Your claimed knowledge & experience of Malaysia should have led you to denouncing their apartheid & discrimination of minorities yet you attempted to minimize the indefensible with half truths. The fact is that fiction of having rights when the government refuses to respect them is worse than having no rights at all as it crushes the hopes of those who were deluded by the lie.
That is a lie as anyone with any experience with Malaysia knows.
Half a century ago it was a "Legal right" for black men to vote & yet we all know that the entrenched power in southern states refused to respect it. Stop pretending that Malaysia respects the rights of it's minorities and apply real reform to sanction the abuses.
If you were truly looking to denounce racism you could not denounce Israel without also denouncing the far more virulent racism endemic in Islamic countries. Nah, you just think that your racism is justified.
We have more than enough beautiful drawings and pie in the sky dreams, these do not advance the end goal of having and regularly using cheap manned access to space. Having built & launched the largest amateur rocket is indeed quite an achievement but gives them nowhere near the credibility of what they needs to change his objective from a still unrealized manned suborbital flight to the moon. If he's doing this for himself & just enjoys building castles in the sky, using his own resources, more power to him. If he's asking for support, achieve manned suborbital before moving on.
You cannot pretend to "Get things done" until you have achieved the promised milestones. Before aiming for the moon he needs to perform a manned suborbital flight to be taken seriously.
Sure they do, like in playground sandboxes where small children can be infected by toxoplasmosis. People in big cities who let their cats outside deserve to be taxed too.
Reading comprehension isn't your strong suit, at least in this instance. I didn't say flushing using "recycled" urine from the egg, I said that the person who wrote that should drink "recycled" urine.
A small efficient black box that could efficiently recycle urine and other polluted sources into drinkable water would truly be a revolution. Instead what we have here is clearly massively over hyped and that idiot deserves to drink piss as an object lesson on just what recycling "all" water sources means.
Do note that we all drink recyled urine, it's just that we have massive waste treatment plants that clean it up before pouring it into rivers where the city downstream uses it as input to their water treatment plant. Apparently the drought in California is pushing some closer to eliminating the fiction that letting if flow in a river for a few miles doesn't make it recycled urine.
Really? Any water source? So the egg also replaces the need for a sewer/septic tank for urine?
I want to see the idiot that used "any" in the summary instead of "many" or "some" drinking the "filtered" output of one of these eggs after I piss in it.
Every business plan based on making "remote regions" pay has failed. "Remote" regions that have the money have already installed infrastructure that will make this expensive and everyone else is too poor to make it worthwhile. Either a government steps in like the USG did for Iridium or this will disappear in short order.
We appear to be fairly close on the causes for the rise of ISIS, my apologies for the "like you".
Leaving out the foreign responsibles (Assad in particular who IMO has the most blame), BC screwed up in being too laxist with a madman, GHWB screwed up by being too humane and not stomping on him hard enough, GWB screwed up by going in with enough to remove the madman but not enough to stabilize & BO screwed up by ruining the late stabilization by abandoning them to the wolves.
Your argument is that because pedophilia has only been criminalized for 120 years but it'd only be hypocritical for a 17th century English pedophile. The rest of the world has evolved and there is no hypocrisy for any westerner born in the last century to call ISIS & it's defenders like you barbaric and depraved for attempting to use 13th century morals that tolerate barbarities like pedophilia and slavery.
"duh" says the man who probably lives in the American south-western desert where his peak usage is during the day and cannot conceive of people living elsewhere.
As boko haram has declared fealty to ISIS, your attempts to distinguish between the two are moot.
As for your attempt at ditinguishing between pedophiles & the fanatics willing to sacrifice themselves for an afterlife with 72 virgins, well given the common age at which they marry in most of the countries in which Isis holds sway (& are no longer virgins), by occidental definitions they are pedophiles.
If you really want to defend Islam, you'd be better off denouncing the extremists rather than futilely nit picking.
I've seen what they do on traffic cameras (my company installed and maintained a few thousand here) so no, the formulation in paintballs will blur and tint but will not blind.
I doubt even a perfect hit on the lens would do more than tint & blur the image. The water + pigments based paint used in paintballs is designed merely to show a hit but not to be particularly opaque.
Consider North Korea, a regime that sank a South Korean frigate les than a degrade ago with no major repercussions, that kidnapped Japanese nationals without the west being able to much of anything. We're NK interested in publishing US kiddie porn over a Chinese Internet connection there is nothing the U.S. could do other than complain.
As for your personal judgement of what is & what isn't "the same", French judges are not private citizens, at least not when they're ordering Google to impose censorship globally.
In what reality do you live in that France is not part of the EU & thus hasn't signed treaties that give the EU the ultimate deciding power?!? Google could pull out of France tomorrow and sell through Ireland without France being able to do anything about it due to the accords on free movement of goods & services.
Again, if the French judges get what they are pushing for, judges in the rest of the EU are going to make everyone regret it.
Oh I do follow your reasoning but you set into motion actions and then don't follow through on understanding the consequences. you advise jumping off a 10 story building because it's a rush without looking ahead to being pulped when you hit the ground.
At first the French judges ordered that google.fr be censured & google obeyed. At present the judges are ordering google.* to be censured. Some pretend that Google could just censure according to geographical origin but then the judges will note that people are using VPN's & proxies to sidestep the censorship and order that they be blocked too. Saying that they won't is denying that the ground is fast approaching.
Google operates in France under local laws, just as it operates in the US, in Thailand, in Turkey, in Saudi Arabia, etc. If France is allowed to impose it's narrow conception of Internet Freedom on the rest of the world then the rest of the world will be able to impose it's views on France.
Pretending that, no this only conditions Google's presence in the EU is equally short-sighted as the EU is FAR from uniform in it's morals and customs. Accepting the French judge's premise of extraterritoriality will mean that Greek/Lettone/Slovakian/Austrian/Spanish/... judges will be able to ban anything that THEY find offensive.
OK then, lets assume that France gets what it wants from Google & establishes precedent. How do you think France is going to react when Turkey uses it force Google to remove all information on the Armenian Genocide that the French National assembly commemorated a few months ago? Not just on google.tk but also on google.fr?
Hint: French politicians would start claiming that Brussels & the EU forced the precedent upon them just as they have done every time they impose regulations without thinking about the consequences.
It claims it thinks... Experience tells us that this is false. What symmetry? "Any technology that could neutralize all weapons would be most welcome."?
As the AC correctly stated, "We were punching people in the face long before we ever hit them with a stick or throw a rock at them. We will still be punching people in the face long after all the lasers, nukes, mines, grenades, and bullets are gone."
Again, you're blithering, the only way to stop humankind from using aggression is to kill us all off.
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Your claimed knowledge & experience of Malaysia should have led you to denouncing their apartheid & discrimination of minorities yet you attempted to minimize the indefensible with half truths. The fact is that fiction of having rights when the government refuses to respect them is worse than having no rights at all as it crushes the hopes of those who were deluded by the lie.
That is a lie as anyone with any experience with Malaysia knows.
Half a century ago it was a "Legal right" for black men to vote & yet we all know that the entrenched power in southern states refused to respect it. Stop pretending that Malaysia respects the rights of it's minorities and apply real reform to sanction the abuses.
If you were truly looking to denounce racism you could not denounce Israel without also denouncing the far more virulent racism endemic in Islamic countries. Nah, you just think that your racism is justified.
We have more than enough beautiful drawings and pie in the sky dreams, these do not advance the end goal of having and regularly using cheap manned access to space. Having built & launched the largest amateur rocket is indeed quite an achievement but gives them nowhere near the credibility of what they needs to change his objective from a still unrealized manned suborbital flight to the moon. If he's doing this for himself & just enjoys building castles in the sky, using his own resources, more power to him. If he's asking for support, achieve manned suborbital before moving on.
You cannot pretend to "Get things done" until you have achieved the promised milestones. Before aiming for the moon he needs to perform a manned suborbital flight to be taken seriously.
Sure they do, like in playground sandboxes where small children can be infected by toxoplasmosis. People in big cities who let their cats outside deserve to be taxed too.
Reading comprehension isn't your strong suit, at least in this instance. I didn't say flushing using "recycled" urine from the egg, I said that the person who wrote that should drink "recycled" urine.
A small efficient black box that could efficiently recycle urine and other polluted sources into drinkable water would truly be a revolution. Instead what we have here is clearly massively over hyped and that idiot deserves to drink piss as an object lesson on just what recycling "all" water sources means.
Do note that we all drink recyled urine, it's just that we have massive waste treatment plants that clean it up before pouring it into rivers where the city downstream uses it as input to their water treatment plant. Apparently the drought in California is pushing some closer to eliminating the fiction that letting if flow in a river for a few miles doesn't make it recycled urine.
Really? Any water source? So the egg also replaces the need for a sewer/septic tank for urine?
I want to see the idiot that used "any" in the summary instead of "many" or "some" drinking the "filtered" output of one of these eggs after I piss in it.
Every business plan based on making "remote regions" pay has failed. "Remote" regions that have the money have already installed infrastructure that will make this expensive and everyone else is too poor to make it worthwhile. Either a government steps in like the USG did for Iridium or this will disappear in short order.
The patch notes lie. Thinkpads are affected too.
We appear to be fairly close on the causes for the rise of ISIS, my apologies for the "like you".
Leaving out the foreign responsibles (Assad in particular who IMO has the most blame), BC screwed up in being too laxist with a madman, GHWB screwed up by being too humane and not stomping on him hard enough, GWB screwed up by going in with enough to remove the madman but not enough to stabilize & BO screwed up by ruining the late stabilization by abandoning them to the wolves.
Your argument is that because pedophilia has only been criminalized for 120 years but it'd only be hypocritical for a 17th century English pedophile. The rest of the world has evolved and there is no hypocrisy for any westerner born in the last century to call ISIS & it's defenders like you barbaric and depraved for attempting to use 13th century morals that tolerate barbarities like pedophilia and slavery.
"duh" says the man who probably lives in the American south-western desert where his peak usage is during the day and cannot conceive of people living elsewhere.
As boko haram has declared fealty to ISIS, your attempts to distinguish between the two are moot.
As for your attempt at ditinguishing between pedophiles & the fanatics willing to sacrifice themselves for an afterlife with 72 virgins, well given the common age at which they marry in most of the countries in which Isis holds sway (& are no longer virgins), by occidental definitions they are pedophiles.
If you really want to defend Islam, you'd be better off denouncing the extremists rather than futilely nit picking.
I've seen what they do on traffic cameras (my company installed and maintained a few thousand here) so no, the formulation in paintballs will blur and tint but will not blind.
Weight.
You've got seagulls too I see...
I doubt even a perfect hit on the lens would do more than tint & blur the image. The water + pigments based paint used in paintballs is designed merely to show a hit but not to be particularly opaque.
Your lack of experience is showing there junior.
Consider North Korea, a regime that sank a South Korean frigate les than a degrade ago with no major repercussions, that kidnapped Japanese nationals without the west being able to much of anything. We're NK interested in publishing US kiddie porn over a Chinese Internet connection there is nothing the U.S. could do other than complain.
As for your personal judgement of what is & what isn't "the same", French judges are not private citizens, at least not when they're ordering Google to impose censorship globally.
Lol thanks
In what reality do you live in that France is not part of the EU & thus hasn't signed treaties that give the EU the ultimate deciding power?!? Google could pull out of France tomorrow and sell through Ireland without France being able to do anything about it due to the accords on free movement of goods & services.
Again, if the French judges get what they are pushing for, judges in the rest of the EU are going to make everyone regret it.
Aaaannnnd he at last comes back into contact with the reality everyone shares instead of building more ever more elaborate pipe dreams...
Oh I do follow your reasoning but you set into motion actions and then don't follow through on understanding the consequences. you advise jumping off a 10 story building because it's a rush without looking ahead to being pulped when you hit the ground.
At first the French judges ordered that google.fr be censured & google obeyed. At present the judges are ordering google.* to be censured. Some pretend that Google could just censure according to geographical origin but then the judges will note that people are using VPN's & proxies to sidestep the censorship and order that they be blocked too. Saying that they won't is denying that the ground is fast approaching.
Google operates in France under local laws, just as it operates in the US, in Thailand, in Turkey, in Saudi Arabia, etc. If France is allowed to impose it's narrow conception of Internet Freedom on the rest of the world then the rest of the world will be able to impose it's views on France.
Pretending that, no this only conditions Google's presence in the EU is equally short-sighted as the EU is FAR from uniform in it's morals and customs. Accepting the French judge's premise of extraterritoriality will mean that Greek/Lettone/Slovakian/Austrian/Spanish/... judges will be able to ban anything that THEY find offensive.
OK then, lets assume that France gets what it wants from Google & establishes precedent. How do you think France is going to react when Turkey uses it force Google to remove all information on the Armenian Genocide that the French National assembly commemorated a few months ago? Not just on google.tk but also on google.fr?
Hint: French politicians would start claiming that Brussels & the EU forced the precedent upon them just as they have done every time they impose regulations without thinking about the consequences.
It claims it thinks... Experience tells us that this is false. What symmetry? "Any technology that could neutralize all weapons would be most welcome."?
As the AC correctly stated, "We were punching people in the face long before we ever hit them with a stick or throw a rock at them. We will still be punching people in the face long after all the lasers, nukes, mines, grenades, and bullets are gone."
Again, you're blithering, the only way to stop humankind from using aggression is to kill us all off.