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And here in the red state of Arizona, USA, former newscaster Kari Lake (R) has announced that she is running for the US Senate after losing the election for governor in 2020 and then spending two years suing the state...
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For me the best moment of 2018 was when Elon Musk launched a Tesla into space with an astronaut in the driver's seat, a copy of Hitchhikers Guild to the Galaxy in the glove box and a towel in the...
Commented on Brexit! Means! Brexit!
Here's a solution for both sides of the pond. Promise the Brexiteers and the Trumpsters their own island paradise that they can rule as they see fit and then ship the lot of them off to Antarctica....
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Pigeon, re comment #63 regarding passitivy. And now you know how most of us in the US feel right about now....

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ilya187 commented on I should blog more, but ...
@ 1834: My wife's immediate response when she saw it: "Store an MP3 of a gunshot on your smartphone, and play it"...
Heteromeles commented on I should blog more, but ...
My wife's immediate response when she saw it: "Store an MP3 of a gunshot on your smartphone, and play it" That's a reasonably sane proposal. Although it needs to be loud, so speakers would help. Strobe lights might help too. My (illegal!) but low-tech idea was fireworks and firecrackers. Properly made, they go through metal detectors and don't look like guns. They've also been militarized by the Ming, so it is about going medieval on an active shooter's ass. Figuring out what to store them, how to deploy them, and keeping them from used for...amusement... are major challenges, of course....
JohnS commented on I should blog more, but ...
To quote Gomer Pyle USMC, "stupid, Stupid, STUPID!"...
David L commented on I should blog more, but ...
Figuring out what to store them, how to deploy them, and keeping them from used for...amusement... are major challenges, of course. Back when my 30 something son was a teen he used one of our large travel suitcases to store a bunch of fire crackers. I went ballistic on him. He should have known better (we were very frequent flyers) and suddenly realized my point. Toss one big travel bag into the trash. There was residue inside the bag, the seams, etc......
Heteromeles commented on I should blog more, but ...
Heh heh. I should say that my preferred method for dealing with mass shooters is to radically limit the availability of guns that.could be used that way, and to make sasumata readily available to control people running amok with coldarms instead of firearms. (See https://www.mixedmartialarts.com/vault/after-slaughter-of-19-disabled-japanese-caregivers-learn-ancient-weapon among.others. There are videos of sasumata being used against knife attacks in real life) Alas, I live in the US, not Japan. So I’m trying to help others figure out how to deal with gun violence without being highly trained shooters themselves. If my solutions seem insane, it’s in part because the situation itself is...

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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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