There are just too many reasons why faking the moon landings would have been impossible. The only logical answer is that they faked faking the moon landings.
My wife uses a £35 Amazon Fire tablet. It has the same form factor as my old Nexus 7, runs everything she wants without complaint and we can easily sideload apps that are missing from the Amazon store. She is over the moon with it and the only reason I haven't bought one myself is that I really have no need for a tablet (I use my phone for anything I don't do on my laptop).
That's 1/10 the price of the cheapest iPad. This to me is the funniest thing about ipad owners looking down on android. They just overpaid by a factor of 10 and all it got them was an unwarranted superior attitude.
You have to think of it more like the stringy bits of cheese when you tear a slice off a pizza. Or the vomit running off your chin after 10 pints of lager, 5 large whiskies and an extra large four cheese pizza. It can help understanding to picture the universe as a mixture of alcohol, doughy cheese and stomach lining.
Except its not a playground anymore. Talking like that just makes you sound like the people in the 90s who thought the Internet was just a playground and would never take off. Facebook is way past the point where its just a playground.
I work around the pub/restaurant industry in my area. Many nowadays don't bother having websites and email addresses are also not guaranteed. Every single one has at least Facebook - for most their Facebook page is their main portal to the world. I even know some (although not that common) who don't have a phone on the premises (they don't take bookings and don't want to be pestered). You're just thinking too personal.
I didn't use myspace at all and knew no-one else making any use of it (beyond maybe one guy with a band), and at the time I worked in a tech job with techies and creative people who were all online all the time. Nowadays I don't know anyone who doesn't have a facebook account, even if they don't all go on often. I have no doubt that Facebook will lose its dominance at some point in the future, but 1) that could be a long time away given how ubiquitous it is and 2) we'll be no better off if everyone moves from one locked down platform to another.
There is simply no comparison between MySpace and the ubiquity of Facebook.
I feel like we're going in circles. Its your binary position that is hyperbolic - you have agreed that absolute free speech cannot exist, yet you seem to demand an absolute lack of censorship. My position is one of pragmatism - the world is just not that black and white and extremism is not the answer (if you'll excuse the use of a loaded term).
I'm sorry, but you're just arguing about where to draw the line, which makes the rest of what you say hyperbole (or, my line's better than your line). Just because tyrants have limited freedom of speech (or privacy) doesn't mean that any limit on freedom of speech is tyranny. That would be a fallacy and would suggest that we all live under tyranny since there is no absolute freedom of speech anywhere. Since the US doesn't have absolute freedom of speech or privacy there are lines drawn. Similar lines are drawn in Europe, but in different places. Why is your line on speech better? Why is your line on privacy (e.g. less) better (and private property is only one aspect of privacy)?
You are arguing as if its black and white. Free speech or tyranny. But you have neither, so explain that?
1) the EU is not banning speech or even offensive speech. They are banning speech that incites violence and terrorism
2) in the USA you do not have absolute freedom of speech so despite your hyperbole any argument is about where the line should be, not whether there is a line.
3) I would argue that privacy is just as important a right as speech. I don't have any evidence to back that up, but then neither do you. You're just spouting dogma.
I don't know about that. Pre-assembled can be pretty pricey - after all you really are still paying to have someone put it together for you. It just happens before you see it. And you're probably paying skilled worker rates rather than gig worker rates.
Firstly, we don't have 'monopolistic cab companies' here. Anyone is free to start their own cab company - you just have to be licensed if you want to drive a cab (licenses are not saleable goods). Secondly, the Uber drivers I have spoken with are 100% happy with the situation and seem to be doing OK. They are just not destroying the existing cab companies by ignoring regulation 'because internet.... '. Thirdly, 'costs of compliance' - cry me a river.
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Yeh, me too. Now I've been arrested for indecent exposure.
There are just too many reasons why faking the moon landings would have been impossible. The only logical answer is that they faked faking the moon landings.
But...but...but...that's communism!
Make better unions. Where I am company executives siphon money to spend on themselves thru expense accounts, discounts and dinners
Yeah, I loved that ... really, most profanity outbursts probably are the result of inadequate language, IMHO.
Fuck off
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So I could keep my diesel car?
Good idea. Let us know when you have gotten somewhere with it and I'll give it a test.
My wife uses a £35 Amazon Fire tablet. It has the same form factor as my old Nexus 7, runs everything she wants without complaint and we can easily sideload apps that are missing from the Amazon store. She is over the moon with it and the only reason I haven't bought one myself is that I really have no need for a tablet (I use my phone for anything I don't do on my laptop).
That's 1/10 the price of the cheapest iPad. This to me is the funniest thing about ipad owners looking down on android. They just overpaid by a factor of 10 and all it got them was an unwarranted superior attitude.
I thought the cutting edge of the lunatic fringe was all about the flat earth. Sounds like David Icke is old news
I live on a flat earth you insensitive clod!
Dark matter is as dark matter does
You have to think of it more like the stringy bits of cheese when you tear a slice off a pizza. Or the vomit running off your chin after 10 pints of lager, 5 large whiskies and an extra large four cheese pizza. It can help understanding to picture the universe as a mixture of alcohol, doughy cheese and stomach lining.
Except its not a playground anymore. Talking like that just makes you sound like the people in the 90s who thought the Internet was just a playground and would never take off. Facebook is way past the point where its just a playground.
I work around the pub/restaurant industry in my area. Many nowadays don't bother having websites and email addresses are also not guaranteed. Every single one has at least Facebook - for most their Facebook page is their main portal to the world. I even know some (although not that common) who don't have a phone on the premises (they don't take bookings and don't want to be pestered). You're just thinking too personal.
I didn't use myspace at all and knew no-one else making any use of it (beyond maybe one guy with a band), and at the time I worked in a tech job with techies and creative people who were all online all the time. Nowadays I don't know anyone who doesn't have a facebook account, even if they don't all go on often. I have no doubt that Facebook will lose its dominance at some point in the future, but 1) that could be a long time away given how ubiquitous it is and 2) we'll be no better off if everyone moves from one locked down platform to another.
There is simply no comparison between MySpace and the ubiquity of Facebook.
So you are an illegal immigrant?
So get your guns and fight! I thought that's what you had them all for?
Isn't this the reason you have all those guns over there? Maybe I misheard, but I thought you needed all those guns to stop The Man abusing you?
I feel like we're going in circles. Its your binary position that is hyperbolic - you have agreed that absolute free speech cannot exist, yet you seem to demand an absolute lack of censorship. My position is one of pragmatism - the world is just not that black and white and extremism is not the answer (if you'll excuse the use of a loaded term).
The other commenter summed it up pretty well.
I'm sorry, but you're just arguing about where to draw the line, which makes the rest of what you say hyperbole (or, my line's better than your line). Just because tyrants have limited freedom of speech (or privacy) doesn't mean that any limit on freedom of speech is tyranny. That would be a fallacy and would suggest that we all live under tyranny since there is no absolute freedom of speech anywhere. Since the US doesn't have absolute freedom of speech or privacy there are lines drawn. Similar lines are drawn in Europe, but in different places. Why is your line on speech better? Why is your line on privacy (e.g. less) better (and private property is only one aspect of privacy)?
You are arguing as if its black and white. Free speech or tyranny. But you have neither, so explain that?
I'm sorry, but that's just hyperbole.
1) the EU is not banning speech or even offensive speech. They are banning speech that incites violence and terrorism
2) in the USA you do not have absolute freedom of speech so despite your hyperbole any argument is about where the line should be, not whether there is a line.
3) I would argue that privacy is just as important a right as speech. I don't have any evidence to back that up, but then neither do you. You're just spouting dogma.
So stop punishing people for murder. It doesn't stop it.
I know that's a crap analogy, but so was yours.
I don't know about that. Pre-assembled can be pretty pricey - after all you really are still paying to have someone put it together for you. It just happens before you see it. And you're probably paying skilled worker rates rather than gig worker rates.
Pay for your own sponges you dirty socialist.
Firstly, we don't have 'monopolistic cab companies' here. Anyone is free to start their own cab company - you just have to be licensed if you want to drive a cab (licenses are not saleable goods). Secondly, the Uber drivers I have spoken with are 100% happy with the situation and seem to be doing OK. They are just not destroying the existing cab companies by ignoring regulation 'because internet.... '. Thirdly, 'costs of compliance' - cry me a river.