Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles 2:3: Mousetrap

Hmmm. The growing disconnect between the show I want to watch and the show they want to give me is worrying me.

Dear show and everyone in it: please be smarter.

(I really need an icon for this show, incidentally.)

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I will discuss my other major beef in a later post. In preparation, here is an exercise for the class. We are designing a mass-produced humanoid infiltration/combat robot. As an optional extra, it can be covered with living tissue to simulate human life. Leaving aside the software for now, and keeping in mind cost and time constraints, what hardware do we include? (Yes, Anakin, we will have access to a foundry this semester.)

Privatizing profit, socializing risk

"This is corporate welfare at its most blatant and most odious."

Here, have a prescient post from a year ago Thursday. (Except, as it turns out, the half-trillion figure is a little low.) I can't believe this subprime mortgage mess has been going on for a year.

I get why it's important to keep the financial system operating. I do, really. But it should never, ever have been allowed to get into this state in the first place.

(See also: The Liberal Media Hasten the Red Revolution.)

(Oooh, and also Glenn Greenwald. Who is angry. With reason.

Put another way, this authorizes Hank Paulson to transfer $700 billion of taxpayer money to private industry in his sole discretion, and nobody has the right or ability to review or challenge any decision he makes.

Thanks to archaica for the link.)