Not to mention the safety hazards from accidents, explosions, toxic fumes from burning plastic, etc. Or even just natural disasters like flood and earthquakes which are rather common.
Looking at the video the track is nowhere near straight enough to support those kinds of speeds.
At that speed the track has to conform to extremely tight tolerances to avoid derailing the train or throwing the passengers around. I suppose they would argue that this is a test tunnel but surely one of the most important things to test is the ability to lay the track within those tolerances and maintain it at those levels during operation.
Japanese high speed rail inspects the track every night using a laser measurement system. The trains themselves are inspected from the outside after every run, and then more extensively every 36 hours. I guess they think that the sledges will need much less maintenance to safely maintain those speeds.
I'm unimpressed, so far all they did was dig a bog standard rail tunnel.
I haven't watched the video yet, but would like to point out that it should be possible to build embankments in a curved tunnel. Underground in a curved tunnel intended only to be run at speed you could angle the embankment of the rail on curves and the vehicle could take corners at higher speeds. Be incredibly uncomfortable to passengers if taken slowly, but could be used for faster vehicles.
Ah the real issue raises it's ugly head.... Tunnels are way too expensive and are even more limited than roads. They only go from point A to B and there is no choice about exiting them in between.
Tunnels are great when everybody wants to get from point A to point B and no place else, like from England to France under water or though a mountain. But in an urban environment, they are kind of useless, especially the high speed kind, because a significant number of folks only want to go part way between A and B, and the tunnel is worthless for them..
I'm not an accountant working for the boring company so I have no idea about their finances. However, I can see how building a tunnel in certain urban environments might be cheaper than buying land at elevated downtown prices from existing developers- going through legal processes to force them to sell (which usually involves giving the owner of every building you have to demolish above market value) and then clearing away the rubble and debris and then building the road. If there is need for more roads in a high density urban area, underground might just be cheaper.
I think IF there is a financial case for the type of tunnels he wants: urban areas are much more likely to work than rural areas. In fact, it is only in urban areas that it makes any sense at all.
Now, as for whether his plans will work, I couldn't tell you. I know he envisions a whole network of tunnels spidering all throughout the land below cities going more than just one or too places. I couldn't guess if this will work financially or not, or whether cities will pay him. Chances are- he signs a contract to make the tunnels at a price that works for him- and then the cities foot the bill for maintaining those underground tunnels for eternity after that. He will be protected from the maintenance costs and get his pay cheque and leave happy.
I suspect the cost to build the tunnels may be cheaper than ploughing through high rises and commercial districts in some places... but I'm sure they won't be cheap to maintain.
Why is it when you point out liberal heroes being bad beyond any ability to spin out of it, you get the "both sides are equally bad"
In this case one side is putting out computer viruses, the other is literally targeting jewish children. I normally don't bring out the Nazi word, but this is LITERLLY why the Nazi word is brought out and it is "equally as bad" as a computer virus? This is a liberal that has gone so far over the edge he should probably be committed.
Killing Jewish children is a terrible thing. Killing any child is a terrible thing. Israeli's kill more Palestinians per year than the other way around. Every time the Palestinians or any other violent group kills an Israeli, they respond by killing a dozen Palestinians per Israeli killed. I think in this case Israel is actually closer to being "the Nazis"- leaders like Netanyahu, use racism against another group of people to help get themselves elected and then increase their popularity by killing another group and keeping another group suppressed. The ruling party is held in power by making the people feel superior to their subjugated people and by uniting the country in hatred. This is the same tactics that Hitler used- to unify a nation by using hate as a tool.
The Ashkenazi and Russian jews who make up the bulk of Israel's jewish population are not semites. The palestinians and arabs who are native to that region, are actually semitic in origin. Therefore its not anti-semitic to oppose Jewish Zionism. It is anti-semitic to oppose Palestinian freedom, it is anti-semitic to propose that the european jewish colonists planted in the middle east by the british empire somehow have suprior claim to the land than the native palestinians.
You're actually on to something. Genetic tests show that Palestinians are closer related to the Hebrew people from 2000 years ago than the average person living in Israel today. Personally, I don't think genetics is really relevant because people are people no matter who their ancestors are- but it is an interesting piece of trivia.
Only credible source for this is Jimmy Carter, the anti-Semite DNC president who has spent most of his life smearing Israel while promoting terrorist. If you agree with Carter doesn't make it non anti-Semite, it mean YOU are an anti-Semite.
Actually, Isarali officials have admitted that they have WMD because they even admitted that use against Egypt was authorized when it looked like they were losing the war in the early stages. A strike against Egypt was authorized if they approached Jerusalem or Tel Aviv.
Refusing to denounce attacks targeting children as acts of terrorism IS anti-Semitism. Congratulations, your up to 2 for 2.
I do denounce them. I did denounce them. I continue to denounce them. I believe you're just a racist that believes yourself superior and justified for killing Palestinians because you see them as inferior to yourself. If you're not you would denounce what Israel does.
I know, it's great, I love hearing all the different languages spoken, it's like being in a modern country now.
It was even nicer only say, a few decades ago...when you could walk anywhere in public and understand what was being said around you....
I've never had someone come up to me and randomly start speaking a foreign language to me that I didn't understand. Usually the only people speaking foreign languages are people who are not speaking directly to me. (unless I'm trying to speak said foreign language with them).
Modern American English is a combination of English and many other languages (Spanish, French, German and others) In many ways, it's a sort of global language that continually evolves.
You didn't need to specify "American" there as that is true for all varieties of mainstream English. Of course, what's even more fun is when you consider that almost half of English words have a French-connection. "French" was originally a pidgin of Germanic languages and Latin. (the Franks being a German tribe settling in an area which had been speaking Latin because of the Roman rule for centuries). German is a mishmash of various regional variants that came to form one language and has borrowed from it's neighbours.
English has also taken on words from India, Turkey, Native Americans, and more. So we speak a put-together language that took it's inspiration from other languages that were put-together from other combinations.
200 years from now I bet Chinese and English will be influencing each other heavily with English words being adopted into Mandarin and Mandarin words being adopted into English. Language is a beautiful messed up thing.
I always snicker when I hear of English being the lingua franca of anything. If I'm not mistaken, 'lingua franca' means literally 'French language' and stems from the days when French was the international language.
Some day, English may be the lingua franca of France.
As a further observation. Russia and China might object to "English" on political grounds (and the West would certainly bristle at the complicated Mandarin and be politically opposed to learning Russian).
Esperanto gets rid of politics when trying to come up with standards.
Indeed, and that wasn't a bad idea because most learned men of most (western) nations knew Latin.
I'd argue Esperanto might be a better language for scientific papers going forwards. It's perhaps the easiest language to learn (of the well known languages), it is, itself very scientific in how it is put together. Has a smaller group of root words, but they can be combined more easily than other languages. It wouldn't take much to make Esperanto the language of the learned it is so easy to learn.
It is mostly based on European languages; but even China sees value in it- they post official in Esperanto too- and have the most learnersof Esperanto of any country. It truly is a global language though owned by no nation but accessible to anyone.
It's amazing how many libertarians heavily support Trump, who is very authoritarian. At that, with some libertarians, it seems that they just want the government out of the way so their favorite authoritarian, usually of a corporate nature, can do what ever it wants. A libertarian should be against authoritarianism, whether left or right rather then being blind to the authoritarianism in their party.
Anyone who claims to be libertarian and supports Trump is doing it for one of two reasons.
1) They think that Trump is better than the democrats, the lesser of two evils. 2) They're not really Libertarian and they use that term to describe themselves because they don't know what that term means, they've probably heard things like "Libertarians are against Gun Control or drug control and for small government" and ignored the fact that being a true libertarian is also against border controls or anything else that inhibits the movement of goods and people, laws dictating morality, religion mixing with politics, etc. A certain portion of people that claim to be Libertarians are really just conservatives that like drugs and not libertarian.
For full disclosure- when I was younger I considered myself a Libertarian but as I got older I began to believe that while Libertarianism sounds good in theory- a lot of things don't work in practice.
Hezzabola launches rockets at schools for 5 year olds in Israel (supplied by Iran), not a peep from you.
Both sides do evil despicable acts. Palestine hasn't been some saintly state in all this- they have muck and blood on their hands too. Some anti Israeli factions are resorting to terrorism to try and free their people. I don't agree with this tactic; however, it is worth pointing out that Jewish factions did the same thing when Britain was occupying the region, retaliating with terrorist attacks on civilians. Desperate downtrodden people sometimes do immoral things.
Israel uses a computer virus to prevent WMDs from being created
Israel HAS their own WMD. Should we spread viruses throughout Israel too?
THIS is what anti-Semitism looks like folks.
Denouncing evil acts performed by the Israeli state is not anti-Semitism.
but as long as Jews are targeted you seem to be cool with it.
Don't be such a ridiculous lying fool. Back this up with evidence! I don't hide under an "anonymous coward" alias. If you're going to make up ridiculous accusations back it up with proof. I am absolutely not OK with Jews being targeted or people of any creed, religion, or race. No one deserves a violent death, to be murdered or targeted with terrorism.
Israel IS a pariah state in my opinion because it does carry out unprovoked attacks in other countries. Maintains a racist apartheid. Performs illegal operations on other countries, even ones that it nominally calls her allies. Ignores United Nations agreements and acts like it is above the law. Without the backing of the US it couldn't carry on like this. It would have to play by the same rules as every other nation on earth.
I think this is a bad and dangerous strategy, they should be making friends not enemies. There are a few nations in the region who are not quite as unhinged as the others. They should be pursuing peaceful relations with them instead of making an enemy out of everyone. Give the Palestinians their land back, close down the settlements and Palestine agrees it may never operate an army in exchange- maybe even have Palestine pay Israel a fair fee to defend Palestine's borders (fair fee to be determined by UN) - that would give freedom to the Palestinians- would remove them as a threat to Israel (they'd be less likely to launch terror missions if not downtrodden too)- and it would provide funding for Israel's own defence. Psychotic Islamic dictators couldn't use Palestine as a reason to attack Israel.
Israel hasn't learnt yet that you catch more flies with honey than vinegar.
I prefer to think of the Left's misuse of the terms Fascist to describe Libertarians Racist to describe Republicans that actually were active in the Civil Rights Movement (Jeff Sessions comes to mind) Hate Speech to describe anything they disagree with Cronyism while Obama turned the DOJ into a shakedown artist and slush fund. Interfering in elections, a crime that has no statute (rather amazing that must of slipped past)
NPC by comparison is rather kind.
Definitely both sides create derogatory labels to put down the other.
I'm not sure where Fascist comes in to describe Libertarians (I don't think I've ever seen 'faschist' used to describe them)- fascism involves a strong government power that is used to suppress certain groups and maintain a strong police state. Libertarians are the polar opposite of fascists. Libertarians share the same goal as those on the far left, believing everyone should be treated equally but have a completely different strategy on how to achieve that. Libertarians want to achieve it by government backing off and leaving everyone alone to do their own thing equally- leftists want to achieve it by government enforcing equality.
I could see Fascist used to derogatively describe the alt-right or far right, it would apply better to social conservatives; but wouldn't make sense applied to Libertarians. "Anarchists" would be a better label to apply to Libertarians if you wanted to be derogatory against them. Even "Hippy" would be closer than fascist (although probably not a very accurate moniker for many).
I just switched to diapora, which is built off of decentralized nodes. There is no central "master" to control what you see and hear.
I didn't realize that was still a thing. I remember hearing about it years ago- didn't the original programmer who came up with the idea end up killing himself? I thought the project died with him.
You can use fake names, etc, with it? I know that was the idea when conceived. It's available for the public now?
If it wasn't religion it would be culture, political belief, colour of skin, or language. People always find a way to raise their own "tribe" up and to lower and make the other "tribe" seem less human (think of the far-right's current "NPC" catchphrase- the center and left aren't even human anymore, they're viewed as bits of script- makes them easier to hate). There are plenty of religious people in the world who don't hate other religions.
All groups of people are essentially the same, same needs and desires, they just find artificial things about each other (such as religion) to make themselves feel superior to other groups- because the need to feel superior is another of those desires common to all groups..
Israel gets away with it because they have the most powerful military nation in the world standing behind them. If it wasn't for Western guilt over the atrocities that happened in WWII, Israel would be viewed as a dangerous pariah state by the West, but it's politically "insensitive" to think of them as the bully-state they've become. The attempted genocide guilt does belong to all the West- anti Semitism was rife across most Western nations in the 30's, if it wasn't Germany, it could easily have happened in another country.
As it is, they get away with violating the sovereignty of countries all over the world carrying out illegal raids and missions knowing their big brother the US has got their back. One would think- rather than continue out the "bully-thy-neighbor" approach they would be better off trying to build friendships. If the US ever stops supporting Israel, one day the guilt of WWII will no longer be so fresh, or perhaps a President who is sympathetic to the Palestinian apartheid will be elected. Would an isolated Israel last long after all the hate, destruction and violation they have performed on their neighbours?
A computer virus may stop your computer from working but its not "violent" - its not going to walk up and punch you.
No, but if a foreign country did it to us and it caused enough of a crippling to one of our infrastructure projects or caused enough economic damage you could bet our politicians would complain about it being "an act of war". Even with some of the more minor hackings done by China, and Russia a few politicians have made some such comments. If something as big as Stuxnet hit us, I think the majority would want some form of retaliation.
However, if Iran retaliates against Israel or the US (or whoever else is to blame) for this, you can bet they will be bombed and blamed as the aggressors.
Canada. Canada is the only country that could do this AND get away with it. Who'd think Canada? That's laughable. But it's so ridiculous that it was Canada that it HAS to be Canada.
Apparently this message pops up on the screen:
"Dear User, I'm sorry, but this PC has now been wiped of all relevant data by the "Stuxnet Eh?" virus. I am really sorry I wiped out all your data. Again... I'm really really sorry, PM Trudeau made me write this, and he is really sorry too!"
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Not to mention the safety hazards from accidents, explosions, toxic fumes from burning plastic, etc. Or even just natural disasters like flood and earthquakes which are rather common.
Yes, terrorists will love these tunnels.
Looking at the video the track is nowhere near straight enough to support those kinds of speeds.
At that speed the track has to conform to extremely tight tolerances to avoid derailing the train or throwing the passengers around. I suppose they would argue that this is a test tunnel but surely one of the most important things to test is the ability to lay the track within those tolerances and maintain it at those levels during operation.
Japanese high speed rail inspects the track every night using a laser measurement system. The trains themselves are inspected from the outside after every run, and then more extensively every 36 hours. I guess they think that the sledges will need much less maintenance to safely maintain those speeds.
I'm unimpressed, so far all they did was dig a bog standard rail tunnel.
I haven't watched the video yet, but would like to point out that it should be possible to build embankments in a curved tunnel. Underground in a curved tunnel intended only to be run at speed you could angle the embankment of the rail on curves and the vehicle could take corners at higher speeds. Be incredibly uncomfortable to passengers if taken slowly, but could be used for faster vehicles.
So, it's only of use if you want to go to SpaceX.
Got it.
Ah the real issue raises it's ugly head.... Tunnels are way too expensive and are even more limited than roads. They only go from point A to B and there is no choice about exiting them in between.
Tunnels are great when everybody wants to get from point A to point B and no place else, like from England to France under water or though a mountain. But in an urban environment, they are kind of useless, especially the high speed kind, because a significant number of folks only want to go part way between A and B, and the tunnel is worthless for them..
I'm not an accountant working for the boring company so I have no idea about their finances. However, I can see how building a tunnel in certain urban environments might be cheaper than buying land at elevated downtown prices from existing developers- going through legal processes to force them to sell (which usually involves giving the owner of every building you have to demolish above market value) and then clearing away the rubble and debris and then building the road. If there is need for more roads in a high density urban area, underground might just be cheaper.
I think IF there is a financial case for the type of tunnels he wants: urban areas are much more likely to work than rural areas. In fact, it is only in urban areas that it makes any sense at all.
Now, as for whether his plans will work, I couldn't tell you. I know he envisions a whole network of tunnels spidering all throughout the land below cities going more than just one or too places. I couldn't guess if this will work financially or not, or whether cities will pay him. Chances are- he signs a contract to make the tunnels at a price that works for him- and then the cities foot the bill for maintaining those underground tunnels for eternity after that. He will be protected from the maintenance costs and get his pay cheque and leave happy.
I suspect the cost to build the tunnels may be cheaper than ploughing through high rises and commercial districts in some places... but I'm sure they won't be cheap to maintain.
Both sides do evil despicable acts.
Why is it when you point out liberal heroes being bad beyond any ability to spin out of it, you get the "both sides are equally bad"
In this case one side is putting out computer viruses, the other is literally targeting jewish children. I normally don't bring out the Nazi word, but this is LITERLLY why the Nazi word is brought out and it is "equally as bad" as a computer virus?
This is a liberal that has gone so far over the edge he should probably be committed.
Killing Jewish children is a terrible thing. Killing any child is a terrible thing. Israeli's kill more Palestinians per year than the other way around. Every time the Palestinians or any other violent group kills an Israeli, they respond by killing a dozen Palestinians per Israeli killed. I think in this case Israel is actually closer to being "the Nazis"- leaders like Netanyahu, use racism against another group of people to help get themselves elected and then increase their popularity by killing another group and keeping another group suppressed. The ruling party is held in power by making the people feel superior to their subjugated people and by uniting the country in hatred. This is the same tactics that Hitler used- to unify a nation by using hate as a tool.
The Ashkenazi and Russian jews who make up the bulk of Israel's jewish population are not semites. The palestinians and arabs who are native to that region, are actually semitic in origin. Therefore its not anti-semitic to oppose Jewish Zionism. It is anti-semitic to oppose Palestinian freedom, it is anti-semitic to propose that the european jewish colonists planted in the middle east by the british empire somehow have suprior claim to the land than the native palestinians.
You're actually on to something. Genetic tests show that Palestinians are closer related to the Hebrew people from 2000 years ago than the average person living in Israel today. Personally, I don't think genetics is really relevant because people are people no matter who their ancestors are- but it is an interesting piece of trivia.
Only credible source for this is Jimmy Carter, the anti-Semite DNC president who has spent most of his life smearing Israel while promoting terrorist. If you agree with Carter doesn't make it non anti-Semite, it mean YOU are an anti-Semite.
Actually, Isarali officials have admitted that they have WMD because they even admitted that use against Egypt was authorized when it looked like they were losing the war in the early stages. A strike against Egypt was authorized if they approached Jerusalem or Tel Aviv.
Refusing to denounce attacks targeting children as acts of terrorism IS anti-Semitism. Congratulations, your up to 2 for 2.
I do denounce them. I did denounce them. I continue to denounce them. I believe you're just a racist that believes yourself superior and justified for killing Palestinians because you see them as inferior to yourself. If you're not you would denounce what Israel does.
It was even nicer only say, a few decades ago...when you could walk anywhere in public and understand what was being said around you....
I've never had someone come up to me and randomly start speaking a foreign language to me that I didn't understand. Usually the only people speaking foreign languages are people who are not speaking directly to me. (unless I'm trying to speak said foreign language with them).
Headline: "English Has the Scientific Edge -- For Now"
Synopsis: "But, while English is highly unlikely to be dethroned"
So for now and probably always?
Always is a very long time.
Modern American English is a combination of English and many other languages (Spanish, French, German and others)
In many ways, it's a sort of global language that continually evolves.
You didn't need to specify "American" there as that is true for all varieties of mainstream English. Of course, what's even more fun is when you consider that almost half of English words have a French-connection. "French" was originally a pidgin of Germanic languages and Latin. (the Franks being a German tribe settling in an area which had been speaking Latin because of the Roman rule for centuries). German is a mishmash of various regional variants that came to form one language and has borrowed from it's neighbours.
English has also taken on words from India, Turkey, Native Americans, and more. So we speak a put-together language that took it's inspiration from other languages that were put-together from other combinations.
200 years from now I bet Chinese and English will be influencing each other heavily with English words being adopted into Mandarin and Mandarin words being adopted into English. Language is a beautiful messed up thing.
I always snicker when I hear of English being the lingua franca of anything. If I'm not mistaken, 'lingua franca' means literally 'French language' and stems from the days when French was the international language.
Some day, English may be the lingua franca of France.
....you're hearing less and less English spoken in the US these days.
I know, it's great, I love hearing all the different languages spoken, it's like being in a modern country now.
As a further observation. Russia and China might object to "English" on political grounds (and the West would certainly bristle at the complicated Mandarin and be politically opposed to learning Russian).
Esperanto gets rid of politics when trying to come up with standards.
Going back a bit further everything was in Latin.
Indeed, and that wasn't a bad idea because most learned men of most (western) nations knew Latin.
I'd argue Esperanto might be a better language for scientific papers going forwards. It's perhaps the easiest language to learn (of the well known languages), it is, itself very scientific in how it is put together. Has a smaller group of root words, but they can be combined more easily than other languages. It wouldn't take much to make Esperanto the language of the learned it is so easy to learn.
It is mostly based on European languages; but even China sees value in it- they post official in Esperanto too- and have the most learnersof Esperanto of any country. It truly is a global language though owned by no nation but accessible to anyone.
It's amazing how many libertarians heavily support Trump, who is very authoritarian. At that, with some libertarians, it seems that they just want the government out of the way so their favorite authoritarian, usually of a corporate nature, can do what ever it wants.
A libertarian should be against authoritarianism, whether left or right rather then being blind to the authoritarianism in their party.
Anyone who claims to be libertarian and supports Trump is doing it for one of two reasons.
1) They think that Trump is better than the democrats, the lesser of two evils.
2) They're not really Libertarian and they use that term to describe themselves because they don't know what that term means, they've probably heard things like "Libertarians are against Gun Control or drug control and for small government" and ignored the fact that being a true libertarian is also against border controls or anything else that inhibits the movement of goods and people, laws dictating morality, religion mixing with politics, etc. A certain portion of people that claim to be Libertarians are really just conservatives that like drugs and not libertarian.
For full disclosure- when I was younger I considered myself a Libertarian but as I got older I began to believe that while Libertarianism sounds good in theory- a lot of things don't work in practice.
Hezzabola launches rockets at schools for 5 year olds in Israel (supplied by Iran), not a peep from you.
Both sides do evil despicable acts. Palestine hasn't been some saintly state in all this- they have muck and blood on their hands too. Some anti Israeli factions are resorting to terrorism to try and free their people. I don't agree with this tactic; however, it is worth pointing out that Jewish factions did the same thing when Britain was occupying the region, retaliating with terrorist attacks on civilians. Desperate downtrodden people sometimes do immoral things.
Israel uses a computer virus to prevent WMDs from being created
Israel HAS their own WMD. Should we spread viruses throughout Israel too?
THIS is what anti-Semitism looks like folks.
Denouncing evil acts performed by the Israeli state is not anti-Semitism.
but as long as Jews are targeted you seem to be cool with it.
Don't be such a ridiculous lying fool. Back this up with evidence! I don't hide under an "anonymous coward" alias. If you're going to make up ridiculous accusations back it up with proof. I am absolutely not OK with Jews being targeted or people of any creed, religion, or race. No one deserves a violent death, to be murdered or targeted with terrorism.
Israel IS a pariah state in my opinion because it does carry out unprovoked attacks in other countries. Maintains a racist apartheid. Performs illegal operations on other countries, even ones that it nominally calls her allies. Ignores United Nations agreements and acts like it is above the law. Without the backing of the US it couldn't carry on like this. It would have to play by the same rules as every other nation on earth.
I think this is a bad and dangerous strategy, they should be making friends not enemies. There are a few nations in the region who are not quite as unhinged as the others. They should be pursuing peaceful relations with them instead of making an enemy out of everyone. Give the Palestinians their land back, close down the settlements and Palestine agrees it may never operate an army in exchange- maybe even have Palestine pay Israel a fair fee to defend Palestine's borders (fair fee to be determined by UN) - that would give freedom to the Palestinians- would remove them as a threat to Israel (they'd be less likely to launch terror missions if not downtrodden too)- and it would provide funding for Israel's own defence. Psychotic Islamic dictators couldn't use Palestine as a reason to attack Israel.
Israel hasn't learnt yet that you catch more flies with honey than vinegar.
I prefer to think of the Left's misuse of the terms
Fascist to describe Libertarians
Racist to describe Republicans that actually were active in the Civil Rights Movement (Jeff Sessions comes to mind)
Hate Speech to describe anything they disagree with
Cronyism while Obama turned the DOJ into a shakedown artist and slush fund.
Interfering in elections, a crime that has no statute (rather amazing that must of slipped past)
NPC by comparison is rather kind.
Definitely both sides create derogatory labels to put down the other.
I'm not sure where Fascist comes in to describe Libertarians (I don't think I've ever seen 'faschist' used to describe them)- fascism involves a strong government power that is used to suppress certain groups and maintain a strong police state. Libertarians are the polar opposite of fascists. Libertarians share the same goal as those on the far left, believing everyone should be treated equally but have a completely different strategy on how to achieve that. Libertarians want to achieve it by government backing off and leaving everyone alone to do their own thing equally- leftists want to achieve it by government enforcing equality.
I could see Fascist used to derogatively describe the alt-right or far right, it would apply better to social conservatives; but wouldn't make sense applied to Libertarians. "Anarchists" would be a better label to apply to Libertarians if you wanted to be derogatory against them. Even "Hippy" would be closer than fascist (although probably not a very accurate moniker for many).
I just switched to diapora, which is built off of decentralized nodes. There is no central "master" to control what you see and hear.
I didn't realize that was still a thing. I remember hearing about it years ago- didn't the original programmer who came up with the idea end up killing himself? I thought the project died with him.
You can use fake names, etc, with it? I know that was the idea when conceived. It's available for the public now?
Impossible, they have religion.
Religion is an excuse, not a reason.
If it wasn't religion it would be culture, political belief, colour of skin, or language. People always find a way to raise their own "tribe" up and to lower and make the other "tribe" seem less human (think of the far-right's current "NPC" catchphrase- the center and left aren't even human anymore, they're viewed as bits of script- makes them easier to hate). There are plenty of religious people in the world who don't hate other religions.
All groups of people are essentially the same, same needs and desires, they just find artificial things about each other (such as religion) to make themselves feel superior to other groups- because the need to feel superior is another of those desires common to all groups..
Israel gets away with it because they have the most powerful military nation in the world standing behind them. If it wasn't for Western guilt over the atrocities that happened in WWII, Israel would be viewed as a dangerous pariah state by the West, but it's politically "insensitive" to think of them as the bully-state they've become. The attempted genocide guilt does belong to all the West- anti Semitism was rife across most Western nations in the 30's, if it wasn't Germany, it could easily have happened in another country.
As it is, they get away with violating the sovereignty of countries all over the world carrying out illegal raids and missions knowing their big brother the US has got their back. One would think- rather than continue out the "bully-thy-neighbor" approach they would be better off trying to build friendships. If the US ever stops supporting Israel, one day the guilt of WWII will no longer be so fresh, or perhaps a President who is sympathetic to the Palestinian apartheid will be elected. Would an isolated Israel last long after all the hate, destruction and violation they have performed on their neighbours?
A computer virus may stop your computer from working but its not "violent" - its not going to walk up and punch you.
No, but if a foreign country did it to us and it caused enough of a crippling to one of our infrastructure projects or caused enough economic damage you could bet our politicians would complain about it being "an act of war". Even with some of the more minor hackings done by China, and Russia a few politicians have made some such comments. If something as big as Stuxnet hit us, I think the majority would want some form of retaliation.
However, if Iran retaliates against Israel or the US (or whoever else is to blame) for this, you can bet they will be bombed and blamed as the aggressors.
Canada. Canada is the only country that could do this AND get away with it. Who'd think Canada? That's laughable. But it's so ridiculous that it was Canada that it HAS to be Canada.
Apparently this message pops up on the screen:
"Dear User, I'm sorry, but this PC has now been wiped of all relevant data by the "Stuxnet Eh?" virus. I am really sorry I wiped out all your data. Again... I'm really really sorry, PM Trudeau made me write this, and he is really sorry too!"
The bit is mightier than then sword
I know bit sure is!
Ahhhhhh FAIL!
That was supposed to say "My Bit."
I quit. I'm gone- I offer my letter of resignation. Goodbye Slashdot!
The bit is mightier than then sword
I know bit sure is!
Any place with koala bears is by definition better.
But they also have drop bears.
He literally invented it.
AC thinks Al Gore invented the internet.