5) Do you want to take over the world?
GosipMong@aol.com:
Yes, because eventually I'll be so bored there will be nothing better to do.
FTFOI@aol.com:
Nope. Don't want to take over the world. Man that would be piss-boring.
chorder@stackers.org:
If I could have it without enormous effort, sure. I might even put lots of effort into it if it were an exciting type of effort, like a neeto scheme or something.
FeyPiper@aol.com:
Hell yes!
a) What would you actually do AFTER taking over the world?
GosipMong: Well, for a few years I'd rule like a dictator, and when that got bored, I'd prolly just give it up and retire to Florida.
dhg5@cornell.edu (David Gold):
I'd make Robin Williams my secretary of state.
MeTmbg@aol.com:
I'd rent a movie.
MMAYS@wvnvaxa.wvnet.edu:
Build a tropical paradise on an island in the Caribbean, then live in Seattle for 3 months a year for variety.
mikelam@acsu.buffalo.edu (Michael Lam):
Put all the gorgeous red headed jewish women in my harem.
DoNotExist@aol.com:
Have all people who fail a standardized intelligence and un-ickiness test locked up in a secluded portion of the world, and use them for food, an animal-cruelty-free source of leather goods, medical experiments, and target practice.
chorder: Well, I'd apportion myself alot of land all over the world, and do lots of nifty stuff for free. Then I might take on a couple humanitarian efforts. I'd probably appoint a bunch of my friends to comfortable positions of power.
CBreakr@aol.com:
I would force people to think for themselves and not accept all that's shoved in their faces as true. I would breed tolerance amongst the people and weed out reactionaries for re-education and debate. I would make science once again a topic of the people and increase research and development. I could go on for a while, but I think thatr's enough for now.
develin@husc.harvard.edu (Michael Lee Develin):
Well, for one thing, I would obtain one of those DJ machines where you can just play any song you want to hear, any time. And various other music-related stuff. I would remove all national boundaries, outlaw armies, and set the entire scientific community on designing a residential space station, and terraforming the moon. I would legalize infanticide (up to the age of one) and abortion worldwide. I would limit all families to one child. I would implement my 11th grade Physics Fair project; namely, to install hemoglobin dispensers at every street corner of every polluted city. (Hemoglobin actually counteracts pollution.) I would research white noise, too.
Nikki Tyr@aol.com:
Lounge around like the ancient Romans and have slaves feed me grapes. The green kind with no pits, please. Amuse myself by having all the most brilliant minds in the world work on developing telepathic communication, cybernetic implants, and really good VR RPGs. Most likely in the form of a holodeck, but damnit, plot is important, too. Set up a harem. Kill all the really annoying people. They'll also have to work on AI, so that we can create AI robots of a given personality and demeanor. After this, I'll have them create (read: bring to life) various characters from books, comics, and movies that I like. Dogbert shall truly exist at last. Etc, etc, etc, ad nauseum. The rest is a secret at the moment, but I will inform you of my plans as soon as it becomes politically permissible.
Fabelhoft@aol.com:
I'd love to tell you, but the time would be much better spent going out and actually intiating my plan. You'll find out soon enough. I plan to build my home atop the Empire State building, and travel via an airship I'll have moored to that attena/spike coming out the top.
FeyPiper: Lower interest rates, make friday part of the weekend, declare march national frozen food month, replace Amtrak with a maglev monorail system, get into an arms race with myself, shoot all intelligence service employees who do not get RESULTS, and start building colonies on the moon and mars. Plus, more funding to public schools, oral hygiene education programs, and make C. Everett Koop surgeon general again. Execute all tobacco executives with nicotine overdoses by covering every inch of their skin with Nicotrol slap-patches. Save the whales, already. No more rainforest cutting on pain of deportation to the moon colonies. Strip NRA members naked and release them in tiger-infested jungles. Remind them that tigers have no assault weapons. Show militia movements REAL repression and infringement of rights.
King Ganon@aol.com:
Yes, I would like to rule the world. After taking it over, I would set this screwed-up rock straight (i.e. set human evolution back on the right track, do away with any thinking that comes into conflict with my own, correct beliefs). And I would make every single person on the planet my slave. Hell, even you.
b) Name one person you might make your personal slave.
Nikki Tyr: Bill Gates.
FeyPiper: Newt Gingrich, just to see him grovel.
chorder: Noel Gallagar, just to mess with him some...
IISTaNII@aol.com:
Steve Case, aol doesn't work well ENOUGH for $20 a month.
Pixistyx13@aol.com:
Brad Pitt....i would make him clean my bathroom with a tooth brush.
CBreakr: a fellow classmate named DONALD, he flaunts his wealth, refinement and super-sized ego to no end. I just want to make him feel the pangs of servitude and destitution. Either him or Milla Jovovich...she's hot!!
GosipMong: Any of the females from friends. They'd make really good personal slaves.
David Gold: The female half of the Baywatch cast (including those who've left the
show)
Mike Lam: Mira Sorvino.
Fabelhoft: Mr T. We'd get along just famously.
DoNotExist: Someone too stupid to inject me with Liquid Plummer when I'm not looking.
Mike Develin: See, I have a problem with this. I just can't get any pleasure from forcing someone to do things. It's just so scripted! I would prefer it if I could get people to fall in love with me, but that just isn't possible. Variety and surprise are the spices of life.
MMAYS: I'm not big on the slavery thing. I want a large group of friends who genuinely care about me, not someone who secretly hates me but does my bidding. Would like to meet Mia Farrow though...
Dark Glory: Kill myself.