And "hey, this one's still alive!" is only a technobabble sentence away anyway. The Master survived it (and the 13 regen limit, IIRC). I'm sure Romana VIII is out there somewhere hidden in a stasis bubble between fractal dimensions e and .
I trust their constitution more than the crap any politician since then would do. Have you seen the sickening declarations of rights most governments have? "Flowery praise for right ABC, except..." where the exception is crafted to continue business as usual. Loopholes big enough for a truck because they were designed that way.
Snowden said he could listen to conversations without raising alarms. I hope there are some embarrassing conversations of powerful people.
Only through public embarrassment and further exposure of lies will the beast start to shift away from the abyss. Hit the powerul and make them, themselves, notice.
Most discussions with most nations are along the line of "the boss wants a Swiss bank account with $10 million in it and an aid package we can skim from."
Their wealth isn't cash in a mattress. It's in land and company ownership. To make it liquid, they'd have to sell it. Who's buying? Nobody. So the price collapses and they get far less out of it. It's only paper value that must be converted very slowly.
People are shocked to learn you could tax 100% of the income of the wealthy and only get an additional $500 billion a year to spend, which is not even half the annual borrowing. Next time a politician talks about us having not a spending problem, but a rich-not-paying-their-fair-share problem, spit in that fraud's face.
I thought of that Trek episode with the sky city lording over the brutish, short-lived miners. Haven't seen this big a ripoff since Disney ripped off Kiimba the White Lion for the Lion King.
Interesting that in two of these stories, the rulers were the Beautiful People in the sky, while in Wells', they were the ugly people underground, while the beautiful layabouts took it easy in the sun.
Haven't seen it but was there an undercurrent of capitlaism as the big bad guy?
This would be strange because the previews talked about lifesaving autodoc type medicine that greedy capitalists would be eager to spit out like popcorn and put a coin slot on the side.
As-is it looks more like a good old story of royalty gone amok. I wonder if Star Trek ever did such an episode.
I can't even watch my beloved PBS Lathe of Heaven anymore without knowing the shortages were the result of restrictions and rationing decades after it started.
"Democracy" is why we're in this problem. You are seeing the difference between democracy and freedom highlighted quite starkly.
We are, first and foremost, a free country that uses democracy to make government decisions. "Democracy" is not supposed to have carte blanche to respond to the panicked, transient political winds abused for millenia by politicans.
Seriously, I wonder if they thought this out. Has anyone ever tried using a laptop in the sun? You can't even see the screen cupping your hands over part of it.
Maybe LED backlighting could get it barely bright enough without sucking down the battery in 3 minutes.
Yes, but this is a corporate management problem, not a technical one. Go read the sad history of Xerox where, at one point, they needed the signatures of 47 managers to make a change to a copier, as hungrier companies cranked out modern innovations.
Reminds me of the asinine scare about asbestos insulation, where the form (airborn fibers vs. solid bound masses) and exposure times (years) were completely ignored.
In a war between the US and the old Soviet Union, the aircraft carriers weren't expected to last more than a day or two at most. Too many missiles, even if you ignore torpedoes.
Has China gotten to that level? I doubt it. And there's a lot more stopping them than the threat of an aorcraft carrier or two. Never forget that the US was capable of cranking out one major ship a week 70 years ago when someone got us started.
But games are keepng me tied to Windows! All these MOBAs and DOTAs and Action RPGs where the RPG depth is removed so you only have to deal with 3 powers and...
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And "hey, this one's still alive!" is only a technobabble sentence away anyway. The Master survived it (and the 13 regen limit, IIRC). I'm sure Romana VIII is out there somewhere hidden in a stasis bubble between fractal dimensions e and .
The Doctor: "You know the definition of a vegan don't you? They're people too insensitive to hear a carrot citizen of Denigula VI scream."
I trust their constitution more than the crap any politician since then would do. Have you seen the sickening declarations of rights most governments have? "Flowery praise for right ABC, except..." where the exception is crafted to continue business as usual. Loopholes big enough for a truck because they were designed that way.
Snowden said he could listen to conversations without raising alarms. I hope there are some embarrassing conversations of powerful people.
Only through public embarrassment and further exposure of lies will the beast start to shift away from the abyss. Hit the powerul and make them, themselves, notice.
Most discussions with most nations are along the line of "the boss wants a Swiss bank account with $10 million in it and an aid package we can skim from."
Most people don't care -- it's just a password wrangling utility. It's like locking stuff up inside your locked house.
Slashdotter: But then nobody would want to get in the bed with me.
Their wealth isn't cash in a mattress. It's in land and company ownership. To make it liquid, they'd have to sell it. Who's buying? Nobody. So the price collapses and they get far less out of it. It's only paper value that must be converted very slowly.
People are shocked to learn you could tax 100% of the income of the wealthy and only get an additional $500 billion a year to spend, which is not even half the annual borrowing. Next time a politician talks about us having not a spending problem, but a rich-not-paying-their-fair-share problem, spit in that fraud's face.
I thought of that Trek episode with the sky city lording over the brutish, short-lived miners. Haven't seen this big a ripoff since Disney ripped off Kiimba the White Lion for the Lion King.
Interesting that in two of these stories, the rulers were the Beautiful People in the sky, while in Wells', they were the ugly people underground, while the beautiful layabouts took it easy in the sun.
Haven't seen it but was there an undercurrent of capitlaism as the big bad guy?
This would be strange because the previews talked about lifesaving autodoc type medicine that greedy capitalists would be eager to spit out like popcorn and put a coin slot on the side.
As-is it looks more like a good old story of royalty gone amok. I wonder if Star Trek ever did such an episode.
I can't even watch my beloved PBS Lathe of Heaven anymore without knowing the shortages were the result of restrictions and rationing decades after it started.
"Welcome to thuh club!" -- Anarchists and nihilists
Nah, it wasn't a joke. 20 years ago nerds got laid a lot more because there was much less obesity problem.
"Democracy" is why we're in this problem. You are seeing the difference between democracy and freedom highlighted quite starkly.
We are, first and foremost, a free country that uses democracy to make government decisions. "Democracy" is not supposed to have carte blanche to respond to the panicked, transient political winds abused for millenia by politicans.
Would that people learn from this.
> Unfortunately, key patents for implementing elliptic curve cryptography are controlled by BlackBerry.
"Who's gonna go broke now, bitches?!?!?"
Seriously, I wonder if they thought this out. Has anyone ever tried using a laptop in the sun? You can't even see the screen cupping your hands over part of it.
Maybe LED backlighting could get it barely bright enough without sucking down the battery in 3 minutes.
Yes, but this is a corporate management problem, not a technical one. Go read the sad history of Xerox where, at one point, they needed the signatures of 47 managers to make a change to a copier, as hungrier companies cranked out modern innovations.
> "Apple is prepping big pushes into wearable electronics and televisions, both of
> which could prove lucrative strategies if executed correctly."
AKA a Microsoft-like "Mee Toooo!", but of Google.
> director Corynne McSherry talked with Slashdot's Timothy Lord
I first read that as "Slashdot's Time Lord..."
"Well, that's rather arrogant of him."
Reminds me of the asinine scare about asbestos insulation, where the form (airborn fibers vs. solid bound masses) and exposure times (years) were completely ignored.
I take it the phrase "relays clacked" is no longer useful in science fiction stories?
> None of the carriers china is building is anything close to the Nimitz class ships the United States has.
Meanwhile, back at the shipyards...
In a war between the US and the old Soviet Union, the aircraft carriers weren't expected to last more than a day or two at most. Too many missiles, even if you ignore torpedoes.
Has China gotten to that level? I doubt it. And there's a lot more stopping them than the threat of an aorcraft carrier or two. Never forget that the US was capable of cranking out one major ship a week 70 years ago when someone got us started.
> I want to get rid of the last moving parts
That's what she said!
But games are keepng me tied to Windows! All these MOBAs and DOTAs and Action RPGs where the RPG depth is removed so you only have to deal with 3 powers and...
Wait.
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Apparently blind people are unaware of all the spam postings clogging porno web sites without it.