I'm not saying we shouldn't. I'm just saying we couldn't. Dinosaur DNA would have to last literally orders of magnitude longer than the oldest DNA fragments found so far, which were badly damaged themselves.
Nope, just right. Every country wants to get their own knockoff Silicon Valley with these cargo-cult antics. But they can't copy what really matters:
The brand name which is tied to the location.
You can put together all the skilled employees and overvalued half-baked ideas you want, but outside of the original Silicon Valley they are worthless. No VCs are looking to blow cash on their startups. Startups don't even get called startups, they use the full name, "unsuccessful small businesses," which is what pretty much all of them are unless a big pile of cash falls in their laps. And when they hit it big but continue to lose money at an alarming rate like Groupon etc? Nobody claps their hands, believes really hard and keeps dumping money into them. Investors run from them like rats from a sinking ship whose tails are on fire.
You can't copy Silicon Valley's reality distortion field by building fiber links and holding startup expos any more than you can copy Dubai's oil fields by building mega-skyscrapers and rolling back womens' rights.
Well what is there to lose? Right now both the government and corporations are having their way with the Internet. If it were nationalized, that cuts the number of assailants by half. They're not in competition. They're both just taking what they like at the same time.
1.) Minitel technology was retired in favor of the current technology. Not the same thing as their ownership/business model.
2.) Minitel was only government-owned before France's state telecom was privatized. Since the early '90s the entire system was run by a single corporation, making it more like Facebook than a nationalized Internet, ownership-wise.
Bad news, Mao's body count isn't the ultimate trump card against any kind of increased government power. It's pretty much a Godwin argument with Mao in place of Hitler, actually.
many were worried about this phenomena leading to many economists recommending people have more kids to keep the economy growing due to population growth...
Holy hell, we're finally bringing Earth's population numbers under control and they want to undo this progress!? Is there anything economists won't recommend to keep their stupid little game running!?
There is probably very little overlap. Those saying "what's the problem with this?" are probably also the "I have nothing to hide" and "torture could save lives" crowd. Basically this is the crowd that wishes it weren't so taboo to use special salutes, marches and symbols to show their support for their ideology.
Gun ownership and the market are completely unregulated, and if you don't fucking work then you don't fucking eat. Outside of the government-controlled compound in the capital, the only limited form of benevolent government is the tribal leadership. Being far closer to your ideal than the oppressive western welfare states, they should at least be better off. Why aren't they?
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I'm not saying we shouldn't. I'm just saying we couldn't. Dinosaur DNA would have to last literally orders of magnitude longer than the oldest DNA fragments found so far, which were badly damaged themselves.
Nope, just right. Every country wants to get their own knockoff Silicon Valley with these cargo-cult antics. But they can't copy what really matters:
The brand name which is tied to the location.
You can put together all the skilled employees and overvalued half-baked ideas you want, but outside of the original Silicon Valley they are worthless. No VCs are looking to blow cash on their startups. Startups don't even get called startups, they use the full name, "unsuccessful small businesses," which is what pretty much all of them are unless a big pile of cash falls in their laps. And when they hit it big but continue to lose money at an alarming rate like Groupon etc? Nobody claps their hands, believes really hard and keeps dumping money into them. Investors run from them like rats from a sinking ship whose tails are on fire.
You can't copy Silicon Valley's reality distortion field by building fiber links and holding startup expos any more than you can copy Dubai's oil fields by building mega-skyscrapers and rolling back womens' rights.
Yeah just send it to some other company over the Internet using a certificate from an approved CA.
Please, citizen, go ahead. Why do you hesitate?
Well what is there to lose? Right now both the government and corporations are having their way with the Internet. If it were nationalized, that cuts the number of assailants by half. They're not in competition. They're both just taking what they like at the same time.
Wrong on all fronts.
1.) Minitel technology was retired in favor of the current technology. Not the same thing as their ownership/business model.
2.) Minitel was only government-owned before France's state telecom was privatized. Since the early '90s the entire system was run by a single corporation, making it more like Facebook than a nationalized Internet, ownership-wise.
Reminds me of the "Oh yeah!? Well I bet you had to wait for it!" punchline from jokes about US vs. Canadian health care.
First they came for Netflix...
These should answer most of your questions:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Nope it's impossible to do a Jurassic Park on dinosaurs, DNA just won't last long enough:
http://www.wired.com/2012/10/j...
That was a total WTF statement, who was he referring to? Obama? O_o
Bad news, Mao's body count isn't the ultimate trump card against any kind of increased government power. It's pretty much a Godwin argument with Mao in place of Hitler, actually.
many were worried about this phenomena leading to many economists recommending people have more kids to keep the economy growing due to population growth...
Holy hell, we're finally bringing Earth's population numbers under control and they want to undo this progress!? Is there anything economists won't recommend to keep their stupid little game running!?
You're re-creating one environmental problem to very slightly mitigate another, it should be obvious why this isn't an appealing option.
History is written by the victors - not necessarily the good guys.
For a while, yes...
The difference is that people on long-term incarceration can appeal their cases or be exonerated by new evidence.
A way for fatcat bankers to put all the world's money into deflationary virtual tokens.
Actually this could be fun to watch...lulz ho!
There's already a "get jerked off by an underage anime girl" app for it :-(
There is probably very little overlap. Those saying "what's the problem with this?" are probably also the "I have nothing to hide" and "torture could save lives" crowd. Basically this is the crowd that wishes it weren't so taboo to use special salutes, marches and symbols to show their support for their ideology.
Sorry this is the 21st century, savagery is somewhat frowned upon now.
Morally I don't have a problem with the death penalty, but I don't think justice systems are accurate enough to bet human lives on.
Learn the difference between justice and vengeance.
Hey, the cartoons by Genndy Tartakovsky were good.
In case you didn't notice, they're already doing that, and we don't have net neutrality to show for it...
Gun ownership and the market are completely unregulated, and if you don't fucking work then you don't fucking eat. Outside of the government-controlled compound in the capital, the only limited form of benevolent government is the tribal leadership. Being far closer to your ideal than the oppressive western welfare states, they should at least be better off. Why aren't they?