Word: dumbness
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Nope. Still dumb...
Just as curious, and ethically intriguing, is what gets written on that slate. For each job, an active is overwritten with a customized composite of the minds and memories of actual people. (Between tasks, the actives are creepily affectless tabulae rasae--like children or especially pretty, dumb actors.) Some of those people, like the voices on an old laugh track, are now dead. Which raises questions: What does it mean to be alive? What is the Dollhouse's obligation to the people whose memories it "resurrects"? Is Echo herself, Caroline or the sum of her borrowed parts...
...productivity and morale all plunge. If employers are tempted to exploit such fears, squeeze more work out of fewer people, roll back benefits because there are 100 people lined up for every job, they may find that as in so many things, the short-term fix is long-term dumb...
Thain's third corporate sin was awfully dumb: Never, never have a better office than your boss. On Wall Street, kitting out your office with everything from a fireplace to Renaissance art is a sport in itself. My decorator is better than yours, hence I am smarter than you. I have more swag. Thain reportedly spent a million big ones buying chintz and fancy commodes. That number is probably an exaggeration, but if you've been in bankers' offices outside New York City, you know that they are seldom visited by interior decorators. Boring is beautiful in Main Street banking...
...love dog movies for the same reason we love dogs. "A dog has no use for fancy cars or big homes or designer clothes," says Owen Wilson's character in Marley & Me. "A dog doesn't care if you're rich or poor, clever or dull, smart or dumb. Give him your heart, and he'll give you his." There it is: both dogs and dog movies afford us a chance to be incredibly sappy without feeling like a sucker. As the bajillion hits on Puppy Cam and the speculation over the particulars of the Obamas' hound of choice attest...