Months ago on Fox news they said scientists developed a new system that will replace the internet....which will be instant and extremly fast..with much more information and services...this could be related....I can't remember what they called it..."the Grid" or something like that.
2012: The Year The Internet Ends
by What-A-Coincidence 43 Replies latest jw friends
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Witness 007
Confirmed Foxnews..."the makers of the original "the Web" are designing "the Grid"...down load a movie in afew seconds! WOW!
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funkyderek
What-A-Coincidence:
At least you have one thing going for you: you are consistent in your ability to believe anything as long as it is transparently false. It doesn't seem to matter whether the subject's religion, science or politics, if someone comes up with a hypothesis that's obviously complete nonsense, it's almost a dead cert that you'll be there to champion it.
My fault for clicking on the thread, I suppose. I mean, what was I expecting?
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Superfine Apostate
interesting topic... the interesting bit is that there are indeed people out there who believe this nonsense.
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jstalin
LOL. Not one scintilla of evidence, just some hippes talking in their back yard.
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HB
I sent a link to this article to my son who works in the internet business and this was his reply: The article is vastly exaggerated and has facts wrong. At one point some of the big American ISPs were talking about trying to charge websites every time one of their users visited it (so that bit is the other way around). However the websites just threatened to block those users if they tried to put this into place (i.e. the intention being to make the users angry at their ISPs), so that idea was dropped. The other way around would never work as there'd always be one ISP which would stay out of the 'package' and thus attract everyone to join it. (Long live market forces!) Another less dramatic idea now exists - where big companies would pay ISPs to have a faster connection (e.g. Amazon's website would load quicker than a local website) however last thing I heard, a couple of the ISPs weren't going in on the idea either (in the hope they'd get extra customers by pointing out their average speeds are better) so I think that idea has started to collapse too. Plus, there are laws to contend with. This is what our government said: " The conclusion was that Net Neutrality laws in the UK would be "extreme... unattractive and impractical" and that it was "an answer to problems we don't have, using a philosophy we don't share" So don't panic.
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Dogpatch
WAC:
Paranoid personalities are fodder for conspiracy theories.
if you like living in fear of others, then follow this stupidity.
I've watched ex-JWs become such suckers for this crap. Common guy, what gives?
Do you really see the world through the eyes of fear?
Life can be so much better, take the blue pill.
or is the red pill concept altogether irresistible to you by its very nature?
Randy
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Seeker4
Is it a form of mental illness for people to fall for all of this nonsense without any evidence? Why is it that some people are so prone to this, like WAC?
I have a friend who is very much like that. She'll find the oddest stuff and run with it - yet in many ways she highly intelligent.
She once paid me a couple of thousand dollars to write an article on the origins of AIDS - expecting that I would find it was created by the government. Didn't happen due to the lack of facts supporting her premise.
She's quite wealthy - but suspects the government of all sorts of atrocities. She will believe the most outrageous claims of quacks - but reject accepted research.
She's also gay. She once directed me to a website that used the fact that female gorillas don't have a clitoris as "proof" that evolution didn't happen! I studied the site a bit, and realized the writer was a religious nut - and that he had a huge anti-homosexual agenda. When I pointed out that this guy wanted her dead, she backed off from that site!
I think it's a mental issue.
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Satanus
I tend to agree that the impending doom feeling, or the things are too good to last feelings are mental. I had that for quite a few yrs after leaving the wt and christianity. Getting more positive experience in life through other people seems to have changed me. Another thing that may have helped is cutting out all news; tv, radio, papers, etc, and also negative shit about about the earth's resources. Also, looking @ the bigger picture, things are getting better, generally. Based on that trend, even more will come to be made available through the internet, even more freely. Human nature wants this, and so, will get it, despite negative blips in the trend.
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sweet pea
I think I have had enough predictions to last me a lifetime!
However, I do believe in the motto "expect the unexpected" - who knows what will happen?!