Oh come on, you know in your heart SkyNet is the only feasible solution to the spam problem.
All narrative is driven by conflict. If our glorious utopian future entailed having all our needs and wants attended by robowetnurses, nobody would be making movies about that stagnant society. ex - "Zardoz" with its Eternals, Niven's "Safe at any speed", the society on Aurora in Asimov's robot stories.
This is ancestral worship cargo-cultism of the highest order. Bezos might as well be building a mockup of the command module from palm fronds on the lawn in front of congress.
Elon Musk has a much better name for a megalomaniacal billionaire super-villain anyhow.
If you're going to engage in woo-woo spacenuttery, you should really commit fully to your psychosis and claim building megatons of carbon nanotubes is an ideal CO2 sequestration scheme.
And for your next trick, you can use SPSS to jump straight to an antimatter economy and fly to Alpha Centauri.
geeze, this generation is fundamentally incapable of thinking big.
Back before the crisis of the Eternal September, people used to put stuff on the web because they wanted to share knowledge with the rest of the world. You moneygrubbing corporate buggywhip hucksters are welcome to BUGGER OFF any goddamn time you like.
If you publish ads, you're an asshole. You should be put in an iron coffin with spikes on the inside. There's nothing more to it.
There, FTFY.
Advertising is killing the web. Every time I have the misfortune of having to use some benighted browser without adblock, I'm amazed at the amount of sheer CRAP that is forced in peoples' faces on the web. Let alone the goddamned exploits. What a useless waste of bandwidth. That's what finally drove me to drop webOS and install Cyanogenmod on my touchpad. Guess I won't take any updates until they come to their fucking senses.
WikiLeaks' Julian Assange has revealed that John McAfee has smuggled 5,000,000::Cue::Cats to the DPRK. A young boy by the name of Sinuj has dug out his C64 from where it was hidden under a chickencoop and is liveblogging the amazing changes to his country as the regime collapses. Apple is going to be the first to break the sanctions by opening a Apple store in Pyongyang and a 20,000,000 sqft factory in the suburbs. SCO is suing Kim Jong Un over the blatant infringement of their copyrights in his "Klinux" operating system.
Why do you think China's building all those ghost cities? Simple speculation run amok? pshaw!
If the DPRK's leadership would let the peasants go, China could probably accommodate them in the spare guestroom while they invest in remodeling NK on a China model. Once they're all safely chained to their workbenches building eyephones and have enough to eat, Bob's your uncle.
TAKE THAT James Hadley Billington! This guy's so out of touch he thinks books are relevant to anything.
Easier to put a humiliating slapdown mandated by the proles on some obsolete government functionary rather than smash the Hollywood hydra that wants to throw our childrens in jail.
Progress M-34 undocked from Mir at 10:22:45 UTC on 24 June, in preparation for a docking test planned for the next day. On 25 June, the spacecraft re-approached Mir under manual control, in a test intended to establish whether Russia could reduce the cost of Progress missions by eliminating the Kurs automated docking system. At 09:18 UTC, whilst under the control of Vasily Tsibliyev, the Progress spacecraft collided with the space station's Spektr module, damaging both the module itself, and a solar panel.[4] Following the collision, Progress M-34 was manoeuvred away from the station, before being deorbited on 2 July.[6] Its deorbit burn was conducted at 05:34:58 UTC, with the spacecraft being destroyed during reentry over the Pacific Ocean at 06:31:50.[5]
Ho lee fook, that sounds like a Chernobyl type scenario all over again. Turn off automated safety systems for some sort of harebrained manual test and surprise surprise, they run into problems.
In an opinion by Justice Samuel Alito, the court ruled that these groups don't have the right to sue at all, because they can't prove they were being spied on.'"
Supreme court rules "if you've got nothing to hide, you have nothing to worry about".
Typical primitive Abrahamic deity, always waving your rod around, wanting to smite things. (ok, Zeus would fit that characterization, too...)
And protip for those posts below saying it's cost ineffective -- not if you're mining asteroids for the raw material. oops, did I just say that out loud?!
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Oh come on, you know in your heart SkyNet is the only feasible solution to the spam problem.
All narrative is driven by conflict. If our glorious utopian future entailed having all our needs and wants attended by robowetnurses, nobody would be making movies about that stagnant society. ex - "Zardoz" with its Eternals, Niven's "Safe at any speed", the society on Aurora in Asimov's robot stories.
This is ancestral worship cargo-cultism of the highest order.
Bezos might as well be building a mockup of the command module from palm fronds on the lawn in front of congress.
Elon Musk has a much better name for a megalomaniacal billionaire super-villain anyhow.
Don't forget the worst side-effect, it slowly makes you look like Forest Whitaker in "Battlefield Earth".
If you're going to engage in woo-woo spacenuttery, you should really commit fully to your psychosis and claim building megatons of carbon nanotubes is an ideal CO2 sequestration scheme.
And for your next trick, you can use SPSS to jump straight to an antimatter economy and fly to Alpha Centauri.
geeze, this generation is fundamentally incapable of thinking big.
They should totally fund this, just for the name " Sinterator ".
Only if John McAfee pays for it with bitcoins mined with an Beowulf cluster of Arduinos.
Where's that energy currently coming from?
Casimir forces.
Netcraft confirms Bill Joy just felt a chill like someone walked on his grave.
hey, that's three jokes there, take your pick.
Back before the crisis of the Eternal September, people used to put stuff on the web because they wanted to share knowledge with the rest of the world. You moneygrubbing corporate buggywhip hucksters are welcome to BUGGER OFF any goddamn time you like.
If you publish ads, you're an asshole. You should be put in an iron coffin with spikes on the inside. There's nothing more to it.
There, FTFY.
Advertising is killing the web.
Every time I have the misfortune of having to use some benighted browser without adblock, I'm amazed at the amount of sheer CRAP that is forced in peoples' faces on the web. Let alone the goddamned exploits. What a useless waste of bandwidth.
That's what finally drove me to drop webOS and install Cyanogenmod on my touchpad. Guess I won't take any updates until they come to their fucking senses.
I'm certain sir Tim agrees with me fully.
Are these war-surplus dolphins addicted to heroin?
WikiLeaks' Julian Assange has revealed that John McAfee has smuggled 5,000,000 ::Cue::Cats to the DPRK. A young boy by the name of Sinuj has dug out his C64 from where it was hidden under a chickencoop and is liveblogging the amazing changes to his country as the regime collapses. Apple is going to be the first to break the sanctions by opening a Apple store in Pyongyang and a 20,000,000 sqft factory in the suburbs. SCO is suing Kim Jong Un over the blatant infringement of their copyrights in his "Klinux" operating system.
new patent lode? with a computer^W^W^W on the internet^W^W^W wirelessly^W audio encoded?
Didn't Digital Convergence Corporation (of ::Cue::Cat infamy) have an audio que that could be transmitted over television?
Why do you think China's building all those ghost cities? Simple speculation run amok? pshaw!
If the DPRK's leadership would let the peasants go, China could probably accommodate them in the spare guestroom while they invest in remodeling NK on a China model. Once they're all safely chained to their workbenches building eyephones and have enough to eat, Bob's your uncle.
TAKE THAT James Hadley Billington!
This guy's so out of touch he thinks books are relevant to anything.
Easier to put a humiliating slapdown mandated by the proles on some obsolete government functionary rather than smash the Hollywood hydra that wants to throw our childrens in jail.
or something
No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame.
Watches are for slaves. In our post-employment utopia, wearing a watch is as bad as wearing a pocket-protector.
ah well, we all know what they say about attorneys that represent themselves... explains a lot in this case, actually.
Progress M-34 undocked from Mir at 10:22:45 UTC on 24 June, in preparation for a docking test planned for the next day. On 25 June, the spacecraft re-approached Mir under manual control, in a test intended to establish whether Russia could reduce the cost of Progress missions by eliminating the Kurs automated docking system. At 09:18 UTC, whilst under the control of Vasily Tsibliyev, the Progress spacecraft collided with the space station's Spektr module, damaging both the module itself, and a solar panel.[4] Following the collision, Progress M-34 was manoeuvred away from the station, before being deorbited on 2 July.[6] Its deorbit burn was conducted at 05:34:58 UTC, with the spacecraft being destroyed during reentry over the Pacific Ocean at 06:31:50.[5]
Ho lee fook, that sounds like a Chernobyl type scenario all over again. Turn off automated safety systems for some sort of harebrained manual test and surprise surprise, they run into problems.
That's 104 days. I don't see the economics working out.
What is the time and cost to transport the final vehicle to Mars?
what's the point? The man from Mars stopped eatin' cars. Now he only eats guitars.
oh wow. Someone on /. not trolling. Inconceivable.
In an opinion by Justice Samuel Alito, the court ruled that these groups don't have the right to sue at all, because they can't prove they were being spied on.'"
Supreme court rules " if you've got nothing to hide, you have nothing to worry about ".
And how do you plan on making this world "safer" when all the bad guys are using weapons to KILL YOU?
A. Give them all $25,000 / year to not kill us. And go learn a productive skill. And stop abusing their women.
B. Or just hire 10,000,000 sluts to give everyone blowjobs. That might require a crash cloning program to keep the gender ratios at the right level...
C. Establish free pot / hash / heroin dispensaries in troubled areas.
There's a myriad of potential solutions that don't involve expensive killing people or blowing things up[*] if you put your mind to it.
[*] granted, blowing things up is cool. But most of the time, it's a destructive process with no productive result.
Typical primitive Abrahamic deity, always waving your rod around, wanting to smite things. (ok, Zeus would fit that characterization, too...)
And protip for those posts below saying it's cost ineffective -- not if you're mining asteroids for the raw material. oops, did I just say that out loud?!
Extremism in the defense of freedom is no vice.
-- Barry Goldwater