Comment That's weird (Score 2) 364
Connection Lost
3-d is the past, upwards and onwards!
(Actually, I'm not kidding. The brain is a 4-dimensional circuit/computer. In addition to being spatially extended in three dimensions, computations are also temporally extended (thus adding a fourth). What might be an atomic instruction on a modern "2-d" CPU could require all four dimensions of the brain. Think in terms of remembering a word, or the lines to a poem. You get the first part, and some aspect of that influences the trajectory of the system to move to a state that represents the next part, and so on. There is a dynamic feedback loop which is extended over (and reliant on) time. Cf. dynamical systems theory.)
_Bush_ was a bad president?!
You obviously never had the honour of serving PRESIDENT LINCOLN. That man wanted his morning bath YESTERDAY, and IN BED, and yes with PLENTY OF BUBBLES
and woe upon the unfortunate aide in his bedroom at the time if he didn't. They didn't call him a "great" man for nothing. You think that hat was for show?
In honour of PKD (RIP)
This morning I was woken by my TOSHIBA(TM) alarm clock which I had been careful to put $200 (MSFT) in the night before to assure it would function. I get out of bed, and after sliding three bills into the slot by the door, am allowed to enter the REL33V(TM) toilet. I fumble for my credit card, and slip it into the slot outside the vault door surrounding the commode. I don't take my time, as I know that every half-minute $33 is being deducted from my account. I flush (an addition $10), and proceed to the shower. After making sure to put at least $40 in each of the three separate slits (for the owners of the waterworks pipes, the heater, and water utilities, respectively), I take my three-minute REF(TM) shower, and swipe my card through the towel machine to get a size-F DRY-O(TM) towel (I'll splurge today). I pay again to get the door to open so I can leave the bathroom, and then have to toggle some quarters into the WAR-DROBE dresser I have so that I can open the sock drawer to extract some fresh clothing. I forget my sweater and have to spend another $30 to reopen it and retrieve it.
I go to the kitchen (3 doors; $7.50) and carefully count out the $5.00 coins the refrigerator expects. I take out two eggs (knowing that a large sum will be extracted from my account for the decreased weight of the refrigerator), and phone my girlfriend to ask to borrow 25 grand so I can use the stove-top burner for 10minutes, but realize that I had not paid my protection money to the mafia (hey, it's just business) last week, and that their ubiquitous jammers were preventing me from using any communications devices. I forgo watching COMCST(TM) TV today, as I know that I can not afford to flip to the two channels I would want to see anyways. I look at my watch (an antique--none of the ridiculous monthly fees that the new ones require) and realize that I must be going. After paying my SAFE-U front door $50 to stay locked for the day, and another $10 to close behind me, I make my way to the street.
I would pay to use the sidewalk today, but since I couldn't afford to use the stairs which lead to it, I have to wait to slip through onto one of the cheaper walkways with someone else who comes down. That takes roughly 20 minutes (charged $5000 from local AC company for my ambient body heat in that time). I get to work and pay to get through the door. The mandatory coat-hanger costs me another $50, and to get my seat out I have to mortgage my third nephew. I would sit down, but that may crinkle my clothing, causing me massive penalties when I returned them in the evening, so I just stand there doing nothing for 8 hours while money is constantly being deducted from all my accounts like melting snow in the spring. It's amazing anyone has any money left (except the corporations).
Hackers of the world, unite!