Lot of whining going on here... When I was a lowly 2LT in the Army, my boss, a grizzly Major who I still have tons of respect for, used to say "Don't bring me problems, bring me solutions."
So... I don't have a solution, but I hope some of you do. I would like to see some suggestions that I might be able to take action on. Does anyone out there have an organization for educating judges on technology... I'll volunteer to teach a class.
Yo... latest polls show that 86% of Amercans feel the human risk is worth continuting Space exploration. That's pretty cool. I wonder why Politicians are so scared of approving NASA's budget ?
THe problem with the budget is not so much the small ammount they get, but the fact that the budget/mission changes every 2 years due to new officials in the house and senate and oval office. We need politicians to lock in a 15 year plan and write in riders to ensure the budget can't be changed. Then Nasa can focus on a long-term mission without worrying about next years budget cuts.
just my two-pence... and I work at the University of Colorado's Aerospace Department.
Get a Grip... and read the article. For one thing, yes in "Enders game" there was confusion and the "enemy" was destroyed, when in essance they were supposidly peaceful. However, they attack Earth first, unknowingly, and assumed we weren't a true life-form. Earth defended itself the best way they could...
This xenocide correlation bullshit is just assanine, that's not what the article is saying. It actually says very little about "ender's game", but... the point is using High-Tech Simulations to train Army and MARINES. The post says Army when a big part of the article is talking about Marine sims too.
As a former Army Captain... Sims work, and save you tax money. Our Military is the best fighting force in the world... and the most compassionate and ethical. Simulations also help soldiers learn how to deal with media, civilians and wounded enemy. That's why we are the best.
Yes, the arrowhead is new news.. but the article makes it sound like the "act of violence" death is a whole new concept. Konrad made a very brilliant and detailed deduction that people argued with at the time... and now his theory is confirmed. They did x-ray at the time discovery. If you read the article, this was a new type of x-ray that they were using when they found the arrowhead. The currators who just discovered the arrowhead were also examining the body at the time of discovery, so missing the arrow-head cannot be entirely blamed on Konrad. examining mummies is not as straight forward as it might sound.
in 1993 Konrad Spindler came to the conclusion that this guy was wounded in battle and was trying to escape over the mountains when he died of his injuries. One theing the article fails to mention was that the 14 arrows were in the process of being made and his bow was in the process of being repaired. Now either he was a really bad shot (not likely if he surrvived to adulthood at that time) or he had been in a fight that required expending more arrows than a typical hunting trip.
Anyway, the book is "The Man in the Ice".. highly recomended!
The article is misleading. They make it sound like this is shocking news that he may have been killed in a conflict. If you read Konrad Spindler's book "The man in the Ice" you will see that some researcher's came to that very same conclusion back in 1993. It's an excellent book by the way.. I highly recomended to anyone interested in Forensic Anthropology
-jasp2
I just want to point out two books that should cover this topic well.
On Killing
-and-
Stop Teaching our Kids to Kill
both are by Lieutenant Colonel Dave Grossman, a soldier and a psychology instructor at West Point.
He does NOT claim all video games are bad, but certain ones are.
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Doesn't Google encourage this sort of happy go lucky environment? Did they start tanking and I wasn't aware of it?
Lot of whining going on here... When I was a lowly 2LT in the Army, my boss, a grizzly Major who I still have tons of respect for, used to say "Don't bring me problems, bring me solutions."
So... I don't have a solution, but I hope some of you do. I would like to see some suggestions that I might be able to take action on. Does anyone out there have an organization for educating judges on technology... I'll volunteer to teach a class.
Yo... latest polls show that 86% of Amercans feel the human risk is worth continuting Space exploration. That's pretty cool. I wonder why Politicians are so scared of approving NASA's budget ?
THe problem with the budget is not so much the small ammount they get, but the fact that the budget/mission changes every 2 years due to new officials in the house and senate and oval office. We need politicians to lock in a 15 year plan and write in riders to ensure the budget can't be changed. Then Nasa can focus on a long-term mission without worrying about next years budget cuts.
just my two-pence... and I work at the University of Colorado's Aerospace Department.
Get a Grip... and read the article. For one thing, yes in "Enders game" there was confusion and the "enemy" was destroyed, when in essance they were supposidly peaceful. However, they attack Earth first, unknowingly, and assumed we weren't a true life-form. Earth defended itself the best way they could...
This xenocide correlation bullshit is just assanine, that's not what the article is saying. It actually says very little about "ender's game", but... the point is using High-Tech Simulations to train Army and MARINES. The post says Army when a big part of the article is talking about Marine sims too.
As a former Army Captain... Sims work, and save you tax money. Our Military is the best fighting force in the world... and the most compassionate and ethical. Simulations also help soldiers learn how to deal with media, civilians and wounded enemy. That's why we are the best.
Yes, the arrowhead is new news.. but the article makes it sound like the "act of violence" death is a whole new concept. Konrad made a very brilliant and detailed deduction that people argued with at the time... and now his theory is confirmed. They did x-ray at the time discovery. If you read the article, this was a new type of x-ray that they were using when they found the arrowhead. The currators who just discovered the arrowhead were also examining the body at the time of discovery, so missing the arrow-head cannot be entirely blamed on Konrad. examining mummies is not as straight forward as it might sound.
in 1993 Konrad Spindler came to the conclusion that this guy was wounded in battle and was trying to escape over the mountains when he died of his injuries. One theing the article fails to mention was that the 14 arrows were in the process of being made and his bow was in the process of being repaired. Now either he was a really bad shot (not likely if he surrvived to adulthood at that time) or he had been in a fight that required expending more arrows than a typical hunting trip. Anyway, the book is "The Man in the Ice".. highly recomended!
The article is misleading. They make it sound like this is shocking news that he may have been killed in a conflict. If you read Konrad Spindler's book "The man in the Ice" you will see that some researcher's came to that very same conclusion back in 1993. It's an excellent book by the way.. I highly recomended to anyone interested in Forensic Anthropology -jasp2
I just want to point out two books that should cover this topic well. On Killing -and- Stop Teaching our Kids to Kill both are by Lieutenant Colonel Dave Grossman, a soldier and a psychology instructor at West Point. He does NOT claim all video games are bad, but certain ones are.