I didn't really make the point I was going for. Credit cards CAN'T replace cash in the forseeable future because there is a multi-hundred billion dollar illegal economy that requires anonymous cash.
Mail RPG games? Man, that's even geekier than sitting in someone's basement on a Friday night. At least in the basement you get some human contact, even if it's with a bunch of dudes that are either skinny or fat.
To prevent the Canadian's from poisoning my precious bodily fluids I only drink rain water and grain alcohol. I came to this realization during the physical act of love. I felt a profound sense of fatigue, a feeling of emptiness followed. Luckily I was able to interpret these feelings correctly. I do not avoid women, but I do deny them my essence.
Tivo has a much nicer interface but they made a concesion to the TV networks, no automatic commerical skip. For 90% of shows, ReplayTV shows them commercial free. On shows like Iron Chef that have an outro and intro from commerical, you see them consecutively. It's awesome. The only bad part is that I don't know when movies are coming out. Oh well.
Oh come on. The Davidians certainly fired first. The government made a stupid move while trying to bring Koresh to trial. Those people had a long time to get out of there alive.
Who's laughing about the HUAC hearings? It was a time when conservative elements of the government crushed thier political oppoenents by questioning their patriotism. After drowning out all dissent, they were free to deny citizen's civil liberties. Sound familiar? We should be learning lessons from stupid mistakes in the past, not repeating them.
That's total bullshit. Taxes? Koresh had three outstanding warrants for statutory rape involving several 14 and 15 year old girls. He used his interpretation of the Song of Solomon to convince young girls there to have sex with him. That's low.
It's too bad that little kids died. They didn't choose to stand behind Koresh.
Rumsfeld didn't give much of a crap about those 61 thousand people when he shook Saddam's hand in 1984. Why does he care all of the sudden? Oh yeah, because people are starting to realise that his old reason for going to war was a lie.
The only place I see cash discounts around here (Atlanta) are at liquor stores. They accept cards but give you 3 or 4% off if you use greenbacks. I never asked why. I just stop at the ATM on the way and save a buck. -Barry
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Stealth Inflation
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Yes, the parent poster made a typo. It should be "Fight fire with a federal crime".
Don't get yourself in trouble trying to "get back at the Man." I hate the Man as much as anyone, but there are smart ways and dumb ways to fight.
Thank you for pointing out that by the time we can molecularly assemble something as large and complex as a Ferrari that the world will be a very different place.
We will still have money, but we will buy different things. Information and services will still be scarce and need to be purchased. Also, the inputs for these assemblers will still have some scarcity. Obviously the biggies like carbon and oxygen aren't hard to get a hold of, but rare elements will be very valuable.
Here's some free investment advice for the future. The first time someone publishes a successful assembler experiment, sell diamonds and buy gold.
Don't forget the wafers turning into tasty tasty flesh.
-B
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Have you seen the ads for the law firm where the insurance exec says "He got Lawyer and Laywer. Let's settle this one."? They cut away from the actor's face right before he says the firm name. That's a generic ad. They run it in every TV market with a different law firm, using the same high technology used by Kamp Krusty.
I wish I owned the company that made that ad for 20 grand and sold it to 50 law firms for 10 grand.
In the movie Casino, the mobsters have thier wives call each other and talk about shopping for 2 minutes. After the FBI turns off the recorder because it's not relevant, then the mobsters start talking. That movie teaches us so many useful things. Like always have the hole dug first. You don't want to sit out in the desert digging a hole. Someone could come by, and then you have to dig another hole. Life lessons.
I'm a big fan of jobs with very low probabilities of getting me blown up. I've had some bosses that were assholes and I'm glad they didn't have the authority to shoot me.
Showing feature length movies would be awesome. The problem is that movies take up a big chunk of air time. They would have to give the movies crappy spots or bump a lot of high rated shows. I would love for them to show movies from 4 to 7am and advertise that you should Tivo it.
They don't show crazy extreme animation (either sexual or violent) because it doesn't appeal to a mainstream audience. They clearly show a screen before every Adult Swim episode saying that the shows are meant for children 14 and up. I'm sure they have some guidelines, but being cable they have more freedom than a big network. This week on Family Guy there's a scene where Peter and Louis are having a romantic dinner at home. Louis says "Peter, I'm not wearing any panties". He replies "It's ok, we can throw that chair out." Funny stuff and certainly adult humor, but not graphic enough to get many complaints.
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"He later died testing the YF-100 in 1954."
5 bucks says he died doing something stupid to show off for his pilot buddies.
-B
I didn't really make the point I was going for. Credit cards CAN'T replace cash in the forseeable future because there is a multi-hundred billion dollar illegal economy that requires anonymous cash.
-B
"cash still goes places where American Express/Visa/whatever have not been and probably never will be."
That includes the hundreds of billions of dollars worth of transactions that are not legal (drugs, prostitution, most gambling).
IIRC, drugs are about 4% (by value) of all international trade.
-B
Until Duke Nukem Forever is released or officially canceled, they shouldn't waste their time with Vaporware awards. We know what's going to win.
-B
Mail RPG games? Man, that's even geekier than sitting in someone's basement on a Friday night. At least in the basement you get some human contact, even if it's with a bunch of dudes that are either skinny or fat.
-B
"The apple ][gs from 1986 is capable of doing everything the average person does with their pc"
Did the IIgs have WYSIWYG word processing? My IIc didn't. That was a huge step in "average person" software, especially for kids at school.
-B
To prevent the Canadian's from poisoning my precious bodily fluids I only drink rain water and grain alcohol. I came to this realization during the physical act of love. I felt a profound sense of fatigue, a feeling of emptiness followed. Luckily I was able to interpret these feelings correctly. I do not avoid women, but I do deny them my essence.
-B
Had to do it.
ReplayTV has one killer feature: commercial skip.
Tivo has a much nicer interface but they made a concesion to the TV networks, no automatic commerical skip. For 90% of shows, ReplayTV shows them commercial free. On shows like Iron Chef that have an outro and intro from commerical, you see them consecutively. It's awesome. The only bad part is that I don't know when movies are coming out. Oh well.
-B
Oh come on. The Davidians certainly fired first. The government made a stupid move while trying to bring Koresh to trial. Those people had a long time to get out of there alive.
-B
Who's laughing about the HUAC hearings? It was a time when conservative elements of the government crushed thier political oppoenents by questioning their patriotism. After drowning out all dissent, they were free to deny citizen's civil liberties. Sound familiar? We should be learning lessons from stupid mistakes in the past, not repeating them.
-B
That's total bullshit. Taxes? Koresh had three outstanding warrants for statutory rape involving several 14 and 15 year old girls. He used his interpretation of the Song of Solomon to convince young girls there to have sex with him. That's low.
It's too bad that little kids died. They didn't choose to stand behind Koresh.
-B
Rumsfeld didn't give much of a crap about those 61 thousand people when he shook Saddam's hand in 1984. Why does he care all of the sudden? Oh yeah, because people are starting to realise that his old reason for going to war was a lie.
-B
Are you saying that something illegal is going on in Tijuana? No way. I don't buy it.
-B
Nobody wants to pay taxes, but they all want good schools, safe and well-maintained streets, etc.
Can't everyone else just pay a little more?
The only place I see cash discounts around here (Atlanta) are at liquor stores. They accept cards but give you 3 or 4% off if you use greenbacks. I never asked why. I just stop at the ATM on the way and save a buck.
-Barry
Yes, the parent poster made a typo. It should be "Fight fire with a federal crime".
Don't get yourself in trouble trying to "get back at the Man." I hate the Man as much as anyone, but there are smart ways and dumb ways to fight.
-B
Thank you for pointing out that by the time we can molecularly assemble something as large and complex as a Ferrari that the world will be a very different place.
We will still have money, but we will buy different things. Information and services will still be scarce and need to be purchased. Also, the inputs for these assemblers will still have some scarcity. Obviously the biggies like carbon and oxygen aren't hard to get a hold of, but rare elements will be very valuable.
Here's some free investment advice for the future. The first time someone publishes a successful assembler experiment, sell diamonds and buy gold.
-B
Rubbing Rob Reiner.
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Don't forget the wafers turning into tasty tasty flesh.
-B
Have you seen the ads for the law firm where the insurance exec says "He got Lawyer and Laywer. Let's settle this one."? They cut away from the actor's face right before he says the firm name. That's a generic ad. They run it in every TV market with a different law firm, using the same high technology used by Kamp Krusty.
I wish I owned the company that made that ad for 20 grand and sold it to 50 law firms for 10 grand.
-B
Can you set up those ringer assiciations without looking at the phone?
-B
In the movie Casino, the mobsters have thier wives call each other and talk about shopping for 2 minutes. After the FBI turns off the recorder because it's not relevant, then the mobsters start talking. That movie teaches us so many useful things. Like always have the hole dug first. You don't want to sit out in the desert digging a hole. Someone could come by, and then you have to dig another hole. Life lessons.
-B
I'm a big fan of jobs with very low probabilities of getting me blown up. I've had some bosses that were assholes and I'm glad they didn't have the authority to shoot me.
-B
Showing feature length movies would be awesome. The problem is that movies take up a big chunk of air time. They would have to give the movies crappy spots or bump a lot of high rated shows. I would love for them to show movies from 4 to 7am and advertise that you should Tivo it.
-B
They don't show crazy extreme animation (either sexual or violent) because it doesn't appeal to a mainstream audience. They clearly show a screen before every Adult Swim episode saying that the shows are meant for children 14 and up. I'm sure they have some guidelines, but being cable they have more freedom than a big network. This week on Family Guy there's a scene where Peter and Louis are having a romantic dinner at home. Louis says "Peter, I'm not wearing any panties". He replies "It's ok, we can throw that chair out." Funny stuff and certainly adult humor, but not graphic enough to get many complaints.
-B