> the US Constitution doesn't explicitly bestow habeas > corpus rights on US citizens.
Uhhh, the attorney general should realize the Consitution doesn't bestow any rights whatsoever. The people (perhaps via their states) retail all the rights. They are inalienable and congenital. The Constitution creates the government, and grants it powers, powers over those rights, with the permission of the governed.
That's what makes this nation philosophically superior to most others, even other democracies, which either have no constitution and a parliament with unlimited powers, or some kind of constitution that presumes government, then goes about "granting" rights to "the people." Nobody ever bothers to ask how some people, calling themselves "government" gained the power to grant "rights" to other people. Like little kids playing a game of traffic cop, the bossy ones take charge and make themselves the cop while the other kids drive the tricycles around crying.
Well at the very least, maybe Daddy would stop bursting into tears over how the media is treating his son if he'd just realize the son was bringing this all on himself.
Infusing plastic with a diamond-like carbon cladding to make it more scratch resistant? Oh for Christ's sake, they'll let you patent any old obvious thing, nowadays! Why not a fork and spoon while they're at it. Stupid patent office! >:-(
> Remote viewing of some kind would also ruin the equation.
Actually, I recall a suggestion that using your own star as a gravitational lense would allow you to see a license plate on other planets in our galaxy, and continents on planets in other galaxies. While difficult, if the speed of light is truly insurmountable, our technology will get to the level capable of this within a few hundred years tops, if not today already (we already have limited intraplanetary and space station capability as well as dynamic lens distortion, which could be used to overcome gravitational differences and time lags going around different sides of the sun. Hell, it would be trivial as you already have the star you can use as a focus object.)
> kids are increasingly playing games earlier in life.
I can see where this is heading: Congratulations! Your ranking on the Diablo II Battle.net hardcore ladder is #1 -- tied with your seventy-five million closest friends! You're all number 1! You're all the best, the winners!
You haven't RTFA -- his probes don't slow down, but whiz right on by. He estimates that slowing down at each star would simply double the time needed, which is reasonable.
> We will be in a lot of trouble if the Cylons find us first.
Are there any books (no doubt series by now) where humans discover aliens first, and they're nasty pieces of work we want to hide from? And don't give me that one with the five Patricia clones. I have the sequel of that one and it's boring.
> The ones that do (allegedly) visit Earth are bending the > rules ("prime directive") and mostly remain in stealth-mode.
You realize the "prime directive" was a bass-ackwards attempt to explain why alien races didn't hassle with the Earth, rather than any sound philosophical concept, right?
F*** any aliens who refuse to interfere in our planet on the principle of it. The @$$holes are our enemy, not our friend.
Older calculations where a multi-generation ship went to a star, colonized it, then gave a thousand years to grow the civilization until it could sent out more colonization ships gave a result on the order of millions to tens of millions of years to colonize the galaxy. But this relies on exponential growth, not speed of exploration or "turnaround".
This guy uses the same finite set of probes to do the searching. He might as well have simply calculated the average distance between the stars in his "Galactic Habitable Zone", then divided by the number of probes. As he points out, you can neglect the time to move a probe to "its own zone", or group of stars, to explore.
> Its not outlawing dissent. They are just losing their license. They can still say whatever they want
The Jews are fine. They just have to wear these tags on their arms. There's no real harm to them. Go on about your business and leave us to our work on behalf of The People.
I wish someone would do a graph of government control over the economy vs. long term quality of life and growth of technology (which massively affects quality of life if stifled even 1%) and then compare it to the wildest predictions of the global warming alarmists.
Oh, wait. We had hundreds of such experiments last century. Nevermind.
I don't know if he made the situation even worse, though:
"I regret the use of the term 'pawns'. Pawns suggests they slavishly obey without questioning. In fact, they are often highly intelligent, believing in the cause, and I therefore should have used the more accurate term 'useful idiots'."
Show me a weatherman who claims to predict this year's weather details, such as early frosts, and not just climate generalities, and I'll show you a fraud who should be working for the farmer's almanac.
> But if the recent back to back hurricane seasons in the US is > not an example of extreme climate variability I don't know what is?
Keep in mind these same people drew the conclusion that therefore this year would be a horrific one as well, and it was a dud.
From a scientific standpoint, it's perfectly reasonable random variance, even with global warming you'd expect dud seasons. You'll still get "once every five hundred years" floods -- once every five hundred years. That scientists don't understand this variance when advocating policy is what scares the hell out of me.
> who expresses skepticism that human activity is creating a climate catastrophe.
Catastrophe here also implies economics. A free capitalist system might deal with the "catastrophe", leaving its people much better off than a system without the "catastrophe" but a crushed economy. Last century was choked with hundreds of "economic experiments" that conclusively demonstrated crushing your economy (normally via dictatorial control, including communism and heavy handed socialism) [i]left people demonstrably worse off than they would be under the wildest predictions of a climate gone awry[/i].
It is this battle that many people are fighting, and that many "concerned scientists" seem not to grasp.
The consequences of changes in the climate with respect to humanity are an economic issue, not a meterological or geological one.
Damn Yahweh's faulty designs, both in cholesterol buildup of otherwise very healthy people, and in the lack of redundant blood vessels in vital organs like the heart, which do exist in some other organs.
What if it was part of Yahweh's plan that Jim Fixx die at 52 so people could make sarcastic comments about how pointless his life of running was?
I've still got the boot floppy you need to get the Mac/Mack 512/Mac + to talk to my buddy's Corvair 10 MB HDD, the size of a small bread box that sounds like a jet engine when running. With so much damned space, my buddy didn't know what to do with all it, so he partitioned the 10 MB into 6 partitions.
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> the US Constitution doesn't explicitly bestow habeas
> corpus rights on US citizens.
Uhhh, the attorney general should realize the Consitution doesn't bestow any rights whatsoever. The people (perhaps via their states) retail all the rights. They are inalienable and congenital. The Constitution creates the government, and grants it powers, powers over those rights, with the permission of the governed.
That's what makes this nation philosophically superior to most others, even other democracies, which either have no constitution and a parliament with unlimited powers, or some kind of constitution that presumes government, then goes about "granting" rights to "the people." Nobody ever bothers to ask how some people, calling themselves "government" gained the power to grant "rights" to other people. Like little kids playing a game of traffic cop, the bossy ones take charge and make themselves the cop while the other kids drive the tricycles around crying.
Well at the very least, maybe Daddy would stop bursting into tears over how the media is treating his son if he'd just realize the son was bringing this all on himself.
> And, btw, this load of crap from the same party who ridiculed "That depends what 'is' is."
Fuck! You're right. >:-(
Infusing plastic with a diamond-like carbon cladding to make it more scratch resistant? Oh for Christ's sake, they'll let you patent any old obvious thing, nowadays! Why not a fork and spoon while they're at it. Stupid patent office! >:-(
So it's kind of like the US Senate, if the Senate were appointed for life like the Supreme Court is. I get it!
> Remote viewing of some kind would also ruin the equation.
Actually, I recall a suggestion that using your own star as a gravitational lense would allow you to see a license plate on other planets in our galaxy, and continents on planets in other galaxies. While difficult, if the speed of light is truly insurmountable, our technology will get to the level capable of this within a few hundred years tops, if not today already (we already have limited intraplanetary and space station capability as well as dynamic lens distortion, which could be used to overcome gravitational differences and time lags going around different sides of the sun. Hell, it would be trivial as you already have the star you can use as a focus object.)
> kids are increasingly playing games earlier in life.
I can see where this is heading: Congratulations! Your ranking on the Diablo II Battle.net hardcore ladder is #1 -- tied with your seventy-five million closest friends! You're all number 1! You're all the best, the winners!
You haven't RTFA -- his probes don't slow down, but whiz right on by. He estimates that slowing down at each star would simply double the time needed, which is reasonable.
I, for one, have little problem with swarms of Xena clones.
> We will be in a lot of trouble if the Cylons find us first.
Are there any books (no doubt series by now) where humans discover aliens first, and they're nasty pieces of work we want to hide from? And don't give me that one with the five Patricia clones. I have the sequel of that one and it's boring.
> The ones that do (allegedly) visit Earth are bending the
> rules ("prime directive") and mostly remain in stealth-mode.
You realize the "prime directive" was a bass-ackwards attempt to explain why alien races didn't hassle with the Earth, rather than any sound philosophical concept, right?
F*** any aliens who refuse to interfere in our planet on the principle of it. The @$$holes are our enemy, not our friend.
Actually, that's far too much engineering.
Older calculations where a multi-generation ship went to a star, colonized it, then gave a thousand years to grow the civilization until it could sent out more colonization ships gave a result on the order of millions to tens of millions of years to colonize the galaxy. But this relies on exponential growth, not speed of exploration or "turnaround".
This guy uses the same finite set of probes to do the searching. He might as well have simply calculated the average distance between the stars in his "Galactic Habitable Zone", then divided by the number of probes. As he points out, you can neglect the time to move a probe to "its own zone", or group of stars, to explore.
> Its not outlawing dissent. They are just losing their license. They can still say whatever they want
The Jews are fine. They just have to wear these tags on their arms. There's no real harm to them. Go on about your business and leave us to our work on behalf of The People.
I wish someone would do a graph of government control over the economy vs. long term quality of life and growth of technology (which massively affects quality of life if stifled even 1%) and then compare it to the wildest predictions of the global warming alarmists.
Oh, wait. We had hundreds of such experiments last century. Nevermind.
> My meteorologist friend -- she's a student at the
> moment -- is a senior in operational meteorology.
Of course, if she's cute, she's already got the degree qualifications necessary for broadcast meterology.
No, seriously.
No, seriously.
If you're calling yourself pre-med that means there's a 90% chance you haven't taken orgo yet.
Most impoverished countries have dictators, and I guarantee the dictators are living sweet lives with palaces and limos and fat Internet pipes.
I don't know if he made the situation even worse, though:
"I regret the use of the term 'pawns'. Pawns suggests they slavishly obey without questioning. In fact, they are often highly intelligent, believing in the cause, and I therefore should have used the more accurate term 'useful idiots'."
Show me a weatherman who claims to predict this year's weather details, such as early frosts, and not just climate generalities, and I'll show you a fraud who should be working for the farmer's almanac.
> But if the recent back to back hurricane seasons in the US is
> not an example of extreme climate variability I don't know what is?
Keep in mind these same people drew the conclusion that therefore this year would be a horrific one as well, and it was a dud.
From a scientific standpoint, it's perfectly reasonable random variance, even with global warming you'd expect dud seasons. You'll still get "once every five hundred years" floods -- once every five hundred years. That scientists don't understand this variance when advocating policy is what scares the hell out of me.
> who expresses skepticism that human activity is creating a climate catastrophe.
Catastrophe here also implies economics. A free capitalist system might deal with the "catastrophe", leaving its people much better off than a system without the "catastrophe" but a crushed economy. Last century was choked with hundreds of "economic experiments" that conclusively demonstrated crushing your economy (normally via dictatorial control, including communism and heavy handed socialism) [i]left people demonstrably worse off than they would be under the wildest predictions of a climate gone awry[/i].
It is this battle that many people are fighting, and that many "concerned scientists" seem not to grasp.
The consequences of changes in the climate with respect to humanity are an economic issue, not a meterological or geological one.
Damn Yahweh's faulty designs, both in cholesterol buildup of otherwise very healthy people, and in the lack of redundant blood vessels in vital organs like the heart, which do exist in some other organs.
What if it was part of Yahweh's plan that Jim Fixx die at 52 so people could make sarcastic comments about how pointless his life of running was?
Until they're 40 and have their first heart attack because their obese, 12-cups-of-water-a-day bodies have caught up to them.
Ok, giving up on Star Trek is just going too damned far. >:(
I've still got the boot floppy you need to get the Mac/Mack 512/Mac + to talk to my buddy's Corvair 10 MB HDD, the size of a small bread box that sounds like a jet engine when running. With so much damned space, my buddy didn't know what to do with all it, so he partitioned the 10 MB into 6 partitions.