fyi:

modem speed is enough bandwidth to play a game online, we managed it for a long time. the problem here is latency. even on dialup modems you could expect latency of only 2-300ms. satellite latency figures in the seconds, and with multiple relays as they must use, probably pushes up near ten seconds. no time dependent…

in this day and age, anyone who can still miss the star wars parsec gag and insist with a straight face (because theyve never been exposed to it before, thats how out of touch with pop culture they are and too in touch with scientific nomenclature) that its incorrect usage because parsecs are a distance unit, is just…

4000 years

perhaps things are different in the states, but in the uk, if i relied solely on a mobile for certain important and long calls, i would destroy both my credit and battery. it is also too much to expect from family members and poorer friends to be willing to call my mobile at their expense to chat of an evening.…

they want pics of more than just their face

my favourite improbable future is either:

1: marriage, maybe, which is a commitment on many levels including financial, but the more important issue is that women will not usually even take up with an unemployed man, which i cant support at all because its grasping and mercenary and i personally give no fucks what a woman does with her days or how rich she is…

probably time. when they hit the food source motherlode, you want it in the nest asap before some other bugger snipes it, and walking around spraying messages at everyone probably takes a little while to start working, so they just schlep the extra help out there themselves while thinking the ant equivalent of 'no…

i dunno

market it as a lottery to win the right to greet any aliens they find and ask them for technology

i saw it, its a lion, its huge

i dont see confidence at getting laid being relevant

ill put this right down to the stat tracking they built into ME2 informing them a more significant proportion of players played female than they thought

im finding the contemplation of such ludicrously miniscule time periods as 1645-1715, the time since then, or the entirity of human existence as any significance at all regarding our solar systems star, especially if we think its important, fairly humorous

this is how i feel about nearly all comics, or at least comic series, superhero or not

the ability to procreate is one of the only genuine rights we have, being living creatures. perhaps it is selfish to employ it or wish to employ it when orphaned children are considered, but there it is; its a basic principle that accounts as much for orphaned offspring as nature does, ie not at all. from the point of…

its just as fake-bureaucracy ridden and red taped as americas, to wit, they'll obfuscate endlessly any request they dont like

"agreeable/disagreeable"

brazil, last ten minutes