Rejects or not, if you're going to walk around flashing the geek equivalent of a Rolex watch, you can probably expect some resentment from the general public.
All futurism is just a form of science fiction. Any truly serious attempt to predict the future has to start with the acknowledgement that predicting the future in any meaningful way is impossible. Every attempt in the past has failed, usually quite miserably. Even when a would-be prognosticator gets one or two elements of the future right, they usually miss the true significance or context of those elements completely, and get a million other things wrong.
The future is unknowable. In a form of Socratic ignorance, the more you know about futurism, the more you appreciate how unknowable the future really is.
Whats a little radiation gonna do, besides give you and your children cancer.
You know what's REALLY scary? I have it on good authority (from a scientist friend of mine) that currently, outside of every American house, is all kinds of R A D I A T I O N, even as we speak. He says that this so-called "ultraviolet" R A D I A T I O N is all over the place, and the government isn't even doing jack-shit about it! Can you believe that? They're just going to let us be exposed to that stuff EVERY DAY, and not do a damned thing about it!
Fuck it, I'm calling my local news station. If we're going to be exposed to this stuff, we need to at least start a panic.
If they were really okay with it, they probably wouldn't have demanded to put in "an image background and a description text" to describe what was censored and where.
The Middle-Eastern version will just be a character sitting around in a empty room, sipping tea. And several imams will STILL condemn it as blasphemous.
Actually I've heard the PTSD can be even worse - the human brain is apparently not that well suited to killing people 8-to-5 and then going home to the wife and kids who can't relate at all.
"How was your day today, honey?"
"Well that bitch at work was gossiping about me again. How about you?"
"Oh, blew up an apartment complex full of innocent people to get one targeted individual. You know--same old, same old..."
I've never personally been part of a Ponzi scheme collapsing before. But as the proud owner of a fraction of a Bitcoin, I guess this may be my big chance.
Assange too. Notice how Daniel Domscheit-Berg (who I still suspect was a plant all along, sent in to sabotage WikiLeaks) has made quite a little cottage career off disparaging Assange? Looks like the CIA/FBI has somehow gotten to his ghost-writer now too.
And Domonique Strauss-Kahn. Just a few months after challenging the supremacy of the U.S. Dollar, he suddenly decided to become a rapist (the NY prosecutor even went as far as calling it a "Rock-solid case"). Then, literally *3 days* after his successor was sworn in at the IMF, suddenly the prosecutor decided that he wasn't a rapist anymore. WHAT an amazing coincidence!
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Rejects or not, if you're going to walk around flashing the geek equivalent of a Rolex watch, you can probably expect some resentment from the general public.
A "D" means that the candidate openly opposes the free market.
An "R" would indicates that the candidate openly opposes the free market, but pretends not to.
And no shortage of H1B visas and outsourcing that keep wages artificially low.
It's just something the industry tells Congress when they beg for more indentured servant licenses.
How much will it cost me to get a big button in PvP that just says "Win"?
All futurism is just a form of science fiction. Any truly serious attempt to predict the future has to start with the acknowledgement that predicting the future in any meaningful way is impossible. Every attempt in the past has failed, usually quite miserably. Even when a would-be prognosticator gets one or two elements of the future right, they usually miss the true significance or context of those elements completely, and get a million other things wrong.
The future is unknowable. In a form of Socratic ignorance, the more you know about futurism, the more you appreciate how unknowable the future really is.
Anyone can take your work and use it for something profitable
And patent it.
Does good satire have to be as disgusting, revolting, insulting, disrespectful and ugly as they can get away with
Well preferably.
the History Channel
Look, I love shows about ancient aliens visiting the Vikings as much as the next guy. But I still have appreciation for some good satire too.
Probably due to libel and hate speech laws (and maybe Nazi stuff in Germany).
critter blood orgies
You know, those Woodland Critters are pure evil and all. But damn, they're SO CUTE!
Here is an interesting article from a few months before his arrest that may give you a good idea of why they wanted him out of the IMF so bad.
Whats a little radiation gonna do, besides give you and your children cancer.
You know what's REALLY scary? I have it on good authority (from a scientist friend of mine) that currently, outside of every American house, is all kinds of R A D I A T I O N, even as we speak. He says that this so-called "ultraviolet" R A D I A T I O N is all over the place, and the government isn't even doing jack-shit about it! Can you believe that? They're just going to let us be exposed to that stuff EVERY DAY, and not do a damned thing about it!
Fuck it, I'm calling my local news station. If we're going to be exposed to this stuff, we need to at least start a panic.
If they were really okay with it, they probably wouldn't have demanded to put in "an image background and a description text" to describe what was censored and where.
The Middle-Eastern version will just be a character sitting around in a empty room, sipping tea. And several imams will STILL condemn it as blasphemous.
If the local laws told you to suck dick, would you drop to your knees?
Those should be disallowed.
And also, Canada, whose citizens I irrationally blame for this entire mess! Especially you, Scott!!!
Still worth watching just for Harrison Ford's enthusiastic performance, which was in no way just done for a paycheck.
Stop pointing out the facts!! The alarmism sells so much better, especially when it involves R A D I A T I O N ! !
Actually I've heard the PTSD can be even worse - the human brain is apparently not that well suited to killing people 8-to-5 and then going home to the wife and kids who can't relate at all.
"How was your day today, honey?"
"Well that bitch at work was gossiping about me again. How about you?"
"Oh, blew up an apartment complex full of innocent people to get one targeted individual. You know--same old, same old..."
Just tell the pilots that it's just a videogame simulation. Problem solved.
I've never personally been part of a Ponzi scheme collapsing before. But as the proud owner of a fraction of a Bitcoin, I guess this may be my big chance.
Any shelter in a shit-storm.
Would you prefer to live in constant fear, as if in Israel? Syria? Egypt? Iran? Pakistan? Mexico? China? North Korea?
I'm much more afraid of living in constant fear of my own country.
Assange too. Notice how Daniel Domscheit-Berg (who I still suspect was a plant all along, sent in to sabotage WikiLeaks) has made quite a little cottage career off disparaging Assange? Looks like the CIA/FBI has somehow gotten to his ghost-writer now too.
And Domonique Strauss-Kahn. Just a few months after challenging the supremacy of the U.S. Dollar, he suddenly decided to become a rapist (the NY prosecutor even went as far as calling it a "Rock-solid case"). Then, literally *3 days* after his successor was sworn in at the IMF, suddenly the prosecutor decided that he wasn't a rapist anymore. WHAT an amazing coincidence!