Simple. The teachings of the Quran are not compatible with free speech. If you want to have free speech in the future, you must resist those that want to destroy it, even if it means restricting their right to free speech. 99% free speech is better than 0%.
The others aren't just prepared to murder Wilders. They want to abolish democracy and replace it with sharia law, and kill the Untermenschen i.e. the unbelievers. I don't think fighting for freedom and democracy is as deplorable as fighting against it. Of course, there are many useful idiots who think they can live peacefully with islamists in the same country, believing that it we respect them, they'll respect us. Big mistake.
No reason why NASA can't work together with NOAA, and they can both do LEO. Some overlap, for a trivial amount of money, for something so important, can't hurt.
The claims of temperature increasing to "highest levels on record" are not accurate. They only count records from 1976. Before that, their graphs show a flat line.
The records from before 1976 are all lower, so 2014 is still the highest on record.
mainstream view that temperature records describe a fucking hockey stick.
The fucking hockey stick is supported by the fucking data. Where's your data ?
that annoying white blob called the Sun which itself exhibits wild temperature variations of upwards of +/-1500C at the photosphere?
We can measure the total solar radiation. It's only fluctuating by tiny amounts, and since the '80s, it has actually gone down a little bit.
the first stones of the foundation that a future generation can build upon.
The first stones need to be made here on the ground, because before we can even start to think about colonization, we need better propulsion and other tech. Sending a few people to Mars with current tech is like cavemen trying to get to the moon by finding bigger and bigger trees to climb, and thinking they're making progress.
I have better things to do than worry about what happens to certain DNA sequences million years in the future that are as closely related to me, as I am to a chimp in a lab. There are plenty of things to worry about that threaten me and my kids and grandkids in the next couple of decades. If we don't survive those, I won't even have any descendants left to worry about.
If we are not going to eventually send people into space to colonize other worlds, then there is no point in sending them to explore - and ALSO then no point in sending robots to precede them, and then also no reason to build telescopes and other probes to see what's out there to explore
Sending robots is fun. I'm curious if there's ever been life on Mars, for instance, and robots are the perfect tool to find that out. Building telescopes is also fun, because we learn interesting stuff, and some of it has relevance for the nature of matter and energy, and could lead to useful discoveries here on earth.
Colonization is best left to SF writers. It's completely unrealistic. If you care about humanity, our efforts are best spent here on earth.
We can cut all government climate science funds and leave it to commercial entities.... right???
Of course not. We can leave launching things into orbit to SpaceX because there's a lot of money to be made doing that. There's no money in climate science, so that should be a government job.
Why increase NASA's budget and use that money for climate research???? That's NOT their job!
It's their job right now. It's not interfering with anything else they do. Moving it from one government agency to another one doesn't save any money. Most likely, it would just mess things up. So why bother ?
next you'll be claiming that this planet can only support a human population of between fifty and ninety million.
I mean that the only future of the human species is here on earth, where we have the best environment for survival. The chances of survival anywhere else is in the solar system is much worse than the most inhospitable place on earth, and beyond the solar system is just empty space as far as we can reach. Therefore, it would be smarter to allocate some of NASAs budget to study the earth, especially where they can use their expertise to do so from earth orbit. Studying space is interesting, but only from a scientific curiosity point of view, not as a first step to future colonization.
None of this is relevant to the amount of people that the earth can sustain. And to be honest, I have no idea. I certainly don't have any goals.
NASA spent more money studying climate change in 2014 than it spent launching men into space
Good. Climate change is one of the most important things to study. Sending men into space is one of the most useless things to do.
If Democrats are so insistent on studying climate and are really so convinced that it is woth the money, they should pony-up the cash for NOAA to do that work (double the size of NOAA, perhaps?) instead of continually siphoning billions of dollars away from the aeronautics and spaceflight work of NASA.
A simpler solution would be to just increase NASA's budget, so they can do both. Or let SpaceX worry about getting men in space. Unlike NASA, they can do stuff in space, while making a profit.
No, the real story, that the US is going to reinvigorate its moribund manned space capability is clearly mentioned. Or don't you think geeks interested in that?
But we all know that's not going to happen. They just want to move money from taxpayers to their buddies.
No, the instructor should focus on teaching image processing. However, if he notices undesirable behavior in the classroom, he should correct that. That's part of a job of a teacher.
Or he could just use a different image and avoid the issue entirely.
With the same reasoning, schools in Europe are taking the holocaust out of the history lessons, to avoid nasty remarks from muslim kids in the classroom.
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I doubt that LISP is useful for modern AI systems.
Simple. The teachings of the Quran are not compatible with free speech. If you want to have free speech in the future, you must resist those that want to destroy it, even if it means restricting their right to free speech. 99% free speech is better than 0%.
There are limits to free speech. Inciting violence is one them, and inciting to abolish free speech is another.
Protests are almost unheard of.
I guess you're the kind of person who thinks is a woman dresses provocatively, she has it coming, right?
And 'provocative' means without a headscarf.
The others aren't just prepared to murder Wilders. They want to abolish democracy and replace it with sharia law, and kill the Untermenschen i.e. the unbelievers. I don't think fighting for freedom and democracy is as deplorable as fighting against it. Of course, there are many useful idiots who think they can live peacefully with islamists in the same country, believing that it we respect them, they'll respect us. Big mistake.
I've seen many cartoons depicting Jesus, but I can't recall many protests or people getting killed for it.
loud xenophobic fascist Wilders
Muslims are the loud xenophobic fascists here.
So, species come and go without cause ? Like magic ?
While all batteries deteriorate, the battery in the car is not the same type as in your notebook, and will last longer.
On the other hand, a computer can be trained to pick up clues in the image that most people wouldn't notice.
If only it made sense, then it would be a perfect comment.
Microsoft and Apple are both owe their existence to half-apes
So, we came full circle ?
No reason why NASA can't work together with NOAA, and they can both do LEO. Some overlap, for a trivial amount of money, for something so important, can't hurt.
The claims of temperature increasing to "highest levels on record" are not accurate. They only count records from 1976. Before that, their graphs show a flat line.
The records from before 1976 are all lower, so 2014 is still the highest on record.
mainstream view that temperature records describe a fucking hockey stick.
The fucking hockey stick is supported by the fucking data. Where's your data ?
that annoying white blob called the Sun which itself exhibits wild temperature variations of upwards of +/-1500C at the photosphere?
We can measure the total solar radiation. It's only fluctuating by tiny amounts, and since the '80s, it has actually gone down a little bit.
the first stones of the foundation that a future generation can build upon.
The first stones need to be made here on the ground, because before we can even start to think about colonization, we need better propulsion and other tech. Sending a few people to Mars with current tech is like cavemen trying to get to the moon by finding bigger and bigger trees to climb, and thinking they're making progress.
I have better things to do than worry about what happens to certain DNA sequences million years in the future that are as closely related to me, as I am to a chimp in a lab. There are plenty of things to worry about that threaten me and my kids and grandkids in the next couple of decades. If we don't survive those, I won't even have any descendants left to worry about.
Oh, you're an astronaut ?
If we are not going to eventually send people into space to colonize other worlds, then there is no point in sending them to explore - and ALSO then no point in sending robots to precede them, and then also no reason to build telescopes and other probes to see what's out there to explore
Sending robots is fun. I'm curious if there's ever been life on Mars, for instance, and robots are the perfect tool to find that out. Building telescopes is also fun, because we learn interesting stuff, and some of it has relevance for the nature of matter and energy, and could lead to useful discoveries here on earth.
Colonization is best left to SF writers. It's completely unrealistic. If you care about humanity, our efforts are best spent here on earth.
We can cut all government climate science funds and leave it to commercial entities .... right???
Of course not. We can leave launching things into orbit to SpaceX because there's a lot of money to be made doing that. There's no money in climate science, so that should be a government job.
Why increase NASA's budget and use that money for climate research???? That's NOT their job!
It's their job right now. It's not interfering with anything else they do. Moving it from one government agency to another one doesn't save any money. Most likely, it would just mess things up. So why bother ?
next you'll be claiming that this planet can only support a human population of between fifty and ninety million.
I mean that the only future of the human species is here on earth, where we have the best environment for survival. The chances of survival anywhere else is in the solar system is much worse than the most inhospitable place on earth, and beyond the solar system is just empty space as far as we can reach. Therefore, it would be smarter to allocate some of NASAs budget to study the earth, especially where they can use their expertise to do so from earth orbit. Studying space is interesting, but only from a scientific curiosity point of view, not as a first step to future colonization.
None of this is relevant to the amount of people that the earth can sustain. And to be honest, I have no idea. I certainly don't have any goals.
NASA spent more money studying climate change in 2014 than it spent launching men into space
Good. Climate change is one of the most important things to study. Sending men into space is one of the most useless things to do.
If Democrats are so insistent on studying climate and are really so convinced that it is woth the money, they should pony-up the cash for NOAA to do that work (double the size of NOAA, perhaps?) instead of continually siphoning billions of dollars away from the aeronautics and spaceflight work of NASA.
A simpler solution would be to just increase NASA's budget, so they can do both. Or let SpaceX worry about getting men in space. Unlike NASA, they can do stuff in space, while making a profit.
No, the real story, that the US is going to reinvigorate its moribund manned space capability is clearly mentioned. Or don't you think geeks interested in that?
But we all know that's not going to happen. They just want to move money from taxpayers to their buddies.
space (barely even scratched the surface).
It's a vacuum. It's cold. There's nasty radiation. We're pretty much done.
We need NASA to build big honking SPACESHIPS to move mankind into the solar system
Maybe, if we weren't wasting the earth, we could stay here.
No, the instructor should focus on teaching image processing. However, if he notices undesirable behavior in the classroom, he should correct that. That's part of a job of a teacher.
Or he could just use a different image and avoid the issue entirely.
With the same reasoning, schools in Europe are taking the holocaust out of the history lessons, to avoid nasty remarks from muslim kids in the classroom.