"What is different about the EM radiation" is that police, "not being able to see it", won't "notice that it shows up at different drug sites in a pattern"
There is no such thing as "robust growth," or at least not "perpetual growth."
Growth is not permanently sustainable in a finite universe. Any economy based on perpetual growth is a pyramid scheme on a collision course with the laws of physics.
Knowing the root cause prevents us from exacerbating and repeating it.
A triple bypass surgery may be necessary and urgent, but until the patient cuts back on the bacon-wrapped deep-fried twinkies, surgery won't solve the problem.
"personally I think there is no such thing as MMGW"
You won't catch me saying scientists are infallible, but I really don't get why laymen who are generally reasonable and intelligent think they know better than a large body of professionals who've analyzed vast libraries of raw data going back for millenia.
Seriously, doesn't it seem like scientists would understand the situation better than partisan pundits, politicians, and laymen?
If the scientists are wrong, show them their mistake by publishing your own peer-reviewed findings in Nature. You'll be a rock star among both scientists and "skeptics", and you'll make a mint on the speaking and book circuits.
"hundreds, if not thousands, of dead bodies that never decay."
Maybe they'd be preserved in the tundra, or maybe if they were encased in mud or clay, but in a shallow desert grave I don't think they're immune from the larger ecosystem.
Half of kids with ADD actually makes perfect sense to me.
We didn't evolve to what we are now by maintaining a daily routine of sitting in a desk for six hours staring at a teacher, then watching tv for four more, while fattening ourselves with concentrated sugars and hyper-processed foods of trade-secret fabrication.
Our diet and lifestyle are completely foreign to our evolution, and it's no surprise we're ADD, or diabetic, or just generally mental.
There are offsite options besides the cloud. I shuffle hard drives between work and home. If you work from home, you could do the same at a friend's house or something.
He took way too long to get to the point, but his definition of 'conservative' was a person whose primary motive is to avoid risk. His definition of a liberal was someone primarily motivated to change things.
I don't think either of those definitions should offend anybody.
You may be right that the $440 million changed pockets, but I doubt it. In the stock market, money appears and disappears like ocean mists.
Say Bill Gates has a billion stocks, they're worth $5 each, he's worth $5 billion on paper. Stock goes down to $4, he just lost a billion dollars. Nobody made those billion dollars, they just evaporated like the ether they always were.
The civil war was not the last time, but that's irrelevant.
The point is not that the state is never wrong. The federal government errs, too.
The point is that our American government was designed to have the power belong to the states. You don't have to like that design. But if you want to change it, you do it through the amendment process, not by usurping the power.
Google "nullification". The principle basically says that if the federal government does something a state finds unconstitutional, the state should tell the feds to go to hell. It's based on the idea that the states are sovereign, and the federal government exists to serve the states in certain matters of common interest which the states enumerated and delegated.
Nullification has been attempted several times. Unsurprisingly, so far the feds have refused to let individual or small groups of states overrule them, and have reserved to themselves the power to decide what they are allowed to do.
The feds have managed to turn the original power structure on it's head. Which is, of course, double-plus good.
The government is mostly under control. Just not under our control.
Our chance of taking control of the government is the same as our chance of ending oil subsidies, withdrawing troops from the middle east, and terminating the FDIC and Federal Reserve.
Only by freeing ourselves from fossil fuels and fractional reserve loans can The People take charge of this government the banks and oil companies now run. And they do run it, regardless of what your cereal box says.
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"What is different about the EM radiation" is that police, "not being able to see it", won't "notice that it shows up at different drug sites in a pattern"
The same has been said for the midwestern plains. And the pacific ocean. And the planet.
Meet the exponential function:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-QA2rkpBSY
So I presume you presently commute by helicopter?
There is no such thing as "robust growth," or at least not "perpetual growth."
Growth is not permanently sustainable in a finite universe. Any economy based on perpetual growth is a pyramid scheme on a collision course with the laws of physics.
Maybe that's a "legitimate criminal charge," but the US government does exactly the same, quite regularly and quite without remorse.
Unless we have double-standards, allowing POTUS to do it to others makes it nonsensical to condemn when others do it to POTUS.
He knows exactly what exponential means.
It's a lurching zombie, damn it. Shambling is for scarecrows.
Knowing the root cause prevents us from exacerbating and repeating it.
A triple bypass surgery may be necessary and urgent, but until the patient cuts back on the bacon-wrapped deep-fried twinkies, surgery won't solve the problem.
"personally I think there is no such thing as MMGW"
You won't catch me saying scientists are infallible, but I really don't get why laymen who are generally reasonable and intelligent think they know better than a large body of professionals who've analyzed vast libraries of raw data going back for millenia.
Seriously, doesn't it seem like scientists would understand the situation better than partisan pundits, politicians, and laymen?
If the scientists are wrong, show them their mistake by publishing your own peer-reviewed findings in Nature. You'll be a rock star among both scientists and "skeptics", and you'll make a mint on the speaking and book circuits.
"hundreds, if not thousands, of dead bodies that never decay."
Maybe they'd be preserved in the tundra, or maybe if they were encased in mud or clay, but in a shallow desert grave I don't think they're immune from the larger ecosystem.
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Black sedan appears. Caller disappears.
Half of kids with ADD actually makes perfect sense to me.
We didn't evolve to what we are now by maintaining a daily routine of sitting in a desk for six hours staring at a teacher, then watching tv for four more, while fattening ourselves with concentrated sugars and hyper-processed foods of trade-secret fabrication.
Our diet and lifestyle are completely foreign to our evolution, and it's no surprise we're ADD, or diabetic, or just generally mental.
There are offsite options besides the cloud. I shuffle hard drives between work and home. If you work from home, you could do the same at a friend's house or something.
He took way too long to get to the point, but his definition of 'conservative' was a person whose primary motive is to avoid risk. His definition of a liberal was someone primarily motivated to change things.
I don't think either of those definitions should offend anybody.
You may be right that the $440 million changed pockets, but I doubt it. In the stock market, money appears and disappears like ocean mists.
Say Bill Gates has a billion stocks, they're worth $5 each, he's worth $5 billion on paper. Stock goes down to $4, he just lost a billion dollars. Nobody made those billion dollars, they just evaporated like the ether they always were.
The civil war was not the last time, but that's irrelevant.
The point is not that the state is never wrong. The federal government errs, too.
The point is that our American government was designed to have the power belong to the states. You don't have to like that design. But if you want to change it, you do it through the amendment process, not by usurping the power.
Yeah, well who elects Congress?
A1: Their corporate sponsors, Ergo, global financial interests are the enemy.
A2: The People. Ergo, we are our own enemy.
Not just 1776.
Google "nullification". The principle basically says that if the federal government does something a state finds unconstitutional, the state should tell the feds to go to hell. It's based on the idea that the states are sovereign, and the federal government exists to serve the states in certain matters of common interest which the states enumerated and delegated.
Nullification has been attempted several times. Unsurprisingly, so far the feds have refused to let individual or small groups of states overrule them, and have reserved to themselves the power to decide what they are allowed to do.
The feds have managed to turn the original power structure on it's head. Which is, of course, double-plus good.
The government is mostly under control. Just not under our control.
Our chance of taking control of the government is the same as our chance of ending oil subsidies, withdrawing troops from the middle east, and terminating the FDIC and Federal Reserve.
Only by freeing ourselves from fossil fuels and fractional reserve loans can The People take charge of this government the banks and oil companies now run. And they do run it, regardless of what your cereal box says.
It's not so much that it's relevant to the story, it just preempts predictable questions from the target audience.
It's hard to be serious and honest when your job is to put on a circus.
" I didn't see where this individual had used his own genetic results for any type of discrimination"
Perhaps you missed the part where he made it his campaign platform.
"the USE of the tests for himself, didn't seem to do any harm to anyone else."
The use of the tests was to pander to racists. Fanning the fire of racism does harm, in this case to jews and roma.
"Is finding your genetic racial disposition something that in of itself is inherently wrong?"
Probably not, but logical fallacies are:
1) Z = X + Y (learning genealogy + campaigning on genealogy)
2) X is non-negative (nothing wrong with genealogy)
Therefore Z is non-negative
"How about America plays by the rules it demands and enforces from the rest of the world"
Governments generally don't restrain themselves voluntarily, certainly ours doesn't. When nobody stops them, nothing stops them.
NZ never should have let the FBI in. Probably they would have kept them out if the USA wasn't holding some kind of carrot or stick.
The informative-ness of genetics doesn't change as we age.
Source code is source code, regardless of how long the app has been running or what crappy inputs it's been fed.
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