Sayonara

And die a little inside, no doubt.

I love the way these people make one god awful hit-and-run post, to show us the error of our ways. TAKE THAT SCIENCE!

Anybody else want to link this thread to that stupid boy scout?

If I'm going to reverse engineer a chip, I'm not going to be accepting that agreement.

They probably looked at each other (as you do when something odd happens), and had a vague image imprinted on their retinas by the flash. Then both tracked it across the floor as it "moved" ahead of their line of sight.

Ignoring the racism, China is (for whatever reason) treaty-bound to protect North Korea.

Remind me: who was the US President in 2002?

I think you'll find that's not true.

I don't think reverse engineering is actually a crime.

The perception that the context in which events occur is important to understanding those events doesn't seem terribly outlandish to me.

"I'm going to totally ignore the progressive discussion and make useless comparisons."

It refers to your habit of narrowing the focus of your counter-argument down to a single combination of words, and their specific meanings, which strips out any vestiges of context.

If I say it's a banana, does that make it a banana?

... That's beyond tenuous.

Your school wants you to write about 70,000 words?

Search for agar - there have been a couple of threads on it iirc.

They can only target the big uploaders, if they're expecting to 'win'.

I wouldn't worry about that.

The problem with that particular argument is that the entire premise is wrong. Fun, isn't it? I suppose some people are quite happy to stop thinking once they get that 'answer'.

I think they're unlikely to try and nuke anyone. NK might be a repressive, near-totalitarian state run by people we'd prefer never to run into, but they aren't all dribbling fools.

Maybe not money per se, but if this is a society of humans I think we can safely assume there will be a need for at least one form of currency, whether it's arbitrary (like dollars) or practical (like food).

It's unlikely to cause a biblical town, if you really think about it.

Exactly. Proclaiming otherwise as a pretence for war is not quite inhuman, but getting there.

I don't have a problem with close-minded people if it means they ignore hogwash like that.

It's... odd. Certainly some independent investigation is required.