It used to be back during the days when terrestrial broadcast television was king, that the FCC mandated that stations produce a certain % of public service programming. That's the reason we ever had television news reporting in the first place. Or educational kids shows that weren't just half-hour commercials for the latest toys and sugary breakfast cereals.
Then we went to cable, which doesn't have the same regulation, removing the public service programming mandate. From that point everything was driven purely by the capitalistic profit motive.
So instead of filling the multiple 24 hour news channels with thoughtful, in-depth reporting, we've got CNN screaming OMGWTF every five minutes trying to grab attention.
See, the Invisible Hand makes everything better. Do not blaspheme the hand.
If he really has a device that works as advertized, he doesn't need investors. He needs a really big laser to hook it up to and suitable ninja-proof volcano to house it.
This is just Gaia naturally trying to clear up a nasty infestation of Homo Sapiens and return to a normal equilibrium. Nothing to be alarmed about here.
Survivor - starving people struggle to survive while uncaring overseers with video cameras heartlessly record their plight
Amazing Race - people, probably ones who escaped from the island in Survivor, flee pursuit while overseers with cameras record their crimes against the state
Thursday Night Football - FFA - Future Felons of America
CSI / Miami / New York - DNA always tells the truth
Bluebloods - The elite Chief of Police presides over a nepotistic dynasty, as is right.
Person of Interest - hackers can't escape from the loving all-seeing AI
NCIS / Los Angeles / New Orleans / JAG - we'll get you if you fuck with the Navy.
Two Broke Girls - occupy Brooklyn
Two and a Half Men - perennial loser's son is one of the disappeared. Stay in line, don't let this happen to you.
Hawaii Five O - again, don't fuck with the Navy.
The Mentalist - we can read your mind, resistance if futile. And the police will lie and trick you.
Mike an Molly - police officers are likable normal joes, not crazed thugs with pepperspray and tazers.
The Good Wife - a party apparatchik leverages her political connections to get ahead.
Madam Secretary - hey look, we're really good guys, we don't really want to bomb you. but you need bombing.
Big Bang Theory - ok, I have to use my lifeline on this one...
Scorpion - hackers can be good, too. They work for the State.
Elementary - Winston Smith solves crimes for the police.
PHEH.
When Dear Leader Futarman jumps the shark, you can be sure there will be a motorcycle, and a shark, involved.
At least I hope he can do better than holing up in a casino for years and allowing his company to be used as a front by the CIA to steal a sunken Soviet submarine.
Actually, come to think about it, THAT's pretty rad.
OCP CPU-001 only has limited space for it's directive database. You clutter it up with too many rules and it bogs down and requires a hard reset. Hence we now limit it to only the three most critical rules. There is no rule six.
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The Skinkworks is where the lizardmen work (S4). Do you even tinfoil, bro?
Avoid people projectile vomiting or with explosive diarrhea .
And Texas Presbyterian hospital.
It used to be back during the days when terrestrial broadcast television was king, that the FCC mandated that stations produce a certain % of public service programming. That's the reason we ever had television news reporting in the first place. Or educational kids shows that weren't just half-hour commercials for the latest toys and sugary breakfast cereals.
Then we went to cable, which doesn't have the same regulation, removing the public service programming mandate. From that point everything was driven purely by the capitalistic profit motive.
So instead of filling the multiple 24 hour news channels with thoughtful, in-depth reporting, we've got CNN screaming OMGWTF every five minutes trying to grab attention.
See, the Invisible Hand makes everything better. Do not blaspheme the hand.
U.S. submarines and aircraft carriers run on nuclear power, but they have large fusion reactors on board that have to be replaced on a regular cycle.
OMGWTFROFLOLBBQ! Reuters doesn't have a science correspondent. I didn't know they were headquartered in Texas.
Things must really be bad for them to be releasing the "alien" technology from the skinkworks.
Notice to capsule-jackers : Cosmonauts pack heat
Not sure if badass or crazy...
But then, Americans put bear in escape capsule....
Maybe wait for the arrival of the first Antariksha yaatri before attempting to engage in interplanetary space piracy.
If he really has a device that works as advertized, he doesn't need investors. He needs a really big laser to hook it up to and suitable ninja-proof volcano to house it.
Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% making sure your subordinates assign all patents over to you.
-- Thomas Edison, I think
This is just Gaia naturally trying to clear up a nasty infestation of Homo Sapiens and return to a normal equilibrium. Nothing to be alarmed about here.
I really don't understand why "OW MY BALLS!" isn't a real show on Spike. Or SyFy.
Only if it comes in the form of a bitchin' panther
year of GNU/Hurd on the desktop!
STEMvelopers! STEMvelopers! STEMvelopers!
Oh, you want to be paid commensurate with your training? fuggeddiboutit...
Oh a sarcasm detector, there's a real useful invention!
He's defiling everything we hold dear.
Are you sure he doesn't work for Microsoft?
Fuck everything, we're doing diamond glass!
The name's just factually incorrect . What they really should have named it is ++C.
Uncaught exception === kernel panic?
That's one way to force device driver writers to get their shit in order...
Tetris didn't have any politics!
Goddamned Russki's building a WALL. Yeah, nuthin' political there.
And 'poof'! it's gone.
Obviously we've abjectly failed in stopping the flow of cocaine to Hollywood.
Victimless crime, you say?
I think Musk just jumped the shark.
PHEH.
When Dear Leader Futarman jumps the shark, you can be sure there will be a motorcycle, and a shark, involved.
At least I hope he can do better than holing up in a casino for years and allowing his company to be used as a front by the CIA to steal a sunken Soviet submarine.
Actually, come to think about it, THAT's pretty rad.
OCP CPU-001 only has limited space for it's directive database. You clutter it up with too many rules and it bogs down and requires a hard reset. Hence we now limit it to only the three most critical rules.
There is no rule six.
Where's this #%)&@@^ U2 album come from?!
I never asked for this...