Comment Re:There have been studies (Score 1) 264
Do you know why that is? Because the younger generation will do anything to differentiate themselves from their parent's generation. Even if means abandoning a good product.
Do you know why that is? Because the younger generation will do anything to differentiate themselves from their parent's generation. Even if means abandoning a good product.
"Or, it's just more of keeping things simple."
Or it's a matter of security and user experience. Without an SD card you won't be getting a bunch of forum posts like this one: http://www.droidxforums.com/fo...
"devices capable of emitting electromagnetic radiations"
Does this mean they'll confiscate the alternator on my car? And what about my brain?!
So, in other words you didn't read the article.
It sounds like you just made that up. What evidence do you base that on?
The good side of humans is part of our nature as well, and according to the trend it is an increasing part of our nature. Did you even bother to look at the article I linked?
You should read the article I linked. It's much longer range than three or four generations.
"All the hippies need to get over it and come back to reality."
The reality is that evolution isn't finished. We are possibly evolving into something much greater than what came before. Steven Pinker exhibits that the human race has overall experienced a decline in violence in the recent past. (http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/history-and-the-decline-of-human-violence/)
Maybe the reality is that the hippies were right.
"The huge machinery behind the NSA / CIA / FBI and all those alphabet agencies wants total control, and it has the enthusiastic support of private companies such as Google, Microsoft, Apple, Cisco, amongst others"
While I admit that we have a de facto oligarchy here in the US I have to wonder that if the above were true then why have a warrant canary at all?
Well, sort of. There has been a much larger outlay of cash necessary to break into digital photography. You may realize a break even point sooner if you would have shot lot of rolls of film, but the initial barrier to entry is much higher than it was for film cameras, which really only needed to be a light-tight box. Having said that, the price of good digital cameras has come down a lot since the late 90s, so what I observe is more of a trough where film was pretty much phased out yet digital cameras were still really expensive.
"The current crop of sci-fi-writer-wannabes just ain't got the imagination to inspire"
I'm not sure there's even really a market for science fiction. What was that last Star Trek movie? I can't even remember the name of it now. It wasn't science fiction. It was an action flick with more explosions than ideas. It just happened to be set on a spaceship.
I'm willing to bet not many these days would have the patience to site through 2001: A Space Odyssey, let alone the original Solaris.
"Anthropology is the study of humans, past and present."
From http://www.aaanet.org/about/wh....
Not sure what is redundant here.
"Why would any intelligent creature want anything to do with us?"
In the same way that some people here on earth study primitive societies there would surely be some alien anthropologists out there interested in us.
"Yes, space is big, far bigger than you can imagine. "
You might even say "vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big."
Yep. That is the gist of America's new oligarchy.
"Multivariate analysis indicates that economic elites and organised groups representing business interests have substantial independent impacts on US government policy, while average citizens and mass-based interest groups have little or no independent influence."
Let me help you out by quoting myself:
"...as beautiful as a really high end watch."
Now let me help you out further by pointing out that I did not call it a high end watch. I normally wear a high end watch and I still want an Apple watch.
"The one charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception a neccessity." - Oscar Wilde