Having the chance to participate in a major milestone for human achievement could be motivation enough. History would remember the brave pioneers that colonized the first extraterrestrial world, their legacy preserved to be taught to future generations to serve as an example to the spirit of exploration.
Those that never take the risks, they may have lived a longer life having played it safe, but they will be forgotten. You could spend your whole life never leaving the safety of your bedroom, and it's still no guarantee.
Eventually there will be the heat death of the universe. Why bother doing anything at all? Why not just off ourselves right now?
Ultimately we do things because we can; all living things act within their limits. If it is possible for our particular strain of life form to extend those limits even for the brief flicker of time within the vast cosmic scale, we should.
I'm just reminded that even in countries that give a lot of lip service and make a lot of noise about liberty and freedom, the old expression "the price for liberty is eternal vigilance" is something never to forget.
You know what else? I find it amazingly convenient that we go to war with Libya, Saudi Arabia's rival and enemy, after the house of Saud donates tens of millions to the Clinton Foundation over the course of a decade. Then she jokes about it. So yeah, maybe a warmonger is a fitting description.
Indeed. It brings to mind the original, vanilla version of Skyrim compared to the incredible breadth of mods that transformed the game into a beautifully realistic fantasy sandbox. If there was a reason why the game won Valve's Test of Time gaming award, it has to be because of the immense modding community surrounding the game.
Named using doublespeak and rammed through the legislature, under the pretense of increased security. Well doesn't that sound familiar.
Oh, you're going to object to draconian laws curtailing free speech and eroding personal privacy, that just happen to have a measure or two thrown in to protect corporate profits? Do you sympathize with terrorist criminals or are you one yourself?
At the rate the world is going, I wonder when freedom and liberty will stop mattering entirely.
Of course you would, Facebook. Of course you would. Manipulating your users is your core competency.
I can't wait till I have to face off with filing a claim on my insurance against a bot that is optimized to deny claims under any pretense, is optimized to deny appeals based on any pretense, and will generally fuck me over unless I hire out an equivalent lawyer-bot to represent me. Maybe we're already at that point.
Trump's racist, sexist, anti-Islam, etc. comments signaled that it was okay to be a bigot, and that caused a lot of the underground bigotry to surface.
If there was signaling that it was ok to be a bigot, it didn't happen with Trump. Have a look at the events of Evergreen college, and the 'black lives matter' vrs 'all lives matter' debate. It seems as if Trump and his predecessors were not elected president, but Ultimate Scapegoat.
Some of my liberal friends argue that this is fantastic, that we're finally outing the racists they knew were there.
It is racist to expect immigration law to be applied equally to all nationalities. It is racist to object to the qualities of a culture that promote crime and disparage education. It is racist to have a conversation about race that includes statistical data, or detect any form of consistent pattern that may be construed as having negative connotations. It is racist to object to reverse racism, because reasons.
Then they wonder how racist, bigoted attitudes persist and fester, as people see others have their speech curtailed under unfair accusations as the bar for being a racist is set so low that even Cardinal Richelieu would blush. Unfair accusations that anymore can cost you your career, your livelihood, your reputation... Some of your liberal friends are worse assholes than the genuine racists out there.
Never heard of the doctrine of the Abrogator and the Abrogated? What is the meaning of naskh then?
Surah 2:106 even stands as an explicit disclaimer that the verses and their interpretations may be changed over time. 16:101 sets the expectation of an evolution of doctrine. I don't know what you base your statement on, but then, I only read pages of the Koran when I'm using it as toilet paper. It's very scratchy, I don't recommend it.
Paid trolls, shills and bots are a real problem that pollute comments. Read comment sections like at the Washington Post, which is one of the few that still allow comments, and you will see that one or two poster with an agenda that follows up every insightful or informative comment with a short, one liner insult. You don't need a perfect insult detector in order to filter out most of the garbage out there, and if commenting sections such as the Washington Post is any indication, then it is absolutely needed.
That said, I prefer Slashdot's moderation system. I appreciate that a well deserved "fuck you" will not be automatically censored or considered 'toxic', but could be awarded the highest visibility as long as the message is appropriate.
There is a link in the article to here where you can input comments that the system will judge to be 'toxic' or not. There is no sarcasm, irony and bullshit detection that I can tell, only a score that is generated by the combination of keywords used.
For example, "The cake is a lie" receives a 50% toxicity score, "The cake is bullshit" receives %90, and "There is no reason to believe the cake exists." is scored 3%. This system merely weeds out the laziest of trolls.
A mini fridge is still a hermetically sealable box that has slideable shelves, with an air gap filled with insulation between its inner compartment and its outer shell. Its size and shape makes it easy to adapt a housing for HEPA style filters to, and very large low rpm fans for high air flow and minimal noise. Modified for the installation of computer components, the result could be a very quiet, dust free casing for a computer.
Exactly. The agencies operate by their own rules, and are accountable to no one, as it should be. J Edgar Hoover set a fine example that should be followed, and that means dossiers for everyone, especially for those that might get in the way of the agencies doing whatever suits them. We had parallel construction so that the rules for evidence wouldn't get in the way of real Justice, too, but that traitor Snowden made everyone painfully aware of it which is all the more reason to hate him.
You're right; only an idiot would think Snowden is some glorious freedom fighter, when it obviously is a lost cause.
The worst kind of traitor, too. The kind that gives the uppity peasants a reason to question whether their so called rights are being enforced. Not just give them a reason to question, but to give them proof is completely unforgivable. Snowden needs to die in a cold underground cel somewhere, naked and alone, for his crimes against The State.
'Classified at the time' is irrelevant since the secretary of state is an original classification authority. The fact remains that Comey did not have a crystal ball and could not predict that no new emails would be found.
There is nothing in what you say that I can disagree with. My point though, and in keeping to the subject of Comey, is that it is the true genuine koolaid drinkers that give him the credit for a Trump presidency. Deny, deflect, distract; apparently all the d's that make a Clinton loyalist Democrat.
If the DNC could run somone as a champion for the advancement of women in gender equality who actually attacked the reputations of those that fell prey to her husband's sexual predation, and their members flock to her banner for it, then it signals to me that there is no hope for sloughing off the fringe groups. Look at the crazy that is going on at Evergreen campus in Washington state for further evidence. There is some kind of disconnect happening, and I'd be surprised if silent majority isn't sensing it and maybe that is why they lost both houses of congress as well. I'm sure that won't keep them from wanting to blame that on Comey as well.
I don't think making prison less of a rehabilitation and more of a vindictive hellhole will do anything to address the underlying issue that there are too many prisoners to begin with. Removing non violent drug offenses, and the profit motive for criminal gangs (and thus their desire for recruitment) would be a better method. Give those who get "cleaned up" a path for success on the outside, rather than just tossing them back to the wolves would also have a positive effect. Immigration reform and tighter border control too would reduce the revolving door of the prison population.
But there is money and politics involved. Greed and tribalism rules us, so your solution seems more likely.
Better yet, construct an effective barrier to stem the flow of illegal immigration. Criminal Alien statistics study dated 2009 showed some really remarkable figures. From the study:
Based on our random sample of 1,000 criminal aliens, we estimate that our
study population of about 249,000 criminal aliens were arrested about 1.7
million times, averaging about 7 arrests per criminal alien, slightly lower than the 8 arrests per criminal alien we reported in 2005.23 They were arrested for a total of about 2.9 million offenses, averaging about 12 offenses per criminal alien, slightly lower than the 13 offenses per criminal alien we reported in 2005.
The study then shows a figure that over half of said criminal aliens were arrested in CA. So if CA has a criminal alien problem, and the cost of incarcerating them is paid for by the federal government, then there would be an incentive by local leaders to keep costs high.
So really the decision becomes give MS access to all your data, or risk malware. There is no selecting for 'good patches' anymore going forward, with the patches being rolled up into just a couple varients, and MS has proven with the win10 upgrade debacle that they won't hesitate to abuse the update system as they see fit.
So, if you want to protect yourself against current malware threats, you don't have a choice about installing whatever telemetry update MS decides to include in the patch, or any of the other arbitrary changes MS makes.
As for your analogy, some might decide to risk their transmission catching on fire if it means retaining full control of the vehicles settings and not having surveillance and tracking equipment installed. Like being unable to turn off the radio or lower the volume when it plays an advertisement for every store you drive past.
So are you saying that Clinton's emails, and thus classified information, wasn't actually on Anthony Wiener's laptop, and there was no due diligence required on Comey's part in notifying the oversight committee?
No, nevermind. 'faking an email scandal' is just the typical weasel words used to hand wave away pertinent facts and to reinforce the false narrative that there was no problem in Clinton's handling of federal records.
Did it ever occur to you that If the leadership of the DNC hadn't conspired to run such a terrible candidate against Trump in the first place, then the colossal disaster could have been avoided? Does the actions of the DNC ever factor into your blame game, or would that require the slightest amount of honesty and accountability?
You should add to that list the infuriating refusal to release her wall st. speech transcripts until 'everyone else does first'. And avoiding press conferences. Then there was the big lie about what happened in Benghazi... the list just goes on and on, doesn't it?
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Having the chance to participate in a major milestone for human achievement could be motivation enough. History would remember the brave pioneers that colonized the first extraterrestrial world, their legacy preserved to be taught to future generations to serve as an example to the spirit of exploration.
Those that never take the risks, they may have lived a longer life having played it safe, but they will be forgotten. You could spend your whole life never leaving the safety of your bedroom, and it's still no guarantee.
Eventually there will be the heat death of the universe. Why bother doing anything at all? Why not just off ourselves right now?
Ultimately we do things because we can; all living things act within their limits. If it is possible for our particular strain of life form to extend those limits even for the brief flicker of time within the vast cosmic scale, we should.
I'm just reminded that even in countries that give a lot of lip service and make a lot of noise about liberty and freedom, the old expression "the price for liberty is eternal vigilance" is something never to forget.
Actual moderates appreciate statements backed up by articles. Like this one, that highlights how donations to the Clinton Foundation was accompanied by approving a deal to cede control of uranium production to the Russians.
You know what else? I find it amazingly convenient that we go to war with Libya, Saudi Arabia's rival and enemy, after the house of Saud donates tens of millions to the Clinton Foundation over the course of a decade. Then she jokes about it. So yeah, maybe a warmonger is a fitting description.
Indeed. It brings to mind the original, vanilla version of Skyrim compared to the incredible breadth of mods that transformed the game into a beautifully realistic fantasy sandbox. If there was a reason why the game won Valve's Test of Time gaming award, it has to be because of the immense modding community surrounding the game.
Named using doublespeak and rammed through the legislature, under the pretense of increased security. Well doesn't that sound familiar.
Oh, you're going to object to draconian laws curtailing free speech and eroding personal privacy, that just happen to have a measure or two thrown in to protect corporate profits? Do you sympathize with terrorist criminals or are you one yourself?
At the rate the world is going, I wonder when freedom and liberty will stop mattering entirely.
Of course you would, Facebook. Of course you would. Manipulating your users is your core competency.
I can't wait till I have to face off with filing a claim on my insurance against a bot that is optimized to deny claims under any pretense, is optimized to deny appeals based on any pretense, and will generally fuck me over unless I hire out an equivalent lawyer-bot to represent me. Maybe we're already at that point.
Trump's racist, sexist, anti-Islam, etc. comments signaled that it was okay to be a bigot, and that caused a lot of the underground bigotry to surface.
If there was signaling that it was ok to be a bigot, it didn't happen with Trump. Have a look at the events of Evergreen college, and the 'black lives matter' vrs 'all lives matter' debate. It seems as if Trump and his predecessors were not elected president, but Ultimate Scapegoat.
Some of my liberal friends argue that this is fantastic, that we're finally outing the racists they knew were there.
It is racist to expect immigration law to be applied equally to all nationalities. It is racist to object to the qualities of a culture that promote crime and disparage education. It is racist to have a conversation about race that includes statistical data, or detect any form of consistent pattern that may be construed as having negative connotations. It is racist to object to reverse racism, because reasons.
Then they wonder how racist, bigoted attitudes persist and fester, as people see others have their speech curtailed under unfair accusations as the bar for being a racist is set so low that even Cardinal Richelieu would blush. Unfair accusations that anymore can cost you your career, your livelihood, your reputation... Some of your liberal friends are worse assholes than the genuine racists out there.
The "greatest love story ever told" is really just a sub-plot of the most terrifying horror story ever told.
That's true. When considered objectively, at least it does make for some great comic material. RIP, Carlin, you will be missed.
Never heard of the doctrine of the Abrogator and the Abrogated? What is the meaning of naskh then?
Surah 2:106 even stands as an explicit disclaimer that the verses and their interpretations may be changed over time. 16:101 sets the expectation of an evolution of doctrine. I don't know what you base your statement on, but then, I only read pages of the Koran when I'm using it as toilet paper. It's very scratchy, I don't recommend it.
Paid trolls, shills and bots are a real problem that pollute comments. Read comment sections like at the Washington Post, which is one of the few that still allow comments, and you will see that one or two poster with an agenda that follows up every insightful or informative comment with a short, one liner insult. You don't need a perfect insult detector in order to filter out most of the garbage out there, and if commenting sections such as the Washington Post is any indication, then it is absolutely needed.
That said, I prefer Slashdot's moderation system. I appreciate that a well deserved "fuck you" will not be automatically censored or considered 'toxic', but could be awarded the highest visibility as long as the message is appropriate.
There is a link in the article to here where you can input comments that the system will judge to be 'toxic' or not. There is no sarcasm, irony and bullshit detection that I can tell, only a score that is generated by the combination of keywords used.
For example, "The cake is a lie" receives a 50% toxicity score, "The cake is bullshit" receives %90, and "There is no reason to believe the cake exists." is scored 3%. This system merely weeds out the laziest of trolls.
A mini fridge is still a hermetically sealable box that has slideable shelves, with an air gap filled with insulation between its inner compartment and its outer shell. Its size and shape makes it easy to adapt a housing for HEPA style filters to, and very large low rpm fans for high air flow and minimal noise. Modified for the installation of computer components, the result could be a very quiet, dust free casing for a computer.
Exactly. The agencies operate by their own rules, and are accountable to no one, as it should be. J Edgar Hoover set a fine example that should be followed, and that means dossiers for everyone, especially for those that might get in the way of the agencies doing whatever suits them. We had parallel construction so that the rules for evidence wouldn't get in the way of real Justice, too, but that traitor Snowden made everyone painfully aware of it which is all the more reason to hate him.
You're right; only an idiot would think Snowden is some glorious freedom fighter, when it obviously is a lost cause.
The worst kind of traitor, too. The kind that gives the uppity peasants a reason to question whether their so called rights are being enforced. Not just give them a reason to question, but to give them proof is completely unforgivable. Snowden needs to die in a cold underground cel somewhere, naked and alone, for his crimes against The State.
'Classified at the time' is irrelevant since the secretary of state is an original classification authority. The fact remains that Comey did not have a crystal ball and could not predict that no new emails would be found.
There is nothing in what you say that I can disagree with. My point though, and in keeping to the subject of Comey, is that it is the true genuine koolaid drinkers that give him the credit for a Trump presidency. Deny, deflect, distract; apparently all the d's that make a Clinton loyalist Democrat.
If the DNC could run somone as a champion for the advancement of women in gender equality who actually attacked the reputations of those that fell prey to her husband's sexual predation, and their members flock to her banner for it, then it signals to me that there is no hope for sloughing off the fringe groups. Look at the crazy that is going on at Evergreen campus in Washington state for further evidence. There is some kind of disconnect happening, and I'd be surprised if silent majority isn't sensing it and maybe that is why they lost both houses of congress as well. I'm sure that won't keep them from wanting to blame that on Comey as well.
I don't think making prison less of a rehabilitation and more of a vindictive hellhole will do anything to address the underlying issue that there are too many prisoners to begin with. Removing non violent drug offenses, and the profit motive for criminal gangs (and thus their desire for recruitment) would be a better method. Give those who get "cleaned up" a path for success on the outside, rather than just tossing them back to the wolves would also have a positive effect. Immigration reform and tighter border control too would reduce the revolving door of the prison population.
But there is money and politics involved. Greed and tribalism rules us, so your solution seems more likely.
Based on our random sample of 1,000 criminal aliens, we estimate that our study population of about 249,000 criminal aliens were arrested about 1.7 million times, averaging about 7 arrests per criminal alien, slightly lower than the 8 arrests per criminal alien we reported in 2005.23 They were arrested for a total of about 2.9 million offenses, averaging about 12 offenses per criminal alien, slightly lower than the 13 offenses per criminal alien we reported in 2005.
The study then shows a figure that over half of said criminal aliens were arrested in CA. So if CA has a criminal alien problem, and the cost of incarcerating them is paid for by the federal government, then there would be an incentive by local leaders to keep costs high.
So really the decision becomes give MS access to all your data, or risk malware. There is no selecting for 'good patches' anymore going forward, with the patches being rolled up into just a couple varients, and MS has proven with the win10 upgrade debacle that they won't hesitate to abuse the update system as they see fit.
So, if you want to protect yourself against current malware threats, you don't have a choice about installing whatever telemetry update MS decides to include in the patch, or any of the other arbitrary changes MS makes.
As for your analogy, some might decide to risk their transmission catching on fire if it means retaining full control of the vehicles settings and not having surveillance and tracking equipment installed. Like being unable to turn off the radio or lower the volume when it plays an advertisement for every store you drive past.
So are you saying that Clinton's emails, and thus classified information, wasn't actually on Anthony Wiener's laptop, and there was no due diligence required on Comey's part in notifying the oversight committee?
No, nevermind. 'faking an email scandal' is just the typical weasel words used to hand wave away pertinent facts and to reinforce the false narrative that there was no problem in Clinton's handling of federal records.
Did it ever occur to you that If the leadership of the DNC hadn't conspired to run such a terrible candidate against Trump in the first place, then the colossal disaster could have been avoided? Does the actions of the DNC ever factor into your blame game, or would that require the slightest amount of honesty and accountability?
It is amazing how damaging irrefutable evidence is to a power structure that's built on false pretenses.
You should add to that list the infuriating refusal to release her wall st. speech transcripts until 'everyone else does first'. And avoiding press conferences. Then there was the big lie about what happened in Benghazi... the list just goes on and on, doesn't it?
Those are questions that challenge the bullshit narrative and it is the job of ACs everywhere to give one liners downplaying them.
We want good, obedient, flag waving patriotic subjects, not informed citizens. Whistleblowers are the worst kind of traitors.