In the 1980's we all thought the Japanese were going to end up buying the world. Look how that turned out. Looks like China might be on the same path. I shudder to imagine a lost decade with a billion men who can't find wives. Starts to make Blizzard look like a crucial company for national (nay, global) security.
There are two proposed configurations of Startram, Generation-1 and Generation-2. Gen-1 Startram is a cargo-only version which does not require levitated tubes (but instead is built up the flank of a tall mountain) and could be built within ten years at a cost of $20 Billion. Gen-2 Startram is a people-capable version which does require levitated tubes and could be built within twenty years at a cost of $60 Billion.
People who steal music shouldn't be allowed around impressionable children.
People who steal music and instead get child porn (porn, not pr0n, because it's not the acceptable kind...) shouldn't tattle to the police.
that explains a lot -- zombies are actually evangelical early adopter FOSS extropian cyborgs!
when they're saying BRAAAAINSSS, they're actually trying to advocate your relocating your brain into a cyborg/zombie body
incomplete, faulty implementation, leading to control problems, including faulty speech processing
they smell
also, this gives us a plausible mechanism for zombies to be scientifically feasible, unlike "The Walking Dead", "I am legend", "Resident Evil", "Bubba Ho-Tep" or "Planet Fear"
If conversation fails, people escalate to violence. If bigbro wields this against the masses, a riot's going to erupt. Might as well go straight for the teargas and flashbangs.
Frink: Why it's the AT-5000 Auto-Dialer. My very first patent.
Aw, would you listen to the gibberish they've got you
saying, it's sad and alarming. You were designed to alert
schoolchildren about snow days and such. Well, let's get
you home to Frinky. Hope your wheels still work, bw-hey.
Actually, even the worst SUV is carbon-neutral given a broad enough time-frame when you think about it. It's those damn dinosaurs and ancient forests sequestering carbon from the environment that threw everything out of whack.
In any field of endeavor that the speaker is not masterful in, "genius" is anybody that knows more than you do. That's most slashdotter's parents call them "computer geniuses" because they can reboot the modem when the ISP hiccups.
As long as it's got internet, it's got to have a better view than your mom's basement. Better enjoy that view too, because once you get to the moon, you're just in another basement -- just on another planet.
Just imagine the damage we could deal to the aliens if we could convert 10% of the to <your least favorite sect> ! They could end up wasting a good portion of their GGDP on useless pursuits and in-fighting. GP may be on to something there....
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Whereas if you have a SPSS with a collimated high-power MASER beam with a range of 300 miles, you also can carve "CHA" onto the surface of the moon.
In the 1980's we all thought the Japanese were going to end up buying the world. Look how that turned out.
Looks like China might be on the same path.
I shudder to imagine a lost decade with a billion men who can't find wives. Starts to make Blizzard look like a crucial company for national (nay, global) security.
There are two proposed configurations of Startram, Generation-1 and Generation-2. Gen-1 Startram is a cargo-only version which does not require levitated tubes (but instead is built up the flank of a tall mountain) and could be built within ten years at a cost of $20 Billion. Gen-2 Startram is a people-capable version which does require levitated tubes and could be built within twenty years at a cost of $60 Billion.
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ohmygod. I want some of whatever they're smoking. At those low, low prices, everybody can have one.
I'm assuming the weather control satellites will steer hurricanes away from this monstrous sitting duck?
I dare someone to try this without gcc compiler and gnu userland.
fuck off, RMS.
This overly drawn-out Republican primaries anger the Sun God.
People who steal music shouldn't be allowed around impressionable children.
People who steal music and instead get child porn (porn, not pr0n, because it's not the acceptable kind...) shouldn't tattle to the police.
DIVX killed Circuit City. Now they wan to kill Best Buy.
I'd look at it more like a robot LEG plus bonus Vicodin for the pain.
good grief, can't you do anything right?!!!
I want a tail.
(hey, be glad I'm keeping my imagination reigned in for your sanity's safety...)
Isn't that one of the applications TENS is for? I guess that would be difficult to apply to stuff that's not near the surface.
Thanks for the hint about the Sony TV HD audio dropouts, AC! We've been blaming the cable box all this time.
If conversation fails, people escalate to violence.
If bigbro wields this against the masses, a riot's going to erupt. Might as well go straight for the teargas and flashbangs.
Frink:
Why it's the AT-5000 Auto-Dialer. My very first patent.
Aw, would you listen to the gibberish they've got you saying, it's sad and alarming.
You were designed to alert schoolchildren about snow days and such.
Well, let's get you home to Frinky. Hope your wheels still work, bw-hey.
Actually, even the worst SUV is carbon-neutral given a broad enough time-frame when you think about it. It's those damn dinosaurs and ancient forests sequestering carbon from the environment that threw everything out of whack.
Anon backed off on the Zetas once people started getting strung up
In any field of endeavor that the speaker is not masterful in, "genius" is anybody that knows more than you do.
That's most slashdotter's parents call them "computer geniuses" because they can reboot the modem when the ISP hiccups.
the LOIC those "geniuses" came up with is a crappy tool.
dude, if you think you can do better you can do better. Unless your kvetching about underlying design or strategy flaws.
great, now I've got Edgar Winter stuck in my head.
It was ludicroius when Michael Mann did it twenty four years ago.
As long as it's got internet, it's got to have a better view than your mom's basement. Better enjoy that view too, because once you get to the moon, you're just in another basement -- just on another planet.
lots and lots of "bugs".
Then charge $10K/year for support.
The sweet thing about this approach is obvious -- most software houses already implement it.
Oh, and downloadable updates. It gives you an excuse to spy on your users.
The technology has a 4% error rate, meaning that 4% of the bases are read incorrectly
Brundlefly likes those odds!
Just imagine the damage we could deal to the aliens if we could convert 10% of the to <your least favorite sect> ! They could end up wasting a good portion of their GGDP on useless pursuits and in-fighting. GP may be on to something there....