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Comment Re:Cult (Score 3, Insightful) 431

See, the thing is that 500 years ago our ancestors invented FTL travel. Several solar systems were colonized, most with far better planets than Earth. Eventually, Earth was solely inhabited by the Luddites who feared FTL, and therefore they completely erased it from the history books.

Now you want to visit another solar system, but you are told it is physically impossible. There is no way to do it, the means of travel do not exist.

That is pretty much what it's like for the children in these kinds of sects to attempt to get a good education. The very knowledge that good educations exist are essentially kept from them.

Comment Re:Isn't there, though? (Score 1) 179

I'll admit I haven't ever used an Apple product and so don't know the details of how iMessage works, plus it's 3 am and I can't sleep. However, I don't recall other Apple devices being mentioned, rather a PHONE NUMBER being moved from one kind of phone to another - and suddenly what people may have THOUGHT were SMS messages suddenly not appearing. If they were receiving the messages on their iPad, iPod or Mac instead there wouldn't be as much of a problem with going days without getting any messages and not knowing something was wrong, right?

Comment Re:The court is right (Score 1) 427

no-one having an alternative plan yet that appears to be as effective at getting new works produced and distributed, I guess.

Let people who like to make art (paintings, stories, music, whatever) do so because they like to do so without expecting it to let their great-grandchildren live like royalty - that's not what 'royalties' mean.

Culture isn't about mass-producing music that is, essentially, all the same, or producing movies and books that all follow pretty much the same script.

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