Be proud of your race when it solves corruption, poverty and inequalities...
You can do something about it, be proud of it and at the same time watch rockets fly
http://www.watsi.org
I'm not too sure Australia would be unaffected, there are quite a few US bases / radar stations etc on Aussie soil...the Chinese/Russians may not like it if it came to a head..Antarctica and Greenland maybe?
People can be wary of new neighbours, i don't see why it wouldn't apply to space neighbours.
On a brighter note, maybe we should welcome with open arms anyone, after all, better be nice than not nice!
Thanks guys for clarifying. So am I right to think that they don't have any "identity" that makes them "yahoo" anymore and they just collect rent from a bunch of properties they acquired? In my mind, google is google (identified primarily by search) microsoft is Microsoft( primarily identified by windows and office) yahoo is? ... Is it like if Facebook abandoned social media altogether and became a simple owner of "stuff"?
There's no such thing as a free lunch, and many people believed they could mine one lunch at no (or very little) cost and expect that lunch to last forever. That's very unfortunate, but who wouldn't see that such a utopia would come to an end. It's like thinking that electric cars will replace other cars in 10 years or 20 years (there's too much at stake , the environment being last on the list).
Even if the public was to embrace a such a "currency", governments would step in (and they did) realising they would have no control. The very fact that it became an object of speculation and was making people richer meant it wasn't a currency anyway, it was no better than property, therefore spawned a bubble as a natural phenomenon.
Bitcoin, like Punk certainly isn't dead.
Bitcoin sounded and looked like the sex pistols a year ago, now it sounds and looks like Green Day.
It's gotta be one of the best things I've ever read.
>Instead of reaching for the fellow man, we want to set ourselves apart, andthus, remarkable.
So true.
>Modern life nearly conspires against the collective. We are tormented by a relentless flow of information as well as the daily worries of an eternally insecure, unwarranted life.
Oh well, then that means I have this alter ego having a life of his own. Imagine this, after 40 years of having a Facebook account, my shadow account gets his numbers and shadow personality "woken up" into an AI system ( for the Brits, there's a kick ass episode of "black mirror" that illustrates this), I wonder how different my shadow me would be :)
Imagine after the human race ends, some aliens resuscitate "us" by using the principle above from deep buried Facebook archives... How much more bullshit would this artificial human race be made of compared to what there is already :)
He doesn't own my ass, I don't have a Facebook/Instagram/whatsapp/(whatever Facebook owns or will own) account and never will. I'll never need to, just as people never needed to 10 years ago, Nor will I ever have any oculus rift thingy on my head. So there, he doesn't own my ass!
And when Facebook starts buying people's asses for 10 billion bucks, I still won't sell mine :)
Edit: and if one day Facebook owns the internet, then I'll buy a farm, grow veggies and get off the "grid". I'll become a "nature growth hacker" ( remember you saw it here first!).
Just as ridiculous ( and remarkable) as Ferrari's dominance was for so many years with ol' Schumi at the wheel. As long as no one is cheating, whoever leads most certainly deserve to be at the top.