Same as the girlfriend.

Hospitals keep track of who has what hospital-owned item so that they can recover/charge for it after your prescribed time with it is up. So people won't be able to keep using it after they've recovered using WiiFit or similiar.

I suppose they could go out and buy / rent a game to use while they own it, but why would they do that and NOT use WiiFit as well, since I assume they'd want to recover from whatever it is the doctor recommended the Wii for?

Assuming regular play DOES get in the way of actual treatment to the point that hospitals want to do something about it, you don't think Nintendo would be willing - chomping at the bit, even, for the publicity on top of the money - to manufacture special "Medi-Wiis" that have WiiFit/Similiar installed internally and no Eject/game slot/internet connection? In fact, if hospitals want to save money, how much would it cost for them to buy an off-the-shelf model, slap WiiFit in there and then remove / "sodder" some metal over the eject button and game-slot?

Heck, if we're really really worried, we can just have people go to the hospital for treatment sessions with game cabinets locking the wii up (same as what gamestores have allowing people to test games). We already have DDR being used in P.E. for classes, so how's this so much different?

In the short term, yes, people may try to claim work-comp to score a free Wii. But many of these cases will quickly disappear once people realize it'd just be easier (and probably cheaper) to just buy one instead.

And if the Control Key gets TOO upset, they'll send 'em off to the Backspace key. Especially if they don't pay their Tab.

Only 9 digits on your hands, then? Serves you right for texting while cycling!

In that case, when all of upper management thinks it's the norm, they would probably seek to hire those who use it throughout the organization, right? And so, in an effort to be hired, would students not *demand* to be taught English in this way, forcing even English teachers to eventually yield or find new careers?

This would then seed the entire workforce with those who speak/write this way. And when it's become prevelant throughout the organization at all levels, would it not *become* the norm? And, by extension from organization to country/world, would it not also become the norm if the large majority of writers considers it so?

We may simply be seing the next phase of phonetic/literary evolution in progress, as has occured through out history as long as humanity has possessed a written/spoken language. After all, I'm sure people today certainly would not consider the very small people who know and can speak/write in original Old English from the dark ages to be "the norm" with current phrasing. Heck, even a realatively more recent transition in the late Colonial period of America saw us give birth to a whole new "English Language" that is seperate from proper Queen's English to the point that we need lessons to be able to bridge the gap and prevent misunderstandings in mixed crowds.

Great idea! I'll just treat it like I'm upgrading my computer! Quick, someone give me a hacksaw, I want to swap out my arms for the "Chiseled Weight Lifter" models...!

In all seriousness, this idea fails because of the time difference. For someone who knows what they're doing, it takes about a day or two at most to build/upgrade a typical PC (faster if you just go buy a pre-made one). For someone to get from "flabby" to "fantastic" (or even just "fit") it would take at least a month, possibly more depending on how bad off they are. Someone using this mindset would probably be put into a short-term perspective on working out, and would then likely be disappointed later when it doesn't happen.

Not bad, actually. Might appeal to the small-but-growing Bodybuilding Geek demographic.

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It will if condoms are involved.

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Alright, Google. I can't do much about your beliefs on privacy. After all, you are free to run your company as you see fit within the bounds of the law. However, I do like my privacy on certain personal topics.

So how will I serve both? Simple: I'll stop using the internet entirely.

I'm sure you'll agree that this is the preffered solution for both parties: you get to keep using the information that you've already obtained freely (so long as it's legal), and I get to retain all of my personal information that I collect from this point forward.

I like this idea. In fact, I like it so much, I'm going to tell my friends to do it; most of them have issues that they want kept private, and the internet is only a source of idle time-wasting anyway. And they will tell theirs. Assuming the trend keeps up, after a while there won't be anyone left who uses the internet at all.

But that's not a big deal to you, right, Google? After all, it's not like the internet is part of your business in any way...

It's alright. As a citizen of the US, I, too, have problems understanding and learning English, so I sympathize with your plight.

Well, he could eat at McDonalds.

So did Frodo, but as I recall, that particular story turned out well in the end.