“Mr. Zuckerberg, a magazine I recently opened came with a floppy disk offering me 30 free hours of something called America On-Line. Is that the same as Facebook?”
Things you couldn't make up, part XXIIV
Things you couldn't make up, part XXIIV
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
Re: Things you couldn't make up, part XXIIV
For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
~ Carl Sagan
~ Carl Sagan
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Re: Things you couldn't make up, part XXIIV
Things you COULD make up .... the Roman numeral XXIIV. 
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Yes, I suppose I could agree with you ... but then we'd both be wrong, wouldn't we?
Re: Things you couldn't make up, part XXIIV
Mea culpa, it's a meme not a quote, I got stung.
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
Re: Things you couldn't make up, part XXIIV
I haven’t seen this particular exchange but i’ve seen Many that were just as bad.
Okay... There's all kinds of things wrong with what you just said.
Things you couldn't make up, part XXIIX
... or this...
Mr. Zuckerberg, How do you sustain a business model in which users don't pay for your service?
(This surprising question came from Utah Senator Orrin Hatch (R). Zuckerberg blinked for a moment--he couldn't believe it either--and then said simply, "Senator we run ads.")
"I see. That's great." Hatch responded.
Mr. Zuckerberg, How do you sustain a business model in which users don't pay for your service?
(This surprising question came from Utah Senator Orrin Hatch (R). Zuckerberg blinked for a moment--he couldn't believe it either--and then said simply, "Senator we run ads.")
"I see. That's great." Hatch responded.
“In a world whose absurdity appears to be so impenetrable, we simply must reach a greater degree of understanding among us, a greater sincerity.”
Re: Things you couldn't make up, part XXIIV
Big RR wrote:It was?
http://time.com/5235340/mark-zuckerberg ... analytica/After senators began questioning Zuckerberg, some Twitter users were quick to poke fun at the stereotype that older people don’t completely understand his social network.
“Mr. Zuckerberg, a magazine I recently opened came with a floppy disk offering me 30 free hours of something called America On-Line,” journalist Dave Itzkoff captioned a photoset of Sen. Chuck Grassley interrogating Zuck. “Is that the same as Facebook?”
Re: Things you couldn't make up, part XXIIX
That was one of themRayThom wrote:... or this...
Mr. Zuckerberg, How do you sustain a business model in which users don't pay for your service?
(This surprising question came from Utah Senator Orrin Hatch (R). Zuckerberg blinked for a moment--he couldn't believe it either--and then said simply, "Senator we run ads.")
"I see. That's great." Hatch responded.
Okay... There's all kinds of things wrong with what you just said.
Re: Things you couldn't make up, part XXIIV
"The dildo of consequence rarely comes lubed." -- Eileen Rose
Re: Things you couldn't make up, part XXIIV
For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
~ Carl Sagan
~ Carl Sagan
Re: Things you couldn't make up, part XXIIV
Why does the drawing of Zuckerberg look like ones I've seen of Obama?
Re: Things you couldn't make up, part XXIIV
Sure, but in real life would you ever confuse them, or even think they're related?