Who pissed in your Cheerios? It's just a label, okay? No need to get you tighty-whiteys in a knot. I grew up learning that Pluto was a planet. Am I right? Of course not. Do I care? Not one iota of bat of an eye.
Pluto was discovered in 1930, we were still scratching our heads about how to get to the moon before the Red Menace. Even then, we did exhaustive search for the thing after finding Neptune. During the Seventy-six years we have known about it, why did it take so long to actually study it in detail? Wouldn't the problem have been solved then and there instead of today where things are different.
Back then, it was about the science. Now, we live in a society where our Astro Science is slowly being killed off because of debates like this. I don't care if Pluto was classified as a Shit-Rock, I'm more concerned about what is going to happen if we kill off NASA completely. We may never make it to Mars, we might not be able to get to other planets faster, and our Physics will become stagnant as our overpopulated planet starts to starve itself of resources and employment.
As for my stubbornness, I highly accepted when they decided to call it a dwarf planet. Seems to me it got you upset, given your post. However, now that they are reclassifying it, I'm going back to the original definition of Pluto being a planet. Until they can get their facts straight, I don't want to hear any more of this reclassification shit that's apparently more important than finding life on Mars or Titan which everyone seems to have forgotten.
To all you astrophysicists, astronomers, geeks, nerds, technophiles, astronaughts, cosmonaughts, astrologers, pagans/neo-pagans, and skywatchers all alike:
Does it really, truely matter what Pluto is classified as? Classification is simple once we had time to research it. Seeing as how we still keep stumbling over whether or not it's a planet, dwarf planet , comet, or binary planet, my guess is we need to really re-think the classification of a planet and what forth. With so many objects in the night sky, there is bound to be thin lines between classes. that's where sub-classes come in.
How do you solve that problem? Simple: add one more criteria to classing whether and object is a planet or not - Did it ever, does it, or could it harbor life of any kind? If you believe modern astronomy, the earth is habited and Mars may have been full of life during our solar system's history. There could be life on Titan, so that goes from being a Moon to being a Planet, to me.
While you're bickering over the classification of Pluto, I'm wondering why the hell aren't we figuring out a better way to get to and fro between all of these objects? Somebody, for the love of God, develop a feasible Ion Drive that cuts our travel time by at least a quarter.
It doesn't mention the fact of how many Gs the body would be under. Yes, I know it's not instantaneous, but that speed still might cause some serious problems regarding your organs wanting to stay behind.
Not true! America wants to pretty much kill the country, first by weaking the will of people, then by taking away our freedoms, then finally putting the nail in the coffin by declaring the NAU (North American Union) in an attempt to "revitalize" America's dying economy.
Meanwhile, the aliens we descovered in Roswell so many years back were actually an intelligent race that wants to include us in it's universal family. But, the elite class are trying to ensure that anyone who's not of any major government position (CoughCongressCough) and is planning our imminent demise.
Proof that America doesn't want to just prevent music.
Get off the energy drinks and/or coffee and you might actually have more energy than you think. Unfortunately, we have to keep vigilant or in the end we end up with collars around our necks waiting for our government to tell us when to bark.
I like how it says to "Elevate the playing field." What do they mean? Tearing up everything and then paving their own companies above it so nothing grows? Also, the fact that it got passed hastily has me a bit worried. Yes, that trick almost worked with SOPA, but what if this one actually makes it past? My God, this thing is a Cthulu holding a flower while holding a gun behind his back, ready to shoot every form of competition.
Never said America was supposed to be an anarchy. I was just saying that our government's involvement is far more than is necessary. We are not the world's protectors. We should concern our country first and everyone else second. It's currently everyone else first before the country.
Just looked up "Black Letter Law." Basically, it means that they can fill in the blanks so long as it makes legal sense? Well then, may as well throw out the Constitution.
When George Washington founded this country, he thought of a country free from tyranny of government and little involvement from the country we live in. We were supposed to be a defensive nation. That was over 200 years ago. Today is a very, very dark sight.
Tuesday, November 2, 2000. This day is the start of our current situation and will be a roadmap for the future. On this day, George W. Bush was elected President. One year later, September 11, 2001. Terrorists attacked the Twin Towers, killing hundreds of people. We went to war with the Middle-East the very next day. Ten years it took to get both Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden. Why did it take so long? Hussein in a hole while bin Laden was literally waiting at home.
The reason ti took so long was because we didn't care about vengance. No, we were busy securing oil once Hussein was taken down in 2003. That still means it took us SEVEN YEARS to find the Al Queda leader literally sitting at his home, watching us pretend to look for him while, in fact, Wall Street was getting rich off the oil in Iraq and Afghanistan. Eight years Bush had to find him, and he didn't even make any sort of attempt to it.
Now, we are forcing democracy on the countries of Iran, Iraq, and Afghanistan for the sake of preventing this terrorism from happening again. We were meant to get in, shoot them, then get out. Why the hell are we still in the Middle-East? Many innocent men are losing their lives for no reason other than to make sure our profits are secured. We are no longer at war with these people, we have now become a nation bent on taking care of the rest of the world. We gave aid to the very country we went to war with which is stupid. They hate us and I don't blame them.
I'm not trying to say we shouldn't help people, but the Middle-East should help itself first. Otherwise, we'll be taking care of them for the rest of the forseeable future. Like black people. I am not racist, but I hate the younger generation who thinks I owe them crap because of what their ancestors went through. They can kiss my ass and go get a job themselves. I believe in reparations for the parents and older, but everyone under 30 need to stop bitching and do something. I'm not handing them a silver platter, I'm giving them a job application.
On top of that, we are currently helping out the European market with the bailouts. Why the hell are we putting money into a dying system? They were the ones who wanted to unify the entire Continent, so they can get out of the mess themselves. Since we are now sending money their way, they have taken bigger risks. Greece and Spain just got bailed out. How many more countries should we help bailout before we figure out that our three trillion dollar deficit is caused by us taking care of everyone?
4 because they still need a search warrant and the government can't hack into the site to see who is doing illegal activity, which they have been doing for ages
8 because I've seen some of the severity of these take downs. Computers taken from the user, the user's family, as well as any computers he may have been in contact with along with the computers connected to that one
9 because there are no laws concerning the Internet, thus it's in the public domain as how it should be handled. Yes, I know it was written in an age of quills and parchment, but if you are taking digital rights from people, that's a violation of this Amendment since it is not wrtten in the Constitution whatsoever, ergo, everything online is protected and the government should be sued for these takedowns.
Except they have to follow the Fourth, Eight, and Nineth Amendments. I would love to see them try to get past a patriot, especially the Southerners who are all about protecting the Constitution. I will raise Hell should any of them be broken while I'm alive.
I'm going to apologize in advance for the much swearing and caps. Here goes:
GOD DAMN PISS-ASS RIAA FUCKERS WHO THINK WITH THEIR FUCKING WALLETS AND THEIR GOD DAMN SOULESS BODIES BENT ON SCREWING EVERYONE AND EVERYTHING: HUMAN OR NON-HUMAN!!!!
To hell with the copyright. That music was written without the intent of becoming rich. The music industry can come and kiss my ass cause aliens are not bloody likey going to pay us, an increasingly stupifying species hell bent on destroying itself, the earth, and everything around us. I'm getting my Louisville slugger and going to establish some fucking common sense in this god damn society we call America. Fuck off, 1%, this is the land of the Free, not the land of let's fuck everyone in the ass like our mother country did to us.
As much as I'm glad of the herding of cattle, don't you think that this could be a premise for the government to take down other sites? Such as YouTube or possibly Face under the suspicion of fradulent activity which isn't too far-fetched seeing as how there are tons of videos on YouTube concerning taking down websites, creating viruses and the like while for Facebook there are scammers abound?
I'm giving a fair warning now: You may want to put your guard up while you still can. The government is taking down less legitamite sites in an attempt to pull the entire internet under one rule - Congressional rule. If we don't react, even without consideration for this incident, you may find yourself losing your rights online and possibly your computer which could be a potential cache of pirated software.
I'm not trying to be a fear-monger, I'm just stating the fact: The government wants to control the internet. While the FBI is taking down smaller sites, we neglect to see the bigger picture: it's going to be a domino effect. First with MegaUpload, then that other site (I can't remember), and now this? If this doesn't bring up red alerts in your head, you might as well just hand over your computer to Congress because you are ignoring the nuke with the keys turned.
I don't believe in the Christian God. He's too lazy and/or ignorant. First off, he lets Satan have his way. Then he gives us free will, but our fate has already been predetermined which negates the fact of a free will. On top of that, he has a tendency to destroy things that tend to be considered a mistake on the physical plane.
Yeah. People are ignorant. I was watching a documentary about spiders the other day. Some guy got bit by a black widow. Now he goes out every night to kill every single on on his property. I hate spiders as much as the next guy, but spiders are here for a reason, to keep flying insects in line, population wise.
I've been in chicago only for 3 years. In that time, I've been through that supermassive thunderstorm that had marble-hale. That was late last year, I believe. I have survived through the 100 degree heat we had the other day as well as walk through the eight feet of snow we had back in winter 2010-2011. To say that we can control this simply by ignoring it has got to be the most self-destructive act that we have ever made.
I turned off and unplugged all of my electronics on Earth Day and recycle all I can. What does everyone else do?
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Who pissed in your Cheerios? It's just a label, okay? No need to get you tighty-whiteys in a knot. I grew up learning that Pluto was a planet. Am I right? Of course not. Do I care? Not one iota of bat of an eye.
Pluto was discovered in 1930, we were still scratching our heads about how to get to the moon before the Red Menace. Even then, we did exhaustive search for the thing after finding Neptune. During the Seventy-six years we have known about it, why did it take so long to actually study it in detail? Wouldn't the problem have been solved then and there instead of today where things are different.
Back then, it was about the science. Now, we live in a society where our Astro Science is slowly being killed off because of debates like this. I don't care if Pluto was classified as a Shit-Rock, I'm more concerned about what is going to happen if we kill off NASA completely. We may never make it to Mars, we might not be able to get to other planets faster, and our Physics will become stagnant as our overpopulated planet starts to starve itself of resources and employment.
As for my stubbornness, I highly accepted when they decided to call it a dwarf planet. Seems to me it got you upset, given your post. However, now that they are reclassifying it, I'm going back to the original definition of Pluto being a planet. Until they can get their facts straight, I don't want to hear any more of this reclassification shit that's apparently more important than finding life on Mars or Titan which everyone seems to have forgotten.
To all you astrophysicists, astronomers, geeks, nerds, technophiles, astronaughts, cosmonaughts, astrologers, pagans/neo-pagans, and skywatchers all alike:
Does it really, truely matter what Pluto is classified as? Classification is simple once we had time to research it. Seeing as how we still keep stumbling over whether or not it's a planet, dwarf planet , comet, or binary planet, my guess is we need to really re-think the classification of a planet and what forth. With so many objects in the night sky, there is bound to be thin lines between classes. that's where sub-classes come in.
How do you solve that problem? Simple: add one more criteria to classing whether and object is a planet or not - Did it ever, does it, or could it harbor life of any kind? If you believe modern astronomy, the earth is habited and Mars may have been full of life during our solar system's history. There could be life on Titan, so that goes from being a Moon to being a Planet, to me.
While you're bickering over the classification of Pluto, I'm wondering why the hell aren't we figuring out a better way to get to and fro between all of these objects? Somebody, for the love of God, develop a feasible Ion Drive that cuts our travel time by at least a quarter.
Why not a Rosetta Stone style?
Huh...so, you can go 4,000 mph and still have one G? My brain cannot cope.
It doesn't mention the fact of how many Gs the body would be under. Yes, I know it's not instantaneous, but that speed still might cause some serious problems regarding your organs wanting to stay behind.
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Not true! America wants to pretty much kill the country, first by weaking the will of people, then by taking away our freedoms, then finally putting the nail in the coffin by declaring the NAU (North American Union) in an attempt to "revitalize" America's dying economy.
Meanwhile, the aliens we descovered in Roswell so many years back were actually an intelligent race that wants to include us in it's universal family. But, the elite class are trying to ensure that anyone who's not of any major government position (CoughCongressCough) and is planning our imminent demise.
Proof that America doesn't want to just prevent music.
I'd donate money to get this guy out, but fucktards like him are keeping me from a job.
The watchers are being watched while being watched. Watch-ception.
Three years? Hell, I'll correspond with other countries. I'm not treasonous, I'm tired of this god damn tyranny.
Which begs the question: How much is this lobbying contributing to our national deficit?
Get off the energy drinks and/or coffee and you might actually have more energy than you think. Unfortunately, we have to keep vigilant or in the end we end up with collars around our necks waiting for our government to tell us when to bark.
Good thing this didn't happen in Florida, Jack Thompson would back this shit with open arms.
Truely, the weakening of the American Will. Well, these assaults can't last much longer.
I like how it says to "Elevate the playing field." What do they mean? Tearing up everything and then paving their own companies above it so nothing grows? Also, the fact that it got passed hastily has me a bit worried. Yes, that trick almost worked with SOPA, but what if this one actually makes it past? My God, this thing is a Cthulu holding a flower while holding a gun behind his back, ready to shoot every form of competition.
Never said America was supposed to be an anarchy. I was just saying that our government's involvement is far more than is necessary. We are not the world's protectors. We should concern our country first and everyone else second. It's currently everyone else first before the country.
Just looked up "Black Letter Law." Basically, it means that they can fill in the blanks so long as it makes legal sense? Well then, may as well throw out the Constitution.
When George Washington founded this country, he thought of a country free from tyranny of government and little involvement from the country we live in. We were supposed to be a defensive nation. That was over 200 years ago. Today is a very, very dark sight.
Tuesday, November 2, 2000. This day is the start of our current situation and will be a roadmap for the future. On this day, George W. Bush was elected President. One year later, September 11, 2001. Terrorists attacked the Twin Towers, killing hundreds of people. We went to war with the Middle-East the very next day. Ten years it took to get both Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden. Why did it take so long? Hussein in a hole while bin Laden was literally waiting at home.
The reason ti took so long was because we didn't care about vengance. No, we were busy securing oil once Hussein was taken down in 2003. That still means it took us SEVEN YEARS to find the Al Queda leader literally sitting at his home, watching us pretend to look for him while, in fact, Wall Street was getting rich off the oil in Iraq and Afghanistan. Eight years Bush had to find him, and he didn't even make any sort of attempt to it.
Now, we are forcing democracy on the countries of Iran, Iraq, and Afghanistan for the sake of preventing this terrorism from happening again. We were meant to get in, shoot them, then get out. Why the hell are we still in the Middle-East? Many innocent men are losing their lives for no reason other than to make sure our profits are secured. We are no longer at war with these people, we have now become a nation bent on taking care of the rest of the world. We gave aid to the very country we went to war with which is stupid. They hate us and I don't blame them.
I'm not trying to say we shouldn't help people, but the Middle-East should help itself first. Otherwise, we'll be taking care of them for the rest of the forseeable future. Like black people. I am not racist, but I hate the younger generation who thinks I owe them crap because of what their ancestors went through. They can kiss my ass and go get a job themselves. I believe in reparations for the parents and older, but everyone under 30 need to stop bitching and do something. I'm not handing them a silver platter, I'm giving them a job application.
On top of that, we are currently helping out the European market with the bailouts. Why the hell are we putting money into a dying system? They were the ones who wanted to unify the entire Continent, so they can get out of the mess themselves. Since we are now sending money their way, they have taken bigger risks. Greece and Spain just got bailed out. How many more countries should we help bailout before we figure out that our three trillion dollar deficit is caused by us taking care of everyone?
With that, I end this history lesson.
4 because they still need a search warrant and the government can't hack into the site to see who is doing illegal activity, which they have been doing for ages
8 because I've seen some of the severity of these take downs. Computers taken from the user, the user's family, as well as any computers he may have been in contact with along with the computers connected to that one
9 because there are no laws concerning the Internet, thus it's in the public domain as how it should be handled. Yes, I know it was written in an age of quills and parchment, but if you are taking digital rights from people, that's a violation of this Amendment since it is not wrtten in the Constitution whatsoever, ergo, everything online is protected and the government should be sued for these takedowns.
No I have not, which is a bit of a shame really.
Except they have to follow the Fourth, Eight, and Nineth Amendments. I would love to see them try to get past a patriot, especially the Southerners who are all about protecting the Constitution. I will raise Hell should any of them be broken while I'm alive.
How's that working out for you?
I'm going to apologize in advance for the much swearing and caps. Here goes:
GOD DAMN PISS-ASS RIAA FUCKERS WHO THINK WITH THEIR FUCKING WALLETS AND THEIR GOD DAMN SOULESS BODIES BENT ON SCREWING EVERYONE AND EVERYTHING: HUMAN OR NON-HUMAN!!!!
To hell with the copyright. That music was written without the intent of becoming rich. The music industry can come and kiss my ass cause aliens are not bloody likey going to pay us, an increasingly stupifying species hell bent on destroying itself, the earth, and everything around us. I'm getting my Louisville slugger and going to establish some fucking common sense in this god damn society we call America. Fuck off, 1%, this is the land of the Free, not the land of let's fuck everyone in the ass like our mother country did to us.
As much as I'm glad of the herding of cattle, don't you think that this could be a premise for the government to take down other sites? Such as YouTube or possibly Face under the suspicion of fradulent activity which isn't too far-fetched seeing as how there are tons of videos on YouTube concerning taking down websites, creating viruses and the like while for Facebook there are scammers abound?
I'm giving a fair warning now: You may want to put your guard up while you still can. The government is taking down less legitamite sites in an attempt to pull the entire internet under one rule - Congressional rule. If we don't react, even without consideration for this incident, you may find yourself losing your rights online and possibly your computer which could be a potential cache of pirated software.
I'm not trying to be a fear-monger, I'm just stating the fact: The government wants to control the internet. While the FBI is taking down smaller sites, we neglect to see the bigger picture: it's going to be a domino effect. First with MegaUpload, then that other site (I can't remember), and now this? If this doesn't bring up red alerts in your head, you might as well just hand over your computer to Congress because you are ignoring the nuke with the keys turned.
I don't believe in the Christian God. He's too lazy and/or ignorant. First off, he lets Satan have his way. Then he gives us free will, but our fate has already been predetermined which negates the fact of a free will. On top of that, he has a tendency to destroy things that tend to be considered a mistake on the physical plane.
Yeah. People are ignorant. I was watching a documentary about spiders the other day. Some guy got bit by a black widow. Now he goes out every night to kill every single on on his property. I hate spiders as much as the next guy, but spiders are here for a reason, to keep flying insects in line, population wise.
I've been in chicago only for 3 years. In that time, I've been through that supermassive thunderstorm that had marble-hale. That was late last year, I believe. I have survived through the 100 degree heat we had the other day as well as walk through the eight feet of snow we had back in winter 2010-2011. To say that we can control this simply by ignoring it has got to be the most self-destructive act that we have ever made.
I turned off and unplugged all of my electronics on Earth Day and recycle all I can. What does everyone else do?