Mentioning McCarty negatively is a sure way to whore some karma, but bringing up Lysenko only makes sense if someone is using police against her/his scientific opponents.
Whether or not that person -- or his opponents -- are "crackpots" is irrelevant. At various stages of history various scientists were -- by consensus of their peers -- deemed "crackpots", but were later recognized as visionaries, etc.
Since neither the researchers in the article, nor their opponents are calling for law enforcement to investigate the other side, mentioning of Lysenko remains a name-dropping red herring.
Now why is the USA going down the road to Lysenkoism?
The really bad part about Lysenkoism was the guy's ability to send representatives of competing scientific ideas to GULAG -- through the universal accusations of treason.
As long as that ability is nowhere to be seen around here (and it is not), bringing up the scumbag's name is no better than mentioning Nazis:-)
Since when is it acceptable to quote the dirty and blood soaked Russian Communist party rag in a decent publication?
And no, this is not a troll...
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because NASA keeps getting their budget slashed
We've just gone through this. This is simply a factually wrong statement. NASA's budget stayed the same (adjusted for inflation) since, at least, 1999.
I want the things like affordable and commonplace flying vehicles, medicine that can replace or repair failing organs with the ease of today's mechanic fixing a car. I want to travel to Moon as easily as I can now go to Caribbeans. And so on...
The worst part is that I think, all or most of these things are only 50 or 80 years away, which means, I have a chance to see them, but will likely be too old to take advantage of them...
The vicious German hordes overran the Roman Empire weakened by Christianity and delayed our progress by at least 500 years:-( (Oh, I don't blame them, they had their reasons, but still...)
The problem with your theory is that, if they don't take the work they die. Unlike America where you can go and find other work.
Actually, this is a problem with your theory (if any), not mine. You are contrasting these people's lot with that of ours, instead of contrasting it with their own sans the ability to work for "walmarts". I say, the "walmarts" improve their lot, by the simple virtue of offering A CHOICE. Those, who don't want to work for "walmarts" are welcome to keep the life as if the "walmarts" did not exist. And if you have evidence to the contrary -- please, share it.
mentality of exploiting people for your own gain is not going to get us any closer to that goal.
Actually, this mentality gave us everything or almost everything, that we have today -- beginning with the spectacular and enduring success of British Empire (even if it is now dominated by its former colony).
History is yet to present a better alternative for nothing binds humans closer together than family ties, mutually enjoyable sex, and mutually profitable trade. Of these, only the last one is available for binding peoples world-wide.
So now you resort to name-calling... Excellent... And this is after I charitably skipped your first slip into this stupid practice.
How pathetic, that a person, who is able to semi-sensibly put together words like "false dichotomy" and "logical fallacy" snaps into this kind of feces-throwing, when his impressive sounding words end up underimpressing in substance...
You began with disservice to your champion and ended discrediting yourself. Have a nice day.
This is getting nowhere, but I'm glad we established, that Kerry is an insincere whore, rather than merely a flip-flopper, who sincerely (if too frequently) changes his opinion, and moved on to debating whether all politicians are like that.
I don't think, they all are (Bush and Dean both seem respectable to me, for example), but if you are right, then limiting terms in office would be a very good thing. After, what, 13 years as a Senator Mr. Kerry should be retired...
I'm willing to leave it at that. See you at the polls.
However with all the terrorism and patriotism nowdays, peasants can't afford to not cooperate, "just in case" you got blamed for being terrorist or unpatriotic.
Back in the "good old days" I had the nerve (or the foolishness) to play with the ire of a certain Kook of the Month. The man called his local police department (in Colorado) and the police department of my then-ISP. The cops never contacted me, but they did call the ISP.
The owner -- Bob Carp (spit), also of TheCIA.net -- left me a frantic voice message and did not even let me download my files -- so scolding was the urine running down his legs.
This was all in 1996, when Bush was in Texas, and Clinton was running the country... Oops.
When someone is forced to work when they don't want too, that called slavery not exploitation.
So, you accuse someone of forcing people to work for them. That is a serious charge and you certainly have good evidence handy. Care to provide it? Once this is settled, the rest of the argument is solved...
Yes maybe they don't need 20US an hour, but 3c or 69c gives this a dismal existence...
This -- "what they need" -- is meaningless. What matters is "what they are willing to accept" to work without being forced to.
Once again -- can you substantiate the charge of there being forced labor? I think, you can't -- slavery is not only moraly reprehensible and illegal, it is simply uneconomical. And the fat cats running big corporations know that very well.
And if there is no coercion, then whatever they are paid (3c, or 69c, or whatever) is the fair price of their labor -- by the simple virtue of there being enough people willing to accept it.
meaning a company cannot resell the data without the individual's consent so having some form of national ID is not such a problem over there as it doesn't open the door to big corporations tracking your every move...
Would you accept the national ID card here, if similar measures were introduced along with it?
I would not. It is not the corporations, that bother me, it is the government itself...
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Whether or not that person -- or his opponents -- are "crackpots" is irrelevant. At various stages of history various scientists were -- by consensus of their peers -- deemed "crackpots", but were later recognized as visionaries, etc.
Since neither the researchers in the article, nor their opponents are calling for law enforcement to investigate the other side, mentioning of Lysenko remains a name-dropping red herring.
FreeBSD is pretty good for it -- I tried too. If you insist on Linux, find one, which support diskless setup "out of the box".
The really bad part about Lysenkoism was the guy's ability to send representatives of competing scientific ideas to GULAG -- through the universal accusations of treason.
As long as that ability is nowhere to be seen around here (and it is not), bringing up the scumbag's name is no better than mentioning Nazis :-)
Decent page viewer, modern version of top and other utilities are overdue too...
In the 21st century, he would've added "root-zone Name Servers".
May be as someone like that, but certainly not by one. Unfortunately...
But the second one starts preaching the increased unemployment here, or the poor conditions there, I walk away...
In certain parts of Israel, there are special containers on the streets -- for anything with Hebrew words on it.
Then, again, may be, it is to Recyclicing, what Kashrut is to the FDA...
As in: "Free, huh? Well, last time I agreed to install free software I had to spend $500 to have my PC cleaned up! No thanks!"
And no, this is not a troll...
We've just gone through this. This is simply a factually wrong statement. NASA's budget stayed the same (adjusted for inflation) since, at least, 1999.
Which of her civil liberties and/or protections were violated, exactly? Please, cite the verse... Thank you.
The worst part is that I think, all or most of these things are only 50 or 80 years away, which means, I have a chance to see them, but will likely be too old to take advantage of them...
The vicious German hordes overran the Roman Empire weakened by Christianity and delayed our progress by at least 500 years :-( (Oh, I don't blame them, they had their reasons, but still...)
Actually, this is a problem with your theory (if any), not mine. You are contrasting these people's lot with that of ours, instead of contrasting it with their own sans the ability to work for "walmarts". I say, the "walmarts" improve their lot, by the simple virtue of offering A CHOICE. Those, who don't want to work for "walmarts" are welcome to keep the life as if the "walmarts" did not exist. And if you have evidence to the contrary -- please, share it.
Actually, this mentality gave us everything or almost everything, that we have today -- beginning with the spectacular and enduring success of British Empire (even if it is now dominated by its former colony).
History is yet to present a better alternative for nothing binds humans closer together than family ties, mutually enjoyable sex, and mutually profitable trade. Of these, only the last one is available for binding peoples world-wide.
So now you resort to name-calling... Excellent... And this is after I charitably skipped your first slip into this stupid practice.
How pathetic, that a person, who is able to semi-sensibly put together words like "false dichotomy" and "logical fallacy" snaps into this kind of feces-throwing, when his impressive sounding words end up underimpressing in substance...
You began with disservice to your champion and ended discrediting yourself. Have a nice day.
According to some, GMail is using MacOS servers, so there is hope for them after all :-)
I don't think, they all are (Bush and Dean both seem respectable to me, for example), but if you are right, then limiting terms in office would be a very good thing. After, what, 13 years as a Senator Mr. Kerry should be retired...
I'm willing to leave it at that. See you at the polls.
Back in the "good old days" I had the nerve (or the foolishness) to play with the ire of a certain Kook of the Month. The man called his local police department (in Colorado) and the police department of my then-ISP. The cops never contacted me, but they did call the ISP.
The owner -- Bob Carp (spit), also of TheCIA.net -- left me a frantic voice message and did not even let me download my files -- so scolding was the urine running down his legs.
This was all in 1996, when Bush was in Texas, and Clinton was running the country... Oops.
I am not sure -- Republicans control both chambers, and what president considers "horrible" (rather then simply disagreeable), would not have passed.
You are trying to change the subject -- again...
So, you accuse someone of forcing people to work for them. That is a serious charge and you certainly have good evidence handy. Care to provide it? Once this is settled, the rest of the argument is solved...
This -- "what they need" -- is meaningless. What matters is "what they are willing to accept" to work without being forced to.
Once again -- can you substantiate the charge of there being forced labor? I think, you can't -- slavery is not only moraly reprehensible and illegal, it is simply uneconomical. And the fat cats running big corporations know that very well.
And if there is no coercion, then whatever they are paid (3c, or 69c, or whatever) is the fair price of their labor -- by the simple virtue of there being enough people willing to accept it.
Now, that you totally painted yourself into a corner, let me help you, by providing an "easy" target :-)
Bush does not :-) Millions dislike him strongly, but no one accuses him of voting for something, he considers "horrible".
Did not France successfully sue Yahoo! just last year for allowing its auction site to be used for trading Nazi "paraphernalia"?
Name another five. Just five, who voted for something, they considered not merely wrong, but horrible at the time of the voting. Oops.
Gee, you forgot to mention Iran's (mock) endorsement. That said, just seeing these people blast Bush seals the question for me...
Would you accept the national ID card here, if similar measures were introduced along with it?
I would not. It is not the corporations, that bother me, it is the government itself...