- How it works:
Pick it up.
Hold it.
I can't tell if this is a real joke, or a fake joke.
This is funny and stuff ... but I would love to be able to get a bank account, get a state DL, or a credit card without having having having to have a phone number. It is absolutely required to do anything in this country you must pay verizon/att/whomever monopoly wherever and keep a phone that I hardly ever use. I use less than 10 minutes a month on my phone, and it has been that way for years. Give me a way out of owning a phone but allow me access to the rest of civilization and I will begin to believe in technology again.
You could try a google voice account. All you would need is a land line or something from radioshack to give you an IP phone. Those cost about $10 a year.
Saw this the other day, had a good laugh. Wonder what they'll actually do with $30k if it gets funded. Seems like an awful lot of money for what it is. I assume they set it unreasonably high so as to make the social commentary without having to follow through. Or it's cover to buy a nice 3D printer.
I showed this to a cow-orker today and he responded with this kickstarter project :
My housemate showed me that, it is hilarious! I seem to remember him offering poems in the early stages of pledges, but I can't seem to find it again. Come to think of it, poetry is often used as bargaining leverage on the internet.. I've seen elsewhere people promising poetry in return for a oneplus one invite. If it's a profitable form of currency, hubski could do well. We have some great poets here I've seen :) Oh I just re-read that and realized the amount of alliteration that's in there. Irony. Puns. Sorry. Tired.