Oh, right, in America. Oh you silly Americans. I guess the age of the American Empire is truly over. You're hell bent on driving your population into the next Christian Dark Age, while China is preparing to whip your ass. Good luck with that. Yeah, but we have Jack-Fucking-Merritt on our side, bitches!
Even your summary is ripe with sensationalism. There's nothing particularly unique or surprising about Ben Stein's movie. It's what we've all known for some time, and have come to expect from the Church of Darwin and their acolytes. But, I suppose even vampires seeing their _true self_ in the mirror for the first time must be shocking.
Yawn... This comment is full of scientific inaccuracies; vampires don't even HAVE reflections!
Now I know that the parent post is definitely a terrible, off topic troll of a post.. but it is also incredibly hilarious when you consider the fact that he probably typed this all out ahead of time, and then constantly reloaded slashdot in an attempt to get a horribly graphic account of shit eating to be the "frist psot" of a story.
Now, could somebody PLEASE mod parent funny? For me?
I did, however, have a different understanding of what it meant than the explaination you provided above. When you said
Which indeed are what most of us would say about soviet technology. I thought that you were making a snarky comment about how the Russians were "tricking" us into believing that their technology worked, and that most groundbreaking Russian tech was a fraud.
'... communists who suggest that capitalism is exploiting the workers are "pressured into silence"...'
Uh, bullshit.
Go to any university. Provide something more substantial than a bland assertion. I live in Springfield Missouri, which is right in the middle of the bible belt. About a week and a half ago, our local sheriff (Jack Merritt) made the following statement in reference to somebody on American Idol signing the national anthem:
"The way I hear Jason sing the national anthem makes you want to go out and kill a communist."
And he said this to a local newspaper reporter. Now, terrible grammar aside, this is a horrible comment for a law enforcer to make, and it could certainly strike fear into local communists.
You know..a lot of people have this image of Iranians being Arab and without any technical, mechanical, or engineering aptitude, but that couldn't be further from the truth. The fact is, the Iranian people are actually Persian (Aryans) and probably have more of the aptitudes listed above in their genetic makeup than most people. I think they could reverse engineer pretty much anything. Am I missing something, or did this racist POS post just get modded up as being "informative"? Please, somebody, mod parent down.
As soon as I read
I'm told this was also done for Vietnam War I was like "What? No... they didn't deploy Nixon..."
But then I read the rest of the sentence, and it turned out to say
I'm told this was also done for Vietnam War helicopter maintenence -- after major servicing, the chief mechanic rode on the checkout flight. It was kinda a let down..
From TFA:
As Fahey pointed out, "once you've done something that's really bad, it can take 10 or 20 years to try it again". That said, it seems he expects to deploy a new and more trustworthy armed ground automaton within a year - perhaps the MAARS**, an upgraded SWORDS packing a heavier 7.62mm machine-gun and featuring improved safety features.
MAARS is also said by its makers to have "Transformer-like" abilities akin to those of Optimus Prime. Yeah, that's a good idea: The first ones didn't work out too well, so now we're going to give them bigger guns and the ability to transform into giant killing machines, and see how it all works out. I mean, what could POSSIBLY go wrong?
From TFA:
There would be three types of messages, according to the rules.
The first would be a national alert from the president, probably involving a terrorist attack or natural disaster.
The second would involve âoeimminent threatsâ that could include natural disasters like hurricanes, tornadoes or university shootings.
The third would be reserved for child abductions, so-called Amber alerts. Did anyone else find it a bit odd that "university shootings" are classified under "natural disasters"?
I find this to be a little bit shocking, as I would consider such a thing to be closer in nature to a terrorist attack than a tornado. In fact, in almost all cases (like Virginia Tech) I think that "terrorist attack" would be a perfectly fine classification.
I think the problem here is that the term "terrorists" has become synonymous with "crazy Arabs".
There would be three types of messages, according to the rules.
The first would be a national alert from the president, probably involving a terrorist attack or natural disaster.
The second would involve âoeimminent threatsâ that could include natural disasters like hurricanes, tornadoes or university shootings.
The third would be reserved for child abductions, so-called Amber alerts. Theoretically, at least, all of these involve things that have to actually happen before an alert is sent. Child abduction? Yes.
Nuclear attacks and natural disasters? Not so much.
We can detect nuclear attacks some time before they hit us, and things like tornado warnings already exists. I live in a place that gets a lot of tornadoes, and it isn't uncommon for the television to suddenly start beeping and telling us that tornadoes are likely to form in our area.
Its meanings should be interpreted in the light of the current day; what was offensive 50 years ago is no longer considered offensive, and so no longer a First Amendment violation. So if something is considered offensive today, it should be a first amendment violation?
Me thinks you should give the ol' constitution another looksee...
"If one of the gods decided to actually show up and do some, you know, godly stuff". I refer you to Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. Granted, you may not wish to believe the event or the accounts, but it is a central claim of Christianity that God has involved himself directly and personally in the world. Emphasis mine, bitch.
I'm not arguing that we need all the nuclear weapons; they are after all, probably going to kill us all. Which is bad. REALLY bad.
That being said, theres actually a logical reason for having a seemingly ridiculous amount of weapons.
You see, most of the launch bases are located very close to each other, in what are called "dense packs". In order to take out opposing missile bases, one must fire an ass-load of missiles at a dense pack. Problem is, each incoming missile creates enough debris to actually destroy any other incoming missiles (outgoing missiles travel slower than incoming missiles, due to acceleration, and are able to leave the dense pack safely). The result is a nuclear fire-fight which will last days (yes, days) in some key locations, thus expending a large amount of the weapons which could nuke the entire world over 56 times.
At least, thats how it'll work in theory. Luckily, nobody has tested it out yet.
the government used to hire what they called "two minutemen" to go out into the street dressed like a normal citizen and then give a (roughly) two-minute long speech about how terrible communism was and how great America was. The only thing that has changed is they're now using the internet.
Bad? Yes.
Unexpected? No.
I don't see how illegal voting is a bigger problem than rigging the election. If the election is rigged, then the illegal votes won't count anyway.
It's like the people who say Nader spoiled Florida; the election was going to be stolen either way. Nader's presence just meant that they had to steal less votes in order to push Bush over the threshold.
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Believe it or not, it has recently been discovered that dogs can count. I wouldn't be surprised if apes (other than us) or parrots could do this too.
So, regardless of the whole platonic debate, basic mathematics definitely exist independently of humans.
Yawn... This comment is full of scientific inaccuracies; vampires don't even HAVE reflections!
Now I know that the parent post is definitely a terrible, off topic troll of a post.. but it is also incredibly hilarious when you consider the fact that he probably typed this all out ahead of time, and then constantly reloaded slashdot in an attempt to get a horribly graphic account of shit eating to be the "frist psot" of a story.
Now, could somebody PLEASE mod parent funny? For me?
I mean, seriously... cancer? At age 90? How predictable...
I just wish he could have had a "Final Destination" style death...
I did, however, have a different understanding of what it meant than the explaination you provided above. When you said Which indeed are what most of us would say about soviet technology. I thought that you were making a snarky comment about how the Russians were "tricking" us into believing that their technology worked, and that most groundbreaking Russian tech was a fraud.
Hope that helps explain why you were modded down.
Uh, bullshit.
Go to any university. Provide something more substantial than a bland assertion. I live in Springfield Missouri, which is right in the middle of the bible belt. About a week and a half ago, our local sheriff (Jack Merritt) made the following statement in reference to somebody on American Idol signing the national anthem:
"The way I hear Jason sing the national anthem makes you want to go out and kill a communist."
And he said this to a local newspaper reporter. Now, terrible grammar aside, this is a horrible comment for a law enforcer to make, and it could certainly strike fear into local communists.
But then I read the rest of the sentence, and it turned out to say I'm told this was also done for Vietnam War helicopter maintenence -- after major servicing, the chief mechanic rode on the checkout flight. It was kinda a let down..
MAARS is also said by its makers to have "Transformer-like" abilities akin to those of Optimus Prime. Yeah, that's a good idea: The first ones didn't work out too well, so now we're going to give them bigger guns and the ability to transform into giant killing machines, and see how it all works out. I mean, what could POSSIBLY go wrong?
The first would be a national alert from the president, probably involving a terrorist attack or natural disaster.
The second would involve âoeimminent threatsâ that could include natural disasters like hurricanes, tornadoes or university shootings.
The third would be reserved for child abductions, so-called Amber alerts. Did anyone else find it a bit odd that "university shootings" are classified under "natural disasters"?
I find this to be a little bit shocking, as I would consider such a thing to be closer in nature to a terrorist attack than a tornado. In fact, in almost all cases (like Virginia Tech) I think that "terrorist attack" would be a perfectly fine classification.
I think the problem here is that the term "terrorists" has become synonymous with "crazy Arabs".
The first would be a national alert from the president, probably involving a terrorist attack or natural disaster.
The second would involve âoeimminent threatsâ that could include natural disasters like hurricanes, tornadoes or university shootings.
The third would be reserved for child abductions, so-called Amber alerts. Theoretically, at least, all of these involve things that have to actually happen before an alert is sent. Child abduction? Yes.
Nuclear attacks and natural disasters? Not so much.
We can detect nuclear attacks some time before they hit us, and things like tornado warnings already exists. I live in a place that gets a lot of tornadoes, and it isn't uncommon for the television to suddenly start beeping and telling us that tornadoes are likely to form in our area.
Me thinks you should give the ol' constitution another looksee...
Because people don't realize it's happening. Nobody cares enough to look it up, and no news sources care enough to tell them.
I'm not arguing that we need all the nuclear weapons; they are after all, probably going to kill us all. Which is bad. REALLY bad.
That being said, theres actually a logical reason for having a seemingly ridiculous amount of weapons.
You see, most of the launch bases are located very close to each other, in what are called "dense packs". In order to take out opposing missile bases, one must fire an ass-load of missiles at a dense pack. Problem is, each incoming missile creates enough debris to actually destroy any other incoming missiles (outgoing missiles travel slower than incoming missiles, due to acceleration, and are able to leave the dense pack safely). The result is a nuclear fire-fight which will last days (yes, days) in some key locations, thus expending a large amount of the weapons which could nuke the entire world over 56 times.
At least, thats how it'll work in theory. Luckily, nobody has tested it out yet.
And wouldn't a tsunami put out the sun?
the government used to hire what they called "two minutemen" to go out into the street dressed like a normal citizen and then give a (roughly) two-minute long speech about how terrible communism was and how great America was. The only thing that has changed is they're now using the internet.
Bad? Yes. Unexpected? No.
I don't see how illegal voting is a bigger problem than rigging the election. If the election is rigged, then the illegal votes won't count anyway.
It's like the people who say Nader spoiled Florida; the election was going to be stolen either way. Nader's presence just meant that they had to steal less votes in order to push Bush over the threshold.
Duh!