Massive machines running LINUX? That is COMMUNISM!
By the way, I think this story is under the wrong section. YRO means "Your Rights Online" and "snail mail" is not online. Can any of the admins move it to a more appropriate place, like, 'idle'.
"it is utterly naïve to think that nuclear power would ever be the solution for underdevelopment"
Really? Cheap power doesn't lead to economic development? Are you developmentally disabled, or just a liberal?
OK. I didn't express myself right. There would be economic development, but it would not be enough to make most countries first world. There are more things to becoming first world besides energy, like education.
"It is also naïve to think that the nuclear empowered nations do not take part nor have an interest on preventing that more countries develop nuclear technology."
Uh, duh. That's because those nations are led by warmongers who see non-nuclear armed nations as possessions rather than as free peoples. And they aren't far off the mark.
"I am not even thinking Iran, but Brazil and Argentina."
Yes, because US doctrine doesn't allow for South American countries that we can't topple at any time we want. You know, because the US is led by warmongers.
If you substitute "politicians" for "warmongers," that will quite reflect what have happened in the last century, and the situation doesn't seem to have changed. See, it's not a question of war, it's a question of power, and powerful people don't like sharing.
My point is that it is utterly naïve to think that nuclear power would ever be the solution for underdevelopment, as if the lack of energetic resources were the only deterrent to any country to develop. It is also naïve to think that the nuclear empowered nations do not take part nor have an interest on preventing that more countries develop nuclear technology. Any country that starts investing in uranium enrichment will face the threat of sanctions, which are not called for, or enforced, by the nuclear disarmament campaigners but by the same countries that have A-bombs. By the way, I know the difference between A-bombs and nuclear power plants---Soviet engineers where able to build a power plant but, nonetheless, the Kremlin had to buy the secret to the A-bomb. However, there is a lot of mistrust towards countries that want to develop this kind of energy, and I am not even thinking Iran, but Brazil and Argentina.
UK - Don't you remember being alone fighting most of a continent (under German rule), a little more than a 100 since you were alone fighting most of the same continent (under French rule)?
If we didn't have all this nuclear non-proliferation nonsense, not only would the world be a peaceful place, but we'd have cheap, abundant nuclear power everywhere. There wouldn't be any "developing" countries--they would all be first world.
I'm answering you by quoting you, hoping that you pay attention to what you said.
According to Suzanne Massie, "trust, but verify" is the translation of a Russian proverb, "Doveryai no Proveryai," that she taught Reagan, and he repeated this saying more than once. Other source is: www.reagan.utexas.edu/....
Do you think the Quran teaches to hate Christians and Jews?
9:29 -- "Fight those who do not believe in Allah or in the Last Day and who do not consider unlawful what Allah and His Messenger have made unlawful and who do not adopt the religion of truth from those who were given the Scripture—fight until they give the jizyah willingly while they are humbled."
There is more than enough material in the Quran, as there is in the Bible, that can, if interpreted literally, to 'justify' hatred and violence against pretty much any particular group; what distinguishes Islam from Christianity in this regard is that Christianity has already gone through the process of the faith being divorced from direct secular authority to become the means to better yourself, while Islam -- although it draws the distinction between the inner 'greater jihad' and the outer 'lesser jihad', actively enforces within itself an adherence to the strict letter of the Quran and sunna that allows the militant groups to justify their violence against non-Muslims.
Allah and Jehovah (or Jahveh) are the same god. Also, it seems like Last Day and the Doomsday are the same concept. And about the Scripture, I have read something about the "people of the Book" in the Quran, or the like, as a way to refer to Christians and Jews, whose religions are based on a book. I know that what I say is not enough to prove you wrong, but I think it is important to say anyway:-)
You are mistake Islam, the religion, with Islamism, the ideology of imposing a certain interpretation of Islam, and features of some ethnical identity strongly associated with Islam, over people. Islam is no poison any degree more than other religions, because it is nothing more than that: a religion.
Moreover, there is a huge mistake when as it seems to be your case, one considers the main cause of terrorism perpetrated by Moslem or Islamists to be Islam itself. It is not so simple. Moslems in western countries are pushed to identify themselves with Islamists because they are discriminated as if they were so. As for the cause of Islamism, it is western occupation. Europeans, especially French and English in the past, occupied land where Moslem lived, which caused a lot of resentment. Later, the English and UN imposed a the creation of a Jewish state in what was known as Palestine with no regard to the people who lived there. And now, Americans have set foot on two Islam countries. Do you think the Iraqis should stay passive while their country is sacked by a hostile, foreign forces?
Do you think the Quran teaches to hate Christians and Jews? Jew-hating in Middle East was in the same levels, or lower, as in Christian countries until the State of Israel was created, until western countries supported the Shah's corrupt regime in Persia.
I, and many others, have been saying this was a scam from the start. It's not "dangerously flawed", because there will be no voyage. They're just preying on dreamers.
It's easy to join the "told you so" bandwagon if you are an AC.
I reported a posted video showing torture to an animal, facebook replied it met their acceptable use policy.
But... was the pictured animal naked, or the torture in a sexually arousing context? Seems like those are the only things Facebook staffers care about.
That story sounds quite better than Minority Report, as the would-be criminals won't even get to commit crimes or be arrested, so even them benefit from the aerial surveillance.
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Massive machines running LINUX? That is COMMUNISM!
By the way, I think this story is under the wrong section. YRO means "Your Rights Online" and "snail mail" is not online. Can any of the admins move it to a more appropriate place, like, 'idle'.
Does that implies that AMD CPUs are also 'vulnerable'?
And rape rates in some other 1st-world countries are HUGELY higher--but nobody here cares apparently: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wi...
The numbers may say so, but they comprise only official data. In more advanced countries, the case must be that less rapes go unreported, so the figures may be closer to reality, while not so in the US. Consider the Japan rates, which are among the lowest, while having a strong culture of sexual harassment, (it's the same culture that created things like RapeLay): http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.1525/as.2007.47.5.811?uid=3737664&uid=2&uid=4&sid=21106029734881; http://scholarship.law.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1373&context=jil;http://ijo.sagepub.com/content/45/3/278.short.
If the machines are air-gapped, how are their software updated?
I second what you've said!
how many be turned back like the Samsung's Gears were.
Russia, China, as well as any intelligence agency in the world, are reliable liars when it comes to denying what others have caught them doing.
FTFY.
"it is utterly naïve to think that nuclear power would ever be the solution for underdevelopment"
Really? Cheap power doesn't lead to economic development? Are you developmentally disabled, or just a liberal?
OK. I didn't express myself right. There would be economic development, but it would not be enough to make most countries first world. There are more things to becoming first world besides energy, like education.
"It is also naïve to think that the nuclear empowered nations do not take part nor have an interest on preventing that more countries develop nuclear technology."
Uh, duh. That's because those nations are led by warmongers who see non-nuclear armed nations as possessions rather than as free peoples. And they aren't far off the mark.
"I am not even thinking Iran, but Brazil and Argentina."
Yes, because US doctrine doesn't allow for South American countries that we can't topple at any time we want. You know, because the US is led by warmongers.
If you substitute "politicians" for "warmongers," that will quite reflect what have happened in the last century, and the situation doesn't seem to have changed. See, it's not a question of war, it's a question of power, and powerful people don't like sharing.
My point is that it is utterly naïve to think that nuclear power would ever be the solution for underdevelopment, as if the lack of energetic resources were the only deterrent to any country to develop. It is also naïve to think that the nuclear empowered nations do not take part nor have an interest on preventing that more countries develop nuclear technology. Any country that starts investing in uranium enrichment will face the threat of sanctions, which are not called for, or enforced, by the nuclear disarmament campaigners but by the same countries that have A-bombs. By the way, I know the difference between A-bombs and nuclear power plants---Soviet engineers where able to build a power plant but, nonetheless, the Kremlin had to buy the secret to the A-bomb. However, there is a lot of mistrust towards countries that want to develop this kind of energy, and I am not even thinking Iran, but Brazil and Argentina.
UK - Don't you remember being alone fighting most of a continent (under German rule), a little more than a 100 since you were alone fighting most of the same continent (under French rule)?
If we didn't have all this nuclear non-proliferation nonsense, not only would the world be a peaceful place, but we'd have cheap, abundant nuclear power everywhere. There wouldn't be any "developing" countries--they would all be first world.
I'm answering you by quoting you, hoping that you pay attention to what you said.
According to Suzanne Massie, "trust, but verify" is the translation of a Russian proverb, "Doveryai no Proveryai," that she taught Reagan, and he repeated this saying more than once. Other source is: www.reagan.utexas.edu/....
Full disclosure: I searched through Wikipedia.
But... has Netcraft confirmed it?
Do you think the Quran teaches to hate Christians and Jews?
9:29 -- "Fight those who do not believe in Allah or in the Last Day and who do not consider unlawful what Allah and His Messenger have made unlawful and who do not adopt the religion of truth from those who were given the Scripture—fight until they give the jizyah willingly while they are humbled."
There is more than enough material in the Quran, as there is in the Bible, that can, if interpreted literally, to 'justify' hatred and violence against pretty much any particular group; what distinguishes Islam from Christianity in this regard is that Christianity has already gone through the process of the faith being divorced from direct secular authority to become the means to better yourself, while Islam -- although it draws the distinction between the inner 'greater jihad' and the outer 'lesser jihad', actively enforces within itself an adherence to the strict letter of the Quran and sunna that allows the militant groups to justify their violence against non-Muslims.
Allah and Jehovah (or Jahveh) are the same god. Also, it seems like Last Day and the Doomsday are the same concept. And about the Scripture, I have read something about the "people of the Book" in the Quran, or the like, as a way to refer to Christians and Jews, whose religions are based on a book. I know that what I say is not enough to prove you wrong, but I think it is important to say anyway :-)
There is a pirate religion http://kopimistsamfundet.se/en...
I've thought of that, but the Pastafarians preach that you should dress like a pirate, which is more fun.
...of religion and state, Iceland would be the first Flying Spaghetti Monsterist nation of history.
*Sigh* ... I knew that.
You are mistake Islam, the religion, with Islamism, the ideology of imposing a certain interpretation of Islam, and features of some ethnical identity strongly associated with Islam, over people. Islam is no poison any degree more than other religions, because it is nothing more than that: a religion.
Moreover, there is a huge mistake when as it seems to be your case, one considers the main cause of terrorism perpetrated by Moslem or Islamists to be Islam itself. It is not so simple. Moslems in western countries are pushed to identify themselves with Islamists because they are discriminated as if they were so. As for the cause of Islamism, it is western occupation. Europeans, especially French and English in the past, occupied land where Moslem lived, which caused a lot of resentment. Later, the English and UN imposed a the creation of a Jewish state in what was known as Palestine with no regard to the people who lived there. And now, Americans have set foot on two Islam countries. Do you think the Iraqis should stay passive while their country is sacked by a hostile, foreign forces?
Do you think the Quran teaches to hate Christians and Jews? Jew-hating in Middle East was in the same levels, or lower, as in Christian countries until the State of Israel was created, until western countries supported the Shah's corrupt regime in Persia.
I, and many others, have been saying this was a scam from the start. It's not "dangerously flawed", because there will be no voyage. They're just preying on dreamers.
It's easy to join the "told you so" bandwagon if you are an AC.
Expanding my question, what did inspired you to write your webcomic?
I reported a posted video showing torture to an animal, facebook replied it met their acceptable use policy.
But... was the pictured animal naked, or the torture in a sexually arousing context? Seems like those are the only things Facebook staffers care about.
Many of my friends regularly post pictures of some nation state having blown the shit out of some children or some wedding party,(...)
What you mean by "some nation state" is often the US, isn't it?
That story sounds quite better than Minority Report, as the would-be criminals won't even get to commit crimes or be arrested, so even them benefit from the aerial surveillance.
O my gods! Leviathan has shrunk!
Some people go bungee-jumping, so that they can throw themselves off heights without leaving a corpse for their family to take care of.