So there have been no ice ages in the last 20,000 years? There never was a Glacial Lake Missoula? The Younger Dryas didn't happen? Thats all foolish nonsense? Is the Earth 6000 years old in your world?
The police were here to serve and protect, then we started to kill them. The militarization of the police, I think LAPD SWAT was the first, is because terror groups like the SLA and Black Panthers started murdering them. I'm no fan of the police, but I understand the reaction and events that have caused this.
"This is a common myth. Police officers are *rarely* killed on the job. And border guards? I'm sure it must happen, but it seems it must be exceptionally rare in their case. But somehow that's given as an excuse when they beat the shit out of someone for *daring* to ask a question."
Its common enough that they are on guard against being attacked.
Traveled from Washington to Alaska, so both borders, before I left I read up on the protocols for getting across easily. You don't get out, you don't question, you don't wear sunglasses, etc.
FTA - After border guards asked to search his car, Watts got out of the vehicle and questioned what they were doing.
Yea, thats a tasering.
"Along some other timeline, I did not get out of the car to ask what was going on. I did not repeat that question when refused an answer and told to get back into the vehicle." It doesn't matter what border guards or police it is and what country, get out of the car and thats an aggressive act to them, welcome to the asskicking.
"Peter, a Canadian citizen, was on his way back to Canada after helping a friend move house to Nebraska over the weekend. He was stopped at the border crossing at Port Huron, Michigan by U.S. border police for a search of his rental vehicle. When Peter got out of the car and questioned the nature of the search, the gang of border guards subjected him to a beating, restrained him and pepper sprayed him."
From what I read they go after rental cars because those are commonly used to transport dope, and he got out and asked questions. I also believe a group of police is called a "squad" or a "team" or maybe even a posse, not a "gang".
So PZ Meyers says those things, he is a scientist and I link and quote his remarks, thats not good enough for this conversation. Good got it, you are an idiot.
In the first couple of posts - "darn it too many people believe in God", hitting on religion and the idea that there is a soul or afterlife.
Next page - "Popular religious belief is caused by dysfunctional social conditions." Their piety didn't save them and didn't alleviate their pain or their desperate conditions — it made them worse."
Or that there are only two kinds of people that deny AGW - "The point he's making is that there are two broad categories of denialists, the ones who are sincerely nuts (like Monckton) and the ones know better but are lying to make a profit for their cause (like the odious Steve Milloy)."
Or if those aren't enough, check out the CRU emails.
"I will be emailing the journal to tell them I'm having nothing more to do with it until they rid themselves of this troublesome editor," Jones wrote.
Try any conversation about AGW/GCC and someone who is a researcher or pretends to be one. Have you followed any of the conversations since the CRU emails were hacked?
On another note, when did citations become needed on/. or fark? This isn't wikipedia or a research paper, this is slashdot where we have a long tradition of making crap up and throwing out rants about how Microsoft/Apple/vi/emacs/Jar-Jar Binks all suck or are awesome.
Just because one has the "right" to say it, doesn't mean they should.
Aristotle would call it Hubris - "to cause shame to the victim, not in order that anything may happen to you, nor because anything has happened to you, but merely for your own gratification. Hubris is not the requital of past injuries; this is revenge. As for the pleasure in hubris, its cause is this: men think that by ill-treating others they make their own superiority the greater."
I've done both academics and working both in agriculture and the public sector and in my view no one "earns arrogance".
There is the difference, just as people have been distrusting some sciences recently there has also been an increase in intellectual elites showing distain for the, lets call 'em Plebes. I think it stems from being walled up in Universities and not having to work for a living.
Someone in the real world that works on cars, develops deodorant or makes heart medication doesn't say "I'm a Scientist so I'm right!" They say "I'm an automative engineer, or a chemist that works on medication, or I'm a chemist that designs right guard." Its like the BASF commercials here in the US, "Helping Make Products Better."
All too often in the debates about GCC someone who is a climate researcher will go "Well I'm a climate researcher so I'm right and the people that don't agree with me are idiots." Yea, not the best way to approach people./Disclaimer, I spent the last 6 years at a University not working for a living, now I'm out doing real work again.
The majority of the US was developed before the age of cars. Honestly cars as the main means of long distance transportation began after WW2. Where I'm from in western South Dakota there are a line of towns along a railroad line, spaced out every 7-10 miles because thats where the rain stops were for grain and cattle.
In the eastern US communities are spaced by walking/riding distance and also how much food can be grown. If the soil and environment are good, then towns can be spaced closer. Population densities are always higher near the sea and river systems.
When you say "Europe" you mean central and western Europe, because looking at European Russia, they have some vast expanses like the Midwest and Great Plains have. So really what you are looking for is that the spacing of communities are based on geography and geology, not cars.
About 2% Christian and 1.7% Druze in Israel, most of the Christians are Christian Palestinians. And remember that alot of Israeli Jews are non-religious, those are the folks I lived with over there.
'27% are "non-religious traditionalists" (only partly respecting the Jewish Halakha), and 43% are "secular"'
I worked call center at Comcast and during training the support supervisor told us how much of a PITA it was to support CableCard boxes and how kludgy they were. I think 2.5% of the cable boxes in our support area were CableCard. I got to trouble shoot a few calls, and yea, they required alot more work to troubleshoot and enable for an account.
Andrew Jackson, maybe Grant, Ike was a political creature after all he kept the Angle-European allies on the same page. I don't think W was a politician nor was Lincoln.
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So there have been no ice ages in the last 20,000 years? There never was a Glacial Lake Missoula? The Younger Dryas didn't happen? Thats all foolish nonsense? Is the Earth 6000 years old in your world?
I have a couple minor convictions on my record and had no problem crossing into Canada.
Well, some jackass was going to blow stuff up on 1/1/2000
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000_millennium_attack_plots
Now they have alot of sensors and some drones watching the border. One reason why they guard it is because of sovereignty issues.
The US crossing at Tok Crossing was awesome. They were chatty, fast and asked things like "Umm how did you get that 5 foot Iguana into Canada?"
The Canadians and French are the worst border guards I've encountered. Israeli, Dutch and Americans were the easiest.
The police were here to serve and protect, then we started to kill them. The militarization of the police, I think LAPD SWAT was the first, is because terror groups like the SLA and Black Panthers started murdering them. I'm no fan of the police, but I understand the reaction and events that have caused this.
"This is a common myth. Police officers are *rarely* killed on the job. And border guards? I'm sure it must happen, but it seems it must be exceptionally rare in their case. But somehow that's given as an excuse when they beat the shit out of someone for *daring* to ask a question."
Its common enough that they are on guard against being attacked.
http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/killed/2007/federalofficers.html
67 of the 1,650 federal officers assaulted in 2007 were on patrol or guard duty when they were assaulted.
You never get out of the car...
Traveled from Washington to Alaska, so both borders, before I left I read up on the protocols for getting across easily. You don't get out, you don't question, you don't wear sunglasses, etc.
FTA - After border guards asked to search his car, Watts got out of the vehicle and questioned what they were doing.
Yea, thats a tasering.
"Along some other timeline, I did not get out of the car to ask what was going on. I did not repeat that question when refused an answer and told to get back into the vehicle." It doesn't matter what border guards or police it is and what country, get out of the car and thats an aggressive act to them, welcome to the asskicking.
"Peter, a Canadian citizen, was on his way back to Canada after helping a friend move house to Nebraska over the weekend. He was stopped at the border crossing at Port Huron, Michigan by U.S. border police for a search of his rental vehicle. When Peter got out of the car and questioned the nature of the search, the gang of border guards subjected him to a beating, restrained him and pepper sprayed him."
From what I read they go after rental cars because those are commonly used to transport dope, and he got out and asked questions. I also believe a group of police is called a "squad" or a "team" or maybe even a posse, not a "gang".
I had a nerve sheath tumor (non cancerous) which the removal of caused nerve damage, so this all is interesting too me.
So PZ Meyers says those things, he is a scientist and I link and quote his remarks, thats not good enough for this conversation. Good got it, you are an idiot.
Well here is an example from a blog I go to often.
http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/
In the first couple of posts - "darn it too many people believe in God", hitting on religion and the idea that there is a soul or afterlife.
Next page - "Popular religious belief is caused by dysfunctional social conditions." Their piety didn't save them and didn't alleviate their pain or their desperate conditions — it made them worse."
Or that there are only two kinds of people that deny AGW - "The point he's making is that there are two broad categories of denialists, the ones who are sincerely nuts (like Monckton) and the ones know better but are lying to make a profit for their cause (like the odious Steve Milloy)."
Or if those aren't enough, check out the CRU emails.
"I will be emailing the journal to tell them I'm having nothing more to do with it until they rid themselves of this troublesome editor," Jones wrote.
New to the Internet huh?
Try any conversation about AGW/GCC and someone who is a researcher or pretends to be one. Have you followed any of the conversations since the CRU emails were hacked?
On another note, when did citations become needed on /. or fark? This isn't wikipedia or a research paper, this is slashdot where we have a long tradition of making crap up and throwing out rants about how Microsoft/Apple/vi/emacs/Jar-Jar Binks all suck or are awesome.
Its been happening for the last 20,000 years, the Earth changes, changed and will change.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Mississippi_Delta_Lobes.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Northern_icesheet_hg.png
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glacial_Lake_Missoula
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Post-Glacial_Sea_Level.png
Just because one has the "right" to say it, doesn't mean they should.
Aristotle would call it Hubris - "to cause shame to the victim, not in order that anything may happen to you, nor because anything has happened to you, but merely for your own gratification. Hubris is not the requital of past injuries; this is revenge. As for the pleasure in hubris, its cause is this: men think that by ill-treating others they make their own superiority the greater."
I've done both academics and working both in agriculture and the public sector and in my view no one "earns arrogance".
There is the difference, just as people have been distrusting some sciences recently there has also been an increase in intellectual elites showing distain for the, lets call 'em Plebes. I think it stems from being walled up in Universities and not having to work for a living.
Someone in the real world that works on cars, develops deodorant or makes heart medication doesn't say "I'm a Scientist so I'm right!" They say "I'm an automative engineer, or a chemist that works on medication, or I'm a chemist that designs right guard." Its like the BASF commercials here in the US, "Helping Make Products Better."
All too often in the debates about GCC someone who is a climate researcher will go "Well I'm a climate researcher so I'm right and the people that don't agree with me are idiots." Yea, not the best way to approach people. /Disclaimer, I spent the last 6 years at a University not working for a living, now I'm out doing real work again.
*Bonk*.
The majority of the US was developed before the age of cars. Honestly cars as the main means of long distance transportation began after WW2. Where I'm from in western South Dakota there are a line of towns along a railroad line, spaced out every 7-10 miles because thats where the rain stops were for grain and cattle.
In the eastern US communities are spaced by walking/riding distance and also how much food can be grown. If the soil and environment are good, then towns can be spaced closer. Population densities are always higher near the sea and river systems.
When you say "Europe" you mean central and western Europe, because looking at European Russia, they have some vast expanses like the Midwest and Great Plains have. So really what you are looking for is that the spacing of communities are based on geography and geology, not cars.
About 2% Christian and 1.7% Druze in Israel, most of the Christians are Christian Palestinians. And remember that alot of Israeli Jews are non-religious, those are the folks I lived with over there.
'27% are "non-religious traditionalists" (only partly respecting the Jewish Halakha), and 43% are "secular"'
And then stick call center with supporting them and having them suck for everyone involved makes everyone involved want a locked down on.
I worked call center at Comcast and during training the support supervisor told us how much of a PITA it was to support CableCard boxes and how kludgy they were. I think 2.5% of the cable boxes in our support area were CableCard. I got to trouble shoot a few calls, and yea, they required alot more work to troubleshoot and enable for an account.
Their blood will stink like swamp gas for a while.
Here in Anchorage Alaska there is nothing up on Kijiji (14 sales). Same went for where I used to live, a small market (Skagit county Washington).
For all of South Dakota there are 29 things for sale on Kijiji and hundreds of sales on Craigslist for today alone.
So I'm not sold on Kijiji "ruling the roost" in small markets.
Andrew Jackson, maybe Grant, Ike was a political creature after all he kept the Angle-European allies on the same page. I don't think W was a politician nor was Lincoln.
Labor force:
154.3 million (includes unemployed) (2008 est.)
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/us.html
154,300,000 / 10 = 15.43 million.
The United States never joined the League of Nations.
We voted for Obama because we no longer wanted our President to escalate an unnecessary war.
And who knows? He might even follow through on that promise.
Sorry but this is a fella who ran on invading Pakistan as a way to defeat the terrorists the US and NATO are fighting against.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article2182955.ece
Invading Pakistan, or even sending a bunch of "advisors" there would be like throwing a match into a cloud of gasoline vapor.