it's a bandaid solution at best that doesn't resolve the underlying issue, at all.

for whatever reason, a certain segment of our population under performs in primary, secondary, and university level classes. Attempting to normalize that through quotas in admissions or hiring is well meaning (I suppose) but completely retarded in practice.

interesting theory, could vegans use buildings made of this material? Or does their highfalutin standards only apply to multicellular creatures?

And you a comedian?

Do they need to? after 70 years of episodes, i'm sure they have every single sample of his voice they'd need to make another 70 years of episodes.

Yes, pretty soon they'll start a cross promotional campaign with Pabst Blue Ribbon. "Free aol.com email address with every sixer purchased, nice skinny jeans by the way!"

well it's basically the better versed someone is in a specific domain, they get hit with the double whammy of getting out of practice in everything else, while maintaining the delusion that they are masters in anything they attempt.

Linus Pauling later in his career is a /fantastic/ example of this.

Bleeding perhaps?

I have a friend who is big on using the google voice search, regardless of location, decorum, or social cues. Random conversation over dinner at a fairly empty restaurant, he goes to look up a quick fact, and rather than type it in on his phone, he loudly and clearly enunciates his question. A future where this becomes the normal behavior, really fucking irritates me.

"ALL CONVERSATION MUST STOP WHILE I LOOK UP THIS INANE DETAIL VIA VOICE SEARCH!" :(

just wait until the sensors are strong enough to pick up brainwaves. pretend to read a sentence and bam, the NSA can finally get inside that square foot or so grey matter they so desperately want.

Thoughts of sedition will finally be curtailed before they can blossom into heresy. Winston will be saved after all.

if only I had mod points. that made me chuckle pretty heartily :)

i like it though (in this case at least). 'Spokeshole' is probably more descriptive of these types of people than the normal pronouns.

man, even in sandwich eating, women are still only able to pull 3/4 of what a man can?
#genderequality.

Oh. that was probably 'the joke'. doh.

Because you can usually measure these guys' egos by how many billions they have. Also, if you have billions of dollars, why the fuck WOULDN'T you want to do something as freaking cool as pretending to be 1960's NASA?

Or at the worst, it's not much different than asking why grown men do fantasy baseball/football. It's a hobby, just with significantly more zero's than the average joe.

Well to be fair, they were probably too busy running away from those (slave) traders, to really pick up anything other than "Holy fuck, these people are not friendlies."

Yes, because it gives a counter point to the technophiles who'd rather see that spectrum re-purposed for other uses.

We need the same story run for the POTS system after disasters, for the same reason.