1. A robot shall always obey the sexual needs of a human.
2. A robot shall always wear a fleshy exterior, pheromones custom tailored to your brain, and a pleasing demeanor lustful towards you, except when it conflicts with the first law.
3. A robot shall always have pleasing external sexual charms, custom tailored to your desires, except when it conflicts with the first two laws.
> Lets not be silly here. The FCC crackdown was just a politcal showpiece.
Exactly. If some of you harbor the fantasy that Democrats are going to ride to the rescue, or would if in the majority of Congress, guess again. Some of the leaders against gays in the military sported a big D on their chest, my self-deluding friends. Like all else, they cave and kowtow to that which gets them elected (or an opponent.)
May not like it, but it's the reality, and it does suck.
This month's Skeptical Inquirer had an article about cold war ballons used for spying and sensing atomic blasts.
They were some 300 feet in diameter, about 2x the volume of the Hindenberg, and would reach heights of 100,000 feet or more. They could carry tons of equipment (one 4 ton camera is mentioned.) All this started in 1947.
It's old tech.
So yes, folks, "someone should do", has already been done.
Which reminds me about the current Trek season. Obviously, like most Trek, the enemies are based on current events. Klingons for the Soviets, and these guys who launch an attack against the Earth for the terrorists. So far so good.
But then they send off Enterprise after them. Can you imagine a US Aircraft Carrier stopping somewhere on the east coast of Africa, and some guy goes ashore and bumps into a middle eastener in a fruit stand or gas station, and says, "Hey, you know anything about this?" And he gets a lead! Or thinks he does, anyway, so the aircraft carrier starts hauling ass around the Mediterranean, following "leads" from guys in fruit stands and gas stations and 7-11's and K-Marts and whatever the local equivalents are.
Secondly, when the Enterprise got back, why weren't there a dozen more Enterprises in orbit, with a hundred more under construction? Looks like some politician needs to lose their job!!!
Oh man! And people thought I was irritating playing a balding, red-headed obese CPA with a bad comb-over dancing in a black speedo, whining about how his wife left him that morning and he just "didn't care anymore".
"Meesa tummy so full. Where da p00p shoot room? Around here somieswheres? Does-a deese look infected to yousa?"
This is rather common, actually. People down the street from me lived on a street with a connecting street pointing right at their living room. The connecting street had a long curve, then a hundred feet of staight, then their lawn and house. They've been porked twice! No one injured either time (in the house, anyway.)
I'd bury some steel/cement posts in front of the house behind the bushes. But then someone would prolly plow into them, be injured, then hire a trial lawyer to sue you. "You are responsible because you put this here, rather than let him plow into your house, possibly killing your children." Gotta love lawyers.
And I don't even wanna get into the "rotating shield harmonics" crap.
They should just pull out the phase shifting cloaking device, make the Klingons and Romulans our bitches, and be done with it. If it wasn't for cloaking the E would've cleaned up the biggest and baddest Juggernaut the Romulan Empire had from their recent war, no problem. Sheesh! Aren't there any power hungry politicians in the Federation?
It's also been pointed out the Greeks had invented the simple steam engine, using it for toys, or in one case, opening a very large door. Sadly, it never took off. More important than calculus (for the above poster's reason), it would have brought into existance industry. Then, Man would have walked on the moon 2000 years ago.
By this time, we'd be in a very advanced civilization. So advanced, they might have perfect virtual reality and decide to raise human children in the "old way", just to teach them the problems that used to be. They'd be rai
Speaking of which, is 1 really a divisor? When they talk of primes, they only allow the number itself and 1.
Yes, you can divide by 1, but you're not really dividing, are you? The number remains the same, so it's not "divided" into anything. Now dividing it by itself, yielding 1, does make sense, since you're dividing N up N times.
You complain that you hope it isn't 30Gb, then you use an example that your own medium sized city would use only about 5Gb. Yeah, well, there are a lot more cities than just that. Based on your own example, it should require terabytes of information for the entire US. That's a lot of DVDs. A hard disk solution will not work, to say nothing of updates later on.
FYI, in the US, it's illegal to show a video anywhere the driver could see it while the car is in motion. The law is designed so that even things like scrolling text make the lawyers get itchy.
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1. A robot shall always obey the sexual needs of a human.
2. A robot shall always wear a fleshy exterior, pheromones custom tailored to your brain, and a pleasing demeanor lustful towards you, except when it conflicts with the first law.
3. A robot shall always have pleasing external sexual charms, custom tailored to your desires, except when it conflicts with the first two laws.
Notably granted the title of Worst Movie Physics Ever.
Are comics the new mainstream novels?
Is porn the new mainstream method of producing a baby?
> Apple apparently sold its 100 millionth song at the iTunes Music Store.
...netting Apple a grand total of...one million tousandths of a cent.
Dr. Evil:
> Lets not be silly here. The FCC crackdown was just a politcal showpiece.
Exactly. If some of you harbor the fantasy that Democrats are going to ride to the rescue, or would if in the majority of Congress, guess again. Some of the leaders against gays in the military sported a big D on their chest, my self-deluding friends. Like all else, they cave and kowtow to that which gets them elected (or an opponent.)
May not like it, but it's the reality, and it does suck.
> The amount of propellant doesn't rise linearly, either: it rises exponentially.
People always say this. Are they sure they don't mean geometrically?
BTW, it was called project Skyhook, and it was in SI because it was the source of many a UFO sighting.
This month's Skeptical Inquirer had an article about cold war ballons used for spying and sensing atomic blasts.
They were some 300 feet in diameter, about 2x the volume of the Hindenberg, and would reach heights of 100,000 feet or more. They could carry tons of equipment (one 4 ton camera is mentioned.) All this started in 1947.
It's old tech.
So yes, folks, "someone should do", has already been done.
Which reminds me about the current Trek season. Obviously, like most Trek, the enemies are based on current events. Klingons for the Soviets, and these guys who launch an attack against the Earth for the terrorists. So far so good.
But then they send off Enterprise after them. Can you imagine a US Aircraft Carrier stopping somewhere on the east coast of Africa, and some guy goes ashore and bumps into a middle eastener in a fruit stand or gas station, and says, "Hey, you know anything about this?" And he gets a lead! Or thinks he does, anyway, so the aircraft carrier starts hauling ass around the Mediterranean, following "leads" from guys in fruit stands and gas stations and 7-11's and K-Marts and whatever the local equivalents are.
Secondly, when the Enterprise got back, why weren't there a dozen more Enterprises in orbit, with a hundred more under construction? Looks like some politician needs to lose their job!!!
With the notable exception of wonderful, soft, wet lesbian kisses, complete with saliva strings. Jadzia & friend, Evil Kira and Evil Ezri, etc.
Come to think of it, I'm still waiting for Hoshi and T'pow to hook up.
> Roddenberry insisted all conflict was caused by insanity or ignorance
Kinda like boring, sci-fi, non-comedic episodes of Three's Company...
Now if we could just get the Max Payne 2 people to fix the bug where you can only play on baby easy mode the first time through.
Note to slow moving minds out there: I know it's not really a bug. It's called sarcasm.
That's all available in Europe, I mean, of course.
> SWG Leak Reveals Playable...Gungan Characters
Oh man! And people thought I was irritating playing a balding, red-headed obese CPA with a bad comb-over dancing in a black speedo, whining about how his wife left him that morning and he just "didn't care anymore".
"Meesa tummy so full. Where da p00p shoot room? Around here somieswheres? Does-a deese look infected to yousa?"
This is rather common, actually. People down the street from me lived on a street with a connecting street pointing right at their living room. The connecting street had a long curve, then a hundred feet of staight, then their lawn and house. They've been porked twice! No one injured either time (in the house, anyway.)
I'd bury some steel/cement posts in front of the house behind the bushes. But then someone would prolly plow into them, be injured, then hire a trial lawyer to sue you. "You are responsible because you put this here, rather than let him plow into your house, possibly killing your children." Gotta love lawyers.
More like de-crowned them. :o
That's because they wanna get the cabbage selling it on eBay. Same ol' same ol'.
And I don't even wanna get into the "rotating shield harmonics" crap.
They should just pull out the phase shifting cloaking device, make the Klingons and Romulans our bitches, and be done with it. If it wasn't for cloaking the E would've cleaned up the biggest and baddest Juggernaut the Romulan Empire had from their recent war, no problem. Sheesh! Aren't there any power hungry politicians in the Federation?
And if you were to cook a spiced chicken you had just got done masturbating, you'd rub on rub on on a cock you just rubbed one off a cock on.
It's also been pointed out the Greeks had invented the simple steam engine, using it for toys, or in one case, opening a very large door. Sadly, it never took off. More important than calculus (for the above poster's reason), it would have brought into existance industry. Then, Man would have walked on the moon 2000 years ago.
By this time, we'd be in a very advanced civilization. So advanced, they might have perfect virtual reality and decide to raise human children in the "old way", just to teach them the problems that used to be. They'd be rai
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nevermind.
Speaking of which, is 1 really a divisor? When they talk of primes, they only allow the number itself and 1.
Yes, you can divide by 1, but you're not really dividing, are you? The number remains the same, so it's not "divided" into anything. Now dividing it by itself, yielding 1, does make sense, since you're dividing N up N times.
You complain that you hope it isn't 30Gb, then you use an example that your own medium sized city would use only about 5Gb. Yeah, well, there are a lot more cities than just that. Based on your own example, it should require terabytes of information for the entire US. That's a lot of DVDs. A hard disk solution will not work, to say nothing of updates later on.
FYI, in the US, it's illegal to show a video anywhere the driver could see it while the car is in motion. The law is designed so that even things like scrolling text make the lawyers get itchy.
They aren't, and that's sad. That was the original plan way back when though.
Now you guys know how Mac people feel.
Actually, more games is why I switched from Mac to PC 3 computers ago.