I’ll have to see who came up with that. It was in one of those interminable online discussions about IT (not Information Tech, but the codename for the ridiculously overhyped Segway scooter before it was officially unveiled). People were making all sorts of absurd claims about what IT was going to be and the power source it would use. The thing about using the heat of bread to power a toaster came up in a relatively useful side discussion which may have resulted in a few readers’ going off to read up about how Stirling engines are not in fact perpetual motion machines.

What a bunch of silliness that Segway pre-launch hype was. We relive it in some small way every time Apple announces an iProduct. Sigh.

I would not pooh-pooh the danger. Many buildings have computer operated locks, so they could just shoot down, and people would not get to their offices. Classes in all newer buildings on my campus would be cancelled. Some students would buy kegs for want of anything else to do. Can you imagine the resulting chaos?

Yep. ‘Cos once the computingery dinguses shut down, all the buildings fall down out of shame and sympathy.

Computeringerized dinguses are a trans-humanist’s fondest dream, so if they were to shut down, of course the world would end.

“Cap’n, I cannae understand the controols in this al Qaeda rust bucket!”

Perhaps they’ve got a cloaking device.

Wouldn’t that be convenient?

Yes. It’s called “The Stupid Bomb”. It’s very cunning, and involves tricking people into watching Faux News and listening to talkback radio. That makes their brains melt and run out of their ears. Voila, instant victory! Plus a lot of messy earwax.

China, North Korea and most probably, Iran have made progress on it and it involves a simple delivery of an electromagnetic bomb that would knock out all systems in America and end up shutting down our entire infrastructure.

Unfortunately, the North Korean one passed by at the same time as a passenger plane, stuck immovably to the fuselage, and is now humming away quite happily on a disused airfield.

The Chinese one is being delivered by a takeaway noodle guy on his bicycle. He’s pretty busy, so you’ll be waiting a while.

that would knock out all systems in America and end up shutting down our entire infrastructure.

Yep. ‘Cos once the computingery dinguses shut down, all the buildings fall down out of shame and sympathy.

This is a very real threat and would only take a delivery system from say, an Al Queda rust bucket and send it over a major area of America, no target guided system needed, just the way to send it up, explode and disable our network of systems, from hospitals to government it would devastate all of us.

Hey, listen, we Islamofascicommiefeminazigheyturrists down here have some bloody good cricket players: we’ve send a few over to Arabistan, so all our sharia-lovin’ comrades have to do is throw the thing up in the air and the batsmen will whack it well over the fence. Errr, ocean. No worries.

Yes. The S Field continually creates stupid, at the rate of one solar mass of idiocy per cubic megaparsec per year.

This field has negative energy, driven by the effects of high energy particles of dipshit called “Ignoratons”…

mikey

Mr. Podhoretz, who has been growing progressively more insane since roughly 1960…

Would that be a steady state growth in insanity level? Or more like a compound annual insanity? Or, wow, could he possibly have been growing exponentially more crazy with each year? My god! The possibilities!

Poddy is the new “potty”

(I cannot believe this guy is advising anyone. I wouldn’t let him babysit stuffed animals.)

The fact is, liberals are insane if they cannot see how this is great for USA troops and our President, long may he rain.

How long? I would imagine about 13 months longer. And Gary, we’ve figured out you’re in Bangalore. Go home and make some curried chicken.