Think again. The biggest "real" fear in South Korea is the amount of artillery rounds North Korea could fire into Seoul,
If and only if they think that it is absolutely impossible for a weapon to be sneaked into Seoul (or Busan, or another large port city ; how about Incheon?) on board a boat. You don't even need to get it to dock, as long as your ship is sufficiently un-suspicious that you're not searched at sea.
Korea doesn't have as much of a drugs problem as America, but it does have a drug market. So anyone who believe that it's impossible to get a tonne of stuff into the country against the wishes of the coastguard is being foolish.
Of course, no-one would ever commit suicide by triggering a bomb close to themselves. Hell, if they spun it right there is NO WAY they could spin it as an attack on the Great Satan which would attract the interest of Daesh.
Does it ever occur to the geek that the Cuban musician or filmmaker might want to cut himself a slice of that very big pie?
Well that's a reasonable enough scenario. (I accept the implication that non-Spanish speakers in America are shot, jailed, or lose their credit ratings for listening to Spanish music or art, but it's a strange and foreign land with all sorts of restrictions ; I wouldn't be surprised.)
Which would imply working with the rights agencies and not against them?
Then the Cuban artist works with the *AA. That's great. She might even stand up to ask the Cuban government to stop pissing in the *AA's beer. That doesn't make it obligatory for the government to comply with her wishes to the detriment of a greater proportion of the population than she is. It's a concept called "democracy" ; I believe there is due to be an exercise in it in America in the near future and then you too can have the joy of living with the consequences of your neighbour's bone-headed decisions.
I thought that you gun nuts were arguing that "all gun nuts are serious sober people who do their marksmanship classes and maintain their weapon properly". But now they're also dribbling idiots who can't remember to check and change a battery when they take their lethal tool out of it's storage safe.
Which way do you want it? Proper maintenance of the weapon, or dribbling idiot?
You can doubt it. But the success rate for suicides in countries with widespread gun availability is considerably higher than for countries where the aspirant ex-person has to go and buy painkillers from 4 or 5 separate stores, or learn to use the knife along the wrists, not across them, or disable the airbag on the car and then achieve a high-velocity collision.
It's not just availability - the effectiveness of guns as a method of suicide leaves little room for second thoughts. Unlike crashing, drugging, or slashing.
On which grounds, guns should not be easy to get hold of.
What the hell sort of school did you go to in the UK that had enough sports ground space for a range, let alone the inclination? My school, whichever direction you fired in, you'd go through a house within 200m (except where you'd be firing at people on a busy road).
Oh, let me guess - you were at one of those big places out in the country with a long road through guarded, fenced and dog-patrolled grounds to get to the school proper. What did they call them? Oh yes. Borstal.
Remember too that "free SMS" only applied for a short period of time when you couldn't even message people off-network, and few operators allowed you to send messages via the web.
Free SMS was the situation long before phones had access to the Internet, let alone the WWW. I had free SMS on my mobile in 1995, but I didn't get a mobile with internet access until about 3 or so years ago.
a lot of the vehement creationists I have known are various kinds of protestant fundamentalists who are also rather anti-catholic
Not untrue, but there are also a LOT of Muslims who don't consider themselves to be particularly "fundamentalist" (for different "Fundamentals" to the Protestant Fundies) , but who are profoundly creationist and if prodded would automatically leap to a YEC stance.
When I was working in Turkey a few months ago, my Turkish fellow geologists described even more pronounced difficulty explaining their work to their neighbours. Not that the importance and technical ability of the work was doubted, but "the world isn't that old" being a starting point.
For the medals, obviously. Gold, several inches across, and funded by explosives.
Keep the whitehouse white, vote MacCain & Palin 2016.
Yeah, that sounds a real good campaign slogan. Should be a real winner. I think you should sky-write it over the White House with your hand-controlled drone for maximum publicity. You'll be on TV!
Many replicators discovered in our lab were not designed to replicate; people just observed strange things happening and were smart enough to figure out what was going on.
Did your spelling checker swallow the obligatory "Muwahahahahah !!!" or did you deliberately silence it?
I'm now afraid. Very afraid. Mad scientists toying with creating artificial life forms AND suppressing their "Muwahahahah !!" reflex. This sounds like the plot for a B-movie. What could possibly go wrong?
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Wasn't that an Edison-ism?
If and only if they think that it is absolutely impossible for a weapon to be sneaked into Seoul (or Busan, or another large port city ; how about Incheon?) on board a boat. You don't even need to get it to dock, as long as your ship is sufficiently un-suspicious that you're not searched at sea.
Korea doesn't have as much of a drugs problem as America, but it does have a drug market. So anyone who believe that it's impossible to get a tonne of stuff into the country against the wishes of the coastguard is being foolish.
Of course, no-one would ever commit suicide by triggering a bomb close to themselves. Hell, if they spun it right there is NO WAY they could spin it as an attack on the Great Satan which would attract the interest of Daesh.
Apart from South Korea. Who are a US client state.
No, income tax evasion is how you get Capone. Don't you know your own history (as opposed to your movie history)?
Well, the Y'all Quaeda candidates for President are really setting up a welcome for more refugees.
A nuke - and all the ancillary programmes and equipment - would be a much simpler accomplishment.
Democracy is often a dictatorship - for the 50% - 1 who constitute a minority.
Well that's a reasonable enough scenario. (I accept the implication that non-Spanish speakers in America are shot, jailed, or lose their credit ratings for listening to Spanish music or art, but it's a strange and foreign land with all sorts of restrictions ; I wouldn't be surprised.)
Then the Cuban artist works with the *AA. That's great. She might even stand up to ask the Cuban government to stop pissing in the *AA's beer. That doesn't make it obligatory for the government to comply with her wishes to the detriment of a greater proportion of the population than she is. It's a concept called "democracy" ; I believe there is due to be an exercise in it in America in the near future and then you too can have the joy of living with the consequences of your neighbour's bone-headed decisions.
That's right out at the edge of the central bulge (if the galaxy is the same size as the Milky Way.
It worked really well for his girlfriend. She felt so safe.
Which way do you want it? Proper maintenance of the weapon, or dribbling idiot?
Or a passerby. (Who obviously becomes a suspect - for something - as the blame-evasion kicks into force.)
It's not just availability - the effectiveness of guns as a method of suicide leaves little room for second thoughts. Unlike crashing, drugging, or slashing.
On which grounds, guns should not be easy to get hold of.
.. hurts your teeth.
Oh, let me guess - you were at one of those big places out in the country with a long road through guarded, fenced and dog-patrolled grounds to get to the school proper. What did they call them? Oh yes. Borstal.
Your gun will still work as a club.
You sir, need a wider (errrrr) circle (errrr) of friends. Or casual acquaintances.
Free SMS was the situation long before phones had access to the Internet, let alone the WWW. I had free SMS on my mobile in 1995, but I didn't get a mobile with internet access until about 3 or so years ago.
Well, as an Anonymous Coward, you'd be the perfect example of a completely unintelligent organisms to do the design.
I notice that you're too cowardly to associate your identifier with your reading incomprehension.
That redirects through something that makes the framework appear in Russian (well, a Cyrillic script anyway).
Not untrue, but there are also a LOT of Muslims who don't consider themselves to be particularly "fundamentalist" (for different "Fundamentals" to the Protestant Fundies) , but who are profoundly creationist and if prodded would automatically leap to a YEC stance.
When I was working in Turkey a few months ago, my Turkish fellow geologists described even more pronounced difficulty explaining their work to their neighbours. Not that the importance and technical ability of the work was doubted, but "the world isn't that old" being a starting point.
For the medals, obviously. Gold, several inches across, and funded by explosives.
Yeah, that sounds a real good campaign slogan. Should be a real winner. I think you should sky-write it over the White House with your hand-controlled drone for maximum publicity. You'll be on TV!
It uses long words. But I've already suggested they get a Jacob's Ladder for the lab, for when the TV cameras arrive.
Did your spelling checker swallow the obligatory "Muwahahahahah !!!" or did you deliberately silence it?
I'm now afraid. Very afraid. Mad scientists toying with creating artificial life forms AND suppressing their "Muwahahahah !!" reflex. This sounds like the plot for a B-movie. What could possibly go wrong?
Does your lab have a Jacob's Ladder? Yet.
I remember reading his stuff back in the mid-90s. It gave me a headache then, and I suspect it'll give me a bigger one now.
Props (or whatever the modern word is) for implementing a very simple version experimentally.