I know exactly what you mean, that manufactured loyalty makes my skin crawl.

Holy fuck, she nailed that ISIS issue.

"WHY? Why would any thinking, reasonable, rational person want to pledge a group that expects such dehumanizing nonsense?"

I read somewhere there's been something like 2,000 security breaches per year since 2001. I read that 2-3 years ago, so I can only imagine how wide the variation of that number is :P

Seriously? Why the fuck is this guy popular? As someone who avoids the living shit out of almost all television, I'm only vaguely aware of him as a person.

I must've misread something somewhere then, I thought that was one of the primary reasons behind it being declassified. Fair enough

By 'damaged his reputation' he meant to say 'reminded the younger generations of his reputation'

By 'damaged his reputation' he meant to say 'reminded the younger generations of his reputation'

Ratings and money are the problem with news to me. Before Fox came along and turned it into a ratings war, I felt like most news networks had their shit together. Though, Jim Cramer had a show for a while before it became really pronounced so....

Well, I don't think Ceres counts by the definition given above cause it hasn't cleared its orbital path. Not that that should have any relevance in my mind....

I don't get it, last I'd heard Pluto wasn't considered a planet anymore because there are literally asteroids that are larger. How is this even a concern with exoplanets? Are we really gonna claim something like a hot jupiter ISN'T a planet if the solar system is relatively young and it hasn't completely cleared its…

well done sir

hahahah Anathem's word count is more or less irrelevant as far as time spent reading I think we can agree XD

It hit me sooner, around book 5 I think it was.

I forced myself to accept the utter insanity of the caricatures of caricatures that the characters were but had to give up when I got to that fucking speech. 20 pages into it and I start to get pissed and start counting pages till the end of it, when I counted another 33 I just skipped it.

"With a keen eye for trends, McLaren realised in the 1970s that a new youth style was needed, and largely initiated the punk movement, to which he supplied fashions from the Chelsea boutique 'SEX'"

"50% today say they are more concerned that government anti-terrorism policies have not gone far enough to protect the country" I... Why? Did another big terrorist event happen while I wasn't paying attention? The scariest thing in this country today as far as I'm concerned is pissed off bored cops.

nice.

I learnt offa youtube!

Wasn't there a story (I wanna say Greg Bear or Egan) involving an anti-neutronium and neutronium warhead being slapped together in the core of a planet?