It’s not here yet, but it’s definitely on the way:
Police found a so-called “skirt cam” under a subway grate at 88th Street and Lexington Avenue Tuesday afternoon after a woman called police saying she had noticed suspicious wires protruding from the grate as she passed by.
Emphasis yours truly.
Once Wifi is ubiquitous, there will be no “suspicious wires” to betray the location of a camera, and cameras will continue to get smaller and more power efficient (though there is a physical limit on how small the lense can get). Consider this a glimpse not just of womens’ undergarments (assuming they’re wearing same), but of the future.
George, one of your progenitors in Hollywood once said, “If you want to send a message, use Western Union.”
”The parallels between what we did in Vietnam and what we’re doing in Iraq now are unbelievable.
Yes, I’d say unbelievable is exactly the right word.
”On the personal level it was how does a good person turn into a bad person, and part of the observation of that is that most bad people think they are good people, they are doing it for the right reasons,” he added.
Of course, most lousy directors and hackneyed script writers think they’re brilliant, profound and insightful.
I’ll probably go see the movie, but only for the special effects, which is all that Lucas was ever really any good at.
In the latest issue of Moon Miners’ Manifesto and Ad Astra Peter Kokh makes the point in “Perfect Spot Found for Moonbase?” that R&D for living everywhere except the poles would open up a lot more of the Moon to utilization especially the mare/highland “coastline”. Good point! But let’s do both. Let’s colonize the easiest place to colonize too.
He did say that if the government puts a base at the pole that the rest of the Moon might never get developed. This is an error. In 500 years of 2% growth, the average worker will be able to fund their own Elon Musk-style orbital space program 5 times over with one year’s income. See a comical look into the future here.
Speaking of natural disasters, it’s been a quarter of a century since Mount St. Helens blew. Just a little reminder that our single homeworld isn’t always the safest place to be, and a drop in the bucket compared to what would happen if Yellowstone explodes again.
Speaking of natural disasters, it’s been a quarter of a century since Mount St. Helens blew. Just a little reminder that our single homeworld isn’t always the safest place to be, and a drop in the bucket compared to what would happen if Yellowstone explodes again.
Speaking of natural disasters, it’s been a quarter of a century since Mount St. Helens blew. Just a little reminder that our single homeworld isn’t always the safest place to be, and a drop in the bucket compared to what would happen if Yellowstone explodes again.
Hurricane season doesn’t start officially for two more weeks (June 1st), but the first named storm has already appeared. It’s starting in the wrong place (the Pacific–they usually originate in the Cape Verde Islands off the coast of Africa) and headed in the wrong direction (northeast, instead of west). That won’t stop it from threatening Florida, though, if it survives its excursion across Central America. Time to check the supplies…
Hurricane season doesn’t start officially for two more weeks (June 1st), but the first named storm has already appeared. It’s starting in the wrong place (the Pacific–they usually originate in the Cape Verde Islands off the coast of Africa) and headed in the wrong direction (northeast, instead of west). That won’t stop it from threatening Florida, though, if it survives its excursion across Central America. Time to check the supplies…
Hurricane season doesn’t start officially for two more weeks (June 1st), but the first named storm has already appeared. It’s starting in the wrong place (the Pacific–they usually originate in the Cape Verde Islands off the coast of Africa) and headed in the wrong direction (northeast, instead of west). That won’t stop it from threatening Florida, though, if it survives its excursion across Central America. Time to check the supplies…
The false report, according to the New York Times, instigated “the most virulent, widespread anti-American protests” in the Muslim world since…well, since the last virulent, widespread anti-American protests in the Muslim world