As a former Navy Nuke, I've always been partial to SL-1 since it was a (thankfully) small but spectacular fuck-up. It's macabre, but where else do you have to read as a lessons-learned was that a man was impaled upon the ceiling for improper maintenance? I do agree that the technology has vastly improved and we need new designs to pull the clunkers from the '70s from operation. Outright ban them or build them; no more half measures.

I believe that Whoosh jokes are also part of the afore mentioned heart and soul jokes!

This will be usable for a few years, then you'll eventually have some plausible deniablity when it it over used

If this stuff spreads with the ease that TFA describes, it's going to get everywhere. How many law enforcement agencies do you think are going to take Joe Blow's word that they "only touched something that was touched by someone else, who I shook hands with?

Experiment: Spill some powered detergent with color safe bleach. Leave it in a public space for a day. Use a UV light to track its spread. Count how many people are now "marked" that were not the original spilling "criminal".

Yes, this product is uniquely identified, and easily indiscriminately spread. Just use Monsanto as an example of a unique item is being spread by the wind to people being accused of stealing.

Their policies store to store also hastened their demise. Their prices were on the steeper side, but there used to be a store on a couple of blocks away on my way home from work. Convenience did balance out price.

After moving to new location, for about a year, I tried to rent a game console so I could try before I bought an Xbox for Halo 2. I was told I had to put down a deposit that was more than the current selling price of the Xbox because I had only done 60 rentals with that store on a blockbuster account with nearly a thousand rentals (over many years). The associate acknowledged the prolific Blockbuster rentals, but that was store policy. I haven't been in a Blockbuster since.

I finally got them to stop trying to get me to come back when I explained that a local chain was always 3/4 to 1/2 Blockbuster's prices.

I don't know, my watch has been working just fine with the same motion, minus the grip of death.

Metric or Imperial?

Would it work for multiple copies of Crysis? Say on a couple dozen VT220s?

...and the lambs and sloths, and carp and anchovies, and orangutans and breakfast cereals, and fruit-bats and large chu..

...Skip a bit, Brother...

Or the Navy does a similar PR shoot. The Wrong Panel was in the screen shot, and we have to stop using the phrase "in excess of 400 foot", because the legible gauge was very much so "in excess".

I would maybe buy it as long as it's Gregg ruled.

But $10 says that it'll be available for $59.99 USD

Would that make you a "bad analogy" for BadAnalogyGuy?

[ponders for a moment] *head explodes*

Is it possible that this laser is so powerful that it could power additional pages of Wicked Powered?
Could it be used to lase at least one more story arc?

When profit is used as the only motivation, I do believe we've damned ourselves.