I don’t know how they’ll get around the whole problem having to supercool the components, but it’s amazing to think what might be possible in the future.
Just think of the roller coasters.
When you think of far-in-the future hard scifi, much technology is already in place and taken for granted. But to get to such far flung technology would have taken long development and many baby steps, and this sort of stuff strikes me as one of those baby steps.
Yeah, I know I’m barely around. Sorry! Work, and general efforts at self-improvement, have necessitated some tough decisions about how I use my free time.
Not that I’ve ever watched pornography, but if I ever had, I certainly wouldn’t now. Turns out it can be really, really bad for you. And easy access to infinite varieties of hardcore adult materials via high speed internet is giving young men erectile dysfunction. When they’re in their late teens and early 20s! Eeek.
Technology. It always has a dark side.
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In a similar vein, I found myself engaged enough by his writing to read most of Athol Kay’s Married Man Sex Life blog (can’t imagine what interested me). There are 3 years of blog posts, so it represented a lot of reading.
He recommends the Captain and First Officer model for marriage (from Star Trek), with the husband being the Captain and the wife being the First Officer. Sounds good to me, but I can’t convince my wife.
He also recommends that couples have sex every night. I can’t convince the wife on that point, either.
There Is Nothing Safe in This Room . . .
The video for Billy Idol’s White Wedding, only with much more literal lyrics. It made me laugh.
The video for Tears for Fears “Head Over Heels” is really awesome, too.
Apparently, doing literal videos is a thing. Lots of different people, at varying qualities, have posted their own literal videos on YouTube. Hmmm.
It seems to me what she’s talking about is, though, crowd-sourced infrastructure that dynamically accomplishes many of the goals of government (especially at the local level) with the easier distribution of information and the encouragement of involved citizenship.
Sort of a bottom-up socialism. One that completely decentralizes the entire process of “getting things done” in the community.
Asset forfeiture is the process by which law enforcement agencies can take possession of property suspected of being tied to illegal activity. Under these laws, the property itself is presumed to be guilty of criminal activity. Once the property has been seized, it’s up to the owner to prove he obtained the property legitimately.
In about 80 percent of civil asset forfeiture cases, the property owner is never charged with a crime. And in Illinois — like many states — the law enforcement agency that makes the seizure gets to keep the cash or the proceeds of the forfeiture auction (in Illinois, the prosecutor’s office gets 10-12 percent).
Critics say civil asset forfeiture is rife with poor incentives, and violates the Fifth Amendment’s protection against seizure of property without due process of law. Police can seize a car, cash, even a home on the flimsiest of evidence.
For pity’s sake. Then he contrasts forcing a woman to wait until she has a miscarriage to remove the dead fetus to cows and pigs delivering still born babies on the farm. Then:
Suggesting that if a cow or pig can give birth to a dead baby, then a woman should too was not enough for Rep. England though. He then delivered an anecdote to the chamber in which a young man who was apparently opposed to legislation outlawing chicken fighting said he would give up all of his chickens if the legislature simply took away women’s right to an abortion.
Yowza. My fellow southerners, endeavoring to prove all the stereotypes true, or perhaps understated.
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Let the mutherfuker burn!
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