The Baghdad Battery tends to disagree with your statement...it was invented somewhere around 250BC to 400AD, and was probably used for electroplating jewelry. But they didn't really understand what they had made...but still, we had made a very simple battery work way before Newton.

thus why I make any member of my family who "gets ill" go out into the woods for no less than 14 days to purify themselves. After 16 days if they haven't returned we set the woods on fire to finalize the purification, per the commandments of Ahura Mazda.

lol, right! You can't "game" most modern slot machines...their not even actual "slot machines" anymore, most of them are Windowz boxes running the games. I've seen many of them bluescreen before LOL...

According to Neil Tyson on Cosmos, he said ghosts DO exist. He was, of course. referring to Hubble's father telling Hubble that the stars in the sky are sometimes ghosts, as we see a star when it's actually long-gone. Well, I think it was actually Patrick Stewart's voice...so that makes it even MORE real, as Captain Pickard would never lie to us! /sarcasm

Just because your NOT paranormal doesn't mean ghosts aren't following you.


FTFY

yet every assumption is not a hypothesis...or at least a scientific hypothesis. Not saying you fall into this category but many people use the word incorrectly, without the ability to test the hypothesis. If it can't be tested and proven false, it's pseudoscience. But yeah, the AC's post seems to be from the mid 1920's and ignoring all progress after that.

Even Darwin himself made note of potential objections to his theory, as his original "Origin of the Species" was published before the Burgess Shale discovery, and he stated that "as of yet" the fossil record didn't back up his hypothesis. Yet we've found many (well, a few lol) pre-Cambrian fossils now...but many Creationist still will adamantly scream and yell that Darwin himself "said the theory was wrong" because 1. they don't understand the times it was published and 2) refuse to recognize anything that changes their internal world view.

the last thing is the big issue, tech support from vendors. That is a major influence on your management too...they know they have to maintain their SLAs!

like the people in various UK goverment offices have any idea what "vendor lock-in" even is...some of them have been using Office since it first came out, no one outside of us techies cares about "proprietary" vs. open-source. Often, a corp will go with the proprietary software because there is a vendor they can engage in a 24/7 SLA. Linux has Redhat under Novell, I don't know of any other company that can provide 24/7 under 30 minute support. This isn't some private company that can call up their local tech shop...they have to have SLA's with certified vendors, lists of phone numbers, etc.

I do ITSM for AA, if it can't be nailed down in a run book then it's just not done.

so Skynet can easily re-purpose them to make weapons to destroy us, why else?

SUS server that it gets updates from?

a real heroin addict can "never" get enough heroin either, but then they die from it. Unfortunately, I don't think Zucky will die from too much money, at least until the Revolution and his head rolls into the guillotine basket.

Take a look at this, and it's back from 2011. Boeing is calling a 6 person X-37C, yet I believe that the Air Force probably already has a flight-capable (and probably tested) one or two man "modual" that can put in the experiment bay. After watching Astrospies on PBS, someday we will probably find a couple of space suits stuffed in a dark closet somewhere in 30 years, with an X-37 mission flag, Air Force officers involved in "training"...there's no way the AF will give up US-based manned space travel, even if just for intelligence and access to the ISS.

I would hope that FTL ships would go out and find the sleeper ships, instead of just waiting for them.

Richard Branson, is that you?

Once the full implementation of LTE is finished, all cellphone's that use this tech will be VOIP right from the towers.