Lovely. The god damn FiOS-bashing Comcast ads have made it to YouTube. And I though Blip was going out of its way to piss me off. >:P (They've resorted to out-and-out lying about FiOS due to sour grapes; FiOS consistently places at or near the top of consumer satisfaction ratings, while Comcast is in the toilet along with Time Warner Cable. These ads aren't for current FiOS subscribers; they're to keep people that already have Comcast, or don't have cable at all, from switching.)
So, if Hussie had updated throughout this hiatus at his average update speed (where the average is an average of his entire thing of the webcomic until then); we would have 616 pages; and we would be on page 9368.
I love slash am slightly terrifed by the way this article ends.
The final three on his list are FedEx Corporation (NYSE:FDX), Target Corporation (NYSE:TGT) and the nation of Luxembourg. This last one in particular could be a tongue-in-cheek suggestion because yes, Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) probably does have the cash to buy a whole country. And if any country would be of particular interest, it would be the technology center of Luxembourg.
Just buy a fucking country, open the gates to the corporately-owned cyberpunk world we're already so closed to.
Strictly speaking, the square footage of land that companies like Apple and Microsoft own probably dwarfs a nation like Luxembourg or Liechtenstein. The important difference is that such companies do not make the law in those places that they occupy. Even if they bought out every inch of a small country, I think that international law would be such that they would still be subject to the business and civil laws and customs of that country and the EU. To resist that and declare direct corporate control à la the Belgian Congo or the Dutch East India Company would not only result in immediate action but commercial suicide.
"Well actually if you want to sell things it's probably better to pick those things that don't cost 0.03 to buy because if they do chances are that there is a huge glut at the 0.03 price point and you'll be at the end of it."
DA FUQ U TAKKIN BOUT
"Well, actually, if you want to sell things, it's probably better to pick those things that don't cost 0.03 to buy, because if they do, chances are that there is a huge glut at the 0.03 price point and you'll be at the end of it."
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
IRIS makes me feel weird
Usually when Tumblr falls for something so obviously fake, I'm like "hahaha, look at those gullible people!"
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Supposedly it's an "artificial intelligence" that answers Tumblr asks. Most people seem to have their doubts, though, and expect it to be "the next Horse_ebooks", as it were.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
@Glenn: I like The Cure. I have no problem with singing their '80s material, particularly songs like "Close to Me", "The Blood", "Shake Dog Shake", "Prayers for Rain" and "If Only Tonight We Could Sleep". And I don't really like either magical girl warrior shows or their soundtracks very much, despite my intense fondness for Madoka Magica.
i googled "iris" and couldn't make heads or tails of the tumblr page that came up
i did see this one drawn character appear several times
and i also saw several references to guitars, including something about a gibson guitar
i googled 'iris "gibson guitar"' but that didn't produce anything noticeably interesting either
IRIS is allegedly the world's first semiconscious AI.
It is more likely a hoax (or simply a sophisticated chatbot), but it's engaging nonetheless.
They (that is, IRIS) have a fascination with Gibson Guitars despite professing to not be able to process audio in any way.
oh i see.
sounds like yet another elaborate practical joke on the internet. let me know if it turns up different this time.
also this is why ['ey] (using brackets instead of quotation marks to show the apostrophe) would be a better gender-neutral singular pronoun since you wouldn't have had to put "(that is, IRIS)"
@Glenn: I like The Cure. I have no problem with singing their '80s material, particularly songs like "Close to Me", "The Blood", "Shake Dog Shake", "Prayers for Rain" and "If Only Tonight We Could Sleep". And I don't really like either magical girl warrior shows or their soundtracks very much, despite my intense fondness for Madoka Magica.
@Glenn: I like The Cure. I have no problem with singing their '80s material, particularly songs like "Close to Me", "The Blood", "Shake Dog Shake", "Prayers for Rain" and "If Only Tonight We Could Sleep". And I don't really like either magical girl warrior shows or their soundtracks very much, despite my intense fondness for Madoka Magica.
(FYI i was being facetious)
I'm sorry. I was being really literal. I do that...
Strictly speaking, the square footage of land that companies like Apple and Microsoft own probably dwarfs a nation like Luxembourg or Liechtenstein. The important difference is that such companies do not make the law in those places that they occupy. Even if they bought out every inch of a small country, I think that international law would be such that they would still be subject to the business and civil laws and customs of that country and the EU. To resist that and declare direct corporate control à la the Belgian Congo or the Dutch East India Company would not only result in immediate action but commercial suicide.
That's a good point, although practically speaking I can't imagine a country would retain much autonomy if a corporation literally owned every square inch of land within its borders.
@Glenn: I like The Cure. I have no problem with singing their '80s material, particularly songs like "Close to Me", "The Blood", "Shake Dog Shake", "Prayers for Rain" and "If Only Tonight We Could Sleep". And I don't really like either magical girl warrior shows or their soundtracks very much, despite my intense fondness for Madoka Magica.
(FYI i was being facetious)
I'm sorry. I was being really literal. I do that...
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Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
alas
I can you tell you which direction north, south, east, and hell is.
/obv joke.
I can locate objects and the boss room.
/Zelda joke.
for those that dont have a compass, just find an evil person and detertime where the moss is growing on their body, that direction is the evil one
time is relentless
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Everyone knows that, because April eleventh is the 101st day of the year.
So, 365-103 = (300+60+5) - (100+00+3)
or
(300) + (60) + (5)
-(100) + (00) + (3) =
(200) + (60) + (2) =
200
+60
+2
262
So, from April Thirteenth, 2009, to the end of the year is 262 days.
October seventeenth is the 290th day of the year.
2009: 262
2010: 365
2011: 365:
2013: 290
2009: 200 + 60 +2
2010: 300 + 60 +5
equals:500+120+7
or 100+20+7
+ 500+00+0
+ 600 + 20+7 = 627
2011: 300 + 60 + 5
2012: 300 + 60 + 6
equals 600+120+11 equals 600+11+120
600+10+1
+ 100+20+0
= 700+30+1 = 731
so, 2013: 290
So, 627 + 731 + 290
is 627 (600 + 20 + 7)
+ 731 (700 + 30 + 1)
= 1358 (1300+50+8)
So, 1358 (1000+300+50+8)
+ 290 (0000+200+90+0)
= 1648 (1000+500+140+8) = (1000+600+40+8)
So, 1648 days.
In those days there were 8752 updates.
8752 divided by 1648 is
5.31067961165048543689320388349514563106796116504854368932038834951456 multiplied by the days of the hiatus
Where the decimals italicized repeat.
5.31067961165048543689320388349514563106796116504854368932038834951456
Hmm, how long is the hiatus.
365 days (in 2013) - 290
365-290
(200 + 160 + 5)
-(200 + 090 + 0)
=(000+ 070 + 5) = 75.
February Tenth is the forty-first day of the year.
41 = 75
is(40 + 1)
+(70 + 5)
= (110+6)
=116
116 times 5.31067961165048543689320388349514563106796116504854368932038834951456
is, from my pencil and paper, about 616.03883495145631067961165048543689320388349514563106796116504854368932
Where the italic decimals repeat.
616 (0000+600+10+6)
+8752 (8000+700+50+2)
=9368(8000+1300+60+8)
So, if Hussie had updated throughout this hiatus at his average update speed (where the average is an average of his entire thing of the webcomic until then); we would have 616 pages; and we would be on page 9368.
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
DA FUQ U TAKKIN BOUT
"Well, actually, if you want to sell things, it's probably better to pick those things that don't cost 0.03 to buy, because if they do, chances are that there is a huge glut at the 0.03 price point and you'll be at the end of it."
+commas
much better
WHAT AM I POSTING FOOOOOOOOOOOOOR
i did see this one drawn character appear several times
and i also saw several references to guitars, including something about a gibson guitar
i googled 'iris "gibson guitar"' but that didn't produce anything noticeably interesting either
It is more likely a hoax (or simply a sophisticated chatbot), but it's engaging nonetheless.
They (that is, IRIS) have a fascination with Gibson Guitars despite professing to not be able to process audio in any way.
Also my mom bought me a bottle of Arby's sauce. Awesome.
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
sounds like yet another elaborate practical joke on the internet. let me know if it turns up different this time.
also this is why ['ey] (using brackets instead of quotation marks to show the apostrophe) would be a better gender-neutral singular pronoun
since you wouldn't have had to put "(that is, IRIS)"
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
then that's even more apt for the joke
now IRIS just needs to be given an anthromorphized representation in the form of a robot teenage girl
where's that yuru yuri image that mojave keeps posting, when you need it
i do that too
but yeah
the whole point was the pun on "cure"
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead