Build a very big treadmill for Godzilla just outside Tokyo--or maybe Kyoto. >:)

And considering Britain today is more a match for the alternate universe fascist Britain in "Inferno"....

Don't worry. As long as they haven't found mithril yet we're safe. >:)

I agree. Unfortunately starting over from scratch usually ends up being this.

Damn, moderation mistake.

No, you don't.

I've created thousands of iTunes accounts and I just bashed out 70 Monday morning (I'm an Apple sysadmin with over 4 thousand iPads in a large school district, no underlings, minions or temps at my disposal. How I wish Apple would allow for a simple .csv import to create accounts...).

You don't even need to specify a "free" account as it now defaults that way -- as long as you begin the process by "buying" a free app. All you need is an email address to receive the verification email.

My workflow starts with iBooks. It's free, so the follow up "payment options" is defaulted to "None" when building the account itself.

I would think that, possibly, one hundred years. In mineshafts.

But do we have enough underground mines? Or--gasp!--are we facing a mineshaft gap?!? >:)

I'm in Canada. I've not had cable television since 2005, about the time some series I was watching ended. Didn't think the vast wasteland was worth the expense for a tiny number of good shows.

Being in Canada, I've become endured to many Internet videos that are television clips being blocked here on American websites, due to someone else holding the rights to broadcast that content in Canada. For some, I tracked down the Canada rights holder to watch (eg. The Comedy Network for a lot of comedy stuff) but most often I just didn't bother with it.

A few months ago, I started watching television on the Internet, including things like "Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D." and "The Crazy Ones". Sure, I had to find out who had the rights in Canada and where on their website, but once I had the link I bookmarked it. I was watching more television than I had in 8 years.

Then from mid-October to mid-December I had a serious health issue occupy my time, but that resolved well. So about December 19, late at night, I decided to get caught up, as best as I could. Found out I'd missed 3 new episodes of "Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D." Went to watch that.

"Sign in with your television provider." And everything else, with that and other programs, had some variant of that.

I've not had Netflicks. I've never gotten shows from a torrent site. And I wasn't about to at O-dark-stupid in the morning. But it got me to thinking.

I figured this was the signs of a sea-change in the television/cable business and like many little people I got side-swiped. Sure I was getting it for free. But all those big corporations had set it up to give it to me for free. And now, without any warning, it was gone.

But I'm not getting cable television, 'cause it's still an overpriced wasteland. I'll find another way. They can take their "television provider" and stick it where the Sun don't shine. >:(

How about we skip MySpace and go back to Livejournal. That at least was interesting. >:)

Rob Ford, is that you?

Sure, Tungsten and Gold have the same density, but that could be expected. Of course, there is this gold hack. >:)

There's a suppository for that. >:)

Urination capacity? >:)

No, it's all a state of mind. With that motto, by definition all things Google does aren't evil, of course.

That's not quite true.

I just read Command and Control over the weekend, an amazing and eye-opening read. Turns out those detonation systems were far too fragile and susceptible to unusual environments: ie. crashes and burning. Many could have had one or more lens elements detonated by enough induced current. The worse case--a frag hitting the cusp where 3 lens elements met--wasn't even though of until sometime in the late 1950's as far as I can recall. And those could have led to a partial-yield nuclear explosion.

Truly safe nuclear weapons--with safety equivalent or better than say regular conventional munitions--weren't developed or deployed until the late 1980's to 1990's. And there were a lot of accidents, from "simple" ones like dropping bombs short distances to crashes where the very hazardous plutonium and beryllium metal were exposed and burned. In some ways it's only because of shear luck and what safety and dedication there was in all nuclear forces that there wasn't an accidental detonation.