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  • Commented on So you think you can be a reality TV producer
    Righto. Delete them if you want....
  • Commented on So you think you can be a reality TV producer
    Virtuous actions that you do to make yourself look wonderful, not to actually accomplish anything useful....
  • Commented on So you think you can be a reality TV producer
    The Virtue Signal Six contestants try to be the best possible enlightened tolerant human being. Competitive categories include: micro-scale environmental responsibility macro-scale environmental responsibility economic inequality racial tolerance lifestyle tolerance cultural tolerance political activism educational outreach...
  • Commented on Too Many Thoughts About Genre
    The diesel portion of the Long Island Rail Road in New York State uses a different kind. A single level at each end with the bathrooms and limited mobility seating/space, and an upper and lower level in the middle of...
  • Commented on Too Many Thoughts About Genre
    I have "severe" red-green color blindness, but not "mild" red-green color blindness*. While occasionally irritating, I've never found it a real problem. As to traffic lights, besides using the position as mentioned above, I have always been able to tell...
  • Commented on Too Many Thoughts About Genre
    In the fantasy RPG world of Glorantha there is the "walktapus", a Chaotic creature, basically a man with an octopus for a head. Being Chaotic, it regenerates. There is a trick to help with military logistics. You feed a soldier...
  • Commented on Too Many Thoughts About Genre
    I noticed one place where they changed "trainers" to "sneakers" when referring to athletic shoes. Dunno if lorry versus truck or jumper versus sweater ever came up....
  • Commented on Too Many Thoughts About Genre
    I think the real Sin of Onan was defying authority, always the worst crime. God said "Do this." He didn't. He intentionally and knowingly did not follow orders....
  • Commented on Too Many Thoughts About Genre
    Speaking of vultures, is it too soon to mention the latest dastardly assault on American Freedom? Vulture Poop Has Compromised a Customs and Border Protection Radio Tower in Texas United States Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has lost control of...
  • Commented on Introducing Dead Lies Dreaming
    That'd help your Moorlock mushroom farmers, wouldn't it? What they really need is their own incarnation of the Eternal Champion....
  • Commented on Introducing Dead Lies Dreaming
    Nitrous oxide containers shot into the intake? Might get laughing tank crews, at least....
  • Commented on Artificial Intelligence: Threat or Menace?
    Also "Project Nightmare" by Heinlein, where the key to defeating this is a good corps of psionic operatives to suppress the fission....
  • Commented on Artificial Intelligence: Threat or Menace?
    This covers it, and I've seen the same figures elsewhere several times. (From the site Rabidchaos linked above.)...
  • Commented on The obligatory general election discussion post
    Link seems to be bad. XKCD Purity...
  • Commented on The obligatory general election discussion post
    @ 438: Perhaps a Heuristically-programmed ALgorithm? I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that....
  • Commented on Sucker bet (a thought experiment)
    There may never have been any attention for this thing to pass even one side of Ohio's bicameral legislature (99-member House, 33-member Senate), but just to please religious crazies for floating it at all. ObSF here is Heinlein's "Magic,...
  • Commented on Sucker bet (a thought experiment)
    What I like is the overpressure wave when the trains go in and out of tunnels. The other reason fast trains don't like tunnels is that pushing air out of tunnels is no fun for whoever is paying the power...
  • Commented on CASE NIGHTMARE BLONDE, Part 2
    Too bad you can't figure out a way to stop fires by using, say, large, aimable, automated vortex guns to blow out embers that come your way. If you have solar panels powering the air compressor, and the AI on...
  • Commented on CASE NIGHTMARE BLONDE, Part 2
    3/5ths, and that was only for the purpose of getting congressional representatives based on total population. So the idea was that owning slaves meant you got more political power (since they didn't get to cast 3/5 of a vote)....
  • Commented on CASE NIGHTMARE BLONDE, Part 2
    The buildings-all-askew problem is more severe. But you know, there are people who know the answer to this. I'm sure there are Civil Engineers who could tell us how well London would survive a major earthquake. Tokyo might be an...
  • Commented on CASE NIGHTMARE BLONDE, Part 2
    "With Brexit they will get control over a defensible Island located in a reasonable climate." 'Wait, are we still talking about Britain?' "Considered both to many places, and many places in the future thanks to global warming, yes. You don't...
  • Commented on CASE NIGHTMARE BLONDE, Part 2
    Helluva coincidence time -- this is an SF/F blog after all: a USAF solar powered 'sky plane' (drone-type --- no pilot onboard)' just landed after 2 years aloft and successfully completing its mission of conducting tech tests and carrying a...
  • Commented on Someone please sack the script-writers
    One going the other way. In Middle Georgia, Houston County is pronounced "How-stun." Nothing to do with the city in Texas....
  • Commented on Tentative hypothesis
    And once you have fast enough networking, So, for most people, that means never. I am opposed to "everything on the cloud" because it may be great for people who live in Bandwidth Utopia, it is hell for people who...
  • Commented on CASE NIGHTMARE BLONDE
    I think my wish would be for a spouse who occasionally accidentally nearly kills me. The Sheckley story referenced above ended with him wishing for a wife whose libido was so high he could just barely satisfy her....
  • Commented on CASE NIGHTMARE BLONDE
    Interesting. I only get notifications when I'm looking for a ride, in the ride, or haven't yet closed out the payment for a ride. I get an email every 5 to 20 days offering me a "deal" but that's it....
  • Commented on CASE NIGHTMARE BLONDE
    I uninstalled Lyft because the app kept spamming me with notifications. Uber at least doesn't do that....
  • Commented on CASE NIGHTMARE BLONDE
    Ah, well, there you go then - just use the house itself as the weight. Interpose some big hydraulic rams between the foundations and the walls, and have a sliding ramp up to the front door like the ones for...
  • Commented on CASE NIGHTMARE BLONDE
    The Guernseian Freedom Front might have something to say about that, let alone the Freedom Front of Guernsey. Splitters!...
  • Commented on Normal service will be resumed eventually
    I am so sorry for your loss. I lost both my parents over the last ten years....
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