Corn sugar, corn syrup, it's all sweet. But not as sweet as 'angel kisses'. I guess they just didn't have the nads to suggest it be changed to that.

From the article:
"By heating up the material, the oil can be removed and burnt locally and the nanofabric can be reused."

That's not entirely clear and the video doesn't add anything regarding delivery of captured oil to a 'local' repository for disposal. It looks like they're glossing over this part.

Hey, it's only 40 million, drop in the bucket by defense industry standards. From the article:

Defense Industry: DARPA, can we have some money for nothing?

DARPA: No, we can only give money for something. How about you tell us a nice story about flying jeeps?

It's hilarious in the case of Space 1999, something I'm watching now after not having seen it for many, many years. A big explosion launches the moon into space to travel at speeds varying according to writers' requirements, with absolutely no regard for any limit such as the speed of light, nor requirement for warping space or using hyperspace or whatever.

G forces are very high initially after the explosion, but fortunately diminish as the moon slows down.

And of all the trajectories they could have gotten, they got the one that leads to weekly encounters with hostile alien species. Unless all of space is just stuffed with them.

Makes Star Wars and Trek look like hard science fiction by comparison, and is so bad it's great.

Exactly. Back then there was no such concept. Copyright emerged as a way of motivating and rewarding authors whose work was, as it had always been, destined for the public domain. It's a limited monopoly, and once that emerges, so does the issue of protecting that monopoly.

And titanium binary shielding to prevent bit leakage, drift, and collisions. When ALL the bits are travelling in the same direction with perfect coherency, the sound quality is so good it induces multiple orgasms even in males. I'd like to see a cable without binary shielding do that! And if its not titanium, it's crap. But that goes without saying.

I did something like this with an Apple IIe in the early days of MIDI in a scene where an actor had to fake playing the piano faster and faster as the scene progressed. Up in the booth I tapped up the tempo following the actor, rather than have the actor have to follow a recording.

What's amazing about Broadway is that it has held out so long. In large part that's due to unions, but I think also audience expectations. One isn't surprised a low budget production in the boonies would cut corners, but if you shell out for a Broadway ticket, you want the full meal.

Come to International House of Critters for our delicious savoury rabbit crepe, only $7.95.

Then we need new regulations regulating regulators. And I know, you're thinking, but who will regulate the regulators of the regulators? There will be regulators for the regulators of the regulators as well. It will be regulators all the way to the bottom.

The real answer is to stop regarding corporations as 'persons' and go back to regarding them as what they are, associations, and ones which can be disbanded when they screw up big time. A corporation who, through its negligence, causes a major environmental disaster doesn't get to continue to exist.

Granted, that's unenforceable outside of a particular nation state, but it would certainly reduce share holder value if several countries, including the US, regarded it as outlaw and forbade it to do business.

Or if we're going to continue to regard them as persons, what sort of a punishment would a human person get for gross criminal negligence? What would be the corporate equivalent?

Because when it comes right down to it, regulation is better than no regulation, but ultimately can't be counted on, because there are minimal consequences for failure to comply, and because of lax enforcement in the first place.

The first rule for corporations should be that if they screw up big time, they cease to exist. But anything that draconian has to be preceded by defining corporations in law as non-persons. Sadly, given US Supreme Court rulings on the issue, it might take a constitutional amendment.

That's because you figured out that you shouldn't provoke Canadians beyond lame jokes about ending phrases with "eh". Even that is getting tiresome. Stop it.

It can also kill you if you drink too much of it. People have also been crushed by it in frozen form. You can avoid drowning by avoiding immersion, you can drink only beer, but for purposes of bathing regularly, unless you are quite well off or are content with just sponge bathing, even the cheapest beer is too expensive. As with so many things, it is the poor who suffer most.

This should be coupled with a law that states there can only be a thousand laws (not including this law) on the books at any one time.

That means that if they want to add a new law, they would have to get rid of an old one to make space. This would keep the number of laws from getting ridiculous, as well as discourage legislators from passing laws simply to look like they're doing something. Though I suppose they could be cunning and have one of the laws always be a disposable one which would be the one replaced by the new useless law which would then become the disposable one.

Hm. There's gotta be a way to discourage politicians from making new laws. Perhaps just keep it simple and make the price of introducing a new law a finger or thumb. No mp could introduce more than 10 laws, and they might be reluctant to introduce even one.

I'm not so sure I would say that the terrorists have won, or that the terrorists would say that they've won. I guess the assumption is that they're all sitting in their caves going "Oh, they are so afraid that they are giving up all those precious freedoms which we so hate! Hooray, we win!"

When in reality it's an almost hopeless cause they're pursuing, getting coalition forces out of Afghanistan using fricken jerry rigged IEDs that have probably taken out almost as many of their own building the damn things as numbers of their enemy. Their death by a thousand cuts strategy requires commitment and tenacity and a lot of work towards a someday tangible victory, a restoration of the Taliban, and longer term the spread of their brand of extremist Islam. They have a long, long, long, long way to go before they can be said to have won.

If every time we said 'the terrorists have won' a terrorist rolled his eyes, they would be less of a threat for not being able to see straight. The only winners with this sort of shit is the state, and you're right, it is all about control. But the terrorists are as fucked as the rest of the people. Well, perhaps not quite. They probably don't use Blackberries.

Depends on pronunciation. I've heard people pronounce orange as orinj. Still not terribly satisfying though, only rhyming the last syllable on most of them. Door Hinge is the best of the lot.

Please don't give them ideas. Not so much banning cars, but requiring all cars to have kill switches that police can access like they do with their bait cars.