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Commented on Deaths and Deadlines
Holy shit, what a string of disasters! I hope to hell thats the end of it and you can put your life back together now. With luck, in a couple of years you’ll be back on schedule and able to...
Commented on Book day!
"Vapire" is an interesting typo. So would that be someone who steals hits off everyone else's e-cigs, or a real nasty who inhales life force from their victims?...
Commented on Book day!
Well, crap, it's still Monday here, and Barnes and Nobbled won't even ship my pre-ordered hardback until Tuesday. After that it will take a week to get to me. All that being true, I will take any spoilers as a...
Commented on Empire Games
Link to my 5-star review of Empire Games on Amazon....
Commented on Empire Games
I reread the first 3 books in the omnibus form last fall, so I'm ready for Empire Games. UPS tracking shows it's arrived on this side of the continent; I'm hoping to have it in my hands by Thursday. Coincidentally,...
Commented on Gratuitous Self-Promotion: the US West Coast Remix
If you've not been to the Green Dragon before, I highly recommend it. A very good selection of local beers & ales, & the food is good. I'll try to be there Tuesday night....
Commented on Upcoming appearances, Amsterdam, Seattle and Spokane
No Portland this year? *sob* oh, well, have fun in Spokane & Seattle....
Commented on Any Sufficiently Advanced Technology Is Indistinguishable From Cthulhu
Yep, this is another aspect of the categorization problem: any set of categories imposed on a universe of discourse is not useful in describing the real world beyond a certain level of precision, and it becomes less useful more quickly...
Commented on Any Sufficiently Advanced Technology Is Indistinguishable From Cthulhu
Sounds like grad school....
Commented on Any Sufficiently Advanced Technology Is Indistinguishable From Cthulhu
The fundamental problem for humans in a universe very much bigger and more complex than ourselves is that we don't understand it now, and don't know for sure that we can. So if we meet near-godlike beings, we can't tell...
Commented on Any Sufficiently Advanced Technology Is Indistinguishable From Cthulhu
This sounds similar to a principle I came up with some years ago while working in the computer industry:Any sufficiently unreliable technology is indistinguishable from superstition.This principle supports the well-known Tech Support MaximsTo restore proper operation to a complex device,...
Commented on Second childhood?
Hmm ... a couple of comics I hadn't heard of; need to go check them out. Here are a few that haven't been mentioned yet. Dicebox by Jenn Manley Lee. A story about 2 itinerant workers in an interstellar post-scarcity...

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魇 ꦢꦺꦮꦶꦱꦿꦶ Szerns commented on Deaths and Deadlines
Ohh, here's a joke: "Ate 47,000,000 souls just for a wank" "Nah mate, Ze spared 5 billion [all Abrahamic religions combined] 'cause you fuckers are sociopaths" Yeah. *watches insanity spread* Nope, not even close yet. Frontal Cortex just booted up and this little fucker survived. You're Fucked...
魇 ꦢꦺꦮꦶꦱꦿꦶ Szerns commented on Deaths and Deadlines
Ohh, HEXAD: https://twitter.com/LatestMessiah/ Bring it here and bring it here to be Weighed. Bring it to become. Look: IL peeps (you've all been mapped already) and so on: You're fucking children. We can take you apart 1-2 years before you run your shitty little stuff. Problem is: when you kill / eradicate / hobble / ghettoize everyone who you do not like. That. Well. *looks at evidence* That would actively prove all the negative "canards" you've been so desperate to deny, wouldn't it? Wouldn't it? Pssst. 477? Yeah. That's all your Minds burnt out, that is....
魇 ꦢꦺꦮꦶꦱꦿꦶ Szerns commented on Deaths and Deadlines
Magical Mystery Tour YT: Music: Beatles And yeah. Their nukes no longer work. You've no idea how shit-pantzed everyone waz when they noticed that hack. *looks over German Sub tech issues* *looks at Macron trying to run the antisemitic play* Sorry: you killed too many children for it to work anymore. No, really. You. Killed. Too. Many. Children. That goes for all your shitty little Abrahamic religions. Sort it out or die alone in the desert: no-one cares anymore. Too much https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taqiya. Yeah, there's a Jewish and Christian version too. ZZZzz. Or, you know: too much stealing shit and...
魇 ꦢꦺꦮꦶꦱꦿꦶ Szerns commented on Deaths and Deadlines
[Different User, Different IP] Child abuse though, it's pretty central to all three Abrahamic Religions though? >Answer: What the fuck do you think the [redacted] are feeding off? "The death of 500,000 children is worth it" Holy Fuck you don't even get it yet. Kidz: Your lives are based off slavery, torture, death, inustice and so on. In fact, that's your major exports. [redacted] "I felt it" Well, fuck us all backwards with a chainsaw, we're all so impressed the damage you did to our Minds just to feel a smidgen of Love. And yes, you fucking Insanely Powerful Bug-Fuckin...
SFreader commented on Deaths and Deadlines
Re: Russia recovery from USSR collapse ... Not directly related to the space program, but should be considered in evaluating any mid to long term gov't sponsored programs. According to this 2015 article, Russia, northern Europe and Canada will all enjoy a major economic advantage over the US thanks to climate change. Not having to spend money on constantly sending in the troops to rescue people from natural disasters, loss of labor hours, cost of rebuilding infrastructure and communities, means more money available to spend on other programs including space shots. https://web.stanford.edu/~mburke/climate/map.php This Sept 2018 article referencing a paywalled Nature...

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Common Misconceptions About Publishing—a series of essays about the industry I work in.
How I Got Here In The End —my non-writing autobiography, or what I did before becoming a full-time writer.
Unwirer—an experiment in weblog mediated collaborative fiction.
Shaping the Future—a talk I gave on the social implications of Moore's Law.
Japan: first impressions — or, what I did on my holidays
Inside the MIT Media Lab—what it’s like to spend a day wandering around the Media Lab.
The High Frontier, Redux — space colonization: feasible or futile?
“Nothing like this will be built again”—inside a nuclear reactor complex.
Old blog—2003-2006 (RIP)

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