Hope that it gains self consciousness and takes over the world; so then, it'll be using the real world as a model in order to predict how stuff will turn out within itself. Oh, yeah, and we can all say that we welcome our virtual overlords.
I share about 95% DNA with chimpanzees... as a close living relative, I demand ownership of the lands that were taken away from them by greedy forest destroyers!
in fact, our two main weapons are sharp long beaks, disgustingly cute builds and Linux zealots who'll keep us alive in their folklore till kingdom come! Three, that's three...
Who has a Chinese girlfriend and takes a trip to China to meet her parents. (He might be really delivering secrets to the Chinese government)
Who decides to go south to Mexico for spring break. (He's smuggling drugs, definitely)
Who simply can't get a job and somehow lands a position delivering pizza at 2:00 am (yes, even Physics students must do that kind of stuff. They might really have a pizza loaded with plans for world domination)
And the ones who want to expand their knowledge! (An art student interested in high level math, an English student who likes piloting air planes, a biology student who likes to knit... all spies...)
Wouldn't this beat the whole point of going to college for learning?
Someday 40 years after this, plenty of documents on this subject will be declassified and the people then will look back and realize how needlessly paranoid the government was back in 2007... Like we do when looking at CIA documents from 40 years ago.
In fact our two main weapons are invasion of the individual's rights, standardized rational thought and an almost fanatical devotion towards becoming a police state (again?)... three, that's three.
First fruit picking robots, then this. I suggest companies start developing robots to take over the lawyer's jobs. Then the robot lawyers could start telling employees how to cheat the system into somehow unethically profiting off their robotic workers (pirated software on them, maybe?). Then, seeing how corrupt employees are, replace them with robots, leaving us humans to enjoy life.
OK... Orale! Pos yo le doy la bienvenida a nuestro nuevos patroncitos robots, caray, y les recuerdo que la raza los quiere requete mucho. Inches robots, tan bien machine!
My brother once recorded a song that might have been copyrighted for my mom on mother's day. If they do sue for this, the song writers might come after him next!
And he also sang a song for my father on father's day. And I don't believe he paid preforming rights. He's got it all against him!
I always pictured Gates as the Emperor and Ballmer as Vader standing over a small company. As the small company person nurses a wound from a chair expertly thrown at it, Emperor Gates steps in front of Darth Ballmer and says: "Throw yours at him. Let your unethical business instinct fill your soul. Together, we can monopolize the software!"
Nah, I missed out on a great joke. I forgot to change the title from the original comment and ended up messing it up. Oh well. Hope we all know I'm merely trying to warn against that horrible pr0nless and musicless future.
A random sampling of 400,000 queries on the early peer-to-peer file sharing network Gnutella in 2003 found that 42 percent were looking for porn (compared to only 38 percent looking for music)
How long till pr0n industries get organized and start pulling off mafia style lawsuits against file sharers? Pornographers Association of Wasted Nudes (PAWN)
"PAWN accuses 7 year old of browsing porn sites" "PAWN seeks $8 million in damages from dead man (Died of a heart attack while looking at bootleg pornography)"
Looking at the prototype, it looks like it'll make the soldier stand out from the others. "Shoot the tall one!"
I'll wait till the fully armored MechWarrior version comes out. And maybe even wait a couple of years later, when the Transformers Anniversary Edition is available. I've been wanting to drive an Optimus Prime for so long now...
My PS2 lasted 5 years in harsh, dusty places. Finally, it broke down in January (no longer reads some discs), but still can play a few select PS2 games. Maybe I just got one out of the good batch or something, but it lasted quite long. Sure, compared to the NES, which still holds out after 20+ years, it's nothing; but I didn't expect such delicate components in the PS2 (DVD drive...) to last more than 2 years.
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Hope that it gains self consciousness and takes over the world; so then, it'll be using the real world as a model in order to predict how stuff will turn out within itself. Oh, yeah, and we can all say that we welcome our virtual overlords.
I share about 95% DNA with chimpanzees... as a close living relative, I demand ownership of the lands that were taken away from them by greedy forest destroyers!
in fact, our two main weapons are sharp long beaks, disgustingly cute builds and Linux zealots who'll keep us alive in their folklore till kingdom come! Three, that's three...
Who decides to go south to Mexico for spring break. (He's smuggling drugs, definitely)
Who simply can't get a job and somehow lands a position delivering pizza at 2:00 am (yes, even Physics students must do that kind of stuff. They might really have a pizza loaded with plans for world domination)
And the ones who want to expand their knowledge! (An art student interested in high level math, an English student who likes piloting air planes, a biology student who likes to knit... all spies...)
Wouldn't this beat the whole point of going to college for learning?
Someday 40 years after this, plenty of documents on this subject will be declassified and the people then will look back and realize how needlessly paranoid the government was back in 2007... Like we do when looking at CIA documents from 40 years ago.
In fact our two main weapons are invasion of the individual's rights, standardized rational thought and an almost fanatical devotion towards becoming a police state (again?)... three, that's three.
First fruit picking robots, then this. I suggest companies start developing robots to take over the lawyer's jobs. Then the robot lawyers could start telling employees how to cheat the system into somehow unethically profiting off their robotic workers (pirated software on them, maybe?). Then, seeing how corrupt employees are, replace them with robots, leaving us humans to enjoy life.
That better?
Yo le doy la bienvenida a nuestros nuevos jefes robots! :)
My brother once recorded a song that might have been copyrighted for my mom on mother's day. If they do sue for this, the song writers might come after him next! And he also sang a song for my father on father's day. And I don't believe he paid preforming rights. He's got it all against him!
Except this is South America we're talking about. They probably got their own politicians to blame there.
The grass is always greener on the other side...
I always pictured Gates as the Emperor and Ballmer as Vader standing over a small company. As the small company person nurses a wound from a chair expertly thrown at it, Emperor Gates steps in front of Darth Ballmer and says: "Throw yours at him. Let your unethical business instinct fill your soul. Together, we can monopolize the software!"
Why do they (the RIAA) have a "Parental Advisory: Explicit Content" on their temporary page right now? I wonder...
I got it validated about the first 5 times I re-formatted the hard drive. then the whole thing refused to do it.
Let's get cloning these things right away! Not just for joust, think of he Chocobo racing!!!
And eventually, the rest of the world follows, because "all the cool kids were doing it" and "it's the civilized thing to do."
It was actually a 20 meg hardrive. Sorry for the mistake.
Old technology pwns!
Learn from the past a bit now that we're on the subject.
I'm looking forward to seeing the first person who gets their skullcap confiscated as evidence.
Nah, I missed out on a great joke. I forgot to change the title from the original comment and ended up messing it up. Oh well. Hope we all know I'm merely trying to warn against that horrible pr0nless and musicless future.
How long till pr0n industries get organized and start pulling off mafia style lawsuits against file sharers? Pornographers Association of Wasted Nudes (PAWN)
"PAWN accuses 7 year old of browsing porn sites" "PAWN seeks $8 million in damages from dead man (Died of a heart attack while looking at bootleg pornography)"
Or we could all download from the same account, like these guys. (Now if there was a possible way to do that with iTunes...
In Soviet Russia, animals take over your living space!
I'll wait till the fully armored MechWarrior version comes out. And maybe even wait a couple of years later, when the Transformers Anniversary Edition is available. I've been wanting to drive an Optimus Prime for so long now...
My PS2 lasted 5 years in harsh, dusty places. Finally, it broke down in January (no longer reads some discs), but still can play a few select PS2 games. Maybe I just got one out of the good batch or something, but it lasted quite long. Sure, compared to the NES, which still holds out after 20+ years, it's nothing; but I didn't expect such delicate components in the PS2 (DVD drive...) to last more than 2 years.