The Maine was sunk in harbor in Cuba. The Lusitania by the Germans; carrying military cargo or not, it had civies on board. Me grandfather's ship was sunk less than a day (set sail 0700, sunk just after nightfall) out of New Orleans by German U-boat operating in the Gulf. imagine the havoc he could have wreaked if had wanted to. many stories of uboats sailing into New York harbor just to do it. spies and sabotuers did exist and land in our country.
1812 was mentioned (and was more about our sailors being kidnapped by the Royal Navy claiming them to be deserters (look up Impressment)). Mexican-american war was mentioned. There's also the spanish american war. the barbary pirates years. the british trying to influence the outcome of the Civil War. pancho villa.
as for pearl harbor, we didnt "bring it on ourselves". it wasnt a "retaliation" of any kind for embargos. it was a pre-emptive strike against the main/largest concentration of our military presence in the Pacific Ocean. the japanese war planners, among them Adm Yamamoto, knew that if they attacked and siezed the vital resources in southeast asia that they needed, we would get involved. pearl harbor was a preemptive strike to delay our ability to do so until after they had (hopefully) already siezed control, and it largely succeeded.
It's usefulness as instant learning is attractive, though you are correct that there is potential for abuse in that. Make everyone learn that Democrats are commies and Republicans are troglodites, etc.
Myself, I just want to learn Kung Fu and fly around with my shades and cloak...
1) mass transit -ALWAYS- beats cars even with 3 and 4 people carpooling, cause the density of people being moved is way way way bigger. and airliners ARE mass transit.
2) its talking about holidays/vacations, not general use, like to get to work. but even so. though there are certain occupations that require frequency long distance trips, and then too airliners make more sense: faster, often more economical (have to account for gas, food, and lodging), more productive as only lose a few hours to traveling instead of a few days.
You forgot to mention that the growth rate is slowing, particularly as two certain countries (admittedly, slowly) uplift themselves, with the most common studies expecting a plateau to begin appearing around 10-11 billion.
No it doesnt help that 1/3 of american corn is diverted to ethanol (but thats another issue). But the problem (as has been stated millions of times) isnt food production, its food distribution.
Living in cities amplifies the food thing cause people aren't growing their own, and so are dependent on a few people to supply them. Thats called civilization and specialization and a buncha other things. But even so, it still comes down to distrubution. Ever work in a grocery? You see how much stuff we throw away due to rules about experiation and what not in a typical grocery store?
Again. Not a quantity problem, its a distribution problem.
Don't move. Stay where you are. Do not be alarmed. We are going to help you, and you are going to help us. Don't fight it. Just come with us. No you don't really have a choice. Here put on this gown. Those needles? Those are just vaccines. Now relax and we can begin studying you. There we go....*whine of a bone bone saw starting*
Putin: maybe ordered a couple assassinations, jailed some protestors for a few years
Stalin: murdered tens of millions of Jews, Germans, Polish, POWs, civilians (his own and other countries), ordered thousands of executions including his "friends" who all got "replaced" every few years, intentionally caused a famine that killed millions more...
Bullcrap it is. You can't deny the logic of the situation. And you're statement is not one of absolute certainty either. If you fail to drive defensively and aware of what's around you, that's your problem, and frankly, you get what you deserve. Me? I don't sit there in a cocoon of unawareness. I see someone weaving, I see someone going 40+ over the limit, I move the hell over, and slow the hell down, and let them go. I don't just let things happen to me, and neither should you. Every time you get into your car you should be in the mindset, be aware that "I could get killed today because of some dumb idiot", and behave accordingly. Same goes for any activity really. The Cooper Color Codes come to mind.
wasn't aware that anti-vaccination of children and the anti-heliocentric world view wre conservative viewpoints. thank you for painting with such a broad brush, and revealing your own biases AC.
how to get an instant +5 Informative on/. : equate the "right" with cavemen. how to get an instant -1 Troll: dont equate the "left" with intellectual supermen
Like anything else, the stupid and unskilled will kill themselves off, leaving behind a stronger more fit population capable of handling such conditions. Just like when they allowed concealed and open carry in places where before you couldnt, including bars...the hotshots and cowboys quickly removed themselves from the genepool, leaving behind a smarter, more polite, population.
Bright side: the "northwest passage" opening up will reduce shipping costs considerably, lowering prices on a great many goods, as ships will be able to now sail north around North America and Russia. New ports will open up, and older ones will grow too, stimulating local and respective countries' economies, as some portion of the southern shipping routes shift to northern one.
(obviously speaking of ships that cannot traverse the panama and suez and similar canals)
It doesnt have the soil? Massize fertilizer injections? Do you realize you dont know what you're talking about?
Canada already has vast amounts of farmland, but with a typically shorter/earlier growing season than what you see compared to farms in the US, particuarly in Kansas/Oklahoma and further south. That's one reason the US has such a high output, is we're situated so perfectly situated. Its not like you go BAM permafrost no growth! There's plenty of rich soil to be used all across canada, or other northern climes, that simply isnt very productive because the season is too short. With a longer season, those "unviable" areas (due to season, not soil) become viable cropland, and other areas that already grow crops benefit from the longer season as well, boosting output.
You, the guy who said we're fucked, and the moron that downmodded my original post, all don't know a damn thing about farming, soil, and possibly even biology. Its not farmland farmland farmland PERMAFROST! Besides which, just being permafrost doesn't mean the soil is bad; it's just frozen. The are millions of acres of soil that is just fine for agriculture, but just can't be effectively used because of climate. As the temperate zone shifts, the prime growing areas will too. But there's nothing wrong with the soil itself. (and fertilizer isnt bad in itself, excessive amounts or uncontrolled/unfiltered runoff is)
there's pretty big difference between gassing people in showers and gesturing them through a scanner. also dont forget the power of fear, fear of becoming one of the people you used to guard in the case of many low ranking nazi's (lot of times, not even real nazi's, just did it cause was expected, or else go to jail, or not eat).
hell I garuntee there's policies at your work you disagree with, yet you still go. so climb on down off that high horse.
that ties in to what I always wondered. they say they cant choose the state, and therefore cannot choose the message, but i ask, what if the fact of the state being chosen IS the message.
i think of it like morse code: the mere fact a ping comes through is the message. that is, they dont get to choose the ping, but by varying the rate of them, you create information. could not something similar be done via entanglement? if the state can be one of two possibilities at all times, and by determining the state in one place you cause it to also be the state in second place, the other end then just needs some way of determining how/when the sender determined a state. -- which then brings up my other question...if by determining a state at A, you cause a state at B....how does the "reciever" at B for these experiments determine the state on their side without affecting A? always wondered.
to be fair, most syrups are just maple flavored high fructose corn syrup, containing more accidental insect parts per million than actual maple syrup. tastes nothing like the real thing
and it was approved by a woman that then left the FCC and went to work for Comcast.
that there is your root problem. not bad FCC, not bad government, not even bad corps (corps will be corps, i expect little morality from something not human).
its the fact someone could essentially be bribed and no one does a thing about it. the revolving door has to be stopped.
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War of 1812: Americans attacked.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impressment
Mexican American War: Americans attacked.
The Mexicans fired first.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thornton_Affair
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican%E2%80%93American_War#Opening_hostilities
Facts. You lack them.
"we had really good intel" ... popular myth.
The Maine was sunk in harbor in Cuba.
The Lusitania by the Germans; carrying military cargo or not, it had civies on board.
Me grandfather's ship was sunk less than a day (set sail 0700, sunk just after nightfall) out of New Orleans by German U-boat operating in the Gulf. imagine the havoc he could have wreaked if had wanted to. many stories of uboats sailing into New York harbor just to do it.
spies and sabotuers did exist and land in our country.
1812 was mentioned (and was more about our sailors being kidnapped by the Royal Navy claiming them to be deserters (look up Impressment)). Mexican-american war was mentioned. There's also the spanish american war. the barbary pirates years. the british trying to influence the outcome of the Civil War. pancho villa.
as for pearl harbor, we didnt "bring it on ourselves". it wasnt a "retaliation" of any kind for embargos. it was a pre-emptive strike against the main/largest concentration of our military presence in the Pacific Ocean. the japanese war planners, among them Adm Yamamoto, knew that if they attacked and siezed the vital resources in southeast asia that they needed, we would get involved. pearl harbor was a preemptive strike to delay our ability to do so until after they had (hopefully) already siezed control, and it largely succeeded.
TLDR: whole lotta history you're leaving out
It's usefulness as instant learning is attractive, though you are correct that there is potential for abuse in that. Make everyone learn that Democrats are commies and Republicans are troglodites, etc.
Myself, I just want to learn Kung Fu and fly around with my shades and cloak...
I was thinking Matrix myself.
"I know Kung Fu"...
1) mass transit -ALWAYS- beats cars even with 3 and 4 people carpooling, cause the density of people being moved is way way way bigger. and airliners ARE mass transit.
2) its talking about holidays/vacations, not general use, like to get to work. but even so. though there are certain occupations that require frequency long distance trips, and then too airliners make more sense: faster, often more economical (have to account for gas, food, and lodging), more productive as only lose a few hours to traveling instead of a few days.
You forgot to mention that the growth rate is slowing, particularly as two certain countries (admittedly, slowly) uplift themselves, with the most common studies expecting a plateau to begin appearing around 10-11 billion.
No it doesnt help that 1/3 of american corn is diverted to ethanol (but thats another issue).
But the problem (as has been stated millions of times) isnt food production, its food distribution.
I love this page: http://flowingdata.com/2011/07/27/if-the-world-lived-in-a-single-city/
Houston is pretty spread out, ~3700 people per sq mile. that's ~5.7 people per acre.
Living in cities amplifies the food thing cause people aren't growing their own, and so are dependent on a few people to supply them. Thats called civilization and specialization and a buncha other things. But even so, it still comes down to distrubution. Ever work in a grocery? You see how much stuff we throw away due to rules about experiation and what not in a typical grocery store?
Again. Not a quantity problem, its a distribution problem.
So the doom and gloom? Not warranted.
Don't move. Stay where you are. Do not be alarmed. We are going to help you, and you are going to help us. Don't fight it. Just come with us. No you don't really have a choice. Here put on this gown. Those needles? Those are just vaccines. Now relax and we can begin studying you. There we go....*whine of a bone bone saw starting*
Ya. Putin totally deserves to burn in hell.
Putin: maybe ordered a couple assassinations, jailed some protestors for a few years
Stalin: murdered tens of millions of Jews, Germans, Polish, POWs, civilians (his own and other countries), ordered thousands of executions including his "friends" who all got "replaced" every few years, intentionally caused a famine that killed millions more...
Perspective is a wonderful thing.
Bullcrap it is. You can't deny the logic of the situation. And you're statement is not one of absolute certainty either. If you fail to drive defensively and aware of what's around you, that's your problem, and frankly, you get what you deserve. Me? I don't sit there in a cocoon of unawareness. I see someone weaving, I see someone going 40+ over the limit, I move the hell over, and slow the hell down, and let them go. I don't just let things happen to me, and neither should you. Every time you get into your car you should be in the mindset, be aware that "I could get killed today because of some dumb idiot", and behave accordingly. Same goes for any activity really. The Cooper Color Codes come to mind.
wasn't aware that anti-vaccination of children and the anti-heliocentric world view wre conservative viewpoints. thank you for painting with such a broad brush, and revealing your own biases AC.
how to get an instant +5 Informative on /. : equate the "right" with cavemen.
how to get an instant -1 Troll: dont equate the "left" with intellectual supermen
Like anything else, the stupid and unskilled will kill themselves off, leaving behind a stronger more fit population capable of handling such conditions.
Just like when they allowed concealed and open carry in places where before you couldnt, including bars...the hotshots and cowboys quickly removed themselves from the genepool, leaving behind a smarter, more polite, population.
Bright side: the "northwest passage" opening up will reduce shipping costs considerably, lowering prices on a great many goods, as ships will be able to now sail north around North America and Russia. New ports will open up, and older ones will grow too, stimulating local and respective countries' economies, as some portion of the southern shipping routes shift to northern one.
(obviously speaking of ships that cannot traverse the panama and suez and similar canals)
I was thinking more of the Fahrenheit 451 Mechanical Hound.
Rofl. -1 from some doom and gloom moron.
It doesnt have the soil? Massize fertilizer injections? Do you realize you dont know what you're talking about?
Canada already has vast amounts of farmland, but with a typically shorter/earlier growing season than what you see compared to farms in the US, particuarly in Kansas/Oklahoma and further south. That's one reason the US has such a high output, is we're situated so perfectly situated. Its not like you go BAM permafrost no growth! There's plenty of rich soil to be used all across canada, or other northern climes, that simply isnt very productive because the season is too short. With a longer season, those "unviable" areas (due to season, not soil) become viable cropland, and other areas that already grow crops benefit from the longer season as well, boosting output.
You, the guy who said we're fucked, and the moron that downmodded my original post, all don't know a damn thing about farming, soil, and possibly even biology. Its not farmland farmland farmland PERMAFROST! Besides which, just being permafrost doesn't mean the soil is bad; it's just frozen. The are millions of acres of soil that is just fine for agriculture, but just can't be effectively used because of climate. As the temperate zone shifts, the prime growing areas will too. But there's nothing wrong with the soil itself. (and fertilizer isnt bad in itself, excessive amounts or uncontrolled/unfiltered runoff is)
Damn non farming idiots.
there's pretty big difference between gassing people in showers and gesturing them through a scanner. also dont forget the power of fear, fear of becoming one of the people you used to guard in the case of many low ranking nazi's (lot of times, not even real nazi's, just did it cause was expected, or else go to jail, or not eat).
hell I garuntee there's policies at your work you disagree with, yet you still go.
so climb on down off that high horse.
You haven't looked hard enough. there's been plenty
Clint Eastwood reference deserves a mod up. Great movie
that ties in to what I always wondered. they say they cant choose the state, and therefore cannot choose the message, but i ask, what if the fact of the state being chosen IS the message.
i think of it like morse code: the mere fact a ping comes through is the message. that is, they dont get to choose the ping, but by varying the rate of them, you create information. could not something similar be done via entanglement? if the state can be one of two possibilities at all times, and by determining the state in one place you cause it to also be the state in second place, the other end then just needs some way of determining how/when the sender determined a state.
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which then brings up my other question...if by determining a state at A, you cause a state at B....how does the "reciever" at B for these experiments determine the state on their side without affecting A? always wondered.
the phrase you're looking for is "dramatic license"
Ya: an even longer wait for HL2:Episode 3, and figuring out just what the man in the grey suit has to do with everything!
its for the military and essential services, not the general public.
to be fair, most syrups are just maple flavored high fructose corn syrup, containing more accidental insect parts per million than actual maple syrup. tastes nothing like the real thing
what about the Hot Canadian Women Strategic Reserve? tell me they're still safe!
and it was approved by a woman that then left the FCC and went to work for Comcast.
that there is your root problem. not bad FCC, not bad government, not even bad corps (corps will be corps, i expect little morality from something not human).
its the fact someone could essentially be bribed and no one does a thing about it.
the revolving door has to be stopped.