Why does Steve Carell keep getting to make films?

What is the sound of one hand clapping? ;-)

To be fair, we've been overreacting since long before the 24-hour news cycle, and the absence of information in pre-broadcast history stirred at least as much paranoia and speculation. We're paranoid and fearful animals, and we'll use whatever we need to justify it.

1) He cannot break an egg with this level of dexterity

Bah, breaking eggs is easy, and requires very little dexterity. ;-)

Keeping the yolk intact and not getting egg everywhere? A lot of people with two arms haven't mastered that yet. :)

And, really, if the man has been without arms for 40 years ... I'm pretty sure any additional independence is very welcome.

Nothing like a reminder that you live in the future. [imgur.com]

Hmmm ... is that the now future, the later future, or the past future (which could be now)?

The now future when you typed that is in the past, so it's the past future. Now the now future is an ever changing thing, and isn't the same now future as when I started typing this.

The future future we haven't gotten to, but we will, eventually.

So, I'd say we live in the present, which in the future will be the past. The future now will have a future future, but that's not now, that's later.

Are you sure we live in the future? Seems as soon as you finish the thought it's already in the past, even though it seemed like like now.

This all gets very complicated. If the future is now, but that now is already in the past ... isn't the future the future past?

Now, I think in the future, you will look back on your past and wonder if you ever want to say we live in the future. Because by the time you said it it's already in the past, so therefore we're never actually in the future ... in the future we will be, but since then it's now we'll never actually get there.

You say that like it's a bad thing. :-P

I lived long enough to see cyber limbs. Now to make them specialized for specific tasks, and have quick release mechanisms.

No, you're doing it wrong.

They should dynamically reconfigure. Switch from a hand to a ratchet, become scissors, turn into a hammer or a clamp, or just the big bashing fist.

All with super cool sound effects.

Suddenly the amputee is the cool guy at the party, and the women are whispering about what else it can turn into.

Just placing your assertion in the settling pond with the rest.

you can still buy a game in Russia and play it in the US.

One can be "in Russia" (virtually) quite easily, and use a Russian payment method as well. So what does this accomplish?

To implement an agenda of draconian regulation than use the "Sony Crisis" as an excuse.

So, you're saying this is a false flag operation by the shadow government to instill more fear in people, and to allow the passing of additional laws which expands their power and further justifies their abuse of the law and our rights?

I like your ideas, and would like to subscribe to your news letter.

The really scary thing is no matter how paranoid the scenario you come up with these days, reality might be trying even harder. What was batshit crazy stuff a decade ago is pretty much commonplace now after Snowden told us about it.

When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.

--Hunter S. Thompson

Are you joking? I thought it was well established that there were chemical weapons in Iraq we just only found weapons designed by us, built by Europeans in factories in Iraq. And therefore the US didn't trumpet their achievements. In the case of Iraqi chemical weapons, the US established that Iraq had chemical weapons not because they said so but because Western countries had all the receipts.

If the wireless cards don't have ample protection against copying of information and forging then the platform design is flawed.

Of course it's flawed. It's been flawed since it was introduced. This was introduced by credit/debit companies to make it more convenient so people would use it more so they'd collect more fees.

The first time I saw one I thought it was dangerous and idiotic. I largely still do because it's un-authenticated. Sadly, pretty much every card comes with it now.

When will people understand ... companies who create these products don't give a damn about security, they care about getting people to use shiny new baubles. Security comes much later after it's been hacked.

We know all this. We discuss it every time this topic comes up. It's well traveled stuff around here.

But, dude, you're missing the big picture here ... freakin' tinfoil pants. How awesome is that? I mean, now we can have an entire fashion line of tinfoil clothing so we can go out and look normal.

That styling cap I'm wearing? Yeah, it looks like a hipster fashion statement, 'cuz that's how I roll. Inside? Tinfoil hat bitches.

No more strange looks when I go grocery shopping. Now, all of your paranoid needs can be met while still remaining fashionable and discrete ... which has the added benefit of remaining inconspicuous so they Aliens don't even notice you.

Hmmm ... what's that van parked outside my house for?

Bremsstrahlung does not need vacuum.
How do you come to that idea? You have a fast moving particle and you "brems" it, slow it down, somewhere its energy needs to go. E.g. sending electrons in any material will slow them and produce Bremsstrahlung, that is how the phenomena was discovered.

Gamma rays are produced by many processes, not only nuclear fusion.

In this case they are very likely produced by simple ionization of gases and extreme acceleration of electrons. So, yes it is electric.

The distinction between X-Rays and gamma rays is not the way how they are produced but the energy level.

It is the same type of interaction like high atmosphere gamma rays that are produced by very high energetic solar wind particles.