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Commented on The Ferguson Question
Besides the obvious racist element here, there is also the issue that we have so many armed citizens. Cops get more scared when they expect an armed populace. Our paramilitary trend is largely driven by the arms industry, wanting to...
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Commented on Message for GISHWHES participants
I never heard of GISHWHES before reading this column. Does that mean I can still ask you to do my homework?...
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Commented on Who Owns SF?
It seems that these days, we have a merging of the genres of fantasy and science fiction. There is some overlap with horror, and we have something that is very fantastical, but often with the trappings of science fiction -...
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Commented on App store annoyances
I have an app that is stored with a name using a different alphabet. iTunes doesn't do a good job of letting me see the full names of apps, some of which have different names in different places. If my...
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Commented on Generation Z
The trouble with near future SF is that it needs to project into the future. Most far future SF is about people of today. Too much change and the story doesn't work as fiction. There are some technological changes that...
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Commented on A nation of slaves
The "impossible" part doesn't bother me. We have all sorts of goals that are impossible to achieve, which doesn't mean we shouldn't work at them. I have been wondering about our future. Right now governments get their money from the...
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Commented on What scared H. P. Lovecraft
The hard thing about Lovecraft to me, is that he seems to depend upon the reader having his fears. I like your Lovecraftian stories better, being more about ideas. Horror that requires we be afraid depends upon the reader's fears....
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Commented on Parasites
Don't all animals eat plants or plant eaters? Aren't plants alive?...
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Commented on Understanding Reader Reviews
I trust reviews from people whose taste I trust. For instance, today I bought an e-book after reading a favorable review of it by Lois McMaster Bujold....
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Commented on Workaholism
I learned a new (Scottish) word today: Hogmanay. I've never been one who cared much either way about New Year's - it's just a day. I worked with a computer operator who was of Japanese background and was popular in...
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Commented on Geopolitics in the raw
It's the story of the frog and the scorpion. We're in Afghanistan because it's our nature. With a similar end that the scorpion got. We don't need conspiracies to explain our idiocies....
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Commented on Unpleasant Medicine
It's not just capitalist businesses that are willing to go for profits at the expense of our future - society as a whole does the same thing. Which politicians are willing to make hard choices instead of borrowing from the...