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Comment Reminds me of the Mistborn books (Score 1) 238

This sounds somewhat like what Brandon Sanderson described in his Mistborn books. If you were "mistborn", you could (after "burning" certain metals) see blue lines extending from yourself to metal objects around you, which you could then pull or push away from you.

Overall, they were pretty good books. I'd recommended them.

Submission + - Every Black Hole Contains Another Universe? (nationalgeographic.com)

dynamo52 writes:

Like part of a cosmic Russian doll, our universe may be nested inside a black hole that is itself part of a larger universe.

In turn, all the black holes found so far in our universe--from the microscopic to the supermassive--may be doorways into alternate realities.

I had a similar thought one time based on a mathematical model I saw while reading a book on string theory. I also considered that each successive black hole could cause a dimension to "collapse". (i.e. our universe would be derived from a black hole in a universe with 4 spatial dimensions) Of course, I am not a physicist but it is interesting to see that they have similar ideas.

Submission + - Anti-Tax Software Engineer Flies Plane into Office (huffingtonpost.com)

Cruxus writes: A software engineer, Andrew Joseph Stack, age 53, flew an airplane into an office building in Austin, Texas, where some 200 IRS employees worked. He left a long scree railing against taxes, government, and corporate greed. Given how closely his attitude matches those of many right here on Slashdot, where does the community go from here?

Comment Re:Not my experience... (Score 1) 181

I 2nd this. DirecTV's customer service has been some of the best of any company I've ever dealt with, right up there with Tivo. Comparing their customer service with my local cable co., Charter, is just laughable. My only real complaint is that you need line of site to their satellites (I live in a fairly wooded area), but that's just the nature of their tech.

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