I think it is a collosal waste of money, and investing $B in infrastructure is just going to encourage people to move to an area which is inherently unsafe and very expensive to make livable
this is a great idea, but most people are all talk and no action. i was born and raised in new orleans, and tell everyone NOT to encourage people to live there by doing a few simple things. it's easy:
just don't drink coffee, don't grow or consume agricultural products that might go through that port (e.g. corn, soybeans, wheat) and please don't use natural gas or petroleum. we all know how those oil guys are ruining the marshes, and if they have jobs they'll live there. it's the same with the longshoremen. thinking of holding your annual convention in new orleans? think not!
don't listen to any music that comes out of there and don't watch or rent movies that were filmed there. don't watch, play, or participate in any way in any football/basketball games that take place there, especially if it's the BCS championship, super bowl, or ncaa final four. next year's nba all-star game is off limits, too. never go down there for mardi gras, and please don't tell anybody about it. the videos of co-eds flashing their tits don't help, either. please don't encourage people to go there by watching. jazzfest is totally out of the question.
oh yeah. and don't read any fiction that romanticizes that place. talk to your local school board and have them remove books, stories, and plays where the action takes place there. we don't want kids getting ideas about going there.
I don't think the method of communicability being slightly different is what is important here. The reason this is being reported is that the cancer is contagious. And that is what is important.
but we've known from animal experiments since at least the 1960's that (i)cancer has a viral component and (ii)tumors from a cancerous animal injected into a healthy animal cause cancer. we've also known that the virus associated with many soft tissue cancers is transmitted sexually as well as from mother to offspring.
i think people are missing the point. there IS NO threat that these air marshalls are supposedly there to protect us from. (this is clearly obvious from tfa and the one linked in this thread.) there may be miscellaneous threats, but they cannot protect us from those any better than pre-air marshall security.
they are there for psychological puposes, so that people who think there is a threat feel safer. people can point to some action that the government is doing. "look, they have air marshalls and no-fly lists."
there is no worldwide terror organzation or network. go to archive.org and download (bbc documentary) the power of nightmares (i wonder how long it'll be up?) i have friends who work for "homeland security" and it's all a sham. too bad it costs us money.
If this gentleman were really trying to prove his point, he would have posed "Smart People Believe False Things" instead of "weird things". But then his arguments would suddenly fall apart because he would have to prove false some of the beliefs which have an indeterminate truth value.
I think the use of the word "weird" is just an ad hominem attack on those who happen not to be skeptics/debunkers like himself. And since he started, I'll finish by saying that those who trust his sketchy methods/tactics are most certainly weird!
First of all, filesharing is NOT theft. At worst it is some form of copyright infringement, and otherwise it is totally legal. Yes, I understand that the RIAA/MPAA spinmeisters have power over feeble minds, but non sequiturs (like calling file sharing theft) get us nowhere when problem-solving. But is file sharing really a problem?
It depends on whom you ask. For independent artists trying to get their music heard, it's probably not a problem. For people who don't compose or perform music, but make lots of money off of those who do, it probably is a problem. Either way, a radical alteration of our thoughts about IP and copyright are definitely in order.
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I think it is a collosal waste of money, and investing $B in infrastructure is just going to encourage people to move to an area which is inherently unsafe and very expensive to make livable
this is a great idea, but most people are all talk and no action. i was born and raised in new orleans, and tell everyone NOT to encourage people to live there by doing a few simple things. it's easy:
just don't drink coffee, don't grow or consume agricultural products that might go through that port (e.g. corn, soybeans, wheat) and please don't use natural gas or petroleum. we all know how those oil guys are ruining the marshes, and if they have jobs they'll live there. it's the same with the longshoremen. thinking of holding your annual convention in new orleans? think not!
don't listen to any music that comes out of there and don't watch or rent movies that were filmed there. don't watch, play, or participate in any way in any football/basketball games that take place there, especially if it's the BCS championship, super bowl, or ncaa final four. next year's nba all-star game is off limits, too. never go down there for mardi gras, and please don't tell anybody about it. the videos of co-eds flashing their tits don't help, either. please don't encourage people to go there by watching. jazzfest is totally out of the question.
oh yeah. and don't read any fiction that romanticizes that place. talk to your local school board and have them remove books, stories, and plays where the action takes place there. we don't want kids getting ideas about going there.
i try, but everybody wants their goddamn coffee!
I don't think the method of communicability being slightly different is what is important here. The reason this is being reported is that the cancer is contagious. And that is what is important.
but we've known from animal experiments since at least the 1960's that (i)cancer has a viral component and (ii)tumors from a cancerous animal injected into a healthy animal cause cancer. we've also known that the virus associated with many soft tissue cancers is transmitted sexually as well as from mother to offspring.
cdc records as well as this book http://www.themonkeyvirus.com/ have more info.
i think people are missing the point. there IS NO threat that these air marshalls are supposedly there to protect us from. (this is clearly obvious from tfa and the one linked in this thread.) there may be miscellaneous threats, but they cannot protect us from those any better than pre-air marshall security.
they are there for psychological puposes, so that people who think there is a threat feel safer. people can point to some action that the government is doing. "look, they have air marshalls and no-fly lists."
there is no worldwide terror organzation or network. go to archive.org and download (bbc documentary) the power of nightmares (i wonder how long it'll be up?) i have friends who work for "homeland security" and it's all a sham. too bad it costs us money.
you actually are a side of meat. two of 'em.
to view pages in default layout, just use a browser that doesn't run java. i use off by one.
Why ACME of course!
>>And they all have more talent than Britney Spears.
I don't know where you're from, but where I'm from we call what she has talent. Now her voice, that's a totally different question!
If this gentleman were really trying to prove his point, he would have posed "Smart People Believe False Things" instead of "weird things". But then his arguments would suddenly fall apart because he would have to prove false some of the beliefs which have an indeterminate truth value.
I think the use of the word "weird" is just an ad hominem attack on those who happen not to be skeptics/debunkers like himself. And since he started, I'll finish by saying that those who trust his sketchy methods/tactics are most certainly weird!
First of all, filesharing is NOT theft. At worst it is some form of copyright infringement, and otherwise it is totally legal. Yes, I understand that the RIAA/MPAA spinmeisters have power over feeble minds, but non sequiturs (like calling file sharing theft) get us nowhere when problem-solving. But is file sharing really a problem?
It depends on whom you ask. For independent artists trying to get their music heard, it's probably not a problem. For people who don't compose or perform music, but make lots of money off of those who do, it probably is a problem. Either way, a radical alteration of our thoughts about IP and copyright are definitely in order.
That was the Osmond Brothers, wasn't it?
WideOpenWest is already laying wire here in Colorado and they claim on their site that some portions of Denver are ready for service...