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I find Esc too difficult to type frequently as a vim user. I remapped jk to Esc a while ago now. http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Avoi...

And there is a large feedlot right next to it, where they collect the piss.

The GTA V beer is spoofing Budweiser's anthem, I wonder why... of course they also say it's German but I think they got it confused with Bismarck, North Dakota or something. They might be responsible for World War I, World War II, blood, sweat, tears and gas chambers but bad beer is simply inhumane.

AND why is no one calling it Nibiru anymore?

JJ Trek into Fail was just that traumatizing. Nobody wants to remember it. Kind of ruined that name for the 9th/10th/Xth planet.

I heard stillsuits are efficient enough to allow someone to survive in a desert.

Dude.
No.

http://dune.wikia.com/wiki/Win...

http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki...

Give it time.

Can't. Don't have that much time in my life left. And I'm only 38.
When robots (cause you can't outsource services for people - cause you need them where people already ARE) become able to replace medical professionals - there won't be ANY workplaces anyway.
If a robot can operate on a human, do examinations, prescribe therapies... and do it in a way that it can replace human beings without increasing the number of deaths and injuries...
Then there is no job that a robot can't do.

Apart from those creative, artistic ones.
And since we can't all be writers, singers, actors, dancers etc. - and live from it... Hello communist utopia!
Or Star Trek. But that's me repeating myself.

I mean, I'd LIKE to see that in my lifetime... but let's face it - it ain't happening. At least not for a while longer.

Amazon made that moot already.

You are confusing being a consumer to being sold something. Salesmanship (and all other -ships) is a social skill.
All that computers accomplish when trying to simulate social skills is causing irritation in humans.
Why do you think there's so much money and effort invested in advertising if "selling things" is a moot point?

There's a third category: Government jobs, where you're required to act like a robot.

Some would say that you are required to be a citizen.
But the actual underlying requirement is that you are a human being, capable of understanding (and respecting) social contracts.
Which is why no matter how many tricks an animal can perform or how good it is at being intelligent sorta-kinda like a retarded human child - it doesn't get to be a citizen.

Then again, some humans are given way too much credit under the assumption that they are capable of understanding social contracts.
Thus, you know... Trump 2016.

http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki...

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

The moon matrix is very thick here. I'd recommend wearing turquoise. I predicted it! Well, who didn't? That's like saying I predicted rain would happen a few minutes after dark clouds rolled in and the wind began blowing the way it blows before a thunderstorm. Around here, about 50 miles inland from the big lake, there's a certain smell that the wind carries as well. When it rains, it pours. Of course, I can't say I was right until it actually rains.

(I'd become victim to the "bliss" there for a while. It's a helluva drug. That's the danger of not wearing turquoise!)

I had thought that Trump self-destructing would be sufficient. Apparently the lizard people are taking extra precautions. They already dropped the "grab 'em by the pussy!" bomb. I wouldn't be surprised to learn that the thing was recorded just a day or two before it was "leaked." And I mean damn, even that one made my woman suit's skin crawl. The game's not even over yet. Trump hasn't proved his role in the Coronation of Clinton yet.

So what's next I wonder? We have the mass hypnosis of the moon matrix "bliss" pervasive in the lamestream media, apparently now reinforced by the dipolar computers of the Oracle at Google (perhaps deep within the bowels of the City of Lud on the Shardik-Maturin beam).

I was optimistic when I predicted that Clinton would win with 40% of the popular vote (see my alter ego's journal on the other site). I see that my estimate may have been in error. The lizard people are going for broke. They want the mandate that comes with winning 51% of the popular vote.

This is probably childhood's end, but ol' Karellen isn't a benefactor to be found.

Every time I read news like this I feel like I've just entered the Total Perspective Vortex http://hitchhikers.wikia.com/w.... For those that don't know (shame!), this invention, originally created by Trin Tragula as a way to get back at his wife (who was always telling him to get a "sense of proportion"), is now used as a torture and (in effect) killing device on the planet Frogstar B. The prospective victim of the TPV is placed within a small chamber wherein is displayed a model of the entire universe - together with a microscopic dot bearing the legend "you are here". The sense of perspective thereby conveyed destroys the victim's mind; it was stated that the TPV is the only known means of crushing a man's soul.

Good call. I also forgot that warp 5 is the recommended speed limit for general travel. Also jumbled up 23rd and 24th century scales. 122 days would be 23rd century warp 9.75. 24th century the velocity would be 2261c.

So, with 24th century scale, warp 5 is 214c. So 526 days. Do you think that would work out to 1 season of adventures or should we just stick to the 1 year per season thing and go for 2 seasons?

Indeed. This effect was described 25 years ago by John Kricfalusi and dubbed Space Madness.

Am I the only one who thought that the $100,000 bill was this bill and that the boy had earned a bug hunting/spell-checking bounty from Google for having caught the mistake?

Some lizard people are pretty hot. The Clintons, though, they seem completely resistant to being influenced by their skin. I mean, Bill gave in to his skin there for a while, but I think Hillary managed to bliss him back into rejecting the influence of his human suit.

Really, the only thing the current Lizard Queen has going for her is her bliss. I mean, good grief. At least she stopped in for repairs to her human suit back in August after she spat out that green chunk of her lizard skin.

Still grosses me out just thinking about it. *shivers*

Oh, and John May lives!

But in reality these bunker mentalities don't understand they can't survive for more than a few weeks anyway.

That's where you're wrong. It's a comforting story to tell yourself, but read the articles. I wasn't sure if this one wound up linked somewhere or not. These are facilities with vegetable gardens and extensive water and air recycling systems. Many also have above-ground solar and wind power in addition to large reserves of diesel fuel for the on-site generators. Besides that, they have supplies to last for a lot longer than a few weeks. Try months or up to a year.

That's why we sealed them off with cement after N-day and are just now thinking about opening a few back up 15 years later.

Granted, they're nowhere near as good as Vault 81 from Fallout 4, but that's video games for you. I remember when I was a kid, I used to go over to a friend's place to play that. My parents couldn't afford a system to play that on and wouldn't have bought it for me anyway.

Of course, nobody thought it could actually happen--except the 1%ers.

...I can get a graphics card based on this, and a datajack?

One word: blancmange!

When I moved to the USA, I was briefly confused as to why the Steak and Kidney pies tasted different. Turns out they have steak in over here. (See also, Cut-me-own-throat Dibbler.)

Did you mean Triganic Pu?

Is it possible they were bought by The Very Big Corporation of America? And does their report say anything at all about the glut in the hat market?

Naah, that's overblown. She was just having a routine problem with her human suit. Happens all the time. Those things don't last forever, you know. Gotta be replaced every now and then. The real trick is getting the aging correct since you can't just show up looking like you're 20 again. Humans tend to get suspicious when that happens.

It's actually a rather complicated procedure because of how tightly integrated human suits are with lizard person physiology, so that's why she needed so much time off in August. "Skinning" can actually be a form of torture and can be fatal without the proper medical attention.

It should be smooth sailing now!

Don't see the fnord. If you don't see the fnord, it can't eat you, dumbass.

No, it's the one standout brain-on solution: tabs are indent characters and spaces are alignment. The problem is that the other two characters (spaces guy and tabs guy) don't know the difference between indent and alignment so, like you, they attack the guy that voices reason.

Emacs SmartTabs
Vim SmartTabs

CHDK (Canon Hack Development Kit) can turn some Canon cameras into versatile laboratory instruments.

The Mark IV would be a welcome addition to our lab if it supported CHDK.

We bought several older Canon cameras from eBay in order to get versions that are CHDK compatible.

Without CHDK, Sony is a better choice for us.

Thermal tester eh? Based on that last comment I was sure you were a demographic pigeon-holer forced into early retirement. Basement dweller you say? I wish! My basement has a drumset, wet bar, and a nintendo wii! Unfortunately I'm too busy with my day job*, that of an evangelical lobbyist with a primary focus on shifting federal policy to fewer rockets and more creationisim in school text books. As such I don't even need any real world experience because nobody fucks with the Jesus, fool! http://thebiglebowski.wikia.co... Now join me or fall into eternal damnation!!!!

*a funnier thing being, I actually supported a thermal-vac test for a SIBRS payload back in the day so you and I are two spacecraft thermal testers in a pod!

Has anyone asked Hank Scorpio what his opinion of this is?

Money for nothing teaches people to slack.

Lack of opportunity teaches people to slack. Money is irrelevant to whether people slack. That you object to helping people doesn't mean you have to lie about it too.

I'd really rather do something ethically meaningful rather than my current engineering job which is probably gray at best. Sadly most alternatives are not improvements and I need a decent salary to meet expenses and be able to retire at some point. Would I slack some if money wasn't an issue? Probably for a bit, but after awhile I think I'd get bored. I'd rather be doing something.

I see basically two types of jobs in the distant future. First, engineering isn't going anywhere, though automated tools may greatly reduce the number needed. Programming is of course a part of engineering. Second there is of course artists, though I can't see the field really expanding. Teaching is likely to be done by computer more and more. Any menial task can generally be automated, and even some not menial. It may cost an insane amount of money to truly get a ubiquitous robot worker, however getting millions of copies is not necessarily that much more expensive.

Of course, once the robot workers can build the robot workers I'll be a bit more concerned. Do we really want to try to make actual intelligence? I'd tend to argue that we are better off without it. Someday coding my replacement as a species doesn't sound much fun.

In the end though, it is not a question of whether we will have to provide resources for more people, but when. Somehow I don't think a Golgafrinchan B Arc is the answer.

Unless you count games like Downwell...

Meanwhile, the NIH is lifting it's ban on chimera research.

Must have been after intense pressure from the furry lobby. Seems ironic that the Chinese will be the ones with human super soldiers but we'll have tiger-man warriors.

You know you have problems when your girlfriend says "You need to make a choice, its either me or the Fur-suit."

How am I supposed to get my augmentations without becoming addicted to Neuropozyne if Sarif's gene therapy is outtlawed? Darrow or Taggart must be behind this!
:)

They explored that idea in a Star Trek episode.

I haven't made up my mind on germ line modification. If you leave everything up to nature there are always going to be mistakes. If you start modifying germ line cells there will probably be mistakes as well, especially as we pioneer the field and learn what we can do.

If we do allow it then it becomes a different type of evolution. An evolution by intellectual selection which would compete with natural selection and sexual selection.
 

Meanwhile, the NIH is lifting it's ban on chimera research.

Must have been after intense pressure from the furry lobby. Seems ironic that the Chinese will be the ones with human super soldiers but we'll have tiger-man warriors.

Seriously, they had "Planet Express" right there and they went with "Moon Express"?!

This isn't a bad idea, but it does make me chuckle...

When I was a kid back in the 1970s, I picked up a book published in 1958 for kids that talked about "the future of space flight." They talked about flights on a spaceplane (eg, the X-20). This would lead to the construction of a space station in orbit (such as what you see in 2001: A Space Odyssey) and, eventually, trips to the Moon coming along sometime in the late 1980s.

That was sort of the "plan" way back when and, if you look at older science-fiction, it follows that.

But Kennedy came along and, in a pissing contest with the Soviets, said, "We'll race you to the Moon!" And the whole idea was to put someone on the Moon and bring them home safely, but not much planning into what to do after that.

No it didn't.

Yes it did. The Bajoran lightship was the first major use of CGI in s Star Trek series.

However, the battles in The Way of the Warrior weren't.

Do tell me how shit that looks compared to the battles in Babylon 5. Or how there are too few ships in one shot.

No, the Autons are going to have a field day with this and replace all Apple employees with plastic soldiers with real guns built into their hands.

B5 didn't have the budget for models, ST TNG spent millions on the models and filming them, B5 could never have done that.

It was more complicated than that. They actually found CGI to be more expensive and time-sensitive than the models, as well as having difficulty fitting the look right.

Of course, now we have CGI in the TOS for the remastered versions. It's occasionally good.

Sorry, that's pressuring a woman into sex. Please check yourself into the nearest university's rape culture presentation as soon as possible.

You have to do the Schrodinger's Rapist dance correctly to even say "hello" to a woman without it being sexual harassment. I assume if you find the actual article (not at that link) they outline what the exact steps are. I don't really have any reason to go find out for myself.

But yes, generally I prefer guys use your method with me over whatever the hell you're supposed to do to get consent from a woman without it being rape. Perhaps a lawyer here somewhere can draw up a Durable Consent to Intercourse contract. No, a marriage ring won't work. You need a Durable Consent to Intercourse on top of the ring.

You should also make sure to have her drug tested and give her a breathalyzer immediately before intercourse, because the presence of any drugs or alcohol automatically makes it date rape. I'm not sure what the BAC limit is, but I'd recommend zero tolerance to be safe. If she fails either test, immediately vacate the premise.

I think you also need to affirm consent every 15-20 seconds during the act, but I'm not sure on that part. It could be more frequently. If the response is any less than an enthusiastic yes or if there is any ambiguity, immediately stop, put your clothes on, and vacate the premise.

"So you wanna?" is not likely to elicit an enthusiastic yes, so I doubt it could ever work.

They cover all of this in rape culture training. This is pretty basic stuff. There are other rules such as avoiding the presence of women after dark, especially a woman who's walking alone. Do not make eye contact. Do not allow her to come within 100 feet of you. If she's attacked, do not attempt to intervene (you'll automatically, by policy, be considered complicit in the attack).

At least that was my take away from rape culture training. If that prevents women from having a good time, that's their fucking problem. Boo hoo.

Grand Valley State University if you must know. No, they don't advertise this.

Captain! Thar be spoilers ahead!

Beyond boils down to a story about a Captain going mad in space and abandoning Federation ideals and principles. It's not like Star Trek has never explored that before. In this case, he's a soldier unable to exist in the more peaceful world he helped to create. To quote Chancellor Gorkon: "If there is to be a brave new world, our generation is going to have the hardest time living in it."

Captain! Thar be spoilers ahead!

Beyond boils down to a story about a Captain going mad in space and abandoning Federation ideals and principles. It's not like Star Trek has never explored that before. In this case, he's a soldier unable to exist in the more peaceful world he helped to create. To quote Chancellor Gorkon: "If there is to be a brave new world, our generation is going to have the hardest time living in it."

Captain! Thar be spoilers ahead!

Beyond boils down to a story about a Captain going mad in space and abandoning Federation ideals and principles. It's not like Star Trek has never explored that before. In this case, he's a soldier unable to exist in the more peaceful world he helped to create. To quote Chancellor Gorkon: "If there is to be a brave new world, our generation is going to have the hardest time living in it."

C'mon this is Slashdot. At least try to keep it nerdy :

Ferengi Rule of Acquisition Number 109 : Dignity and an empty sack is worth the sack.

The Goodfeathers are suing for prior art.

My personal pet peeve is episodes that just didn't make any sense. For example, there was an episode where they could have transported a crewman and an alien up to the ship, but they couldn't change the temperature in the transporter room to match the temperature on the planet so the alien would have died from the temperature change? What they don't have thermal blankets they can use? WTF? So they decide to send a shuttle down instead, but it took them something like 20 hours to adjust the shuttle so they could put the heat up high enough on the shuttle (WTF?) and the pair on the planet nearly died from dehydration while they waited (WTF?). If the transporters were working, so why didn't they transport a bottle of water down? If they couldn't do that, why didn't they send a shuttle down early, drop off some bottles of water, some food, and a tent so they could arrange a shelter? Why risk the death of the crewman and alien by doing nothing whatsoever to help them while they were waiting for a stupidly long plot device? I know the answer is "narrative" but it should still make some god-damend sense.

According to what I can see, it seems like you're describing the episode Dawn but some of your details seem off. Are you maybe thinking of some other episode? Still, I could think of ways to rectify your complaints easily enough.

But anyway, your concerns seem misdirected, as there are a lot better contrivances to use as an example...like the transporters exchanging people between universes, coincidentally enough, the SAME people. Or causing people to suddenly get young, or to get stuck in the holodeck, make a duplicate of yourself, or even merge individuals from separate species without dying.

This was endemic to first few seasons, stupidly obvious plot holes that would leave anyone with a lick of sense wondering how such amazing huge incompetents ended up running a starship*.

Actually, according to the pilot episode we know why Archer was pilot, his dad designed the ship. And the rest of the crew was hand picked by Archer. Good old nepotism. Of course that begs the question of why anyone would ever do something so stupid as put the son of the designer in charge...

It'd make for very short or very boring episodes if they were all resolved quickly. This has been true for Star Trek episodes throughout history. And the Holodeck goes wacky, ambassadors act stupid, the warp engines always act up.

Ok, ok, there was that one time where Lwxana Troi identified some bombers, but that was an exception.

"...will be using Microsoft..."

Yup.

The space might be infinite but there are a finite number of things in it

Douglas Adams begs to differ.

Probably

Faker

The gay vegan lizard people are gonna getcha!

Can't justify the unjustifiable.

Ok, then you admit your idea is moot, and we'll ignore it.

Glad you recognize that the past can't be changed. That said, you can learn from the past, and in the future, not waste our time with tedious argumentation.

Then take it up with the person who proposed it - Cameron.

Yeah, that loser quit. So I have to wait for the next one, who hopefully will have more sense and conduct the process much more sensibly.

Because no, he didn't consult me, I'd have set up a much more robust process in advance. Best I could do was send in correspondence, which naturally got ignored.

But the mechanism for leaving is a separate issue from whether or not they should leave, and on which a majority has spoken.

And yet all they got to do was speak, not decide. Sorry, but Parliament was not obligated to take any action.

This isn't hard either: because otherwise you're stacking the deck in plain sight to suit your preferences. You can't tell one side that they have to get 50%, and the other side they have to get 60% (or 70%, whatever) with a straight face without playing Calvinball.

I think your problem is you are upset with the prior process, for whatever reason. Well, I'm sorry you feel the previous outcomes were unfair, but I wasn't consulted on the prior events either, and I've already said my thoughts on those, that I'd have done things differently myself. But again, not consulted. So I bear no responsibility for them. Sorry, stop bothering me about it, thanks, I'll appreciate it.

But changing the rules? That doesn't convince me, no. Because you know what life is? A continuing evolving process, and even in games and sports, rules can change. So can decisions.

Politics not being a fixed set of games, obviously, it isn't as discrete a series of events. So it is even more subject to variation. It's even questionable if it has any unalterable fundamentals. Some testaments outright state otherwise.

So if the Remain faction gets what they want, a second referendum, you'd have no problem with the Leave people insisting they need 60% to stay, when only 50% was required to Leave?

Nope. 50% was not required to leave. 50% was for this non-binding referendum to have no effect. Any amount would have no effect. Parliament could have done whatever it wanted in the end. Even with a 0% outcome for leaving.

So your assertion is false, and I will not accept it under such terms.

But if you rephrase your statement though, to say, that you wish to have a referendum where government presents a clear and definitive document detailing the circumstances of leaving the European union, and requiring 66% (2/3 was the statement above) of eligible voters to have a position of keep, or we hold another referendum after another round of negotiations, I can consider that acceptable.

Your initial phrasing, no, it's in error. Can't be accepted. Pass.

If so, you'd still be wrong, but at least you'd be consistent.

Ah, there's where you're having trouble. . I was not consulted, and I doubt anybody read my thoughts, to be honest. I actually did say from the start my problems with this process. But it being non-binding, well, whatever, Parliament can still do what they want, and if necessary, later action be addressed.

So I set about addressing it, in the manner I see fit.

I'm willing to put up with Parliament negotiating on the basis of this one pol