One time I was being chased by this maniac in a hovercraft. He even ran me over on the beach. I got some sand in my mouth, but I was unharmed. He chased me all through town. Eventually I grabbed a sword from an antiques shop and commandeered a Lamborghini. Playing chicken with the hovercraft, I swerved at the last moment and was able to slice up its tender bits. So hovercrafts are quite vulnerable to swords. I still was pretty lucky though.
Basically the character submits to a control system that he has no reason to trust except for that his tour guide is an easy lay. He is able to opt out of this system, but he is still walking around with a kill switch in his neck.
I don't know if that's the feeling Marshall intended. The first half with it being a cautionary tale of citizens ending up as wards of a robo-state seems to make enough sense (he makes it seem dystopian), but having this crime-free control system at the end (he makes it seems utopian) just seems irrelevant beyond the scope of a story about complete industrial automation.
Yeah, though I'm all for gay marriage, I'm also like "You guys used to be practically illegal and now you want to be put on the official list of gays?" I know that people publicly proclaiming their rights is an important step for ending persecution for all time, but obviously others are much more optimistic and less cynical than me. (This is also a funny idea to bring up at parties or on the Internet.) And it's way off topic.
I don't know what's dumber to post about, politics or games.
Games are at least fun for its own sake?
All my liberal friends here in NYC don't have to interact with conservatives IRL, but conservative schoolmates and family from back in Iowa are their major gripe about Facebook.
I guess that's half the reason I stopped Facebook, political cheerleading.
phasers aren't lasers. i don't know what they are, but on startrek, they always talk about lasers being more primitive than phasers. so stay off the internet, noob!
I have always thought that male smartphone users looked feminine. When they're in public, out of touch with what's around them, and pawing at this little thing, yeah, it doesn't give the impression that this is an alert dude that's ready to deal with the world around him. Especially when you imagine that he's looking at facebook or something.
I know that there's nothing good or bad about being feminine or not, whether or not you have testicles, but being a guy, I am kind of image conscious about how I use my phone. The same way I don't want my man-bag to look like a purse.
The very fact that most screenwriters use dedicated software for the formatting of their work is an indication that all office suites are ridiculous. I mean, Word comes sooo close to being exactly what Final Draft is, yet...
Krugman is a big fat idiot. If he wrote novels, they'd be dumber than Rand's. If he made movies, they'd be dumber than Michael Moore's.
Everybody talking offspring, percentages, and human ghettos can please get back to their real jobs. You are all seedling despots ready to sell out humanity, even if you don't know it yet.
The technology revolution we're up against is going to be so sweeping and the power and self-reliance of an individual will be so great that the question of dependency upon federal robo-credits or robo-biscuits will be moot. We will all be cyber-camping and living on impervious cyber-homesteads in fifty years. Energy, labor, and orgasms will be provided by your own fleet of robotic thingies. Technology beyond our wildest dreams will be as convenient as running water. We'll have figured out all kinds of awesome things about providing for our basic needs. In most of the world, the concept of inequality will be associated with totally bizarre things that our current value systems can't make sense of. (Kinda like how people in the year 1900 wouldn't understand why we fret over the right to internet access.) Everyone else will live in tacky McMansions and act like Real Housewives.
The cars will just have to be programmed to behave like conscientious stoners that just took a defensive driving class. I do think it's possible for all situations to be approached sensibly and to avoid collisions at high speeds.
Little rules like "All cars have doors that can be.5 the width of its car and these doors can open at any time."
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Or I guess putting the rocket before the capsule.
It's only mathematically simpler.
Metric is obviously just another of the liberal's scams to make us more like Europe!
You mentioned hovercraft combat.
One time I was being chased by this maniac in a hovercraft. He even ran me over on the beach. I got some sand in my mouth, but I was unharmed. He chased me all through town. Eventually I grabbed a sword from an antiques shop and commandeered a Lamborghini. Playing chicken with the hovercraft, I swerved at the last moment and was able to slice up its tender bits. So hovercrafts are quite vulnerable to swords. I still was pretty lucky though.
I'm not saying you're wrong, lost soul, but it just sounds like you're extrapolating from Electric Kool-aid Acid Test.
Uh, I thought the end of Manna was unnerving.
Basically the character submits to a control system that he has no reason to trust except for that his tour guide is an easy lay. He is able to opt out of this system, but he is still walking around with a kill switch in his neck.
I don't know if that's the feeling Marshall intended. The first half with it being a cautionary tale of citizens ending up as wards of a robo-state seems to make enough sense (he makes it seem dystopian), but having this crime-free control system at the end (he makes it seems utopian) just seems irrelevant beyond the scope of a story about complete industrial automation.
It's gay.
Steve Jobs is dead of cancer. Bill Gates can't buy an iPhone 6. Louis XIV died of gangrene, despite having some gold furniture.
Wageslaves in America tend to waste their non-wageslave hours watching Game of Thrones.
Eat right and try to spend as much time as possible in Flow.
"Several centuries" is just a pinch less stupid than saying it'll happen next year. Nothing to do with my outlook on this technology.
I think you're off topic.
Good thing progressives got such a sweet name!
We laugh after stuff like this (tripping on the sidewalk) to let people know everything is okay.
You know, for certain causes?
Yeah, right, like I'm gonna print your DRM spatula when I can print out Free Spatula.
Just some littoral stimulation for Asia. Haha.
Yeah, though I'm all for gay marriage, I'm also like "You guys used to be practically illegal and now you want to be put on the official list of gays?" I know that people publicly proclaiming their rights is an important step for ending persecution for all time, but obviously others are much more optimistic and less cynical than me. (This is also a funny idea to bring up at parties or on the Internet.) And it's way off topic.
I don't know what's dumber to post about, politics or games.
Games are at least fun for its own sake?
All my liberal friends here in NYC don't have to interact with conservatives IRL, but conservative schoolmates and family from back in Iowa are their major gripe about Facebook.
I guess that's half the reason I stopped Facebook, political cheerleading.
phasers aren't lasers. i don't know what they are, but on startrek, they always talk about lasers being more primitive than phasers. so stay off the internet, noob!
Yeah but you kind of invented that he's a sociopath w/ an anger problem. He's probably a normal dude that just posted something dumb on the internet.
If you think Fiona Apple is a strong vocalist, you can't hear shit!
I love how you turned your whole personal vibe around there at the last second.
I have always thought that male smartphone users looked feminine. When they're in public, out of touch with what's around them, and pawing at this little thing, yeah, it doesn't give the impression that this is an alert dude that's ready to deal with the world around him. Especially when you imagine that he's looking at facebook or something.
I know that there's nothing good or bad about being feminine or not, whether or not you have testicles, but being a guy, I am kind of image conscious about how I use my phone. The same way I don't want my man-bag to look like a purse.
The very fact that most screenwriters use dedicated software for the formatting of their work is an indication that all office suites are ridiculous. I mean, Word comes sooo close to being exactly what Final Draft is, yet...
Krugman is a big fat idiot. If he wrote novels, they'd be dumber than Rand's. If he made movies, they'd be dumber than Michael Moore's.
Everybody talking offspring, percentages, and human ghettos can please get back to their real jobs. You are all seedling despots ready to sell out humanity, even if you don't know it yet.
The technology revolution we're up against is going to be so sweeping and the power and self-reliance of an individual will be so great that the question of dependency upon federal robo-credits or robo-biscuits will be moot. We will all be cyber-camping and living on impervious cyber-homesteads in fifty years. Energy, labor, and orgasms will be provided by your own fleet of robotic thingies. Technology beyond our wildest dreams will be as convenient as running water. We'll have figured out all kinds of awesome things about providing for our basic needs. In most of the world, the concept of inequality will be associated with totally bizarre things that our current value systems can't make sense of. (Kinda like how people in the year 1900 wouldn't understand why we fret over the right to internet access.) Everyone else will live in tacky McMansions and act like Real Housewives.
The cars will just have to be programmed to behave like conscientious stoners that just took a defensive driving class. I do think it's possible for all situations to be approached sensibly and to avoid collisions at high speeds.
Little rules like "All cars have doors that can be .5 the width of its car and these doors can open at any time."
I say the asteroid missed US.