Did anyone read Do Androids Dream of Electronic Sleep, the book "Bladerunner" was based on. They had a kooky religion based on the fact that mankind had killed off most animals, and everyone had to keep a pet to be kosher. People who couldn't afford real ones bought electronic pets to keep up appearances.
Now we're making expensive replicants that can only swim for 30 minutes. Now sure it's keen that we made a fish, but come on people. Priorities. How much more money is the human race going to spend on these crazy projects? There must be some less expensive way to cure boredom.
I still want one of those cool plastic birds that flies when you wind it up!
Doesn't the phrase non-event also remind you of _1984_'s "unpersons." When the Party killed off someone they became an unperson, which meant that if someone stopped showing up to work, you were to take it not only that they were dead, but that they never existed in the first place. MS would have us react that way to their idiocy.
"We here at Big Brother need to watch everyone" -e-mail from Bill Gates
"I'm currently managing the Big Brother watching project, Mr. Gates, and I can assure you that we are already watching everyone." -e-mail from Daniel Rosen
"Your Honor, I can confidently say that Big Brother is not nor ever has been watching you." -testimony from Daniel Rosen
Having the fast simple interface is really important. They do have a great deal of broken links, but they've also got a crack team of paid monkeys sitting and checking those links all day long. The database is just to big to hold on to. Yahoo is also pretty fast, and they don't do those crappy poppup windows. I still like Google better, but that's just because pb told me to.
You can't stop being a cow, but you can pick your grass.
Hurray for the Cmdr, BSI, and all us silly bottom up nerd media lovers. We have hereby achieved the highest honor the internet has to offer. But, then again, it is the internet. Kind of gives you an obnoxious feeling of accomplished inadequacy, like stepping on an ant. But hey at least we got the ant with COOL! written across it's back. Let the world behold the power of SLASHDOT.
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Now we're making expensive replicants that can only swim for 30 minutes. Now sure it's keen that we made a fish, but come on people. Priorities. How much more money is the human race going to spend on these crazy projects? There must be some less expensive way to cure boredom.
I still want one of those cool plastic birds that flies when you wind it up!
"We here at Big Brother need to watch everyone" -e-mail from Bill Gates
"I'm currently managing the Big Brother watching project, Mr. Gates, and I can assure you that we are already watching everyone." -e-mail from Daniel Rosen
"Your Honor, I can confidently say that Big Brother is not nor ever has been watching you." -testimony from Daniel Rosen
Having the fast simple interface is really important. They do have a great deal of broken links, but they've also got a crack team of paid monkeys sitting and checking those links all day long. The database is just to big to hold on to. Yahoo is also pretty fast, and they don't do those crappy poppup windows. I still like Google better, but that's just because pb told me to.
You can't stop being a cow, but you can pick your grass.
Hurray for the Cmdr, BSI, and all us silly bottom up nerd media lovers. We have hereby achieved the highest honor the internet has to offer. But, then again, it is the internet. Kind of gives you an obnoxious feeling of accomplished inadequacy, like stepping on an ant. But hey at least we got the ant with COOL! written across it's back.
Let the world behold the power of SLASHDOT.