The interesting thing here is that this can go both ways. Those who subscribe to the hockey stick graph theory would say "Awesome! Now we have legal standing to cry wolf because it's against the law for the trend line to go the other way."

I have to agree with Stephenson on this because there is an increasing number of uneducated, uninformed, and misinformed people who believe that the worst is going to happen unless they do something to stop it. Witness the rise in attacks on scientists working on nanotechnology and genetically modified food.

This is pointless until the pr0n industry adopts it.

I've said it before and I'll say it again: the entire diet and exercise industry is predicated on you never achieving your weight-loss and physical fitness goals because if you did, you wouldn't need them anymore and they lose a paying customer.

I've heard it said many times about some godawful movie: "I could eat raw film stock and sh*t a better movie." Now we know what that would look like.

I think it's interesting stuff. There was a nifty TED talk that talked about electronic trading companies all vying for office space as close as possible to the hotel in Manhattan where all the Internet wiring enters the city so that they could affect trades a tiny fraction of a second faster than somebody else.

I can't completely hate it given that some of my VFX software was used in it. And Will Smith's outtakes on this particular scene are hilarious. "K! He's a ballsackian!"

*yawn* Every über-computer geek has eaten at their machine so this is merely the crumbs growing on their own.

Would be useful in any restaurant with wood floors or vaulted ceilings.

"K! He's a Ballchinian!"

I just refer to my own experience. Most people I've met with shall we say "alternative food" lifestyles proselytize till the cows come home. Oh wait, they don't like cows. But I digress. To them I say "If you like it, eat it. Don't make me do the same." This is one of the many slippery slopes of socialize…

Coolest playground EVER!

The terror component is turned up to eleven by the fact that you're trapped in a cylinder with a whackjob. Having tried some Simunitions scenarios in a 727 training plane at a very cool place called Strategic Operations, I can tell you that unless you are armed, you're screwed. There's no place to go. There is no…

Boring. I saw Ted Nugent shoot a shotgun disguised as a chainsaw. Yes, you pulled the start cord to rack the action and squeeze the throttle to fire it.

Perhaps not. Warning: Flamebait below.

Yeah, so about all that whining and complaining about DDT...

Bah...he has the manners of a goat and smells like a dungheap.

Ah, but the unintended benefit is that you don't have to debug your code. You can just blame it on the processor. And imagine the cost savings on all those man-hours spent debugging things.

As with most obscene financial successes, the dumber and more pointless the idea, the more likely people are to assign value to it. Or as George Carlin would say "You nail two pieces of wood together that have never been nailed together before and some schmuck will buy it from you." Places like the front of Bed,…

This is all too common in the National Forests. Harvesting fallen timber isn't technically illegal and in some places you don't even need a permit to harvest. So, the douchebags go into an area a few hundred yards off the road, cut down the trees and leave. Then they come back a few weeks later like nothing…