silverscarcat: BTW, why is it that Hercules is presented as a 10 foot tall giant anyway? Every rendition, well, besides live-action like Kevin Sorbo, has him as 10 feet tall that I've seen. Most people barely get up to his chest. dennis deems: he is? Christopher Best: I liked the Marvel Portrayal of Herc from about 4-5 years ago... I also don't know why I capitalized Portrayal there dennis deems: i've only ever seen him portrayed normal stature silverscarcat: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLv8Wj_M10g - Case in point about Hercules being a giant. (voiced by Kevin Sorbo) Christopher Best: Too much coding... new MarvelPortrayal("Hercules").... dennis deems: LOL you should pass in an enum instead of a String. bad Christopher Best: Actually it's C++ so I shouldn't be calling new to begin with. :P Leigh Beadon: plus the MarvelPortrayal constructor doesn't take any arguments, it just randomly polls a public domain fiction api dennis deems: nice!! Christopher Best: lol well played Ah, interesting to see the Steve Jackson Games vs. the FBI case coming up in connection to this Silva story. That case pretty much led to the creation of the EFF I hate to think in terms of anything positive involving police beating someone to death, but one could only hope that these sort of cases lead to a similarly long-lasting legacy as creating an organization that fights against seizure of video evidence Jay: Gah, that bottom ad is annoying on my cellphone! dennis deems: Happily there is some good news too: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/05/patent-troll-that-wants-1000-per-worker-gets-sued-by-vermont-a-g/ this is the scanner troll