NightSG

If you could, it would break the simulation, and remember we're talking about a perfect Programmer here.

Just sounds like he got focused on the mission, and/or realized that flirting by mail while on the mission was really frustrating.

I've seen Wall-E. I know what happens to people who always depend on motors to get around.

Any economic system can only work with scarcity; last I checked, abundance in all things is on pretty much everybody's list of what to expect in the next life. You can't sell (or trade) what nobody needs or wants more of.

That assumes anybody's even really trying; when was the last time you saw anything about actual progress (not just "we've made huge strides with your donations" but actual hard facts about what those strides are) from all the billions of dollars spent on pink ribbons and such? A cure has to be manufactured, FDA approved and sold at a price cancer victims (or their insurance) can afford, while the price tag for hope has no limits.

I don't use disposable razors, but if I did, I'd at least get one shave out of each one before it's gone. Three of those 16 I've still never even met in person, since that was going to happen on the first date. Impressively, one actually got proposed to three days before we were going to meet by a guy she'd gone out with twice in the month she'd known him, married a few weeks later, pregnant on the honeymoon, and had filed for divorce within six months. (Has to wait until the baby is born to be finalized, though.) Turns out the guy was abusive, hid the fact that he was only working part time, quit that job right before the wedding, (didn't tell her until after the honeymoon) and was still seeing his ex behind her back.

There are still women who won't go past the third date without a ring.

Ok, that's just creepy...I was going to ask where you are and see if I could arrange to be there and ask you out at some point, but as I continued reading your post, you're apparently just a Y chromosome short of being me. I'm almost afraid to find out more at this point. So far, I'm at 16 women in five years that have either married the next guy they dated after me or got engaged before our first date was scheduled to happen. One canceled our dinner-and-a-dance first date because the other guy proposed to her at lunch that day.

This assumes she's looking for a boyfriend. She's in Utah, so she's looking for a husband, and thus needs to make sure he has her ring size before they meet, and that their first date is in or near a mall with a good jeweler.

Doesn't matter; the only thing keeping anybody from checking the "I have permission" box is personal integrity, and there seem to be a lot of people that think nothing of lying whenever they feel like it, even in matters involving the temple.

Well, sure. If they just want to lounge around on the couch eating pork rinds until they die in their 40s from obesity related issues, those things will work. I'm going on the assumption they'd like to spend some real quality time together in this life. Besides, if they honeymoon is a coast to coast bike tour, you can spend the rest of the marriage laughing at little challenges. (And, of course, planning more bike tours together.)

Well, then as soon as he sees the error of his ways and decides to return to civilization, he can pick you up on the way. I hear Utah to central Texas is mostly downhill and a pretty touring ride.

That's still a long bike ride if you don't train. Remember he's had two years of cycling and walking, so you might have some catching up to do. I'd recommend the Gravity Liberty CX for a good combination of light weight and reasonable durability, though what racks and bags you'll need depends on how much you want to carry on the date. http://www.bikesdirect.com/products/gravity/liberty_cx.htm

Research and preparation; http://bestreviews.com/best-rowing-machines 6,000 miles of ocean is a long way. Even if you meet halfway, you're going to need to be in shape.

More likely they were just caught up by one of the people going through reserving and submitting any valid records they can find. The person who reserved and submitted several on my dad's side, including at least three who died in the last 100 years, had no confirmed link to the family whatsoever.

The ones I'm talking about are able to because they're in their late 30s or beyond, never been in a serious relationship, entry level or barely above job, so even clerking at the 7-11 wouldn't be much of a career setback, and basically get told to go to either SLC to find a husband or to Phoenix to find whatever level of friend with benefits they're willing to accommodate.

I'm planning to take full advantage of the day labor line down at Home Depot. Cheaper that way.

I call 'em like I see 'em, and frankly, the last couple of women I knew that moved up there pretty much admitted it was desperation.

You mean like the whole "going to Utah to find a husband" thing? It reeks of desperation, and the men know it, so of course they're treating it like a meat market; it is a meat market full of the women that couldn't get any guys that have known them more than a few months to propose.

You mean I've been building this Iron Man arc reactor for nothing? Yes, but we're starting to suspect Bill is the placebo scientist. After all, Don Herbert stayed out of politics, religion and pretty much everything else except cool, well documented and well established science stuff. Bad form to run the groups so far apart chronologically, though.

And there's the issue; recorded history is minuscule on the global scale. It's like trying to extrapolate what the weather will be like on Christmas purely from data collected yesterday and today.

And you're sure He looked absolutely nothing like Leonardo DiCaprio, right? (Hmmm...then again...Leo is also created in His image...man, that movie just doesn't stop screwing with your mind.)

Key differences, assuming the programmer isn't omnipotent and omniscient. (And thus infinitely competent.) As for resetting the clock, it's entirely probable that He also exists in a state in which the relation to time as we know it is utterly beyond our comprehension, so setting the clock back several millennia would be trivial.

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Skynet will deal with him soon.