Fort London: The Olympics.

I wonder if the sonic weaponry and SAMs get stood down after the Olympics. My guess is, they don't...

Pretty funny: all those "advantages" can already be had by using public transportation

Let me guess. You live in a city, right?

And it is true that those advantages exist in public transport for many people who live in cities and work 9-5 or thereabouts, assuming they live and work near a transport node.

However, if you don't... if you live in a small town or out in the country, if you live in a city but your work is in a neighboring suburb and not in the city center, if you work shifts -- especially at night, if you have to transport pretty much anything bigger than a briefcase... then public transport is pretty fucking useless.

And that's for the majority of people, but city dwellers forget that.

The Ancient Aliens Bull Shit network?

Hey, don't knock it, Ancient Aliens is one of the funniest comedy shows on TV. Is the presenter's -- that sports scientist's -- hairstyle, and orange skin, evidence of ancient alien visitors? Some ancient alien researchers believe they are.

Yep, it's pure psychobabble. It's cart-after-the-horse bullshit.

Handedness has nothing to do with hands. It's whether the right or left brain is dominant. There are right brain dominant people who also happen to use their right hands, even though their left eye, or left foot is dominant.

Human Resource Departments: the single biggest brake on the World's economy. The reason for the lack of productivity, innovation and creativity in most large enterprises.

It's a job that nobody with a brain ever wanted to do. Actually, it's a job that nobody ever wanted to do. Nobody ever grows up wanting to work in HR. The only people who do work in HR, are those who have failed. And they bear a grudge.

Which explains why their inhumanity creates situations like this one, and so many similar situations. With the technology currently available, real managers can manage. HR staff need to be fired. All of them, everywhere. The world never really needed them in the first place, but there's no justification for having them now.

The first corporation that has the insight to fire all its HR people will wipe the floor with its competition within 5 years. They will have all the advantages of a small business, mixed with the power of a corporation. And they will have MUCH happier, more productive, employees.

The reason for France being at the forefront of anti-piracy things is Vivendi SA. And it won't make the slightest bit of difference whom is elected president. Vivendi are still there, and still in the pockets of anyone they need to be.

The longevity is not exaggerated, but it is also why the lamps are expensive.

That sounds more like marketing/management speak to me, not engineering. It sounds like a way of justifying planned obsolescence.

Livermore Fire Dept is proof that a well-made bulb can last for over a century. It's just that businesses are not willing to make them. Perhaps that's understandable, but equally, perhaps there's a better way. Either way, let's not pretend this is anything other than making as much money as possible from the longer time taken for the product to fail.

After all, the light bulb industry did pretty much invent planned obsolescence as a business concept.

They're COMING!

Another, predictable, imbecilic move from the Nets. Especially since all of them have seen ratings drop across the board -- NBC dramatically so.

The only sensible future of TV is using an MLB.TV model. For those of you not baseball fans, MLB broadcasts all games live, all season in HD -- for a set fee. They do this for subscribers all over the world. Sometimes there's ads too -- but they are really not yet utilizing the ad model much. It's available for iPad and phones too.

With more advertising, the stream could be free, or at least cheaper. This way, instead of getting a 1.0A18-49 rating for a show like "Fringe", they could broadcast it to every English-speaking fan in the World who wants to subscribe. Plus you have live monitoring of ratings, without having to pay Neilsen.

In that case WB still gets licenses for foreign domestic sales, and iTunes sales, DVDs, whatever too.

There's no technical reason this cannot happen. The only barriers are Ludditism, stupidity, and, of course, fucking lawyers.

"in the whole country, how many bomb threats actually turned out to be real? Have there even been any real ones? At some point we just have to say this is ridiculous and ignore them."

Nope. Here's the thing... people making bomb threats are crazy. So what does a crazy person do when you ignore their crazy threats? They show you. They teach you a lesson -- they make a real bomb.

Evacuating a building is annoying. It's uncomfortable. And it's inconvenient. But all-in-all it's not that big a deal. I'd much rather be cold and wet in the rain, than blown to bits.

Chances are, if you are proud of the company you work for, and are happy to be there, nobody in that company needs to ask you to astroturf, or do any kind of promotion.

If you are here asking the question as to what you should do... then I think you already know that answer.

And that answer is to get a better job, with someone you enjoy working for. Or at least, someone who won't make you want to shower every time you come home at night to wash the slime off. Yes, it's a tough economy -- but it got that way by the immoral actions of the minority. They way out of it, is not by further immoral actions.

And at risk of Godwinning the thread, the "only obeying orders" is an excuse, never a defense. You are responsible for your own moral actions. Internally, for your own peace of mind -- and in the eyes of the law.

There's no law requiring anyone to have a Facebook account (yet, anyway). And anyone who has their real name as their Facebook account is naive at best.

The images loaded for me -- it was the Enterprise A. And it looked great in the pics, it has to be said.

Can't really see the issue they had. Everything in Vegas gets blown up after a decade or so. It would have paid for itself in that time -- especially if it looked as good as it does in the pics, and did inside too.

If they installed working phasers they could have taken a lot of work out of demolishing casinos!

I've got a better idea: How about we build some sewers, electricity, get them some running water, and then setup some better agricultural facilities

These things have been done for decades. Does NOT work! All that does is create a culture of dependence. And of resentment, where middle-class patronizing aid workers and missionaries come and pat the heads of poor people and tell them how to live their lives. You want to breed terrorism, that's the way to go.

The only aid they need is education. They have plenty of resources and cheap manpower. They can build anything, if they were only educated enough to throw off their dictator governments, and fight corruption. As it is now the corruption does really well off aid projects. Giving aid, however well meaning, is the wrong way to go.

They need information and ideas, that is all. They already have everything else they need.

It isn't possible to buy anything without paying taxes.

You can buy politicians without paying taxes.