A robotic pleasure unit like in the movie BladeRunner...
would you settle for a real doll rental service?
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#32a way to record streaming audio on a mac and auto splitting with auto tagging. Would pay up to $100
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#33A dead simple, cheap 8.5x11 e-ink device with no wifi or touchscreen or anything like that. Just the ability to page through my already owned pdfs. Some of them are scanned images, not text so no text conversion. Even if the only way to get the docs on it was via some kind of virtual printer driver I'd be happy. I'd basically like a way to read stuff on e-ink as if it had been printed.
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#34Decent Mexican food in Europe:-) (BTW, "if it were available") Edit: if I ever 'made it big', and decided to stay in Italy, I'd invest a portion of my money in a good Mexican restaurant here. It would probably lose money, but what the hell.
Oh my god, hear hear. Went to a "Mexican" place in Vienna (I'm an American expat) a few months back and it was horrible, terrible, frightening. Somebody ordered the spare ribs (!) and they crackled as you pulled them apart.
I'm pretty sure ribs aren't Mexican though
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#35- A laptop battery that lasted for as long as I can stay awake (say, 24 hours).
- A cellphone that people could call anywhere in the world without paying for an international call, and that allowed me to call anyone or use my data plan at the same price regardless of where I'm located. International roaming charges are so absurdly high that they force me to have different sim cards and an unlocked phone (extremely inconvenient).
- A nonstop flight from Buenos Aires, Argentina (EZE) to a major city in California (SFO, LAX, SAN). I do this several times a year and the layover/recheck luggage after customs is a killer.
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#36Teleportation --will pay double for the service.
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#37Very durable writable DVDs that could keep the data even after multiple scratches, the passage of decades...etc
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#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
Oh my god, hear hear. Went to a "Mexican" place in Vienna (I'm an American expat) a few months back and it was horrible, terrible, frightening. Somebody ordered the spare ribs (!) and they crackled as you pulled them apart.
I'm pretty sure ribs aren't Mexican though
I think that's what the ! is for. You'd be surprised at some of the stuff that gets passed off as Mexican food in Europe.
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#39Teleportation --will pay double for the service.
you know all those random pixels you get in a fax or even a scan? Yeah. Do that to your brain. Or, more particularly, the wall of a high pressure artery, in your brain.
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#40I will pay for someone to market my skills on commission.