I see. I have similiar sentiment about mine. They give it to petty tyrants as well under the guise of humanitarian aid. And they piss away billions giving to the Native canadians whose leaders steal it and squander it.
IF you dont' give a shit about the kurds isn't it hypocritical to support the palastinians. If you don't care why don't we sterilize the whole area. NEver have to worry about it againa nd maybe we can put up some condos. Cost less then giving money to isreal and palastine and more effective int he long run. Put some nerve gas in some planes and bomb from spain till tibet.
On the other hand Palastine recives villions of dollars as well. Almost all the petty dictatorships recieve cash from the UN or the US or the EU or Russia or China. No different. Why do you send money to Isreal? because there are enough sympathetic power brokers in the US to make it so. You have the Jewish lobby as well as the rich jewish power brokers and also fundementalist christians beleive it's their duty to create and defend a Jewish state. Those two factions make up a large portion of the powerful people in the US.
Without the money they may eventually be slaughtered by their neighbors. The blood of 1000 people a year or the blood of millions. Do you even doubt the Arabs would be harsher to the Jews? their harsher to their own ethnicity, imagine how they would be to a hated and loathed ethnicity, it would be worse then when China was invaded by Japan (20-30 million civillian deaths many due to Nazi style scientific tests and rampant rape of the women. Many chinese still harbour a grudge, should Uncle same ever lose interest in Japan, god help the japanese because they surly didn't show any restraint or mercy before).
My point. Your Gov pisses away money anyways, why not support the underdog, the lesser of two evils. Not significantly lesser but lesser all the same. What else would your Gov spend on?invade another country?
When I say Moslims hate a lot Imean they hate a lot. They do in fact hate the chinese in their country. Buisness people in many part of Muslim asia have to content with the governments who hate them, regular mobs that destroy their businesses and rape their daughters( this occurs semi-regularly in indonesia). They hate all of the west because of our beliefs. Many of the radical sects hate us out right while the more moderate(they have few if any progressive leaders) think of us as pigs. They hate Buddists(iran destroyign buddist monumentS) they hate hindus' (pakistan vs India), they hate and hate and hate. Theirs is currently a culture of hate because it's easier to hate then to fix the problems that plague them (a thouroughly corrupt leadership and the inability to comprimise at all). They generally hate russians too (Chechnia).
If you look at the governments in the area, what Isreal does is par for the course. The kurds can attest to that. Jordan has execute more Palastinians then Isreal (give a few doen years and they'd be about par). Palastine was never a country. It could have been but they turned them down. Was it right to make isreal? problbly not, but did it cause all the problems? no. The region has been a hot bed of hatred and war since Babalon. The ethnics gourps have shifted around and wared with each other literally through all human history. Adding isreal back to that didn't help but it certainly hasn't caused it all. The Shites and the Sunni would have been fighting doing terribly things to each other if they didn't have someone else to hate.
If The arabs are about peace and love, why don't we see Jordan or saudi arabia taking in these poor refuges?
Isreal isn't nice. But Palastine is no saint either. There are no angels in that area. All of them are bastards. In the same vein so is most of the world. Every little excuse is used to oppress people. Looke din thailand latly? same issues, one Gov oppressing a minority ethnic group. Look at indonesia? They militantly anti-everybody else. Know any who ever lived there? How about Saudi arabia. Try being there as a non-muslim. You have to lay very low to ensure you don't get targetted for things.
It's not black and white. Isreal is there. They have to deal wiht it. Is removing the 8 million isreali's any better then the 3.2 million palastinins suffering? The Arab neighbors don't give a rats ass about the palastinians, it's only a rally cause a cause celebre to draw heat off them and to forward their own agendas. Isreal isn't 1/10 as bad ass as Russia or China or Jordan or Libia or the old Iraq or afganistan or... the list goes on and on.
Now, I'm not saying that compromise is always possible, but sheer force alone cannot eradicate terrorism. You kill one, and his brothers and friends may well take up the cause in his name.
So if we kill every living person in the area, wont' that stop terrorism? (a note, I'm not advacating this, I'm being blaise and trying to be funny).
Muslims are as reasonable as the next man True and false. If the next man is a yokel from the apalachians who recieves all his news from fox news then maybe.
The third way is to be so innocious and friendly and live next to a big great terrible giant. This way Anyone who would have fucked with you are targetting the neighbor and anyone else just don't think your a threat. (See Canada).
This is a flat our lie. Israel is the cause of terrorism. It's the reason arabs hate us. It's the number one reason there has not been peace in the middle east.
This is a gross exageration. They hate the US because the US controlls them. they hate isreal because they beleive they shouldn't be there. They hate and hate and hate. In indonesia they hate their Chinese business people (Families that have lived there for 5 or generatiosn but are rich and chinese). In Saudi Arabia they hate the Us presence there making them look weak and like puppets. It's mroe then just abotu isreal.
Quite right. Islam is no more violent and evil than Christianity or Judaism.
The current form of islam that is rampant in the middle east, parts of asia and africa are controlled by people who are more violent and evil then Christians and Judaism and the people of these countries aren't evil but generally ignorant and a lot of times blame everyone else for their problems. Islam today is where Christianity was 600 years ago. Then again Islam 600 years ago was where Christianity is today. Don't kid yourself, Countries like indonesia are horrible places to be if your not Moslim. My GF is from there. They did some pretty horrible things to her and her family. More horrible then what Isreal does to Palasine, less horrible then what the US did to the Native Americans. If I have a bias it's this, How can you say Islam is about peace and self betterment when all Islamic countries are dictatorial and oppressive about knowlege. I know what christianity and it's hipocrisy is, do you know the same about Islam? It's easy to be PC when you don't know anyone hurt by that faction. It's easy for me to be blaise about palastine when I know no one personally affected by isreal but this does not mean that being PC is right. Just because it's wrong to say all are evil bastards doen't mean that most s aren't.
Nations go to war. Nations win terratory in war. Civilized nations (and even some not so civilised ones like china) eventually make the conquered people their own citizens. The us did this with indians, the chinese did it with tibetians. Is rael has chosen not to do this with palestenians.
What do you call it when people living inside your borders don't have the right to vote in your elections? I call it apartheid.
The above statement is just plain wrong. What did the chinese do to the tibetans after they conquered them? they surely didn't let them have a vote and treat them as citizens. Have you read the news in the last 20 years? Their oppressing them and killing populations out right. How about the US and the indians. It does seem like Indians are a free and healthy people right? the rampant crime and internal violence in a reserve is ntohign right? and the outright genocide of several dozen tribes is just the American's way to greet their darker cousins?
Isreal might be dicks, but in the context of history they are being nicer conquerers then both of the examples you listed. The reason for this isn't that their nicer people, they just have more scrutiny. It's a matter history, Jordan has killed more palastinians then Isreal has, and the neibor arabs do more to set the palastinians back then anyone else. The whole of the palastinian population could have faded from the camps after a few decades if any of those nations chose to take some of the population but it's part of their agenda to keep the people there to keep pressure on isreal. It's not about a free palastinian state it's about the abolition of isreal. Granted the conception of isreal was a very very contraversial move but now that their there are you going to let them die? Genocide by arabs or oppression fromt he isrealis? thats choice. The US backs one, the Arabs want the other.
Replecting some of the energy back is one thing, reflecting enough to damage the THEL is another. A good mirror still only reflect 90-95% of the energy back and bicycle strips will not reflect any more their problbly 60% because the mirrors and prisms used in them aren't high quality. Bicyle strips are also very very very not aerodynamic so the addition of these would throw off the aerodynamics. Even a aero dynamic layer of highly reflective material would not protect long or reflect enough to do damage, and even 1% of the IR energy is going to be enough to melt or warp the protective layer which means mor energy gets through. The protection system is useless.
The only way yoru going to take out a THEL with a reflective coating is if you had the mirror perfectly perpendicular to the bear. and even then it's unlikly. You pointed out yourself, it's only deadly in a limited range. The math required to reflect enough energy back at the THEL would take something that most governments couldn't affort to put on a missle.
1-you have to know where THEL is 2-you have to know exactly when and where the lazer will intersect the missles path(or have the reflective material always adjust) 3- you have to have a material reflective enough to reflect a significant portion of the energy 4- and then also make sure the focal point of the reflected energy is the THEL site.
BEyond impossibel for any government save the US, china or Russia.
No amount of money will help religious fever. I disagree, give me enough money to fabricate enough serin gass to cover the entirty of the middle east and I will bring peace to the region. HEck give me enough to cover the whole world and I'll bring peace to the world.
Their might be some severe consquences form a race of functionally imortal beings. Who gets to be immortal is question? will it be a reward for talent and personal fortune or will it be applie to everyone, if it's to everyone overcrowding will kill us. If it's just the accademics and the rich will science and industry become more and more conservative (going broke or having all your ideas discreditted at 450 might suck a lot, the reputation may never leave you)? Or will those groups become rampant risk takers(hey, if you have all the rest of time to recover does 400 years of work really matter) then theirs the question of physchology. We live 80 years and we're mostly cautious about our lives. If we live 1000+ years will we develope racial paranoia like a Piersons Puppeteer?
Anything worthwile but not immediatly possible will NOT be researched by a private company unless the pay off is rediculously profitable like pharmacuticles.
GE would not invest in a project that might come out with a space elevator in 25 years. They will invest in an oven that heats 25% faster that will be out in 8 months. For obtuse and long term project the government must fund it, for technology refinement the public sector will fund it.
Heaven help us if it ever snaps. imagine a super strong cabel accelerating from a geosync orbit across some city? like a 4 km long 2 meter wide meteor.
- Food, nobody would have to grow hungry again - Money, nobody would need it ever again - Fuel, no more dependancies on oil - Nuclear waste/pollution, easy to clean that up now - Living forever, refreshing the building blocks of our bodies
-Food: We can already fend off hunger, it's socio economic reasons why we don't. Food distribution, international politics cause grain and other excess food goods to be stored/rott instead of eaten, not supply. Replicators would not help this. Chances are they would require electricity to operate and most places with low food levels also don't have electricity. -money: Money is an idea, its a innovation to quantify the value of "work" or "goods". If replicators worked, they would require power, and then power and base materials would become the basis of a monetary system. Also replicators aren't magic, nanobots would still require base amterials and could only make things according to what is available. It's likly it will make manufacturing moot if it worked exactly liek you think it should. -Fuel: We will need more, it doesn' solve fuel problems it woudl create it. We dont' yet know the power requirements a replicator would need, but changing matter require energy. If it work just a syou think (ie, make anything you tell it to out of base materials) We'd need a lot of energy. If your thinking of the magical Star trek replicators it's going to need even more energy (and also a major major innovation in physics to overcome the uncertainty principle.) -Nuclear waste: Again nano machiens aren't magic They might be able to convert 8h2so4 into 8 h2 1 s8 and 16 o2 but it can't make pu-242 into 50 h2o. -Living forever: It may someday result in this, This is a fairly realistic possibiltity but not for a good long time. Even then you may run into some problems, like memory. IF your 350 can your brain remember enough to keep you functional, will we hae to invent a forgetting machine lest we fill up our brains? This one might happen I doubt the other 4 will.
in C7C, the AI ignored walls, they were neutral structurs to them. But wall them in, build up, attack. As for war3 every stage in the original was pretty easy, the expansion was much harder.
So basically what your saying is, regardless of what you may actually plan on doing with that information, you should automatically be considered suspicious and investigated? Its like assuming that someone is guilty of being a terrorist until proven otherwise. That's bullshit.
Thats called security, if a malicious agent had requested the info and did something destructive with, the pentagon looks like a bunch of brainless pinpricks. If a random student requests the info and they do a follow up they look like NAzi's. I'd rather have the last scenerio then the first.
Basically, what I am is a compassionate conservative. I don't beleive violence causes violence but I also don't believe the portrayal of violence in north america is a good thing.
I'd really rather let children see a sex scene(which they will eventually do, just not too soon) then see a violent act(which I hope to god they do not do).
Americans heavily protect their children from every thign and it does absolutly nothing to make them better people or more responsible people. Europeans expose their children to lots of things and they tend to be better off for it(UK excepted, their like Americans in their attitudes).
Wealth and education tends to lower teen pregnancy. Inccidentally teen pregnancy tends to impede getting wealth or education. So it's a vicious little circle.
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I see. I have similiar sentiment about mine. They give it to petty tyrants as well under the guise of humanitarian aid. And they piss away billions giving to the Native canadians whose leaders steal it and squander it.
IF you dont' give a shit about the kurds isn't it hypocritical to support the palastinians. If you don't care why don't we sterilize the whole area. NEver have to worry about it againa nd maybe we can put up some condos. Cost less then giving money to isreal and palastine and more effective int he long run. Put some nerve gas in some planes and bomb from spain till tibet.
On the other hand Palastine recives villions of dollars as well. Almost all the petty dictatorships recieve cash from the UN or the US or the EU or Russia or China. No different. Why do you send money to Isreal? because there are enough sympathetic power brokers in the US to make it so. You have the Jewish lobby as well as the rich jewish power brokers and also fundementalist christians beleive it's their duty to create and defend a Jewish state. Those two factions make up a large portion of the powerful people in the US.
Without the money they may eventually be slaughtered by their neighbors. The blood of 1000 people a year or the blood of millions. Do you even doubt the Arabs would be harsher to the Jews? their harsher to their own ethnicity, imagine how they would be to a hated and loathed ethnicity, it would be worse then when China was invaded by Japan (20-30 million civillian deaths many due to Nazi style scientific tests and rampant rape of the women. Many chinese still harbour a grudge, should Uncle same ever lose interest in Japan, god help the japanese because they surly didn't show any restraint or mercy before).
My point. Your Gov pisses away money anyways, why not support the underdog, the lesser of two evils. Not significantly lesser but lesser all the same. What else would your Gov spend on?invade another country?
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When I say Moslims hate a lot Imean they hate a lot. They do in fact hate the chinese in their country. Buisness people in many part of Muslim asia have to content with the governments who hate them, regular mobs that destroy their businesses and rape their daughters( this occurs semi-regularly in indonesia).
... the list goes on and on.
They hate all of the west because of our beliefs. Many of the radical sects hate us out right while the more moderate(they have few if any progressive leaders) think of us as pigs.
They hate Buddists(iran destroyign buddist monumentS) they hate hindus' (pakistan vs India), they hate and hate and hate. Theirs is currently a culture of hate because it's easier to hate then to fix the problems that plague them (a thouroughly corrupt leadership and the inability to comprimise at all). They generally hate russians too (Chechnia).
If you look at the governments in the area, what Isreal does is par for the course. The kurds can attest to that. Jordan has execute more Palastinians then Isreal (give a few doen years and they'd be about par). Palastine was never a country. It could have been but they turned them down. Was it right to make isreal? problbly not, but did it cause all the problems? no. The region has been a hot bed of hatred and war since Babalon. The ethnics gourps have shifted around and wared with each other literally through all human history. Adding isreal back to that didn't help but it certainly hasn't caused it all. The Shites and the Sunni would have been fighting doing terribly things to each other if they didn't have someone else to hate.
If The arabs are about peace and love, why don't we see Jordan or saudi arabia taking in these poor refuges?
Isreal isn't nice. But Palastine is no saint either. There are no angels in that area. All of them are bastards. In the same vein so is most of the world. Every little excuse is used to oppress people. Looke din thailand latly? same issues, one Gov oppressing a minority ethnic group. Look at indonesia? They militantly anti-everybody else. Know any who ever lived there? How about Saudi arabia. Try being there as a non-muslim. You have to lay very low to ensure you don't get targetted for things.
It's not black and white. Isreal is there. They have to deal wiht it. Is removing the 8 million isreali's any better then the 3.2 million palastinins suffering? The Arab neighbors don't give a rats ass about the palastinians, it's only a rally cause a cause celebre to draw heat off them and to forward their own agendas. Isreal isn't 1/10 as bad ass as Russia or China or Jordan or Libia or the old Iraq or afganistan or
hat's the trouble with killing terrorists as a method of defeating terrorism - kill one, and three more spring up to replace them.
Here's how you stop it with violence, show them you have the means and the will to kill them all. Then say lets go and discuss alternatives.
Now, I'm not saying that compromise is always possible, but sheer force alone cannot eradicate terrorism. You kill one, and his brothers and friends may well take up the cause in his name.
So if we kill every living person in the area, wont' that stop terrorism? (a note, I'm not advacating this, I'm being blaise and trying to be funny).
Muslims are as reasonable as the next man
True and false. If the next man is a yokel from the apalachians who recieves all his news from fox news then maybe.
The third way is to be so innocious and friendly and live next to a big great terrible giant. This way Anyone who would have fucked with you are targetting the neighbor and anyone else just don't think your a threat. (See Canada).
This is a flat our lie. Israel is the cause of terrorism. It's the reason arabs hate us. It's the number one reason there has not been peace in the middle east.
This is a gross exageration. They hate the US because the US controlls them. they hate isreal because they beleive they shouldn't be there. They hate and hate and hate. In indonesia they hate their Chinese business people (Families that have lived there for 5 or generatiosn but are rich and chinese). In Saudi Arabia they hate the Us presence there making them look weak and like puppets. It's mroe then just abotu isreal.
Quite right. Islam is no more violent and evil than Christianity or Judaism.
The current form of islam that is rampant in the middle east, parts of asia and africa are controlled by people who are more violent and evil then Christians and Judaism and the people of these countries aren't evil but generally ignorant and a lot of times blame everyone else for their problems. Islam today is where Christianity was 600 years ago. Then again Islam 600 years ago was where Christianity is today. Don't kid yourself, Countries like indonesia are horrible places to be if your not Moslim. My GF is from there. They did some pretty horrible things to her and her family. More horrible then what Isreal does to Palasine, less horrible then what the US did to the Native Americans. If I have a bias it's this, How can you say Islam is about peace and self betterment when all Islamic countries are dictatorial and oppressive about knowlege. I know what christianity and it's hipocrisy is, do you know the same about Islam? It's easy to be PC when you don't know anyone hurt by that faction. It's easy for me to be blaise about palastine when I know no one personally affected by isreal but this does not mean that being PC is right. Just because it's wrong to say all are evil bastards doen't mean that most s aren't.
Nations go to war. Nations win terratory in war. Civilized nations (and even some not so civilised ones like china) eventually make the conquered people their own citizens. The us did this with indians, the chinese did it with tibetians. Is rael has chosen not to do this with palestenians.
What do you call it when people living inside your borders don't have the right to vote in your elections? I call it apartheid.
The above statement is just plain wrong. What did the chinese do to the tibetans after they conquered them? they surely didn't let them have a vote and treat them as citizens. Have you read the news in the last 20 years? Their oppressing them and killing populations out right. How about the US and the indians. It does seem like Indians are a free and healthy people right? the rampant crime and internal violence in a reserve is ntohign right? and the outright genocide of several dozen tribes is just the American's way to greet their darker cousins?
Isreal might be dicks, but in the context of history they are being nicer conquerers then both of the examples you listed. The reason for this isn't that their nicer people, they just have more scrutiny. It's a matter history, Jordan has killed more palastinians then Isreal has, and the neibor arabs do more to set the palastinians back then anyone else. The whole of the palastinian population could have faded from the camps after a few decades if any of those nations chose to take some of the population but it's part of their agenda to keep the people there to keep pressure on isreal. It's not about a free palastinian state it's about the abolition of isreal. Granted the conception of isreal was a very very contraversial move but now that their there are you going to let them die? Genocide by arabs or oppression fromt he isrealis? thats choice. The US backs one, the Arabs want the other.
If she's a gamign geek won't she be pale anyways.
Replecting some of the energy back is one thing, reflecting enough to damage the THEL is another. A good mirror still only reflect 90-95% of the energy back and bicycle strips will not reflect any more their problbly 60% because the mirrors and prisms used in them aren't high quality. Bicyle strips are also very very very not aerodynamic so the addition of these would throw off the aerodynamics. Even a aero dynamic layer of highly reflective material would not protect long or reflect enough to do damage, and even 1% of the IR energy is going to be enough to melt or warp the protective layer which means mor energy gets through. The protection system is useless.
The only way yoru going to take out a THEL with a reflective coating is if you had the mirror perfectly perpendicular to the bear. and even then it's unlikly. You pointed out yourself, it's only deadly in a limited range. The math required to reflect enough energy back at the THEL would take something that most governments couldn't affort to put on a missle.
1-you have to know where THEL is
2-you have to know exactly when and where the lazer will intersect the missles path(or have the reflective material always adjust)
3- you have to have a material reflective enough to reflect a significant portion of the energy
4- and then also make sure the focal point of the reflected energy is the THEL site.
BEyond impossibel for any government save the US, china or Russia.
No amount of money will help religious fever.
I disagree, give me enough money to fabricate enough serin gass to cover the entirty of the middle east and I will bring peace to the region. HEck give me enough to cover the whole world and I'll bring peace to the world.
Their might be some severe consquences form a race of functionally imortal beings. Who gets to be immortal is question? will it be a reward for talent and personal fortune or will it be applie to everyone, if it's to everyone overcrowding will kill us. If it's just the accademics and the rich will science and industry become more and more conservative (going broke or having all your ideas discreditted at 450 might suck a lot, the reputation may never leave you)? Or will those groups become rampant risk takers(hey, if you have all the rest of time to recover does 400 years of work really matter) then theirs the question of physchology. We live 80 years and we're mostly cautious about our lives. If we live 1000+ years will we develope racial paranoia like a Piersons Puppeteer?
Anything worthwile but not immediatly possible will NOT be researched by a private company unless the pay off is rediculously profitable like pharmacuticles.
GE would not invest in a project that might come out with a space elevator in 25 years. They will invest in an oven that heats 25% faster that will be out in 8 months. For obtuse and long term project the government must fund it, for technology refinement the public sector will fund it.
Heaven help us if it ever snaps. imagine a super strong cabel accelerating from a geosync orbit across some city? like a 4 km long 2 meter wide meteor.
- Food, nobody would have to grow hungry again
- Money, nobody would need it ever again
- Fuel, no more dependancies on oil
- Nuclear waste/pollution, easy to clean that up now
- Living forever, refreshing the building blocks of our bodies
-Food: We can already fend off hunger, it's socio economic reasons why we don't. Food distribution, international politics cause grain and other excess food goods to be stored/rott instead of eaten, not supply. Replicators would not help this. Chances are they would require electricity to operate and most places with low food levels also don't have electricity.
-money: Money is an idea, its a innovation to quantify the value of "work" or "goods". If replicators worked, they would require power, and then power and base materials would become the basis of a monetary system. Also replicators aren't magic, nanobots would still require base amterials and could only make things according to what is available. It's likly it will make manufacturing moot if it worked exactly liek you think it should.
-Fuel: We will need more, it doesn' solve fuel problems it woudl create it. We dont' yet know the power requirements a replicator would need, but changing matter require energy. If it work just a syou think (ie, make anything you tell it to out of base materials) We'd need a lot of energy. If your thinking of the magical Star trek replicators it's going to need even more energy (and also a major major innovation in physics to overcome the uncertainty principle.)
-Nuclear waste: Again nano machiens aren't magic They might be able to convert 8h2so4 into 8 h2 1 s8 and 16 o2 but it can't make pu-242 into 50 h2o.
-Living forever: It may someday result in this, This is a fairly realistic possibiltity but not for a good long time. Even then you may run into some problems, like memory. IF your 350 can your brain remember enough to keep you functional, will we hae to invent a forgetting machine lest we fill up our brains? This one might happen I doubt the other 4 will.
A lot of games have fan-made modes to add a bit of sex appeal to some games. Like Morrowind and their Face mods and better body mods.
Better bodies
Better heads
in C7C, the AI ignored walls, they were neutral structurs to them. But wall them in, build up, attack. As for war3 every stage in the original was pretty easy, the expansion was much harder.
So basically what your saying is, regardless of what you may actually plan on doing with that information, you should automatically be considered suspicious and investigated? Its like assuming that someone is guilty of being a terrorist until proven otherwise. That's bullshit.
Thats called security, if a malicious agent had requested the info and did something destructive with, the pentagon looks like a bunch of brainless pinpricks. If a random student requests the info and they do a follow up they look like NAzi's. I'd rather have the last scenerio then the first.
Basically, what I am is a compassionate conservative. I don't beleive violence causes violence but I also don't believe the portrayal of violence in north america is a good thing.
I'd really rather let children see a sex scene(which they will eventually do, just not too soon) then see a violent act(which I hope to god they do not do).
Americans heavily protect their children from every thign and it does absolutly nothing to make them better people or more responsible people. Europeans expose their children to lots of things and they tend to be better off for it(UK excepted, their like Americans in their attitudes).
Wealth and education tends to lower teen pregnancy. Inccidentally teen pregnancy tends to impede getting wealth or education. So it's a vicious little circle.