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Terrible name for your sextape.

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You forgot the Nitrogen.Edit: Maybe sexoxide azane or sexoxide amide?

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An hovercraft? Eh, why not? I was always in awe of the armored one from the GI Joe cartoons.

It's true that I should appreciate more the advanced state of our computing techno. Compared to my parents' generation, I'm truly privelegied.

A cybered dragon? That's an interesting notion. As long as it let me fly on it and don't try to eat me, I may well be satisfied.

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Pick up a clipboard with some random form on it and a pencil, and see where you can go without anybody messing with you some time.

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Not really more dollars.

I used to build industrial software. I built tools people would use to set up controls for industrial stuff.

Failsafes that notice out-of-range settings are almost a standard setting, at least in the software we built. There is a little more to it than just checking a box, but not much. Comes down to filling out some information about the control on the screen: what are the limits, what should happen if it's too high, what should happen if it's too low. Actually, ours had two sets of limits: too high/low and WAY too high/low. So there were four numbers to enter and four sets of reactions (mostly different kinds of alarms) to pick out of a list. I'm pretty sure "lock station" was one of the available reactions. Not a hard thing to set up. Comes with the basic software, not a separate package, not even an add-on.

This was over 10 years ago. I'm sure the software is way better now.

You DO have to have somebody who knows it is available or is willing to call tech support and ask or flip through the manual.

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I doubt they have a tequila button, more's the pity. OTOH, given their proximity to the Caribbean, I think a rum button would be more appropriate.

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Computers sure have made our lives better. I don't think this would have been possible just a few decades ago! It's just like they promised us in all those "The future is here!" films. A simpler, easier, more convenient way to murder each other!

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Upfist for t.A.T.u.!

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"Mandrake, have you ever seen Florida Man drink a glass of water? Vodka, that's they drink, isn't it, and never water? On no account will Florida Man drink water, and not without good reason."

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Hacker could have hit the tequila button instead

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I cod onto your plan pretty quickly.

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Soon, your refrigerator will be able to order drone delivered food, without you even being home. Or even living there anymore

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It OK because that’s the way we’ve always done it.

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The fence went up right after the attack. TWO WEEKS before Trump left office. This is his fence.https://twitter.com/mtgreen...

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Do not, my friends, become addicted to water.

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In their defense, aircraft designers and building engineers do not have legions of highly motivated randos trying to undo their work

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