1. Nice climate, it's a sunny 78F outside right now. The odds of getting frostbite outside or freezing to death year round are almost zero in most of coastal California. 2. Great benefits, free clinics, all manner of social welfare freebies given out by the state on top of federal aid. 3. Legal pot 4. The beaches 5. Mild weather year round. No hurricanes, tornadoes etc. Earthquakes are essential not a threat at all if you are standing/living outside. 6. Generous people that make cardboard sign begging lucrative. There was a report a few years back where journalists were surveying and following street corner pan handlers and they were making $200 plus a day on the busy street corners. . . . 15. Fewer bugs
It is amazing to me the level of speculative trash that passes as "science" these days. The article is full of such speculation and rank fantasy... Species are always in flux depending on a myriad of conditions, to say otherwise is irrational and betrays a basic lack of historical knowledge.
I don't know about the long game. My local cable internet monopoly made all their investment back in the first 5 years and have been laughing all the way to the bank as they screw me over every month with a 500% markup for my "high speed internet" AKA 65Mbps down/10Mbps up service...
Ummm, or you just offer the service for a profit and stop screwing with the pipe... At the very least you sell your business unit to another concern who will do that.
I am glad to hear it. The last Nintendo console I bought new was the Gamecube, I bought a Wii eventually and view it only as a retro/kids toy. I may buy a second or third generation Switch after they fix the warping and other problems the console had at launch so I can check out the first party titles (Zelda, Mario, Metroid).
Radon and mineral isotopes are fairly localized. Radon is non-existent in vast swaths of the world, as are radio isotopes. As you say, most of the radiation is shielded by the magnetosphere and atmosphere, or most mammalian life on earth would be extinct in a few generations (this is one of the big problems with long distance space travel https://www.nasa.gov/hrp/eleme... ). However, some harmful radiation does make it down to the surface, and over 6000 years, that cumulative radiation damage to the DNA of species is irreversible.
Different creatures have different designed lifespans, and there are a multitude of ways to shorten that lifespan, and very few, if any, ways to lengthen that lifespan. Furthermore, you can shorten an entire population's lifespan with radiation (just ask the fruit flies that were irradiated in the quest for proof of Evolution). And to clarify, I am not just talking about solar radiation RTFP. There are a number of sources of harmful radiation outside the planet.
Gotta wonder if they got a big fat paycheck from the local cable/telco to pull this BS. I can't imagine how this makes economic sense. Once you sink the money for the hardware, if you aren't profitable, you increase your prices until you are...
That or they negotiated another, bigger city where the local cable/telco monopoly would drop their legal challenges to Google fiber in exchange for this...
So a few things are undeniable. First off, Facebook is most certainly censoring content. They by their own admission removed pages. Secondly, information from Russia is not inherently false, anyone who says this is committing a logical fallacy: Damning the Source http://commfaculty.fullerton.e... Were these sites Russian propaganda outlets? That is very likely. Should they have been banned from Facebook? Again, I think that was still the right move, but the above are also true, and it is a slipery slope to have any corporation decide what information US citizens have access to. Combined, Facebook, Google and Twitter are now positioned to become big brother controlling the information that you have access to and knowing every deep dark secret you would rather not have made public. It is high time that they are legally regulated to reserve the power to manipulate our lives back to the government and officials who we at least have the ability to elect or kick out of office...
As for the entire Russian investigation heating up, it has been nearly 18 months (the FBI investigation started in August 2016) and there is zero evidence that Trump or his administration colluded, in fact the only evidence that has turned up is that the Obama administration used a false report to spy on the Trump campaign, which is a felony, and everyone involved with that deception is facing 10 year prison sentences. It will be interesting to see how this all plays out, but the more shrill the MSM gets about Trump collusion, you will know that the noose is closing in on the Obama administration.
In 2 years, when the economy is great, religious freedom is better protected, 2nd amendment is less infringed, crime is lower, drug deaths are down, and no collusion is found and 15 plus high ranking Obama officials are in federal prison for abuse of power (18 USC 242) https://www.law.cornell.edu/us... which is actually a crime, unlike the alleged Trump collusion, it will be interesting to see if MSNBC, CNN and the rest of the MSM go the way of the newspapers, bankrupt and looking for a new line of work. It would truly be refreshing to have a brand new media landscape who focus on getting the truth, no mater where it leads, rather than trying to "change the world" based on their twisted, alt left fascist worldviews...
Obviously obvious facts are obvious. Mole rats live underground their entire lives, and are thus shielded from most of the harmful radiation bombarding the planet, which in turn minimizes the cumulative, species wide DNA damage they have suffered compared to top side species like actual mice and rats, which like humans, now live extremely short lives compared to the original design. (Rodents average 1-3 years). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Thus shielded from all that radiation, mole rats live 10x longer than top side rodents. Equating that to humans prior to all the cumulative DNA damage from un-shielded radiation on the surface of the earth, humans could have lived 10x longer or ~900 years... Oh look, that is exactly what the Bible claims before the flood wrecked the planet and destroyed the natural radiation barrier above the earth.
This blows another gaping hole in the Evolution theory, showing that less radiation damage, less cumulative DNA damage (i.e. mutation) is significantly beneficial to overall lifespan and health of the organism. But we have known that since at least the Curies (for ionizing radiation) and since the first sunburn... Scientists are once again good at science, but fail at drawing conclusions, basic logic and evaluating their biases...
I'm with you. I used to have mad reflexes back in the early 80's and ruled the arcades everywhere I went; you might have seen my initials, ASS, at the top of the high scores list, but these days, I can't even fire up the old school games without being reminded how much slower my reflexes are than they were back then.
Still, good times. And I'm glad there are plenty of modern games that eschew twitch reflexes for things like strategy, story and depth.
I am a big scifi and fantasy fan, so I watched Bright when it came out. It is definitely not mainstream, but it has a feel that could turn it into a cult classic. It was well acted, well directed and the FX were top notch and the story was interesting. I am looking forward to their next big scifi show, Altered Carbon, which also looks to be some top shelf scifi. I hope this is the start of some of the really good scifi and fantasy stories out there getting the adaptations that they deserve.
First off, please point to three countries in the last 1000 years conquered by a Christian country whose population was forced at sword (or gun) point to convert to Christianity from Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, etc... There are dozens if not hundreds of examples in Islam.
Second off, the ten commandments were given to the Jews, not to the entire world, and mainstream Christianity has held since the beginning 1986 years ago that choosing to follow Christ was a personal decision that could not be forced. While Judaic laws regarding interpersonal activities (murder, theft, adultery, etc.) have been codified into laws that virtually no one disputes as just,the commandments between man and God and those that involve the heart and mind internally have been relegated by Christ to the personal relationship between the individual and Christ (loving God, Coveting possessions, coveting married people, etc.) This has been true since the beginning of Christianity and has always been true of mainstream Christianity that stays true to the Bible. This is why when the Christian founding fathers of the USA (100% of whom were Christians, based on actual, historical fact) http://www.adherents.com/gov/F... they put into the framework of the country both the freedom to practice any religion and prevented the government from sponsoring any specific religion (though their explicit intent was never to take God out of the public square, that is a 20th century perversion by the atheists.). Your statement is either ignorant or intentionally disingenuous.
Thirdly, the witch hunts seem to indeed be a tragic mistake based on the likely slanted history we have been fed by modern scholars (I wasn't actually there, all we can do is look back hundreds of years and try to judge the activity.) Witches, mediums and demons are in fact very real (if you haven't experienced the real deal, count yourself lucky) and there is good reason that witchcraft and speaking to the dead are death penalty activities in Judaic law. However, I took your term "fanatic" in error; a better, and more accurate term would have been "perfectly practiced Christianity." If the people during the witch trials had been perfectly practicing Christianity, the accused would not have been practicing witchcraft (if they indeed had been) and the witness would not have borne false witness on the witness stand, therefore nothing bad would have happened. The truth of the witch trials seems to be that a few women did engage in witchcraft, were caught and executed for it, but then, much like the #metoo people started evilly using it to extract revenge against people they didn't like, which necessarily involved bearing false witness against the innocent, and the whole thing got badly out of hand. The witch trials had nothing to do with Christianity, they had to do with evil human nature and abuse of a serious law on the books at that time. Oh and before you bring it up, all the medieval tests for witches were based on druidic and Celtic paganism, not the Biblical evidence of an eyewitness required in the Old Testament.
First off, Roger Ailse and most of the conservatives are gone thanks to the #metoo scam by the feminists and Murdoch handing control over to his liberal sons. Beyond that, unlike the alt left, conservatives do believe in objective truth and integrity, and so they report the truth whether or not it hurts their political position.
Beyond that, the story that you refer to has nothing to do with political persuasion, Fox is just reporting on the CBO's opinion... and the CBO report is a hit job by the deep state alt left infiltrators to give Democrats talking points. It projects to 2026 and assumes no one now on Obamacare would get other insurance (catastrophic or otherwise, which is disingenuous to say the least).
The alt left is so good at projecting their behavior onto conservatives it is almost pathological.
One of these days America is going to be gone, and you idiots will be squashed in a week by China or Russia and they will skin you and turn you into lamp shades, and you will have no one to thank but yourselves and your own stupidity. You have been watching too much BS on the BBC and other alt left propaganda. Assuming you don't completely abolish free speech and become a bunch of fascist dictatorships first (my bet is on the later).
- Stable: We can actually fund the government just fine, thanks, and contrary to the fake news, no essential services are ever shut down. We just have some alt left nut jobs who want to import themselves a new voting block.
- Peaceful: It is peaceful in the US. Crime is quite low outside of Democrat run big cities. We are all armed to the teeth and polite to our neighbors and fellow citizens. Global politics is complicated. Sometimes you make a deal with an evil dictator because the alternative is worse. We conquered Germany and Japan after WW2 and then rebuilt and modernized them and gave them democracy. Show me a European country ever that did that with the losing side. The shits in Europe have been warring for 1000 years and they always occupied the losing country and stole their wealth...
We rebuilt and gave democracy to Afghanistan and Iraq after we were attacked by foreigners on 9-11 and it was apparent that we couldn't ignore foreign threats any longer, but it is apparent that democracy is unfit for Islamic nations...
- Democracy: If you are comparing the free and fair US elections https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... to those in Russia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... which are demonstrably rigged, your brain has rotted beyond hope and I am done with this discussion. Comparing the most free and open elections to those held by a totalitarian state is a sick joke made by a fool eagerly waiting to reap the whirlwind.
Training animals is exerting human control over animals and "hacking" their natural behaviors/instincts for our benefit. That is by definition not self control but control by another, intelligent entity...
Computers are also capable of solving logic puzzles, that does not make them self aware or sentient any more than breathing animals.
If marketing is so easy, then why does everyone under 40 have an ad blocker on their browser these days? Why was the pet rock the exception instead of the rule? Because in spite of the marketing departments propaganda, it is actually hard to manipulate people, and typically all marketing does is promote the product. If it is a shit product or something no one wants or needs, it will fall flat, regardless of how good the marketing is.
True, but Russia wants to build it to threaten the US, so they get the bulls eye. As a consequence of threatening the US, now they not only have to worry about keeping their own military on a tight leash, but they have to worry about their satellites Iran and North Korea well behaved, because the shit will blow up in their face no mater who launches it.
The countries that hate us are not Trumps fault, they are the axis of evil dating back at least a generation, please get over your Trump derangement syndrome. The guy is not that bad based on what he has actually done.
If I only have the choice between one kind of religious nutjobs or another kind of religious nutjobs, I have no choice anyway.
That is an incredibly ignorant statement that shows a total lack of knowledge both of history and reality. Christianity practiced fanatically results in a utopia where everyone is taken care of, there is no crime, poverty or other social problems. Christianity summed up is "Love God with all your heart and your neighbor as yourself." Christianity uniquely believes in the concept of freedom of conscience and therefore freedom of religion. Christianity practiced imperfectly has lead to western civilization which has also resulted in the most free societies with the highest standards of living. Europe is now coasting on that benefit, having given up Chrstianity by and large. Laws based on Christianity outlaw things like murder, theft, perjury, penalize adultery and variations on those basic concepts.
OTOH, if Islam is practiced fanatically, you have forced marriages, rape, child rape, honor killings, lying, cheating, robbing and murdering of non-believers with impunity. They cut off the hands of starving children for stealing some food in sharia law countries. You have the subjugation and stripping of all human rights of women. Islam outright states that Islam should be spread by the sword and has a long history of military conquest and forced conversion of conquered nations (who do you think actually caused the crusades anyway? They were a direct response to the military invasion of Christian nations and forced conversion by radical Islam.) Oh yes, and slavery, lots of slavery:
Please feel free to explicitly state the points in my arguments that actually lack evidence, rather than asserting they lack evidence without substantiating the assertion, all that does is make you look ignorant and desperate.
You seem to be struggling, let me help you out with some facts:
Recorded civilization is not older than 6000 years. That assertion is predicated (I suspect) on radiological dating and not actual recorded history. The way that the radiocarbon dating age is determined is based on the "age" of the strata it is found in. The age of the strata is based on the radiological dating (circular logic fallacy) or the "geologic column" which is a totally fictitious construct with no basis in fact or science with 100% imaginary ages.
Attempts to radiocarbon date articles of known age are wildly inaccurate. Radiocarbon dating is also predicated on the levels of radioactive carbon in the atmosphere being constant. It is still changing, indicating that the earth is less than 10,000 years old... Oops. If you want actual facts on radio carbon dating (instead of pull it out of the ass theories and straight up fiction) you can actually learn facts here: http://www.creationstudies.org...
There are no actual histories or societies older than the Jews, who trace their history back to creation about 6000 years ago. The next oldest civilizations (Babylonians, Chinese, etc.) date back only 4000 years give or take a few years.
I gave you 6000 years of recorded history, millions of eye witnesses, the transient nature of mater and a number of other well documented facts and history that has been accepted as fact for thousands of years.
I will amend my previous statement: I am happy to discuss creation with anyone willing to discuss actual facts and logic reasonably. All you have laid out here are baseless theories and bad science that has been debunked for decades now and then you devolve into personal attacks because apparently anyone who disagrees with you is dishonest and pathetic and a gullible idiot. That must be a fun way to live.
I don't agree with everything this guy says, but he does have a lot of the facts lined up and is worth a watch if you actually care about being right. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Obama's presidency was a shit show of incompetence, rank partisanship and globalism. Hopefully the Dims stay out of power for a good 20 years while we regrow our economy and manufacturing base.
So now the consumer can chose from solar panels made in the US (or Europe) with proper environmental controls, or no name solar panels made in China that dump a shit ton of real, nasty pollution into the water stream (and eventually the ocean) for essentially the same price. https://spectrum.ieee.org/gree...
The only idiots who are bitching about this are the same fools who said nothing about Obama's tarrifs, and this is nothing more than a brainless Trump=bad, Obama=good stupidity, rather than looking objectively at the actual issue.
This is just the beginning. It is in our best interest to onshore and automate our manufacturing needs. We have turned China from a third world nation into the fastest growing economy with all the trade we gave them, and they turn around and cheat us with currency manipulation and are a bad actor looking to rule the world. They have stolen and copied virtually every piece of IP that was ever sent to China for manufacture, lets see how they do when we pull most of that back to the US and automate it and pocket the money in the US, leaving them with no IP to steal and nowhere to sell their cheap products.
Empyrion is indeed a very deep and complex game (though still not officially released). Check out some game play. It is like Minecraft with Unreal engine graphics and an engineering level of detail. https://www.youtube.com/watch?... Everything in the game is destructible including the terrain.
People build massive space ships and even duplicate scifi space stations that are fully functional with cargo and suttle bay doors, etc. The game even calculates mass, inertia, CG, generator power available, thruster force etc. It is a great game and it is always getting deeper as they release new content. (they broke bullet collision and gave AI enemies perfect aim a few patches back, so I stopped playing and waited for them to fix that, but I will be back.
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Reasons homeless move to and stay in California:
1. Nice climate, it's a sunny 78F outside right now. The odds of getting frostbite outside or freezing to death year round are almost zero in most of coastal California.
2. Great benefits, free clinics, all manner of social welfare freebies given out by the state on top of federal aid.
3. Legal pot
4. The beaches
5. Mild weather year round. No hurricanes, tornadoes etc. Earthquakes are essential not a threat at all if you are standing/living outside.
6. Generous people that make cardboard sign begging lucrative. There was a report a few years back where journalists were surveying and following street corner pan handlers and they were making $200 plus a day on the busy street corners.
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It is amazing to me the level of speculative trash that passes as "science" these days. The article is full of such speculation and rank fantasy... Species are always in flux depending on a myriad of conditions, to say otherwise is irrational and betrays a basic lack of historical knowledge.
I don't know about the long game. My local cable internet monopoly made all their investment back in the first 5 years and have been laughing all the way to the bank as they screw me over every month with a 500% markup for my "high speed internet" AKA 65Mbps down/10Mbps up service...
Ummm, or you just offer the service for a profit and stop screwing with the pipe... At the very least you sell your business unit to another concern who will do that.
I am glad to hear it. The last Nintendo console I bought new was the Gamecube, I bought a Wii eventually and view it only as a retro/kids toy. I may buy a second or third generation Switch after they fix the warping and other problems the console had at launch so I can check out the first party titles (Zelda, Mario, Metroid).
Radon and mineral isotopes are fairly localized. Radon is non-existent in vast swaths of the world, as are radio isotopes. As you say, most of the radiation is shielded by the magnetosphere and atmosphere, or most mammalian life on earth would be extinct in a few generations (this is one of the big problems with long distance space travel https://www.nasa.gov/hrp/eleme... ). However, some harmful radiation does make it down to the surface, and over 6000 years, that cumulative radiation damage to the DNA of species is irreversible.
"Harmful radiation" |= solar radiation. Harmful radiation comes from a number of sources in the cosmos, only one of which is the sun...
Different creatures have different designed lifespans, and there are a multitude of ways to shorten that lifespan, and very few, if any, ways to lengthen that lifespan. Furthermore, you can shorten an entire population's lifespan with radiation (just ask the fruit flies that were irradiated in the quest for proof of Evolution). And to clarify, I am not just talking about solar radiation RTFP. There are a number of sources of harmful radiation outside the planet.
Ask any scientist about the effects of radiation on health and DNA https://www.nasa.gov/hrp/eleme...
Gotta wonder if they got a big fat paycheck from the local cable/telco to pull this BS. I can't imagine how this makes economic sense. Once you sink the money for the hardware, if you aren't profitable, you increase your prices until you are...
That or they negotiated another, bigger city where the local cable/telco monopoly would drop their legal challenges to Google fiber in exchange for this...
So a few things are undeniable. First off, Facebook is most certainly censoring content. They by their own admission removed pages. Secondly, information from Russia is not inherently false, anyone who says this is committing a logical fallacy: Damning the Source http://commfaculty.fullerton.e... Were these sites Russian propaganda outlets? That is very likely. Should they have been banned from Facebook? Again, I think that was still the right move, but the above are also true, and it is a slipery slope to have any corporation decide what information US citizens have access to. Combined, Facebook, Google and Twitter are now positioned to become big brother controlling the information that you have access to and knowing every deep dark secret you would rather not have made public. It is high time that they are legally regulated to reserve the power to manipulate our lives back to the government and officials who we at least have the ability to elect or kick out of office...
As for the entire Russian investigation heating up, it has been nearly 18 months (the FBI investigation started in August 2016) and there is zero evidence that Trump or his administration colluded, in fact the only evidence that has turned up is that the Obama administration used a false report to spy on the Trump campaign, which is a felony, and everyone involved with that deception is facing 10 year prison sentences. It will be interesting to see how this all plays out, but the more shrill the MSM gets about Trump collusion, you will know that the noose is closing in on the Obama administration.
In 2 years, when the economy is great, religious freedom is better protected, 2nd amendment is less infringed, crime is lower, drug deaths are down, and no collusion is found and 15 plus high ranking Obama officials are in federal prison for abuse of power (18 USC 242) https://www.law.cornell.edu/us... which is actually a crime, unlike the alleged Trump collusion, it will be interesting to see if MSNBC, CNN and the rest of the MSM go the way of the newspapers, bankrupt and looking for a new line of work. It would truly be refreshing to have a brand new media landscape who focus on getting the truth, no mater where it leads, rather than trying to "change the world" based on their twisted, alt left fascist worldviews...
Obviously obvious facts are obvious. Mole rats live underground their entire lives, and are thus shielded from most of the harmful radiation bombarding the planet, which in turn minimizes the cumulative, species wide DNA damage they have suffered compared to top side species like actual mice and rats, which like humans, now live extremely short lives compared to the original design. (Rodents average 1-3 years). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Thus shielded from all that radiation, mole rats live 10x longer than top side rodents. Equating that to humans prior to all the cumulative DNA damage from un-shielded radiation on the surface of the earth, humans could have lived 10x longer or ~900 years... Oh look, that is exactly what the Bible claims before the flood wrecked the planet and destroyed the natural radiation barrier above the earth.
This blows another gaping hole in the Evolution theory, showing that less radiation damage, less cumulative DNA damage (i.e. mutation) is significantly beneficial to overall lifespan and health of the organism. But we have known that since at least the Curies (for ionizing radiation) and since the first sunburn... Scientists are once again good at science, but fail at drawing conclusions, basic logic and evaluating their biases...
I'm with you. I used to have mad reflexes back in the early 80's and ruled the arcades everywhere I went; you might have seen my initials, ASS, at the top of the high scores list, but these days, I can't even fire up the old school games without being reminded how much slower my reflexes are than they were back then.
Still, good times. And I'm glad there are plenty of modern games that eschew twitch reflexes for things like strategy, story and depth.
I am a big scifi and fantasy fan, so I watched Bright when it came out. It is definitely not mainstream, but it has a feel that could turn it into a cult classic. It was well acted, well directed and the FX were top notch and the story was interesting. I am looking forward to their next big scifi show, Altered Carbon, which also looks to be some top shelf scifi. I hope this is the start of some of the really good scifi and fantasy stories out there getting the adaptations that they deserve.
Simply re-asserting your some empty bullshit is not a refutation. Now fuck off.
The last refuge of the ignorant and ill informed who want to stay that way...
First off, please point to three countries in the last 1000 years conquered by a Christian country whose population was forced at sword (or gun) point to convert to Christianity from Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, etc... There are dozens if not hundreds of examples in Islam.
Second off, the ten commandments were given to the Jews, not to the entire world, and mainstream Christianity has held since the beginning 1986 years ago that choosing to follow Christ was a personal decision that could not be forced. While Judaic laws regarding interpersonal activities (murder, theft, adultery, etc.) have been codified into laws that virtually no one disputes as just,the commandments between man and God and those that involve the heart and mind internally have been relegated by Christ to the personal relationship between the individual and Christ (loving God, Coveting possessions, coveting married people, etc.) This has been true since the beginning of Christianity and has always been true of mainstream Christianity that stays true to the Bible. This is why when the Christian founding fathers of the USA (100% of whom were Christians, based on actual, historical fact) http://www.adherents.com/gov/F... they put into the framework of the country both the freedom to practice any religion and prevented the government from sponsoring any specific religion (though their explicit intent was never to take God out of the public square, that is a 20th century perversion by the atheists.). Your statement is either ignorant or intentionally disingenuous.
Thirdly, the witch hunts seem to indeed be a tragic mistake based on the likely slanted history we have been fed by modern scholars (I wasn't actually there, all we can do is look back hundreds of years and try to judge the activity.) Witches, mediums and demons are in fact very real (if you haven't experienced the real deal, count yourself lucky) and there is good reason that witchcraft and speaking to the dead are death penalty activities in Judaic law. However, I took your term "fanatic" in error; a better, and more accurate term would have been "perfectly practiced Christianity." If the people during the witch trials had been perfectly practicing Christianity, the accused would not have been practicing witchcraft (if they indeed had been) and the witness would not have borne false witness on the witness stand, therefore nothing bad would have happened. The truth of the witch trials seems to be that a few women did engage in witchcraft, were caught and executed for it, but then, much like the #metoo people started evilly using it to extract revenge against people they didn't like, which necessarily involved bearing false witness against the innocent, and the whole thing got badly out of hand. The witch trials had nothing to do with Christianity, they had to do with evil human nature and abuse of a serious law on the books at that time. Oh and before you bring it up, all the medieval tests for witches were based on druidic and Celtic paganism, not the Biblical evidence of an eyewitness required in the Old Testament.
First off, Roger Ailse and most of the conservatives are gone thanks to the #metoo scam by the feminists and Murdoch handing control over to his liberal sons. Beyond that, unlike the alt left, conservatives do believe in objective truth and integrity, and so they report the truth whether or not it hurts their political position.
Beyond that, the story that you refer to has nothing to do with political persuasion, Fox is just reporting on the CBO's opinion... and the CBO report is a hit job by the deep state alt left infiltrators to give Democrats talking points. It projects to 2026 and assumes no one now on Obamacare would get other insurance (catastrophic or otherwise, which is disingenuous to say the least).
The alt left is so good at projecting their behavior onto conservatives it is almost pathological.
One of these days America is going to be gone, and you idiots will be squashed in a week by China or Russia and they will skin you and turn you into lamp shades, and you will have no one to thank but yourselves and your own stupidity. You have been watching too much BS on the BBC and other alt left propaganda. Assuming you don't completely abolish free speech and become a bunch of fascist dictatorships first (my bet is on the later).
- Stable: We can actually fund the government just fine, thanks, and contrary to the fake news, no essential services are ever shut down. We just have some alt left nut jobs who want to import themselves a new voting block.
- Peaceful: It is peaceful in the US. Crime is quite low outside of Democrat run big cities. We are all armed to the teeth and polite to our neighbors and fellow citizens. Global politics is complicated. Sometimes you make a deal with an evil dictator because the alternative is worse. We conquered Germany and Japan after WW2 and then rebuilt and modernized them and gave them democracy. Show me a European country ever that did that with the losing side. The shits in Europe have been warring for 1000 years and they always occupied the losing country and stole their wealth...
We rebuilt and gave democracy to Afghanistan and Iraq after we were attacked by foreigners on 9-11 and it was apparent that we couldn't ignore foreign threats any longer, but it is apparent that democracy is unfit for Islamic nations...
- Democracy: If you are comparing the free and fair US elections https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... to those in Russia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... which are demonstrably rigged, your brain has rotted beyond hope and I am done with this discussion. Comparing the most free and open elections to those held by a totalitarian state is a sick joke made by a fool eagerly waiting to reap the whirlwind.
Training animals is exerting human control over animals and "hacking" their natural behaviors/instincts for our benefit. That is by definition not self control but control by another, intelligent entity...
Computers are also capable of solving logic puzzles, that does not make them self aware or sentient any more than breathing animals.
If marketing is so easy, then why does everyone under 40 have an ad blocker on their browser these days? Why was the pet rock the exception instead of the rule? Because in spite of the marketing departments propaganda, it is actually hard to manipulate people, and typically all marketing does is promote the product. If it is a shit product or something no one wants or needs, it will fall flat, regardless of how good the marketing is.
True, but Russia wants to build it to threaten the US, so they get the bulls eye. As a consequence of threatening the US, now they not only have to worry about keeping their own military on a tight leash, but they have to worry about their satellites Iran and North Korea well behaved, because the shit will blow up in their face no mater who launches it.
The countries that hate us are not Trumps fault, they are the axis of evil dating back at least a generation, please get over your Trump derangement syndrome. The guy is not that bad based on what he has actually done.
If I only have the choice between one kind of religious nutjobs or another kind of religious nutjobs, I have no choice anyway.
That is an incredibly ignorant statement that shows a total lack of knowledge both of history and reality. Christianity practiced fanatically results in a utopia where everyone is taken care of, there is no crime, poverty or other social problems. Christianity summed up is "Love God with all your heart and your neighbor as yourself." Christianity uniquely believes in the concept of freedom of conscience and therefore freedom of religion. Christianity practiced imperfectly has lead to western civilization which has also resulted in the most free societies with the highest standards of living. Europe is now coasting on that benefit, having given up Chrstianity by and large. Laws based on Christianity outlaw things like murder, theft, perjury, penalize adultery and variations on those basic concepts.
OTOH, if Islam is practiced fanatically, you have forced marriages, rape, child rape, honor killings, lying, cheating, robbing and murdering of non-believers with impunity. They cut off the hands of starving children for stealing some food in sharia law countries. You have the subjugation and stripping of all human rights of women. Islam outright states that Islam should be spread by the sword and has a long history of military conquest and forced conversion of conquered nations (who do you think actually caused the crusades anyway? They were a direct response to the military invasion of Christian nations and forced conversion by radical Islam.) Oh yes, and slavery, lots of slavery:
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There is a massive difference between Christianity and Islam, just ask Ayaan Hirsi Ali and all the other women who have suffered under Islam.
Your ignorance is breathtaking.
That is also a definite possibility.
Please feel free to explicitly state the points in my arguments that actually lack evidence, rather than asserting they lack evidence without substantiating the assertion, all that does is make you look ignorant and desperate.
You seem to be struggling, let me help you out with some facts:
Recorded civilization is not older than 6000 years. That assertion is predicated (I suspect) on radiological dating and not actual recorded history. The way that the radiocarbon dating age is determined is based on the "age" of the strata it is found in. The age of the strata is based on the radiological dating (circular logic fallacy) or the "geologic column" which is a totally fictitious construct with no basis in fact or science with 100% imaginary ages.
Attempts to radiocarbon date articles of known age are wildly inaccurate. Radiocarbon dating is also predicated on the levels of radioactive carbon in the atmosphere being constant. It is still changing, indicating that the earth is less than 10,000 years old... Oops. If you want actual facts on radio carbon dating (instead of pull it out of the ass theories and straight up fiction) you can actually learn facts here: http://www.creationstudies.org...
There are no actual histories or societies older than the Jews, who trace their history back to creation about 6000 years ago. The next oldest civilizations (Babylonians, Chinese, etc.) date back only 4000 years give or take a few years.
And no, I did not appeal to ignorance, as you assert, learn your logical fallacies here: https://www.logicallyfallaciou...
I gave you 6000 years of recorded history, millions of eye witnesses, the transient nature of mater and a number of other well documented facts and history that has been accepted as fact for thousands of years.
I will amend my previous statement: I am happy to discuss creation with anyone willing to discuss actual facts and logic reasonably. All you have laid out here are baseless theories and bad science that has been debunked for decades now and then you devolve into personal attacks because apparently anyone who disagrees with you is dishonest and pathetic and a gullible idiot. That must be a fun way to live.
I don't agree with everything this guy says, but he does have a lot of the facts lined up and is worth a watch if you actually care about being right. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Obama's presidency was a shit show of incompetence, rank partisanship and globalism. Hopefully the Dims stay out of power for a good 20 years while we regrow our economy and manufacturing base.
So now the consumer can chose from solar panels made in the US (or Europe) with proper environmental controls, or no name solar panels made in China that dump a shit ton of real, nasty pollution into the water stream (and eventually the ocean) for essentially the same price.
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The only idiots who are bitching about this are the same fools who said nothing about Obama's tarrifs, and this is nothing more than a brainless Trump=bad, Obama=good stupidity, rather than looking objectively at the actual issue.
This is just the beginning. It is in our best interest to onshore and automate our manufacturing needs. We have turned China from a third world nation into the fastest growing economy with all the trade we gave them, and they turn around and cheat us with currency manipulation and are a bad actor looking to rule the world. They have stolen and copied virtually every piece of IP that was ever sent to China for manufacture, lets see how they do when we pull most of that back to the US and automate it and pocket the money in the US, leaving them with no IP to steal and nowhere to sell their cheap products.
Empyrion is indeed a very deep and complex game (though still not officially released). Check out some game play. It is like Minecraft with Unreal engine graphics and an engineering level of detail. https://www.youtube.com/watch?... Everything in the game is destructible including the terrain.
People build massive space ships and even duplicate scifi space stations that are fully functional with cargo and suttle bay doors, etc. The game even calculates mass, inertia, CG, generator power available, thruster force etc. It is a great game and it is always getting deeper as they release new content. (they broke bullet collision and gave AI enemies perfect aim a few patches back, so I stopped playing and waited for them to fix that, but I will be back.