Please stop calling The Sun a newspaper or it's contents journalism. It's stories (when not just crap about celebs) are written so that the brit sheeples can feel 'informed'. They believe anything written in there because its the best selling rag and it leaves them a few more brain cells free to update twittle or facebook pages.
To be fare, the summary called it "A British paper" and also referred to it as "the paper". I didn't notice any mention of "newspaper".
Now this line is a little more troubling to me, "On the 6th of April, the paper conducted a scientific experiment"
The standing joke among scientists in the field is that there are three modern-day evolutions that determine whether a creature will survive the next two centuries.
#1 - Lives in an environment humans can't survive in long enough to colonize (deep sea, extremely high mountain, antarctic) #2 - Looks "extremely cute" by human standards such that either humans will feed them, or humans will not get pissed off when they break into the garbage looking for food (raccoons, foxes, pigeons, etc) #3 - Small enough and numerous enough that they are just not fucking going to go away because we don't notice them until they are present in EXTREMELY high numbers. Roaches, ants, mice/rats, etc.
#4 Is it tasty and if so, can it be bred in captivity easily.
Why aren't there more laws to fine the hell out of companies like this when they are grossly negligent. This is their business, they should know better.
Everyone hates Q-Jets. I forget what the price was for the tools to work on them, but it wasn't cheap and it's been a long time. Believe it or not, they are one of the best carburetors out there. The problem is you need more than a screwdriver to work on them unlike like on a Holley. Obviously Holley's need to be easy to adjust though, since they need damn near constant tuning. In all honesty, if you were to tune identical cars one with a Quadrajet and another with a Holley and never touch them again, the Q-Jet will be fine for a very long time. The Holley on the other hand will need to be re-tuned the next time the weather changes, or you drive up a mountain. If you set up a Holley at home and take it to a track that's at a different elevation, you will definitely want to re-tune. Q-Jets are a very complex carburetor and it's very easy to make a mistake with them. Truthfully, I wouldn't even consider working on one now as it's been way too long since I have.
You can still fix a car on your own, only some of the tools have changed. Most of the mechanical bits are not hard, and inexpensive scanners exist for the ECU.
Agreed, it is still very possible to fix your own car. However the mechanical components are a huge PITA as manufacturers don't waste much space under the hood these days. Fortunately parts last longer and many high maintenance items have been replaced. Distributor points are history (thank god), timing is and valves are dealt with via computers, spark plugs last much longer, etc.
Most of the grousing comes from people who don't want to change how they work with cars (or PCs, or what-have-you). They expect to be able to, oh, I don't know, bore out a block and depair not being able to fit a four-barrel performance carb to a modern car.
I used to rather good at rebuilding and tuning carburetors. In all honesty working with a carburetor is more of an art form IMO. However anyone that claims a carb. is better than fuel injection is a fool. Or the even dumber claim that a carb. is easier to tune that FI. The needed tools are generally cheaper for the popular carbs., but the understanding to set one up properly is vastly more difficult.
It's only a dumb question in that you cannot answer it. You have no answer, so again you make accusatory remarks instead of offering anything to back up your ridiculous claim that the US is stealing "oil, pipes, women" from Afghanistan.
They want all of it.
I want all kinds of things too, so I work for them. But that is not the same as actually stealing them. See the difference?
Even if they only wanted one acre, they went in, uninvited to take it.
Which acre was claimed as permanent sovereign US soil?
You're too high on the kool aid to waste any more time. Have a good one...
If you wish to see one who is drunk on Kool-aid, I suggest you look in a mirror. Regardless, I wish you well.
I'm doing neither. But it seems you are guilty of the later. You claim that the US is stealing property and people. But when asked how much/many you simply reply with accusations.
The 'plunder' is no longer relevant in the way that you think it is.Plunder is now profit
Not in any dictionary I'm familiar with. Only in your screwed up little head. Well, you and those that seem to think that being successful is the same as being evil. I'm sure that any honest business that is successful is also pillaging and evil too. Oh wait, there's probably no such thing as an honest business in your world. What do you do to make the world a better place? How much of your time an money do you donate to charitable causes? Or is whining on Slashdot about as much as you can handle?
and war is profitable both in the long term and the short term.
So the US has spent $1.4 trillion on Iraq, what's the ROI on that been to date for the US treasury? From what I understand we had to borrow money for this war and don't seem to be paying that back too fast.
Not to mention profits were being threatened by the actions of Saddam (contracts with the East, move to the Euro, etc, etc) in addition to the broader threat to US hegemony.
So it was also to help "the East" and "the Euro" too? Wow what a bunch of selfish bastards those Americans are. Invading Iraq, deposing that swell guy, Sadam, not taking any money back or reparations for lives lost, and helping out other countries. Those fucking EVIL Americans.
You're the reason we keep getting suckered into this crap - someone can point and say 'look, we gave them democracy and didn't take all their oil... we're the good guys!' and you gobble it up because you don't have a clue about global politics or neoliberal capitalism.
You know, I wish that we would have never invaded Iraq, but unfortunately, we did. Unless you can build a time machine or change the past in some other way, why don't you shut the fuck up until YOU get a clue or have something useful to say.
Must be nice to be able to selectively hear stories so as to remain comfortable while remotely bombing folks in a selected country tens of thousands of miles away.
Yes here in America we all can control Predator drones from our couch via a video game console using the internet. It helps to pass the time between reality shows. I hear next year there will be a premium service that lest you fly strafing runs in an F-22.
(many, if not most, innocent civilians and their children, btw)
Yes, sometimes we make a mistake and accidentally hit an armed combatant, it's collateral damage really. It's much more cost effective to launch a $600K cruise missile at towns that have nothing but widows and orphans in them. [/sarcasm]
The US is in Afghanistan for the plunder.. be it oil, pipes, women, whatever. It's no different than one gang of chimpanzees attacking another. The flowery language and 'morality' is pure BS
Bull shit! I'm guessing you were also spouting that the US went to Iraq for the oil. In some ways, this is true. However historically when an army invades a country and is victorious they typically take what ever they want from the defeated country. I've yet to see the US take any "free" oil out of Iraq. The US spent (to date) almost $1.5 trillion and thousands of lives for that war and has "plundered" the ability to purchase oil from Iraq.
Exactly how much oil has been plundered from Afghanistan? Please tell me how many women have been abducted from Afghanistan by US soldiers? Out of those, how many were sanctioned by the US government or people?
The inflammatory language and feigned outrage is pure BS. Nor is it living up to your user name, "countertrolling".
Changes need to be made when an issue is found, in anything for that matter. Not doing so is about as useful as trying to solve the problem by sticking you fingers in your ears and yelling, "LA LA LA LA"
Now, imagine there is no need for greed. Imagine we have reached the point where technology can keep every man comfortable and fed without the oft-claimed organisational "necessity" that is financial incentive to innovate/invest. The "economy" is alleged to be necessary to manage scarcity - today especially including artificially created scarcities. Imagine there's no scarcity of essentials.
Now, imagine our management of resources is so bountiful that we no longer feel the need to hoard - instead, we can share.
Imagine can be read two ways: (1) Imagine we're communist; (2) Imagine capitalism's fulfilled the promised role of technological advancement to the point that we're all educated, rational, comfortable and want for nothing.
(3) Zepherin gets his drunk ass out to that missile silo and finished the warp drive already!
NASA needs to retire the name Spirit and give it a very special meaning. I'm thinking "When anything on mission goes better than expected, when any situation comes out better than anyone could have ever hoped for - "That's the Spirit""
I agree, the rover program was very impressive. However I find the Voyager probes to be the high bar for longevity. Of course I was much younger when they were launched and there seemed to be a lot more national pride in the space program.
Nuclear Power = Nuclear Weapons Nuclear Weapons = Nuclear War.
The only solution is to outlaw all nuclear technology. The knowledge must be destroyed. Anyone who has the knowledge must die for the sake of humanity. We can, must, and should put the nuclear genie back in the bottle and bury it forever.
Or...
You can pull your head out of your arse and join the rest of use in the real world.
STOP BUYING THEIR MUSIC (and don't pirate it.) Sooner or later they will die away like any meme that has become bad..
Or, they'll buy enough politicians to be able to simply sue all of us w/ internet connections. You know there's just no way we would stop buying their product without somehow stealing it. [rolls eyes]
"the masses are going to remember the hysterics of this tragedy and remain opposed to nuclear energy for some time"
As a scientist, I say "Good. That is precisely what the masses should do."
Yes, hysterics and over the top fear, that's exactly what any intelligent person would want from the masses.Thanks for educating me Mr. Scientist.
You would do well to recognize the personal biases that cause you to write "And the number of deaths caused by coal are virtually ignored" when composing a response to what is undisputably a nuclear disaster.
Wrong Dr. A. Coward. I have no bias against coal, oil, natural gas, etc. Frankly we're a long way from being able to use solar, wind, or nuclear as a replacement for fossil fuels. And electricity from magic fairy dust is even further out. However I also think that there is a total lack of understanding about how "safe" and benevolent these are.
And you are also wrong about it being "undisputably[sic] a nuclear disaster". It's a natural disaster, or two(depending on how you want to count it), that gave impetus to, and has been compounded by a nuclear disaster.
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Hey that's weird, I was just playing Crazy Taxi last night.
Oops. I guess that qualifies me to be a journalist at the Sun. ;-)
Please stop calling The Sun a newspaper or it's contents journalism.
It's stories (when not just crap about celebs) are written so that the brit sheeples can feel 'informed'.
They believe anything written in there because its the best selling rag and it leaves them a few more brain cells free to update twittle or facebook pages.
To be fare, the summary called it "A British paper" and also referred to it as "the paper". I didn't notice any mention of "newspaper".
Now this line is a little more troubling to me, "On the 6th of April, the paper conducted a scientific experiment"
The standing joke among scientists in the field is that there are three modern-day evolutions that determine whether a creature will survive the next two centuries.
#1 - Lives in an environment humans can't survive in long enough to colonize (deep sea, extremely high mountain, antarctic)
#2 - Looks "extremely cute" by human standards such that either humans will feed them, or humans will not get pissed off when they break into the garbage looking for food (raccoons, foxes, pigeons, etc)
#3 - Small enough and numerous enough that they are just not fucking going to go away because we don't notice them until they are present in EXTREMELY high numbers. Roaches, ants, mice/rats, etc.
#4 Is it tasty and if so, can it be bred in captivity easily.
Are you going to risk falling off a cliff more than once???
Are you gong to be able to fall off of a cliff more than once?
Why aren't there more laws to fine the hell out of companies like this when they are grossly negligent. This is their business, they should know better.
Everyone hates Q-Jets. I forget what the price was for the tools to work on them, but it wasn't cheap and it's been a long time. Believe it or not, they are one of the best carburetors out there. The problem is you need more than a screwdriver to work on them unlike like on a Holley. Obviously Holley's need to be easy to adjust though, since they need damn near constant tuning. In all honesty, if you were to tune identical cars one with a Quadrajet and another with a Holley and never touch them again, the Q-Jet will be fine for a very long time. The Holley on the other hand will need to be re-tuned the next time the weather changes, or you drive up a mountain. If you set up a Holley at home and take it to a track that's at a different elevation, you will definitely want to re-tune. Q-Jets are a very complex carburetor and it's very easy to make a mistake with them. Truthfully, I wouldn't even consider working on one now as it's been way too long since I have.
You can still fix a car on your own, only some of the tools have changed. Most of the mechanical bits are not hard, and inexpensive scanners exist for the ECU.
Agreed, it is still very possible to fix your own car. However the mechanical components are a huge PITA as manufacturers don't waste much space under the hood these days. Fortunately parts last longer and many high maintenance items have been replaced. Distributor points are history (thank god), timing is and valves are dealt with via computers, spark plugs last much longer, etc.
Most of the grousing comes from people who don't want to change how they work with cars (or PCs, or what-have-you). They expect to be able to, oh, I don't know, bore out a block and depair not being able to fit a four-barrel performance carb to a modern car.
I used to rather good at rebuilding and tuning carburetors. In all honesty working with a carburetor is more of an art form IMO. However anyone that claims a carb. is better than fuel injection is a fool. Or the even dumber claim that a carb. is easier to tune that FI. The needed tools are generally cheaper for the popular carbs., but the understanding to set one up properly is vastly more difficult.
Dumb question...
It's only a dumb question in that you cannot answer it. You have no answer, so again you make accusatory remarks instead of offering anything to back up your ridiculous claim that the US is stealing "oil, pipes, women" from Afghanistan.
They want all of it.
I want all kinds of things too, so I work for them. But that is not the same as actually stealing them. See the difference?
Even if they only wanted one acre, they went in, uninvited to take it.
Which acre was claimed as permanent sovereign US soil?
You're too high on the kool aid to waste any more time. Have a good one...
If you wish to see one who is drunk on Kool-aid, I suggest you look in a mirror. Regardless, I wish you well.
I'm doing neither. But it seems you are guilty of the later. You claim that the US is stealing property and people. But when asked how much/many you simply reply with accusations.
Wow, you seem to be lost in the 1800's or so.
Wow, you seem to have your head stuck up you ass.
The 'plunder' is no longer relevant in the way that you think it is.Plunder is now profit
Not in any dictionary I'm familiar with. Only in your screwed up little head. Well, you and those that seem to think that being successful is the same as being evil. I'm sure that any honest business that is successful is also pillaging and evil too. Oh wait, there's probably no such thing as an honest business in your world. What do you do to make the world a better place? How much of your time an money do you donate to charitable causes? Or is whining on Slashdot about as much as you can handle?
and war is profitable both in the long term and the short term.
So the US has spent $1.4 trillion on Iraq, what's the ROI on that been to date for the US treasury? From what I understand we had to borrow money for this war and don't seem to be paying that back too fast.
Not to mention profits were being threatened by the actions of Saddam (contracts with the East, move to the Euro, etc, etc) in addition to the broader threat to US hegemony.
So it was also to help "the East" and "the Euro" too? Wow what a bunch of selfish bastards those Americans are. Invading Iraq, deposing that swell guy, Sadam, not taking any money back or reparations for lives lost, and helping out other countries. Those fucking EVIL Americans.
You're the reason we keep getting suckered into this crap - someone can point and say 'look, we gave them democracy and didn't take all their oil... we're the good guys!' and you gobble it up because you don't have a clue about global politics or neoliberal capitalism.
You know, I wish that we would have never invaded Iraq, but unfortunately, we did. Unless you can build a time machine or change the past in some other way, why don't you shut the fuck up until YOU get a clue or have something useful to say.
Must be nice to be able to selectively hear stories so as to remain comfortable while remotely bombing folks in a selected country tens of thousands of miles away.
Yes here in America we all can control Predator drones from our couch via a video game console using the internet. It helps to pass the time between reality shows. I hear next year there will be a premium service that lest you fly strafing runs in an F-22.
(many, if not most, innocent civilians and their children, btw)
Yes, sometimes we make a mistake and accidentally hit an armed combatant, it's collateral damage really. It's much more cost effective to launch a $600K cruise missile at towns that have nothing but widows and orphans in them. [/sarcasm]
The US is in Afghanistan for the plunder.. be it oil, pipes, women, whatever. It's no different than one gang of chimpanzees attacking another. The flowery language and 'morality' is pure BS
Bull shit! I'm guessing you were also spouting that the US went to Iraq for the oil. In some ways, this is true. However historically when an army invades a country and is victorious they typically take what ever they want from the defeated country. I've yet to see the US take any "free" oil out of Iraq. The US spent (to date) almost $1.5 trillion and thousands of lives for that war and has "plundered" the ability to purchase oil from Iraq.
Exactly how much oil has been plundered from Afghanistan? Please tell me how many women have been abducted from Afghanistan by US soldiers? Out of those, how many were sanctioned by the US government or people?
The inflammatory language and feigned outrage is pure BS. Nor is it living up to your user name, "countertrolling".
Changes need to be made when an issue is found, in anything for that matter. Not doing so is about as useful as trying to solve the problem by sticking you fingers in your ears and yelling, "LA LA LA LA"
You're missing a "wordsuggest" around "complain a whole bunch in the comments while loading banner our banner ads."
It must be April 1. That was actually fixed, and quickly even.
Now, imagine there is no need for greed. Imagine we have reached the point where technology can keep every man comfortable and fed without the oft-claimed organisational "necessity" that is financial incentive to innovate/invest. The "economy" is alleged to be necessary to manage scarcity - today especially including artificially created scarcities. Imagine there's no scarcity of essentials.
Now, imagine our management of resources is so bountiful that we no longer feel the need to hoard - instead, we can share.
Imagine can be read two ways:
(1) Imagine we're communist;
(2) Imagine capitalism's fulfilled the promised role of technological advancement to the point that we're all educated, rational, comfortable and want for nothing.
(3) Zepherin gets his drunk ass out to that missile silo and finished the warp drive already!
In addition, Lucy is not in the sky and she does not posess diamonds.
Only if you choose the red pill.
So it seems, the mystery ain't a mystery after all...
That tends to happen when you solve them.
How about a patio table top nuclear bomb? ;-)
NASA needs to retire the name Spirit and give it a very special meaning. I'm thinking "When anything on mission goes better than expected, when any situation comes out better than anyone could have ever hoped for - "That's the Spirit""
I agree, the rover program was very impressive. However I find the Voyager probes to be the high bar for longevity. Of course I was much younger when they were launched and there seemed to be a lot more national pride in the space program.
Nuclear Power = Nuclear Weapons
Nuclear Weapons = Nuclear War.
The only solution is to outlaw all nuclear technology. The knowledge must be destroyed. Anyone who has the knowledge must die for the sake of humanity.
We can, must, and should put the nuclear genie back in the bottle and bury it forever.
Or...
You can pull your head out of your arse and join the rest of use in the real world.
When was the last time you saw an American judge with a sliver of conscience? Do you live here?
Actually, to be fair I have had *A* good judge at exactly one court appointment EVER.
I guess it was just wishful thinking on my part that the judicial branch of the government wasn't for sale.
STOP BUYING THEIR MUSIC (and don't pirate it.) Sooner or later they will die away like any meme that has become bad..
Or, they'll buy enough politicians to be able to simply sue all of us w/ internet connections. You know there's just no way we would stop buying their product without somehow stealing it. [rolls eyes]
How can any judge with even a sliver of a conscience not recuse themselves from this case?
"the masses are going to remember the hysterics of this tragedy and remain opposed to nuclear energy for some time"
As a scientist, I say "Good. That is precisely what the masses should do."
Yes, hysterics and over the top fear, that's exactly what any intelligent person would want from the masses.Thanks for educating me Mr. Scientist.
You would do well to recognize the personal biases that cause you to write "And the number of deaths caused by coal are virtually ignored" when composing a response to what is undisputably a nuclear disaster.
Wrong Dr. A. Coward. I have no bias against coal, oil, natural gas, etc. Frankly we're a long way from being able to use solar, wind, or nuclear as a replacement for fossil fuels. And electricity from magic fairy dust is even further out. However I also think that there is a total lack of understanding about how "safe" and benevolent these are.
And you are also wrong about it being "undisputably[sic] a nuclear disaster". It's a natural disaster, or two(depending on how you want to count it), that gave impetus to, and has been compounded by a nuclear disaster.
Amazingly the damage and deaths caused by Deep Water Horizons and the rigs burning in Japan don't get near the hype.
... WHAT?! Surely you're joking, mr. The Grim Reefer2.
Sorry, you're mixing me up with my brother. I only take marine animals into the great beyond. ;-)