Whenever I saw someone write something retarded on the internet in the past, I just chalked it up to the person in question genuinely being retarded. The idea that a government agency might intentionally be contributing retardation to poison genuine discussion seemed ridiculous on the face of it. Now, every time I read something and think "no one can really be that stupid, can they?" I've begun to wonder. Maybe no one CAN really be that stupid...

Indeed, but there is an important detail in quality of the venue that you've glossed over. Only very rarely has a home viewing of mine been interrupted by shitheads who won't stop talking (or these days, won't stop destroying the darkness with their maglite-like phones), little kids throwing popcorn, or littler kids crying. When you also take into consideration that you can pause, rewind and fast-forward movies on your computer, the cost-benefit analysis of going out vs. staying in gets much more complicated.

Maybe back in 2003 that approached the truth. We live in the age of the web-dl and screener season now, grandpa.

Pretty sure bluray and dvd rips have a significantly higher quality than what is commercially available, as they have all the unskippable bullshit stripped out.

That depends on your concept of identity across worlds. Surely the first post in another multiverse cannot be entirely identical to one in this one, as it exists in a different multiverse, not this one. Furthermore, it also differs from "this" post in that it is first in reply to the article posted on Slashdot*, or /.*. It also differs in that it wasn't made by you, but you*, who further differs from you in such a way that allows him to make that first post where you failed. If you're already so different from you* as to fail where he succeeded, it would stand to reason that any post made by you* is sufficiently different from posts made by you that they do not qualify for identity. In which case, there really is no universe in which your post was the first post.

No it's not. A smart phone is more conveniently carried than a laptop. A smart watch is not more convenient than a smart phone. There are also functions that a smart phone can perform that a laptop can't. Please rein in your assholishness until you learn how analogies work.

You are legit a crazy person or a smart watch salesman. I see no other possible explanation.

They demonstrated a novel argument for why there are no hidden variables and that the statistical descriptions of quantum mechanics reflect reality accurately.

A smart watch is a smart phone with less functionality that you have to wear around your wrist. I don't understand the appeal at all. Everything it does a smart phone does better, only a smart phone is not strapped to one of your body parts.

I don't understand how people with such a poor command of meaningful language are able to effectively manage and lead multi-billion dollar corporations.

I suppose it is possible that they are capable, secretly, of conveying meaning by the use of words, but then why would they hide this ability from investors? Surely a CEO who doesn't sound like a retard inspires more confidence than one who does?

Pretty sure it's Vrije Universiteit, because the whole functions as a name. In fact, to distinguish it from the one in Brussels, it should probably be referred to as Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

Not anything. Magic won't become real, even if a Texas court decrees it.

Mod parent up. We need fewer students in university, not more. You really should only go to university if you're passionate about some subject and want to learn more about it, but that's not why most students are there.

It's called Pelagornis sandersi, and it lived between 25 and 28 million years ago.

As pushing is trivial, and both of your applications can be achieved by pushing, they were already covered before this discovery.