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LOL I just realized my statement would bring a whole new meaning to "world's policeman"!

What the fuck are we supposed to do if a tinpot dictator or leader of a rebel army in some god-forsaken African or Balkan shit-hole decides he wants to genocide an ethnic group? "You can't kill your people! I ALREADY DID!!!!!!!!!" You miserable fantasy-enraptured wretch of a human being. During the...

I haven't heard about Chinese or Japanese anti-piracy efforts for a while. I did hear Japan is considering changing their constitution to take part in more international military adventures though. (Iran has been offering forces for UN peacekeeping missions too lately.) I don't really like the idea;...

HOLY SHIT I HAVE DISCOVERED MORE IRANIAN PHOTOSHOP PLOT http://previous.presstv.ir/photo/20120526/pirhayati20120526055730840.jpg Those flags are obviously fake!!!!!!!!!!1 but what is it about? http://presstv.com/detail/2012/05/26/243139/all-regional-bases-in-iran-fire-range/ "A senior Iranian milita...

Did any of you morons read the actual article? The author was mocking the paranoid idiocy of Americans and Europeans. Arrogant empires claim they need to put ballistic missile shields up to protect people from the craaaaaazy Iranian threat. This isn't true. The picture symbolizes how absurd the whol...

http://presstv.com/detail/2012/05/24/242858/irans-navy-saves-us-ship-from-pirates/ ranian Naval forces have rescued a US commercial vessel attacked by sea pirates in the Gulf of Aden. The Public Affairs Office of the Islamic Republic’s Navy announced in a Thursday statement that its forces rescued a...

I'd agree with that.

Yeah, but if we weren't there, someone else might have been.

It's right place, right time, and they did the right thing, but, that's all it is. It doesn't really say anything about the bigger picture. Any other ship being there would have probably done the same thing.

It's just a coincidence.

BTW if you want to make your life a lot more awesomesauce, grab the soundtracks to Star Trek II and The Best of Both Worlds. Play them.

Whoa.


And grab the kick ass fight song from Amok Time too. And The Doomsday Machine had some awesome shit too. I need to get that one.

I have my shields! Rotating armor might help spread laser fire around, prolonging it's lifespan. A steady shot, instead of drilling a hole, now carves a little groove. If there's multiple layers of rotating, it makes even following the rotation hard to penetrate. This will be fairly new technology, ...

Apollo actually made really good time.

Tesla coils always make me think of Command and Conquer.

I posted this in SDN's starship crew thread. It's an adaptation based on CANON!!111!! events in my 'verse, so what the hell might as well do it here too. The short version: I think starship crews will have a lot of down time. Astrophysicists Log just another starfleet weblog Stardate 2421.1 We're go...

http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?sectio ... id=8438054

The text is mostly a transcript of the words in the video.

The goal there was to avoid flamewars so we don't get locked again, so let's not have a flamewar over this!

Listing the date isn't really a comment :-P

Note that the date of that upload is Nov 4, 2011.

What's really insidious here is they managed to rope a lot of people in on their one sided widgets and data collection.... without doing much of anything. Facebook login, like, comments, a whole pile of shit that individuals provide to them and that webmasters provide to them. What do the individual...

I've been keeping my eyes open for updates on this case since we had the last thread.

Today, something new came up:

http://blog.sfgate.com/stew/2011/11/18/ ... ics/?tsp=1


I'm not going to comment in this thread.

Michele Bachmann is an idiot. Does anybody actually take her seriously?

I know a lot of Republicans, but I don't know anybody who thinks Congresswoman Bachmann is a good candidate.

The smart money is probably on Mitt Romney.

No cloaking device. I'm probably so conservative on the tech to be unrealistically stagnant - if it hasn't been test fired today, I'm hesitant to run with it. ECM is a possibility. One simple kind may be blinding light - shine your laser at their telescopes. Even if it doesn't hurt it, I betcha pick...

I don't believe in the stealth-free setting :P If you're running with your reactor hot in the middle of nowhere, and the other guy has some telescopes pointed at you, you'll probably be seen. But, that's already some variables, and we haven't gotten into identification or precision targetting yet. S...

Another thing just come to mind about laser ships. You don't so much "fire" a laser as you "shine" one. You can have one that charges and fires, but my preference is one that is steady state - it's like a light bulb. Can run it for as long as you want. No need to charge, no need to cool down. (well,...

Something else just came to mind, on income and skewing averages. We can get an idea of the inequality by comparing the median income - what 50% of people get or more - with the average income - the sum of all incomes, divided by the population. The median for a US household is about $45k. The avera...