Don't have a gigantic, computer controlled saw?
Under the headline, "Gigantic robots, controlled by wireless, to fight our battles", the Californian paper ran a sensational – and terrifying - story about the impending future of warfare.
But I can't help but see a gigantic TV remote control.
"James B. Hunt is one cog in a gigantic mechanism of control David Syndrome wishes to free mankind from," he said in the email.
They're both child prodigies following in the footsteps of their fathers; they're both partial to taking a chance; and they both find themselves at the controls of a gigantic and gigantically expensive machine, at an inordinately young age.
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At Japan's ministry of education, culture, sports, science and technology, a gigantic bureaucracy that controls most of the grants for research here, officials say they have recognized that simply throwing huge sums of money at science will not increase scientific output.
But The Big Short tells a much larger and more important story: it's about Wall Street's un-regulated, un-policed and out-of-control gigantic banks and their bankers making huge, high risk bets in an insatiable pursuit of billions of dollars in bonuses (more than $127 billion in New York City alone in the five years before the crash).
"He didn't quite know how to control his mammoth, gigantic size, now that he was playing a more physical game in North America, with smaller ice and more body contact.
"Computers at this time were viewed as gigantic brains that would control our lives," says historian Brian Dear.
