When I was young we used to drink tap water from the communal water fountain and you know people didn't always die from it. I don't understand the obsession with paying $5 for a bottle of water you have to carry around everywhere.
I don't know about you, but I pay around $20 a month for my internet. I also pay for hosting on the websites I host. What is this "free internet" you speak of?
Oh you mean all those people who manage to convince other people to pay extra for internet delivered services, or to put pixels on their virtual real estate? Well tbh we can all do without that self-inflating self-promoting bullshit industry called "advertising", and nothing of value would be lost.
Capital words - they are a good substitute for logic. This post is wrong on so many accounts, but you strike me as the type of person who does not listen because they are afraid of not having the answers, so I won't even bother.
In much the same way that the government has convinced everyone that it's corporations, banks and wall street that are stealing millions from the people.
Yes I'm glad to be surrounded by fellow citizens who think the police should go around breaking the noses of people who downloaded songs or movies instead of I dunno, catching murderers and rapists.
. I know I can never convince anyone that I forgot the passkey
You're missing the point. You should never have to convince anyone that you forgot something. Lawyers are the first to prey on and profit from the limitations of human memory. Suddenly claiming that memory is 100% perfect when you might possibly be in a position to incriminate yourself is a perversion of justice. No one can prove you forgot something, and you cannot be asked to prove your innocence (ie, that you did forget).
Well, the seeing the evidence on this planet - of millions if not billions of species there is only one capable manipulating radio waves.
I would say that your argument based on equating the ability to manipulate radio waves with intelligence is pretty weak. I'm still waiting for signs of intelligent life here on Earth.
what is there from stopping us from reaching an appreciable fraction of the speed of light?
F = m[(vehicle) +m(fuel)]a. If only there was a way to get rid of the "m(fuel)" part of that equation... You can read fantasy books all you want - it takes energy to accelerate any object with mass, which means you need a source of energy. Unfortunately you need to bring this source of energy with you (if only to slow down on the other side), which means you have more mass, which means you need more energy, etc.
Who cares what the head of a soon to be bankrupt company has to say? Although professional and corporate suicides are sometimes entertaining, this one is not even that.
Because they don't give a shit about the internet - in fact, they see it as competition. So the more ridiculous, expensive and useless things they can get the internet to waste money and resources on, the better.
Yet more proof that a good turn of phrase matters more to people than truth.
This is nothing new, and was documented as far back as ancient Greece - though the people who make a living by manipulating others' beliefs probably knew this long before. In fact it can be evidenced in the behavior of "lesser" mammals too. So long as the alpha male is there looking tough, the herd is happy. Yeah once in a while someone gets eaten by a lion, but we have the alpha male to protect us...
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When I was young we used to drink tap water from the communal water fountain and you know people didn't always die from it. I don't understand the obsession with paying $5 for a bottle of water you have to carry around everywhere.
Gee I feel safer already /sarcasm
No, you should calmly and rationally answer his points.
"The gods themselves will argue in vain against a fool...". I guess I'm just old enough to have learned this by now.
I don't know about you, but I pay around $20 a month for my internet. I also pay for hosting on the websites I host. What is this "free internet" you speak of?
Oh you mean all those people who manage to convince other people to pay extra for internet delivered services, or to put pixels on their virtual real estate? Well tbh we can all do without that self-inflating self-promoting bullshit industry called "advertising", and nothing of value would be lost.
Capital words - they are a good substitute for logic. This post is wrong on so many accounts, but you strike me as the type of person who does not listen because they are afraid of not having the answers, so I won't even bother.
I bet that'll shoot down your plane.
There, I can't go to America anymore either. Despite the fact I was just singing "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" by Elton John.
Wait - I get it. You're implying he's a "terrorist".
Change cake to coke and perhaps your example is relevant to the music industry.
In much the same way that the government has convinced everyone that it's corporations, banks and wall street that are stealing millions from the people.
Sanity? I read it as "you're missing a few zeros on that bribe offer".
You don't have to register as a sex offender when you get out of jail for contempt.
Yes I'm glad to be surrounded by fellow citizens who think the police should go around breaking the noses of people who downloaded songs or movies instead of I dunno, catching murderers and rapists.
And being inside a jail cell is possibly the safest place you can be in a world like that.
. I know I can never convince anyone that I forgot the passkey
You're missing the point. You should never have to convince anyone that you forgot something. Lawyers are the first to prey on and profit from the limitations of human memory. Suddenly claiming that memory is 100% perfect when you might possibly be in a position to incriminate yourself is a perversion of justice. No one can prove you forgot something, and you cannot be asked to prove your innocence (ie, that you did forget).
Sorry Zuckerberg, the banks changed their privacy policy. Your information now belongs to them to use or sell as they see fit... sound familiar?
Quick, buy facebook stock!
Maybe they get paid by the hour? This is Ubisoft we're talking about...
You're right. If it was Electronic Arts they wouldn't get paid at all...
"You Earthlings have burned the Sacred Oil Goddess we buried on your planet millions of years ago! Now you must die!"
Well, the seeing the evidence on this planet - of millions if not billions of species there is only one capable manipulating radio waves.
I would say that your argument based on equating the ability to manipulate radio waves with intelligence is pretty weak. I'm still waiting for signs of intelligent life here on Earth.
what is there from stopping us from reaching an appreciable fraction of the speed of light?
F = m[(vehicle) +m(fuel)]a. If only there was a way to get rid of the "m(fuel)" part of that equation... You can read fantasy books all you want - it takes energy to accelerate any object with mass, which means you need a source of energy. Unfortunately you need to bring this source of energy with you (if only to slow down on the other side), which means you have more mass, which means you need more energy, etc.
No, it reduces the usefulness of google as a search engine. But people don't HAVE to use google.
Who cares what the head of a soon to be bankrupt company has to say? Although professional and corporate suicides are sometimes entertaining, this one is not even that.
Because they don't give a shit about the internet - in fact, they see it as competition. So the more ridiculous, expensive and useless things they can get the internet to waste money and resources on, the better.
Yet more proof that a good turn of phrase matters more to people than truth.
This is nothing new, and was documented as far back as ancient Greece - though the people who make a living by manipulating others' beliefs probably knew this long before. In fact it can be evidenced in the behavior of "lesser" mammals too. So long as the alpha male is there looking tough, the herd is happy. Yeah once in a while someone gets eaten by a lion, but we have the alpha male to protect us...
Got a nice view of the sand there, Mr. Ostrich?