By the RIAA. "Large numbers of children and teens are swapping their organs over the... um... Internet and this is bad for the people who created the organs in the first place," says an RIAA spokesperson, "Parents are encouraged to do the right thing by stopping organwapping, with a firm spanking of what ever part of the child they can get their hands on. Or we'll sue them. Yeah."
The RIAA is also marketing a line of children which are "watermarked" so as to "spoil" their organs, causing the organs to be rejected by the people recieving them.
The Pan Am ad from the 70s showed America picked out in bright city lights, all through from coast to coast, while canada and mexico were just dark, as if they had forgotten to pay their power bill.
Does our world really look like that all over? With brighly lit highways from one city to another and visible jet trails from space? or do we look like random luminescent features and warm spots dotted around the surface? (of course it would be hard to miss that spacejunk though, on your final approach it would probably put a hole through you, unless you had it mapped.)
I don't know about lithothermal science (although it sounds like a cool name, but all stars can have flares and coronal mass ejections. We just our flares solar flares.
Imagine if we sent everyone we didn't like, just like in the colonial days of sail.
Send them out into the worlds of ten thousand stars. They'll breed fast. Several children a decade. After all, we were accidentially introduced into america a long time ago, and we turned out ok. We weren't native but there wasn't anything on THIS side of the pond that like to eat us quick enough so now we're everywhere.
We can spread. From planet to planet. Solar sails. Nuclear rockets. Whatever. We'll find a way to a new planet to call home. Once we do, we'll make it our business to ensure it's game over for everything else that metabolises. Not instantly, of course. There'll still be a planet there. Some natural parks. and little red microbes. But we'll terraform the place until it looks the way we like it to look.
Hold on... I'm still building here. And I'm almost to the good stuff. (wait for it...)
My point is this: Lets say there is life on mars. WE'LL KICK ITS/ASS(ES)|CARAPASE|SPINNERETTES|MANTLE|RING GANGLION|FLAGELLA|TAPROOT|HYPHAE|HOLDFAST|POSTERIO -VENTRAL REGIONS|Other appropriate target!/Hmmm... I'm not sure about the rest of you, but I am confident that my kind are battlehardened enough to explore strange new worlds, seek out new life and new civilisations, and fondue them. With appropriate technlogy they'd be able to live on not much more than dirt, water and sunlight.
WE ARE THE BAD THINGS THAT HAPPEN UNEXPECTEDLY. We leak. Again, no conspiracy needed, just the good old second law of thermodynamics coupled with that one law discovered by Murphy making a real world demonstration that it applies to everyone in the universe, not just homo sapiens.
As I said in the subject of my post: The inevitable spread of one lifeform over the corpses of another is not a reason to not to go to mars. It is a reason to go and never come back. The Brothers W made Agent Smith say that humanity spreads like a virus. I say that's not a bad idea. Imagine where we'll be in a few thousand years. For real. A human empire spanning most of the known universe with breakaway colonies running social experiments in government and morality? I'm packed. Bring it on!
And yea though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death I shall fear no evil, For I am the evilest sonofabitch in the valley. -- Anonymous, 1967
From the article William Garrison, UC Berkeley professor emeritus and co-author of "Tomorrow's Transportation." "People want variety . . . They don't want people telling them what to do. We wealthy people with bleeding hearts say we need mass transit for the poor. The hell with that. The poor need money. If they had money, they wouldn't take transit."
I'm sorry Mr Garrison, but people do want variety. I'm all for effective electric cars, but we should allow our already working mass transit systems be developed to be equally or more convenient to use at the same time. In paris, you don't need a train time table: the trains are always two minutes apart. In Australia, tramstops have little touchscreen kiosks which allow you to plan your route, buy a ticket and even optimise your time.
I want my big SUV to go out bushbashing and hauling lumber in a trailer, I want to be able to rent/buy a small electric two seater so that don't get quashed in a road accident that would have killed a motorcyclist when I go shopping on my own and I want to be able to buy a ticket to a train that runs on time so I can read manuals or highlight meeting minutes or just plain sleep on my way to my tech job in the city where parking is a pain in the ass anyway.
Human beings wont have the top end or the bottom end of the workforce replaced. Robots will automate the jobs that engineers find easy to automate. This means anything in a simple, industrial environment where a legally blind robot can follow a yellow line to pick up and drop off a bottle of dangerous chemicals, but not the same actions on a crowded dimly lit nightclub dance floor where a robot has to pick up and drop off a similar sized and shaped empty glass.
Also the people who conceive robots and have them constructed are humans with interests and passions. People will build robots for a reason, and the "generallness" of a general purpose robot will be biased based on the careers that the robot builders want the robots to have. You can bet your bottom dollar that there are going to be many models of factory workers, actors, miners, soldiers and sex toys, but what about the jobs that most humans don't even think about? Is a kiosk inspired humanoid robot with a youthful face and a permanant smile the best way to sell rare coins? Same industry (service), different slant.
Also robots will not just replace drudge work jobs, robots will replace jobs that humans find fun. Automatic Flight is an interesting problem. Childcare isn't.
As much as many couples would like an AI nanny with excellent references, there has been very little effort expended in designing any childcare machine more complex than a television. Where are the algorithms for handling a fragile, motile bundle of soft squishy flesh while you attempt to change its nappy? I'm not saying it can't be done. I'm saying nobody is doing it. We'd much rather win robocup.
There'll be sort of a random, patchy replacement of jobs, and you'll find that the most stable, predictable jobs will be replaced by an expert system, a small shell script or a steely hand, while the really chaotic jobs will demand human attention for a while longer.
Incidentally, because robots are products of industrialism, their servicing and maintence should be a stable predictable job, with a finite set of well defined failure modes. I don't think that there will be many human technicians for the robot industry after robots surpass human intelligence.
But we might pick up their empty fuel cells at the local night club.
Kate and Kate's Feiancee try to scan a bowl with a hand-held self-checkout scanner to buy it as a present for kate's father (the 3 star general guy). The scanner doesnt work, prompting him to say "I hate machines."
The rest of the movie shows that machines hate them right back.
"According to this map the enemy couldn't have possibly come up this way. There's supposed to be a big wall over there. That's why I said that it would be a waste of time to send scouts to check that approach out."
"Sir, since we're all going to die, may I speak freely."
That might be a good example of where not to use honeytokens. When the books were written, "nobody but a few scientific and engineering applications would need that kind of accuracy," but what if someone did? A faulty calculation could result in a failed project or worse.
Furthermore, this kind of honeytoken requires a list of honeytokens to be stored somewhere, which would be a high value target for thieves.
unfortunately true. I would have thought that the sith S wing would have looked a bit like a wasp, with a curled over thorax and a canted back abdomen.
Great job on the other letters though.
I'd really love to see a stop motion animated movie of these guys in action fighting for the old republic.
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Current offensive frag grenades use a winding of fine brittle wire to make the fragments. On hard ground these tiny staple like projectiles can shred a man three meters away and wound him at ten.
What would a grenade made with a carbon nanotube casing with roving which would shatter into billions of tiny X-ray invisible fragments do? and would the carbon fragments even raise an immune response from the body? or would they be allowed to sit there with no symptoms until they moved one day years later to puncture an artery?
That was in the Sourcebook Fields of Fire for the Shadowrun RPG. (and a damn fine gaming system it is too.)
The bulletproof clothing felt like gel when worn under normal conditions, but when subjected to a shockwave from a projectile or blast moving at or above the speed of sound it would harden into a bodycast of the wearer. After the shock had passed around the wearer, the armour would return to its fluid state. It was available in two models - the original bodysuit which made the wearer immobile until it had re-liquified, and the second-gen stuff which only hardened in the places hit.
The failure mode for a bad roll of the dice when defending against automatic weapons fire would the irreversible hardening of the suit into a permanent cast of the wearer.
A GM I played with allowed one of my teammates to take out a NPC wearing the armour with subsonic silenced rounds. Likewise, knives and arrows passed through it with no side effects other than releasing a vile poisonous goo from the punctured armour straight into the entry wound.
After that the remaining NPC Mercs wore kevlar and ceramic plates over their goo suits.
Nobody has ever been killed by a cheap flat panel display screen. At least if they have, the screen had either failed, or was being used contrary to its design.
How long do you think that the printer ink refillers start marketing knock off fuel cartridges and "self fueler" fuel purifiers which filter camp stove quality wood alcohol into laptop grade fuel?
Could an italian engineer hack up another kind of packet radio which could be cheaply manufactured in kit form? capture the hobbist movement, and keep the big players out of the loop until its widely installed. Smart Governments would love to be seen supporting local industry.
Don't break the law unless everyone is going to do it at the same time. You are dealing with hardware and any govt worth its salt is going to be able to interdict importers and couriers of physical objects.
then again, that kind of reminds me of that www.mnftiu.cc cartoon where the clip art guy says "You remember the war on drugs? Like how we used to have a drug problem and then they had a war on drugs and now you can't get any drugs anymore? It'll be just like that. Yeah!"
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By the RIAA. "Large numbers of children and teens are swapping their organs over the... um... Internet and this is bad for the people who created the organs in the first place," says an RIAA spokesperson, "Parents are encouraged to do the right thing by stopping organwapping, with a firm spanking of what ever part of the child they can get their hands on. Or we'll sue them. Yeah."
The RIAA is also marketing a line of children which are "watermarked" so as to "spoil" their organs, causing the organs to be rejected by the people recieving them.
could be kelvin, the international scientific standard, which has the same graduations as celcisus
The Pan Am ad from the 70s showed America picked out in bright city lights, all through from coast to coast, while canada and mexico were just dark, as if they had forgotten to pay their power bill.
Does our world really look like that all over? With brighly lit highways from one city to another and visible jet trails from space? or do we look like random luminescent features and warm spots dotted around the surface? (of course it would be hard to miss that spacejunk though, on your final approach it would probably put a hole through you, unless you had it mapped.)
I don't know about lithothermal science (although it sounds like a cool name, but all stars can have flares and coronal mass ejections. We just our flares solar flares.
See the Nasa Space Weather Page
That's an argument to not come back.
/ASS(ES)|CARAPASE|SPINNERETTES|MANTLE|RING GANGLION|FLAGELLA|TAPROOT|HYPHAE|HOLDFAST|POSTERIO -VENTRAL REGIONS|Other appropriate target!/Hmmm... I'm not sure about the rest of you, but I am confident that my kind are battlehardened enough to explore strange new worlds, seek out new life and new civilisations, and fondue them. With appropriate technlogy they'd be able to live on not much more than dirt, water and sunlight.
Imagine if we sent everyone we didn't like, just like in the colonial days of sail.
Send them out into the worlds of ten thousand stars. They'll breed fast. Several children a decade. After all, we were accidentially introduced into america a long time ago, and we turned out ok. We weren't native but there wasn't anything on THIS side of the pond that like to eat us quick enough so now we're everywhere.
We can spread. From planet to planet. Solar sails. Nuclear rockets. Whatever. We'll find a way to a new planet to call home. Once we do, we'll make it our business to ensure it's game over for everything else that metabolises. Not instantly, of course. There'll still be a planet there. Some natural parks. and little red microbes. But we'll terraform the place until it looks the way we like it to look.
Hold on... I'm still building here. And I'm almost to the good stuff. (wait for it...)
My point is this: Lets say there is life on mars. WE'LL KICK ITS
WE ARE THE BAD THINGS THAT HAPPEN UNEXPECTEDLY. We leak. Again, no conspiracy needed, just the good old second law of thermodynamics coupled with that one law discovered by Murphy making a real world demonstration that it applies to everyone in the universe, not just homo sapiens.
As I said in the subject of my post: The inevitable spread of one lifeform over the corpses of another is not a reason to not to go to mars. It is a reason to go and never come back. The Brothers W made Agent Smith say that humanity spreads like a virus. I say that's not a bad idea. Imagine where we'll be in a few thousand years. For real. A human empire spanning most of the known universe with breakaway colonies running social experiments in government and morality? I'm packed. Bring it on!
And yea though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death I shall fear no evil,
For I am the evilest sonofabitch in the valley. -- Anonymous, 1967
From the article William Garrison, UC Berkeley professor emeritus and co-author of "Tomorrow's Transportation." "People want variety . . . They don't want people telling them what to do. We wealthy people with bleeding hearts say we need mass transit for the poor. The hell with that. The poor need money. If they had money, they wouldn't take transit."
I'm sorry Mr Garrison, but people do want variety. I'm all for effective electric cars, but we should allow our already working mass transit systems be developed to be equally or more convenient to use at the same time. In paris, you don't need a train time table: the trains are always two minutes apart. In Australia, tramstops have little touchscreen kiosks which allow you to plan your route, buy a ticket and even optimise your time.
I want my big SUV to go out bushbashing and hauling lumber in a trailer, I want to be able to rent/buy a small electric two seater so that don't get quashed in a road accident that would have killed a motorcyclist when I go shopping on my own and I want to be able to buy a ticket to a train that runs on time so I can read manuals or highlight meeting minutes or just plain sleep on my way to my tech job in the city where parking is a pain in the ass anyway.
AUSTIN 3:16
jesus christ?
Human beings wont have the top end or the bottom end of the workforce replaced. Robots will automate the jobs that engineers find easy to automate. This means anything in a simple, industrial environment where a legally blind robot can follow a yellow line to pick up and drop off a bottle of dangerous chemicals, but not the same actions on a crowded dimly lit nightclub dance floor where a robot has to pick up and drop off a similar sized and shaped empty glass.
Also the people who conceive robots and have them constructed are humans with interests and passions. People will build robots for a reason, and the "generallness" of a general purpose robot will be biased based on the careers that the robot builders want the robots to have. You can bet your bottom dollar that there are going to be many models of factory workers, actors, miners, soldiers and sex toys, but what about the jobs that most humans don't even think about? Is a kiosk inspired humanoid robot with a youthful face and a permanant smile the best way to sell rare coins? Same industry (service), different slant.
Also robots will not just replace drudge work jobs, robots will replace jobs that humans find fun. Automatic Flight is an interesting problem. Childcare isn't.
As much as many couples would like an AI nanny with excellent references, there has been very little effort expended in designing any childcare machine more complex than a television. Where are the algorithms for handling a fragile, motile bundle of soft squishy flesh while you attempt to change its nappy? I'm not saying it can't be done. I'm saying nobody is doing it. We'd much rather win robocup.
There'll be sort of a random, patchy replacement of jobs, and you'll find that the most stable, predictable jobs will be replaced by an expert system, a small shell script or a steely hand, while the really chaotic jobs will demand human attention for a while longer.
Incidentally, because robots are products of industrialism, their servicing and maintence should be a stable predictable job, with a finite set of well defined failure modes. I don't think that there will be many human technicians for the robot industry after robots surpass human intelligence.
But we might pick up their empty fuel cells at the local night club.
Kate and Kate's Feiancee try to scan a bowl with a hand-held self-checkout scanner to buy it as a present for kate's father (the 3 star general guy). The scanner doesnt work, prompting him to say "I hate machines."
The rest of the movie shows that machines hate them right back.
And I used to wear an onion in my belt.
Trogdor was a man... no...
actually he was a... lego man.
Actually he was just lego...
But he was still....
TROGDOR!!!!!
the LEGOnator!
TROGDOR!!!!!
the LEGOnator!
Smashinating, Lego country side
Smashinating Lego pesants
Smashinating, Lego country side
AND THE CUSTOM MOULDED COTTAGES!!!!
TROGDOR!!!!!
the LEGOnator!
TROGDOR!!!!!
the LEGOnator!
apologies to homestarrunner and urban dictionary.
You know, with the lego flames from legocthulhu you could really cool stop motion animated film.
Now where did I put my "consumate V" blocks? Ahh... there they are. But NONE OF THEM ARE GREEN!!! ARRRGHHHH!!!!!
TROGDOR!!!!!
the LEGOnator!
"According to this map the enemy couldn't have possibly come up this way. There's supposed to be a big wall over there. That's why I said that it would be a waste of time to send scouts to check that approach out."
"Sir, since we're all going to die, may I speak freely."
"Sure."
"You're an idiot, Sir."
That might be a good example of where not to use honeytokens. When the books were written, "nobody but a few scientific and engineering applications would need that kind of accuracy," but what if someone did? A faulty calculation could result in a failed project or worse.
Furthermore, this kind of honeytoken requires a list of honeytokens to be stored somewhere, which would be a high value target for thieves.
unfortunately true. I would have thought that the sith S wing would have looked a bit like a wasp, with a curled over thorax and a canted back abdomen.
Great job on the other letters though.
I'd really love to see a stop motion animated movie of these guys in action fighting for the old republic.
See slugbot
And we also know how those sparky engines on the Logos and the Neb, and the hovercars and nuclear/dark storm bombers in the second renaisannce work.
Pretty neat. All you need is an abundant source of energy.
Link! I need a driver program for Karma Sutra... Nevermind.
Has a quote that says something like "Nobody on this side of the atlantic owns a baseball bat to play baseball with."
Anybody else remember the scene with the doggy?
They're Moderators Neo, they can take over any slashbot still logged into the system.
_________________
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Current offensive frag grenades use a winding of fine brittle wire to make the fragments. On hard ground these tiny staple like projectiles can shred a man three meters away and wound him at ten.
What would a grenade made with a carbon nanotube casing with roving which would shatter into billions of tiny X-ray invisible fragments do? and would the carbon fragments even raise an immune response from the body? or would they be allowed to sit there with no symptoms until they moved one day years later to puncture an artery?
That was in the Sourcebook Fields of Fire for the Shadowrun RPG. (and a damn fine gaming system it is too.)
The bulletproof clothing felt like gel when worn under normal conditions, but when subjected to a shockwave from a projectile or blast moving at or above the speed of sound it would harden into a bodycast of the wearer. After the shock had passed around the wearer, the armour would return to its fluid state. It was available in two models - the original bodysuit which made the wearer immobile until it had re-liquified, and the second-gen stuff which only hardened in the places hit.
The failure mode for a bad roll of the dice when defending against automatic weapons fire would the irreversible hardening of the suit into a permanent cast of the wearer.
A GM I played with allowed one of my teammates to take out a NPC wearing the armour with subsonic silenced rounds. Likewise, knives and arrows passed through it with no side effects other than releasing a vile poisonous goo from the punctured armour straight into the entry wound.
After that the remaining NPC Mercs wore kevlar and ceramic plates over their goo suits.
Nobody has ever been killed by a cheap flat panel display screen. At least if they have, the screen had either failed, or was being used contrary to its design.
How long do you think that the printer ink refillers start marketing knock off fuel cartridges and "self fueler" fuel purifiers which filter camp stove quality wood alcohol into laptop grade fuel?
Could an italian engineer hack up another kind of packet radio which could be cheaply manufactured in kit form? capture the hobbist movement, and keep the big players out of the loop until its widely installed. Smart Governments would love to be seen supporting local industry.
Don't break the law unless everyone is going to do it at the same time. You are dealing with hardware and any govt worth its salt is going to be able to interdict importers and couriers of physical objects.
then again, that kind of reminds me of that www.mnftiu.cc cartoon where the clip art guy says "You remember the war on drugs? Like how we used to have a drug problem and then they had a war on drugs and now you can't get any drugs anymore? It'll be just like that. Yeah!"