I have a feature phone, but it does have a music player on it. No, I don't use it for music, I use mt iPod Touch for that. If I had a smartphone, maybe I would, but honestly I can only imagine it would be a drain on the phone's battery, so until my iPod Touch gives out (I've had it for a long time now, in computer…

Yup. The only difference between conspiracy theorists and religion is that religion isn't always about a conspiracy. But they both love to embrace the argument from ignorance fallacy.

Exactly...it seems you do understand his point after all...

Of course you can. Free and independent thought is one thing. Believing every major event is the result of a shadowy conspiracy cover-up, without any evidence, is another entirely. It's that lack of evidence that distinguishes a conspiracy theorist from a freethinker.

You're playing semantics here. Yes, that is a conspiracy theory by definition. But hopefully you know as well as RainyDayInterns and I do that in vulgar use, "conspiracy theory" doesn't refer to any theory about conspiracies. It refers specifically to hypotheses put forward, with no real evidence, that a certain event…

What he means is that the hypotheses of so-called "conspiracy nuts" are based on absolutely no evidence (or misinterpreted evidence). The process of coming up with new scientific hypotheses and proposed theories is based ENTIRELY on evidence. So it's quite the opposite situation.

So what you're saying is, in order to understand real conspiracies, you have to make up your own fake conspiracies at some point? That's ridiculous. That's like saying "in order to understand gravity, you have to make up your own fundamental force once in a while". What?

Of course it does. They faked it because showing we're "on Mars" is how the scientists get funding. They want that money, because everything's about money.

Conspiracies exist, of course. But "conspiracy theorists" as a term tends to refer to the people who believe that ANY major event MUST be a conspiracy. Case in point: 9/11 was a conspiracy, the moon landing was a conspiracy, the recent "movie massacre" was a conspiracy (to drum up PR for the movie, of course), the…

Cool. It's the ultimate WiFi update...78 million km away. Nice. When can I expect my WiFi to achieve that range?

My charger and my external keyboard. That's it. And the only reason I'm using the keyboard is because about a month or two ago I spilled iced tea on my laptop and fried its internal keyboard. It's $200 to fix, or $60 for the external keyboard. I chose the cheap solution.

Nerio's got it going on, sir.

Which is why I also said that in the third case, the interactions in your brain never change, so you're still you the whole time. But in the other cases, the interactions in your brain either cease entirely or continue on while a copy of those interactions also exists elsewhere (the avatar). If you make a Xerox copy…

iKnow the feeling, bro. iCan imagine your pain. iCarly.

Don't you mean, "Sorry I banged your wife, Mars. Curiosity."?

God made me not believe in him. He's funny sometimes. On the other hand (pun intended), it would be so much cooler if you were the bionic man. Oh, well, can't have everything.

Are...are you the bionic man? :O

Hm. I wonder what kind of social engineering they used to get around security questions. If I worked at any tech support, I'd never give anyone a password (or other similarly sensitive information) until they've proven their identity in some way. I'd really like to know how the "hacker" managed to convince them to…

Perhaps, but at that speed, time has slowed down so much that you'd have plenty of time to proofread :P .

I don't mean to be pedantic, but as a programmer, I immediately cringed. It should be !=, not =! .