My biggest fear when riding a motorcycle was never losing control, hitting debris in the road, and even getting hit in the face by a big fat bumblebee, it was the automobiles could in a split second end my life. Unless there are special barrier separated lanes for these gyroscopic motorcycles, I'll have to stick to other means of transportation. Too bad though, it is a neat idea but there are simply too many people texting, eating, shaving, applying makeup, etc in control of a couple of tons of metal and glass to feel safe in anything so small.
You can pick your friends and you can pick your nose but you can't pick your friend's nose... unless you're a parakeet, in which case it's totally cool.
Fail! They would get good rating for the first day and then everyone would get bored of seeing people in encounter suits playing around with rocks. The moon landing was watched by hundreds of millions, if not billions, around the world but after the first landing, the ratings cratered. The moon was boring after the novelty quickly wore off. No reason to believe Mars would be different. Kuato and Cohaagen aren't going to show up to make an appearance. Even if they found bacterial life most of the public wouldn't care though the scientific community would go bonkers. Reruns of 'Two Broke Girls' would quickly get higher ratings than the day's report from Mars about what soil samples they experimented on.
The son of one of my coworkers started school this past year. His mom asked me if there would be someone at the school to feed her son. I said yes, there is a lunchroom where they can purchase food or eat food you packed. Turned out that wasn't what she meant. She wanted to know if there would be someone on staff whose job it was to place food in her son's mouth. Turned out that the kid had never used a spoon or a fork before. She had literally spoonfed him his entire life. The kid didn't have any sort of development disability or physical handicap, he just had an overly hands-on mother.
A few months into kindergarten the coworker had to leave in the middle of the day... her son had stabbed himself in the mouth with a fork. Maybe if he had a bit of practice at home it wouldn't have happened. Can't wait to see what kind of disaster results when he gets old enough to join the labor force.
Only once in my life have I had a hamburger that looked like the promotional photo. It was at Burger King and the Whopper they gave me looked absolutely perfect. I was stunned. It felt like I was in an episode of The Twilight Zone. Sadly it ended up also being the only time I got food poisoning from a hamburger. From now on, I'll happily accept the smushed non-toxic version and leave pretty to the advertisements.
@agfh, funny you should mention ambulances because I recently had a fall at an ice rink. Busted my face open, lost consciousness and blead all over the place. An ambulance took me to the hospital.
Did my insurance company pay? No, they say my condition wasn't life threatening. The hospital was ten miles away. I couldn't drive myself. Bus service stops in the evening and doesn't go to the hospital anyway. Might have been able to call a taxi but would they have accepted a passenger bleeding from his head? So I would have either had to bum a ride with someone or walk. This is while I have a bleeding head injury.
I don't have cut rate insurance either. It what is considered a high quality plan and is through my employer, one of the most powerful law firms on earth. Yet the insurance company is sticking to its guns and refuses to pay a single cent of the $800 cost for the ambulance.
As they say, the US has the best healthcare in the world... if you can afford it.
Cool for him. Too bad he didn't do it last year before they replaced the sign. The new sign looks like it belongs on any random interstate exit in the US.
When Georgia became the latest state to give tax credits and other incentives for movie production, many of my friends celebrated. They had been doing work as extras in small indepedent productions but now they were going to get a shot at the big time.
For the first year or so they were going crazy running all over the state working as extras. They almost never got paid, they did it for the glamour. There was a non-stop flow of posts on Facebook from them about which star they caught a glimpse of or where the next shoot would be. They'd even post clips or screen captures of the half a second of screen time they got as the camera was panning.
Don't see many of those posts anymore. Eventually the shine wore off. Spending entire weekends or vacation days sitting around being treated like cattle for the possibility of a split second of screen time or near proximity of a star (but no chance to interact with them) got old. And the dreams of being discovered came crashing back to earth.
It is impressive to see though. I was in Tanzania last year and saw porters carry incredible loads on their heads. Crazy things too like huge crates of eggs, tables, and some really unfortunate fella who got stuck carrying a portable toilet on his head.
ForReallyReal, yes, the same status is extended to gay couples who cohabitate. No, love is not a requirement. No, sharing rent doesn't automatically make two people in the same space as a defacto couple. They have to live together and file their taxes together checking the [] couple box. It's an intentional act by both parties to gain defacto couple status and shows intent to live together but not enter into the legal contract called marriage.
A few months into kindergarten the coworker had to leave in the middle of the day... her son had stabbed himself in the mouth with a fork. Maybe if he had a bit of practice at home it wouldn't have happened. Can't wait to see what kind of disaster results when he gets old enough to join the labor force.
Did my insurance company pay? No, they say my condition wasn't life threatening. The hospital was ten miles away. I couldn't drive myself. Bus service stops in the evening and doesn't go to the hospital anyway. Might have been able to call a taxi but would they have accepted a passenger bleeding from his head? So I would have either had to bum a ride with someone or walk. This is while I have a bleeding head injury.
I don't have cut rate insurance either. It what is considered a high quality plan and is through my employer, one of the most powerful law firms on earth. Yet the insurance company is sticking to its guns and refuses to pay a single cent of the $800 cost for the ambulance.
As they say, the US has the best healthcare in the world... if you can afford it.
For the first year or so they were going crazy running all over the state working as extras. They almost never got paid, they did it for the glamour. There was a non-stop flow of posts on Facebook from them about which star they caught a glimpse of or where the next shoot would be. They'd even post clips or screen captures of the half a second of screen time they got as the camera was panning.
Don't see many of those posts anymore. Eventually the shine wore off. Spending entire weekends or vacation days sitting around being treated like cattle for the possibility of a split second of screen time or near proximity of a star (but no chance to interact with them) got old. And the dreams of being discovered came crashing back to earth.
It is impressive to see though. I was in Tanzania last year and saw porters carry incredible loads on their heads. Crazy things too like huge crates of eggs, tables, and some really unfortunate fella who got stuck carrying a portable toilet on his head.