Titanic's success was driven primarily by female Audiences, as was Gone with the Wind.

The female movie market has always been a ripe apple that studio execs woudl like to pluck, unfortunately it is a complex alchemy to pull off.

What makes one tragic love story a chick flick with an exceptable box office and another a bonefide blockbuster? Much like what makes a the differnce between an acceptabel action flick and a bonefide blockbuster, it's something you can't really bottle. And where an effects or action driven movie can often build a movie based solely on the power of the effects or action, a love story isn't quite so easy to pad and hedge against bad actors or clunky story.

Twilight is like the variosu superhero francises. It has a built in audeince and that was a hedge against failure, but howmany female stories have a twilight like following? With spiderman, superman, batman, there is a core audience, that no matter how terrible the movie is, will turn out to make it a hit, are there series with that fan base built in for more female centric fair?

Short of General Hospital the Movie (Or now that it's off the Air "The Guiding Light") what is the hedge for a studio?

Studios aren't stupid they know that 51% of the population are women, and that if you could get a small portion of them to come to a movie you've got a blockbuster...the question is, how do you get them to a movie.

Given that there is nothing in Twilight (with the exception of vampires and werewolves) that differntiates it on paper from the hundreds of other romantic films Hollywood has produced that didn't become blockbusters, it's hard for a studio to make that bet, when they can just as easily hand bruce willis from a wire for two hours and blow up los angeles. Once you create the formula of what women want, you'll see lots more marketing to them, unfortunately women seem to have wildly varying tastes making them hard to sell a mass market product.

The article itself dosen't deny global warming nor even the human cause of it, the article is discussing possible causes for some uncharacteristic cooling we've seen.

Warming and cooling do occur even in global warming climate modles, and understanding why they occur could give us important insight into understanding, better predicting, and adapting to a warming globe.

Just because the data doesn't bespeak fire from the sky doesn't automatically make it a global warming denying article.

This article was about one of the many interesting current trends in climate, will some people take it out of context for their own arguments, sure, but it's not like they needed the article to do that anyway.

Just as the warm november we're getting in New Jersey right now doesn't prove global warming, neither too does an overall cool decade. But understanding why the decade is cooler, and why November is warm in New Jersey this season give us insight into what's really going on.

The confessions arrived at through waterboarding (assuming any other than the official guilty plea were actually arrived at through waterboarding) are inadmissable, and won't be used.

The case is based most likely on the paper trail evidence that was siezed at the time of KSM's capture, as well as other evidence aquired in accordance with the law.

Even if you had a judge so nutty as to let the defendant walk in a federal court not based on the evidence but his treatment after capture, the trial would then move venues to the Supreme Court where Antonin "Interogation isn't punishment" Scalia will likely toss it back to another judge for a hearing of the actual evidence.

See, between judge, jury, and appeals we have a legal system with a number of failsafes to not only free the innocent but convict the guilty.

This is sort of why we opted for a civilian trial.

Oh and as a side note, rules of evidence and guilt, and the rights of the defendant are not so differnt in a court marshal, infact as many military legal officers will tell you, often the defendant has more rights.