People who want to live in the future are shitty assholes
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able to drive faster
Yeah. But we can't. My average on the 65mph highway in the morning is about 20mph. Hence pre
1985 was better.
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Star Wars.
Michael Jackson.
The U.S.'s plans for converting to the Metric system, which doesn't seem to exist any more.
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The U.S.'s plans for converting to the Metric system, which doesn't seem to exist any more.
At least, NASA did it
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It took until 2007 for NASA to convert? Last I checked, ever since the late 1970s, it was mandatory for federal government agencies to use metric. It certainly is for any contractors they have.
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Bell pants (lost in translation?)
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Yep... At least I got the bell thing right :-p
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You are utterly wrong, IMHO. Clarke, Asimov, Heinlein, to name the first three names that popped into my head.
Not to mention the grandfather of cyberpunk. You know, the guy that wrote a little book that got adapted to this:
Amongst other great things, of course.
Filed under: They are making a Minority Report TV show. Saw the trailer. Urge to strangle rising.
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Let's not forget Stanisław Lem!
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and much more expensive
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Yeah there used to be this thing where the market price reflected in any way the real value. Sometimes.
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the real value
As if there were some objective measure beyond the price people were willing pay for it?
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I heard that someone got the movie rights for Ubik.
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As if there were some objective measure
I can think of a couple - let's say you actually need this thing to live, how much chance increased survival does it give you, this sounds like a real value and objectively measurable given a large enough set...., let's say you need this thing to obtain a good, how efficiently per erg expenditure does it return the good... etc... but yeah, quote an economics text at me.
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I can think of a couple - let's say you actually need this thing to live, how much chance increased survival does it give you, this sounds like a real value and objectively measurable given a large enough set
Huh? How are you coming up with a value? Remember it's not just what people are willing to pay, but also what people are willing to be paid for producing it. How do you turn this change in probability to dollars?
but yeah, quote an economics text at me.
Well, seriously...you haven't laid out any sort of actual way to determine the "objective value" of something. I mean, at least Marx had his bullshit time value of labor theory. So far you just have some hand waving.
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I described two ways to obtain non-monetary objective valuations... it seems you well know that there's no good way to interconvert fiction and nonfiction, and wasn't saying it was easy to go further. Have fun, though, vigorously establishing the implicit limits around my original statement, it saves me time.
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I described two ways to obtain non-monetary objective valuations.
Well...that seems to be copping out and changing the subject. But I'll accept your admission of defeat.
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You got me, a statement stronger than that I was intending is invalid. Do you want a ?
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Not particularly. Just don't blame me for stuff you say.
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But it's your fault! It's all your fault!
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As one of the penis people of pallor, I'm quite used to that.
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All hail the
shitlordspatriarchy!
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See? You guys can't come up with anything.
I would have gone with "See? You guys can't come up with one thing". It'd get your joke in, AND be pedantically correct at the same time.