I think most people who reference Max Headroom as a "touchstone" or cultural meme instigator are probably thinking of the movie (released in 1985) rather than the Americanized TV series which came afterwards (1987) or the original British show, which was a sort of "Friday Night Videos" parody, with Max as VJ and host.…

Awesome - it's like a beautiful ode to my various summer mini-trips. I just moved to Oregon at the end of May, and have hiked around some of the places he was filming, including Mt Hood, Crater Lake, and Mt Saint Helens. The northwest really is an awesomely beautiful place (although I apparently now have 8 months of…

Given that Russia's population has fallen to 143 million from nearly 149 million over the past two decades, the decline in life expectancy there, not to mention their political problems, I really doubt that they're going to be posing a serious military threat to the United States "around 2040 - 2050". While they need…

Light that passes within the event horizon of a black hole cannot escape - but as matter is accelerated and compressed during the process of being "swallowed" by a black hole, that matter emits lots of energy. Because this energy is emitted outside the event horizon, it does escape.

I left out part of, "... according to virtually every non-partisan economic analysis... false". Globally, economists agree that "cheap money" was the root of the asset bubble (which inflated both house prices and stock prices).

It's overly simplistic (and according to virtually every non-partisan economic analysis, including that of The Economist Intelligence Unit, sister pub to The Economist Magazine, based in the UK) to claim that the housing bubble was caused by U.S. deregulation of lending in the 1990s. As it turns out, there was a globa…

That was the perfect reply to this!

None of what you wrote changes the absolute fact that Federal government spending is growing at the lowest rate in four decades, while the person to whom I was responding wrote that it was dramatically increasing (during Obama's time as President). The deficit is another issue entirely, and nearly all of the increase…

That was the old, pre-2012-election Romney who was something of a right-leaning centrist. In the past half-decade, he's moved firmly to the right, opposing same-sex marriage, favoring a complete repeal of the Affordable Care Act "on day one", opposing allowing gays to serve in the military, and in favor of cutting…

Very awesome, thanks for posting this!!

Sadly, that really is becoming true. It's like reality is viewed as some enormous conspiracy by scientists.... *sigh*

Cool, at least we have a President who knows how to use the internet now, and who knows it's not "... a series of tubes." (I know, I know, that was the late Senator from Alaska, but still makes me laugh). But Reddit? Hey, mister President, I think you're hittin' that a little late. Didn't Reddit already go past its…

According to the Wall Street Journal, Federal government spending over the past three years has increased at the lowest level in four decades, roughly 1.4% per year. That's less than inflation, which means that in real dollar terms, Federal spending has been roughly flat - or in spending per GDP, it's actually…

Possibly the two canard-looking large frontal fins that are tilted forward, normal to the ground almost, are for air-breaking during landings? This would allow the plane to land on much shorter runways by rapidly slowing it down. This would also explain the position of the (somewhat) vertical stabilizers being…

Excellent!! I've had my ThinkPad T410s for 2.5 years now, and as soon as I read the first reports of the X1 Carbon, sometime this past spring, I was thinking it sounded like the ultimate replacement - Ivy Bridge, faster RAM, thinner, lighter, and better battery-life (although with my wedge battery in the ultrabay…

I would add that the same principle applies - and is enshrined in U.S. law - for companies that knowingly deal with firms that are corrupt. Under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FPCA), an American company can be fined if it has contractors or suppliers who are engaging in corruption (bribing, kickbacks, etc), even…

But clearly, there's an underlying pattern to all of these fatalities.

While I agree with most of the items on the list, in that they're either theoretically impossible according to current theory, or practically impossible (or extraordinarily unlikely, anyway), I will quibble with a couple of them:

Well, then I will wade into the argument, because I am knowledgeable on the subject of guns. I grew up with both a pistol range and a rifle range on our property, and was hand-casting lead bullets and loading ammo before I was 10. I also served for four years in the 101st ABN DIV, attended the OPFOR weapons training…

And, it looks like i was wrong, at least according to the starwars wikia site that you (Jason) linked to.