I don't get it reset...but now every time I start up a browser that isn't Edge, it pop ups a little warning saying how Edge is a better and safer browser. It feels like it's acting like the guy who never gets picked, but keeps trying, hoping that one day he'll be the one who gets out of the dugout, dropping hints to the coach that _he_ could do better than the regulars. "Boy, you wouldn't even be on the team, but you're the owners son, so I can't fire you."
Nah, sexbots will take over that. I (like some scifi authors) predict that they'll make people farm gold online to ensure the otherwise unemployed don't have idle hands. When we're glued to the screen for 12-16 hours a day just to get enough for ramen and mountain dew, we won't have time or energy to revolt.
Okay, lets say you have a cyborg that is 50% human? Do they have human rights? How about 30%? How about 20%? How about 10%? Would your android suddenly get human rights if you grafted 10% of a human brain (grown humanely from stem cells of course)?
Screw that. Sentient rights for all who can prove it.
Sure, they'll fail again, and again...and then they'll succeed, built on the ruins of those who went before, just like the Channel Tunnel.
I imagine it'll take some type of surgical implant to at least hijack the users inner ear balancing to avoid motion sickness when playing for long periods - I can't even play ordinary FPS games for more than 30 mins without wanting to puke let alone Oculus Rift style.
I've heard quite a few women look down on mothers who chose to have children at 18 or 19 - either for being considered feckless scroungers bleeding the social system dry or for not being feminist enough and having a full career first.
I think 18 is a very good age to have children. Straight after high school and it's not too late to go on to college at around 22ish. Admittedly you'd need a lot of family support, which is a good thing no matter what your age.
Although the level that people are proposing seems to be too high - around the level of a comfortable life rather than 'clothes, 3 hot meals and a bed.'
It's the way Neilsen ratings worked then - if someone had 'non-normal' watching habits, eg. nerds who enjoy watching scifi and fantasy, they would be removed from the Nielsen ratings program as 'outliers'. As this happened all the time, even if scifi watchers increased, they would be culled from the ratings and therefore pretty much any scifi that wasn't watched by Joe 6pack got canned because apparently no one was watching it.
Now that we have Netflix, we _know_ exactly who is watching what, not just a (bad) statistical approximation. And hence we now have _lots_ of scifi and superhero movies and TV because they've not thrown away the data from all the people who would prefer to watch something other than reality TV.
I voted to Remain, but I'd be very concerned if the Parliament ignored this referendum as it would meant that it's would be pointless to run any further referendum as any vote would only be used to further the aims of the government, not change them.
I just hang up even if it's not an Indian. If it's not a voice I recognize, then I'm going make you jump through hoops to talk to me. If it's actually important, they'll call back. Calls from a call center never seem to be important.
That said, I did once hang up on a cop....and whaddayaknow, he called back.
Because if you manage to do it, you'd realize that it's actually worth a lot more than just $100k. All students (they hope) will see is 'wow, I might be able to pay off my loans with this!'
Mmmm, yeah, barely legal dragons. Just after their adult molt, with their fresh, shiny scales glistening in the new dawn light......give a sec, just got to pop off to the loo...
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I don't get it reset...but now every time I start up a browser that isn't Edge, it pop ups a little warning saying how Edge is a better and safer browser.
It feels like it's acting like the guy who never gets picked, but keeps trying, hoping that one day he'll be the one who gets out of the dugout, dropping hints to the coach that _he_ could do better than the regulars. "Boy, you wouldn't even be on the team, but you're the owners son, so I can't fire you."
No, the kids would be getting a lesser rate. Something like $BasicIncome*(AgeOfChild/18).
Decriminalize most drugs. Then they can afford to use their drugs _and_ eat, and don't need to mug or rob anyone for their next fix.
Nah, sexbots will take over that.
I (like some scifi authors) predict that they'll make people farm gold online to ensure the otherwise unemployed don't have idle hands.
When we're glued to the screen for 12-16 hours a day just to get enough for ramen and mountain dew, we won't have time or energy to revolt.
Okay, lets say you have a cyborg that is 50% human? Do they have human rights?
How about 30%?
How about 20%?
How about 10%?
Would your android suddenly get human rights if you grafted 10% of a human brain (grown humanely from stem cells of course)?
Screw that. Sentient rights for all who can prove it.
Sure, they'll fail again, and again...and then they'll succeed, built on the ruins of those who went before, just like the Channel Tunnel.
I imagine it'll take some type of surgical implant to at least hijack the users inner ear balancing to avoid motion sickness when playing for long periods - I can't even play ordinary FPS games for more than 30 mins without wanting to puke let alone Oculus Rift style.
I just hope I live to see it.
Would save on the 'I didn't know she was only 17!' when you have to card _everyone_ no matter what the age before having sex.
More like "Look, there's just NO DEMAND for it! ...And I wish people would STOP asking me about it all the time!"
I've heard quite a few women look down on mothers who chose to have children at 18 or 19 - either for being considered feckless scroungers bleeding the social system dry or for not being feminist enough and having a full career first.
I think 18 is a very good age to have children. Straight after high school and it's not too late to go on to college at around 22ish. Admittedly you'd need a lot of family support, which is a good thing no matter what your age.
Except that it costs more to employ 2 people for 25 hours each than it costs to pay one person for 50 hours a week.
Or gold farmers so that people without creative skills get work too.
Although the level that people are proposing seems to be too high - around the level of a comfortable life rather than 'clothes, 3 hot meals and a bed.'
To paraphrase, a mobile can never be too expensive or too thin.
I used to. When the only tool you have is a sector editor, all your problems are solved with 21, 00, 00
I remember that one mostly for the phrase 'think of it as evolution in action'.
Yep, need to have the masters to oversee the slaves, because sometimes they do stupid shit and you have to tune them up.
Call me when I can buy a lightweight headset that paints the image on my retina with a frikkin laser beam.
Just think of the perfectly preserved bodies that future archaeologists will be able to study!
It's the way Neilsen ratings worked then - if someone had 'non-normal' watching habits, eg. nerds who enjoy watching scifi and fantasy, they would be removed from the Nielsen ratings program as 'outliers'. As this happened all the time, even if scifi watchers increased, they would be culled from the ratings and therefore pretty much any scifi that wasn't watched by Joe 6pack got canned because apparently no one was watching it.
Now that we have Netflix, we _know_ exactly who is watching what, not just a (bad) statistical approximation. And hence we now have _lots_ of scifi and superhero movies and TV because they've not thrown away the data from all the people who would prefer to watch something other than reality TV.
I voted to Remain, but I'd be very concerned if the Parliament ignored this referendum as it would meant that it's would be pointless to run any further referendum as any vote would only be used to further the aims of the government, not change them.
I just hang up even if it's not an Indian. If it's not a voice I recognize, then I'm going make you jump through hoops to talk to me.
If it's actually important, they'll call back. Calls from a call center never seem to be important.
That said, I did once hang up on a cop. ...and whaddayaknow, he called back.
But they don't often get to be _single_ house husbands because they almost never get primary custody of the children.
What about all the tax money we're saving by not locking them up now?
Because if you manage to do it, you'd realize that it's actually worth a lot more than just $100k.
All students (they hope) will see is 'wow, I might be able to pay off my loans with this!'
Mmmm, yeah, barely legal dragons. Just after their adult molt, with their fresh, shiny scales glistening in the new dawn light... ...give a sec, just got to pop off to the loo...