The followers aren't interested in proof. It is outside their concerns.
What does concern them is power, which is why they kill and oppress and fight to extinguish opposing thought while vomiting forth the lie that their beliefs have value.
"Why focus on fervently opposing religion when there are so many more interesting scientific things to do?"
Because religion opposes freedom, replacing it with submission to the dictates of humans who claim their insight comes from their imaginary friends.
Religion can be weak, but at the core it is all "Taliban", an excuse for utter savagery and for resistance to knowledge. The only people who defend religion are the religious. That's part of being brainwashed.
There is no middle ground. There is no reason to pretend otherwise except to deceive religionists to save yourself from their wrath. Their ideology justifies any conduct to route around their insane belief system, which is why politicians manipulate these simpletons rather than argue with them.
"Until there is a robot that can stay home with Mom and look after her, help her take her meds and buy her groceries, do light household and yard work, etc."
FYI, when Mom and Dad move from "needing light assistance" to "incompetent, incontinent, and incoherent" they WILL go beyond the abilities of a single caregiver.
Make as much money as you can, research elder care LONG before they (and, eventually, you) need it, research how to save THEIR assets as well as yours, and how to avoid probate. If you are able to read this, NOW is a good time, not when the shit hits the fan. Caring for mad. dying old folks is exhausting, stresses a marriage/relationship, and is expensive.
Modern medical technology gives us the ability to suffer for many years. Get ready. You have been warned.
"Take the PCB out of the housing, snap off the USB connector and feed the board into it, the flash chip gets ground to bits so no adversaries can recover your data.:D"
I just shove such drives into a soda can, crush the can under my boot, and put it out with other cans to be recycled.
To judge by crashed vehicles, they don't tend to fall out (they often move down) and do tend to absorb energy when hit. Mounts are a mix, with some obviously designed to break and some (steel) that stay together in rather nasty crashes.
"Barring that, ideally it just doesn't come up out of the hood and kill you."
I'd love to see a wreck of that type out of curiosity. They may exist but they'd be extremely rare. In a typical hard frontal crash the vehicle stays largely together, the engine stops the front end (bumper, core brace, accessories) from moving further back, and sometimes the engine hits the firewall but rarely goes further. Manifolds etc between engine and firewall crumple as well. Mount rubber centralizes brackets, but most recent steel mounts stay together when hit. The rubber is a damper, but it isn't like the old Chevy engine mounts where the rubber would let go and the engine would flop around.
Modern vehicles are lightly built (and easy to cut up for salvage) but their design is obviously well thought-out. I've seen thousands of wrecks, and removed parts from hundreds, and of all those wrecks very few looked as if they were from fatal accidents.
Do wear your seat belts so safety features can work! One wreck that sticks in my memory was a small truck ('Yota IIRC) that had two obvious face prints in the windshield, complete with hair, "stuff" and dried blood. The front end wasn't too bad, so the hit wasn't at high speed.
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If you like that shit go elsewhere to wallow in it. This is a geek site, that bullshit doesn't belong here. Go to Ebaumsworld where you belong.
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"Current cars the engine get's shoved into the firewall which then has a chance to crumple the footwell area that your feet are in."
The engines are up-front to absorb impact energy and function as part of the overall structure. This IMO works very well (I do lots of vehicle salvage and get to cut up wrecks using a Sawzall) and I'd rather have a drivetrain up front than a "trunk". Some engine mounts incorporate aluminum members whose controlled failure absorbs energy while guiding the drivetrain where it should go.
Have a look at large salvage yards if you get the chance. The WAY vehicles behave in crashes is interesting.
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"Lovely.... I am sure the population control advocates will demand this be given as part of food aid to developing countries."
Good. In our PC culture it's unfashionable to point out how ballistically fucked up the behavior and choices made by people in those countries lead to famine, war, pestilence and death. One way to fix some of that is to reduce population pressure that drives them into areas that cannot sustain them. Giving them food ordinarily serves to sustain their crappy decision model (which is why I oppose all foreign food aid). It doesn't FORCE them to change. Give them all the contraceptive corn they'll eat (not having to spew out a brat every time you get fucked had been tremendously LIBERATING to Western women!) and if they don't like it, then they can choose to abstain.
There is a land past fail, where the failure whose name we dare not speak waits resting, waiting for the end times. This thread is but a whisper from that place. Pray more such do not escape.
"I realize they had lofty goals, but to see them fail so utterly in their mission takes away most of their credibility. The whole point was to bring computers to the developing world and break vendor lock in."
By kickstarting the netbook market they have done much of that.
"Pretty soon we can move on to fining BP off the face of that planet."
Fining a company is exactly like bulldozing the family home of a terrorist. It in NO way punishes the guilty (unless they give a shit) , and the victims have no influence on the original deed.
If you want people who commit crimes to consider not doing so, there must be reasonable certainty that they will SUFFER as a consequence of their illegal acts. Hurt the bad folks so other folks can see their plight, and note that Club Fed isn't shit. Put them in population where they can expect to have their lives destroyed by other prisoners, and others will see that they should behave themselves. Unlike crimes of passion, crimes of premeditated planning can be deterred because the same mind that can plan crime can fear consequences. PMITA is wrong when applied to someone who commits a victimless crime, but just revenge (there is no hope of rehabilitating bad people so why bother trying?) can deter others.
"It's amazing to me that they can make a machine who's parts are GLOWING they are so hot and the metal still functions without failing."
There are a fair number of glowy bits, but the majority of hot section internals are protected by a continuously replenished blanket of high pressure air excess to that required for combustion.
"I have a feeling expanding foam doesn't expand too well at over 2,000 psi."
The gas mixed with the foam expands the foam itself.
With the right foam applied at the right pressure, it might do just fine. Standard Great Stuff and similar spooge is of course designed to expand to desired level at atmospheric pressure.
It would be interesting to see what modern structural adhesive compounds (for example) could be made into extreme pressure expanding structural foam. Lord Fusor auto adhesives are crash-tested, and many modern aircraft parts are bonded together.
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The followers aren't interested in proof. It is outside their concerns.
What does concern them is power, which is why they kill and oppress and fight to extinguish opposing thought while vomiting forth the lie that their beliefs have value.
Gifts without quid pro quo are mere advertising, and those who are not Fundamentalists are merely less faithful.
You would not defend religion unless you were religious, therefore you are a superstitionist with no credibility.
"Tolerance should one of the main foundations of science and thought in this day and age."
Not tolerance of superstition. Superstition is not science, and deserves no respect.
"Why focus on fervently opposing religion when there are so many more interesting scientific things to do?"
Because religion opposes freedom, replacing it with submission to the dictates of humans who claim their insight comes from their imaginary friends.
Religion can be weak, but at the core it is all "Taliban", an excuse for utter savagery and for resistance to knowledge. The only people who defend religion are the religious. That's part of being brainwashed.
There is no middle ground. There is no reason to pretend otherwise except to deceive religionists to save yourself from their wrath. Their ideology justifies any conduct to route around their insane belief system, which is why politicians manipulate these simpletons rather than argue with them.
"Christianity worships love for God is love."
That's the Mother of all Asserted Conclusions. Being Christian require you believe it.
Others may note evidence to the contrary. Lots of evidence.
"Until there is a robot that can stay home with Mom and look after her, help her take her meds and buy her groceries, do light household and yard work, etc."
FYI, when Mom and Dad move from "needing light assistance" to "incompetent, incontinent, and incoherent" they WILL go beyond the abilities of a single caregiver.
Make as much money as you can, research elder care LONG before they (and, eventually, you) need it, research how to save THEIR assets as well as yours, and how to avoid probate. If you are able to read this, NOW is a good time, not when the shit hits the fan. Caring for mad. dying old folks is exhausting, stresses a marriage/relationship, and is expensive.
Modern medical technology gives us the ability to suffer for many years. Get ready. You have been warned.
"But lots of people wouldn't think twice about ruining perfectly good faces by attaching iPads to airbag covers."
That would be easy to demo with a salvage car and a dead Ipod. Fire the bag remotely (just route the wires to a switched line from the battery). :)
"Take the PCB out of the housing, snap off the USB connector and feed the board into it, the flash chip gets ground to bits so no adversaries can recover your data. :D"
I just shove such drives into a soda can, crush the can under my boot, and put it out with other cans to be recycled.
To judge by crashed vehicles, they don't tend to fall out (they often move down) and do tend to absorb energy when hit. Mounts are a mix, with some obviously designed to break and some (steel) that stay together in rather nasty crashes.
"Barring that, ideally it just doesn't come up out of the hood and kill you."
I'd love to see a wreck of that type out of curiosity. They may exist but they'd be extremely rare. In a typical hard frontal crash the vehicle stays largely together, the engine stops the front end (bumper, core brace, accessories) from moving further back, and sometimes the engine hits the firewall but rarely goes further. Manifolds etc between engine and firewall crumple as well. Mount rubber centralizes brackets, but most recent steel mounts stay together when hit. The rubber is a damper, but it isn't like the old Chevy engine mounts where the rubber would let go and the engine would flop around.
Modern vehicles are lightly built (and easy to cut up for salvage) but their design is obviously well thought-out. I've seen thousands of wrecks, and removed parts from hundreds, and of all those wrecks very few looked as if they were from fatal accidents.
Do wear your seat belts so safety features can work!
One wreck that sticks in my memory was a small truck ('Yota IIRC) that had two obvious face prints in the windshield, complete with hair, "stuff" and dried blood. The front end wasn't too bad, so the hit wasn't at high speed.
If you like that shit go elsewhere to wallow in it. This is a geek site, that bullshit doesn't belong here. Go to Ebaumsworld where you belong.
Have some Diversity (and a bird) :
http://www.flatrock.org.nz/topics/odds_and_oddities/assets/wanting_a_meal.jpg [flatrock.org.nz]
"Current cars the engine get's shoved into the firewall which then has a chance to crumple the footwell area that your feet are in."
The engines are up-front to absorb impact energy and function as part of the overall structure. This IMO works very well (I do lots of vehicle salvage and get to cut up wrecks using a Sawzall) and I'd rather have a drivetrain up front than a "trunk". Some engine mounts incorporate aluminum members whose controlled failure absorbs energy while guiding the drivetrain where it should go.
Have a look at large salvage yards if you get the chance. The WAY vehicles behave in crashes is interesting.
"Lovely.... I am sure the population control advocates will demand this be given as part of food aid to developing countries."
Good. In our PC culture it's unfashionable to point out how ballistically fucked up the behavior and choices made by people in those countries lead to famine, war, pestilence and death. One way to fix some of that is to reduce population pressure that drives them into areas that cannot sustain them.
Giving them food ordinarily serves to sustain their crappy decision model (which is why I oppose all foreign food aid). It doesn't FORCE them to change.
Give them all the contraceptive corn they'll eat (not having to spew out a brat every time you get fucked had been tremendously LIBERATING to Western women!) and if they don't like it, then they can choose to abstain.
"ARE YOU DEAD YET?"
It would be lovely if Bad Stuff either killed you or left you alone, but life isn't that simple.
"Besides, self-regulating industries are prone to misrepresenting health effects when they have financial interests at stake."
(Looks at sat pics of Deepwater Horizon oil spill...)
Really? Who'd a thunk it?
"Fail. Epic fucking fail."
There is a land past fail, where the failure whose name we dare not speak waits resting, waiting for the end times.
This thread is but a whisper from that place. Pray more such do not escape.
"I really hate babies"
Birds like them:
http://www.flatrock.org.nz/topics/odds_and_oddities/assets/wanting_a_meal.jpg
Better to flame it as it deserves. Filtration isn't feedback.
BTW:
Babbys should be poasted on 4chan where they will be respected.
"I realize they had lofty goals, but to see them fail so utterly in their mission takes away most of their credibility. The whole point was to bring computers to the developing world and break vendor lock in."
By kickstarting the netbook market they have done much of that.
"Pretty soon we can move on to fining BP off the face of that planet."
Fining a company is exactly like bulldozing the family home of a terrorist. It in NO way punishes the guilty (unless they give a shit) , and the victims have no influence on the original deed.
If you want people who commit crimes to consider not doing so, there must be reasonable certainty that they will SUFFER as a consequence of their illegal acts. Hurt the bad folks so other folks can see their plight, and note that Club Fed isn't shit.
Put them in population where they can expect to have their lives destroyed by other prisoners, and others will see that they should behave themselves. Unlike crimes of passion, crimes of premeditated planning can be deterred because the same mind that can plan crime can fear consequences. PMITA is wrong when applied to someone who commits a victimless crime, but just revenge (there is no hope of rehabilitating bad people so why bother trying?) can deter others.
"It's amazing to me that they can make a machine who's parts are GLOWING they are so hot and the metal still functions without failing."
There are a fair number of glowy bits, but the majority of hot section internals are protected by a continuously replenished blanket of high pressure air excess to that required for combustion.
"I have a feeling expanding foam doesn't expand too well at over 2,000 psi."
The gas mixed with the foam expands the foam itself.
With the right foam applied at the right pressure, it might do just fine. Standard Great Stuff and similar spooge is of course
designed to expand to desired level at atmospheric pressure.
It would be interesting to see what modern structural adhesive compounds (for example) could be made into extreme pressure expanding structural foam. Lord Fusor auto adhesives are crash-tested, and many modern aircraft parts are bonded together.
I get paid well for my imaginary work, you insensitive clod!
"Give us back 3.5 with Konqueror."
Worked for me, but style matters more than substance. The change from 3.5 chased me to Gnome.
KDE may as well die. We don't need it any more, and I encourage newbies to avoid it so they can make a clean break from Windows to Gnome.
"The kid's been attached to it for 9 months, and the last 2 minutes make _THAT_ much difference?"
To be safe, use the Helicopter Parent method and leave it on until age 18.