prince because he's still used and controlled by others. So I think he transferred that to this other group because he kind of wants to belong to *something*. They didn't do a great job with the execution of all that, and I think the overriding thing was to get Riario and DaVinci on opposing sides again, for the inevitable, zomg, the Sons of Mitras are bonkers and the Enemies of Men are weirdos so we have to join forces. I still think DaVinci himself is the book, so that means one group may want to kill him and the other just use him.

I figured that she was Amy's mentor or really helped her out when she needed it, so Amy wants to repay her. Also, I think the songs are pretty funny. Amy seems to be genuinely friends with some of the comics that appear on the show, so I can buy that she wants them to share in her success. Did anyone catch that one of the dancers was Ad-Rock from the Beastie Boys?

I was pleasantly surprised with this. I wasn't expecting Joe was spinning all these wheels to get his 'plan' in place and I liked that the company was forced to go along with it. I'm glad they got 'on board' with the plot of the show after only one episode. I was thinking they were going to draaaagg it out with Gordon and his wife. I also liked that smarmy Joe was legit in his praise of Gordon's work. He clearly studied that article, and I thought his 'ahead of the time' comment was genuine. The dialogue was a little hacky, but eh. Especially, The Men Yelling. It's a summer show I can roll with. I'm just a little too young for the era. My first computer was an Apple IIc whenever they came out. My elementary school did have Apple II+? I think. I also think my cousin had a Commodore. I do recall when the PC cloning was all over the news though.

I don't expect elected officials to be scientific experts, but any reasonable person should be able to see through the "I'm not a scientist, but I don't think climate change is a thing," garbage. I do expect elected officials to know generally how science works though. If you're on the House science committee and you don't understand what the scientific method is, you're a disgrace. So you're not a scientist. Why not ask a scientist? Why not hold hearings on the keystone pipeline and invite actual experts to testify what it will do to the environment? Because you know the answer and you know when it becomes part of the congressional record, "because jobs," will be a weak pathetic excuse and americans will actually expect you to do something about it and you are paralyzed with your own self-preservation to actually govern the country in the best interest of the populace. There used to be an Office of Technology, and they'd prepare reports for congressmen on things like this because they aren't experts, and they could use the reports to be up to speed on things like climate change. That got killed in the 90s. But that's no excuse. This scientifically ignorant phase we are in is appalling. The fact is no one else around the world is really going to do anything about climate change unless the USA is taking the lead, whether unilaterally or what.

I find it ridiculous that a single, sexually active person is berated by their former partner for being single and sexually active. It's like Karen is expecting she and Hank "to be on break" and Hank has to just hang around and be her boyfriend until she decides it's time for them to get together again. Granted, it's a little silly the number of women that have thrown themselves at Hank, but the show has gone out of its way to show that it's always been consensual, and devoted a huge flashback to establish that he's always been monogamous to Karen when they're officially together, so I just don't see that he's this awful person for being single and sexually active that seems to piss off Karen so much.

Jonah would jump ship and go with the winner in a heartbeat. He was basically trying to do that at the end of the debate.

^Oh, you beat me to it. So that was all Abe right? He didn't load the gun by accident, he knew that was going to happen? Because it was awesome that Simcoe looked like a dbag, That's what I got from it since he was flying off the handle yelling at the Reverend. And then when the Rev was all "if you listened to all my stories, you'd know it was a Penn rifle." Well, yeah, jackass. Abe just got you off a hanging. I quite liked that. More Pissed Off Abe please. I said the same thing: Do Spy Things. This seems like it should have been a summer show to me. Like starting now. Honestly, why cancel it? What else have they got? If the ball does not fit in the musket, you must say 'fuck it.' I need to throw this around with my writing staff.

I figure it's got to come down to her and Maddox. He's been introduced on the show long before. I suppose Chung has a shot, but everyone is so derisive of him, I can't see him doing well.

Yes, it is. Especially if you have leftovers. A lot of times, something greasy like pizza bites or tater tots, breakfast sausages. My roommate loved the pizza bites. I used to like 'sautee' bagel halves in a pan with some butter and garlic salt. Perfect.

She's definitely good-looking. She's not a size 2 and she's never going to be, but she doesn't have to be either. I'm surprised more women aren't hiding under the bed considering all the garbage in those magazines. What's ironic is that the guy coming over for sex wouldn't have cared that she was all dolled up. She looks cute in her wool hat she wears for the on the street interviews. I liked when one of the women said she liked skinny hipsters with bad beards and Amy gestured to her crew and said 'take your pick'.

Yeah, but the geography of the harbor would lend to military strategists of the time to build a city there because of its natural defense. It's not like forcing troops through a narrow gap to level the playing field hasn't been around for thousands of years. I suppose DaVinci's plan was, given how we have only 500 people, 4 cannon, how can we use the natural defenses to our advantage? In hindsight, I guess the plan was to figure out how to sink the ships in the opening than recognizing that the opening itself was a defense. The way they let the scene play out made it seem like DaVinci was the only person who realized that the gap itself was a defense.

McCain was asked on Sunday (Face the Nation?) about this, and completely brushed it off as a nonissue. His main point was that if the released prisoners will get back into the fight and whether being holed up in Qatar for a year will be effective. That's fairly legit, though he was being pissy overall. Scientists and doctors aren't going to do that because they unanimously agree that vaccinations are essential to public health and anyone who doesn't agree is wrong. Which they are. So they're going to go about their work. It's the same reason in principle of having a 'debate' of evolution v creationism. Creationism isn't a legit scientific theory that explains our natural world. There's nothing to debate, and going one on one with vaccination v anti-vaccination is a false equivalency. This is more of the realm of legit journalism to tackle and debunk. It would actually make a good documentary. Not to get too meta, but this is a derivative of this inexplicable anti-science era that were a stuck in. People just don't know how science works. I'm surprised that the midterms aren't being covered, since the control of the Senate is a real story. Also, Jon's fave turtle in Kentucky is going against a pretty crazy lady.