For the life of me, I cannot fathom why we treat public infrastructure (like roads and mass transit) so much differently than we do healthcare and education.
Road funding is the single largest piece of pork dished out to big motor manufacturers and big oil. Without the roads, people wouldn't buy cars, and wouldn't live 60 miles from where they work. They would have to use, oh I don't know, trains to get around. Heaven forbid!
X% of people SAID this or that. This is another poll that just measures what people think they should say. In Boston, people feel that they should care more about hard work. In the South, people put more emphasis on family and friends.
This is just the kind of statement that we need these days to stop the deterioration of this country into the quagmire of idiocracy. I used strong words in a post against the creationists here yesterday and got modded down into oblivion. Enough with the feelings of the masses, and enough with being polite. We need some strong and nasty clue bats to wake up this country to start using their minds again instead of their "feel goods."
Lots of people are doing interesting research at home with a modest budget. If you can give up the big questions (Higgs Boson, Penicillin replacement, Egyptian archaeology), there's a wide swath of interesting areas just waiting to be explored.
Is it time to start jump start style funding scientific research? It's a sad sick statement amount our governmental priorities, but it may be the only way to get knowledge into the world without a company or government claiming ownership.
There are several pieces above by posters who try to logically and calmly explain why they are against the teaching of creationism, or the weakening of the teaching of evolution as the accepted theory. I have only one thing to say. Stop it. Creationists are simply delusional idiots, and unless they are treated as such, they will continue to think that there is room for their ideas in the real world. THERE IS NOT. You should all be ashamed and embarrassed about your views, and what you are doing to your children. It is pig headed, idiotic, and manipulative. No one will judge you when you recover from this stupidity, except your current peers who are in the same deranged boat. Stop polluting the planet and embarrassing the US with your crap.
Most papers are local. News about a small city or region. New York Times is not only national, it's international, if you ignore all the NY pretentiousness. The NYT can make it on the internet with this model, but most papers cannot. For any local paper, there just aren't enough subscribers to make it a viable business model. Even papers from larger cities like Chicago, LA, Houston, etc. are having issues.
Any system is great as long as you are one of the elites, living off the backs of the slaves. In theory that shouldn't be possible in a democracy, which is why the elites in the US keep us as far from a democracy as possible.
The chances of nukes and bang bangs over this are very, very low.
Yeah, keep telling yourself that, if it makes you feel happy. And there was no way WW 1 was going to happen... until it did. And there was no way WW 2 was going to happen... until it did. Nobody wanted those wars, not the Kaiser, not Hitler, not Stalin, not the British and not the French. The Japanese didn't want it in 1941. They thought there was no way out. They were getting pushed hard.
Fact is, nobody remembers all the times sabers have been rattled and nothing much happened, and yes, there have been plenty of those times. But those times the russian roulette trigger was pulled and the gun went off - those will never be forgotten by people who are engaged.
Revisionist bullshit. Kaiser and Hitler certainly DID want war. Hell, Hitler single handedly started the war in Europe, while Mussolini was still dicking around in Africa. Let's not forget Japan's invasion of Manchuria after their government was taken over by militant nut jobs. Japan definitely wanted a war with the US in 41. They just wanted it to be settled by 42. The US also wanted a war in Iraq in this millennia. Also, the British and French started all kinds of colonial wars before the great one. Wars generally start when the aggressor knows that they are more powerful than their opponent, and can crush them easily. See Hitler's invasion of Poland. However, things can spiral out of control pretty quickly. So does China want war with Japan? Probably, if they can isolate them from the other major powers, but that's not going to happen. The US is crazy enough to jump into any war right now with little to no provocation, and China knows this. However, if they think that they can pull off a quick win and then negotiate, they may make a move.
Its illegal not to stop on the road at those red orthogonal signs that have the word stop written on them. Idiots like you deserve to get creamed, but its unfair that someone will have to live with the fact that they ran over your stupid ass because you refuse to follow the rules of the road due to your arrogance and self entitlement bullshit.
You deserve to get ran over for making such an ignorant response to his.
You're pulling off the road not to 'avoid using an electronic navigation aid'... you're pulling off the road so you don't get turned into road smear because your dumb ass was staring at the GPS rather than the world around you, you ran into traffic and a garbage truck turned you into a very thin smear of blood and guts on the road.
For anyone who thinks that bikes are the problem, and not the attitudes of drivers, this should pretty much end that arguments.
"One minute you're up half a million in soybeans and the next, boom, your kids don't go to college and they've repossessed your Bentley." - Louis Winthorpe III
Except that's not the case. If a billionaire loses 999 million, he still have a million dollars in the bank.
Can we drop the nonsense that TPP is a 'free trade agreement?' A free trade agreement would be very simple. Don't bomb us or torture our citizens, and you can trade freely with us. TPP undermines free trade by forcing countries into even further support of anti-capitalism legal monopolies as a condition for not restricting trade.
It is kind of free, free of government interference. It's really just the uber rich fucks agreeing amongst themselves how to split up the world.
The US is being gently pushed ( nudged ) into a beginning of irrelevance
I'd consider it more the US government trying to do whatever it can for the 0.1% of the country that pays for the majority of political campaigning, and screw the other 99.9% of us. And whether the US government becomes irrelevant or not, as long as the corporate overlords are happy, the politicians will be kept comfortable.
In the words of Number Two: "But you, like an idiot, want to take over the world. And you don't realize there is no world anymore! It's only corporations!"
Those 0.1% are not Americans as such. They are international. They have their money scattered all around the world. Dick Cheney is practically a citizen of Dubai. So don't expect them to keep this country in any kind of livable shape. Scrape every last dollar out of the economy, and go live like a king in the Middle East. I worked for currency traders when they devalued the Mexican Peso 20 years ago. Boy was that a feeding frenzy. History will repeat itself.
It makes sense. The powers that be don't trust the cops on the street any more than we citizens. They need to know which are subversives, e.g. refusing to beat on Wall Street protestors with enough vigor. So the NSA watches all police forces to make sure that their bully boys are doing their jobs, making the uber rich even uber richer.
I would disagree. The idea that aliens are nearby, using the same freq we are, are transmitting something we will picky, and that we are looking in the right place in the sky... The odds are so very long...
So it's good that that's not what SETI is looking for. They are not expecting to find alien I Love Lucy reruns. It's any EM pattern that is not otherwise explainable. Many such patterns have been discovered, but were later explained away by the astrophysicists as spinning neutron stars, etc. Natural phenomenon. Likely signs of life would be something like EM leakage from artificial generators, not necessarily some form of communication broadcast.
I understand the apprehension caused by firearms that can't currently be detected, but I don't quite understand what he's trying to accomplish in enacting a law that can't be enforced
It's not about making sense. It's about marketing himself as a successful politician when election time rolls around. That's why Senators and Congress Critters love putting their names on laws. Name recognition wins elections when the constituents couldn't care less about the real issues.
If crime rates are going down, then why is my local police getting military grade equipment and gear?
Because people like you seem to think there's a need. They need military gear because they need military gear. Tautology, yes, but no less the truth in this case. Crime rates have been going down across the board since the 70's: lower rates of violent crime, less non-violent crime, less white collar crime, everything. The only reason you may get the impression it's happening more frequently is because channels like CNN didn't exist in the 70's.
A local suburban police force got an armored ram-car a few years back. They had no need for it. What they had was a bunch of federal "beef up the national police forces" money and nothing to spend it on. So they bought a tank. Some military contractor made a ton of money selling those things.
People don't understand that most fatalities from skydiving involve stunts of some sort: hook turns, base jumping, wingsuits. The translation from the French article isn't all that great, but it looks like he was attempting a hook turn and didn't judge the distance well.
People who just jump out of a plane, open their chute, and drift to the ground rarely perish.
That's not enough for some people. They need that next greater rush. It's just like rock climbers that start by climbing in teams, then free climbing (no ropes), and then solo free climbing (no partners). Needless to say, at some point many of them just never come home after their last climb.
But I never have understood the sanity behind jumping out of a perfectly good plane.:(
If it weren't dangerous, they wouldn't do it, contrary what they may tell you. Ask their wives about the great sex after a dive, and you'll understand.
Divide the moon up into N Billion equal pieces, and give each person on the planet an equal share. Then Bigelow can buy his land on the free market. Oh wait, that's not what he wants. He wants the moon carved up and given to the wealthiest people to make them even wealthier, backed by the world military to make sure that the poor get nothing out of it. Ah, capitalism. How you solve all the world's problems.
I don't much care for the Tea Party folks myself, but I wouldn't call them domestic terrorists. When was the last time they blew up a building? Refusing to compromise with the broader populace and causing government gridlock are not illegal terrorist actions.
Convincing poor old people that they don't want health care is pretty evil, and will end up killing more than the 9/11 attack. So, yes, I think it's pretty apt to call them terrorists.
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How about you make what people want instead of trying to get them to buy what you want to make. Just saying.
For the life of me, I cannot fathom why we treat public infrastructure (like roads and mass transit) so much differently than we do healthcare and education.
Road funding is the single largest piece of pork dished out to big motor manufacturers and big oil. Without the roads, people wouldn't buy cars, and wouldn't live 60 miles from where they work. They would have to use, oh I don't know, trains to get around. Heaven forbid!
X% of people SAID this or that. This is another poll that just measures what people think they should say. In Boston, people feel that they should care more about hard work. In the South, people put more emphasis on family and friends.
This is just the kind of statement that we need these days to stop the deterioration of this country into the quagmire of idiocracy. I used strong words in a post against the creationists here yesterday and got modded down into oblivion. Enough with the feelings of the masses, and enough with being polite. We need some strong and nasty clue bats to wake up this country to start using their minds again instead of their "feel goods."
Lots of people are doing interesting research at home with a modest budget. If you can give up the big questions (Higgs Boson, Penicillin replacement, Egyptian archaeology), there's a wide swath of interesting areas just waiting to be explored.
Is it time to start jump start style funding scientific research? It's a sad sick statement amount our governmental priorities, but it may be the only way to get knowledge into the world without a company or government claiming ownership.
There are several pieces above by posters who try to logically and calmly explain why they are against the teaching of creationism, or the weakening of the teaching of evolution as the accepted theory. I have only one thing to say. Stop it. Creationists are simply delusional idiots, and unless they are treated as such, they will continue to think that there is room for their ideas in the real world. THERE IS NOT. You should all be ashamed and embarrassed about your views, and what you are doing to your children. It is pig headed, idiotic, and manipulative. No one will judge you when you recover from this stupidity, except your current peers who are in the same deranged boat. Stop polluting the planet and embarrassing the US with your crap.
Most papers are local. News about a small city or region. New York Times is not only national, it's international, if you ignore all the NY pretentiousness. The NYT can make it on the internet with this model, but most papers cannot. For any local paper, there just aren't enough subscribers to make it a viable business model. Even papers from larger cities like Chicago, LA, Houston, etc. are having issues.
More executives get rich running a company into the ground, and then flee with their ill gotten gains. News at 11.
Any system is great as long as you are one of the elites, living off the backs of the slaves. In theory that shouldn't be possible in a democracy, which is why the elites in the US keep us as far from a democracy as possible.
Yeah, keep telling yourself that, if it makes you feel happy. And there was no way WW 1 was going to happen ... until it did. And there was no way WW 2 was going to happen ... until it did. Nobody wanted those wars, not the Kaiser, not Hitler, not Stalin, not the British and not the French. The Japanese didn't want it in 1941. They thought there was no way out. They were getting pushed hard.
Fact is, nobody remembers all the times sabers have been rattled and nothing much happened, and yes, there have been plenty of those times. But those times the russian roulette trigger was pulled and the gun went off - those will never be forgotten by people who are engaged.
Revisionist bullshit. Kaiser and Hitler certainly DID want war. Hell, Hitler single handedly started the war in Europe, while Mussolini was still dicking around in Africa. Let's not forget Japan's invasion of Manchuria after their government was taken over by militant nut jobs. Japan definitely wanted a war with the US in 41. They just wanted it to be settled by 42. The US also wanted a war in Iraq in this millennia. Also, the British and French started all kinds of colonial wars before the great one. Wars generally start when the aggressor knows that they are more powerful than their opponent, and can crush them easily. See Hitler's invasion of Poland. However, things can spiral out of control pretty quickly. So does China want war with Japan? Probably, if they can isolate them from the other major powers, but that's not going to happen. The US is crazy enough to jump into any war right now with little to no provocation, and China knows this. However, if they think that they can pull off a quick win and then negotiate, they may make a move.
You're not a cyclist are you?
Its illegal not to stop on the road at those red orthogonal signs that have the word stop written on them. Idiots like you deserve to get creamed, but its unfair that someone will have to live with the fact that they ran over your stupid ass because you refuse to follow the rules of the road due to your arrogance and self entitlement bullshit.
You deserve to get ran over for making such an ignorant response to his.
You're pulling off the road not to 'avoid using an electronic navigation aid' ... you're pulling off the road so you don't get turned into road smear because your dumb ass was staring at the GPS rather than the world around you, you ran into traffic and a garbage truck turned you into a very thin smear of blood and guts on the road.
For anyone who thinks that bikes are the problem, and not the attitudes of drivers, this should pretty much end that arguments.
"One minute you're up half a million in soybeans and the next, boom, your kids don't go to college and they've repossessed your Bentley." - Louis Winthorpe III
Except that's not the case. If a billionaire loses 999 million, he still have a million dollars in the bank.
Can we drop the nonsense that TPP is a 'free trade agreement?' A free trade agreement would be very simple. Don't bomb us or torture our citizens, and you can trade freely with us. TPP undermines free trade by forcing countries into even further support of anti-capitalism legal monopolies as a condition for not restricting trade.
It is kind of free, free of government interference. It's really just the uber rich fucks agreeing amongst themselves how to split up the world.
The US is being gently pushed ( nudged ) into a beginning of irrelevance
I'd consider it more the US government trying to do whatever it can for the 0.1% of the country that pays for the majority of political campaigning, and screw the other 99.9% of us. And whether the US government becomes irrelevant or not, as long as the corporate overlords are happy, the politicians will be kept comfortable.
In the words of Number Two: "But you, like an idiot, want to take over the world. And you don't realize there is no world anymore! It's only corporations!"
Those 0.1% are not Americans as such. They are international. They have their money scattered all around the world. Dick Cheney is practically a citizen of Dubai. So don't expect them to keep this country in any kind of livable shape. Scrape every last dollar out of the economy, and go live like a king in the Middle East. I worked for currency traders when they devalued the Mexican Peso 20 years ago. Boy was that a feeding frenzy. History will repeat itself.
It makes sense. The powers that be don't trust the cops on the street any more than we citizens. They need to know which are subversives, e.g. refusing to beat on Wall Street protestors with enough vigor. So the NSA watches all police forces to make sure that their bully boys are doing their jobs, making the uber rich even uber richer.
I would disagree. The idea that aliens are nearby, using the same freq we are, are transmitting something we will picky, and that we are looking in the right place in the sky... The odds are so very long...
So it's good that that's not what SETI is looking for. They are not expecting to find alien I Love Lucy reruns. It's any EM pattern that is not otherwise explainable. Many such patterns have been discovered, but were later explained away by the astrophysicists as spinning neutron stars, etc. Natural phenomenon. Likely signs of life would be something like EM leakage from artificial generators, not necessarily some form of communication broadcast.
Woohoo! Where do I donate? Hey NSA, mark my file as "promotes assassination, subversive, needs to be watched closely."
I understand the apprehension caused by firearms that can't currently be detected, but I don't quite understand what he's trying to accomplish in enacting a law that can't be enforced
It's not about making sense. It's about marketing himself as a successful politician when election time rolls around. That's why Senators and Congress Critters love putting their names on laws. Name recognition wins elections when the constituents couldn't care less about the real issues.
If crime rates are going down, then why is my local police getting military grade equipment and gear?
Because people like you seem to think there's a need. They need military gear because they need military gear. Tautology, yes, but no less the truth in this case. Crime rates have been going down across the board since the 70's: lower rates of violent crime, less non-violent crime, less white collar crime, everything. The only reason you may get the impression it's happening more frequently is because channels like CNN didn't exist in the 70's.
A local suburban police force got an armored ram-car a few years back. They had no need for it. What they had was a bunch of federal "beef up the national police forces" money and nothing to spend it on. So they bought a tank. Some military contractor made a ton of money selling those things.
Of course there's no way around search term blocking.
People don't understand that most fatalities from skydiving involve stunts of some sort: hook turns, base jumping, wingsuits. The translation from the French article isn't all that great, but it looks like he was attempting a hook turn and didn't judge the distance well.
People who just jump out of a plane, open their chute, and drift to the ground rarely perish.
That's not enough for some people. They need that next greater rush. It's just like rock climbers that start by climbing in teams, then free climbing (no ropes), and then solo free climbing (no partners). Needless to say, at some point many of them just never come home after their last climb.
That's a shame. To go so young.
But I never have understood the sanity behind jumping out of a perfectly good plane. :(
If it weren't dangerous, they wouldn't do it, contrary what they may tell you. Ask their wives about the great sex after a dive, and you'll understand.
If you can't defend something, you can't own something.
Because we are still a barbaric world where basic human courtesy doesn't apply. What a sad, sick statement.
Divide the moon up into N Billion equal pieces, and give each person on the planet an equal share. Then Bigelow can buy his land on the free market. Oh wait, that's not what he wants. He wants the moon carved up and given to the wealthiest people to make them even wealthier, backed by the world military to make sure that the poor get nothing out of it. Ah, capitalism. How you solve all the world's problems.
I don't much care for the Tea Party folks myself, but I wouldn't call them domestic terrorists. When was the last time they blew up a building? Refusing to compromise with the broader populace and causing government gridlock are not illegal terrorist actions.
Convincing poor old people that they don't want health care is pretty evil, and will end up killing more than the 9/11 attack. So, yes, I think it's pretty apt to call them terrorists.