The town of Nanaimo has completely vanished, leaving behind only a flat and barren landscape where there was once a thriving, interconnected community. One relative of a Nanaimo resident reported receiving a phone call from the town shortly before it vanished.
"I got a call from my brother Earl in Nanaimo," said Harry Wacker of Fresno, California. "He was babbling on about how they may have gone too far in connecting the town up to the intertoobs, and some sort of hogs pizzle about a 'singularity' or something. Utter nonsense, but that's Earl- loonier than a sack of weasels. You'd have to be to move to gol-damned Canada. Broke his mother's heart, he did."
Other relatives and friends have reported hearing the voices of former Nanaimo residents coming from their game consoles, computers and other Internet connected devices, but these reports are unconfirmed.
Truly talented, *compensated* people. Thank god that capitalism is finally in charge. They had take the elections but I just new it had to be media too. Ha ha ha! Awww! So cute! You wacky kids and your dreams of moneyless utopias. So precious.:-)
If a human foot print is found next to a fossilized dinosaur bone, would that not prove that Evolution is wrong? Or maybe it proves that time travel is possible.
Or the once buried layer that the bone was in was exposed to the surface again when hominids were about.
I think we are seriously going in the wrong direction here Yes, we have a society where otherwise intelligent people have gotten so wrapped around an ideological axle that they cannot rationally differentiate actual protectable speech and emails about bigger penises. This is fucking madness.
Spare me your constitutional arguments and Founding Father quotes and deep thoughts from warped legal continuums, but if intelligent people cannot sit down and agree that there is a difference between, say, a political speech and 50,000 emails about growing your penis, then we have failed as a sentient species.
And we should probably be investigating a wholesale conversion to asexual reproduction as well.
Microsoft dropped the ball on this one. It is not a Bob, or ME situation, with a strong alternative sitting in the wings. This time, they bet the farm, and now have a lot of crow to eat. I hear their lead programmer was crushed under an avalanche of metaphors.
while their facial expressions and physiological activity were tracked and recorded moment-to-moment via electrodes and various other monitoring equipment. The study found that "death of the player's own character...appear[s] to increase some aspects of positive emotion." The authors believe this may result from the temporary "relief from engagement" brought about by character death. Did anyone else get a flashback to the scene from Ghostbusters where they have Rick Moranis hooked up to equipment made from kitchen utensils?
Seriously, did any tax dollars pay for this study?
6am: Huh? 7am: Photosynthesizing 8am: Photosynthesizing 9am: Photosynthesizing 10am: Photosynthesizing 11am: Photosynthesizing noon: Photosynthesizing 1pm: Photosynthesizing 2pm: Photosynthesizing 3pm: Photosynthesizing 4pm: Photosynthesizing 5pm: Photosynthesizing 6pm: Photosynthesizing 7pm: The dark! The dark! Oh woe! Do not go gentle into that good night! Rage, rage against the dying of the light! 8pm: no activity 9pm: no activity 10pm: no activity 11pm: no activity midnight: no activity 1am: no activity 2am: no activity 3am: no activity 4am: no activity 5am: no activity 6pm: Huh?
hey he's still a kid making mistakes he'll learn Not without consequences he won't. That's where the whole "kids will be kids" approach sort of falls on its face and shatters its whole skull.
Well, I was sort of *going* for the +Funny... not really advocating genocide...
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But they are the same thing only at the absolute shallowest level of comparison. Go even one level beyond, and Bad Thing B becomes a complete non sequitur when discussing Bad Thing A.
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Why is presenting "Bad Thing B" in answer to "Bad Thing A" still considered a acceptable method of debate?
We really need to bring these people up to speed with the 21st century. What's the best way to do it? Three weeks of heavy meteorite bombardment followed by moving in a new population of sane people.
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The town of Nanaimo has completely vanished, leaving behind only a flat and barren landscape where there was once a thriving, interconnected community. One relative of a Nanaimo resident reported receiving a phone call from the town shortly before it vanished.
"I got a call from my brother Earl in Nanaimo," said Harry Wacker of Fresno, California. "He was babbling on about how they may have gone too far in connecting the town up to the intertoobs, and some sort of hogs pizzle about a 'singularity' or something. Utter nonsense, but that's Earl- loonier than a sack of weasels. You'd have to be to move to gol-damned Canada. Broke his mother's heart, he did."
Other relatives and friends have reported hearing the voices of former Nanaimo residents coming from their game consoles, computers and other Internet connected devices, but these reports are unconfirmed.
No, it'll be the shit! Web 3.0 will pipe directly into you brain with Information Dust! Woot!
No, wait, that was the PlayStation 9.
Web 4.0 will be announced, but it will become vaporware when everyone realizes it's just Web 3.3 all tarted up.
Or the once buried layer that the bone was in was exposed to the surface again when hominids were about.
I may have to grab this. The Ruby scripting capability of Google Sketchup is calling out to me, and I loves me some 3D modeling. :-)
That's polluting and cruel to animals. Let's just lynch the fuckers. :-) We'll use hemp ropes.
How did spam ever become a free speech issue?
Spare me your constitutional arguments and Founding Father quotes and deep thoughts from warped legal continuums, but if intelligent people cannot sit down and agree that there is a difference between, say, a political speech and 50,000 emails about growing your penis, then we have failed as a sentient species.
And we should probably be investigating a wholesale conversion to asexual reproduction as well.
I mean, c'mon already.
Maybe it'll morph into something that can make a decent phone call!
Seriously, did any tax dollars pay for this study?
Some are more equal than others.
Ooo! Was that the first Orwell reference for this article? Do I win an iPod?
If you can't grow anything, get an artificial plant. Or switch to collectables.
6am: Huh?
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1pm: Photosynthesizing
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7pm: The dark! The dark! Oh woe! Do not go gentle into that good night! Rage, rage against the dying of the light!
8pm: no activity
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midnight: no activity
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And you people let it happen. Mod the truth flamebait/troll. You always do anyway.
Well, I was sort of *going* for the +Funny... not really advocating genocide...
(backs away slowly while placing hand on sword hilt)
But they are the same thing only at the absolute shallowest level of comparison. Go even one level beyond, and Bad Thing B becomes a complete non sequitur when discussing Bad Thing A.
Why is presenting "Bad Thing B" in answer to "Bad Thing A" still considered a acceptable method of debate?
Pissed off at your sister? Commit a crime. You'll get a trivial sentence while your sister gets gang raped.
Wait... what's that? All cultures are of equal value? Oh, OK. Sorry.
There's no need to get all religious about it. ;-)