rjmccall posted:

but since this is silicon valley, we can achieve an equivalent measure of social value by carefully determining the peak usage hours and rigging the upper deck to collapse

Cardboard Box A posted:

TNG already did

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollow_Pursuits

quote:

LaForge suggests Barclay get counseling from Troi, whose counterpart on the holodeck displays clear signs of sexual attraction towards Barclay.

Bloody posted:

reminder: install cloud-to-butt

ultramiraculous posted:

even in 1990 we knew how this was going to turn out

Hurt Whitey Maybe posted:

if I was Google I would make the employees ride literal school buses. like yellow school buses.

the man children would love it.

Sagebrush posted:

motorcyclists shouldn't have to follow any of the rules except for red lights and right of way.

H.P. Hovercraft posted:

nasa does exactly that here

Citizen Tayne posted:

TNG predicted MMOs eight years early.

H.P. Hovercraft posted:

motorcyclists are allowed to treat red lights like stop signs hth

H.P. Hovercraft posted:

nasa does exactly that here

Sagebrush posted:

cyberpunk literature predicted them like twenty years early, and i'm sure the concept existed in some other kind of sci-fi well before that

qntm posted:

nasa's least impressive shuttle

Sagebrush posted:

cyberpunk literature predicted them like twenty years early, and i'm sure the concept existed in some other kind of sci-fi well before that

Citizen Tayne posted:

you must be insufferable irl

Sagebrush posted:

can you show me the relevant section of the california highway code? i know this is true for sensored red lights if your motorcycle isn't triggering them to change and you've waited the equivalent of one full light cycle, but i don't think it applies to all red lights in general

Sagebrush posted:

cyberpunk literature predicted them like twenty years early, and i'm sure the concept existed in some other kind of sci-fi well before that

Citizen Tayne posted:

you must be insufferable irl

Nintendo Kid posted:

cyberpunk didn't predict mmos in 1971.

Shaggar posted:

b/c that's how traffic patterns get hosed up. for poo poo to work properly you need sensors and modeling that extends beyond just a single light.

Bloody posted:

why not have a maximum cycle time where no matter what the lights change every 30 seconds or whatever so you don't have spend a fuckton of money on special systems for motorcylces and bicycles

Nintendo Kid posted:

cyberpunk didn't predict mmos in 1971.

FMguru posted:

ban private automobiles in urban areas, problem solved

FMguru posted:

replace all signal lights with roundabouts, problem solved

Bloody posted:

abandon motorcyclists and bicyclists in those positions forever

H.P. Hovercraft posted:

particularly for certain movements like protected left turn signalling you don't want it triggering every cycle if you can help it

Bloody posted:

well yeah but you probably also don't want to spend another 50k at every intersection because you've been in the red for a decade and your bridges are collapsing and you probably also don't want to abandon motorcyclists and bicyclists in those positions forever

Bloody posted:

qirex posted:

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prefect posted:

• "Rip up all city streets with jackhammers" and "sod the streets at once.... All public movement would be by foot and a fleet of bicycles, maintained by the city police force."
  
• "Change the name 'Aspen', by public referendum, to 'Fat City'. This would prevent greedheads, land-rapers and other human jackals from capitalizing on the name 'Aspen'.... These swine should be hosed, broken, and driven across the land."
  
• "Drug Sales must be controlled. My first act as Sheriff will be to install, on the courthouse lawn, a bastinado platform and a set of stocks in order to punish dishonest dope dealers in a proper public fashion. Each year these dealers cheat millions of people out of millions of dollars.... it will be the general philosophy of the Sheriff’s office that no drug worth taking should be sold for money."
  
• "Hunting and fishing should be forbidden to all non-residents, with the exception of those who can obtain the signed endorsement of a resident- who will then be legally responsible for any violation or abuse committed by the non-resident he has ‘signed for’…. By this approach-making hundreds or even thousands of individuals personally responsible for protecting the animals, fish and birds who live here-we would create a sort of de facto game preserve, without the harsh restrictions that will necessarily be forced on us if these blood-thirsty geeks keep swarming in here each autumn to shoot everything they see."
  
• "The Sheriff and his Deputies should never be armed in public. Every urban riot, shoot-out and blood-bath (involving guns) in recent memory has been set off by some trigger-happy cop in a fear frenzy."
  
• "It will be the policy of the Sheriff’s office savagely to harass all those engaged in any form of land-rape."
  

Sagebrush posted:

amazing to think that we live in a country where the president would be more likely to be impeached for making everyone in the country take a driving test than for spying on them, holding them without trial, promoting unbelievable wealth disparity, etc

computer parts posted:

if you take away the major way people get to work a lot of people would be mad, yes

Sagebrush posted:

i mean hey i'm not suggesting we revoke the licenses for anyone but those people who can't pass the test they already passed once. what's so bad about that? why are you scared? what are you worried about??

duTrieux. posted:

also the first time i took the driving test the examiner failed me for two things: not being able to identify/turn on the "parking lights" and for pulling over into a spot she told me to pull over into. (the rules specifically said you wouldn't be dinged for following the instructions of the instructor, but the rules were a lie!)

Sagebrush posted:

i mean hey i'm not suggesting we revoke the licenses for anyone but those people who can't pass the test they already passed once. what's so bad about that? why are you scared? what are you worried about??