“I can practically feel the spittle flying”

It must have travelled there by FTL from the future. Along with all the other assumptions you make about me as well including the defeatest attitude I carry just because I know your pet idea of FTL, an idea that you have surrounded with as many other ideas (the great silence,…

Assume the discussion was about pursuing perpetual motion machines. Maybe we just don’t understand thermodynamics well enough that we should dedicate research towards achieving work-producing perpetual motion. Science fiction stories show us how great work-producing perpetual motion is - and how arrogant of anyone to…

I’m hoping Jaime, by Tyrion, with the Candlestick in the Study.

And now I wear glasses and that Time Enough to Read twilight zone really hits home.

Yeah, risk of death really follows a Poisson distribution that peaks at age 23, but you know, kids don’t do math.

And then the show where all the women die, the show where all the children die. The show where all the men die is actually surprisingly boring because the main plot point is how much better stuff works…

“Truth is, you cannot make the statement as you laid it out: “At the end of your life, there will still be no FTL. Its not possible to have it AND a causal universe.”

You’re talking to a scientist. A real one. One who gets things done and has to fight for grant money and produce results - my issue is with those scientific resources that could be spent to do novel research being spent to reinvestigate things that we already understand perfectly well because you want the universe to…

Yeah but the trusted platform in your pc might decide to never run that particular os again.

When that happens I won’t. Because my corporate lawyers will be calling theirs.

Entirely at the mercy of enemies who just won’t finish the job, while you continue to kill them and accept heavy losses of your own civilians. Two state solution would be great. Neither side will accept it.

I’m sure you have a better solution. One that will work this time. Please continue with what you see as a perfectly reasonable solution for Israel. Telling the soldiers to not distinguish between targets and bombing out apartment complexes and power plants until nothing is left standing. I’m sure that someday the…

“No country in the world would allow rockets to be fired at them indefinitely.”

Really? Israel does.


No, I don’t think they should send in solid snake. I think they should CAPITULATE. Accept that they’ve lost the war. That against guerilla actors they simply can’t effectively defend themselves. That the longer they…

THIS ^^^^

Guys are getting off easy. Buy a new console. Make a new account. Quit acting like they are going to inactivate your stolen copy of Windows Vista.

Microsoft does not have to authenticate the software you are running if you are in breach of contract with them - its a service they provide at will and they aren’t your slaves. I don’t know how anyone assumes they can breach their contracts without consequence to their software licenses when the last 30 or 40 years…

How is it destroyed? Is there a thermite chip? I think it means that software that was licensed to these guys will no longer authenticate and they won’t sell them any more. Its basically something you never owned in the first place will not be leased to you in the future - akin to your apartment lease not being…

I thought the Xbox required the internet connection and an xbox live account. They can cancel your xbox live account pretty much at will, does the machine not become useless at that point when you can’t authenticate any of your purchases?

You think your PC can’t be bricked remotely?

You’re right. Since they are unwilling to finish the job (for whatever reason - probably to hold on to some minute shred of moral credibility / not create internal discord), lets just call it mass murder instead. Better? I certainly call what the Palestinians do terrorism, so seems fair - I don’t consider them to sit…

Mildly, device is so inefficient you can probably count the fusion events on your fingers, but he’s claiming to be doing D-D fusion, so there should be some ~3 MeV neutrons and protons flying around, along with all the wonderful bremstrahlung and tritium. Fun for the whole family.

Yes, and yes I do understand Farnsworth fusors. No, he’s not doing meaningful fusion research, and you have no clue what you are talking about if you think these devices will ever contribute anything to energy supplies or physics - they are well-understood and physically incapable of ever breaking-even on energy. You…