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  1. 5 hours ago, Waxing_Kibbous said:

    This is a pretty poor comparison. People don't read books while driving, while at restaurants with other people, while walking/crossing streets, while taking a dump, when they are on the job, when hanging out with friends/other people. You can't harass/stalk/bully someone with a book. A book doesn't track you. It's a seriously invasive technology. 

    I might read books while driving if I was able too and was dumb enough to do it.  The problem is that people who enjoy reading books tend to be smart enough to not read them in traffic.  I can totally bully someone with a book: Gimmie your lunch money! *Hefts textbook*.  Not jesting, but many authors have admitted to basing evil characters in their books off of people they hate.  I have read books while crossing the street.  I have read books under the table at school, I bet I would do the same if at work.  The only thing a book doesn't do is track you.  I agree that smartphones can be invasive, but it's what's between the chair and the phone.

    On 11/30/2016 at 10:38 AM, Talavar said:

     The average article today is generally an opinion piece passed off as fact. At least that's what it seems to me. You definitely are looking in the right direction.. as far as I'm concerned anyway.

    That's not an article, it's an opinion piece.  or propoganda

    On 11/29/2016 at 7:15 PM, Green Baron said:

    I browsed through the opinions here and would like to add something about my view:

    I wasn't generalizing the behaviour of a generation (though i see more younger folks adhering to the screens than elder) but i do question the quality of information in the social networks. And i do not know whether all that "information" is actually improving our personal knowledge or narrowing it because we like to see things we already know. It's easier to nod than to think, which might lead to generalized views and ready made opinions, as an automatic outcome. The ability to reflect might get suppressed.

    As an example i put alien megatsructures, faster than light particles, most probably the reactionless drive.

    When searching information on subjects i know of i because i have studied them or they are a hobby of mine i am mainly presented with really silly and stupid things that call themselves scientific, mainly from magazines and news pages, and in the past 10 years this has become a real nuisance, wikipedia as well.

    It gets ever more difficult to separate the useless stuff from the real information. Might be a generation problem, though :-)

     

    The useless stuff is easily separable from the useful stuff, unless you are dumb.  Does it seem really sensational?  if yes: It's borscht.  If a person is dumb then they they are are going to do something stupid anyways.

  2. I would rather have a slightly more realistic atmosphere model that can tell a B1 Lancer at full sweep from a B29.  We have pointier nosecones reducing drag, so why no wings?  Also please add a mach cone to drag calculations (If you craft is inside the cone produced by the air hitting the nosecone, there is much less drag and a bit less lift).

  3. Being that I am living in Hong Kong since I think early 2014, I think I can say that the effects of war are a lot closer here than in san francisco, eve  though we have fort funston.

    Here there are some old roads that are part of hiking trails that still have holes in them from Japanese tanks, I live right next to a WW2 POW cemetery, and I buy milk and cat litter in the building where I buy groceries is the same one where the final surrender of Hong Kong to the Japanese was signed (Its a Welcome now).

  4. Welcome @Ziggy Stardust!

    duna Easter egg in his honor?

    Spoiler

    Ziggy played guitar,
    jamming good with Wierd and Gilly,
    And The Spiders from Mars.
    He played it left hand,
    but made it too far,
    Became the special man,
    Then we were Ziggy's Band.

    Ziggy really sang,
    screwed-up eyes and screwed-down hairdo
    Like some cat from Japan,
    he could lick 'em by smiling
    He could leave 'em to hang
    He came on so loaded man,
    well-hung and snow white tan.

    So where were the spiders
    while the fly tried to break our balls?
    Just the beer light to guide us.
    So we poodleed about his fans
    and should we crush his sweet hands?

    Ziggy played for time,
    jiving us that we were Voodoo
    The kids were just crass,
    He was the naz
    With God given ass
    He took it all too far
    But, boy, could he play guitar.

    Making love with his ego,
    Ziggy sucked up into his mind
    Like a leper messiah
    When the kids had killed the man
    I had to break up the band

    Ziggy played guitar

     

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