It depends on the type of space travel and communication that has developed. A galactic civilization would probably have worked out faster-than-light travel via wormholes or warp drives and some sort of quantum entanglement based instant communication system. Or more likely it's based on science we can't even imagine. In any case they might be as tightly knit as the people of Earth are now.
There's a big difference between deliberate annihilation of a race or ethnic group and the loss of languages and cultures by attrition. One should expect that with modern communication and transport that the isolation that led to the the existence of all those languages is a thing of the past. The same laws that govern natural selection work on languages. With a global culture it can be expected that ultimately there will be only one language and culture as on any other sufficiently advanced worlds (I would expect entire galaxies to have a common language too once they are fully developed.)
I think it's perfectly moral to take advantage of such situations. When I was growing up the rule was "Finders keepers, losers weepers." When did that rule change? I was never informed of it. Since the bank is rich and greedy they can easily absorb the loss and I have no compassion whatsoever for banks or any other large companies.
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It depends on the type of space travel and communication that has developed. A galactic civilization would probably have worked out faster-than-light travel via wormholes or warp drives and some sort of quantum entanglement based instant communication system. Or more likely it's based on science we can't even imagine. In any case they might be as tightly knit as the people of Earth are now.
There's a big difference between deliberate annihilation of a race or ethnic group and the loss of languages and cultures by attrition. One should expect that with modern communication and transport that the isolation that led to the the existence of all those languages is a thing of the past. The same laws that govern natural selection work on languages. With a global culture it can be expected that ultimately there will be only one language and culture as on any other sufficiently advanced worlds (I would expect entire galaxies to have a common language too once they are fully developed.)
I don't get it either. They spend 10 years building it and then they only expect it to last 5 years once it's done? That's insane.
I think it's perfectly moral to take advantage of such situations. When I was growing up the rule was "Finders keepers, losers weepers." When did that rule change? I was never informed of it. Since the bank is rich and greedy they can easily absorb the loss and I have no compassion whatsoever for banks or any other large companies.
Microsoft uses Zap2it listings for Media Center. Evidently they don't want to do their own.
Windows Media Center uses listings supplied by Zap2it. Does that mean they're going to screw Microsoft too?