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BTGBullseye

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  1. Well I believe in logic and reason. But without questioning there is no reason or logic. Which is why I question religion. I want to know why there is such faith and how people defend it, why there are more than one religion, why religions have changed over time why one religion is bigger than the other ect.. It's easy to slap the crazy tag on religious people because their believes aren't based on reason or logic, but that would be the same as slapping the crazy tag on Bronies because they watch a show about colorful ponies, it would be downright hypocritical.

    Now why can't all Atheists be like this? For that matter, why can't all people everywhere?

  2. As long as the product is inherently good and gives you what you pay for, which MW3 actually does, then I don't see what's bad about that.

    Wait, you pay $60 for reskins of games and don't consider it a ripoff?!?

  3. It's the same everywhere. I could patch that, but is there really any need? Views don't matter much anyway, and someone would have to have a lot of time on their hands to do that (unless they made a tool, which would be obvious, so we could ban them for that).

    I know what I'm programming next... :twisted:

  4. Look at you guys: some of you are taking pride in the fact that you are pirating. It's people like you that makes people want to pass this bill. BTGBullseye, I'd like to know where you got those statistics on pirates.

    Of course I take pride in not paying for overpriced shit. Why wouldn't I?

     

    As far as those statistics, they are common knowledge to most companies, but those same companies do virtually anything to keep the public from seeing them. No specific location I can point you to on the internet; the last 6 sites that had them were taken down through law suits for 'revealing company secrets'.

  5. The difference is colonies in the past had a lot of native resources to work with. This would be more akin to sending colonies to the Sahara Desert or Antarctica. Unless you want to trade for sand or ice, and at a really high price, there's not any reason to go there on an economic incentive.

    http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/04/06/wassonite/

     

    So you're saying that exotic/new minerals, that don't exist on Earth, aren't an abundant natural resource?

     

    How about the various non-exotics that we already know are common in the asteroids, and would be extremely valuable here on Earth? Stuff that when calculated into the costs of R&D + actual harvesting end up paying for itself more than 10x over.

  6. And for stealing, I would definitely consider being shot for it as a fitting punishment. (not digital stealing though)

    A little hypocritical, is it not?

    Not in the slightest. Stealing a physical object removes it from the possession of the original owner, whereas digital stealing simply makes a copy without removing anything from the original owner's possession.

  7. Actually, Mars isn't at the top of the list for easiest to colonize... That distinction is reserved by some of the moons of Jupiter & Saturn. Mars is just closer, and is closer to Earth's gravity. (slightly)

     

    I personally prefer the idea of colonizing the asteroid belt, because then we can also mine the resources from them.

     

    Space travel would still be very dangerous outside of Earth's electromagnetic field due to solar radiation, and the all-too-common solar flares.

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