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Re: Horrible.
Can't resist cross-linking this with the Skynet thread . I read a sci-fi short story in the 1970s or 80s about a robot/AI traffic cop who pulls some guy over and charges him with a minor traffic violation, then, by "...the authority of the Overpopulation Act of 1990..." (or something like that), pr...
- Sun Jul 10, 2016 6:55 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Eric Cantor Loses To TEA Party Libertarian
- Replies: 31
- Views: 25660
Re: Eric Cantor Loses To TEA Party Libertarian
Single Transferable Voting is not incompatible with Full Option Voting. You can implement Full Option Single Transferable Voting quite easily.
Re: Go Navy!
I guess I should have specified "ship born".
Re: Go Navy!
When I was part on the system, lasers were looked at as point defense against missiles and against unsymmetrical attacks like speedboats with heavily armed terrorists or pirates. Offense was not on the table.
- Tue Jun 28, 2016 1:09 pm
- Forum: Design
- Topic: ion-assisted electron injection
- Replies: 2
- Views: 11024
Re: ion-assisted electron injection
With a Polywell, build an X-Cusp machine and you have "your wormhole".
Re: Go Navy!
A missile can go where a laser cannot...
over the horizon.
over the horizon.
- Mon Jun 20, 2016 2:16 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: News manipulation by the press
- Replies: 22
- Views: 15818
Re: News manipulation by the press
It is impossible to speak in such a way the malcontents cannot twist your meaning.
- Wed Jun 15, 2016 7:01 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Stirling Engine Advance
- Replies: 27
- Views: 27460
Re: Sterling Engine Advance
FYI:
Sterling is silver
Stirling is engine.
Sterling is silver
Stirling is engine.
- Mon Jun 13, 2016 10:07 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Will Europe wake up?
- Replies: 69
- Views: 37577
Re: Will Europe wake up?
The graph kind of looks like what happens when you allow barbarians into a civilized nation.
Re: Flags ...
Pepsi and wiskey good together, no? A waste of good whiskey if you ask me. If you're a Baptist and used to getting Welch's grape juice for communion, you'll be shocked to find that the Ewhiskeypalians use port wine. First, Ain't no good wiskey. (I hate the taste of oak). Grew up Unitarian/Universal...
Re: Flags ...
Pepsi and wiskey good together, no?Tom Ligon wrote:I always heard that members were known as E-whiskeypalians.KitemanSA wrote:Ahhh yesss, the Pepsi-Cola Church.
Anagrammatically, the Episcopal...
- Thu Jun 02, 2016 10:33 pm
- Forum: Design
- Topic: how to build a better electron accelerator/collimator?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 14819
Re: how to build a better electron accelerator/collimator?
The other way would be to have X-cusps at the confluence of the paired fields. An X-Cusp has no field (a funny cusp) at the very center so electrons can leave and enter with ease, but the magnet cans (which are NOT there) are still well shielded.
Re: Flags ...
Ahhh yesss, the Pepsi-Cola Church.
Anagrammatically, the Episcopal...
Anagrammatically, the Episcopal...
- Tue May 31, 2016 6:06 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: When I was a kid, to get to school I had to ....
- Replies: 4
- Views: 4562
Re: When I was a kid, to get to school I had to ....
Why not put some telepresence classroom seats at the kid's location and not make them climb the 2625' cliff in the first place. And it would probably be cheaper than the stairs.
Re: Flags ...
If you believe in God, everything is permitted... to the priest.Diogenes wrote: If there is no God, everything is permitted.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Me.