Or Libertarians, or Socialists, or Anarchists, or Communists, or... you get the idea.

Indeed, Colombus was considered insane not because anyone thought he would fall off of the world, but because they knew he would starve. Colombus was very insistent that the world is quite a bit smaller than it actually is, and calculated out the supplies he would need based on a distance everyone knew was about half of what he would actually need to travel. His original destination was India, and by the time he hit the Caribbean they were pretty much out of food and fresh water, and not far from mutiny. Everyone else was pretty much right, they were just unaware that he would run into an unknown continent.

Spain only took him up on the proposal because they were extremely desperate and he wouldn't stop bugging them... so they gave him 3 leaky, obsolete, undersized ships crewed by criminals, foreigners and other undesirables, gambling that either he would find *something* of value or that nothing of value would be lost. It worked out well for them, but it was never a good bet, and they never believed it was.

While it is possible some groups without any access to large areas of flat land or open water *might* have believed the world to be flat, no seafaring culture ever labored for long under such a misconception, because spotting the curvature of the Earth at sea is trivially easy even with the naked eye.

So I take it that you believe it is simply impossible that there are more genuine links and other legitimate ranking metrics for speadingsantorum.com than for any other site? It can't possibly be that, like it or not, that's the #1 result because it is the most relevant, and not because of SEO and political conspiracy?

I see your Schwartz is as big as mine. Now let's see how well you handle it.

The terrible truth is that the Thing on Trump's head is, in fact, Donald Trump. The grotesque fleshy appendage below, commonly believed to be his actual body, is really the partially consumed remains of a deformed orangutan. That Thing, as it were, is a partially-sentient trans-dimensional parasite, using its host for the purposes of locomotion, sustenance, and reproduction: which it accomplishes by implanting slug-like larvae into the ears of human hosts between the ages of 17 and 32. The larvae then gestate for approximately 23 years, using that time to invade the central nervous system, and at the moment of maturity seize full motor and sensory control from the victim, leaving their former host a helpless, but conscious witness to the atrocities their former bodies will then commit.

The day of reckoning will come, Trump shall rule this world, and his Glory shall build an Empire to span our universe. All shall know Him and tremble at his Might and Power. We shall be His eternal servants, in life His serfs, in death His sustenance. Those few deemed worthy may even be given the Great Honor of serving as Trump's Host for some years, until our flesh is no longer fit to carry His Magnificence and we are ceremoniously cast into the sun as tribute to our Master.

All Hail Trump.

"Yes it runs on the 4, but not as well, so it makes sense that Apple would disable it entirely"

Given the nature of the feature, the same could be said for simply using it as a phone, and by your logic it would make sense for Apple to disable the use of all iPhones older than the 4S as telephones...

It would be a pretty aggressive business model, though.

And if that doesn't work, they'll stop coming back with bigger probes. Something's gotta work...

"annual $5 Billion budget"

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! You fucking WISH the number was that low! $5 billion per year is NOTHING compared to the actual military budget.

Wow, thanks for that. I really needed a good laugh.

Carrier pigeons are susceptible to attack via bird feeders. They simply harvest the information when the pigeons stop to eat.

You just can't win.

In the sense that you cannot rule out the existence of a deity, yes. That doesn't mean you should believe in one, think that the existence of a deity is probable, or operate as though it is a meaningful question. It's a small semantic point, but it does actually matter that there is no evidence to suggest a deity couldn't exist, merely a lack of compelling evidence to suggest one does. New things are found every day: maybe tomorrow, someone will find a god.