NOLA potential landing spot for Larry Sanders?

[billfromfinance]

[MichaelMcNamara]

Couldn't agree more with Mr. Smith. I was rooting for the machines that whole trilogy

[billfromfinance]

at the time, while I loved the smith character I can't say I was siding with them. every year older I get, the further towards that point I fall though. I mean, sharing the road with people and visiting shopping malls is enough to be willing to press that 'wipe' button.

[P_B_&_G]

Not to totally derail the thread but why didn't the machines just put everyone in a coma. What was the point of letting them remain conscious in the matrix in the first place? I guess a movie about a bunch of machines that use people as batteries wouldn't have been as appealing.

Pass on Sanders.

[MichaelMcNamara]

at the time, while I loved the smith character I can't say I was siding with them. every year older I get, the further towards that point I fall though. I mean, sharing the road with people and visiting shopping malls is enough to be willing to press that 'wipe' button.

My hatred for people comes at the super market. A line will have like eight people in it and a cashier will open up a new line and for some reason person #7 and 8 think they have the right to be the first in that new line. I freaking hate people.

[billfromfinance]

My hatred for people comes at the super market. A line will have like eight people in it and a cashier will open up a new line and for some reason person #7 and 8 think they have the right to be the first in that new line. I freaking hate people.

people putting their trolley in front of where you are looking, people walking 3-5 people wide and taking the entire aisle/footpath. I'm sure this could go forever haha.

[AUSSIE_PELICAN]

people putting their trolley in front of where you are looking, people walking 3-5 people wide and taking the entire aisle/footpath. I'm sure this could go forever haha.

Ppl who walk and check their phones at the same time.

[RUFshreve]

There are plenty of reasons to think Sanders isn't the greateat human being, but why is weed even brought into the conversation? It's no more indicative of bad behavior than someone not brushing their teeth twice a day or any other irrelevant habit.

[MichaelMcNamara]

There are plenty of reasons to think Sanders isn't the greateat human being, but why is weed even brought into the conversation? It's no more indicative of bad behavior than someone not brushing their teeth twice a day or any other irrelevant habit.

Not brushing your teeth is not banned by his place of work. It's a discipline issue, not an issue of saying weed is bad. Part of getting the millions of dollars is agreeing to the league rules. And even if you don't agree with weed being banned, it is. So, it shows selfishness and a lack of discipline when you choose your need to enjoy an herb over the needs of your team and your teammates.

[new city champ]

Well, from the planet's perspective, perhaps it's indifferent to all life. Who asked all these parasites to show up and start growing all over me! If the carbon dioxide count goes up and it warms up, why does the planet care? It's been up and own all over the map since the start of atmosphere. People vastly overestimate people's ability to impact the planet's longterm fortunes. Indeed, if humans disappeared tomorrow, there would be little evidence of our existence in a few thousand years--the blink of an eye in the life of a planet.

What the rapid spread of homo sapiens has done is put extraordinary pressure on our fellow inhabitants, especially other large mammals (Bacteria are doing fine). Difficult to blame homo sapiens for doing what every living creature in the history of living creatures has done--promulgate its species. But we are an odd occurrence and it is within our capacity to self regulate and appreciate the need to be care takers of the planet in a way no other species has had to learn. We may get there in time, though it's looking close. I always appreciate John McPhee's description of how geologists viewed human history:

"They sometimes use a calendar year to represent the history of the earth. In the first ten months, the Precambrian period, the basement of time, there is little in the way of fossil records:
Dinosaurs appear in the middle of December and are gone the day after Christmas. The last ice sheet melts on December 31st at one minute before midnight, and the Roman Empire lasts five seconds....They often liken humanity’s presence on earth to a brief visitation from elsewhere in space, its luminous, explosive
characteristics consisting not merely of the burst of population in the twentieth century, but of the whole residence of people on earth–a single detonation, resembling nothing so much as a nuclear implosion with its successive neutron generations, whole generations following one another once every hundred-millionth of a second..."

[MichaelMcNamara]

I love where this thread has gone. So much more interesting than a washed up basketball player

[Champ]

I love where this thread has gone. So much more interesting than a washed up basketball player

This thread

[RUFshreve]

Not brushing your teeth is not banned by his place of work. It's a discipline issue, not an issue of saying weed is bad. Part of getting the millions of dollars is agreeing to the league rules. And even if you don't agree with weed being banned, it is. So, it shows selfishness and a lack of discipline when you choose your need to enjoy an herb over the needs of your team and your teammates.

I agree completely, but I wasn't talking about him as a teammate or employee. I was talking about him in general, as a human being. There are so many things, like mistreating his pups, that are relevant to that conversation.

[tthier2]

This thread is hilarious now