Face book users buy the service with their data, which Facebook uses in exchange form money from their other customers. You seem to think consumer and customer aren't related, and that they only think someone can buy something with is money.

A customer (sometimes known as a client, buyer, or purchaser) is the recipient of a good, service, product, or idea, obtained from a seller, vendor, or supplier for a monetary or other valuable consideration.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Customer

Bolded for the stupid.

You sir, should read some books

Or he is thinking of the Kodak Disk 4000. Not floppy, but it was a type of disk.

" they waited too long to go digital"
They where based on using chemicals and machines to develop photos and creating film. You can't take that digital.

All he is saying that it's gutting the iuddle class. all thos epople moved on to lower paying jobs.
There are fewer and fewer jobs for skilled workers and more and more unskilled 'box packers' jobs.
Think about his example, it goes farther than Kodak company. How many photo processing places are left? very few, most of which are run by 1 person with a machine. photo mat booths?

Technology is replacing people, and the people to make that new technology is a LOT fewer then the people displaced.
This can e a good thing, or a disaster. If we can get past the socialism scare mongers and thinking long term, this is a good thing for all people. If we keep driving to an unregulated free market with no support this will be very bad,

Wrong. Kodak was a film company, not a camera manufacturer.

Until we invent a meta material that allows us to manipulate gravity, OF COURSE it's 'shifting' the dimensions. G'ah.

not an accurate example of how it works.

quorn is not a grain, it's a fungus!

And I'm not sure why people have to be so literal when it comes to the predictions of a futurist. A selection of food protein derived from non-animal sources, generally processed heavily to provide it with a meat like texture. If you were in the 1960s you would probably assume algae was the future. But the core idea is about taking something that isn't meat and turning it into a trendy meat substitute.

Am I the only one who prefers Soylent Red over Soylent Green ?

you never been to whole foods? they have a hot deli bar and salad bar.

I counted it as a single license as well. Non-commercial drivers license + Class M1 endorsement.

Incorrect. You're statment have been shown to be wrong. Your bias is forcing you to clinging to a narrative that has been proven to be false. Please learn and apply critical thinking skills.

"medieval warm period and the roman warm period to both be warmer."
In one section of the globe, not the global temperature.

"Temperatures in some regions matched or exceeded recent temperatures in these regions, but globally the Medieval Warm Period was cooler than recent global temperatures"
Bold by me.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medieval_Warm_Period

"Theophrastus (371 – c. 287 BC) wrote that date trees could grow in Greece if planted, but could not set fruit there. This is the same situation as today, and suggests that southern Aegean mean summer temperatures in the fourth and fifth centuries BC were within a degree of modern temperatures. This and other literary fragments from the time confirm that the Greek climate during that period was basically the same as it was around 2000 AD. Dendrochronological evidence from wood found at the Parthenon shows variability of climate in the fifth century BC resembling the modern pattern of variation.[3] Tree rings from Italy in the late third century BC indicate a period of mild conditions in the area at the time that Hannibal crossed the Alps with elephants
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Warm_Period

"at a rate far far less than predicted by all your models."
Patently False. They aren't rising as fast as the worse case scenarios the media likes to report. They are rising within model predictions.

"Nor have they risen to temperatures that exceed recent human history past"
irrelevant. Then rise in the past was do to different reasons. WHAT EXPERTS IN THE FIELD OF CLIMATOLOGY are talking about is energy trapped by excess CO2.

" Dismissed global warming that transpired on other celestrial bodies in our solar system during the same time."OK, you are just waving your ignorance arounbd.
A) If you are implying the warming is from an extrenal source, say in increase in the out put of the SUns energy, it would apply to every single body in the solar system in accordance to the inverse square law. Other body warming is NOT happenign on all bodies, and where it does happen there is no correlation to it happening on few other bodies.
B) IF you are implying there is an increase in the energy output of the sun, we would know becasue we measure it pretty accuratly. The rising trend does NOT correlate with the Suns activity.

" Has a habit of touting every storm or weather incident (even earthquakes) as proof of global warming, "
um, that's the media, not scientists who are experts in that field of study. However, there will be an increase in the energy of events. This can be stronger storms, or more storms,. The bottom line: more energy expressed over time.

"we did have some of the hottest years in recent record during the late 90's.
That really nice and I"m sure that makes sense in your little box of ignorance, sadly it shows you are completely ignorant and just restating the same bull crap Fox has fed your simpleton mind.

"We have also had some of the coldest incidents in recorded history in recent years as well."
As expect by climate change models, dumb ass. The term climate change is older the global warming, BTW.

Facts:
1) Visible light comes from the sun.
2) Visible light creates IR when it strikes something
3) CO2* absorbs IR energy
4) We put out far more CO2 then can be absorbed by the pre-industrial climate cycles.

So tell me: What's happening to the extra absorbed energy id it is impacting the climate?

There is a reason you echo chamber only cherry picks 'facts' and never talks about the actual science.

*This applies to other gases as well, but CO2 is the biggest one we emit at this time.

Ever been to Whole Foods?

Tofu, Quinoa, Quorn, Seitan, Tempeh, ...
 

One of NSA's chief missions is breaking encryption. So (for the US folks among us) it's okay when it's the German or Japanese codes in WWII, but somehow sinister when the reality is that much of the world now shares the same tools, systems, services, networks, encryption standards, etc.?

In a free society governed by the rule of law, it is not the capability, but the law, that is paramount. And for all of the carping and hand-wringing about what NSA is doing because its capabilities continue to be laid bare, where is the worry about what states like China and Russia are doing?

The US flag is a work of art.