Isn't there an episode where Fry downloads Lucy Liu to essentially "print" onto his date-robot?
And speaking of which, why aren't more resources being put into developing sex-bots? It could solve so many problems in this world if we could have robot slave girls to have sex with all the time.
Excuse me, but Nerds *rarely* act out their fantasies. Football players, on the other hand, rape constantly and GET AWAY WITH IT, because they are football players.
We, as a culture, have elevated football to almost god-hood, and when High-school footballers raped a drunk girl, an entire town CONSPIRED to cover the whole thing up, until some "nerds" hacked the phones of the footballers for evidence and made national news, and the town couldn't hide it anymore.
Excuse me, but 99 times out of 100 it's the nerds who keep to themselves and don't harm a fly, while with Jocks you can turn that number on its head. 99 times out 100 they will beat up, rape, and basically do whatever they hell they feel like.
Stop taking this one incident and applying it to nerd culture. You might as well be taking this one incident and applying it to all gun culture or all american culture.
It would depend upon where you live. Do you live in the USA, where you are judged by the color of your skin and not the content of your character?
If you live in the USA, if you look like a robot, you are a Robot. Nothing has changed since World War II where we basically had prison camps for Japanese-Americans -- simply because they were of a particular "race". Or what the USA did to the natives. And don't even get me started if you're black.
Fine in Urban and Suburban, but what about Rural? I live near Newark NJ, and yet, with a 30-minute drive west and north, I can find dirt roads that aren't on any map or GPS.
Outside of the USA, I've driven in Curacao -- once you're off the main road, it's nothing but a dusty trail that leads to communities of poor living in shacks. There are roads in the USA that are inaccessible to anything other than a lifted, 4-wheel drive vehicle.
And I've driven places where there's no road, you're essentially making your own path, and hoping you don't tear anything critical off the vehicle as you crush vegetation beneath you.
In the USA southwest, there's no actual road, you're just tooling around in a buggy as you climb rocks and hop over sand dunes in the desert.
Fine, you've got an autonomous car -- but it's incapable of going everywhere some other vehicles do.
All radioactive waste is stored in Australia, commanded by John Koenig. But after a huge explosion, Australia is hurled into space on it's own, and the inhabitants of the country are forced to survive by their wits and with their Eagle spacecraft.
Starring Martin Landau and Barbara Bain. Produced by Gerry Anderson.
If they are run like a company, treat 'em like a company. Take them over, plant a new CEO (I hear Carly Fiorina is available), and let that CEO run them into the ground for a multi-million dollar golden parachute.
Or, turn them into a reality TV show. Anyone remember the movie "NETWORK" (I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore). Well, in that film, they made a TV show about a terrorist group, and the terrorists were so busy negotiating their contracts, they forgot all about blowing up shit.
Network, is surprisingly accurate about how right now is playing out. I suggest you watch it, and watch it a second time.
Please help me out here. I'm all for moving power *away* from DC to more accountable localities, but can you kindly fill me in on the methodology?
You see; I'm of the opinion that the government, particularly the federal government, has become so corrupted, so full of bad political influence by monied interests, so controlled by cash (particularly in light of Citizens United and other rulings that claim that money==speech), that the only way I can see to bring the country back to rationality is via armed conflict.
And then many people, including, unfortunately, innocent bystanders will be killed -- and it's also unfortunate to realize that our own country and armed forces kill innocent bystanders regularly -- in other countries, and yet, my guess is that you're *not* willing to consider our armed forces as the same pieces of shit McVeigh was.
Please understand me; I'm *not* attempting to defend McVeigh, I am just pointing out that when it's done by "one guy", it's terrorism, and when it's done by an institution, it's Foreign Policy.
Drone Strikes have allowed America to kill entire parties of people, including women and children, with impunity, with no answerable oversight, with no reporting by the media, and with no outrage from the American people. We, as a country, are guilty of murder a million times over, and yet we regard McVeigh as the monster.
So, please, let me know what you're proposing; I'm ready to listen. I'm hoping for a convincing argument that we are not already lost as a country; because right now the 1% run things, and we have zero say in the matter. America is a schoolyard bully, and we have a long way to go before maturing into a responsible world citizen.
Toyota made a decision that works within their existing car infrastructure. Think about it. The car will still have a fuel tank, and will still run an internal combustion engine.
There will be no "range anxiety" and you won't have to worry about replacing the entire battery pack after 3000 charge cycles.
They are going to have to start forcing gas stations to carry hydrogen as well, the way some places carry diesel and kerosene, but that's not *their* problem, is it?
The advantage to hydrogen is that they can still continue to make cars "as is" -- hell, they can even make hybrids too, a Hydrogen Electric Prius is sure to be in the future, without changing much about their existing factories.
And, Moebius, Chris Foss, Derek Meddings. I know that last one might generate some controversy, as Derek's known more as a special effects guy, but his designs for vehicles (particularly for Gerry Anderson productions) were 30 years ahead of their time.
Still, gonna miss Mr. Creepy. Giger did some incredible work, especially for the Dune film that never got made.
We have congressman and senators who couldn't tell a mouse from a bar of soap legislating Net Neutrality. The FBI put Kevin Mitnik into solitary because they were worried he could whistle into a phone and launch nuclear missiles.
Almost *all* of American History is folks who don't know what the F they are talking about deciding what the rest of can do, say, read, or think. Especially when the church is involved. If the Christian Taliban had their way, America would be forced back to the stone-age. Except we'd have plenty of guns... and that's about it.
Because an army of robots is less likely to rape civilians after taking over and occupying a city. As a result there's actually less collateral damage.
This brings up an interesting conundrum about copyright... So, if I scrape TRW (Sorry, Experian)'s website and it's only to download information about MYSELF, who's got the copyright on that? Experian is supposed to provide the information for free to me anyhow, on request, so, can I be charged with a crime for taking it without asking?
And lets talk about all the other thousands of companies (Facebook, Google, United Healthcare, BlueCross, Amazon, Slashdot, yadda yadda yadda) that collect and resell information about me. Who owns that information about me? And isn't it sad that I can't get to all that information about me, in fact, I seem to spend most of my time now making sure that what information about me out there is wildly inaccurate, and if it's something I made up in a web form, then it should be copyright ME, no???
You don't want a car completely reliant on the electrical system. Batteries freeze, cars rust (killing the ground), cars wind up flooded or driven into a lake, weather can produce unseen effects.
I for one, do not want to be in car like that after the electrical system has failed, and you can't even open the damn doors without electricity.
I want a car that I can push start if needed. In fact, the less "electrical" anything there is in a car, the less there is to go wrong.
When you go to a car show, I see a lot of cars from the 50's and 60's -- and you know what I'll see 30 years from now -- the same cars! You won't see "modern cars" sold as classics 30 years from now because once the computer in those cars dies, the car is a paperweight. Nothing works. The engine isn't even capable of running without all those sensors and computers.
I'm rebuilding a '69 beetle right now, and I'll tell you that there's a certain comfort in knowing that I know the entire car, bumper to bumper, there's no mystery about how it operates, and I can fix any piece of it, myself, with common hand tools.
To illegally parked remote control cars? I mean, if you're going to operate an RC car on a street where there is also legitimate vehicular traffic (even a suburban street), then the RC enthusiast should have a driver's license and the RC car should be insured and registered.
I mean, if they are going after people with a hobby for RC planes, then RC cars are the next target.
A cluster of stars were "thrown out" of galaxy M87?... what, they didn't pay the rent? Or is M87 expressing a case of "tough love"?
The real question is; by what force were they ejected from the galaxy? The fastest we've ever been about to propel something is 24,000 mph -- and that's with a lot of gravity assists.... if we could figure out how to get a spacecraft to 2 million mph, trips around our solar system would go a lot faster.....
A long time ago in a galaxy... (unreadable due to lens flare) STAR (unreadable due to lens flare).... Princess Leia (unreadable due to lens flare)....
Spaceship... (unwatchable due to lens flare) Monster/special effects, jiggly camerawork. Things happen in film for no logical reason and plot holes you could fly the death star through....
Andy used to hang around the SVA (School of Visual Arts) cafeteria trying to pick up (male) students.
I was in the film school at the time, so I didn't give a crap about who he was. There was another guy as well back then, Larry Gartel, who also used the Amiga to create digital art. He's obviously not as well known as Warhol, but thems the breaks.
They could have just used the disk drive. 99% of my Amiga floppies still work just fine.
The Amiga 1000 was a surprisingly durable machine, and frankly, Commodore, despite anything you could say about them making "toy" computers at a target price used very high quality components.
A modern PC's power supply will burn out long before a 25-yr old Commodore power supply will.
I've got this hankerin' to call 911. This law could get repealed mighty quick if it's senators and congressmen getting pulled over from anonymous tips.
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Isn't there an episode where Fry downloads Lucy Liu to essentially "print" onto his date-robot?
And speaking of which, why aren't more resources being put into developing sex-bots? It could solve so many problems in this world if we could have robot slave girls to have sex with all the time.
Excuse me, but Nerds *rarely* act out their fantasies. Football players, on the other hand, rape constantly and GET AWAY WITH IT, because they are football players.
We, as a culture, have elevated football to almost god-hood, and when High-school footballers raped a drunk girl, an entire town CONSPIRED to cover the whole thing up, until some "nerds" hacked the phones of the footballers for evidence and made national news, and the town couldn't hide it anymore.
Excuse me, but 99 times out of 100 it's the nerds who keep to themselves and don't harm a fly, while with Jocks you can turn that number on its head. 99 times out 100 they will beat up, rape, and basically do whatever they hell they feel like.
Stop taking this one incident and applying it to nerd culture. You might as well be taking this one incident and applying it to all gun culture or all american culture.
It would depend upon where you live. Do you live in the USA, where you are judged by the color of your skin and not the content of your character?
If you live in the USA, if you look like a robot, you are a Robot. Nothing has changed since World War II where we basically had prison camps for Japanese-Americans -- simply because they were of a particular "race". Or what the USA did to the natives. And don't even get me started if you're black.
Or a black robot.
Or we could see nothing, because according to the creationists, the universe is only 6000 years old.
Fine in Urban and Suburban, but what about Rural? I live near Newark NJ, and yet, with a 30-minute drive west and north, I can find dirt roads that aren't on any map or GPS.
Outside of the USA, I've driven in Curacao -- once you're off the main road, it's nothing but a dusty trail that leads to communities of poor living in shacks. There are roads in the USA that are inaccessible to anything other than a lifted, 4-wheel drive vehicle.
And I've driven places where there's no road, you're essentially making your own path, and hoping you don't tear anything critical off the vehicle as you crush vegetation beneath you.
In the USA southwest, there's no actual road, you're just tooling around in a buggy as you climb rocks and hop over sand dunes in the desert.
Fine, you've got an autonomous car -- but it's incapable of going everywhere some other vehicles do.
All radioactive waste is stored in Australia, commanded by John Koenig. But after a huge explosion, Australia is hurled into space on it's own, and the inhabitants of the country are forced to survive by their wits and with their Eagle spacecraft.
Starring Martin Landau and Barbara Bain.
Produced by Gerry Anderson.
2 days ago I saw a vehicle that'll haul that tanker. You wanna get out of here.... talk to me.
If they are run like a company, treat 'em like a company. Take them over, plant a new CEO (I hear Carly Fiorina is available), and let that CEO run them into the ground for a multi-million dollar golden parachute.
Or, turn them into a reality TV show. Anyone remember the movie "NETWORK" (I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore). Well, in that film, they made a TV show about a terrorist group, and the terrorists were so busy negotiating their contracts, they forgot all about blowing up shit.
Network, is surprisingly accurate about how right now is playing out. I suggest you watch it, and watch it a second time.
Please help me out here. I'm all for moving power *away* from DC to more accountable localities, but can you kindly fill me in on the methodology?
You see; I'm of the opinion that the government, particularly the federal government, has become so corrupted, so full of bad political influence by monied interests, so controlled by cash (particularly in light of Citizens United and other rulings that claim that money==speech), that the only way I can see to bring the country back to rationality is via armed conflict.
And then many people, including, unfortunately, innocent bystanders will be killed -- and it's also unfortunate to realize that our own country and armed forces kill innocent bystanders regularly -- in other countries, and yet, my guess is that you're *not* willing to consider our armed forces as the same pieces of shit McVeigh was.
Please understand me; I'm *not* attempting to defend McVeigh, I am just pointing out that when it's done by "one guy", it's terrorism, and when it's done by an institution, it's Foreign Policy.
Drone Strikes have allowed America to kill entire parties of people, including women and children, with impunity, with no answerable oversight, with no reporting by the media, and with no outrage from the American people. We, as a country, are guilty of murder a million times over, and yet we regard McVeigh as the monster.
So, please, let me know what you're proposing; I'm ready to listen. I'm hoping for a convincing argument that we are not already lost as a country; because right now the 1% run things, and we have zero say in the matter. America is a schoolyard bully, and we have a long way to go before maturing into a responsible world citizen.
Lone Ranger / John Carter.
Worried I am.
Toyota made a decision that works within their existing car infrastructure. Think about it. The car will still have a fuel tank, and will still run an internal combustion engine.
There will be no "range anxiety" and you won't have to worry about replacing the entire battery pack after 3000 charge cycles.
They are going to have to start forcing gas stations to carry hydrogen as well, the way some places carry diesel and kerosene, but that's not *their* problem, is it?
The advantage to hydrogen is that they can still continue to make cars "as is" -- hell, they can even make hybrids too, a Hydrogen Electric Prius is sure to be in the future, without changing much about their existing factories.
And, Moebius, Chris Foss, Derek Meddings. I know that last one might generate some controversy, as Derek's known more as a special effects guy, but his designs for vehicles (particularly for Gerry Anderson productions) were 30 years ahead of their time.
Still, gonna miss Mr. Creepy. Giger did some incredible work, especially for the Dune film that never got made.
Syd Mead dude! I can think of one other artist. Hrrrrm... And Ralph McQuarrie.
At 50 miles up, open the hatch.
We have congressman and senators who couldn't tell a mouse from a bar of soap legislating Net Neutrality. The FBI put Kevin Mitnik into solitary because they were worried he could whistle into a phone and launch nuclear missiles.
Almost *all* of American History is folks who don't know what the F they are talking about deciding what the rest of can do, say, read, or think. Especially when the church is involved. If the Christian Taliban had their way, America would be forced back to the stone-age. Except we'd have plenty of guns... and that's about it.
Because an army of robots is less likely to rape civilians after taking over and occupying a city. As a result there's actually less collateral damage.
This brings up an interesting conundrum about copyright... So, if I scrape TRW (Sorry, Experian)'s website and it's only to download information about MYSELF, who's got the copyright on that? Experian is supposed to provide the information for free to me anyhow, on request, so, can I be charged with a crime for taking it without asking?
And lets talk about all the other thousands of companies (Facebook, Google, United Healthcare, BlueCross, Amazon, Slashdot, yadda yadda yadda) that collect and resell information about me. Who owns that information about me? And isn't it sad that I can't get to all that information about me, in fact, I seem to spend most of my time now making sure that what information about me out there is wildly inaccurate, and if it's something I made up in a web form, then it should be copyright ME, no???
You don't want a car completely reliant on the electrical system. Batteries freeze, cars rust (killing the ground), cars wind up flooded or driven into a lake, weather can produce unseen effects.
I for one, do not want to be in car like that after the electrical system has failed, and you can't even open the damn doors without electricity.
I want a car that I can push start if needed. In fact, the less "electrical" anything there is in a car, the less there is to go wrong.
When you go to a car show, I see a lot of cars from the 50's and 60's -- and you know what I'll see 30 years from now -- the same cars! You won't see "modern cars" sold as classics 30 years from now because once the computer in those cars dies, the car is a paperweight. Nothing works. The engine isn't even capable of running without all those sensors and computers.
I'm rebuilding a '69 beetle right now, and I'll tell you that there's a certain comfort in knowing that I know the entire car, bumper to bumper, there's no mystery about how it operates, and I can fix any piece of it, myself, with common hand tools.
To illegally parked remote control cars?
I mean, if you're going to operate an RC car on a street where there is also legitimate vehicular traffic (even a suburban street), then the RC enthusiast should have a driver's license and the RC car should be insured and registered.
I mean, if they are going after people with a hobby for RC planes, then RC cars are the next target.
A cluster of stars were "thrown out" of galaxy M87?... what, they didn't pay the rent? Or is M87 expressing a case of "tough love"?
The real question is; by what force were they ejected from the galaxy? The fastest we've ever been about to propel something is 24,000 mph -- and that's with a lot of gravity assists.... if we could figure out how to get a spacecraft to 2 million mph, trips around our solar system would go a lot faster.....
A long time ago in a galaxy... (unreadable due to lens flare) ....
STAR (unreadable due to lens flare)
Princess Leia (unreadable due to lens flare)....
Spaceship... (unwatchable due to lens flare)
Monster/special effects, jiggly camerawork. Things happen in film for no logical reason and plot holes you could fly the death star through....
This *is* a JJ Abhrams movie after all....
Andy used to hang around the SVA (School of Visual Arts) cafeteria trying to pick up (male) students.
I was in the film school at the time, so I didn't give a crap about who he was. There was another guy as well back then, Larry Gartel, who also used the Amiga to create digital art. He's obviously not as well known as Warhol, but thems the breaks.
They could have just used the disk drive. 99% of my Amiga floppies still work just fine.
The Amiga 1000 was a surprisingly durable machine, and frankly, Commodore, despite anything you could say about them making "toy" computers at a target price used very high quality components.
A modern PC's power supply will burn out long before a 25-yr old Commodore power supply will.
I've got this hankerin' to call 911.
This law could get repealed mighty quick if it's senators and congressmen getting pulled over from anonymous tips.
This Slashvertisement brought to you by the Koch Brothers. Remember to watch Fox News tonight and be reminded again that the poor live a life of luxury and leisure on your dime! Yeah, the poor are the reason you have to work 75 hours a week. Because the government takes all your money and gives it to the poor, so they can live high on the hog.
Meanwhile, please ignore the fact that the 1 percent are robbing not only you, but the government, and the rest of the world. While you're arguing with your co-workers over foodstamps, the filthy rich are stealing billions every day and pocketing it, and the best part is, they have bought the government so what they are doing is legal -- by the letter of the law anyhow.