Regional strategic ally. Most of the middle east hates the US - there are some fundemental social tensions involved, as well as political and historic reasons for hostility. But it's still a region of great global importance (ie, oil), so it can't just be forgotten. Israel is an ally in a place where an ally is a very useful thing.
The pirates have even formed their own inventment organisations to fund the cost of launching an attack ship and spread the risk in case it fails to capture any hostages.
It's never so simple. The US claims to be a free market, but in reality the government extensively subsidizes some industries and penalizes others, and is the single largest purchaser in the country. China claims to be a communist success story, but in reality the government long ago realized that it isn't practical to command an entire economy and turned to the free market to set prices and determine manufacture of most goods - it is the private sector that forms the mighty Chinese manufacturing base, not the government.
They really aren't as far apart as many want to believe.
I'm sure plenty of scientists could be found who would be happy to stay there for however long the life support can remain operational. There's a lot of planet to explore - easily enough to keep them busy for the few years supplies last. Sure, they'd eventually die - but they'd still go down in the history books, achieve lasting fame, and do a lot of good science.
Given the poor relationship between Google and the Chinese government, I imagine this is deliberate. I'm surprised you can access it at all without a VPN or other counter-censor technology.
We are both basing this on the assumption that parents and government both seek to indoctrinate children. This is a fair assumption to make.
We differ in that you believe indoctrination by parents is a good thing - that as parents, creating clones is their right, and none may interfere with the process. Private schools, it appears in your view, are instruments by which the parents can better achieve that aim.
My view is that indoctrination is always a bad thing - but you can't eliminate it. The best you can do is ensure a reasonable diversity of indoctrination to give a rounded education. Parents try, the government tries, and between them the child gets to at least hear both sides of the issues up for dispute, and will be challenged to reconcile - eventually leading to a more experienced and mature adult than someone who has never had cause to question.
If you claim your power source is truly perpetual, you get laughed at by scientists - for such a device to work would require throwing out some laws of science which have so far withstood every effort to violate them, and a lot of effort has been made.
If you claim your power source is merely of very long by human standards but still finite duration, then you can be taken seriously.
CSI featured the 'Omniscient Database' so often, it inspired the TV Tropes page. Numb3rs didn't even bother to go into the question of where all the data was pulled in from, but communications analysis was a frequent technique there, and the police department in Dexter just has access to every DNA database everywhere to identify DNA - if they don't find a match in the police database they'll simply use the medical records database, or the paternity test record database. In one case they got a match because someone had been tested for STIs, and the clinic still had a sample of record they handed over without a warrant.
There's a practical reason for this in fiction: No-one wants to watch boring courtroom issues and debates over probably cause. Due process just gets in the way of the crimehunting detective work, so it is quickly glossed over unless there is a specific plot that requires it be focused upon.
Warrants are only as good as the judges who issue them - the NSA makes use of FISA courts, which are really just rubber-stampers. In any case, if a warrant is ever denied, there's nothing to stop it just being reworded and applied for again in hope of a more sympathetic judge.
Wave energy stems from wind energy which stems from uneven heating of the earth by solar radiation as it rotates. It'll last as long as the sun does. No sun, no wind, no waves.
It actually won't last that long, as the sun will boil the oceans away some time before it burns out.
So, governments make mistakes and at times tell lies.
So do parents.
Wouldn't the better solution then to be a union of education? Have the state decide what all children need to learn, and have the parents decide what they want to teach too. Should the two sources contradict leave it to the children to puzzle through this as they grow older. That way when either side teaches false information or attempts indoctrination, and other can issue corrections.
This only works if parents compromise though, and accept that they cannot shield their children from competing viewpoints in their desire to raise little clones of themselves.
Slight correction: 'Stop the Pigeon' and 'Wacky Races' were separate shows. There were characters appearing in common between these along with 'Perils of Penelope Pitstop', but they didn't form any sort of continuity and, aside from Penelope, didn't even keep their names between appearances.
One issue to consider is that many of these private schools exist precisely because teachers want to *avoid* those requirements. A lot of them teach young-earth creationism and other religious indoctrinations.
One of the fundamental drives of parents is to raise their children passing on their own viewpoints - and often that means staying away from the public schools. This raises an interesting question: Do parents have the absolute right to determine how their children are educated, even if the education they choose teaches things that are demonstratably factually wrong on many levels?
The original motto was "E pluribus unum," meaning 'Out of many, one.' It refered to the union both of states coming together into the United States, and of disparate groups of people joining for their collective good. It's still on the great seal and a lot of other formal government things.
In the 50s, during the big communism scare, that old motto was looking dangerously socialst - collective identity was a very dangerous concept at the time. People coming together was seen as one step short of communism, so congress passed a law in 1956 changing the motto to "In God we Trust," meaning 'Fuck off godless commies.'
I once debated with someone about car safety, in a dispute about their decision to buy an SUV. I pointed out that the numbers showed that SUVs, while very safe for the occupents, are also the greatest danger to anyone outside: Their heavy construction and sheer weight means that any collision has a good chance of pulvarising the other car and squishing the occupent, plus the front is at just the right height for decpaitation. The angular shape also maximises any damage caused to pedestrians, with a special focus on damaging internal organs and cracking bones while lighter, shorter cars would just push them aside.
The person then pulled what must be one of the greatest asshole moves in the history of internet debate: He tried to justify his endangerment of other people as a virtue, claiming that at a father his first duty was to protect his family and his children - and if that means risking the lives of other people, then to risk their lives was his right and his duty. He expressed great pride in the idea that he was 'noble' enough that he was willing to do whatever it took to protect his children, no matter how many others might die through his actions.
My point is: Loyalties are contested. Family, country, self. If you're sacrificing others to protect your own family, at least have the decency to admit it rather than try to reassure yourself with talk of 'bonds of family.'
I don't know how you got a +5 mod. Your argument is actually quite pathetic: 'Public schools are a bit like communism. Communism has historically failed catastrophically. Therefore, public schools are doomed.'
The game made that clear: Freeman wasn't the hero, his hazmat suit was. The thing shrugged off bullets, had a self-contained underwater air supply, ammunition monitoring system (Why?), augment movement rate, allow superhuman jumping range, even provides some level of radiation shielding.
Just what kind of hazardous material was that lab handling?
I suspect if you look closely you'll find the Stark Industries logo on there somewhere.
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Regional strategic ally. Most of the middle east hates the US - there are some fundemental social tensions involved, as well as political and historic reasons for hostility. But it's still a region of great global importance (ie, oil), so it can't just be forgotten. Israel is an ally in a place where an ally is a very useful thing.
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Or you can just change the settings to use plain text.
It self organised quite well without government.
The pirates have even formed their own inventment organisations to fund the cost of launching an attack ship and spread the risk in case it fails to capture any hostages.
Just planning ahead. Saves the need to rip and relay should ten-gig ethernet ever make it to the home.
The money is not split evenly. The funding schools gets depends largely upon their political value - how wealthy the parents are.
I've devoted countless hours to futile debates on the subject of creationism, and 'SD' is new to me too.
It's never so simple. The US claims to be a free market, but in reality the government extensively subsidizes some industries and penalizes others, and is the single largest purchaser in the country. China claims to be a communist success story, but in reality the government long ago realized that it isn't practical to command an entire economy and turned to the free market to set prices and determine manufacture of most goods - it is the private sector that forms the mighty Chinese manufacturing base, not the government.
They really aren't as far apart as many want to believe.
I'm sure plenty of scientists could be found who would be happy to stay there for however long the life support can remain operational. There's a lot of planet to explore - easily enough to keep them busy for the few years supplies last. Sure, they'd eventually die - but they'd still go down in the history books, achieve lasting fame, and do a lot of good science.
Why would we want to get them back, other than the photo-op when they get home?
Given the poor relationship between Google and the Chinese government, I imagine this is deliberate. I'm surprised you can access it at all without a VPN or other counter-censor technology.
We are both basing this on the assumption that parents and government both seek to indoctrinate children. This is a fair assumption to make.
We differ in that you believe indoctrination by parents is a good thing - that as parents, creating clones is their right, and none may interfere with the process. Private schools, it appears in your view, are instruments by which the parents can better achieve that aim.
My view is that indoctrination is always a bad thing - but you can't eliminate it. The best you can do is ensure a reasonable diversity of indoctrination to give a rounded education. Parents try, the government tries, and between them the child gets to at least hear both sides of the issues up for dispute, and will be challenged to reconcile - eventually leading to a more experienced and mature adult than someone who has never had cause to question.
If you claim your power source is truly perpetual, you get laughed at by scientists - for such a device to work would require throwing out some laws of science which have so far withstood every effort to violate them, and a lot of effort has been made.
If you claim your power source is merely of very long by human standards but still finite duration, then you can be taken seriously.
CSI featured the 'Omniscient Database' so often, it inspired the TV Tropes page. Numb3rs didn't even bother to go into the question of where all the data was pulled in from, but communications analysis was a frequent technique there, and the police department in Dexter just has access to every DNA database everywhere to identify DNA - if they don't find a match in the police database they'll simply use the medical records database, or the paternity test record database. In one case they got a match because someone had been tested for STIs, and the clinic still had a sample of record they handed over without a warrant.
There's a practical reason for this in fiction: No-one wants to watch boring courtroom issues and debates over probably cause. Due process just gets in the way of the crimehunting detective work, so it is quickly glossed over unless there is a specific plot that requires it be focused upon.
Warrants are only as good as the judges who issue them - the NSA makes use of FISA courts, which are really just rubber-stampers. In any case, if a warrant is ever denied, there's nothing to stop it just being reworded and applied for again in hope of a more sympathetic judge.
It's not perpetual.
Wave energy stems from wind energy which stems from uneven heating of the earth by solar radiation as it rotates. It'll last as long as the sun does. No sun, no wind, no waves.
It actually won't last that long, as the sun will boil the oceans away some time before it burns out.
Can't say anything about social networking, but I do endorse Retroshare as an IM/mail program.
Bell curve.
Mean = median = mode.
It's a defining characteristic of the distribution.
So, governments make mistakes and at times tell lies.
So do parents.
Wouldn't the better solution then to be a union of education? Have the state decide what all children need to learn, and have the parents decide what they want to teach too. Should the two sources contradict leave it to the children to puzzle through this as they grow older. That way when either side teaches false information or attempts indoctrination, and other can issue corrections.
This only works if parents compromise though, and accept that they cannot shield their children from competing viewpoints in their desire to raise little clones of themselves.
Slight correction: 'Stop the Pigeon' and 'Wacky Races' were separate shows. There were characters appearing in common between these along with 'Perils of Penelope Pitstop', but they didn't form any sort of continuity and, aside from Penelope, didn't even keep their names between appearances.
One issue to consider is that many of these private schools exist precisely because teachers want to *avoid* those requirements. A lot of them teach young-earth creationism and other religious indoctrinations.
One of the fundamental drives of parents is to raise their children passing on their own viewpoints - and often that means staying away from the public schools. This raises an interesting question: Do parents have the absolute right to determine how their children are educated, even if the education they choose teaches things that are demonstratably factually wrong on many levels?
It is now.
The original motto was "E pluribus unum," meaning 'Out of many, one.' It refered to the union both of states coming together into the United States, and of disparate groups of people joining for their collective good. It's still on the great seal and a lot of other formal government things.
In the 50s, during the big communism scare, that old motto was looking dangerously socialst - collective identity was a very dangerous concept at the time. People coming together was seen as one step short of communism, so congress passed a law in 1956 changing the motto to "In God we Trust," meaning 'Fuck off godless commies.'
I once debated with someone about car safety, in a dispute about their decision to buy an SUV. I pointed out that the numbers showed that SUVs, while very safe for the occupents, are also the greatest danger to anyone outside: Their heavy construction and sheer weight means that any collision has a good chance of pulvarising the other car and squishing the occupent, plus the front is at just the right height for decpaitation. The angular shape also maximises any damage caused to pedestrians, with a special focus on damaging internal organs and cracking bones while lighter, shorter cars would just push them aside.
The person then pulled what must be one of the greatest asshole moves in the history of internet debate: He tried to justify his endangerment of other people as a virtue, claiming that at a father his first duty was to protect his family and his children - and if that means risking the lives of other people, then to risk their lives was his right and his duty. He expressed great pride in the idea that he was 'noble' enough that he was willing to do whatever it took to protect his children, no matter how many others might die through his actions.
My point is: Loyalties are contested. Family, country, self. If you're sacrificing others to protect your own family, at least have the decency to admit it rather than try to reassure yourself with talk of 'bonds of family.'
I don't know how you got a +5 mod. Your argument is actually quite pathetic: 'Public schools are a bit like communism. Communism has historically failed catastrophically. Therefore, public schools are doomed.'
Prosperity is a result of luck.
Cleverness can bias the roll of the die, but that's all it can do.
The game made that clear: Freeman wasn't the hero, his hazmat suit was. The thing shrugged off bullets, had a self-contained underwater air supply, ammunition monitoring system (Why?), augment movement rate, allow superhuman jumping range, even provides some level of radiation shielding.
Just what kind of hazardous material was that lab handling?
I suspect if you look closely you'll find the Stark Industries logo on there somewhere.