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Patted a SR-71 on the nose at Castle Air Museum and was amazed how small it seemed.

Answer to why it was retired is straight-forward, cost. The fuel alone was ridiculously expensive; a quote that sums it up- "It would have been cheaper to use single malt scotch". Assuming that any country that could shoot down a U2 could also shoot down a SR-71, having them do 2 000 mph is not needed. Also, satellites are a little better these days https://vimeo.com/130889259

I realise that this video is far, far below the spatial resolution of even a 50 year old spy satellite, it's still indicative of new directions that are now possible.

The number of wars going on in the world has been decreasing for decades...

This is a good place to post The Fallen video link https://vimeo.com/128373915 It's true. We are now in a period of peace. Deaths declined after WWII.

The "wild west" stuff with the settlers running the locals off their reservation even bounces it back into comparisons to the USA some time back.

This Land Is Mine.

Look, seriously, Nobody does ethnic cleansing like the Jews. You think the politicians who created the nation of Israel were aware of history? I'm sure they were. They put the Jews there just to shit on the natives. So far, so good, right? And We The People of the USA pour gasoline on that bonfire every year. Your tax dollars at work.

This is not to say that all Jews are bad people. It's to say that Zionism is another typical evil. You know, like the USA, founded on theft, rape, and oppression. What a surprise that today we are still stealing, raping, and oppressing... and funding genocide that we're too cowardly to handle ourselves. Genocide by proxy, that's the most convenient way!

People don't seem to understand the difference between a need and a want anymore.

Nor are they supposed to.

I knew we would sail off the end, just like they said.

That was the only thing that saved the world from being overrun by the Crimson Permanent Assurance.

Google just pointed to Patrick Jean's film "Pixels" and they are both up on Youtube and Vimeo where it is currently listed as a "Staff Pick". I intend to blow-up my social-media and refer to Sandler/Happy Madison as cyberbullying Patrick Jean through their bulldog proxy Entura International and Columbia Pictures. These Holliwierd type are extremely narcissistic, and Sandler is real quick to play up Family Values in his films, hitting him up as a cyber-bully will hurt his ego.

Right here: https://vimeo.com/10829255

DMCA take down notice https://www.chillingeffects.or...

Link I tried https://vimeo.com/135046490

This whole vid is well worth your time (seriously, make a note to watch the whole thing today if you haven't), but the last section (starting at 14:20) is particularly striking in how few war deaths have occured since the invention (and rapid development/manufacture) of nuclear weapons.

Yes, Prime Minister global warming episode

Part One:
https://vimeo.com/124391891

Part Two:
https://vimeo.com/124392955

Yes, Prime Minister global warming episode

Part One:
https://vimeo.com/124391891

Part Two:
https://vimeo.com/124392955

Janelle Asselin @gimpnelly: @Spacekatgal @slashdot do you have your bingo card ready?

Marcy-Not a Vampire @marcyjcook: @gimpnelly @Spacekatgal @slashdot That would take 30 secs to complete! It's going to be a mess. I think I need lunch before reading /.

Carfolio.com @Carfolio: @Spacekatgal @slashdot Is there an equivalent term to SJW for these privileged white male offence dispensers?

Kirby Carav @MumaKirby: @Carfolio @Spacekatgal @Slashdot Jackasses?

Carfolio.com @Carfolio: @MumaKirby @Spacekatgal @slashdot Nothing catchier? We need branding here ;-)

LaurieC @MsLaurieC 3h3 hours ago: @Spacekatgal @slashdot Yeah, because you know, there's nothing worse than hearing about how badly people who aren't me are treated!

Laura Genn @Reason2Write: @Spacekatgal @slashdot That word. Ugh. -_- Nazis were real and horrible. Their legacy remains. Don't call things that aren't Nazis "Nazis"!

Devyn Rodriguez @DevynRodriguez: @Spacekatgal @slashdot That comment section is a depressing example of people not getting it.

Swift Studies @Swift_Studies: @Spacekatgal well I think you are awesome

Ryan Robinson @Ryan_LR: @Spacekatgal It's a tough life being a man in a nanny state that won't even allow rape and murder whenever I feel like it.

Jens Scholz @jensscholz: @Spacekatgal @slashdot When i'm Godwined i'm usually pretend to argue a bit forth and after some time post this. "No, You hang up first"

Lindsay Felt @ArayaNexus: @Spacekatgal @slashdot Whelp. That didn't take long. You don't happen to have an estimated time it took to get to feminazi, do you?

Steve Paulo @StevePaulo: @Spacekatgal Gotta love the "I'll give you something to complain about!"-style threat at the end.

ToxicAudri @ToxicAudri: @Spacekatgal https://www.youtube.com/watch?... Many see you have an internal problem with your group and supporters.

Erik Montoya @emontoya42: @Spacekatgal @slashdot does the feminazi party provide awesome boots with the uniform? Cause really they should. #hottakes

Greg Downing @MightyGregDoge: @Spacekatgal @slashdot "I'm sorry, what? I stopped reading after you said feminazi. You kept writing, so I assume you apologized."

Jarred @smilingmerle: @Spacekatgal Does Frank know you treat him like the enemy?

Norah Williams @LikeIronLies: @Spacekatgal Feminazi stole my ice cream! https://vimeo.com/64941331

THE LORD HUMUNGUS @ChristopherRasa Brooklyn, NY: @Spacekatgal @slashdot Not being allowed to threaten to kill people every day: A forced nanny state.

Phoebe Washington @Feministphoebe: @Spacekatgal @slashdot just ignore the haters. You're an incredible woman.

Consider these people defenders of harassment, especially given that they've threatened more than they've actually been threatened (aside from staged incidents, nil). Such defense is not maintaining civility, but to defend a logically indefensible narrative from criticism. Shutting it up or blocking it won't make the painful truth any less true.

Archived at: https://archive.is/bBvN7

Well, if they are responsible then they would have a warning like this video does WARNING! YOU WATCH THIS AT YOUR OWN RISK: https://vimeo.com/70257842

Neural networks do benefit from parallelism, and i'm sure GPUs will help them run a bit faster, but it's not enough...

I'm convinced by Simon Knowle's analysis of learning and inference compute patterns: which if you accept - focusing on making NNs run faster on CPUs and GPUs appears to be an approach with severely limited potential. This isn't about some basic hardware optimisations gained by turning something into an ASIC, it's because design features of CPUs and GPUs actively work against NN compute patterns.

These issues are explained well in his keynote at 18:30, he goes on to explain how inference compute patterns (quite literally in the case of computer vision) want to do the complete opposite of what a GPU is designed to do in a deterministic way. Here is a list of the pattern characteristics:

1. Large, irregular, sparse data-structures (graphs) -> SIMD vectors can't help.
2. Huge aggregate compute, huge available parallelism.
3. Little compute per communicated bit -> opposite of GPU trend.
4. No data access locality -> caches are harmful.

Alogorithms aren't racist, and teaching a computer to visually recognize objects is hard. Move along.

Oblig Better Off Ted

Robert Murray Wilson, talking about transparent superconductors he's developed.

Chris, from ClickSpring, talking about building a clock.

Myfordboy showing how to cast aluminum at home.

Kevin Karsch et. al. rendering synthetic objects into legacy photographs

It's no great effort to find interesting and informative videos on the net. If you have the time to tape someone talking, you have the time to seek out things that nerds might want to see.

Also, there's really no feedback from the slashdot submission process. If a video doesn't meet your requirements, it's impossible to tell *why* they don't meet them, so that submitters could modify their selection process.

But this is beside the point. I'm not suggesting that you show other peoples' videos, I'm suggesting that *you* use the medium properly when making your own videos.

These same points were made back when Slashdot started video'ing people, to no great effect. Vinegar is needed to catch your attention. You have the perfect opportunity to use "directed practice based on feedback" which would turn you into a world-class videographer in a couple of years.

viz: The Role of Deliberate Practice in the Acquisition of Expert Performance

Seriously. You have access to high-end feedback you could leverage to improve your technique. You should use it.

Why should there even be a "solution"?

Someone else posted this, but it's a must watch: https://vimeo.com/user5971760/...

The social justice crowd would of course insist that it's all "nurture" and not "nature". But how many times must this absurd belief system be obliterated with logic for it to finally disappear? ---> https://vimeo.com/19707588

What's always interesting to me is that it's often the *very same people* who are very insistent that one is 'born gay' (and thus 'sexual orientation' is "nature" and not "nuture" is what they are saying).

I don't really care either way, I think we're all human and should be able to be who we want (or arguably 'who we are'), but it really seems odd to me that anyone could claim that 'gender identity' and sexual orientation are 'nature' not 'nurture', and then in the next breath go off spouting that women and men choose things because of 'nuture' not 'nature'. Or is that only 'straight' women and men? And doesn't it sound suspiciously ludicrous?

Should women be given free choice or not? One wonders exactly what the social-justice crowd had in mind.

The vast majority of women choose to study social sciences. Men don't.

Should their freedom of choice be curtailed? Should we 'force' women to study something they're not interested in? Because if such inhibition of personal freedoms is not acceptable then perhaps we should stop treating these obvious gender-aligned differences in preference as "flaws", and start treating them as "features" of our species.

The social justice crowd would of course insist that it's all "nurture" and not "nature". But how many times must this absurd belief system be obliterated with logic for it to finally disappear? ---> https://vimeo.com/19707588

Here is what I say to that.

When my father died, it was as if a whole library had burned down.
~Laurie Anderson

Until we learn to mourn for all the music that might soon be lost
or the movies that never made it to DVD, or even VHS,
because it was never transferred from vinyl, or film
because people do not cherish vinyl when they see it at Goodwill
or more tragically, someone dies --- and the collection of a lifetime goes into the landfill
because the dozen people who stopped by at the garage sale had no interest
when everything you 'own' is inside your phone,
a single toilet can swallow Western Civilization
remember that direct-to-digital CD? Now all you have is a badly encoded mp3
all those books that were fascinating but went right over your head as a kid,
wouldn't it be great to know which ones they were?
every day there are fewer people out there who have read things that never made it to 'digital'
another one died this morning.
so-called 'magnetic master tapes' cannot master time, they fade into Gaussian noise
a decently kept mass-produced vinyl phonograph record is the BEST way to recover the music
how many of your family's most precious photographs are on paper, anywhere?
have you spilled water on one lately?
most families these days have NOT A SINGLE MEMBER who considers themself a LIBRARIAN
a (tragically thankless) job of gathering, organizing, copying, re-distributing the copies
and ensuring that at least some of them are stored safely. Writings, photos. Even who is related to whom!
YOU may be the only likely candidate. Unless you begin tomorrowit will never be done by anyone.
on the Internet it's even worse. How many entities can you think of that store Internet pages
long term with a real commitment? The Wayback machine and who else?
newer tech better? Not necessarily so, IF it breeds such a mass complacency about simple
preservation of knowledge that the day arrives when EVERYONE thinks making backups and
saving previous generations of knowledge and artistic works is SOMEONE ELSE'S JOB.
In such a situation we could 'lose' more than half of everything that was worth saving
in a single human lifetime. Are we living in that time span now?
Think about it (please!).

WE ARE LIVING IN A FUTURE DARK AGE
A too-short history of data retention
The only day we clearly recall some day may be the day we lost all our memories.

In learning about this threat and the magnitude of its consequences, you have bitten into the apple. There is no turning back.

UGH! AAACK! YUK.
spits out the apple

Why does Microsoft get to determine the lifetime of *MY* hardware?

Buy him out, boys!

I put the link in there but it apparently got eaten.
https://vimeo.com/107395294

Or I may have put it in forum tags instead of html...

Have not RTFA yet, but this sounds a lot like Matt Gemmell's talk on "Making Mistakes Impossible", which is really good and which you can view here: https://vimeo.com/84322659

-- Nathan

Row houses like these are commonly rather narrow, but 12 feet is ridiculous.

12 is an even number.
These row houses have 12 feet.
12 is an odd number of feet for row houses to have.
The only number that is both odd and even is infinity.
Therefore, these row houses have an infinite number of feet.

With a squelchy dull thud, Amazon has impacted Ballard like a Monty Python foot descending from the sky. The massive toes wiggle hither and thither, condemning single unit clapboard homes and crushing them, each bursting and releasing a little spurt of growth. A drunken real estate bacchanal has ensued. The streets are slippery with impending wealth. One-click yuppies are a-comin'.

These 'houses' are constructed like a giant foot with four toes. Each toe has a door which leads into a long corridor into which someone has squeezed out a kitchenette and laid a showerette. When you reach the end of this corridor you must turn back. The upper reaches are obtained by ascending a flight of stairs that look vaguely industrial. Then upstairs, more stairs. Then on the third floor, no more stairs, you must turn back. An upright piano would tire quickly on those stairs.

It appears that these toe-house residents will spend half their time on those narrow stairs. A wife cannot even carry her husband to bed without risking injury to them both. Carrying bulky objects like dish trays and laundry baskets up and down stairs a chore because we Yankees have forgotten how to build dumbwaiters. Perhaps the plans have been lost. Perhaps it is because of strict building codes that mandate shaft firewalls, door interlocks and braking safety features similar to that of passenger elevators, so your dishes feel safe. Some of the most exciting children's adventure books involve dumbwaiters. Yet stairs are as dangerous as ever. You could always place pillows at the bottom of a dumbwaiter shaft, and the number of children who have been harmed in dumbwaiter tragedies does not even hold a candle to those who have been killed or disfigured by stairs. No one ever blames the stairs.

But who is this legion of mostly-singles who will be jellifying these toe-houses? Here we see them at work storing and retrieving session tokens for visitors to the Amazon website. Those engaged in Special Services rate private offices. Here we see a glimpse of the layout of DZ stroke 015's private office, after which these stacked toe-houses were designed. And here we see the hidden ductwork that also contains broadband fiber, so those who have made thousand mile pilgrimages to Seattle can work from home.

Is this toe-house life an experiment crafted by our furry friends to explore our response to dense neighborhoods, afternoon gloom and stairs? Or are they all following the example of a single trend-setter? Why is there no spiral slide? Families will be raised (and lowered) in these odd living spaces, and incessant front-to-back motion of countless people will probably perturb our orbit and make the moon recede faster. The children will probably have sturdy legs up to their shoulders and evolution will favor large padded craniums from tumbling down stairs.

[OP] I, along with my twenty million or so neighbors, help New York City use more energy, suck down more water, and spew out more solid waste than any other mega-metropolitan area.

It is difficult to tell from your description whether you regret it all or are boasting about this amazing human accomplishment.

The real question might be Is New York City worth it? On the positive side, you cannot easily disentangle its worth from that of the people who emerge from it. Could there be such people if if not for their environment, be it one of splendor (and/or) squalor? Some of the world's finest bartenders come from the ranks of burned-out New Yorkers.

Bad examples have merit too. In an era where science was convinced cholera was carried by miasma, during the 1858 Great Stink of London John Snow, a physician, mapped mortality rates to discover a geographical waterworks explanation as described in The Sewer King. NYC has excellent waste water treatment --- but it is also home to some modern cesspool-like conditions, such as the economic parasites who skim the world's financial system with High Frequency Trades, creating global dysentery via a false liquidity. Some future John Snow might manage to isolate and trace this scourge back to individual boroughs or even buildings, so these may be torn down or isolated from the rest of the world by shutting them and sealing the cracks with expanding foam.

Imagine if my specific silly examples were all that could be said of New York. Overgeneralization is just as silly. Since New York is exactly what it is, having nothing to do with good or evil, acceptance or rejection, one may well burst out in laughter.

I miss dot matrix printers: https://vimeo.com/58200103

A movie is worth gazillions. This land is mine.

1. Article in Communications of the ACM
2. Video I made about it

Try Vimeo.

Yes, the FAA: Don't post drone videos on Youtube Any more questions?

Also don't shoot video from upper balconies, GoPro headbands while skateboarding 'Ollies' in the air, while hanging from chandeliers, cliffs, standing on the transparent tourist platform atop the Eiffel Tower, from tethered balloons, while being shot from a cannon, while head-butting a ram, riding glass elevators, or suspended from suspenderences such as but not limited to rope or chain, or if you are tall, or if the subject is short.

These distinct camera angles strongly suggest drone use to busy compliance officers, who have been judicially empowered to employ the same 'presumption of use', 'intent to distribute' arguments that have made the War On Drugs the successful endeavor it is today. If your content is flagged, you will be pressed to supply proof that a drone was not present, and unmarked drones may appear next to your your house and photographs taken. Drawing on the 'admissibility loophole' that has made the partnership between Intelligence agencies and Law Enforcement the successful endeavor it is today, where the fact of warrantless, illegal surveillance need not be disclosed, these photos may be presented to Judge and Jury without comment or disclosure of origin.

To avoid unnecessary legal hassle, do not even post footage of model environments such as Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood. Even obvious depth-of-field artifacts may be targeted by zealous prosecutors if they allege the use of drones in pan-tilt photography. Due to the perceived nature of building giant models and the fact that bugs were in it, the movie "Bugs' Life" is exempt. There is also a blanket exemption for drone footage of cats, or drones that ARE cats.

Fortunately for us... Google has announced they have developed an AI program that detects the use of drone footage with 99% accuracy.

> dynamically typed languages are strictly worse than statically typed languages

There's no evidence to support that. Especially with hacked in generics and hash tables to make up for the static typed shortcomings. There is evidence that it takes less code to actualize a nontrivial number of algorithms. There is a statistical paper (why is there only 1? because few people care to do Computer Science) that shows evidence that lines of code are the primary predictor of bugs found (re: https://vimeo.com/9270320). I don't have the paper's name here, but the video speaker references it. So there's conflicting causations at work and no clear winner...until there is one.

Fee Fie Foe Fum... I Smell ENRON!

ENRON. The latest wonder-tool of the late 90s, a bold new approach to the distribution and settlement policies of grid energy [or water!] suppliers. You have all been losing money trying to buy and sell your product among yourselves. Now it is time to buy and sell your product through US. We'll take a percent and you will have MORE.

ENRON. Let us make everything into a stock market, a futures market. Let us negotiate on your behalf (said to both halves at once). Let us woo you with impressive corporate speak and wooly acronyms to describe what is essentially a transparent middleman-insertion tactic.

ENRON. Tired of trying to sell your customer base on some desired tactic by disclosing said tactic to the PSC and the public? Tired of those public hearings? Let ENRON come to the rescue. Tell us what you need to happen and we'll see that back-room conspiratorial tactics can ease your pain, by making all other options seem more expensive.

ENRON. Ask us how triggered brownouts [or droughts!] and planned resource shortages can improve your bottom line [and ours]!

ENRON. Because if energy [or water!] were priced properly, it is a safe bet that people would waste far less of it. We can help.

ENRON. Because no one needs to innovate or improve infrastructure. We just need to make life suck a little more, cost more, and people will demand less. More complicated is BETTER.

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DARPA Is Developing Implants To Heal Soldiers’ Bodies and Minds link
Verified case in courts of electronic harassment of targeted individual James Walbert with MRIs of implants in the neck and head youtube
NASA Develops System To Computerize Silent, 'Subvocal Speech' sciencedaily
Harold Holt Murder - Gary's CT Scan Images of device in throat (1979) harold-holt.net
Powering micro-implants using high frequency waves extremetech.com
Literal Smart Dust Opens Brain-Computer Pathway to "Spy on Your Brain" activistpost
Scientists use brain imaging to reveal the movies in our mind berkeley.edu
Who is Elisa Lam? (1 hour long) vimeo youtube
http://www.mindjustice.org/200...
Small implants to trigger muscle spasms for remote harassment link
Whats been possible since the 70's link
https://linux.conf.au/wiki/Tin...

Then there is the other end.

https://vimeo.com/110257380#at...
https://vimeo.com/111417458

This dude basically owned the whole device. He just skipped messing with the DRM as that was not his end goal. He was basically able to inject code in. He had total control of both the cpus in the device. The cpu is trusted...

Then I see things like this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

These devices can be 100% hacked. It only takes time and some semblance of ability.

Then there is the other end.

https://vimeo.com/110257380#at...
https://vimeo.com/111417458

This dude basically owned the whole device. He just skipped messing with the DRM as that was not his end goal. He was basically able to inject code in. He had total control of both the cpus in the device. The cpu is trusted...

Then I see things like this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

These devices can be 100% hacked. It only takes time and some semblance of ability.

https://vimeo.com/87968614 http://www.centerforcommunicat...

By the way, I see white/lavender and brown. It would be very interesting to know what lighting/image manipulation was done to get those colors out of a dark blue and black dress.

I can relate to these (anti)patterns of behavior. However, executives make those decisions because they have no way to evaluate (objectively) the impact of their decisions on the project. The software engineering community has been trying to solve this by adding more (and more, and more) complex estimation processes to software engineering. Only to discover that estimation fails very consistenly (I tackle that here: https://vimeo.com/111100275 / video from Oredev/2014). Because estimation is such a bad method to know the impact of decisions, the behaviors you describe have horrible consequences (I mean, how hard can it be, we are just asking you to change a field in a form....). We need a much better alternative to make project-schedule relevant decisions. I propose rolling wave forecasting, which builds on continuous and incremental releases that the Agile community has been advocating since the early 2000's. It is possible to make consequences visible, if we are just ready to accept that estimates are not the right approach to answering project critical questions.

The only people such blanket surveillance won't work against are the real terrorists. Besides, the real target of such blanket surveillance are the voters.

Except the only reason to deploy such a system is that the person / people who control it don't trust anyone excpet themselves. Thus everyone is a "real terrorist."

Besides, it only works in the movies.

Unfortunately, one of the aspects of Person of Interest was the idea that this could happen in the near future. Something which they talk about in the Season 1 Special Feature "Living in an Age of Surveillance."

Link to the video: https://vimeo.com/49173421

Given how quickly targeted ads developed, it's only a matter of time before such tech not only exists but also abused. The summary seems to indicate this may be in the works right now, and if that does not give you nightmares, let me ask you this: In Person of Interest, the US goverment simply took whatever SSN that they got and executed without trial the person it was linked to, under the asumption that if "the machine" gave them the SSN, it was a terrorist 100% of the time and was never wrong. They also executed without trial anyone who defended that person, or who found out too much about "the machine", aka "Research". All of that was done in absolute secrecy, with practically no oversight. Now given how Person of Interest does things, How do you think the real US goverment or ANY OTHER goverment would handle it if such a tech existed today? More importantly, is there anything you have ever done that may get you made "relevant" by a real version of "the machine"?

Well if a volcano jumped off a cliff would you do that too?

Thank you for making me laugh.

For some reason your comment and all this "change our climate before climate change changes our changes" weirdness makes me think of this brief anticlimactic interlude .

I'm bored, said humanity. Let's fuck with the albedo. Ratchet it up until we trigger Snowball Earth. Then we'll squeak it back a bit and have the perfect setting.

See here https://vimeo.com/25430951. It's not good.

> We need a huge shift in how we create and manage money. We need to drastically shrink the parasitic financial sector, wipe out the loans that represent most of our money supply. And replace the money created with credit cards and home loans

Indeed.

What's funny is that there _already_ are solutions to this problem in other sectors, **thousands** of years ago, that we blindly ignore the wisdom off, all in the name of greed.

Ask any farmer if they constantly have their land produce or if they allow it lay fallow one year so it can regenerate.

Jordan Mechner in this "How I applied my life to making games" says "Burnout can be a good thing. It allows your creativity to recharge".

> with government fiat currency, given directly to the people.

Fiat currency is exactly part of the problem, not the solution.

**Every** fiat currency has failed. Why do you think "this" time will be any different??

* http://dailyreckoning.com/fiat...
* http://mises.org/sites/default...

The 2 biggest problems with the financial sector is:

* Usury
* No debt forgiveness every X years, where X is 50 or 100 years, etc.

  Wipe out usury and we'll be making a step towards a stable economy, not magically pulling money out of our asses that can never be repaid.

No need. Doctor Turlington has already taken care of the problem. https://vimeo.com/69310297

Resonace: Beings of Frequency

Shrug. Worst case Google can buy them out.

Like Nokia, Microsoft style?

http://vimeo.com/70498601

The best thing you can you are do for your kids is take their summers and make sure that for large portions of them they don't have access to media other than books.

Aside from a timeless Summer, there is also the every-day time. You're not going to achieve the proper effect unless, during the evening time when they are supposed to be doing homework, you are nearby and are also reading a book.

Abridged history of the Great Distraction.

1. parents reading or knitting, kids have nothing but homework in front of them (until it is done)
2. family gathers around the radio, kids manage to multitask just enough to complete homework
3. early television, all watch a favorite TV show then it is turned off, followed by silent book and homework time
[... several years omitted ...]
10. Television in every room blaring age-targeted drivel. Parents drooling in front of television glancing at Facebook shouting something about homework. Kids in another room with TV, radio and cell phone beeping constant SMS messages from local friends, rolling chats and web pages with countless worldwide near-acquaintances recommending youtube videos, endless Buzzfeed and Tweety scrolls.

The Distraction Ends.

"We were all excited when the package arrived. Daddy opened it slowly as we put down our screens and watched. 'It was recommended by someone on Facebook... I don't remember friending him, but he saw me post about the problems we've been having with sleep and schoolwork... said this is the first step towards a solution.' It was a large heavy metal box with a single red button. We looked at it for a moment and as I reached for the button Daddy grabbed my arm and said 'hold on...' and rooted through the wrapping but all he found was a small sheet of paper written in some strange script. Chinese, Korean, Tagalog...? 'Well, that doesn't help.' so with a shrug he nodded and let me press the button. There was a loud hum, the lights dimmed and went out and the little screens in our hands threw sparks with a loud Snap!. We shrieked, then a silence set in. We could hear the neighbors talking and shouting, doors down the block opening. Mom stepped toward the front door carefully, feeling for it in the dark. As she opened it and stepped outside I remember clearly her shape superimposed on the night sky."

"Then she said softly, 'Look... at all those stars!'."

We lost our memories.
Now we need to make new ones.

While everyone has a nice tickle over this, it'd be a damn shame if people were really informed whats going on in agriculture.. Hilarious. Bon appetit.

They lead out with showing how you can deceive your boss into thinking you're working using the Mouse Box, and they finish off with "the only problem you're going to have to cope with is what hand you're going to use"?

I'm glad you can can fold your mouse pad into a box, I was wondering where I was going to find a box for my Box.