Old Man

I can relate. I suppose the inhumanity of it all hasn't affected me as much since I'm just not surprised that humans can be like that. Overall I think the net is a good thing, but there are huge implications for mass surveillance and other cybercrime.

"And into this exam he poured all his cruelty, his malice, and his will to dominate all life."

My favorites were the ones who, back in the day, would sit in class and read the newspaper. ಠ_ಠ I just couldn't get my head around the incredible disrespect and the sheer idiocy of ignoring the education that they were paying rather a lot of money for. And the apathy of the lecturers who put up with it.

Why not both?

From the sound of it, I think we'd all rather you keep teleporting to the moon after you eat burritos. Definitely don't stay here.

I'd go with a CE, something like a field of gloom or a strange tendency for clouds to form over the character in question. Or you could buy a really large RKA and blow up the Sun.

Why not?

Does Darth Chimichanga realize his last two questions weren't equal to math questions either? Or is there some way to integrate them that I'm not seeing?

^be.

Not necessarily dumb, but still: (spoiled for animation)

Speaking of .50 caliber: http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2014/02/26/gm6-lynx-50bmg-reciprocating-bullpup/

Are we starting up another arc of bad humor? What if it gets exponentially worse?

See, they got Cancer already. We can expect the non-Euclidean invasion to begin in the Seattle area.

Pick up chicks?

Senility?

Dude, all you have to do is drive ten miles past the city limits over there and you're effectively in a red state.

Yet you live in the United States.

What was your favorite cereal cartoon character?

They had it coming. And mammoths are delicious.

Okay, you got me. Fixed.

Did you mean to say 'aisle', or is there somewhere an Isle of Self-Help Books? Is it anywhere near the Isle of Dread?

The bureaucratic issue is not the one I was thinking of (though it's also a serious concern). The problem that "flying cars" are supposed to solve is taking traffic out of everyday commuting by replacing it with flight. But unless your home and office are both right next to airfields, roadable aircraft aren't going to do anything about that, and in every case so far, roadable aircraft have been poor aircraft and poor automobiles. Addressing the problem that humans really want solved--flight from driveway to downtown--will require: 1) Some sort of helicopter. 2) Fully computerized operation. 3) Infrastructure to support this mode of travel (eg helipads in the city). 4) FAA regs that permit it all. Roadable aircraft are an interesting engineering exercise but they don't address any actual problems that I'm aware of. Drones, on the other hand, do present a possible path to flying-car utopia. It's easy to see automated drone operation progressing to the point where they'd be reliable enough for man-rated operation, and they're forcing changes at the FAA to accommodate them.

This is the obvious solution, given that when I search for jobs on the mainland, I find zillions of openings and the average pay is about 25% greater than it is here. But most of my extended family is here. No one is sick and/or in need of constant monitoring, but I really, really hate the idea of having to uproot the kids and move away from the place I've lived for four decades.

You sound fine to me.

Roadable aircraft have existed since the 1950s. This one will also fail, because like the others, it doesn't solve the problem that flying cars are supposed to solve.