Quote: "And rap/hip-hop is a rehash of things that have come before. The beats are often noticeably inspired by tribal music. Not to mention it's crap."
I disagree, and I dislike most rap and hip-hop too, but it is a new form of music.
Quote: "Look at the Boeing 737, quite old now. Compare it to the new superjumbo being rolled out by Airbus. Near enough the same shape and technology, just bigger."
Look at the wright brothers first plane and the new airbus. Yeah, tiny improvement there.
Quote: "Computers haven't changed much in the last few years. With the exception of the ASUS Eee, I don't think there's been any real innovation at all. It's just gotten bigger, and more powerful, and more power hungry. (nVidia 6 series compared to the 5 series, 7 compared to 6, 8 compared to 7, 9 compared to 8) Oh, and less reliable. (X360 anyone?)
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Except for the fact that they double in speed or half their size every, what, 5 years? You are looking at a time span of a few years, maybe you should open your eyes and look at the last 50 years. If we've come from a room-sized computer that could do nothing more than add, subtract, divide, and multiply into something that can fit in the palm of your hand and run semi-realistic graphics, imagine how far we will go in another 50 years. If you don't kill yourself before then, wait 10 years and see just how much things have changed even in that time period. The internet didn't even exist 20 years ago, and now almost everyone is connected. I can communicate instantly with someone sitting in their living room across the world with no charge (other than the general internet fee), an idea that even 30 years ago probably seemed insane.
Quote: "My family members who haven't already died of cancer (both grandparents on one side gone, both on the other side on their way, another reason why I don't want children. It'd be irresponsible of me.) do little more than get on my nerves and bicker following their trainwreck marriages and subsequent divorces."
Well you're doing better than me, both of my granddads and great granddad died of heart attacks, my grandmother and great grandmother died of cancer, but I don't sit around and cry about it and complain about how useless life is. How does them dying from a common disease make you having children irresponsible? I hope that you don't have children with the attitude you have, because you seem to be unable to love or enjoy yourself in any way.
