4300 years ago...

I guess the Sixth Dynasty of Old Kingdom Egypt didn't notice they got washed away, and went on building their pyramids like nothing had happened.

And Sargon must have clung to the side of the ark - or snuck on disguised as a dinosaur - so he could get back to building his empire as soon as the ground dried out.

I reckon the author is better at manipulating reality than he is at manipulating search results.

How did that work out for him?

Give everyone in the audience a nerf gun. The moment it takes more than 1 slide to talk about an idea the presenter can be shot. If the slide does not carry information that can not easily be spoken, shoot the presenter. If there is ANY clipart. Shoot the presenter.

Setting aside the sheer depravity of this argument, we have ample historical context for what happens when society cuts off the neediest. France, Haiti, Cuba, China, Russia, Algeria, Egypt, India, Scotland, The Phillipines, Mexico--just to name a few places where social and political inequality have driven massive, bloody revolts.

Wealth and political power calcify with the already wealthy and powerful. The middle and working classes slowly lose what wealth they have through attrition. Poverty becomes a virtually inescapable sink of destitution. Eventually, enough people end up having quite literally nothing to lose that you get vicious, deadly, destructive revolutions that take generations to recover from.

If you insist on taking a "pragmatic" view of not even bothering to -try- to improve the lives of the impoverished, try to at least understand the historical ramifications of what you're arguing for.

Ford GM and Chrysler will never EVER let you do this. They hate open standards. Hell GM is trying to get congress to say you dont own your car.

Now all Think Geek merch will be Emo and the packaging will cut it's self open!

and have massive MASSIVE bugs in them. GTA V for example, It's a unholy mess of griefers because the game's security is like a block of swiss cheese.

UK & Greece: no porn and no money.

Add adblocking on top of that and you will double those numbers.

The advertising industry is ruining the internet.

Which is pretty much what the bulk of american Police are.

Moron toilets that just blindly do whatever they are told. Most dont have the IQ to make a decision on their own.

Set up a video camera and he get's tazed once for every time he violated the law. This video is posted to youtube.

Scumbag cops like that dont care about fines, They need to be tazed in the scrotum. THAT they will understand.

I happened to be in Ireland the day before the vote and asked several of the No campaigners why they thought gay marriage should be banned. They ranged from adoption scenarios that already existed, a weird insistence that equality meant two things were IDENTICAL making gay marriage a contradiction, and the innovative approach of comparing gay marriage to global warming (because even though no one has had any problems so far that doesn't mean things won't go bad in the future for unknown reasons).

In short every argument was absolutely terrible and I had an absolute blast listening to them.

"Religious Right" in the USA is a euphemism for "sex obsessed control freaks".

catatonic

Or they'll just say they stopped but keep on doing it.

I'll be astonished if they aren't already doing more than we know about.