Hush. We need to resell the DoD on the SDI program, then give them a mutually exclusive choice between a giant fr*cking laser in the sky, or more drones / the continued support & maintenance thereof.
It will give them something constructive to do (what superpower doesn't need an orbiting weapons platform?), and buy us a few more years without fleets of drones patrolling the homeland (yay liberty). If we point out that the giant laser will probably never be built, but will keep their R&D / jobs programs going a little longer than drone manufacturing, we may have a winner here. It's hard finding employment after you leave the military (as an Officer, skillset mismatch & your rank means nothing in the corporate world can be harsh), so leaving them a massive program they can 'consult' on should keep them fed.
And let's be honest-> It's more manly to win a war.
And it keeps us programmers out of the direct line of fire (I am not a coward, I just don't enjoy being shot at, and my hand-eye coordination is terrible). I just want to postpone having to eat MREs, wearing camouflage clothing, and trying to 'hack' the enemy drones with a Sony Vaio while they bear down on my position until some later time, like another life. I am taking this one off, for personal enrichment & drinking, and would willingly wage a war to preserve that choice.
I mean, the inner libertarian in me partly wants to decry the whole government spending / bankrupting the taxpayer thing, but the pragmatist in me notes that there has been non-stop media attention on the whole 'cyber-warfare' thing since they caught / killed OBL, and the defense complex seems to be having some teething issues with relative peace / justifying their existence since they keep running out of enemies. So, giving them something to occupy their attention with might be a short term necessity. If we manage to survive the paramount financial mess the world has found itself in, we will deal with it at a later time.
They didn't get paid, that's why it's not 'Fair Use.'
Yes, I know, it's insane. But copyright owners, a least a vocal minority of them, have been testing the patience of the rest of the Intellectual Property community. For all their hollering, you'd think they had a bunch of Utility-type Patents with no Prior Art.
The Occupy movement, among other things, (and I will put this charitably) is decrying the lack of employment; their argument appears to be that it's not for lack of want that they are unemployed, but for lack of employment opportunities that they are so. Which arguably, when tied in with the whole 'Wall St. Bailout' thing kind of make sense, in an interpretation of capitalism (the more perfect version of) -> that is, the capital that was 'acquired' from the taxpayer would have, if it had followed the initially projected course (pre-acquisition), annihilated the various financial firms that had their hands caught in the proverbial cookie jar, and, in their deaths (via creative destruction), spawned a whole bunch of new firms / opportunities (to take their places) which these people would have sought gainful employment with (and, arguably, would have preferential access to, as their resumes would not be dirtied with having been at the helm of the previous disaster) -> the firms, of course, would not be strictly financial, but perhaps a fair number of new and differing corporations / companies / small-businesses of every color. What we had here, instead, by virtue of our political 'friends,' was a 'Reverse Phoenix' -> the sacrifice of the new and young, for the sake of the old and decrepit. Throwing sailors' bodies under the ship to keep it afloat, and what a price we've paid!
The only major problem here is that Mr Market (the personification of the market, typically the creative destructive arm thereof, though not limited to) doesn't appear done with the US. Those old firms, the ones which manufactured this sacrifice...he appears to want them, and is willing to destroy the country to get them. See the fun with Greece for a better example -> not content with the bailout they received, the old firms have been holding Greece for ransom; they bought into the bonds, knowing that Greece would default, but figured that with their might, they could force the ECB to pay them off. This whole nonsense with a slow default is only so the Europeans can scramble to find a way to prevent a Credit Default Swap, which would annihilate them all.
I couldn't for the life of me, figure out why the Europeans wouldn't just let Greece fail; they knew it, as well as the rest of us, that Greece couldn't repay that money, yet they were handing it to them in briefcases. It turns out that these firms, typically US in origin, had setup a game, just like the mortgage crisis in the US ("Heads we win, Tails you lose"), with the Greek bonds; and the Europeans, while being asked to pay off these firms (something like two Euros for every one Euro on the face of the bond), have been slowly trying to disable that poison pill.
And Mr. Market has been very slowly working his way, through all their defenses, to claim them. They must die.
Yes, I've seen that kind of 'appliance' thinking in action.
That's why we have a weird schism. One generation which bankrupted us and couldn't fix a toaster to save their lives, another which could write a fair number of new OSs but is hamstrung on the financial issue, and another generation immediately thereafter which has acquired both generation's mistakes and understands neither finances nor technology. W00F!
That depends. There are a number of things you can do with it, as highlighted by others earlier. Probably even more useful than controlling a satellite.
Had I access to the thing, and were I in a particularly dark mood (complete with super villain costume), I'd try to calculate some re-entry trajectories that would put the thing somewhere where people would care, with a quiet fax to NASA asking for more "ammunition."
I mean, it would probably take a super-computer to calculate the re-entry to the point where you could get it within 100 hundred miles of your target, but yeah, a pissed off power might be able to pull it off. And hey, if you somehow manage to slap the Eiffel Tower or the Statue of Liberty with it, people will care.
Or I guess I could just find a way to remotely disconnect + pilot that Russian re-entry vehicle. Not quite the ISS, but easier to fly. There's a fair chance that if I hooked up the feeds to something approaching real-time, and had a general idea of what I was doing, you could actually hit something with it.
Or I could remotely vent the ISS atmosphere to space. You know how much NASA hates losing astronauts.
Or, if I controlled a space-faring power, I could dock my own vehicle to the ISS.
Or I could introduce intermittent errors to the ISS, to slowly drive the astronauts insane. They'll never know if there's a wiring fault, or someone screwing with them, when it comes to the lamps frying their experiments (gotta sleep sometime, and there's too much to do to task one of your friends to watch them) and what not.
Long list of things you could do with it, had you enough time, motivation, and general resources. Hell, NASA could trash the thing themselves, if they prescribed to the Machiavellian way of doing things, claim it's a national tragedy, and demand that Congress put a newer, bigger one into orbit, or "the terrorists will win." Just be sure to keep the wheels on the boat (ISS) long enough for your lone astronaut to get off that day (30 seconds to make it to the lifeboat).
And yes, while many countries will condemn the action, a fair number of smaller ones / various freedom fighter groups would probably cherish the outcome. But it's unlikely any of this will ever happen: you need a closet full of Einsteins & Feynmans to do it, and those kinds of people already have competitive bides for their services (window office, nice pay, no persistent fear of G-men knocking down their doors and saying "There he is!").
Am I a mal-adjusted individual? No, I've just worked in IT for too long. It's always amazing to me how some people manage to get new laptops, every 6 months, almost to the dot.
Prayers, sacraments, rituals...there is an almost infinite supply of them, and costs are very low. How much do some wine and crackers cost? Nothing. You can take care of a huge congregation for $100 / week, while bringing in $$$$$. It's very cost effective.
Babe, when a bunch of cheesy burrito eating overweight geeks with bad skin acne manage to plan / design something with "real world consequences," you've had it coming for a long time. Feel me? You deserve it at that point.
You're basically dealing with some of the more intelligent, less violent members of society. If you manage to actually get them to the breaking point where they are loading up on nitro-fertilizer and EM weaponry (homemade rail-guns), your society has gone waaaaaaaaaaaay over the cliff. That's your own society's immune system trying desperately to fight back an infection, to keep itself alive.
There aren't the people the military types want to engage. Not because they fear them, but because they're the tech geeks designing their next gen weapons. They kind of need them on their side, and mowing them down is likely to result in some defections.
Yes, I'm sure the Lord will look kindly upon her, after offing her sisters throughout the ages...like the female equivalent to Cain here, except Cain stopped with Abel. Girl needs to fess up (about her age, two centuries younger than she supposedly is), get some help (from her friends, assuming she has any), and get her head on straight (ask herself seriously, what is she doing with her life?).
They make you swear it, but a fair number of the clergy are turned out every year for violating that very promise. Sometimes for even doing it with women (Potshot, 10 points). And just because you're having sex with women doesn't mean you'll be turned out: if you do it with the tallest hat they have available, you can claim its on behalf of the Almighty, and keep your job.
But yes, the rest of a job is a bit of a downer. If I wanted to do something equally (possibly) worthless with my time, I'd try to flag down the Almighty himself (everyone else has tried either pissing him off, or sucking up to him, and neither has worked, IMHO. I'm thinking inviting him for a drink might work better, especially if it's your treat). I have it on good intuition that he likes wine, but might go for a brew / something harder is offered.
I'd be a tad more worried about a god who's planning to give you a white robe and throw you under an altar ("Just wait a little longer" -> like all eternity), or put a fair amount of mankind into a blender for a blood smoothy. And your favorite lawyer / enemy keeps escaping every thousand years? Why?
"Robe washed white in the blood of the lamb." -> that would make them stained red, not bleach them white (I could be wrong here, but I am fairly certain, having worked in a morgue, that blood stains white things red; unless JC has white blood, at which point I retract my original point). Seriously, they say JC / YHWH hates Molech and his abominations, but there are times when its difficult to tell them apart.
Ah, here we are: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merovingian_dynasty
"Monasteries and episcopal seats were shrewdly awarded to elites who supported the dynasty. Extensive parcels of land were donated to monasteries to exempt those lands from royal taxation and to preserve them within the family."
It was an attempt to get around tax laws. I remember it being a funny scenario like that, Royals living on Church lands for some reason or another.
AMD's strategy was to switch to milling out 2 cores or so per unit, aka the Bulldozer architecture, and then stitching them together into a processor. I guess it makes the design more compact / easier to fab.
Well then, let's do something about that. Everyone, we're going to begin passing around a hat to put money in. All those in favor of building a clone / copy of whatever CERN is currently sporting for the simple reason of being able to check their figures, put something in. All those who are not in favor of building a clone / copy of whatever CERN is currently sporting, do not place anything in (or take anything out, we're watching:-) ).
Next we can vote on where to place it. Right next to CERN, with a banner that says "Ours is slightly bigger!" or some other country that is currently considered popular enough to host it. Hell, if we're really desperate, we can probably save some money by reusing that infrastructure in Texas that was halfway built for some other super-collider. Or we could build it in Japan / China (potential reuse in the near future as an optional weapon for Gundam).
And how the hell does Firefox have every possible spelling combination for "super-collider" except the right one?
And that's why I think the peasantry should be forced to place thatched-roofs on their cottages, and be forced to address me as "Sir Bubbles, third-in-line to the throne of Lincoln-shire." I also think that the townspeople, when they aren't busy singing their quaint little songs as they work the fields, should be forced to watch me rub lime-green gelatin all over my body, and play with my moobs (it always helps to have an extra pair of hands).
We don't always get what we want...occasionally, as it happens, for a good reason.
Hmm. The article doesn't say whether it was the newly rich, or the older wealthy who are primarily responsible for this behavior. That distinction might tell us something: whether the people who acquired their wealthy recently did so by being rule-breakers (of the "bad" sort), or if the children of older money had grown up thinking that the servants made comfortable foot-stools, and should be treated as such.
The vast majority of Schedule 1 drugs...not so much. Their effects are overblown, and what is often attributed to them should actually be attributed to environmental upbringing. However, blaming something like LSD for your friend suddenly going nuts is easy, especially when you don't know that your friend is reliving (because of the LSD) his foster parents abusing him or something to that effect.
To put things in better perspective -> how many of you have smoked weed? How many of you have watched "Dude, Where's My Car?" How many of you would say the scene with the dog, the chimes, and the rainbows matches what you've experienced on weed? That's exactly how it is for "harder" drugs -> a whole bunch of made up bullsh*t force-fed to the populace, who are too scared to think for themselves. In all honesty, the "harder" drugs are usually not as bad as the "softer" drugs; what makes them "hard" is that they are "hard" to find, not that their effects are necessarily stronger.
Strap on a pair, and check out things for yourself. Even the vast majority of the LEOs have done so themselves (that bit, at least, is respectable about them (not being ruled by fear); the part where they KNOW these drugs aren't as dangerous as they're made out to be, and yet still arrest / put on DARE after-school specials is the hypocritical part). And as part of the standard disclaimer, do some research before you do the drug...and choose some pleasant surroundings.
On another topic, there are a few other (non-Scheduled) drugs that are in regular use which will screw you up sideways. Put one of them in someone's coffee, and they won't be right in the head for years...they're all perfectly legal (you'd never guess), and probably wouldn't even show up on a Tox screen.
"True global warming "believers" don't believe, they looked at the available evidence and weighed the opinions of experts and came to a conclusion based on facts and consensus."
As do a fair number of people on the other side (review the facts, and come up wanting). To believe that your side is made up of all the scientists, and the other side purely people with "faith" is to deny that the other side, in an objective manner, could possibly have any merit to their argument. It's the same argument religious fanatics use when screaming about how their god(s) are the only one(s), and declaring that anyone who ventures anything other than that belief is wrong, and thus not worth listening to.
"I don't know which side you fall on, so this isn't directed to you, but my personal theory is that people who dismiss the international scientific consensus on global warming have faith that it's not happening, and figure that the "believers" are also arguing based on faith."
You use that word, consensus, and I do not think you understand what it means. There have, many times, in the due course of history, been scientific consensuses about any number of topics; a number of them have, thus far, been proven, and a number of them, thus far, proven wrong. As such, that word is not a form of currency that gives your argument or side any worth.
"I refuse to play into this. Undoubtedly there are people that "believe" in global warming, and they tend to do things like buy Priuses to replace their 25 MPG Toyotas."
Agreed. If the numbers and models for global warming are indeed, accurate, we would have to be doing a lot more than switching to hybrid / electric vehicles to stop it. To get things under control, you'd have to kill off a fair amount of your own population, as attempts to adjust lifestyles would probably come up short. Directing your countries nuclear arms against your most populous cities, with mandatory sterilization for three quarters of the remaining populace, and a complete shutdown of international commerce / travel might become necessary.
However, the human genome wouldn't survive this change. That is to say, the human genome right now is a bit fragile, thus wholesale elimination of various members, even troublemakers & criminals, would not serve the long term interest (preserving the human race). But I digress, this information will probably never make it to the people who need to hear it the most.
Bah. I, for one, look forward to any sort of global warming, provided the warmest region does not exceed 160 F in the shade.
All I need are for those polar ice caps to melt, I am *this* close to having a beach on my front lawn. Mind you, we'll lose New Jersey & California in the process, but that may be a welcome trade (I get rid of Jersey Shore and the MPAA / RIAA in one go).
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Hush. We need to resell the DoD on the SDI program, then give them a mutually exclusive choice between a giant fr*cking laser in the sky, or more drones / the continued support & maintenance thereof.
It will give them something constructive to do (what superpower doesn't need an orbiting weapons platform?), and buy us a few more years without fleets of drones patrolling the homeland (yay liberty). If we point out that the giant laser will probably never be built, but will keep their R&D / jobs programs going a little longer than drone manufacturing, we may have a winner here. It's hard finding employment after you leave the military (as an Officer, skillset mismatch & your rank means nothing in the corporate world can be harsh), so leaving them a massive program they can 'consult' on should keep them fed.
And let's be honest-> It's more manly to win a war.
And it keeps us programmers out of the direct line of fire (I am not a coward, I just don't enjoy being shot at, and my hand-eye coordination is terrible). I just want to postpone having to eat MREs, wearing camouflage clothing, and trying to 'hack' the enemy drones with a Sony Vaio while they bear down on my position until some later time, like another life. I am taking this one off, for personal enrichment & drinking, and would willingly wage a war to preserve that choice.
I mean, the inner libertarian in me partly wants to decry the whole government spending / bankrupting the taxpayer thing, but the pragmatist in me notes that there has been non-stop media attention on the whole 'cyber-warfare' thing since they caught / killed OBL, and the defense complex seems to be having some teething issues with relative peace / justifying their existence since they keep running out of enemies. So, giving them something to occupy their attention with might be a short term necessity. If we manage to survive the paramount financial mess the world has found itself in, we will deal with it at a later time.
They didn't get paid, that's why it's not 'Fair Use.'
Yes, I know, it's insane. But copyright owners, a least a vocal minority of them, have been testing the patience of the rest of the Intellectual Property community. For all their hollering, you'd think they had a bunch of Utility-type Patents with no Prior Art.
The Occupy movement, among other things, (and I will put this charitably) is decrying the lack of employment; their argument appears to be that it's not for lack of want that they are unemployed, but for lack of employment opportunities that they are so. Which arguably, when tied in with the whole 'Wall St. Bailout' thing kind of make sense, in an interpretation of capitalism (the more perfect version of) -> that is, the capital that was 'acquired' from the taxpayer would have, if it had followed the initially projected course (pre-acquisition), annihilated the various financial firms that had their hands caught in the proverbial cookie jar, and, in their deaths (via creative destruction), spawned a whole bunch of new firms / opportunities (to take their places) which these people would have sought gainful employment with (and, arguably, would have preferential access to, as their resumes would not be dirtied with having been at the helm of the previous disaster) -> the firms, of course, would not be strictly financial, but perhaps a fair number of new and differing corporations / companies / small-businesses of every color. What we had here, instead, by virtue of our political 'friends,' was a 'Reverse Phoenix' -> the sacrifice of the new and young, for the sake of the old and decrepit. Throwing sailors' bodies under the ship to keep it afloat, and what a price we've paid!
The only major problem here is that Mr Market (the personification of the market, typically the creative destructive arm thereof, though not limited to) doesn't appear done with the US. Those old firms, the ones which manufactured this sacrifice...he appears to want them, and is willing to destroy the country to get them. See the fun with Greece for a better example -> not content with the bailout they received, the old firms have been holding Greece for ransom; they bought into the bonds, knowing that Greece would default, but figured that with their might, they could force the ECB to pay them off. This whole nonsense with a slow default is only so the Europeans can scramble to find a way to prevent a Credit Default Swap, which would annihilate them all.
I couldn't for the life of me, figure out why the Europeans wouldn't just let Greece fail; they knew it, as well as the rest of us, that Greece couldn't repay that money, yet they were handing it to them in briefcases. It turns out that these firms, typically US in origin, had setup a game, just like the mortgage crisis in the US ("Heads we win, Tails you lose"), with the Greek bonds; and the Europeans, while being asked to pay off these firms (something like two Euros for every one Euro on the face of the bond), have been slowly trying to disable that poison pill.
And Mr. Market has been very slowly working his way, through all their defenses, to claim them. They must die.
Yes, I've seen that kind of 'appliance' thinking in action.
That's why we have a weird schism. One generation which bankrupted us and couldn't fix a toaster to save their lives, another which could write a fair number of new OSs but is hamstrung on the financial issue, and another generation immediately thereafter which has acquired both generation's mistakes and understands neither finances nor technology. W00F!
That depends. There are a number of things you can do with it, as highlighted by others earlier. Probably even more useful than controlling a satellite.
Had I access to the thing, and were I in a particularly dark mood (complete with super villain costume), I'd try to calculate some re-entry trajectories that would put the thing somewhere where people would care, with a quiet fax to NASA asking for more "ammunition."
I mean, it would probably take a super-computer to calculate the re-entry to the point where you could get it within 100 hundred miles of your target, but yeah, a pissed off power might be able to pull it off. And hey, if you somehow manage to slap the Eiffel Tower or the Statue of Liberty with it, people will care.
Or I guess I could just find a way to remotely disconnect + pilot that Russian re-entry vehicle. Not quite the ISS, but easier to fly. There's a fair chance that if I hooked up the feeds to something approaching real-time, and had a general idea of what I was doing, you could actually hit something with it.
Or I could remotely vent the ISS atmosphere to space. You know how much NASA hates losing astronauts.
Or, if I controlled a space-faring power, I could dock my own vehicle to the ISS.
Or I could introduce intermittent errors to the ISS, to slowly drive the astronauts insane. They'll never know if there's a wiring fault, or someone screwing with them, when it comes to the lamps frying their experiments (gotta sleep sometime, and there's too much to do to task one of your friends to watch them) and what not.
Long list of things you could do with it, had you enough time, motivation, and general resources. Hell, NASA could trash the thing themselves, if they prescribed to the Machiavellian way of doing things, claim it's a national tragedy, and demand that Congress put a newer, bigger one into orbit, or "the terrorists will win." Just be sure to keep the wheels on the boat (ISS) long enough for your lone astronaut to get off that day (30 seconds to make it to the lifeboat).
And yes, while many countries will condemn the action, a fair number of smaller ones / various freedom fighter groups would probably cherish the outcome. But it's unlikely any of this will ever happen: you need a closet full of Einsteins & Feynmans to do it, and those kinds of people already have competitive bides for their services (window office, nice pay, no persistent fear of G-men knocking down their doors and saying "There he is!").
Am I a mal-adjusted individual? No, I've just worked in IT for too long. It's always amazing to me how some people manage to get new laptops, every 6 months, almost to the dot.
Meh, it's more likely they are looking for "Wikileaks, impeachment, campaign donation, sub-committee, fiat currency, universal healthcare."
You know, to find the real terrorists.
Actually, you have to admire them for that bit.
Prayers, sacraments, rituals...there is an almost infinite supply of them, and costs are very low. How much do some wine and crackers cost? Nothing. You can take care of a huge congregation for $100 / week, while bringing in $$$$$. It's very cost effective.
Babe, when a bunch of cheesy burrito eating overweight geeks with bad skin acne manage to plan / design something with "real world consequences," you've had it coming for a long time. Feel me? You deserve it at that point.
You're basically dealing with some of the more intelligent, less violent members of society. If you manage to actually get them to the breaking point where they are loading up on nitro-fertilizer and EM weaponry (homemade rail-guns), your society has gone waaaaaaaaaaaay over the cliff. That's your own society's immune system trying desperately to fight back an infection, to keep itself alive.
There aren't the people the military types want to engage. Not because they fear them, but because they're the tech geeks designing their next gen weapons. They kind of need them on their side, and mowing them down is likely to result in some defections.
You assume he doesn't want that.
But no, you're right. God's idea of telling you you're wrong is to drop a meteor on you. Or something worse...
Yes, I'm sure the Lord will look kindly upon her, after offing her sisters throughout the ages...like the female equivalent to Cain here, except Cain stopped with Abel. Girl needs to fess up (about her age, two centuries younger than she supposedly is), get some help (from her friends, assuming she has any), and get her head on straight (ask herself seriously, what is she doing with her life?).
They make you swear it, but a fair number of the clergy are turned out every year for violating that very promise. Sometimes for even doing it with women (Potshot, 10 points). And just because you're having sex with women doesn't mean you'll be turned out: if you do it with the tallest hat they have available, you can claim its on behalf of the Almighty, and keep your job.
But yes, the rest of a job is a bit of a downer. If I wanted to do something equally (possibly) worthless with my time, I'd try to flag down the Almighty himself (everyone else has tried either pissing him off, or sucking up to him, and neither has worked, IMHO. I'm thinking inviting him for a drink might work better, especially if it's your treat). I have it on good intuition that he likes wine, but might go for a brew / something harder is offered.
I'd be a tad more worried about a god who's planning to give you a white robe and throw you under an altar ("Just wait a little longer" -> like all eternity), or put a fair amount of mankind into a blender for a blood smoothy. And your favorite lawyer / enemy keeps escaping every thousand years? Why?
"Robe washed white in the blood of the lamb." -> that would make them stained red, not bleach them white (I could be wrong here, but I am fairly certain, having worked in a morgue, that blood stains white things red; unless JC has white blood, at which point I retract my original point). Seriously, they say JC / YHWH hates Molech and his abominations, but there are times when its difficult to tell them apart.
Yes. Once you marry, your SO becomes your god, or something to that effect.
Still, it seems rather unclear: why do people continue to worship JC / YHWH after they marry if their SO is their god? Sh*t does not make sense.
Ah, here we are: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merovingian_dynasty
"Monasteries and episcopal seats were shrewdly awarded to elites who supported the dynasty. Extensive parcels of land were donated to monasteries to exempt those lands from royal taxation and to preserve them within the family."
It was an attempt to get around tax laws. I remember it being a funny scenario like that, Royals living on Church lands for some reason or another.
*shrugs*
AMD's strategy was to switch to milling out 2 cores or so per unit, aka the Bulldozer architecture, and then stitching them together into a processor. I guess it makes the design more compact / easier to fab.
And, as always, so can many of AMD's latest offerings (exceed 4Ghz).
Well then, let's do something about that. Everyone, we're going to begin passing around a hat to put money in. All those in favor of building a clone / copy of whatever CERN is currently sporting for the simple reason of being able to check their figures, put something in. All those who are not in favor of building a clone / copy of whatever CERN is currently sporting, do not place anything in (or take anything out, we're watching :-) ).
Next we can vote on where to place it. Right next to CERN, with a banner that says "Ours is slightly bigger!" or some other country that is currently considered popular enough to host it. Hell, if we're really desperate, we can probably save some money by reusing that infrastructure in Texas that was halfway built for some other super-collider. Or we could build it in Japan / China (potential reuse in the near future as an optional weapon for Gundam).
And how the hell does Firefox have every possible spelling combination for "super-collider" except the right one?
And that's why I think the peasantry should be forced to place thatched-roofs on their cottages, and be forced to address me as "Sir Bubbles, third-in-line to the throne of Lincoln-shire." I also think that the townspeople, when they aren't busy singing their quaint little songs as they work the fields, should be forced to watch me rub lime-green gelatin all over my body, and play with my moobs (it always helps to have an extra pair of hands).
We don't always get what we want...occasionally, as it happens, for a good reason.
*blinks* I think it was his opinion, not an academic paper.
So, when's the last time you got out of the lab? :-p
Hmm. The article doesn't say whether it was the newly rich, or the older wealthy who are primarily responsible for this behavior. That distinction might tell us something: whether the people who acquired their wealthy recently did so by being rule-breakers (of the "bad" sort), or if the children of older money had grown up thinking that the servants made comfortable foot-stools, and should be treated as such.
The vast majority of Schedule 1 drugs...not so much. Their effects are overblown, and what is often attributed to them should actually be attributed to environmental upbringing. However, blaming something like LSD for your friend suddenly going nuts is easy, especially when you don't know that your friend is reliving (because of the LSD) his foster parents abusing him or something to that effect.
To put things in better perspective -> how many of you have smoked weed? How many of you have watched "Dude, Where's My Car?" How many of you would say the scene with the dog, the chimes, and the rainbows matches what you've experienced on weed? That's exactly how it is for "harder" drugs -> a whole bunch of made up bullsh*t force-fed to the populace, who are too scared to think for themselves. In all honesty, the "harder" drugs are usually not as bad as the "softer" drugs; what makes them "hard" is that they are "hard" to find, not that their effects are necessarily stronger.
Strap on a pair, and check out things for yourself. Even the vast majority of the LEOs have done so themselves (that bit, at least, is respectable about them (not being ruled by fear); the part where they KNOW these drugs aren't as dangerous as they're made out to be, and yet still arrest / put on DARE after-school specials is the hypocritical part). And as part of the standard disclaimer, do some research before you do the drug...and choose some pleasant surroundings.
On another topic, there are a few other (non-Scheduled) drugs that are in regular use which will screw you up sideways. Put one of them in someone's coffee, and they won't be right in the head for years...they're all perfectly legal (you'd never guess), and probably wouldn't even show up on a Tox screen.
Ask them, in oh so many words, when they think they will have completed their studies of crime and criminals, and will have solved the problem.
"True global warming "believers" don't believe, they looked at the available evidence and weighed the opinions of experts and came to a conclusion based on facts and consensus."
As do a fair number of people on the other side (review the facts, and come up wanting). To believe that your side is made up of all the scientists, and the other side purely people with "faith" is to deny that the other side, in an objective manner, could possibly have any merit to their argument. It's the same argument religious fanatics use when screaming about how their god(s) are the only one(s), and declaring that anyone who ventures anything other than that belief is wrong, and thus not worth listening to.
"I don't know which side you fall on, so this isn't directed to you, but my personal theory is that people who dismiss the international scientific consensus on global warming have faith that it's not happening, and figure that the "believers" are also arguing based on faith."
You use that word, consensus, and I do not think you understand what it means. There have, many times, in the due course of history, been scientific consensuses about any number of topics; a number of them have, thus far, been proven, and a number of them, thus far, proven wrong. As such, that word is not a form of currency that gives your argument or side any worth.
"I refuse to play into this. Undoubtedly there are people that "believe" in global warming, and they tend to do things like buy Priuses to replace their 25 MPG Toyotas."
Agreed. If the numbers and models for global warming are indeed, accurate, we would have to be doing a lot more than switching to hybrid / electric vehicles to stop it. To get things under control, you'd have to kill off a fair amount of your own population, as attempts to adjust lifestyles would probably come up short. Directing your countries nuclear arms against your most populous cities, with mandatory sterilization for three quarters of the remaining populace, and a complete shutdown of international commerce / travel might become necessary.
However, the human genome wouldn't survive this change. That is to say, the human genome right now is a bit fragile, thus wholesale elimination of various members, even troublemakers & criminals, would not serve the long term interest (preserving the human race). But I digress, this information will probably never make it to the people who need to hear it the most.
Most != many. It's more along the lines of the prevailing theory of the day...the point being that the theories are often mutable.
And again, as a scientist, the public sees more of a consensus that what actually exists in most fields of science.
But then, feel free to argue that I'm wrong. I have a hypothesis that you will.
Bah. I, for one, look forward to any sort of global warming, provided the warmest region does not exceed 160 F in the shade.
All I need are for those polar ice caps to melt, I am *this* close to having a beach on my front lawn. Mind you, we'll lose New Jersey & California in the process, but that may be a welcome trade (I get rid of Jersey Shore and the MPAA / RIAA in one go).
Who's with me?