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I expect a solid effort from start to finish. 4-0Jets.

@CNNSitRoom: #BREAKING US intelligence suggests Russian plane crash likely caused by bomb planted by ISIS https://t.co/ln2YWIqbqRhttps://t.co/ojNs5YBws8 So....how does Russia respond to that?

Pretty good read. I remember seeing a lot of those matches (at least the ones earlier in Royce's career - the article kind of skips from 2005 to 2013) but always got the feeling Royce was happier being a big fish in a small pond rather than hit the road and try to make a real career out of it. Of course I don't know his reasoning for it, but I always felt he had the talent & could have been bigger. He had loads of talent. As I mentioned in the article, he was sort of ahead of his time as far as local wrestling. Shawn Michaels had come along and was changing wrestling in WWE and there were others like him in the world, but locally it was "old school" for the most part, punch/kick/headlock. And a "look" meant being big and beefy with long hair. My remark about Royce proving talent was a requirement of being a top guy was because in the early 2000's there was a movement among some new local guys to bring in athlete calibre physiques which, for a brief time, took precadence over talent. I asked one of my closest confidences in wrestling (who is now retired) about Royce and he is the one that said to me "he was ahead of his time" and influenced guys who began training in 2000, 2001 -ish. Royce probably could have bounced around indy's if he had so chosen and possibly got a look in ECW where he would have been more talented then many guys that got booked there. But he was pretty small. Ofcourse, there is often a difference between how a guy looks who is comfortable working locally and a guy trying to make that final push to a major office so he could have improved his "look". If I recall, he got married pretty young (he's been married as long as I've known him and has at least one adult son) and I think that impacted his career choices. When Mentallo, Omega, Rawskillz came along, they took influence from Royce and went even further with it. Mentallo and Omega have worked all over. Skillz would have but he also settled down right before he probably could have gotten looks in Japan. The article skips over a lot of time because I dont think anything overly historic happened in that time. Once he came to PCW, he settled in as a top guy. When he left in 2009 it really wasnt as big a deal as "jumping" had been in the eary part of 2000's. Although it did result in him and I going from very close to not friendly at all. We used to talk about having one big match against each other and I wish we had done so!

Here are a few (and some might have seemed like fantasy to viewers in the 60's): Cell Phones Cell phones are a direct descendant of the communicators found on the show. In fact, Martin Cooper has said that it was Captain Kirk's gold flip communicator that inspired him to create the first ever mobile phone. Automatic Doors One of the first pieces of technology to come out of Star Trek was the automatic door. When an Enterprise crew member approached a door, it would automatically open. Today, you can find that once futuristic technology at any corner store. Universal Translator While Spock and Kirk found themselves in many dangerous situations, Starfleet's Prime Directive was that of exploration and observation. With that came the understanding of other alien languages thanks to the series' universal translator. Sure with apps like Google Translate, we can type in and understand any conversation but now with tech like Microsoft's "Skype" translator, today's users no longer have to fear the language barrier. Flat Screen TV The giant viewscreen on the bridge of the Enterprise allowed Captain Kirk to communicate with other space ships and people on nearby planets. Today, giant high definition televisions equipped with video cameras allow us to speak with people across the globe in real time. Medical Tricorder Doctor McCoy could measure someone's vital signs by waving a sensor over someone's body and looking at a read-out on his tricorder. Today, "tricorders" really exist. The "Scanadu" works by placing a tiny sensor on a patient's forehead. Through its sensor, and in a matter of seconds, the Scanadu measures heart rate, temperature, blood pressure, oxygen level and provides a complete ECG reading. Voice Commands Speaking to a computer in natural language -- and getting a quick response -- is one of Star Trek's greatest technology promises. We're not quite there yet, but apps like Siri, Google Now and Cortana are getting close. They even have been programmed to have a sense of humor, which the Enterprise computer never fully mastered. Transparent Aluminum In the movie Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, Scotty and Bones provided a 20th century engineer the formula for transparent aluminum. It was in exchange for materials to build a whale tank. It's a long story.... Anyways, transparent aluminum exists today. The material, known as ALON, is produced by a company called Surmet. HypoSpray Dr. McCoy might have been cantankerous, but he didn't stick patients with needles. Instead, he used a device called a hypospray, which sprayed medicine into a patient's blood stream directly through the skin. Hyposprays exist today, though they're called jet injectors. They're expensive, so they're still not as commonly used as needles. But they're less painful. GPS Before beaming people up, the crew of "Star Trek" had to first locate the likes of Kirk and Spock and the many red shirts on distant planets. Crew location could be seen as a precursor to the Global Position System technology that many around the world now use daily. GPS location technology may seem like a standard way of life, but back in the late sixties when the show first premiered it seemed as if it only belonged to the U.S.S. Enterprise. Space Travel When the show first premiered back in 1966, space travel was still a risky endeavor for mankind. However, a few years later man had walked on the moon. Now, entrepreneur Richard Branson wants to use his space transportation company, "Virgin Galactic," to help send even every-day people into the final frontier. iPad There's a lot to remember when flying through space, which is why "Star Trek" used a PADD. The "Personal Access Display Device" was computer notebook of sorts. This tech is almost identical to the dozens of computer tablets like the iPad and Microsoft Surface that people use today.

Science Fiction implies that what is written in it is not real or it is imagined. Or not based in reality. The science part is mostly the fiction part. So there was a time that the Earth orbiting around the Sun rather then the Sun orbiting around the Earth was pure fantasy? The earth being round instead of flat was pure fantasy but now it is fiction?? At what point does fantasy become Science Fiction before it becomes reality? To me Science Fiction revolves around some future or alternate world where these is advanced science and / or technology for the things they do, and usually involves outer space. Fantasy is typically some land or different world that is still in or around the bronze / iron age, has no computers or combustion engines and has some sort of magic. There are of course some works that blur the lines of both. I always say Star Wars is Science Fantasy and Star Trek is Science Fiction. A lot of Wars is science fiction too but they have the Force, ghosts, sith/jedi powers etc. Its like a future dungons and dragons with science fiction technology while maintaining it's middle earth fantasy elements. Trek is meant to be today's technology/civilization if we could take a look 100 years, 200 years and so on in the future. It's US. And ofcourse they take some liberties for creative and dramatic reasons. But its quite amazing how much TOS got right and/or influenced technology. Im sure we wont have Warp Drive in 50 years or transporters in 100 years but hey, they cant always be right.

Depends on the understanding of warp which was, understandably, not well fleshed out in the time of TOS. Theortetically, faster-than-light travel is possible. One way Star Trek's warp drive might be possible is its creating a warp bubble which is bending space. So realistically its not actually speeding beyond light but appears to. One such theory is the Alcubierre Drve. Additionally, transporting was thought to be a crazy idea and yet they are working on it, obviously on a much small scale. But I'd say something like faster than light travel is fair game in Science Fiction especially when it takes theorteical possibilities and expands upon them. At least in Star Trek, Warping is has various degrees of danger depending on the era and technology and has always been portrayed as requiring immense energy and space allocated on a ship. And in TNG, it was shown that warping actually negatively impacted a certain space-faring species and thus cruising speed was lowered.

The real question, and the only one that really matters ... is if you were just a downloaded consciousness, would you still post on MBB? Not only would I but I'd probably be able to do so more because I wouldnt require sleep. Also I could operate an infinite amount of computers with an infinite amount of aliases.

Well, lets say im dying and the technology exists to download my consciousness and once done, I still think, remember, feel, emote etc. Im still me. And I still learn and amd self aware. Thats what I'd love to experience. Ofcourse it raises questions of how would it "feel" and would I still have sight, smell, hearing. Would I be in control or would somone be in control of my on/off switch. Without a physical body, I wouldnt breath or go hungry...would my consciousness still experience hunger even without the physical triggers? Could a command be entered to make me think I'd eaten something delicious, to "taste" it in my brain? If its just me being "conscious" but in complete darkness without any physical stimuli, then I'd have to reconsider perhaps. But also having an option to put me to sleep for one week, one year, one decade, one century would be interesting. It would be like one way time travel, instaniously moving into the future. When I think about my mortality, I regret that I wont be around to see where humanity goes in 100 years, 1000 years, 10,000 years. When I see a photo of something from 100+ years ago or imagine what New York looked like i the year 1000, I am filled with an overwhelming wish that I could go there, even just for a day. Just to experience it. Same with the future... So I'd sign up for a downloaded brain experiement.

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Yeah the climate change racket is really out of control and changing the name of the portfolio is pretty eye-roll enducing. The earth has been hotter than now and frozen solid. It does what it does. And Man-made carbon dioxide emissions throughout human history constitute less than 0.00022 percent of the total naturally emitted from the mantle of the earth during geological history. But I digress...

Denier or realist? Why are those that don't subscribe to Chicken little syndrome called deniers? Aren't the climate change crazies like Suzuki the deniers? As in denying good sense?

@WiebeSunSports: Nic Petan is in on #NHLJets 4th line. Patrice Cormier is here as insurance since Jets face #Sens tomorrow in a back-to-back scenario

Frank Seravalli ✔ @frank_seravalli Chiarelli: "There will be plates and screws involved (in the surgery)." Apparently this injury is a national tragedy the way everyone is reacting to it! lol

My secret identity!! shhhhhh

Frank Seravalli ✔ @frank_seravalli Chiarelli on McDavid: "He'll be out indefinitely. We're not talking week-to-week, we're talking months. That's plural. Months."

Vince's position is always that wrestling is better than UFC because they are in control of the finishes. But UFC is almost always more intriguing based on realism. WWE should be a million times more interesting because they are pre-determined but they are just so lousy at creative. WWE has become a corporate wasteland of buzz words and formularic presentation where stakes dont matter, win/loss doesnt matter, titles dont matter, no one gets hurt and no one is allowed to be more over than the brand. Anyway, here is some local flavour (and Im quoted in the story): http://slam.canoe.com/Slam/Wrestling/2015/10/28/22566818.html

Ill be happy when they can download my consciousness into a computer and essentially keep me alive for eternity.

@WinnipegNews: @NHLJets confirm C Andrew Copp (upper body) on injured reserve list. Call up C Patrice Cormier from MB Moose. (@WFPJasonBell)

Paul has always had his finger on the pulse of what is cool and what will be cool. I think thats why Vince begrudgingly respects him. TNA were fools not to agree to Paul's terms to come in and book that promotion.

The irony of UFC eroding WWE's audience is that one very critical decision in the rise of UFC was Vince allowing Ultimate Fighter to follow RAW. He said he didnt care as UFC wasnt competition. I bet he'd make a very different decision in hindsight.

Hits on the nose: The reaction from the New York Post: Over the years, Trekkies began looking to Ronald D. Moore, a former “Trek” writer and creator of the fantastic “Battlestar Galactica” reboot, to bring his signature grit and modern take on sci-fi to a new “Star Trek.” But CBS has instead shackled us with the dude who co-wrote “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen.” Nerd culture has finally escaped after-school “science fiction clubs” and worked its way into the mainstream. Everyone watches “Game of Thrones”; everyone is excited for “Star Wars”; hot guys like comic books. These are salad days for geeks! So why does CBS treat “Star Trek” — one of its most valuable and oldest brands — as second tier? Why are these network numbskulls giving “Star Trek” a midseason debut on a streaming service led by the guy who co-wrote “The Amazing Spider-Man 2”?

I have zero desire to go past Voyager. Fill in some of the blanks. With this being a CBS production it will be interesting to see if they want to reassert their intellectual property (namely TOS and it's dirivitives) and if so, what will that look like or will they "respect" the films and stay away from that era and characters?

The old way of doing things was little to no competitive matches on TV. WCW would have had better competition on their Saturday and Sunday TV shows. The formula was, money was made at house shows and TV sold house shows. You used TV to advertise the live events where fans had to pay to see the big stars and competitive matches. Monday Night Wars changed that (with the advent of large TV rights fees). The TBS time slot was much sought after. It began as Georgia Championship Wrestling. In the 70's it moved to TBS and Ted Turner always had a soft spot for wrestling as a result of it being a highly rated cornerstone of the network from its inception. The TV show was called World Championship Wrestling (booker Jim Barnett had come from Austrailia where he ran a promotion of the same name). In the 80's Vince bought Georgia Championship Wrestling from Barnett, the Briscoes and Paul Jones, leaving Ole Anderson out of the deal. So the Saturday show became WWF World Championship Wrestling. But fans hated the Northern style of goofy characters, squash matches and recaps. And Turner was furious that Vince was sending in a tape and not taping out of the Omni in Atlanta. As a result, Vince sold GCW to Jim Crocket and the rest is history. But it shows the very different tastes among fans by region. Even when WCW became more mainstream with Hogan, Savage, Nash, Hall, etc, Ric Flair and the Horsemen were always top guys, popularity rise. Growing up, we got WWE in Winnipeg and virtually no WCW until TBS was offered by the cable companies but I read all about the WCW (NWA) wrestlers and preferred their style of wrestling. Flair, Windham, Muta, Tully & Arm etc etc. When Monday Nitro launched, the Saturday night programming became less of a focus because it went from their main TV to their secondary TV. Glacier might have sucked on Saturday, but that was at a time when Nitro was running competitve matches with Hogan, Savage etc.

I had that injury when I was a kid. Painful. I guess Yak's good season is over too. Alright Ehlers, time to take control of the Rookie of the Year race.

WCW actually did better than WWE in ratings before Monday nights came along. Their Saturday night programming on TBS was a long time ratings success. WCW had a more southern audience but they were popular. And for a long time. WWE's original plan of keeping WCW as a separate brand was the right idea to try and keep those fans but they would have screwed it up eventually.