> I would watch your Star Wars movies.

And you just might, some day. I predict that a "Dallas" move will knock the Disney trilogy straight out of canon. "Luke woke up- wow, it was all just a bad dream" and then proceed with a -real-, interesting story. Problem is, Hamill and others might not be around by the time it happens.

Let's face it- Disney just doesn't know "Star Wars", so its no surprise that their version of the ending trilogy looks like bad fan fiction, because it is. It's just too big and exciting of a story to come to such a crash-and-burn end,

Besides political problems, the biggest issue with "Unknown" numbers is caller-id spoofing. There are good and legitimate reasons for using this ability; an agency might want a recipient to get a central call-back number instead of the exact phone that made the call. But 99.999999% of the time, this "feature" is abused. It's time for it to go away, legitimate uses- sorry, too bad.

Whitelisting and blacklisting can only be enhanced by truthfully knowing just who is calling you. It would be nice for individual phone users to be able to blacklist entire countries at a time.

As for sending these calls to "voicemail", that system is still somewhat useful. It certainly won't be when it's filled with the same percentage of trash.

I'd pay good money to send "unknown" calls straight to hell.

I think this calls for a tar-and-feather parade down the middle of Main Street

But what sort of "liberal arts" was it? Do they have knowledge of English and literature and culture? A good knowledge of these can form a good basis for a variety of non-technical positions.

Or was their liberal arts degree one of those ethnic/gender studies or other underwater basket-weaving type of courses that prepares them for absolutely nothing but teaching that same sort of course? And since those sort of departments tend (nowadays) to be refuges of hyper-offended political correctness, would bringing one of -those- grads aboard a company just lead to a culture of fear of harassment and discrimination lawsuits?

How about simply putting them in a jail cell with a computer terminal. Their task is to use their own network to go in and disinfect each and every last machine. They don't see the light of day again until they accomplish this task, and if it's longer than their lifetimes, so be it.

Do you know why the British don't manufacture many wrist-watches?

They can't figure out how to make them leak oil.

>I'm sure that, if only I were a black disabled lesbian, I'd have it easy.

Ah, but perhaps you are, on the inside! That could be your self-identity, and how dare anyone say otherwise!
Time to stand up for your rights.

>Go to certain parts of this country and openly mock religion and let me know how that works out for you. There are several states where it is technically illegal for me to hold public office if I am an atheist.

FYI- that has been challenged and overturned in all states. You will still find it in the texts of several State Constitutions, but that's just because of the particular rules on when and how to update the text. It has no effect and when (and if) the text of those documents is updated, that change would be automatically made.

Tyler Durden agrees.

>That's the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard. In the first place, how many people would rather watch porn than have sex?

As has been said several times and in different ways, there is most definitely a cost-benefit analysis going on, even if subconsciously.

You are right in that actual sex would probably be preferred by most people over porn. But when doing that analysis- seeing the relatively negligible costs for an inferior choice, over the quite significant potential costs for the alternative, can only serve to make that inferior choice more appealing. As the costs- emotional, social, legal, and financial- increase above a certain point, it will naturally cause a reaction toward porn. What is interesting is that people not part of the MGTOW crowd are actually starting to notice it.

when the world is going to say "enough is enough" with these vermin, and drop them in some sort of Escape From NY type of gulag.

The world has enough problems facing it without these walking human cancers wreaking financial and technological destruction in their path.

Oh, I forgot all of our prison spaces are full of people enjoying natural herbs, silly, me, I forgot about such high-priority things like that.

The answer to these people is easy. Leave a phone number for a contact, and when they call to schedule, make one. Except just not at your house.

Do that every time they call, and maybe they'll get the message that this is a less-than-effective means of advertising. Technical solutions are great, but sometimes, the old-fashioned scam-baiting is the best.

Even worse than that, many of his stories had robots doing all kinds of crazy, counter-intuitive things which at first glance appeared to completely and totally violate the 3 laws! However, upon careful investigation, it turned out that the robots, from their perspective, were actually faithfully obeying them- thus calling into question whether such a simplistic set of rules can ever truly work as originally intended.

s/prevent/constitute/

If the people who have unhealthy diet/lifestyle constitute a negative effect on the health care system, isn't it also true that they would prevent a positive effect on the Social Security/retirement system, since they are more likely to die sooner?

If we can presume to tax them for the degree they burden the health care system, shouldn't we credit/reward them for not requiring as many retirement payments as other people?