Actually de-orbiting Phobos and Deimos would be easy, just a few nukes set off in the right place, not that there is any reason to do it as they mass so little.
Balloons. Our atmosphere is a lifting gas on Venus and at the right altitude, the temperature is ideal (about 20C) along with the air pressure. You have enough atmosphere above you that radiation wouldn't be a problem and even the gravity is probably close enough.
OTOH, the main stream media gifted Trump with billions in free coverage while going on about how good for ratings Trump is. If the MSM doesn't want someone as President, they ignore them like they did with Ron Paul, even going so far as listing 1st,2nd and 4th place in the primaries and not mentioning Paul's 3rd place finish. The truth is that the owners of the MSM are generally interested in one thing, making money, whereas the reporters and editors are more varied. It's why they don't like leftist candidates such as Bernie and supported the conservative ex-Republican Clinton and weren't sure about the Authoritarian Trump with his left wing economic policies.
You don't remember 9/11 and how suddenly dissent meant that you were against the glorious USA and how we had to support the government no matter what? Or perhaps the shit that was laid on anyone who dissented with the wonderful Ronny, such as mentioning the dealings with Iran or the government dealing illegal drugs. It may have been after Nixon that dissent was really turned into a negative thing. Those awful dissenters brought down a President and even worse, were partially responsible for losing Vietnam. The government got very good at heading off dissent before it could formulate too much. If I was older, I'd probably bring up the red hunts of the '50's or the 10's when simply handing out flyers disapproving of the draft was enough to get you thrown in prison with the agreement of the Supreme Court. You know, giving out flyers was like yelling fire in a theatre. Going even further back, there was the way dissenters were treated in the early 1860's and even further back, how anyone dissenting with the revolution was treated.
I'll also note that all the dissent about Obama becomes cheering when the other team does similar stuff. I don't see the Tea party bitching about the current Trillion dollar deficit now.
You said "murder people who spell "center" wrong." which wasn't the English. Besides Americans don't believe in letting others do those other things. Lots of people in America who are taxed without representation, at that your whole system seems to be setup to not allow various people representation, including many citizens. yYou've been making trade agreements that screw up other countries manufacturing and continue to do it and then there are all the people who you do your best to not allow to defend themselves.
SeaMonkey is dying. Not enough developers to keep up with the rapidly changing code from Mozilla. Hopefully they can make the adjustments to keep up but it doesn't look good.
I have a T series Thinkpad, nice piece of hardware but the BIOS has a whitelist of alternate devices such as hard drives so you can't simply replace them.
While I agree that it is unlikely to be cut off the modern banking system for posting something, it is more likely if you share a name with a terrorist or are a member of an organization that the government does not like. We've seen the no-fly list target the wrong people, and travel is one way to pursue happiness within the society. We've also seen organizations cut of from payment methods because the American government didn't like them. As long as the government can just quietly ask the banks to cut you off, there's a problem as businesses don't have to respect rights in many cases. I don't like authoritarianism whether it comes from government or private entities and the digital world is giving more power to both, especially the private entities who are also merging so finding alternatives gets harder and harder.
Another 2-3% when living on the edge like so many low income workers are. It's also a lot easier to budget cash, you have $50 or whatever to buy groceries and that's it. Paying with cash lights up the disgust centre of the brain as well as the pleasure centre which helps stop stupid purchases. Too many people here are relatively wealthy and forget that a large portion of the population isn't.
So then you have to give the phone maker (Apple isn't cheap) and telecommunications company (bandwidth is fucking expensive here) a cut as well as the bank, and once again when the network goes down, you're fucked.
The truth is that we have real problems with digital payments and as digital payments are not an inalienable right, they should be banned. Do you know how much money is laundered by drug dealers, terrorists, slavers and such using digital cash, not too mention using digital to move billions of dollars to tax havens to avoid paying taxes. Then there is the legal skimming that is done by unsavoury bankers who break the law without consequences as they have a stranglehold on our economy and the government is scared to punish them. I don't want a future where every transaction is skimmed and if the skimmers don't like you for some reason, perhaps the wrong politics or you said something they don't like such as "digital is bad", making it too easy to cut you out of society. Imagine one day all your cards are rejected, not because you broke a law, but just upset some banker.
Yes, in the case of Quebec there were changes made, they were declared a distinct society, the Federal veto procedure was changed and various other changes. Quebec takes care of a lot of stuff that usually the Federal government takes care of, even things like immigration.
True, but on the other hand, with half the population not wanting to secede, especially combined with a badly worded question, you might have the choice of submission to the local government or violence.
While true, there is a question of clarity of the population to secede. We ran into this in Canada the last time Quebec had a referendum to leave the Confederation. It got about 49.42% votes on the leave side which is awfully close to a 50/50 split. Afterwards the government passed the Clarity Act, based on a ruling by the Supreme Court that Quebec could not unilaterally secede but if it was a clear will of the people of Quebec, the government would have to enter negotiations. It would also take a change to the Constitution of the type that requires all Provinces to agree. Two parts of the Clarity Act that I agree with is that the question on the ballot has to be clear and the majority has to be a clear majority. The clear majority was never stated what it should be but being of a Constitutional level, I"d think 60%+. I find it weird when Constitutional level law is passed with a 50%+1 majority. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Don't you mean that other countries don't waste money on military pork and don't subsidize farmers nearly as much as the USA. I know that you want more pork, "lets get our allies to spend billions on a piece of shit aircraft and open up their borders so we can dump subsidized milk, corn and soy on them and wipe out their farmers, we can borrow more money" seems to be the American message. At least you have allies like Greece that spend lots on their military and are great help when you need it.
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Actually de-orbiting Phobos and Deimos would be easy, just a few nukes set off in the right place, not that there is any reason to do it as they mass so little.
Balloons. Our atmosphere is a lifting gas on Venus and at the right altitude, the temperature is ideal (about 20C) along with the air pressure. You have enough atmosphere above you that radiation wouldn't be a problem and even the gravity is probably close enough.
Most of the interesting ones are inside Jupiter's radiation belt, not healthy.
Wasn't it you up the page talking about critical thinking? Perhaps you should try it.
OTOH, the main stream media gifted Trump with billions in free coverage while going on about how good for ratings Trump is. If the MSM doesn't want someone as President, they ignore them like they did with Ron Paul, even going so far as listing 1st,2nd and 4th place in the primaries and not mentioning Paul's 3rd place finish.
The truth is that the owners of the MSM are generally interested in one thing, making money, whereas the reporters and editors are more varied. It's why they don't like leftist candidates such as Bernie and supported the conservative ex-Republican Clinton and weren't sure about the Authoritarian Trump with his left wing economic policies.
You mean that bus full of children leeching my WiFi? Those kids get quite irate when the WiFi goes down.
It helped that a lot of the OS was in ROM.
You don't remember 9/11 and how suddenly dissent meant that you were against the glorious USA and how we had to support the government no matter what?
Or perhaps the shit that was laid on anyone who dissented with the wonderful Ronny, such as mentioning the dealings with Iran or the government dealing illegal drugs.
It may have been after Nixon that dissent was really turned into a negative thing. Those awful dissenters brought down a President and even worse, were partially responsible for losing Vietnam. The government got very good at heading off dissent before it could formulate too much.
If I was older, I'd probably bring up the red hunts of the '50's or the 10's when simply handing out flyers disapproving of the draft was enough to get you thrown in prison with the agreement of the Supreme Court. You know, giving out flyers was like yelling fire in a theatre.
Going even further back, there was the way dissenters were treated in the early 1860's and even further back, how anyone dissenting with the revolution was treated.
I'll also note that all the dissent about Obama becomes cheering when the other team does similar stuff. I don't see the Tea party bitching about the current Trillion dollar deficit now.
You said "murder people who spell "center" wrong." which wasn't the English. Besides Americans don't believe in letting others do those other things. Lots of people in America who are taxed without representation, at that your whole system seems to be setup to not allow various people representation, including many citizens. yYou've been making trade agreements that screw up other countries manufacturing and continue to do it and then there are all the people who you do your best to not allow to defend themselves.
We fought a whole war, and traveled across an icy Delaware River on Christmas night to murder people who spell "center" wrong.
Is that when you started murdering your allies? Those damned French, not spelling their own work correctly and helping your war.
And no, the trunk of a car is not a boot.
Now that's true, the rear of a car is definitely related to an elephants nose.
SeaMonkey is dying. Not enough developers to keep up with the rapidly changing code from Mozilla. Hopefully they can make the adjustments to keep up but it doesn't look good.
It's old enough that you need to use an unofficial BIOS, which is fine for me but maybe not the average person.
I have a T series Thinkpad, nice piece of hardware but the BIOS has a whitelist of alternate devices such as hard drives so you can't simply replace them.
While I agree that it is unlikely to be cut off the modern banking system for posting something, it is more likely if you share a name with a terrorist or are a member of an organization that the government does not like.
We've seen the no-fly list target the wrong people, and travel is one way to pursue happiness within the society. We've also seen organizations cut of from payment methods because the American government didn't like them. As long as the government can just quietly ask the banks to cut you off, there's a problem as businesses don't have to respect rights in many cases.
I don't like authoritarianism whether it comes from government or private entities and the digital world is giving more power to both, especially the private entities who are also merging so finding alternatives gets harder and harder.
Or the opposite. You just don't know who is going to have power over you and what their believes might be.
Another 2-3% when living on the edge like so many low income workers are.
It's also a lot easier to budget cash, you have $50 or whatever to buy groceries and that's it. Paying with cash lights up the disgust centre of the brain as well as the pleasure centre which helps stop stupid purchases.
Too many people here are relatively wealthy and forget that a large portion of the population isn't.
So then you have to give the phone maker (Apple isn't cheap) and telecommunications company (bandwidth is fucking expensive here) a cut as well as the bank, and once again when the network goes down, you're fucked.
Where do you get this idea?
nor is it an inalienable right to pay anonymously
The truth is that we have real problems with digital payments and as digital payments are not an inalienable right, they should be banned. Do you know how much money is laundered by drug dealers, terrorists, slavers and such using digital cash, not too mention using digital to move billions of dollars to tax havens to avoid paying taxes.
Then there is the legal skimming that is done by unsavoury bankers who break the law without consequences as they have a stranglehold on our economy and the government is scared to punish them.
I don't want a future where every transaction is skimmed and if the skimmers don't like you for some reason, perhaps the wrong politics or you said something they don't like such as "digital is bad", making it too easy to cut you out of society.
Imagine one day all your cards are rejected, not because you broke a law, but just upset some banker.
Yes, in the case of Quebec there were changes made, they were declared a distinct society, the Federal veto procedure was changed and various other changes. Quebec takes care of a lot of stuff that usually the Federal government takes care of, even things like immigration.
True, but on the other hand, with half the population not wanting to secede, especially combined with a badly worded question, you might have the choice of submission to the local government or violence.
While true, there is a question of clarity of the population to secede.
We ran into this in Canada the last time Quebec had a referendum to leave the Confederation. It got about 49.42% votes on the leave side which is awfully close to a 50/50 split. Afterwards the government passed the Clarity Act, based on a ruling by the Supreme Court that Quebec could not unilaterally secede but if it was a clear will of the people of Quebec, the government would have to enter negotiations. It would also take a change to the Constitution of the type that requires all Provinces to agree.
Two parts of the Clarity Act that I agree with is that the question on the ballot has to be clear and the majority has to be a clear majority. The clear majority was never stated what it should be but being of a Constitutional level, I"d think 60%+.
I find it weird when Constitutional level law is passed with a 50%+1 majority.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
I thought Putin was the new American Ally.
Don't you mean that other countries don't waste money on military pork and don't subsidize farmers nearly as much as the USA. I know that you want more pork, "lets get our allies to spend billions on a piece of shit aircraft and open up their borders so we can dump subsidized milk, corn and soy on them and wipe out their farmers, we can borrow more money" seems to be the American message.
At least you have allies like Greece that spend lots on their military and are great help when you need it.
Hasn't pigeon milk always been called milk? Then there are the ants that farm and milk aphids.
Ripeness.