Hey, I drink Caffeine-Free Diet Coke. Don’t like sugar and don’t need the caffeine. So it actually tastes better than regular Coke.
Regarding the claims by the FCC and other biased companies that state that power-line networking “may become the next pathway into homes for high-speed Internet access”.
The idea of a personal Internet connection over power lines is preposterous, since other technologies are clearly better and more stable. We all know that power-line noise is not conductive to data flow. The FCC claims 1-Mbps and even 10-Mbps systems. Bah! Most Network Engineers are suspicious. Hello? We have wireless technology, mesh concepts, and Ethernet-to-the-home initiatives! Screw power-line networking!
The real reason to promote power-line networking is so appliances of the future can be monitored and controlled from remote locations. Can you imagine every plug in the house being a TCP/IP connection? Big Brother! Abuse I say!
Screw power-line networking. It’s useless.
Dehydrated life boat - Just add water!
Subtitles for books-on-tape, for the deaf.
Nose hair comb.
Water-proof sugar.
Digital matches.
Aha, it’s all a great big conspiracy! The evil Federal government is going to sneak TCP/IP-based monitoring devices into our toasters and egg beaters, and spy on us whenever we plug them in! This is, of course, because the evil Federal government is totally incapable of monitoring TCP/IP traffic over ordinary Internet connections Obviously, if the network traffic were going over power lines instead of phone lines, all the NSA’s and CIA’s difficulties in Internet wiretapping would be solved. I guess you’d netter get your tinfoil hat out of storage to deflect the mind-control rays they’re going to beam at you from the power lines, too.
(Note: Sarcastic portions of the above may not be so indicated.)
Well, there was the Davy Crockett. Range = 1500m Blast radius 3000m.
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Stockpiled from 1960 to 1971, the Davy Crockett brought nuclear capability to the infantry. :eek:
Great! Where do I get my nuclear bazooka? (Why should the mobile infantry in the Starship Troopers novel be the only ones who can shoot hand-held nukes at each other?)
WTF? A piece of outrageous tech from Paranoia has a basis in reality?
I hope nobody minds that I fixed the code after quoting.
*Originally posted by Tapioca Dextrin *
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Stockpiled … infantry.
I think I’ll add vB to the list :smack:
The Battery-powered Battery charger that only charges its own batteries was from a comic strip, IIRC. Either Garfield, or Calvin and Hobbes. I dunno why, I just think there was a feline in it. q;}
Dehydrated Water for your Food Storage needs.
Just add water!
Might have been Garfield . . . I knew if I kept checking back here, I’d get my answer! 
3/4 of the crap you get in Master of Orion III.
Inverse toaster. Freezes individual slices of bread.
Bluetooth: like normal wireless, but crappier!
The Circular Logic Device.
Its only function is to create other Circular Logic Devices.
Hey, I could use that. Bakeable-chocolate-icing-meant-for-toast is too hard to spread on unfrozen bread.