Yeah, but what is on its way to pollinate it?

"runaway capitalism almost destroyed civilization" So, not much different from the Keanu Reeves remake of The Day The Earth Stood Still?

For assault purposes, is there much or any difference between a selfie stick and a copper pipe? Any bets on how soon they're banned from being carried onto airplanes?

Well, now we know which representative delivers the fastest response time for having money waved under her nose, and the strongest stomach for the shit the regional monopolies are shoveling. Seriously, is there any law that has been passed that has the words "patriot" or "freedom" in it that shouldn't be repealed? Besides FOIA, that is.

It's pretty telling that in the starting credits for every episode, he reduces their mathematics and computational genius to "Sylvester's a human calculator", and he implies that because they are smart, they need a "normal" person to translate the world for them - when in reality, people are called geniuses because they are better at translating parts or all of the world than the folks they call "normal". It's a blatant fallacy that people that are smarter in one aspect have to be at least correspondingly dumber, if not more, in the specific aspect of social relations.

I know it's hard for writers to portray characters that are far smarter than they themselves are in any authentic way, but what this really means is that for this show in particular they need to hire some much smarter writers. The last thing we need is crowds of people living in fear of becoming smart because their social skills will wither and fall off.

Why would you rather return to the DR before going to a Canadian prison?

This comment thread is so much funnier with the cloudtobutt extension.

Have a carefully constructed, but plausible figure that claims to be Twitter's founder tweet pictures of him wiping his ass with the Koran and ISIS' flag in front of what no one knows is a safehouse in Kansas or Arizona, with the address readily visible/obvious. Wait for the jihad-bent buffoons to approach the house with the intent of doing him in, and let them fall into carefully placed containment pits. When the pits start to get full, unleash the Rancor and save a fortune in Purina Rancor Chow. Problem solved.

I wonder what the cumulative effect of this will be on the Earth's rotational period. If the Moon/Sun gravity pull drags a half million tons of sea water into the lagoon over the course of the day, and we restrain it there for a large portion of the time that it would naturally have run back out, this will have some affect on the center of mass and the Earth's rotation - would this end up being a cumulative thing that gives us a leap second per decade or something?

I don't think we can trust Samaritan's motives, Finch. Perhaps Lionel and I can take a look into what's going on while you see what information we can get from our "friend".
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That's all we need - AIs running around with a reason to discriminate, hate, and kill folks that believe differently than they do.

> that hot yellowy-white thing that warms your skin when you're walking outside?

Please don't talk about my girlfriend that way.

> "helped" fellow legislators through astrology.

In much the same way I "helped" yesterday's lunch through my sphincter this morning.

I don't know what is the sadder comment about businesses and the patent system: That Amazon filed this patent, or that Amazon needed to file this patent. More than half the stupid shit that companies patent these days are just a defensive move to protect them from some patent troll getting there first and raking in the bucks from the folks just doing business and doing all the real work. They never follow through on the "cannot be obvious" requirement, or that you actually have to capitalize on the patent to keep it. There's no larger source of stagnation today than patents.

If you thought returning vets had nightmares and mental problems before.... better fasten your seatbelt.