True enough. Nonetheless look up what happened to Iran, or read Smedley Butler's famous speech. The US has been writing cheques it can't cash for a long time now. So have China, Russia, the UK, most European imperial-aspirant powers, and the bill has only just begun to come due; not my desire but the inevitable turn of the world. Even Joe six pack has to reap what he sows, in the end.
Yeah, first you need to provide a source for your Friday night firefight comment, because I'm betting you have nothing whatosever to back up your fifth day civil disturbance theory, and second nothing you've said contradicts what I've said. Nothing.
It's not hard to wipe out terror. I mean what, did you think people just sat down on a Friday afternoon and said, hey I'm bored, let's blow up a building? Let's strap a vest packed with fertiliser based explosives to our chests and go take a last ride on a bus?
Terrorism is created when people are cornered and feel they have no other option, vastly outgunned and outmanned. Oh there's a great hue and cry that the dishonourable terrorists aren't standing there getting mown down on a field of battle like proper upstanding folk, but they chose to win rather that die. It was the same in Ireland, the same in the Middle East, the same in Vietnam, the same everywhere some farmer puts down his plough and picks up a sword after his last child steps on a mine. If you want to stop terrorism stop going out there fucking with other countries. Simples!
This is not a type of war any advanced country can win. Find another way to live or accept the price. Leave them alone and let them stand or fall on their own merits.
Or Kuro5hin, remember that? Haha! Ah no I am getting mildly annoyed at/. Here's what you do: Take the juiciest stuff from Ars Technica, Discovery News, Geek.com, Gizmag, Livescience.com, Techcrunch, and Wired and let the brain trust hereabouts kick it around. That is all.
You'd still need some kind of centralised authentication server for email however, as it's domain related, otherwise it wouldn't be email, just a slower form of chat.
Technically they did have democracy and got what they voted for, but what they didn't have were safeguards to ensure that a president couldn't just declare himself dictator for life after being elected. And so that's what he tried to do as early as possible. They need to adjust their system, institute checks and balances, constitutional changes requiring national referendums etc.
You do realise that around a third of the words in the English language are French, right? Not some derivative of Norse, not some dead latinesque form but modern, currently in use French?
What is known is that in just a few milliseconds, each of the signals released about as much energy as the sun emits in 300,000 years.
That's a third of a million years worth of the energy output from the entire sun in milliseconds and no corresponding light flash or other radiation? Could the sources possibly be weaker and closer and we just got the maths wrong?
France does have some pretty hardcore racists, the National Front party is quite popular. The rioters however are usually second or third generation who complain they aren't being given equal opportunities in employment or education. How true this is I don't know, but having lived in France for quite a while I'd say it's entirely possible.
I suppose the US could start exposing the spying of various European countries occurring in the US as a "teachable moment." There is plenty of it going on.
Is there? My impression was always that the balance of power in these matters rested very firmly with the US - I'd be quite surprised to hear about a German or Italian spy ring within the US. It's been that way since WW2, there are no European military bases within the USA. However that balance may now begin to shift as trust fades in a way nobody can ignore.
Meh all of these 'etch things in diamond and stick em in a mountain' ideas are well meaning but misguided. The universe is an actively changing environment in the short and long run, just like human societies. If you want to build something to last and be useful, you need to build it to be even more dynamic.
Periodically send up long distance spacecraft loaded with not just data but the means to view it and the means to rebuild from first principles, assuming a child was viewing it - here is how you find iron deposits, mine and refine them, this is how you forge ploughs, these are the basics of algebra. Have them programmed to circle around somewhere just inside Jupiter's orbit, and have multiple stations here on earth sending out a deadman signal - when they stop broadcasting, the vessels begin to return in waves seperated by ten years or so, with the last waves arriving once a century.
When they make it home, have them attempt to locate likely inhabited areas whether by thermal imaging looking for fires at night or just vegetation profiling for fields, then drop down nearby, broadcasting light and sound, even radio, until someone comes to investigate.
It's relatively easy to permanently preserve all of mankind's knowledge, just pack it in a rocket and send it Oort-cloud bound. Well permanently as in astronomical timescales. The trick is to preserve all of humanity's knowledge in a way that's useful to humanity in the future.
The key word here is anthropogenic I would guess. Nobody can deny that there is global warming, we're in an interglacial period, where I'm sitting now used to be under a kilometer depth of ice, the main discussion is how much of it we are responsible for.
Oh okay. I haven't made a laughing stock of a malthusian all week and although it's only Tuesday, there seem to be fewer and fewer of you halfheads roaming the internet lately so I guess I'll take it where I find it.
Most humans are too stupid to realize the implications of longer life.
Good thing we have superior master race philosopher-princes such as yourself to show the way then, eh?
We are ALREADY over populated and unsustainable.
No, we aren't. Nowhere near. There is ample food and fresh water for the entire human race right now and plenty to spare. Where there are shortages the problems are invariably political.
We use energy from the planet faster than it is stored. We REQUIRE this energy to support the population of humans on the planet that is WAY past the point of natural balance.
Energy from the planet? What is that? You want energy it's raining on us from all sides and on high. If you covered a single digit percentage of the unused portions of the Sahara with old fashioned PV cells you could easily supply enough energy for all of Europe. And although I'm sure that a superior intellect such as yourself doesn't need this pointed out, that's not a recommended course of action but an illustration of the universe of insane abundance we live in. NO we do not require oil for transportation, NO we do not require oil for plastics, NO we do not require oil for fucking fertiliser, google the reasons yourself.
What exactly do you think will happen when people live twice as long?
We already know what's going to happen when people start living longer healthier lives, einstein, they have fewer children. Half of the countries in the developed world are already at below replacement birthrates. People stop having children or start having them later.
Do you think some other magical solution is going to pop up when lets us cram even more people into the same space.
We can not feed ourselves now, without oil, and the oil is being used ridiculously faster than its being created.
Morally and ethically, this simply should not happen and should not be pursued. There are boundaries we need to maintain for the safety of humanity.
And you've appointed yourself guardian of humanity, have you? Longevity is inevitable, and it's pretty likely that the wealthy and powerful will enjoy the benefits first. There's zero reason why the rest of us shouldn't eventually likewise live much longer lives afterwards though.
I wonder would the hormonal controllers in the aged brain cause accelerated decrepitude in the new, young body. But I mean that aside, this is virtual immortality if one were ruthless enough, or alternatively if we could clone human bodies without heads immortality for all who could afford it.
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True enough. Nonetheless look up what happened to Iran, or read Smedley Butler's famous speech. The US has been writing cheques it can't cash for a long time now. So have China, Russia, the UK, most European imperial-aspirant powers, and the bill has only just begun to come due; not my desire but the inevitable turn of the world. Even Joe six pack has to reap what he sows, in the end.
They have my sympathy but not my pity.
Yeah, first you need to provide a source for your Friday night firefight comment, because I'm betting you have nothing whatosever to back up your fifth day civil disturbance theory, and second nothing you've said contradicts what I've said. Nothing.
It's not hard to wipe out terror. I mean what, did you think people just sat down on a Friday afternoon and said, hey I'm bored, let's blow up a building? Let's strap a vest packed with fertiliser based explosives to our chests and go take a last ride on a bus?
Terrorism is created when people are cornered and feel they have no other option, vastly outgunned and outmanned. Oh there's a great hue and cry that the dishonourable terrorists aren't standing there getting mown down on a field of battle like proper upstanding folk, but they chose to win rather that die. It was the same in Ireland, the same in the Middle East, the same in Vietnam, the same everywhere some farmer puts down his plough and picks up a sword after his last child steps on a mine. If you want to stop terrorism stop going out there fucking with other countries. Simples!
This is not a type of war any advanced country can win. Find another way to live or accept the price. Leave them alone and let them stand or fall on their own merits.
Or Kuro5hin, remember that? Haha! Ah no I am getting mildly annoyed at /. Here's what you do: Take the juiciest stuff from Ars Technica, Discovery News, Geek.com, Gizmag, Livescience.com, Techcrunch, and Wired and let the brain trust hereabouts kick it around. That is all.
You'd still need some kind of centralised authentication server for email however, as it's domain related, otherwise it wouldn't be email, just a slower form of chat.
Technically they did have democracy and got what they voted for, but what they didn't have were safeguards to ensure that a president couldn't just declare himself dictator for life after being elected. And so that's what he tried to do as early as possible. They need to adjust their system, institute checks and balances, constitutional changes requiring national referendums etc.
They do make that clear on their website however.
For myself I'm waiting on peer to peer encrypted chat. That's where things get interesting.
No, much too easy to quietly intercept. It will have to be by air, there's no alternative.
And in other news, why it's a bad idea to interfere with the diplomatic flights of other countries, news at eleven.
You do realise that around a third of the words in the English language are French, right? Not some derivative of Norse, not some dead latinesque form but modern, currently in use French?
The Saxons didn't come over from Normandy, the French did. Grand Bretagne was and mostly still is a French province.
Light and radio waves both move at the same speed though, they're both EM radiation.
Okay just hold on a minute. FTA:
What is known is that in just a few milliseconds, each of the signals released about as much energy as the sun emits in 300,000 years.
That's a third of a million years worth of the energy output from the entire sun in milliseconds and no corresponding light flash or other radiation? Could the sources possibly be weaker and closer and we just got the maths wrong?
France does have some pretty hardcore racists, the National Front party is quite popular. The rioters however are usually second or third generation who complain they aren't being given equal opportunities in employment or education. How true this is I don't know, but having lived in France for quite a while I'd say it's entirely possible.
I suppose the US could start exposing the spying of various European countries occurring in the US as a "teachable moment." There is plenty of it going on.
Is there? My impression was always that the balance of power in these matters rested very firmly with the US - I'd be quite surprised to hear about a German or Italian spy ring within the US. It's been that way since WW2, there are no European military bases within the USA. However that balance may now begin to shift as trust fades in a way nobody can ignore.
Ah yes, here it is!
So you looked out the window eh?
It's always funny watching someone who believes themselves a wit find out that they are but half right.
Meh all of these 'etch things in diamond and stick em in a mountain' ideas are well meaning but misguided. The universe is an actively changing environment in the short and long run, just like human societies. If you want to build something to last and be useful, you need to build it to be even more dynamic.
Not unlike life itself, really.
Periodically send up long distance spacecraft loaded with not just data but the means to view it and the means to rebuild from first principles, assuming a child was viewing it - here is how you find iron deposits, mine and refine them, this is how you forge ploughs, these are the basics of algebra. Have them programmed to circle around somewhere just inside Jupiter's orbit, and have multiple stations here on earth sending out a deadman signal - when they stop broadcasting, the vessels begin to return in waves seperated by ten years or so, with the last waves arriving once a century.
When they make it home, have them attempt to locate likely inhabited areas whether by thermal imaging looking for fires at night or just vegetation profiling for fields, then drop down nearby, broadcasting light and sound, even radio, until someone comes to investigate.
It's relatively easy to permanently preserve all of mankind's knowledge, just pack it in a rocket and send it Oort-cloud bound. Well permanently as in astronomical timescales. The trick is to preserve all of humanity's knowledge in a way that's useful to humanity in the future.
I'm not quite sure I follow, they say this is grid scale, is it like pumped storage hydro on steroids?
They should have hired Jean-Paul Gaultier, he did all the costumes for The Fifth Element.
The key word here is anthropogenic I would guess. Nobody can deny that there is global warming, we're in an interglacial period, where I'm sitting now used to be under a kilometer depth of ice, the main discussion is how much of it we are responsible for.
This. Fight back!
A younger support system might go a long way towards rectifying brain problems though. The relationship between all these things is far from clear.
You are an example of why it shouldn't happen.
Oh okay. I haven't made a laughing stock of a malthusian all week and although it's only Tuesday, there seem to be fewer and fewer of you halfheads roaming the internet lately so I guess I'll take it where I find it.
Most humans are too stupid to realize the implications of longer life.
Good thing we have superior master race philosopher-princes such as yourself to show the way then, eh?
We are ALREADY over populated and unsustainable.
No, we aren't. Nowhere near. There is ample food and fresh water for the entire human race right now and plenty to spare. Where there are shortages the problems are invariably political.
We use energy from the planet faster than it is stored. We REQUIRE this energy to support the population of humans on the planet that is WAY past the point of natural balance.
Energy from the planet? What is that? You want energy it's raining on us from all sides and on high. If you covered a single digit percentage of the unused portions of the Sahara with old fashioned PV cells you could easily supply enough energy for all of Europe. And although I'm sure that a superior intellect such as yourself doesn't need this pointed out, that's not a recommended course of action but an illustration of the universe of insane abundance we live in. NO we do not require oil for transportation, NO we do not require oil for plastics, NO we do not require oil for fucking fertiliser, google the reasons yourself.
What exactly do you think will happen when people live twice as long?
We already know what's going to happen when people start living longer healthier lives, einstein, they have fewer children. Half of the countries in the developed world are already at below replacement birthrates. People stop having children or start having them later.
Do you think some other magical solution is going to pop up when lets us cram even more people into the same space.
We can not feed ourselves now, without oil, and the oil is being used ridiculously faster than its being created.
Oil, oil, oil. Try a little science instead. http://peakoildebunked.blogspot.ie/2007/11/314-peak-oil-and-fertilizer-no-problem.html Boom, headshot.
Hopefully this shock therapy has rattled your teeth enough that you'll think twice before unloading another bladderload on the internet.
Morally and ethically, this simply should not happen and should not be pursued. There are boundaries we need to maintain for the safety of humanity.
And you've appointed yourself guardian of humanity, have you? Longevity is inevitable, and it's pretty likely that the wealthy and powerful will enjoy the benefits first. There's zero reason why the rest of us shouldn't eventually likewise live much longer lives afterwards though.
I wonder would the hormonal controllers in the aged brain cause accelerated decrepitude in the new, young body. But I mean that aside, this is virtual immortality if one were ruthless enough, or alternatively if we could clone human bodies without heads immortality for all who could afford it.