Anybody with experience using a camera will not expect such a thing at all, in fact the opposite. Well, with current technology anyway. Plus big dynamic range isn't really that useful in space...
To be fair it's mindless bureaucrats trying to justify their existence. I would imagine that if children were actually running the country it would turn out a whole lot more sensible, at least more Crayony and plushy.
Ah, see, that's the master plan. Soon enough we're going to have to keep the children in a secure location until they're say twenty years old. For their protection of course. In this secure location free from outside interference they will prosper under our Intensive National Deployment Orchestrated Child Transformable Responsible Improvement Naturalization Abiding Trust of Economists, or our INDOCTRINATE program for short.
Therein lies the problem. Most people do not understand that you have to know how to ask the right questions and not be swayed by biases. Perhaps something to do with how some education systems are designed to make people obey authority and disapprove of questioning it as long as certain indoctrinations are kept sacrosanct. The right question is probably the hardest thing to accomplish and the most important, and not just in science. Just turn on any 'news' entertainment channel to see quantitative proof of such reckless behavior.
It is absolutely generalized but that doesn't mean it's wrong. Us Weekly has a much larger readership than that of Nature, for example. One simply has to look at the popularity of certain mythologies in the modern world to ascertain that science or the scientific method is not a significant part of many peoples lives (even if their daily life depends on science). This is of course blatantly obvious.
Perhaps picking on the burgers was unnecessary but the whole industry does survive on the rather insidious instant gratification by consumption of fatty salty food that exists solely by peoples carelessness or ignorance of what it does to their bodies. Well, that and it's cheap in the short run.
Not to mention that basic biology is hardly a specialty, anybody with a half-assed high school education should be able to at least follow most of what is on Slashdot. Well... unless you've had an American education ba-dum-dum-ch. How's that for generalization!
The problem with your thinking is that most people would rather pick up Us Weekly than a dictionary. You really can't expect the masses to learn any scientific terms or concepts, especially when it's two whoppers for five bucks down at Burger King.
If it is started by politicians or bureaucrats it never started with good intentions. This is and was intended to make them look like they're being "tough on crime" and "protecting the children" and not really doing anything at all except hunt witches and make an excuse to increase their funding. And the worst thing is the idiotic masses will lap it up, and even ask for more. Liberty requires responsibility, most people hate responsibility therefore they will give any and all liberty to not have to deal with it.
We do have double jeopardy in Canada. This would presumptively be like charging somebody for aggravated assault and assault with a deadly weapon. Not really in violation of double jeopardy but still ridiculous in its own right.
Yeah right. Bureaucrats need something easy to make it appear like they're doing shit all, and Joe Public needs a witch to hunt so they can feel good about themselves. Even if by some miracle they stop this witch hunt they'll simply move on to the next, ad nauseam.
Why do people always use this straw man? The population isn't really the problem, it's an effect. The fact that Homo sapien by and large are prone to being ignorant, stupid, selfish and short sighted is the problem. Not to mention the lack of ability to work together on a species scale. Some people like to think that we are better than other animals, yet I fail to see how they come to this conclusion. We eat, sleep, work, and even build things just as other species do. We'll even put massive amounts of time and energy into killing one another on a grand scale over a piece of fertile land or even a rather inhospitable desert or whether or not they believe in a particular imaginary friend. Anyway the point is that the population isn't the problem, it's what you do with it that counts. If anything I suppose you could say there are simply too many stupid people.
You can build a safer car, you can't build a smart(er) driver. Humans are the weak link there as stupidity is not limited by economics or safety margins..
Bullshit. There's no such thing as zero emissions unless you're knee deep in shit in the middle of the wilderness, burning wood for heat. Killing wild animals with your bare hands or tools you hobbled together yourself. Living in a hut made of shrubs down by the river.
Those solar panels, wind turbines, penis pumps etc had to be manufactured somehow and that manufacturing process creates emissions. "Carbon offsets" is a joke, wake up people! Any emission is an emission.
Don't forget the hot grits serving machine installed in the fighter. Better yet have it collect energy from incoming laser weapons to heat up your grits for you.
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Anybody with experience using a camera will not expect such a thing at all, in fact the opposite. Well, with current technology anyway. Plus big dynamic range isn't really that useful in space...
To be fair it's mindless bureaucrats trying to justify their existence. I would imagine that if children were actually running the country it would turn out a whole lot more sensible, at least more Crayony and plushy.
Ah, see, that's the master plan. Soon enough we're going to have to keep the children in a secure location until they're say twenty years old. For their protection of course. In this secure location free from outside interference they will prosper under our Intensive National Deployment Orchestrated Child Transformable Responsible Improvement Naturalization Abiding Trust of Economists, or our INDOCTRINATE program for short.
Therein lies the problem. Most people do not understand that you have to know how to ask the right questions and not be swayed by biases. Perhaps something to do with how some education systems are designed to make people obey authority and disapprove of questioning it as long as certain indoctrinations are kept sacrosanct. The right question is probably the hardest thing to accomplish and the most important, and not just in science. Just turn on any 'news' entertainment channel to see quantitative proof of such reckless behavior.
Perhaps picking on the burgers was unnecessary but the whole industry does survive on the rather insidious instant gratification by consumption of fatty salty food that exists solely by peoples carelessness or ignorance of what it does to their bodies. Well, that and it's cheap in the short run.
Not to mention that basic biology is hardly a specialty, anybody with a half-assed high school education should be able to at least follow most of what is on Slashdot. Well... unless you've had an American education ba-dum-dum-ch. How's that for generalization!
The problem with your thinking is that most people would rather pick up Us Weekly than a dictionary. You really can't expect the masses to learn any scientific terms or concepts, especially when it's two whoppers for five bucks down at Burger King.
If it is started by politicians or bureaucrats it never started with good intentions. This is and was intended to make them look like they're being "tough on crime" and "protecting the children" and not really doing anything at all except hunt witches and make an excuse to increase their funding. And the worst thing is the idiotic masses will lap it up, and even ask for more. Liberty requires responsibility, most people hate responsibility therefore they will give any and all liberty to not have to deal with it.
We do have double jeopardy in Canada. This would presumptively be like charging somebody for aggravated assault and assault with a deadly weapon. Not really in violation of double jeopardy but still ridiculous in its own right.
What kind of IRC servers were you on that had low earth orbit objects that were pretending to be young female cheerleaders?!
So basically we'll just have to wait until China brings out the cheaper bootleg version of the drug.
Yeah right. Bureaucrats need something easy to make it appear like they're doing shit all, and Joe Public needs a witch to hunt so they can feel good about themselves. Even if by some miracle they stop this witch hunt they'll simply move on to the next, ad nauseam.
An American cop.
is not a crime. Paying to see said crap movie should be. Let's get our priorities straight.
Fixed that for you.
The FCC has a spine although it's been bought by corporations.
They are anything but a natural monopoly. A result of artificial market manipulation with government aid if I ever saw it.
That's Zombie Jesus Friday to you, heretic!
Depends what class you're in in that democratic society.
Why do people always use this straw man? The population isn't really the problem, it's an effect. The fact that Homo sapien by and large are prone to being ignorant, stupid, selfish and short sighted is the problem. Not to mention the lack of ability to work together on a species scale. Some people like to think that we are better than other animals, yet I fail to see how they come to this conclusion. We eat, sleep, work, and even build things just as other species do. We'll even put massive amounts of time and energy into killing one another on a grand scale over a piece of fertile land or even a rather inhospitable desert or whether or not they believe in a particular imaginary friend. Anyway the point is that the population isn't the problem, it's what you do with it that counts. If anything I suppose you could say there are simply too many stupid people.
You can build a safer car, you can't build a smart(er) driver. Humans are the weak link there as stupidity is not limited by economics or safety margins..
Repeat after me: Mars is Just A Theory.
Yeah wood is probably not the best idea. Hemp would probably be your best bet. Grows faster than flies on shit and is multipurpose.
Those solar panels, wind turbines, penis pumps etc had to be manufactured somehow and that manufacturing process creates emissions. "Carbon offsets" is a joke, wake up people! Any emission is an emission.
Unless you're a Slashdotter, then there isn't much to do except sit around the basement and reload Slashdot apparently.
Don't forget the hot grits serving machine installed in the fighter. Better yet have it collect energy from incoming laser weapons to heat up your grits for you.
A couple fairly common ones are Clostridium tetani and Trichomonas vaginalis, which cause Tetanus and Trichomoniasis respectively.