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There's a long, long, long list of amazing wonders science has created. Most of those weren't expected. Meanwhile, all the expected inventions (flying cars, jetpacks, personal rocket ships, hoverboards (a lot of flying things really), mind control, easy genetic manipulation, AI, humanoid robots, etc) have but a few things that actually came to fruition.

... we have flying cars (if not very good ones), jetpacks (see quality of cars), could have personal rocket ships if anyone was rich and flighty enough to build one, have indoctrination and nasty psych tricks out the wazoo (to say nothing of more subtle means of memetic influence~), have plenty of humanoid robots of varying levels of quality. AI and hoverboards aren't really here yet (and the latter might not actually come around), and genetic manipulation is fairly nascent, still, but... that's more checked off than not. More "expected inventions" have been hit, if perhaps not became ubiquitous, over the years than haven't. Many of the ones that either haven't been (hoverboards) or haven't became ubiquitous (flying cars, jetpacks), haven't due mostly because of the fact we've got something else that just works better (or, at least, is much less expensive and still works well enough).

S'just... sorry Kaij. We've been in sci-fi land for at least a good decade or two, now. We are also wizards. Even a small population of WIZARDS IN SPAAAACE *doodadoo*. That's just how good, on the net, we've become in the field of science and whatnot.

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Oh. Oh my goodness. I thought that was your browser's skin! Oh dear lord that's terrifying.

It's only, like, maybe a couple hundred. I'm still a few dozen off from the point opera starts flipping out.

It does use up, well... But it's less than firefox did with an equivalent (well, much less, actually) amount of tabs, sooo...

Please tell me how to do that in FF so I can fit more tabs onto my screen.

I think the first step is installing Opera, and then starting it up >_>

In more seriousness, I haven't used FF for anything except at-school browsing or viewing poorly-coded websites (i.e. stuff that only works in IE/FF) in a while, and I never really tried to customize it or whatever when I mained FF. I gots no clue if FF's got some kind of awesome pop-up tab list thing like Opera does.

The tab list thing is like 75% of why I use Opera. Roughly 20% of the remaining reason is because it doesn't flat explode when there's a couple hundred tabs going.

It's Opera. Control+tab is a thing of glory and wonder.

As is true for pretty much everything else paranormal.

There's a prize for showing pretty much any kind of supernatural abilities in a laboratory setting, it's completely unclaimed despite existing since 1964 and having increased to One Million Dollars in size.

There are in fact a great many similar prizes, absolutely all of them are unclaimed. Nobody has ever certifiably demonstrated anything supernatural.

'Course, that doesn't necessarily mean no one ever will, exactly. Fifty or so years isn't much in the grand scheme of things.

Personally, I'm largely skeptical, but I've also directly observed at least one occurrence that, insofar as I can tell, was physically impossible*, so I'm not quite going to say that what's normally termed paranormal's an impossibility. Definitely not yet (sufficiently, in regards to scientific rigor) observed and not something with sufficient empirical justification to assert the existence thereof, but... well, the whole empiricism thing also says my own experience counts as a data point and... *shrug* Hasn't been something that's repeated, but one-off doesn't mean non-existent, just statistically mostly-irrelevant. Which until it can be consistently weaponized, I would consider the paranormal

*Movement without cause, and definitely not sufficient cause based on what other phenomena was observable at the time. Nothing fancy: I had a card that was laying on top of a TV spin -- very quickly, both in terms of rotation and movement -- to the ground at a straight 45 degree angle, in a room with no/little moving air, no vibrations (I was sitting at the time, no passing cars, etc.), no much of anything.

If you're looking for neat symbolism, it was an old MtG Command of Unsummoning card, and it landed face up, facing me. Pretty sure I've still got the card laying around, somewhere. Incidentally, I was much younger, and left the house for a while at that point. 99% sure it was coincidence, sure, but staying or not being equal, at some point you take the pascal's wager and dip, just in case. Probably wasn't a message, but just in case...

See? You get it, Frumple gets it, Kisame gets it. It's like having a spirit animal, only it's less animal and more pokey-crushy-slashy-ouchy.

Spirit animal with claws like sad knives. Perhaps something scaled...

I believe it ought to be a Bay12 tradition to keep exotic weaponry close at hand or by one's bedplace for reassurance or against burgling fellows. Sword for the dishwasher, machete for the thief, halberd for the mailman, kamas for that one imagined stair atop one's most familiar staircase, trebuchet for the alarm clock.

I may have to talk to my hall director about getting the trebuchet moved in over spring break.

... y'know, if I had any interest in jonesing, I'd find my own small assortment of walking sticks to be inadequate.

I mostly just use them to open/close ceiling vents, these days. Sometimes walking! Rarely to poke grass to make sure snakes aren't it in. Occasionally to dry laundry. A length of wood is surprisingly versatile when you don't have much in the way of more specialized tools available.

... yeah, I'm definitely in the more-nervous-around-cops-than-anything crowd. Criminal's probably only after my money, maybe break a leg or something. Cop goes bad, I'm probably either dead or framed for something, and either way my life is effectively over -- and even better, at least the criminal would probably end up in jail for it. Cop's probably going to go free for putting me in the grave, jail, or hospital. Maybe even get a raise or promotion, a bit down the line.

M'also in the states, though, and have had family in politics. Seen too much bad news and know of too much back-room stuff to be particularly comfortable around law enforcement. Bit too much institutional corruption, at this point.