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The Future™ is here.

Started by The Good Reverend Roger, November 02, 2009, 07:41:28 PM

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The Good Reverend Roger

November 02, 2009, 07:41:28 PM
The Future™ is here.  We have things they didn't even DREAM of, in my grandfather's generation, and my parents' generation didn't do much better.  In older science fiction (Classic Star Trek), the communicators were cell phones with less capabilities (You didn't see Kirk texting, did you?)...hell, they even had a switchboard operator (Lt Uhuru).

We now have televisions for cars, as well as navigation computers.  We have robocops that don't look as cool as the old shows, but are far more effective (good luck beating that ticket, Bunky).  The internet was dangerous, but we fixed it with Twitter, and now it's brain-smashing fun for the whole family.

We have all this wonderful stuff, and it occurs to me that we don't need you anymore.  No, you're outmoded, and you require too many resources that could be put to better use.  You are the buggy whip maker, the elevator operator, the Lt Uhuru of the modern age.  We don't even design cities with you in mind, these days.  Look around, cities are designed for vehicles, not people.  Soon, even that will be largely unnecessary.

Yes, the sad fact is, your services are no longer required.  We make everything overseas, now, because you cost too much, what with your demands for "a living wage" and "safe work environments".  We don't even use American ships to cart it back over here, in fact I challenge you to find any American-flagged cargo ships, period.  We can get all the goodies back over here dirt cheap, and that means profit.

I can't help thinking we've missed something in there somewhere, but whatever it is, we will find the solution.  It just won't involve you, because your demands are unreasonable.

Or Kill Me.



" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

the other anonymous

#1
November 02, 2009, 07:46:59 PM
Needs more hate. I totally didn't buy the "Or Kill Me."

Honestly, I think you phoned it in.

Are you out-sourcing your rants?

-toa,
my criticism is shipped fresh from Malaysia

The Good Reverend Roger

#2
November 02, 2009, 07:48:30 PM
Quote from: the other anonymous on November 02, 2009, 07:46:59 PM
Needs more hate. I totally didn't buy the "Or Kill Me."

Honestly, I think you phoned it in.

Are you out-sourcing your rants?

-toa,
my criticism is shipped fresh from Malaysia

Fuck you then, you write the fucking thing.
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

Richter

#3
November 02, 2009, 07:53:11 PM
The buggy whip maker was screwed, sure, but he just didn't WANT to adapt.  He couldn't stand seeing his wares peddled to the "pony play" crowd.
Quote from: Eater of Clowns on May 22, 2015, 03:00:53 AM
Anyone ever think about how Richter inhabits the same reality as you and just scream and scream and scream, but in a good way?   :lulz:

Friendly Neighborhood Mentat

The Good Reverend Roger

#4
November 02, 2009, 07:55:16 PM
Quote from: Richter on November 02, 2009, 07:53:11 PM
The buggy whip maker was screwed, sure, but he just didn't WANT to adapt.  He couldn't stand seeing his wares peddled to the "pony play" crowd.

He had all the wrong values, Richter.  He didn't understand "now" and "new" and he probably didn't have many followers on Twitter.  I mean, have you seen that guy's Facebook?  Yeah, neither have I.

The moral here is: adapt, deal with perverts, or die.  There are no other options.
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

P3nT4gR4m

#5
November 02, 2009, 07:56:39 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on November 02, 2009, 07:48:30 PM
Quote from: the other anonymous on November 02, 2009, 07:46:59 PM
Needs more hate. I totally didn't buy the "Or Kill Me."

Honestly, I think you phoned it in.

Are you out-sourcing your rants?

-toa,
my criticism is shipped fresh from Malaysia

Fuck you then, you write the fucking thing.

There's no need. Soon even the rants will be written by computer.

Or Unplug Me.

I'm up to my arse in Brexit Numpties, but I want more.  Target-rich environments are the new sexy.
Not actually a meat product.
Ass-Kicking & Foot-Stomping Ancient Master of SHIT FUCK FUCK FUCK
Awful and Bent Behemothic Results of Last Night's Painful Squat.
High Altitude Haggis-Filled Sex Bucket From Beyond Time and Space.
Internet Monkey Person of Filthy and Immoral Pygmy-Porn Wart Contagion
Octomom Auxillary Heat Exchanger Repairman
walking the fine line line between genius and batshit fucking crazy

"computation is a pattern in the spacetime arrangement of particles, and it's not the particles but the pattern that really matters! Matter doesn't matter." -- Max Tegmark

The Good Reverend Roger

#6
November 02, 2009, 08:02:43 PM
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on November 02, 2009, 07:56:39 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on November 02, 2009, 07:48:30 PM
Quote from: the other anonymous on November 02, 2009, 07:46:59 PM
Needs more hate. I totally didn't buy the "Or Kill Me."

Honestly, I think you phoned it in.

Are you out-sourcing your rants?

-toa,
my criticism is shipped fresh from Malaysia

Fuck you then, you write the fucking thing.

There's no need. Soon even the rants will be written by computer.

Or Unplug Me.

Win.  Thread over.
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

Rumckle

#7
November 02, 2009, 10:05:13 PM
You beat me to it Roger, I was working on the same topic before. Oh well, I'll post a reply later.
It's not trolling, it's just satire.

Thurnez Isa

#8
November 02, 2009, 10:36:58 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on November 02, 2009, 07:41:28 PM
The internet was dangerous, but we fixed it with Twitter, and now it's brain-smashing fun for the whole family.


:lulz:

someone should tweet that
Through me the way to the city of woe, Through me the way to everlasting pain, Through me the way among the lost.
Justice moved my maker on high.
Divine power made me, Wisdom supreme, and Primal love.
Before me nothing was but things eternal, and eternal I endure.
Abandon all hope, you who enter here.
Dante

The Good Reverend Roger

#10
November 03, 2009, 12:42:57 AM
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

bugmenоt

#11
November 03, 2009, 09:06:06 AM
You don't ask people that kind of questions on the internet. They will lie.

I don't know you either but i know quite exactly how you look like.

In return i will say my real name. Just to be fair. I'm Silch.

I'm not a double account.

Subtract Eight!

#12
November 03, 2009, 10:20:20 AM
k well whats next?

i hope it's the past, there many things going on there i hear including this thing they always talk about called the future
▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓   I\'ve subracted eight from tons of things.<br /><br />CANNA NUCCA GET A NAME CHANGE HURRR

Triple Zero

#13
November 03, 2009, 11:27:09 AM
relevant:

Ex-Soviet Bloc Sexual Attack Swede of Tomorrow™
e-prime disclaimer: let it seem fairly unclear I understand the apparent subjectivity of the above statements. maybe.

INFORMATION SO POWERFUL, YOU ACTUALLY NEED LESS.

rong

#14
November 03, 2009, 11:42:16 AM
"a real smart feller, he felt smart"
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