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Start out with your zeppelin full of hydrogen. Feed the hydrogen into the fusion reactor to produce power to run the engines. Feed the resulting helium back into the gas cells to maintain buoyancy.

The placebo effect doesn't work on me. I'm too skeptical of everything.

the problem had persisted for years and had not responded to various drugs and a year of physical therapy providing plenty of time to heal on its own and for the placebo effect to kick in. At the time I felt that chiropractic was bullshit. It had to prove itself, which it did for my specific condition. YMMV just like conv medicine.

Except when it's not bullshit. After my orthopedic surgeon shrugged his shoulders at me, I went across the street to a chiropractor. After 1 week I could walk normally again. You obviously don't know what you're talking about.

... when Yahoo was a 7 page text file that you downloaded with FTP. You printed it and kept it next to you acsii terminal and typed in the URLs that it listed.

They appear to have better security than Dropbox, but how can I be sure?

Does it list itself with the owner's ebay ID or does it use the artist's ID? How does it know the owner's ebay password? I'm guessing the cube doesn't access ebay directly. It just pings the artist's server and the server does the ebay listing.

I think there's a camera and a microphone in the box.

Back around 1996, Pixar bought a bunch of Sun E4000 servers for their renderfarm because they had the most throughput per cubic foot.

I had the opportunity to see Spitzer while it was being constructed at Ball Aerospace in Boulder. The solid beryllium mirror was quite beautiful.

Free Speech only applies to public places. My phone line is a private location. It's my choice what speech is allowed. Whenever a telemarketer calls, I ask them who gave them permission to use my phone line. They rarely have a response.

You know, where you can buy jacks and stuff.

Not voice recog, brain recog. 50 years from now we'll be using 6th gen languages that simply respond to thought patterns through the transceivers implanted in our skulls at birth.

I think the use of core rope memory for program storage was fascinating. I guess you really have to be sure of your code. That kind of commitment is kinda scary. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_rope_memory

I think the people most likely to cause an accident are the ones most likely to talk on their mobile phones whilst driving. These people would be more likely to cause an accident even whilst not on their mobiles because they don't take driving seriously.