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"The use of werewolves as an FTL signaling mechanism" is what happens when "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" gets rewritten as werewolf fanfic....
Commented on Sucker bet (a thought experiment)
Forget buying New Zealand: the annual GDP of even a relatively small island nation is around double your total capital, and you can't afford the mortgage. You just picked a too-pricey nation. Several of the Caribbean Antilles only bring in...
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Zune was superior to iPod. God it feels good to say that....
Commented on CASE NIGHTMARE BLONDE
I'm an American lawyer, so I apologize in advance for what I'm sure is going to read as blisteringly stupid to British eyes. Why couldn't the queen have simply denied that she had the power to prorogue Parliament against Parliament's...
Commented on The Inevitable Brexit Thread (1)
I'm an American, so I really am approaching this from a place of ignorance, but it's stunning how there seems to be negligible interest in reviving the corpse of the Liberal Democrats, to the point where Remainer MPs are forming...
Commented on That sinking feeling
Honestly, Charlie, the logical conclusion of your own analysis is that you should move to Ireland or a Commonwealth country....
Commented on Canned Monkeys Don't Ship Well, the Remix Version
I think you could solve a lot of these otherwise insurmountable problems by converting an asteroid into an interstellar ship. Having that enormous amount of matter to work with should give you enough space to develop the necessary resource banks,...
Commented on And the Rabid Nazi Raccoons shall inherit the Earth
I did a Google search for Bavarian Raccoons. This page is already #2....

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MSB commented on A serious question
Heteromeles (@153) said: I could be wrong, but I got the impression that werewolves are kind of 5-10 years ago too, coinciding with the vampires. […] And if we're really unlucky, the next big thing will be films glorifying hybrid war spun up by national propaganda divisions. Hmm, that's also kind of 10-20 years ago. There was this drama series which was basically one long national propaganda advertisement for torture and any other crime a big state actor could commit during asymmetrical warfare....
Allen Thomson commented on A serious question
Oh and I had to Wikipedia "boustrophedon" I first came across the term in the Korbluth-Pohl novel Wolfbane, probably when it was first published. Still worth a quick read....
Scott Sanford commented on A serious question
Could the Trumpolini administration deport Superman as an illegal alien because he has no visible means of support? Could they? Probably not, if only because shipping anyone to Krypton is problematic at best. (What do they do with former Soviet Union citizens who have never been to the Russian Federation? It must have come up.) Would they? Probably; the whole "truth, justice, and the American Way" schtick labels him as disloyal to Donald. Naturally this has come up before; the lovely Law & the Multiverse blog addressed Superheroes and Immigration Status and could hardly have omitted Kal-El's case. There's also...
paws4thot commented on A serious question
There was some interesting stuff on this subject in Supergirl Season 4. (which may be continued in Season 5)....
madaz commented on A serious question
It seems to me it is the tidal force,or gravitational tug thats pulls the wolf out. The light of the full moon ( inthe sky ? )interacts with his soul and not his eyes.Therefore he must have knowledge that the light is there.So Collins transforms when he knows a moon is lit up and he is at the exact point of gravitation tug equal to being on earth .Please forgive me if thiz is redundant as i have not read all 300+ posts....

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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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