Post #293,205
9/19/07 6:32:18 PM
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limitless, unbearable pain
[link|http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/technology/technology.html?in_article_id=482560&in_page_id=1965|http://www.dailymail...0&in_page_id=1965]
The worst part of the Princess Bride just showed up. How quickly will this make it into interrogation rooms?
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Post #293,208
9/19/07 6:58:06 PM
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Why can't they develop the laugh gun?
It's hard to have a war or riot or fight when people are laughing. Shift the paradigm, people!
Smile, Amy
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Post #293,210
9/19/07 7:07:46 PM
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Because it's not really about riots.
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Post #293,220
9/19/07 8:29:43 PM
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Whatever.
You go to your room too.
Did I say *just* riots? Hmmmmm, let's read my post again. It said, "war or riots or fights"
And no more soup for you, either! One year!
Smile, Amy
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Post #293,223
9/19/07 8:41:11 PM
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No soup? I don't want your steenkin' soup
on a more serious note, it's about control. It looks like a very handy way to control people, esp. people who are attempting to associate in a way not liked by the people in charge of those things.
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Post #293,255
9/19/07 10:23:40 PM
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Squirt guns
filled with LSD and DMSO, perhaps?
Imric's Tips for Living
- Paranoia Is a Survival Trait
- Pessimists are never disappointed - but sometimes, if they are very lucky, they can be pleasantly surprised...
- Even though everyone is out to get you, it doesn't matter unless you let them win.
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Nothing is as simple as it seems in the beginning, As hopeless as it seems in the middle, Or as finished as it seems in the end. |
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Post #293,259
9/19/07 10:29:22 PM
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:-)
Smile, Amy
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Post #293,292
9/20/07 8:39:52 AM
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Because if people are gathered to protest the God-Emperor...
...then turning their protests into laughter is liable to be rather ineffective: They might easily get it into their heads to direct their laughter *at him*.
("Can't have that, can we, Georgie?" - "No, sir, mr Cheney.")
[link|mailto:MyUserId@MyISP.CountryCode|Christian R. Conrad] (I live in Finland, and my e-mail in-box is at the Saunalahti company.)
Ah, the Germans: Masters of Convoluted Simplification. — [link|http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/?p=1603|Jehovah]
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Post #293,211
9/19/07 7:17:06 PM
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"Put your hand in the box."
"What is in the box?"
"Pain."
One spice brownie point for the reference.
Regards,
-scott anderson
"Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson..."
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Post #293,217
9/19/07 7:44:11 PM
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Dune
Not that I remember it (read it around 30 years ago) but the spice leads me to believe.
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Post #293,225
9/19/07 8:45:57 PM
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Dune
Before the Atreides family left for Arrakis, when the top Bene Gesserit witch tested Paul to see if he was a human being or an animal.
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Post #293,230
9/19/07 9:11:31 PM
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Many have tried.
"Tried and failed?"
"Tried... and died."
Regards,
-scott anderson
"Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson..."
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Post #293,221
9/19/07 8:31:04 PM
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Would that be the box
with the dick in it?
Smile, Amy
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Post #293,231
9/19/07 9:11:57 PM
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Tell me of your home world, Usul.
Too much of today's music is fashionable crap dressed as artistry.Adrian Belew
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