6 years ago called. They want their lame realultimatepower reference back, because they were afraid people would start using it to try to be funny, which is clearly impossible with material this old and hackneyed.
Switches...pffft.
In my day we used vaccuum tubes and counted 'em out with our fingers how many were lit up or not, then did the math with a sliderule and paper. And we were greatful for it!
In an article about the RIAA, a comment using the term "stealing music" is posted. It gets instantly modded down into oblivion, and there are a dozen replies about the differences between "stealing" and "copyright infringement".
In an article about iPods, a comment is made that people that don't use iTMS are said to be "stealing". There are no replies, and the comment is modded up.
Did it never occur to you that maybe the same people didn't read both articles? Nah...that would be crazy.
yeah, they have rapid prototype machines in industry for like $50K, of course, but it will be "The Next Big Thing" when you can get the starter kit at Best Buy, and everyone has one.
Is the next big thing. You can take that to the bank. Not your father's plastics, but plastics you are able to print at home into any configuration imaginable, including parts for the device that does the printing.
Yeah, but using this logic you could say that there was never any "next big thing" because all inventions were the result of modifying some previous invention all the way back to fire. In 1993 or 1994 I could easily see some visionary saying that the internet in people's homes is going to be "the next big thing". Would they have been wrong? After all, the internet was already surely in a lot of people houses at that point, but I don't think it would have been considered "a big thing" to most of the country. And hell, the internet itself had been around for decades at that point. By 2000 or so, I would say it became pretty "big". So at some point it must have been "next". I think the same thing goes for common consumer level cybernetics. Sure, you are absolutely right that the components of cybernetics have been around for quite awhile, but that doesn't mean it can't be the "next big thing".
I don't mean to be touchy, but its just the Nintendo DS. The gameboy is something different. Saying "on the Gameboy DS" makes you sound sort of like people in 2001 complaining that the kids are pirating music on that Napster website. That is, it makes you sound a bit out-of-touch.
Freedom of speech gives you the right to go into a public area crowded with US soldiers, stand up in the front and call them all baby killers. What do you think the outcome of that would be? What do you think the outcome would be if you exercised your right to go to Watts with a sign that says "I hate ni**ers"?.
It has nothing to do with morality. With freedom comes responsibility. Unless you are a fool, you can't be at all surprised when an act deliberately designed to piss people off, pisses them off. Especially, ESPECIALLY, when said pissing off involves religion or race.
Its not a double standard, its common reality based sense.
"Freedom won't come to anyone simply because a corporation pushes for it, it will come when the people demand it and make it happen (hopefully through peaceful means, but by whatever means the people deem reasonable)."
exactly. furthermore, people tend to reject ideas that someone else says is good for them, even if it is good for them. freedom only comes to those who seek it out for themselves. add to that the idea that if one does not earn freedom oneself, then one cannot appreciate the responsibility that goes with it.
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6 years ago called. They want their lame realultimatepower reference back, because they were afraid people would start using it to try to be funny, which is clearly impossible with material this old and hackneyed.
Switches...pffft. In my day we used vaccuum tubes and counted 'em out with our fingers how many were lit up or not, then did the math with a sliderule and paper. And we were greatful for it!
right. its because the admins are jerks. not because you're being a jerk. they just hate what you have to say. that's it. that's the ticket.
In an article about iPods, a comment is made that people that don't use iTMS are said to be "stealing". There are no replies, and the comment is modded up.
Did it never occur to you that maybe the same people didn't read both articles? Nah...that would be crazy.
Why are you so angry? Seriously, read your comment. Dripping with derision, sarcasm, and contempt over an mp3 player. I'm so glad I'm not you.
Yeah, but did you ever go to the Anne Frank Museum in Amsterdam ... ... ... on WEED?
yeah, they have rapid prototype machines in industry for like $50K, of course, but it will be "The Next Big Thing" when you can get the starter kit at Best Buy, and everyone has one.
Is the next big thing. You can take that to the bank. Not your father's plastics, but plastics you are able to print at home into any configuration imaginable, including parts for the device that does the printing.
Yeah, but using this logic you could say that there was never any "next big thing" because all inventions were the result of modifying some previous invention all the way back to fire. In 1993 or 1994 I could easily see some visionary saying that the internet in people's homes is going to be "the next big thing". Would they have been wrong? After all, the internet was already surely in a lot of people houses at that point, but I don't think it would have been considered "a big thing" to most of the country. And hell, the internet itself had been around for decades at that point. By 2000 or so, I would say it became pretty "big". So at some point it must have been "next". I think the same thing goes for common consumer level cybernetics. Sure, you are absolutely right that the components of cybernetics have been around for quite awhile, but that doesn't mean it can't be the "next big thing".
And yes. Puns were intended.
It has nothing to do with morality. With freedom comes responsibility. Unless you are a fool, you can't be at all surprised when an act deliberately designed to piss people off, pisses them off. Especially, ESPECIALLY, when said pissing off involves religion or race.
Its not a double standard, its common reality based sense.
exactly. furthermore, people tend to reject ideas that someone else says is good for them, even if it is good for them. freedom only comes to those who seek it out for themselves. add to that the idea that if one does not earn freedom oneself, then one cannot appreciate the responsibility that goes with it.
in soviet china, uh... government strong-arms corporations.
Great! Don't buy them. There'll be more ebooks for us then.
what's video?