When you're driving a car, you have to drive a car. Kids fighting or arguing is not your job. Your job is to look at the freaking road and try not to kill anyone. Comprende?
I only get distracted when I run over a pedestrian or a cyclist. Those pests!/sarc
People are generally driving like they're in a computer game these days. It is extremely bad and irresponsible. I can see it happen daily. The ego of the drivers is sky high. Self-driving cars without any ego cannot come too soon.
From our perspective, as things are now, I wouldn't be surprised at all. However, our perspective could change in the future when we finally start using fusion energy and become generally more developed. That is only how we are perceiving things right now. We are still as primitive as we were hundreds of years ago, despite the technological progress. We are still dumb pre-historic people in our minds. We are still obsessed with expansion and resources. Now imagine a society that can have all the resources and planets they want. Why would they want are measly resources and our planet? They would come over for a chat, or most probably just ignore us, at least until we get so developed that they won't be able to ignore us any more.
Two things: why do you assume aliens have to be like us? Do you really think a predatory society like ours that feeds upon the "weaker, less civilised and technologically developed" is how things are throughout the Universe? Everything is relevant. They might be like us, but they might be different. Second thing: our resources. Don't you think there is plenty of resources in the Universe for everybody so you don't have to go "hunting"? It's ridiculous to think that someone would enslave us for our resources. There's nothing we have they couldn't find anywhere in the Universe, without having to enslave, or just deal with anybody. The only original resource they might crave is us and our animals, or plants. For food? As slaves? That is possible.
Well, the US is still calling itself a land of the free. So... It's just another kind of hypocrisy added on top of people living in the US. You are really remarkable people.
"It's impact could be severe." Indeed, if you don't recognise your mother in law and she bashes you with an umbrella. You could die of brain haemorrhage.
Sure. Everybody knows you can sell cars without actually making them. "Look ma, I bought a car!", "Where is it, son?" errr you know... I'm half-Vulcan and logic is one of my best traits.
I've always loved me some bar... and get hammered on a plane. One of the reasons being my aeroplane travel anxiety. It makes it so much easier and merrier.
"until the federal government creates a long-term solution for dealing with their waste, a goal that remains elusive despite decades of effort." Why don't just shoot it to the Moon?? Would that be really so costly? We just need a really big cannon. I've read it in a book once.
It hasn't changed the world because the world hasn't changed. "I like my xxx software because it does what I like and I'm perfectly alright with paying for it." Good for you, Joe. Have you tried changing? "No, it doesn't do it for me." So that's what you have, Joe. Keep churnin'.
So it seems like the aliens in "Independence day" haven't patched their processors properly.
On the serious side: most incredible shit that Hollywood has pulled off, ever. Aside from some 64567 of other films.
Yes, think of the possibilities. And that's all you can think of when you haven't been able to pay all your bills this month and craving food, so you have to eat cheap shit and poison yourself with it.
In a true communist society it would cost you... nothing. Because a great society cares about everybody. It's not based on who is the most psychopathic=wins.
Scratch that thing and hang the one who pushed for it, please. If he's not already dead. It's annoying and completely stupid. Time is a stupid concept anyway. We all have our own biological clocks and those are most important.
Poor people will not laugh, because this flat-headed fuckwit is throwing away money for nothing, whilst he could do something useful for once and just give it to charity.
Microsoft is trying to be creative in their usual way, by creating nothing new and actually making things more complicated for the end user, especially ones used to Windows, which is quite a lot of them. I've learned years ago, when they released Windows 7, that they are just a corporation with corporative mind, which never works well and it's just going to get worse. I was right - there comes Windows 8. That was the time when I decided it's over for me and MS relationship. Since then I'm happily running Debian with Mint and I won't go back. If I need something that only WIndows can do, I can always run a virtual machine, or install Windows on the other hard disk. If you want the peace of mind, ditch Windows. Happiness achieved. No corporation should have such control over an OS that everybody use on the desktop and laptop anyway. It's the kind of control that only people themselves should have, open source all the way. I want to be in control of what happens on my computer. Total control. Only a dumbarse will let a corporation like MS control it.
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When you're driving a car, you have to drive a car. Kids fighting or arguing is not your job. Your job is to look at the freaking road and try not to kill anyone. Comprende?
I only get distracted when I run over a pedestrian or a cyclist. Those pests! /sarc
People are generally driving like they're in a computer game these days. It is extremely bad and irresponsible. I can see it happen daily. The ego of the drivers is sky high. Self-driving cars without any ego cannot come too soon.
How likely is that they would like a hamburger? Especially a McDonald's one? I'd say about 10%... and I think I'm being generous.
From our perspective, as things are now, I wouldn't be surprised at all. However, our perspective could change in the future when we finally start using fusion energy and become generally more developed. That is only how we are perceiving things right now. We are still as primitive as we were hundreds of years ago, despite the technological progress. We are still dumb pre-historic people in our minds. We are still obsessed with expansion and resources. Now imagine a society that can have all the resources and planets they want. Why would they want are measly resources and our planet? They would come over for a chat, or most probably just ignore us, at least until we get so developed that they won't be able to ignore us any more.
Really good one! :))
I think "sport" is reserved only for the less developed civilisations.
Two things: why do you assume aliens have to be like us? Do you really think a predatory society like ours that feeds upon the "weaker, less civilised and technologically developed" is how things are throughout the Universe? Everything is relevant. They might be like us, but they might be different. Second thing: our resources. Don't you think there is plenty of resources in the Universe for everybody so you don't have to go "hunting"? It's ridiculous to think that someone would enslave us for our resources. There's nothing we have they couldn't find anywhere in the Universe, without having to enslave, or just deal with anybody. The only original resource they might crave is us and our animals, or plants. For food? As slaves? That is possible.
Hello? Is anybody there? Nope. Just empty space.
Well, the US is still calling itself a land of the free. So... It's just another kind of hypocrisy added on top of people living in the US. You are really remarkable people.
I think he's planning on starting a family factory. He's still running a bit short, though. Probably another one is on the way.
"It's impact could be severe." Indeed, if you don't recognise your mother in law and she bashes you with an umbrella. You could die of brain haemorrhage.
I guess over here your name would be Arthur Richard Sullivan Evans. ;)
Where did you read that Genghis Khan died by falling off a pony? He was poisoned by a jealous mistress.
Sure. Everybody knows you can sell cars without actually making them. "Look ma, I bought a car!", "Where is it, son?" errr you know... I'm half-Vulcan and logic is one of my best traits.
I've always loved me some bar... and get hammered on a plane. One of the reasons being my aeroplane travel anxiety. It makes it so much easier and merrier.
"until the federal government creates a long-term solution for dealing with their waste, a goal that remains elusive despite decades of effort." Why don't just shoot it to the Moon?? Would that be really so costly? We just need a really big cannon. I've read it in a book once.
It hasn't changed the world because the world hasn't changed. "I like my xxx software because it does what I like and I'm perfectly alright with paying for it." Good for you, Joe. Have you tried changing? "No, it doesn't do it for me." So that's what you have, Joe. Keep churnin'.
Europeans love to hate on billion dollar tax invaders. There, fixed it for you.
Move from Excel to Counter Strike. Easy.
So it seems like the aliens in "Independence day" haven't patched their processors properly. On the serious side: most incredible shit that Hollywood has pulled off, ever. Aside from some 64567 of other films.
Yes, think of the possibilities. And that's all you can think of when you haven't been able to pay all your bills this month and craving food, so you have to eat cheap shit and poison yourself with it.
In a true communist society it would cost you... nothing. Because a great society cares about everybody. It's not based on who is the most psychopathic=wins.
Scratch that thing and hang the one who pushed for it, please. If he's not already dead. It's annoying and completely stupid. Time is a stupid concept anyway. We all have our own biological clocks and those are most important.
Poor people will not laugh, because this flat-headed fuckwit is throwing away money for nothing, whilst he could do something useful for once and just give it to charity.
Microsoft is trying to be creative in their usual way, by creating nothing new and actually making things more complicated for the end user, especially ones used to Windows, which is quite a lot of them. I've learned years ago, when they released Windows 7, that they are just a corporation with corporative mind, which never works well and it's just going to get worse. I was right - there comes Windows 8. That was the time when I decided it's over for me and MS relationship. Since then I'm happily running Debian with Mint and I won't go back. If I need something that only WIndows can do, I can always run a virtual machine, or install Windows on the other hard disk. If you want the peace of mind, ditch Windows. Happiness achieved. No corporation should have such control over an OS that everybody use on the desktop and laptop anyway. It's the kind of control that only people themselves should have, open source all the way. I want to be in control of what happens on my computer. Total control. Only a dumbarse will let a corporation like MS control it.