I agree...it really was Stalin turning on them that did it. Even though the a-bomb was impressive, Japan had 30-50 similar "city leveling attacks" on them per day at that point.
We tried that here with the whole Stingray thing. Even though we now know about that tech, it still doesn't help anyone gain any "respect" towards law enforcement. If anything it makes them more untrustworthy as it had to be practicably beaten out of them.
I can't blame Obama, with someone like Inhofe being put in charge of the EPA. There is no other way, as Inhofe is pretty much a Koch brothers paid Oil Industry employee who wants to staff the EPA with oil industry execs. Inhofe thinks the whole idea of anything humans can do affecting the Earth is bunk, because the Bible says so. When your faced with someone who feels nothing bad can happen because some ancient myth says so AND they are in a power position, what other choices are there?
Michael Wertheimer, the director of researcher at the National Security Agency, was found in his garage dead this morning. Medical officials say he died from auto-erotic asphyxiation. He left a suicide note saying he was "sorry for ever speaking out against my excellent employer and even death cannot undo what I have done".
Like Mike Huckabee promoting a "hidden Biblical cure" for cancer? This is anoher reason we need TYSON / NYE 2016, I'm sick and tired of living under some invisible sky-god that only talks to people that seem to really just hate, kill, want to control everything, and firmly believe they can legislate over biology.
Patrick Stewart and Morgan Freeman also rock as narrators for documentaries too, although Attenborough is probably the TOP of the list. I search torrents by his name all the time!
I watched an older show with Neil, he definitely has either had some coaching or something as he was almost as bad as W Bush in the first episode. It was some other science show on Netflix, and his ability to read the teleprompter was horrid. LOL just like a professor's first big class or recording. Luckily he has gotten 1000x better with it all, and now is just as good of a speaker as he is a scientist.
TYSON / NYE 2016! Bring science to the Whitehouse! Write them in, save humanity from itself and superstition!
At least you have the resemblance of a choice. In the US, we have liberal and conservative "power elites" of the current Corporatocracy with a crazy Christian "let's return to the laws of Leviticus" fringe group hammering them both at the edges. The Christian Fringe is actually being duped by the conservative Corporatocracy to push laws that favor "religion" in business that are really nothing but tax dodges and discrimination. We have no Greens, no real Progressives, just two sides of the same coin. Our choice is do you want the Corporatocracy in your face (Republican) or behind your back (Democrats). Neither really want any progress towards "freedom" except the "freedom" to increase the size of their bank accounts.
Hell, "we the people" even put people who think Biblical passages will protect us from climate chaos in charge of the EPA (Inhofe). I hope Cruz won't decimate NASA, and it's being very optimistic that he will only cut funding for climate studies. Many of our politicians where already in politics before the computer was even invented and will never really understand the Internet. I dream of a USA that has a true multiple-party system, but that's not even what we have now.
well, since he's such a "small plane enthusiast" maybe he'll have some accident like so many other Oklahoma small plane pilots. Some kind of freak weather accident, that is climate-change related would be the best. He's so old...we Oklahoman s who understand the science despise him; he's anti-intellectual and only anti-climate since all his major donors are oil companies and the Koch Brothers. Either way, he has the "old person fuck the environment cause I'll be dead" attitude that almost everyone over 60-65 has.
"they are useful to monitor their plans" are you sure about that? In theory that sounds right, but how do we really know that by allowing them there is just too much signal to noise and we're missing these "plans"? ISIS propaganda has grown to the point it's attracting "lone wolf" operators that are motivated by them yet are not actual members all over the place. It's no longer "come to the Middle East, train some, then go fight". Now people who where not radical one day are beheading people a month later in the central US, kids taking off from Canada, etc. If they where just communicating plans them maybe...yet I hope Anon can go knock this recruiting capabilities back to bin Laden's VCR tapes.
indeed, it's always a "great idea" until it backfires in their fac. Sometimes the only prize you get is knowing you where right, now they too realize it, but by then it's usually too late.
I got banned from there a couple of months ago, pretty sure it was I called out Rose Eveleth, posting on one of her articles that her old site titles "Ladybits" is just as sexist (actually far more so) as Matt Taylor's shirt. I emailed them, and their reply: "I've checked in Disqus and it unfortunately looks like you have been blocked by one of the moderators. Banning is done at the discretion of our moderators - typically when a user engages in personal attacks or uses other uncivil language - and we support their judgement. Additionally, I cannot view which comment resulted in your account being blocked. My apologies. "
I did nothing of the sort, all I did was point out the chain showing she's a hypocrite. No wonder old-school newspapers are dying if huge papers like The Atlantic don't even have control over their own webpage, and are just accepting on faith whatever unknowable actions their volunteer "moderators" are doing. I know I could go register again, but that's not the point. The Atlantic loves their free speech, but seem brain dead defending others on their own web site.
oh I know...I was mostly being sarcastic, forgot my/s tags. One of the big things astrobiologists study is extra-solar amino acid clouds; at least now they are finally getting close to getting some data on actual extra-solar planetary atmospheres, and in another 10-20 years they might be overwhelmed with data pouring in from thousands of extra-solar planetary spectral emission maps once we can resolve to that level. Maybe I'm just a bit jealous lol.
yeah, I know! There might be a "slightly" better version around, but they did it that way on purpose. It was supposed to be back in the 80's, garage punk band, etc...
Should have dropped the pool off in the HOA's president's drive way / front yard. Did the document they possibly forged have actual specifications, or just super-vague wording?
ouch. Well, fighting anything in Texas is chancy. I would still think that the above situation would result in some serious untraceable random acts of vandalism throught the HOA area, but that's just because I can go all Khan when pressed by people like the HOA. Thus I should never move to such a fascist place.
You might be decent at that stuff, but the "average home owner" really isn't. And as we move down the intellegence levels, it gets more dangerous...you personally seem to "know your stuff" and probably can make better repairs than most "professionals". Yet half the population is below 100 IQ, they should NOT be working on this stuff. That's what I was going for...not an attack on you.
So, we're using UK English now? In the US, that's spelled "percent". Are we going to start seeing per centage and per centile too? The 1700's just called and said they want Slashdot to stop using their archaic spellings.
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I agree...it really was Stalin turning on them that did it. Even though the a-bomb was impressive, Japan had 30-50 similar "city leveling attacks" on them per day at that point.
so, around the year 2300 we should expect this to taper off?
We tried that here with the whole Stingray thing. Even though we now know about that tech, it still doesn't help anyone gain any "respect" towards law enforcement. If anything it makes them more untrustworthy as it had to be practicably beaten out of them.
I can't blame Obama, with someone like Inhofe being put in charge of the EPA. There is no other way, as Inhofe is pretty much a Koch brothers paid Oil Industry employee who wants to staff the EPA with oil industry execs. Inhofe thinks the whole idea of anything humans can do affecting the Earth is bunk, because the Bible says so. When your faced with someone who feels nothing bad can happen because some ancient myth says so AND they are in a power position, what other choices are there?
Michael Wertheimer, the director of researcher at the National Security Agency, was found in his garage dead this morning. Medical officials say he died from auto-erotic asphyxiation. He left a suicide note saying he was "sorry for ever speaking out against my excellent employer and even death cannot undo what I have done".
Like Mike Huckabee promoting a "hidden Biblical cure" for cancer? This is anoher reason we need TYSON / NYE 2016, I'm sick and tired of living under some invisible sky-god that only talks to people that seem to really just hate, kill, want to control everything, and firmly believe they can legislate over biology.
Patrick Stewart and Morgan Freeman also rock as narrators for documentaries too, although Attenborough is probably the TOP of the list. I search torrents by his name all the time!
I watched an older show with Neil, he definitely has either had some coaching or something as he was almost as bad as W Bush in the first episode. It was some other science show on Netflix, and his ability to read the teleprompter was horrid. LOL just like a professor's first big class or recording. Luckily he has gotten 1000x better with it all, and now is just as good of a speaker as he is a scientist.
TYSON / NYE 2016! Bring science to the Whitehouse! Write them in, save humanity from itself and superstition!
At least you have the resemblance of a choice. In the US, we have liberal and conservative "power elites" of the current Corporatocracy with a crazy Christian "let's return to the laws of Leviticus" fringe group hammering them both at the edges. The Christian Fringe is actually being duped by the conservative Corporatocracy to push laws that favor "religion" in business that are really nothing but tax dodges and discrimination. We have no Greens, no real Progressives, just two sides of the same coin. Our choice is do you want the Corporatocracy in your face (Republican) or behind your back (Democrats). Neither really want any progress towards "freedom" except the "freedom" to increase the size of their bank accounts.
Hell, "we the people" even put people who think Biblical passages will protect us from climate chaos in charge of the EPA (Inhofe). I hope Cruz won't decimate NASA, and it's being very optimistic that he will only cut funding for climate studies. Many of our politicians where already in politics before the computer was even invented and will never really understand the Internet. I dream of a USA that has a true multiple-party system, but that's not even what we have now.
well, since he's such a "small plane enthusiast" maybe he'll have some accident like so many other Oklahoma small plane pilots. Some kind of freak weather accident, that is climate-change related would be the best. He's so old...we Oklahoman s who understand the science despise him; he's anti-intellectual and only anti-climate since all his major donors are oil companies and the Koch Brothers. Either way, he has the "old person fuck the environment cause I'll be dead" attitude that almost everyone over 60-65 has.
Maybe he will finish funding the "Rods from God" and begin the militarization of space again.
Tyson / Nye 2016! WRITE IT IN! Bring science into the White House before we all die from some easily avoidable global disaster.
"they are useful to monitor their plans" are you sure about that? In theory that sounds right, but how do we really know that by allowing them there is just too much signal to noise and we're missing these "plans"? ISIS propaganda has grown to the point it's attracting "lone wolf" operators that are motivated by them yet are not actual members all over the place. It's no longer "come to the Middle East, train some, then go fight". Now people who where not radical one day are beheading people a month later in the central US, kids taking off from Canada, etc. If they where just communicating plans them maybe...yet I hope Anon can go knock this recruiting capabilities back to bin Laden's VCR tapes.
indeed, it's always a "great idea" until it backfires in their fac. Sometimes the only prize you get is knowing you where right, now they too realize it, but by then it's usually too late.
I got banned from there a couple of months ago, pretty sure it was I called out Rose Eveleth, posting on one of her articles that her old site titles "Ladybits" is just as sexist (actually far more so) as Matt Taylor's shirt. I emailed them, and their reply: "I've checked in Disqus and it unfortunately looks like you have been blocked by one of the moderators. Banning is done at the discretion of our moderators - typically when a user engages in personal attacks or uses other uncivil language - and we support their judgement. Additionally, I cannot view which comment resulted in your account being blocked. My apologies. "
I did nothing of the sort, all I did was point out the chain showing she's a hypocrite. No wonder old-school newspapers are dying if huge papers like The Atlantic don't even have control over their own webpage, and are just accepting on faith whatever unknowable actions their volunteer "moderators" are doing. I know I could go register again, but that's not the point. The Atlantic loves their free speech, but seem brain dead defending others on their own web site.
Personally, I'm not saying anything. I was just clarifying per the article of arXiv...AND I couldn't help but use another Princess Bride quote.
oh I know...I was mostly being sarcastic, forgot my /s tags. One of the big things astrobiologists study is extra-solar amino acid clouds; at least now they are finally getting close to getting some data on actual extra-solar planetary atmospheres, and in another 10-20 years they might be overwhelmed with data pouring in from thousands of extra-solar planetary spectral emission maps once we can resolve to that level. Maybe I'm just a bit jealous lol.
yeah, I know! There might be a "slightly" better version around, but they did it that way on purpose. It was supposed to be back in the 80's, garage punk band, etc...
Should have dropped the pool off in the HOA's president's drive way / front yard. Did the document they possibly forged have actual specifications, or just super-vague wording?
ouch. Well, fighting anything in Texas is chancy. I would still think that the above situation would result in some serious untraceable random acts of vandalism throught the HOA area, but that's just because I can go all Khan when pressed by people like the HOA. Thus I should never move to such a fascist place.
You might be decent at that stuff, but the "average home owner" really isn't. And as we move down the intellegence levels, it gets more dangerous...you personally seem to "know your stuff" and probably can make better repairs than most "professionals". Yet half the population is below 100 IQ, they should NOT be working on this stuff. That's what I was going for...not an attack on you.
So, we're using UK English now? In the US, that's spelled "percent". Are we going to start seeing per centage and per centile too? The 1700's just called and said they want Slashdot to stop using their archaic spellings.
I think you've been watching Plan 9 from Outer Space too much...using solarbonite IS NOT killing hydrogen...IT IS NOT!
because War is more fun than college, according to the Republican Bible.
on my student loans from a community college, can I get some $$$ to help me pay it off?