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/Oblg. airport logic

Let's face the sad, dirty little fact: the 'average person' is not very smart, and can't really think very far in the future, either. The science of most things is so far over their heads, that they'd sooner believe they're being swindled out of something.

Short story: I used to know a guy who told me once that he thought he could put a bunch of little electric generators with propellers mounted on them on the hood of his car, and get 'free energy', that he'd somehow route to a motor that would improve his gas mileage. No matter how I tried to explain it to him, he just plain would not believe that the losses would far exceed the gains, and that the added air resistance would actually make his fuel economy worse. He literally believed something like this troll image was real. Nothing would persuade him differently.

The above story is more-or-less the Average Person when it comes to science. What's worse: take the average person and add religion? It's even worse, they not only believe most science is bullshit intended to trick them, they believe science is EVIL and Satanic and they're trying to mislead them away from their God. That's the sort of icecream-headache-causing nonsense we're fighting against here.

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In America, naked women look like planets.

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All mouth

Oh, you mean like this?

K5 was doing fine until the car thieves brought this along with them.

I guess Slashdot doesn't count as real life.

No more than Facebook.

There was an entire cell of terrorists that did.

Yeah, the crap about "pushing mankind to its outer limits" is hard to read. Is that really what engineering does?

Well a little. But I don near shit myself when includedn in the quote was "The impact of engineers goes well beyond the mobile apps, the gadgets,

Because yeh - once upon a time we went to the moon, using simple computers and slide rules. That's pressing the limits.

Now pressing the limits is writing apps. http://img.memecdn.com/Cutting...

Better example

bug porn

Oh, hi.

http://rs1img.memecdn.com/why-...

Lucas is a closet Furry? (NSFW if you have stuck-up co-workers)

From you-know-who.

" So why not make Slashdot picutre based only, to open it up more to the masses (who often have the intellectual capacity of a 2-year-old anyway)?..."

I'll give it a shot.

http://troll.me/images/grandma...

http://www.lolwtfcomics.com/up...

http://troll.me/images/bill-or...

http://s2.quickmeme.com/img/e9...

http://global3.memecdn.com/bet...

http://s2.quickmeme.com/img/7e...

Did that convey my message sufficiently?

I live in Asia.

Well that narrows it down.

Our entertainment is going out with people and socializing.

Yeah, no one in the USA *ever* does that.

We like that.

Well bully for you!

Live music is better than listening to some stupid pop artists from your cd's.

http://us14.memecdn.com/Stop-Liking-What-I-Dont-Like_c_115105.jpg

In your opinion, of course, and there are CDs containing other things than pop music, just FYI. I just found a CD of 60s cartoon music and sound effects. I like to crack up the Speed Racer theme during traffic jams to totally mess with the other commuters.

Bands at the restaurants and bars occasionally play covers of those over here,

WOW!!!! o.O The NEVER happens here. Our bands just play scales and basic fingering exercises, or they go off into multihour free form jazz odysseys. Depends on how baked they are.

but you are a failing country

Ah, I wondered when the full bore jingobigotry would show up. I made that neologism up, BTW. Feel free to use it. Hmm. Bingotry?

that is both anti-social and has no understanding of what products are actually worth to pay for.

Nonsense. We so totally understand what products are actually worth to pay for what we see was worth to understand paying for what products.

You are fighting a fight that you cannot win.

Wait, which one you talkin' about?