What Moore is trying to say, if you'd pay attention, is MILLIONS of Americans simply cannot 'pay out of the whazoo' - they need to scrape money for rent because they get 20 hrs at wal-mart and 20 at Denny's, and the car just broke down, blah blah blah.
Not everyone is as lucky as you.
In fact, MOST aren't nearly as well off as you.
When you are broke, you are screwed, period. Broke and get sick or hurt? Sorry.
I think we could also easily say that F9/11 certainly incited a debate. I believe it deserves some credit - it was the only piece at the time, especially in most theatres and media outlets, that outright attacked EVERYTHING we were doing at the time.
I'm a bit of a Moore fan, so take it as you will.
Where I live, in little tiny Connecticut, you cannot walk to ANY business within 4-5 miles. What will you reach when you get there? A hardware store, liquor store, and dunkin donuts.
The nearest grocery store is well over 10 miles away, and good luck walking that far on tiny, winding, rural roads.
For Americans in many parts of the United States, no car indeed = no job.
Now it does make some sense - the US being so large, public transit simply cannot cover everywhere -population density is simply too low. Still, this is a problem
IANAS (I am not a scientist)
But I thought I remembered hearing the size limitation has to do with the speed of light only being so fast - so if you make a cpu too large, you run into a delay issue because data can only move so fast.
But, this might all be total BS. I did read it on Slashdot after all...
"We're dissapointed in the way the community is handling this..."
Here's a note for you Xandros & Co. -
The community owes you nothing. Not dignity. Not respect. Nothing.
The community continually develops and improves a product for free - you take it, modify it, and profit from it.
Without them your business doesn't exist.
Stop complaining. Communities are fickle.
If the only way for us to survive is to slaughter others, then there's nothing worth keeping. Nothing special or unique about humans - we're just animals that use better tools than others.
Why do we deserve to live? Because we might shoot first? Maybe visit the aliens with smiles on our faces and leave a few nukes behind (or chemical agent etc etc etc)?
It is NOT Darwinian to be a stupid shit and slaughter an entire race. Sorry. Not even close.
Believing that Darwinism applies in this situation is moronic and flawed.
Humans like you make the rest of us hope any races we meet will be more like the Asgard or Nox (Stargate reference) than anything else. I hope they're advanced enough to scare us shitless.
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I am not a Gentoo User...
But that has to be one of the most absolutely terrifying hypothetical scenarios I have ever read on Slashdot.
Glad it's just never going to happen...
What Moore is trying to say, if you'd pay attention, is MILLIONS of Americans simply cannot 'pay out of the whazoo' - they need to scrape money for rent because they get 20 hrs at wal-mart and 20 at Denny's, and the car just broke down, blah blah blah. Not everyone is as lucky as you. In fact, MOST aren't nearly as well off as you. When you are broke, you are screwed, period. Broke and get sick or hurt? Sorry.
I think we could also easily say that F9/11 certainly incited a debate. I believe it deserves some credit - it was the only piece at the time, especially in most theatres and media outlets, that outright attacked EVERYTHING we were doing at the time. I'm a bit of a Moore fan, so take it as you will.
Where I live, in little tiny Connecticut, you cannot walk to ANY business within 4-5 miles. What will you reach when you get there? A hardware store, liquor store, and dunkin donuts. The nearest grocery store is well over 10 miles away, and good luck walking that far on tiny, winding, rural roads. For Americans in many parts of the United States, no car indeed = no job. Now it does make some sense - the US being so large, public transit simply cannot cover everywhere -population density is simply too low. Still, this is a problem
IANAS (I am not a scientist) But I thought I remembered hearing the size limitation has to do with the speed of light only being so fast - so if you make a cpu too large, you run into a delay issue because data can only move so fast. But, this might all be total BS. I did read it on Slashdot after all...
"We're dissapointed in the way the community is handling this..." Here's a note for you Xandros & Co. - The community owes you nothing. Not dignity. Not respect. Nothing. The community continually develops and improves a product for free - you take it, modify it, and profit from it. Without them your business doesn't exist. Stop complaining. Communities are fickle.
If the only way for us to survive is to slaughter others, then there's nothing worth keeping. Nothing special or unique about humans - we're just animals that use better tools than others.
Why do we deserve to live? Because we might shoot first? Maybe visit the aliens with smiles on our faces and leave a few nukes behind (or chemical agent etc etc etc)?
It is NOT Darwinian to be a stupid shit and slaughter an entire race. Sorry. Not even close.
Believing that Darwinism applies in this situation is moronic and flawed.
Humans like you make the rest of us hope any races we meet will be more like the Asgard or Nox (Stargate reference) than anything else. I hope they're advanced enough to scare us shitless.