Bull's Eye in the Sky!

United States vs. Causby was decided in '46. Before drones and camera technology had advanced to the point where it became trivial to surveil private property at distances of a couple hundred feet. That decision is about as relevant as the loophole that allows banks to create money out of thin air when issuing a loan because the letter of the law from the 1800s applies only to printed money. Southern ladies apparently know the constitution (4th Amendment) and the range of #7.5 shot (> 500' at sea level).

A rebrand and a restaurant license, and they are golden: BrightSource Fried Poultry and Energy.

Think about it...California won't be shutting KFC down anytime soon, and they are not kind to birds.

If "they" are men, they know very well that half of humanity is running on a lunar cycle...

> Practically anything with practically nothing.

Something from nothing.

Free lunches.

Conservation of mass/energy/momentum.

I think the Universe disproves your claim. You don't get productivity from nothing. You get practically anything with practically nothing when you have unlimited population growth and resources to pyramid the resource/productivity chain to ever higher levels. In that grossly unrealistic version of the world, you're right. In the real world, it breaks down, right about when we start exhausting the non-renewable resources that are fueling our current 100 year boom--unless we start pulling resources from other planets, which will turn us into a junk planet. That's the capitalist path.

Ultimately, a good life for all is a gradually rising standard for everyone without enormous imbalances that is based on increased resource efficiency as a function of better collaboration between people. Capitalism doesn't quite reach that goal because human nature includes the capable concentrating control of resources for a feeling of power and security. In other words, if capitalism were about concentrating responsibility in the hands of the most capable and rewarding them with respect instead of material gain, then it would work. Respect is a limitless resource that is extraordinarily valuable. Money isn't a limitless resource, nor are natural resources, though are current economic path would have you believe so.

Someday soon we'll have to see this.

We have dozens of these projects at my company, and this is the simplest way. There are plenty of vendors in China that will give you a good deal on an ARM5/9/11 or Cortex touch device. You plunk Android on it and then build a native app, or as we often do, build on HTML5 app with a native middle-layer and JavaScript bridge. Pretty simple process. Main concern is the vendor, because build quality can vary widely from the Chinese fabrication plants.

My company builds hardware like this as well, when it makes sense. We could build you this app for a very reasonable price, *wink*.

You've got it all wrong. Living twice as long means you're going "Oh, shit. I'm going to die!!!" for twice as long and desperately innovating because of it :)

The problem with this idea is that the brain and spinal column also age. How do you replace an aging brain and preserve your identity? I think the body replacement is plausible, but the brain aging problem remains. If you could somehow transcode your information to a blank a la The Sixth Day, is it even you anymore? Probably not, but the new you doesn't really care since it feels just like you do about being alive, "Thanks, buddy!"

My greatest hope for longevity is that it will force people to think long-term because they've got nowhere to fucking go. They aren't going to die. Technology and transportation make the world smaller. People can't ignore what their actions will do to others and the world because they'll have to deal with the consequences. That's my hope at any rate.

This one is more than fast enough (88MPH) to travel through time and get that Fusion-powered refit!

*fart* Make that 198x as much carbon dioxide.

There's more about these metal-based life forms than meets the eye.

to drive your solar panel! Problem solved. Then teach them about the Law of Thermodynamics and the folly of perpetual motion machines in history. Then talk about the data from: http://physics.ucsd.edu/do-the-math/2011/07/galactic-scale-energy/, and the infeasibility of any energy source to satisfy the hungry maw of exponential energy consumption. Then you might consider a small wind turbine (driven by a fan, of course--no I'm serious, you could use the fan as a prop and explain what happens when you reverse the energy path), and touch on geothermal and tidal power. Tidal power is something you could make your own prop for (just add water on-site and be the wave machine).

Still think the Sun Lamp idea is funniest and quite realistic given the craze to trade food for energy and other such nonsensical ideas.

Oh, OK. So if I make a song that contains scathing but accurate political commentary, and I perform it in front of a large audience, it is now in the public domain, and others can profit from its reproduction. What country do you live in, again?

In the domestic IT market, there will be a shift toward IT leadership roles; specifically in managing overseas assets. This is the same thing that happened to manufacturing. As a booming but less wealthy economy enters an industry globally, the lower functions can no longer be done in the countries with the higher standard of living and still be competitive. So you had all the fabrication and labor going overseas, with a focus on management rising to prominence in the U.S. You'd think this would end in disaster as the growing economy drives better education and progressively greater high-level competency in the overseas market, but due to the timescale and how quickly a global economic power emerges (like China), it's actually not so bad. The standard of living ramps so fast (decades) that things start to equalize and then, as we're seeing now, things like fabrication are coming back to the U.S.

It's a long process in terms of one lifetime, but extraordinarily short historically. Right now engineering is going overseas, like fabrication did decades ago. And now fabrication is coming back. One or two decades from now, the same will happen in engineering. That's what I see happening anyway. It's why I manage teams of engineers overseas. My skillset is the one they haven't gotten to yet, and when they do, I'll be running a company, and when I retire, kids in the U.S. will experience a resurgence of engineering opportunities. The issue of quality isn't an issue at all. You don't offshore your work until the quality is satisfactory, and it's inevitable that it will become satisfactory because people on both sides are highly economically motivated to make sure it becomes so.

Unless we (doom and gloom) kill off 60% of our world population when the fresh water reserves are destabilized by global warming, or aliens invade, or--wow, I sounded so stable and knowledgeable up there and now there are ALIENS EVERYWHERE!

Fuck you and the text plan you rode in on. Not that any of the other carriers are better. Texts are folded into a header that is pure overhead on voice data. They pay for it whether you use it or not, just to transmit voice. So you're paying for nothing from all of them.