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As the title says, if given one trip to time travel what would you do?(disclamer: this is the current poll on Slashdot.org. I am just seeing what the community thinks) I would go back to 1975 and invest $50,000 into Microsoft and would have a ton of money. So answer these questions: What time? What would you do there? Why?
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I'd go back to last week so I could win the 10,000,000 jackpot in the lottery. you couldn't as you would do something to fuck up like going on tv with your big win and this would put current you off focus. please,it's just words and if you feel offended get some browser extension to censor the words that are offensive to you. 3
its not me that is offended, but there are younger people on lockergnome and it is nice to keep it as clean as possible what does age have to do with this?your approach is similar to keeping older people out of a group.It is my firm opinion that you should not be treated differently because of age. As a 14-year-old, I agree, popman. However, I do think people should be treated differently out of mindset, and you don't see many 14-year-olds patching the Linux kernel. I have no problem with the language, it's that some other 14-year-old might log on here and be turned off to the site because of it. I have no problem, it's just that someone else might. Who knows, maybe a 60-year-old nun might see it. You just don't know, and with a community as mixed and generally tame as Lockergnome, you can't really predict anything. And with a word as generally offensive as 'fuck', the likelihood for offense is just that much higher. SO, please, keep it clean and try to avoid that kind of language. If you like the word too much, /b/ would be happy to accept you. AlanStryder you could not do that as that would be a paradox. If you went back in time to win the lottery you would not go back in time originally since you already had won the lottery meaning that you could not win the lottery because you never went back in time. Does that make sense? people do get offended. a good general rule is to keep it clean, a little self control never hurt anybody.
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Set the time machine to: January 01, 2001
Since there is No Cure for Cancer, I still couldn't save my mom's life. I'd go back to a time before my life took a wrong turn. I had a great job. I just bought a condo. My vehicles were all paid for. The r0bErT4u of that time would get only some advise from r0bErT4u (me).
what are those?chimneys? Chimneys? 9/11 2
The Twin towers of the World Trade Center burning. sorry I was trolling to see how fast I could get a response. I was thinking that may be the case. again really sorry but I needed a way of accurately checking the response times of the members of the board I will never forget that day I am very glad that day happened (i am sorry for the ppl and their families though). Because that was the day that the entire world finaly understood that even after 10.000 years of evolution humanity is still ruled by force and NOT by ways of democracy. 911 was a huge catalyst for the events that are yet to happen, our world will change drastically over the next 20 years and i hope we all are ready for it. For more info please go and check http://www.zeitgeistmovie.com/ thank you. In case you missed it the first time, here's the URL to my religion again. but if you go back in time and stop this there will be nothing to spur you towards stopping this(like if you were told to go back in time and stop george bush from invading canada you would not think it really could have happened) Not my concern. After saving all those lives, the new timeline would be set. The terrorists still would be caught planning their jihad, and our Secret Service would be briefed accordingly. The r0bErT4u of 2002 would continue his life with careful guidance from r0bErT4u (me). All financial issues should be taken care of. I'd advise Chris Pirillo about some personal issues that happened in the original timeline. Chris can choose what to do from there. but if the new timeline is set there would be no disaster to stop. Didn't that event make US airports safer? Thus stopping most future terrorist attacks? 2
Tsk tsk {shaking head in disbelief} ... Ryan, You know I've got ALL of that covered. I've thought this out. That's why the Time Machine is set months in advance. Homeland Security was/is a mixed blessing. We lost a lot of Privacy & Civil Liberties ... dude.eve with current security measures I can bring bomb components on board a plane and assemble without getting caught by security.I know I brought similar components through the security checkpoint when I was going to london gatwick.please note I just did this to see if it could be done I will not blow up a plane. TSAs are a bad joke at best. I don't feel safe with their personel >=0\ but it is fun to point at someone and shout "he's got a bomb" and see them tackle him to the ground.
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I would visit Pompeii- to warn & to convince the civilization there to vacate ahead of Vesuvius' explosion. So many lives & so much culture was lost there~
Ummm why not invest it in google when it started??
TheTechDude you can't go and invest in Microsoft because if you invest in them nothing would make you invest in them at this point in time so you would never go back in time to invest in them in the first place.
Half of all these answers are paradoxes.
I tried to look at it as what I would do if it were possible I didn't think of whether or not is was possible.
No Feras, he would HAVE to go back in time and invest 50,000 dollars into microsoft, otherwise microsoft wouldn't be around! Reverse paradox!
But if we ask Microsoft they probably won't have any record of a 50,000 dollar investment which means Microsoft would still be around today without that money. Paradox.