As distasteful as it sounds, especially in a democratic society, wealth will always have a disproportionate say in what, why, who, and how things get accomplished. The degree to which it affects ye olde taxpaying citizens is a parallel graph to the degree government is allowed to interfere in the free markets and the allegedly free peoples' everyday lives.
Remotely near, harmless advanced alien life capable of interstellar travel would leave us alone for a few more centuries whilst we iron out this leftover primal aggression and god fallacy..
Remotely near, exploitative advanced alien life would have already arrived and , well, exploited us and our resources.
Depending on how far down along the great filter we find ourselves, we are quite plausibly the Universe's best hope for intergalactic explorer, settler, and exploiter. Deal with that.
This is legislation designed to limit surveillance, data collection, and data storage beyond what is presently allowed.
Though it sounds like a step in the right direction, for it's implementation to have any real teeth, the agencies it deigns to rein in would have to be rules-followers.
Observable evidence seems to run contrary to this conclusion.
Akin to the officially failed next generation 3D movies and televisions, it just hasn't made the kind of obvious advancement that DVD's were from VHS.
Of course, with the shrinking American middle class disposable income, you've basically lost a big part of your largest target market for the latest, greatest, and shiniest.
On a positive note, deeds such as this involving international assistance reinforce my retarded optimism that humanity might rise above tribalism into something astonishing.
I thought about that when crafting the post, but I'd already used up my apprentice poetic license substituting tramp for turtle, not that the two are mutually exclusive conditions.
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And for those round-trips, we're both literally correct half the time.
Any fool knows you couldn't accomplish this with one, single trampoline.
If years of Saturday morning cartooning have taught us nothing else, it's clear you would need, like, several dozen hundred trampolines to pull it off.
Of course they are. In the markets, there exists the same revolving door between governmental oversight posts and lucrative private industry jobs that has made the segue from government insider to lobbyist virtually seamless.
And it's not illegal. Although the whole system is tainted by the appearance of impropriety, it could be legislated out of existence with the stroke of a pen.
Give me control of a nation's money supply, and I care not who makes its laws.. Rothschild
Of course it can be fixed. It's an entity made up of men and woman, so people are ideally suited to repair it.
As for being shot at, well, it's not like it couldn't happen, but one recent American event showed a little promise. The federal showdown with Cliven Bundy went off without the kind of jackbooting reminiscent of Waco and Ruby Ridge, so we could optimistically infer that government can still be taught, and change.
Colonizing an alien world would be difficult indeed, and colonizing a dead alien world orders of magnitude more difficult than that.
It's not that we'd expect no other life in the universe. We're exploring the premise that we've evolved further than most other examples the universe has to offer, leaving us with the obligation to fulfill the role of settler of the whole shebang.
If advanced life, with the big brain and the good hands is ubiquitous, it is likely we have some future step in the cull of the filter that we are infinitesimally likely to overcome.
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Bayesian probability suggests your experience may be limited to those GS-whatevers whom only using the force for good works.
I would question your fashionably late cry for help, Edward Snowden.
As distasteful as it sounds, especially in a democratic society, wealth will always have a disproportionate say in what, why, who, and how things get accomplished. The degree to which it affects ye olde taxpaying citizens is a parallel graph to the degree government is allowed to interfere in the free markets and the allegedly free peoples' everyday lives.
And you had right up until the oxymoron:
responsible government employee.
Remotely near, exploitative advanced alien life would have already arrived and , well, exploited us and our resources.
Depending on how far down along the great filter we find ourselves, we are quite plausibly the Universe's best hope for intergalactic explorer, settler, and exploiter. Deal with that.
Though it sounds like a step in the right direction, for it's implementation to have any real teeth, the agencies it deigns to rein in would have to be rules-followers.
Observable evidence seems to run contrary to this conclusion.
One Fiat on a hill is a miracle as certainly as two there is science fiction.
A Redditor got more than he bargained for in the mail today.
Possibly a key that might start a new truck down to the local Ford House?
I hear you you bro, but you're still coming over this weekend, right?
I see what you what you did there.
Akin to the officially failed next generation 3D movies and televisions, it just hasn't made the kind of obvious advancement that DVD's were from VHS.
Of course, with the shrinking American middle class disposable income, you've basically lost a big part of your largest target market for the latest, greatest, and shiniest.
Because I have always dropped and spilled things, my brain is fine tuned to the slightest evidence of an impending gravitational incident...
thus I catch my own drops better than average.
are real.
On a positive note, deeds such as this involving international assistance reinforce my retarded optimism that humanity might rise above tribalism into something astonishing.
Look, Paul is not without some merit, especially in comparison to his Low-bar-setting peers,
but this is really indicative of how backwoods many of our older generation Congressmen are in regards to anything technology.
and it has real promise to further the development of even tinier integrated circuits,
it will probably end up being marginalized to manufacture paper thick television monitors.
Losing machinery is normally a zero PR problem,
and the absence of cumbersome life support and resupplying issues make present day unmanned-missions the smart bet.
Your comment is way more crafty than mine.
If everything in life synchronizes for me as well as this summary, April Fool's will be a nightmarish Groundhog's Day with no Bill Murray.
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And for those round-trips, we're both literally correct half the time.
Simply because the Americans have temporarily abandoned a focus on manned missions in favor of autonomous exploration, you couldn't be more wrong.
If years of Saturday morning cartooning have taught us nothing else, it's clear you would need, like, several dozen hundred trampolines to pull it off.
Yep, trampolines all the way down.
Pin-shaped metallic object squarely struck upon its big brain by a manually operated force multiplier.
And it's not illegal. Although the whole system is tainted by the appearance of impropriety, it could be legislated out of existence with the stroke of a pen.
Give me control of a nation's money supply, and I care not who makes its laws.. Rothschild
You sir, are correct, if not a bit cynical.
Of course it can be fixed. It's an entity made up of men and woman, so people are ideally suited to repair it.
As for being shot at, well, it's not like it couldn't happen, but one recent American event showed a little promise. The federal showdown with Cliven Bundy went off without the kind of jackbooting reminiscent of Waco and Ruby Ridge, so we could optimistically infer that government can still be taught, and change.
Colonizing an alien world would be difficult indeed, and colonizing a dead alien world orders of magnitude more difficult than that.
It's not that we'd expect no other life in the universe. We're exploring the premise that we've evolved further than most other examples the universe has to offer, leaving us with the obligation to fulfill the role of settler of the whole shebang.
If advanced life, with the big brain and the good hands is ubiquitous, it is likely we have some future step in the cull of the filter that we are infinitesimally likely to overcome.