I’m still so pissed that The Peripheral was canncelled.

Nah, we will go back to the days when the whole world consists of this valley and the one next door.

When our village attacks those bastards from over the mountain we will call it a world war.

DIE ALREADY!!

I hate to tell your this but his mother lived to 106…

We don’t talk about Fight Club…

The French will never agree.

Their stance has always been, if France is threatened we will use every weapon in our arsenal.

They do not have end the world stocks of nukes like the US or Russia so their attitude is, “Fuck with us and we will end you.”

Not a surprise, the good old days for each person is pretty much always when they had the most autonomy and the least responsibility.

That has been true of every decide for at least a century.

Can I assume you were a teenager/early 20s in the 90s?

Yes. And 75% of car driver believe they are above average as well…

Capitalism also needs a functioning environment to continue…

The big thing people over look when considering the we are broadcasting thousands od watts into space, they might hear use is SNR

Signal to noise ratio. (the more random stuff on a frequency the harder it is to read the signal)

Yes, humans are pumping out a huge amount of radio (etc) signals into space. it is not coherent or directed.

Thousands of antennae all over the world pumping different signals but from far away, they are all noise interfering with each other.

IIRC: Even if there was a radio telescope only a few light years away, all they would see pointing directly at earth would be static.

The author, James Clavell wrote 6 novels set in Asia that span 400-ish years. Shogun - 1600 to the last set in the 1990s.

Shogun is one of the best but they are all worth a read.

My rating of the Series.

Shogun & Noble House tied for first. (both were made into mini-series in the 80s)

Tai-Pan

Gai-Jin

King Rat (his first novel, based on personal experence in WW2)

Whirlwind

If you are going all the way back, movie wise, you can start at Star Trek 2: The Wrath of Khan as the first one is not the strongest.

2, 3 and 4 make a good trilogy.

Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home

Made mid '80’s.

Current politics in the US: Our guy (that is ten years past retirement age) is so much sharper than your guy. (who is also ten years past retirement age)

Want to replicate the fast food taste?

Add shit loads of sugar, salt and butter/oil when you cook.

Like add three times more than you normally would, then add some more.

If you had been a fly on the wall, you would have seen the lines on the table…

Well, at least the front hasn’t fallen off.

Exactly. In the UK version he was not an angry, shouty cunt. That was added for the US show.

It’s as if people think The Rock was actually the heel he played in WWE or Anthony Hopkins is actually a cannibal who kills and eats people.

Cool.

Let the short selling begin.