I thought I was on routside <| sep |> Why on earth doe they have to take it down AT ALL ? Have you ever seen GMail go down for maintenance ? It ' s a cloud service FFS they also have a whole farm of servers , so you can update a few , set them live , then update the next few there ' s NO reason at all other than incompetent programming . <| sep |> We ' ve taught gorillas sign language . Dolphins can follow verbal and physical commands , as can dogs , cats , and a host of other mammals and birds . Our voice boxes are the most advanced on the planet , but language as a form of communication takes on more forms than that . It just takes time and patience to be able to communicate ideas and associate them to specific inputs that can be recognized .