Except that you've just given the entire game away now, by explaining it. You are a dirty traitor to you country and will be punished accordingly, the authorities are on their way...
Seriously though, does anyone really believe that any worthwhile opponent, terrorist or otherwise, is that stupid? If America has managed to charge people that naive with looking out for their best interests, it has bigger things to worry about than another terrorist attack.
...requiring the US to issue such warrants and gather evidence and hand it over to foreign police - for activities which are LEGAL in the US (for example France could demand investigations and data for Nazi item auctions)...
Well, why should you have to physically be in France to be breaking it's laws. It may be legal to sell Nazi souvenirs in America, but it's illegal in France and Germany. If I try to sell Nazi items in France, I'm breaking French law whether I'm in France or not.
I suspect that the French government is not interested in people selling such items simply from America, which would be available to the whole world France included. The are most likely interested in people selling the items specifcally to France.
It's a bit of a grey area, and I haven't explained myself as well as I might, but it seems to me that such people are intentionally breaking French law, albeit remotely.
I'm well aware of the nature of the accident. However, my point was: how, specifically, did communism contribute or cause this to happen.
I suspect that you may not be entirely au fait with communism, your description of communism as nothing more than a sub-western inept bureaucracy isn't a strong argument. I reccomment wikipedia.
The communist government allowed the construction of a design of plant that would never have been permitted in the west.
I believe that, when most people are attacking what they think to be "communism", they are actually attacking nothing more than the Soviet government. That is to say, people are only thinking of the Russian model of government when they talk about communism. I think Marx or Engels would agree that there isn't really much similarity between the two.
You'd better get down to that gun shop then, cos I'm afraid you must have fallen asleep on you watch. The only thing is, while you were watching all the usual suspects, Nationalism was able to sneak in and set up shop under everyone's noses.
Surely the problem of Microsoft (or anyone else) using BSD licenced code is that they can stuff it into Longhorn (for example) and pass it off as their own code. They don't have to actively claim it's theirs, but can imply it is by not saying otherwise except for putting the required copyright notice somwhere in the middle of a record sized EULA.
The things he describes are quite possible, but not *economically feasable*. Why don't we all have robot butlers and maids cleaning up after us now? Is it because we don't have the technology? Of course not - it is because of economic feasability
I think it is actually because we don't yet have the technology to make it economically feasible.
I don't rememember Thomas Jefferson saying it was ok to take the war to the civilians back in Britan or France or kidnap Britsh merchants and cut thier heads off as a 'message to others.'
I don't think so. The idea of a war is to win, not to be a gentleman. If one were to find oneself in a war (and nobody does, it takes two to tango), one would do absolutely whatever it took to win, losing would be unthinkable. However enlightened and advanced a culture might be, once it's at war it will fight as dirtily as is required to win, because a moral victory is simply not good enough.
The thing about Edinburgh is that, although it's mostly a very expensive, middle-class city, there are still some pretty underdeveloped areas (craigmiller, sighthill etc). The council (and businesses) seem to be more interested in developing the innercity areas for better business opportunities (and houses for English expats) and not bothering so much about the areas which could show some huge benefits for just a fraction of what is being spent on these new developments. Everywhere I go in Edinburgh these days, I see new constructions. New houses are going up everywhere, except where they are most needed.
I'm not so sure about your reasons for the English "fleeing" to Scotland. Johnny Foreigner isn't that bad, he's actually very important to this country, but that's for another time. You are absolutely correct, though, about the influx of English expats to Scotland. I happen to live in Edinburgh (the third most expensive city in Europe apparently) and I'm afraid that if I were to ever leave Edinburgh, it would be very difficult for me to afford to move back.
That seems to be a pretty moderate view for a religious person (the fairly liberal interpretation of the bible, that is). However, you have highlighted a major problem:
While it does say He created man in his own image, that does not mean it was impossible for Him to create life elsewhere in a different or similar form.
No offence to you but this, to me at least, smacks unacceptably of elitism and, should we ever meet an alien race, may well be the cause de celebre of a major war.
Though future humans might accept aliens as god's creation too, if they still hold such religious views, it will be hard for them to escape the conclusion that they were not created in god's image. While it is possible that these aliens might still have their own religion (probably placing themselves at the centre of creation too), they may well find religious humans being hostile towards them; and being hostile to the "inferior" humans as well.
My point seemed clearer to me when i started typing it, but i feel that i've bollocksed it up in trying to explain it to someone else.
To say that criminals are stupid because some of them still leave their fingerprints despite the well known danger is terribly naive. The simple fact of the matter is that smart criminals, who do understand fingerprints, just do not get caught.
To assume that one's opponent is always stupid because he sometimes appears to be is foolish in the extreme...
Because giving the military better technology makes attacking something (anything) easier, and therefore it is more likely to happen. If the army only had sharpened sticks, how many countries would they try to invade?
That's assuming that the nuclear reactor was 100% efficient in the first place. I can't believe that there aren't better, more energy efficient ways of disposing of toxic waste than to use still more power to lift it out of earth's gravity well.
Also, as others have said already, it's just a little too permanent a solution; what if we discover a better way of reprocessing these materials, or a new use for these particular isotopes? Maybe in 50 years time, when we've switched to fusion reactors, we'll be able to "recharge" nuclear materials in these new reactors by squeezing new electrons into them? Or perhaps we'll be able to make artificial, superdense elements (300+ atomic weight).
But I'm sure there are other factors involved that make launching it into the sun not such an attractive idea.
The irony being that to lift all this toxic waste into space would be oh so many orders of magnitude worse for the environment (in terms of CO2 and other byproducts of space launch) than leaving it on earth...
You are, of course, right - the graphics were state of the art. However, I believe you completely missed the point of the grandparent's post. But I understand it can happen to the best of us from time to time ^_^
Surely one of the main aims of sending people to mars is learning how to survive in a hostile environment. Wherever we go for the next several hundred years, the environment is going to be inhospitable. Gaining the skills, knowledge and technology to make surviving routine enough so as to be unnoticable (think starship enterprise, when did you last see them worrying about what's on the other side of that bulkhead?) is our number one priority. It absolutely must be done, either now or later. There's no point building a rocket/ion/warp engine that can get you across the solar system in a week if you only have a fifty-fifty chance of suviving for a second week when you get there.
It has been said that necessity is the mother of invention. The technology of building suitable support environments will almost certainly develop much faster when it is the main focus, with people's lives riding on it. Faster than if it was marginalised and shoved off somewhere in antarctica while the sexy rockets get all the funding.
Look, the term "british isles" refers to the mainland (britain), ireland, some smaller islands like orkney, shetland, hebrides, isle of man, isle of wight etc.
Ireland is in there because it used to belong to britain for about 100 years, but it is no longer part of britain. But we are not talking about the british isles, we were talking about britain. Confusingly, theye have similar sounding names, but they are most definitely not the same thing.
Hope this clears things up a little. For the record, i live in britain (scotland, to be precise) and i have never meant "ireland" when i said "britain".
I believe this has already been attemptet in britain. The website cdwow.co.uk tried (legally, i might add) importing cds from the continent and selling them for about £8.99 as opposed to the highstreet price of £13.99+. They were made to stop very quickly and nobody has attempted to try this (still perfectly legal, i might add) model again.
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Seriously though, does anyone really believe that any worthwhile opponent, terrorist or otherwise, is that stupid? If America has managed to charge people that naive with looking out for their best interests, it has bigger things to worry about than another terrorist attack.
I suspect that the French government is not interested in people selling such items simply from America, which would be available to the whole world France included. The are most likely interested in people selling the items specifcally to France.
It's a bit of a grey area, and I haven't explained myself as well as I might, but it seems to me that such people are intentionally breaking French law, albeit remotely.
I suspect that you may not be entirely au fait with communism, your description of communism as nothing more than a sub-western inept bureaucracy isn't a strong argument. I reccomment wikipedia.
I believe that, when most people are attacking what they think to be "communism", they are actually attacking nothing more than the Soviet government. That is to say, people are only thinking of the Russian model of government when they talk about communism. I think Marx or Engels would agree that there isn't really much similarity between the two.You'd better get down to that gun shop then, cos I'm afraid you must have fallen asleep on you watch. The only thing is, while you were watching all the usual suspects, Nationalism was able to sneak in and set up shop under everyone's noses.
Surely the problem of Microsoft (or anyone else) using BSD licenced code is that they can stuff it into Longhorn (for example) and pass it off as their own code. They don't have to actively claim it's theirs, but can imply it is by not saying otherwise except for putting the required copyright notice somwhere in the middle of a record sized EULA.
I suggest that nationalism is the new religion.
Ah, fuck it.
Tedious as I'm sure it must be, please enlighten us. How exactly did communism cause the disaster at Chernobyl?
"Islamic terrorists" >> "Western Leaders"
"Islamic states" >> "Western Style Democracies"
"Islam" >> "Capitalism"
Hmmmmm...
Just because it was "legal" than, but "illegal" now did not make it any more acceptable then.
The thing about Edinburgh is that, although it's mostly a very expensive, middle-class city, there are still some pretty underdeveloped areas (craigmiller, sighthill etc). The council (and businesses) seem to be more interested in developing the innercity areas for better business opportunities (and houses for English expats) and not bothering so much about the areas which could show some huge benefits for just a fraction of what is being spent on these new developments. Everywhere I go in Edinburgh these days, I see new constructions. New houses are going up everywhere, except where they are most needed.
I'm not so sure about your reasons for the English "fleeing" to Scotland. Johnny Foreigner isn't that bad, he's actually very important to this country, but that's for another time. You are absolutely correct, though, about the influx of English expats to Scotland. I happen to live in Edinburgh (the third most expensive city in Europe apparently) and I'm afraid that if I were to ever leave Edinburgh, it would be very difficult for me to afford to move back.
Though future humans might accept aliens as god's creation too, if they still hold such religious views, it will be hard for them to escape the conclusion that they were not created in god's image. While it is possible that these aliens might still have their own religion (probably placing themselves at the centre of creation too), they may well find religious humans being hostile towards them; and being hostile to the "inferior" humans as well.
My point seemed clearer to me when i started typing it, but i feel that i've bollocksed it up in trying to explain it to someone else.
To assume that one's opponent is always stupid because he sometimes appears to be is foolish in the extreme...
Because giving the military better technology makes attacking something (anything) easier, and therefore it is more likely to happen. If the army only had sharpened sticks, how many countries would they try to invade?
Also, as others have said already, it's just a little too permanent a solution; what if we discover a better way of reprocessing these materials, or a new use for these particular isotopes? Maybe in 50 years time, when we've switched to fusion reactors, we'll be able to "recharge" nuclear materials in these new reactors by squeezing new electrons into them? Or perhaps we'll be able to make artificial, superdense elements (300+ atomic weight).
You are, of course, right - the graphics were state of the art. However, I believe you completely missed the point of the grandparent's post. But I understand it can happen to the best of us from time to time ^_^
It has been said that necessity is the mother of invention. The technology of building suitable support environments will almost certainly develop much faster when it is the main focus, with people's lives riding on it. Faster than if it was marginalised and shoved off somewhere in antarctica while the sexy rockets get all the funding.
Ireland is in there because it used to belong to britain for about 100 years, but it is no longer part of britain. But we are not talking about the british isles, we were talking about britain. Confusingly, theye have similar sounding names, but they are most definitely not the same thing.
Hope this clears things up a little. For the record, i live in britain (scotland, to be precise) and i have never meant "ireland" when i said "britain".
The UK is: britain plus northern ireland.
Ireland is a (soveriegn) country with absolutely nothing, except proximity, to do with britain. The only geographic region it falls under is europe.
On the other hand, if there is such a band, i'd very much like to hear them ^_^
I believe this has already been attemptet in britain. The website cdwow.co.uk tried (legally, i might add) importing cds from the continent and selling them for about £8.99 as opposed to the highstreet price of £13.99+. They were made to stop very quickly and nobody has attempted to try this (still perfectly legal, i might add) model again.