No, the proper thing to say is "Hey, I just realized that there is no way I could carry out a threat over the internet, even if I'm accually cabable of beating up someone! In fact, I probably feel the need to threaten complete strangers because of my own lack of confidence!"
It's a different sort of violence. You have bullying violence, commited primarily by brutes who feel stupid and take their anger out on other people.
Then you have criminal mastermind violence, commited by people who are smart enough to know what they're doing, and have some reason for doing it. The columbine shooters killed for vengeance, serial killers kill because of insanity, and Hitler, well, he happened to think only aryans were human.
Here's a question for you: Why would China nuke us? And if they wanted to, why would they allow themselves to be blamed for it? ICBMs can be traced, clouds of atoms that used to be a suitcase in a pile of rubble that used to be a city can't.
What does it matter if it takes centuries to flood coastal cities? Floods can do plenty of damage whithout sudden torrents of water. It's not like, given enough time, Manhattan will grow legs and head for higher ground.
1. There is no certainty about any of this. We are very bad at predicting weather, and still understand very little of it.
2. The computer models that people keep talking about don't work. If you give them data up to 1970 and ask them to predict 1990, they are way off. Not even close. This gives one reason to believe that we should not trust what it says about 2020 when we give it current data.
3. The land measurement records show a warmer earth now than 120 years ago... but most of the warming took place prior to 1940. This was followed by a couple decades of cooling! Then it started warming up again. The net change for those 120 years? Less than 2 degrees F.
You fail to realize that 1, a change of 2F is significant, and 2, global warming has already started; the future alone is not the issue.
The time you speak of was a significant number of millions of years ago, long before our time. Climate change over millions of years is one thing, but climate change over 50-100 years is something else entireley.
>Geeks might, on average, have a harder time keeping clean, but these types of clothes is NOT an excuse for letting things slip even further.
*bad grammar alert*
>Nothing beats a good healthy shower and a bar of soap!
Think carefully before saying nothing, for a way acompanies every way. The way may not be found today, or tommorow, but some day, humanity will cast off the shakles of soap and water, and delare in one voice, "We shall ever bathe again!"
Any animal massive enough to affect the motion of tectonic plates would
a. Be too big to fit the lake(or be dense enough to create its own gravity well) and
b. Probably break a hole in the plate anyway.
Ah, I remember Oregon Trail. But to be more on topic, I suggest getting kids interesteed in computers. They can learn more on their own than you can teach them.
Why the hell do you think Kennedy was responsible for the Cuban missle crisis? And if the US and USSR were stupid enough to risk M.A.D. in the first place, why would they suddenly stop?
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No, the proper thing to say is "Hey, I just realized that there is no way I could carry out a threat over the internet, even if I'm accually cabable of beating up someone! In fact, I probably feel the need to threaten complete strangers because of my own lack of confidence!"
You hit the nail on the head(or whatever that saying is): An artificial sense of urgency does wonders for your concentration.
It's a different sort of violence. You have bullying violence, commited primarily by brutes who feel stupid and take their anger out on other people. Then you have criminal mastermind violence, commited by people who are smart enough to know what they're doing, and have some reason for doing it. The columbine shooters killed for vengeance, serial killers kill because of insanity, and Hitler, well, he happened to think only aryans were human.
There's a big difference between porn and lack of censorship.
The Problem with spinning off a channel is that cable companies might not carry it. It's not like every channel is available everywhere.
You're the third person, by my count. Square was going out of buisiness, so it was going to be final, etc. etc. In conclusion, don't be redundant.
The funny and/or scary thing is that someone's accually making that show, I think.
So if China is as stupid as the US, they'll kill their own economy?
Here's a question for you: Why would China nuke us? And if they wanted to, why would they allow themselves to be blamed for it? ICBMs can be traced, clouds of atoms that used to be a suitcase in a pile of rubble that used to be a city can't.
In my experience, thick headed people have no problem ignoring logic, or data.
What does it matter if it takes centuries to flood coastal cities? Floods can do plenty of damage whithout sudden torrents of water. It's not like, given enough time, Manhattan will grow legs and head for higher ground.
Expensive equipment that may not affect a problem that may or may not result in the extinction of the human race.
1. There is no certainty about any of this. We are very bad at predicting weather, and still understand very little of it. 2. The computer models that people keep talking about don't work. If you give them data up to 1970 and ask them to predict 1990, they are way off. Not even close. This gives one reason to believe that we should not trust what it says about 2020 when we give it current data. 3. The land measurement records show a warmer earth now than 120 years ago... but most of the warming took place prior to 1940. This was followed by a couple decades of cooling! Then it started warming up again. The net change for those 120 years? Less than 2 degrees F. You fail to realize that 1, a change of 2F is significant, and 2, global warming has already started; the future alone is not the issue.
The time you speak of was a significant number of millions of years ago, long before our time. Climate change over millions of years is one thing, but climate change over 50-100 years is something else entireley.
Don't forget that in the 1920's, someone at the US patent office said "everything that can be invented, has been invented."
What "friggen political agenda" is that? The massive multinational conspiracy to cause a slight dip in corporate profits?
>Geeks might, on average, have a harder time keeping clean, but these types of clothes is NOT an excuse for letting things slip even further. *bad grammar alert* >Nothing beats a good healthy shower and a bar of soap! Think carefully before saying nothing, for a way acompanies every way. The way may not be found today, or tommorow, but some day, humanity will cast off the shakles of soap and water, and delare in one voice, "We shall ever bathe again!"
Indeed. I can't believe how many people thought that was plausible.
Any animal massive enough to affect the motion of tectonic plates would a. Be too big to fit the lake(or be dense enough to create its own gravity well) and b. Probably break a hole in the plate anyway.
Rolling down the floor?
And your point is...
I've heard there are TIE Fighter and Apache helicopter heirogliphs too.
Ah, I remember Oregon Trail. But to be more on topic, I suggest getting kids interesteed in computers. They can learn more on their own than you can teach them.
Why the hell do you think Kennedy was responsible for the Cuban missle crisis? And if the US and USSR were stupid enough to risk M.A.D. in the first place, why would they suddenly stop?
If the number one freaks you out, you've got problems.