So... how many years would you have given it, at a cost of a billion dollars a day? Hrm? And how would you pay for it, hrm? 12 fucking years in the hole and yet YOU STILL WANT TO STAY THERE. Fuck off and die.

How many more can you fit in the same footprint as a traditional windmill, though? And could one build them at different heights to take advantage of more vertical windspace? And then could you hook them up to a keyboard and have some mad scientist play them like a pipe organ?

I'd love to see them fly into an asteroid.

Judo is pretty cheap. One can frequently find classes at the local YMCA for $10-20/month. BJJ, on the other hand, is very proud of what they offer. If you can find lessons for $100/month or less, good luck!

GODDAMNED CYBORGS WILL BE THE DEATH OF US ALL!!!!11!1!!!!!!!

my apologies to silicon valley. liberties taken with actual quote.

The amusing part will be that the water bottlers will most likely just run the "recycled" water through an industrial RO unit (if we're lucky) so we'll still be getting the same damned water, just with a shiny label and a higher pricetag.

I can't wait until the peeping toms start posting videos all over youtube captured using their remotely piloted quad+ copters.

Shit, sign me up. Not everyone needs a a 1500 square foot single family dwelling. I wish there were MORE of these, especially here in LA where we're facing housing shortages.

The only real problem I have with Uber is their insistence that they are not a taxi service. Their weasel wording attempt at trying to redefine their business using semantics triggers every bullshit alarm and it sounds like they're trying to pull a fast one. If they would just admit to being a taxi service, require their drivers to carry full commercial insurance, and focus on being the best goddamned taxi service in the world and following the rules that are in place to protect consumers (and drivers), I'll be happy to support them. If they wish to overhaul the taxi regulations, I'll be happy to hear their arguments and then vote (literally) my decision. As it stands, I can't support such asshattery disguised as "freedom". I can't wait to see a startup that dumps radioactive waste into the ocean because they're just tired of the radioactive waste lobby preventing new players from entering the market and besides, who needs the invasive regulations of the EPA? While we're at it, let's get some child labor up in here. Tiny hands = tiny solder joints.

First, we have to find the alien reactor...

Send me some job links. I'm in my 40s and looking to get off the cutting edge and settle down into maintenance mode code bases. I was *built* for drudge work.

What region are you in? Most of the COBOL stuff I've been exposed to are with .gov contracts. The USPS still has mainframes and the shop I used to work at had around 15 graybeards (and one quickly graying 30 something developer they poached from another team). FedEx may still have a COBOL team if they haven't migrated from their mainframes yet (they may have completed their migration to java), and that whole DC/VA corridor is apparently full of government contract companies that still write and maintain COBOL codebases. In Silicon Valley? Not so much. Maybe Sacramento, I think they still have a ton of payroll and tax stuff. Chances are, most of these positions are already filled before they even list the job. They bring some "bright" person over from accounting or they poach from the local community college that still has a COBOL class or two (Southwest Tennessee Community College, for example, still has a COBOL based track as of 2002; but not sure how it is now.. AS/400, etc).

Bread and butter has been C# the past few years, currently enamored with f# and racket. I don't think I'll be able to find a job with these, but it certainly has returned me to a "fun" mode.

Awesome. So 12 years isn't enough? How many more? Who pays for it? What endgame would you create to make it acceptable to "pull out" of a region that neither wants us nor desires us to be there (but please keep giving them money, kthxbai)? Hrm?

Shut the fuck up.

All those 80s era AI LISPers are rejoicing.