I didn't watch ANY of the spin-offs after they stopped making ST:TNG. I kinda envy you.
Although, since DS9 started before TNG ended, I guess you caught the early seasons... before it got perverted even further into something almost, but not quite, completely unlike Trek. *sigh* I had hopes for that show. When they announced, I thought it would be on those super cool giant mushroom-shaped federation space stations big enough to "dry-dock" the Enterprise, and then some. That would have been great, these things are big enough for a small civilisation to hide innit, they'd be plenty of oppurtinies for a wide range of adventures in that setting. But no, Berman had to have his army surplus alien station where no one gets along. Grrrrr.
All of the aliens on Star Trek look like humans Tholians? Crystaline entities? That thing what no person can look at without going nuts? Cloud beings? Nanobot civilization? Horta?
Something doesn't necessarily have to be a binary explosive to be dangerous on a plane. Something as simple as a molotov cocktail could very easily bring a plane down. So that's why you can't have any alcohol and soap on a... oh, you CAN have plenty off alcohol and soap. Funny huh, how something that COULD bring down a plane is allowed, but not something that CAN'T?
If they want to investigate deceptive advertising that has cost Americans billions of dollars, then I would prefer that they investigate the Iraq war. Well, for the Trade comission to investigate that false advertising, they would need to be an interrested party that stood to profit from it and that you can also link to someone responsible for the deception.
Advertising is evil, and shouldn't be permitted. Advertising lets me know that things that interest me exist. Such as new film festivals, and the like.
You think this is funny? I've got some incredible stories for you then. Get this. The other day - I'm in the grocery store and there is this guy walking around with a dog! [...] Last year my brother took a friend of ours with ALS on the last deer hunt of his life. My brother did everything for this guy but pull the trigger. Is the blind guy hunting? Really? He's there, and he did pull the trigger, but like you said, your bro did everything. The trigger could have been done by a remote-controlled mechanism over the phone for someone in an iron lung, while you're at it.
This is a ridiculous endeavour. It's not like a blind guy using a trained dog to help him navigate, it's a blind guy being sat there with his finger on the trigger while someone else stalks, aims, etc. If the blind had a hunting guide dog and some bow and arrow, going all Rambo in the forest, he'd be hunting. This is just... pathetic. By this logic, the lady that sends the champagne bottle to it's doom is a ship builder, sure, the boat was built by someone else, and the bottle was tied up by someone else, and she was told where to stand, and when to let the bottle fly, but she's doing it! She really is! She's building boats!!!
What do they think is going to happen when the warez people hit the site? There goes the bandwidth, the storage and here come the problems. And what about the spammers who will flock to the free site to run the smtp mailers?
So, it's a honeypot? Maybe they plan to make money by suing people.:)
but, while as a software engineer and electromechanical hobbyist I fully appreciate all the challenges involved with these robotic drivers, I'm just not impressed [...] I will be impressed when driving automation systems can start with a general idea of where their source and destination locations are and can read the signs to figure out how to get there. So, you will be impressed by next year's challlenge winners, then?
Personally I'll be impressed when I see production cars with a built-in survival instincts (sensors reacting to dangerous situations, preventing collisions despite human error, incompetance, drunkeness, etc.).
Polland was a friendly nation at the time, but you never know how the wind can change, so the switch was there, just in case.
This sounds like nonsense to me. Poland was a friendly nation before the Cold War (when the CIA didn't exist) and after the Cold War (which hardly qualifies as "Way back when"). Er, ooookayyyy... let's see what Jim has to say:
Poland would have been one of the primary countries the Soviets would have needed to stage an invasion of Western Europe. That switch was so we could turn the power off on the/Soviets/, not on the Poles. Jim See, Jim is a quasy-anonymous poster who added a bit of geopolitical savvy to the dscussion. Go Jim!
The point remains, friendlies can turn unfriendly, so an insurance policy is a wise move... for the insurer.
Wasn't able to find anything that verifies your assertion. I couldn't find anything on the web either... Poland + CIA now only returns results concerning the recent secret prison network.
I saw that in a documentary on the history channel, or PBS... one of those channels with a lot of people being interviewed... anyway, I wish I had memorised details such as the person's name, or the dates... or th channel. I would sound less like a tinfoil hatter if I had.
However, the USallegedly allowed the USSR to acquire control software for the Trans-Siberiangas pipeline that enabled the US to blow it up: http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/artic les/2004/02/27/us_let_soviets_obtain_faulty_techno logy_book_says/ Yes, the same show also mentioned that (in fact, I think it was in the same interview), but the Poland anecdote seemed more fitting since it was a case of an allied nation with a "just in case" device, not a bit of actual sabotage, visible from space no less, against an enemy (in the cold war sense). I'm sure a lot of people will find your link interresting though:)
With what? The traditional economy goes something like: I have something, which you want, and you have something which I want. We trade. No:
I have something you want, and I won't let you have it unless you have something I want.
This non-concept of "economy of sharing" goes like: I have something, which you want, and I am morally obligated to give it to you, by virtue of the fact that I have it. I have something you want. Here, take it. Now, is there anything you have that I want?
Way back when, Polland had bought a complicated piece of hardware to run their electric grid from the U.S., the CIA had a killswitch secretly installed in it.
Polland was a friendly nation at the time, but you never know how the wind can change, so the switch was there, just in case.
In reality, you don't give a rat's ass about the Constitution as a whole. You just want to cherry-pick the parts *you* think are important and discard the rest. And you're sick of hearing everyone heap praise and reverence on the "Founding Fathers" because you think you're smarter than they are, and besides times have changed, etc, etc. It's people like YOU that this country needs to guard against, because in your supreme arrogance, you're willing to destroy the very foundation of our freedom. (not that thousands of people just like you haven't already done so to a large degree. sigh.) I'd just like to say, it's an add-on to the constitution and I don't think that applying a patch would cause the whole thing to be destroyed.
But I do wish that if people wanted to amend the amendment, they'd be upfront about it (i.e. I think you're right to be upset that they're trying to reinterpret it and to claim it's the original meaning).
Gun confiscation leads to a loss of freedom, increased crime, and the government moving to the left. I was with up to that point.
you quote and quote from Jefferson, and then demonize the left? Have you the brain worms!? His ideal world was a communist anarchy, for crying out loud.
I get the feeling this guy isn't elected. Why? Because so many germans play games and would be against it. This would probably be political suicide This guy is elected... By old people.
One of my pet peeves is the word "deplane". It is NOT deplane, it is DISEMBARK!!! Preposterous! They were not in a craft propelled by sails or oars, but in a plane!
Next they'll be attempting a sea landing... oh. Wait.
The problem here is the cronyism. You cant make voting machines in the for-profit/old boys club. These machines (or least their designs) need to be first developed by the government, tested by the government, open to the people, then sent to manufacturers. The top down approach of business approaching government with a machine designed in-house is terrible for this kind of application. Oh! I get it now! It's a trickle-down democracy!
By giving vote-breaks to the richest 1%, their increased democratic empowerment will trickle-down to benefit the disenfranchised!
I think it's trendy to believe that religion is what is holding the U.S. back today.
But I think it's more complicated than that. Throughout the 20th century, the U.S. was at least as religious as it is now. But it also led the world in scientific discovery and application.
I don't think it's a question of being religious per se, I think it's a question of having preachers teach their sheeple to be hatefull of science and progress, for their own twisted purposes. Organised religion being the trouble, not religions at large. Hence Jesus being killed off by the church of his days, and the churches of today trying to kill off anything they percieve as a threat to their power. Scientific progress, for one, provides alternatives to their answers to the existancial mysteries... it undermines their dogma, and their entire rationale for their faithfull to obey them.
Japan is very secular, and very good at science, but maybe not so good at the creative and innovative aspects of discovery as Americans, culturally speaking (although they may be making progress in those areas). First of all, I haven't spent much time in japan, but I did see shinto shrines and boudhist temples all over the place (in alleys, on rooftops, everywhere). Monks in full garbs walking the streets were a common site, pilgrims on their journeys too. Religious festivals abound, and pretty much every business has some kind of religious good luck items (like the begging cat, or boudha with coins). They even interrupt their regularly scheduled programming to show their prime minister attending religious services. Heck, they answer the phone with a greeting meant to prove they aren't a trickster spirit on the end of the line! So I don't know what you're basing the 'secular' thing on, but I'm betting it's not direct observation.
Secondly, this is the culture that invented multiple tentacle phalluses in animated pr0n, so I really don't see where you come off clasiming they aren't innovative!
Even if you have something that starts off as a protest and then becomes a mob or riot, say by virtue of people joining up with the protest whose ends are violent rather than peaceful, then the deterrent system is most effective against the violent hangers-on, rather than the core protesters. So again, it's not ineffective. Don't you know that these people are often police officers in plain clothes, purposefully creating an excuse to use force? The plain clothes are part of their efforts to hide their activities.
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Although, since DS9 started before TNG ended, I guess you caught the early seasons... before it got perverted even further into something almost, but not quite, completely unlike Trek.
*sigh*
I had hopes for that show. When they announced, I thought it would be on those super cool giant mushroom-shaped federation space stations big enough to "dry-dock" the Enterprise, and then some.
That would have been great, these things are big enough for a small civilisation to hide innit, they'd be plenty of oppurtinies for a wide range of adventures in that setting.
But no, Berman had to have his army surplus alien station where no one gets along. Grrrrr.
Advertising should be tightly regulated, though.
It's not physically possible to do the "mix household liquids" terrorist plot in a plane. It takes hours, releases a lot of fumes, and requires control over the temperature. The officials know this.
The "safety" measures were a show.
They had nothing to do with keeping people safe, and everything to do with keeping people affraid.
Last year my brother took a friend of ours with ALS on the last deer hunt of his life. My brother did everything for this guy but pull the trigger. Is the blind guy hunting? Really?
He's there, and he did pull the trigger, but like you said, your bro did everything. The trigger could have been done by a remote-controlled mechanism over the phone for someone in an iron lung, while you're at it.
This is a ridiculous endeavour. It's not like a blind guy using a trained dog to help him navigate, it's a blind guy being sat there with his finger on the trigger while someone else stalks, aims, etc.
If the blind had a hunting guide dog and some bow and arrow, going all Rambo in the forest, he'd be hunting. This is just... pathetic. By this logic, the lady that sends the champagne bottle to it's doom is a ship builder, sure, the boat was built by someone else, and the bottle was tied up by someone else, and she was told where to stand, and when to let the bottle fly, but she's doing it! She really is! She's building boats!!!
What do they think is going to happen when the warez people hit the site? There goes the bandwidth, the storage and here come the problems. And what about the spammers who will flock to the free site to run the smtp mailers?
:)
So, it's a honeypot? Maybe they plan to make money by suing people.
Personally I'll be impressed when I see production cars with a built-in survival instincts (sensors reacting to dangerous situations, preventing collisions despite human error, incompetance, drunkeness, etc.).
Jim See, Jim is a quasy-anonymous poster who added a bit of geopolitical savvy to the dscussion. Go Jim!
The point remains, friendlies can turn unfriendly, so an insurance policy is a wise move... for the insurer.
You're confusing "left/right" with "authoritarian/anarchist". check out the political compass, be enlightened.
I saw that in a documentary on the history channel, or PBS... one of those channels with a lot of people being interviewed... anyway, I wish I had memorised details such as the person's name, or the dates... or th channel. I would sound less like a tinfoil hatter if I had. However, the USallegedly allowed the USSR to acquire control software for the Trans-Siberiangas pipeline that enabled the US to blow it up:
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/arti
I'm sure a lot of people will find your link interresting though
I have something you want, and I won't let you have it unless you have something I want. This non-concept of "economy of sharing" goes like: I have something, which you want, and I am morally obligated to give it to you, by virtue of the fact that I have it. I have something you want. Here, take it.
Now, is there anything you have that I want?
Way back when, Polland had bought a complicated piece of hardware to run their electric grid from the U.S., the CIA had a killswitch secretly installed in it.
Polland was a friendly nation at the time, but you never know how the wind can change, so the switch was there, just in case.
But I do wish that if people wanted to amend the amendment, they'd be upfront about it (i.e. I think you're right to be upset that they're trying to reinterpret it and to claim it's the original meaning).
The British are coming?
you quote and quote from Jefferson, and then demonize the left? Have you the brain worms!?
His ideal world was a communist anarchy, for crying out loud.
By old people.
Next they'll be attempting a sea landing... oh. Wait.
By giving vote-breaks to the richest 1%, their increased democratic empowerment will trickle-down to benefit the disenfranchised!
I think it's trendy to believe that religion is what is holding the U.S. back today.
But I think it's more complicated than that. Throughout the 20th century, the U.S. was at least as religious as it is now. But it also led the world in scientific discovery and application.
I don't think it's a question of being religious per se, I think it's a question of having preachers teach their sheeple to be hatefull of science and progress, for their own twisted purposes.Organised religion being the trouble, not religions at large. Hence Jesus being killed off by the church of his days, and the churches of today trying to kill off anything they percieve as a threat to their power. Scientific progress, for one, provides alternatives to their answers to the existancial mysteries... it undermines their dogma, and their entire rationale for their faithfull to obey them. Japan is very secular, and very good at science, but maybe not so good at the creative and innovative aspects of discovery as Americans, culturally speaking (although they may be making progress in those areas). First of all, I haven't spent much time in japan, but I did see shinto shrines and boudhist temples all over the place (in alleys, on rooftops, everywhere). Monks in full garbs walking the streets were a common site, pilgrims on their journeys too. Religious festivals abound, and pretty much every business has some kind of religious good luck items (like the begging cat, or boudha with coins). They even interrupt their regularly scheduled programming to show their prime minister attending religious services. Heck, they answer the phone with a greeting meant to prove they aren't a trickster spirit on the end of the line!
So I don't know what you're basing the 'secular' thing on, but I'm betting it's not direct observation.
Secondly, this is the culture that invented multiple tentacle phalluses in animated pr0n, so I really don't see where you come off clasiming they aren't innovative!