If you're not racist, then race should NOT matter at all. Anything less makes you racist to some degree. It is absolutely ludicrous to purport that someone becomes a racist by acknowledging the mere existence of race. Being aware of the differences between different groups of people is one thing; believing those differences makes one group better than another is what racism really is. Don't be naive enough to get the two confused.
There is underway currently the greatest transfer of wealth in human history, and it's going from workers to the very rich. Sort of socialism in reverse, and the result will be that the world will become a very unpleasant place in which to live for most of us.
got any facts to back up that claim, or are you just another pie in the sky left wing hippie running their mouth off between bongs? I believe that PopeRatzo is talking about the fact that the richest 10% of the world population controls 85% of the world's wealth, and the poorest 50% of the world population controls only 1% of the world wealth. Over the past decade, these numbers have become more and more disparate, with the wealthiest controlling more and more wealth, and the poorest controlling less and less. You will be able to find out more by reading a helpful power point presentation of a study conducted by the World Institute for Development Economics Research of the United Nations University.
Do these facts sufficiently back up that claim?
I think that if you take a look at the percentage of people and the actual number of people in the US that have Broadband available you will see that it is a pretty big number.
The problem with broadband in the US is most people do have access to it but a lot of them don't see the need for the extra cost over dial up. According to the research group Point-Topic, broadband penetration in the United States is 52.77%. So while you could claim that technically, "most" of Americans have access to broadband, it's not that huge of a majority, especially when you compare it to the broadband penetration in other countries. Indeed, South Korea (89.38%), Hong Kong (87.14%), Monaco (82.92%), Iceland (75.76%), The Netherlands (73.27%), Denmark (72.99%), Norway (71.35%), and 13 other countries have more broadband penetration than the United States does.
With only have of the country having access to broadband, and most of those people possibly living in rural areas, it's obvious that those using dial up do so not by choice, but out of necessity.
This article is not only unsourced, it's unsourceable - the man begins his speculation with "I think..." and goes on with his reckless speculation without even a slight intimation that any of this originated with someone working for Abrams. My friends, Moriarty has just served us up a heaping spoonful of bullshit, so I hope no one reading is willing to swallow.
That said, Moriarty's speculation also appears to be unlikely. Abrams is a big fan of using flashbacks as a narrative device, and it would not be unheard of to have an aged Spock telling the story of how he and a young James T. Kirk met so many years ago. Such a premise would allow Leonard Nimoy to play a substantial role in the film, and would also explain why William Shatner has not been asked to reprise his role as Kirk (Kirk's character having died in Generations).
This brand of consumer cynicism may be warranted most of the time, but not in this case. Apple is known for making mere pennies on their downloadable content, in hopes of making all of their money back on the ridiculously expensive hardware needed to run said content. So I wouldn't really worry about Steve Jobs running off with he's made by forcing you to download the latest episode of Law and Order from your neighbor.
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This article is not only unsourced, it's unsourceable - the man begins his speculation with "I think..." and goes on with his reckless speculation without even a slight intimation that any of this originated with someone working for Abrams. My friends, Moriarty has just served us up a heaping spoonful of bullshit, so I hope no one reading is willing to swallow.
That said, Moriarty's speculation also appears to be unlikely. Abrams is a big fan of using flashbacks as a narrative device, and it would not be unheard of to have an aged Spock telling the story of how he and a young James T. Kirk met so many years ago. Such a premise would allow Leonard Nimoy to play a substantial role in the film, and would also explain why William Shatner has not been asked to reprise his role as Kirk (Kirk's character having died in Generations).
This brand of consumer cynicism may be warranted most of the time, but not in this case. Apple is known for making mere pennies on their downloadable content, in hopes of making all of their money back on the ridiculously expensive hardware needed to run said content. So I wouldn't really worry about Steve Jobs running off with he's made by forcing you to download the latest episode of Law and Order from your neighbor.