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• Commented on Announcement: 2nd edition Laundry Files RPG is coming
  Oh, yes, airline seats... The Winnipeg-to-Minneapolis Boeing, in Delta's "Comfort+" class, had a 17.3" wide seat. Scott Sanford can confirm I ain't skinny, so I am very glad all my fall & winter cons I can drive to in my...
• Commented on Pass or Fail
  Well, JP Aerospace http://www.jpaerospace.com/ says their ATO (Airship To Orbit) will......
• Commented on Pass or Fail
  Seem to recall mention of law enforcement radios in the LAUNDRY FILES at some point; if I recall correctly, yhis may be of interest. Three Dutch security analysts discovered vulnerabilities—five in total—in a European radio standard called TETRA (Terrestrial Trunked...
• Commented on Announcement: 2nd edition Laundry Files RPG is coming
  Take my money. Please. Have run 1e games at the local gaming con, will gladly repeat w/ 2e....
• Commented on Pass or Fail
  Found flyer advertising it at NASFiC /Pemmi-con.ca...
• Commented on Pass or Fail
  Apropos of nothing recent: OPPENHEIMER & other IMAX movies' projection controlled by emulated Palm https://slashdot.org/story/416976...
• Commented on Pass or Fail
  DP replied to this comment from Elderly Cynic on July 10, 2023 17:06 in #623: "Some articles have said that it will become farmable, but I smelled uninformed optimism" Whether its Canadian or Siberian, when tundra melts you get unfarmable...
• Commented on Go away, Muse, you're drunk (again)
  Granted, Cuba is not likely to be an Approved Final Destination by TFG. However, it is very close to MIA (367 klicks), and it would be rather easy to divert to José Martí International on any flight out of MIA...
• Commented on Go away, Muse, you're drunk (again)
  What nations have not extradition to the US and are within range of Trump Force One (Boeing 757-200) from Miami? Cuba....
• Commented on Shrinking the world
  Even better, a tax on the special lightweight tires which EVs use, and penalties to tire shops which install conventional tires on EVs. Tires, because they're polluting, are already regulated, so the mechanisms are already in place....
• Commented on Shrinking the world
  Although it requires knowing how to do it, you can greatly reduce the walking when moving from PDX International Airport to Portland Union Station for access to heavy rail. Just transfer from the Red Line MAX light rail to the...
• Commented on Shrinking the world
  Please add both Portland, Oregon (PDX) and Cleveland, Ohio (CLE) as both have light-rail connections from the airport to downtown where continental heavy rail runs; the light-rail connection from the latter airport to its downtown dates back to the Seventies....
• Commented on Shrinking the world
  Oregon's hardly a petro state (no refinery at all), but we also bill more for EV registration, to fund our roads: https://www.govtech.com/fs/transportation/oregon-ev-owners-will-soon-see-higher-registration-fees.html...
• Commented on Shrinking the world
  I obtained similar astronomical ViaRail pricing, with the same discounts, as of December 2022, before I bought my NASFiC membership....
• Commented on Read an Excerpt from Season of Skulls
  I went to Bowling Green State University in NW Ohio to learn how to speak Television Newscaster, as my mother tongue was solid Corn Belt, an admixture of my mother's (Cairo, Illinois) and my nanny's (Paducah, Kentucky), overlad by SouthWest...
• Commented on Read an Excerpt from Season of Skulls
  Purchased....
• Commented on Fuck the Monarchy
  Must the head of state be, like, organic? The Japanese have this wonderful concept that their lead politicos are 'portable thrones' to be wheeled in and out as needed. If Governor DeathSantis doesn't object too much, perhaps Disney could be...
• Commented on Place your bets
  JohnS commented on March 19, 2023 at 20:38 in #1415: {snip} I've been tracking the possibilities of what bad actors could do with "small" drones since the late 1990s when I ran across a web-site for "hexa-copters" with the tag-line:...
• Commented on Place your bets
  Heteromeles mentioned alternative military power sources March 16, 2023 16:24 in #1187: And, the US Army's studying it: https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/26886/electrification-of-the-armys-light-combat-vehicle-fleet-proceedings-of...
• Commented on Place your bets
  Poul-Henning Kamp opined on March 15, 2023 07:51 in #1086: {snip} For instance, almost half of women in USA have experienced rape-adjecent sexual encounters, and yet, when they have children, they send the boy to self-defence and the girl to...
• Commented on An AI app walks into a writers room
  Howard NYC wrote on February 21, 2023 at 14:29 in #1256: Water is life. {snip} Yep. Right now watching France24, the English-language French state news channel, discussing record drought in France. Food is life. {snip} Just consider how wheat intended...
• Commented on An AI app walks into a writers room
  Elderly Cynic posted on February 17, 2023 at 12:56 in #1006: And where will the western forces stop? 'Ethnic cleansing' of the reconquered territories, almost certainly, but will they do the same to Crimea? Kindly show where anything like that...
• Commented on An AI app walks into a writers room
  Moz wrote on February 16, 2023 at 23:12 in #975: ...But when I run the numbers the cost of hiring gear or renting access to it is significantly in excess of the buy/keep price. Annoyingly the stuff I can borrow/rent...
• Commented on An AI app walks into a writers room
  Topic drift: Meteroid 'Sar2667' aka 2023 CX1 impact was projected 3 km off Cap Fagnet on the Normandy coast where sea bed is 18m deep, actually hit 4 km offshore at 2:59 London time. Energy before atmo entry: 100 tons...
• Commented on An AI app walks into a writers room
  JohnS asked on February 10, 2023 at 21:28 in #613: Can you have two cell phones that share the same phone number? I do that with Google Voice. Two phones, each with a primary number from the carrier, use Google's...
• Commented on An AI app walks into a writers room
  Troutwaxer replied on February 8, 2023 at 01:18 in #506: "That 'paper' looks TERF-y as all getout..." "TERF-y" as in Trans Excluding Radical Feminist or "TURF-y" as in astroturfy? When I encounter stories with 'Trans' in quotes leading the headline,...
• Commented on An AI app walks into a writers room
  Heteromeles wrote on February 7, 2023 17:58 in #478: {snip} For reference, here's an American stratospheric airship with two propellers. Note that, for something that likely weighs in the low tens of kg, the two propellers are six feet across,...
• Commented on An AI app walks into a writers room
  Topic drift: Diesel generators used to de-ice Scottish wind turbine blades? Oil leaks from hydraulic systems? That 'paper' looks TERF-y as all getout, but is there substance to this? https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/dozens-scottish-power-wind-turbines-29135763...
• Commented on An AI app walks into a writers room
  Former InfoWorld & PBS pundit Robert X. Cringely wrote today on his experience with ChatGPT, and suggests it may have a place in education, if properly programmed. https://www.cringely.com/2023/02/07/if-you-want-to-reduce-chatgpt-mediocrity-do-it-promptly/...
• Commented on An AI app walks into a writers room
  Scott Sanford noted on February 2, 2023 at 09:51 in #129: I've also been in the physical presence of Charlie and Feorag - but not you or Whitroth. They'd probably have noticed if an AI used the same avatar to...