You had me at nuclear. That is what is necessary, along with exploiting the environment's flow, to establish stations on bodies.

Wikipedia awaits your edit. It wouldn't surprise me if it was false, not because it's unlikely or anything, but once a person's actions reach a certain level of horror and depravity truly anything is possible and believable. You could say Mengele was launching people out of cannons to see if they could orbit the moon and it would sound completely plausible.

Yeah, sorry. Sometimes I think just because I know something that everyone does...I'm weird like that. Here you go: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J...

"Mengele's experiments with eyes included attempts to change eye color by injecting chemicals into the eyes of living subjects and killing people with heterochromatic eyes so that the eyes could be removed and sent to Berlin for study."

I heard from other sources that blue was his target color.

I don't argue that it isn't cool, but the German I'm referring to is infamous for the cruelty of his experiments, thus the creepiness. It reminds one of the other.

I started with Linux in 2007 experimenting with Debian and later using Ubuntu. Switched to Kubuntu for several years and just recently to Mint. I think at some point Mint is going to drop its dependence on Ubuntu for its main distro and use Debian exclusively. They're already well-positioned to do so with their Debian variant, and have a rock-solid understanding of what a desktop computing experience should feel like to the average user. To systemd or not to systemd is not the question for most people, the quality and intuitiveness of the user experience is, and I think the Mint team understands that as well as the importance of sane underpinnings. There will come a time when all of us thank Ubuntu for what it has done before letting it go forever.

Using forged steel axes instead of stone axes. Fucking hypocrites. I'd have jumped up and down howling and beat it with animal bones.

I was thinking he looked more like Briareos from Appleseed: http://collectiondx.com/files/... Those rabbit-ear antennae and all.

There was a certain asshole in Germany back in the 40's who did similar research. It creeps me out a bit that people are attempting (and apparently have succeeded at) the very same thing.

My programming routine is exactly like that, except the songs are beers and I don't listen to anything. The Moody Blues are pretty good, though.

This "build shit, destroy shit" cycle we humans seem stuck in is going do do us in some day. At least when we blow shit up on Earth it lands somewhere to be slowly buried over by soil. All that orbital debris is going to form a freaking shrapnel belt at some point and it'll be Russian roulette every time we launch and sipping tea in front of a Gatling gun to stay in orbit. Life is hard by its nature, but we seem hell bent on making it as hard as possible. Then again, maybe they used those old Lenovo ThinkPad batteries in the thing and no weaponry was involved...

I wonder if it would help to have a device placed between the ends of the severed spinal cords such that they're perfectly flush against it. The device would read/write impulses from/to both sides and work like a router in that it would enumerate each connection and be able to map one to another. A skin-tight suit of electrodes could be fitted on the person to assist with the mapping process. Initially the heart and lungs would need to be manually operated until the correct nerves could be mapped. The output nerves from the brain could be identified based on the patterns detected by the intermediary device. The heart and diaphragm could be manually stimulated with electrical impulses to determine the input nerves. Once the basic functions were mapped (with manual backups still in place) the patient would be told to repeatedly flex muscles or move limbs in specific ways, allowing the device to detect and test possible mappings. The electrodes in the body suit would record the mapping attempt results which combined with visual observation would help determine if the correct muscle was being stimulated. Even if this worked, there's the problem of the intermediary device being a permanent addition to their body and that the spinal cord ends couldn't be shifted on its surface without disrupting the mappings. The device would almost have to be organic, or somehow allow its logical mappings to become physical and permanent. They'd also probably just have the major mappings correct and require extensive rehabilitation to function normally and may have side effects that are never corrected such as at itch coming from the "wrong place".

Before clicking the article the words "head up their ass" were already on my fingertips. Nicely done.

Targeting a mall for a mass shooting or bombing would cause a big reaction, but if a video surfaces of soccer mom kidnapped and beheaded inside the United States all hell will break loose. 9/11, bombings, mass shootings...those are all terrible but they're a little more abstract psychologically because they affect a group of random people. The idea that a van could pull up next to you while walking the dog on the other hand is something that you might find difficult to stop thinking about. They've tried this in other countries (Australia, I think?), so unless there's some radical shift in sentiment (or existence) among terrorist groups it's only a matter of time.

You're right. I should have immediately driven up to New York and starting digging through the rubble looking for evidence with my CSI Miami forensic kit. Or perhaps watched the conspiracy videos on YouTube; those are fine examples of critical thinking. I'm sure your critical thinking skills are so finely honed you quickly figured out exactly what happened and why, perhaps in part due to the aluminum shielding your brain from the media/illuminati's mind control waves. In any case, you're missing my point, which was to provide an example of how aggression/anger/rage alters one's reasoning. PSA: Keep posting as Anonymous Coward, as they have eyes on you.

Without writing a book about it, simply defining aggression as "How easily a person get pissed off" is an easily-understood and practical definition. Some examples of the fruit of high aggression we could do without would include spousal abuse, road rage and war-mongering/retaliation. A specific example of that last one would be how I felt after 9/11 (which I no longer feel), which was basically, "Oh you fucked up now. We're going to bomb the shit out of every last one of you. Die, motherfuckers, etc." There's a significant and dangerous disconnect between how a calm person and an enraged person reasons and acts.