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We make the drug illegal, not because of the harm caused by shoddy drugs, but because the drugs make users willing to court that harm. The mere fact that addicts are willing to steal and kill and take immense risks with their health in order to feed their addiction is, all by itself, evidence of a ...

Good on Sweden. Pity that more countries won't stand up to the Saudis after Sweden has been made an example of.

This is the first time I've come across this, but maybe I haven't been paying attention. Apparently space elevators are "a million times more unfeasible than Mars One", at least according to someone on a forum I frequent. I'm not asking for help in a debate, but rather I'm hoping that some...

This is my favourite fiction in this forum!

MOAR.

Hail Infrastructure!

Let me be more precise. You won the "self-motivation" lottery. Other people have to learn self-motivation, or never acquire it at all. There is a dearth of reliable mechanisms for taking a child who is not self-motivated to do the work necessary to master a concept, and teach them that mo...

I didn't get homework in primary school, and when I got to secondary school and was assigned homework my reaction was "fuck that shit!" and I didn't do any of it. My parents didn't have their work follow them home, so my position was and still is that school has no right to take up my per...

I didn't get homework in primary school, and when I got to secondary school and was assigned homework my reaction was "fuck that shit!" and I didn't do any of it. My parents didn't have their work follow them home, so my position was and still is that school has no right to take up my pers...

There's a difference between funding terrorism and lending money to a bank which is suspected of funding terrorism. It sounds like the latter is what actually happened but the former is what the article is trying to imply. Sounds like dishonest reporting to me. The banks aren't funding terrorism an...

No one cares that much. Maybe not yet. But things can always get worse. Especially since the cunts responsible aren't being brought to book; this means that they'll become more brazen and more openly criminal. A vanishingly small number of people in Western countries are interested in throwing away...

As someone who works for a bank I'm not to keen on this particular vision, but at least I'd get a trip to wall street I guess :? You should be safe, since “… the chiefs in the parent company often knew about shady transactions when the regional subsidiary did not.” Which strongly indicates the rot ...

For Democrats who have long viewed themselves as supporters of Israel, Mr. Netanyahu’s speech sought to impress upon them the likelihood that they will eventually need to make an awkward, painful choice between the president of their country and their loyalty to the Jewish state. Such a choice shou...

How fraudulent blood money makes the world go round Recent reporting on illegal tax evasion by the world’s second largest bank, HSBC, opens a window onto the pivotal role of Western banks in facilitating organised crime, drug-trafficking and Islamist terrorism. Governments know this, but they are p...

Not just a river in Egypt

I'm not completely au fait with the science of climate change, but I'm fairly sure the linked article is bullshit.

I'm not surprised, because I was thinking in worldbuilding terms from the start, rather than trying to be scientifically accurate and building from there. One thing I don't think has been addressed yet is the issue of time travel . This page suggests that instantaneous FTL invokes time travel, and t...

For my Nova Mundi setting, I imagine that Warp drives have speeds of around about 3 light years per day. Fast enough to make interstellar FTL travel interesting, but slow enough that the greater galaxy is still a huge place full of mysteries.

Because software can be explained in terms of particles interacting. The data that is stored on your hardrive, the images you see on your screen, etc. Math and quantum mechanical wave functions could in principle explain them. They are mathematical things by their nature. The implication here is th...

It was the year 2207, and for the past ten years the Earth had been at peace. The last conflict had been the North American War, during which two arch-rival superpowers and their allies had squared off against each other. It was the latest in a series of struggles stretching back for nearly a centur...

You suggest a great deal. At the end of the day, the few employees of any given municipal water system want to go home at the end of the day without having to put up with said woman's worthless shit. You can't reasonably meter shit - it will shitcrete any meter you put in front of it. Charge her a ...

If that's the case, what would be stopping them from setting up a regular charge based on the water/sewage usage of a similar kind of household in the area?

It's kind of like asking 'what if we made a bike the size of train'. It would be pointless because the shape is dictated by outside factors and would do little applied to another device. What are these unspecified "outside factors"? I thought we were talking about accelerating particles h...

Rather than weapons, I was thinking what we might be able to discover if we could combine the power of these new accelerators with the size of the old facilities. Enough perhaps to reach the energies needed to experimentally test things like string theory?

It strikes me that a more resilient and sustainable approach would involve both - unionised proles for the likes of Starglider to sneer at, as well as to provide a better consumer base that isn't entirely based on shitty service sector wage-slavery or ephemeral financial bullfuckery, and industries ...

salm wrote:I plug running monitors in and out of running computers almost on a daily basis. Nothing has ever hapened and I´ve never heard of it causing trouble elsewhere.

That's reassuring to know, thank you.

I don´t understand this statement. Why would it be a bad idea to swap monitors while the PC is switched on To be honest, I'm speculating. I'm afraid that if I were to do so, an electrical short might happen when removing or inserting cables, potentially causing further damage to one or more of the ...

Annoyingly, my nearest friend does not have a DVI output on their computer. They do have a monitor with an HDMI connection that could go into the back of my computer, but I don't think swapping monitors while the PC is switched on would be a smart idea. Damn.