Oh not because they shot the attackers before they were shot at ?
Please answer I want to see you make more stuff up.
The poster you were replying to is correct, the attackers first targeted the security guide. Upon seeing the shots fired, police providing security returned fire, killing the attackers. Amazing that all they could do was hit the security guard in the leg, though I don't know the distance between them.
Want to be impressive? Have your group send 10,000 well-reasoned letters on good stationary to a prominent politician or a newspaper. Costs less than the actual expenses of a mob of 1,000 people. -- But the 1,000 people who would protest are unlikely to be able to write a grammatical letter, let alone a well-reasoned one.
Former Senator Barney Frank was interviewed on NPR not long ago. Whatever you might think of him, he had interesting insight of what he saw from the Tea Party Movement and the Occupy marches several years back. He noted that generally, Tea Party supporters worked on the local level, elected their officials, they held rallies where they cleaned up after themselves and held voter drives, informative speeches, etc. He then went to an Occupy protest, which was as sloppy as you might expect, but most telling, he didn't see any sort of voter registration drive, nothing to promote candidates who they liked, no ways to elect people who might drive change. He asked the organizers about this, and they told him that voting, well.. wasn't really "their thing." They'd rather be on the streets and demand action rather than get their guys elected.
And that's when Frank knew that very little would come of the Occupy Movement.
Not true. The Wahabbis claim this, and most muslims disagree. There's a very rich history of Islamic art that depicts Muhammad.
-jcr
Unfortunately, the Wahabbis got a shit-ton of oil in the mid-20th century, and their philosophy, mostly ignored or suppressed for a hundred years started getting aggressively exported from Saudi Arabia as mainstream. Billions and billions of dollars can do a lot for making a radical mainstream.
Um, excuse me?! It's not Buddhists over there in the Middle East killing all those Muslims you know. The Muslim/(Judeo)Christian wars continue unabated.
Yup, but the Western countries aren't at war with "All those Muslims." They're at war with specific terrorist organizations. Terrorism leads to more violence, shouldn't be too hard to figure out.
Even the arabs think the apocolypse will happen somwhere around sanfransico.
Which "Arabs" are those? Conservative Wahabbis and Salafis like the folks in ISIS/ISIL/whatever believe that the apocalypse will occur when the armies of "Rome" invade northern Syria (specifically, the town of Dabiq, which happens to be the name of the Islamic State's official magazine). The defeat of Rome will lead to a chain of events resulting in the final showdown with the anti-Messiah in Jerusalem.
But yeah, no one thinks the apocalypse will be near San Francisco.
You're making the assumption that increasing the number of women means bringing in less qualified women
Generally, it would. There just may not be enough qualified women out there.
Really, you just need to convince some of the highly qualified women who otherwise wouldn't go into STEM that STEM is a good place to be.
That's an entirely different problem involving different people. I can't imagine scientific paper graders to have much say in that, regardless. By the time the problem gets up to their level, it's far too late. The only thing they could do in their capacity is lower standards, the worst solution available.
I am entirely supportive of equality of opportunity. Just not equality of result.
because you start your record as a cherry picked low temperature to include the positive PDO phase warming from 79-98 does not mean that there has been warming since 1998, there HAS NOT been. Even by your instrumental record NASA admits the warming since 1998 is NOT statically significant
Presenting the hottest year on record to that point as a normal or average temperature is cherry picking. I no longer feel that anyone who uses the phrase "no warming since 1998" is interested in an honest discussion.
Are you fucking serious? Who's paying whom here? Scientific institutions are raising billions from gullible governments. Individuals are making millions with their doom and gloom books, movies and TV shows. Careers and tenure are advanced by sticking to the narrative and not rocking the boat with annoying "scepticism". Very little useful science is being done. Government is wasting huge amounts of public money.
Sceptics are about the only group of people in this whole magnificently idiotic charade with any integrity left.
Ah yes, the old "It's a vast liberal conspiracy because climate scientists are all corrupt" refuge. Of course.
> Actually, the Big Bang theory was proposed by Georges Lemaître, a Belgian priest.
And Galileo was Catholic, but that doesn't exactly mean the Church endorsed his views.
Stephen Hawking mentioned in his book The Universe in a Nutshell, that Creationists were delighted with the Big Bang Theory, because they thought it was scientific proof of God's creation event. Young Earth Creationists, the ones believing in the 6000-year-old Earth, not so happy with the theory.
3) If it were not for oil, our interest in the middle east would decline greatly, which would be a good thing. If Muslims want to kill Muslims, that sounds like their problem. There is no "right" side in a conflict like that.
Oh, so not, NOT true. We look and we see "Well, the US has great interest in the Middle East. The Middle East has oil. Therefore, the US's interest is because of oil."
No, as long as there is an Israel, the US will have major interests in the Middle East. As long as there is wealth of any kind in the Middle East, the US will have major interests there. "Oil" has not been much of a compelling argument since the 70s.
I'm not saying President Bush was a friend to the environment or that he wasn't a lunatic or helped the fight against climate change.. of course not. But the Kyoto Protocol always sucked. It's whole purpose was to put strict caps on more advanced countries, regulations that "developing" countries didn't have to abide by. The more suspicious among us suspected that its primary purpose was to transfer wealth and resources out of the rich countries and into the poor.
You can believe quite staunchly that something should be done about climate change, but disagree with specific plans to address it. That doesn't make you a science denier. Sure, it could still make you an opportunist or a whatever.
I think all this packaging is exactly why we don't have such channels (on TV). If all channels were ala carte, then there would be motivation to produce the sort of content that each group of people want. Instead, everything is grouped into packages. This prevents individuals from making their preferences known with their wallets, thus the programming we see is the drab sort of thing that appeals to as wide an audience as possible.
If your channel gets included as part of basic cable anyway, then you tend to tailor your programming towards what cable users (or at least the right demographic) in general want to see (reality TV, CSI and wrestling on A&E) and channels invariable. However, if people have to choose to subscribe to your channel, you need to stand out rather than become bland like all the others.
Yes, let's teach our kids to take something which someone has spent time and money to produce without paying for it.
So what? That is EXACTLY what Disney did with all of their classics. Re-writes of public domain classics... only the names have been changed to protect the profits.
You want to tell your kid he can't watch Disney because YOU wouldn't pay for ESPN Classic?
Jesus, that's the easy part. It's telling your neighbor he can't get ESPN that is the hard part.
Disney (they own ESPN [wikipedia.org]) has always negotiated the contract such that if you want to purchase ESPN you must purchase ALL of ESPN's channels
I have never seen that to be the case. At least where I live, ESPN is on Comcast's extended cable package, but you have to purchase one of the many extra sports packages if you want to get ESPN2 or any other ESPN-affliated channel.
He fired up 10 concurrent streams of a Game of Thrones episode
I know why he really did this, so he could watch every scene with nudity at once on multiple TVs in his living room. You'll need more than 10 concurrent streams for that..
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Oh not because they shot the attackers before they were shot at ?
Please answer I want to see you make more stuff up.
The poster you were replying to is correct, the attackers first targeted the security guide. Upon seeing the shots fired, police providing security returned fire, killing the attackers. Amazing that all they could do was hit the security guard in the leg, though I don't know the distance between them.
Want to be impressive? Have your group send 10,000 well-reasoned letters on good stationary to a prominent politician or a newspaper. Costs less than the actual expenses of a mob of 1,000 people. -- But the 1,000 people who would protest are unlikely to be able to write a grammatical letter, let alone a well-reasoned one.
Former Senator Barney Frank was interviewed on NPR not long ago. Whatever you might think of him, he had interesting insight of what he saw from the Tea Party Movement and the Occupy marches several years back. He noted that generally, Tea Party supporters worked on the local level, elected their officials, they held rallies where they cleaned up after themselves and held voter drives, informative speeches, etc. He then went to an Occupy protest, which was as sloppy as you might expect, but most telling, he didn't see any sort of voter registration drive, nothing to promote candidates who they liked, no ways to elect people who might drive change. He asked the organizers about this, and they told him that voting, well.. wasn't really "their thing." They'd rather be on the streets and demand action rather than get their guys elected.
And that's when Frank knew that very little would come of the Occupy Movement.
Muslims are prohibited from drawing Mohammed
Not true. The Wahabbis claim this, and most muslims disagree. There's a very rich history of Islamic art that depicts Muhammad.
-jcr
Unfortunately, the Wahabbis got a shit-ton of oil in the mid-20th century, and their philosophy, mostly ignored or suppressed for a hundred years started getting aggressively exported from Saudi Arabia as mainstream. Billions and billions of dollars can do a lot for making a radical mainstream.
And they taste like chicken!
Um, excuse me?! It's not Buddhists over there in the Middle East killing all those Muslims you know. The Muslim/(Judeo)Christian wars continue unabated.
Yup, but the Western countries aren't at war with "All those Muslims." They're at war with specific terrorist organizations. Terrorism leads to more violence, shouldn't be too hard to figure out.
The police.
So you draw a gun on a cop and you're pretty much doomed to death.
That's really well thought-out.
Even the arabs think the apocolypse will happen somwhere around sanfransico.
Which "Arabs" are those? Conservative Wahabbis and Salafis like the folks in ISIS/ISIL/whatever believe that the apocalypse will occur when the armies of "Rome" invade northern Syria (specifically, the town of Dabiq, which happens to be the name of the Islamic State's official magazine). The defeat of Rome will lead to a chain of events resulting in the final showdown with the anti-Messiah in Jerusalem.
But yeah, no one thinks the apocalypse will be near San Francisco.
You're making the assumption that increasing the number of women means bringing in less qualified women
Generally, it would. There just may not be enough qualified women out there.
Really, you just need to convince some of the highly qualified women who otherwise wouldn't go into STEM that STEM is a good place to be.
That's an entirely different problem involving different people. I can't imagine scientific paper graders to have much say in that, regardless. By the time the problem gets up to their level, it's far too late. The only thing they could do in their capacity is lower standards, the worst solution available.
I am entirely supportive of equality of opportunity. Just not equality of result.
You mean all those fertility idols we've been digging up were really some bronze-age man's whack stack?
They didn't have much in the way of recreation back then.
Shit, and I wanted to mod you up so badly before the moronic Obama crack.
Oh well.
because you start your record as a cherry picked low temperature to include the positive PDO phase warming from 79-98 does not mean that there has been warming since 1998, there HAS NOT been. Even by your instrumental record NASA admits the warming since 1998 is NOT statically significant
Presenting the hottest year on record to that point as a normal or average temperature is cherry picking. I no longer feel that anyone who uses the phrase "no warming since 1998" is interested in an honest discussion.
St. John Paul II skied.
Wearing the full papal vestments and miter. I think he was featured on a snowboard in The Art of Flight.
Alabama and Mississippi are developing?
They'll be starting any day, just give them a little more time.
Are you fucking serious? Who's paying whom here? Scientific institutions are raising billions from gullible governments. Individuals are making millions with their doom and gloom books, movies and TV shows. Careers and tenure are advanced by sticking to the narrative and not rocking the boat with annoying "scepticism". Very little useful science is being done. Government is wasting huge amounts of public money.
Sceptics are about the only group of people in this whole magnificently idiotic charade with any integrity left.
Ah yes, the old "It's a vast liberal conspiracy because climate scientists are all corrupt" refuge. Of course.
Approaching half a trillion tons of ice *per year* being melted seems an astounding amount.
It is, but by far the worse news was ocean acidification. That threatens the collapse of our entire ocean marine food chain.
> Actually, the Big Bang theory was proposed by Georges Lemaître, a Belgian priest.
And Galileo was Catholic, but that doesn't exactly mean the Church endorsed his views.
Stephen Hawking mentioned in his book The Universe in a Nutshell, that Creationists were delighted with the Big Bang Theory, because they thought it was scientific proof of God's creation event. Young Earth Creationists, the ones believing in the 6000-year-old Earth, not so happy with the theory.
3) If it were not for oil, our interest in the middle east would decline greatly, which would be a good thing. If Muslims want to kill Muslims, that sounds like their problem. There is no "right" side in a conflict like that.
Oh, so not, NOT true. We look and we see "Well, the US has great interest in the Middle East. The Middle East has oil. Therefore, the US's interest is because of oil."
No, as long as there is an Israel, the US will have major interests in the Middle East. As long as there is wealth of any kind in the Middle East, the US will have major interests there. "Oil" has not been much of a compelling argument since the 70s.
I'm not saying President Bush was a friend to the environment or that he wasn't a lunatic or helped the fight against climate change.. of course not. But the Kyoto Protocol always sucked. It's whole purpose was to put strict caps on more advanced countries, regulations that "developing" countries didn't have to abide by. The more suspicious among us suspected that its primary purpose was to transfer wealth and resources out of the rich countries and into the poor.
You can believe quite staunchly that something should be done about climate change, but disagree with specific plans to address it. That doesn't make you a science denier. Sure, it could still make you an opportunist or a whatever.
Glad to hear my right to marry my husband is crap that doesn't matter to a European. Good to know!
I think all this packaging is exactly why we don't have such channels (on TV). If all channels were ala carte, then there would be motivation to produce the sort of content that each group of people want. Instead, everything is grouped into packages. This prevents individuals from making their preferences known with their wallets, thus the programming we see is the drab sort of thing that appeals to as wide an audience as possible.
If your channel gets included as part of basic cable anyway, then you tend to tailor your programming towards what cable users (or at least the right demographic) in general want to see (reality TV, CSI and wrestling on A&E) and channels invariable. However, if people have to choose to subscribe to your channel, you need to stand out rather than become bland like all the others.
Yes, let's teach our kids to take something which someone has spent time and money to produce without paying for it.
So what? That is EXACTLY what Disney did with all of their classics. Re-writes of public domain classics... only the names have been changed to protect the profits.
What's wrong with that?
You want to tell your kid he can't watch Disney because YOU wouldn't pay for ESPN Classic?
Jesus, that's the easy part. It's telling your neighbor he can't get ESPN that is the hard part.
Disney (they own ESPN [wikipedia.org]) has always negotiated the contract such that if you want to purchase ESPN you must purchase ALL of ESPN's channels
I have never seen that to be the case. At least where I live, ESPN is on Comcast's extended cable package, but you have to purchase one of the many extra sports packages if you want to get ESPN2 or any other ESPN-affliated channel.
I'd happily go to the opera over watching ESPN.
And I like most sports.
ESPN is the bottom-barrel of all the sports-reporting networks when it comes to baseball.
They never leave their cozy home of New York and Boston unless it's to cover the Dodgers (whom they inexplicably like).
He fired up 10 concurrent streams of a Game of Thrones episode
I know why he really did this, so he could watch every scene with nudity at once on multiple TVs in his living room.
You'll need more than 10 concurrent streams for that..