Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for April 24, 2013
Transcript:
Danae: I've found a need that's long overdue to be filled, Daddy! Joe: Great! What is it? Danae: A transporter beam app! It'd work with the GPS in your phone to send you anywhere you want instantly! Joe: Except for the intractable laws of physics, it's a great idea! Danae: Hey, as the old saying goes, laws are meant to be broken! Joe: Uh... that's records, not laws, but given the state of the banking industry, I can see your confusion.
McSpook over 11 years ago
Well, actually, “Rules are made to be broken,” but I’d hardly expect her Dad to suggest that to her.
Varnes over 11 years ago
Ouch! I just feel so sorry for bankers sometimes……..
Varnes over 11 years ago
Physics? He believes in physics? That’s science, eh?….What kind of person believes in that silly stuff, anyway….?
Downundergirl over 11 years ago
If she can get that Stinky Boogger Brained Boyfriend of hers to help she might just be onto something!
Brass Orchid Premium Member over 11 years ago
Physics is just too involved with conservatism. It is always crushing the ideal by applying the good enough.
wndrwrthg over 11 years ago
“You canna change the laws of physics, laws of physics, laws of physics”.
Star Trekkin’
The Firm
tripwire45 over 11 years ago
True enough Dad, but it’s much easier to be a thief than to break the laws of physics.
Q4horse over 11 years ago
Laws are not broken, they get repealed. There is nothing wrong with the banking system that repealing restrictive laws will not fix..
emptc12 over 11 years ago
And then her geeky little boyfriend finds a naked singularity… No, it’s nothing dirty.
gosfreikempe over 11 years ago
Okay, what did you burn?
gosfreikempe over 11 years ago
Snarky political comment withdrawn…Wiley, that last panel is just perfect! No political rants needed.
Jim Bedsole Premium Member over 11 years ago
Wiley, you’re always bashing bankers as a generality. Did some banker pee in your cornflakes? There are a ton of us community bankers out there who never broke the law, never got a million dollar bonus, and just work hard everyday just like you.
Beleck3 over 11 years ago
what? there are honest bankers out there? i’d never could have imagined such a thing. that old birds of a feather, and guilt by association meme.
lol. too bad. but no one said life was fair, just that the rich screw the poor , as is another law that has yet to be repealed. lol. facts always get in the way don’t they!
dabugger over 11 years ago
trouble with bankers is they want your trust but not the responsibility; thus, hypocrisy; why do they insist on taking the elevator from their lofty perches when it would be faster if they just went out the window; what’s a little gravity…..
Piksea Premium Member over 11 years ago
I thought it was rules, which are kind of like laws, but without the police, court and jail involvement.
route66paul over 11 years ago
There are a lot of honest bankers, or should I say, former bankers. They all got taken by the ones now in power.
JimT8 over 11 years ago
In this country, business, especially the successful ones, don’t find a need that needs to be filled……….they find something to sell, and make up some baloney about WHY there’s a need for it. that’s how gullible americans are..If you had seen the BBC News yesterday you would not restrict this to Americans. A Brit is about to go to jail for fraud, making millions selling fake “explosives detectors” to Iraq.
Vet Premium Member over 11 years ago
SPACEBALLS.Has nothing to do with banking but WHO CARES!Don’t call me on this wall it is a private wall.(girl snickers)
The Life I Draw Upon over 11 years ago
Well, we know what will happen when she hits a Wall Street.
Zero-Gabriel over 11 years ago
Somebody want to tell Danae that Ignorance of Science is NOT a Competition… or Pseudoscience.
Vet Premium Member over 11 years ago
MY BRAINS ARE GOING TO MY FEETSTOP this THING I COMMAND YOU TO STOPWe cant stop its too dangerous we must slow down first.BS. I COMMAND YOU TO STOP. NOWWWW!(Pull emergency stop lever)(you know the rest)Princess Vespa“You will not call me YOU, You will refer to me as Your Royal Highness.”Captain: “Great a DRUISH Princess.”Dog: “Funny she doesn’t look DRUISH.”(I dated a few of those. I know what he means. And I am not Jewish. Partly not fully. But know what he means.)Remember Prince Vallium?Princess “He shot my hair! Bastard!”boom boom boom.Captain “That’s good shooting…..for a girl.”
Vet Premium Member over 11 years ago
Monkeys at the end.“What is it?”“SPACEBALLS!!!!“Well there goes the planet.”
Vet Premium Member over 11 years ago
AND FINALLYMAY THE SCHWARTZ BE WITH YOU!!!!!!!!!
bopard over 11 years ago
Yes we can get you to Hawaii [thru the phone], but you have to purchase your program 30 days in advance.-Tron..Mass and energy particles exchange all the time once Danae figures out how, who care about the why.
orz over 11 years ago
Classic Wiley putting in another snarky comment about “banking.”
meowlin over 11 years ago
“You can’t change the laws of physics. But you can be civilly disobedient.” – Dr. Tiki
bluskies over 11 years ago
Not all banks are created equal- nor are all credit unions. I refuse to trust my money to either that charges me a monthly fee to tell me how much I have in my account yet pays next to nothing in interest on the money I am actually lending them. Remember when CD’s were at or close to double digit interest rates? I do. When credit card interest was fixed, not variable, and less than 6 or 7%? Government regulations allowed it to happen; but the bigger banks were the ones who made the changes to the rates, and the smaller ones followed when the big guys got away with it. It’s enough to make you cry- or buy a bigger mattress.
Caddy57 over 11 years ago
In the words of Montgomery Scott “Ya canna change the laws of physics”….but that won’t stop her from trying.
Caddy57 over 11 years ago
The Ferengi took one look at our banking system..and it was heard as they left the solar system "You’re on your own …LOSERS!
wrwallaceii over 11 years ago
The banking industry is trying to change the paradigm about wealth. In the past, the more rare a commodity the more value was placed on it. Pure noble metals were hard to find and difficult to refine in the past. There for they were considered valuable and became the basis of monetary systems world wide. Today the banking industry doesn’t want scarcity to determine what wealth is. So the economists say that money is worth what we say it is. There for if we say this note is worth the number on it in goods. A one dollar bill will buy one dollar worth of whatever. Why do we need scarcity to determine value? It’s worth what we say it is (in theory) so we can increase wealth by printing more paper with bigger numbers thereby creating value out of nothing. That’s why counterfeiting is now a Federal Reserve monopoly. It has been said the government hates competition.