Lol, maybe thats how it works in your country but tbh, in the Netherlands, usually the more senior and succesful members of parliament end up being promoted to the European Parliament. What you are stating is far from factful
The things you describe sound very familiar, though I do not get these with LSD but by simple exercise of thought, some good parties, music, being in nature. The brain enters a stage of flow, yada yada. For everyone the way to reach this state of mind is different, harder for some then for others. Meditation, drugs, having a great partner, a good conversation or even just a good night of sleep, many roads are leading to Rome. Personally I cherish my ability to fairly easily achieve such a state enough to want to risk my delicate chemical balance with drugs, although easily available here.
The hard problem of consciousness seems like an even more intractable issue than the fundamental problems of physics. How something like consciousness can emerge from matter.
Consciousness seems to be an emergent feature of matter, similar to temperature and actually time itself. It explains why you are more prone to simple diseases when feeling unhappy, your consciousness just being a representation of the state of your brain. A few simple rules in a larger environment seem to commonly lead to emergent features. Quantitzation of energy packets leads to the Sun being able to exist for 9 billion years, it leads to rainbows and the rates of radioactivity as they are. Consciousness seems to be just one more of these emergent features that in itself are nothign special. Quite frankly if you dive far enough into elementary physics with an open mind I don't think you would make the same statement ever again. The Universe is fascinating and its fundamentals also really, really weird.
This is laboratory stage, the hunt for better efficiency is still very useful. Other teams / companies work on industrialization of the newly found processes from a laboratory to create these things for a reasonable price. This is how science has worked for over 100 years now
While the problems you mention do exist, Wilders barely presents any form of solutions. Abolishing passports sounds nice but doesn't do a whole lot, a strong cultural identity is not changed by taking away some paperwork.
You need to realize that most Turks in the Netherlands live their happy life without causing any form of trouble and without being nationalistic supporters of Erdogan. Erdogans main voting base is mostly rural Turkey, not varying degrees of westernized Turks in Europe. This whole (completely planned) thing got started by Erdogan because he is
Most Dutch Turks do not serve in the Turkish military at all as it can be bought off for roughly 7500 EUR. There are no third degrees Dutch Turks that do not speak Dutch. They may speak Turkish most of the time, but they can speak Dutch generally very well.
Integration can work, hell it does even work pretty decently. We've had many more cultures integrate, usually with some frictions. It only works though with enough time and lack of hate. This is where Wilders is simply dangerous, he fuels hate, he rarely debates, doesn't compromize. He wants to assimilate anyone that doesn't fit his exact narrative. The ironic thing is that Wilders is almost as far from a traditional tolerant, well thought, compromizing Dutch as these rioting group of Turks.
Possibly. Also, possibly, nobody gives a shit because every Russian and Chinaman (and everyone else) already knows their governments have bugged their assholes. "The corrupt commie governments are doing corrupt commie shit!" isn't exactly breaking news.
Agree
There is zero evidence WikiLeaks is compromised by Putin.
Agree
There is zero evidence Trump is compromised by Putin.
While I agree he is unlikely to be 'compromised' aka a Putin puppet, there are plenty of signals that he is at least influenced by Putin and the question remains why? All the pre-election contacts, public outcries of admiration, financial interests and lack of financial transparancy on behalf of mr Trump warrant an investigation. Especially considering the minor relevance of Russia for trade. Trump is the one who has been making public statements of support for Russia over and over again, why is his team so focused on it instead of China?
If anything the "Putin is super powerful and can haxx0r the whole planet and everyone's minds!!!" narrative is the Russian propaganda to make Putin seem far, far more powerful than he actually is. In reality, Russia is a paper tiger (bear?) with a GDP smaller than that of Spain.
Also agree
The left needs a boogeyman to distract from their failures and they're happy to buy right into Putin's propaganda and spread it for him.
This is where you completely derail into fantasy. The 'left' (if such a homogeneous thing exists) doesn't need Putin at all as a boogeyman and Putin has done plenty of stuff that anyone with some common sense views him as not just some regular democratically elected head of state but as a dictator that has shown to have no limits to remain in power.
Really no idea where you are getting that last part from but the fundamental difference between a government and a corporation is that the former is setup (usually) to serve its people and is held accountable by them, while the latter is setup to serve itself and its shareholders. That doesn't mean at all corporations are inherently evil, not at all (not a zero sum game), but there is a fundamental difference. Whether your local implementation of this is well functioning and desirable is a different story.
This system only works as long as the government can oversee and control the behaviour of corporations. The production of weapons by a company is not a problem because the gov has a standing army capable of taking that corporation out completely. With encryption a similar balance applies to function optimally, and a government having a braindrain and becoming incapable of properly overseeing related aspects like elections, security systems or nuceal launch codes can become a huge liability.
Considering right across the channel, in that lil' country called 'The Netherlands' there are no problems at all with dredging rivers and channels while still being a full EU member, it seems you are good at inventing stories to blame the EU.
Because it is not that economically viable in the long term, the price of solar and wind has been dropping tremendously in the last few years and is expected to continue to do so. Nuclear has to deal both with a lot of regulations (and rightfully so) and is simply more expensive with the current trends. I have nothing in itself against nuclear, but its simply more expensive. This will hopefully change in the longer run with fusion.
Another point is why would you switch your country from being dependent on another foreign country with oil to replace it with uranium when you can become completely energy independent by using solar combined with the developing energy storage options, or fusion in the future.
There is no evidence that viewing child porn causes the consumer to commit more child abuse, and some evidence that it is preventative.
I'll invite you to name your sources. In 2006 a documentary aired on the Dutch national television that made the case that viewers of childporn have a tendency to view worse and worse forms of it as well as try to create their own as well
Not to mention the fact that often access to childporn on these sites is obtained by submitting your own original content, which was the main driver behind one of the recent largest abuses in The Netherlands
You don't actually understand science, scientific reasoning, or particularly the scientific method. What you do is simply what you are told. You're like a soulless golem, desperate to just prove your conformity by repeating mindless talking points.
Mate you need to have a long hard look in the mirror. Not even sure why you are on Slashdot if you cannot understand the basic science behind climate change
Well keep in mind that most borders are pretty artificial constructs often only decades or a few hundrerd years old where modern day humanity has been around for millenia. Ofcourse it makes some things a bit more manageable, but there is something inherently funny in thinking your responisiblity lies just with those 300 million people in the same zone while thinking 'Screw them' about that community a 100 k away just because they happen to be in a differently named zone. Humanity at its finest
As you could've read from my reply, irrespective of who is a presidential candidate running for an important office or irrespective of who's actually sitting in office making decisions about presidential pardons, there are basic common values to uphold: Disclose the numbers in the first case, tell the truth in the second. I'm able to see the hypocrisy of Obama saying he can't order a pardon for Snowden. Are you even able to do the same for the president elect's financial disclosure and tax payments considering his statements in the past?
His responsibility does not disappear though with just being able to say 'My lawyer doesnt want it', it doesn't work that way or at least everyone who desires transparent governments and reponsible politicians shouldn't
You're candidate for a public position representing over 300 million people You decide to run for president fully knowing it is a custom to release these returns You're aware that your tax returns have been under audit for the last 15 years
If you decide to run fine, but don't come with the I'm sorry theyre under audit excuse. You chose to go down the road, then be a man and own up to it.
It's not 'good schmuck bait', it is a perfectly valid point that people want to know the financial situation of a presidential candidate. Not that another hypocrisy would've mattered for most of his voters, it is healthy to worry about the financials of a man taking one of the most important government positions in the world in the same way it is perfectly healthy to weigh the words of your President on truthness (ergo the "can't pardon him" is a lie).
TPP: was already dead in the EU More shale production: Holy crap if you see that as a good thing Ethics reform: You have a at best discutable guy becoming president without knowing his financials, and you mention ethics reform? Again, holy crap. Two regulations etc: Nice words, often leads to undesirable results. Not bad in principle, but only the actual implementation matters here. Energy grid: Having a good energy grid is vital but its symptomatic that the right wingers sell it 'against attacks' where you simply want a good grid that is capable of dealing with outages etc. The warmongering sits deep in them though:-)
The overall tone of your post is hilarious, have you ever even travelled outside the US?
This fucking forced march into a new Cold War is fucking stupid. The clowns that have been pushing for it since the collapse of the Soviet Union need to be imprisoned at the very least.
Its quite the opposite from a march to a new Cold War, what the stories are implying (and we'll see from January onwards how much meat there is to it) is that Trump and Putin will passively work together to cover eachothers asses. Putin hacks and flamewars the opposition in the US, Trump will let Russia do what it wants. Not stating this is as a fact but based on the events we've seen this looks like the direction we're heading.
Better would be to go one step further and get rid of any district system as it is the main cause you are always ending up with two main candidates. Until you get rid of this system there is a strong disincentive to vote for a third or nth party
This is simply not true, as you can make the reversed case as well that has a much larger impact: Voting fraud with an electoral college can imply that a state gets completely flipped from one party to the other. Especially in states that are close, those fraudulent votes can have an extrapolated effect!
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Lol, maybe thats how it works in your country but tbh, in the Netherlands, usually the more senior and succesful members of parliament end up being promoted to the European Parliament. What you are stating is far from factful
The things you describe sound very familiar, though I do not get these with LSD but by simple exercise of thought, some good parties, music, being in nature. The brain enters a stage of flow, yada yada. For everyone the way to reach this state of mind is different, harder for some then for others. Meditation, drugs, having a great partner, a good conversation or even just a good night of sleep, many roads are leading to Rome. Personally I cherish my ability to fairly easily achieve such a state enough to want to risk my delicate chemical balance with drugs, although easily available here.
The hard problem of consciousness seems like an even more intractable issue than the fundamental problems of physics. How something like consciousness can emerge from matter.
Consciousness seems to be an emergent feature of matter, similar to temperature and actually time itself. It explains why you are more prone to simple diseases when feeling unhappy, your consciousness just being a representation of the state of your brain. A few simple rules in a larger environment seem to commonly lead to emergent features. Quantitzation of energy packets leads to the Sun being able to exist for 9 billion years, it leads to rainbows and the rates of radioactivity as they are. Consciousness seems to be just one more of these emergent features that in itself are nothign special. Quite frankly if you dive far enough into elementary physics with an open mind I don't think you would make the same statement ever again. The Universe is fascinating and its fundamentals also really, really weird.
This is laboratory stage, the hunt for better efficiency is still very useful. Other teams / companies work on industrialization of the newly found processes from a laboratory to create these things for a reasonable price. This is how science has worked for over 100 years now
For a lot of applications of solar space is an very relevant factor
While the problems you mention do exist, Wilders barely presents any form of solutions. Abolishing passports sounds nice but doesn't do a whole lot, a strong cultural identity is not changed by taking away some paperwork.
You need to realize that most Turks in the Netherlands live their happy life without causing any form of trouble and without being nationalistic supporters of Erdogan. Erdogans main voting base is mostly rural Turkey, not varying degrees of westernized Turks in Europe. This whole (completely planned) thing got started by Erdogan because he is
Most Dutch Turks do not serve in the Turkish military at all as it can be bought off for roughly 7500 EUR.
There are no third degrees Dutch Turks that do not speak Dutch. They may speak Turkish most of the time, but they can speak Dutch generally very well.
Integration can work, hell it does even work pretty decently. We've had many more cultures integrate, usually with some frictions. It only works though with enough time and lack of hate. This is where Wilders is simply dangerous, he fuels hate, he rarely debates, doesn't compromize. He wants to assimilate anyone that doesn't fit his exact narrative. The ironic thing is that Wilders is almost as far from a traditional tolerant, well thought, compromizing Dutch as these rioting group of Turks.
Agree
Agree
While I agree he is unlikely to be 'compromised' aka a Putin puppet, there are plenty of signals that he is at least influenced by Putin and the question remains why? All the pre-election contacts, public outcries of admiration, financial interests and lack of financial transparancy on behalf of mr Trump warrant an investigation. Especially considering the minor relevance of Russia for trade. Trump is the one who has been making public statements of support for Russia over and over again, why is his team so focused on it instead of China?
Also agree
The left needs a boogeyman to distract from their failures and they're happy to buy right into Putin's propaganda and spread it for him.
This is where you completely derail into fantasy. The 'left' (if such a homogeneous thing exists) doesn't need Putin at all as a boogeyman and Putin has done plenty of stuff that anyone with some common sense views him as not just some regular democratically elected head of state but as a dictator that has shown to have no limits to remain in power.
Really no idea where you are getting that last part from but the fundamental difference between a government and a corporation is that the former is setup (usually) to serve its people and is held accountable by them, while the latter is setup to serve itself and its shareholders. That doesn't mean at all corporations are inherently evil, not at all (not a zero sum game), but there is a fundamental difference. Whether your local implementation of this is well functioning and desirable is a different story.
This system only works as long as the government can oversee and control the behaviour of corporations. The production of weapons by a company is not a problem because the gov has a standing army capable of taking that corporation out completely. With encryption a similar balance applies to function optimally, and a government having a braindrain and becoming incapable of properly overseeing related aspects like elections, security systems or nuceal launch codes can become a huge liability.
You want companies to be able to outperform governments? Holy crap, from bad to worse
Considering right across the channel, in that lil' country called 'The Netherlands' there are no problems at all with dredging rivers and channels while still being a full EU member, it seems you are good at inventing stories to blame the EU.
Because it is not that economically viable in the long term, the price of solar and wind has been dropping tremendously in the last few years and is expected to continue to do so. Nuclear has to deal both with a lot of regulations (and rightfully so) and is simply more expensive with the current trends. I have nothing in itself against nuclear, but its simply more expensive. This will hopefully change in the longer run with fusion.
Another point is why would you switch your country from being dependent on another foreign country with oil to replace it with uranium when you can become completely energy independent by using solar combined with the developing energy storage options, or fusion in the future.
I'll invite you to name your sources. In 2006 a documentary aired on the Dutch national television that made the case that viewers of childporn have a tendency to view worse and worse forms of it as well as try to create their own as well
Not to mention the fact that often access to childporn on these sites is obtained by submitting your own original content, which was the main driver behind one of the recent largest abuses in The Netherlands
So I call bullshit on your claims to be honest
Mate you need to have a long hard look in the mirror. Not even sure why you are on Slashdot if you cannot understand the basic science behind climate change
Yeah the only coal powered plant operated by Norway is on Spitsbergen, with locally mined coal
Well keep in mind that most borders are pretty artificial constructs often only decades or a few hundrerd years old where modern day humanity has been around for millenia. Ofcourse it makes some things a bit more manageable, but there is something inherently funny in thinking your responisiblity lies just with those 300 million people in the same zone while thinking 'Screw them' about that community a 100 k away just because they happen to be in a differently named zone. Humanity at its finest
As you could've read from my reply, irrespective of who is a presidential candidate running for an important office or irrespective of who's actually sitting in office making decisions about presidential pardons, there are basic common values to uphold: Disclose the numbers in the first case, tell the truth in the second. I'm able to see the hypocrisy of Obama saying he can't order a pardon for Snowden. Are you even able to do the same for the president elect's financial disclosure and tax payments considering his statements in the past?
Do you really find that type of commenting +5 Insightful?
His responsibility does not disappear though with just being able to say 'My lawyer doesnt want it', it doesn't work that way or at least everyone who desires transparent governments and reponsible politicians shouldn't
You're candidate for a public position representing over 300 million people
You decide to run for president fully knowing it is a custom to release these returns
You're aware that your tax returns have been under audit for the last 15 years
If you decide to run fine, but don't come with the I'm sorry theyre under audit excuse. You chose to go down the road, then be a man and own up to it.
It's not 'good schmuck bait', it is a perfectly valid point that people want to know the financial situation of a presidential candidate. Not that another hypocrisy would've mattered for most of his voters, it is healthy to worry about the financials of a man taking one of the most important government positions in the world in the same way it is perfectly healthy to weigh the words of your President on truthness (ergo the "can't pardon him" is a lie).
TPP: was already dead in the EU :-)
More shale production: Holy crap if you see that as a good thing
Ethics reform: You have a at best discutable guy becoming president without knowing his financials, and you mention ethics reform? Again, holy crap.
Two regulations etc: Nice words, often leads to undesirable results. Not bad in principle, but only the actual implementation matters here.
Energy grid: Having a good energy grid is vital but its symptomatic that the right wingers sell it 'against attacks' where you simply want a good grid that is capable of dealing with outages etc. The warmongering sits deep in them though
The overall tone of your post is hilarious, have you ever even travelled outside the US?
The biggest threats to nuclear power plants have been human errors and natural disasters, eco-terrorists don't even come close...
Forcing with a box-cutter at least gives the user the knowledge they've been compromised, so not realyl the same thing.
Do you really think Trump is going to appoint a top climate scientist considering the situation where the GOP controls everything?
Even without the article it is fair to expect some radical changes for the worse in climate and energy policy in 2017...
Its quite the opposite from a march to a new Cold War, what the stories are implying (and we'll see from January onwards how much meat there is to it) is that Trump and Putin will passively work together to cover eachothers asses. Putin hacks and flamewars the opposition in the US, Trump will let Russia do what it wants. Not stating this is as a fact but based on the events we've seen this looks like the direction we're heading.
Better would be to go one step further and get rid of any district system as it is the main cause you are always ending up with two main candidates. Until you get rid of this system there is a strong disincentive to vote for a third or nth party
This is simply not true, as you can make the reversed case as well that has a much larger impact: Voting fraud with an electoral college can imply that a state gets completely flipped from one party to the other. Especially in states that are close, those fraudulent votes can have an extrapolated effect!