I don't get it. Is there really water like we know it from earth or is it just inside some rocks? This article doesn't tell us.
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No, it's not 1999 anymore.
This should work out fine for modern Christians.
IMHO one of the best things about social news sites is that you get sources you wouldn't otherwise find. HN tends to copy Digg where only a few sources get attention while other get ignored altogether.
This type of "pulling a Calacanis" headline is sheer link bait and rarely meant to stir an honest discussion.
Why not?"
Because it's rude, condescending and self righteous.
"Everybody does it, including you in the above sentence :)"
In German we say "how you shout into the woods so it echoes."
I won't argue with all the pessimism you uttered later but it's astounding how some people manage to deny even to most gigantic successes) A billion? Boooh!
As long as most countries in the so called "third world" get exploited by the West which via the IMF and World Bank does not even allow them to built an infrastructure ("barriers to free trade" like hospitals, schools, environmental protection, labor rights) they won't make it.
The West should pay reparations for colonialism and slavery to the countries affected by them. This would ease the situation a little.
Making life convenient is climbing out of poverty. In the West only the homeless don't own TV or can't at least afford them. You can't expect people who have nothing to invest the first money they get.
On the other hand mobile phones have proven very useful in the developing world. They get used for everything: Banking, people rent their mobiles to other people (like a phone booth so to say), even organizing fishing (fishers exchange news where the fish actually is).
People who want to convince us that Twitter has no value wanted to tell us the same thing about Facebook a year ago. Now they earn money already, one year earlier than planned.
To me this sounds like envy. Everybody believing that s/he has the best startup idea out there but instead something "value-less" like Twitter is worth a billion. Get over it and try to copy the Twitter business model instead and make some money.
There were people who didn't believe that airplanes would ever fly. They're too heavy! The same kind of mentality abounds when it comes to Twitter critics.
The certificate is not trusted because the issuer certificate is not trusted."
http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2009/01/05/China-Russia-Mars...