That is not universally true. When the West conquered the Americas, they did not try to pass themselves as Gods. The natives at first thought they where Gods, but the first arrow shot at them in the name of science quickly disproved that idea. And there are more examples throughout history. Also any space alien with the technology to come to Earth, terraform it, plant a sentient species on it would also know that eventually their gig would come up when said species reached a certain level of understanding and knowledge.
...which in turn makes you wonder how do you determine which parts of the Bible are symbolic and which are literal?
If it's all symbolic, then it stands to reason that God and Jesus are symbolic as well.
If not who gets to make that call? The Pope?
Not sure if he's trolling, but this post is soo full of shit....Lol
Lets say for the sake of argument you are 100% correct, God was a space alien with advanced tech.........that means that he was a mortal being (or at least started off as one) bound to the same law of physics that we are.
We could, in theory, achieve the same level of knowledge and power as he did (since there was nothing magical about him). How exactly is is he then worthy of worship or awe from us?
Also wtf why play stupid games, create us and leave us in a state of ignorance, refusing to clarify anything and being an absent land lord? And leave us a (easily) demonstruably false book as a guide?
Also how do know which space God is the real one? Zeus? Space Zombie Jesus? Buddha? Allah?
How is this possible and still make $$$ off the service?
I know that for the vast majority of their user base won't come close to using 1TB any time soon, so this is largely a symbolic move to generate interest in their products, however what about these scenarios:
#1 I use it to store my company's encrypted backups.....forever, no more need to delete old ones to make room for new ones. If every sys admin did this...the would run into trouble pretty quick. Just make sure no single file goes above 10GB.
#2 As a programmer what stops me from setting up my own cloud solution, where I code a different looking front end, however I have OneDrive in the back-end storing the files, going through their API?
And I am sure there are tons more that others can think of.
I get the feeling this might be a cleaver trick for 2 reasons:
#1 Kill the small players in that space (Dropbox etc)
#2 Get more people to upload tons of material, accustomed to using online storage, maybe even kill off the local HD concept (other than for OS boot purposes) then a few years later quietly impose limitations past what the average person uses. Say for example 3 years from now the average user consumes 3TB, give 3TB free, charge anything for above.
This video explains how herd immunity works and shows models of what happens when most of the population is vaccinated and when most are not:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-cKzzPkz2o
This is why everybody that can be vaccinated SHOULD be vaccinated.
Personally I think the government should take the money and instead of building a database which WILL LEAD TO ABUSE, and instead focus on educating the public how vaccines ACTUALLY protect us (and no, it is not on the individual level), and the risks involved with vaccination (although they definitely do not cause autism, there some health risks to some individuals), and why the trade off is overall worth it for society (the same reasoning why we do not ban cars even though they kill people and children).
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That is not universally true. When the West conquered the Americas, they did not try to pass themselves as Gods. The natives at first thought they where Gods, but the first arrow shot at them in the name of science quickly disproved that idea. And there are more examples throughout history. Also any space alien with the technology to come to Earth, terraform it, plant a sentient species on it would also know that eventually their gig would come up when said species reached a certain level of understanding and knowledge.
...which in turn makes you wonder how do you determine which parts of the Bible are symbolic and which are literal? If it's all symbolic, then it stands to reason that God and Jesus are symbolic as well. If not who gets to make that call? The Pope?
Not sure if he's trolling, but this post is soo full of shit....Lol Lets say for the sake of argument you are 100% correct, God was a space alien with advanced tech.........that means that he was a mortal being (or at least started off as one) bound to the same law of physics that we are. We could, in theory, achieve the same level of knowledge and power as he did (since there was nothing magical about him). How exactly is is he then worthy of worship or awe from us? Also wtf why play stupid games, create us and leave us in a state of ignorance, refusing to clarify anything and being an absent land lord? And leave us a (easily) demonstruably false book as a guide? Also how do know which space God is the real one? Zeus? Space Zombie Jesus? Buddha? Allah?
How is this possible and still make $$$ off the service? I know that for the vast majority of their user base won't come close to using 1TB any time soon, so this is largely a symbolic move to generate interest in their products, however what about these scenarios: #1 I use it to store my company's encrypted backups.....forever, no more need to delete old ones to make room for new ones. If every sys admin did this...the would run into trouble pretty quick. Just make sure no single file goes above 10GB. #2 As a programmer what stops me from setting up my own cloud solution, where I code a different looking front end, however I have OneDrive in the back-end storing the files, going through their API? And I am sure there are tons more that others can think of. I get the feeling this might be a cleaver trick for 2 reasons: #1 Kill the small players in that space (Dropbox etc) #2 Get more people to upload tons of material, accustomed to using online storage, maybe even kill off the local HD concept (other than for OS boot purposes) then a few years later quietly impose limitations past what the average person uses. Say for example 3 years from now the average user consumes 3TB, give 3TB free, charge anything for above.
This video explains how herd immunity works and shows models of what happens when most of the population is vaccinated and when most are not: www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-cKzzPkz2o This is why everybody that can be vaccinated SHOULD be vaccinated. Personally I think the government should take the money and instead of building a database which WILL LEAD TO ABUSE, and instead focus on educating the public how vaccines ACTUALLY protect us (and no, it is not on the individual level), and the risks involved with vaccination (although they definitely do not cause autism, there some health risks to some individuals), and why the trade off is overall worth it for society (the same reasoning why we do not ban cars even though they kill people and children).
Read up on herd immunity if you want to understand how vaccines actually work and why it is important for as many people possible to be vaccinated.