I guess even they don't dare to make that argument. Arguing that a bunch of rival space agencies in countries with competing social and economic systems work together is already stupidly impossible, but a near inexhaustible amount of non-governmental, for-profit organizations that literally come from EVERY country on the planet deliberately cutting into their own bottom line to perpetuate a lie that they themselves have exactly zero interest in...
Let's rather go collect some money and buy us a ho ourselves. Have you read the article? Some of them go for less than 20k bucks, if we all chip in, maybe we can get a representative ourselves. Think about it: A congressman representing actual citizens. That could be revolutionary in US politics.
If you want to say that it explodes violently in your face from time to time, it has an attitude that few can stomach, is way overengineered for its supposed purposed and manages to go around in circles of trying to fight itself and stand in its own way instead of getting to the point and be done with it, yes.
No, we should believe it because the consequences are insane.
I worked in risk management for a while. There are 2 main factors you take into account when preparing for a risk, likelyhood of the event and damage per case. Now, I think we can agree that while it would probably not be threatening the existence of humanity, it would severely damage our ability to do business (to stay in corporate terms), which is not-quite-killing us but severely crippling us.
Anything at this level of damage, no matter the impact likelihood (unless it is zero), HAS TO be considered a danger and needs relevant controls in place. Anything else would certainly be considered criminal neglect in the ensuing legal battles.
You know, 10 years ago this would have been modded funny and nobody would have bothered to reply because it is SO far out there that it MUST be a joke.
Poe's Law. It's not just for Creationists anymore.
That's why you don't see any measurable effect YET. So far, the ice that's been cracking off and dropping into the sea was the ice already IN the sea.
Now we're reaching the ice that's lying on top of land. Oh, Antarctica, unlike that thing on the top of your globe, is actually a continent. There is land under that miles of ice. That's why we care about melting Antarctica more than we care about the arctic ice going away. That's why this is being talked about instead of the same shit happening on the other end of the marble.
Because it's hard to do a restore when we fuck up this run. And ya know, the world's old, back when it formed we didn't have the concept of rollbacks yet.
Conservatives make no sense. Contraception is bad, abortion is bad, but at the same time anything and everything to actually help the people they force to exist is bad too.
A conservative is a person that will fight tooth and nail for you to be born, but as soon as you're pumped out you're on your own.
I tried to make people realize that we're heading for our extinction until I noticed that, hey, it's gonna strike when I'm no longer around. Why the fuck should I care?
I used to give a shit about people. I actually wanted to prevent disaster until I noticed that this species is too stupid to survive. We're not the first species that can and will eliminate its own livelihood. But we'll be the first that can actively regret it once we're done.
But I won't. Either I'm gone, or I'll simply accept it as the inevitable result of hubris.
Allow me to end on a lighter note: Two planets meet.
P1: You look terrible, what's wrong? P2: I got homo sapiens. P1: Ah don't worry, so did I. It will pass.
Doctor, don't do time travel if you're drunk, this is 2017, not 2050, you're not supposed to write about current events in the past, you know how this ends. Now step into the fucking Tardis and sleep it off!
Personally, I think way more problems arise of terse syntax and high symbolic abstraction that C/C++ and derived languages like so much. I mean, I'm as lazy as the next programmer and that's why I like C (and its derived languages) but even I cannot ignore that { (a!=1)?b=!b:b=0}
is way less readable than
begin if a is not equal 1 then set b equal complement of b else set b equal 0 end
You'd immediately spot an error in the second because the sentence would look "wrong".
The higher the level of abstraction in your language, the higher the overhead it will create. Now, it needn't be so absolutely stupidly overengineered as.net is, but still the metric fits, the more safeguards and handrails your language comes with, the higher the overhead it incurs to have them. This is admittedly not really a huge problem in today's working environment because our computer speeds are far greater than our needs.
Still, somehow it feels silly that I need increasingly more powerful computers just to run the same kind of program, only because programmers can't be assed to learn their trade and instead rely on ridiculously overblown frameworks that is the equivalent of delivering a pack of soda with a semi because you have to bring a soda factory along with the workforce since the framework doesn't know how to deliver a single soda.
Timezones happen because the sun works like a lamp with a cone of light shining on the disc and this "lamp" moves around it. Light also works considerably different. It's a lot of "explaining on your feet" and making up shit as questions come along, but they have their bases covered. It starts to fall apart no later than when you leave the planet and try to explain the other planets and how they move (something the geocentric model had huge problems with, too) and of course the other stars and why some can be seen from different places on the planet.
The reason why nobody visited the edge is that it's forbidden and nobody may go south of 60 degrees south. Anyone claiming that he was further down is either part of the conspiracy or could only go there on a guided tour where he is kept away from the edge and must not go to areas where you could see "the wall".
Well, first of all, NASA and all the other space agencies are in on a conspiracy. They pretty much have to be, or the pictures of Earth from space would be really hard to explain. So they're all conspiring so we keep paying them. Yes, including Russia and the US during the space race. They just both didn't debunk it because the Russians had their first space man and NASA of course wanted money for some black projects that were really expensive, so they didn't debunk the Russians.
Satellites are just like weather balloons up there and going in circles over the disc. There is no orbital mechanics of course because there is no orbit.
I'm still waiting for the explanation why a flight from New York to Paris takes about 3 hours, a flight from Johannesburg to Perth about 4, despite on their "map" the latter is further than the distance between New York and Tokyo and should take at the very least 8-10 hours.
Their counter argument is that the Earth is a disc with the north pole at the center and the "south pole" actually being the edge of the disc. So circumnavigation is possible, but instead of around the ball, you travel along a circle on the disc.
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I guess even they don't dare to make that argument. Arguing that a bunch of rival space agencies in countries with competing social and economic systems work together is already stupidly impossible, but a near inexhaustible amount of non-governmental, for-profit organizations that literally come from EVERY country on the planet deliberately cutting into their own bottom line to perpetuate a lie that they themselves have exactly zero interest in...
Let's rather go collect some money and buy us a ho ourselves. Have you read the article? Some of them go for less than 20k bucks, if we all chip in, maybe we can get a representative ourselves. Think about it: A congressman representing actual citizens. That could be revolutionary in US politics.
Please. Let's stay civilized. Plucking a chicken is so cruel.
Just throw him in the tar pit and enjoy.
If your point was to make that part more readable, I think I want you on the other team in the next debate.
You're right. What would I want the head for? That thing starts to rot and stink the place up.
Just dump the whole corpse.
If you want to say that it explodes violently in your face from time to time, it has an attitude that few can stomach, is way overengineered for its supposed purposed and manages to go around in circles of trying to fight itself and stand in its own way instead of getting to the point and be done with it, yes.
Nah. The water levels rise without my aid, so my work is done.
Don't worry, I've been deconverted no later than when I heard that the effects would only become crippling long after I'm dead.
No, we should believe it because the consequences are insane.
I worked in risk management for a while. There are 2 main factors you take into account when preparing for a risk, likelyhood of the event and damage per case. Now, I think we can agree that while it would probably not be threatening the existence of humanity, it would severely damage our ability to do business (to stay in corporate terms), which is not-quite-killing us but severely crippling us.
Anything at this level of damage, no matter the impact likelihood (unless it is zero), HAS TO be considered a danger and needs relevant controls in place. Anything else would certainly be considered criminal neglect in the ensuing legal battles.
Because there's no mountain range in between?
You know, 10 years ago this would have been modded funny and nobody would have bothered to reply because it is SO far out there that it MUST be a joke.
Poe's Law. It's not just for Creationists anymore.
That's why you don't see any measurable effect YET. So far, the ice that's been cracking off and dropping into the sea was the ice already IN the sea.
Now we're reaching the ice that's lying on top of land. Oh, Antarctica, unlike that thing on the top of your globe, is actually a continent. There is land under that miles of ice. That's why we care about melting Antarctica more than we care about the arctic ice going away. That's why this is being talked about instead of the same shit happening on the other end of the marble.
Because it's hard to do a restore when we fuck up this run. And ya know, the world's old, back when it formed we didn't have the concept of rollbacks yet.
Conservatives make no sense. Contraception is bad, abortion is bad, but at the same time anything and everything to actually help the people they force to exist is bad too.
A conservative is a person that will fight tooth and nail for you to be born, but as soon as you're pumped out you're on your own.
This.
I tried to make people realize that we're heading for our extinction until I noticed that, hey, it's gonna strike when I'm no longer around. Why the fuck should I care?
I used to give a shit about people. I actually wanted to prevent disaster until I noticed that this species is too stupid to survive. We're not the first species that can and will eliminate its own livelihood. But we'll be the first that can actively regret it once we're done.
But I won't. Either I'm gone, or I'll simply accept it as the inevitable result of hubris.
Allow me to end on a lighter note: Two planets meet.
P1: You look terrible, what's wrong?
P2: I got homo sapiens.
P1: Ah don't worry, so did I. It will pass.
Doctor, don't do time travel if you're drunk, this is 2017, not 2050, you're not supposed to write about current events in the past, you know how this ends. Now step into the fucking Tardis and sleep it off!
You might want to read the end of the story. He called the wolf, he was ignored, all the sheep were killed.
In other words, if you don't give a fuck about your sheep, why employ a shepherd in the first place?
Personally, I think way more problems arise of terse syntax and high symbolic abstraction that C/C++ and derived languages like so much. I mean, I'm as lazy as the next programmer and that's why I like C (and its derived languages) but even I cannot ignore that
{ (a!=1)?b=!b:b=0}
is way less readable than
begin
if a is not equal 1 then set b equal complement of b else set b equal 0
end
You'd immediately spot an error in the second because the sentence would look "wrong".
The higher the level of abstraction in your language, the higher the overhead it will create. Now, it needn't be so absolutely stupidly overengineered as .net is, but still the metric fits, the more safeguards and handrails your language comes with, the higher the overhead it incurs to have them. This is admittedly not really a huge problem in today's working environment because our computer speeds are far greater than our needs.
Still, somehow it feels silly that I need increasingly more powerful computers just to run the same kind of program, only because programmers can't be assed to learn their trade and instead rely on ridiculously overblown frameworks that is the equivalent of delivering a pack of soda with a semi because you have to bring a soda factory along with the workforce since the framework doesn't know how to deliver a single soda.
Poe's Law is very strong in these, indeed.
Timezones happen because the sun works like a lamp with a cone of light shining on the disc and this "lamp" moves around it. Light also works considerably different. It's a lot of "explaining on your feet" and making up shit as questions come along, but they have their bases covered. It starts to fall apart no later than when you leave the planet and try to explain the other planets and how they move (something the geocentric model had huge problems with, too) and of course the other stars and why some can be seen from different places on the planet.
The reason why nobody visited the edge is that it's forbidden and nobody may go south of 60 degrees south. Anyone claiming that he was further down is either part of the conspiracy or could only go there on a guided tour where he is kept away from the edge and must not go to areas where you could see "the wall".
But of course! Since Earth is the center of the universe, it also must be axiomatically the heaviest thing in the universe.
Well, first of all, NASA and all the other space agencies are in on a conspiracy. They pretty much have to be, or the pictures of Earth from space would be really hard to explain. So they're all conspiring so we keep paying them. Yes, including Russia and the US during the space race. They just both didn't debunk it because the Russians had their first space man and NASA of course wanted money for some black projects that were really expensive, so they didn't debunk the Russians.
Satellites are just like weather balloons up there and going in circles over the disc. There is no orbital mechanics of course because there is no orbit.
I'm still waiting for the explanation why a flight from New York to Paris takes about 3 hours, a flight from Johannesburg to Perth about 4, despite on their "map" the latter is further than the distance between New York and Tokyo and should take at the very least 8-10 hours.
Their counter argument is that the Earth is a disc with the north pole at the center and the "south pole" actually being the edge of the disc. So circumnavigation is possible, but instead of around the ball, you travel along a circle on the disc.