FYI, both organizations are founded/run by James Dobson. I would not necessarily refer to them as seperate entities rather than appendages of the same one. James Dobson, you know, the guy of Spongebob Squarepants is a conspiracy to turn kids gay fame.
Regardless, I'm wrong. I looked up the top speed and the engine in the DS/1 probe had a top speed of 30 km/sec, where light is about 300 000 km/sec. For some reason I thought the probe had a theoretical max of 100 000 km/sec. Oops. Scrap that idea.
It is if you consider it is theoretically possible to get there within one's lifetime. Heck, if we sent a probe with our current tech which has a top speed of about 1/3c (assuming I remember correctly), it could get there in about 124 years. (It takes ~6 months to get up to top speed with an ion drive if I remember correctly. Yes, I know that's not quite right because it does travel at some speed while accelerating, there are galactic orbit considerations, depends on the mass of the probe/output of the engine, etc.) So, we could see results from the probe in 165 years from launch. With todays technology.
If the curiosity factor isn't enough to justify such a trip, well, then you should consider that your great grand kids may be in circumstances where they can not survive on this planet for much longer, for some reason or another, and may need to find possible alternatives. Consider it not putting all of one's eggs in one basket.
If this is a concern for you, may I suggest some extra education in the differences between fiction and reality? Actually he is learning a very valuable lesson in life if you think about it. He's learned that the guy that shoots him or his buddy is not necessarily evil incarnate, or self rightous, or crazy. But, that their presence being inconvient to someone else can result in being wronged, justified or not.
It is, in fact, a sad, but very important lesson in life, that others value their wellbeing over yours. To varying extents of course, but it is still important to point out. One reason comes to mind: war. War is very rarely actually faught for a good versus evil style reason, althought that is almost always how it is drumed up. War is usually faught because the presence of a competing government/religion/race or other group is inconvienent for the presence of another.
I would worry, however, if he acts as if this is the way things should be, or how he should act. This "Fuck everyone else, I'm getting mine!" attitude, I mean.
Considering the United States is by far the largest exporter of corn in the world, I find this unlikely. We even export corn to Mexico. If I remember correctly, right now, the price of corn is so cheap the industry has to be heavily tax subsidized to survive. If we import anyone elses corn in significant quanitities, someone's screwed up.
Well, I suppose the story is this: 1. People will defend the corporations in the US, saying that it is a free market and the businesses should decide what they want and don't want to sell and for how much. 2. Others will point out that theoretically why a free market is a good thing is that, if there is a way to make a buck off of it, someone would sell it in the US, even if it reduces the profit margins of the market as a whole. In other words, if the "free" market operated as advertised, some provider would undercut his compeditors and sell the cheap phone in order to grab a larger market share, even if it reduced the profit margin on their low end line some. Thus, it would give them more profits, but at a smaller margin.
This indicates a possibility that either: A) The market is actually controlled, probably through collusion. and/or B) The "free market" economic system as practiced in the US is flawed.
Do you honestly think they are _not_ going to tax this? When they start selling.xxx domains for $2000 a year, maybe you'll understand. Maybe, but probably not.
It's probably just a big shiny object for us to distract us from noticing that yesterday they raised the debt limit, again, to 9 trillion dollars. That should last a whole year and a half at the current deficit rate.
I noticed mars appears to be techtonically dead. That's not really news, but I noticed something else. Maybe I just missed this info during school, but:
Notice that the extinct volcanos on Mars appear to be almost exactly on the oppostite end of the planet from major impact events, with the larger crater resulting in larger, more numerous volcanos.
It's almost like the impact event is what caused the pressure that forced magma to the surface on the other side of the planet.
First off: "Why does it surprise anybody he'd run as a democrat?"
It's not; however, it not being a surprise does not change my opposition to it.
"It's not as if there's any substantive difference between the two parties. Oh, maybe abortion, but other than that it's all the same."
There is quite a bit of truth to this. Both parties, on the federal level have been taken over by Straussians, the Neoconservative and Neoliberal movements. Both have the same goal, namely economic domination, and similar methods for attaining it, including intrusive government. And, both are very effective at whipping the liberal and conservative portions of both parties into fighting amoungst themselves. The only other power of significance is the Christian theocratic movement, which mostly acts as a weapon rather than as a leader. Abortion is just a wedge issue to keep us peons arguing amongst ourselves, although it looks like the Christian theocrats may be starting to make some progress (for them anyway) on the issue.
"Make politicians wear sponsor patches like race car drivers and it'd be immediately obvious why this is so..."
This is why usually the first thing I do when I research candidates is to go look at the FEC data on opensecrets.org. I can usually get a pretty good feel for how the votes will go. However, I do wish there was an easier way to pierce the veil of PAC donations and corporate ownership. Those PACs can simply just be slush funds for laundering in money beyond the $2000 limit, or from less than likeable donors. And, sometimes those corporations are either owned by other corporations that are of interest, or by foriegn governments, where a conflict of interest may occur.
And finally: "Government IS the problem."
Saying government is the problem is like saying guns are the problem. Government is merely a system for getting large projects done in an organized manor, without the need for an individual profit motive. It allows for things to be done that are impractacle on the individual level, unprofitable on the corporate level, and/or security sensative on a large scale. Let corrupt, incompetent people, out only to get thiers so screw everyone else run the government and you get a government that is corrupt, incompetent, and is out only to make itself more powerful, screw everyone else.
That being said, the more powerful a government, the more likely it will be abusive, as the power of the position will attract the corrupt and the corruptable. The government that is best is the one that governs least, and still performs the functions neccessary keep the nation running well.
Aw, hell no. Anyone know the date of the Virgina Democrat primary? I know Virginia will let voters vote in any primary; they do not have to be registered with the party; so, I know I can.
Oh, if he's a Democrat, then I'm the tooth fairy. The K-Street Project purged Democrat lobbiests out of DC. And this is the guy hired to promote the company who's (now former) CEO promised to deliver the votes of Ohio to George W. Bush. The chances of him being a Democrat supporter, much less activist enough to run for office, and still being employed in such a position are extremely low. Both senators for Virginia are Republican. Who is he running against, Allen or Warner? I know one of them stepped on the administration's toes, but I forgot which one. There have been rumors of Republican groups sponcering "Democrats" being run against Republicans that piss off the leadership. I wonder if this is a case of that?
Well, if he's on the ballot in November, I already know who I'm not voting for.
How many free OSes do you know that are not at some level open source? I can't even think of one that isn't at least 9 years old. (Apple will let you download System 7.5.x for free last time I checked.)
Sound like a plan to me. With climate change and all the northern extremities would probably not be too bad, except for the violent weather. That, and you'd need to wear SPF200+ sunblock just to walk outside.;P
Actually it's not that bad an idea, except that there is little infrastructure there for supplies and communication. Translation: we need investors in order to start a colony. That and as soon as someone tries it, all the other countries that have been wanting to claim it will bomb anyone that tries to start a new nation on it. Argentina and the United Kingdom come to mind as being virulently set on claiming everything in the area. Too bad.:/
Actually, partisan democrats and republicans take up about a third each of the voting population. The other third are the independants, 3rd party, and swing voters. Either way, TFA draws parallels between the parasitic infection and Schizophrenia. So, you may want to try to figure out who tends to exibit some signs of that disease. I would not limit it to any particular group or party, as it is possible that it could be something that is present as parts of multiple groups. I am considering this because both the democrat and republican political parties, as well as several of the 3rd parties exhibit self destructive behavior at certain points.
I would also like to know if it is possible to mass test for infection, thus providing hard evidence which group of rats is sitting on the cat urine. As well as if there is a practical drug for exterminating the infection, not just treating it with happy pills at $3+ a day for the rest of everyone's lives. TFA does mention a drug pyrimethamine. There appears to be resistance issues with it, however. Knowing how to prevent infection would be a good idea as well.
Oh, this could also explain why so many people are on feel-good meds nowadays.
That is a flawed law, as it assumes Godwin's Law is always correctly applied. The choice use of "should" in this case, where "sometimes" or "most of the time" would be better for clairifying the statement, indicates a kind of emotional sence of justice, rather than a logical conclusion.
This is why unemployment laws allow people to quit and still claim unemployment if the conditions of their employment change, instead of if they just get layed off. Because, then no one would be laid off. The company would just make people they don't want anymore, for example, work for minimum wage cleaning toilets for 5 hours a week, 3 am to 4 am, with no benefits.
Yep, definately a Republican operative. Anyone have a way of tracking down more of these beltway IPs abusing Wikipedia? I'd be interested in seeing what the partisans don't want us to see. Being able to identify the amount of interference from each group would be a nice little bit of knowledge, too.
...err...I mean precedent, not president. Does this mean, if say, some random guy burns a copy of a video from Al Jazeera showing an act of terrorism, that they are guilty of making terrorism?
Holy crap! Does this mean that people that still have pictures, videos, and articles of 9/11 are terrorists now?
I like the Libertarian party. However, there is a faction that claims to be libertarian, but is best described by the later part of this quote:
"Authoritarian regimes may or may not have a rule of law -- in the former case, laws and procedures exist and are applied, though they may seem intrusive, unjust or excessive; in the latter case, laws do not exist, or are routinely ignored, and the actions of the government are at the whim of the leadership."
If letting "The Party" do whatever the hell it wants is "Libertarian", screw that.
The problem is that science is based in doubt and is obliged to explore those holes and repeditively researching to find new ones as they are extremely irritating if let be. Religion tends to ignore the holes by glossing over it with a broad "because [insert deity] made it that way" band-aid. You know, the whole faith thing. Attempting to probe a religion for new knowledge is difficult and often frowned upon as heresy and blasphemy. In science it is a requirement.
I realize it's not that simple, but this is the basic paradigm.
In addition, there is another: Philosephy
Philosephies attempt to explain the way things operate based on unproven assertions and subjective observations. They are often open to new information to explain holes in them as well.
Unfortunately? I've told people what I was going to say, what their responce was going to be, and why that responce was flawed. Then I said it. And they did exactly what I said they where going to do instead of trying to argue why it was not flawed. That is what an appeal to emotion does. It allows you to control people in a way where they compulsively respond to you in a way they can not prevent.
There is a reason brainwashing works, folks. Think. For the love of everything you hold dear, think.
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"...Family Research Council and Focus on the Family, two socially conservative lobbying organizations."
FYI, both organizations are founded/run by James Dobson. I would not necessarily refer to them as seperate entities rather than appendages of the same one. James Dobson, you know, the guy of Spongebob Squarepants is a conspiracy to turn kids gay fame.
Regardless, I'm wrong. I looked up the top speed and the engine in the DS/1 probe had a top speed of 30 km/sec, where light is about 300 000 km/sec. For some reason I thought the probe had a theoretical max of 100 000 km/sec. Oops. Scrap that idea.
*cough*
I did put that in there for a reason.
It is if you consider it is theoretically possible to get there within one's lifetime. Heck, if we sent a probe with our current tech which has a top speed of about 1/3c (assuming I remember correctly), it could get there in about 124 years. (It takes ~6 months to get up to top speed with an ion drive if I remember correctly. Yes, I know that's not quite right because it does travel at some speed while accelerating, there are galactic orbit considerations, depends on the mass of the probe/output of the engine, etc.) So, we could see results from the probe in 165 years from launch. With todays technology.
If the curiosity factor isn't enough to justify such a trip, well, then you should consider that your great grand kids may be in circumstances where they can not survive on this planet for much longer, for some reason or another, and may need to find possible alternatives. Consider it not putting all of one's eggs in one basket.
If this is a concern for you, may I suggest some extra education in the differences between fiction and reality? Actually he is learning a very valuable lesson in life if you think about it. He's learned that the guy that shoots him or his buddy is not necessarily evil incarnate, or self rightous, or crazy. But, that their presence being inconvient to someone else can result in being wronged, justified or not.
It is, in fact, a sad, but very important lesson in life, that others value their wellbeing over yours. To varying extents of course, but it is still important to point out. One reason comes to mind: war. War is very rarely actually faught for a good versus evil style reason, althought that is almost always how it is drumed up. War is usually faught because the presence of a competing government/religion/race or other group is inconvienent for the presence of another.
I would worry, however, if he acts as if this is the way things should be, or how he should act. This "Fuck everyone else, I'm getting mine!" attitude, I mean.
Considering the United States is by far the largest exporter of corn in the world, I find this unlikely. We even export corn to Mexico. If I remember correctly, right now, the price of corn is so cheap the industry has to be heavily tax subsidized to survive. If we import anyone elses corn in significant quanitities, someone's screwed up.
Well, I suppose the story is this:
1. People will defend the corporations in the US, saying that it is a free market and the businesses should decide what they want and don't want to sell and for how much.
2. Others will point out that theoretically why a free market is a good thing is that, if there is a way to make a buck off of it, someone would sell it in the US, even if it reduces the profit margins of the market as a whole. In other words, if the "free" market operated as advertised, some provider would undercut his compeditors and sell the cheap phone in order to grab a larger market share, even if it reduced the profit margin on their low end line some. Thus, it would give them more profits, but at a smaller margin.
This indicates a possibility that either:
A) The market is actually controlled, probably through collusion.
and/or
B) The "free market" economic system as practiced in the US is flawed.
Do you honestly think they are _not_ going to tax this? When they start selling .xxx domains for $2000 a year, maybe you'll understand. Maybe, but probably not.
It's probably just a big shiny object for us to distract us from noticing that yesterday they raised the debt limit, again, to 9 trillion dollars. That should last a whole year and a half at the current deficit rate.
I noticed mars appears to be techtonically dead. That's not really news, but I noticed something else. Maybe I just missed this info during school, but:
Notice that the extinct volcanos on Mars appear to be almost exactly on the oppostite end of the planet from major impact events, with the larger crater resulting in larger, more numerous volcanos.
It's almost like the impact event is what caused the pressure that forced magma to the surface on the other side of the planet.
First off: "Why does it surprise anybody he'd run as a democrat?"
It's not; however, it not being a surprise does not change my opposition to it.
"It's not as if there's any substantive difference between the two parties. Oh, maybe abortion, but other than that it's all the same."
There is quite a bit of truth to this. Both parties, on the federal level have been taken over by Straussians, the Neoconservative and Neoliberal movements. Both have the same goal, namely economic domination, and similar methods for attaining it, including intrusive government. And, both are very effective at whipping the liberal and conservative portions of both parties into fighting amoungst themselves. The only other power of significance is the Christian theocratic movement, which mostly acts as a weapon rather than as a leader. Abortion is just a wedge issue to keep us peons arguing amongst ourselves, although it looks like the Christian theocrats may be starting to make some progress (for them anyway) on the issue.
"Make politicians wear sponsor patches like race car drivers and it'd be immediately obvious why this is so..."
This is why usually the first thing I do when I research candidates is to go look at the FEC data on opensecrets.org. I can usually get a pretty good feel for how the votes will go. However, I do wish there was an easier way to pierce the veil of PAC donations and corporate ownership. Those PACs can simply just be slush funds for laundering in money beyond the $2000 limit, or from less than likeable donors. And, sometimes those corporations are either owned by other corporations that are of interest, or by foriegn governments, where a conflict of interest may occur.
And finally:
"Government IS the problem."
Saying government is the problem is like saying guns are the problem. Government is merely a system for getting large projects done in an organized manor, without the need for an individual profit motive. It allows for things to be done that are impractacle on the individual level, unprofitable on the corporate level, and/or security sensative on a large scale. Let corrupt, incompetent people, out only to get thiers so screw everyone else run the government and you get a government that is corrupt, incompetent, and is out only to make itself more powerful, screw everyone else.
That being said, the more powerful a government, the more likely it will be abusive, as the power of the position will attract the corrupt and the corruptable. The government that is best is the one that governs least, and still performs the functions neccessary keep the nation running well.
Aw, hell no. Anyone know the date of the Virgina Democrat primary? I know Virginia will let voters vote in any primary; they do not have to be registered with the party; so, I know I can.
Oh, if he's a Democrat, then I'm the tooth fairy. The K-Street Project purged Democrat lobbiests out of DC. And this is the guy hired to promote the company who's (now former) CEO promised to deliver the votes of Ohio to George W. Bush. The chances of him being a Democrat supporter, much less activist enough to run for office, and still being employed in such a position are extremely low. Both senators for Virginia are Republican. Who is he running against, Allen or Warner? I know one of them stepped on the administration's toes, but I forgot which one. There have been rumors of Republican groups sponcering "Democrats" being run against Republicans that piss off the leadership. I wonder if this is a case of that?
Well, if he's on the ballot in November, I already know who I'm not voting for.
How many free OSes do you know that are not at some level open source? I can't even think of one that isn't at least 9 years old. (Apple will let you download System 7.5.x for free last time I checked.)
...anyone else notice the amazing teleporting Maggie at the end there?
Sound like a plan to me. With climate change and all the northern extremities would probably not be too bad, except for the violent weather. That, and you'd need to wear SPF200+ sunblock just to walk outside. ;P
:/
Actually it's not that bad an idea, except that there is little infrastructure there for supplies and communication. Translation: we need investors in order to start a colony. That and as soon as someone tries it, all the other countries that have been wanting to claim it will bomb anyone that tries to start a new nation on it. Argentina and the United Kingdom come to mind as being virulently set on claiming everything in the area. Too bad.
So, basically, Microsoft wants to cash in on all those cheap OEM PCs where the caps on the motherboard blow their tops after 12 months of light use?
Actually, partisan democrats and republicans take up about a third each of the voting population. The other third are the independants, 3rd party, and swing voters. Either way, TFA draws parallels between the parasitic infection and Schizophrenia. So, you may want to try to figure out who tends to exibit some signs of that disease. I would not limit it to any particular group or party, as it is possible that it could be something that is present as parts of multiple groups. I am considering this because both the democrat and republican political parties, as well as several of the 3rd parties exhibit self destructive behavior at certain points.
I would also like to know if it is possible to mass test for infection, thus providing hard evidence which group of rats is sitting on the cat urine. As well as if there is a practical drug for exterminating the infection, not just treating it with happy pills at $3+ a day for the rest of everyone's lives. TFA does mention a drug pyrimethamine. There appears to be resistance issues with it, however. Knowing how to prevent infection would be a good idea as well.
Oh, this could also explain why so many people are on feel-good meds nowadays.
That is a flawed law, as it assumes Godwin's Law is always correctly applied. The choice use of "should" in this case, where "sometimes" or "most of the time" would be better for clairifying the statement, indicates a kind of emotional sence of justice, rather than a logical conclusion.
This is why unemployment laws allow people to quit and still claim unemployment if the conditions of their employment change, instead of if they just get layed off. Because, then no one would be laid off. The company would just make people they don't want anymore, for example, work for minimum wage cleaning toilets for 5 hours a week, 3 am to 4 am, with no benefits.
"...lost forever, just because a few assholes abuse it for their own personal gain."
Thus concludes today's lesson in Introduction to American Politics.
(I can't say world, having little experience with other governments.)
Yep, definately a Republican operative. Anyone have a way of tracking down more of these beltway IPs abusing Wikipedia? I'd be interested in seeing what the partisans don't want us to see. Being able to identify the amount of interference from each group would be a nice little bit of knowledge, too.
...err...I mean precedent, not president. Does this mean, if say, some random guy burns a copy of a video from Al Jazeera showing an act of terrorism, that they are guilty of making terrorism?
Holy crap! Does this mean that people that still have pictures, videos, and articles of 9/11 are terrorists now?
I like the Libertarian party. However, there is a faction that claims to be libertarian, but is best described by the later part of this quote:
"Authoritarian regimes may or may not have a rule of law -- in the former case, laws and procedures exist and are applied, though they may seem intrusive, unjust or excessive; in the latter case, laws do not exist, or are routinely ignored, and the actions of the government are at the whim of the leadership."
If letting "The Party" do whatever the hell it wants is "Libertarian", screw that.
The problem is that science is based in doubt and is obliged to explore those holes and repeditively researching to find new ones as they are extremely irritating if let be. Religion tends to ignore the holes by glossing over it with a broad "because [insert deity] made it that way" band-aid. You know, the whole faith thing. Attempting to probe a religion for new knowledge is difficult and often frowned upon as heresy and blasphemy. In science it is a requirement.
I realize it's not that simple, but this is the basic paradigm.
In addition, there is another: Philosephy
Philosephies attempt to explain the way things operate based on unproven assertions and subjective observations. They are often open to new information to explain holes in them as well.
The problem with term limits is that as soon as you elect a polititian that supports them, they no longer support term limits.
It reminds me of people that loathe government interference in private matters, until it's their party that's in power. Then they are all for it.
Unfortunately? I've told people what I was going to say, what their responce was going to be, and why that responce was flawed. Then I said it. And they did exactly what I said they where going to do instead of trying to argue why it was not flawed. That is what an appeal to emotion does. It allows you to control people in a way where they compulsively respond to you in a way they can not prevent.
There is a reason brainwashing works, folks. Think. For the love of everything you hold dear, think.