Perhaps there could be a tag system, like for anime porn on Sankakucomplex. This driver has the "Quiet", "Knows_The_City_Well" and "Respects_Other_Drivers" tags, but he also has the "Body_Odor" and "Farts" tags, so, choose carefully.
Passengers could have similar tags; "Consistently_Drunk", "Will_Not_Shut_Up_About_Rick_And_Morty", "Difficulty_Paying" and "Changes_Destination_More_Than_Three_Times_Per_Trip".
I once proposed that we leak the idea that smoking Paterson's Curse (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echium_plantagineum) could get you stoned. Then the hippies would take care of it. Maybe this will work with the Crown of Thorns starfish, if the hippies can hold their breaths long enough.
And then the mechanical army was defeated by a very large red-skinned demon with his horns sawed off, wearing a leather jacket, smoking a cigar and wielding a six-shooter the size of a pillow.
He never fired a shot. He defeated them with quips.
... the Moon, which is rocky junk lets face it. You can invest to build a moon base there, for some unknown purpose, over the course of decades, sure. Why now?
Iron, massive amounts of solar power, experience in vacuum-proofing things and a low-G place to retire when you get to the age where you need a scooter to get about. Also if the Americans get uppity, you can throw rocks at them... what do you mean, you haven't read that book?
There will come an iphone with no physical ports, no buttons, no screen... just an off-beige slab of plastic that you buy, and charge, which tracks your movements. The perfect product.
This. They should have released a game along the lines of "come up with a stupid idea, pitch it to the government, throw yourself on the pile of money and wave your arms and legs about making money angels, then deliver a substandard product before retiring."
It really isn't, any more. As long as they let anonymous cowards pee on the fire hydrant, we'll get the above responses. The people who are fuming about the preponderance of "may", "maybe" and "might"s in the original article have to take a back seat to the 9gag crowd.
Personally, I don't think a body the size of the moon could ever have held on to an atmosphere long enough for life to develop. "Ah, yes, BUT!" the journal of Astrobiology retorts, "there might have been extremophiles lurking in some of the damper cracks, before the atmosphere faded away completely and the hard radiation reached them and baked them."
That's nice, dear. We have an entire universe mostly populated by bacteria. And us.
I want to get a robot girlfriend for similar reasons.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxHXa0t3sn0
"Oh!
Oh, how I want you
I really really want you
I need your love to guide my way
Oh! oh! oh!
Oh, how I need you
I really really need you
Don't try to bark
And I'll take you to the park
Arf! arf! arf!"
Then I realized the fundamental mistake, the core problem of this (and it was shared by scott bacula's enterprise) THEY DO NOT DO ONE OFF STORIES!
Pretty sure the Harcort Fenton Mudd story was a one-off. I found it odd how Mudd used an alien device to kill the crew several dozen times, and all they did was throw him to his ex-girlfriend.
I was reading the SMH yesterday about your electricity 'reforms'.
I was reading the Weekly World News about President Bat Boy's illicit offspring with Marilyn Monroe on Mars. That's about the same level as the Sydney Morning Herald.
They could just cut to the chase and name them after, howevermanythehell Pokemon there are. They won't be satisfied until they have their own scrolling marquee at the exchange, listing the various types and their relative, imaginary worths. "Good lord, Beedrill is down to Magikarp! SELL!"
Maybe so. Minecraft + the Galacticraft mod would let you re-enact parts of Gravity's Rainbow...what's that? You don't want kids reading that filth? Yeesh, make up your minds!
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Let's just be honest and to the point. That is an advanced super weapon directed at earth...
Pretty sure it's pointing up out of the plane of the ecliptic. It's not going to hit very many planets aimed like that.
What the hell does a fridge need a screen for?
You can connect it to a webcam inside the fridge and see if the light goes out when you close the door.
That's exactly what popped into my mind when I read about this.
And how can a "5" be great, while a "4" means you can't get a ride? What kind of fucked up scale is that?
Log-linear?
Perhaps there could be a tag system, like for anime porn on Sankakucomplex. This driver has the "Quiet", "Knows_The_City_Well" and "Respects_Other_Drivers" tags, but he also has the "Body_Odor" and "Farts" tags, so, choose carefully.
Passengers could have similar tags; "Consistently_Drunk", "Will_Not_Shut_Up_About_Rick_And_Morty", "Difficulty_Paying" and "Changes_Destination_More_Than_Three_Times_Per_Trip".
I once proposed that we leak the idea that smoking Paterson's Curse (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echium_plantagineum) could get you stoned. Then the hippies would take care of it. Maybe this will work with the Crown of Thorns starfish, if the hippies can hold their breaths long enough.
Well, we let them do it though.
I didn't. I protested vigorously, but being only six months old, my angered cries were misinterpreted.
And then the mechanical army was defeated by a very large red-skinned demon with his horns sawed off, wearing a leather jacket, smoking a cigar and wielding a six-shooter the size of a pillow.
He never fired a shot. He defeated them with quips.
... the Moon, which is rocky junk lets face it. You can invest to build a moon base there, for some unknown purpose, over the course of decades, sure. Why now?
Iron, massive amounts of solar power, experience in vacuum-proofing things and a low-G place to retire when you get to the age where you need a scooter to get about. Also if the Americans get uppity, you can throw rocks at them... what do you mean, you haven't read that book?
If you have an android phone, youâ(TM)re best off throwing it directly in the garbage and buying a real phone.
Oh, "youâ(TM)re" are, are you? Good to know.
Fiat also has no value, as opposed to minerals, water, energy, food, etc.
Oh, I don't know. I heard they're bringing out a rebadged version of the Fiat 500.
Obligatory:
https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/859/202/790.png
Uh... the article says it was the Kepler telescope that phoned home, not the ghost of Hunter S Thompson after huffing ether.
There will come an iphone with no physical ports, no buttons, no screen... just an off-beige slab of plastic that you buy, and charge, which tracks your movements. The perfect product.
You could have saved this comment for the thread about "they're reviving the Atari 800"...
...oh? They aren't? Huh. Imagine that.
There is actually one more notch on the scale not mentioned here.
11: Flying saucers are hovering over each of Earth's major cities and are in the process of vaporizing them with death rays.
Or as we in the Church of the Subgenius call it, "just another X-day."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-Day_(Church_of_the_SubGenius)
This. They should have released a game along the lines of "come up with a stupid idea, pitch it to the government, throw yourself on the pile of money and wave your arms and legs about making money angels, then deliver a substandard product before retiring."
Come on Slashdot, you are better than this !!
It really isn't, any more. As long as they let anonymous cowards pee on the fire hydrant, we'll get the above responses. The people who are fuming about the preponderance of "may", "maybe" and "might"s in the original article have to take a back seat to the 9gag crowd.
Personally, I don't think a body the size of the moon could ever have held on to an atmosphere long enough for life to develop. "Ah, yes, BUT!" the journal of Astrobiology retorts, "there might have been extremophiles lurking in some of the damper cracks, before the atmosphere faded away completely and the hard radiation reached them and baked them."
That's nice, dear. We have an entire universe mostly populated by bacteria. And us.
But how it actually thinks remains a mystery.
How much time do you think C. elegans spends contemplating "does existence precede essence?"
I want to get a robot girlfriend for similar reasons.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxHXa0t3sn0
"Oh!
Oh, how I want you
I really really want you
I need your love to guide my way
Oh! oh! oh!
Oh, how I need you
I really really need you
Don't try to bark
And I'll take you to the park
Arf! arf! arf!"
Then I realized the fundamental mistake, the core problem of this (and it was shared by scott bacula's enterprise) THEY DO NOT DO ONE OFF STORIES!
Pretty sure the Harcort Fenton Mudd story was a one-off. I found it odd how Mudd used an alien device to kill the crew several dozen times, and all they did was throw him to his ex-girlfriend.
I was reading the SMH yesterday about your electricity 'reforms'.
I was reading the Weekly World News about President Bat Boy's illicit offspring with Marilyn Monroe on Mars. That's about the same level as the Sydney Morning Herald.
They could just cut to the chase and name them after, howevermanythehell Pokemon there are. They won't be satisfied until they have their own scrolling marquee at the exchange, listing the various types and their relative, imaginary worths. "Good lord, Beedrill is down to Magikarp! SELL!"
Maybe so. Minecraft + the Galacticraft mod would let you re-enact parts of Gravity's Rainbow .. .what's that? You don't want kids reading that filth? Yeesh, make up your minds!
Cockroaches are remarkably successful.
It wasn't their looks that made parasites ugly, he realised, so much as their enthusiasm... - `Hotwire', Simon Ings
Well... Can you see electricity? Nope.
(A blinding, blue-white bolt of lightning strikes AC)
Thor has spoken.