Oh. Well, so you're Serbian, not American. But, it all still applies: you're a White Liberal Serbian, drug-using "activist", probably ethnic cleansing proponent, all-around disgusting person whose opinion IS "propaganda" as you call it. How can you condemn "the West" when YOUR country is part of "the West" and YOUR people are genocidal?
"Every war in the..." excuse me, "whatever" number of years is entirely the doing of "the West"? What are you, the American Al Qaeda? No, just another White Liberal.
Listen, rich liberal American. Listen to yourself: you're a moron. You don't know your facts. You scream myths out of a fit of formative angst-driven rebellion founded in some psycho-sexual adolescent complex. You're sheltered and you get your information from dishonest people with ulterior motives who feed you drugs and begrudged companionship in order to further their agendas, all under the auspices of "activism".
You speak lewdly and violently to people because you don't have a clear view of what's going on in the world, like a screaming baby. And you're only slightly better-off than your fellow insular, sheltered, anti-social "peers" for going through it rather than staying indoors and fucking your mother for the rest of your life.
But it's plain and clear that you're the one with your head in the sand. If you don't slow down, assess your situation and look for the truth in things, one of these days you're going to be a foil-hat. And when people are done laughing at you they'll be picking you clean.
That fact is, nobody is "making" these sotadic miscreants lording in the desert and riddling the Pacific marshes and islands with gunfire, scream Hell and brimstone against "the West" except themselves. If you don't think that there's a Muslim agenda out to kill you, and take your property, and uproot your government and replace it with Allah, then you're obviously biased in favor of that happening. You would have to have been in a cave for the last thirty years to not have witnessed this going on. You would have to exercise selective ignorance in order to form a ridiculous world-view that "the West" is cruelly destroying the world and all peace just to get the money out of it, and that all the Muslims are peace-loving little wriggly worms with no human ambitions on, say, ruling the entire planet under an AK-47 and a Burqqa.
But go ahead, let's hear it out. Explain to us how "the West" started:
* North Korea vs. South Korea * China vs. Tibet & Nepal * Syria & Egypt vs. Israel * Saudi Arabia & "the Arab World" vs. "the West" -- explain how the West was involved in this newest, ongoing war against their own self, people in the West are DYING to get this straightened out
Which is why "terrorist" and mercenary acts are becoming all the rage -- no upward liability.
This leads to seeing countries in their proper respects, not as abstract Man-O-War colonies of separated organisms named "public", "government", "military", "religious", "civilian", but just a single celled entity called by the nation's given name in collective.
If we're allowed excuses such as "this wasn't an act of war -- it was merely a couple of dozen bombers over the last ten years who have caused panic in your population, instability in your economy, fissures in your government, and the loss of hundreds of lives", then we're saying "all nations reserve the right to wage outright war on each other as long as the methods are unconventional and the governments never publicly declare war".
So you have to see the nation, or other threat, as a cell (which is the modern way of visualizing and describing unconventional warfare). The government and the people, the military and the civilians, the religion and the policies are all one united threat. If people won't stop coming from inside of the region of this cell, and blowing things up in the name of a pseudo-religion-quasi-government "peace", then the entire cell needs to be eliminated, and it's justifiable to start the attack anywhere.
The Muslim vanguard of violence is about pushing a war front for the deterioration and capture of non-Muslim governments. Sure there are a relative "minority" of violence, war-making Muslims, but that's because it's just the fringe of the borders of their expansion that have to do the dirty-work, not the entire body of the world's Muslim population. You don't concern yourself with the dangers of the anus or the liver or other internal organs of some beast like a bear or a shark or alligator bearing down on you, do you? No, you concern yourself with the deadlier parts of the animal in the periphery, the teeth and the claws and so on. But, oh, what you're saying is, we can't say the animal is dangerous because it's not all teeth and claws.
Maybe we should inspect the hand-shake again, because everybody under 40 seems to shake hands like a fag, gripping the tips of your fingers as soon as they're in reach and shaking the tips of your fingers.
I actually had to say to somebody recently, "hey, by the way, when you're shaking hands, make sure the hands connect before you shake. Don't shake somebody's fingers."
But the Roman alphabet doesn't bear resemblance to real world objects so it's a timeless abstract. Even the Greek and Hebrew it was based off of no longer bore resemblance to real world objects (though some may say some of the primitive Hebrew resembled mouthparts, the eventual codified version was just a bunch of squiggly lines). These objects, meanwhile, are facsimiles of real world objects, and the point of the article is that many of these objects are no longer part of daily life. So the purpose of making the facsimiles -- to recall for the user the functions of objects that they are familiar with -- is ruined due to the fact that you can no longer expect the user to be familiar with the objects. However, buh biddy blah blah bluhblahblahblah, blahdah ditty blah blah bliddy. By the way, I nominate "bosolete" for "new word that needs a meaning attached" because it sounds cool.
HEyyy wouldn't it be something if a Muslim-hijacked plane DID fly incredibly close to the Olympics, and it WAS shot down successfully by the portable missiles, and it DID land on the Muslim neighborhoods that are right there?
Somebody in the HP has been up late with the heroin pipe.
What crazy, stupid idiot would think to send an air-force attack on London?
If they're worried about drones, they're still stupid. There are drones, now, that can dodge SAMs. And who would send a horde of drones? They would get shot down within twenty minutes of appearing on radar. They'd have to fly in over flocks of birds to avoid being detected and they'd still be detected.
And again nobody in the world is thinking of sending an air force over London, at least not any air force that could be reached by SAMs. If somebody wanted to do real horrible damage they'd fly over with one of these new high-altitude spy planes and drop a payload from up high. Even that's sort of a stupid idea, there are probably going to be one or two high altitude radars flying at all times if the fact that rooftops will be reinforced with missile racks is any sign.
Considering that these missiles are totally useless as a defense of any kind (due to the fact that there's no imaginable threat that they could be used against) I imagine it's a psychological operation and not against some imperceptible enemy but against the common person.
I'm actually, dead-on *certain* that the earlier, wildfire-like spread of BSE followed *precisely* the spread of news-items regarding BSE from country to country. This is something I was able to see through the simple magic of the internet: google search terms sighted on the BSE epidemic unfiltered so I would get international news, multiple pages reporting news from all corners of the globe related to the subject, and watching as first news would be reported in a country then days or weeks later as that country would start reporting finding BSE.
That shouldn't be sign of a vector, that should just be how news works, right? Except I realized that the test for spongiform encephalitis requires dissecting the brain. So you can't test to see if it's there, first, before administering the prion. Zero scientific process, zero experimental control, and so nothing provable. That's when I realized in turn that the news items are the pathogenic vector.
Do you hold the Zuck's hand while he goes around Zucking up all the shit he can look in the eye?
Are you dead certain that Mark Zuckerberg has personally killed all of his meat-based dietary supplements since that publicity stunt occured, or are you totally in the dark and it's really just the one time and it was really just for publicity because he doesn't have the time to maintain it?
Here's my personal story: I've followed "mad cow" since it first showed up over a decade ago and made such huge, scary news that Irish farmers were committing suicide.
I've spent hours, and hours, and hours studying the intricacies and details of the disease. I've studied the folding protein concept and the studies "proving" that the prions cause the disease.
I've also, all along, had the opportunity to watch the spread of the disease, and to come to my own conclusions about what it is that happens just-before the disease shows up in a new country.
First of all, to completely destroy -- blow out of the water -- the connection between the prions and the disease: there's no way to show encephalopathy without dissecting the brain physically. In other words you can't find that the brain has encephalopathy without opening the cranium, and cutting it into slices to see the progression. That means, there's no way you can tell the brain has encephalopathy (or not), BEFORE you administer the fucking test, dimwit! There's absolute ZERO scientific control! It's not even a fucking EXPERIMENT! It doesn't prove ANYTHING! HA-HA!
Second of all, whenever news items sufficiently freak people out in a given area, they start cutting the fuck out of the craniums of animals in their area and oh my GOD, they start finding holes in brains. If left alone, to their own devices, never being panicked about anything, they don't, and they don't. Gee, curious, innit?
So there you have it. Go ahead and freak out, because prions once they're in the water table are gonna go straight to population centers because of the lower water pressure near places where it's being drawn from, and they're gonna get right through the filters, and straight into your blood-brain barrier, and you're gonna get swiss-cheese brain, and you're gonna die, you, me, all of us, we're all gonna get swiss-fucking-cheese-brain, and die horribly in a hell of pain and dementia, because the prions are everywhere, already (it's a chain reaction, see) and it's too late, kill yourself. Just kill yourself and bury yourself in a lead-lined, nice and cheap concrete tomb because the prions won't get through the lead (but they very well could get through the pores in the concrete eewwww!)
Or, just shut up. Stop spreading the news. The "disease" will disappear. Strangely and miraculously, civilization will continue on and on for as many generations as the nuclear arms race permits us. Now, whether this is because ministers and, presumably, other heads-of-state are capable of performing their duties while missing most of their brain tissue (at least in France, well at least in the case of one French minister) or if it's because the disease hasn't actually been proven, yet, we don't know.
But I'm not letting YOU slice MY brain open just to settle YOUR indecent fears and angst, so SHUT UP.
If the result back-propagates through time, then how could you ever have seen any different result?
Depending on what Victor chooses to do, he's going to open the folder detailing Alice and Bob's findings and those findings are always going to describe Victor's decision. Otherwise there's no linearity to time. You can't possibly have some effect that is working to cause this to happen while Alice and Bob still somehow did something different. Doesn't that make sense?
So either those times when Victor's decision did not affect A and B were after some error had occurred in the experiment, or, the effect or force isn't really happening at a quantum level but is happening due to insufficient control on the experiment.
Oh, and here I thought it was security protocol. It's funny how highly-desperate marketing-greedy behaviour can somehow resemble high-defensive national-security behaviour, and yet how I feel inclined to pay for one service and not the other!
Yeah, and, when you come under a DDOS attack, one quick decision you can make in the short term is ignore everything from a growing blacklist of attacking addresses. An even easier decision would be to ignore an entire block of addresses or, even more simply, ignore any service requests that have nothing to do with your company/organization/network focus and throttle back what services you're "supposed" to provide so you don't become "overwhelmed".
Is that the future you're looking forward to? One where you get singled out for being so egotistical, bored, and productivity-chalenged that you actively seek to force your government to shut down privileges enjoyed by all your fellow citizens in a widespread attempt to defend the government's resources against mis-use? In other words you get your jollies from government mis-spending and over-burden? You enjoy having people work for you only so you can push them to the brink of uselessness? You don't care about your fellow citizens with cooler, leveler heads and higher priorities who might not enjoy a press embargo?
You don't even really care about the purpose or thought put into the protocols that make you so pissed-off. You haven't put any thought into it, if you're even capable of real, critical "thought". You're willing to ignore other peoples' reasons for doing what they do as soon as you find out that they aren't that interested in your over-bearing demand or your reason for demanding it, even if that's simply your spoiled upbringing and insular mentality in action. You just want to stomp your feet, demand "more", demand it "now", and couldn't care less about your neighbors (in any sense of the word).
You probably aren't even aware that you have neighbors.
It probably has something to do with Canada's international affairs restrictions on the press and the sense of heightened security after it was discovered (immediately post 9-11) how easily terrorists could attack America through Canada's huger borders and therefore more lax security.
That hardly makes it "security theatre". I think it's sort of fancy and maybe looks unnecessary in this context, but why ask for conessions where security is concerned? It's not like they strip-searched the press or had them trailed for asking questions. They appear to have been following the protocols of some pre-arranged agreement between the two national governments concerning international affairs between agencies, with a mind toward protecting America from evil people who would seek to take advantage of Canada's breathtaking liberalism and wide country.
I mean, the way I see it, the behaviour of the withholding organization was perhaps overdrawn and maybe on purpose but not without its rewards to America. Maybe something else happened where some people would have liked to have been allowed to be free-er with the press and couldn't because of some restriction and they decided to be obtusely contrite through adhering strictly to the protocols. So saying, that's what people do when they get tired of something, and the best way to keep them from feeling too tired is to pay them more. I'd have to say that if Canadians aren't getting some small but respectable amount of kickback or income for being a vanguard of the national security of the USA, then maybe they should.
Sorry, but this is some of the most boring, least artistically creative "art" requiring the least ingenuity and the least imagination that I've ever come across, ever. I'm not even going to do the "hip" thing and give these "hipsters" the benefit of the doubt that they're trying to be ironic. I just think they're genuinely toast.
Oh, come on, yes you dooooo.... you all eat monkey brains and human hearts all the time. You all live in either deserts or in jungle mudpits, or temples and treasure-laden skyscrapers. You speak English with English accents and maintain archaic English terms like "by jove". Somewhere in your country is an ancient Masonic cult guarding a substantial amount of gold, and somewhere else in your country is an ancient Kali-worshipping cult that sends people to the lava. Just admit it.
Wow, so in all this enlightenment (Christian, Hindu, Muslim, who cares -- you all claim direct knowledge of God's existence and guidance and use that claim to attribute inherent righteousness to your actions and opinions) you STILL all just HAVE to go through your own Cold War? You can't just look back at the one that JUST went past, and say "Yeah, America, Russia, Cuba, everybody looked like a bunch of idiots", you just have to have the feeling of having gone through it yourselves?
Only this time, instead of a bunch of countries where religion is historically somewhat of a yoked bull, in the nations of India and of India's "enemies" (very enlightened, very spiritual) religiosity is the stamp of approval on every government transaction. If governances are not done at the behest of Muslim, Hindu, or Jewish appraisers, they are not performed at all.
And while you all claim so much enlightenment and spirituality, goodwill and peacefulness, you are all the craziest and stupidest, most superstitious and violent people in the world. And since the grand majority of religious people *ARE* barbaric, *ARE* murderous and *ARE* hellbent on killing each other even when the only thing they have handy are rocks and machetes -- and apparently especially when victories against ancient sworn enemies may be gained even if it means firing rockets on unarmed civilians (Jews), raping and murdering refugees in their sleep (Christians), blowing up anything and everything you can in the most gruesome fashion possible (Muslims), or just barbarically swarming city streets to target known Muslims while screaming nationalist battle cries and wielding swords and tridents and killing en masse in cold blood in broad daylight (Hindus), you all do the exact same thing and you all justify it by saying that you're right about God, that God is with you and that you are different and better than everyone else.
A second cold war will be even worse and will likely see actual launches and strikes. There are more people alive now, so those people are easy to project as being worth considerably less in order to appease the common sense of one's own people that obliterating millions of people in a flash and simultaneously ruining the entire world's natural environment in the process is not a good thing. So the chances of facing as much backlash and public disapproval is not as high as it was during the idealistic 60's through the 80's. But that's not the only way things could be worse.
There are also long-standing alliances between religions that have nothing to do with national alliances, and with so many purely religious and purely hateful nations now coming into their nuclear powers, these religious alliances will be called into account. And because religion is nothing more than an ideology of shared delusion, other ideologies will also be called into play against one another. So once again Communism will have its stance against what it sees as the tumult of unfettered capitalism running amuck. Christians will have to side with Israelis because of their shared delusion concerning "Armageddon" and shared ambitions for the Temple Mount. Muslim nations everywhere will have to side with each other rather than be considered "apostate" and be rent like a beard. Jews everywhere will have to respond to the Muslim surge in self defense.
Every nation in every continent will have reasons to pick up nuclear weapons once you've made it a religion instead of a strategy.
This makes it highly obvious, of course, what you religious people really worship: death, the threat of death, and the obsolescence of sense in any way you can force it to occur. Rape, murder, pillaging, genocide, mass insanity and mass destruction are the only legacies you religious people bring to the Earth.
Not only should you not have a nuclear weapon, you should be tranquilize en masse and gradually cajoled into mass suicides. Next time you feel a frenzy of religious fervor and wish to demonstrate it via arrows that explode with the power of a thousand suns, point them at yourself, please.
North Korea is a piece of shit, granted, and they don't have any realistic purpose for an orbiting satellite, so their recent (failed) launch test was more than likely a cover for ICBM capabilities and nobody on Earth besides Jong-Il and maybe China wants North Korea to have an ICBM.
But we can't just (rightly) condemn the shit out of North Korea for their launch and then just go "ooohh, aahhh, how Leet tis this venture today, ooohh, silver spoon up my ass with a stick of butter, aahhh."
I would be the tenth person or so, if I pointed out that the summary author basically wrote "the tunnels will disappear in the coming years" while the article reads along the lines of "the tunnels disappeared in the years immediately following their creation".
But that's not what's important.
What's important, is that if the ice had NOT reclaimed the tunnels, they would still BE there.
What's more impressive is that it could be dismantled in time without a huge incident. According to a recent/. story, most owners of nuclear plants in America never stopped to save up enough money to dismantle their reactors when those reactors reach the end of their lifetime.
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Oh. Well, so you're Serbian, not American. But, it all still applies: you're a White Liberal Serbian, drug-using "activist", probably ethnic cleansing proponent, all-around disgusting person whose opinion IS "propaganda" as you call it. How can you condemn "the West" when YOUR country is part of "the West" and YOUR people are genocidal?
"Every war in the..." excuse me, "whatever" number of years is entirely the doing of "the West"? What are you, the American Al Qaeda? No, just another White Liberal.
Listen, rich liberal American. Listen to yourself: you're a moron. You don't know your facts. You scream myths out of a fit of formative angst-driven rebellion founded in some psycho-sexual adolescent complex. You're sheltered and you get your information from dishonest people with ulterior motives who feed you drugs and begrudged companionship in order to further their agendas, all under the auspices of "activism".
You speak lewdly and violently to people because you don't have a clear view of what's going on in the world, like a screaming baby. And you're only slightly better-off than your fellow insular, sheltered, anti-social "peers" for going through it rather than staying indoors and fucking your mother for the rest of your life.
But it's plain and clear that you're the one with your head in the sand. If you don't slow down, assess your situation and look for the truth in things, one of these days you're going to be a foil-hat. And when people are done laughing at you they'll be picking you clean.
That fact is, nobody is "making" these sotadic miscreants lording in the desert and riddling the Pacific marshes and islands with gunfire, scream Hell and brimstone against "the West" except themselves. If you don't think that there's a Muslim agenda out to kill you, and take your property, and uproot your government and replace it with Allah, then you're obviously biased in favor of that happening. You would have to have been in a cave for the last thirty years to not have witnessed this going on. You would have to exercise selective ignorance in order to form a ridiculous world-view that "the West" is cruelly destroying the world and all peace just to get the money out of it, and that all the Muslims are peace-loving little wriggly worms with no human ambitions on, say, ruling the entire planet under an AK-47 and a Burqqa.
But go ahead, let's hear it out. Explain to us how "the West" started:
* North Korea vs. South Korea
* China vs. Tibet & Nepal
* Syria & Egypt vs. Israel
* Saudi Arabia & "the Arab World" vs. "the West" -- explain how the West was involved in this newest, ongoing war against their own self, people in the West are DYING to get this straightened out
Which is why "terrorist" and mercenary acts are becoming all the rage -- no upward liability.
This leads to seeing countries in their proper respects, not as abstract Man-O-War colonies of separated organisms named "public", "government", "military", "religious", "civilian", but just a single celled entity called by the nation's given name in collective.
If we're allowed excuses such as "this wasn't an act of war -- it was merely a couple of dozen bombers over the last ten years who have caused panic in your population, instability in your economy, fissures in your government, and the loss of hundreds of lives", then we're saying "all nations reserve the right to wage outright war on each other as long as the methods are unconventional and the governments never publicly declare war".
So you have to see the nation, or other threat, as a cell (which is the modern way of visualizing and describing unconventional warfare). The government and the people, the military and the civilians, the religion and the policies are all one united threat. If people won't stop coming from inside of the region of this cell, and blowing things up in the name of a pseudo-religion-quasi-government "peace", then the entire cell needs to be eliminated, and it's justifiable to start the attack anywhere.
The Muslim vanguard of violence is about pushing a war front for the deterioration and capture of non-Muslim governments. Sure there are a relative "minority" of violence, war-making Muslims, but that's because it's just the fringe of the borders of their expansion that have to do the dirty-work, not the entire body of the world's Muslim population. You don't concern yourself with the dangers of the anus or the liver or other internal organs of some beast like a bear or a shark or alligator bearing down on you, do you? No, you concern yourself with the deadlier parts of the animal in the periphery, the teeth and the claws and so on. But, oh, what you're saying is, we can't say the animal is dangerous because it's not all teeth and claws.
Oh, indeed, take it away good sir: give us the long list (not the short one!) of these mythological Peaceful Muslim Countries.
Maybe we should inspect the hand-shake again, because everybody under 40 seems to shake hands like a fag, gripping the tips of your fingers as soon as they're in reach and shaking the tips of your fingers.
I actually had to say to somebody recently, "hey, by the way, when you're shaking hands, make sure the hands connect before you shake. Don't shake somebody's fingers."
But the Roman alphabet doesn't bear resemblance to real world objects so it's a timeless abstract. Even the Greek and Hebrew it was based off of no longer bore resemblance to real world objects (though some may say some of the primitive Hebrew resembled mouthparts, the eventual codified version was just a bunch of squiggly lines). These objects, meanwhile, are facsimiles of real world objects, and the point of the article is that many of these objects are no longer part of daily life. So the purpose of making the facsimiles -- to recall for the user the functions of objects that they are familiar with -- is ruined due to the fact that you can no longer expect the user to be familiar with the objects. However, buh biddy blah blah bluhblahblahblah, blahdah ditty blah blah bliddy. By the way, I nominate "bosolete" for "new word that needs a meaning attached" because it sounds cool.
options: gears/wrenches --> a yellow triangle (caution sign) with an exclamation point in it with a little red X instead of a "point"
saving: floppy disk --> anatomical brain
video entertainment programming: TV --> MTV
calendar: calendar --> christmas present
folders: manila envelope --> kitten and yarn-ball /or/ matrushka doll
take a picture: aperture camera --> breasts with penis
save my place: bookmarks --> treasure map
remember this person: rolodex / blackbook --> spy silhouette
cut/paste: clipboards --> open mouths
"wait": hourglass --> rotating spiral
on-disk search: eyeglass --> hourglass
in-file search: binoculars --> cop
send functions: postage envelopes --> globe
copies: carbon copy flyaway --> tiers of identically dogeared pages
new RadioButton --> new Selector(exclusive)
new CheckBox --> new Selector(inclusive)
HEyyy wouldn't it be something if a Muslim-hijacked plane DID fly incredibly close to the Olympics, and it WAS shot down successfully by the portable missiles, and it DID land on the Muslim neighborhoods that are right there?
Something like "right up your fucking mother's cunt"?
Somebody in the HP has been up late with the heroin pipe.
What crazy, stupid idiot would think to send an air-force attack on London?
If they're worried about drones, they're still stupid. There are drones, now, that can dodge SAMs. And who would send a horde of drones? They would get shot down within twenty minutes of appearing on radar. They'd have to fly in over flocks of birds to avoid being detected and they'd still be detected.
And again nobody in the world is thinking of sending an air force over London, at least not any air force that could be reached by SAMs. If somebody wanted to do real horrible damage they'd fly over with one of these new high-altitude spy planes and drop a payload from up high. Even that's sort of a stupid idea, there are probably going to be one or two high altitude radars flying at all times if the fact that rooftops will be reinforced with missile racks is any sign.
Considering that these missiles are totally useless as a defense of any kind (due to the fact that there's no imaginable threat that they could be used against) I imagine it's a psychological operation and not against some imperceptible enemy but against the common person.
I'm actually, dead-on *certain* that the earlier, wildfire-like spread of BSE followed *precisely* the spread of news-items regarding BSE from country to country. This is something I was able to see through the simple magic of the internet: google search terms sighted on the BSE epidemic unfiltered so I would get international news, multiple pages reporting news from all corners of the globe related to the subject, and watching as first news would be reported in a country then days or weeks later as that country would start reporting finding BSE.
That shouldn't be sign of a vector, that should just be how news works, right? Except I realized that the test for spongiform encephalitis requires dissecting the brain. So you can't test to see if it's there, first, before administering the prion. Zero scientific process, zero experimental control, and so nothing provable. That's when I realized in turn that the news items are the pathogenic vector.
Do you hold the Zuck's hand while he goes around Zucking up all the shit he can look in the eye?
Are you dead certain that Mark Zuckerberg has personally killed all of his meat-based dietary supplements since that publicity stunt occured, or are you totally in the dark and it's really just the one time and it was really just for publicity because he doesn't have the time to maintain it?
Here's my personal story: I've followed "mad cow" since it first showed up over a decade ago and made such huge, scary news that Irish farmers were committing suicide.
I've spent hours, and hours, and hours studying the intricacies and details of the disease. I've studied the folding protein concept and the studies "proving" that the prions cause the disease.
I've also, all along, had the opportunity to watch the spread of the disease, and to come to my own conclusions about what it is that happens just-before the disease shows up in a new country.
First of all, to completely destroy -- blow out of the water -- the connection between the prions and the disease: there's no way to show encephalopathy without dissecting the brain physically. In other words you can't find that the brain has encephalopathy without opening the cranium, and cutting it into slices to see the progression. That means, there's no way you can tell the brain has encephalopathy (or not), BEFORE you administer the fucking test, dimwit! There's absolute ZERO scientific control! It's not even a fucking EXPERIMENT! It doesn't prove ANYTHING! HA-HA!
Second of all, whenever news items sufficiently freak people out in a given area, they start cutting the fuck out of the craniums of animals in their area and oh my GOD, they start finding holes in brains. If left alone, to their own devices, never being panicked about anything, they don't, and they don't. Gee, curious, innit?
So there you have it. Go ahead and freak out, because prions once they're in the water table are gonna go straight to population centers because of the lower water pressure near places where it's being drawn from, and they're gonna get right through the filters, and straight into your blood-brain barrier, and you're gonna get swiss-cheese brain, and you're gonna die, you, me, all of us, we're all gonna get swiss-fucking-cheese-brain, and die horribly in a hell of pain and dementia, because the prions are everywhere, already (it's a chain reaction, see) and it's too late, kill yourself. Just kill yourself and bury yourself in a lead-lined, nice and cheap concrete tomb because the prions won't get through the lead (but they very well could get through the pores in the concrete eewwww!)
Or, just shut up. Stop spreading the news. The "disease" will disappear. Strangely and miraculously, civilization will continue on and on for as many generations as the nuclear arms race permits us. Now, whether this is because ministers and, presumably, other heads-of-state are capable of performing their duties while missing most of their brain tissue (at least in France, well at least in the case of one French minister) or if it's because the disease hasn't actually been proven, yet, we don't know.
But I'm not letting YOU slice MY brain open just to settle YOUR indecent fears and angst, so SHUT UP.
If the result back-propagates through time, then how could you ever have seen any different result?
Depending on what Victor chooses to do, he's going to open the folder detailing Alice and Bob's findings and those findings are always going to describe Victor's decision. Otherwise there's no linearity to time. You can't possibly have some effect that is working to cause this to happen while Alice and Bob still somehow did something different. Doesn't that make sense?
So either those times when Victor's decision did not affect A and B were after some error had occurred in the experiment, or, the effect or force isn't really happening at a quantum level but is happening due to insufficient control on the experiment.
Oh, and here I thought it was security protocol. It's funny how highly-desperate marketing-greedy behaviour can somehow resemble high-defensive national-security behaviour, and yet how I feel inclined to pay for one service and not the other!
Yeah, and, when you come under a DDOS attack, one quick decision you can make in the short term is ignore everything from a growing blacklist of attacking addresses. An even easier decision would be to ignore an entire block of addresses or, even more simply, ignore any service requests that have nothing to do with your company/organization/network focus and throttle back what services you're "supposed" to provide so you don't become "overwhelmed".
Is that the future you're looking forward to? One where you get singled out for being so egotistical, bored, and productivity-chalenged that you actively seek to force your government to shut down privileges enjoyed by all your fellow citizens in a widespread attempt to defend the government's resources against mis-use? In other words you get your jollies from government mis-spending and over-burden? You enjoy having people work for you only so you can push them to the brink of uselessness? You don't care about your fellow citizens with cooler, leveler heads and higher priorities who might not enjoy a press embargo?
You don't even really care about the purpose or thought put into the protocols that make you so pissed-off. You haven't put any thought into it, if you're even capable of real, critical "thought". You're willing to ignore other peoples' reasons for doing what they do as soon as you find out that they aren't that interested in your over-bearing demand or your reason for demanding it, even if that's simply your spoiled upbringing and insular mentality in action. You just want to stomp your feet, demand "more", demand it "now", and couldn't care less about your neighbors (in any sense of the word).
You probably aren't even aware that you have neighbors.
It probably has something to do with Canada's international affairs restrictions on the press and the sense of heightened security after it was discovered (immediately post 9-11) how easily terrorists could attack America through Canada's huger borders and therefore more lax security.
That hardly makes it "security theatre". I think it's sort of fancy and maybe looks unnecessary in this context, but why ask for conessions where security is concerned? It's not like they strip-searched the press or had them trailed for asking questions. They appear to have been following the protocols of some pre-arranged agreement between the two national governments concerning international affairs between agencies, with a mind toward protecting America from evil people who would seek to take advantage of Canada's breathtaking liberalism and wide country.
I mean, the way I see it, the behaviour of the withholding organization was perhaps overdrawn and maybe on purpose but not without its rewards to America. Maybe something else happened where some people would have liked to have been allowed to be free-er with the press and couldn't because of some restriction and they decided to be obtusely contrite through adhering strictly to the protocols. So saying, that's what people do when they get tired of something, and the best way to keep them from feeling too tired is to pay them more. I'd have to say that if Canadians aren't getting some small but respectable amount of kickback or income for being a vanguard of the national security of the USA, then maybe they should.
Sorry, but this is some of the most boring, least artistically creative "art" requiring the least ingenuity and the least imagination that I've ever come across, ever. I'm not even going to do the "hip" thing and give these "hipsters" the benefit of the doubt that they're trying to be ironic. I just think they're genuinely toast.
Oh, come on, yes you dooooo.... you all eat monkey brains and human hearts all the time. You all live in either deserts or in jungle mudpits, or temples and treasure-laden skyscrapers. You speak English with English accents and maintain archaic English terms like "by jove". Somewhere in your country is an ancient Masonic cult guarding a substantial amount of gold, and somewhere else in your country is an ancient Kali-worshipping cult that sends people to the lava. Just admit it.
Wow, so in all this enlightenment (Christian, Hindu, Muslim, who cares -- you all claim direct knowledge of God's existence and guidance and use that claim to attribute inherent righteousness to your actions and opinions) you STILL all just HAVE to go through your own Cold War? You can't just look back at the one that JUST went past, and say "Yeah, America, Russia, Cuba, everybody looked like a bunch of idiots", you just have to have the feeling of having gone through it yourselves?
Only this time, instead of a bunch of countries where religion is historically somewhat of a yoked bull, in the nations of India and of India's "enemies" (very enlightened, very spiritual) religiosity is the stamp of approval on every government transaction. If governances are not done at the behest of Muslim, Hindu, or Jewish appraisers, they are not performed at all.
And while you all claim so much enlightenment and spirituality, goodwill and peacefulness, you are all the craziest and stupidest, most superstitious and violent people in the world. And since the grand majority of religious people *ARE* barbaric, *ARE* murderous and *ARE* hellbent on killing each other even when the only thing they have handy are rocks and machetes -- and apparently especially when victories against ancient sworn enemies may be gained even if it means firing rockets on unarmed civilians (Jews), raping and murdering refugees in their sleep (Christians), blowing up anything and everything you can in the most gruesome fashion possible (Muslims), or just barbarically swarming city streets to target known Muslims while screaming nationalist battle cries and wielding swords and tridents and killing en masse in cold blood in broad daylight (Hindus), you all do the exact same thing and you all justify it by saying that you're right about God, that God is with you and that you are different and better than everyone else.
A second cold war will be even worse and will likely see actual launches and strikes. There are more people alive now, so those people are easy to project as being worth considerably less in order to appease the common sense of one's own people that obliterating millions of people in a flash and simultaneously ruining the entire world's natural environment in the process is not a good thing. So the chances of facing as much backlash and public disapproval is not as high as it was during the idealistic 60's through the 80's. But that's not the only way things could be worse.
There are also long-standing alliances between religions that have nothing to do with national alliances, and with so many purely religious and purely hateful nations now coming into their nuclear powers, these religious alliances will be called into account. And because religion is nothing more than an ideology of shared delusion, other ideologies will also be called into play against one another. So once again Communism will have its stance against what it sees as the tumult of unfettered capitalism running amuck. Christians will have to side with Israelis because of their shared delusion concerning "Armageddon" and shared ambitions for the Temple Mount. Muslim nations everywhere will have to side with each other rather than be considered "apostate" and be rent like a beard. Jews everywhere will have to respond to the Muslim surge in self defense.
Every nation in every continent will have reasons to pick up nuclear weapons once you've made it a religion instead of a strategy.
This makes it highly obvious, of course, what you religious people really worship: death, the threat of death, and the obsolescence of sense in any way you can force it to occur. Rape, murder, pillaging, genocide, mass insanity and mass destruction are the only legacies you religious people bring to the Earth.
Not only should you not have a nuclear weapon, you should be tranquilize en masse and gradually cajoled into mass suicides. Next time you feel a frenzy of religious fervor and wish to demonstrate it via arrows that explode with the power of a thousand suns, point them at yourself, please.
Uh, okay, this is some bullshit.
North Korea is a piece of shit, granted, and they don't have any realistic purpose for an orbiting satellite, so their recent (failed) launch test was more than likely a cover for ICBM capabilities and nobody on Earth besides Jong-Il and maybe China wants North Korea to have an ICBM.
But we can't just (rightly) condemn the shit out of North Korea for their launch and then just go "ooohh, aahhh, how Leet tis this venture today, ooohh, silver spoon up my ass with a stick of butter, aahhh."
I would be the tenth person or so, if I pointed out that the summary author basically wrote "the tunnels will disappear in the coming years" while the article reads along the lines of "the tunnels disappeared in the years immediately following their creation".
But that's not what's important.
What's important, is that if the ice had NOT reclaimed the tunnels, they would still BE there.
Or, wait, that's actually not important. Well... there's radioactive ice, that's pretty cool.
What's more impressive is that it could be dismantled in time without a huge incident. According to a recent /. story, most owners of nuclear plants in America never stopped to save up enough money to dismantle their reactors when those reactors reach the end of their lifetime.
We need this to be universal !