It is an absolutely real hentai game where aliens crash on the Japanese government, and decide the simplest thing to do is make a Japanese high school girl president, build a copy of the White House, and then — because this is the simplest solution they could think of — brainwash the entire world into believing the girl is in fact the president of Japan.
To everyone who says “Android — Dave, you’ll love Android” — I feel almost the same about Google as I do about Apple. I read the article about this Sidebar Wiki thing and their product manager said it was just like blogging. I suppose if you have no soul it’s just like blogging.
This is hilarious, but also shows why you must be VERY CAREFUL with new features in seemingly simple systems that violate user expectations.
But if this is crazy, babe, I don’t want to be sane. I’m in love with you, Wendy.
When you say ‘I don’t give a shit’ about this KanyeVs.TaylorSwift meme, it’s like you’re turning your back on humanity. You fail to realize that these are the only moments that we can all share together.
Sure, it’s just another romantic comedy by Nora Ephron that most people could say is another forgettable chick flick or date movie. But it’s the first movie about blogging and the first movie that resonated in a way no other movie ever has with my own experiences. This will probably make sense to about a few dozen people with experiences similar to mine but my god did that film move me.
More worrisome, in Amazon’s view, is that the Registry will bring disparate publishers and rightsholders together under a single umbrella, essentially forming a pricing cartel. The agreement, as Amazon notes, stipulates that things will be set up so that the money flowing to the rightsholders will be maximized: “Those provisions explicitly provide that Google’s task will be to ‘find the optimal… price for each Book and, accordingly, to maximize revenue for each Rightsholder.’” And that is possibly what worries Amazon executives the most, as it undercuts the company’s negotiating power. “Amazon currently negotiates with publishers for the price of book titles. It is able to drive prices down by playing one publisher off against another,” the document states. “Under the settlement, the Books Rights Registry will be empowered to negotiate the price to be charged to consumers for all of the publishers who give it consent to do so.”
— Amazon: Google book deal possibly illegal, definitely bad - Ars Technica
dakotasmith: yeah, it'll be awesome
dakotasmith: except i don't really know how to code or anything
dakotasmith: "this is my new game. it prints things from an array."
The Two-Hour Rule is a law of American business which states that “no salaried employee, employed by a business to work in an office, may exceed two hours of actual work in any business day.
How do I disable this shark/cat bullshit?
The Onion: “College” is the best episode of the series so far, and one of the funniest TV episodes I’ve seen of anything in a while. (They’re right, I watched it 3 times, it’s awesome.)
