What about our ability to read? Will that last another three centuries? If you're going to speculate on losing technology, might as well go the whole way.
Paintings and drawing hardly ever are sex or violence.
Unless you count anything made by Rubens, Giotto, Titian, El Greco, Picasso, Klimt, Schiele, Michelangelo, Bacon, Warhol, Klee, Dali... Well, most artists really.
True homeopathy is the alleged "science" of diluting a substance with water until there is nothing left but water. Only the "memory" of the water having contained the stuff remains. (look up dr.Emoto for more wacky antics surrounding the memory of water. Emoto by the way has a real doctorate but not in a field relevant to his research.)
Many alternative medicines are promoted as homeopathic when they are nothing of the sort.
Let's see overblown fear of pedophiles, latent xenophobia (that "especially in another country" is very telling)
Let me guess... Are you perhaps British?
Outside of Anglo-Saxon culture people are a lot less freaked out by this stuff. You guys and kids are a lot like the muslims with the Mohammed cartoons. Irrational to the core.
I don't own a Wii because of space issues. No joke, my living room is tiny. I wonder how the Wii managed to become so successful in Japan where cramped housing is the norm.
If we don't want to play World Policeman I'm sure China would be happy to step in.
Where is the "-1 misguided" button? China cares for it's trade but has consistently voted against international intervention in sovereign countries in the UN Security Council. They don't like outsiders telling them what to do, and they refuse to tell other countries how to run their internal affairs to the point of ignoring serious human rights abuses.
The US and France are the only two countries consistently trying to police the world. Curiously, both governments ultimately have come out of the Enlightenment movement. I'll stop now before I seriously start to believe in the Bavarian Illuminati myself.
You don't expect to climb 100km of space stairs now do you? If you're going to build a space tower, it's going to have a space elevator inside. Unless it's a space escalator, which would be all kinds of cool in itself.
Tear the bugger down. Monumentalism is stifling originality. Relying too much on the past means spending too little to prepare for the future.
When Newton stood on the shoulders of giants, he didn't worry about leaving footprints, and so in turn the vindictive little alchemist turned into a giant.
Yeah yeah, and a SNES sucks as a gaming platform because a PS3 has teh better technology.
The point is, Polaroid is FUN. The only thing wrong with it, is that the film packs (if you still can get them) are horribly expensive. Well, it's fun for people who have a life, and friends, and occasionally get out of their house...
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Whatever happened to sitting in the back shutting the fuck up and feeling miserable? I miss those days.
What about our ability to read? Will that last another three centuries? If you're going to speculate on losing technology, might as well go the whole way.
Paintings and drawing hardly ever are sex or violence.
Unless you count anything made by Rubens, Giotto, Titian, El Greco, Picasso, Klimt, Schiele, Michelangelo, Bacon, Warhol, Klee, Dali... Well, most artists really.
Also, I've never picked up a hooker in GTAIV, mostly because I don't think I've ever seen one.
You haven't been looking hard enough.
Rather, it shows "file sharers" to be "what can I get for nothing" freeloaders rather than people interested in changing our corrupt government.
But...but... I'm a "what can I get for nothing" freeloader and also someone who wants to change politics. What can I say? I'm a complex individual.
True homeopathy is the alleged "science" of diluting a substance with water until there is nothing left but water. Only the "memory" of the water having contained the stuff remains. (look up dr.Emoto for more wacky antics surrounding the memory of water. Emoto by the way has a real doctorate but not in a field relevant to his research.)
Many alternative medicines are promoted as homeopathic when they are nothing of the sort.
There is no magic involved. They deliberately create a piece of bad road to steal energy.
Of course this is a very small effect like a 'salami slice' financial scam, but it's still a scam.
Let's see overblown fear of pedophiles, latent xenophobia (that "especially in another country" is very telling)
Let me guess...
Are you perhaps British?
Outside of Anglo-Saxon culture people are a lot less freaked out by this stuff. You guys and kids are a lot like the muslims with the Mohammed cartoons. Irrational to the core.
It wouldn't be amazingly hard. Just travel over there and hire a Czech lawyer. Amazingly expensive yes, but not that hard.
The daughter should receive the first annual AIG award for remaining calm while losing other people's money.
"I still cannot believe how badly those 1541 floppy drives sucked."
Their death rattle produced during formatting and seek errors still haunts my nightmares.
I don't own a Wii because of space issues. No joke, my living room is tiny. I wonder how the Wii managed to become so successful in Japan where cramped housing is the norm.
Doilies have their place
And that place is a landfill outside the city. Doilies are truly instruments of great evil.
I don't blame the grandma at all, no doubt she has been putting doilies on things like that since before we were born.
Can I still blame grandma on general principle? Doilies are wrong in all circumstances and need to be stamped out.
Journal pages, friends/foes + geeks =
OMG! Slashdot is the first antisocial networking site.
For their sins.
If we don't want to play World Policeman I'm sure China would be happy to step in.
Where is the "-1 misguided" button? China cares for it's trade but has consistently voted against international intervention in sovereign countries in the UN Security Council. They don't like outsiders telling them what to do, and they refuse to tell other countries how to run their internal affairs to the point of ignoring serious human rights abuses.
The US and France are the only two countries consistently trying to police the world. Curiously, both governments ultimately have come out of the Enlightenment movement. I'll stop now before I seriously start to believe in the Bavarian Illuminati myself.
but I can't say that with the way the US is going that I don't expect a revolution or civil war in the next 10-20 years.
To be fair, people have been saying that since the early '60s.
Global warming doesn't affect us now.
I live in Nunavut you insensitive clod.
Of course not!
You don't expect to climb 100km of space stairs now do you?
If you're going to build a space tower, it's going to have a space elevator inside. Unless it's a space escalator, which would be all kinds of cool in itself.
I do.
Tear the bugger down. Monumentalism is stifling originality. Relying too much on the past means spending too little to prepare for the future.
When Newton stood on the shoulders of giants, he didn't worry about leaving footprints, and so in turn the vindictive little alchemist turned into a giant.
How is it easier to develop an ATM on Windows than on Linux?
Windows devs are a dime a dozen and therefore cheap to hire.
Let's have an international philosophers strike to protest. Let's bring this planet to it's knees!
Yeah yeah, and a SNES sucks as a gaming platform because a PS3 has teh better technology.
The point is, Polaroid is FUN. The only thing wrong with it, is that the film packs (if you still can get them) are horribly expensive.
Well, it's fun for people who have a life, and friends, and occasionally get out of their house...
I vote that they use the word "pop" or "sodapop". It makes the article more fun to read.