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The first look at J.J. Abrams' new post-apocalyptic TV show Revolution

The first look at J.J. Abrams’ new post-apocalyptic TV show Revolution

Good news, J.J. Abrams fans — you’re getting a new (and hopefully better received) series from Abrams on NBC! It’s called Revolution, and it focuses on a band of survivors making their way in a new world after all of the world’s energy mysteriously disappears. And here’s your very first shot of the cast standing ominously on a giant staircase. Note the bows and arrows! That trend isn’t going anywhere, anytime soon!

According to TV Line, NBC has picked up this new drama series, which was also crafted by Supernatural’s Eric Kripke and directed by Jon Favreau. The show stars the Mustache Dad from Twilight (actor Billy Burke) and Giancarlo Esposito from Once Upon A Time and Breaking Bad (which doesn’t really bode well for Esposito’s character on Once).

Can anyone guess what the secret behind the massive power outage is? Because you know there’s going to be a mystery wrapped in a mystery tied with a bow with Abrams.

Reporting on this show is really pissing me off because J.J. Abrams and TV DON’T go together that well. He just gets a foot in the door as executive producer, but the good shows are because of other people.

Kripke is the reason to be excited for this show.

Pornography online: David Cameron to consider 'opt in' plan | Technology | guardian.co.uk

The government is to consider introducing new filters for online pornography, in a move likely to be fiercely resisted by internet service providers.

Prime minister David Cameron is expected to consult in the next few weeks on whether ISPs, such as BT and Virgin media, should block adult material as a default for customers.

The tough measures will mean that millions of internet users will be forced to opt in if they wish to view pornography online.

The prime minister has intervened following pressure from a parliamentary inquiry into online child protection, which warned that explicit material was having a harmful effect on young children.

Woo! Internet censorship thanks to shitty parents wanting the government to do their shitty job of raising their shitty kids. 

It is solely on the parents to install filters at home. I don’t care if they don’t know how. They learn. If it’s too difficult? They should have thought twice about having fucking kids in the first place since they are idiots.

Pope: Straight marriage must be ‘defended from misrepresentation’ - PinkNews.co.uk

Pope Benedict XVI has told an audience of bishops in the US marriage between men and women must be ‘promoted and defended’.

In the address, he claimed: “Sexual differences cannot be dismissed as irrelevant to the definition of marriage.”

AFP reports he spoke of “powerful political and cultural currents seeking to alter the legal definition of marriage” and said marriage and family must be defended “from every possible misrepresentation of their true nature”.

He added: “The contemporary crisis of marriage and the family… has led to grave societal problems bearing an immense human and economic cost.”

In January, Pope Benedict XVI reportedly said allowing gay couples equal marriage rights could threaten the future of humanity.

According to Reuters, the pontiff said “pride of place goes to the family, based on the marriage of a man and a woman” when discussing appropriate “settings” for children.

Of straight marriage, he said: “This is not a simple social convention, but rather the fundamental cell of every society.

“Consequently, policies which undermine the family threaten human dignity and the future of humanity itself.”

Says the head of an institution that systematically abuses children through molestation and fear.

Catholic Diocese drops homeless funding over director’s gay marriage views - PinkNews.co.uk

A Catholic Diocese in California has dropped the funding it gives a homelessness charity citing the new director’s views on abortion and equal marriage rights for gays.

Francis House, a charitable organisation which helps the homeless in the city of Sacramento, had been receiving support from the Church for twenty years.

Out of its annual $500,000 budget, the Diocese sent between $7,500 and $10,000, the Sacramento Bee reports.

But that has changed after its new director, Rev. Faith Whitmore, publicly supported marriage equality and a pro-choice stance on abortion.

Rev. Michael Kiernan, the Diocese’s social services director, told her it in a letter it was “impossible for the diocese to continue funding Francis House” as a result.

While the letter said it did not expect the charity to promote its views, it could not condone its director disagreeing with them.

It said: “We can expect, however, that they or their leaders not publicly oppose Catholic teaching and that, unfortunately, is the situation in which we find ourselves.”

Oh… I though that Jesus guy was all about helping people, but I see he was only helping people if it could further his cause to get people hating gays and women. That hippie bastard!

Xbox News: Xbox 720 won't have a disc drive - report - ComputerAndVideoGames.com

That’s according to MCV, which says Microsoft has been briefing partners under what sources describe as “the strictest NDA” they have ever encountered.

The site claims the console will “offer compatibility with some sort of interchangeable solid-state card storage, although it is not known whether this will be proprietary or a more standard format such as SD”.

If true, Microsoft’s digital move would usher in a new era for home games consoles and represent a major blow to the games retail market.

Microsoft said in response to the report: “Xbox 360 has found new ways to extend its lifecycle like introducing the world to controller-free experiences with Kinect and re-inventing the console with a new dashboard and new entertainment content partnerships.

“We are always thinking about what is next for our platform and how to continue to defy the lifecycle convention. Beyond that we do not comment on rumors or speculation.”

It would be proprietary under the assumption it would fight piracy. For examples see Sony. It would also fail at hindering piracy. For examples see Sony.

Not really since it’s more like going back to days of the cartridge era and shops would still sell the games on the proprietary cards.

The comments on this are ridiculous since the above is the whole article and people still failed to read it before commenting. Even one person claiming 50GB downloads for games. No. Just… No. Of course that comes from the assumption of download only, when games would more likely stick to the current model of being limited to the size of the physical media they’re distributed on.

Poll: 70 percent of Britons oppose equal marriage - PinkNews.co.uk

A ComRes poll commissioned by Catholic Voices has found that 70 percent of two thousand people agreed marriage should only be available to a man and a woman.

70 percent of respondents in the poll released today agreed with the statement: “Marriage should continue to be defined as a life-long exclusive commitment between a man and a woman.”

22 percent disagreed with the proposition.

Fewer, 59 percent, thought gay couples should be “legally recognised through the civil partnership scheme”, but the question did not say whether the alternative was no legal recognition or another form of recognition.

70% of respondents also oppose divorce thanks to the inclusion of “life-long” in the statement. To use this result to deny same-sex marriage means it can also be used to get rid of divorce. 

The best is near the end. Marriage should be promoted by the state, but the state has to only promote their version of marriage leaving civil partnerships for same-sex couples.

Also, I can’t seem to find out where this poll was conducted other than just “online”. That’s important if Catholic Voices are going to say the “Government is at odd with the public on this issue” when several polls in the past have shown results in favor of same-sex marriage.

Man arrested on suspicion of hacking into abortion provider's website | UK news | The Guardian

A man suspected of hacking into the website of one of the country’s biggest abortion providers is being questioned by police.

The 27-year-old, who claims to have links to the hacktivist group Anonymous, was arrested during the early hours of this morning on suspicion of offences under the Computer Misuse Act, Scotland Yard said.

It comes after the website of the British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS) was hacked into and defaced on Thursday. Data on the website was also compromised, police said.

Officers from the Metropolitan police’s central e-crime unit executed a search warrant at an address in Wednesbury, West Midlands, before arresting the suspect, who is in custody at a West Midlands police station.

Police said they were alerted to allegations that the BPAS website had been hacked on Thursday.

Claims later appeared on Twitter that the culprit had accessed the names of women who had undergone terminations and was threatening to release them into the public domain.

However, police said the stolen data did not contain any medical details of women who had received treatment.

This is not something Anonymous would do, so you can imagine reporting on this story is getting on my tits.

NeuroLogica Blog » Religious Freedom vs Consumer Protection

A Christian church in New Zealand has put up a billboard on their property that proclaims: “Jesus Heals Cancer.” This has caused a bit of a stir and prompted a discussion about the limits of religious freedom vs protecting the public from false or misleading claims.

The Pastor, Lyle Penisula, holds that the claim is true. This is actually the easiest aspect of the issue to deal with – is there evidence that “Jesus heals cancer?” No. The Pastor himself offers, of course, anecdotes – cases of people in his church who survived cancer. He admits that they completed whatever treatment regimen they were being given by their doctors, but seemed to entirely miss the point that therefore we cannot conclude that it was Jesus who healed them. They may have simply responded to standard medical treatment.

There has been a fair bit of research into intercessory prayer. The results are essentially negative. More studies are negative than positive, and the positive ones have critical flaws (although they seem to get more media attention). If there were a clinically significant effect from intercessory prayer the existing studies would have shown a more consistent and clearly positive signal. What we have is most consistent with no effect. The evidence is incompatible with the claim that “Jesus heals cancer.”

I refuse to have any respect for religion and religious people as long as they remain lying sacks of shit.

You get religious freedom and freedom of speech to make such erroneous claims, but we get to point out your lies and the fact you are shitty human beings for making claims that will lead to some delusional fuck trying to pray away cancer instead of getting treatment.