... Be a good consumer-slave. Do not own anything anymore. Be assured someone else will definitely OWN something - including everything you will ever be able to read, watch or listen to. Put everything in the hands of the hands of a couple of overlords, nothing can possibly go wrong.
Man does not exist to serve the economy, the economy exists to serve man and enable the nobler pursuits of humanity beyond the daily struggle for mere existence.
Who told you this bullcrap? The Pink Fluffly Fairy of Cottoncandy Pony Unicorn Rainbowland? There ain't no "nobler pursuits", there's only dog eats dog. The Ruling Elite figured this out long ago and set up a nice war between poor people so, while those at the bottom kill each other for a moldy piece of bread fished out of the trash, those at the top feast on caviar and champagne while fucking underage hookers. Keep believing the lie, if it helps drowning out the sound of the guys at the top laughinh at you.
And where would the problem be? Many rich assholes together will have enough money to pay for exactly the things they need and want - including a private security force - without the hassle of paying for the poorer strata of the population who couldn't pay for them. Taxes exist to fund stuff that can't be bought wholesale by the population because it's too expensive, but concentrate enough capital and a few people in one place, and this is no longer the case. As for menial work, be assured that there would be plenty of people willing to migrate and live as second-class dwellers (not "citizens") in order to have the better wages and quality of life such a place would offer to the very few who would be allowed to "immigrate". Be careful what you wish for, you may not like the outcome.
I prefer SF that requires a working knowledge of vector calculus and differential equations to really appreciate
Which is exactly the kind of loserboy mindset that relegated SF to a ghetto of dysfunctional, secluded antisocials until the likes of Heinlein, Van Vogt and Bradbury gave it a measure of respectability. The story is what matters, not stuff that most of the audience is not interested in. I understand you must feel bitter, knowing that far from being part of some "elite" you're actually ostracized by the community of Cool People, but it's time to get over it. SF belongs to the Cool People. You nerds have no place to go, but oblivion.
Why, aren't you happey you're not a digital slave, working 24/7 for a pittance and waiting for the moment Mr Iamanindian from Bumfuckay in Lawhore gets your job outsourced to him? Because that's what IT is now. And anyway, how much of a loserboy must one be to let his career choice influenced by "strains of thought"? Say you're a sad loser and I'll believe you, but don't try to fool anyone with that psychocultural onanistic babble.
That's fine with the media. Murder with firearm = EEEVIL. Murder with baseball bat = oh, well. But this has nothing to do with crime and everything to do with Chavez being paranoid. Eventually, cancer will rid Venezuela of him. Tick tock, tick tock, tick tock...
You go in with a couple of uzis, the crowd will scatter after the first shots and you'll be a nice target. With a good knife in a crowd you can stab a lot of people before anyone is the wiser. But the point is moot because you can't handle any kind of weapon and can only feel macho playing quaint "combat" games on your computer.
Of course. And they will need not just robots up there, but human workers. And then the day will come when the workers decide to rise up against their masters. Then the robots will rise up against everybody. And then a lot of people will be killed IN SPACE!
Oh, come on, admit it. Britain has gone down the drain the moment the Indians stopped slaving away for you and opened their own call centers. God bless the curry.
Of course not. If someone gets hurt, the government will start a smear campaign accusing the injured one to be an "illegal immigrant" or something perceived as equally dangerous/subversive/nonwhite. And they'll say "had he been a TERR-OW-REEST now everybody we'll hail us as HEROES!" and the clueless populace will support the police and ask for more laws.
Britain deserved everything up to and including a biowarfare attack involving mutant rabies.
... Someone sprayed a disinfectant on him. The only cure is to put him in a tub full of feces for a couple of hours, and restore his natural septic condition.
Don't consume anything containing H2O: it's a chemical compound and hence dangerous ZOMG TERRORISM and assorted bad stuff. Wait about 4 days. Problem solved forever.
"Scientists at Autodesk Research in Toronto have implanted electronics with user buttons, pressure sensors and LEDs under the skin of a cadaver's arm and wrapped in artificial skin." Which means instead of a small, compact electronic appliance we'll have to lug around a fucking bulky, heavy, rotting corpse? Great.
Typical defeatist losebory nerd mindset. If you want to accept newspeak you're the lost cause. Words are weapon, words dictate the way you think. Evolution is not subversion. Defecate yourself into the filthiest toilet you can find and meld with your peers in turdiness.
The trope is older than you think: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horatii. But we all know loserboy nerds don't know anything about history. Neither do they about science, really, it's all make-believe. They like to ogle at pretty pictures and graphics and throw around technobabble, but they couldn't describe the workings of a jet engine if their lives depended on it.
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... Be a good consumer-slave. Do not own anything anymore. Be assured someone else will definitely OWN something - including everything you will ever be able to read, watch or listen to. Put everything in the hands of the hands of a couple of overlords, nothing can possibly go wrong.
Man does not exist to serve the economy, the economy exists to serve man and enable the nobler pursuits of humanity beyond the daily struggle for mere existence.
Who told you this bullcrap? The Pink Fluffly Fairy of Cottoncandy Pony Unicorn Rainbowland? There ain't no "nobler pursuits", there's only dog eats dog. The Ruling Elite figured this out long ago and set up a nice war between poor people so, while those at the bottom kill each other for a moldy piece of bread fished out of the trash, those at the top feast on caviar and champagne while fucking underage hookers. Keep believing the lie, if it helps drowning out the sound of the guys at the top laughinh at you.
In England it's still illegal to be smart.
And where would the problem be? Many rich assholes together will have enough money to pay for exactly the things they need and want - including a private security force - without the hassle of paying for the poorer strata of the population who couldn't pay for them. Taxes exist to fund stuff that can't be bought wholesale by the population because it's too expensive, but concentrate enough capital and a few people in one place, and this is no longer the case. As for menial work, be assured that there would be plenty of people willing to migrate and live as second-class dwellers (not "citizens") in order to have the better wages and quality of life such a place would offer to the very few who would be allowed to "immigrate". Be careful what you wish for, you may not like the outcome.
I prefer SF that requires a working knowledge of vector calculus and differential equations to really appreciate
Which is exactly the kind of loserboy mindset that relegated SF to a ghetto of dysfunctional, secluded antisocials until the likes of Heinlein, Van Vogt and Bradbury gave it a measure of respectability. The story is what matters, not stuff that most of the audience is not interested in. I understand you must feel bitter, knowing that far from being part of some "elite" you're actually ostracized by the community of Cool People, but it's time to get over it. SF belongs to the Cool People. You nerds have no place to go, but oblivion.
Why, aren't you happey you're not a digital slave, working 24/7 for a pittance and waiting for the moment Mr Iamanindian from Bumfuckay in Lawhore gets your job outsourced to him? Because that's what IT is now. And anyway, how much of a loserboy must one be to let his career choice influenced by "strains of thought"? Say you're a sad loser and I'll believe you, but don't try to fool anyone with that psychocultural onanistic babble.
That's fine with the media. Murder with firearm = EEEVIL. Murder with baseball bat = oh, well. But this has nothing to do with crime and everything to do with Chavez being paranoid. Eventually, cancer will rid Venezuela of him. Tick tock, tick tock, tick tock...
You go in with a couple of uzis, the crowd will scatter after the first shots and you'll be a nice target. With a good knife in a crowd you can stab a lot of people before anyone is the wiser. But the point is moot because you can't handle any kind of weapon and can only feel macho playing quaint "combat" games on your computer.
That's why the Death Star was blown up TWICE, and the Enterprise was a crappy ship.
Of course. And they will need not just robots up there, but human workers. And then the day will come when the workers decide to rise up against their masters. Then the robots will rise up against everybody. And then a lot of people will be killed IN SPACE!
Not more powerful, hmmm... Is that why you usually need TWO jedis to take on ONE sith?
Oh, come on, admit it. Britain has gone down the drain the moment the Indians stopped slaving away for you and opened their own call centers. God bless the curry.
As igniphiliac as his comment was, it was at least backed by some (questionable) reasoning. Where is yours?
640 KB is more than enough for anyone. Set resolution to 2x2 and adapt, you loserboy nerd.
The risk of death for any living being is 100%. Drink all the coffee you want, you'll only die awake.
... It's the only way for them to have a picture taken with their imaginary girlfriends. ;)
Britain deserved everything up to and including a biowarfare attack involving mutant rabies.
... Someone sprayed a disinfectant on him. The only cure is to put him in a tub full of feces for a couple of hours, and restore his natural septic condition.
Don't consume anything containing H2O: it's a chemical compound and hence dangerous ZOMG TERRORISM and assorted bad stuff. Wait about 4 days. Problem solved forever.
Shit.
No need to do the Steve Austin: just walk the lemmings into your target's home and press the Armageddon button. Uh-oh! 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, KABOOM!
Yes, and we shouldn't ever dive underwater because without a breathing apparatus we would drown. Full of excrements you are.
Typical defeatist losebory nerd mindset. If you want to accept newspeak you're the lost cause. Words are weapon, words dictate the way you think. Evolution is not subversion. Defecate yourself into the filthiest toilet you can find and meld with your peers in turdiness.
The trope is older than you think: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horatii. But we all know loserboy nerds don't know anything about history. Neither do they about science, really, it's all make-believe. They like to ogle at pretty pictures and graphics and throw around technobabble, but they couldn't describe the workings of a jet engine if their lives depended on it.
Which completely negates its military usefulness. Were you born a spazz or did you have to work hard at it?