"No chance in hell we will use metallic hydrogen due to pressures required."
Four minutes of intensive research on this subject leads me to believe that no one is quite sure whether metallic hydrogen is stable at room temperature and one atmosphere pressure. If it is, then it'd possibly be like diamonds and many other materials,
that are made from material that is stable at room temperature, such as carbon.
The only two areas that the Democrats are not on the "European left" is that they believe in private ownership of property,
Like I said, if you're going to knowingly use your own private definitions of things then you are *intentionally* going to be misunderstood. The "european left" believes in the private ownership of property.
It's funny you say that. The first time I had to make a similar list, I asked the European leftist* commenter what made US Democrats not leftist, and his response was related to owning property, and not just "a home". The second time I made a list, the response was related to private property. Every time I ask, the answer is related to owning property, including owning a business. It wasn't simply being able to own a home, but what a property owner is able to do with the property (house, land, car, animals, art, etc,) and businesses that they do own.
Try it yourself. Go find the posts that say US democrats are not leftist, or that Hillary^ is a Republican. Ask specifically which of those points in my list make them "right of center".
You are confusing "left wing" with "communist". Again.
No, I am responding in accordance with several conversations I have had on this very website, asking the difference between the "European left" and the "US left". None of the items I listed were enough to make US Democrats left of center.
NOTES: * I am not using the term "leftist" with any hidden meaning, or implied insult. It is simply referring to those on the political left.
^ Hillary Clinton is, in my opinion, a greedy and selfish waste of biology. The fact that she has made millions of dollars whoring her name and political future (haha to her) doesn't change the fact that she lines herself up on the left of those issues, except of course for the organizations that gave her those millions of dollars.
Yes, as I have stated many times, I voted for Dr. Stein in the last two elections because she was the best candidate on the ticket. Before that I voted for Obama.
And for the record, I do not agree with the conservative/right wing/Republican position on several items on the list in that post. But that doesn't mean I don't get lumped in with the right by liberals.
Even the right wing agree we need some form of tax base. What amount, and what size the federal, state, and local governments should be supported by that tax base is a separate issue.
As to whether you are liberal/left, center, or conservative/right, I base that on several instances, online and offline, where a group of liberals all agreed they were liberal, and then one disagreed with one position that the rest had. That one was immediately called out and cut from the herd. One such exchange, on a message board between a tight-knit group of like minded liberals (several of whom had met in person), ended with "I thought you were a friend." Yes, they cut off someone who considered himself a liberal over one single issue where he didn't follow the hive mind.
So, in your case, yes, there are some liberals who would not count you as a liberal if you don't agree with every issue they do, because to them, those issues define "a liberal". Would that issue be IMDB showing actor's ages? Maybe, maybe not. But there is surely another issue you have your own opinion on that would suffice.
For further on what the left/right difference is, I will repost what I responded to service-scope minor above:
I simply base that on every time I've asked someone what separates the "left" and "right" in relation to the Democrat party. Their left-leaning issues include:
Abortion as a right Welfare / medicaid Universal health care College for all Gay marriage Immigration without limits Anti-discrimination laws / equal rights Government regulation of business Global warming issues Legalize drugs
What there is right of center?
The only two areas that the Democrats are not on the "European left" is that they believe in private ownership of property, and are financially dependent on big companies for campaign donations.
So tell me, what party platform is right of center, other than property ownership? Especially when even that is at government whim? (Do I need to cite examples of that too?)
If you believe in private ownership of property, you are center right....?
You seem to be be of the opinion that anything slightly to the left of centre is communism.
No, I simply base that on every time I've asked someone what separates the "left" and "right" in relation to the Democrat party. Their left-leaning issues include:
Abortion as a right Welfare / medicaid Universal health care College for all Gay marriage Immigration without limits Anti-discrimination laws / equal rights Government regulation of business Global warming issues Legalize drugs
What there is right of center?
The only two areas that the Democrats are not on the "European left" is that they believe in private ownership of property, and are financially dependent on big companies for campaign donations.
So tell me, what party platform is right of center, other than property ownership? Especially when even that is at government whim? (Do I need to cite examples of that too?)
Considering you don't agree with a liberal law, no you're not. You are actually a centrist. If you believe in private ownership of property, you are center right.
I was thinking more along the lines as the base of something multi-storied. Who knows, I am just tired of every ancient building made of stone referred to as a temple of some kind.
The only thing about Human's that has really changed over the millennia is how fast we can kill each other. I imagine Human nature and behaviour to be much the same 10,000 years ago as 10 years ago. There has to be room for something with a more mundane purpose that has survived through the ages.
Of course there were more mundane buildings than just temples and fortresses. But why would ancient hunters and farmers haul enormous stone blocks over many miles, just to make a really cool above-ground foundation for a discotheque?
look at the massive amount of resources people pour into religion... historically it is perhaps only rivaled by defense.
Based on your argument all our major cities will be viewed as giant mecca's of religion. Which they clearly are not. I expect the subways would be the church of the underworld etc.
It's only very recently that we've regularly created massive structures for purely secular use.
Roleplay: 5000k+ years ago we had massive structures built for purely secular purposes using 'green' technology. What would those ruins look like?
It would depend on which alien race helped us make temples to aliens.
Are you rolling a hundred-sided die? Because there is a large gap between 90% and 16%. Every single state that Trump "had to win" to reach 270 went to him. The official polls through the election had it impossible for his to reach 270, yet he managed to get over 300. Face it, the polls were not just wrong or inaccurate, they were not based on reality.
For the record, I didn't support or vote for Trump. I voted Green Party again. But I could see the writing on the wall for months before the election.
You are making it appear as if it was Trump vs. money elite. Unfortunately, Trump *is* money elite. Just add his team's fortunes together. Notice something? Right! This is the *richest* admin in US history!
It' one elite trying to fuck over the other elite. You and me are the losers.
Trump isn't fucking me over, like his opponents managed to do under the previous administration. Obama went out of his way to fuck over the average white or black American. Actually, he didn't even help the hispanic Americans, only the hispanic non-Americans.
You can scream about the change in policy all you want. The president is supposed to be looking out for Americans, not Syrians and Yemenis, and not the boards of directors of 97 large corporations.
The question now is, can the republicans survive him?
The Republicans have been doing this since 2008. Some of people we consider moderates today actually originally rode to power harnessing the Tea Party movement that incubated the more extreme Trump agenda. Right now, they have complete control over two branches of government, and the only reason they don't control the third is that it's not elected.
So given it's worked for them so far, I can't imagine it'll destroy them until the US itself is completely destroyed by this insanity.
As opposed to the previous admin's rule of "All immigrants, all the time!"?
The idiots who are screaming about him didn't think he would actually follow through on the campaign promises he made. After all, what politician does that?
The the idiots scream because he isn't a politician. I expect they'll be screaming for 7 more years.
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"No chance in hell we will use metallic hydrogen due to pressures required."
Four minutes of intensive research on this subject leads me to believe that no one is quite sure whether metallic hydrogen is stable at room temperature and one atmosphere pressure. If it is, then it'd possibly be like diamonds and many other materials,
that are made from material that is stable at room temperature, such as carbon.
The only two areas that the Democrats are not on the "European left" is that they believe in private ownership of property,
Like I said, if you're going to knowingly use your own private definitions of things then you are *intentionally* going to be misunderstood. The "european left" believes in the private ownership of property.
It's funny you say that. The first time I had to make a similar list, I asked the European leftist* commenter what made US Democrats not leftist, and his response was related to owning property, and not just "a home". The second time I made a list, the response was related to private property. Every time I ask, the answer is related to owning property, including owning a business. It wasn't simply being able to own a home, but what a property owner is able to do with the property (house, land, car, animals, art, etc,) and businesses that they do own.
Try it yourself. Go find the posts that say US democrats are not leftist, or that Hillary^ is a Republican. Ask specifically which of those points in my list make them "right of center".
You are confusing "left wing" with "communist". Again.
No, I am responding in accordance with several conversations I have had on this very website, asking the difference between the "European left" and the "US left". None of the items I listed were enough to make US Democrats left of center.
NOTES:
* I am not using the term "leftist" with any hidden meaning, or implied insult. It is simply referring to those on the political left.
^ Hillary Clinton is, in my opinion, a greedy and selfish waste of biology. The fact that she has made millions of dollars whoring her name and political future (haha to her) doesn't change the fact that she lines herself up on the left of those issues, except of course for the organizations that gave her those millions of dollars.
My comment on the first story about the metallic hydrogen. https://slashdot.org/comments....
Glad to be proven right. And so quickly.
Welcome fellow center-right Jill Stein voter.
Yes, as I have stated many times, I voted for Dr. Stein in the last two elections because she was the best candidate on the ticket. Before that I voted for Obama.
As to whether liberalism is a hive mind, please read my response to another poster here: https://slashdot.org/comments....
And for the record, I do not agree with the conservative/right wing/Republican position on several items on the list in that post. But that doesn't mean I don't get lumped in with the right by liberals.
No, it's one I've seen many liberals force on people. See above responses for explanation.
Even the right wing agree we need some form of tax base. What amount, and what size the federal, state, and local governments should be supported by that tax base is a separate issue.
As to whether you are liberal/left, center, or conservative/right, I base that on several instances, online and offline, where a group of liberals all agreed they were liberal, and then one disagreed with one position that the rest had. That one was immediately called out and cut from the herd. One such exchange, on a message board between a tight-knit group of like minded liberals (several of whom had met in person), ended with "I thought you were a friend." Yes, they cut off someone who considered himself a liberal over one single issue where he didn't follow the hive mind.
So, in your case, yes, there are some liberals who would not count you as a liberal if you don't agree with every issue they do, because to them, those issues define "a liberal". Would that issue be IMDB showing actor's ages? Maybe, maybe not. But there is surely another issue you have your own opinion on that would suffice.
For further on what the left/right difference is, I will repost what I responded to service-scope minor above:
I simply base that on every time I've asked someone what separates the "left" and "right" in relation to the Democrat party. Their left-leaning issues include:
Abortion as a right
Welfare / medicaid
Universal health care
College for all
Gay marriage
Immigration without limits
Anti-discrimination laws / equal rights
Government regulation of business
Global warming issues
Legalize drugs
What there is right of center?
The only two areas that the Democrats are not on the "European left" is that they believe in private ownership of property, and are financially dependent on big companies for campaign donations.
So tell me, what party platform is right of center, other than property ownership? Especially when even that is at government whim? (Do I need to cite examples of that too?)
If you believe in private ownership of property, you are center right. ...?
You seem to be be of the opinion that anything slightly to the left of centre is communism.
No, I simply base that on every time I've asked someone what separates the "left" and "right" in relation to the Democrat party. Their left-leaning issues include:
Abortion as a right
Welfare / medicaid
Universal health care
College for all
Gay marriage
Immigration without limits
Anti-discrimination laws / equal rights
Government regulation of business
Global warming issues
Legalize drugs
What there is right of center?
The only two areas that the Democrats are not on the "European left" is that they believe in private ownership of property, and are financially dependent on big companies for campaign donations.
So tell me, what party platform is right of center, other than property ownership? Especially when even that is at government whim? (Do I need to cite examples of that too?)
I didn't win the election. I didn't vote for Trump. It was simply a joke.
A voice in a crowd can sway many men.
I'm a pretty liberal dude -
Considering you don't agree with a liberal law, no you're not. You are actually a centrist. If you believe in private ownership of property, you are center right.
Hillary, isn't it past your bedtime?
Hey, maybe Chewie didn't program the nav-computer properly.
Everyone knows exactly what nuclear winter means.
Clouds of radioactive ash causing mobs of mutant zombies.
Am I close?
I was thinking more along the lines as the base of something multi-storied. Who knows, I am just tired of every ancient building made of stone referred to as a temple of some kind.
The only thing about Human's that has really changed over the millennia is how fast we can kill each other. I imagine Human nature and behaviour to be much the same 10,000 years ago as 10 years ago. There has to be room for something with a more mundane purpose that has survived through the ages.
Of course there were more mundane buildings than just temples and fortresses. But why would ancient hunters and farmers haul enormous stone blocks over many miles, just to make a really cool above-ground foundation for a discotheque?
look at the massive amount of resources people pour into religion... historically it is perhaps only rivaled by defense.
Based on your argument all our major cities will be viewed as giant mecca's of religion. Which they clearly are not. I expect the subways would be the church of the underworld etc.
It's only very recently that we've regularly created massive structures for purely secular use.
Roleplay:
5000k+ years ago we had massive structures built for purely secular purposes using 'green' technology. What would those ruins look like?
It would depend on which alien race helped us make temples to aliens.
It worked on Easter Island.
Nordstrom has one you can buy for two-fifty. It's true, I saw it on snopes.
The glass ceiling fell on her?
the jobs are gone. Just like everything else.
Well, if your solution for a sinking ship is to put up solar panels, I don't think you understand why ships leak or sink.
Are you rolling a hundred-sided die? Because there is a large gap between 90% and 16%. Every single state that Trump "had to win" to reach 270 went to him. The official polls through the election had it impossible for his to reach 270, yet he managed to get over 300. Face it, the polls were not just wrong or inaccurate, they were not based on reality.
For the record, I didn't support or vote for Trump. I voted Green Party again. But I could see the writing on the wall for months before the election.
You are making it appear as if it was Trump vs. money elite. Unfortunately, Trump *is* money elite. Just add his team's fortunes together. Notice something? Right! This is the *richest* admin in US history!
It' one elite trying to fuck over the other elite. You and me are the losers.
Trump isn't fucking me over, like his opponents managed to do under the previous administration. Obama went out of his way to fuck over the average white or black American. Actually, he didn't even help the hispanic Americans, only the hispanic non-Americans.
You can scream about the change in policy all you want. The president is supposed to be looking out for Americans, not Syrians and Yemenis, and not the boards of directors of 97 large corporations.
The Republicans have been doing this since 2008. Some of people we consider moderates today actually originally rode to power harnessing the Tea Party movement that incubated the more extreme Trump agenda. Right now, they have complete control over two branches of government, and the only reason they don't control the third is that it's not elected.
So given it's worked for them so far, I can't imagine it'll destroy them until the US itself is completely destroyed by this insanity.
As opposed to the previous admin's rule of "All immigrants, all the time!"?
"Americans" are not a race. So, not racist.
Yet still, supporting them is being called racist.
Do you see the hypocrisy yet?
The idiots who are screaming about him didn't think he would actually follow through on the campaign promises he made. After all, what politician does that?
The the idiots scream because he isn't a politician. I expect they'll be screaming for 7 more years.