There was a pretty good japanese science fiction book dealing with the idea of an early detection and steady arrival of a sub-c alien mothership. Usurper of the sun. Very engaging hard sci fi. http://www.amazon.com/Usurper-...

That's lazy!

If he's such a handy guy, he could've just wirenutted the wires in the boxes and put blank plates over them. simple and neat looking! Also, i replaced my old analogue thermostat with a programmable digital one years ago and havent looked back. Lots of people use them and they are an excellent technology.

So why do i also do that sometimes while carrying up my groceries?

owned

Yeah, they should've just used a picture of the 3D-Head. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

It's a good thing that France has such strict gun ownership laws. Those terrorists might have run into difficulty shooting everyone had one of their law-abiding victims been armed! Good lord, could you imagine that happening in Texas? There'd have been at least two old men returning fire in under five seconds.

(He can be aggressive and confrontational, sometimes denouncing critics with profanity and call them "nigger.") No editors at vice?

I've been claiming to use this as my operating system for years. People in tech IRC rooms get pretty frustrated when they think anyone would actually use it. Another of my favorite things to do is to ask people to stop spamming the chat because it's wasting my ink ribbon. People get annoyed when I tell them i use a Teletype 33 for irc.

I only get mod points when there are no good troll posts to +1 insightful.

Because they're cool!

I can counter verify that Ash-fox is telling the truth. Two anecdotes outweigh one.

I want my free ipod and free xbox!

Yeah, well we also got here by fucking the females right after puberty and suddenly (in the cosmic scale) that's off the table. The only thing that's changed is the definition of "child."

for a certain French starfleet officer to one day receive his permanent artificial heart.