Obligatory The Newsroom opening sequence

I think every U.S. politician should watch this at least once a week, both during session and during their fundraising runs.

Returning to the topic, it sounds like you have until they turn 18 to make that decision. By then, they can consider all the pros and cons and make their own decision, right?

Hey, Person of Interest is on CBS, that does a good job of dramatizing the AI Eschaton. And the protagonists are working against the corrupt powers that be, to boot.

Make it a series on Netflix and I'm all on that. We haven't had a decent sci fi comedy on TV since Quark.

Don't forget that was one of the real arguments for the revolution.
Trade with Earth was bleeding them of water and would eventually lead to the colony's collapse.

They could probably have been self-sufficient if they hadn't been forced to send grain to Earth. But being a bunch of transportees and convicts, they didn't get a say in the matter.

Good luck explaining the finer points of a closed-cycle ecology, economics and politics in a 2-hour movie.

Captain Flint buried them in the Templar^H pirate vault on Oak Island. Long John Silver's looking in the wrong damn hemisphere.

The Jabra Speak 410 is also an excellent USB speakerphone with feedback suppression. Works well with Lync on Windows or Mac, in my personal experience. This would require someone bringing their laptop into the conference room just to run the VoIP app of your choice, though, but is likely to be a cheaper solution than any Polycom phone.

"Steamboat Willy" was a shitty cartoon anyway.

Yeah, constantly being accused of a Satanistic suicide cult had no negative impact on D&D.

Just make some glasses with some cryptic incantation on them, and all the sudden, WE'RE ALL FREE AGAIN!
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Conventional LASERs can't hit anything over the horizon, tactically they're useless. The Navy isn't stupid, therefore they've obviously secretly learned how to bend a multi-megawatt LASER beam. Maybe they've developed mirror-carrier drones.

Fixed that for ya...

HAN SHOT FIRST ....errr, I mean.... whether Deckard is a replicant is left AMBIGUOUS!

I've heard the fix for that is to spin the entire drive while applying power; kind of nudge it along the platter's axis to get the bearings unstuck. It involves "open-case surgery," where you have the drive out of the case and free to move while you first apply power. Once it starts spinning, you'll want to power down and reinstall into the case so you don't knock it around while it's operating and damage it further.

new patent = (existing process) x ["with a computer" | "on the internet" | "with a 3D printer" | "in a box" | "with a fox" | "via drone" | "in virtual reality" | "with methane micro-lasers" | "in an app" | "with more cowbell" | "with an AI" | "dipped in liquid nitrogen" | "using fiber optics" | "facilitated by nanobots" | "using MEMS" | "meme enhanced"]

So much for websites crying about AdBlock stealing food from their children's mouths.
Now AdBlock prevents shitbirds like this from benefiting from attempting to steal food from webmaster's children. Which makes it more better, right?


I would welcome AdBlock having some sort of micropayment sponsor system baked in where I could choose to support sites whose content I value. Twenty years of the web, and still nobody's figured how to make that shit work. Is Ted Nelson even still alive?