Didn’t Ex Machina get a nom for Best Nekked Sex Toy FleshBots?

We all loved it, because it was a mashup of previous films. Familiar characters, familiar plot devices and story lines. Starring John Boyega as Han, Daisy Ridley as Leia, and Adam Driver as the ever rebellious teenager, Darth Vader.

A trillion dollars later, can we please stop rescuing Matt Damon?

I already have the parking power, now I can have the tweets, too - sweet!

...where space and Earth seem to exist as one.

Got other stuff in the crisper? One of these lined with paper towels holds a head’s worth of lettuce leaves, and fits nicely in the fridge

What you need a condom for is when your sales lead tells you “Yeah, I’ve got all the customer lists and sales totals right here on this thumbdrive”

There - fixed. No prob.

Here, let me take care of that pigeon for you...

Honestly, it might be a movie specifically about the horrors of a mad-bro scientist creating and enslaving sex-bot AI’s.

Sol Invictus has been out of favor since Constantine, around 400 AD. I mean, who still parties at the winter solstice? Pagans, that’s who.

If you invest a thousand dollars a day for one hundred days, you likely incur one hundred transaction fees. That’s $795 in fees, right off the top. (Ouch)

Umberto Eco is smiling on behalf of Msr. Foucault

Much like my server, laptop, TV, and game console, I hate it when my car is doing stuff other than it’s my intended purpose. I tolerate it a little better with my phone because those functions I didn’t ask for frequently provide value.

It’s a network externality when you have a phone, and it’s nearly useless because you have the only working phone, and it becomes more useful as more people have phones that work, and it becomes nearly indispensable when everybody has one.

That’s how I died in the last one. I had learned to walk like a zombie and blend in, but I couldn’t do the dance moves at the end. Dead giveaway.

Anyway, good conversation, I’m checking out, good luck to you in WI, I hear the cheese is good and they have a decent football team

2010-2014, GDP is up 16% in NY vs 6% in WI, weighing in at 1.6 trillion vs 268 million. Not exactly accurate to say the economy of the state is imploding. Several sources do talk about the decline in manufacturing upstate in the Buffalo-Rochester-Syracuse corridor, I’m guessing the growth is driven by the financial…

Agreed, with the exception of the parts about robust economy. CA, NY, NJ, MA are in fact, robust economies. (In the sense that they are not bubbles) That doesn’t mean that they don’t face the same threats from the shrinking middle class. When the factory moves, it can boost profits, but it wreaks havoc on the people…

I like the cut of your jib