I'm a creator of intellectual works. Some of my intellectual works help bring medicine to billions of people......when the problem is solved and the work is done, I move on, looking for other people who need my help.
You own those houses, right? You financed their construction, created your own design, executed it to produce the houses, and still own at least a share in them, correct?
From the article you cited:
"In August 2012, ITU called for a public consultation on a draft document ahead of the conference. It is claimed the proposal would allow government restriction or blocking of information disseminated via the internet and create a global regime of monitoring internet communications – including the demand that those who send and receive information identify themselves. It would also allow governments to shut down the internet if there is the belief that it may interfere in the internal affairs of other states or that information of a sensitive nature might be shared."
Yep, sure looks better to me. There's nothing that doesn't improve when you add the United Nations to it, and they propose rules to appease the worst of their members.
FWIW, I believe that, in a sense, God exists...though it's more accurate to say gods exist, and some of them pretend to be the only one. I believe them to be fundamental psychic structures that are shared in common by most people at a level far below the verbal level.
You know, most people will engage one in multiple conversations without revealing what's really going on inside their heads. You did it in one go with this post.
Amazon is going to lose money on this deal. No one wants **another** box....especially one that doesn't do anything that Netflix can't do.
You didn't think it through. I have a Roku, which is great. I have Amazon Prime, which is great. Dealing with Amazon video through the Roku is a little inconvenient.
If Amazon gives me something that does what Roku does, and ties it so conveniently to my Amazon account that it eliminates the Roku hassle, I won't want **another** box, I'll want a **different** box.
I'm not sure why you posted that absolute statement.
Quite true. However, sometimes the thing that was failed was the attempt to convince someone else that you are sincere about being left alone.
Even more often, the "failure" was a hesitation to meet the unreasonable demands of an aggressor who wants you to relinquish possession of something valuable.
Violence is a two party game, you can't simply "choose" to never be involved in it.
What you can choose is whether or not you want to be the loser every time you are forced to participate.
I do recognize the validity of your point. However, the difference between us is that I see the use of violence as more likely a missed opportunity to have prevented violence in the first place, while your point of view is to always, as a priority, prepare for violence first and foremost.
Given recent history - the Iraq war, and those assholes who murdered people in Florida, and Florida, and Florida again because they carried a gun and seemed eager for a chance to use it - I believe pursuing my point of view would be more fruitful. But then, my profession is largely process improvement, and this looks like an area that could sorely use some.
If you have to use a weapon, that means you didn't have a big enough one.
Um, no. It's more likely that if you "have" to use a weapon, you already failed at something else that would have precluded the use, or threat, of force in the first place.
Your one example is someone refusing to recant a religious belief and being executed for it. Look up the philosophy - if you are executed, you are not committing the act of suicide.
The muslim word is full of stupid jerks who use religion and the beliefs of other people to serve their own agenda, while pretending speaking in the name of Islam. This is not different from a stupid christian priest who give his opinion about a a society matter, they only represent themeslves.
You seem to be saying stop Christian insanity as well. If you throw in the Jewish nutjobs as well, I think you've got something there.
Again, how is this really different from any other colonization project?...I'm not saying that the colony would survive. I wouldn't plan on giving even 10:1 against...
Well, there you go, you answered your own question. Even you described it as suicide, i.e., the expectation that the participants would not survive. That's why the fatwa against it. If you buy into the crazy premise of the three Abrahamic religions which includes Islam, then there is a religious reason to forbid people from this mission. As it's currently planned.
You don't want to go to Mars? Please by all means, keep your bullshit on Earth and let us evolved human beings make a fresh new life on a fresh new planet without you!
While I look forward to seeing humans colonize Mars, I don't think you can fairly characterize it as a "fresh new planet".
Mars ain't the kind of place to raise your kids, in fact it's cold as Hell, and there's no one there to raise them if you didn't.
It was a housing development that destroyed the integrity of the containment, not the government, unless by "government" you mean the local school board which bought it, which would be nobody's idea of an expert in chemical waste. Hooker Chemical created a timebomb, and SOLD it (it was not "seized") with a "no backsies!" limited liability clause.
Hooker should never have been permitted to use the land that way, nor to sell it in that condition.
That's a nice try with the Ghostbusters reference though. If I were childish, I'd say you were "dickless, here".
With the winter we've been having.I want more global warming!
I don't believe you really do. More warming may disrupt the jet stream even more, so while some portions of the planet bake, and the U.S. experiences continuing drought and record breaking summer heat, we will ALSO see more winters like this one. Which would suck.
You didn't really think that global warming meant that every place gets warmer, did you? That's not how the world works.
Wake up. CO2 is not "pollution" by any rational reckoning. CO2 is plant food.
This. Is. Awesome! Okay, I'll play - oxygen is human food! So, let's all consume pure oxygen! What could go wrong? And water? H2O is a vital element of all complex life on Earth! Go stick your head in a bucket of water for 10 or 20 minutes. We'll wait.
(Some weird rant against the EPA)
Yep, the evil EPA, created by that Earth-hugging pot-smoking hippy, our elected representative Richard M. Nixon in 1970. With that uid, I would have guessed you lived through the 70's in the U.S. I was alive then - pollution by UNACCOUNTABLE INDUSTRY was out of control. Remember Love Canal? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L... Remember the Cuyahoga River that CAUGHT FIRE in the late 60's? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C... Remember smog in LA in the 70's? It's down 85% since then. Do you know why? http://thegoodhuman.com/2012/0...
You haven't really said anything. Doing things cost money? Well, okay, but that's not exactly a contribution to the conversation.
It sounds like you're inviting someone to reel out, again, the arguments and facts that have convinced the majority of climate scientists that climate change is happening, it is significantly affected by human activities, and that we can and should do something about it. Well, we've done that. It's time to stop it.
Anyway, I don't think you bothered to read enough about what climate resilience is - it's preparation to recover more quickly from the catastrophic effects of climate change that are already occurring, and will get worse.
For god's sake, are you deniers even going to say we shouldn't even prepare to recover from these disasters?
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Actually Google didn't create the Nexus. It pretty much copied much of the iPhone's look and feel. Then it hired some company in Taiwan to make it.
Google copied from some other company, and then hired an Asian company to manufacture it?
Those bastards! That's *Apple's* business model!
I'm a creator of intellectual works. Some of my intellectual works help bring medicine to billions of people... ...when the problem is solved and the work is done, I move on, looking for other people who need my help.
Oh my god. Are you... are you... Bruce Banner?
Or maybe Dr. Sam Beckett?
Absolutely, that makes perfect sense.
You own those houses, right? You financed their construction, created your own design, executed it to produce the houses, and still own at least a share in them, correct?
No? Then your analogy is nonsense. Sit back down.
You do know the gp was referring to the unthinkably vast resources waiting for us in our own solar system, don't you? Warp drives not required.
And it's the caffeine imbibers who you'll see go get those resources.
Here is your *better* alternative to the US: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Telecommunication_Union
From the article you cited:
"In August 2012, ITU called for a public consultation on a draft document ahead of the conference. It is claimed the proposal would allow government restriction or blocking of information disseminated via the internet and create a global regime of monitoring internet communications – including the demand that those who send and receive information identify themselves. It would also allow governments to shut down the internet if there is the belief that it may interfere in the internal affairs of other states or that information of a sensitive nature might be shared."
Yep, sure looks better to me. There's nothing that doesn't improve when you add the United Nations to it, and they propose rules to appease the worst of their members.
I couldn't help but notice you *still* didn't propose a better alternative to the U.S.
Cat got your tongue?
Gun deaths in Canada are something like 4 per 100,000 whereas in the U.S. it's around 14 per 100,000 (recent numbers may vary).
This is because fewer people like you can get their mitts on a firearm. Oh, the irony.
Wow, you really responded to what I didn't say. (Hint: re-read my post. I didn't propose anything.)
All I did was celebrate your love for guns.
Guns, guns, guns, love 'em!
...in case you missed the first three words of the summary: "Theoretical physicists propose..."
I prefer to get my physics from physicists that actually exist, thanks.
...and the solution, once again, is... MORE GUNS!
Thanks for coming, now put on your helmet and get back on the short bus.
FWIW, I believe that, in a sense, God exists...though it's more accurate to say gods exist, and some of them pretend to be the only one. I believe them to be fundamental psychic structures that are shared in common by most people at a level far below the verbal level.
You know, most people will engage one in multiple conversations without revealing what's really going on inside their heads. You did it in one go with this post.
Seriously, thanks, I appreciate it.
Amazon is going to lose money on this deal. No one wants **another** box....especially one that doesn't do anything that Netflix can't do.
You didn't think it through. I have a Roku, which is great. I have Amazon Prime, which is great. Dealing with Amazon video through the Roku is a little inconvenient.
If Amazon gives me something that does what Roku does, and ties it so conveniently to my Amazon account that it eliminates the Roku hassle, I won't want **another** box, I'll want a **different** box.
I'm not sure why you posted that absolute statement.
Quite true. However, sometimes the thing that was failed was the attempt to convince someone else that you are sincere about being left alone.
Even more often, the "failure" was a hesitation to meet the unreasonable demands of an aggressor who wants you to relinquish possession of something valuable.
Violence is a two party game, you can't simply "choose" to never be involved in it.
What you can choose is whether or not you want to be the loser every time you are forced to participate.
I do recognize the validity of your point. However, the difference between us is that I see the use of violence as more likely a missed opportunity to have prevented violence in the first place, while your point of view is to always, as a priority, prepare for violence first and foremost.
Given recent history - the Iraq war, and those assholes who murdered people in Florida, and Florida, and Florida again because they carried a gun and seemed eager for a chance to use it - I believe pursuing my point of view would be more fruitful. But then, my profession is largely process improvement, and this looks like an area that could sorely use some.
You misunderstand the true value of weapons.
If you have to use a weapon, that means you didn't have a big enough one.
Um, no. It's more likely that if you "have" to use a weapon, you already failed at something else that would have precluded the use, or threat, of force in the first place.
Your one example is someone refusing to recant a religious belief and being executed for it. Look up the philosophy - if you are executed, you are not committing the act of suicide.
If you're a typical /.er, how is that different from your life until now?
Disclaimer; I am married to a breathtakingly beautiful Indonesian doctor lady who earns so much more than I do.
Please stop this fatwa unsanity !
The muslim word is full of stupid jerks who use religion and the beliefs of other people to serve their own agenda, while pretending speaking in the name of Islam. This is not different from a stupid christian priest who give his opinion about a a society matter, they only represent themeslves.
You seem to be saying stop Christian insanity as well. If you throw in the Jewish nutjobs as well, I think you've got something there.
Then we can tackle Scientology.
Again, how is this really different from any other colonization project?...I'm not saying that the colony would survive. I wouldn't plan on giving even 10:1 against...
Well, there you go, you answered your own question. Even you described it as suicide, i.e., the expectation that the participants would not survive. That's why the fatwa against it. If you buy into the crazy premise of the three Abrahamic religions which includes Islam, then there is a religious reason to forbid people from this mission. As it's currently planned.
You don't want to go to Mars? Please by all means, keep your bullshit on Earth and let us evolved human beings make a fresh new life on a fresh new planet without you!
While I look forward to seeing humans colonize Mars, I don't think you can fairly characterize it as a "fresh new planet".
Mars ain't the kind of place to raise your kids, in fact it's cold as Hell, and there's no one there to raise them if you didn't.
Yes, EPA = Nazi. What was I thinking?
I guess you trust the corporations who poison your food more than the people who'd like to make them accountable.
I would have corrected your absurd post, but two others did it for me. Ah, the free market of ideas at work!
It was a housing development that destroyed the integrity of the containment, not the government, unless by "government" you mean the local school board which bought it, which would be nobody's idea of an expert in chemical waste. Hooker Chemical created a timebomb, and SOLD it (it was not "seized") with a "no backsies!" limited liability clause.
Hooker should never have been permitted to use the land that way, nor to sell it in that condition.
That's a nice try with the Ghostbusters reference though. If I were childish, I'd say you were "dickless, here".
With the winter we've been having.I want more global warming!
I don't believe you really do. More warming may disrupt the jet stream even more, so while some portions of the planet bake, and the U.S. experiences continuing drought and record breaking summer heat, we will ALSO see more winters like this one. Which would suck.
You didn't really think that global warming meant that every place gets warmer, did you? That's not how the world works.
Wake up. CO2 is not "pollution" by any rational reckoning. CO2 is plant food.
This. Is. Awesome! Okay, I'll play - oxygen is human food! So, let's all consume pure oxygen! What could go wrong? And water? H2O is a vital element of all complex life on Earth! Go stick your head in a bucket of water for 10 or 20 minutes. We'll wait.
(Some weird rant against the EPA)
Yep, the evil EPA, created by that Earth-hugging pot-smoking hippy, our elected representative Richard M. Nixon in 1970. With that uid, I would have guessed you lived through the 70's in the U.S. I was alive then - pollution by UNACCOUNTABLE INDUSTRY was out of control. Remember Love Canal? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L... Remember the Cuyahoga River that CAUGHT FIRE in the late 60's? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C... Remember smog in LA in the 70's? It's down 85% since then. Do you know why? http://thegoodhuman.com/2012/0...
Nope, don't need that evil EPA, no siree.
You haven't really said anything. Doing things cost money? Well, okay, but that's not exactly a contribution to the conversation.
It sounds like you're inviting someone to reel out, again, the arguments and facts that have convinced the majority of climate scientists that climate change is happening, it is significantly affected by human activities, and that we can and should do something about it. Well, we've done that. It's time to stop it.
Anyway, I don't think you bothered to read enough about what climate resilience is - it's preparation to recover more quickly from the catastrophic effects of climate change that are already occurring, and will get worse.
For god's sake, are you deniers even going to say we shouldn't even prepare to recover from these disasters?