The singularity is the biggest embarrassment in futurism since the flying car and Martin Landau on the Moon by 1999. Well, OK, Gerry Anderson wasn't really a futurist, but you know what I mean. Mod me troll if you must, but you know in my hearts I am correct. Sorry, kids, but there won't be a reverse engineered version of your mind enjoying immortally in a machine somewhere.
If they brought back more local investigations and reported more about what was going on around town
I've been calling for that for years. Here in California, the asshat shenanigans of the state government are an epic greater than the fall of the Roman Empire, but you can't turn on the local news and hear boo about it. It's like "the government finally passed a budget today"; cut to clip of some dumbass legislator acting like they just cured AIDS, cancer and all global conflicts in one shot; another shot of another bought and sold politician saying how the taxpayers need to "sacrifice" (for the 1395th time), and then on to the *important* news! Christian Bale had another hissy fit, and some actress went back into rehab.
So no, no reader is going to fix newspapers. Far too many of these papers are losing subscribers because the paper's political view is no where near in line with those who used to pay for them.
Actually, in the case of the Los Angeles Times, I know people who pretty much agree with the paper's editorial slant, but even they lost patience with that slant appearing in the front page as news.
In my copy of the book, Alan Moore laments the state of England in the foreward, and talks about taking his family and getting the hell out. That was dated in the 1980s I think. I thought he had to be overreacting, but now I see he wasn't.
These are old "bent pipe" FLTSATCOM birds from the 1980s. The transponder tech dates to the 1970s. It's all going to be superseded by the Mobile User Objective System very soon now, so it might even be a good idea to just sell Brazil the old system. Well, assuming the GEO slots aren't needed.
I know what you mean, but solar sats are an old idea, and the maths pretty well worked out. The economics were worked out in the 1970s. The characteristics of the beam are basic EM theory dating back to World War II. The power density of the microwaves at the ground is less than that of regular sunlight.
I'm sorry, but I *have* been around a bit, and the anti-science crud that has crept into the geekworld is really sad.
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The singularity is the biggest embarrassment in futurism since the flying car and Martin Landau on the Moon by 1999. Well, OK, Gerry Anderson wasn't really a futurist, but you know what I mean. Mod me troll if you must, but you know in my hearts I am correct. Sorry, kids, but there won't be a reverse engineered version of your mind enjoying immortally in a machine somewhere.
Nikon D200
The "D" stands for "Darwin"
What would Jesus tweet?
Harumph! Ebay? They belong in a museum!
Mr. Wizard's Experiments for Young Scientists by Don Herbert
Seriously, you will not need any other science book *EVER*!
3. Stupid, snarky comments about fake books.
Such as the disappointing sequel to Newton's Principia, Principia II: The Quickening
Or Galileo's little known, underground autobiography Lorem Ipsum Pontifex Bicceus Amet" (Literal translation: "The Pope Is A Total Bitch.")
And "Fuck You, World!", the classic tome by Thomas Midgley (inventor of leaded gasoline *and* chlorofluorocarbons).
If they could sense the input, I'd be more impressed. ;-)
A little cosmology humor there for ya.
If they brought back more local investigations and reported more about what was going on around town
I've been calling for that for years. Here in California, the asshat shenanigans of the state government are an epic greater than the fall of the Roman Empire, but you can't turn on the local news and hear boo about it. It's like "the government finally passed a budget today"; cut to clip of some dumbass legislator acting like they just cured AIDS, cancer and all global conflicts in one shot; another shot of another bought and sold politician saying how the taxpayers need to "sacrifice" (for the 1395th time), and then on to the *important* news! Christian Bale had another hissy fit, and some actress went back into rehab.
So no, no reader is going to fix newspapers. Far too many of these papers are losing subscribers because the paper's political view is no where near in line with those who used to pay for them.
Actually, in the case of the Los Angeles Times, I know people who pretty much agree with the paper's editorial slant, but even they lost patience with that slant appearing in the front page as news.
That's so stupid it's passed around to the other side to become genius. I totally want a copy.
What's the spirally thing to the left? A tornado or the Tasmanian Devil?
A group of authors, including Philip K. Dick's estate
Huh. Which books did Philip K. Dick's estate write?
In my copy of the book, Alan Moore laments the state of England in the foreward, and talks about taking his family and getting the hell out. That was dated in the 1980s I think. I thought he had to be overreacting, but now I see he wasn't.
Spraying the telephone with lysol is paranoia and counterproductive, despite what the ads on TV say.
Depends on the phone. The bad MRSA strains that were making their way around hospitals were due to shared cell phones.
Build yourself nice small PC with some horse power and HDMI out.
Microsoft already did that. It's called the XBox 360 Elite. It's been streaming media from my old Mac for some time now.
how it is helping dissidents spread information in oppressive regimes such as Syria, Zimbabwe, Mauritania,
And California.
Ask me again at 100 days.
Eh... it's an attack on the network. I'll allow it. Objection overruled. :)
Not a lot of programmers native to Antarctica.
[Insert Linux penguin joke here]
Not me. I just suggested it as a possibility.
...an experimental education AI predicted that professors will be obsolete by 2030.
These are old "bent pipe" FLTSATCOM birds from the 1980s. The transponder tech dates to the 1970s. It's all going to be superseded by the Mobile User Objective System very soon now, so it might even be a good idea to just sell Brazil the old system. Well, assuming the GEO slots aren't needed.
The real real question is: are the iPods and iPhones colored in desert camouflage?
'Cause I want one if they are.
I know what you mean, but solar sats are an old idea, and the maths pretty well worked out. The economics were worked out in the 1970s. The characteristics of the beam are basic EM theory dating back to World War II. The power density of the microwaves at the ground is less than that of regular sunlight.
I'm sorry, but I *have* been around a bit, and the anti-science crud that has crept into the geekworld is really sad.
If Wil Wright *does* get the credit, then Peter Glaser, who described the idea in 1968, will want to know why.
1. Why would an airplane fly through it?
2. Look up the term "Faraday Cage".
3. The microwave beam will have the 1/10 the intensity of regular sunlight.