Wasn't this Healthcare Up your a$$ deal a democrat thing? Well, there you go, democrats are the dumbest little dictators going. FU Obama
To be fair, it was a republican thing before it became a democrat thing. If Nixon hadn't left office under the circumstances he did, we probably would have had a single payer system years ago. The dems hated it when it was a republican idea and the republicians hate it now. Not that it matters, they would have fucked it up just as badly.
Who knows why the US press did not get it out first?
Because if it's not about what some republican or democrat said about the other regarding the budget, ACA, or debt limit nobody is interested right now. Getting one step closer to fusion power just doesn't scare the crap out of anyone, or piss them off like the other issues right now. If you can find a janitor that once worked at the facility and is claiming that there's an out of control black hole that's going to destroy the sun, turn mankind into vampires and vaporize the spotted owl, then we'll hear about it.
You know that the President can veto laws he doesn't like, right?
I hate to be pedantic, but he can't veto a law. He can veto a bill before it becomes a law though. Of course having the justice department ignore laws is effectively the same, temporary at least. But I don't know how legal it is.
Is this some kind of trick? I could swear these were written by the same person. This may be proof the Mama Cass faked her own death, changed her appearance, and is performing under the name DJ Assault.
They had a nasty habit of going over cliffs and exploding in tremendous pyrotechnic displays(after coming to a complete stop)
For that matter, going vertical/zero G was often enough for them. I remember times when they exploded in mid-air before they even hit anything.
My favorite was when the blew up in mid air and then had a secondary explosion that was a massive mushroom cloud looking thing a few seconds after landing.
Gasoline vehicles burn ALL the TIME. You see it in every movie you watch nowadays.
Which is much safer than the gasoline vehicles in movies from the 70's and 80's. They had a nasty habit of going over cliffs and exploding in tremendous pyrotechnic displays(after coming to a complete stop). The fireball could easily reach 50 feet. Often times they transformed from an expensive Ferrari into a Pinto before going over the cliff.
Nice try, but they'll live in tents for the rest of their life.
WTF! You know this for sure? So you think those people are just so helpless that they will be living in tents? Do you feel the Japanese government is so incompetent that they will keep their citizens living in tents forever?
That's THE risk of nuclear power, they have no insurance, so you'll get about 10.000 bucks for your lavish home if you're lucky.
Banqiao Dam 1975; 26,000 killed by the initial flooding. 145,000 dead from starvation and 11 million homeless. We should ban all hydroelectric power!
BTW on other news, the Swiss are complaining to the EU that Germany ruins their nuke Spiel by exporting cheap Solar and Wind energy to Switzerland, a third cheaper (4 cents instead of 6), so even their pumping reservoirs aren't being used anymore for spikes at midday, Germans solar power is way cheaper.
Solar panel installation and maintenance deaths are higher per Kw than coal and nuclear. We better ban that too.
Wind has caused at least 79 deaths We better stop that menace
Hell, coal, oil and natural gas deaths and health issues go without saying. Obviously they must be stopped. In fact there has been a total of 42,882 electrical deaths from 2003 to 2010 in the US alone Lets ban electrical lines all together. 30,000 to 50,000 people have died in automotive accidents per year in the US over the last 40 years. And look at all of the land that must be used by roads.
Or maybe we should focus on the dumb-ass mistakes that were made by corporations to save a few pennies by not having better backups in place. Or not flooding the reactor core(s) with seawater sooner. No, that can't be right can it? We must all live in caves and mud huts. Just how "clean" do you think the production of those German solar panels was? What do you think is in them? And what are we going to do with all of that toxic crap in 25 years when they reach EOL?
Wouldn't it be smarter to have a more diverse energy policy? We should strive to reduce coal and use more natural gas. Build safer, newer generation nuclear plants and take the old ones off line. Perhaps educating the population about plutonium reactors even. France seems to have done pretty well. More off shore wind would be great. Too bad there are so many selfish bastards who have enough money to keep that from happening in areas because they don't want to see windmills out of their beach houses.
Mars must have been very geologically active at one point. Olympus Mons was once thought to be the tallest mountain in the solar system until the discovery of a taller mountain in 1997 on Vesta. Still, it's the tallest known volcano at 26 Km.
The USA generates a significant portion of trash and pollution (and it refuses to reduce this amount because it would affect the economy), but AFAIK it is still behind China.
This is/. Please stop using facts to interfere with USA bashing.
It would be so fun to see this argument play out in court.
If it were possible to get it in front of a judge who would understand it, yes it would be. But that's about as likely as this whole thing being just strange a coincidence.
In summary, you've never actually read the texts but imagined what it is you would like them to say.
I've read more of them cover to cover than I would care to list. They are all pretty lengthy and you can find an example to make damn near any conflicting set of points you would like. You can also find some very heinous acts justified in most too. I suppose it's all in what you want to take away from it. But overall the message is pretty similar. If you want to find the worst in them, it's not that difficult to do. I suppose I have resigned to the fact that damn near all religious texts have been translated at least once before I've read them, so something gets lost in that translation. Obviously most of the time those who are doing the translation have a vested interest, so you don't really know what carrots and sticks have been added or removed either.
If i had 1000 mod points. I would give em to you. You hit the nail on the head. Of course even here on slashdot, we will get modded down because "you can't attack religion" the number one fantasy of them all. Teaching your kid religion is worse that letting them play video games all day. Teaching religion and god is tantamount to child abuse. Yet as you said "somehow seen as more acceptable." Time to stop walking on egg shells when some one says something bad about religion. Unlike religious people, at least we can all agree characters in video games are not real..
Let the flames start in 3...2..1..
Nice how you end that with "Let the flames start..." when you yourself have already started a flaming others. But you can justify that since you are of a superior intelligence compared to anyone who is religious or spiritual. Or perhaps I've misjudged you based on what you've stated.
On one hand, I agree with you. Some (or even many, depending on your experience) "religious people" are obnoxious. But not all. I have friends and family who are Atheists, agnostic, Quaker, Catholic (and numerous flavors of Christianity), Buddhist, Hindu, Muslim, Jewish, Wiccians, Mormons,etc. You know what? I don't really care. As long as they are not telling me, or anyone else how to live, what does it matter? All of them feel their beliefs make them strive to be a better person. I see nothing wrong with that. What I do take issue with is when someone, anyone, tries to force their beliefs on others. If a Christian tells someone they are going to go to hell for being an atheist, I take issue with it. When Muslims try to enforce Sharia law, or kill and force others to convert to Islam, I'm appalled. When Mormons baptize holocaust victims, I find this offensive. I also find it obnoxious when Atheists berate others who do not believe as they do. By comparing religion to child abuse you have shown yourself to be no better than the self righteous religious people you find so terrible
I do agree with my atheist friends that teaching of creationism does not belong in school science. But I feel that there should be someplace for Muslims and others to be allowed to be allowed to leave the main classroom to pray if that is one of the edicts of their religion. However, no one should be forced to perform a religious ritual that is against their belief system. And others should not be allowed to force their (anti)religious belief(s) either.
Most religions really have the same message. Be good to each other. The details and names are different. But that's really what it boils down to. I'm sure there will be replays talking about all of the bad things that religion has caused over the years. But most of those have to do with power mad people twisting the main message to meet their own perverse goals
This was brought up in another conversation I had today...
We have this idea that kids as old as 16 aren't "fully formed" people. But if your kid doesn't understand the difference between fantasy and reality at 10 or 11 or 12 then there is a parenting problem or other general mental illness. They aren't just lumps of clay that get reasoning ability by magic on their 18th birth day. It's amazing how most of the population forgets what being aged 10-18 is like later in life... this is something they should know already.
I agree. Often times it take a lot longer that age 18 to develop the ability to reason too. There is a bit of a break down when it comes to hand guns and such. Don't get me wrong, I own guns and do not feel they should be outlawed. However, when I was a kid we were around them and taught about what they could do and how to use them and use them safely. Today it seems kids don't get as much exposure to this. They see that being shot in a movie or video game will cause a flesh wound at best. I'm not even sure half the adults who purchase them for home defense have ever fired a weapon. It can certainly be a problem when I 12 year old kid finds a loaded gun at a friends house who's only understanding about a firearm comes from Hollywood, it's an accident waiting to happen. I don't have a problem with parents who don't want their kids playing with toy guns. But to think that teaching them nothing about gun safety is about as stupid as teaching a teenager that abstinence is the only option to protect themselves from STDs and unwanted pregnancy.
This was brought up in another conversation I had today...
We have this idea that kids as old as 16 aren't "fully formed" people. But if your kid doesn't understand the difference between fantasy and reality at 10 or 11 or 12 then there is a parenting problem or other general mental illness. They aren't just lumps of clay that get reasoning ability by magic on their 18th birth day. It's amazing how most of the population forgets what being aged 10-18 is like late
Bakkila and Bender said they will no longer maintain Horse eBooks and Pronunciation Book. "No one wants to work on a painting forever"
After which, Bender lit both on fire and used them to light the Le Grand Cigar and mumbled something about "stupid meat bags".
In other news, the FBI is looking for a piece of the US constitution that historians have discovered is missing. And apparently George Burns grave has been robbed.
I'm not convinced this making learning fun thing works.
People can learn life's lessons the fun way or the hard way. Problem is, the lesson just happens, it's rarely, if ever, the students choice how it's delivered.
Speaking for myself, I prefer the fun way. But the hard way tends to leave a much more lasting impression.
you're not thinking of all the dead spiders that ran into misfortune using this technique. it's great for the species, but a crap shoot for any individual spider. Just like fact that half of all birds on the planet die each year. flocks and migration good for species but not for individual bird
You're correct, I'm not think about that. I think it's amazing that they are reaching heights of 13,000 feet with no wings at all.
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Wasn't this Healthcare Up your a$$ deal a democrat thing? Well, there you go, democrats are the dumbest little dictators going. FU Obama
To be fair, it was a republican thing before it became a democrat thing. If Nixon hadn't left office under the circumstances he did, we probably would have had a single payer system years ago. The dems hated it when it was a republican idea and the republicians hate it now. Not that it matters, they would have fucked it up just as badly.
Who knows why the US press did not get it out first?
Because if it's not about what some republican or democrat said about the other regarding the budget, ACA, or debt limit nobody is interested right now. Getting one step closer to fusion power just doesn't scare the crap out of anyone, or piss them off like the other issues right now. If you can find a janitor that once worked at the facility and is claiming that there's an out of control black hole that's going to destroy the sun, turn mankind into vampires and vaporize the spotted owl, then we'll hear about it.
What is 6 * 9?
FTFY
You know that the President can veto laws he doesn't like, right?
I hate to be pedantic, but he can't veto a law. He can veto a bill before it becomes a law though. Of course having the justice department ignore laws is effectively the same, temporary at least. But I don't know how legal it is.
Laws need to be written with the unix philosophy...
Security through obscurity?
Is this some kind of trick? I could swear these were written by the same person. This may be proof the Mama Cass faked her own death, changed her appearance, and is performing under the name DJ Assault.
They are dying of future!
Aren't we all? ;-)
They had a nasty habit of going over cliffs and exploding in tremendous pyrotechnic displays(after coming to a complete stop)
For that matter, going vertical/zero G was often enough for them. I remember times when they exploded in mid-air before they even hit anything.
My favorite was when the blew up in mid air and then had a secondary explosion that was a massive mushroom cloud looking thing a few seconds after landing.
obviously gasoline cars never catch on fire
Gasoline vehicles burn ALL the TIME. You see it in every movie you watch nowadays.
Which is much safer than the gasoline vehicles in movies from the 70's and 80's. They had a nasty habit of going over cliffs and exploding in tremendous pyrotechnic displays(after coming to a complete stop). The fireball could easily reach 50 feet. Often times they transformed from an expensive Ferrari into a Pinto before going over the cliff.
Nice try, but they'll live in tents for the rest of their life.
WTF! You know this for sure? So you think those people are just so helpless that they will be living in tents? Do you feel the Japanese government is so incompetent that they will keep their citizens living in tents forever?
That's THE risk of nuclear power, they have no insurance, so you'll get about 10.000 bucks for your lavish home if you're lucky.
Banqiao Dam 1975; 26,000 killed by the initial flooding. 145,000 dead from starvation and 11 million homeless. We should ban all hydroelectric power!
BTW on other news, the Swiss are complaining to the EU that Germany ruins their nuke Spiel by exporting cheap Solar and Wind energy to Switzerland, a third cheaper (4 cents instead of 6), so even their pumping reservoirs aren't being used anymore for spikes at midday, Germans solar power is way cheaper.
Solar panel installation and maintenance deaths are higher per Kw than coal and nuclear. We better ban that too. Wind has caused at least 79 deaths We better stop that menace
Hell, coal, oil and natural gas deaths and health issues go without saying. Obviously they must be stopped. In fact there has been a total of 42,882 electrical deaths from 2003 to 2010 in the US alone Lets ban electrical lines all together. 30,000 to 50,000 people have died in automotive accidents per year in the US over the last 40 years. And look at all of the land that must be used by roads.
Or maybe we should focus on the dumb-ass mistakes that were made by corporations to save a few pennies by not having better backups in place. Or not flooding the reactor core(s) with seawater sooner. No, that can't be right can it? We must all live in caves and mud huts. Just how "clean" do you think the production of those German solar panels was? What do you think is in them? And what are we going to do with all of that toxic crap in 25 years when they reach EOL?
Wouldn't it be smarter to have a more diverse energy policy? We should strive to reduce coal and use more natural gas. Build safer, newer generation nuclear plants and take the old ones off line. Perhaps educating the population about plutonium reactors even. France seems to have done pretty well. More off shore wind would be great. Too bad there are so many selfish bastards who have enough money to keep that from happening in areas because they don't want to see windmills out of their beach houses.
Mars must have been very geologically active at one point. Olympus Mons was once thought to be the tallest mountain in the solar system until the discovery of a taller mountain in 1997 on Vesta. Still, it's the tallest known volcano at 26 Km.
You forgot to calibrate the Heisenberg compensators.
That only works on transporters.
That can't work, you reversed nothing!
Nor was it rerouted through the main deflector.
The USA generates a significant portion of trash and pollution (and it refuses to reduce this amount because it would affect the economy), but AFAIK it is still behind China.
This is /. Please stop using facts to interfere with USA bashing.
I might look into them when this keyboard wears out.
A model-M can wear out? Just how many people do you have to bludgeon to death with it for that to happen?
It would be so fun to see this argument play out in court.
If it were possible to get it in front of a judge who would understand it, yes it would be. But that's about as likely as this whole thing being just strange a coincidence.
In summary, you've never actually read the texts but imagined what it is you would like them to say.
I've read more of them cover to cover than I would care to list. They are all pretty lengthy and you can find an example to make damn near any conflicting set of points you would like. You can also find some very heinous acts justified in most too. I suppose it's all in what you want to take away from it. But overall the message is pretty similar. If you want to find the worst in them, it's not that difficult to do. I suppose I have resigned to the fact that damn near all religious texts have been translated at least once before I've read them, so something gets lost in that translation. Obviously most of the time those who are doing the translation have a vested interest, so you don't really know what carrots and sticks have been added or removed either.
If i had 1000 mod points. I would give em to you. You hit the nail on the head. Of course even here on slashdot, we will get modded down because "you can't attack religion" the number one fantasy of them all. Teaching your kid religion is worse that letting them play video games all day. Teaching religion and god is tantamount to child abuse. Yet as you said "somehow seen as more acceptable." Time to stop walking on egg shells when some one says something bad about religion. Unlike religious people, at least we can all agree characters in video games are not real.. Let the flames start in 3...2..1..
Nice how you end that with "Let the flames start..." when you yourself have already started a flaming others. But you can justify that since you are of a superior intelligence compared to anyone who is religious or spiritual. Or perhaps I've misjudged you based on what you've stated.
On one hand, I agree with you. Some (or even many, depending on your experience) "religious people" are obnoxious. But not all. I have friends and family who are Atheists, agnostic, Quaker, Catholic (and numerous flavors of Christianity), Buddhist, Hindu, Muslim, Jewish, Wiccians, Mormons,etc. You know what? I don't really care. As long as they are not telling me, or anyone else how to live, what does it matter? All of them feel their beliefs make them strive to be a better person. I see nothing wrong with that. What I do take issue with is when someone, anyone, tries to force their beliefs on others. If a Christian tells someone they are going to go to hell for being an atheist, I take issue with it. When Muslims try to enforce Sharia law, or kill and force others to convert to Islam, I'm appalled. When Mormons baptize holocaust victims, I find this offensive. I also find it obnoxious when Atheists berate others who do not believe as they do. By comparing religion to child abuse you have shown yourself to be no better than the self righteous religious people you find so terrible
I do agree with my atheist friends that teaching of creationism does not belong in school science. But I feel that there should be someplace for Muslims and others to be allowed to be allowed to leave the main classroom to pray if that is one of the edicts of their religion. However, no one should be forced to perform a religious ritual that is against their belief system. And others should not be allowed to force their (anti)religious belief(s) either.
Most religions really have the same message. Be good to each other. The details and names are different. But that's really what it boils down to. I'm sure there will be replays talking about all of the bad things that religion has caused over the years. But most of those have to do with power mad people twisting the main message to meet their own perverse goals
This was brought up in another conversation I had today...
We have this idea that kids as old as 16 aren't "fully formed" people. But if your kid doesn't understand the difference between fantasy and reality at 10 or 11 or 12 then there is a parenting problem or other general mental illness. They aren't just lumps of clay that get reasoning ability by magic on their 18th birth day. It's amazing how most of the population forgets what being aged 10-18 is like later in life... this is something they should know already.
I agree. Often times it take a lot longer that age 18 to develop the ability to reason too. There is a bit of a break down when it comes to hand guns and such. Don't get me wrong, I own guns and do not feel they should be outlawed. However, when I was a kid we were around them and taught about what they could do and how to use them and use them safely. Today it seems kids don't get as much exposure to this. They see that being shot in a movie or video game will cause a flesh wound at best. I'm not even sure half the adults who purchase them for home defense have ever fired a weapon. It can certainly be a problem when I 12 year old kid finds a loaded gun at a friends house who's only understanding about a firearm comes from Hollywood, it's an accident waiting to happen. I don't have a problem with parents who don't want their kids playing with toy guns. But to think that teaching them nothing about gun safety is about as stupid as teaching a teenager that abstinence is the only option to protect themselves from STDs and unwanted pregnancy.
This was brought up in another conversation I had today...
We have this idea that kids as old as 16 aren't "fully formed" people. But if your kid doesn't understand the difference between fantasy and reality at 10 or 11 or 12 then there is a parenting problem or other general mental illness. They aren't just lumps of clay that get reasoning ability by magic on their 18th birth day. It's amazing how most of the population forgets what being aged 10-18 is like late
Bakkila and Bender said they will no longer maintain Horse eBooks and Pronunciation Book. "No one wants to work on a painting forever"
After which, Bender lit both on fire and used them to light the Le Grand Cigar and mumbled something about "stupid meat bags".
In other news, the FBI is looking for a piece of the US constitution that historians have discovered is missing. And apparently George Burns grave has been robbed.
I'm not convinced this making learning fun thing works.
People can learn life's lessons the fun way or the hard way. Problem is, the lesson just happens, it's rarely, if ever, the students choice how it's delivered.
Speaking for myself, I prefer the fun way. But the hard way tends to leave a much more lasting impression.
* Lawyer: "Doctor, before you performed the autopsy, did you check for a pulse?"
* Witness: "No."
* Lawyer: "Did you check for blood pressure?"
* Witness: "No."
* Lawyer: "Did you check for breathing?"
* Witness: "No."
* Lawyer: "So, then it is possible that the patient was alive when you began the autopsy?"
* Witness: "No."
* Lawyer: "How can you be so sure, Doctor?"
* Witness: "Because his brain was sitting on my desk in a jar."
* Lawyer: "But could the patient have still been alive nevertheless?"
* Witness: "Yes, it is possible that he could have been alive and practicing law somewhere."
dropping an anvil on sombody's head will not result in a bump but will crush their freaking skull and kill them
Pics, or it didn't happen. ;-)
you're not thinking of all the dead spiders that ran into misfortune using this technique. it's great for the species, but a crap shoot for any individual spider. Just like fact that half of all birds on the planet die each year. flocks and migration good for species but not for individual bird
You're correct, I'm not think about that. I think it's amazing that they are reaching heights of 13,000 feet with no wings at all.