lunchTime42

Eh, no, alcoholism lead to farming.

If you need the booze, you need the bees, if you need the bees, you need to stay for the summer. If you want a year round supply you need storage, if you have storage that is not transportable, you have settled.

If you cultivate plants, you can up the numbers and found city states- but for that you allready have to be half way settled. Else that nomadic sheep guy from across the fence will drive his cattle through your fields.

The downvoting behaviour so predictable. The irony of a controlling agent, hating the idea of beeing controllable.

We are programmers and architects - do not bend the rules, we made them, your bending suggests flaws and imperfection and is offending.

Trains shall run on tracks. Spontanious agents are a loss of controll. The horror.

Europe is where the debt is. Khazastan is not in europe.

Nobody ever gets the David Brin references. To Real to be funny.

Imagine a civ where this scenario ran away- for thousands of years. Behaviour optimized towards this.

inb4 some fundamentalist crafts a cattle plague

I dont trust you to hold back on the lottery tickets and not start a civil war - so to secure my future, i got to put lots of lottery tickets into the pot.

Gametheory makes us do it.

Open the Door Hal, its my spouse, she wants in.

> Im sorry, but your true love is allready home.

Turns down the heat in the stairwell.

Do we really have to humilate burglars into prentending to be dogs?

May i use this chance to promote some free alternatives to Still-cloned-Star-Craft: http://www.istrolid.com/game.html

Carrier of News has arrived.

Yes, what a wonderfull example of corpoorate paranoia. They are out there- the enemy, the other tribesman and there psychopaths- out to get me, my fortress, my product for cheap- but i will show it to them, i shall leave no mark upon this world, for which i shall be remembered.

Ten layers of tinfoil can capture pirate-bullets.

Could you rejuvinate this effect, for example let a movies colours and 3dness fade out before a dramatic plot point brings it back to full colour?

Needs a new planet. Elon Musk: Somebody stole my mars shuttle.. or hide in North Korea Kim Yong Nil and Kim Dot Com

I want a cable laying snake..

Remeber those Arcade Game-Memory manufactured into the battery? You had to break the battery and (suppossedly) cut the powersupply to get to them.

Isane.

Additive manufacturing is bad from the getgo. Anything with errors, adding upon with errors, is unsuitable for large scale precision manufacturing.

Could the decay of abilitys be avoided if the supervisors where kept in constant uncertainty wether the system is working?

That was transcendent ;)

Medieval War Principals meet modern weapons. People charged in with horses and protective amuletts at verdun. But where butchering a village was hard work in medieval times, modern weapons make it the flick of a switch. Add to that a culture where non-fullfillment of expectations is a huge shame and extererior pressure upholds all the norms, and you get japans behaviour during the ww2.

The problem is that actually its not the parents spoiling there kids, its that a whole industry is using them as lever to sell goods and undermines parental authority systematically. You can not win against george lucas, without looking like you are on the dark side.

They are so much more enthusiastic consumers, it would be a real shame if those know-it-all parents could hold them back.

Neural Network seem to go where the data is. The data (scripts) to TV-Shows are ready available. Real conversations are not (Youtube-Subtitle, anyone?). Shirking hard problems today might help , to train a generation that can understand dialects and muffled voices from context tomorrow.

True free market approach would be to have two variants of running buisnesses run against one another.

Its never free enough. And if it where, it was the customers fault. And if the customers behaved flawless and it would not work. There would be traitors, sabbotaging a perfect system. In a closed worldview critque acceptance is not even possible anymore. Anything brought up is not evaluated but instantly deflected. There is no - "Lets measure this" and compare (Lets call it the free market approach to ideas ;) just offense and defense. Thanks for proving the Pa-OP right.

That silver lining is the sun waiting to come back to give you skin-cancer.

Sounds like a job machines could do..

Mario ( a working class plumber) made a career out of squishing mushrooms, to get the princess in the castle.

Once your deducation goes whack, you can never go back.

eh, Coals CO2 might even be spun into carbon tubes one day, still waiting for that feet to hapen to fuel rods

Capture it, wrap it and notch it closer with ion drives? Everybody dances the Dinosaurus?