North Korea
soc.sys.fail - This is society. Get with the program. They can build their economy by mass producing wmd's. Look at their model - DT. Selling $110B of arms. Korea "the 'not a bad guy' mansion owner,"...
View ArticleIdeal society
One of the recent innovative ideas ive seen are some self serve yogurt chains with just a cashier. It was so cute and i really enjoyed being able to not have to wait for anyone or the freedom. I also...
View ArticleIs midnight today or tomorrow?
It's probably neither (and both). But what is the standard, if any, if one is writing a contract? If I want something to expire on midnight between March 11 and March 12, how is it defined? 0h00...
View ArticleBest renewable energy source?
My Kepler Bb humanoids who actually originated on Kepler B#, a bigger planet that is also habitable, have 1 big problem. It has to do with energy. Right now they are using biomass for heat and only 1...
View ArticleAn issue in science and the US media: hurricane Irma reportage
Weather event management reporting may be where politics, science, and the media, intersect most visibly and transparently - from Limbaugh last week declaring Irma to be an example of liberal alarmism...
View ArticleDo pyramids sharpen razors? (rasors?)
I admit I tend to avoid superstision and mysticism but this one's got me stumped. I've heard that a blunt rasor blade positioned correctly inside a pyramid will sharpen on its own. This on it's own...
View ArticleTeenage alcohol use
My sample is probably too small to be significant, but I have known several adults who were often drunk as teenagers. All seemed to have reduced mental abilities. It is possible that they drank as a...
View ArticleWildlife survivalist
I was on a hiking trail and realized i wouldn't be able to survive in the woods. I couldn't even be a caveman (no caves in vicinity and don't know how to build shelter) because i don't even know how to...
View ArticleFacebook 1B ppl in VR
Their vision http://www.businessinsider.com/how-...z-headsets-plan-to-make-vr-mainstream-2017-10
View ArticleModern belief in psychics!! ??
Isaac Asimov once said Belief in nonsense is a conserved quantityClick to expand... I think he was partially serious & partially joking. I have friends & relatives with college educations who...
View ArticleGoogle Darwin Awards
Darwin Awards are given to those who improve the human gene pool by removing themselves from it. One classic: Teenage boy climbed to a steep roof & invited his girl friend to join him there for...
View ArticleDemocracy only sounds like a good system.
A true democracy is actually mob rule with a fancy name which makes it sound like a good system. There have been times in the history of the USA when an unrestricted democracy might have passed some...
View ArticleWhere some of the assets in asset forfeiture ended up
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/2...ed-operating-flying-cell-tower-spoofers.shtml https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-national-guard-spying-devices-surveillance/ Dirt boxes mimic cellphone towers by...
View Articlepedophilia
why are there so many people who want to rape and abuse children like this? why do they want to destroy or damage innocence or good? why are there so many abusive people? i have been abused but i...
View ArticleSexual harassment
Does women dressing ,( Burka ) reduces sexual harassment ? If so since women don't like to be floundered and touched why not dress so they would not inspire man ?
View ArticleCybernetics and Gene Enhancements in Sports?
Would it be legal once it is possible and cheap? If yes, how would it affect sports? If no, what way would sports be different since more and more people would augment themselves and be excluded?
View ArticleShould we all carry plastic bags?
Waterloo Region has two universities, one college, the Perimeter Institute, Blackberry headquarters and now: http://www.therecord.com/news-story/7251597-waterloo-will-turn-dog-poop-into-power/ Sure,...
View ArticleU.S. from the top down
Usually the very general question is: What do you think of the government? Especially in writing we are warned to be specific. The following seems to be one of the most general questions that can be...
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