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Commented on Competition Time!
Complaints have arisen during the American agent's use of a broad 'Scottish' accent during joint operation HAGGIS WHOPPER. Example: Excessive use of the phrase 'Och, aye.'...
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Commented on Competition Time!
Employee was secretly Neil Gaiman....
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Commented on Competition Time!
Referral of senior staff as "The Great Old Ones" is not considered appropriate....
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Commented on Competition Time!
Agent Shub-Niggurath accused of blatant nepotism....
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Commented on Competition Time!
Agent accused of "Ghost Employment" with an unauthorized ghost....
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Commented on The myth of heroism
The trick would be killing mosquitoes and letting the rest of the insects alive. We need the anti-mosquito-life equation....
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Commented on The myth of heroism
In the comics, a superhero is a person who believes they can solve problems by fist-fighting in their underwear....
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Commented on Generation Z
We can only vote for who we're offered. And the two parties have pretty much locked everyone else out of the game. (Assuming you're talking about the US)...
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Commented on Generation Z
Since the rich and powerful are no smarter than anyone else, I think we can assume US history will repeat itself: a. Wealth is gathered at the top b. The non-rich take all they can and then c. Mass protest...
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Commented on A nation of slaves
Come to think of it, the board of inmates is not that nominal. Still, the state is paying, so......
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Commented on A nation of slaves
You might try the US model: a. Arrest the undereducated masses b. Let the state pay for their (very nominal) board c. Force the inmates to work for extremely low wages. d. Profit!...
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Commented on Rule 34, meet Kafka
This leaves the question, how much of the nudity on Yahoo is desirable?...
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Commented on Schadenfreude
When I think of Bitcoin, the phrase "irrational Exuberance" comes to mind....
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Commented on Can We Merge Minds and Machines?
I was joking. I also read Niven in my youth. The topic also leads one to the 'Mood Organ' of Dick's "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep."...
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Commented on Can We Merge Minds and Machines?
Personally I don't want to be the first human to have his brain hacked (a la Ghost in the Shell.) I am looking forward to the direct stimulation of my pleasure centers, however....
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Commented on Why I want Bitcoin to die in a fire
I like my money slow, and my post-human women fast....
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Commented on Why I want Bitcoin to die in a fire
Yes Charlie, definitely switch to one of those distros if you want to spend all your time tuning the operating system and not working......
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Commented on Why I want Bitcoin to die in a fire
"Going Gault"...I still wonder - who mowed John Gault's lawn? Objectivist immigrants?...
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Commented on Trust Me (I'm a kettle)
We ought to get into the appliance-countermeasures market now, while it's in its infancy. I can see the ads now: "Can you trust your dishwasher?"...
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Commented on Trust Me (I'm a kettle)
Charlie, it's hard enough sitting here in my cube all day, and now you have to activate my paranoia centers......
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Commented on PSA: Why there won't be a third book in the Halting State trilogy
Brookmyre is aces in my book. You can find his stuff on Amazon and also in Audible.com....
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Commented on PSA: Why there won't be a third book in the Halting State trilogy
We should bring Snowden back and build a statue of him. I don't care what his motivations were at this point....
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Commented on PSA: Why there won't be a third book in the Halting State trilogy
Charlie, do you feel,as I do, that the information being trawled in bulk by the NSA will inevitably end up being shared with other law-enforcement agencies, all the way down to the "ordinary" police? Perhaps all intelligence and police agencies...
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Commented on The cult of justice
Sorry - got a little off topic there. I'll shut up now. :)...
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Commented on The cult of justice
Without our US justice system, how would we punish people for their high melanin content?...
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Commented on The cult of justice
Modern Justice has to be a religion, because we keep using the same methods even though they are demonstrably ineffective....
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Commented on What scared H. P. Lovecraft
What about the Ophiuchi Hotline? I think the aliens there definitely qualify as post-singularity....
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Commented on What scared H. P. Lovecraft
I hear Hollywood knocking!...
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Commented on What scared H. P. Lovecraft
Gregory Benford's Galactic Center series seemed to be informed by a dread of a galaxy full of unfathomable dangers......
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Commented on What scared H. P. Lovecraft
Unlike HPL, my response to the size of the cosmos is mostly sadness - that I probably won't live long enough to find out if there's life in other solar systems, and that I probably will never make it into...