That part right there is basically the perfect example of why this railway project won't work. The gas pipeline would have done pretty nicely... if businesses had cooperated on it, instead each played politics and begged for ever more and more compensation from the government, and then the government went all sideways... Ugh. If they can't cooperate on something like that, how on earth would they do their part for a railway that's going to cost a million times more?

Would they really "decide not to use it" if sovereignty was at stake?

MAD is kinda balanced around the idea that "you'll stay in your corner and i'll stay in mine". Once one side actually steps onto the other side's home soil everything goes downhill.

Unfortunate Occurrence or Manufacturing Defect? A lot of the latter gets written off as the former. (I.E. Ford Explorer tire blowouts, etc)

welcome our new Lego overlords! Sounds like a great plot for a movie/game! Legos sent out to other planets evolve into sentient super-Legos and return to destroy the Earth.

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It's scary how "clamping down on terrorism" has become a hammer for forging a police state where you can't question or voice opposition to the government.

Well put. Yet all the same, I wish that the gaming audience as a whole had more variance/(even money split).

Which is unrealistic and silly, but oh well...

Ah but there is still a much larger terrorist group still at large. I think it's called "The American People" or something like that...

I'd agree with you that appeasement isn't going to bring about perfect peace.

But the way you're post is worded, it's militantly anti-Muslim.

If extermination or force indoctrination (Yay let's force everyone to obey western thinking!) is the only way to attain perfect peace, then fuck "perfect peace". It's as bad as being a extremist like the Al-Qaeda, only in reverse.

The leading robot (CHARLI) at least is a quite significant improvement over last year's video. Sure it's not running, but the precision and recognition of the ball are very noticeably improved. We shouldn't expect it to happen overnight, it's an extremely complex process. Baby steps, baby steps...

That show was so absurd. They'd always make up a huge mathematical theorem that took several days to write, only to come up with a solution that could have been reached in 2 seconds by any normal human brain with a bit of intuition.

The Spi-err... Urine must flow?

Large Scale firepower? A couple of old soviet jets/tanks doesn't really compare to a full out war between superpowers.

Exactly how would having laser guns suddenly have helped in any of the above mentioned wars? It's not like we need to spend billions in R&D to beat north Korea for example.

A lot has changed in the aftermath of WW2 and the Cold War. The political climate today is such that war between superpowers is extremely unlikely/borderline impossible. I kinda see it as the US being a lone kid playing rock, paper, scissors, tank, airplane, nuclear bomb... all the while the rest of the kids in the playground have realized how silly that game was getting and moved on to better things.

/Agree It's so rare to find political satire/humor that isn't partisan these days. The Onion is brilliant work.

It's interesting how much farther the US has taken it.

Comic Books/Superheros became a massive industry the likes of which makes the efforts of the German/Soviet propaganda offices look petty.