I think this will actually break the back of the islamist militants.
If the guys who spend all day playing WoW actually go outside and live life, they might lose their virginity. And then there won't be enough virgins to supply the suicide bombers with their 72.
That is not true actually. If the police ask for your identification and you do not provide it, they can hold you until your identity is verified to make sure you don't have any warrants issued against you.
I mean that there is no geostationary orbit within the moons hill radius. And orbits do not exist outside an objects hill radius, things outside the hill radius by definition orbit something else or are on a non orbital trajectory.
That problem is that there is no way to create a lunar-centric orbit where the upper terminus of the ribbon hovers over a fixed position. So any tether can not be fixed to the ground. So lifting anything with that tether will involve something like a skyhook catch, except it will be at orbital velocities.
And sometimes you have to drive a damn post, and you might regret not having a sledgehammer. There are some things you just can not do without a big truck. And there are even more things that you can't do without some kind of truck. My truck is only a single cab Dakota and I often find myself wishing that I had more truck.
Yes they did. My father maintained ballistic radar and launch control systems, though he himself never had a finger on the button. Many of the others in the church held similar or higher positions. Until at least the late 80's USAF chaplains were still performing training on the morality of nuclear war that prominently featured quotes from revelations. Are they still there? Probably, but I have not been in contact with those people for 25 years and have not even talked to my father in 15 years. At least the nuclear arming codes are no longer a string of 0's.
Because being ignorant harms no one but yourself, forcing your children to be ignorant is not only harmful to future generations but harmful to your children. It is child abuse.
I grew up in an Independent Fundamentalist Baptist church. We were all about killing people. We prayed for Armageddon, and members of my fathers church sought out positions within the USAF Strategic Air Command, so they would have the opportunity to be involved in the extermination of mankind to fulfill gods will. Fortunately I have come to reject the faith of my father and no longer bow before such evil.
No, but the rejection of critical thinking and rationality necessary to defend the belief in the biblical creation story in the face of contrary evidence is something that stunts the mental development of children in all other areas of science and understanding. The belief in biblical creation is itself not the problem, but rather one of the most common causes of the problem. It would also be bad if they were taught to reject physics in defense of a geocentric flat earth story.
Not really. A flat tax that didn't involve deficit spending or abandoning nearly all of our social programs and the military would be in the 25% to 28% range. That is close to what most middle class people already pay in federal taxes.
However, a 25% to 28% cut to the available income of people at the poverty line will dramatically increase both the number of those living in poverty as well as the depth of poverty of those who can no longer make ends meet. This is why any flat tax must be accompanied by a strong social welfare element that mitigates that effect among the working poor.
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Provide evidence to the contrary.
100% of the people I grew up with were creationists who brainwashed their children and used violence to enforce those beliefs.
Completely false. Religion is crammed into childrens heads from birth. It is brain washing.
Uh... The veteran who got arrested/committed after posting on facebook was publicly making actual threats of violence.
Mississippi.
The koran never said they were female virgins.
Apple does not make keyboard phones.
I am not going to buy a smartphone without a keyboard.
I love my Samsung Epic 4g, except for sprints terrible data speeds.
And iPhone made a smartphone that looked and operated much like the preexisting tablet computers.
Its a grid of icons above a bar with button(s) on it.
Its obvious basic functionality, much of which has existed in some form for years or even decades.
That isn't inventive or innovative.
Iran is not run by the taliban. They have their own issues, but they are not the worst of the worst.
I think this will actually break the back of the islamist militants.
If the guys who spend all day playing WoW actually go outside and live life, they might lose their virginity. And then there won't be enough virgins to supply the suicide bombers with their 72.
There are also state laws in many states requiring people to carry identification.
That is not true actually. If the police ask for your identification and you do not provide it, they can hold you until your identity is verified to make sure you don't have any warrants issued against you.
I mean that there is no geostationary orbit within the moons hill radius. And orbits do not exist outside an objects hill radius, things outside the hill radius by definition orbit something else or are on a non orbital trajectory.
I hadn't considered that, it isn't strictly a lunar orbit.
And the length of cable would actually be as long as or longer than the cable required for an earth-geosynchronous orbit elevator (~36,000 km)
The moons rotational period is its orbital period. There is no orbit around the moon that is "geosynchronous".
That problem is that there is no way to create a lunar-centric orbit where the upper terminus of the ribbon hovers over a fixed position. So any tether can not be fixed to the ground. So lifting anything with that tether will involve something like a skyhook catch, except it will be at orbital velocities.
And sometimes you have to drive a damn post, and you might regret not having a sledgehammer. There are some things you just can not do without a big truck. And there are even more things that you can't do without some kind of truck. My truck is only a single cab Dakota and I often find myself wishing that I had more truck.
Why? Psychological screening ensured that these people got in. A nuclear deterrent does not work if you don't have people willing to push the button.
Yes they did. My father maintained ballistic radar and launch control systems, though he himself never had a finger on the button. Many of the others in the church held similar or higher positions. Until at least the late 80's USAF chaplains were still performing training on the morality of nuclear war that prominently featured quotes from revelations. Are they still there? Probably, but I have not been in contact with those people for 25 years and have not even talked to my father in 15 years. At least the nuclear arming codes are no longer a string of 0's.
Because being ignorant harms no one but yourself, forcing your children to be ignorant is not only harmful to future generations but harmful to your children. It is child abuse.
And faith that remains in contradiction to evidence is mental illness.
I grew up in an Independent Fundamentalist Baptist church. We were all about killing people. We prayed for Armageddon, and members of my fathers church sought out positions within the USAF Strategic Air Command, so they would have the opportunity to be involved in the extermination of mankind to fulfill gods will. Fortunately I have come to reject the faith of my father and no longer bow before such evil.
No, but the rejection of critical thinking and rationality necessary to defend the belief in the biblical creation story in the face of contrary evidence is something that stunts the mental development of children in all other areas of science and understanding. The belief in biblical creation is itself not the problem, but rather one of the most common causes of the problem. It would also be bad if they were taught to reject physics in defense of a geocentric flat earth story.
Not really. A flat tax that didn't involve deficit spending or abandoning nearly all of our social programs and the military would be in the 25% to 28% range. That is close to what most middle class people already pay in federal taxes.
However, a 25% to 28% cut to the available income of people at the poverty line will dramatically increase both the number of those living in poverty as well as the depth of poverty of those who can no longer make ends meet. This is why any flat tax must be accompanied by a strong social welfare element that mitigates that effect among the working poor.
If you are going to use sales taxes, you need to tax the things rich people buy as well, financial instruments like stocks and bonds.