"Thousands, Standing Around" -- Thomas P. M. Barnett

I've always wondered if he meant the obese clone army of Blue Shirts, or Security Checkpoints being a target-rich bottleneck.

"The people who tend not to vote are young, they're lower income, they're skewed more heavily towards immigrant groups and minority groups. There's a reason why some folks try to keep them away from the polls."

This is the one downside to health care advances: the geriatric gentry like DICK Cheney will hang around far too long, doing out-sized damage to every facet of our existence.

They also use this garbage lying theory called Parallel Construction, which if they explained it to time machine transported Founding Fathers, they would fall upon them like a pack of ravening zombies, as they would see this for what it is: Tyranny.

If the GOP again controls both the White House and both houses, the first thing they will do is outright eliminate the Freedom of Information Act or make it so toothless as to be irrelevant. After all, there's an endless, profitable war on, you know.

Homeless limo drivers appear! "Home, Jeeves; and keep it above 90!"

"That's for the hackers to figure out!"

The constant 'Pew-Pew-Pew' sounds would keep me awake at night.

My SO loves watching Shark Tank (which I despise, but try to keep to myself). A telling indicator of how busted the current system is that these millionaires (who apparently just don't *quite* have enough lucre yet) always ask the same question: "Do you have a patent?"

Military Intelligence, Virgin Birth...

Still fascinating that no one can agree on the origin of the once slang 'OK'.

They will have to shut this down HARD, to keep us from manufacturing pharmaceuticals and recreational drugs wihout the permission of IP "owners" or our frankly insane drug law enforcers.

Wow: Big Pharma's *and* Big Moral Cop's worst nightmare. Here's hoping, anyway.

I still am not sure why (where the land isn't good enough or worth trying to improve for farming) solar isn't co-habituating with wind farms just to take advantage of the already built power infrastructure. Maybe not enough capacity when both are at or near optimal generating conditions?

Yes; you don't try to cut the fence of the police state prison camp right where the guards are standing - and that is EXACTLY what LAPD is doing to poor (read: minority) neighborhoods.

Tired of the endless WHUMP-WHUMP-WHUMP? well, turn white and rich, Mr. and Mrs. Bootstrap!

I have an overhead bathroom fixture that is a combination light / exhaust / heater. I'd love to replace the tungsten with an LED, but I'm concerned if an LED can hold up to a hot environment such as this without failing or - worst case scenario - catching fire due to overheating.

This reminds me of the systems they tried to impose in the early 70s' US cars: if the seat belts weren't latched, the cars would not start. No, not just an annoying bong for a brief time; the freaking engine would not even turn over. And this being completely analog, system failures happened quite a bit. But fear not! If there was a failure, there was an under hood button you could push to bypass the system. Once. A one-time use, then you had to tow the car to a dealership for a new box. As most everyone by-passed this insanity, the system was quickly dropped.

Here's hoping Intel also comes to their senses about their one-time recovery window (hopefully with some well-deserved threats from the FTC).