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• Commented on Books I've written
  Off Topic, but related: (If you really want to know what your house cat has been up to...) The Panopticon state is here for Children and Houselhold pets? http://www.kittycams.uga.edu/ I wonder if you could link this to the GPS/ And...
• Commented on Changing my mind on nuclear disarmament
  Unidentified Short Story, Kid (Teen) visits the mall, the Old Folks handing out their Sky is Falling Literature (Nonsense obviously, the world isn't goint to end), kid goes to see an old B&W Movie at a Revival House, "Doctor Strangelove";...
• Commented on Grand Guignol Tropes
  Actually, Mr Turtledove wrote a series of the Victorian Empire stories, most ran under "Eric G Iverson"; There was a Mass market collection including them in the US at one point....
• Commented on Changing my mind on nuclear disarmament
  I'm REALLY tired of the "War Crime" argument. Apologies, but go be a Human Shield in Syria or something equally futile, or research the issues a LOT more throughly. We Won, They Lost, Good for Us, Sad for them. The...
• Commented on Changing my mind on nuclear disarmament
  Whhos: Delivery Systems. Actually, the WW II B-29 program probalby cost about as much as the Manhatan Project. It's another case of not really knowing how much was spent, pushing the envelope of existing technologies. Of course, these days a...
• Commented on Changing my mind on nuclear disarmament
  War Crimes? Why are some people so obsessed with this in re Hiroshima/Nagasaki? BTW, definite "High Counting" the casulaties. Not to minimize the horror, but it was IIRC, Hiroshima, MAXIMUM 60,000 immdiate (and ? Near term, immdiate includes near term...
• Commented on The Fumes of Mordor & Other World Building Models
  Washington DC was once described as a city with "Northern Charm and Southern Efficency" Maybe we should just as citizns insist that all the Air Conditioners in the House/Senate and their offices be discoonected? Such a cost saving....
• Commented on Press Release: Stross Uncloaks Secret Media Project
  ROFL Wonderful...
• Commented on The permanent revolution
  Re, Long Distance Transport of Perishables (#80), this definitely was a major factor in the 19th century, maybe the US followed a slightly different trajectory from the UK; It was one of the "Features" of the development of Chicago and...
• Commented on The permanent revolution
  It's not about what happened before, but where we are going. Anthropologists/archaeologists have long documneted that the "Neolithic Revolution" shift to subsitence agriculture actually leads to a DECLINE in the average standard of living; The population gets smaller, begins to...
• Commented on Things publishers can't do (yet)
  Re: #135, #136, #140 Amazon Third Party (3P) Sellers; PLEASE report them. It's hard to make an honest buck when you have all those people cheating. Actually, the real problem and the reason the second hand market is a disaster...
• Commented on Thinking the unthinkable
  Greg (#261), re: US Support during the Falklands. Where do you think those top of the Line Sidewinder Missiles came from? And some other stuff (and activity). Like I've mentioned, mid-level bueacracis have their own traditions and logic. As for...
• Commented on Thinking the unthinkable
  UK and the "Special Relationship" There was a great throwaway in the terrific 1980's spy show The Sandbaggers about how the UK got far more out of the "Special Relationship" than they put in. Access to Posiden Missle Technology for...
• Commented on Thinking the unthinkable
  General background on USA Politics: Actually, the Republican Nutcases/Tea Party faction received LESS popular votes than (Sucessful) Democratic Congressional Candidates, like 54%/45%; They have a legislative majority becasue of the deeply laid plans of oligarchic interests, who used money to...
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  Reply to final comment in #105; So why is Governer Rick Perry of Texas still walking around?...
• Commented on Thinking the unthinkable
  First, speakingas a Midwest Stabdard English speaker (More or less), WTF is the "Wee Eck" receiving multiple references? As for employment and the Race to the Bottom, I heard a local (American "Public Radio") story this afternoon that the local...
• Commented on Mo' holding pattern
  On Immigrant labor (Here in the US); Part of it is the sucess of the Plutocrat Agenda in Amerika. Right to Work and the openly anti-union agenda of Walmart. The race to the bottom has already happened, a local temp...
• Commented on 2512
  (Assuming technic Civilization Still Exists) Small bands of wonky intellectualls will spend time debating how meat space colonization of Mars might be possible. Of the two actual Manned Mars Missions, the first to actually land sped past the first dispatched,...
• Commented on 2512
  Circling back to the Future of Religion A great deal of "Bad Data" here; I expect there will be a Pope in Rome in 2512; How important will he be? Who Knows? Much will depend on the next 50-75 years,...
• Commented on 2512
  A lot about 2512 will depend on how the next 50-75 years play out. Like Cortez & The Aztecs, what happens in the next two generations or so will materially shape the next half millenia. World Government? See "The Case...
• Commented on 2512
  A couple of quick comments on the short/medium term here. On Languages, North American English is already diferentiating into (Mutually) unintelligible dialects; ever hear Ebonics? Hollywood does us a real diservice by showing it as more like "Network Standard English"...