the citizens of Rome were desperate for all the luxury items like silks from China, that they were willing to exchange gold coins for fashion wear that wouldn't last a season. The emperor actually had to impose a ban on payments in gold.
All that proves is that gold nutters are nothing new.
Messing with ecosystems can have unexpected consequences. You might get a threefold increase of politicians or an epidemic of myxomatosis resistant middle managers.
Exactly. I see a lot of people make the same point harrkev did, and they're wrong for exactly the reason you suggest.
If you own all the factories, and the mines, and the steel mills, and the bakeries and the delis you don't need to sell anything to anybody because you can just tell them to make you a car and to sudo make you a ham sandwich. You would literally have more than money could buy.
Why? Just because they exist doesn't mean they're doing something, and just because they're doing something doesn't mean that thing is useful.
Most CPU power - at least on the desktop - is either drawing animated amimojomongs or whatever they're called, putting chrome like transparent shadows on menus, or just sitting around waiting for user input.
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What if someone takes a dump in the box?
That's not a problem with communism, that's a problem with military dictatorships - which can come from any place on the axis.
All that proves is that gold nutters are nothing new.
LOL. Even internet tough guys need to sleep.
Just not onto your patch, right? Sure, you're a tough guy. Some of them might be tougher.
And it's always caused conflict. Look at the waves of Huns, Mongols, Turks etc. who periodically swept out of central Asia.
And the world was a lot less crowded then.
Where are we going to crawl to?
Messing with ecosystems can have unexpected consequences. You might get a threefold increase of politicians or an epidemic of myxomatosis resistant middle managers.
Better the devil you know.
That's because they're worst predictions. You do a worst case, a best case and another one - middle or likely case - that lies somewhere between.
Huge swarms of country singers?
Planning to - if I can find the bastarding. My den is a total tip at at the moment.
And they like totally never have earthquakes or fires either.
It'd be a bad idea if they weren't already doing something else in the process. Like, say, computing stuff and all that.
To put it another way: the heat is a by-product.
Unlimited data plans have limits. Even in Star Wars.
Spock: "I think I've met enough Yoda's already, thank you very much."
Yoda: "Thing that to me belongs left out you have! Outloudlaugh"
I was just thinking about house-martens and barn owls. Where did they live before humans?
Thanks for bringing that up. Now I'll have to listen to Gipsies, Tramps and Thieves.
Generating ideas or writing shite articles?
It says Oxo on buses, but they don't go there.
So does almost everybody in the world own a BT device?
Exactly. I see a lot of people make the same point harrkev did, and they're wrong for exactly the reason you suggest.
If you own all the factories, and the mines, and the steel mills, and the bakeries and the delis you don't need to sell anything to anybody because you can just tell them to make you a car and to sudo make you a ham sandwich. You would literally have more than money could buy.
[Golf clap].
Gas chambers.
Not seeing the causal link there either.
You don't believe in the creator? Even if he says that you can say whatever you want and you're allowed to play at cowboys and Indians in real life?
Why? Just because they exist doesn't mean they're doing something, and just because they're doing something doesn't mean that thing is useful.
Most CPU power - at least on the desktop - is either drawing animated amimojomongs or whatever they're called, putting chrome like transparent shadows on menus, or just sitting around waiting for user input.