Maybe a pulse jet? But I'd think they're even worse, with the white-hot parts...

Yes but I have to warn you, it seems resistant to sex.

No kidding, Atlanta up there does protest too much it seems.

That's why I always start with penis pictures. I'm still single.

Awesome, another one who thinks clearly and sees reality for what it is. How do you avoid depression?

Sounds like an aggressive plan.

I like the old Filter Flo General Electric washing machines. I've seen cars built more flimsily.

I'm not too impressed with their over the range microwaves either. Check out the dreaded 5E error where the keypad just stops working and the unit doesn't respond to keypresses anymore.

While I'm not too impressed with LG appliances either, they still work at least. Sure, they make weird noises and emit bizarre smells, but they turn on.

Ah yes, mercury as a structural material...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

One of my favorite hard sci-fi novels. Cheesy as all hell, and just a platform for Hogan to tilt at this favorite strawmen, but fun.

Yup, same here. After my wisdom tooth removal, I was prescribed Dalacin. I got a nice case of pseudomembranous colitis which sent me to the ER, with acute pain like being stabbed in the gut.

After being fixed with several IV courses of penicillin, I was "cured", but since then I have many IBS-type symptoms and have had to make a list of items I must avoid eating.

I'm fatter and depressed now.

It may have *had* a better lens, but Canon has awful quality control or bad engineering. Probably both.

1) Lens error, restart camera. Look into that little fiasco.
2) Telescoping that lens in and out creates a vacuum, there's dust *inside* the lens that I can't clean.
3) Weird power issues, while zooming in and out, camera shuts down. Like *shuts down*. It turns off so hard the LCD controller has no time to shut down properly and you can see a lingering image fade away on the screen.
4) The pictures I take with my (crappy) LG Optimus 2X are just fine, and I can email them to myself (when my (crappy) wi-fi router actually assigns an IP).

None of which keeps me up at night. It's long past the point of diminishing returns for me. As well as audio, computers in general, and "smart" phones. Either I don't care, or there's really no difference anymore. It's not like we're going from the Commodore 64 to the Amiga to the PC, or from LPs to cassettes to CDs.

Eyes didn't get better. I still use my crappy Canon S3, terrible low-light performance and crappy image stabilization and all.

Yeah, no kidding, the "gold" case premium alkalines were stupendous, I still have some AAAs that must be 20 years old, still perfectly fine.

In the meantime, modern Duracells leak like home-made 19th century hobbyist batteries.

Since when did we stop using the capital M on a proper name? Do we talk about Maxwell's equations or maxwell's? Is it einstein's theory, or Einstein's?