"Nothing beats hard work" is about as canned of a statement as you can get. The question has more to do with whether or not there is a REAL reason to say "the singularity is nonsense", or if that person is just tired of hearing about it.
Pregnancy is a pretty poor example by way of being a choice.
People don't choose to grow malignant tumors or suffer accidental injuries, and those can run up way more than $4000 in medical bills. The life-ruining potential there is far higher and as a society we should be concerned with that.
Of all the things the government has spent money on lately, this is a long ways down on the list of disappointments. When was the last time the government did something that put you in a better mood?
Hearing him acknowledge non-believers was a nice counter-balance to sitting through that painfully long prayer at the invocation of the inauguration. It's a start.
The lock-in on the iPhone is a huge problem for many people, including myself. I've become so attached to having the iPhone web browser in my pocket everywhere I go that they have me roped.
I think the best solution would be to have a phone that has a cheap data plan and can run as a Wifi access point simultaneously. Associate an iPod Touch with the AP and voila, and have that sweet browsing everywhere without that bullshit AT&T.
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"Nothing beats hard work" is about as canned of a statement as you can get. The question has more to do with whether or not there is a REAL reason to say "the singularity is nonsense", or if that person is just tired of hearing about it.
No need to be combative.
What "hard work" by a person can't be performed by something created by a person? Am I missing something here?
Pregnancy is a pretty poor example by way of being a choice.
People don't choose to grow malignant tumors or suffer accidental injuries, and those can run up way more than $4000 in medical bills. The life-ruining potential there is far higher and as a society we should be concerned with that.
Of all the things the government has spent money on lately, this is a long ways down on the list of disappointments. When was the last time the government did something that put you in a better mood?
Hearing him acknowledge non-believers was a nice counter-balance to sitting through that painfully long prayer at the invocation of the inauguration. It's a start.
The lock-in on the iPhone is a huge problem for many people, including myself. I've become so attached to having the iPhone web browser in my pocket everywhere I go that they have me roped.
I think the best solution would be to have a phone that has a cheap data plan and can run as a Wifi access point simultaneously. Associate an iPod Touch with the AP and voila, and have that sweet browsing everywhere without that bullshit AT&T.
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