he may have missed the point Wagner and Grant were making about all elected office if he thinks we don't already live in a world of Dave The Orangutans.
he may have missed the point Wagner and Grant were making about all elected office if he thinks we don't already live in a world of Dave The Orangutans.
And P.J. Maybes
I share the author's disappointment that Dave The Orangutan has neither been elected nor assassinated as yet, but feel he may have missed the point Wagner and Grant were making about all elected office if he thinks we don't already live in a world of Dave The Orangutans.
They wouldn't work if you were wearing gloves
From winning the affections of Nikolai Dante in 1997 (prog 1066), to winning Eurovision (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SaolVEJEjV4) in 2014. Tharg, predicting the future since 1977:
(http://i1050.photobucket.com/albums/s410/sauchieboy/8574e7f5-7111-4920-ba2e-45ac942ca9f5.jpg?t=1399824224)(http://i1050.photobucket.com/albums/s410/sauchieboy/977268bc-aac6-4469-ba08-8c911d3ff32b.jpg?t=1399824574)
Which prog was that biter scene in? The only MC1 biter I remember was in the first Kenny Who story.
Smart gun technology is the latest consumer product and hot topic in the USA - the NRA don't like 'em. Sensors in the grip detect the user's palm print and stop the weapon being fired by an unauthorised user. They were initially developed for use by law enforcement officers ...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/josephsteinberg/2014/05/04/smartguns/
Which prog was that biter scene in? The only MC1 biter I remember was in the first Kenny Who story.
Daily Star strip called 'Mega-City Biter'
http://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/comment/articles/2014-04/23/2000-ad-the-comic-that-foretold-the-future
Wagner and Grant foresaw TOWIE and Banksie, apparently. I share the author's disappointment that Dave The Orangutan has neither been elected nor assassinated as yet, but feel he may have missed the point Wagner and Grant were making about all elected office if he thinks we don't already live in a world of Dave The Orangutans.
Less impressive was Tony Blair becoming Prime Minister in Maniac 5 - he committed suicide some time before the first series, then Mark Millar forgot and he came to life back in the third.
From winning the affections of Nikolai Dante in 1997 (prog 1066), to winning Eurovision (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SaolVEJEjV4) in 2014. Tharg, predicting the future since 1977:
(http://i1050.photobucket.com/albums/s410/sauchieboy/8574e7f5-7111-4920-ba2e-45ac942ca9f5.jpg?t=1399824224)(http://i1050.photobucket.com/albums/s410/sauchieboy/977268bc-aac6-4469-ba08-8c911d3ff32b.jpg?t=1399824574)
Except Conchita Wurst is, what would generally be considered, a male. And the Lady Eudoxia Looshin is deffinelty, what would be considered by most, a female.
Next time, we use the riot foam before kick-off (http://video.foxnews.com/v/3751581966001/massive-fire-suppressant-spill-at-army-national-guard-base/#sp=show-clips).So thats why the judges didnt use it on DoC!
Smart gun technology is the latest consumer product and hot topic in the USA - the NRA don't like 'em. Sensors in the grip detect the user's palm print and stop the weapon being fired by an unauthorised user. They were initially developed for use by law enforcement officers ...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/josephsteinberg/2014/05/04/smartguns/
I wrote a letter to Tharg about that years ago, cannae remember the prog though.
"different areas of the building would be linked by a series of bridges and walkways helping to 'increase exchanges, communications and interactions, creating a 'vertical city' housing thousands" - sounds similar to the way that the old Crescents in Hulme were promoted when they were being built. Those worked well...
Smart gun technology is the latest consumer product and hot topic in the USA - the NRA don't like 'em. Sensors in the grip detect the user's palm print and stop the weapon being fired by an unauthorised user. They were initially developed for use by law enforcement officers ...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/josephsteinberg/2014/05/04/smartguns/
I wrote a letter to Tharg about that years ago, cannae remember the prog though.
OhOh late to the party - cheers Danddontdare for the heads up. What's your surname Satanist - I know you're mark but I have a few Glasgow Marks and I don't want them getting excited. Approx Pog range ould also lend credibility to your claim.
I lived in Hulme in the late 70's, and the crescents were flippin' great to skateboard on. A lovely smooth surface. All gone now...
I never lived there as in, had a rent book (not that anyone bothered collecting rent there anyway) but I did wind up staying there a lot in the late 80's as a lot of the flats by then were just empty, and most of my friends lived there. Miss that place!
Just checked on Barney and think its prog 1376. My one and only entry in Thargs organ. Ffnarr!
SOMEWHERE between the New York and Paris collections, a new word crept into the fashion lexicon. "Normcore", defined as a bland anti-style, was bandied around everywhere, from the front row to Twitter and New York Magazine. The notion of dressing in an utterly conventional, nondescript way struck a collective chord. But what is normcore, and where did it come from?
http://www.vogue.co.uk/news/2014/03/21/normcore-fashion-vogue---definition
Peacocking, patchworking trends and making a statement with not just your necklace, but your bag, shoes and sweatshirt to boot, has been the order of the day (but) thanks to that more-is-more approach "Everyone is so special that no one is special". As with anything that grows too popular, the backlash has already begun, and blending in is the new standing out. As New York put it in February, normcore is "fashion for those who realise they're one in seven billion".
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/fashion/features/normcore-fashion-blending-in-is-the-new-standing-out-in-latest-catwalk-nontrend-9738736.html
Paying everyone a basic income would kill off low-paid menial jobs | Paul Mason http://gu.com/p/45cey/stw (http://gu.com/p/45cey/stw)
You take a large chunk of a country’s tax revenues and pay people a few thousand pounds a year to do nothing. That’s the essence of an unconditional basic income scheme – and it took less than a day for the Green party’s version, at £3,744 a year, to be emphatically slapped down.
The “unconditional basic income” has a long history in economic thinking, with proponents on both the left and the right. For conservatives it is a way of radically cutting the administrative costs of means-tested benefits, and subsidising low-paid work. For those on the left, who embraced it after the 1960s, it is seen as a way to alleviate inequality. But if the basic income has any relevance to today’s economy, it is as a solution to a much bigger problem: the disappearance of work itself.
In 2013, researchers at the Oxford Martin School predicted that in the next two decades 47% of US jobs would be in danger of being lost to automation. McKinsey Global Institute research suggests that 140 million knowledge workers worldwide are at risk of the same fate. Most policymakers do not even want to think about the prospect of mass automation, because it is unlike any change we have seen before.
In every previous technological upsurge, deskilling and job destruction went alongside the creation of new, high value jobs and a higher-wage consumption culture. But automation disrupts that pattern: it reduces the need for work in one sector without necessarily creating it in another.
If you paid every adult in Britain – including pensioners – say, £6,000 a year, with no requirement to seek work and no means test, it would cost around £290bn a year.
You would abolish the basic state pension (currently around £6,000) and basic unemployment benefits, keeping only benefits targeted to extra needs such as child support or disability, which come to around £30bn now, so the overall cost might come to £320bn a year.
That is a huge amount of money. The current welfare bill in Britain is £167bn – of which two- thirds goes to pensioners. Its eats around 23% of government spending. A true, subsistence level basic income would close to double that. But it is imaginable, in the short to medium term, if you factor in the benefits.
The first would be to eradicate low-paid menial work. Why slave 10 hours a day with mop and bucket for £12k when you get £6k for free? Corporations would rebalance their business models towards a high pay, stable consumption, low-ish profit world, and the tax take would rise as a result. All tax relief for the poor would end.
The second benefit, though less tangible, would come to the spiralling healthcare budgets of western societies. Drugs are dear, collaborative networks of peer educators and self-help groups come for free, at least in theory, once everyone is being paid simply to exist, and has the time and freedom to contribute. This is the view taken by the prophets of peer-to-peer economics, who envisage a new, collaborative production sector. My fag-packet logic tells me it would mean tens of billions in lower healthcare costs, and savings in other areas too.
The rest of the fiscal gap would be closed through raising tax – so this is not a cheap or easy solution. It would be a pathway to a different kind of economy. But for both left and right it would challenge the last vestiges of what Gorz called “the utopia based on work” which has sustained us for two centuries, but may no longer.
Paul Mason is the economics editor at Channel 4 News. Follow him @paulmasonnews (http://@paulmasonnews)
HOVERBOARD (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwSwZ2Y0Ops)
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I'm all for acceptance of fat people. What pisses me off is the fact they deny the negative medical implications.
I'm all for acceptance of fat people. What pisses me off is the fact they deny the negative medical implications.Actually this wasn't what I meant to say at all. Fat acceptance is a good thing, poor health isn't. Metabolisms, knowing your own body limits yaddayaddayadda.
Living a totally healthy risk-avoiding responsible life must be ace, any tips?
Business opportunity for Jacob Sardini (http://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/real-life/wtf/the-strange-new-trend-where-corpses-are-attending-their-own-wake/news-story/0bd10251e1ab29db2eca388e41d10e12?).I was all down with that, as odd as it is, until that one instance where people whipped their phones out to have pictures taken with the deceased. Taking way beyond my comfort zone, i'm afraid.
(And it's probably just coincidence that Donald J. Trump has the same number of letters as Robert L. Booth...)
Tribs is Pat Mills?
(And it's probably just coincidence that Donald J. Trump has the same number of letters as Robert L. Booth...)
That has to be the most tenuous grounds for a conspiracy theory I've ever seen - and that's saying something ;)
(http://i.imgur.com/GVOotl5.jpg)
(https://deepart-io.s3.amazonaws.com/cache/ef/b3/efb3b880054201502bad943b5a1f6029.jpg)I'm going to guess Van Gogh on that one...
(https://deepart-io.s3.amazonaws.com/cache/87/05/8705a4dbf40536ce740d41980c326724.jpg)Tricky - Picasso's Guenica?
(https://deepart-io.s3.amazonaws.com/cache/ef/b3/efb3b880054201502bad943b5a1f6029.jpg)I'm going to guess Van Gogh on that one...(https://deepart-io.s3.amazonaws.com/cache/87/05/8705a4dbf40536ce740d41980c326724.jpg)Tricky - Picasso's Guenica?
Really? I thought it was Gove.Not according to the Thrill-cast, though Mr.
Just seen a bus that straddles the road that is under going testing in China. Pretty sure there was something like that in ABC warriors in the shadow warriors
Just seen a bus that straddles the road that is under going testing in China. Pretty sure there was something like that in ABC warriors in the shadow warriors
Seem to recall Ezquerra drew juggernauts running across the Martian freeways along tracks on each side of the road in the Golgotha/Tyrannosaur segment of The ABC Warriors.
Seems that Biol is now trading in China (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sponsored/china-watch/travel/12211616/What-is-that-thing-Innovative-bus-looks-like-a-moving-tunnel.html?WT.mc_id=tmgspk_ob_606004_12211616&utm_campaign=tmgspk_ob_606004_12211616&utm_content=606004&utm_medium=ob&utm_source=tmgspk).
THE ART OF KENNY WHO?Last weekend I found myself at an open night at the local electronic and new media gallery and art school place.
A team of technologists have produced a 3D-printed painting in the style of Dutch master Rembrandt.
The portrait was created after existing works by the artist were analysed by a computer. A new, original work was then designed to look as much like a Rembrandt as possible. It was 3D-printed to give it the same texture as an oil painting.
Read more here (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-35977315), or listen at 12 minutes here (http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b075mdsl#play).
Does anybody here have scans of the original GQ article? The link that started this thread has gone 404..
Only a hop, skip and a jump away from the great plasteen disaster (https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/apr/16/scientists-accidentally-create-mutant-enzyme-that-eats-plastic-bottles).
I could not help but think of Chopper when I read this story.
https://www.thejournal.ie/frenchman-hoverboard-channel-4752560-Aug2019/
I have a huge confession to make. I've never seen BTTF.
Always meant to get round to it and never did. I know the story of the first one in detail, and that's from a mixture of reading the free picture booklet with Ready Brek and my friends excitedly explaining it. Sorry, everyone, not cool, I know.
he knew that Trump was like a 'mob boss' who would never directly order a hit but instead spoke in a way 'carefully calibrated to convey his desires and demands.'
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8625259/Cohen-reveals-contents-bombshell-book-Trump-saying-witnessed-golden-showers-tax-fraud.html