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• Commented on The Radiant Future! (Of 1995)
  I have nothing to do with Boeing or any of their designs. Well, you would say that, wouldn't you... (:-P, in case the piss-taking tone isn't clear.)...
• Commented on The Radiant Future! (Of 1995)
  None of these are a total solution, but together they mean that spysat capability would be reduced but nothing like a denial of the high ground. It's not (just) the spysats; it's the GPS-guided bombs (and bombers), the satellite-link-controlled drones,...
• Commented on The Radiant Future! (Of 1995)
  I don't know what it'll take to persuade you that "the Atlantic system of chattel slavery was bad" is not a sentence that you need to shout "BUT" after....
• Commented on The Radiant Future! (Of 1995)
  Yup. I saw a report that I can’t find again (agitprop?) that someone in the Russia manned space program was caught going to a big box retailer for adhesives to use on a rocket, without checking to see if the...
• Commented on The Radiant Future! (Of 1995)
  It's worth looking at the USSF warfighting doctrine. When I looked at it awhile ago, it seemed to be saying that in the event of a war, a Kessler Cascade was inevitable. Therefore the USSF was going into rapid production...
• Commented on The Radiant Future! (Of 1995)
  Tell you what Greg, you pay your share and then we'll start going after Muhammad Ture's descendents, alright? In passing I note Greg's list of centres of the post-Roman slave trade has some gaps: the Varangians, the Kingdom of the...
• Commented on The Radiant Future! (Of 1995)
  Gangs are what happens when law and order breaks down for at least a subsection of society (say if law enforcement isn't trusted); sociological studies of teenagers in Chicago are really useful on this....
• Commented on The Radiant Future! (Of 1995)
  I think the same of Africa, but the West has meddled less there, except in certain areas, because oil/no oil, and "non-white people". This is fractally wrong....
• Commented on The Radiant Future! (Of 1995)
  ...am I misreading, or does the Archos' capacity not top out where the iRiver starts (20GB)? I knew people who took the completely reasonable attitude that iRivers were a box around a hard drive + firmware, so took it apart...
• Commented on The Radiant Future! (Of 1995)
  Without napster, that might also be a popular youth/counterculture device. Picture something between a Nintendo Gameboy DMG, Sony Watchman and early iPod Classic. Beigepunk's noombox and useful SneakerNet piracy storage. cough https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRiver_H300_series...
• Commented on Announcement time!
  If you like, you can take that as a summary of why I prefer to disengage with people like that, even though in theory they are the ones we need to convince to change in a whole wealth of different...
• Commented on Announcement time!
  Cat Valente had a related blog post here a few years bloody hell, 12 years ago: https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2012/02/life-with-and-without-animated.html...
• Commented on Announcement time!
  [...]will have an opportunity to radicalise the Chicago police Chicago police need radicalization? This is the gang who when a journalist accused them of running a black site, the response of human rights and defence lawyers was roughly "that site...
• Commented on Announcement time!
  As the article you linked to points out 7 sentences in, Hamas did in fact win the election - they had an outright majority of PLC seats. It's not like this matters very much now, but facts is facts. :-)...
• Commented on Announcement time!
  Resurrecting a comment from literally hundreds ago, but can't let this pass without comment: that puts us in a paradox: what is today considered normal (obsessing about people, downplaying knowledge skills and talents) would have been crippled a handful of...
• Commented on Announcement time!
  modern espionage tends to be an authoritarian and often highly racist project. Liberals seem to prefer foreign aid And USAID is the crossover point everyone agrees on?...
• Commented on A Wonky Experience
  fake news and manipulation via chatbot will have destroyed our cultural cohesion and set fire to our social capital When "a background detail from Peter Watts' Rifters books" is a completely plausible prediction we are in a very dark place....
• Commented on Announcement time!
  Stipulated! I'm just agog at what the suggestions being produced say about us here....
• Commented on Announcement time!
  I was wrong, Karen Gillan isn't the youngest person mentioned; Karina Rykman is 6 years younger than her. To play someone ~20 years younger than Mo. Not that she couldn't do it - I've never seen her in anything, I...
• Commented on Announcement time!
  it might be better to hope that if the stories get picked up, they make stars out of a crop of talented unknowns. Oh sure. Even if it were stipulated that nothing but well-known names were to be cast, I...
• Commented on A Wonky Experience
  To be fair, that's a list with more than 10 spots in it! The brutal dictatorship was sadly CIA business as usual, yes; it's the destruction of Project CyberSyn that makes it a unique lost opportunity....
• Commented on A Wonky Experience
  Chile is the world's second largest lithium exporter, largest copper exporter, and is top 10 in "what could have been if not for the fucking CIA" in the latter half of the 20th Century....
• Commented on A Wonky Experience
  And you base this assumption on... what? Other than apparently wanting their deaths to be their own fault? Because I've worked beside roads, and I've worked with a crew fixing potholes, and one's ears are incredibly useful for things like...
• Commented on A Wonky Experience
  What was it like in Europe in the 1930s? I know a lot about Germany. A bit about France in that it was the government of the week at times as if flipped between fascists and communists. But the UK...
• Commented on A Wonky Experience
  Oh, absolutely. I was just tickled we had an example already provided....
• Commented on A Wonky Experience
  "The Tacoma Narrows Bridge has collapsed, therefore is already gone, therefore finding out what happened is pointless as we cannot prevent the Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapsing" has originality going for it as far as types of argument, I'll give you...
• Commented on A Wonky Experience
  One of the things I learned in engineering is that posted limits are often ignored by vehicles, and you don't find out until something goes wrong. You need inspections and strongly-enforced serious penalties to get transportation companies to obey regulations,...
• Commented on A Wonky Experience
  The plot is based on Dick's Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep; the title comes from a film treatment/novella William Burroughs wrote based off the Alan E. Nourse novel The Bladerunner....
• Commented on A Wonky Experience
  Back in the 80's, I think, there was a major paper (the Philly Inquirer, I think) who did a chart. The dollars spent for one job in the military can provide 22 civil sector jobs. "Can" is not "is." Poul-Henning...
• Commented on A Wonky Experience
  Given that they appropriated Blade Runner from William Burroughs, I'd be curious to see what kind of hold they actually have on the name. The best possible kind - contractual; they paid for it. (Nourse via Burroughs, isn't it? Burroughs...