What's the point of restarting the human race? Like GP said, the universe will get along just fine without humans.
So let me get this right, the universe will get along fine with humans and without humans. So therefore without humans is the obvious right choice?
I suppose that it doesn't matter to me whether or not you're surgically attached to a toilet bowl or not, so clearly that's an argument for the toilet bowl.
This is like getting a 68% and calling it a C grade average.
That's not much of a curve. I've seen 18% considered the low end of C grade.
Here's a serious question. What is the point of launching a few people off into deep space if the Earth has been destroyed? It won't help the people left behind., and the Universe will get along just fine without humans.
What party did you not consider? The people who got off of Earth. It helps them quite a bit to not be dead.
Further, I think it would be of great comfort to the people about to die, that someone would survive and remember them. So I think a scheme to save some people by moving them off of Earth would help the ones who didn't get that chance.
Alibaba is probably as good as any stock. If things go wrong, things go wrong.
Only if you ignore risk. One could say the same of getting out of bed and sky-diving. Things could go very wrong in either case, but getting out of bed is far less likely to leave you a pancake.
They didn't buy you at fair value. They said that you could either sell to them at a severe loss, or they would make their own version of your product and put you out of business
Then you weren't worth "fair value". I find it interesting how Microsoft dumped all this money into software firms and all of the replies to my post are complaints that they could have dumped more. Well, it's not their job to do that.
after someone with a monopoly engaged in predatory practices
A monopoly in buying start ups? This has nothing to do with Microsoft's market dominance in OS or Office, and everything to do with ridiculously high internal expectations and valuations for software companies of the time.
"If it ain't broke, don't fix it." - Bert Lantz
