Thank eBay and the availability of cheap Chinese lasers.

These amateur idiots are going to mess up my livelihood. I need just a few more years in the field before I can retire. I don’t need additional safety regulations placed on my research and work. 

And those police forces were massively laid off and reduced. 

The train freight companies laid off the majority of their police and security forces in just the last few years.  And they expect the rest of us to pick up the tab on their property?  No way. 

ARSTechnica is going strong. Bonus:  They hate Nazis.  

Just kill it now, for the sake of humanity. 

It won’t.  Get far that is. 

History will record the early 2000s as being the era of the riches’ utopian cities of the future.  How many similar projects are planned?

How many hookers are you expecting to walk through the door?

All of these pictured vehicles appear quite fragile. I’ll worry when they’re seriously armored, armed and run by a cold AI.  

High RPM, high frequency whine of an electric motor, like an F1 car at 20K RPM or a turbine in a F-22 fighter.

My family.

For now.  I don’t trust those bastards at all.  They’re going to try and collect rent any way they can.  Fucking MBAs.

Streaming service 1 + streaming service 2 + streaming service 3 + streaming service 4 + high speed internet = cable.

It becomes a reality when I can shoot a game of pool, and share some beer, with an ET. Until then, well, you know.

Obviously part of the process which allows you to pull the vessel into vacuum and then throw a glob of molten material at it to keep it that way. The only other way I know to do that is using a cold crimp device to seal off a copper tube and keep vacuum.  Lead solder on PCBs is a totally different thing.

The Magas of course.  Fucking idiots.

I remind people constantly about the high frequency age-induced drop-off in human ears. I also remind them that average human eyeballs also go to crap starting in the mid 40s, making most high-def anything almost overkill.

Crappy equipment.  Most people listen to music these days on small headphones or similar dynamically challenged devices.  The days of a speaker standing 40" tall in your living room, capable of reproducing sound to the average human listening band of 20 Hz-2oKhz is long gone. 

Just for a second I thought that was a young Matthew Broderick.