Comment Re:Voltron Anyone? (Score 0) 146
I got a real nostalgia kick out of this - not from the Lion Voltron reference but from the idea of spending half the day looking for a kitschy ringtone.
Oh to be 24 again.
I got a real nostalgia kick out of this - not from the Lion Voltron reference but from the idea of spending half the day looking for a kitschy ringtone.
Oh to be 24 again.
*sigh* I think it comes down to saying something the mods like to hear, not whether it is off topic or not.
Bingo!
Perhaps that's when its time to consider getting your tech news elsewhere.
Tubesteak was taking advantage of that, acting as if the scientists were trying to cover up that information, when in fact they made no attempt to conceal it.
Most of your point on TFA being a summary is for granted even though the modders seem to think it is somehow new information.
The point is Tubesteak posited some extra information and you categorically stated (i.e not suggested) his intentions were dishonest and further alleged that his ethics are questionable. This does smack of trolldom.
...war as a technology accelerant. It's why Hitler was Time magazine's Man of the Year, and almost won the Man of the Century, as the person who had the most impact on the 20th century. War gave us
Reading this late but had to comment on this.
Unless you can point to an example of a parallel world that developed at a slower pace due to a lack of war then you cannot assert that it has had a net beneficial effect on the development of whatever "us" (I assume global) you are referring to.
Yes war gave "us" intercontinental ballistics and the atom bomb but it also engendered a colonial divide that stunted the development of the majority of the globe. Your argument smacks of "broken window" economics.
One could assume that without the willingness to accept human deaths as expedient we might have had the impetus to achieve any number of other equally advantageous advances.
free = worthless
Do you work for Microsoft perchance?
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