Does a spy camera on the side of the road really justify comparisons to 1984? Are we really anywhere close to the type of life portrayed in 1984?
I suppose you could also have resorted to the strawman argument that the 1984 comparison doesn't apply since it depicts a future society that's collectivist rather than the fascist reality being imposed upon us...:p
After the "Deathstar" fiasco, when IBM realized they'd fucked-up so terribly badly that no informed consumer in their right mind would ever take their hard drives seriously again...
I have a hard time believing they could be so stupid.
You have a hard time believing that a organization* could be how stupid?:p
*Seriously, they're just machines and, as such, they tend to be at least as dumb as the dumbest components** they're assembled from.
**If you ever get out and about one of these days, you know, in public... take a look around you (but do not, I repeat, do not turn on your television, as that will skew the results too far in the other direction; sure, we're dumb... but we're not that dumb... okay, yes, we are.):p
Bitcoin does have an intrinsic value: the computing time it takes to mine a bitcoin.
That's like saying that fiat currency has an intrinsic value: the once-living trees that were harvested to produce the fibers the bills are made from.
Like those now-gone trees, the energy costs used to mine the Bitcoins is gone (except from a pedantic 2nd-Law-of-Thermodynamics "Sheldon Cooper perspective"). Hell, at least paper money still can still be used as wall insulation or to start fires.
No, blame John Keynes, he advocated what the various world governments started doing in the 1930s.
There's nothing insane about an inflationary spiral driven by overissuing more and more fiat currency. Sure, it's meant to appear insane (so that the common man - the real victim in the equation - blames the loss of the buying power of his savings on "inept bureacrats" instead of on the bankers and oligarchs pulling the strings behind the scenes) but the system works very much as it's intended, I assure you.
or even spinning to prevent a continued lock on any particular part of the target
Well, THAT should be easy enough for the Iranian engineers to accomplish; all they need to do is equip their boats and UAV's with a single engine mounted off-axis...:p
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It's a sad day when you can tag someone anti-American who is pro-Constitution.
It's not as if we weren't warned... over two hundred years ago.
The rough rotor equivalent
Me thinks you fail to grasp simple english... :p
Does a spy camera on the side of the road really justify comparisons to 1984? Are we really anywhere close to the type of life portrayed in 1984?
I suppose you could also have resorted to the strawman argument that the 1984 comparison doesn't apply since it depicts a future society that's collectivist rather than the fascist reality being imposed upon us... :p
Does a spy camera on the side of the road really justify comparisons to 1984? Are we really anywhere close to the type of life portrayed in 1984?
What's your point, exactly? Are you suggesting we should wait until we're that fucked before we discuss the direction things are going??
Despite how bad things have gotten here, I'm still quite astounded that your worthless comment got modded up...
And apparently are is quite dead... :/
How did fascism take over Germany?
Technically? It was disguised as socialism.
Huh? When did this happen?
After the "Deathstar" fiasco, when IBM realized they'd fucked-up so terribly badly that no informed consumer in their right mind would ever take their hard drives seriously again...
I'd mod you up but I blew the opportunity when I made a stupid comment above...
or will Apple cheerfully hand it over to any agency that asks?
If you need to ask, you can probably already figure out the answer.
The summary should probably also mention that IBM sold off their entire storage division to Hitachi...
But maybe it's not doomsday for Windows or Microsoft.
Of course it isn't! They always retain the option of releasing a Linux distro. :)
no publicly elected official who matters is opposed.
Might have something to do with the fact that the last one who actually mattered was deposed...
I have a hard time believing they could be so stupid.
You have a hard time believing that a organization* could be how stupid? :p
*Seriously, they're just machines and, as such, they tend to be at least as dumb as the dumbest components** they're assembled from.
**If you ever get out and about one of these days, you know, in public... take a look around you (but do not, I repeat, do not turn on your television, as that will skew the results too far in the other direction; sure, we're dumb... but we're not that dumb... okay, yes, we are.) :p
Windows predates Linux.
Windows predates Linux; the operating system known as Windows most certainly does not.
Windows was nothing more than an application running on top of DOS (the actual OS in the equation) in those days.
Pedantic nitpicking, perhaps - but technically accurate nonetheless. :p
And a spoiler.
Only if it's a front wheel-drive.
Bitcoin does have an intrinsic value: the computing time it takes to mine a bitcoin.
That's like saying that fiat currency has an intrinsic value: the once-living trees that were harvested to produce the fibers the bills are made from.
Like those now-gone trees, the energy costs used to mine the Bitcoins is gone (except from a pedantic 2nd-Law-of-Thermodynamics "Sheldon Cooper perspective"). Hell, at least paper money still can still be used as wall insulation or to start fires.
Climate change will ruin crabs.
Apparently, the following treatment is highly effective in such situations:
Shave one testicle. Now light the other one on fire.
All of the crabs will (of course) retreat to the shaved testicle; simply stab each one to death with an icepick as they appear...
No, blame John Keynes, he advocated what the various world governments started doing in the 1930s.
There's nothing insane about an inflationary spiral driven by overissuing more and more fiat currency. Sure, it's meant to appear insane (so that the common man - the real victim in the equation - blames the loss of the buying power of his savings on "inept bureacrats" instead of on the bankers and oligarchs pulling the strings behind the scenes) but the system works very much as it's intended, I assure you.
Let's ban driving. That'll decrease car accident risk.
And Kalifornia'll be the first to do it, too... :p
or even spinning to prevent a continued lock on any particular part of the target
Well, THAT should be easy enough for the Iranian engineers to accomplish; all they need to do is equip their boats and UAV's with a single engine mounted off-axis... :p
Wait, I think that could be a Slahdot poll...
It definitely not a Jahdot poll, mon... :p
Better that than a rotting shark in a glass box... :p
...why evil smells like formaldehyde. :p
Everything has balance, let's look at the good things for instance.
Let's burn down all the old-growth forests; forest fires are known to trigger amazing surges of healthy, new growth...
What else are they lying about?
For one thing, the intelligence of the idiot they hired to come up with the lies...