Surprisingly, from Alaska:
http://www.npr.org/2013/05/18/185068648 ... e-refugees
Any takers that they won't be the last?
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Into terror!,  Into valour!
Charge ahead! No! Never turn
Yes, it's into the fire we fly
And the devil will burn!
- Scarlett Pimpernell

If you did, clear the certificates and Superfish software, and then change 100% of your passwords, immediately.
http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/02 ... nnections/
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"You know how parents tell you everything's going to fine, but you know they're lying to make you feel better? Everything's going to be fine." - The Doctor

Apparently, there's going to be a special to celebrate Aria's tenth anniversary. Details are sparse at the moment (notably, no casting details are available yet).

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/20 ... ing/.84035
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

I just shooped one up

Darkenbeast Oumugai:

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"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows

MITHRIL Report: Female Ops Booklet (Ranma/FMP):  http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6319617/14 ... ps-Booklet]Chapter 13
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

Got a password manager...I'ved tried the sheet of paper but the danger of using the same passwords multiple times is too dangerous, but rmembering long strings is a pain. Let the machine keep track of it.
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Into terror!,  Into valour!
Charge ahead! No! Never turn
Yes, it's into the fire we fly
And the devil will burn!
- Scarlett Pimpernell

Did you guys know that Verizon gives you the option of either taking $10.00 off your phone bill or an extra 1 gig of data? All you have to do is change your plans? And they have not publicized it AFAIK?
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Into terror!,  Into valour!
Charge ahead! No! Never turn
Yes, it's into the fire we fly
And the devil will burn!
- Scarlett Pimpernell

I am hoping to start a discussion about the willing suspension of disbelief in reading fanfiction and those stories that have elements that make readers think “that’s not right”, or “what was the author thinking?” or even just “WTF?.” I consider myself a reader and not a writer and my intent is not to discourage writers so I will try to be circumspect in describing my examples.

Sometimes SOD issues are with mundane matters, not the fantastic. There is a Buffy/Star Wars/Stargate Halloween multi-crossover story where the author uses a patent as a plot device to bring the Stargate characters into contact with the Buffy characters. The patent as described in the story would have been rejected and therefore in my opinion should not get the attention it gets in the story:
A.) You cannot patent part of an invention or an incomplete invention. The application as described is intentionally incomplete.
B.) The invention’s description matches the criteria USPTO uses to define a perpetual motion machine and no model was included. USPTO requires a working model to grant a patent for a perpetual motion machine.

Another suspension of disbelief issue can be when an author has a character act in a very different manner with very little explanation. There is a Harry Potter/The Mask crossover that has Hermione participating in the creation of what I interpret as a new social underclass at Hogwarts prior to her fifth year, less than a year after she created SPEW in canon. In story it is described as a prank enforced via a binding magical contract, but its effects (enforced nudity, forced gender change for wizards, the addition of a tail) all look to me to be meant as lowering the affected student’s status, dehumanizing them.

Another example of this is a Buffy/Stargate/multiple anime Halloween crossover that has General Hammond and other members of the SGC act in what should be for them be illogical and unprofessional manners.
They seemingly without reservation accept a speculative conclusion from an amateur civilian group using images sourced from a single newscast of a mysterious event - with no mention of alternate data sources being gathered, reviewed, and analyzed (Geophysical survey and weather satellite data, CCTV camera recordings that were stored outside the affected area, possible eyewitnesses via air, sea, or even highway traffic) in story.
Later in the story some of the affected Buffy characters visit the SGC. Hammond and others in my opinion inappropriately focus on Tara (who has become Mihoshi Kuramitsu.) Hammond assigns researching her to Rodney, who has taken over running the science and technology department after the in-story departure of Sam Carter. This is an improper waste of resources in my mind. Researching her required no advanced technical or scientific knowledge and needs no access to classified government information. The author seems to have this happen simply so Rodney can recognize and be disconcerted by other characters in a later chapter.

So, what do you all think? What ideas and plots cause this reaction for you? Do any of the above strike you as they do me? Let’s talk.

Kilroy
 

I have been lurking around Bob's web forums since I first read what then was posted of Drunkard's Walk II in the summer of 2002. That story was my re-introduction to fan fiction (and anime) after a several year dry spell.
I finally decided to join up to hopefully discuss some topics that I have been thinking about for a while in SF/F and fanfiction.
Personally I am in my 50s and live the Northeast U.S.

Kilroy

http://www.enworld.org/forum/content.ph ... N4gd7DF8eU