Although the context clarifies it, "ridiculous money" seems very ambiguous to me. The cleaning crew that services our office makes ridiculous money. However, Bill Gates made ridiculous money.
Ridiculous, in this case, would be "more money than you know what to do with, enough to pay student loans ten times over."
Watching Alien3 just now, a.k.a. Ripley bones the Hand of the King. Ripley does not make ridiculous money, though she clearly deserves it. She made a little money on the dock at the beginning of ALIENS, and I don't think she saw a paycheck after that. I would like ridiculous money, deservitude not needed.
Not moi. I would travel the world. Drop by the homes of forum members at random after having payed off their mortgages, leaving a new Lexus in the driveway. I would laugh heartily and open mouthed like Nataraja as I danced off into the future. Also, I'm watching the longer version of Alien3 where the xeno is born of a bull ox.
So I think I'm scared of going to sleep. Why? Because for the past two nights I've had nightmares about demons and demonically possessed dolls. I haven't watched any horror film or watched any horror movies, but I've had those dreams. The only cause I can think up of is that there's a game I've been thinking about and waiting for called Saints Row: Gat Out Of Hell. It is a game set in Hell where you fight Satan and his Legion, but the thing is, if you see the trailers and gameplay, you can see that it's not at all a scary game. It's a goofy, corny, cheesy, and somewhat stupid game (for God's sake, they even have a musical number at one point!) I watched the first part of The Exorcist once and managed to not have nightmares. Yet thinking about and getting excited over a game that is, for all intents and purposes, silly gives me the nightmares? The crap? So yeah, that's my life now. Nightmares about demons. Over a game that is as scary as Little Big Planet. And I'm not even Catholic! Joy...
Last night I dreamed of someone with whom I worked long, long ago. A lady named Enid Bø of whom I was very fond. She was already rather elderly when I knew her, so chances are that she's passed away by now. I met her in my dream and tapped her on the shoulder and asked her if she remembered me and she hugged me and I started sobbing in my dream.
I had a dream the other night that IBM (yes, IBM!) sent a truckfull of people to my house, all dressed like IBM people, and they said "We're here to install your new equipment!" I was thinking, "What new equipment?" But they had already barged through my front door, grabbed my computers and smashed my network, messed with my electrical power feed, and were ever setting up some kind of circus tent in my front yard - awnings and everything. I kept protesting, saying, "I didn't order this!" but they showed me a photocopy of a work order and a check I'd written to them for $86,000. I didn't remember writing anybody a check for eighty-six thousand dollars! They were having coffee and donuts, and selling coffee and donuts, from under the awning on my front yard, and ruining my life! Why did I have this stupid dream? I hadn't even thought about IBM for years. Nobody thinks about IBM. IBM is irrelevant. But somehow, in my dream, I had paid IBM eighty-six thousand dollars and they came to my house and screwed up my life! Fuckin' IBM.
IBMers aren't so bad. I worked with them as a contractor a couple years ago. They're just people. They aren't a conspiracy
Nope. The conspiracy is over at Google. In 20 year's time we're going to look back and know it all started with this:
Not Skynet. Google feels a lot more Big Brother-ish to me. It wont have to attack us. We'll download it on purpose and invite it in.
What happens when a driverless car has a software failure and careens into a gaggle of schoolkids? Without a driver, there is no one to sue except the owner or the deep-pockets manufacturer. I doubt if it'll take too many such instances for Google and the rest to decide they can't afford the exposure. Just a thought.
I need to say I did not think about it like that, but you have a point. Though the whole situation, in my opinion, is dependent on many factors, when it is releases, how it is introduced to the public and most important who will be backing the industry (as in sponsors and such).
I think it's time for me to return to the world of Microsoft Word. My iPod is acceptable for first drafts and writing on the fly, but revison is a real chore when the screen is smaller than my hand.
Cable news is appalling. Fox is the worst of the lot, with MSNBC running a close second. CNN doesn't suffer all of the biases of the other two, but their coverage is just so ridiculous and inconsequential at times, I can't stand it. NPR FTW
It's funny, but I've had CNN, Al Jazeera, and Russia Today (which if you want bias - wow) for the past few months, but Fox News was this mystical something else I thought was only available in the US. Now I have Fox News it's like viewing the psychology of a jingoistic psychopath - I don't like it, but I can't avert my gaze! Also, question, what is wrong with Glen Beck? I'm pretty sure his eyes went wet with pride when the US national anthem started playing.
Beck is nuts. If I can say anything about him that is (if viewed a certain way) positive, it's that I think he's a genuine nutjob. In other words, I think he believes what he says, and believes what he's advocating is actually good. I don't know why I have that impression of him - it comes solely from his radio program, though I haven't listened to it in years, where he was maybe even more nuts than on TV. That's as opposed to, say, someone like Ann Coulter, who I'm sure knows how preposterous her every word is and laughs all the way to the bank, probably believing next to nothing of what comes out of her own mouth
I've not seen her yet. From that description I can't wait. Honestly, this is like a whole new world of madness that we in Europe just don't see.
