There is no particular intellectual component to pandering. The fact that the mouth-breathing, knuckle dragging masses that gobble up his swill are less bright than he, only tells me that his IQ isn't in the single digits... there's still plenty of room for profound idiocy, and Rush has publicly uttered inanities that remain classic even to this day. You do remember his verbal assault on Michael j. Fox for "Faking his Parkinson's" after doing a commercial for Democrat in Missouri. By the way, the year before Mike did a similar commercial for a Republican in another state whose voting record on stem cell research was admirable. Because Mike is passionate about curing the disease that will ultimately kill him. Russ is like Samson from the bible. He kills with the jawbone of an ass.
I'm sorry but cannibis has one of the longest and most illustrious histories of any cultivated plant, up until the time that well monied interests decided to demonize it to bury the hemp industry. The only thing evil about marijuana is that the pharmaceutical industry has spent millions to ensure it remains unavailable to the millions of people suffering from cancer and chronic pain.
After California legalized medical marijuana, a pot cooperative in the Santa Cruz area was targeted by the Fed. In 2002 they marched into a quiet and peaceful community, held a single woman pinned to the floor with a shotgun to her head, and proceeded to tear up the pot plants in the back yard. The members of the coop began arriving, many in wheelchairs and on oxygen. They simply parked themselves in the driveway. The woman of the house commented "Seems we 're holding the big bad Marshals hostage."
The incident lead to the painful and untimely deaths of dozens of coop members. The incident was also a PR disaster for the Federal Marshals, and neighboring police departments made it very clear they'd have nothing to do with any future such events hosted by the DEA and Federal Marshals. I'm looking and the number of people dying of prescription drugs in our society is simply shocking, nobody dies of pot, save the victims of the illegal trade made possible by the idiot laws preventing the legal trade, control and taxation of marijuana. At this late and ridiculous point in the process of a product more widely used than any other save perhaps alcohol, is not time to say, Okay, this war was lost, perhaps diplomacy is now a better track.
This is what it looks like to face your personal integrity. Not sappy, jingoistic morality, but a clear line of demarcation, a line in the sand over which you will not cross as a matter of your word. Simple, yes? Easy, not so much. I applaud your dignity. Bravo. Its time to create an open source project around publishing scientific works. It should be manned by scientists, for scientists, and available at little or no cost to scientists, and at a vanishingly small price to the general public to support the basic cost of operation and no more.
As well, scientists should be able to take their own prior work and send it to this new resource, so that copy that resides in the high priced repository is now worth precisely bupkiss. If the parasites realize that their business model is fundamentally bankrupt, perhaps they'll realize that the only way to make money in this business is make their product profoundly available and come up with a pricing plan that represents value added (and I mean more than simple metadata access or some cool lookup tool. It is time to inform the vast sea of middle men that the world no longer needs them, and that they have no inherent right to bleed the world (in spite whatever Mummy of Daddy told them.)
I'm sick to death of petty tyrants pissing all over the scenery. Enough, be gone, a pox on all your kind, go away and take the lawyers and the politicians with you.
That this case is about some pimply faced student hacking a computer, you are sniffing not only up the wrong tree, but you are completely in the wrong forest. This is an IP case. This a test of the machinery designed to ensure that users of other people's contents pay their pound of flesh, assume the appropriate positions, and take their beatings as prescribed by law. All others will be prosecuted to THE FULLEST EXTENT OF THE LAW... and I hope Y'all are getting a good look at what the means, precisely.
Friend, it is precisely the job of every good and decent person to question the law. Laws have no morality, no dignity, and precious little humanity. The German's in preWW II Germany, passed laws ghettoizing Jews, then more laws turning them into fuel. Would you obey such laws in the face of creating a potential anarchy? I say with all due forethought and personal conviction that if I must choose between anarchy and a fascist totalitarian state, I will gladly choose anarchy, and clean up the ensuing mess after. There are worse things than Anarchies.
I don't know where you've been for the last 30 years but folks with social and political axes to grind (on both sides of the aisle) have been stuffing the federal courts like they're going out of style. As the legislature is happily scratching out the "Bill of Rights", the Supreme Court is glad-handing and voting in favor of the very idio... excuse me, social and financial interests who are paying for the surgical elimination of Our Nation's Freedoms as we know them.
My biggest concern is that this poor clown is caught in a device designed to keep us all under strict control, and he's just a guinea pig for the new IP hamburger making machine. If they can pulverize him with trumped up charges for the kind of stupid college pranks that kids at Caltech have been doing for decades, its fair warning that we should all be very wary of the growing fact that our government is now precisely and almost perfectly in the hip pocket of lesser minds and souls.
This isn't to say, the young man didn't do something wrong, or that he shouldn't make proper restitution for social impropriety, it is to say, swatting flies with thermonuclear devices seems both extravagant and vindictive. Let the punishment fit the crime. That is, unless this is a larger message, in which case, we get you loud and clear.
You should read the Wikipedia FTL article, its very enlightening. The point is that there are two areas that could yield interesting results, messing with the Higgs field (effectively eliminating inertial mass), and surrounding a craft with a powerful EM field has perhaps altering its dimensionality... The wild hairs are having a ball coming up with interesting ideas.
Friend you want to be real careful throwing straight lines like that out into a lion's den like this... I mean the "Grampa on the Wagon" jokes just write themselves.
Though we are still looking for gravity waves and gravitons and if they in fact are tachions, and move faster than the speed of light, then we will know for certain that the universe doesn't give a hoot either way about our pretty ideas like causality.
Excuse me for cutting in, but inflation says that the newly born universe expand profoundly faster than the speed of light. Space-time isn't a "Thing" like the things in the space-time. The space-time can move infinitely fast as long as you're willing to manipulate it with it with infinite force and energy. Look at the black holes, light does not escape because the space-time inside the Schwartzschild radius is collapsing faster than the speed of light.
The particles in the universe must obey the laws of the universe, the universe itself... not so much.
Actually from what I've read antimatter has negative time. I'm going to guess the gravity is positive. There is a well known Physicist who just recently published a very interesting book. One of the things he proposes is that there is no dark matter or energy. He proposes that at the instant of the big bang, the polarity of the birth caused matter to go in one direction and antimatter to go in the other. That we are on a toroidal arc and at just past 7 billion years we hit the apex of our trajectory and that we are now accelerating towards the antimatter universe and its accelerating towards us. That in a couple billion years it will hit us and there will be a massive explosion as all matter is annihilated. And this will be the start of the next big bang. Cool idea, eh?
For more information you can look up the "Big Bagle" theory
So are you suggesting that an ancient inorganic intelligence build a warp drive billions of years ago on earth and that is how we ended up with the moon? Interesting? Too bad we don't have a tricorder to see if the moon has residual warp trace???
Dude, we're still talking about wielding 500kg converted into energy or about 4.5 x 10^19 Joules! Let me put this another way... this is approximately equal to a 10 Gigaton nuclear device. The actual yield of the largest hydrogen bomb ever detonated was between 2-4% of this? So I realize the exotic matter problem is like WOO WOO! But the handling of that much raw power in a confined space to make space and time warp... uh... that's pretty WOO WOO too, or am I missing something?
Let's reframe this, not to Mock Star Trek, but if one of these nacelles blows, you don't wanna just be outside the same zipcode, hell, you wanna be outside the same parsec! Repeat after me... "Boom! Big BaddaBoom!"
Actually I was speaking about the war of 1812, because we weren't yet a nation during the revolutionary war. As for the Mexican American War, The Alamo, and all of the silly crap on the southern border, that was pretty much us land grabbing so I don't include them. I was speaking of invasion, and standing army occupying American land. An attack, a military force invading and devastating an American population. and Terrorism (and I distinguished the home grown variety from attacks outside.) In fact there were two attacks on the Twin Towers, however the first though terrible, was dwarfed by the second.
The point I was trying to make is that these are rare events, that the number of American Citizens killed in them were relatively few, and that the huge energy these things garner far outweighs the actual original damage done.
I dunno, how about having political donation sites proudly show what percentage of your donation goes to the candidates campaign? Like they do for charitable donations. I laugh that its the Republicans that have been hurt by this only because the big money in Republican Candidacy isn't even coming from Americans any more... we've yielded our government to international monied players... remember the men that opened Pandora's Box were placed in the Supreme Court specifically by Republicans. So I feel bad that Republican grassroots money is being siphoned off by greedy scoundrels, but it makes me feel like maybe their being prevented from financing even greedier scoundrels. A man should know on what side his bread is buttered.
And if you think for a moment that I believe the Dems are Lilly White in the land of dirty dealing, think again. The donkeys have a healthy population of gravy sucking pigs in their camp as well. I just don't see billions flying in from the Mid-East, Far-East or Europe to the Democratic Leadership trying to change America into someone else's piggy bank. The Dems are too busy selling America off to the IP and Content controllers.
I don't think they are listening... PEOPLE, THE MONEY CAN COME FROM ANYWHERE!!! If the Chinese think the Democrats are cramping their style and the Republicans would be willing to cut them a little more slack... here's a billion dollars, don't spend it all in one place. If the global media conglomerates think the Dems are kowtowing just a wee bit deeper than the Reps, here's a billion... remember who your friends are. This is the most morally corrosive, antidemocratic, cynical, destructive to the fabric of our society decision ever made and it points to just how close Americans are to losing their country to the men wave large bills. If you see them actively selling their souls to the highest bidder FIRE THEM PUBLICLY AND WITH ALL DUE HASTE. That goes for BOTH Presidential Candidates... honestly, I'd be happy seeing the chain of command wind all the way down to a Capitol Building Janitor.
There are dishonest, money grubbing, gravy sucking pigs taking advantage of the politically weak minded... and then there are internet scammers. Man this is like Nazis and Child Molesters in a cage match... who do you boo and who do your root for??? Oh, and for those of you with sensitive skin, I'll add I'd feel not a wit different if the scammers had been doing Democrats instead so there is that.
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But their foreskins can perform amazing feats of Kungfu. Crouching Tiger, Pissing Dragon!!!
That would be "Penii", but go on, I find your statements strangely entertaining... got some popcorn!
He said Geek... Unless the NRA is opening up a specialty group for rail guns... I think you're missing the gist of the conversation... but good try.
There is no particular intellectual component to pandering. The fact that the mouth-breathing, knuckle dragging masses that gobble up his swill are less bright than he, only tells me that his IQ isn't in the single digits... there's still plenty of room for profound idiocy, and Rush has publicly uttered inanities that remain classic even to this day. You do remember his verbal assault on Michael j. Fox for "Faking his Parkinson's" after doing a commercial for Democrat in Missouri. By the way, the year before Mike did a similar commercial for a Republican in another state whose voting record on stem cell research was admirable. Because Mike is passionate about curing the disease that will ultimately kill him. Russ is like Samson from the bible. He kills with the jawbone of an ass.
I'm sorry but cannibis has one of the longest and most illustrious histories of any cultivated plant, up until the time that well monied interests decided to demonize it to bury the hemp industry. The only thing evil about marijuana is that the pharmaceutical industry has spent millions to ensure it remains unavailable to the millions of people suffering from cancer and chronic pain.
After California legalized medical marijuana, a pot cooperative in the Santa Cruz area was targeted by the Fed. In 2002 they marched into a quiet and peaceful community, held a single woman pinned to the floor with a shotgun to her head, and proceeded to tear up the pot plants in the back yard. The members of the coop began arriving, many in wheelchairs and on oxygen. They simply parked themselves in the driveway. The woman of the house commented "Seems we 're holding the big bad Marshals hostage."
The incident lead to the painful and untimely deaths of dozens of coop members. The incident was also a PR disaster for the Federal Marshals, and neighboring police departments made it very clear they'd have nothing to do with any future such events hosted by the DEA and Federal Marshals. I'm looking and the number of people dying of prescription drugs in our society is simply shocking, nobody dies of pot, save the victims of the illegal trade made possible by the idiot laws preventing the legal trade, control and taxation of marijuana. At this late and ridiculous point in the process of a product more widely used than any other save perhaps alcohol, is not time to say, Okay, this war was lost, perhaps diplomacy is now a better track.
This is what it looks like to face your personal integrity. Not sappy, jingoistic morality, but a clear line of demarcation, a line in the sand over which you will not cross as a matter of your word. Simple, yes? Easy, not so much. I applaud your dignity. Bravo. Its time to create an open source project around publishing scientific works. It should be manned by scientists, for scientists, and available at little or no cost to scientists, and at a vanishingly small price to the general public to support the basic cost of operation and no more.
As well, scientists should be able to take their own prior work and send it to this new resource, so that copy that resides in the high priced repository is now worth precisely bupkiss. If the parasites realize that their business model is fundamentally bankrupt, perhaps they'll realize that the only way to make money in this business is make their product profoundly available and come up with a pricing plan that represents value added (and I mean more than simple metadata access or some cool lookup tool. It is time to inform the vast sea of middle men that the world no longer needs them, and that they have no inherent right to bleed the world (in spite whatever Mummy of Daddy told them.)
I'm sick to death of petty tyrants pissing all over the scenery. Enough, be gone, a pox on all your kind, go away and take the lawyers and the politicians with you.
That this case is about some pimply faced student hacking a computer, you are sniffing not only up the wrong tree, but you are completely in the wrong forest. This is an IP case. This a test of the machinery designed to ensure that users of other people's contents pay their pound of flesh, assume the appropriate positions, and take their beatings as prescribed by law. All others will be prosecuted to THE FULLEST EXTENT OF THE LAW... and I hope Y'all are getting a good look at what the means, precisely.
Friend, it is precisely the job of every good and decent person to question the law. Laws have no morality, no dignity, and precious little humanity. The German's in preWW II Germany, passed laws ghettoizing Jews, then more laws turning them into fuel. Would you obey such laws in the face of creating a potential anarchy? I say with all due forethought and personal conviction that if I must choose between anarchy and a fascist totalitarian state, I will gladly choose anarchy, and clean up the ensuing mess after. There are worse things than Anarchies.
I don't know where you've been for the last 30 years but folks with social and political axes to grind (on both sides of the aisle) have been stuffing the federal courts like they're going out of style. As the legislature is happily scratching out the "Bill of Rights", the Supreme Court is glad-handing and voting in favor of the very idio... excuse me, social and financial interests who are paying for the surgical elimination of Our Nation's Freedoms as we know them.
My biggest concern is that this poor clown is caught in a device designed to keep us all under strict control, and he's just a guinea pig for the new IP hamburger making machine. If they can pulverize him with trumped up charges for the kind of stupid college pranks that kids at Caltech have been doing for decades, its fair warning that we should all be very wary of the growing fact that our government is now precisely and almost perfectly in the hip pocket of lesser minds and souls.
This isn't to say, the young man didn't do something wrong, or that he shouldn't make proper restitution for social impropriety, it is to say, swatting flies with thermonuclear devices seems both extravagant and vindictive. Let the punishment fit the crime. That is, unless this is a larger message, in which case, we get you loud and clear.
You should read the Wikipedia FTL article, its very enlightening. The point is that there are two areas that could yield interesting results, messing with the Higgs field (effectively eliminating inertial mass), and surrounding a craft with a powerful EM field has perhaps altering its dimensionality... The wild hairs are having a ball coming up with interesting ideas.
Friend you want to be real careful throwing straight lines like that out into a lion's den like this... I mean the "Grampa on the Wagon" jokes just write themselves.
Oh! Oh! I call Clarke's Second Law!!!
Do I get a prize?
Though we are still looking for gravity waves and gravitons and if they in fact are tachions, and move faster than the speed of light, then we will know for certain that the universe doesn't give a hoot either way about our pretty ideas like causality.
Excuse me for cutting in, but inflation says that the newly born universe expand profoundly faster than the speed of light. Space-time isn't a "Thing" like the things in the space-time. The space-time can move infinitely fast as long as you're willing to manipulate it with it with infinite force and energy. Look at the black holes, light does not escape because the space-time inside the Schwartzschild radius is collapsing faster than the speed of light.
The particles in the universe must obey the laws of the universe, the universe itself... not so much.
While you're at it sparky, how about a little ice from the replicators, eh? Priorities puhleez!!!
Actually from what I've read antimatter has negative time. I'm going to guess the gravity is positive. There is a well known Physicist who just recently published a very interesting book. One of the things he proposes is that there is no dark matter or energy. He proposes that at the instant of the big bang, the polarity of the birth caused matter to go in one direction and antimatter to go in the other. That we are on a toroidal arc and at just past 7 billion years we hit the apex of our trajectory and that we are now accelerating towards the antimatter universe and its accelerating towards us. That in a couple billion years it will hit us and there will be a massive explosion as all matter is annihilated. And this will be the start of the next big bang. Cool idea, eh?
For more information you can look up the "Big Bagle" theory
So are you suggesting that an ancient inorganic intelligence build a warp drive billions of years ago on earth and that is how we ended up with the moon? Interesting? Too bad we don't have a tricorder to see if the moon has residual warp trace???
Dude, we're still talking about wielding 500kg converted into energy or about 4.5 x 10^19 Joules! Let me put this another way... this is approximately equal to a 10 Gigaton nuclear device. The actual yield of the largest hydrogen bomb ever detonated was between 2-4% of this? So I realize the exotic matter problem is like WOO WOO! But the handling of that much raw power in a confined space to make space and time warp... uh... that's pretty WOO WOO too, or am I missing something?
Let's reframe this, not to Mock Star Trek, but if one of these nacelles blows, you don't wanna just be outside the same zipcode, hell, you wanna be outside the same parsec! Repeat after me... "Boom! Big BaddaBoom!"
Don't bother the kid, he's channeling... wait till you hear what Abraham Lincoln has to say about OSs...
I heard "Windows: Twisty Nipples" was currently in development... Eeeeeewww can't wait!
Actually I was speaking about the war of 1812, because we weren't yet a nation during the revolutionary war. As for the Mexican American War, The Alamo, and all of the silly crap on the southern border, that was pretty much us land grabbing so I don't include them. I was speaking of invasion, and standing army occupying American land. An attack, a military force invading and devastating an American population. and Terrorism (and I distinguished the home grown variety from attacks outside.) In fact there were two attacks on the Twin Towers, however the first though terrible, was dwarfed by the second.
The point I was trying to make is that these are rare events, that the number of American Citizens killed in them were relatively few, and that the huge energy these things garner far outweighs the actual original damage done.
I dunno, how about having political donation sites proudly show what percentage of your donation goes to the candidates campaign? Like they do for charitable donations. I laugh that its the Republicans that have been hurt by this only because the big money in Republican Candidacy isn't even coming from Americans any more... we've yielded our government to international monied players... remember the men that opened Pandora's Box were placed in the Supreme Court specifically by Republicans. So I feel bad that Republican grassroots money is being siphoned off by greedy scoundrels, but it makes me feel like maybe their being prevented from financing even greedier scoundrels. A man should know on what side his bread is buttered.
And if you think for a moment that I believe the Dems are Lilly White in the land of dirty dealing, think again. The donkeys have a healthy population of gravy sucking pigs in their camp as well. I just don't see billions flying in from the Mid-East, Far-East or Europe to the Democratic Leadership trying to change America into someone else's piggy bank. The Dems are too busy selling America off to the IP and Content controllers.
I don't think they are listening... PEOPLE, THE MONEY CAN COME FROM ANYWHERE!!! If the Chinese think the Democrats are cramping their style and the Republicans would be willing to cut them a little more slack... here's a billion dollars, don't spend it all in one place. If the global media conglomerates think the Dems are kowtowing just a wee bit deeper than the Reps, here's a billion... remember who your friends are. This is the most morally corrosive, antidemocratic, cynical, destructive to the fabric of our society decision ever made and it points to just how close Americans are to losing their country to the men wave large bills. If you see them actively selling their souls to the highest bidder FIRE THEM PUBLICLY AND WITH ALL DUE HASTE. That goes for BOTH Presidential Candidates... honestly, I'd be happy seeing the chain of command wind all the way down to a Capitol Building Janitor.
Would describe this as grabbing the balls of the candidates by proxy?
There are dishonest, money grubbing, gravy sucking pigs taking advantage of the politically weak minded ... and then there are internet scammers. Man this is like Nazis and Child Molesters in a cage match... who do you boo and who do your root for??? Oh, and for those of you with sensitive skin, I'll add I'd feel not a wit different if the scammers had been doing Democrats instead so there is that.