Part of the junk DNA being (still hypothetic but very likely) virus DNA that merged with its host's, there is very little chance that it plays any role at all...
Germany's economy was actually weakened by the decision to impose parity between east deutschmark and west deutschmark, decision which aimed at destroying east germany's industry in a move both of revenge and of assessing hegemony by the western leaders, disguising it as a populist policy to "welcome our brothers in the Fatherland"...
Ironically, if they really went nuts they just would need to send a conventional missile to Fukushima's reactor 4 cooling pool.
Just making some cracks in the pool would mean that the fuel rods will heat to spontaneous combustion temperature and as there would then be no way either to cool them anymore or to move them, the only solution would be to evacuate Tokyo.
Of course they don't have the technology to target so precisely with long-range missiles, but just a small team of divers with infantry missiles shoud be able to do the trick...
Manning stuck by his conscience when it clearly went against his personal interests and could even come at a tremendous cost for him.
It may not make him an idol but it definitely makes him sort of a hero, the usually anonymous ones (alas for him, this time he wasn't).
You know what happened when Abraham wasn't able to find 10 just men in Sodom and Gomorrha?
Maybe you shouldn't jail the people that prevent your country to go below that threshold...
Climate-change denial are certainly not ready to welcome a billion refugees; they are though ready to kill a billion "aliens" trying to "invade" their country.
If you can't find the logic in right-wing selfishness, it's usually because you didn't apply enough of it.
What would be a VERY interesting seventh SW movie is one exploring the power wacuum created after the death of Emperor Palpatine, with high-level ex-Empire generals trying to seize power for themselves (remember, there's no more Senate) and the Rebel Alliance exploding from political rivalries now that the spoils of wars are to be shared.
With the Jedi Knights eradicated and reduced to a very young man with a short training, there is no more centralized force bearing any legitimity to use coercition to keep things together...
While Luke would certainly take rebuilding the Jedi Order as his main duty, there would be much disagreement over who should "help" him to do that and to how to do it.
I'm not a specialist, but as far as I know the real reason is that dismantling a nuclear plant has a HUGE cost (no dismantlement was ever finished, so there is no way to even know the actual cost of the full operation), and nobody has the money to fund it for all the plants that are to be dismantled.
Well, Italia sentenced their secret service head of office to 10 years for the help he provided to the kidnapping of Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr by CIA agents, and sentenced in absentia said CIA agents to 8 years.
That's quite a start...
They want their DEVGRU to drop out of a Lockheed C-130J into Timbuktu carrying a Colt M-4 Carbine with a Trijicon ACOG on top so they can put a 5.56mm NATO round into the tuches of a Al Qaeda splinter group that's trying to destroy a UN World Heritage site. (Licensing fees paid for all those trademarks.)
Certainly not Lumiere but Melies, the Lumiere brothers being adamant in their refusal of using their invention to produce fiction rather than describing the real world...
Well, having an official answer to a petition that gathered 25 000 people to sign it is not putting the administration under duress...
From what I understood they didn't actually build the DeathStar, just wrote an intelligent letter telling kids to learn science at school.
GM crops are necessary to maintain crop yields
On this I call bullshit, as it's my field of work (feeding the world, not GMO).
As Rene Dumont said thirty years ago (things changed a bit since, but the general idea is still valid, we just do not have giants like him to advocate it) that, concerning Africa's hunger crises, the problem was helping peasants go from an average yield of 100 kg of cereals per hectare to an average yield of 200 kg/ha.
Considering that even the lowest-yield local seeds are able to give at least 800 kg/ha, it's easy to understand that GMO's won't do squat here - the problem is not seeds.
(For those not familiar with cereal yields, very intensive irrigated wheat fields can produce more than 10 000 kg/ha)
GMOs are actually necessary to maintain crop yields if reorganizing the world food production (to take it back from megacorps in order to give it back to local farmers, who have a lower production by capita but a higher yield per hectare with agroecological techniques) is ruled out, that part is true.
But most chances are that even this greedy solution will only postpone the crisis of the industrial agriculture model by a few years, not solving it.
Françoise Dolto worked with migrant children and found that the problem was more about the fact that the children were confused about the reason behind the different languages; one even said "it's the language for making babies" -IIRC- so they did'nt know which language they were allowed to speak without trespassing their parents' intimacy.
This. This is very important: the necessity to seem "non-partisan" for those sites makes it wayyy too easy for the liars. After all, if you get to lie all the time and the "fact checkers" feel compelled to scrutinise your opponents extra-hard just so they can say that both sides have about the same lying rate, it's win-win!
There are issues where there are two sides. But more and more, people fight over _facts_ and this means that one side is right and the other wrong, and if you claim otherwise, you are delusional. There is no middle ground to the debate on the shape of the planet. If you say that gay parents cannot raise a child, this is a statement of fact, not an opinion. If you tell me there is no global warming, this is a statement of fact, not an opinion. If you tell me that the gold standard is a good idea, this is a statement of fact, that reducing taxes will increase revenues, and so on, and so forth.
All things amenable to experimental verification -- and in many case which have been previously experimentally checked -- should not be debated. Journalists should just mock the politicians saying stuff which is obviously false.
There are actually facts and opinions, but there are known facts and unknown facts...
Of the later sort what we have are opinions about these facts, which leaves room to political debate.
What a side usually calls a truth is usually a truth inside a system, and may be challenged by thinking outside of this system.
Most of your examples are debatable in this way... this is not the same thing as deliberately lying.
The problem is not that some people challenge the scientific consensus about global warming, to take one of your examples - the problem is that those who does receive disproportional coverage, thanks to energy corporations' lobbying.
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Part of the junk DNA being (still hypothetic but very likely) virus DNA that merged with its host's, there is very little chance that it plays any role at all...
Actually, it's quite weird that not one has yet cited John Varley's "The M&M as a low-yield thermonuclear device"...
Germany's economy was actually weakened by the decision to impose parity between east deutschmark and west deutschmark, decision which aimed at destroying east germany's industry in a move both of revenge and of assessing hegemony by the western leaders, disguising it as a populist policy to "welcome our brothers in the Fatherland"...
Ironically, if they really went nuts they just would need to send a conventional missile to Fukushima's reactor 4 cooling pool. Just making some cracks in the pool would mean that the fuel rods will heat to spontaneous combustion temperature and as there would then be no way either to cool them anymore or to move them, the only solution would be to evacuate Tokyo. Of course they don't have the technology to target so precisely with long-range missiles, but just a small team of divers with infantry missiles shoud be able to do the trick...
Manning stuck by his conscience when it clearly went against his personal interests and could even come at a tremendous cost for him. It may not make him an idol but it definitely makes him sort of a hero, the usually anonymous ones (alas for him, this time he wasn't). You know what happened when Abraham wasn't able to find 10 just men in Sodom and Gomorrha? Maybe you shouldn't jail the people that prevent your country to go below that threshold...
Climate-change denial are certainly not ready to welcome a billion refugees; they are though ready to kill a billion "aliens" trying to "invade" their country.
If you can't find the logic in right-wing selfishness, it's usually because you didn't apply enough of it.
Your hypothesises are quite far-fetched...
Remember how UK froze Icelandic assets by using an anti-terrorist law?
What would be a VERY interesting seventh SW movie is one exploring the power wacuum created after the death of Emperor Palpatine, with high-level ex-Empire generals trying to seize power for themselves (remember, there's no more Senate) and the Rebel Alliance exploding from political rivalries now that the spoils of wars are to be shared.
With the Jedi Knights eradicated and reduced to a very young man with a short training, there is no more centralized force bearing any legitimity to use coercition to keep things together...
While Luke would certainly take rebuilding the Jedi Order as his main duty, there would be much disagreement over who should "help" him to do that and to how to do it.
Sort of Egyptian time?
Actually, the real question would be "does some committee of the executive branch have the authority to authorize the POTUS to do so?"...
The original short story is excellent (as are many other of Card's). The novel has some good ideas that weren't in the short story but is way to long.
I'm not a specialist, but as far as I know the real reason is that dismantling a nuclear plant has a HUGE cost (no dismantlement was ever finished, so there is no way to even know the actual cost of the full operation), and nobody has the money to fund it for all the plants that are to be dismantled.
Oops... With you, not for you.
It would be funny if you didn't think what you said was true (and many readers for you).
Try eating real food for once, not pre-processed one.
Then you can talk about what is cardboard...
Well, Italia sentenced their secret service head of office to 10 years for the help he provided to the kidnapping of Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr by CIA agents, and sentenced in absentia said CIA agents to 8 years.
That's quite a start...
They want their DEVGRU to drop out of a Lockheed C-130J into Timbuktu carrying a Colt M-4 Carbine with a Trijicon ACOG on top so they can put a 5.56mm NATO round into the tuches of a Al Qaeda splinter group that's trying to destroy a UN World Heritage site. (Licensing fees paid for all those trademarks.)
Who collects the fees for use of Al Qaida's name?
Certainly not Lumiere but Melies, the Lumiere brothers being adamant in their refusal of using their invention to produce fiction rather than describing the real world...
Well, having an official answer to a petition that gathered 25 000 people to sign it is not putting the administration under duress... From what I understood they didn't actually build the DeathStar, just wrote an intelligent letter telling kids to learn science at school.
Does anybody actually believes this "body throwed in the sea" crap?
GM crops are necessary to maintain crop yields
On this I call bullshit, as it's my field of work (feeding the world, not GMO).
As Rene Dumont said thirty years ago (things changed a bit since, but the general idea is still valid, we just do not have giants like him to advocate it) that, concerning Africa's hunger crises, the problem was helping peasants go from an average yield of 100 kg of cereals per hectare to an average yield of 200 kg/ha.
Considering that even the lowest-yield local seeds are able to give at least 800 kg/ha, it's easy to understand that GMO's won't do squat here - the problem is not seeds.
(For those not familiar with cereal yields, very intensive irrigated wheat fields can produce more than 10 000 kg/ha)
GMOs are actually necessary to maintain crop yields if reorganizing the world food production (to take it back from megacorps in order to give it back to local farmers, who have a lower production by capita but a higher yield per hectare with agroecological techniques) is ruled out, that part is true.
But most chances are that even this greedy solution will only postpone the crisis of the industrial agriculture model by a few years, not solving it.
Actually, for a center-right wall-street-friendly president, Obama is quite a good candidate...
About BBT, is there a way to get a version of the show without the canned laughs?
Actually, the end of The Dying of The Light is quite depressing, though the novel is quite great...
Françoise Dolto worked with migrant children and found that the problem was more about the fact that the children were confused about the reason behind the different languages; one even said "it's the language for making babies" -IIRC- so they did'nt know which language they were allowed to speak without trespassing their parents' intimacy.
This. This is very important: the necessity to seem "non-partisan" for those sites makes it wayyy too easy for the liars. After all, if you get to lie all the time and the "fact checkers" feel compelled to scrutinise your opponents extra-hard just so they can say that both sides have about the same lying rate, it's win-win!
There are issues where there are two sides. But more and more, people fight over _facts_ and this means that one side is right and the other wrong, and if you claim otherwise, you are delusional. There is no middle ground to the debate on the shape of the planet. If you say that gay parents cannot raise a child, this is a statement of fact, not an opinion. If you tell me there is no global warming, this is a statement of fact, not an opinion. If you tell me that the gold standard is a good idea, this is a statement of fact, that reducing taxes will increase revenues, and so on, and so forth.
All things amenable to experimental verification -- and in many case which have been previously experimentally checked -- should not be debated. Journalists should just mock the politicians saying stuff which is obviously false.
There are actually facts and opinions, but there are known facts and unknown facts...
Of the later sort what we have are opinions about these facts, which leaves room to political debate.
What a side usually calls a truth is usually a truth inside a system, and may be challenged by thinking outside of this system.
Most of your examples are debatable in this way... this is not the same thing as deliberately lying.
The problem is not that some people challenge the scientific consensus about global warming, to take one of your examples - the problem is that those who does receive disproportional coverage, thanks to energy corporations' lobbying.