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04/06/09
See how good I am at this whole "dystopia" thing?
04/06/09
I can totally help with dystopias!
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(1) Your time and bandwidth are too precious to waste on me. Honestly, that's fine -- but out of curiosity, what exactly do you do that's so important? Because I'm not sure I believe they're hiring people who haven't figured out how to stop reading in the middle when they don't like something for a lot of high-level work.
(2) Also re precious time and bandwidth: And then you left a comment? Do you typically undermine your own arguments literally in the middle of making them?
(3) Finally, after failing to muster anything more than a veneer of cogency over four lines and broadcasting your inability to view a person's comment and post history (this interface is not that hard, son), you conclude your assessment of my funniness with "Go sell shoes for a living, please."
Man, I am not by any means the funniest person around here. Sometimes I am just plain unfunny. But "Go sell shoes for a living"? That's the equivalent of trying to challenge someone to a duel and then slapping your own face with the glove in the process. What, were you too busy to determine whether there was an apostrophe in "McDonald's," so you just settled for the next best thing? I guess you get some points for not just regurgitating a meme?
Good spelling/grammar, though.
04/06/09
Mmmm. Christina Applegate. Wait, what?
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I mean, if robot marriage is the price to pay for not being sent to a liquidation factory by my robot masters, then I will pay that price. Did you consider that, Moff?
04/05/09
Try the veal!
04/05/09
IF YOU DON'T APPROVE OF ROBOT MARRIAGE, DON'T MARRY A ROBOT!
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Get 'em while they're young
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io9 is especially made of win today.
04/05/09
Jealous!
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Also, what's with all the haters? This is on par with your usual collection of half truths and misunderstandings of technology.
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I thought this was funny, not your top shelf stuff, but no worse than Vegemite RoboHitler. It must have been a dull day on Gizmodo and they're taking it out on you.
04/05/09
Oh, the robotity! (Not robo-titty, you pervs)
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And originally I briefly thought about making this a satire showing how ridiculous the arguments against gay marriage were, but (1) I thought I'd be preaching to the choir, and (2) it really didn't work, because the more I thought about it, the more it seemed like there really are some pretty good arguments against robot marriage.
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sorry.
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I believe Kinsey's research showed that 4-5% were gay & that 4-5% had a gay experience previously, but weren't gay.
Several gay groups then conflated that into 10% of the population is gay, which apparently is just not correct.
04/06/09
What is correct then?
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Annalee, you've got some explaining to do!
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Im just glad I will be able to make an honest woman out of my food processor. We have been living in sin for far too long.
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And no, not believing in Global Warming is nothing like deciding whether or not to go home and check to see if I left the stove on. The AGW (that's anthropogenic global warming for those that don't follow the debates) crowd are responsible for untold detriment to the global economy and unfathomable deaths. Every day human beings, real living people, die of starvation because we decided to use our corn for ethanol to "save the planet". Forgetting that more and more evidence is mounting to show that ethanol is not only not helpful but actually might be worse than oil, this is still a disgusting thing for us to do.
On top of that the "horrible conditions" that you mention people living in are directly influenced by the AGW crowd. It's very easy for the rich nations of the world to put together treaties like Kyoto and sign them. for us it is just a matter of spending a few extra billion so we can use more renewable resources. for developing nations however we are cutting off the very resources that are responsible for giving us this wonderful way of life, coal and oil. They continue burning dung to stay warm at night which leads to their horrible death due to lung cancer while we sit at home and debate whether we should stop driving our SUV and drive a Prius instead. Disgusting.
And don't even get me started on the other environmentalist causes like DDT. The people who banned the use of that are responsible for more human deaths than Hitler.
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Oil prices and backroom politics I'd call transparent bribery drove the (now diminishing) ethanol flurry. And the notion that all this food would suddenly rush out to the underserved is about as unrealistic as thinking driving a Prius matters.