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• Commented on We need a pony. And the moon on a stick. By next Thursday.
  Surely it would be simpler for the USG to ban sarcasm from the internet?...
• Commented on Parasites
  The Babel fish. Oh it has to be something that actually exists? Rhizobia because I like living in a world where low input, sustainable crop growth is possible....
• Commented on Time tourism: some reaction shots
  The female time traveler getting pregnant thing just brought Ambassador of Progress - Walter Jon Williams to mind (which I have not read this decade). It's a first contact story, not a time travel but it covers a lot of...
• Commented on Cheap Reads!
  Thankyou for the heads up, just grabbed a copy....
• Commented on Snowden leaks: the real take-home
  Who do you feel more threatened by; your own government or somebody elses? Who can you be betrayed by; your own government or somebody elses? Who should you feel loyalty to; your government or your people? Enquiring minds want to...
• Commented on Crib sheet: Singularity Sky
  " Surely in a diverse space operatic universe you'll occasionally see a Napoleonic space navy run into a nuclear-powered hunter-killer submarine? " Or why I quit playing Civilisation in a single sentence. Helicopter gunships versus elephant cavalry. I always assumed...
• Commented on Grand Guignol Tropes
  http://www.comedity.com/index.php?strip_id=17 http://www.comedity.com/index.php?strip_id=78 Other possible muses, I'll think about the post while I'm gone....
• Commented on The last refuge of scoundrels
  No one ever expects the Nuremberg Rally, that's why its so effective :) If I remember my none arrestable T-shirt from the period "If Maggie is the answer then it's a bloody silly question" Having seen dementia destroy a loved...
• Commented on The map is not the territory.
  "This is a really weird way of describing Elizabethan England." Well there's the whole Virgin Queen thing and constant war worries and the catholic/protestant game of pass the parcel and Sir Francis Walsingham. I'd say it's a very accurate description....
• Commented on National Talk About Something Else Day
  What's keeping me busy is that next week we (my work) have assessors in with a potiential range of outcomes ranging from "Oh well done carry on then" to being shut down as an organisation and the individual members of...
• Commented on Status update
  Livejournal was giving me trouble until I opened LJ in one tab and tried to sign into this on another, suddenly all was well....