It won't matter if everyone is all fluffy bunnies and roses when an ELE event occurs.
When it does happen our fluffy bunnies and roses mentality will get pushed aside and our base instincts will take over. The only reason "modern" societies are even able to function is because our manufacturing and infrastructure base allows even the weakest amongst us to survive without too much struggle. Take that away and it quickly will devolve into a "survival of the fittest" situation.
Our best hope for survival as a species is to spread out to as many places as we can, as far away from Earth as we can, so if something bad happens to any one of those colonies the rest of the species has a fighting chance for survival and can use their infrastructure and manufacturing bases to help the others pick up the pieces.
Wow, you make humanity sound just likes spores off a fungus... I guess if you look at the big picture, thats pretty clear. Our corrupt basic instinct survival spreading to where we can smash and grab an existence... If I were an extra terrestrial.. I'd nuke us fast before we can spread.
Humanity, the toxic mold of the universe.
Yeah... you go ahead and do that China. Tighten those screws, add another barrier to people enjoying themselves. Mark my words, you're only sowing the seeds of a revolution your trying to avoid.
Revolutions happen when things start to get better, so that there's hope, but aren't getting better fast enough. China isn't there yet, but it seems likely in my lifetime.
Actually it is my understanding that revolutions occur when things were starting to get better, then start to get worse again.
Cloud Computing: A cloud something you can look at but can't actually touch or manipulate in any way shape or form. If a cloud rains on you, you need to get out of the rain, if the cloud blocks the sun, you need to wait for it to move along.
If a cloud computing service provider wants to charge you more to access your data, you must comply.
Cloud computing has its advantages, BUT.. if at some point in the future all you can do is purchase thin clients rather than full home PC's, you're screwed.
This seems much like the iPass in Illinois. iPass started out as a convenience. Then it became the standard and they jacked up the price of regular tolls to about twice what you would pay normally. Now I guarantee you that at some point someone will say 'hey hardly anyone uses those tolls.. lets just force everyone onto iPass' lets get rid of the regular tolls...
Next thing you know they can monitor anyone's speed by judging distance/time between tollpasses.
So by tempting you with convenience, the making the old option a burden, then making the new option mandatory.. the venus flytrap closes on you and you're stuck looking at the world from behind those little bars.
I find this repulsive because AT&T services are something that should be considered a life necessity. Since AT&T is the only business that provides these services, consumers have no choice where to get this required need to sustain their lives.
What we really need is another option than AT&T, so that when we are given the contract to sign, we can just say "no" and go to a competitor with a less stringent contract.
That will be the day, friends, when the first competitor to AT&T arrives and gives us an option.
Oh, wait...
Choosing phone companies gives about as much choice as choosing a politician. In the end you get the same corrupt non functioning product no matter what you choose.
Thoroughly debunked. You've proposed your theory, and it's a poor fit for the evidence. Too bad, because solar-cycle-driven climate change is a neat, tidy explanation that doesn't require us to do anything drastic, like raise somebody's taxes. Now we're left with conventional climate models to explain the evidence: care to try again?
Seems to me that your conclusions were already made by your pocketbook and you went looking for evidence supporting your conclusion to satisfy said pocketbook.
Still not sure how I feel about this. While on the surface it will provide a new level of convenience for playing the game, it conversely takes away from the 'value' of the conscious decisions made when creating a character.
Every time Blizzard does this the game just feels more and more watered down. The very things they are doing to cater to the very casual players are the very things that are making the game less special and easier to leave.
Just a little nerd trivia. "A rich man entering heaven is as a camel going through the eye of a needle"
It is possible that this reference was to the smaller gate of a city referred to as a 'needle gate' that was used at night when the larger gate was closed. In order for a camel to pass through the needle gate it had to be stripped of all it's cargo. Thus, it is possible that the reference of a camel going through the eye of a needle is just another way of saying: "You can't take it with ya!"
I've always thought it ironic that virtue tends to help in the aquistion of power, and corruption is used to try and maintain it, but is its eventual downfall.
Remember folks, it's been said over and over and over again... First it will be tracking criminals, then it will be tracking children for their safety, then it will be tracking the general populous because they grew up with it.
With technology come vigilance on how it's used and how it could *potentially* be used.
Humanity, sliding down that slippery slope since 1984.
Local very small governments cannot tackle larger issues. For that you actually need a beaurocracy. When people talk about 'small government' what they're really talking about is privitization, which in reality is just transferring governing power from a representative entity to larger private enterprises i.e. corporations.
In the end small government with most things privatized gives up one 'self serving' entity for another. That being said, a government at least in theory is supposed to be accountable to all citizens and treat them with equality. A corporation on the other hand is self serving from the ground up and acts accordingly.
I'll take a large inefficient government that can be taken to task by it's citizens over an efficient screw the people corp as a ruling entity.
I was thinking more along the lines of a less craven, self-serving gov't. Not sure where you got the anarchy bit from.
To get a less craven, self-serving govt. The people kinda need to actively participate in government. Choosing the lesser of two evils candidate will no bring about the end your seeking.
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It won't matter if everyone is all fluffy bunnies and roses when an ELE event occurs. When it does happen our fluffy bunnies and roses mentality will get pushed aside and our base instincts will take over. The only reason "modern" societies are even able to function is because our manufacturing and infrastructure base allows even the weakest amongst us to survive without too much struggle. Take that away and it quickly will devolve into a "survival of the fittest" situation. Our best hope for survival as a species is to spread out to as many places as we can, as far away from Earth as we can, so if something bad happens to any one of those colonies the rest of the species has a fighting chance for survival and can use their infrastructure and manufacturing bases to help the others pick up the pieces.
Wow, you make humanity sound just likes spores off a fungus... I guess if you look at the big picture, thats pretty clear. Our corrupt basic instinct survival spreading to where we can smash and grab an existence... If I were an extra terrestrial.. I'd nuke us fast before we can spread. Humanity, the toxic mold of the universe.
Darth Vader hates the sound of "The Life Star"
If the Chinese are as "astute" as yourself, then perhaps I was mistaken to raise any sort of alarming rhetoric.
Yeah... you go ahead and do that China. Tighten those screws, add another barrier to people enjoying themselves. Mark my words, you're only sowing the seeds of a revolution your trying to avoid.
I think they're saying it with a soft G... Calling it Jewgle, which might explain lot.
Gizmodo more narcissistic than Steve? I do believe I have seen it all now. Bring on 2012, I'm ready.
I think it's pretty obvious. The oil plume as reached space.
Does anyone know why I'm just seeing a "403 Forbidden error" for this story!?
Revolutions happen when things start to get better, so that there's hope, but aren't getting better fast enough. China isn't there yet, but it seems likely in my lifetime.
Actually it is my understanding that revolutions occur when things were starting to get better, then start to get worse again.
It's just spring break up there. Just follow the trail of empty beer bottles and bikini bottoms.
Why do people continue to insist that 'nothing' is a viable choice in the *marketplace*?
My way or the highway does not constitute a market choice.
That's because corporations hire the best accountants, while government is run by the best liars.
That's because corporations hire the best governments, while accounting is run by the best liars.
There, fixed that for you.
Controversial? The only controversy is people who want to fly planes but are losing their jobs to video game nerds..
oh finally finally! I KNEW this day would come! /gleeeee
How is paying tolls a convenience?
When u don't have to wait in line to do it.
If a cloud computing service provider wants to charge you more to access your data, you must comply. Cloud computing has its advantages, BUT.. if at some point in the future all you can do is purchase thin clients rather than full home PC's, you're screwed.
This seems much like the iPass in Illinois. iPass started out as a convenience. Then it became the standard and they jacked up the price of regular tolls to about twice what you would pay normally. Now I guarantee you that at some point someone will say 'hey hardly anyone uses those tolls.. lets just force everyone onto iPass' lets get rid of the regular tolls...
Next thing you know they can monitor anyone's speed by judging distance/time between tollpasses.
So by tempting you with convenience, the making the old option a burden, then making the new option mandatory.. the venus flytrap closes on you and you're stuck looking at the world from behind those little bars.
I find this repulsive because AT&T services are something that should be considered a life necessity. Since AT&T is the only business that provides these services, consumers have no choice where to get this required need to sustain their lives.
What we really need is another option than AT&T, so that when we are given the contract to sign, we can just say "no" and go to a competitor with a less stringent contract.
That will be the day, friends, when the first competitor to AT&T arrives and gives us an option.
Oh, wait...
Choosing phone companies gives about as much choice as choosing a politician. In the end you get the same corrupt non functioning product no matter what you choose.
Thoroughly debunked. You've proposed your theory, and it's a poor fit for the evidence. Too bad, because solar-cycle-driven climate change is a neat, tidy explanation that doesn't require us to do anything drastic, like raise somebody's taxes. Now we're left with conventional climate models to explain the evidence: care to try again?
Seems to me that your conclusions were already made by your pocketbook and you went looking for evidence supporting your conclusion to satisfy said pocketbook.
"So, WoW losers ... grow up. Ditch the game, have a real life, and hang out with real humans"
I find this statement ironic coming from someone posting an entire books worth of trolling on slashdot.
Still not sure how I feel about this. While on the surface it will provide a new level of convenience for playing the game, it conversely takes away from the 'value' of the conscious decisions made when creating a character. Every time Blizzard does this the game just feels more and more watered down. The very things they are doing to cater to the very casual players are the very things that are making the game less special and easier to leave.
Just a little nerd trivia. "A rich man entering heaven is as a camel going through the eye of a needle" It is possible that this reference was to the smaller gate of a city referred to as a 'needle gate' that was used at night when the larger gate was closed. In order for a camel to pass through the needle gate it had to be stripped of all it's cargo. Thus, it is possible that the reference of a camel going through the eye of a needle is just another way of saying: "You can't take it with ya!"
I've always thought it ironic that virtue tends to help in the aquistion of power, and corruption is used to try and maintain it, but is its eventual downfall.
Remember folks, it's been said over and over and over again... First it will be tracking criminals, then it will be tracking children for their safety, then it will be tracking the general populous because they grew up with it.
With technology come vigilance on how it's used and how it could *potentially* be used.
Humanity, sliding down that slippery slope since 1984.
In other news, Deus Ex 3 is being renamed to D3us Ex.
I still don't know that Thiaf means...
Local very small governments cannot tackle larger issues. For that you actually need a beaurocracy. When people talk about 'small government' what they're really talking about is privitization, which in reality is just transferring governing power from a representative entity to larger private enterprises i.e. corporations. In the end small government with most things privatized gives up one 'self serving' entity for another. That being said, a government at least in theory is supposed to be accountable to all citizens and treat them with equality. A corporation on the other hand is self serving from the ground up and acts accordingly. I'll take a large inefficient government that can be taken to task by it's citizens over an efficient screw the people corp as a ruling entity.
I was thinking more along the lines of a less craven, self-serving gov't. Not sure where you got the anarchy bit from.
To get a less craven, self-serving govt. The people kinda need to actively participate in government. Choosing the lesser of two evils candidate will no bring about the end your seeking.