Plus, if this were to be implemented, how would they handle out-of-state visitors and tourists?
Given that this is Oregon, it would be perfectly in character to have border stations where you have to sit and watch a two hour indoctrination video about the People's Republic of Oregon, get tattooed and chipped and have a transponder attached to your car.
For a small fee, of course.
No, you don't do that. Because if you do, you end if with an endless argument of 'wants' and 'needs'. We don't 'need' florists, so we can tax their truck. We 'need' McDonalds, so we won't tax theirs.
One of the many roads to hell is paved with value judgements.
That is marketing. Very, very good marketing in fact.
It's just an 'armless little bunny.
Why does everything have to do with weed? It could be a pipe, a cigarette, but no it has to resemble a joint. -- Is Slashdot a bunch of potheads?
When you're stoned, you go with the flow. Joints are much easier to model using Blender (or similar programs) than complex structures like pipes and needles. The mockup in TFA is rather eerie - 80 foot high joints balanced over a moody desert scene. You half expect Johnnie Depp to come running on to the stage shooting randomly at non existent bats.
Maybe that will be in the trailer.
"If this is an emergency, hang up and dial 911".
Oh. Wait.
Nah, TL;DR.
It's going to be about sex.
Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the drug store, but that's just peanuts to space.
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Yes, they can get back on man rated Soyez. No booster required. But then the can't bring another crew up until the rescue capsule is replaced by - wait for it - another Russian booster.
Yo nerd! I heard you like passwords on your passwords.
The NSA.
Give the task over to Microsoft's marketing group. They're pretty good at obscure and arcane, not to mention downright weird.
Bob
Zune
Vista
Plays for sure
Clippy
Me
CE
RT
etc.
We should name the diseases after politicians. Preferably members of the US Congress. They want the recognition.
Kill two birds with one stone, so to speak.
Charge people $5 every 4 months (yes, the math is a bit different). Lots of things are paid by the quarter.
You do have a good point though, micro transactions have just never taken off and this would be a good use for it.
No, there will be flying cars. They are coming. I saw a photo...
No, you saw a hologram. Which will show up about the same time as flying cars.
"If you want to know what happens to you when you die, go look at some dead stuff." -- Dave Enyeart
