Please let us know how it's going, because we care, but DO NOT publicly post anything that could be used to identify or find you. Also, practice good computer security; don't stay logged in anywhere that you're discussing this, using private browsing / incognito sessions, and if you have to leave wh...

Getting out of the middle east is hard; a lot of people want to do it, so borders are strictly patrolled. I assume that you don't have the resources to sneak through Turkey into the EU and can't/won't take the high chance of death (or simply failure) at sea. Let's break it down into steps; you may f...

Maybe one of your readers is an IMDB editor.

More seriously, IMDB defines the SLA maximum processing time for stunt entries as 8 business days, so an uncredited stuntman could very easily have taken this long to have his entry updated.

It's in his IMDB entry, FWIW. He's listed there as "stunts" rather than a character, but a non-speaking role has no credits entry in that show anyway. They have so much action on a regular basis that I imagine that they already have regular action and stunt directors. It's also possible th...

Hah! I somehow knew what era it was from based on the level of nostalgia I associated with it (and possibly the style), and I was pretty sure it was an anime OP or ED; it's nice to know that I was right. Thank you!

If it's permissible to ask a question about the CMs . . . ?

What's that song the girl in the elevator is singing to herself? It sounds really familiar. . . .

S-rank as "off-the-scale" or "incomparable" or "an excession" (to steal from the late, great Iain M. Banks) is probably the nominal definition, but it's not necessarily the original or most common actual usage. Sadly, I have no further data on that point. I do want to s...

Interesting discussion. Personally, I always go for the highest-quality video available in any given situation. (I have music videos in 1080p60. . . .) That being said, if I put on my librarian hat for a minute, my service instincts say to go with the tracker stats and drop 1080 for weeklies for the...

Seeded successfully, thanks. I've never been the first seed on something before, so it was interesting to get to watch the program attempt to optimize seeding (different parts to different peers, &c.) and the peer-to-peer structure exponentially multiply that initial effort. I've always known in...

This list seems to be keeping up with developments:
http://torrentfreak.com/cyberlocker-eco ... on-120123/

Fair enough. My own personal view is that there are rare occasions when, outrage having been generated (via whatever method), you are then presented with a teachable moment where education can be accomplished while you've got everyone's attention. I think that this is one such moment. And if you'd l...

Good points, of course. I myself still don't think that this bill, as horrific as it is, is a direct threat to TV-Nihon or this website, but I also have less at stake. As a librarian and policy guy, though, I spend a lot of time trying to educate people about what the bill actually does and get them...

[Disclaimers: IANAL, this is not intended to create a lawyer-client relationship, this is merely an attempt to present information regarding and discuss current legislation, &c.] Why should SOPA mention licensing status? It's almost completely irrelevant to copyright; it might speak to "rea...

Bah. Something important enough to make me stop lurking and admit that I keep my eye on this place. SOPA and PROTECT-IP/PIPA are horrible, horrible things for all sorts of reasons. (Lack of due process, creating a censorship infrastructure, international legal implications, &c. &c. &c.) ...