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WHY do I have to watch commercials about depilatories for one's upper lip?
If I have to watch commercials, I will happily trade a small amount of my personal privacy in order to watch commercials for things I might actually want and/or need.
Also, Apple has more money than God now. Why don't they just buy Comcast and Time Warner and whoever else they need to put us out of our cable misery?
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Stream of consciousness posting?
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Because Apple knows that the future is out there.. somewhere. And it is NOT in Dying Media Empires and a Gordian Knot of copper and fiber optic cable.
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My favorite is the prescription drug for longer eyelashes. When you're so rich and vain that that's all you have to spend your money on...
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The Future Soon
by Jonathan Coulton
Last week I left a note on Laura's desk
It said I love you, signed, anonymous friend
Turns out she's smarter than I thought she was
She knows I wrote it, now the whole class does too
And I'm all alone during couple skate
When she skates by with some guy on her arm
But I know that I'll forget the look of pity in her face
When I'm living in my solar dome on a platform in space
'Cause it's gonna be the future soon
And I won't always be this way
When the things that make me weak and strange get engineered away
It's gonna be the future soon
I've never seen it quite so clear
And when my heart is breaking I can close my eyes and it's already here
I'll probably be some kind of scientist
Building inventions in my space lab in space
I'll end world hunger, I'll make dolphins speak
Work through the daytime, spend my nights and weekends
Perfecting my warrior robot race
Building them one laser gun at a time
I will do my best to teach them
About life and what it's worth
I just hope that I can keep them from destroying the Earth
'Cause it's gonna be the future soon
And I won't always be this way
When the things that make me weak and strange get engineered away
It's gonna be the future soon
I've never seen it quite so clear
And when my heart is breaking I can close my eyes and it's already
Here on Earth they'll wonder
As I piece by piece replace myself
And the steel and circuits will make me whole
But I'll still feel so alone
Until Laura calls me home
I'll see her standing by the monorail
She'll look the same except for bionic eyes
She lost the real ones in the robot wars
I'll say I'm sorry, she'll say it's not your fault
Or is it?
She'll eye me suspiciously
Hearing the whir of the servos inside
And she'll scream and try to run
But there's nowhere she can hide
When a crazy cyborg wants to make you his robot bride
Well it's gonna be the future soon
And I won't always be this way
When the things that make me weak and strange get engineered away
It's gonna be the future soon
I've never seen it quite so clear
And when my heart is breaking I can close my eyes and it's already here
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I'm not so sure the future holds much hope for freedom from consumerism.
They'll likely find a substitute for plain white toilet paper and there will be ad space on it, in it, near it or somehow around it.
