Same shit as back then. A lot of people with more money than brains find something where they think for some odd reason that will generate money. How? They don't know. They don't understand it. But somehow that's gonna make money.
Everyone who DOES know also knows that this can't work. At least not in the long run. But there's idiots with money throwing it at me, should I really tell them?
I'm fortunately not living in the US. The US is a one party dictatorship with The Party acting as if it was two separate parties so they can play the divide & conquer game.
Shutting down US operations doesn't change anything. Do you really think Joe Randomsurfer cares whether Facebook has its servers in the US, Russia, China or Generistan?
And you think that would mean that it looks any different than the Middle East does today? You have the same shit going on there, one group claiming to have the moral higher ground so they can suppress the rest, and the rest fighting back. Why does anyone think this would be different in any way if we tried the same shit here?
I do think the data points to climate change being real, I still run the AC all Summer. I just don't give a fuck about whether the planet is still hospitable to human life after I'm gone.
Yes, no, maybe, anything is basically speculation right now. I don't know if there's any way to test for something like this and without, trying to even formulate a hypothesis is moot.
But I'm neither geophysicist nor microbiologist. Maybe someone does know a way to at least determine what is and what is not possible.
So what, 99% of what we do today is very un-American. Why is it suddenly a problem but it was none when state-sponsored monopolies for ISPs were installed? When governments deliberately and forcefully kept others from entering the market? When corporations buy laws that enshrine their market position and ensure they can keep gouging customers because no competition may emerge? That's not un-American?
ANYTHING you buy that connects to the internet should first and foremost go through a thorough audit. You and your habits are marketable data, being able to get that for free AND make you pay for it... And you don't even get a (fire)wall out of it.
But seriously. You shouldn't trust ANY device that gets hooked to the internet. Even and especially when it is from a "reputable" hardware manufacturer. All that means is that they're more likely to be longer in business to siphon your data.
While I would actually agree with you, this would probably just drive these companies out of the US. With nothing accomplished aside of jobs in the US being lost.
The main difference is that I cannot choose to use an ISP in, say, Norway, where there are rather cheap and fast internet connections available. On the other hand, it's trivial for Facebook, Twitter and Instagram to shut down their US business and move to any country offering them to do business as they please because on the internet it simply does not matter where your server is located.
Yeah, let's show them. Next time I'll vote for the OTHER guy!
Have you ever played Zak McCracken? Have you ever stood in front of the machine that makes you dumb? Every time I play that game, I think about the US voting system.
People need money. Not employment. I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one who finds enough things to do with my time, what I need is money. If you allow me to hold slaves, I am fairly sure I can ensure 100% of them will be working.
Actually, it did a lot. Survived the late heavy bombardment, developed a few ways to synthesize ATP, invented the nucleus which led to the development of eukaryotes, they developed flagella and carnivore behaviour, viruses came into existence, and my personal favorite, they came up with sexual reproduction.
And you now waste all that with a flick of your hand...
Chemical self-replication IS basically what life is. If the "building blocks" are available, self replicating molecules will do just that. At what point you call that "life" is debatable, but in the end, this is what life does. Replicate itself from available resources.
You will not observe this again. At least not on this planet. We have an oxidizing atmosphere that pretty much destroys anything that could remotely form like this. There is a reason why the great oxygenation event nearly killed life off. Plus, we don't have a few million years that we could possibly wait.
Personally, I'm more inclined to think that life can and does simply happen when the conditions are right. But, hey, it could just as well be that an interstellar probe from some alien civilization (crash-) landed on our planet those 4.something billion years ago and one of the mechanics assembling it sneezed on it before launching it.
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Same shit as back then. A lot of people with more money than brains find something where they think for some odd reason that will generate money. How? They don't know. They don't understand it. But somehow that's gonna make money.
Everyone who DOES know also knows that this can't work. At least not in the long run. But there's idiots with money throwing it at me, should I really tell them?
I may be honest. But I'm not stupid.
That's a lot of words for saying "scientists want to have truth, everyone else just wants to be right".
And an Annoying Orange.
Where have you been the past year to think that "sensible" has anything to do with the current administration?
I'm fortunately not living in the US. The US is a one party dictatorship with The Party acting as if it was two separate parties so they can play the divide & conquer game.
Shutting down US operations doesn't change anything. Do you really think Joe Randomsurfer cares whether Facebook has its servers in the US, Russia, China or Generistan?
And you think that would mean that it looks any different than the Middle East does today? You have the same shit going on there, one group claiming to have the moral higher ground so they can suppress the rest, and the rest fighting back. Why does anyone think this would be different in any way if we tried the same shit here?
Christian values changed society so that it no longer depended on Christian values.
You might want to explain this. It doesn't exactly make a lot of sense by itself.
I do think the data points to climate change being real, I still run the AC all Summer. I just don't give a fuck about whether the planet is still hospitable to human life after I'm gone.
Well, some remained simpler than others.
Yes, no, maybe, anything is basically speculation right now. I don't know if there's any way to test for something like this and without, trying to even formulate a hypothesis is moot.
But I'm neither geophysicist nor microbiologist. Maybe someone does know a way to at least determine what is and what is not possible.
So what, 99% of what we do today is very un-American. Why is it suddenly a problem but it was none when state-sponsored monopolies for ISPs were installed? When governments deliberately and forcefully kept others from entering the market? When corporations buy laws that enshrine their market position and ensure they can keep gouging customers because no competition may emerge? That's not un-American?
ANYTHING you buy that connects to the internet should first and foremost go through a thorough audit. You and your habits are marketable data, being able to get that for free AND make you pay for it ... And you don't even get a (fire)wall out of it.
But seriously. You shouldn't trust ANY device that gets hooked to the internet. Even and especially when it is from a "reputable" hardware manufacturer. All that means is that they're more likely to be longer in business to siphon your data.
Every corporation has an interest in spying on everyone, all the time. Data is money.
While I would actually agree with you, this would probably just drive these companies out of the US. With nothing accomplished aside of jobs in the US being lost.
The main difference is that I cannot choose to use an ISP in, say, Norway, where there are rather cheap and fast internet connections available. On the other hand, it's trivial for Facebook, Twitter and Instagram to shut down their US business and move to any country offering them to do business as they please because on the internet it simply does not matter where your server is located.
Yeah, let's show them. Next time I'll vote for the OTHER guy!
Have you ever played Zak McCracken? Have you ever stood in front of the machine that makes you dumb? Every time I play that game, I think about the US voting system.
Unemployment is down? Great. How about earnings?
People need money. Not employment. I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one who finds enough things to do with my time, what I need is money. If you allow me to hold slaves, I am fairly sure I can ensure 100% of them will be working.
You must be joking! That is unpossible!
Actually, it did a lot. Survived the late heavy bombardment, developed a few ways to synthesize ATP, invented the nucleus which led to the development of eukaryotes, they developed flagella and carnivore behaviour, viruses came into existence, and my personal favorite, they came up with sexual reproduction.
And you now waste all that with a flick of your hand...
Chemical self-replication IS basically what life is. If the "building blocks" are available, self replicating molecules will do just that. At what point you call that "life" is debatable, but in the end, this is what life does. Replicate itself from available resources.
You will not observe this again. At least not on this planet. We have an oxidizing atmosphere that pretty much destroys anything that could remotely form like this. There is a reason why the great oxygenation event nearly killed life off. Plus, we don't have a few million years that we could possibly wait.
Personally, I'm more inclined to think that life can and does simply happen when the conditions are right. But, hey, it could just as well be that an interstellar probe from some alien civilization (crash-) landed on our planet those 4.something billion years ago and one of the mechanics assembling it sneezed on it before launching it.
Marxism works as soon as people prefer working to making money.
Trump IS proof for evolution.
I mean, look at this man and then talk to me with a straight face about "Intelligent Design".
Are you 4% richer or the rich? Ya know, that works in Venezuela, too, if you're part of the government cronies, you're by no means starving.
Well, whether a dud bombshell is that much better...
Yeah, a billion years ago there were still single celled organisms and only 200 mia later we had multi... you know what I mean, now let me sleep!