Even worse, yolk sizes are unpredictable, and it's not like you can open an uncooked egg to check. You had to boil at least a dozen and hope one of them fit.
If we lived in a sane society, the people responsible for this shit would be occupying prison cells.
If I, as an individual, took it upon myself to install surveillance devices in peoples' vehicles and collect behavioral data on them, without their knowledge and explicit consent, I would be (rightly) held criminally liable for that. But because this creepy stalking is being done by corporations, apparently that's OK.
If there's no bailout, the lenders don't get paid, and the lenders lose almost everything. The employees of the AI companies will lose their jobs. The companies that have been doing significant business with the AI companies will lose all that business.
Too effing bad. Choices have consequences.
It's too late to completely avoid the recession and bailouts
If it's too late to avoid the economic fallout, we should at least avoid making the people responsible for creating this mess richer at the cost of taxpayer dollars. Maybe we'll all take a hit, but let the shortsighted fuckers eat their own debt.
What a creepy Orwellian system we've built, to have this kind of information down to seconds. In the next study they'll be including what direction the driver's eyes were pointed in at the time of the crash.
What's really impressive is that I think all of that is reflected in Fletcher's portrayal of the character from her first appearance in Season 1, even though I doubt they had the full nature of her character fleshed out at that point. The disdain, the jealousy, the hatred she has for Sisko is so clear in those conversations. Nothing Sisko ever said could have changed things, she could never forgive him for being the Emissary.
Wynn, on the other hand, made no fucking sense. Sorry, but going from pope to satanist and shacking up with the face of the occupation? Jumping the shark, forgetting that she's a character with real (albeit, shitty) convictions and a past.
Oh no, see Winn served the Prophets her whole life. She believed she had given them everything. The problem is, Winn's religion was only ever transactional for her. Winn believed that she could work her way into heaven. She served because she believed she would be rewarded for doing so. She wanted power, but more than that she wanted to be recognized as the very best follower. She wanted approval from her gods, and she wanted them to acknowledge her above all others. It's why she was so jealous of Sisko from the very beginning, because Sisko never had to earn his position as the Emissary. He didn't even want it, and that made it worse - Sisko had everything she wanted her whole life, and he didn't value it like she did. Blasphemy. Winn is the embodiment of ambition and narcissism (truly an equal to Dukat), which I think she portrayed from the very first appearance of her character.
When she tried to talk to the Prophets through the Orb, and they rejected her because she had been tainted by the enemy, she knew that she would never get what she wanted from the Prophets. No power, but even worse, no recognition.
Because her religious practice was transactional, the other party of the transaction was replaceable, as long as she could get what she wanted. Trading the Prophets for the Pah Wraiths was simple, because the Prophets never really mattered to Winn, only getting what she wanted from the transaction.
I could see this as a replacement for a highway interchange/cloverleaf. Are we sure it's not intended for that?
As a replacement for a 4-way stoplight intersection, yeah this is nuts.
SPACESHIP!
That's quite an assumption for you to make. Why would you believe this to be true about me?
Even worse, yolk sizes are unpredictable, and it's not like you can open an uncooked egg to check. You had to boil at least a dozen and hope one of them fit.
Well don't you know we have socialism, but only for real people - you know, Citizens United people.
Yup. I don't think you can approve of this kind of research without also giving tacit approval to the police state being built around us.
It wasn't voluntary for any of the people who had their rights violated by GM, OnStar and LexisNexis. And we know they aren't the only ones doing this shit, they're just the ones that got caught.
If we lived in a sane society, the people responsible for this shit would be occupying prison cells.
If I, as an individual, took it upon myself to install surveillance devices in peoples' vehicles and collect behavioral data on them, without their knowledge and explicit consent, I would be (rightly) held criminally liable for that. But because this creepy stalking is being done by corporations, apparently that's OK.
Too effing bad. Choices have consequences.
If it's too late to avoid the economic fallout, we should at least avoid making the people responsible for creating this mess richer at the cost of taxpayer dollars. Maybe we'll all take a hit, but let the shortsighted fuckers eat their own debt.
Aha! the solution is for citizens to become industry. Then they can bail us out.
What a creepy Orwellian system we've built, to have this kind of information down to seconds. In the next study they'll be including what direction the driver's eyes were pointed in at the time of the crash.
Armchair warrior.
Heh, I mean, remember how warp drive was destroying subspace?
Pepperidge Farm remembers...
Oh, but at that point she was just using Dukat, and she knew she would need a sacrifice for the final step. Who better than this hated enemy?
Plus for the sake of writing, we're showing these two primary villains side by side, seeing that they are truly reflections of each other.
What's really impressive is that I think all of that is reflected in Fletcher's portrayal of the character from her first appearance in Season 1, even though I doubt they had the full nature of her character fleshed out at that point. The disdain, the jealousy, the hatred she has for Sisko is so clear in those conversations. Nothing Sisko ever said could have changed things, she could never forgive him for being the Emissary.
Oh no, see Winn served the Prophets her whole life. She believed she had given them everything. The problem is, Winn's religion was only ever transactional for her. Winn believed that she could work her way into heaven. She served because she believed she would be rewarded for doing so. She wanted power, but more than that she wanted to be recognized as the very best follower. She wanted approval from her gods, and she wanted them to acknowledge her above all others. It's why she was so jealous of Sisko from the very beginning, because Sisko never had to earn his position as the Emissary. He didn't even want it, and that made it worse - Sisko had everything she wanted her whole life, and he didn't value it like she did. Blasphemy. Winn is the embodiment of ambition and narcissism (truly an equal to Dukat), which I think she portrayed from the very first appearance of her character.
When she tried to talk to the Prophets through the Orb, and they rejected her because she had been tainted by the enemy, she knew that she would never get what she wanted from the Prophets. No power, but even worse, no recognition.
Because her religious practice was transactional, the other party of the transaction was replaceable, as long as she could get what she wanted. Trading the Prophets for the Pah Wraiths was simple, because the Prophets never really mattered to Winn, only getting what she wanted from the transaction.
Consent is sexy.
You can't possibly wait that long.
I mean, it'll take at least a day for all the deanposters to dean themselves out.
Until the trash gets picked up.
Ass
Butt
Crud
Dung
Effluvia
...
...and starving.