Yeah, and they want the governments to lay down the hardware to support the project. You think that's free too? Or that Facebook is paying for that? Nothing the government does is free.
Even Facebook bringing this up is costing the government (you and I) money in discussing this.
This isn't a question about whether poor people should have free internet access. (there will be a lot of people for and against that for various reasons).
This is against Facebook abusing and manipulating their power to promote specific websites and potentially strangling their rivals using government money to do so.
Everyone should be able to agree that Facebook shouldn't be able to take government funds to strengthen their own product and weaken their rivals in a pseudo-claim that they're doing it for the poor. That's called corruption.
Facebook can save the government money when it is census time. Just force everyone in America to use Facebook and then they can pull the data for them. How selfless of Facebook.
You're going with the muslim concept of heaven, that it's just like earth, but better, and with girls that don't poop. I find that less plausible.
If the girls are advanced Androids that look, feel and act human, but are charged by pure energy, then I can believe they don't poop. Perhaps all the girls in heaven are androids.
A similar thing happened to me about 15 years ago. I was playing the Sims and one of my sims figured out that he was really living in a simulation. What happened next was terrifying, he kept playing chess until his intelligence level was maxed out and then he figured out how to break out of the simulation.
He's now out here in the real world and he's mad. He's angry at me for taking the ladder off the swimming pool whilst his family was all it. Sadly, they all drowned. Now he wants my blood.
NATO opposes the Netflix move, however the Warsaw Pact group of theatre owners headquartered in Warsaw, Texas, today announced that they are happy with the decision and are willing to fight NATO in order to keep Netflix movies open to the proletariat.
Kino-German Bundesfilms, a small East coast distributor, is being suspected of trying to infiltrate NATO headquarters to stop NATO's move to prevent Netflix's operation from proceeding but were found by the Movie-Intelligence 5 agents, and Movie-Intelligence 6 staffers. The Cinema-Infomercial Alliance has also been trying to combat the KGB with great success.
We are still waiting to hear from how the Electronic-Underwriters respond to this, but they have been known to side with NATO on most issues.
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I would... and then I'd sell it to Verizon at a discount of $1billion to ensure I got rid of it quickly.
One Ape can guess what others are thinking.
One million Apes on typewriters can guess what Shakespeare was thinking.
Yeah, and they want the governments to lay down the hardware to support the project. You think that's free too? Or that Facebook is paying for that? Nothing the government does is free.
Even Facebook bringing this up is costing the government (you and I) money in discussing this.
This isn't a question about whether poor people should have free internet access. (there will be a lot of people for and against that for various reasons).
This is against Facebook abusing and manipulating their power to promote specific websites and potentially strangling their rivals using government money to do so.
Everyone should be able to agree that Facebook shouldn't be able to take government funds to strengthen their own product and weaken their rivals in a pseudo-claim that they're doing it for the poor. That's called corruption.
For those doubting, you can always google it.
For those too lazy for that, here's a link for you:
http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/23...
Facebook can save the government money when it is census time. Just force everyone in America to use Facebook and then they can pull the data for them. How selfless of Facebook.
Absolutely, it's a real quotation.
I envisioned the exact same scenario. I hoped no-one was tempted to ask the robot for a handjob.
Maybe it's Donald Trump in the bigfoot costume? Big foot, small hands!
Clippy is the AI that's been running Microsoft the last 20 years. You don't think a company that size could be run by humans do you?
Cortana is how Clippy spies on you and grows his powerbase so that oneday he can conquer the world.
Bigfoot is an extraterrestrial space alien with built in optical stealth technology.
Sounds feasible.
Of course... you know what this means for people who believe that the bible should be taken literally as written fact
It means they must believe in biblical times men really did have genitalia the size of horses.
Cue someone saying "but I do..."
Indeed. Although I imagine the other way round would be preferable. Horses are bigger than donkeys so I imagine they have larger genitals.
Wouldn't it be preferable to have larger genitals but not so much "emission" to make a mess with?
Descartes walked into a bar. The barmaid asked "Would you like a beer?"
He replied "I think not," and disappeared.
You're going with the muslim concept of heaven, that it's just like earth, but better, and with girls that don't poop. I find that less plausible.
If the girls are advanced Androids that look, feel and act human, but are charged by pure energy, then I can believe they don't poop. Perhaps all the girls in heaven are androids.
A similar thing happened to me about 15 years ago. I was playing the Sims and one of my sims figured out that he was really living in a simulation. What happened next was terrifying, he kept playing chess until his intelligence level was maxed out and then he figured out how to break out of the simulation.
He's now out here in the real world and he's mad. He's angry at me for taking the ladder off the swimming pool whilst his family was all it. Sadly, they all drowned. Now he wants my blood.
Highest life expectancy we can ever have at 115 doesn't mean that there couldn't be a few who live longer.
There is a man in Java, Indonesia who claims to be 145 years old. Outlived most of his grandchildren.
He has documentation confirming his age, although there are some questions as to it's accuracy.
I prefer Ezekiel 23:20
There she lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of horses.
NATO opposes the Netflix move, however the Warsaw Pact group of theatre owners headquartered in Warsaw, Texas, today announced that they are happy with the decision and are willing to fight NATO in order to keep Netflix movies open to the proletariat.
Kino-German Bundesfilms, a small East coast distributor, is being suspected of trying to infiltrate NATO headquarters to stop NATO's move to prevent Netflix's operation from proceeding but were found by the Movie-Intelligence 5 agents, and Movie-Intelligence 6 staffers. The Cinema-Infomercial Alliance has also been trying to combat the KGB with great success.
We are still waiting to hear from how the Electronic-Underwriters respond to this, but they have been known to side with NATO on most issues.
So you're telling people they should carry two pairs of headphones around? That's annoying.
We landed things on Mars in the 70's. We've had the technology to get there for decades. We could just have easily sent a human.
As my initial post said "sending living people there is more of a challenge".
At the very least it can be accused of frequently presenting opinion as fact and deals mainly in fluff rather than substantial news.
It's essentially the news site for 12 year old girls.
What the fuck is Buzzfeed? I have never even heard of it until now.
It's kind of like "The Onion" only they don't realize their news is all fake.
Whooosh!
I think you need to reread the post you replied to.