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Maybe they can integrate this camera into a smart gun that automatically selects between lethal and non-lethal modes based on the how threatening the target appears...oh wait...

That's almost all you can do. The TOS is explicit that you do not own the games, and it is a DRM service meaning it can withhold permission to play any time it wants to

Not entirely true. You can play games in offline mode without logging in and the publishers are free to provide DRM-free games via Steam in the same way that Kindle publishers can provide DRM-free ebooks if they choose. http://steam.wikia.com/wiki/Li...

A billionair, Silicon Valley, and an airship. But who will act as Grace Jones ?!?

So you are advocating for "A Taste Of Armageddon" then.

Groovy Baby!

That's because he hasn't picked a name yet.

Dan, Dan, Dan, did you seriously think I'd explain my master-stroke if there remained the slightest chance of you affecting its outcome?

I set the precedent 22 years ago. And 13 as well for the follow up.

Dan, Dan, Dan, did you seriously think I'd explain my master-stroke if there remained the slightest chance of you affecting its outcome?

I set the precedent 22 years ago. And 13 as well for the follow up.

There's 73 posts and no mention of Professor Farnsworth's Smell-O-Scope?

The Smell-O-Scope was the first thing I thought of when I saw "whiff" in the headline!

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There's 73 posts and no mention of Professor Farnsworth's Smell-O-Scope?

I prefer TNG 1x23 Skin of Evil

Riker: What is he made of?

Data: It did not register on the tricorder.

Armus: "It"? Does that mean I am not alive?

Data: No. Clearly, you are some kind of intelligent form.

Armus: But you said I did not register on your instrument. Perhaps your instruments are useless (wooosh as tricorder goes flying away).

There were mixed messages when you think about it. You had the Space Blacks (klingons) and the Space Asians (vulcans) and the Space Jews (ferengi) and the Space Nazis (romulans) who were all total stereotypes generally speaking, and any time one was a main character a significant part of their character arc would be them working to overcome their worst racial tendencies and conform to decent human culture. Either that or they were already essentially human, just in funny makeup.

But OTOH you had movies where the devil white man goes on a journey of self reflection to overcome his inexplicable bigotry against the race that tried to conquer his species, killed many of his friends and family, constantly try to kill him, and want him executed for war crimes. Then there's the more hamfisted stuff like the half-black, half-white aliens or the 2 (at least) TNG episodes about the dangers of drug abuse or the one where Wesley sacrifices his career to protect the Space Indians from the Space Conquistadors. And then there's Tom Paris, the token Fucking White Male.

(Oh wait, those weren't Space Indians, they were actual literal Indians. Though they were in space...)

You know, this didn't even occur to me.. that drone wingmen might not just be sensor and force augmentation, but dogfighters. But my understanding is that auto-dogfighting is actually getting very good these days, so the ability to auto-dogfight without G-limits is no insignificant argument in favour of the conversion.

And then you add smaller compact and dense drones, and very soon you wind up with the ultimate drone

http://futurama.wikia.com/wiki...

Not "The Game", but rather the WW III soldiers depicted in TNG.

http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/...

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pini...

http://startrek-originals.com/...

Admiral Szymanski says experiments found that operators monitoring screens reportedly maintained peak performance for 20 hours -- rather than experience the usual drop-off in concentration after 20 minutes.

Was the Admiral perchance wearing one of these devices when he was interviewed? Because this sounds suspiciously like a Star Trek: The Next Generation episode...

(or Millenials like Milo, Coulter, Shapiro, etc...)

Ann Coulter was born in 1961, that makes her a Baby Boomer, or a Gen-Xer, depending on your lines. It can be a bit fuzzy, but she's in no way close to being a Millenial.

You should probably check your own "facts" better. Seriously, Coulter has been around since the nineties with her act. Which should probably tell you that your premises are false, of course, you could find the same pattern with recognition of McCartney, Birch, Hearst, Calhoun, or Davis, to name a few. There's nothing new about them(even individuals like Milo Yiannopolous and Ben Shapiro are just recent additions to the crowd), and no, they don't care about facts, that's why they can make things up, instead preferring their flippant hysteria and emotion laden rhetoric.

Even Fred Thompson knew about it.

PS, the Italian American community has long expressed distress about being characterized as being gang and criminal oriented, as have the Russians and Irish. And Hispanics. And Blacks. And...well, the list goes on.

Oh c'mon, Invader Zim wasn't THAT long ago.

The Smell-O-Scope can't be far behind.

In an article posted by the Verge today, the members of Congress who voted to Shred the ISP Privacy Rules are listed, by name, along with information of how much they received in donations from the telecom industry and employees of those corporations.

Remember... Congress didn't need to do this. Newly-promoted FCC chairman Ajit Pai was going to gut the FCC rule behind Internet privacy all by himself. But with this move, the members of Congress named in this list took the extra step under the authority of the Congressional Review Act to expressly cause the privacy rules to "have no force or effect" and prohibit the FCC from issuing similar regulations in the future .

They might say that this move was just a legal technicality... that the real power for privacy should properly rest with the FTC. Bullshit. The resolution they passed eliminates the FCC's privacy rules without any immediate action to return jurisdiction to the FTC, which is prohibited from regulating common carriers such as ISPs and phone companies.

All that's left to happen is for Trump to sign it, and then, that's that. Out of the frying pan, into the fire.

I propose we start calling it Wee Britain.

not with that attitude

I'm thinking Watto.

http://villains.wikia.com/wiki... I think this explains a lot.

Trying to get Trump to admit defeat (or anything else) is like trying to get water to stick to a duck.

There's an easy way to get water to stick to a duck. You cook the duck.

I see no real issue with doing the same with Trump. As long as I don't have to eat that soup. Maybe bottle it and sell it to his souporters?
I don't think that Ferengi Futures Exchange would mind, as after all, he's only part Ferengi and he clearly lacks lobes for anything but boasting.
His remains would have a pitiful resale value. Sad.

Obligatory Community reference:
http://community-sitcom.wikia....

What kind of cake is that? It is a cellular peptide cake.

Most of those that I know who advocated for Trump during the primaries and the general election did so for the lulz.

Misread that as Iuz. Which, I guess, isn't much farther fetched than what did happen.

Not so fast there Sparky, Bannon is actually the Golgothan and not subject to short human lifespan.

can't wait to see them tangle with MomCorp in court over the naming rights!

http://backtothefuture.wikia.c...

As long as it tastes good. And no being close enough or not to bad is not good enough.

Perhaps a prophecy, from Better Off Ted, season 1, episode 2, Heroes about lab-grown meat:

• Jerome: It tastes familiar
• Ted: Beef?
• Jerome: No
• Linda: Chicken? We’ll take chicken.
• Jerome: [Shakes head.]
• Ted: What does it taste like?
• Jerome: Despair.
• Ted: Is it possible it just needs salt?

Someone in the army's been playing too much SC2: http://starcraft.wikia.com/wik...

Reminds me of that TNG episode, Galaxy's Child

I recall seeing the alien 'Junior' and thinking "mmmm potstickers!"

Because a wall gives you bonuses towards great generals and keeps barbarians out.

Rockzo, not Kinko. Sorry, remembered it wrong.
http://dethklok.wikia.com/wiki...

http://swordartonline.wikia.co...

This is going to do wonders to prevent the extinction of the chocobos! I can't wait to up the population and finally breed a black chocobo! ;)

What is a self-sealing stem bolt?

From DS-9, even hard core trekkies would have a hard time with that plot device reminiscent of Milo Minderbinder or perhaps the internet story of one red paperclip...

But this one isn't precrime. Precogs aside, it was essentially an assumption that someone was going to do something with virtually no evidence to back it up.

What Zuckerberg is talking about is Samaritan - pretty much exactly, too. It's a machine that uses AI to evaluate what people are doing and saying to determine whether and how the individual presents as a risk. There's actual proof involved that someone can point to.

Not that it would necessarily be any better than precrime, mind you.

It's always great to see progress towards even the wackiest of sci-fi predictions... http://dune.wikia.com/wiki/Sli...

I can't be the only one who thought of the Labyrinthine Worlds of Simmons' Hyperion Cantos.

Yeah, according to Memory Alpha:

Gundam Seed seems a better reference.
Gundam Seed

Ethics aside, if I could somehow edit my genes to gain the mental acuity, reflexes, and health of a coordinator, I'd be horribly tempted, particularly if it could be done without telling anyone. Of course I'd be more wary if I planned to have children, since the risk one takes for oneself is different than one takes for their children..

I knew Google was advanced, but I didn't think they were THAT advanced.

I thought it was Boomers, but then it is a translation from japanese so who knows.

Voomers (VOodoo Organic Metal Extension Resource)

Thanks for the links, will check'em tomorrow

http://bubblegumcrisis.wikia.c...

Now that they've identified the part of the brain that causes this irrational response, doctors can simply cauterise it so the rest of us can carry on munching, crunching and slurping like normal humans. After all, no-one was going to make allowances for Albert J. Pfister

Alternatively, Germany could just learn from their past and stop being censorship Nazis.

http://southpark.wikia.com/wik...

An umbrella corp would make sense. Tesla seems like the kind of company that would become a major international player in a number of markets. I mean, if Musk gets the flu then they'll start working on pharmaceuticals and medical equipment. Who knows what kind of work they're already doing in secret, but publicly they're already doing well in the consumer products market.

Oh wait.

That sounds a lot like those third wave feminists.

Actually no, it sounds a lot more like old-school man-hating RadFems, those 3rd wavers are just so wishy-washy ...

But the issue here is this: there's huge difference between my wife complaining about being a victim when I bash her, and my claiming to be the victim when I bash her. A woman with a public voice who receives (even non-true) rape and death threats and the troll making those threats might indeed, as you say, "sound a lot like" each other when they claim victim-hood. The difference behind this similarity is that the woman is the actual victim the troll is the victimiser.

It's amazing though how effective this false victim-hood is at garnering support for the haters.

Explanation here.

... and Slow Mobious thinks he's all that.

( I hope these researchers are certain about their findings ... )