SkyDekker
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Why? In your other thread you go on about how technology is first aimed at a small market only for the rich and then driven to a larger market by the inequality in wealth. You argue that much of innovation wouldn't take place without wealth inequality. Based on your logic, you should be applauding that these innovations are expensive and only available to rich countries. It would fit with your thesis. Yet, somehow here you find a way to argue the opposite. The same would apply here: Expensive and only for a small market of rich countries. Eventually getting cheaper through innovation moving down to less wealthy markets.
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Even that is not correct. Let's take one of your "cause of physics" examples. You bring up the SQ limit. That limit is certainly real. But that limit is also tied to a specific technology. Working on that technology has already pushed efficiency well beyond the SQ limit. You are making the same mistake many other people make when thinking about advancement. You are limiting yourself to current technology, believing we are at the end of innovation. And with additional training you would be able to hold your breath beyond 12 minutes. Current record I believe is slightly longer than 22 minutes. Not too long ago people believed the human body would never be able to run a sub 4-minute mile.
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20 years ago reality would have dictated we could not watch tv, wireless on handheld device. 20 years ago reality would have dictated the UK would be entirely off coal for 3 days in a row. 20 years ago reality would have dictated Germany would not be able to produce 100% of its energy from renewable sources for a day.
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I like how in one thread you say how rich people are driving innovation and here are saying innovation cannot happen because of costs.
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Did you read it? Freedom of Information request for records. Records all glowing. Oh but we found mystical additional information. But, we aren't going to tell you what that is. But, that mystical additional information points to this...... What a load of crap.
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I know. And those arenas and stadiums don't exist if non-rich people don't buy tickets to see games put on by athletes providing free labour.
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Trump is seen in pictures with suspected sex slave smugglers. Ready to declare him guilty?
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You may have a point on the universities. Without the income in-equality and the forced free labour of student athletes there may not be such profitability around NCAA football and basketball.
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Your argument seems akin to this: Without porn new types of media would not have been adopted throughout history. Considering that every time a new type of media was invented, the early adopters and investors into that media were from the porn industry. Therefor new media would not have become widely adapted if porn didn't exist. Still hard to argue that without porn these different forms of media wouldn't have existed. No books without porn? No pictures without porn? No internet without porn? No film or video without porn?
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I am still trying to figure out how rich people voting themselves more money is commendable, but people trying to work towards a higher minimum level of quality of life for everybody are evil. Being able to afford a 4th or 5th mansion, or a 4th or 5th yacht is more important than other people having food and healthcare.
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How are any of those new technology and not repackaging of existing technology? Also, how do you argue these items would not exist without a "rich people market"?
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What you haven't done is provided ample examples to support your thesis. You have provided one example: cell phones. Though as billvon already outlined, that wasn't new technology but a packaging of existing technology. Hence, we have ample examples of how your thesis is wrong and not yet a single example of why your thesis is right.
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Funny to hear people expound the virtues of pure capitalism and how the market will automatically adjust to inbalance, then turn around and complain how a free service on the internet isn't nice to them and how the government should step in and enforce...something.
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But also post memes comparing black people to monkeys etc. Ever thought about the idea that Twitter banning people isn't related to politics?
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Other than the wrong quote contribution. Let's also point out how interesting it is you present AOC as an example. Specially since rich Republicans just voted themselves significant tax breaks not too long ago. They very literally voted themselves more money. The brilliant part from them is, that they have convinced the poor and stupid this is also in their interest.
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The US Justice system really is a joke. Judges ruling because God spoke to them. Charges appearing and disappearing at random. Money moving to prosecutors or judges. One system for those who have money, another system for those who are poor.
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100%? That will never happen.
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So what is operational control? What does that mean? You highlight it as an important determination, but what is it?
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Well, other than that those guys never said North Korea is no longer a threat. Trump did.
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What does "operational control" mean? I mean as long as the majority of contraband is coming through controlled points of entry it is a bit of a weird term.
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I tend to think it should be up to the women to decide if they like to be grabbed, not their husbands. But I have yet to find a Republican who would be happy if a stranger went around and grabbed their wife by the pussy.
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So representing a porn star makes one a "dirty porn lawyer". What makes one after fucking and paying off a porn star?
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Never understood how people think efficiency should be the guiding principle for government policy.
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That isn't how research works. We know gravity exists, there is no data stating that somebody has tested gravity at every spot on earth. Not by your standard, not every shooting is reported.
