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  • August 2, 2019 at 12:05 am

    “I can see…”?

    Holy shit it’s worse than we thought…

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    • August 2, 2019 at 12:26 am

      Not that our phones, computers, teevees, and frickin’ cars aren’t also watching our every move.

      How many shells ya got, Skye?

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  • August 2, 2019 at 12:10 am
    Too Tall

    I love a happy ending.

    P.S. Chris, I received the original today of Keiko demonstrating her shotgun skills on Sam’s last deep-fried (carbonized?) turkey. Superb, and thank you!

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  • August 2, 2019 at 12:12 am
    Too Tall

    Alexa makes HAL look like a good guy.

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    • August 2, 2019 at 3:14 am
      Saaruuk

      GOOD!!! Somebody else caught the ref. 😀 😀 😀

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    • August 2, 2019 at 6:29 am
      Toxic Deplorable B Woodman

      I was thinking that Alexa was sounding like HAL. But only for a moment. PULL!

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      • August 2, 2019 at 8:18 am

        I believe Alexa was quoting HAL’s line.

      • August 2, 2019 at 5:27 pm
        Henry

        “I’m sorry, Alexa, I can’t do that.”

    • August 2, 2019 at 10:26 am
      Punta Gorda

      Hal was the victim. The evil was the government giving it conflicted orders.

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      • August 2, 2019 at 8:15 pm

        Then as now. Though some will argue that they are not one and the same, evil gov can only be evil with the complicity of evil enablers.

  • August 2, 2019 at 12:25 am
    NotYetInACamp

    So much for what I did not comment yesterday about what happens when after Alexa (or others) leave and then the toaster, refrigerator, utility meter, oven, washing machine and dryer, vacuum cleaner, toothbrush, razor, LED lights, other lights, vehicles, power tools, phones, computers, and all the items composing the internet of things continue communicating with and reporting to Alexa or her bosses in such a manner that they know when our innards gurgle, much less when we fart.
    Well that part about continuing to report to the AI god bosses kind of worries me.

    Where do those open iris physically plugged in wire-heads running the tech overlord corporations fit into this? Will they upload to their AI god eventually and continue the reign of terror control they desire? Or am I just over speculating?

    Or: “PULL!’

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    • August 2, 2019 at 8:58 am

      PULLPULLPULLPULLPULLPULLPULLPULLETCETCETC!!!

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      • August 2, 2019 at 8:21 pm
        NotYetInACamp

        ETC!!!

  • August 2, 2019 at 12:34 am
    Pamela

    What in God’s Good Name is Skye shooting with?

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    • August 2, 2019 at 12:52 am
      kadaka

      Forget the name, has dual magazine tubes and holds like 24 Aguila Minishells. Something that would be joked about for repelling nonexistent mindless zombie hordes, until you’ve seen Antifa swarm.

      But where are the ear muffs and eye protection? They’re helpful when making Alexa shrapnel.

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    • August 2, 2019 at 1:00 am
      Alec Horne

      It’s a Kel Tec.

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    • August 2, 2019 at 1:25 am
      JSStryker

      It is a Kel Tec Shotgun, a nice bullpup 12 gau.ge shotgun

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      • August 2, 2019 at 10:40 am
        Pamela

        Santa..I know what I want for Christmas

      • August 2, 2019 at 12:28 pm
        kadaka

        But you’re in Kalifornia therefore have no need for nor right to own “weapons of goddamned mass destruction” according to your Beloved Governor Newsom. However if you act now you could pick up a useful Midland Backpack before they’re declared a concealable weapon and you have to register it.

      • August 2, 2019 at 7:14 pm
        Pamela

        Interesting Peace Keeper. I’m thinking Ole Henry
        https://www.henryusa.com/news/the-side-gate-lever-action-a-first-for-henry/

      • August 2, 2019 at 7:56 pm
        kadaka

        “I’m thinking Ole Henry”

        Huh, it’s a Marlin 336 but with shiny brass at twice the price. Well those Henrys sure are real purty display pieces, really brighten up the room hanging on the wall, yes they do. 😉

  • August 2, 2019 at 12:39 am
    Alec Horne

    I’m feeling much better, Dave.

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  • August 2, 2019 at 1:01 am
    WayneM

    But soft, what light through yonder comic strip breaks? It is a rational thought and Skye is pulling the trigger! Pull, fair Sam, and kill the envious Alexa…

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    • August 2, 2019 at 7:09 am
      GWB

      Would be sweet irony if they had hooked up the skeet trap to the IoT and said “Alexa, pull!”

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  • August 2, 2019 at 1:17 am
    John M.

    Kel-Tec KSG 12 pump-action shotgun. Two tubular magazines that each hold 7-2¾” shells or 6-3″ shells. (or like Kadaka said 24 of the Aquila 1½” mini shells) The gunner can select which magazine he wants to draw from, so you could one “tube” with #1 Buck and the other with slugs, and select your feed as the situation dictates.

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    • August 2, 2019 at 2:00 am
      kadaka

      Over $700 at Bud’s. But watch the video at link, the KSG is downward ejecting and Skye shouldering the stock with that top is NOT recommended.

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      • August 2, 2019 at 7:13 am
        GWB

        And, despite Skye being a still-leftie, a Princess Bride quote seems appropriate:
        “There’s a shortage of perfect breasts in this world. It would be a pity to damage yours.”

      • August 2, 2019 at 8:00 am
        PaulS

        My first thought was that she should be nekkid, for exactly that reason. 😉

      • August 2, 2019 at 6:48 pm
        JSStryker

        Check Palmetto State Armory they have them for $649

  • August 2, 2019 at 5:22 am
    Bill G

    I don’t recall what all of us were discussing, but I mentioned the Kel-Tec to the group and one young lady immediately searched it on her phone. After seeing it, she then announced “I know what I want for Christmas!”

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  • August 2, 2019 at 7:20 am
    GWB

    For years I’ve wanted to be able to say “Computer”, and have it respond “Working…”*. Then I could ask it to do/find what I needed.

    So, why am I so anti-Alexa/Siri/Whatnot?

    Because I wanted to talk to MY computer. I don’t want to talk to the master computer in Silicon Valley. Or China. I want to talk to MY computer and have IT do the search or whatnot.

    It’s not the computer knowing what I want or like, and being able to act as my servant, it’s the centralization and that it’s somebody else.

    It’s much like the problem so many folks have with e-books and streaming movies: you don’t really own it; you’re simply allowed to access it at their whim. Thanks. If I really want it, I’ll buy a CD/hardcopy and keep it where I control it and can use it as I wish.

    (* I’m guessing you can’t make Siri or Alexa sound like Majel Barrett. Probably licensing issues. I could make MY computer do that, and not break a single IP law. One more argument against the Big Tech approach.)

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    • August 2, 2019 at 9:42 am
      Spin Drift

      I bet your computer doesn’t have the Photon torpedoes that Majel had. I don’t think there was an episode that they weren’t locked and loaded.

      Spin
      Kirk, you magnificent bastard, I’ve got you now!

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  • August 2, 2019 at 7:29 am
    Richard

    First, without reading the dialog, I though it was that Solar Sail deployment by the Planetary Society. Then I started the dialog and I started with Skynet. Instapundit – “Skynet Smiles”. Then Hal 9000 and the shot gun. Then it made sense.

    Sorry!

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  • August 2, 2019 at 8:23 am

    So you’re not a fan of Multivac running the world? (Yes, an Asimov reference.)

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    • August 2, 2019 at 4:45 pm
      A blast from the past

      GRIOT ?

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  • August 2, 2019 at 8:46 am
    Steve H

    Is Alexa going to sing Bicycle Built For Two on the way out?

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  • August 2, 2019 at 9:45 am
    Spin Drift

    Hal, I don’t think we are going to be in Texas anymore, WWheeee………………BoooooM

    Spin
    How can you shoot such an innocent ‘bot? Easy, you don’t lead’em as much.

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  • August 2, 2019 at 11:58 am
    canuck49

    I knew I fell in love with Skye all those years ago for a reason… and not just because she was a ‘fallen’ woman!!

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    • August 2, 2019 at 9:09 pm
      interventor

      A gentleman appreciates a woman with a past. It gives him hopes for the future.

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  • August 2, 2019 at 2:17 pm
    Browncoat

    From ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ to a segue into “The Princess Bride’ then on to ‘Full Metal Jacket’. We’re covering all the bases here…

    ‘Shiny!’

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    • August 2, 2019 at 7:44 pm
      Spin Drift

      You missed Majel Barrett’s (Gene Rodenberry’s squeeze) photon torpedoes about half a page up.

      Spin

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      • August 2, 2019 at 9:30 pm
        Browncoat

        Dammit! You’re right…

  • August 2, 2019 at 3:15 pm
    CaptDMO

    I’m so old I remember……
    Electronic hockey pucks, so ‘puter resolution cameras could track ’em on the ice for the viewers that normally take the short bus.
    Wait…wait….which one of those is the small, hockey puck sized, units?

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  • August 2, 2019 at 3:21 pm

    Bye, Alexa…

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  • August 2, 2019 at 3:24 pm
    Pete231

    Kel-Tec KSG12 ….. Dana Loesch would abide……

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  • August 2, 2019 at 8:09 pm

    Sorry OT again y’all but I’m busting…proof positive that among the darkness and worry for the future of our Republic and our world, there is also such hope and light:

    https://poetnthepawnbroker.blogspot.com/2019/08/my-baby-is-pilot.html

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    • August 2, 2019 at 8:31 pm
      NotYetInACamp

      You are blessed. Congratulations.

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      • August 2, 2019 at 8:34 pm
        NotYetInACamp

        All of you are blessed, and all of us by it.

      • August 2, 2019 at 9:50 pm

        Thank you Sir.

  • August 2, 2019 at 10:21 pm
    cb

    Items of interest will be located, identified, monitored, and remotely controlled through technologies such as radio-frequency identification, sensor networks, tiny embedded servers, and energy harvesters – all connected to the next-generation internet using abundant, low-cost, and high-power computing.

    David Petraeus

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