Pffft, and think about what would happen if you a half-sized muppet and your home was dominated by white-armored thugs who couldn’t hit the broad side of a barn with laser rifles? And then some gang of yahoos came in and riled up the guys in white who proceeded to start kicking ass and shooting the place full of lasers, and while serving as comic relief, you and your fellow ewoks had a really good chance of getting ventilated by lasers. And, hell, even after you won you just went back to being fucking futuristic Cargo Cultists and worshiping any shiny droid to come along and survived on a diet of roots and fat, greasy wriggling grubs.
The OP was about something huge happening world-wide (when it wasn’t).
Our examples were of potentially devastating events affecting billions of people.
Your story of a personal family tragedy is sad, but irrelevant to this thread.
Possibly you have not because less confused, but you have managed to spread your confusion to others now. If I’m reading you right, the World Wide Web is world wide, which makes the sad story about a baby born in Uganda with Aids and orphaned early on a world wide problem on par with the hanging threat of world wide nuclear war? Is that what you are getting at?
Also there is a difference between ‘billions could have died’ and ‘You think this is bad, I survived through this’. Pat on the back to everyone skillful enough to have existed at a particular point in time and who also survived through an event that never happened.
Where are you getting this? They’re not touting their skills in surviving the Cold War. They’re responding to the OP’s vague, bizarre, unexplained comments about ‘oh man, everything is building up toward something!’ by saying that that feeling was worse for several decades during the Cold War.
Sem, I’m sure nobody really wants to get in the way of you hijacking this thread and making it all about LOL 1st World Problems! I’m sure we’re also impressed with the creativity of that hijack, especially considering its relevance. But ya know, speaking of relevance, the OP is was about the threat of civil war in America over copyright infringement, and others pointed out that this threat was insignificant compared to the threat of nuclear annihilation that we lived with through most of the Cold War.
Now, if you’d like to resume your LOL 1st World Problems schtick, go ahead. But you might at least do so in a thread where it’s got fuck all to do with the topic other than “Well… the WWW stands for World Wide Web!”
Well my actual point, outside of lol Kony, is OP is talking nonsense and it is essentially in the same kind of vein as all this ‘hacktivism’ crap that seems to be flying around the internet. I found it inane that rather than letting the thread die since it isn’t by any definition a great debate, everyone insisted on turning this into ‘let’s talk about the politics of yesteryear’. It was the illuminati that did it all anyway, so I don’t see what’s left to ‘debate’.
Congratulations. Rather than not letting the thread die because we were talking about the OP’s silly arguments, now we’re not letting the thread die because we’re talking about your silly arguments. Progress is being made!
P.S. The discussion was not “on the politics of yesteryear”. Progress is, perhaps, being made slower than hoped for.
Well I was around during the 1960’s, and not only was there no Internet freedom then, there was no Internet! We were totally unable to download music or movies, or visit websites, or start SDMB threads about the coming Apocalypse. It was a totalitarian nightmare.
I also remember being absolutely terrified that Reagan would be elected and that there would be disastrous consequences. Now whenever I worry that some political election is going to destroy life as we know it, I remember Reagan and think, “eh, it probably won’t be that bad.”
Little do you realize that Reagan did start nuclear war, we all did die, and this is Purgatory. The state of the music industry alone should be enough to convince you of that fact.
Eh, that’s just the smell of autumn leaves rotting. Or maybe it’s going to rain, and that’s what you’re smelling.
I don’t say stuff like that to kids born in Uganda with AIDS and so on and so forth. I do say it (OK, I generally don’t, but that doesn’t mean I don’t really want to) to people who are whining about relatively insignificant stuff.
Oh, and you should get off my lawn, too, while you’re at it.