Or, she might have thought he was a member of Al Gebra, and he was carrying weapons of maths instruction?

Not like the old days, eh?

I have to admit, when I hear "CIA's Former Director", all I think of is Enabran Tain .


Retired, yes. Out of the game? If he's still breathing, probably not.

Can it be developed so that it can reduce the speed of incoming projectiles? Like some kind of point defence.....speaker system.....

Please tell me that Cahn's name is pronounced the way I think it is....

Even if I were to believe such a thing were possible, the fact that the Daily Mail is the source makes me roll my eyes and dismiss it... If there's a reputable source, that might be worth reading, but even then it's still a stretch to believe that all people from one culture type in the same way...

Or access to google, and the ability to edit browser settings...

I would totally watch that....

There's quite a difference between what you're proposing and what TFA talks about.

These not bionic eyes, they are contact lenses, and they don't have cameras in them.

You're right that such things could happen, and in some nightmare society, we could end up with compulsary bionics for monitoring purposes.

Buit this isn't anything to do with that.

And you could make this argument about any technological advance. "We've found a way to write in the sky!" "But what if the government uses it for propaganda?"

I also take issue with the social expectations paragraph. If your friends require you to respond that quickly, then you're telling me that you never take a shower, you never sleep, and you never have a social life that involves going to the theatre, the cinema, ice skating... need I continue?

And it IS fear-mongering to expect that. You're telling me that a government organisation (and it'll have to be one that does it) can organise bionic implants for every person in (your country name here) AND manage the massive network and storage infrastructure that would be required to make it work? Given my (the Uk) government's experiences with technological projects, I'm seriously not worried.

We've also had stupid laws for a long time. I don't know if it still is one, but there was a law in the UK that said that you could shoot a man from the walls of York, I think it was, as long as he was Welsh. But you know what? We had an attack of common sense and got rid of it.

And yes, there will be trials and freedom and democracy, because there are still people out there that give a damn, and are willing to swim against the tide.

And you know what? Occaisionally, it works.

Stop being such a pessimist.

Honestly, the idea of Rock Band : Endurance is a compelling one. Have a Rock Bank that makes you work really hard for your unlocks... One of the tracks for drums could be Led Zeppelin's Moby Dick from "How the West was Won". The drum solo is 15 or so minutes long...

Why do I have the Major General's song in my head now?

"I am the very model of good "high availability.
My peers and I retain a certain level of redundancy."

Damnit, I'm meant to be at work, not filking...

Could that be because people who would have voted for Steve Jobs saw Alan Turing or Linus Torvalds and voted for them instead? This does assume people only vote once, but it's why I didn't vote for Jobs...

I can't help but think there's something missing from that one liner... Something about some shades, and a soundtrack by The Who....

I voted Supernatural but Earthly. I'm going as Cowboy Neal...

Silly rabbit. There *are* no roads out of Milton Keynes. It's like the island in The Prisoner. You just haven't realised that you're still there.....