2) That doesn't actually matter however since we didn't send a signal at all.
But we did!
...and incorrectly applied in any case; 47 is less than twice 27.
The summary is wrong. TFA says "U.S. has dropped 27 places to 47th in the world", or from 20th to 47th. So meaningless or not, over 100% is right.
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Yes, because someone couldn't possibly want to make a walkthrough with highlight-able spoilers or something like that...
Actually, why do people take the 140 character limit as if it's the speed of light anyway? I know it's because of SMS, but this is the freaking 21st century! It's like forcing people to use only 26 letters to write stuff because it has to be compatible with the telegraph, and Morse only has encoding for said letters! Arrrgggghhh!!!
While I myself don't use Twitter and have literally only read about 3-4 tweets since the site first appeared, I can certainly see the use of this imposed limit. Say I want to follow the news about several dozen people (book authors, movie critics, gog.com owners, etc.) but don't want to waste much time doing it. So instead of reading their homepages and the news items they post on them, or their blogs, which could conceivably degenerate into multiple-page-long ramblings with only a tiny bit of relevant information hidden somewhere in them, I'd follow them on Twitter, where they are forced by the limit to write short and concise updates. In fact I suppose this might have been one of the reasons for creating the site in the first place or if not, it should have been.
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Really?
Ask yourself how many popular sci-fi shows that plenty of geeks enjoy still get canceled in their infancy, because they don't bring in enough money almost immediately for those who bankroll them to continue writing the cheques until the series is established.
What actually springs to my mind is, how many of those popular, canceled sci-fi shows were actually successful (in terms of being well in the black when all expenses and all venues of distribution are considered) and were only killed because they didn't bring in as many viewers as the more successful non-scifi shows.
If the only art that's left is art motivated by non-financial reasons, there will be less art.
Indeed, unless we lived in a post-scarcity society. Which is probably also the only way to get rid of the current copyright situation.
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