And completely wrong, cops are not allowed to accept anything like that while on duty.
Mixing with the sheep makes you weak doncha know?
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No problem! We all climb onboard the rocket ships, killing anyone who tries to stop us or take our places, and then after the Earth is smashed, we land on an alien planet that has settled in the Goldilocks zone and has fortuitously been thawed out from interstellar space.
It turns out that there were people mostly just like Europeans living on the planet, but who are all luckily dead now for no good reason, leaving us all their cities, vehicles, power plants, resources, etc, to us.
After it turns out that other ships from ex-Earth have landed, fight colonization wars until the white right people win.
So, exactly like North America, only better!
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man rich people are going to be a bigger pain in the ass as they do gender reveals with these things.
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they can accept a blowjob, but not a pepsi?
obviously the answer is “neither”. LOCK THEM UP
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They cannot accept, but they can demand and take.
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Indiana created their stand your ground against police law due to a rape IIRC
(i) A person is justified in using reasonable force against a public servant if the person reasonably believes the force is necessary to: (1) protect the person or a third person from what the person reasonably believes to be the imminent use of unlawful force; (2) prevent or terminate the public servant’s unlawful entry of or attack on the person’s dwelling, curtilage, or occupied motor vehicle; or (3) prevent or terminate the public servant’s unlawful trespass on or criminal interference with property lawfully in the person’s possession, lawfully in possession of a member of the person’s immediate family, or belonging to a person whose property the person has authority to protect
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Not directly related to the sky thing, but… I can’t think of a brand that needs advertising less than Pepsi or Coca-Cola.
“Pep-si? Never heard of it. I’ll have to give this new product a try!”
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Mostly I’m reminded of Neal Stephenson cyberpunk novels. This would fit nicely as a subplot in Snow Crash.
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I came here specifically hoping for something like this^, HAHA!
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I can think of one.
“Excuse me sir, but have you heard the good news?”
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I’m imagining a “Gods Must Be Crazy” moment here, where that remote tribe in the Amazon takes the new constellation as a sign from above. . .
. . . and then Pepsi uses that in an ad campaign.
“Not very long ago America introduced Pepsi to the Soviet Union, and while it may be just a coincidence, a lot of refreshing changes have taken place ever since…”
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I was just coming to Negativland myself:
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(I know, right? 90+ posts and no boinger mention? For shame!)
Perhaps someone needs to point out that red dwarf was not a manual.
Classic short story: http://www.you-books.com/book/F-Brown/Pi-in-the-Sky
Now I’m curious.
Clearly this isn’t going to happen. But let’s say I was a billionaire with no ethics and no heirs- nothing legally to stop me. I want to write FUCK TRUMP in the night sky, so that as many people in the United States would see it. I care nothing for the blowback.
Is it technologically feasible? Would I have any money left after footing the bill for the rockets and the satellites and such? How many Americans would see it?
Just curious.
I love this new reality where completely ridiculous ideas are presented with no irony at all. This is so fucking stupid I can hardly believe it.
“Surely you are kidding.” “I’m not kidding and stop calling me Shirley.”
Me:
Take my love, take my land,
Take me where I cannot stand.
I don’t care, I’m still free,
You can’t take the sky from me.
Them:
Hold my beer, er, carbonated beverage …
This Banksy quote seems apposite:
People are taking the piss out of you everyday. They butt into your life, take a cheap shot at you and then disappear. They leer at you from tall buildings and make you feel small. They make flippant comments from buses that imply you’re not sexy enough and that all the fun is happening somewhere else. They are on TV making your girlfriend feel inadequate. They have access to the most sophisticated technology the world has ever seen and they bully you with it. They are The Advertisers and they are laughing at you.
You, however, are forbidden to touch them. Trademarks, intellectual property rights and copyright law mean advertisers can say what they like wherever they like with total impunity.
Fuck that. Any advert in a public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not is yours. It’s yours to take, re-arrange and re-use. You can do whatever you like with it. Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your head.
You owe the companies nothing. Less than nothing, you especially don’t owe them any courtesy. They owe you. They have re-arranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked for your permission, don’t even start asking for theirs.
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