# Hey, Spock, YOU'RE A FUCKIN' MORON! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 8, 2010, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-spock-youre-a-fuckin-moron/535346 "2010-04-08T00:06:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2010, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-spock-youre-a-fuckin-moron/535346/21 "2010-04-08T05:29:56Z")
Perhaps he’s talking about Doctor Benjamin Spock. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2010, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-spock-youre-a-fuckin-moron/535346/22 "2010-04-08T05:40:27Z")
Jim, this thread must die. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2010, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-spock-youre-a-fuckin-moron/535346/23 "2010-04-08T05:59:00Z")
Are you out of your Vulcan mind? ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2010, 7:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-spock-youre-a-fuckin-moron/535346/24 "2010-04-08T07:55:28Z")
Hey, leave Florida out of this! We’ve got enough problems on our own. ---
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2010, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-spock-youre-a-fuckin-moron/535346/25 "2010-04-08T12:36:18Z")
Sounds to me like he’s had a bit too much cordrazine. ---
**Author:** ![LiveOnAPlane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3d9bf3/32.png) [@LiveOnAPlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LiveOnAPlane)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2010, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-spock-youre-a-fuckin-moron/535346/26 "2010-04-08T12:43:44Z")
> [@kunilou](#): > > Logic! Logic! I’m sick to death of logic! Do you want to know what I think about your logic? Logic? We ain’t got no logic. We don’t need no logic! I don’t have to show you any stinkin’ logic! ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2010, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-spock-youre-a-fuckin-moron/535346/27 "2010-04-08T12:45:25Z")
Mind your own business, **Super Kapowzler** , I’m sick of your half-breed logic! ---
**Author:** ![Frodo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frodo/32/302_2.png) [@Frodo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frodo)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2010, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-spock-youre-a-fuckin-moron/535346/28 "2010-04-08T12:55:48Z")
Perhaps wise computer programmers in the future have completely eliminated GOTO as an instruction?. perhaps the computer OS detects infinite loops (but not infinite tasks as "compute pi to the last digit)? ---
**Author:** ![Lobohan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobohan/32/79_2.png) [@Lobohan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobohan)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2010, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-spock-youre-a-fuckin-moron/535346/29 "2010-04-08T12:57:52Z")
Is he _of the body_? ---
**Author:** ![Icerigger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icerigger/32/432_2.png) [@Icerigger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icerigger)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2010, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-spock-youre-a-fuckin-moron/535346/30 "2010-04-08T13:25:21Z")
Well, we do know those “multi-tronic” computer systems are as archaic as dinosaurs, what we need is a whole new approach. ---
**Author:** ![kingpengvin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9dc877/32.png) [@kingpengvin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kingpengvin)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2010, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-spock-youre-a-fuckin-moron/535346/31 "2010-04-08T15:01:50Z")
Super Kapowzler, You have a stiff lip, Herbert. Here at the Dope we reach Spock ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2010, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-spock-youre-a-fuckin-moron/535346/32 "2010-04-08T15:16:04Z")
Of my friend, I can only say this: of all the threads I have encountered in my travels, this was the most… human. ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2010, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-spock-youre-a-fuckin-moron/535346/33 "2010-04-08T15:25:09Z")
> [@MacSpon](#): > > Well, it is a _little_ disturbing to find that 23rd-century computers can’t multitask at all. I guess that sometime in the future, someone will figure out why single-threaded is best. Its probably the only way to be sure a computer can’t crash. Who wants CRASHING computers on a space ship! And, oh yeah, I a tribble once in the sixties for bout 20 minutes. ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2010, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-spock-youre-a-fuckin-moron/535346/34 "2010-04-08T15:28:49Z")
Just give me an OP, and a thread to steer her by. ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2010, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-spock-youre-a-fuckin-moron/535346/35 "2010-04-08T15:31:35Z")
> [@BMalion](#): > > Just give me an OP, and a thread to steer her by. Red Bull at night, posters delight. Red Bull in the morning, readers take warning. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2010, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-spock-youre-a-fuckin-moron/535346/36 "2010-04-08T18:17:24Z")
> [@Icerigger](#): > > Well, we do know those “multi-tronic” computer systems are as archaic as dinosaurs, what we need is a whole new approach. Yes, but can you construct a mnemonic device from stone knives and bearskins? ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2010, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-spock-youre-a-fuckin-moron/535346/37 "2010-04-08T18:36:05Z")
_raises eyebrow_ Fascinating. ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2010, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-spock-youre-a-fuckin-moron/535346/38 "2010-04-08T18:43:49Z")
These are not the droids you see–aw, crap. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2010, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-spock-youre-a-fuckin-moron/535346/39 "2010-04-08T18:54:51Z")
**Super Kapowzler** , a multi-legged creature is crawling on your shoulder. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2010, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-spock-youre-a-fuckin-moron/535346/40 "2010-04-08T18:56:10Z")
> [@Frodo](#): > > Perhaps wise computer programmers in the future have completely eliminated GOTO as an instruction?. perhaps the computer OS detects infinite loops (but not infinite tasks as "compute pi to the last digit)? Spock codes in machine language anyway. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-spock-youre-a-fuckin-moron/535346.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-spock-youre-a-fuckin-moron/535346.md?page=3)