Posts by Destroy All Monsters

"Expect something completely different"

No, no ... wasn't that "Beware of unforeseen consequences"??

Vortigaunt logo. Or something.

CO_2 absorbs heat??

"The theory that CO2 will absorb heat is true"

This is serious interview. Gb2 basic school science!!

I like it how some libertarians and pseudo-libertarians are clenching teeth, pressing sphincters and generally touching wood that, when they wake up tomorrow, all the problems will have gone away, it's just government sponsored fascist science fakery and they can continue to ride after Ayn Rand into a future of limitless possibilities and infinite resource availability. They are probably still discussing how Einstein was a crackpot imposing a maximum speed for interactions from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology.

People like that take away all that makes libertarianism worthwhile.

So, if copyright claims were limited to 10 years...

...would things look better?

In the meantime, I can't be made to dredge up care, even though I don't "share".

Can we have explanations not aimed at the XBox generation, please?

"The Domain Name System converts text urls into numeric IP addresses."

Ok, it doesn't need to be on the level of "IEEE Internet Computing", but come one...

Yeah Mr. President...

"NASA can't design space programs to create jobs... that's the view of the president".

He would even be on a better trip if he realized that Government can't "create jobs". It can just reassign money taken from either the future or the taxpayer. Which will then be missing in the economy. Which won't create those jobs. Robbing Peter to pay Paul, in fact.

But apart from that, can I see real HORDES of apartment-sized interplanetary robots and also nuclear-powered spacecraft now?

Nobody....

"....ever put a gun to a newspaper executive's head and instructed them to ruin their business."

Oh Really?

Fresh from http://blog.mises.org/archives/011500.asp :

"As I discussed last year, the DOJ's Antitrust Division has been trying to dissolve a joint operating agreement between the Charleston Daily Mail and the Charleston Gazette. The DOJ said it was dissatisfied with the editorial quality of the Mail under the agreement. After nearly three years of litigation, the newspapers surrendered and will sign a new series of operating agreements at gunpoint.

That's not an exaggeration. The DOJ's proposed order expressly states the newspapers "shall enter into, and abide by the terms of, the Amended and Restated" joint operating agreement. The new agreement cannot be modified or terminated without the DOJ's written permission.

The DOJ order further states that, "The publication of the Charleston Daily Mail as a Daily Newspaper shall not be terminated unless it is a Failing Firm and the United States has given prior written approval." Even if the paper fails, the DOJ order also dictates how the Mail's assets must be disposed.

Finally, the DOJ order mandates a 50% discount for new subscriptions to the Daily Mail and prohibits the Gazette from matching any such discount."

I can hear the wailing sound...

....of incoming no-win-no-fee lawyers.

"Can't sleep at night"

My heart bleeds.

"Digital piracy remains a huge barrier to market growth and is causing a steady erosion of investments in local music."

Ok. Suppose there were no "digital piracy" (Arrrh!) Would the "barrier to market growth" be lowered? People would rush the shops to spend income on a percentage larger than epsilon on additional CDs? Local music (What the hell is 'local music'? Oh, it's a feel-good word.) would suddenly see large investments not laden with extortionate clauses and florish? Sure... never happened so far. Never will.

Readable study of such a miraculous economic environment or it's all bullshit.

Heavy hitters wanting protection from the cold wind of competition?

What else is new...

If some complete r-tard thinks legislating "cloud computing" is of any relevance whatsoever, what about legislating the "cloud cash management" that are banks? When was the last time anyone taking part in a bank run actually expected to see his savings again? And suddenly we should go all tiptoe about the data cloud....

Innovation from Redmond...

Film at 11.

The "fat people not good" background music...

...is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zMT3SqgRfk

You can get through the whole shmarticle while listening to it.

Finally something somewhat Gibsonesque

"There was nothing in the binaries that indicated either way whether the code writers spoke Cantonese or Mandarin or were located in China."

So, why is it a "Chinese cyber assault". Could as well be Israeli.

The stupid, it hurts.

B-52 delivered bombs are not weapons but a a currency that you use to trade to another nation for its market access rights.

WHAT?

About the "killer app" that will cause a rapid adoption of 3D technology in the home, Greer said: "No question the other half of this equation for the home is going to be gaming."

Yeah, right.

IT'S GOING TO BE PORN, FFS.

"Poised to explode" indeed.

The need for enemies...

The US regime is poisoning itself by avoiding to think about the problems its worldwide imperial arrogance and gunboat diplomacy has created. It imagines a Fata Morgana of "Al Qaeda" types at the root of its problems and tries to bomb them to oblivion, playing whack-a-mole and failing on all fronts.

Microsoft is poisoning itself by avoiding to think about the problems its worldwide market arrogance and closed shit sandwich products have created. It imagines a Fata Morgana of "Linux" types as the root of its problems and tries to bomb them to oblivion, playing whack-a-mole and failing on all fronts.

Can we simulate the economy on this thing?

...to get better predictions than the self-serving feel-good stuff from Gordo and will the estate of Philip K. Dick unleash the lawyers on State for the use of the word "replicant" (...still no Nexus Six though)?

Reparations: it's the only think keeping America afloat these days

>>They took the issue to Cisco, who rang us seeking reparation.

Yeah. I also wanted to ring Cisco to seek reparation for their ... frankly bizarre ... gear earlier last year, but seeing that I wouldn't get nowhere, I let it be.

>>to capture their own "gold, silver, and bronze metal moments."

I would pay for that. It would be like jackass, in olympic proportions.

More proof of the regal status of "presidents"

Sarkophage should have been kicked in his 'nads and show the nice tempest-secured non-mobile sweatbox in the corner by a muscled security goon.

Damn this pseudo-macho-dwarf and the deferential sycophantic mud around him.

I'm pretty sure I have comics of Tank Girl doing a kangaroo

....they don't have a soundtrack.

Also, are images of people of the furry persuasion now off-limits, too?

Mysterious superhot dwarfs?

Obviously planets on which someone switched on an LHC.

What a scorcher

So this happening in our home galaxy would have helped explain why no ETs are on the phone, then?

I'm feeling better living in era where these are unlikely.

Apparently they didn't even get the REAL guy

Passenger talks of the presence of a John Doe 2 (later in handcuffs), the existence of which is being denied by FBI:

http://www.mlive.com/news/detroit/index.ssf/2009/12/flight_253_passenger_kurt_hask.html

Google Precrime!

Helps law enforcement arrest Bad People before they even know they are bad (for a small fee paid by your tax dollars). Yes, Mr. Anderson, that means you!

I like the Big Brother icon. Even in Orwell's dystopia, he is not the bad guy spying on you. He's actually the archetype of the GOOD guy, looking out for you and helping you get on the correct path again, should you stumble. Maybe helps you out with a cash injection to buy a new car or something.

He told the BBC that the incident left him feeling humiliated and "like a second-class citizen".

Right. Can we have an icon with that infuriating french knight from Monty Python's Holy Grail, please?

That noise you hear...

...are ESSO, Shell, Texaco and Sinopec rockets blasting off for some exploitation.

It's good to know that we can have all the plastics in the world that we want if we can only get out of Low Earth Orbit.

This is an outrage!

It is a human right to interface with webcams! My lawyer will be in touch, once has caught up with the ambulance.

A child's brain?

What about a politician's brain? Easier to draw. An empty roundel with the barred-out "clue" text inside.

NAZI FAIL!

Finally we will find out what these mutants are up to and whether they worship the Führer's lower jaw found under Uncle Joe Stalin's pillow.

I'm sure there will be soon be pics....

...floating around the 'chans.

Whatever happened to Bush Jr's. Space Program?

....and where are my nuclear-powered, fast, solar-system capable rockets? What are these guys doing, still talking about chemical-propelled launchers in 2010?? Oh yeah, I know, there is a permanent war going on.

And 2018? The way thinsg are going, there won't be much US left by then.