anonemouse

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• Commented on Announcement time!
  modern espionage tends to be an authoritarian and often highly racist project. Liberals seem to prefer foreign aid And USAID is the crossover point everyone agrees on?...
• Commented on A Wonky Experience
  fake news and manipulation via chatbot will have destroyed our cultural cohesion and set fire to our social capital When "a background detail from Peter Watts' Rifters books" is a completely plausible prediction we are in a very dark place....
• Commented on Announcement time!
  Stipulated! I'm just agog at what the suggestions being produced say about us here....
• Commented on Announcement time!
  I was wrong, Karen Gillan isn't the youngest person mentioned; Karina Rykman is 6 years younger than her. To play someone ~20 years younger than Mo. Not that she couldn't do it - I've never seen her in anything, I...
• Commented on Announcement time!
  it might be better to hope that if the stories get picked up, they make stars out of a crop of talented unknowns. Oh sure. Even if it were stipulated that nothing but well-known names were to be cast, I...
• Commented on A Wonky Experience
  To be fair, that's a list with more than 10 spots in it! The brutal dictatorship was sadly CIA business as usual, yes; it's the destruction of Project CyberSyn that makes it a unique lost opportunity....
• Commented on A Wonky Experience
  Chile is the world's second largest lithium exporter, largest copper exporter, and is top 10 in "what could have been if not for the fucking CIA" in the latter half of the 20th Century....
• Commented on A Wonky Experience
  And you base this assumption on... what? Other than apparently wanting their deaths to be their own fault? Because I've worked beside roads, and I've worked with a crew fixing potholes, and one's ears are incredibly useful for things like...
• Commented on A Wonky Experience
  What was it like in Europe in the 1930s? I know a lot about Germany. A bit about France in that it was the government of the week at times as if flipped between fascists and communists. But the UK...
• Commented on A Wonky Experience
  Oh, absolutely. I was just tickled we had an example already provided....
• Commented on A Wonky Experience
  "The Tacoma Narrows Bridge has collapsed, therefore is already gone, therefore finding out what happened is pointless as we cannot prevent the Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapsing" has originality going for it as far as types of argument, I'll give you...
• Commented on A Wonky Experience
  One of the things I learned in engineering is that posted limits are often ignored by vehicles, and you don't find out until something goes wrong. You need inspections and strongly-enforced serious penalties to get transportation companies to obey regulations,...
• Commented on A Wonky Experience
  The plot is based on Dick's Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep; the title comes from a film treatment/novella William Burroughs wrote based off the Alan E. Nourse novel The Bladerunner....
• Commented on A Wonky Experience
  Back in the 80's, I think, there was a major paper (the Philly Inquirer, I think) who did a chart. The dollars spent for one job in the military can provide 22 civil sector jobs. "Can" is not "is." Poul-Henning...
• Commented on A Wonky Experience
  Given that they appropriated Blade Runner from William Burroughs, I'd be curious to see what kind of hold they actually have on the name. The best possible kind - contractual; they paid for it. (Nourse via Burroughs, isn't it? Burroughs...
• Commented on A Wonky Experience
  Yeah; I have vague memories of a sort of weary understanding that the USA was never going to come to terms with 9/11 without a war....
• Commented on A Wonky Experience
  I know internet search is broken these days, but it's not that broken: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dropbox...
• Commented on A Wonky Experience
  I kinda want to hear what an "ordinary EU country" is and what their policies might be, to be honest. :-)...
• Commented on A Wonky Experience
  But they think it is nice to know that "the option is there", and because they are from "USA, the best country in the world", it never occurs to them that Canada might not welcome them with open arms. Hegemonic...
• Commented on A Wonky Experience
  What would be the standard spelling of "colour" in North American English, taking into account Canada exists?...
• Commented on A Wonky Experience
  But I would be greatly pleased if the speech of USA citizens, which is fine, could just be called "American". No insult is implied, and I do know it's a collection of English dialects. I just think it would simplify...
• Commented on A Wonky Experience
  Yeah, fingers crossed he's ok....
• Commented on A Wonky Experience
  All you gotta' do is put a hyphen between Garcia & Gomez and your last name becomes Garcia-Gomez Except for the minor point that that's not her name, right Seán?...
• Commented on A Wonky Experience
  I think there might be a larger problem you're missing: "30 days has September, April, June, and November..."...
• Commented on A Wonky Experience
  In what script/medium/language? Bingo. :-) I seem to remember someone suggesting that digital data be archived as bitmaps printed on acid-free paper at some point, though I can't find it again now. Presumably this was for maximum inconvenience on every...
• Commented on A Wonky Experience
  OTOH, I don't have to figure out WHAT the data format is before I can extract it to hard copy, so half the struggle is already accomplished. Even if I can't read it myself, I'm pretty sure I'd be able...
• Commented on A message from our sponsors: New Book coming!
  .....right so. @Dramlin: does this help? https://www.whtimes.co.uk/news/23221121.hertfordshire-helped-fund-second-world-war-spitfires/...
• Commented on A Wonky Experience
  Guy Rixon's post demonstrates the matter pretty well: much of the reason the library can succeed in being a useful repository for 800 years is that the data format and the equipment required to read it have stayed the same...
• Commented on Same bullshit, new tin
  "No one else has the right to judge us" seems to be universal among the powerful, whether we're talking about countries or people. As to inversions of the rules-based order, what about Operations Paperclip and Surgeon? Or the fate of...
• Commented on A message from our sponsors: New Book coming!
  Boooooooo! :-P...