They tell the dumb person with the healthy body he's getting a head transplant, and tell the smart person with the sick body he's getting a body transplant.
30 years ago people were buying cassettes, not albums, and while lots of people were making mix tapes and passing them around, we still bought some of our cassettes from the actual music industry. If you liked a band the radio would only play one or two of the biggest hits from their album, you had to buy the cassette if you wanted to hear the rest.
I'm aware of no human technology which would enable us to say with any certainty at all that there aren't 10,000,000 similar-sized alien probes in our solar system right now.
We would detect all the explosions they made when they hit the Oort cloud.
The thing is going to be hitting Alpha Centauri at relativistic speeds. With no way to slow down it will in all likelihood be vaporized when it hits a spec of dust at the edge of the star system.
Let's do the math, given a budget manifold of a hundred square meters, how fast would the velocity of cash have to be to equal the US yearly defense budget in real time, and what type of material would have to be used to withstand the heat of friction, given the cash is in one dollar bills?
"And I'd like that with extra onions but no pickles".
Good luck.
Just wait, it won't be long until their facial recognition software sees you enter the parking lot and their robots will have your preferred extra onions with no pickles waiting for you as you reach the counter.
Capitalism does not guarantee a large middle class. The invisible hand of capitalism allocates resources to areas of growth, and that is not in 90% of the population, but only in the top 10% where the growth has been happening for the past 30 years. Perhaps the invisible hand of capitalism will leave 90% of the population in poverty, especially with new robotics and automation. What's going to happen to all the truck drivers when trucks are automated? What then? How do you think a populist like Trump is going to create high paying jobs for his followers if capitalism can't do it alone? Bread and circuses? No, he's going to do what Caesar did, take the money from the oligarchs and give it to his loyalists. That's why the Republican establishment is afraid of him.
That's from your perspective. China is claiming the opposite -- the chain of islands from Japan to Vietnam (which was once an American enemy now becoming an American proxy) are (or threaten to) blockading China's sea route. If you look at the map, they have a point too. In this world, the only real games are among the US, Russia and China. Everybody else are just proxy states parroting what PR excuses their bosses tell them to.
Right now the United States has the ability to blockade Chinese ocean trade. This makes the Chinese nervous, which is completely understandable and rational. The only way the Chinese can remove this ability of the United States is to get sufficient ocean power that would, in addition to defending against the United States, give the Chinese the ability to blockade the various island nations that surround China. There is no solution to this dilemma that will make everyone happy.
Bullshit. If China invades Japan, ICBMs be flying within the hour.
It's not about invading, it's about bullying. If China gets control over the seas around Japan it can always threaten to blockade the Japanese archipelago, holding it in a stranglehold, and then engage in a staring contest over who wants to launch nukes (think Cuban missile crisis). It is necessary to Japan's survival to have unimpeded access to the oceans for trade, and since WW2 it has relied on the United States to guarantee it (the United States is grossly under appreciated in how it's domination of the blue oceans has facilitated global trade and the creation of global GDP). Japan would be extremely uncomfortable if it had to rely on China to guarantee it's ability to trade around the world.
Government can recognize and protect rights, but they cannot grant them... these rights derive directly from human nature. You have a biological need for air, water, and food: denying these needs means that your body will die. You similarly have needs for privacy, autonomy, self-expression, and so forth: if those needs are denied, you will not live free and let others live free. If, as as society, those needs are denied, then the society will not live free; it will struggle to proper economically; it will be beset by violence and squander it's destiny.
A cow's biological needs are not rights because the State likes to eat cows. The State doesn't want to grant cows rights so they have none. Nature grants no rights to cows.
The only rights that any human being has comes from the State that they are a citizen of; not from God nor Nature nor the United Nations. And ultimately, the ability of a State to enforce the rights of its citizens comes from those members of the State willing to wield the force of arms.
That's your own opinion. The polls show otherwise. Hillary is obviously and horribly corrupt, has committed criminal actions, and is a war hawk. I'd rather have a supposedly "racist" bigmouth in the White House than another mideast war.
Hasn't Trump promised to take out Isis? I think he said he was going to wipe them off the face of the earth. How is he going to do that without another mideast war?
Whether someone's voting for Hillary or voting against Trump, the votes go to Hillary. This election is going to be about who people dislike more, and I'm guessing Trump is more disliked than Hillary. Many people don't want to be associated with the white racists supporting Trump.
Of course Trump is trolling America. He doesn't actually want to be President. When you're President your entire life is determined by preset schedules. You have to meet heads of states and attend cabinet meetings and perform the duties required of the President. Trump doesn't seriously want to deal with any of that crap. He's going to push this thing as far as he can, like the guy from Office Space, because Trump has no fcuks to give. He's just having a good time. And if somehow he does actually become President he'll play along for a month or two and then resign, giving the office to Omarosa.
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Being food is a great survival strategy. My Snapple cap told me today that there are more chickens on Earth than people.
They tell the dumb person with the healthy body he's getting a head transplant, and tell the smart person with the sick body he's getting a body transplant.
30 years ago people were buying cassettes, not albums
WTF do you think the word "album" means?
You got me there. Generally when we talked about albums we meant vinyl record albums, but you're right, the word album doesn't specify the medium.
30 years ago people were buying cassettes, not albums, and while lots of people were making mix tapes and passing them around, we still bought some of our cassettes from the actual music industry. If you liked a band the radio would only play one or two of the biggest hits from their album, you had to buy the cassette if you wanted to hear the rest.
I'm aware of no human technology which would enable us to say with any certainty at all that there aren't 10,000,000 similar-sized alien probes in our solar system right now.
We would detect all the explosions they made when they hit the Oort cloud.
The thing is going to be hitting Alpha Centauri at relativistic speeds. With no way to slow down it will in all likelihood be vaporized when it hits a spec of dust at the edge of the star system.
I liked the score better when it was in hex.
Let's do the math, given a budget manifold of a hundred square meters, how fast would the velocity of cash have to be to equal the US yearly defense budget in real time, and what type of material would have to be used to withstand the heat of friction, given the cash is in one dollar bills?
I'm wondering where you buy commercial software to control the hardware support systems for a space launch system that doesn't even exist yet.
Yeah, I wondered the same thing. After all it's a freakin' electrical generator.
From now on I'm only buying cars built in the 20th century.
Actually, we've been using nuclear devices in space for years. How do you think Watney heated his rover?
Just quick note. Rats in the feed become competitive advantage, they are ground up, grilled and served up as rat-patty. Nice!
Pass the ketchup!
"And I'd like that with extra onions but no pickles".
Good luck.
Just wait, it won't be long until their facial recognition software sees you enter the parking lot and their robots will have your preferred extra onions with no pickles waiting for you as you reach the counter.
Capitalism does not guarantee a large middle class. The invisible hand of capitalism allocates resources to areas of growth, and that is not in 90% of the population, but only in the top 10% where the growth has been happening for the past 30 years. Perhaps the invisible hand of capitalism will leave 90% of the population in poverty, especially with new robotics and automation. What's going to happen to all the truck drivers when trucks are automated? What then? How do you think a populist like Trump is going to create high paying jobs for his followers if capitalism can't do it alone? Bread and circuses? No, he's going to do what Caesar did, take the money from the oligarchs and give it to his loyalists. That's why the Republican establishment is afraid of him.
That's from your perspective. China is claiming the opposite -- the chain of islands from Japan to Vietnam (which was once an American enemy now becoming an American proxy) are (or threaten to) blockading China's sea route. If you look at the map, they have a point too. In this world, the only real games are among the US, Russia and China. Everybody else are just proxy states parroting what PR excuses their bosses tell them to.
Right now the United States has the ability to blockade Chinese ocean trade. This makes the Chinese nervous, which is completely understandable and rational. The only way the Chinese can remove this ability of the United States is to get sufficient ocean power that would, in addition to defending against the United States, give the Chinese the ability to blockade the various island nations that surround China. There is no solution to this dilemma that will make everyone happy.
Bullshit. If China invades Japan, ICBMs be flying within the hour.
It's not about invading, it's about bullying. If China gets control over the seas around Japan it can always threaten to blockade the Japanese archipelago, holding it in a stranglehold, and then engage in a staring contest over who wants to launch nukes (think Cuban missile crisis). It is necessary to Japan's survival to have unimpeded access to the oceans for trade, and since WW2 it has relied on the United States to guarantee it (the United States is grossly under appreciated in how it's domination of the blue oceans has facilitated global trade and the creation of global GDP). Japan would be extremely uncomfortable if it had to rely on China to guarantee it's ability to trade around the world.
Government can recognize and protect rights, but they cannot grant them... these rights derive directly from human nature. You have a biological need for air, water, and food: denying these needs means that your body will die. You similarly have needs for privacy, autonomy, self-expression, and so forth: if those needs are denied, you will not live free and let others live free. If, as as society, those needs are denied, then the society will not live free; it will struggle to proper economically; it will be beset by violence and squander it's destiny.
A cow's biological needs are not rights because the State likes to eat cows. The State doesn't want to grant cows rights so they have none. Nature grants no rights to cows.
The only rights that any human being has comes from the State that they are a citizen of; not from God nor Nature nor the United Nations. And ultimately, the ability of a State to enforce the rights of its citizens comes from those members of the State willing to wield the force of arms.
The currency of a given country is merely the measure of the people's confidence in that country's economy.
There are two kinds of people in the world, those with loaded guns and those who dig.
That's your own opinion. The polls show otherwise. Hillary is obviously and horribly corrupt, has committed criminal actions, and is a war hawk. I'd rather have a supposedly "racist" bigmouth in the White House than another mideast war.
Hasn't Trump promised to take out Isis? I think he said he was going to wipe them off the face of the earth. How is he going to do that without another mideast war?
Whether someone's voting for Hillary or voting against Trump, the votes go to Hillary. This election is going to be about who people dislike more, and I'm guessing Trump is more disliked than Hillary. Many people don't want to be associated with the white racists supporting Trump.
Trump is like the guy on Seinfeld who told Elaine she had a big head. He sees the weakness you didn't even know you had.
Of course Trump is trolling America. He doesn't actually want to be President. When you're President your entire life is determined by preset schedules. You have to meet heads of states and attend cabinet meetings and perform the duties required of the President. Trump doesn't seriously want to deal with any of that crap. He's going to push this thing as far as he can, like the guy from Office Space, because Trump has no fcuks to give. He's just having a good time. And if somehow he does actually become President he'll play along for a month or two and then resign, giving the office to Omarosa.