Perpetual growth also means selling more than last time, and the only way to do that is to make people want your new stuff. This is possible only in two ways: First, your new stuff is so much better than the old one that people WANT it, or second, the old one is already broken so people have to buy it.
Since inventing new stuff that people want badly enough to drop another wad of dough for it even though the old one's still working is hard but making stuff that breaks easily is easy...
Mostly because those that can influence it pretty much want the Chinese Variant of the Internet, a network, controlled by the government and built for the benefit of the industry.
Shocked? Please. Name one single law that came into existence that FB could possibly consider negative for them. Remember the goodwill show Sugarhill did in Congress?
If you wanna see laws that really piss off Facebook, you gotta look over at Europe.
The Greek empire? Last time I checked before Phillip Greece was a collection of city-states, constantly bickering and warring over nothing other than them being another city-state than us. Conquering that isn't that big a deal.
For life as we know it, it's pretty much mandatory if you want to go beyond fairly primitive life forms.
A silicon based life form that uses solar cells probably would not qualify as life as we know it, and the life that forms around black smokers on the bottom of oceans doesn't exactly qualify as something we'd expect to build spaceworthy transports.
C'mon, educating them would take the fun out of going to an Apple Genius Bar and messing with them. You'd actually have to come up with a complicated problem if their IQ went into the two digits.
Oxygen in an atmosphere can also mean that what's available to be oxidized is already in a more stable configuration, or would require a higher activation energy than is available, i.e. pressure or temperature too low to start the reaction or something else inhibiting it.
When it comes to determining whether a planet has "life as we know it", there is exactly one molecule that MUST be present that is ONLY present as far as we know on Earth. We only found it here and it is absolutely mandatory to exist for life, at least for life as we know it.
Chlorophyll.
It's pretty much the only (ok, you nitpickers, there are two forms of it, but either would do, and both have only been found here, so shush) molecule that's capable of generating energy out of sunlight, and any kind of life that goes beyond single celled organisms depends directly or indirectly on being able to generate power from photosynthesis.
Since they're fairly predictable (it's always 3 "correct" images, each re-validating 2-3 times) I wonder whether it wouldn't be faster to write a bot for it, requesting the page a few dozen times and randomly "solving" the pictures...
Since you're like the 5th person making fun of some sort of "code of conduct"... what the fuck is this? Do we now need to be told how to behave at work? So far we got along with simple courtesy just fine.
Because subsistence farming in Europe would lead to a famine that makes the Irish famines of the 1840s look like a family picnic. There's WAY more people living there now than the continent itself can feed with low yield subsistence farming. And if history taught us one thing, then that societies with starving populations aren't too stable.
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Perpetual growth also means selling more than last time, and the only way to do that is to make people want your new stuff. This is possible only in two ways: First, your new stuff is so much better than the old one that people WANT it, or second, the old one is already broken so people have to buy it.
Since inventing new stuff that people want badly enough to drop another wad of dough for it even though the old one's still working is hard but making stuff that breaks easily is easy...
Mostly because those that can influence it pretty much want the Chinese Variant of the Internet, a network, controlled by the government and built for the benefit of the industry.
Maybe in some puritan backwater country. Some countries got more liberal than others.
But hunting people is fun!
One? There's even two.
Granted, they're not exclusive to FB, they're general corporate hos that bend over for anyone stuffing money into them.
Shocked? Please. Name one single law that came into existence that FB could possibly consider negative for them. Remember the goodwill show Sugarhill did in Congress?
If you wanna see laws that really piss off Facebook, you gotta look over at Europe.
The Greek empire? Last time I checked before Phillip Greece was a collection of city-states, constantly bickering and warring over nothing other than them being another city-state than us. Conquering that isn't that big a deal.
And even that can be done more lazily with technology.
Until about 203 years ago, porn was an ankle shown briefly in a dress fault.
For life as we know it, it's pretty much mandatory if you want to go beyond fairly primitive life forms.
A silicon based life form that uses solar cells probably would not qualify as life as we know it, and the life that forms around black smokers on the bottom of oceans doesn't exactly qualify as something we'd expect to build spaceworthy transports.
Actually, we've been looking in other places. Chlorophyll is pretty easy to find, if it's present.
Yeah, bacteria sure are advanced life. Call when they got as far as tool use.
C'mon, educating them would take the fun out of going to an Apple Genius Bar and messing with them. You'd actually have to come up with a complicated problem if their IQ went into the two digits.
Oxygen in an atmosphere can also mean that what's available to be oxidized is already in a more stable configuration, or would require a higher activation energy than is available, i.e. pressure or temperature too low to start the reaction or something else inhibiting it.
Great, and once you find multicellular organisms that exist without photosynthesis coming into play, we'll talk.
When it comes to determining whether a planet has "life as we know it", there is exactly one molecule that MUST be present that is ONLY present as far as we know on Earth. We only found it here and it is absolutely mandatory to exist for life, at least for life as we know it.
Chlorophyll.
It's pretty much the only (ok, you nitpickers, there are two forms of it, but either would do, and both have only been found here, so shush) molecule that's capable of generating energy out of sunlight, and any kind of life that goes beyond single celled organisms depends directly or indirectly on being able to generate power from photosynthesis.
TOR traffic can be identified by the way it looks, not by the source it comes from? Interesting...
Since they're fairly predictable (it's always 3 "correct" images, each re-validating 2-3 times) I wonder whether it wouldn't be faster to write a bot for it, requesting the page a few dozen times and randomly "solving" the pictures...
Since you're like the 5th person making fun of some sort of "code of conduct"... what the fuck is this? Do we now need to be told how to behave at work? So far we got along with simple courtesy just fine.
C'mon, that's not fair. It's not ALL like that in Alabama.
Don't go into production and undercut our salaries! That's what we do with the US, we did it first!
Because subsistence farming in Europe would lead to a famine that makes the Irish famines of the 1840s look like a family picnic. There's WAY more people living there now than the continent itself can feed with low yield subsistence farming. And if history taught us one thing, then that societies with starving populations aren't too stable.
The least bad answer is to avoid the question altogether and answer something along the lines of "I like $her_favorite_dress better".
Or, if you're horny, "I'd prefer you to not wear anything right now..."
It's fine, as long as she doesn't.
No... in this case your relationship is alive until the question is answered, when it certainly dies no matter what you answer.