echinopsis posted:

Boxturret posted:

hi kevin

Captain Foo posted:

same but kevin james

H.P. Hovercraft posted:

36. NO POORS! If you are poor keep your poor dirty trap shut about it

Sagebrush posted:

the most important rule concerns the geological and culinary classification of clams

prefect posted:

could someone get the rules re-posted and re-stickied? i never remember them all

Nintendo Kid posted:

they were removed for a reason: most of them were pretty dumb

Nintendo Kid posted:

they were removed for a reason: most of them were pretty dumb

Nintendo Kid posted:

they were removed for a reason: most of them were pretty dumb

PCjr sidecar posted:

like all laws amirite

:guyfawkes:

H.P. Hovercraft posted:

while this is a very important rule i would correct you that in fact the most important rule concerns this forum's authenticity and how it relates to the density of a stone and clever wordplay comparing this to the density of an erect penis

Nintendo Kid posted:

they were removed for a reason: most of them were pretty dumb

theflyingexecutive posted:

hey watch this video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7XbukdoGmM
and have all your youtube recommendations for months be animal loving videos

theflyingexecutive posted:

hey watch this video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7XbukdoGmM
and have all your youtube recommendations for months be animal loving videos

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If you were wondering what happened to that mysterious Google barge that popped up last year off Treasure Island, the Wall Street Journal has unearthed e-mails that indicate officials thought the vessels weren’t safe enough for the public, leading Google to abandon the project.

In the trove of e-mails, obtained by the Wall Street Journal through a Freedom of Information Act request, Coast Guard officials outlined concerns about fire hazards presented by having large amounts of fuel and other flammable materials on deck at the same time as a large number of people.

“These vessels will have over 5,000 gallons of fuel on the main deck and a substantial amount of combustible material on board,” Robert Gauvin, the Coast Guard’s acting chief of commercial vessel compliance, wrote in a March 2013 e-mail to Google’s contractor heading up the project, Foss Maritime Co.

Foss Maritime told the Coast Guard that no more than 120 people would be on board at a given time, the Wall Street Journal reported, but Gauvin was unconvinced, saying that, should a fire break out, people would be forced to jump overboard.

“I am unaware of any measures you plan to use to actually limit the number of passengers,” Gauvin wrote to Foss Maritime in the same March 2013 e-mail, noting that the company was seeking quick approval. “While I understand there is a sense of urgency, I am concerned that significant work has already been performed without full consent of the Coast Guard.”

Google also reportedly offered to treat National Park Service officials, who were involved because the barge would have operated in the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, to a tour of the barge. “They can pick us up in a special Google speed boat,” one official wrote in an e-mail.

The project generated quite a bit of buzz when people first took notice of the four-story behemoth made of shipping containers rising off the shore of Treasure Island last year. The company was tight-lipped for months about what the barge would eventually be, with speculation ranging from a Google Glass store to a floating data center to a giant party boat.

Planning documents filed by the barge’s shell company owner, By and Large LLC, referred to the vessel as a “studio” and “temporary technology exhibit space.”

Google was so dead-set on maintaining secrecy about the project that it required some Coast Guard officials to sign non-disclosure agreements.

By January, the mystery barge had worn out its welcome and state regulators told Treasure Island development officials that, unless the vessel was moved, fines would be levied. The barge was eventually shipped out about 80 miles east to Stockton, where it still sits idle.

FMguru posted:

By and Large LLC

quote:

a special Google speed boat

Jonny 290 posted:

From a distance, it looks bigger than it really is. Getting closer, he can see that this illusion is caused by an enveloping, self-made slick/cloud of sewage and air pollution, fading out into the ocean and the atmosphere.
It orbits the Pacific clockwise. When they fire up the boilers on the Enterprise, it can control its direction a little bit, but real navigation is a practical impossibility with all the other poo poo lashed onto it. It mostly has to go where the wind and the Coriolis effect take it. A couple of years ago, it was going by the Philippines, Vietnam, China, Sil,eria, picking up Refus. Then it swung up the Aleutian chain, down the Alaska panhandle, and now it's gliding past the small town of Port Sherman, Oregon, near the California border.
As the Raft moves through the Pacific, riding mostly on ocean currents, it occasionally sheds great hunks of itself Eventually, these fragments wash up in some place like Santa Barbara, still lashed together, carrying a payload of skeletons and gnawed bones.
When it gets to California, it will enter a new phase of its life cycle. It will shed much of its sprawling improvised bulk as a few hundred thousand Refus cut themselves loose and paddle to shore. The only Refus who make it that far are, by definition, the ones who were agile enough to make it out to the Raft in the first place, resourceful enough to survive the agonizingly slow passage through the arctic waters, and tough enough not to get killed by any of the other Refus. Nice guys, all of them. Just the kind of people you'd like to have showing up on your private beach in groups of a few thousand.

FMguru posted:

i see no evidence to suggest that it was not a floating child sex dungeon designed to be dragged out across territorial limits and then back again

FMguru posted:

if you rearrange the letters in "sergey brin" you get "l bob rife"