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She's well-known by those that follow space news. Maybe you've heard of this astronaut through his viral Youtube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

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Here's the real story: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

There weren't any pansexuals in that video!

Here's a video with a pansexual wookie:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

And just for fun here's Darth Vader on the accordion...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

For some reason I have a compelling desire to start cello lessons.

There weren't any pansexuals in that video!

Here's a video with a pansexual wookie:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

And just for fun here's Darth Vader on the accordion...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

For some reason I have a compelling desire to start cello lessons.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

The legends simply aren't true.

Watson crashed a lot, repeated incorrect answers, and chose Toronto as a U.S. city during final Jeopardy.

Kasperov beat Deep Blue in 1996 (4-2), and sill has an overall win record against it (4 wins, 5 draws, 3 losses). Fritz beat Deep Blue in 2017, while running on a desktop computer.

The right wing corporate Dems seem to be pining their hopes on Russia for the Mid-Term elections so they don't have to give the working class any economic concessions to the working class.

I think you're a year behind.

Remember how Watergate ended up not really being about the hotel breakin? Same with Russia. The president probably isn't going to get caught breaking into the ho--err-- making a criminal deal with the Russians.

But he very well might get caught doing illegal things in the service of covering it up, since people he knew and hired (or were family members) were the ones breaking the law and he wanted the story to go away. You basically can't say the word "Comey" without everyone asking "What did the president know and when did he know it?" And all the signs point to him having known about the crimes a good 6 months before he fired Comey to try to stop the investigations.

Conservatives aren't pinning their hopes on Russia; the right is pinning their hopes on obstruction of justice charges, at this point.

(BTW, he's also being continuously trolled into committing further crimes. It would be hillaryious if he ended up being impeached for something he does this week, to try to stop an investigation into someone obstructing justice in 2017 (e.g. Cohen), who was trying to cover up the 2016 crimes. The guy is just too emotionally weak to be president. Gary Johnson had it right except it's not about climbing mountains; it's about being able to handle the job without giving everything away. And judging from meeting with North Korea, it's clear that the president isn't improving.)

I was hoping to see more movement on the primaries, but so far the corporate Dems won all the important races. Folks just don't show up to primaries. Or if they do they're right wingers anyway.

You missed half of the primaries. The right wingers showed up at the Democrat's primaries, but the left was there too. (And in my state, the left-wing Democrats actually won!) It was just the Republican primaries where the right wing didn't show up, causing the conservative Republicans to get crushed by the pro-Trump ones.

The walled garden is a pro or a con, depending on your perspective.

There is no perspective from which disallowing side-loading is a pro. The "walled garden" doesn't keep malware out.

Only the Sith talk in absolutes!

I understand the perspective, but given the shit show of security that is the PC and Windows, I don't mind having one platform that is locked down: I can recommend devices to people which won't be turned into something that needs to be shot in the face in thirty minutes. Having a walled garden is not 100%, but it certainly improves things.

If you want to side-load applications get a developer account and load the app 'from source'.

Over the past year, I started a few projects and tested several microcontrollers.

There are already several alternatives that are very capable. There is no point in using Arduino anymore with these options available.

First, you have the STM32 Blue Pill and its cousin, the Black Pill. Each sells for less than $3 on eBay. They are 72MHz ARM Cortex M3, with 20KB of RAM, and 128KB of Flash storage. I am using it to make a Goto telescope controller with USB and WiFi based on OnStep, and ported it to the STM32 platform, and implemented a Hardware Abstraction Layer for the project. See the prototypevideo. The entire controller's electronics can be built for $25 or less (motors extra).

There is also the ESP32 ($8) from Espressif, and its predecessor, the ESP8266 (~ $4). This has a single or dual core processor with WiFi and Bluetooth. I built a temperature and humidity sensor using the ESP8266 (with a DHT22 sensor), and I am building a car garage sensor using the ESP32 with ultrasonic sensors.

So networking already exists, as well as powerful CPUs. The only drawback of the ESPs is that they draw lots of power (relatively speaking, I run them using USB phone chargers) and they have a limited number of GPIO pins (so not suitable for a telescope controller with 7 pins per axis, and a few other peripherals).

And as pointed out earlier, an open network is called Ethernet (or WiFi) not CAN-Bus.

Check out how easy the lock is to open with simple force. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

You do understand the concept of a persistent multiplayer world, yes? MMOs are nothing like FPS shooters. In an FPS the "world" starts over with every new game.

A subscription-based MMO... of fucking course they're not going to give you the server software so that you can run your own and not pay them.

You do understand the concept that "persistant multiplayer world" is PR speak to con gullible people like you right? Oh wait theres some private wow servers over here to disprove your notion that you can't have an "mmo" (pr speak for rpg with multiplayer with dedicated server) you buy as a one off purchase.

Private servers:

https://news.ycombinator.com/i...

"MMO" is a PR speak term for idiots who don't think logically, otherwise private wow servers would be impossible. The fact that private wow servers exists, prove you and the gaming public are idiots.

Here's what the game industry did during the 90's, during the 90's PC rpg's were growing in cost to produce and CEO's floated the idea of conning the gullible public out of its money by rebranding the single player PC rpgs /w multiplayer component and rebranding them mmo's. That's all the term mmo is - a PR shell game to get you to pay monthly to what have would been a fully normal game with multiplayer in the 90's. They realized they could make much more money and steal the software from a gullible public by just shifting words around because you reason by emotion not truth.

See the science, your brain does not reason nor see reality as it is:

On reason

It's interesting that so many of the responses here are addressed to the standing of the group requesting this rather than on the merits of the request itself. It's almost as if the moral dimensions of technology are invisible to most Slashdot posters.

Slashdot has been a haven for pseudo intellectuals and the middle brow for a long time, post 2005/2006 the site became no different than any other major news site. Nerds theoretically should be skeptical about concentrations of power and be able to see through the bullshit. But tragically many slashdotters are no different then the american public.

George carlin said it best:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

To follow up on your diet modification suggestion and also probiotics, see Dr. Joel Fuhrman's writing; example: https://www.drfuhrman.com/libr...

Another way to deal with biofilms in theory is with phages (viruses that attack bacteria):
"Dr. Tim Lu - Biofilms and Phage Therapy"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Mentioned here: http://www.phagetherapycenter....
"This 11 minute film is excerpted from an interview with Dr. Tim Lu, who is an expert in characterizing & eliminating biofilms with phage therapy. He offers some insightful ways to describe complex biofilms and their connection to antibiotic resistance."

Makes me wonder if people might get more intestinal biofilms (and related allergies etc.) if they are not drinking dirty water with more phages?

In general: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

about China. It's his usual shtick, but it dovetails into this nicely. China's expanding their reach economically. That's not necessarily a good thing. Towards the end of that video they make the point that European governments have stopped talking about the Chinese government's human rights abuses. Not that my government are saint's either. But at least they're getting called out on it without reprisal threats (that I know of to be fair).

WITH A BUNCH OF SCRAPS - Listen, learn by it "No time left 4U - ON MY WAY TO BETTER THINGS (found myself some wings)" https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

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APK

P.S.=> Your negativity no longer amuses me as you TRY to INFECT me w/ the disease (evil) holding YOU down, boy... apk

I'll just leave this, here for you.

See subject & despite your mere "talk" you've done BETTER that even registered /.ers like & use (in a lesser model no less)? Prove it.

* That's ALL I ever have to say & you are reduced to your 'cut downs' (ineffectual vs. fact I just laid out + in my initial post too)...

APK

P.S.=> Take a listen, learn by it "No time left 4U - ON MY WAY TO BETTER THINGS (found myself some wings)" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPX48NpSRvo/GUI future, not tty term nobody wants to use argc/argv MILE LONG commandline ugly JUNK stitched together in inferior /proc PIPE abstracting pointers w/ overheads (by guys that on their BEST DAY couldn't make themselves (your kind)) & even Mr. T himself KNOWS it & makes it happen (it's HIS baby, not yours)... apk

I've seen wood chippers in movies before, never really paid it much attention - then in this scene Tucker & Dale vs. Evil in the movie they mentioned it by name. So I went looking, clearly the movie was not good enough to hold my full attention, but few rarely are (still enjoyed it though).

There isn't a 1978 equivalent of Love Island

Sure there was. It was called "The Dating Game" and, while it didn't show sexual scenes, the questions and answers were filled with innuendo. As a bonus, one of the bachelor contestants was a serial killer.

Here's a new real-time strategy game developed last year by the "8-bit guy" for the Commodore 64: http://www.the8bitguy.com/plan...

I'm not sure they're getting rich on this, but if you're nostalgic and love to code... why not?

Ah yes, 40 years ago was a classic time in cinema. It's too bad we no longer get such intelligent fare as The Swarm, Laserblast and everyone's favorite The Star Wars holiday Special

Or maybe... just maybe... you've forgotten that 99% of what was produced back them was garbage too, just like 99% of what's produced today.

Sure, 99% of what was produced 40 years ago was crap... But the crap has gotten worse. There isn't a 1978 equivalent of Love Island... I can think of some 1998 equivalents, but these were budget shows which were relegated to late night TV... So much so I cant even remember the names of the shows.

I think it's good to include some more light-hearted news items from time to time. Sam's Journey on the Commodore 64 is IMO newsworthy as well, it put a smile on my face just like Worthy. :-)

Sam's Journey release trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Retrogaming is still big. I would really love to see a new Amiga home computer which covers such games, maybe using SDL/AmigaOS4/PPC like A-Eon is working on (A1222/Tabor).
http://blog.a-eon.biz/blog/

Games that followed Commodores programming guidelines works on A1200 but commercial companies wrote hacky crap back then too. Sometimes it helps switching to OCS-mode and turning off CPU caches in the boot menu but if there is a lot of cycle timed stuff you might be screwed anyway.

This game works out of the box on the Amiga 1200:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

To get the bulk of Amiga 500 games to work on the Amiga 1200, you could use a bootdiskette with ReloKick/TUDE (aminet.net) and afterwards put in the game to boot.

Alternatively there are WHDLoad installs for nearly all Amiga games, which takes care of this transparently (amongst bug fixes, high score savings, adds a HD icon, etc):
http://whdload.de/

Sorry guys. This doesn't quite qualify.

You need to be able to write like this if you want to be part of the special branch of Mensa dedicated to cre|mer. Search for the definition of tardigrade for example,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Cryptofeces Lepidoptera Creimerus:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Cryptofeces Lepidoptera Creimerus infestation is a serious problem. Not only are they capable of reproducing asexually like amoebas, they can also lay eggs hermaphroditically in unexpected places. They can disguise eggs as something useful to fool the unaware, sometimes pretending to be a haiku author, blogger, vlogger, or IT closet cleaner.

Very dangerous. They can seemingly reproduce out of the cosmic background radiation, even if you step on twelve of them, there's always one you miss.

Don't be fooled by the C. Lepidoptera Creimerus's innocuous, rolly-polly, and almost friendly appearance; despite its great size, stupid demeanor, and bedraggled toothless appearance, they have the hardiness of a tardigrade.

Only a concerted, targeted downmodding campaign has been shown effective in controlling this dangerous pest.

Experience shows that stopping such a campaign leads to C. Lepidoptera Creimerus returning within days.

Don't let it happen again!

I don't get it... this has already been done.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

The rules state a 30 ft circle take-off zone.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Both of the sites your links refer to are so full of...nuclear weapons program waste.

First link:

The tunnel was part of the plutonium and uranium extraction facility (PUREX) said to be holding a lot of radioactive waste, including railway cars used to carry spent nuclear fuel rods, news agency AFP reported.

Second link:

The Kyshtym disaster was a radioactive contamination accident that occurred on 29 September 1957 at Mayak, a plutonium production site in Russia for nuclear weapons and nuclear fuel reprocessing plant of the Soviet Union.

Roh roh.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Cryptofeces Lepidoptera Creimerus infestation is a serious problem. Not only are they capable of reproducing asexually like amoebas, they can also lay eggs hermaphroditically in unexpected places. They can disguise eggs as something useful to fool the unaware, sometimes pretending to be a haiku author, blogger, vlogger, or IT closet cleaner.

Very dangerous. They can seemingly reproduce out of the cosmic background radiation, even if you step on twelve of them, there's always one you miss.

Don't be fooled by the C. Lepidoptera Creimerus's innocuous, rolly-polly, and almost friendly appearance; despite its great size, stupid demeanor, and bedraggled toothless appearance, they have the hardiness of a tardigrade.

Only a concerted, targeted downmodding campaign has been shown effective in controlling this dangerous pest.

Experience shows that stopping such a campaign leads to C. Lepidoptera Creimerus returning within days.

Don't let it happen again!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Cryptofeces Lepidoptera Creimerus infestation is a serious problem. Not only are they capable of reproducing asexually like amoebas, they can also lay eggs hermaphroditically in unexpected places. They can disguise eggs as something useful to fool the unaware, sometimes pretending to be a haiku author, blogger, vlogger, or IT closet cleaner.

Very dangerous. They can seemingly reproduce out of the cosmic background radiation, even if you step on twelve of them, there's always one you miss.

Don't be fooled by the C. Lepidoptera Creimerus's innocuous, rolly-polly, and almost friendly appearance; despite its great size, stupid demeanor, and bedraggled toothless appearance, they have the hardiness of a tardigrade.

Only a concerted, targeted downmodding campaign has been shown effective in controlling this dangerous pest.

Experience shows that stopping such a campaign leads to C. Lepidoptera Creimerus returning within days.

Don't let it happen again!

Does any existing unmanned aerial vehicle have the mission flexibility of a human pilot? Especially in difficult circumstances, such as near fire or with much of the potential landing areas flooded? While unmanned drones or tethered vehicles have become effective. And putting good hands on a drone, or the ability to assess terrain or set priorities for other personnel, seem quite difficult. Is it cheaper to provide a flying platform, or to design new technologies to support the flexibility of a human crew?

I admit that the prospect is interesting. There was a jet-wing project published in the 1970's, to put first small jet engines and later ducted fans on a pair of strap-on wings to provide personal flight with vertical take-off and landing capability. I'm not sure of the project has ever been completed. But there was this demonstration of a similar project, flown by Yves Rossy in 2013: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Interview with a manager that saw his company die from diversity hiring:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Scott Adams, the same guy that writes Dilbert, has a similar story. Scott Adams was driven to writing comics because he saw his career hit a dead end from diversity hiring policies where he worked. Ignoring the inherent unequal distributions of qualities among different genetic populations is dangerous. Reality always wins out.

Consider this... If women did the same work as men but for 75% of the wages then a company consisting completely of women would beat all the rest. I have seen small companies run entirely by women but they've been veterinary clinics, medical clinics, and schools, but that's because women naturally gravitate to occupations where a strong nurturing personality is beneficial.

Here's another thing, women don't really want equal distribution in all occupations. Women make up a small portion of prisoners. Should we lock up women to make up for that? Women make up a small portion of the people that die in war, should we send more women out to fight and die? There's a small ratio of women that dig ditches, clean out sewers, climb power transmission towers, hang siding and shingles, pour concrete, pick up trash, stack bricks, and on and on. We shouldn't have women doing these occupations just to keep things "fair". Just as we shouldn't demand more women engineers to keep things "fair". What's "fair" is allowing people to get the jobs they are suited to by personality and merit. When we do that we have many males in engineering and many females in medicine.

We can have a meritocracy and prosperity or we can artificially enforce "diversity" and see civilization fall apart. Google will have to learn this one way or the other.

That's not a threat. That's a promise.

Oh, do step out of the bubble. All the economic gains since 2008 have flown to the top 10%, and most of that to the top .01%. For the poor and working class, the economy has stayed in recession or even great depression levels. The new jobs being created are shitty service sector positions that pay less, while housing and health care costs continue to rise.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Cryptofeces Lepidoptera Creimerus infestation is a serious problem. Not only are they capable of reproducing asexually like amoebas, they can also lay eggs hermaphroditically in unexpected places. They can disguise eggs as something useful to fool the unaware, sometimes pretending to be a haiku author, blogger, vlogger, or IT closet cleaner.

Very dangerous. They can seemingly reproduce out of the cosmic background radiation, even if you step on twelve of them, there's always one you miss.

Don't be fooled by the C. Lepidoptera Creimerus's innocuous, rolly-polly, and almost friendly appearance; despite its great size, stupid demeanor, and bedraggled toothless appearance, they have the hardiness of a tardigrade.

Only a concerted, targeted downmodding campaign has been shown effective in controlling this dangerous pest.

Experience shows that stopping such a campaign leads to C. Lepidoptera Creimerus returning within days.

Don't let it happen again!

Typical Silicon Valley ignorance. All these concepts were invented in the 1950s.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Cryptofeces Lepidoptera Creimerus infestation is a serious problem. Not only are they capable of reproducing asexually like amoebas, they can also lay eggs hermaphroditically in unexpected places. They can disguise eggs as something useful to fool the unaware, sometimes pretending to be a haiku author, blogger, vlogger, or IT closet cleaner.

Very dangerous. They can seemingly reproduce out of the cosmic background radiation, even if you step on twelve of them, there's always one you miss.

Don't be fooled by the C. Lepidoptera Creimerus's innocuous, rolly-polly, and almost friendly appearance; despite its great size, stupid demeanor, and bedraggled toothless appearance, they have the hardiness of a tardigrade.

Only a concerted, targeted downmodding campaign has been shown effective in controlling this dangerous pest.

Experience shows that stopping such a campaign leads to C. Lepidoptera Creimerus returning within days.

Don't let it happen again!

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OK, slightly longer version, since you don't seem to make a distinction between history and religious texts:

I've made quite clear distinctions between history versus scripture. For instance, I would use phrases like, "based on the scriptures".

The Bible is not historical fact: https://www.youtube.com/watch?... and neither is the Qu'ran

No shit. By the way, quite hilarious that you chose to link to Reza "I am a scholar" Aslan, the Muslim apologist. I prefer Carrier's, "Did Jesus Even Exist?"

Additionally, how people interpret these books depends, to a great extent, on the contexts in which they're interpreted.

No shit. But there's also plain reading. And we can look at history and influential texts to see how these works were being interpreted. You're doing a lot of tap dancing and not addressing anything I've actually written.

For example, you're interpreting the Bible in a (presumably) educated, stable, safe, democratic context

Except that's bullshit. I interpreted the Bible through plain reading. I also relied on history, including the earliest history when they were a peaceful cult that eventually was adopted by the Roman empire, as opposed to Islam, which conquered all of Arabia and then spread out from there.

Did you address the basic stories from the Gospels, or the Sermon on the Mount? No, you'd rather cherry pick from some shitty countries in Africa. Did you address my "Islam has bloody borders" link? No, you'd rather deflect to CIA torture, which has jack shit to do with the history of Islam from before that point, and has jack shit to do with Islamic insurgencies wherever there are a significant number of Muslims.

If you look into the conflicts, the contexts, the motivations, the reasoning, etc., more complex, nuanced, and subtle stories start to emerge.

Funny how there's one unifying theme: ISLAM. Funny how you never address the history of Islam, from it's earliest beginnings. Funny how you never address the scriptures. Funny how you never answer my questions, like why Christians are the ones being persecuted in Muslim lands, while Muslims seek out Christian lands.

It's all interpretation according to contexts and there's nothing intrinsically more violent or non-violent about either the Bible or the Qu'ran.

You're full of shit. All you do is equivocate, hem and haw, and crank up the smog machine, while ignoring large truths staring at you in the face. In other words, you are a useful idiot:

"The process of settlement is a 'Civilization-Jihadist Process' with all the word means. The Ikhwan [Muslim Brotherhood] must understand that their work in America is a kind of grand jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and 'sabotaging' its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers..."

Don't you also think it's interesting that both the Youtube news stories I linked to, made by award-winning American journalists, were paid for by the Kremlin? What does that say about domestic US news media?

Actually, it says more about the Kremlin media and the kind of sources you seek out, in typical anti-Western, libshit fashion.

That all you ever hear about Muslims is that presumably all 1.8 billion of them are hell-bent on destroying the world?

Yawn, "not all Muslims". You're checking all the boxes, congrats. I never said all 1.8 billion act that way. Like any religion, a great majority have their own McReligion view, and only a tiny percentage are going to act in the most extreme manner.

OK, slightly longer version, since you don't seem to make a distinction between history and religious texts:

I've made quite clear distinctions between history versus scripture. For instance, I would use phrases like, "based on the scriptures".

The Bible is not historical fact: https://www.youtube.com/watch?... and neither is the Qu'ran

No shit. By the way, quite hilarious that you chose to link to Reza "I am a scholar" Aslan, the Muslim apologist. I prefer Carrier's, "Did Jesus Even Exist?"

Additionally, how people interpret these books depends, to a great extent, on the contexts in which they're interpreted.

No shit. But there's also plain reading. And we can look at history and influential texts to see how these works were being interpreted. You're doing a lot of tap dancing and not addressing anything I've actually written.

For example, you're interpreting the Bible in a (presumably) educated, stable, safe, democratic context

Except that's bullshit. I interpreted the Bible through plain reading. I also relied on history, including the earliest history when they were a peaceful cult that eventually was adopted by the Roman empire, as opposed to Islam, which conquered all of Arabia and then spread out from there.

Did you address the basic stories from the Gospels, or the Sermon on the Mount? No, you'd rather cherry pick from some shitty countries in Africa. Did you address my "Islam has bloody borders" link? No, you'd rather deflect to CIA torture, which has jack shit to do with the history of Islam from before that point, and has jack shit to do with Islamic insurgencies wherever there are a significant number of Muslims.

If you look into the conflicts, the contexts, the motivations, the reasoning, etc., more complex, nuanced, and subtle stories start to emerge.

Funny how there's one unifying theme: ISLAM. Funny how you never address the history of Islam, from it's earliest beginnings. Funny how you never address the scriptures. Funny how you never answer my questions, like why Christians are the ones being persecuted in Muslim lands, while Muslims seek out Christian lands.

It's all interpretation according to contexts and there's nothing intrinsically more violent or non-violent about either the Bible or the Qu'ran.

You're full of shit. All you do is equivocate, hem and haw, and crank up the smog machine, while ignoring large truths staring at you in the face. In other words, you are a useful idiot:

"The process of settlement is a 'Civilization-Jihadist Process' with all the word means. The Ikhwan [Muslim Brotherhood] must understand that their work in America is a kind of grand jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and 'sabotaging' its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers..."

Don't you also think it's interesting that both the Youtube news stories I linked to, made by award-winning American journalists, were paid for by the Kremlin? What does that say about domestic US news media?

Actually, it says more about the Kremlin media and the kind of sources you seek out, in typical anti-Western, libshit fashion.

That all you ever hear about Muslims is that presumably all 1.8 billion of them are hell-bent on destroying the world?

Yawn, "not all Muslims". You're checking all the boxes, congrats. I never said all 1.8 billion act that way. Like any religion, a great majority have their own McReligion view, and only a tiny percentage are going to act in the most extreme manner.

Are you serious?

Republican voting southern USA living religious people are the backbone of the inaction on climate change movement.

Christian climate scientists like Dr Hayhoe are considered rare and an asset for climate science communication.

Religious people tend to relax in the knowledge that in heaven everything will be fine, and after Kingdom Come, everything will be made fine on earth. They're fucking dangerous.

The reason that people with no faith tend to care about climate science and the environment in general, is because they're more likely to be scientifically minded, and more likely to think about responsibility and ethics.

Motivating people to action involves getting it through their dumb-arse religious heads that despite what they're told by people paid by the fossil fuel industry, that there's a problem, and there are many things that are cheaper in the long term that adaptation to the impacts.

Ensuring that we do no disenfranchise the poor, globally speaking is trivial. The poor, it turns out, will bear the brunt of the impacts. So any action reduces the injustice that is inflicted on them.

On a national level, there's solutions offered that aren't regressive. Dr James Hansen has been supporting the fee and dividend as a solution. I don't think Jim is a theist.

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creimer would accept the mascot position although if pay is more than 5$ an hour, which is much more than creimer does collecting second hand lottery tickets.

creimer would save the puffer con with costume charge and creimer would look more like a puffer than this guy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

As long as creimer can still collect second hand lottery tickets while acting as mascot you got deal.

OK, slightly longer version, since you don't seem to make a distinction between history and religious texts:

The Bible is not historical fact: https://www.youtube.com/watch?... and neither is the Qu'ran. Additionally, how people interpret these books depends, to a great extent, on the contexts in which they're interpreted. That's the way reading works; people fill in the inevitable ambiguities and missing information from their own contexts. That's a fundamental feature of semiotics.

For example, you're interpreting the Bible in a (presumably) educated, stable, safe, democratic context which is somewhat skewed by some pretty zenophobic views from [insert information sources here]. If you look to Biblical interpretation in sub-Saharan Africa, e.g. Democratic Republic of the Congo, where there's less education, more poverty, instability, violence, and less democracy, you'll get a very different impression of what the Bible means. Another example is that in Uganda, the Bible is used to argue for the death sentence for homosexuality.

If you want to know why so many people in the middle east detest American foreign policy and why some take up armed struggle against the USA, why not listen to what a former CIA analyst, turned whistleblower has to say: https://www.youtube.com/watch?... Spoiler alert: It has nothing to do with religion, except that it's used to create an "us vs. them" dichotomy, not unlike the one you're espousing.

If you look into the conflicts, the contexts, the motivations, the reasoning, etc., more complex, nuanced, and subtle stories start to emerge. They don't fit neatly into 24 hour news cycle sound bites or your local ranting extremist pastor. Of the 2.4 billion Christians and 1.8 billion Muslims around the world, living in their different contexts, do you think that there may be some variations in their interpretations? Some more radical and extreme than others? It's all interpretation according to contexts and there's nothing intrinsically more violent or non-violent about either the Bible or the Qu'ran.

Don't you also think it's interesting that both the Youtube news stories I linked to, made by award-winning American journalists, were paid for by the Kremlin? What does that say about domestic US news media? That all you ever hear about Muslims is that presumably all 1.8 billion of them are hell-bent on destroying the world? How does that affect your interpretation of Biblical and Qu'ranic texts?

OK, slightly longer version, since you don't seem to make a distinction between history and religious texts:

The Bible is not historical fact: https://www.youtube.com/watch?... and neither is the Qu'ran. Additionally, how people interpret these books depends, to a great extent, on the contexts in which they're interpreted. That's the way reading works; people fill in the inevitable ambiguities and missing information from their own contexts. That's a fundamental feature of semiotics.

For example, you're interpreting the Bible in a (presumably) educated, stable, safe, democratic context which is somewhat skewed by some pretty zenophobic views from [insert information sources here]. If you look to Biblical interpretation in sub-Saharan Africa, e.g. Democratic Republic of the Congo, where there's less education, more poverty, instability, violence, and less democracy, you'll get a very different impression of what the Bible means. Another example is that in Uganda, the Bible is used to argue for the death sentence for homosexuality.

If you want to know why so many people in the middle east detest American foreign policy and why some take up armed struggle against the USA, why not listen to what a former CIA analyst, turned whistleblower has to say: https://www.youtube.com/watch?... Spoiler alert: It has nothing to do with religion, except that it's used to create an "us vs. them" dichotomy, not unlike the one you're espousing.

If you look into the conflicts, the contexts, the motivations, the reasoning, etc., more complex, nuanced, and subtle stories start to emerge. They don't fit neatly into 24 hour news cycle sound bites or your local ranting extremist pastor. Of the 2.4 billion Christians and 1.8 billion Muslims around the world, living in their different contexts, do you think that there may be some variations in their interpretations? Some more radical and extreme than others? It's all interpretation according to contexts and there's nothing intrinsically more violent or non-violent about either the Bible or the Qu'ran.

Don't you also think it's interesting that both the Youtube news stories I linked to, made by award-winning American journalists, were paid for by the Kremlin? What does that say about domestic US news media? That all you ever hear about Muslims is that presumably all 1.8 billion of them are hell-bent on destroying the world? How does that affect your interpretation of Biblical and Qu'ranic texts?

I do not think you know what nuclear waste is. Here is a video series on it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUvvIzH2W6g

So how can a heavy metal rod explode? It cannot form a nuclear explosion. There is also zero possibility of a chemical explosion.

Also I did not make that up. It came form a Finnish analysis. Finland is one of the best educated countries in the world which of course is why they support nuclear energy.

You're describing the national guard now, not what they've been historically.

The national guard's historic role has changed for one reason:

We've over-militarized our police into paranoids who'll shoot first and ask questions later.

Get rid of the military hardware. Stop training multiple generations of police to be paranoid, thinking that every citizen could stab them in the face at any moment.

And no, I'm not kidding. Surviving Edged Weapons is a real video produced by the Milwaukee PD in the 1990s. That's how long we've been training our police to be paranoid.

Police should look and act like this (forgiving the quality due to the uploader's attempts to dodge YouTube's bots). They should not look like this

They most certainly should not be able to be manipulated by a few scubag teenagers into blowing away innocents.

And so what if they have to call the Governor to get the national guard called out? You think the Police Chief doesn't have the Mayor's cell number; and that the Mayor doesn't have the Governor's? Calling the guard in an emergency situation is a pair of calls away. Done and done in 15 minutes, and the guard is on its way -- probably from a base within the city itself.

Over the last 40 years, we have simply over-militarized our police and this is a direct result.

Police don't need to be a hyper-paranoid, paramilitary group. Take away the hardware, let a patrolman knock on the door instead, and this would not have happened.

Adama was right. The people tend to become the enemies of the state.

Get rid of the military hardware and stop training them to be paranoids, and this crap simply won't happen.

I'm quite certain that the general attitude toward police would also rise. At present, I wouldn't call one unless my life absolutely depended on it. Calling a hyper-paranoid, paramilitary organization will only lead to ... well, this.

(Also, you need to stop resorting to name-calling. It makes you look like an ignorami incapable of making a reasoned argument.)

You're describing the national guard now, not what they've been historically.

The national guard's historic role has changed for one reason:

We've over-militarized our police into paranoids who'll shoot first and ask questions later.

Get rid of the military hardware. Stop training multiple generations of police to be paranoid, thinking that every citizen could stab them in the face at any moment.

And no, I'm not kidding. Surviving Edged Weapons is a real video produced by the Milwaukee PD in the 1990s. That's how long we've been training our police to be paranoid.

Police should look and act like this (forgiving the quality due to the uploader's attempts to dodge YouTube's bots). They should not look like this

They most certainly should not be able to be manipulated by a few scubag teenagers into blowing away innocents.

And so what if they have to call the Governor to get the national guard called out? You think the Police Chief doesn't have the Mayor's cell number; and that the Mayor doesn't have the Governor's? Calling the guard in an emergency situation is a pair of calls away. Done and done in 15 minutes, and the guard is on its way -- probably from a base within the city itself.

Over the last 40 years, we have simply over-militarized our police and this is a direct result.

Police don't need to be a hyper-paranoid, paramilitary group. Take away the hardware, let a patrolman knock on the door instead, and this would not have happened.

Adama was right. The people tend to become the enemies of the state.

Get rid of the military hardware and stop training them to be paranoids, and this crap simply won't happen.

I'm quite certain that the general attitude toward police would also rise. At present, I wouldn't call one unless my life absolutely depended on it. Calling a hyper-paranoid, paramilitary organization will only lead to ... well, this.

(Also, you need to stop resorting to name-calling. It makes you look like an ignorami incapable of making a reasoned argument.)