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Beer Stein Goes Hi Tech
Spudley writes "Beer is a subject close to many slashdot-readers' hearts, so you'll be pleased to learn that Mitsubishi has invented a glass that can tell when it's empty, and order a refill from the bar. Of course, it'll still have to be filled the old fashioned way, but at least the bar staff will know which ones need refilling - the... ehm... empty ones." I
like that it's dishwasher safe. Drunk people can't be trusted to hand wash
glass.
Wonder if I can get my wife to monitor the glass...
A modern day witchhunt.
is to modify one of those Japanese humanoid robots to home-in on the signals from these empty glasses.
Strap a keg on it's back, give it a serious collision avoidance and guidance system, and let it roam the bars, filling empties.
Don't entrust your glass with your credit-card number... :)
:)
Or, on the contrary: "I don't know, darling, maybe I forgot to reset the glass when I left the pub..."
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None. The beer should be open when the woman brings it to you.
BOOYAH!
i dunno about you taco, but about the only thing i won't do when i'm drunk is the dishes.
four-oh-four
how about a beer stein that can scan the crowd in the bar...and then keep ordering you beers until the ladies look good...
"Facts are meaningless. You could use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true." - Homer Simpson
something that i gare about!!!!
I like that it's dishwasher safe. Drunk people can't be trusted to hand wash glass.
Either the bars you go to are staffed by drunks.. or they make you clean your own glasses.
Either way I'd find a new bar.
SF author Larry Niven proposed a beer mug that [...] automatically, silently refilled itself from the keg.
Hmm, in that case, the obvious course of action is to eat the mug.
Accountability on the heads of the powerful.
Power in the hands of the accountable.
Yah, how long before the hackers get involved? This was invented over by MIT after all, so it can't be long before folks have devices to order rounds for folks who aren't done yet, order goofy girly drinks with umbrellas in them instead of the beer the person had been drinking, or even jam a specific mug so that your annoying drunk buddy won't get any more until he gets off his lazy ass and staggers off to the bar.
And wouldn't these need a GPS beacon so that a waitress would know *where* the empty was? And maybe some sort of means of determining what the person was drinking, either special glasses for each offering or have the glasses be uniquely ID'd and the contents updated by the staff at each refill? Yikes. Too hard to implement, too easy to mess with. The only tech advance the local bar needs is some form of EZ-Pass, so I can just wave my keychain at a sensor and they send me a bill or charge my credit card instead of messing with change. That I could use.
You're just jealous 'cuz the voices talk to *me*
Says Mrs B Sober:"My boy, Larry (37), was such a nice boy. Sure he couldn't talk to people so never went out. When he drank at home I would switch to serving him warm milk after the third glass and send him off to bed. Then MBG came along and he could sit in the corner of the pub and the beer kept coming. The MBG didn't know when to stop, didn't order milk after the third glass or snuggle him into bed. MBG killed my son. MBG is responsible because they should have a warning label that says it can enhance addictive behaviour and won't order milk or put you to bed."
Maybe if you sucked the beer, rather than letting it suck you, you would appreciate it more.
I go to the local Irish pub and say:
"Keep this Guinness full"
Then leave a nice tip.
Works every time.
Prolly closer to their guts.
personal attacks hurt, especially when deserved
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Sometimes I reflect back on all the beer I have consumed. Then I look into the glass and think about the workers in the brewery and all of their Hopes and dreams. If I didn't drink this beer, they might be out of work and their dreams would be shattered. Then I say to myself, "It is better that I drink this beer and let their dreams come true than be selfish and worry about my liver." * Jack Handy
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An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools. * Ernest Hemingway
Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut. * Ernest Hemingway
Time is never wasted when you're wasted all the time. *Catherine Zandonella
A woman drove me to drink and I didn't even have the decency to thank her. *W. C. Fields
What contemptible scoundrel has stolen the cork to my lunch? * Tee Mans
Life is a waste of time, time is a waste of life, so get wasted all of the time and have the time of your life. *Michelle Mastrolacasa
I'd rather have a bottle in front of me, than a frontal lobotomy. *Tom Waits
When we drink beer we fall asleep. We fall asleep, we commit no sin. When we commit no sin, we go to heaven. Sooooo, let's all get drunk and go to heaven! * Brian O'Rourke
You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer. * Frank Zappa
Always remember that I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me. * Winston Churchill
Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy. *Benjamin Franklin
If you ever reach total enlightenment while drinking beer, I bet it makes beer shoot out your nose. *Jack Handy
Without question, the greatest invention in the history of mankind is beer. Oh, I grant you that the wheel was also a fine invention, but the wheel does not go nearly as well with pizza. * Dave Barry
The problem with the world is that everyone is a few drinks behind. *Humphrey Bogart
Give me a woman who loves beer and I will conquer the world. * Kaiser Wilhelm
Not all chemicals are bad. Without chemicals such as hydrogen and oxygen, for example, there would be no way to make water, a vital ingredient in beer. *Dave Barry
You know you're drunk when you fall off the floor. *Anonymous
And God said, "Let there be vodka!" And He saw that it was good. Then God said, "Let there be light!" And then He said, "Whoa - too much light." * Anonymous
You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on. *Dean Martin
Beer: Helping ugly people have sex since 1862! *Anonymous
If the girl with the mustache and 3 chins starts looking attractive the Beer mug should stop ordering refills and start ordering coffee.
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So when it's only half filled, will the chip see it as half empty or half full??
GPS. Rule. I can snitch mine and take it on a mountain hike.
"We need a refill at table 2, two at table 11, and one at ... glacier national park? dispatch a chopper..."
Maybe the state's highest function is to grind out insoluble problems. (Zelazny, Hall of Mirrors)
Next thing you know, the government will be keeping a database of what we drink and how much. I don't want my privacy violated like this! Will the bars that use this be required to tell you you're being monitored? Will I be able to opt out? This is the scariest violation of privacy since Social Security.
/. privay rant, so I took it upon myself.
Sorry, I was tired of waiting for the token
what you really need is a device that will tell you how many drinks all the ladies in the bar have ordered.
How dare they consider this?! Now every time I visit a bar, they will be keeping tabs on when and how much I drink and sell it to the Alcohol industry. This is a gross violation of my privacy and I will only ever drink straight from the bottle/keg/bathtub/still to preserve my precious privacy!
Won't someone think of the children?!?! er...
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