"Killing something dead" is completely redundant...But overall, you're definitely right.
Perhaps my choice of words could have been better (How 'killing something dead' is not at all redundant, I do not know - i.e. I'm wondering how they can say such a thing seriously), but in my original post I was agreeing with you; that it is stupidly redundant and cheap emphasis for indoctrination's sake, as shown by my own addition of FOREVER. TO DEATH. etc.;)
Because if people think of it as a pencil they are more inclined to put it in their mouths and destroy all that nasty bacteria on their teeth. You see, sometimes, with clever branding and naming, there's no need for a manual!
While it's easy to focus on the positives, what would be the long term ramifications for such a device? The end of the summary mentions using this 'pencil' on a paper cut, which I find rather disturbing. Seriously, it seems as if bacteria (or, more rhetorically, GERMS) are replacing paedophiles in terms of evoking hysteria for protecting THE CHILDREN (OMG). If you watch any soap or bleach advert on TV, they tend to anthropomorphise bacteria as gruff-voiced killers that will strike your toddler in his highchair the minute your back is turned. The companies also make enthusiastic claims that they KILL ALL KNOWN GERMS DEAD. FOREVER. TO DEATH. KILLED. How 'killing something dead' is not at all redundant, I do not know.
Our immune system is like a muscle, it needs to be worked to improve its strength. And, like a muscle, it can cope fine with reasonably sized loads. This doesn't mean you should go round feasting on raw burgers, but more importantly it does mean that it's not a big deal if your child (God forbid) plays outside, scrapes their knee or rolls in the mud. Actually, by keeping them inside your sanitised bubble you put them more at risk of developing asthma and other allergies, as studies have shown. In the same way that morons can't realise we got on OK without mobile phones at the movie theatre, we also got on OK without Carex Bacteria Assassination soap. Doctors prescribing all sorts of drugs to shut up hypochondriacs just exacerbates the problem further.
Slashdotters, do your duty and eat those nose pickings!
Actually, the fact that they spent years working on such an over-the-top yet utterly useless and superficial 'innovation' does make me question their intelligence somewhat.
It's funny, it takes you 43 attempts when blind drunk to enter your password, but the rambling yet coherent message declaring your wish to have sex with your best female friend (who thinks of you as a brother) gets to the correct destination as quickly and easily as a cartographer moonlighting as a cab driver...
Scene: Two aliens are flying a cargo route when the ship's onboard computer presents an analysis of the foreign object they intercepted
Alien 1: Hey, I swear I recognise that guy. Alien 2: He's the first human we ever probed, you know, before advances in probe technology reduced their size immensely. Alien 1: Oh yeah! I can't believe we used to carry those massive things around with us. Boy, that was one fun weekend. Alien 2: It sure was, Greg. Alien 1: 'Nother beer? Alien 2: Sure. You know, I think that guy's quite a celebrity back on Earth. Alien 1: Heh, cool. I know that guy. I know him.
Copyright infringement has always been theft, comrade. Haven't you checked the version 11 of the New Legal Dictionary? The vocabulary gets smaller with each edition!
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It is at first, until they realise they are torn between the kittens and the whales...
"Killing something dead" is completely redundant...But overall, you're definitely right.
;)
Perhaps my choice of words could have been better (How 'killing something dead' is not at all redundant, I do not know - i.e. I'm wondering how they can say such a thing seriously), but in my original post I was agreeing with you; that it is stupidly redundant and cheap emphasis for indoctrination's sake, as shown by my own addition of FOREVER. TO DEATH. etc.
Because if people think of it as a pencil they are more inclined to put it in their mouths and destroy all that nasty bacteria on their teeth. You see, sometimes, with clever branding and naming, there's no need for a manual!
While it's easy to focus on the positives, what would be the long term ramifications for such a device? The end of the summary mentions using this 'pencil' on a paper cut, which I find rather disturbing. Seriously, it seems as if bacteria (or, more rhetorically, GERMS) are replacing paedophiles in terms of evoking hysteria for protecting THE CHILDREN (OMG). If you watch any soap or bleach advert on TV, they tend to anthropomorphise bacteria as gruff-voiced killers that will strike your toddler in his highchair the minute your back is turned. The companies also make enthusiastic claims that they KILL ALL KNOWN GERMS DEAD. FOREVER. TO DEATH. KILLED. How 'killing something dead' is not at all redundant, I do not know.
Our immune system is like a muscle, it needs to be worked to improve its strength. And, like a muscle, it can cope fine with reasonably sized loads. This doesn't mean you should go round feasting on raw burgers, but more importantly it does mean that it's not a big deal if your child (God forbid) plays outside, scrapes their knee or rolls in the mud. Actually, by keeping them inside your sanitised bubble you put them more at risk of developing asthma and other allergies, as studies have shown. In the same way that morons can't realise we got on OK without mobile phones at the movie theatre, we also got on OK without Carex Bacteria Assassination soap. Doctors prescribing all sorts of drugs to shut up hypochondriacs just exacerbates the problem further.
Slashdotters, do your duty and eat those nose pickings!
Actually, the fact that they spent years working on such an over-the-top yet utterly useless and superficial 'innovation' does make me question their intelligence somewhat.
At least Keith Richards is safe. Nobody can rock like him...
It's funny, it takes you 43 attempts when blind drunk to enter your password, but the rambling yet coherent message declaring your wish to have sex with your best female friend (who thinks of you as a brother) gets to the correct destination as quickly and easily as a cartographer moonlighting as a cab driver...
it'll be the first inter-galactic goatse.
Scene: Two aliens are flying a cargo route when the ship's onboard computer presents an analysis of the foreign object they intercepted
Alien 1: Hey, I swear I recognise that guy.
Alien 2: He's the first human we ever probed, you know, before advances in probe technology reduced their size immensely.
Alien 1: Oh yeah! I can't believe we used to carry those massive things around with us. Boy, that was one fun weekend.
Alien 2: It sure was, Greg.
Alien 1: 'Nother beer?
Alien 2: Sure. You know, I think that guy's quite a celebrity back on Earth.
Alien 1: Heh, cool. I know that guy. I know him.
Those weren't dreams...
Sleep is where I'm a viking.
What question is that? What happens inside a woman's head?
Quite.
Only if it includes her home address.
Even though you were saying what I was thinking, I still laughed out loud. Thanks.
Yeah, Big Bird is his favourite.
No, the real question is: when they run out of batteries, do you flush them down the toilet?
Mmm, irony...
Sure, but I request that first you send me the $249 backup restoration fee.
Copyright infringement has always been theft, comrade. Haven't you checked the version 11 of the New Legal Dictionary? The vocabulary gets smaller with each edition!
Yeah, I heard he keeps his stash in that little treasure chest at the bottom of the tank. Yarrr.
Is that porn in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?
I'm just happy to see the porn in my pocket.
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What's next: Microsoft invents a 'Play-Once Only' Operating System?
Soap, hopefully.
Happiness is what happens when we're doing someone else.
;)
Fixed.