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The Fight Over NASA's Future
swestcott writes "The New York Times has an interesting article about the transition to the Obama administration and NASA's transition to the new Orion."
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Vous savez, je sais que ce n'est pas des moutons merde. Je sais quand je le mets dans ma bouche, la Matrice dit que mon cerveau, il est juteux et délicieux. Après neuf ans, vous savez ce que j'ai réalisé? L'ignorance est un bonheur. Mais la partie est drôle, je ne suis même pas dans la matrice! Il est la réalité! Je mange des moutons merde!!
"Pork"? WTF??? Do you have any idea how many technological advances, especially in medicine, that have come from the space program?
And now it's your job to show they would not have come about otherwise.
Do you have cable TV? A cell phone? GPS? None of these would be possible were it not for the "pork spending" on space.
So apparently for you the ends justify the means. How, then, can there be any foundation for a system of ethics? If my actions lead to a favorable or convenient result, then surely it doesn't matter how we got there.... or does it?
I heard a story of a guy who went to a restaurant and received shitty service. He wanted the staff to know how he felt about the service, so when he finished his very fibrous meal he went to the toilet and performed a little number that was affectionately called "one cheek on, one cheek off". Was he out of line?
For outside broadcasts and foreign sourced stations maybe. But from the local weather/news studio? I doubt it.
Food and shelter are NOT luxuries. If you can die without something it is a NECESSITY, not a luxury. And anyone who is heartless and callous enough to simply let people die when those people can be saved by something that there is enough of to go around, like food, well, I see why the world's economy has collapsed. Hint: it wasn't socialism or liberalism, it was the failure of capitalism.
The failure of capitalists like YOU. Funny how the people who cause the world's misery never suffer themselves. Your attitude is typical of someone who has never had to do without. You can be forgiven your ignorance. I hope that if you ever learn the truth it won't be too painful for you.
Free Martian Whores!
Capitalism is the only true amoral economic system. All others are immoral.
I stopped reading here. The fuck are you smoking?
If the private sector managers (especially top level, CEO and boards, etc) had gotten those ideas the world's economy might not have collapsed.
Free Martian Whores!
You should read your own sig.
If we devoted all of our resourced trying to accomplish such a hopeless goal we would never progress at all.
Your straw man is on fire, son.
Free Martian Whores!
I've never seen a van in a studio. Is your local station's callsign KRAZ or something?
If you want to help someone, use your own resources and convince others to do the same.
Don't steal from other people in order to achieve your social goals.