Fear the Future

I thought since I'm probably going incommunicado for a week in the wilderness of North Little Rock, I'd slap up some old school robo-pocalypse fear mongering.

"Behold my works, ye mighty, and despair...

It's an autonomous aircraft/drone that has a full weapons bay (4,500 lbs).   Say that word again:  autonomous.   That's the breakthrough feature.  This also means:
It can make its own "kill decision."  Again and again and again.  That decision is going to get better and better and cheaper and cheaper (Moore's law has made insect level intelligence available for pennies, rat intelligence is next).
It isn't vulnerabe to a pilot in Nevada directing it to land in Iran. Oops.
It will eventually (sooner than you think) be the "Queen," making decisions for thousands of smaller swarmed (semi-autonomous) drones it lays on a battle zone (aka "city").  
In sum:  It allows an unprecedented automation of conventional violence.   

Well.  That wasn't as fun or funny as I planned it to be.

Here's a dog on acid to make up for the doom and gloom.

East Coast vs. West Coast

Not to be outdone by their Angeleno competitors, Boston is now hosting "military exercises."

Joint federal military training exercises will take place within and around the Boston area between July 26th and August 5th. Military personnel will conduct training exercises to ensure the military’s ability to operate in urban environments, prepare forces for upcoming overseas deployments, and meet mandatory training certification requirements. Helicopters will be used in some exercises.

The Boston Police Department is working with military personnel to coordinate training sites that will minimize negative impacts on our Boston citizens and their daily routines. Safety precautions have been taken to prevent risk to the general public and the military personnel involved. With that, training site locations are not open to the public and will be guarded by uniformed personnel to provide additional safety.

How long, now?  A year? A month? Should be interesting, anyway...

Uh huh. Right.

How much of this do we choose to believe?

LOS ANGELES (CNS) - Joint military training exercises will be held evenings in downtown Los Angeles through Thursday, according to the Los Angeles Police Department.

I'll buy that.

The LAPD will be providing support for the exercises, which will also be held in other portions of the greater Los Angeles area, police said.

This seems legit, too.

Training sites ``have been carefully selected to ensure the event does not negatively impact the citizens of Los Angeles and their daily routine,'' a department official said.

Nuh-uh.  How in the hell do they expect this not to "impact the citizens?" 

The training, which a department official said would involve helicopters, has been coordinated with local authorities and owners of the training sites, police said.

I also believe this to be true (-ish).

Police said safety precautions have been taken to prevent risk to the general public and military personnel involved.

Sure, why not? But the fact that you're hosting military training among a civilian population means that the civilians are inherently less safe than if you stayed at home.

The exercises are closed to the public, police said.

I'll buy that,too.

The exercises are designed to ensure the military's ability to operate in urban environments, prepare forces for upcoming overseas deployments, and meet mandatory training certification requirements, police said.

 

Nope.  Overseas deployment, my ass.  They're testing whether or not citizens will kick when presented with being "liberated" by the military.

Companies asking for "Internet Presence"

On the one hand it seems kind of silly.  Sort of dumbing down the hiring process for those retarded stepchildren we call gen-y.


On the other hand, they say they're getting better quality candidates, so it must have some merit.

This is gen-x.  Gen-Y is suddenly seeming a lot more qualified...

On the gripping hand, if it works to get qualified candidates, it will soon be illegal and racist.

Union Square Ventures recently posted an opening for an investment analyst.

Instead of asking for résumés, the New York venture-capital firm—which has invested in Twitter, Foursquare, Zynga and other technology companies—asked applicants to send links representing their "Web presence," such as a Twitter account or Tumblr blog. Applicants also had to submit short videos demonstrating their interest in the position.

Everyone is Objectified

Just like the title says, everyone is objectified.  Feminists are wrong because they think it's terrible to be objectified, specifically to be a sexual object. Girlwriteswhat, asks if they would prefer to be disposable objects rather than precious ones.

I have to say, it's a little disorienting to find strong agreement from a short-haired men's clothing wearing female.  Like a breath of fresh air inside a very strange closet...

So, is he saying he's a rapist?

Some councilman just admitted to being a rapist, I think.

“I would say to continue to advocate for the instrumentalities of violence is contrary to a large group of people in this community,” Brown said during Monday's meeting. “The fact that you see me standing up here, I represent that segment of this community, the community that often times you will find yourself dealing with in a negative manner.”

In late October, in the wake of an attempted rape at a popular park in Spartanburg County, Wright implored female residents to obtain concealed weapons permits, saying that residents need to fight back. The comments made national news and precipitated a spike in interest in concealed weapons classes.

Unless there has been a spate of white folks shooting black folks, this man needs to reconsider how he says things.  Essentially, he just said "I am a rapist, please don't shoot me."

My advice to politicians is simply this: "shut the fuck up, you lousy piece of shit."  This is also my advice to teenagers, straight people, gays, baby-boomers, gen-x douchebags, gen-y lard-asses,  the elderly,the religious, military members, civilians and cripples.  I can't wait until I'm asked to speak at a high school graduation. It's going to be the most popular lynching in history.   Ever since that naked jew on a stick about 2000 years ago, anyway.

Nazi's on the moon!

It's going to open in Berlin.  Bad taste, or awesome?  I can't decide.

I have to see this movie, though. I don't know if it's going to be awesome, or the worst thing ever.  Either way, I need to see it.

Interplanetary zeppelins, meteorblitzkreig, cute little kids throwing HJ salutes instead of raising their hands to speak in class... I'm betting on awesomely bad.

Pre-Crime

Okay, all the feel good bullshit from the last day or so is over.  New Jersey is going to start spotlighting people they think are about to commit a crime.

Two thoughts: how long before this gets abused?  I'm betting on the first night shift it's in use, at about 2200 hours.


Also, why do police chiefs get to wear so many damn stars?  Does this guy really think that being the chief of police for East Orange, New Jersey equates with being a Vice Admiral?

All is not lost...

...at least not yet.

Remember when the nerdosphere was all a fluster over Lily Collins being cast as as Mia, the drug addict analogue to Ash in the Sam Raimi-produced, Diablo Cody-spruced-up The Evil Dead remake? Well, cool it since word is she’s out now.  Variety’s Jeff Sneider Tweeted this today:

What?  Three fairly happy posts in a row?  They're going to take away my misanthrope card.

I Think I'm in Love

I've found someone who is quite adept at being almost as unpleasant as I am paid to be, and it happens to be my favorite british actress! 

I simply cannot get enough of hearing the line "in these moments, you can normally find an italian who isn't too picky."

Me and Maggie Smith are the new Shake 'n' Bake. 

All is well, and all will be well...

Really, how bad can life be when some 90 pound nerd guesses "donkey punch" on jeopardy?

I have not the words for how awesome that is.

Someone call the Nobel Committee

I have found a(nother?) universal constant: The whining of the feminist.

The Daily Mail, in an editorial of April 17, 1912, claimed that it was The Law of the Sea that: ‘Those who are saved are not the strong and able-bodied but the weak and the dependent — not the grasping millionaire from the private suite on the promenade deck, clutching a roll of bank-notes . . . but the defenceless wives and sisters and children.’
Yet surprisingly, perhaps, such an attitude provoked sharp responses from early feminists, who believed that ‘women and children first’ infantilised women, and it gave rise to the slogan ‘Votes not Boats’ for the female sex.
The Mail published several feminist ripostes to its celebration of chivalrous behaviour on the Titanic.
Flora Annie Steel — a forgotten name now, but a famous author in 1912 — wrote a poem in the paper saying that the men who perished in the Titanic disaster achieved a mercifully quick death and instant glory whereas their wives were left to grieve and fend for themselves. ‘Women and children last! That is the law of the land.’

Item: Feminists complain they're infantilised when men die in order to let them live.

Item: Feminists complain when they're left to die in order to let men live.

Item: Feminists complain when men want to have sexy times with them.

Item: Feminists complain when men choose to play video games and avoid being ruined by marriage to a whore.

Query: How much more will we put up with?

UPDATE: This is not to say this is all womyn's fault, sometimes (i.e. more often than not) guys fall into the trap of thinking women are too stupid to get in out of the rain.

We now live in a society where a girl can walk outside, in the pouring rain, without a coat or umbrella and is no one offers their own coat or umbrella. Oh but surely that wouldn’t happen! Yes it would.

Chivalry is nice and all, but this guy seems to believe all that bullshit Male Privledge he's been spoon-fed.  Here's a tip: chivalry only works from a position of strength, otherwise it's slavery.  If I'm required by society to care for someone stronger than me, what else would you call it?

The Purity Bear

The current state of christer-anity is awesome.  What is the church's answer to sluts?  Marry them.

That's the message, right?  If you find a girl who's willing to put out on the FIRST DATE, run, don't walk, to the Altar.  What's the worst that could happen, right?

I seem to remember a time, not too terribly long ago, when churches participated in a little game called slut-shaming.  Who would have thought that guys like mark driscoll and the slut walkers would converge like this?

Ninja Turtles, or Demon Spawn? You decide.

Actually, let these guys with awesome beards decide for you.

Nice sweater, dude.

I am wildly jealous

Something awesome to pass the time.