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JackOLantern1337 Shameful Display from The Most Miserable Province in the Russian Empir Since: Aug, 2014 Relationship Status: 700 wives and 300 concubines
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#97501: Jul 30th 2015 at 5:30:27 PM

[up] I suppose I was over reacting. I mean it's not like we kept our desire to get to the moon secret from the Soviets, and the Chinese will probably find a way to steal our designs no mater what we do.

Edit: Though I never said this thing should be kept secret permanently, just until it would be to late for the Chinese to construct a computer faster than us, and beat put it out before we did.

edited 30th Jul '15 5:31:38 PM by JackOLantern1337

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Kostya (Unlucky Thirteen)
#97502: Jul 30th 2015 at 5:45:18 PM

Here's a question. Why does it matter? I'm tired of these stupid dick measuring contests.

NativeJovian Jupiterian Local from Orlando, FL Since: Mar, 2014 Relationship Status: Maxing my social links
Jupiterian Local
#97503: Jul 30th 2015 at 5:47:39 PM

Eh, there's no real value in keeping that sort of thing secret. It's great if we're going to do it (especially if it's opened to public use as long as they publish their results, like... another supercomputer in the US whose name I can't remember right now), and if it gets us the world's most powerful computer, then even better — but it's not worth doing just for the bragging rights.

Really from Jupiter, but not an alien.
LeGarcon Blowout soon fellow Stalker from Skadovsk Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Gay for Big Boss
Blowout soon fellow Stalker
#97504: Jul 30th 2015 at 5:51:39 PM

Jack, did I catch you making some sort of implication that China is a world power than can compete with us?

Oh really when?
AngelicBraeburn from Eccentric California Since: Jan, 2015
TheyCallMeTomu Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Anime is my true love
#97506: Jul 30th 2015 at 6:11:46 PM

As much as I like Bernie, it's probably for the best that he not sabotage Democrat efforts by running as a third party, yeah.

kkhohoho (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#97507: Jul 30th 2015 at 6:35:20 PM

[up]If it's best Bernie not sabotage Democratic efforts by running as a third party, then is it best if Trump sabotages Republican efforts by running as a third party?

LeGarcon Blowout soon fellow Stalker from Skadovsk Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Gay for Big Boss
Blowout soon fellow Stalker
#97508: Jul 30th 2015 at 6:36:24 PM

Yes it is. Trump runs for a third party he'll basically split the Republican voter base in two and hand us the easiest win in history.

Oh really when?
Fighteer Lost in Space from The Time Vortex (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: TV Tropes ruined my love life
Lost in Space
#97509: Jul 30th 2015 at 6:40:36 PM

[up][up] It's good for Democrats if Trump runs as an independent.

And yeah, why do we care what China does?

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Mopman43 Since: Nov, 2013
#97510: Jul 30th 2015 at 9:20:06 PM

Even better if they decide to compete. We build a super computer, they build one better, we say " How about Mars?" and, boom, space colonies by 2030!

Ramidel Since: Jan, 2001
#97511: Jul 30th 2015 at 9:39:14 PM

Speaking of Trump, #2. (Disclaimer: Cracked article funnyjournalism.)

Cracked argues that Trump's trashing of his brand doesn't affect his bottom line much, while running for office is (as ever) a profitable business for him. The fact that this time he's getting actual people to listen to him is just gravy.

Regarding the supercomputer thing, I still wonder why we can't just ask Sony to unlock the PS 3's firmware again. The Air Force already knows that you don't need a supercomputer if you have enough P S3s.

edited 30th Jul '15 9:39:29 PM by Ramidel

probablyinsane Since: Oct, 2011 Relationship Status: I LOVE THIS DOCTOR!
#97512: Jul 31st 2015 at 1:05:00 AM

We'll get the Matrix first, and once we get the Matrix, we'll be too distracted to go back to the moon.

If next week, the polls still say that Trump is the Republican favorite, I'm gonna assume it's like what happened with British elections.

Plants are aliens, and fungi are nanomachines.
TotemicHero No longer a forum herald from the next level Since: Dec, 2009
No longer a forum herald
#97513: Jul 31st 2015 at 6:08:46 AM

D.C. is sinking...and it has nothing to do with that one thing Republicans like to deny.

We might have to find a new capital city...

Expergiscēre cras, medior quam hodie. (Awaken tomorrow, better than today.)
Rationalinsanity from Halifax, Canada Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
#97514: Jul 31st 2015 at 6:54:09 AM

Nice to see that Sanders isn't nuts.

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
Silasw A procrastination in of itself from A handcart to hell (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: And they all lived happily ever after <3
A procrastination in of itself
#97515: Jul 31st 2015 at 8:38:40 AM

[up][up] Glacial rebound is a real problem in a lot of places, it's why the south of England is sinking too (as observable on the Scily Isles, where old field walls and such are now underwater and where Roman records called the whole lot one island).

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#97516: Jul 31st 2015 at 11:02:08 AM

[up][up][up]Denver. We've got the central location, the sprawling purple mountains' majesty referenced in the freakin' anthem, and the secret NWO FEMA camps beneath DIA.

"I have no fear, for fear is the little death that kills me over and over. Without fear, I die but once."
speedyboris Since: Feb, 2010
#97517: Jul 31st 2015 at 11:10:21 AM

[up] Outstanding choice!

...Wait, what was that third thing you said? tongue

edited 31st Jul '15 11:11:15 AM by speedyboris

TotemicHero No longer a forum herald from the next level Since: Dec, 2009
No longer a forum herald
#97518: Jul 31st 2015 at 12:03:31 PM

Well, assuming that you'll want to pick a city that a) is fairly sizable already and b) sits close enough to state borders so they can make it its own district again without ruffling too many feathers, there's a pretty clear leading candidate.

Kansas City, Missouri. Bonus points for being more geographically centered than D.C. is now.

Expergiscēre cras, medior quam hodie. (Awaken tomorrow, better than today.)
AngelusNox Warder of the damned from The guard of the gates of oblivion Since: Dec, 2014 Relationship Status: Married to the job
Warder of the damned
#97519: Jul 31st 2015 at 12:29:23 PM

Or you could go they way Netherlands did, sea reclaiming is a thing

Inter arma enim silent leges
LeGarcon Blowout soon fellow Stalker from Skadovsk Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Gay for Big Boss
Blowout soon fellow Stalker
#97520: Jul 31st 2015 at 12:30:18 PM

I vote for Hoboken, New Jersey as our capital.

Just for shits and giggles.

Oh really when?
JackOLantern1337 Shameful Display from The Most Miserable Province in the Russian Empir Since: Aug, 2014 Relationship Status: 700 wives and 300 concubines
Shameful Display
#97522: Jul 31st 2015 at 1:17:26 PM

[up][up] I say New York City, because of the Bagels[lol] That or move it back to Philidelphia for traditions sake.

I Bring Doom,and a bit of gloom, but mostly gloom.
ironballs16 Since: Jul, 2009 Relationship Status: Owner of a lonely heart
#97523: Jul 31st 2015 at 1:36:06 PM

[up]

I'd vote for somewhere in the upper Midwest, partially to shut the Bible Belt folks up about "Real America" and because there's plenty of vacant land out there.

"Why would I inflict myself on somebody else?"
JackOLantern1337 Shameful Display from The Most Miserable Province in the Russian Empir Since: Aug, 2014 Relationship Status: 700 wives and 300 concubines
Shameful Display
#97524: Jul 31st 2015 at 1:48:28 PM

[up] Oh maybe we could be like the Romans and bulldoze a city we really don't like, to build our new Capitol, how about one in the south, preferably with a large racist population.

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Ogodei Fuck you, Fascist sympathizers from The front lines Since: Jan, 2011
Fuck you, Fascist sympathizers
#97525: Jul 31st 2015 at 1:56:31 PM

That is the funny thing, because those financial reforms are piss-weak but have Wall Street completely losing their shit. Of course, the margins make all the difference in the cutthroat world of finance, even if at the end of the day they're still making billions of dollars, a small change to our eyes could be a $10 million difference to them.


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