Without people greedy for gold it would have taken longer for the Americas to be discovered. Without people wanking to online pictures, the internet might never have got so big.
Without rich people wanting to stay in power; the Coliseum you want fixing would never have been built. Without idiots with more money than sense, digital music might never have happened. It took the rich people wasting $1000 on a CD player to bring the money down for the rest of us.
I'm personally disgusted at the wealth divide in this country (and the world), but if it takes rich people spending more money in a minute than I'll earn in my life, just to get our spacefaring technology off the ground and make us a multi-planet species, I'm OK with that.
Whereas, I agree, we should expand ourselves and spread life beyond Earth, No matter how bad we fuck up the earth, it will always be more hospitable to us than any other planet or body in our solar system currently is. It may be the most hospitable place in the galaxy.
We cause oceans to rise and swamp the surface? It's still more hospitable than Mars. We poison the air and have to wear respirators? It's still more hospitable than Europa.
We kill all non farmed life on earth. It's still more hospitable than a Venus cloud city.
I personally have reservations believing we'll ever encounter another naturally evolved intelligent lifeform in our galaxy. However, if we do, I'd like to be more technologically advanced than them. I'd like us to be comfortably out of our solar system before the sun destroys the earth (plenty of time for that though). I'd like us to have self sustaining colonies off earth should some crazy person in Moscow decide to launch their nuclear missiles at the West. Or perhaps a virus evolves that wipes out mankind.
But more importantly than all that. More practically than all that (because most of the above are distant future threats that we could possible handle better in the future), I want to because we can. Because in doing so we will advance our species. We will learn new things that we can't currently foresee, things that will help our species.
You never know what you'll learn when you test yourself.
Yes, you're right, because the sun sends all it's solar energy towards earth. There are no potential nuclear fuels in space.
Oh wait... that's wrong.
Earth isn't the only place in the galaxy that has energy. Energy is everywhere. It may be concentrated in earth due to the presence of life sequestering it but it exists all over the place.
Speaking purely financially: A top of the line Apple you can find similar specs on Androids frequently for $200 less. If anyone has $200 worth of apps then they have other problems!
If you prefer Apple it doesn't really matter if you could switch to Android for less though.
We've put cameras everywhere. People now routinely carry them in their pockets. We have not photographed Bigfoot. We have no video of aliens. The existence of the Loch Ness monster is not a proven fact.
On the other hand there was convincing evidence of Bishopville South Carolina's lizard man caught on camera in the last couple of years.
If the Random Number Generator algorithm is revealed you still won't know what the next number will be based on one code. Even if you know the algorithm and knew that the code was "123" 1 hour ago, you won't know how-many iterations there have been to know what is next. Not without knowing the exact date the chip starting ticking.
Even if you did. 99% of would-be thieves wouldn't know.
The previous article referred to the cards resetting the code every hour. This one is different because it says the cards reset the code every 60 minutes.
In all the major stories that have broken over the last year or so; half probably haven't deserved the outrage and half should. This isn't all about "blacks resisting arrest". In half the cases they haven't been resisting or doing anything wrong at all. (in the other half, they were and probably there is no right for outrage).
I think police definitely treat blacks and whites differently, part of this is self-inflicted (some black people tend to be more aggressive and disdainful towards police); but if a man isn't a danger to a cop or anyone else (black or white) lethal force should never be used. Being black should never be a reason to be shot. It doesn't matter if a cop was heckled by a group of black youth 15 mins earlier- he has no right to shoot a completely different black man at a traffic stop.
A decent percentage of these major stories the cop has been very far in the wrong. Another group of them (like the one in Fergusson that kicked this all off), time has shown that the cop wasn't in the wrong.
All police should wear body cams all the time so that we know on a case by case basis if the police abused their power. ALL SHOOTINGS BY POLICE should go through a thorough investigation. Every single last one of them (black or white) should be investigated by an independent body.
A $3000 bicycle (that's a pretty high end bike at that price) could last you for decades. A $400 tamagochi upgrade will probably leave you bored after 2 or 3 months and if it doesn't, you'll probably want to buy the new model next year for another $400.
what about/r/blacklivesmatter? was that also shut down? of course not.
I'm quite disgusted that this has been modded up. There is definitely an element of blacklivesmatter that is subversive and just looking to stir up trouble, but they were formed as a counter-measure to several famous cases of cops shooting young black males when there were other and better courses of action. The point of BLM is equality, not racism. You can't piss on the whole movement because of a few asshats who align themselves with it.
It is not accurate to compare a white supremacy to blm.
I'm sure those stupid online t-shirt companies fit the 4chan demographic. That and cheap-ass alcohol ads. Red bull, Mountain dew. Geek-culture ads. Anime and cartoon network paraphanalia. Whatever the 21st century equivalent of Spencer's gifts is.
Plenty of things that would probably work for 4chan.
If I'm paying $400 for a robot it better be armed to the teeth to attack invaders, or know how to operate a vacuum cleaner and a dishwasher.
I'm not paying $400 for a robot I have to carry around myself that doesn't actually do anything but look cute. I can buy a Troll doll for $5 if that were my goal.
Millenia from now, future generations will look forwards to reading Oswald McWeany Slashdot posts the way highschool students love to read Shakespeare today.
I'm not prepared to do the google kung-fu to back it up, but I'm pretty sure if you look at a numbers game, more people have been killed (due to atrocities) by white Christians than anyone else.
What, about 50 to 60 million people killed in WWII alone; then how many tens of millions killed by the soviets? Perhaps over 100 million Native Americans died because of white people (millions would likely have died accidentally anyway though). Romans did have a Christian phase lasting several hundred years. Romans are the reason Christianity is the predominant religion in the west- they spread it throughout Europe.
How many millions died in Europe's conquest of Africa, SE Asia, the mind boggles. Who knows what other atrocities I'm missing. Certainly, no one expects the Spanish inquisition.
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How will people in Indonesia know if their cat wants a cheeseburger or not?
We have had the technology to send people to Mars for decades.
Sending living people to Mars and have them go on living is more of a challenge, but we're closer.
Without people greedy for gold it would have taken longer for the Americas to be discovered. Without people wanking to online pictures, the internet might never have got so big.
Without rich people wanting to stay in power; the Coliseum you want fixing would never have been built. Without idiots with more money than sense, digital music might never have happened. It took the rich people wasting $1000 on a CD player to bring the money down for the rest of us.
I'm personally disgusted at the wealth divide in this country (and the world), but if it takes rich people spending more money in a minute than I'll earn in my life, just to get our spacefaring technology off the ground and make us a multi-planet species, I'm OK with that.
Whereas, I agree, we should expand ourselves and spread life beyond Earth, No matter how bad we fuck up the earth, it will always be more hospitable to us than any other planet or body in our solar system currently is. It may be the most hospitable place in the galaxy.
We cause oceans to rise and swamp the surface? It's still more hospitable than Mars. We poison the air and have to wear respirators? It's still more hospitable than Europa.
We kill all non farmed life on earth. It's still more hospitable than a Venus cloud city.
I personally have reservations believing we'll ever encounter another naturally evolved intelligent lifeform in our galaxy. However, if we do, I'd like to be more technologically advanced than them. I'd like us to be comfortably out of our solar system before the sun destroys the earth (plenty of time for that though). I'd like us to have self sustaining colonies off earth should some crazy person in Moscow decide to launch their nuclear missiles at the West. Or perhaps a virus evolves that wipes out mankind.
But more importantly than all that. More practically than all that (because most of the above are distant future threats that we could possible handle better in the future), I want to because we can. Because in doing so we will advance our species. We will learn new things that we can't currently foresee, things that will help our species.
You never know what you'll learn when you test yourself.
Yes, you're right, because the sun sends all it's solar energy towards earth. There are no potential nuclear fuels in space.
Oh wait... that's wrong.
Earth isn't the only place in the galaxy that has energy. Energy is everywhere. It may be concentrated in earth due to the presence of life sequestering it but it exists all over the place.
Let them arrive at Mars please... no one wants to clean up the remains of a few exploded asshats on a launch pad.
I guess I just misunderstood how expensive apps were in the apple walled garden.
Almost everything is free on Android, and $5 is considered an expensive app.
Because it isn't a 6P.
Phones come in all sorts of sizes. There are no rules stating all phones should be the same size as the 6P
Speaking purely financially: A top of the line Apple you can find similar specs on Androids frequently for $200 less. If anyone has $200 worth of apps then they have other problems!
If you prefer Apple it doesn't really matter if you could switch to Android for less though.
People still do that?
We've put cameras everywhere. People now routinely carry them in their pockets. We have not photographed Bigfoot. We have no video of aliens. The existence of the Loch Ness monster is not a proven fact.
On the other hand there was convincing evidence of Bishopville South Carolina's lizard man caught on camera in the last couple of years.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...
I'm on the East Coast and didn't notice any outage. Are we sure it was the entire East coast?
If the Random Number Generator algorithm is revealed you still won't know what the next number will be based on one code. Even if you know the algorithm and knew that the code was "123" 1 hour ago, you won't know how-many iterations there have been to know what is next. Not without knowing the exact date the chip starting ticking.
Even if you did. 99% of would-be thieves wouldn't know.
The previous article referred to the cards resetting the code every hour. This one is different because it says the cards reset the code every 60 minutes.
Clearly not a duplicate.
So by your logic:
One US swimmer trashed a gas station and said he was robbed at gunpoint.
Does that mean everyone in America is a lying scumbag vandal?
That's ridiculous, just like it's ridiculous to claim BLM is a hate group just because there are a few members in the organization that are.
In all the major stories that have broken over the last year or so; half probably haven't deserved the outrage and half should. This isn't all about "blacks resisting arrest". In half the cases they haven't been resisting or doing anything wrong at all. (in the other half, they were and probably there is no right for outrage).
I think police definitely treat blacks and whites differently, part of this is self-inflicted (some black people tend to be more aggressive and disdainful towards police); but if a man isn't a danger to a cop or anyone else (black or white) lethal force should never be used. Being black should never be a reason to be shot. It doesn't matter if a cop was heckled by a group of black youth 15 mins earlier- he has no right to shoot a completely different black man at a traffic stop.
A decent percentage of these major stories the cop has been very far in the wrong. Another group of them (like the one in Fergusson that kicked this all off), time has shown that the cop wasn't in the wrong.
All police should wear body cams all the time so that we know on a case by case basis if the police abused their power.
ALL SHOOTINGS BY POLICE should go through a thorough investigation. Every single last one of them (black or white) should be investigated by an independent body.
A $3000 bicycle (that's a pretty high end bike at that price) could last you for decades. A $400 tamagochi upgrade will probably leave you bored after 2 or 3 months and if it doesn't, you'll probably want to buy the new model next year for another $400.
what about /r/blacklivesmatter? was that also shut down? of course not.
I'm quite disgusted that this has been modded up. There is definitely an element of blacklivesmatter that is subversive and just looking to stir up trouble, but they were formed as a counter-measure to several famous cases of cops shooting young black males when there were other and better courses of action. The point of BLM is equality, not racism. You can't piss on the whole movement because of a few asshats who align themselves with it.
It is not accurate to compare a white supremacy to blm.
I'm sure those stupid online t-shirt companies fit the 4chan demographic. That and cheap-ass alcohol ads. Red bull, Mountain dew. Geek-culture ads. Anime and cartoon network paraphanalia. Whatever the 21st century equivalent of Spencer's gifts is.
Plenty of things that would probably work for 4chan.
A sex bot at least serves a practical purpose.
I bet your cat doesn't come with a replaceable battery.
If I'm paying $400 for a robot it better be armed to the teeth to attack invaders, or know how to operate a vacuum cleaner and a dishwasher.
I'm not paying $400 for a robot I have to carry around myself that doesn't actually do anything but look cute. I can buy a Troll doll for $5 if that were my goal.
That's why they cost more than brand new ones.
Millenia from now, future generations will look forwards to reading Oswald McWeany Slashdot posts the way highschool students love to read Shakespeare today.
Or maybe not.
I'm not prepared to do the google kung-fu to back it up, but I'm pretty sure if you look at a numbers game, more people have been killed (due to atrocities) by white Christians than anyone else.
What, about 50 to 60 million people killed in WWII alone; then how many tens of millions killed by the soviets? Perhaps over 100 million Native Americans died because of white people (millions would likely have died accidentally anyway though). Romans did have a Christian phase lasting several hundred years. Romans are the reason Christianity is the predominant religion in the west- they spread it throughout Europe.
How many millions died in Europe's conquest of Africa, SE Asia, the mind boggles. Who knows what other atrocities I'm missing. Certainly, no one expects the Spanish inquisition.