Bad enough my doctor's English is for shit, now the last words I get to hear before the anesthesia kicks in is "What the hell is THAT?!?" in a thick accent.
Reminds me of what my grandpa always used to say: "Kid...a bird belongs in the sky, a fish belongs in the water, and an Irishman belongs on his knees."
IBM’s track record of predictions over the past five years has been somewhat mixed
No it hasn't. It's been shit. These predictions are just self-serving wishful thinking on IBM's part. You can summarize them as follows "We think/hope/pray these things will happen because this is what we're currently focusing on as a company."
treat them as though they were general business predictions (e.g. smartphones get smart...not that they literally read our thoughts)
Making a prediction like "smartphones will get smarter" is absolutely worthless. It's like me saying "computers will get faster" or "game consoles will get more powerful." It's a no-shit-Sherlock "prediction" that doesn't help anyone.
Actually, I do have a prediction about the future:
Five years from now, somewhere in America, a teenage girl will argue fiercely with her mother over her new boyfriend. Her mother will warn the girl that he is no good. The girl will contend that the mother doesn't appreciate how great he is or how real their love is. Later the girl will complain to both her best friend and the boyfriend in question about how her mother is a bitch who doesn't understand that she and her boyfriend they are meant to be together forever.
By "tourist" most people mean someone who buys a ticket themselves. If you're going to count every non-astronaut as a tourist, you had may as well include the Laika as the first space tourist.
But Glorious Leader was the first to truly MASTER it.
And, unlike Gore, Glorious Leader at least put his money where his mouth was on global warming. At the time of his death his country used less electricity than any other Asian country and he had decreased its carbon footprint significantly by reducing its population by over a million people in just 15 years. And no polluting Western factories spewing carbon dioxide into the air or wasteful beef production in Glorious Leader's country. Suck on THAT, China and Western imperialists!
Do most people even really "peak" in high school anymore anyway? Most people go onto college now, and that's where you *really* get to have fun and make friends. The only people who still view high school as their glory days are a handful of losers who end up working down to the plant telling everyone for the hundredth time about how they scored that winning touchdown in the big game that no one even remembers.
Well, if the "the overwhelming list of experts and public figures" would donate millions to Congressional reelection campaigns, maybe Congress would listen. It's not Congress's fault that they didn't put their money where their mouths were, now is it?
the revival team could never pull together sufficient funds
Really, you mean some eccentric English millionaire couldn't find ready funding for the mere $600-million-per-launch costs of the shuttle, along with a few billion to build the private infrastructure to put it up? Why you could have put satellites up for only 20x more than a rocket could do it. Or maybe you could have sent passengers up for only 100x what a ticket on Virgin Galactic would cost.
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Wow, the rare guy who wasn't completely pleased with his Star Wars Galaxies experience.
Just for that, I'm going to need to to bring me 10 wampa pelts!
KOTOR sold most of its copies on the Xbox. And Bioware thanks us by going PC-only. You're welcome, assholes,
One person's imagination is another person's schizophrenia.
Is anyone forcing you to go to this doctor
I have a shitty HMO.
Which reminds me, I don't like homosexuals either.
Why don't you go to a doctor whose English is not shit and does not have a thick accent?
Because the American doctor is lazy
Bad enough my doctor's English is for shit, now the last words I get to hear before the anesthesia kicks in is "What the hell is THAT?!?" in a thick accent.
The RiAA can expect a visit from the IRA soon.
You mean the guys who couldn't even beat a bunch of effete Englishmen?
Reminds me of what my grandpa always used to say: "Kid...a bird belongs in the sky, a fish belongs in the water, and an Irishman belongs on his knees."
A fellow psychic. All these years I thought I was alone.
IBM’s track record of predictions over the past five years has been somewhat mixed
No it hasn't. It's been shit. These predictions are just self-serving wishful thinking on IBM's part. You can summarize them as follows "We think/hope/pray these things will happen because this is what we're currently focusing on as a company."
treat them as though they were general business predictions (e.g. smartphones get smart...not that they literally read our thoughts)
Making a prediction like "smartphones will get smarter" is absolutely worthless. It's like me saying "computers will get faster" or "game consoles will get more powerful." It's a no-shit-Sherlock "prediction" that doesn't help anyone.
Actually, I do have a prediction about the future:
Five years from now, somewhere in America, a teenage girl will argue fiercely with her mother over her new boyfriend. Her mother will warn the girl that he is no good. The girl will contend that the mother doesn't appreciate how great he is or how real their love is. Later the girl will complain to both her best friend and the boyfriend in question about how her mother is a bitch who doesn't understand that she and her boyfriend they are meant to be together forever.
...has no vision
Here are their predictions from five years ago (all the wonderful things we are supposed to have today):
We will be able to access health care remotely, from just about anywhere in the world.
Not even close
Real-time speech translation—once a vision only in science fiction—will become the norm.
Some advances have been made, but nope
There will be a 3D Internet.
Nope
Technologies the size of a few atoms will address areas of environmental importance.
Wow, not even sure what the fuck that was SUPPOSED to be about. Nanotech maybe??
Our mobile phones will start to read our minds.
God help us.
Was Dear Leader BEFORE takeover of heaven. Now Glorious!!!
Don't forget the exaggerated stories about shit that seemed *really* important at the time, but means jackshit today. Oh, the stories!
By "tourist" most people mean someone who buys a ticket themselves. If you're going to count every non-astronaut as a tourist, you had may as well include the Laika as the first space tourist.
But Glorious Leader was the first to truly MASTER it.
And, unlike Gore, Glorious Leader at least put his money where his mouth was on global warming. At the time of his death his country used less electricity than any other Asian country and he had decreased its carbon footprint significantly by reducing its population by over a million people in just 15 years. And no polluting Western factories spewing carbon dioxide into the air or wasteful beef production in Glorious Leader's country. Suck on THAT, China and Western imperialists!
Do most people even really "peak" in high school anymore anyway? Most people go onto college now, and that's where you *really* get to have fun and make friends. The only people who still view high school as their glory days are a handful of losers who end up working down to the plant telling everyone for the hundredth time about how they scored that winning touchdown in the big game that no one even remembers.
Well, if the "the overwhelming list of experts and public figures" would donate millions to Congressional reelection campaigns, maybe Congress would listen. It's not Congress's fault that they didn't put their money where their mouths were, now is it?
For the same reason "Inflammable" and "Flammable" have the same meaning--because English sucks and we make it up as we go along.
All I need to get her off the ground is a million dollars...and a factory...and some food...and a place to crash for a while.
I used to go to Oblivion, then I took this arro...oh fuck it.
Drax was so good he found a way to take the Shuttles to the moon. Pretty impressive for a vehicle that couldn't leave LEO.
the revival team could never pull together sufficient funds
Really, you mean some eccentric English millionaire couldn't find ready funding for the mere $600-million-per-launch costs of the shuttle, along with a few billion to build the private infrastructure to put it up? Why you could have put satellites up for only 20x more than a rocket could do it. Or maybe you could have sent passengers up for only 100x what a ticket on Virgin Galactic would cost.
Where do I send my money to invest?
As long as you don't mind that your money is helping pay their CEO's $500,000/yr. salary.