Well, this sucks.

[TyDrace]

Surprisingly, among my circle of real life friends (and probably online ones), where I'm one of the nerdiest dudes, I'm the least worried.
Either way, it's no big deal. Either nothing happens and life doesn't change, or the internet starts sucking and I'll go find a life outside of it (which, let's admit, isn't gonna happen while I still have access to the internet and all these cool sites). People spent most of modern history just fine without the internet. We've only *really* had it for what, 10, 15 years? It can't be *that* hard to live without it.

Let's take cars away too, you don't need them, people were fine moving around with horses. Hell, electricity can go in the drain, why have electricity? People lived for millennia without. Let's kill hospitals as well, one doctor a town will do, just like the olden days. Let's also reinstate slavery, black people were fine enough as slaves, they were so for hundreds of years.

Your argument is retarded.

[TyDrace]

Strawman fallacy.

No no no, it's not stuff. I'm giving items that are part of an evolving race. Internet has become a dependency of the human race, without proper internet our species will decline. You think you'll do fine, but you won't.

[Archem]

No, Lucas is right, and I love it when someone points out argument fallacies instead of taking the bait.

[Cerebus]

Seems like a fun thing to do?

The temperature isn't ideal right now, though.

[Archem]

It is for him.

[HackersTotalMassLaser]

Modern history as it is now, would terribly be affected, without the internet, if it were to be gone. But Lucas is talking "without" as per personal choice, and based if there were to be restrictions. I mean "without" as a definite. Which is how I would've read his audacious last three sentences if he didn't have 12k posts on this forum.

[Prpl_Mage]

I'm just waiting for God to drop a EMP just for the heck of it and then grab a bowl of divine popcorn to watch us freak out about stuff like facebook, twitter, youtube, porn, piracy and wikpedia. No more "how to..." sites, nowhere to get information for your school assignment. Every digital archive blown into digital fragmental bits, there would be riots man, riots.

[ZeroKirbyX]

Getting over the fact that of all people dren quoted fox news, this does suck.

How will I ever get my porn?

[HackersTotalMassLaser]

Or be more clever and... ... nevermind.

[Archem]

That's why I've been stockpiling the stuff for years.

[Apex]

I used Megaupload every day. :*(

What's worse is that this is causing other file hosting websites such as Filesonic to panic, and remove both functionality and copyrighted files.

http://anonyupload.com/ might be a site to keep an eye on though, it claims that it's out of the reach of the American government. Although now it just wants donations, it could be the start of something good.

[HobomasterXXX]

Even if they can't touch the site itself they can block it from the ISP side.

[HobomasterXXX]

Other countries will follow suit. Plus if a website is hoted in the US (a lot are) it could get shut down.

[HackersTotalMassLaser]

It took me 5 more minutes than usual to find a tv program on saturday. A lot of sites are scared stiff.

[Grandy]

No, Lucas is right, and I love it when someone points out argument fallacies instead of taking the bait.

Like Lucas's "if we can adapt, it's not a problem" fallacy?

Or that fact his "strawman fallacy" claim wasn't a strawman fallacy at all? Drace didn't create an argument and said Lucas argued it, he rather extrapolated an existing point of view of Lucas.

If anything, it's an appeal to ridicule



If you're going to dismiss things as logical fallacies, at least make sure they are the correct logical fallacies.