This is it… we *are* living in the future!

 awesomeness, cats, humor, science  4 Responses »
May 092010
 

OK, we may not have our jetpacks, moon colonies, flying cars, sexbots or personal starships… but our pets are now riding household maintenance robots.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQ-jv8g1YVI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewdbilSWjaM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmXvCPWbnAw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSjX02FIZCk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zp-tqMRY4y

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqlBruE8C7U

And here’s a cat who has learned how to use a robot as an assault transport, to provide a mobility advantage against a larger, more powerful foe:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vf9wHkkNGUU

 Posted by at 10:18 am

F-4 Phantom II weapons loads

 aircraft, awesomeness, photography, weapons  18 Responses »
May 092010
 

Used to be a popular gimmick for aircraft manufacturers to stage photos of their combat aircraft with all the weapons they could carry. I don’t see that too much anymore… possibly because there jsut aren’t all that many new combat aircraft being produced (especially comapred to the 50’s and 60’s, when a major new aircraft could be expected to come along once a year or faster).

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 Posted by at 8:41 am

Active promotion of sedition

 blather, news  7 Responses »
May 082010
 

Oddly, whenever a “right winger” refers to the millions of illegal immigrants as “invaders,” that right winger is inevitably sneered at by the press. And yet… “invasion” is pretty much *exactly* what this jackhole is saying:

http://video.yahoo.com/watch/7165215/18659668

“Why is it that these people – these frail, racist white people – want to keep us out of this country? It’s not because simply the color of our skin, it’s not simply because they just want to exploit us, let me tell you why. Because on this planet right now, of six billion people, at the forefront of the revolutionary movement, is La Raza [translation – “The Race,” ie Hispanics/Latinos/whatever].”

“Our Commandante, Fidel Castro…” 

“We see ourselves – all of us here – as the northern front of a Latin American revolutionary movement.”

“We are a culture of revolutionary spirt.”

“Our enemy is capitalism.”

Here’s the extra-fun part. This moron is a professor at UCLA.

So, yes, the debate about illegal immigration *is* deeply rooted in racism. But not the racism the press tends to bleat on about… instead the racism of La Raza, which seeks to overthrow the US government from within. “Frail white people” would not seem to have much of a role in these idiots vision of the future.

Send this link to everyone you know who gives a crap about the issue of illegal immigration. Especially those who think that Arizona is a racist Nazi state. Ask them to listen to “the professor” and suggest that they simply imagine the same speech coming out of a white guy, with a few changes in national/poitical/ethnic references, and see if they still agree with him.

 Posted by at 4:51 pm

Done in your name, eh…

 AARRRGH, dumbassery, Gah., I'm from the government, projects  9 Responses »
May 082010
 

And the hits just keep on a’comin’…

http://www.thespec.com/article/764809

Hamilton’s police chief admits they got the wrong apartment and the wrong man when officers burst into the home of an unsuspecting refugee from Myanmar who was left terrified and bloodied.

Heavily armed officers were looking for an alleged cocaine dealer who lives in a different unit in the same apartment building as 58-year-old Po La Hay and his two adult children. … Officers handcuffed him and asked if he was the man listed on their warrant, he said. When he said, “No, my name is Po La,” Hay claims officers smashed his face on the floor and began kicking him. …  He has stitches above his left eye, a bruised and bloodied nose and red marks along his back and side. He said one rib is broken and he will have to return to doctors for more tests. He looks less than 100 pounds.

Good job, Officer Friendly. Oh, and the real kicker? The city of “Hamilton” is actually Hamilton, Ontario. As in Canada. So once again people are getting their asses kicked by Big Government because people are willingly buying products for their own use and enjoyment.

 Posted by at 2:33 pm

Looky what I got: Sat V blueprints

 awesomeness, blather, drawings, new products, rockets, spacecraft  12 Responses »
May 072010
 

Got these from the printer today. I currently have four, with more on the way. I haven’t measured ’em precisely, but the actual images are about 10 inches wide by about six feet long. I have the original framed and hanging on a wall, and it looks freakin’ *awesome.*

These are the same blueprints as Space Drawing 4, NASA-MSFC drawing 10M04574 of the Apollo 8 AS-503 Saturn V. But these were printed from a whole new scan (SDWG4 was created by painstakingly stitching together multiple individual scans; this new scan was a single large format full color scan).

Being so large, they were a bit pricey to get. I’m about to release a regular range of prints like this. Keep an eye out for updates. Or just bribe me to speed things along. I take bribes.

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 Posted by at 9:25 pm

Oy.

 AARRRGH, blather, dumbassery, Gah., news, politics  17 Responses »
May 072010
 

I used to live just a few miles from here, and drove past Morgan Hill every day on my drudge-drive to and from work…

http://gatewaypundit.firstthings.com/2010/05/hundreds-of-hispanic-students-leave-school-hold-march-demanding-respect/

About 200 Hispanic teens are marching in Morgan Hill yelling “We want respect!” and “Si se puede!” in reaction to a controversy ignited when the Live Oak High School principal effectively sent four students home for wearing T-shirts with American flags on them during Cinco de Mayo.

Mexican-American students felt the students were being disrespectful on the only day they celebrate their heritage while students sporting red, white and blue said it violated their First Amendment rights.

You want respect? Fine. Start by not acting like a bunch of jackasses, and recognize that this is the United States… and there’s no such thing as a day in which it is inappropriate to display the US flag.

The students say they want people to know they’re proud of their heritage and they believe wearing red, white and blue on Cinco de Mayo is disrespectful.

Goddamnitsomuch….

http://dailycaller.com/2010/05/07/bound-to-taint-prom-gang-violence-retaliation-feared-for-five-students-who-wore-american-flag-apparel-to-school-on-cinco-de-mayo/

It’s prom weekend for juniors and seniors at Live Oak High School, and police are concerned about possible retaliatory gang violence against four students who were were reprimanded by a principal for wearing American flag apparel to the Morgan Hill, Calif., school on Cinco de Mayo.

Dominic Mac, one of the students who donned the American flag attire Wednesday, said during an interview on Fox News Friday morning that he’s been threatened. “I was texted on my phone in class during the last period, for me, and someone texted me and said, ‘Hey, Hispanics are coming back to Live Oak, we’ll be there after school,’ stuff like that.”

And then this:

Film critic Roger Ebert also took to Twitter saying, “Kids who wear American flag T-shirts on 5 May should have to share a lunchroom table with those who wear a hammer and sickle on 4 July.”

I knew Ebert was a moron… but… gah.

 Posted by at 12:02 pm

Who *Didn’t* See This Coming??

 blather, Gah., I'm from the government, news, Obamazombies, politics  7 Responses »
May 072010
 

Remember when Obama & Co. keep yammering about how great Obamacare was going to be, and how health care coverage was going to get so much better, and how is *wasn’t* a socialist takeover and nationalization of the health care industry? How citizens who liked their current health care coverage would be able to keep it? Ah, good times, good times…

http://money.cnn.com/2010/05/05/news/companies/dropping_benefits.fortune/index.htm

Internal documents recently reviewed by Fortune, originally requested by Congress, show what the bill’s critics predicted, and what its champions dreaded: many large companies are examining a course that was heretofore unthinkable, dumping the health care coverage they provide to their workers in exchange for paying penalty fees to the government.

That would dismantle the employer-based system that has reigned since World War II. It would also seem to contradict President Obama’s statements that Americans who like their current plans could keep them. And as we’ll see, it would hugely magnify the projected costs for the bill, which controls deficits only by assuming that America’s employers would remain the backbone of the nation’s health care system.

Long story short… AT&T, Verizon, John Deere and Caterpillar each ran the numbers and have found that it would be cheaper to simply dump health care coverage for their employers and pay the fines instead.

The end result of this is that major companies are going to get out of the health care coverage business for their employees, and those employees will now most likely be stuck with government health care… costly, crappy, communal coverage. And it’s a good question as to *why* employers have been stuck with the requirement to cover employees at all. Are employers legally responsible for employee mortgages as well? Gas bills? Phone bills? Food bills? Why not jsut pay people their wages, and let them buy their own stuff?

But since this has been a generations-long trend, there will be millions of people suddenly dumped into the governments lap with no understanding of how to take care of themselves… and they will have little choice but to turn to Uncle Sam.

Which, I imagine, was the point all along. Some may think of this as “unintended consequences,” but I have the feeling that these are the intended consequences.

Greece, here we come…

 Posted by at 9:55 am

Need *more* creepy?

 dumbassery, I'm from the government, Obamazombies, politics  8 Responses »
May 062010
 

http://www.nytimes.com/gwire/2010/05/03/03greenwire-tough-talking-admin-officials-keep-boot-on-nec-20483.html

“Our job is basically to keep the boot on the neck of British Petroleum,” [Interior Secretary Ken ] Salazar said…

Awesome.

 And here I though governments using boots to crush their enemies was an allusion typically reserved for second and third-world dictatorships.

If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – forever.
George Orwell

 Posted by at 6:03 pm

Bald-Faced Liars

 dumbassery, Obamazombies, politics  4 Responses »
May 052010
 

When you listen to politicans and their lackeys, you expect to be lied to. But the more “professional” the politician, the smoother you expect the lies to be. In the end, you expect the lies to be so well done that they are virtually indistinguishable from reality… just twisted enough to say something that ain’t. It’s relatively rare in American politics for some *major* political operative to tell you a clear and unambiguous lie that is fabulously easy to demonstrate the complete falseness of.

Robert Gibbs, White House Press Secretary, gives us an example of just such an astounding lie.

Gentlemen… BEHOLD!!!

 Posted by at 10:22 pm
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