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Wow what has the USA got against Barack; give the guy a break
Topic Started: Nov 4 2010, 01:11 AM (3,719 Views)
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Even then it's technically incorrect. I mean, you can say hypothetical teapots are harmful, but they aren't- what is harmful is when people get angsty over whether the teapot is pink or blue. And when dangerous, that is indeed very, very real.
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Dude. Teapots kill people.
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Hypothetical/imaginary ones don't.
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Nov 11 2010, 03:16 PM
But Parasky, all those hubs and routing devices which connect parts of the world would be down. The cloud would then be lost.
You... Do know why they call it the cloud, right? The internet isn't some thing (series of tubes) located in a building somewhere. It's located everywhere, it is literally nothing more than devices connected to each other. My computer is the internet, your computer is the internet, smartphones are the internet, servers are the internet. They're connected by everything from telephone lines to satellites. Unless every fiber-optic cable, telephone line, cable line, satellite, cell phone tower, and as of a few months ago radio transceiver on (or above) Earth were destroyed, the internet would still be around; minus a few thousand web pages.
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The internet is like a brain, you can destroy a lot of neurons/computers but it can continue to function with very little.
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And it drools on itself.
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Parasky
Nov 12 2010, 10:22 PM
Holbenilord
Nov 11 2010, 03:16 PM
But Parasky, all those hubs and routing devices which connect parts of the world would be down. The cloud would then be lost.
You... Do know why they call it the cloud, right? The internet isn't some thing (series of tubes) located in a building somewhere. It's located everywhere, it is literally nothing more than devices connected to each other. My computer is the internet, your computer is the internet, smartphones are the internet, servers are the internet. They're connected by everything from telephone lines to satellites. Unless every fiber-optic cable, telephone line, cable line, satellite, cell phone tower, and as of a few months ago radio transceiver on (or above) Earth were destroyed, the internet would still be around; minus a few thousand web pages.
Yeah, but most of the wires and that are in the USA, and most of the redirecting things... maybe you couldn't kill the internet, but the WWW that we often refer to as the internet could be damaged severely and billions of pages lost.
Time flows like a river. Which is to say, downhill. We can tell this because everything is going downhill rapidly. It would seem prudent to be somewhere else when we reach the sea.

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Are you plausible?

Judging by how many billion of pages have little or no value, statistically speaking I don't know if that would be such a loss. :)
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Fair deuce.

Though there'd be good ones gone, too... i think this forum's servers and redirects are all in the USA.
Time flows like a river. Which is to say, downhill. We can tell this because everything is going downhill rapidly. It would seem prudent to be somewhere else when we reach the sea.

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Well the BBC site would be ok, and so would all those Chinese sites that steal videos liberate the artistic vision of those oppressed by their capitalist overlords, so I would cope.

And isn't that what matters in the end? Not public opinion of an adequate president who, but my enjoyment of the internet?
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Yes, your Internet! That is the meaning of your frame of reference.
Time flows like a river. Which is to say, downhill. We can tell this because everything is going downhill rapidly. It would seem prudent to be somewhere else when we reach the sea.

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