1. There are 300 million Americans. Even if the rate of stupidity were low, there would be a lot of morons.
2. The press is made of morons. So when they find someone dummer than them, they trumpet it. This goes double for foreign press who look for stories to make their readers feel good.
3. We've put up with murderous Europeon stupidity -- National Socialism, Communist Socialism, Third Way Socialism -- for a couple of centuries. Now it's our turn to make you put up with disproven, obviously flawed, stupid crap!
Wow, this is so terribly wrong I just can't find words to describe it.. Maybe instead of spending big sums of money on hydraulic, public (WTF!) urinals it would be better to try and create a culture where people DON'T urinate in public places? Fucking barbarians..
Please don't insult barbarians by comparing them to these subhuman animals that foul their own nests!
What kind of worthless garbage can't even reach this basic level of self-control?
Really, these pissy monkeys should not even be treated as human.
Unless we kill the shitheads you call "innocent" there will be no more space program, anywhere.
If you think the whole Iraq enterprise was to kill "innocents" you are one fucked up idiot.
(Yes, of course, noncombatant civilians get killed in war. Especially when the bad guys hide among them. Amazing that normal people have to take time out to explain these basics to leftards, over and fucking over....)
I have used music and meditation to deal with the pain of MO/MHE compounded by the pharmacological Calvinism of the local witch doctors.
I have wide musical tastes, and almost anything works for my pain management. Sometimes the Biosphere just focuses my attention on the pain, so I blast it with Dragonforce.
Practicing guitar, while essential for my music appreciation, tends to create as much pain as it relieves. Well, at least they're different pains, and it's fun to earn 'em!
MO/MHE makes most tie-yourself-in-knots yoga useless to me (Kundalini yoga really hurts), so I've naturally gravitated to the rajayogas. The Tibetan threefold course of Hinayana shamata and vipassana meditation, Mahayana compassion, and Vajrayana fire provides more than pain management. The psychology and philosophy provide important insights which can be applied generally.
Is it the meditation, or just sitting still which brings relief? Don't know. Don't care.
Music brings relief almost regardless of what I'm doing while listening.
Now, I hesitate to bring up the next, because of the obvious dangers. But after Dr. John Calvin M.D. prescribes Tylenol or its generic equivalent, air, it's usually time for a bottle of medicinal alcohol. Good old-fashioned booze. It's a real pain reliever, and here in witch doctor land, it's usually the only one available. Yes we all know a dozen Ultrams would be safer and less addictive, but pain relief drugs are evil or something. Beware alcohol addiction. It has been said that the pain uses up some of the fun so medicinal usage can be responsible usage. Only as a stop-gap for that extra-special neuropathic pain, and quit as soon as you can.
Music and meditation are much, much safer. Their long-term usage side effects include happiness and insight. The effects are much subtler in the beginning, but thousands of accomplished meditators attest to its increasing efficacy, so keep at it.
According to this MSDS,
"Oral rat LD50: 461 mg/kg; oral mouse LD50: 600 mg/kg"
Five-six times the LD50? Or is the reporter an idiot?
At 1g/kg, a 75kg person would have to take 75 grams of this new stuff. Compared with, ahem, 225g of morphine. For the metric-impaired, that's nearly half a pound of morphine.
Maybe I'm just not reading it right,
1 gram of opiorphin per kilogram of body weight achieved the same painkilling effect as 3 grams of morphine
Since 3gMS/kg is deadly, and presumably the dead feel no pain, that means that only 1g/kg of opiorphin will kill the patient and thus his pain as well!
That's a pretty piss-poor poison compared to common snake venoms.
So either the reporter completely screwed up the numbers and used grams instead of milligrams ("math is hard" so they become science reporters), or these researchers have, or some other error took place.
2a. Dolphins are intelligently designed from proto-hippos. Everybody knows this. There is no reason to repeat it in the story.
2b. James Hirsen (Fox's go-to guy for Idiotic Design) is busy pushing his "Hollywood Nation" book.
2c. Rupert Murdoch, having observed Sen. Hilary Clinton in her natural habitat of New York City, has concluded that evolution is an incontestable fact, because Hilary is also descended from proto-hippos.
Even if he were dead, it would serve the interests of some politicians to keep him "alive" for his effect on public opinion.
This is dangerously close to the stupid Madeleine Albright's conspiracy theory. It would be a shame for Schneier to tarnish his reputation by spreading such idiocy.
I find it amazing that given the enormous potential of solar power, there is so little money being invested. When it comes to fusion, governments invest billions in international programmes, yet invest virtually nothing for solar research. Why is that? Is it due to lobbying from oil companies?
Why would oil companies care about solar power? Oil is a transportation fuel, not an electric power plant fuel (except in odd cases when the coal train is late and so on).
Now coal companies, they would compete with solar. They probably don't care about it. Too small.
I would guess that the reason for the research funding difference, is solar does not provide gigawattage. At least, not down here on a rotating planet with a thick atmosphere.
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The USPTO smokes all the best USPOT!
The reasons:
1. There are 300 million Americans. Even if the rate of stupidity were low, there would be a lot of morons.
2. The press is made of morons. So when they find someone dummer than them, they trumpet it. This goes double for foreign press who look for stories to make their readers feel good.
3. We've put up with murderous Europeon stupidity -- National Socialism, Communist Socialism, Third Way Socialism -- for a couple of centuries. Now it's our turn to make you put up with disproven, obviously flawed, stupid crap!
Print is dead.
Too bad Democrat voters are too stupid to use those great punch card systems we used to have.
After decades of practice.
Dummycrats.
Back during the Ice Age phase of the scare, in the 70s, using pollution to keep the planet warm was a popular idea.
What kind of worthless garbage can't even reach this basic level of self-control?
Really, these pissy monkeys should not even be treated as human.
You need to read
The Inflationary Universe by Alan Guth.
Your "out of the box" thinking has been formalized already!
VHS has pronounced "Variety" dead, saying "It takes one to know one."
Unless we kill the shitheads you call "innocent" there will be no more space program, anywhere.
If you think the whole Iraq enterprise was to kill "innocents" you are one fucked up idiot.
(Yes, of course, noncombatant civilians get killed in war. Especially when the bad guys hide among them. Amazing that normal people have to take time out to explain these basics to leftards, over and fucking over....)
....and people wonder why I've never written for Nintendo....
I have wide musical tastes, and almost anything works for my pain management. Sometimes the Biosphere just focuses my attention on the pain, so I blast it with Dragonforce.
Practicing guitar, while essential for my music appreciation, tends to create as much pain as it relieves. Well, at least they're different pains, and it's fun to earn 'em!
MO/MHE makes most tie-yourself-in-knots yoga useless to me (Kundalini yoga really hurts), so I've naturally gravitated to the rajayogas. The Tibetan threefold course of Hinayana shamata and vipassana meditation, Mahayana compassion, and Vajrayana fire provides more than pain management. The psychology and philosophy provide important insights which can be applied generally.
Is it the meditation, or just sitting still which brings relief? Don't know. Don't care.
Music brings relief almost regardless of what I'm doing while listening.
Now, I hesitate to bring up the next, because of the obvious dangers. But after Dr. John Calvin M.D. prescribes Tylenol or its generic equivalent, air, it's usually time for a bottle of medicinal alcohol. Good old-fashioned booze. It's a real pain reliever, and here in witch doctor land, it's usually the only one available. Yes we all know a dozen Ultrams would be safer and less addictive, but pain relief drugs are evil or something. Beware alcohol addiction. It has been said that the pain uses up some of the fun so medicinal usage can be responsible usage. Only as a stop-gap for that extra-special neuropathic pain, and quit as soon as you can.
Music and meditation are much, much safer. Their long-term usage side effects include happiness and insight. The effects are much subtler in the beginning, but thousands of accomplished meditators attest to its increasing efficacy, so keep at it.
According to this MSDS, "Oral rat LD50: 461 mg/kg; oral mouse LD50: 600 mg/kg"
Five-six times the LD50? Or is the reporter an idiot?
At 1g/kg, a 75kg person would have to take 75 grams of this new stuff. Compared with, ahem, 225g of morphine. For the metric-impaired, that's nearly half a pound of morphine.
Maybe I'm just not reading it right,
Since 3gMS/kg is deadly, and presumably the dead feel no pain, that means that only 1g/kg of opiorphin will kill the patient and thus his pain as well!
That's a pretty piss-poor poison compared to common snake venoms.
So either the reporter completely screwed up the numbers and used grams instead of milligrams ("math is hard" so they become science reporters), or these researchers have, or some other error took place.
It sounds like you were a good journalist.
Which there are few of these days.
And if I left an "l" out of Senator Clinton's name, it's because I care.
1. It's an AP story. Fox is just carrying it.
2a. Dolphins are intelligently designed from proto-hippos. Everybody knows this. There is no reason to repeat it in the story.
2b. James Hirsen (Fox's go-to guy for Idiotic Design) is busy pushing his "Hollywood Nation" book.
2c. Rupert Murdoch, having observed Sen. Hilary Clinton in her natural habitat of New York City, has concluded that evolution is an incontestable fact, because Hilary is also descended from proto-hippos.
Exactly right.
Anything shaped like the current shuttles is wrong for a Mars trip.
You will be carrying useless wings there and back.
We're going retro because that's what works.
The United States has an "Attack Iran, Free" card from the late 70s.
Time to use it.
Even if he were dead, it would serve the interests of some politicians to keep him "alive" for his effect on public opinion.
This is dangerously close to the stupid Madeleine Albright's conspiracy theory. It would be a shame for Schneier to tarnish his reputation by spreading such idiocy.
And if Apple charged the same as Microsoft for similar OS product, then you're not going to save any money.
I think you have that backwards.
Just like Next executed a "reverse takeover" of Apple, Apple is in the process of taking over Intel.
We will know when the process is complete when Intel goes big-endian.
"Environmental Engineer" is like "Sanitation Engineer" wild title inflation.
Why would oil companies care about solar power? Oil is a transportation fuel, not an electric power plant fuel (except in odd cases when the coal train is late and so on).
Now coal companies, they would compete with solar. They probably don't care about it. Too small.
I would guess that the reason for the research funding difference, is solar does not provide gigawattage. At least, not down here on a rotating planet with a thick atmosphere.
The parent blows up Leaky Leahy's conspiracy theory.
Martial Law would have been a step up from anything New Orleans has had for a couple of centuries.
But...but...but....Democrats are good!
Remember, Algore is for censorship, and Slick Willy wanted to destroy the Bill of Rights.
Democrats are just shit.