I was only half seriously noting that we seem to like to sell weapons hither and yon where it sometimes comes back to bite us in the butt.
That list seems a little longer than what you cite.
Egypt was the example on the tip of my mind. How sure are you about Turkey in the next 25 years? Pakistan has serious trust issues as far as I am concerned. You always have the possibility of "accidental" "friendly fire" from Israel if it suits their agenda. It's happened before. Any state in the Middle East could flip at a moment's notice. Given 100 years of meddling in their internal affairs, and any state in Central or South America is a good candidate to give us a bloody nose if they can get in a cheap shot. Particularly if our influence wanes or we're distracted by some other quagmire.
But hey, if we don't sell these guys killing machines, someone else will. And reap the resulting influence and economic benefit.
The rule in my house is that if you have more than four limbs, you are a bug, and you belong outdoors. This policy is clearly stated on the signs underneath each door.
1. google streetview cars will get caught stealing the password for grandma's pacemaker.
2. google brainslug implant. back yourself up to the the cloud!
3. google proctological exams -- taking privacy invasion to the next level.
4. you know that 17.9% GDP the US spends inefficiently on healthcare? the good news, google's gonna streamline that to only 9.7%, the bad news, they're taking 1% of the total for their effort.
I heard a rumor somewhere, probably on the internet, that step 2 in the next upgrade for cookie clicker. don't click that link. oh wait, maybe I should have said that first...
But I can do without eggs and fried chicken.
A world without bacon would be unbearable. As Homer aptly put it "A wonderful, magical animal." I believe that was in the Odyssey.
Thanks for pointing out that this was done a while ago FLM, I was starting to worry about the prevalence of CRT monitors in this purported "high-tech" panopticon. And that "captain's chair" looks kind of just stuck-in there, not nicely integrated like a real H*llywood control center.
All-in-all, I'm disappointed congressmen would be wowed by this, it certainly doesn't pass muster with my highly-refined aesthetic sense.
Also, shouldn't this really be all Tom Cruise "Minority Report" style?! Or with VR googgles like Klytus' secret police monitoring center in the 80's Flash Gordon movie?
Maybe the best way to mock this is to start digging up real cringeworthy ST fan apartment remodels to compare it to.
Lawnchair Larry was truly an American visionary. An inspiration to us all.
And had to deal with the hardship that all such visionaries endure, one way or another.
This guy, and that double-Darwin award winning priest are lame-ass plagiarists.
"... At last all the nuns meowed together every day at a certain time for several hours together." The meowing went on until neighbors complained and soldiers were called, threatening to whip the nuns until they stopped meowing.
jeeze, trigger warnings there. You just blew the circuits of like three different groups of people while getting off another six.
holy crap, $349, with the keboard included?!!! And it's a less crappy keyboard than the current crop of surface POSes. This a real game-changer, it's almost not deludedly idiotic.
Any Atari 8-biters out there remember the dirty membrane keyboard peasants that could only afford the Atari 400 back in the day?
Trying to recycle human waste into fertilizer would be extremely energy intensive and potentially hazardous contamination-wise.
Exposing human waste to hard vacuum and direct sunlight for a while wouldn't be sufficient to sterilize it? I'm actually curious about that.
That would make space toilet design a lot easier. You just need to avoid what happened to U-1206
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I was only half seriously noting that we seem to like to sell weapons hither and yon where it sometimes comes back to bite us in the butt.
That list seems a little longer than what you cite.
Egypt was the example on the tip of my mind.
How sure are you about Turkey in the next 25 years?
Pakistan has serious trust issues as far as I am concerned.
You always have the possibility of "accidental" "friendly fire" from Israel if it suits their agenda. It's happened before.
Any state in the Middle East could flip at a moment's notice.
Given 100 years of meddling in their internal affairs, and any state in Central or South America is a good candidate to give us a bloody nose if they can get in a cheap shot. Particularly if our influence wanes or we're distracted by some other quagmire.
But hey, if we don't sell these guys killing machines, someone else will. And reap the resulting influence and economic benefit.
These QF-16s, while older A/B models, will present a much more realistic target
since that's what we sold to our future adversaries in the first place...
The rule in my house is that if you have more than four limbs, you are a bug , and you belong outdoors. This policy is clearly stated on the signs underneath each door.
Surely you only need a common 2-D printer to print IP laws.
There's something ironic about extracting oil, burning it, and then putting the resultant CO2 back in it's place.
That must be the most roundabout way possible to use that fusion reactor that's just 8 minutes away.
personally, I'd rather sequester the CO2 by growing a space elevator.
My greatest fear is that we don't have enough carbon to spare in the biosphere.
Tesla thought he talked to Martians.
just sayin'
I'd be more interested in an app that could guide me into lucid dreaming. Maybe that'd need some sort of bluetooth dongle like a fitbit.
1. google streetview cars will get caught stealing the password for grandma's pacemaker.
2. google brainslug implant. back yourself up to the the cloud!
3. google proctological exams -- taking privacy invasion to the next level.
4. you know that 17.9% GDP the US spends inefficiently on healthcare? the good news, google's gonna streamline that to only 9.7%, the bad news, they're taking 1% of the total for their effort.
I heard a rumor somewhere, probably on the internet, that step 2 in the next upgrade for cookie clicker. don't click that link. oh wait, maybe I should have said that first...
Actually, what I learned from it was that the Soviets were perfectly willing to nuke Cananadia . From space.
So my Chromecast will work now?
sweet.
"I have a very special service for rich people..." "Oh yes," said Ford, intrigued but careful, "and what's that?" "I tell them it's ok to be rich."
Actually, our planet has a whole industry telling poor people it's their fault for being poor and misdirecting their justifiable anger.
No robots in Star Trek's utopian future.
maybe one or two...
hey, this reminds me of a story from 2001 : hee hee C= OMGWTFBBQ!
But I can do without eggs and fried chicken.
A world without bacon would be unbearable. As Homer aptly put it "A wonderful, magical animal." I believe that was in the Odyssey.
This story is useless without pics
Thanks for pointing out that this was done a while ago FLM, I was starting to worry about the prevalence of CRT monitors in this purported "high-tech" panopticon. And that "captain's chair" looks kind of just stuck-in there, not nicely integrated like a real H*llywood control center.
All-in-all, I'm disappointed congressmen would be wowed by this, it certainly doesn't pass muster with my highly-refined aesthetic sense.
Also, shouldn't this really be all Tom Cruise "Minority Report" style?!
Or with VR googgles like Klytus' secret police monitoring center in the 80's Flash Gordon movie?
Maybe the best way to mock this is to start digging up real cringeworthy ST fan apartment remodels to compare it to.
Alexander, you st00pid n00b, I like my world control centers ST style. :TOS here, since that would be recognizing inferior sequels...
no
recent tapes by Ayman al-Zawahiri ... calling for ...not buying stuff made in America.
That's OK, I'm pretty sure Doritos aren't halal.
gee, that sounds sort of like the infighting we regularly see between the networks and cable operators.
ex : CBS vs Time Warner and AMC vs Dish TV
Lawnchair Larry was truly an American visionary. An inspiration to us all.
And had to deal with the hardship that all such visionaries endure, one way or another.
This guy, and that double-Darwin award winning priest are lame-ass plagiarists.
"... At last all the nuns meowed together every day at a certain time for several hours together." The meowing went on until neighbors complained and soldiers were called, threatening to whip the nuns until they stopped meowing.
jeeze, trigger warnings there. You just blew the circuits of like three different groups of people while getting off another six.
Cynic version: government finds new justification to censor social media.
good./grumpycat
go outside and go to a bar.
holy crap , $349, with the keboard included ?!!! And it's a less crappy keyboard than the current crop of surface POSes.
This a real game-changer, it's almost not deludedly idiotic.
Any Atari 8-biters out there remember the dirty membrane keyboard peasants that could only afford the Atari 400 back in the day?
Trying to recycle human waste into fertilizer would be extremely energy intensive and potentially hazardous contamination-wise.
Exposing human waste to hard vacuum and direct sunlight for a while wouldn't be sufficient to sterilize it? I'm actually curious about that.
That would make space toilet design a lot easier. You just need to avoid what happened to U-1206
-1 we already have a way to deal with this sort of thing
if some of us lazy asses would mod the submission queue, maybe crap like this could be avoided.