But if they were really simply modern reproductions any professional and scientific archaeological investigation would have demonstrated that very quickly. That they were covered up and legal action taken to prevent any legitimate investigation seems prima facie evidence that there is a more significant secret to hide than some local merchant's counterfeiting.
Wheels were not particularly used outside of cities in the other hemisphere either until over generations infrastructure was built up to connect them. In fact if we split your sentence with mine we can arrive at the truth: "Even the Spanish and Portuguese never bothered with them outside cities" until over generations infrastructure was built up to connect them. And that was done in only a few centuries compared to the millennia of wheels upon roads in the Eastern Hemisphere. The argument that there were no wheels because there was no infrastructure is therefore quite weak (and 'too desolate'? please).
Iron is the sixth most common element in the universe, and Brazil is the third most prodigious extractor of iron ore in the world at present. Further, your statement that Brazil's iron deposits are far from the coast is a lie. Just because the natives weren't smart enough to know where to look for it or what to do with it will not erase these facts.
Quite likely if a lone Greek or Roman vessel's crew survived a transatlantic journey (doubtful in itself), the Tupi or Guarani would probably have eaten them.
That is fascinating. Beyond the pillars of Hercules, indeed. However none of the crew is likely to have survived, otherwise it would be extremely unlikely that the lack of wheels and/or ironworking would have persisted in the surrounding pre-Columbian inhabitants, though it is murky how advanced the indigenous people in that area were during that period.
People today are lazy. Back in the 19th century people who were broke to the point of near starving would spend their last farthing to hurl their entire families to another continent, and then they would do any number of jobs of any kind of work for any wages until they could finally achieve comfort.
It's sad that it seems only illegal immigrants, at least some of them, have that kind of spirit anymore. No work ethic exists anymore, people think society owes them everything they want for free. They don't care about the faceless millions who are reduced nearly to subsistence to defray these entitlements.
False dichotomy. Our military budget is the largest in the world in order to facilitate the projection of overwhelming force on a global scale. There is a happy medium between that and being impotent. Do we really need a dozen carrier battlegroups? Forward bases on every continent with regional commands to match? Thousands of nuclear warheads and the logistics to field them?
We've been playing police-of-the-world for nearly a century, and I just don't think we can afford it anymore. We could and should drastically cut the size and expenditure of the DoD by half, and close most overseas bases and operations.
The Cold War is over, and right now China is beating the US by outmaneuvering us economically, not militarily. While we're pumping money into carriers that never fight anybody, the Chinese are buying everything. They stand a good chance of doing in Africa what the West could not, developing with neither barrier nor constraint, because unlike the West they don't give two shits about government reform or human rights, and every tin-pot African dictatorship is lining up for Chinese cash.
If we don't cut spending and deregulate we're going to suffocate ourselves. We'll soon look like Greece if we don't stop kidding ourselves about the role government plays in society.
Ron Paul in fact has one of the most contrarian records in Congress today. He votes against his party constantly, and further has run as a 3rd party candidate in past Presidential elections.
The US has been a republic since the ratification of the Constitution. It's no secret, rather the electorate happens to be dumb as paint. If it weren't for "Jacksonian democracy" that wouldn't be half the problem it is today.
Disingenuous misdirection. The Arians were hardly the only sect of early Christianity that, for one reason or another, did not believe that Jesus was equivalent to Yahweh. There were also the Ebionites, Cerinthians, Sethians and other gnostics. The proto-Orthodoxy wisely approached the matter by 'divide and conquer' voting on each heretical sect one at a time, playing minority opinions against each other.
Meanwhile proto-Orthodoxy succeeded by being everything to everybody, no matter how questionable the compatibility of their have-your-cake-and-eat-it-too theology was.
I've had two Synology NASes of different models, and I've used both DSM 2.x and 3.x, and I'll agree that the DSM 2.x interface can be rather slow at times, but the DSM 3.x interface really impressed me. It's very responsive. Neither are as bad as some NASes I've had to contend with, such as shitty Buffalo units.
I haven't tried the email features, but is your problem consistent across updates to the DSM? I find it a bit hard to believe something like that would go uncorrected for very long, and Synology updates their DSM constantly and their model support is rather long. That's what convinced me to stay with them when I got another NAS, they actively updated the first NAS I had for around three years, even adding features along the way.
This could be negated by setting up a asteroid mining facility/factory that both extracts the materials and builds the ship. There's a lot of iron in the belt. Then all you'd have to get out of the well is special things like the warheads themselves.
The problems with 'inbreeding' in a population are solved within a finite number of generations, that's why island and remote jungle populations can exist in isolation with relatively low numbers. Fact is, cold though it may be, most of the harmful genetic traits that are exaggerated by the first few generations of a small population die off with relative swiftness. The challenge that modern man would face in such a scenario would be letting that happen, since we have a habit of trying to save everybody regardless of whether they can tie their own shoes. If we wanted the natural reproduction of a small population to work we would at a minimum have to mandate sterilization of those persons with exaggerated negative traits.
The other solution is dump natural reproduction entirely. Do all the fertilization in a lab (you could even use a library of donated semen without taking up too much space) and carefully monitor the results, implanting only those blastocysts which are known to have genomes within normal parameters. Boom! Inbreeding problem solved.
That should be irrelevant. We've got assloads of warheads just lying around, and a conventional rocket could provide the first leg propulsion so that no radioactive material concentrations fall back to earth. Space is already full of ionizing radiation. What do people think powers the sun? Unicorn farts?
It is quite absurd that you counsel me about a lack of perspective whilst simultaneously attempting to justify the same for the original poster. No matter, I have offended/. groupthink and have been downmodded for it. I have more karma than Gandhi so it only amuses me.
MAD is only preventative in the hands of reasonable people. I haven't seen anything reasonable out of Mesopotamia since the Seleucids.
And as for your snark about the US, if you were Iranian and criticizing Iran, you'd be hunted down and imprisoned. If you were gay you would be executed, in the name of Allah, of course, for your sexuality would be an affront to the divine law of the Islamic Republic of Iran. In such contrast it is clear which nation is truly a theocracy and which nation is truly frightening, and your glibness is an insult to the memory of every murdered dissident whose blood has spattered the premises of innumerable Iranian prisons.
Sounds like you didn't understand. He wasn't talking about inserting the alleles into cells after the fact (something which isn't attainable with current technology, although some retroviruses show promise), but rather synthesizing the compounds which those cells with the aforementioned alleles would be producing to mimic the effect without the genetic machinery. That would in fact have to be a regular and recurring treatment, though I'm not sure that it would be all that different from existing treatments relating to seratonin production and management.
The Brits have leagues of such thinking action heroes, but that's because they really like detective shows so much more. There used to be similar shows in the US like Hawaii Five-O and Kojak, but now it's all about "teams" like Law & Order and CSI, where there really isn't one badass hero detective that figures everything out and then personally breaks down doors.
Speaking as a Trekkie with a few hundred Star Trek books and who considered the characters from the original series to be personal role models, let me be the first to say he was right, and any person who cannot find the humor in his perspective is not socialized nor actualized enough to be wholly functional.
And, really? Picking on him for his weight, or taking a bad role to pay his bills? Let me break it to you, most old men get fat. You try exercising on top of decades old joints in pain. And as bad as Shit My Dad Says was, it wasn't the Shat's fault. The producers watered that whole concept way down to the point where anybody in that role would have failed. I don't blame him for getting paid, it would have been either him or somebody else taking money to participate in that shit series. Old men are also practical, and life isn't free.
Grow a thicker skin, learn to laugh at yourself, and don't pretend everything has to be perfect serious art in order to consider an artist a success. I still admire William Shatner because he lives his life honestly. He doesn't make excuses or hide behind false pleasantries and political niceties (which would have made him great for Shit My Dad Says if the writing wasn't nauseatingly stupid horrible). He's not a great actor, he's an evocative person, and he's himself in his roles, so you feel a human connection with his characterizations, limited though they are.
He's no messiah, but I maintain he's still a cool guy.
The Nazi Party and its allies demonstrably dismantled the aristocracy in almost every nation in Europe. That changes everything, regardless of your desperate wishes to believe otherwise for your own political reasons.
You also conflate aristocracy with industrialists and financiers, but even in this category you are ignorant. Take for example industrialist Fritz Thyssen, who contributed tons of money to the Nazis during their rise to power, but as soon as he stopped towing the party line his entire business was seized by the state and he and his family were arrested and spent the last years of the war in various concentration camps. He was hardly an isolated case. The party delighted in taking money, but that money bought no loyalty. Anybody who betrayed the party had their estates dismantled and would be sent to the camps.
The simple fact is that none of Hitler's circle were aristocratic, and he was known to have actively detested the aristocracy all his life. Aristocrats not only in Germany but in all the occupied territories were stripped of their assets which were then redistributed to those within, or sympathetic to, the party.
Except that's an oversimplification. You're conflating, I think, the regime/party with the individuals in office. It was clear by the assassination plot that Hitler's (and by extension his coterie's) mandate was over, but I'm not so sure about the rest.
Consider the Roman empire for a moment. Some of Rome's worst emperors, e.g. Caligula or Nero sans Seneca, while terrors to the city of Rome, had almost no effect on the broader Roman territory or its constituents. So when these men were assassinated it demonstrated the revocation of their personal mandate, not a rebellion against their office and/or the structure of the Roman state.
The socio-political reality in Nazi Germany was quite similar. Even though ruled by a madman, the middle and upper management was extremely capable and sound, so much so that it was able to mitigate difficulties in both directions. It kept its peons organized and in as good a morale as could be managed, and it kept the nutjobs at the top from imploding the state (at least for a while).
When the war was finally over, the massive political shift was driven by several factors, not least of which was that reality itself, that the war was lost and the entire nation subjugated. Additionally there was the artificial elements of the allied occupation which instituted de-nazification by law. The party was over by fiat, regardless of what the population wanted. Lastly and by no means least, millions of Germans were killed in the war, vastly and immediately altering the German electorate. Japan experienced the same massive political shift for the same reasons.
In the end my historical recollection of the detailed political realities in wartime Germany has become too vague to say with certainty whether it was merely the men in office or the whole government structure which had lost popular mandate, but the consideration is at least not as simple as you portrayed it.
You are desperately ignorant of history if you think that that Nazism was 'status quo' to any significant stretch of German history. Nazism was a revolutionary movement that overthrew the Weimar Republic and cleared away the last vestiges of power held by the German aristocracy. They instituted huge swaths of legislative change at every level and in every corner of life in Germany. And while many of these laws were indeed draconian measures intended to strengthen the power of the state, people allow crimes like the holocaust to blind them to the fact that this was still a government of men who wanted to believe they were benefiting their country in some way, and in fact many positive reforms were instituted as well.
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But if they were really simply modern reproductions any professional and scientific archaeological investigation would have demonstrated that very quickly. That they were covered up and legal action taken to prevent any legitimate investigation seems prima facie evidence that there is a more significant secret to hide than some local merchant's counterfeiting.
Wheels were not particularly used outside of cities in the other hemisphere either until over generations infrastructure was built up to connect them. In fact if we split your sentence with mine we can arrive at the truth: "Even the Spanish and Portuguese never bothered with them outside cities" until over generations infrastructure was built up to connect them. And that was done in only a few centuries compared to the millennia of wheels upon roads in the Eastern Hemisphere. The argument that there were no wheels because there was no infrastructure is therefore quite weak (and 'too desolate'? please).
Iron is the sixth most common element in the universe, and Brazil is the third most prodigious extractor of iron ore in the world at present. Further, your statement that Brazil's iron deposits are far from the coast is a lie. Just because the natives weren't smart enough to know where to look for it or what to do with it will not erase these facts.
Quite likely if a lone Greek or Roman vessel's crew survived a transatlantic journey (doubtful in itself), the Tupi or Guarani would probably have eaten them.
That is fascinating. Beyond the pillars of Hercules, indeed. However none of the crew is likely to have survived, otherwise it would be extremely unlikely that the lack of wheels and/or ironworking would have persisted in the surrounding pre-Columbian inhabitants, though it is murky how advanced the indigenous people in that area were during that period.
I doubt the Grand Canyon is as majestic as your absurd hyperbole, or as deep as my disdain for it.
People today are lazy. Back in the 19th century people who were broke to the point of near starving would spend their last farthing to hurl their entire families to another continent, and then they would do any number of jobs of any kind of work for any wages until they could finally achieve comfort.
It's sad that it seems only illegal immigrants, at least some of them, have that kind of spirit anymore. No work ethic exists anymore, people think society owes them everything they want for free. They don't care about the faceless millions who are reduced nearly to subsistence to defray these entitlements.
False dichotomy. Our military budget is the largest in the world in order to facilitate the projection of overwhelming force on a global scale. There is a happy medium between that and being impotent. Do we really need a dozen carrier battlegroups? Forward bases on every continent with regional commands to match? Thousands of nuclear warheads and the logistics to field them?
We've been playing police-of-the-world for nearly a century, and I just don't think we can afford it anymore. We could and should drastically cut the size and expenditure of the DoD by half, and close most overseas bases and operations.
The Cold War is over, and right now China is beating the US by outmaneuvering us economically, not militarily. While we're pumping money into carriers that never fight anybody, the Chinese are buying everything. They stand a good chance of doing in Africa what the West could not, developing with neither barrier nor constraint, because unlike the West they don't give two shits about government reform or human rights, and every tin-pot African dictatorship is lining up for Chinese cash.
If we don't cut spending and deregulate we're going to suffocate ourselves. We'll soon look like Greece if we don't stop kidding ourselves about the role government plays in society.
Ron Paul in fact has one of the most contrarian records in Congress today. He votes against his party constantly, and further has run as a 3rd party candidate in past Presidential elections.
The US has been a republic since the ratification of the Constitution. It's no secret, rather the electorate happens to be dumb as paint. If it weren't for "Jacksonian democracy" that wouldn't be half the problem it is today.
"A republic, if you can keep it."
Disingenuous misdirection. The Arians were hardly the only sect of early Christianity that, for one reason or another, did not believe that Jesus was equivalent to Yahweh. There were also the Ebionites, Cerinthians, Sethians and other gnostics. The proto-Orthodoxy wisely approached the matter by 'divide and conquer' voting on each heretical sect one at a time, playing minority opinions against each other.
Meanwhile proto-Orthodoxy succeeded by being everything to everybody, no matter how questionable the compatibility of their have-your-cake-and-eat-it-too theology was.
Synology DS211j $200
Hitachi 1TB $65x2 = $130
$330.
I've had two Synology NASes of different models, and I've used both DSM 2.x and 3.x, and I'll agree that the DSM 2.x interface can be rather slow at times, but the DSM 3.x interface really impressed me. It's very responsive. Neither are as bad as some NASes I've had to contend with, such as shitty Buffalo units.
I haven't tried the email features, but is your problem consistent across updates to the DSM? I find it a bit hard to believe something like that would go uncorrected for very long, and Synology updates their DSM constantly and their model support is rather long. That's what convinced me to stay with them when I got another NAS, they actively updated the first NAS I had for around three years, even adding features along the way.
This could be negated by setting up a asteroid mining facility/factory that both extracts the materials and builds the ship. There's a lot of iron in the belt. Then all you'd have to get out of the well is special things like the warheads themselves.
The problems with 'inbreeding' in a population are solved within a finite number of generations, that's why island and remote jungle populations can exist in isolation with relatively low numbers. Fact is, cold though it may be, most of the harmful genetic traits that are exaggerated by the first few generations of a small population die off with relative swiftness. The challenge that modern man would face in such a scenario would be letting that happen, since we have a habit of trying to save everybody regardless of whether they can tie their own shoes. If we wanted the natural reproduction of a small population to work we would at a minimum have to mandate sterilization of those persons with exaggerated negative traits.
The other solution is dump natural reproduction entirely. Do all the fertilization in a lab (you could even use a library of donated semen without taking up too much space) and carefully monitor the results, implanting only those blastocysts which are known to have genomes within normal parameters. Boom! Inbreeding problem solved.
I've noticed that most email field verification just looks for an '@' so I prefer to use haha@your.mom
That should be irrelevant. We've got assloads of warheads just lying around, and a conventional rocket could provide the first leg propulsion so that no radioactive material concentrations fall back to earth. Space is already full of ionizing radiation. What do people think powers the sun? Unicorn farts?
It is quite absurd that you counsel me about a lack of perspective whilst simultaneously attempting to justify the same for the original poster. No matter, I have offended /. groupthink and have been downmodded for it. I have more karma than Gandhi so it only amuses me.
With burkhas that's the only fetish you have left.
MAD is only preventative in the hands of reasonable people. I haven't seen anything reasonable out of Mesopotamia since the Seleucids.
And as for your snark about the US, if you were Iranian and criticizing Iran, you'd be hunted down and imprisoned. If you were gay you would be executed, in the name of Allah, of course, for your sexuality would be an affront to the divine law of the Islamic Republic of Iran. In such contrast it is clear which nation is truly a theocracy and which nation is truly frightening, and your glibness is an insult to the memory of every murdered dissident whose blood has spattered the premises of innumerable Iranian prisons.
You are scum.
Sounds like you didn't understand. He wasn't talking about inserting the alleles into cells after the fact (something which isn't attainable with current technology, although some retroviruses show promise), but rather synthesizing the compounds which those cells with the aforementioned alleles would be producing to mimic the effect without the genetic machinery. That would in fact have to be a regular and recurring treatment, though I'm not sure that it would be all that different from existing treatments relating to seratonin production and management.
The Brits have leagues of such thinking action heroes, but that's because they really like detective shows so much more. There used to be similar shows in the US like Hawaii Five-O and Kojak, but now it's all about "teams" like Law & Order and CSI, where there really isn't one badass hero detective that figures everything out and then personally breaks down doors.
Speaking as a Trekkie with a few hundred Star Trek books and who considered the characters from the original series to be personal role models, let me be the first to say he was right, and any person who cannot find the humor in his perspective is not socialized nor actualized enough to be wholly functional.
And, really? Picking on him for his weight, or taking a bad role to pay his bills? Let me break it to you, most old men get fat. You try exercising on top of decades old joints in pain. And as bad as Shit My Dad Says was, it wasn't the Shat's fault. The producers watered that whole concept way down to the point where anybody in that role would have failed. I don't blame him for getting paid, it would have been either him or somebody else taking money to participate in that shit series. Old men are also practical, and life isn't free.
Grow a thicker skin, learn to laugh at yourself, and don't pretend everything has to be perfect serious art in order to consider an artist a success. I still admire William Shatner because he lives his life honestly. He doesn't make excuses or hide behind false pleasantries and political niceties (which would have made him great for Shit My Dad Says if the writing wasn't nauseatingly stupid horrible). He's not a great actor, he's an evocative person, and he's himself in his roles, so you feel a human connection with his characterizations, limited though they are.
He's no messiah, but I maintain he's still a cool guy.
The Nazi Party and its allies demonstrably dismantled the aristocracy in almost every nation in Europe. That changes everything, regardless of your desperate wishes to believe otherwise for your own political reasons.
You also conflate aristocracy with industrialists and financiers, but even in this category you are ignorant. Take for example industrialist Fritz Thyssen, who contributed tons of money to the Nazis during their rise to power, but as soon as he stopped towing the party line his entire business was seized by the state and he and his family were arrested and spent the last years of the war in various concentration camps. He was hardly an isolated case. The party delighted in taking money, but that money bought no loyalty. Anybody who betrayed the party had their estates dismantled and would be sent to the camps.
The simple fact is that none of Hitler's circle were aristocratic, and he was known to have actively detested the aristocracy all his life. Aristocrats not only in Germany but in all the occupied territories were stripped of their assets which were then redistributed to those within, or sympathetic to, the party.
Except that's an oversimplification. You're conflating, I think, the regime/party with the individuals in office. It was clear by the assassination plot that Hitler's (and by extension his coterie's) mandate was over, but I'm not so sure about the rest.
Consider the Roman empire for a moment. Some of Rome's worst emperors, e.g. Caligula or Nero sans Seneca, while terrors to the city of Rome, had almost no effect on the broader Roman territory or its constituents. So when these men were assassinated it demonstrated the revocation of their personal mandate, not a rebellion against their office and/or the structure of the Roman state.
The socio-political reality in Nazi Germany was quite similar. Even though ruled by a madman, the middle and upper management was extremely capable and sound, so much so that it was able to mitigate difficulties in both directions. It kept its peons organized and in as good a morale as could be managed, and it kept the nutjobs at the top from imploding the state (at least for a while).
When the war was finally over, the massive political shift was driven by several factors, not least of which was that reality itself, that the war was lost and the entire nation subjugated. Additionally there was the artificial elements of the allied occupation which instituted de-nazification by law. The party was over by fiat, regardless of what the population wanted. Lastly and by no means least, millions of Germans were killed in the war, vastly and immediately altering the German electorate. Japan experienced the same massive political shift for the same reasons.
In the end my historical recollection of the detailed political realities in wartime Germany has become too vague to say with certainty whether it was merely the men in office or the whole government structure which had lost popular mandate, but the consideration is at least not as simple as you portrayed it.
You are desperately ignorant of history if you think that that Nazism was 'status quo' to any significant stretch of German history. Nazism was a revolutionary movement that overthrew the Weimar Republic and cleared away the last vestiges of power held by the German aristocracy. They instituted huge swaths of legislative change at every level and in every corner of life in Germany. And while many of these laws were indeed draconian measures intended to strengthen the power of the state, people allow crimes like the holocaust to blind them to the fact that this was still a government of men who wanted to believe they were benefiting their country in some way, and in fact many positive reforms were instituted as well.