"Don't worry, nations of Europe. The EU government will only be granted very limited powers to regulate interstate trade, and anything it touches, and anything that in turn touches, out to six degrees of Kevin Bacon.
Not a valid comparison. There's a fraction of the population content to do nothing as long as they don't starve. I knew a guy who would work 6 months, go get fired and live off unemployment, repeat ad nauseum.
Laughably, somehow he managed to be 500 pounds in spite of the poverty and suffering.
And how about not partaking in a panopticon to continuously live-track every person, their locations, and what they are doing and buying and viewing, and their metadata AKA networks of contacts, which the Tyrant King George during the revolutionary war would have used to quickly round up the founding fathers?
Actually, no need to prorate your internet costs into your music or Netflix costs because most would have Internet anyway for porn, I mean general surfing.
In 200 years we will be better off with more advanced tech and risen seas than less advanced tech and pristine sea levels.
If draconian knocks on the economy are implemented leading to the former, you are no friend of humanity.
Also, tech in 100 years will be more different from today than today is from 1900. How stupid and mass murderous would those in 1900 have been to put the brakes on things, leaving us with a great environment and 1970-level tech.
Spend 100 years using speech to persuade then short circuit it at the last moment by having a judge decide the will of the people has changed rather than elected representatives.
I have a soft spot in my heart for taking freedom by force if necessary, or even available, and judicial rulings like for gay rights pass that test.
I have much less sympathy for judicial activism that increases the power of government to begin controlling things in new or unanticipated (by Congress) areas.
Both sides seem to think it one way or the other for both, but I submit my position is most in keeping with the Constitution, that the People retain freedom, except where the government is clearly granted powers.
A static analysis of the environment without considering the boon of advancing tech is where the flaw in your logic lies.
Even with rising seas you'd rather live 50 or 100 years in the future.
What are various drags on the economy worth in terms of dragging tech development, measured in deaths because cures are not invented, or cannot be yet because othe tech isn't where it should be yet?
Nobody measures this. Worse, some arrogantly claim it is irrelevant.
Welp, I'm 0 for 2 going to the last 2 Star Treks, 0 for 2 last two DC movies with Superman or Batman in them, and this will be my first Star Wars skip.
True character is revealed in the choices a human being makes under pressure - the greater the pressure, the deeper the revelation, the truer the choice to the character's essential nature.
Not sure where that comes from. I always had the feel she was hidden there because Luke or whoever realized she was powerful and didn't want Snoke/Ren getting ahold of her.
How positively dreary the second one completely abandons it.
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"Don't worry, nations of Europe. The EU government will only be granted very limited powers to regulate interstate trade, and anything it touches, and anything that in turn touches, out to six degrees of Kevin Bacon.
"Your sovereignity is not threatened!"
Concentration camps, on the other hand...
Not a valid comparison. There's a fraction of the population content to do nothing as long as they don't starve. I knew a guy who would work 6 months, go get fired and live off unemployment, repeat ad nauseum.
Laughably, somehow he managed to be 500 pounds in spite of the poverty and suffering.
And how about not partaking in a panopticon to continuously live-track every person, their locations, and what they are doing and buying and viewing, and their metadata AKA networks of contacts, which the Tyrant King George during the revolutionary war would have used to quickly round up the founding fathers?
Actually, no need to prorate your internet costs into your music or Netflix costs because most would have Internet anyway for porn, I mean general surfing.
In 200 years we will be better off with more advanced tech and risen seas than less advanced tech and pristine sea levels.
If draconian knocks on the economy are implemented leading to the former, you are no friend of humanity.
Also, tech in 100 years will be more different from today than today is from 1900. How stupid and mass murderous would those in 1900 have been to put the brakes on things, leaving us with a great environment and 1970-level tech.
1970-level is probably an understatement.
Rover found genetic material, methane in sedimentary material.
Sounds like the sewer outside the average slashdotter's house!
Flame, Troll, Funny I can see. But modded Informative?
He is a bitch. Now I know!
Spend 100 years using speech to persuade then short circuit it at the last moment by having a judge decide the will of the people has changed rather than elected representatives.
I have a soft spot in my heart for taking freedom by force if necessary, or even available, and judicial rulings like for gay rights pass that test.
I have much less sympathy for judicial activism that increases the power of government to begin controlling things in new or unanticipated (by Congress) areas.
Both sides seem to think it one way or the other for both, but I submit my position is most in keeping with the Constitution, that the People retain freedom, except where the government is clearly granted powers.
Fuuuuuuck. How's people supposed to get sucke outta windows in movies now?
A static analysis of the environment without considering the boon of advancing tech is where the flaw in your logic lies.
Even with rising seas you'd rather live 50 or 100 years in the future.
What are various drags on the economy worth in terms of dragging tech development, measured in deaths because cures are not invented, or cannot be yet because othe tech isn't where it should be yet?
Nobody measures this. Worse, some arrogantly claim it is irrelevant.
Hillary didnâ(TM)t hire him. Her law firm Perkins Coie here in Seattle hired him. She isnâ(TM)t responsible.
Trump didn't pay Stormy Daniels. Trump's law firm paid her.
Big showy action sci-fi is all about the big screen. Streaming is small screen and loses a lot.
Both were excellent characters excellently acted with highly intelligent dialog.
I think this is a better film than the John Wayne one.
Then the people with the deep pockets were fools for attaching their money to such a poorly-vetted casting choice.
Welp, I'm 0 for 2 going to the last 2 Star Treks, 0 for 2 last two DC movies with Superman or Batman in them, and this will be my first Star Wars skip.
He was Rhett Butler -- a gun runner during war who hung out with disreputable people.
In Star Wars he was a reluctant hero with one foot in the bad side.
"Greedo never shot at all."
This didn't bother me as she had the force but hadn't used it aside from her half of short distance telepathy.
True character is revealed in the choices a human being makes under pressure - the greater the pressure, the deeper the revelation, the truer the choice to the character's essential nature.
Robert McKee, Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting
Being murdered by the emperor of the galaxy after not murdering your own father is about as much pressure as you can get.
Hence the noob screenwriters took a dump all over Luke.
Subject to your right to swing your arm ends at my nose.
Anyway, a lot of these whines here aren't really issues people think they are because they don't study history.
Not sure where that comes from. I always had the feel she was hidden there because Luke or whoever realized she was powerful and didn't want Snoke/Ren getting ahold of her.
How positively dreary the second one completely abandons it.
It's kind of sad. Argument-by-Star Trek reference has been replaced with argument-by-Babylon-5.
Seemed like a fail of a dumb idea when announced, why is anyone surprised?
What seems far dumber: Boba Fett. Let's watch!
This is no small thing, as small things go. Microsoft loves to name their products after the class of the product itself, e.g. Windows, Word.