SUS server that it gets updates from?

a real heroin addict can "never" get enough heroin either, but then they die from it. Unfortunately, I don't think Zucky will die from too much money, at least until the Revolution and his head rolls into the guillotine basket.

Take a look at this, and it's back from 2011. Boeing is calling a 6 person X-37C, yet I believe that the Air Force probably already has a flight-capable (and probably tested) one or two man "modual" that can put in the experiment bay. After watching Astrospies on PBS, someday we will probably find a couple of space suits stuffed in a dark closet somewhere in 30 years, with an X-37 mission flag, Air Force officers involved in "training"...there's no way the AF will give up US-based manned space travel, even if just for intelligence and access to the ISS.

I would hope that FTL ships would go out and find the sleeper ships, instead of just waiting for them.

Richard Branson, is that you?

Once the full implementation of LTE is finished, all cellphone's that use this tech will be VOIP right from the towers.

Another interesting fact about John Adams, a quote from the Treaty of Tripoli he signed: "As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion". Very few people know of this, personally I feel that this should be part of ever American History class in the US.

every day we inch closer and closer to a Shadowrun-style world with megacorp armies enforcing their law on their own territories...the only thing we're missing is the Great Awakening...

an even better work around is just a pump BB gun and popping cameras..."Night of the BB"...if enough people did this in a short time period a ratioan PD might realize how pissed people are, but in reality they would say it's a "wide-spread terrorist plot" and outlaw BB guns too...

I just picked up a Kensington Scrolling Wheel Trackball, but that Logitech looks way sweeter! Costs 2x, yet I also bet your Logitech will last at least 2x longer than mine...

They can't "take over as top ape" unless they somehow differentiate into a separate (ie, non-crossbreed-able) species. Until then, we're all the "same ape" even though we may look different, genetically we're all still the same (or close enough). The various differences we see now are mostly epigenetic, not genetic. Every single human has the genetics to be a range of shades, but only certain shades are expressed epigenetically depending on the environment. And per most genetic studies done this century, our evolution is speeding up, not slowing down...but this is due to the massive amount of people on Earth - which, as you pointed out, is a totally different yet much more pressing issue!

Evolution doesn't really occur in a "couple of generations" either. Certain genes get suppressed by enough generations over time and those suppressions become genetic (as opposed to epigenetic) and then the underlying DNA is altered to save energy in copying during procreation. When we see genetic divergence in species, it comes from after a period of epigenetic alteration (during which time there is only one species, even if they appear differently) before the change gets "locked in". Even then, often the "pre-divergence" genetic code is still there somewhere, shuffled off into that area we like to call "junk DNA" for future recall in case of environmental changes.

Check this out, it's actually pretty amazing. Watch this BBC documentary too...fascinating to see how the two-tiered system works!

"Had" being the point there, as in "not currently". I still think it's a horrible idea, the roadsigns are all in English, even though they are iconographic enough for most people to comprehend hopefully...but many of them say things like "Caution - Road Construction Ahead" in just text, if your driving on US roads your really need to be able to quickly understand such signs as you might have 15-30 seconds to read them and claiming to a patrol officer "I can't read English" isn't going to get anyone out of the 2x ticket. And currently, there are no states in the Continental US that have any other official language other than American English, no matter what your DMV might print out. Only two Continental State have "officially recognized" secondary languages, Louisiana and New Mexico, French and Spanish respectively.

true, I should have said that SpaceX is building rockets without having specific contracts lined up already like Boeing et al had with the Saturn 5. And I think SpaceX's main innovation is the assembly-line style system their working on, as opposed to the almost one-off system that is usually used. I've seen pics of their assembly area, there were at least six Dragon capsules being built simultaneously.

true, but very few match the benefits and vacation I currently get...plus I just sit in a NOC all night and only do "work" a couple of times a month...and my job exists because they want to be ITIL certified so they HAVE to have an ITSM team 24/7.

what if my parrot calls him a fuckstick? "rawk, fuckstick! fuckstick! rawk! rawk!"