Just imagine what a Volkswagen Beetle of current could do.

it does not smell enough like money, so you will definitely stay single if you wear it.

Rewatch the movies from the point of view that the machines are the good guys, and the "free" humans are the bad guys.

It's a whole other story.

"Except, why would a machine intelligence want to enslave us? For me that was the biggest gaping plot hole in The Matrix."

My take on it is that the slavery angle is human propaganda.

The war ruined the planet and threatened to rob the machines of their purpose, that is to serve humans.

So they created the Matrix to prevent humans from going extinct and leaving the machine world without any reason to exist.

I saw a half-dead coyote this morning in the other lane.

There's nothing worse than seeing an animal suffer, even if that animal is considered by many to be vermin.

Yea but it does not explain Ozzy

How do you convince everyone to participate?

believe that slashdotters' posting habits and contents of their comments are of no mining interest to anyone?

You mean "Pi holes".

Hmmm, pi.

Now you know what "release the kraken" really means

Sadly, we are probably a cheaper, outsourced knock-off.

Source: We were made in His image.

"...a great tourist location..."

Have you been there?

Some of the beaches are very very nice, but most hotels are *very* average, and the food, while adequate, is meh-level at best.

That is why it's one of, if not THE cheapest all-inclusive destinations in the Caribbean.

Who didn't the NSA spy on?

Then Mars would be red in more than one way

It would be probably cheaper too