Posts by Idiot Savant
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Isn't just assumed that John Key is personally responsible for everything even slightly crappy that has ever happened in the whole wide 'verse since just before the extinction of the dinosaurs?
Government is a blame sink. By being in power, you get to be responsible for everything. And that shoe goes on both feet.
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The nanothermite that wasn't actually found and that we're not even sure actually exists? It is a puzzle, I'll give you that.
A-ha! A solution to my problem!
The Templars vaccumed it up with nanovacuumcleaners, and took it away.
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Not really. Someone had to place the laser reflectors there
Probes? Or is the lunar loonies position that they didn't exist either?
And don't forget the USSR. Does anyone really think they wouldn't have blown it all wide open if the Americans didn't actually get to the moon? The technology of the day was more than adequate for tracking the lunar lander, and there was not a word from the Soviets to suggest that the Americans hadn't made it.
Obviously, they were in on it for Nefarious Communist Purposes of their own. With Elvis and JFK.
Shit, we're missing something. don't we need Templars for it to be a "proper" conspiracy theory?
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But what defies any rational explanation was how hundreds of people failed to notice that their offices were being wired up for a controlled detonation by a conspiracy that involved hundreds (if not thousands) of people operating in total secrecy and with robot-like precision. Nobody noticed, Steve.
Clearly they were all murdered. Or neuralised. Or kidnapped by Elvis and JFK.
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Remember Charles I!
Indeed we should. The first war criminal tried for crimes against his own people, he also is the first recorded use of the war criminal's classic defence that they're not accountable to us. It didn't work then and it doesn't work now; the law applies to kings as well as peasants.
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"Who would Jesus do?"
Teenage girls, if you believe medieval saints. Its practically a genre of medieval porn.
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Texting is certainly absolutely, irredeemably insecure. Anything that relies on a device that can be cloned with negligible effort and expertise is unsuitable to be entrusted with the basic functions of democracy.
Or indeed, where a thug can just beat you up and take it - which at minimum silences you.
Which is why SF demarchies tend to rely on SF technologies, like implants in your head.
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Good on all the people who made the mocking signs and turned up. They're no doubt over-represented in the photos but a good sense of humour is often the best way to deal with these sorts of things. My favourite was "My arms are getting tired!". Deep on so many levels.
But they missed some obvious ones:
"Who would Jesus hit?"
"My parents beat me, and I turned out OK"
"Spare the rod, spoil the child"The latter, I think, would have been perfect for hoisting these people by their own petard.
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Wait, isn't the rule that NZ PMs aren't allowed to wear trousers while meeting the Queen?
I thought people normally got arrested for mooning the monarchy?