This is in our blood and is constantly encouraged by all the religious texts talking about charity, kindness, honesty and cooperation.
Reiligion was invented to try and keep people honest. That is why they put all those stories in the text, hoping people would read it and strive to do the right thing. Infact, in the Bible (Genesis) - Adam was corrupted by Eve, and Eve was corrupted by the serpent. Which means, we are all sinners from the get go. No one is born to do good, unless your Jesus Christ. It's something we all have to learn.
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Someone forgot that Ebook readers (like the Kindle) came out before the iPad.
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I use both my HP Touchpad and kindle. For reading a book, nothing beats a simple Kindle, even enjoying audio books is nice.
You can't always find the truth by doing some research. No one knew if Obama was even a U.S. citizen, until he provided his Birth Certificate, and even then, can you really know for sure that's its true?
You've got it wrong. We evolved with primitive survival instincts, part of those instincts involve our tendency to lie to get what we want. We are all tempted to lie, and it takes effort not to. We tell the truth when there is no advantage to lying; we lie when it’s advantageous.
From the moment we are born, we have to be tought to be honest. It requires logical thinking, and foresight to reason out the truth when it seems too easy to lie.
When the media tells us only what they want us to know, and candidates and politicians lie to us, it's no wonder democracy is failing. Too much dishonesty and fraud. Just look at the elections in Russia, it's all fixed. People aren't stupid, they are just being lied to.
Hard Drives 20 years ago rarely went bad, infact many of them still function today. Memory and Storage Media is a lot more fragile today because we push the envelope in capacity.
Your analogy is like many businesses who fail to backup their data because they think a disaster isn't going to happen to them. We've only been using computers for the past 50 years, and computers today are far more susceptible to damage than ever before. Everyone ignores the danger until it hits them, happens all the time.
Actually, any electronic device can blow without it being plugged into an outlet. Electronics can receive high voltage from electro magnetic waves in the air, which can overload capacitors. There are already devices on the market that use similar technology to charge electronics without wires. Not to mention the effects an EMP would have on magnetic media, such as Hard Drives, Tapes, SSD/Flash memory. I'm sure if the earth was exposed to a strong enough EMP, it would take out 90% of electronics.
The Internet cam about in stages. I remember using my Atari 800 computer to connect to local BBS back in the early 80's, then came Compuserve and Delphi. Later on, Telnet started to become popular which made it possible to connect to multiple sites form a single POP location. AOL linked their interface with many other services, including the Internet. Once AOL started becoming popular and lots of people started signing up, everyone was on the Internet. Later on, ISP's were offering dialup internet that could be accessed from a Web Browser, and so the story continued.
Viewtron is really nothing more than a glorified BBS which had been tried in many different ways back then.
We are all living in some form of Dystopia. If people from 200 years ago could see how we live today, they we think we live in some sick twisted future.
Javascript requires a web browser to run, it can't run independent, and you can't compile executable. Java is a true programming language that can be used on many different devices and platforms.
Obviously - if you need an explanation as to why authorities and Governments don't follow the laws they enforce, you're not living on Planet Earth. Laws are only intended for those who can't defend themselves, or can't enforce the law on those who don’t obey it.
That's like saying a web developer knows how to program software. Developing scripts for the web, and writing software are two different things. They should be teaching JAVA, not Java Script!
What affects us here in the U.S. will affect you in the UK. High gas prices mean fewer jobs, less economic activity, and fewer goods sold and bought. Europe is already hanging by a thread with the gloom of financial collapse, and this would only make it worse.
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Unless that person is a Computer. A highly intelligent computer that dictates our lives through pure logic without temptation.
This is in our blood and is constantly encouraged by all the religious texts talking about charity, kindness, honesty and cooperation.
Reiligion was invented to try and keep people honest. That is why they put all those stories in the text, hoping people would read it and strive to do the right thing. Infact, in the Bible (Genesis) - Adam was corrupted by Eve, and Eve was corrupted by the serpent. Which means, we are all sinners from the get go. No one is born to do good, unless your Jesus Christ. It's something we all have to learn.
Someone forgot that Ebook readers (like the Kindle) came out before the iPad.
I use both my HP Touchpad and kindle. For reading a book, nothing beats a simple Kindle, even enjoying audio books is nice.
You can't always find the truth by doing some research. No one knew if Obama was even a U.S. citizen, until he provided his Birth Certificate, and even then, can you really know for sure that's its true?
You've got it wrong. We evolved with primitive survival instincts, part of those instincts involve our tendency to lie to get what we want. We are all tempted to lie, and it takes effort not to. We tell the truth when there is no advantage to lying; we lie when it’s advantageous. From the moment we are born, we have to be tought to be honest. It requires logical thinking, and foresight to reason out the truth when it seems too easy to lie.
So long as it's in our nature to be Dishonest, no form of Government will ever work.
Dictatorship is the best form of Government, only no one is worthy enough to be Dictator.
The needs of the many outway the needs of the few, or the one.
Religion is a good example there.
When the media tells us only what they want us to know, and candidates and politicians lie to us, it's no wonder democracy is failing. Too much dishonesty and fraud. Just look at the elections in Russia, it's all fixed. People aren't stupid, they are just being lied to.
We'll get Zefram Cochrane to figure this one out.
It causes abnormally intense tetryon fields. This requires that all ships must travel under warp 5. http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Force_of_Nature_(episode)
Hard Drives 20 years ago rarely went bad, infact many of them still function today. Memory and Storage Media is a lot more fragile today because we push the envelope in capacity.
CME or EMP produce similar effects. They both produce intense electro magnetic radiation.
Your analogy is like many businesses who fail to backup their data because they think a disaster isn't going to happen to them. We've only been using computers for the past 50 years, and computers today are far more susceptible to damage than ever before. Everyone ignores the danger until it hits them, happens all the time.
Actually, any electronic device can blow without it being plugged into an outlet. Electronics can receive high voltage from electro magnetic waves in the air, which can overload capacitors. There are already devices on the market that use similar technology to charge electronics without wires. Not to mention the effects an EMP would have on magnetic media, such as Hard Drives, Tapes, SSD/Flash memory. I'm sure if the earth was exposed to a strong enough EMP, it would take out 90% of electronics.
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The Internet cam about in stages. I remember using my Atari 800 computer to connect to local BBS back in the early 80's, then came Compuserve and Delphi. Later on, Telnet started to become popular which made it possible to connect to multiple sites form a single POP location. AOL linked their interface with many other services, including the Internet. Once AOL started becoming popular and lots of people started signing up, everyone was on the Internet. Later on, ISP's were offering dialup internet that could be accessed from a Web Browser, and so the story continued. Viewtron is really nothing more than a glorified BBS which had been tried in many different ways back then.
We are all living in some form of Dystopia. If people from 200 years ago could see how we live today, they we think we live in some sick twisted future.
Javascript requires a web browser to run, it can't run independent, and you can't compile executable. Java is a true programming language that can be used on many different devices and platforms.
Obviously - if you need an explanation as to why authorities and Governments don't follow the laws they enforce, you're not living on Planet Earth. Laws are only intended for those who can't defend themselves, or can't enforce the law on those who don’t obey it.
That's like saying a web developer knows how to program software. Developing scripts for the web, and writing software are two different things. They should be teaching JAVA, not Java Script!
What affects us here in the U.S. will affect you in the UK. High gas prices mean fewer jobs, less economic activity, and fewer goods sold and bought. Europe is already hanging by a thread with the gloom of financial collapse, and this would only make it worse.
Oh wait, it ends in 2012!