Roll out the Luddites!

The black market for cigs is going to make for some awesome gangster films in 50 years. Thanks Aussies!

This was done some years ago with liquid. And they were as clunky as these, but supposedly worked well. The plan was to sell them in poor nations b/c they could be manufactured for cheap. Never heard what happened.

The next time was much more interesting. Using quantum effects a lens was designed using microscopic holes instead of a traditional refractive optics. This was not clunky and was actually kind of cool b/c it complete hid one's eyes. I never quite understood how they were adjustable though. And again have heard nothing about them since.

Will probably hear nothing about these in the future either.

Next time they might want to consider hiring a professional seamstress.

I had an interesting conversation about this the other day. It occurred to us that it would be helpful if we had a new bit of grammar in our language such that names have two forms, one for talking to someone and one for talking about them.

We did not come up with a specific solution, but one simple way might be just to leave off the last sound. So, for example, say "Alex" instead of "Alexa". Another possibility might be a variation on Asimov naming, i.e. "R. Alexia" -- if Amazon would program in that distinction.

Your knowledge of history is absolutely amazing ... at just how distorted it is.

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Bunch of bullshit. CBS/Paramount can't smell an opportunity when it is shoved up their nose. They didn't have to kill it. They could have embraced it and turned into something legit and made boat loads of money. But CBS/Paramount hasn't treated the ST property right since day one when they practically stole it from Lucille Ball and immediately canceled the show. It has made money despite them only b/c the original idea was so good and true believers have sacrificed to keep it going. But Gene is dead, and Paramount let a non-believer reboot the films -- from which we got okay action films, but poor Trek films. That's quick money that won't last. Ticket sales of the latest movie are way down. Another mistake or two by CBS/Paramount and I think the franchise will be at an end.

> What a testament to government bloat, payola and incompetence...

That's exactly it. We can no longer accomplish big projects because all anyone is trying to do these days is hustle everyone else. And because so many are playing the same racket, no honest player can actually survive.

America's modern motto, "No, we can't!"

I got a bad feeling about this. You think your cable bill was high? Just wait until every genera from various providers with varying content costs $5/mo.

What gets me is that they have given up on Google Fiber. If Google can't make that work, how can anyone? Something is very wrong, and I suspect it is over regulation and corporate collusion with prior players (AT&T and Verizon). That doesn't bode well for the future of the Internet.

Whenever the main stream media wips up a shit storm to discredit some science and witch hunt those behind it, you know something else is afoot. Science doesn't work that way. If Fleischmann and Pons were right or wrong then other scientists are going to verify it, one way or the other, and that's that. At worst, it comes out that they did sloppy work and it looks bad on their CVs. But thats it and life goes on. That's how real science works -- in fact the vast majority or hypotheses and experiments prove to be wrong.

My guess is, it proved a very easy way for entrenched interests to defiance research into energy sources that could seriously disrupt the status quo.

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As more than half the cores have to remain ideal most of the time to keep it from over heating.