Okay. This is just getting ridiculous.

Accusing Gentle Bender of misdeed?!

A few weeks ago I had an epiphany, a vision of creating a central electronics hub for my apartment. A way to centrally locate my desktop, frontend, server, networking hardware, etc. in a single central hub, while making it both aesthetically pleasing, and efficient regarding workspace.

@waclark57: I live in Houston and just about every month there is a major arms bust out in the boonies involving 'legal' US assault weapons being sent down to the border by US citizens.

@Capricus: Mexico's economy is well within the first world, but it's human statistics aren't. They have the lowest corporate and income tax rates in North America (tied with Guatemala), produce ungodly amounts of petroleum, and house national offices, farms, and factories for dozens of major global corporations.

@dethklokso: The invasion in this case is just an allowance by US Border Patrol to give Mexican aircraft the same airspace privileges that they give our own UAV's. In this case, we've been invading their airspace dozens of times with our Predator-B craft more in the last few months than they have.

@BadJoJo: El Paso's air's only better since they shut down that bigass coking plant in the middle of town.

Hey, most of my neighbors here think that it's a crime for other countries/US States to be allowed to exist, let alone own their own military hardware.

I'm surprised that major fire departments don't keep sets of airbags or the giant balloons that stunt professionals use for multiple story-falls around for exactly this kind of thing.

@BigKeithO: I have both installed, and regularly play them. I appreciate the "Settlers of Catan" map, the presence of 'NPC'-states, and the one-unit/tile rule, but the basic gameplay seems too simplified to manage safely.

@BigKeithO: The feeling I get from this game is that it's somehow...less than it's predecessors. The depth seems to be gone.

@5tr4t4: I KNOW. Seriously. This is mostly stuff to lure in OSX and Windoze users into experimenting with Linux.

You know, there was a psychiatric drug called MDMA back in the 70s and 80s used to very effectively treat PTSD in Vietnam vets. It stimulated other portions of the brain, resulting in a relative drop in activity in the amygdala, during which time the patient could remember and process otherwise-traumatic incidents…

I never had the income to get into Magic in HS or college, but this looks like a Predator screwed a Hydralisk, and that genre fuck-baby had sex with a Michael Bay-era Decepticon.

@ParryLost: Very excellent analysis.

I'm not sure what the point of a 'terrorist' UAV surveying an Israeli nuclear site would be.

@corpore-metal: I was referring to the most commonly depicted form of this trope, where someone pops into an MRI, snapshots their brain, and rebuilds it into a hard drive.

@Steve Williams: Negative data is always better than no data.

@The Curse of Millhaven: To be fair, most of the people who want the get the 'immortal robot body' have a fundamental misunderstanding of consciousness.

@alystra_stardust: Looks like "The Road" adaptation.