That's fascinating. My Galaxy is called the Milky Way, its part of the Virgo Supercluster, has no batteries, is remarkably thin and is full of free space.
Actually, the problem is that if you raise a generation of kids that question authority, can appreciate why their lessons are undiluted bovine feces, and figure out that they're being groomed for a life of operational servitude, well that would be problematic in its own right, wouldn't it.
You do remember those marks for "Citizenship" in Elementary School? Tell me that isn't dark.
More important, when you have a basic idea about how machines work, the parts of a car make perfect sense. Everyone (particularly girls) should take a basic auto mechanics course, if for no other reason, than when a mechanic tells you your suspension is bad, you can say really, what's wrong? If he tries to blow smoke up your panties you'll be able to tell. At which point you can thank him and say, you know what, I think I'm gonna get a second opinion.
And if you've checked his plan at any length, after giving the wealthy a $6.5 billion that leaves a gaping $4 Billion deficit. You might also want to mention the elimination of the social safety net, putting Medicare recipients on a voucher program, eliminating the investment of government monies on education in general and carving Social Security back far enough to make sure baby boomers will need to live in packs to afford their dog food. His own Catholic Church said that his plans are "Unchristian" serving only the wealthy and viciously attacking the poor, homeless, and disenfranchised.
Don't get me wrong, I believe that folks on welfare could be put to good use, working to rebuild the American Infrastructure, seems only fair that if you're going to receive support that you earn that support by helping the nation grow and thrive. Call it a something for something program. I just don't believe that the guy with 12 homes and elevators in his 200 car garage, needs the government subsidy worse than the poor bastard in the rust belt with two kids whose only crime is his town's industry (owned by the clown with 12 cars) moved to China.
Funny, the second bullet point here says that sometimes more than one person can be assigned the same SSN.
Especially when someone buys that number from a little shanty down in Calexico for $250. Hell sometime there a couple hundred people using one number. Buenas dias Gringo!
That's because if you have a medium scale economic crash instead of loosing 85% of your money, you only loose 5% with a Tresury Bond, What this says is that people are so afraid of the current economic climate they're actually choosing small loss hedge over what they fear will be big loss. Of course if the whole thing goes down in flames and we have to move to a new currency in a hyper-inflationary blowout, your T Bills will be best used to wipe your sore and aching hinny.
There are two things going on here...
1. Criminals extorting a politician... not sure who the bad guy is on this moral spectrum, but let's say Mitt's a great guy and the punks are simply criminals.
2. How do you expect to get a million dollars from someone for showing their tax returns? Anybody wanna see mine for a million dollars, hell I'd attach 20 years of tax returns to the friggin Goodyear Blimp over Time Square. This could just be an extreme need for privacy, but I can't help feeling like he has something really awful to hide. It might just make sense at this point to share his tax returns, so what it he took deductions on leather and rubber fetish goods. What he does in the privacy of his torture room is between him and his top... Owwww SAFEWORD!!!!;-)
You know, I don't have a problem with people and their magical thinking as long as they keep it at home, or celebrate it in a designated place of worship. The minute they begin to turn their pet delusions into law, I get a wee bit squeamish. There was a great letter recently to the Governor of Arizona, who was at the time trying to woo mining interests into digging up uranium in the state, and she made a comment on the earth being 6,000 years old and the scientists involved attempted to inform her that nobody with an IQ higher than a rutabaga's holds that opinion any more.
Indeed, at least since Joe McCarthy wrapped himself in the flag and the bible at the same time to garner wealth and power by the wholesale gutting of the American Constitution. The saddest part is that we now find ourselves beset with an entire party composed of Joe McCarthy's and it makes my heart ache. When will the mouth breathing public stop falling for this shallow, vapid pandering to America's lowest common denominator?
Yeah, the PACs you listed are not the "Super PACs" that the Supreme Court made possible when it said corporations are people. The total outlay of the PACs you list won't pay for the flight budgets of the monied interests pouring over a billion dollars into the Super PACs, and worse, because they skirt the laws governing traditional PACs we'll never know exactly who or what is being spent. The tip of the iceberg however suggests the monied interests are pouring money into the Republican campaigns at a rate that may exceed 10 to 1. Here's a site that was updated the middle of August. Hope that clears things up for you.
You live is this strange thing called a society. You went to its schools, you drive its roads, you use the water and sewers that run to the place you live. We have places like Mogadishu or the bush in central Africa where you and you money can go and have a lovely time all by your selves. Just don't yell when a lion eats you or a bandit shoots you, because you won't be able to protect yourself with your money (save the purchase of a lion gun.)
If you really are someone completely out for themselves, with no interest is creating a cohesive society that looks after others and creates a strong and workable infrastructure for the benefit of that society, by all means, find yourself and island an go away nobody's stopping you depending on how much island you can afford. The rest of us look at the cost having a society capable of providing the basic needs for all or most, such that we can work together to create something even greater. I don't see that as an evil or a wrong. Of course the current government does use money in ways I don't agree, so I vote scallywags out whenever I get the chance.
Actually you don't know any of that. Robots that interact with people in their own homes will almost certainly have the ability to assume human gestures and facial expressions. This is vital because a tremendous amount of human communication is physical and nonverbal. As well, scientist are peeling the structure and design of emotions apart to see what kind of emotions might be useful in a social machine including self preservation, happiness, fear, sadness and empathy. Machines designed to serve and empower people will need to be human like to provide their greatest impact. We anthropomorphize our pets, and these are strictly nonhuman. We even anthropomorphize our cars. If we create a machine that has real feelings, thinks, and can communicate with us on our own level, the question about sentience starts to get mighty fuzzy. Should this new being not have some fundamental rights. I'm not saying a toaster, I am saying an advance social machine with the neural capabilities of a living entity and the capacity to form unique and meaningful thoughts. Such a device might well warrant consideration. Of course we'll want to be clear about how much intelligence warrants rights. Just so we don't go around making smart toasters new classes of citizens. Then of course that leads to the question will some of the really stupid people out there loose their human rights because they don't meet minimum criteria?
No he accused us of double standards. His comment was that because higher primates demonstrate higher thinking, sentience, rationality, communications and abstract thought, it should be morally reprehensible to use them in an inhumane fashion. The fact that people have and do use one another that way sort of puts a finer point on his argument.
We are a moral species who commits immoral acts. In an attempt to broaden moral practices do we include other species and even machines as surrogates for human beings, to make certain we've bred moral behavior into the populace. This is a valid and important question. If we become emotionally attached to our machines (you guys know who you are... beware metal fever), does it behoove us to treat them with respect up to and including rights to insure that we treat one another with that same level of dignity. Seems like a long way to go, just to assure that we behave like higher life forms, but I'd consider it if it improved human behavior. In the end, I don't know what it will take to get people to behave, but I'm open to ideas.
I'd feel a whole lot better about you statement if a whole bunch of guys who blew themselves up in the name of their warm and fuzzy gawd didn't come straight from Iran. The bozo quotient is just a wee bit high to give me any sense of complacency.
North Korea has a nuke but no delivery. The current plan is call South Korea for Korean Barbeque take out and tip the delivery boy with a nuke and detonate it after he crosses the border. Iran has missiles but no nuke. It wants to drop a warhead into the middle of Tel Aviv that opens up and shout "Psych!!!!" Together, they bother me. They are both incredibly inept, but they bother me. What do they say "Even the blind squirrel occasionally find a nut..." We need to play these bozos off one another hard. Its time for a little political intrigue and social engineering.
The back of the pants was Italy, the front of the pants was Germany, and they had to bring Japan in to provide the reach around... and now you have the complete "Axis Powers as Gay Porn, Analogy".
Yeah, if you're doing anything that involves a satellite, there's some Nazi tech. Your country is holding back the dogs of war with nukes that contain Nazi tech. If you ever did anything that involved hypothermia, you have Dr. Mengele to thank, of course he got that very useful information by freezing hundred of Jews to death, which while useful makes it one of the hardest won pieces of medical information ever collected and forever Mengele a scumbag of monumental proportions.
In fact the Nazis were brilliant engineers and there are literally thousands of improvements in motors, cars, trains, heavy machinery, factories and engineering and applied sciences that are a permanent part of everything we do. That doesn't mean they weren't barbaric. It does mean that they produced some amazing technology in the headlong race to self destruction. Hmmmm, sound at all familiar?
Yes, AC, of course... I know I shouldn't, but just a wee snack. As an American, I'm not very proud of the stupid things my government has done, for... oh, let's say the last 12 years or so. I voted against all of it, as did most of my friends, but its my country and I feel responsible when it screws up, even when it did it against my wishes or blessing (I'm guessing parents must feel this way about wayward children.)
That doesn't make America a bad place or Americans evil (well not all of us:-) There is plenty of dirty rotten to go around and some of the dirtiest and most rotten is coming from large monied interests in Western and Central Europe. The Saudis have been exporting the worst kind of Islamic poison for decades now. China has always been one of the top manufacturers of the most viscous weapons for international sale including mines designed to look like toys that children bring home and then explode killing the entire family. Like I said, there's plenty of rotten to go around. Fact is, wherever you find money grubbing, greedy, grind babies up for a buck scumbags, you find the kind of nasty I'm talking about, and sadly this in not a conversation limited by geography. There is sadly an abundance of human toxic waste on this planet and my guess is that I could find a couple examples of such talking with the same accent speak with, so hate America all you want, just remember, that we haven't got anything resembling a corner on the market of evil fscks.
And that would change anything how? The Reps are claiming Obama is the Antichrist and the Dems are calling all the Reps a bunch of Knuckle Draggers and Mouth Breathers. Two guys at the Republican Convention start throwing nuts at a black CNN camera person. When ask what they're doing they respond "Feeding the Animals." By the way, they got tossed out on their ears, but Sheriff Joe Arpaio, is there with a badge on declaring a special "Honorary". This ftom the guy who would hunt and skin Illegal Mexicans if they'd just stop classifying them as human. Forgive me but the Republican Convention just proved the Reps haven't got the vaguest clue how to fix the mess we're in (except rape the middle class and give their organs to the wealth), and that they don't care anything for the middle class save caring that the middle class think they care about the middle class. Now we get to see what a bunch of weenies the Dems will be roasting. Someone said you gotta have more than clowns to run a circus. I don't know if D.C. is proof or the exception.
Allowing what to happen? Fred Flintstone and Barny Rubble become partners in building weapons of mass destruction? Oh be still my heart. Anybody with an IQ above small single digits should be able to manipulate this situation all day long to hilarious situation-comedic effect. Think of it as "Laverne and Shirley" with fissionable materials... "One, Two, Three, Four, Five, Six, Seven, Eight, Schlemiel, Shlemazel, Hasenpfefffer Incorpor BOOM!
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That's fascinating. My Galaxy is called the Milky Way, its part of the Virgo Supercluster, has no batteries, is remarkably thin and is full of free space.
Actually, the problem is that if you raise a generation of kids that question authority, can appreciate why their lessons are undiluted bovine feces, and figure out that they're being groomed for a life of operational servitude, well that would be problematic in its own right, wouldn't it.
You do remember those marks for "Citizenship" in Elementary School? Tell me that isn't dark.
More important, when you have a basic idea about how machines work, the parts of a car make perfect sense. Everyone (particularly girls) should take a basic auto mechanics course, if for no other reason, than when a mechanic tells you your suspension is bad, you can say really, what's wrong? If he tries to blow smoke up your panties you'll be able to tell. At which point you can thank him and say, you know what, I think I'm gonna get a second opinion.
Microwaves are easy to fix. The problem is making certain they don't leak when you're done. End up with a family with cataracts.
And if you've checked his plan at any length, after giving the wealthy a $6.5 billion that leaves a gaping $4 Billion deficit. You might also want to mention the elimination of the social safety net, putting Medicare recipients on a voucher program, eliminating the investment of government monies on education in general and carving Social Security back far enough to make sure baby boomers will need to live in packs to afford their dog food. His own Catholic Church said that his plans are "Unchristian" serving only the wealthy and viciously attacking the poor, homeless, and disenfranchised.
Don't get me wrong, I believe that folks on welfare could be put to good use, working to rebuild the American Infrastructure, seems only fair that if you're going to receive support that you earn that support by helping the nation grow and thrive. Call it a something for something program. I just don't believe that the guy with 12 homes and elevators in his 200 car garage, needs the government subsidy worse than the poor bastard in the rust belt with two kids whose only crime is his town's industry (owned by the clown with 12 cars) moved to China.
That would be LameAnalogyBoy??? I believe the term is SIDEKICK. Have you never read a comic book?
Please do not bolt down the vagina...
Funny, the second bullet point here says that sometimes more than one person can be assigned the same SSN.
Especially when someone buys that number from a little shanty down in Calexico for $250. Hell sometime there a couple hundred people using one number. Buenas dias Gringo!
Ssshhhhhh, that's only for the 144,000. Keep that to yourself please!
That's because if you have a medium scale economic crash instead of loosing 85% of your money, you only loose 5% with a Tresury Bond, What this says is that people are so afraid of the current economic climate they're actually choosing small loss hedge over what they fear will be big loss. Of course if the whole thing goes down in flames and we have to move to a new currency in a hyper-inflationary blowout, your T Bills will be best used to wipe your sore and aching hinny.
There are two things going on here... ;-)
1. Criminals extorting a politician... not sure who the bad guy is on this moral spectrum, but let's say Mitt's a great guy and the punks are simply criminals.
2. How do you expect to get a million dollars from someone for showing their tax returns? Anybody wanna see mine for a million dollars, hell I'd attach 20 years of tax returns to the friggin Goodyear Blimp over Time Square. This could just be an extreme need for privacy, but I can't help feeling like he has something really awful to hide. It might just make sense at this point to share his tax returns, so what it he took deductions on leather and rubber fetish goods. What he does in the privacy of his torture room is between him and his top... Owwww SAFEWORD!!!!
You know, I don't have a problem with people and their magical thinking as long as they keep it at home, or celebrate it in a designated place of worship. The minute they begin to turn their pet delusions into law, I get a wee bit squeamish. There was a great letter recently to the Governor of Arizona, who was at the time trying to woo mining interests into digging up uranium in the state, and she made a comment on the earth being 6,000 years old and the scientists involved attempted to inform her that nobody with an IQ higher than a rutabaga's holds that opinion any more.
Indeed, at least since Joe McCarthy wrapped himself in the flag and the bible at the same time to garner wealth and power by the wholesale gutting of the American Constitution. The saddest part is that we now find ourselves beset with an entire party composed of Joe McCarthy's and it makes my heart ache. When will the mouth breathing public stop falling for this shallow, vapid pandering to America's lowest common denominator?
Yeah, the PACs you listed are not the "Super PACs" that the Supreme Court made possible when it said corporations are people. The total outlay of the PACs you list won't pay for the flight budgets of the monied interests pouring over a billion dollars into the Super PACs, and worse, because they skirt the laws governing traditional PACs we'll never know exactly who or what is being spent. The tip of the iceberg however suggests the monied interests are pouring money into the Republican campaigns at a rate that may exceed 10 to 1. Here's a site that was updated the middle of August. Hope that clears things up for you.
You live is this strange thing called a society. You went to its schools, you drive its roads, you use the water and sewers that run to the place you live. We have places like Mogadishu or the bush in central Africa where you and you money can go and have a lovely time all by your selves. Just don't yell when a lion eats you or a bandit shoots you, because you won't be able to protect yourself with your money (save the purchase of a lion gun.)
If you really are someone completely out for themselves, with no interest is creating a cohesive society that looks after others and creates a strong and workable infrastructure for the benefit of that society, by all means, find yourself and island an go away nobody's stopping you depending on how much island you can afford. The rest of us look at the cost having a society capable of providing the basic needs for all or most, such that we can work together to create something even greater. I don't see that as an evil or a wrong. Of course the current government does use money in ways I don't agree, so I vote scallywags out whenever I get the chance.
Actually you don't know any of that. Robots that interact with people in their own homes will almost certainly have the ability to assume human gestures and facial expressions. This is vital because a tremendous amount of human communication is physical and nonverbal. As well, scientist are peeling the structure and design of emotions apart to see what kind of emotions might be useful in a social machine including self preservation, happiness, fear, sadness and empathy. Machines designed to serve and empower people will need to be human like to provide their greatest impact. We anthropomorphize our pets, and these are strictly nonhuman. We even anthropomorphize our cars. If we create a machine that has real feelings, thinks, and can communicate with us on our own level, the question about sentience starts to get mighty fuzzy. Should this new being not have some fundamental rights. I'm not saying a toaster, I am saying an advance social machine with the neural capabilities of a living entity and the capacity to form unique and meaningful thoughts. Such a device might well warrant consideration. Of course we'll want to be clear about how much intelligence warrants rights. Just so we don't go around making smart toasters new classes of citizens. Then of course that leads to the question will some of the really stupid people out there loose their human rights because they don't meet minimum criteria?
No he accused us of double standards. His comment was that because higher primates demonstrate higher thinking, sentience, rationality, communications and abstract thought, it should be morally reprehensible to use them in an inhumane fashion. The fact that people have and do use one another that way sort of puts a finer point on his argument.
We are a moral species who commits immoral acts. In an attempt to broaden moral practices do we include other species and even machines as surrogates for human beings, to make certain we've bred moral behavior into the populace. This is a valid and important question. If we become emotionally attached to our machines (you guys know who you are... beware metal fever), does it behoove us to treat them with respect up to and including rights to insure that we treat one another with that same level of dignity. Seems like a long way to go, just to assure that we behave like higher life forms, but I'd consider it if it improved human behavior. In the end, I don't know what it will take to get people to behave, but I'm open to ideas.
Oh no, he got it square in the front bumper... ran right over that puppy.
I'd feel a whole lot better about you statement if a whole bunch of guys who blew themselves up in the name of their warm and fuzzy gawd didn't come straight from Iran. The bozo quotient is just a wee bit high to give me any sense of complacency.
North Korea has a nuke but no delivery. The current plan is call South Korea for Korean Barbeque take out and tip the delivery boy with a nuke and detonate it after he crosses the border. Iran has missiles but no nuke. It wants to drop a warhead into the middle of Tel Aviv that opens up and shout "Psych!!!!" Together, they bother me. They are both incredibly inept, but they bother me. What do they say "Even the blind squirrel occasionally find a nut..." We need to play these bozos off one another hard. Its time for a little political intrigue and social engineering.
The back of the pants was Italy, the front of the pants was Germany, and they had to bring Japan in to provide the reach around... and now you have the complete "Axis Powers as Gay Porn, Analogy".
Yeah, if you're doing anything that involves a satellite, there's some Nazi tech. Your country is holding back the dogs of war with nukes that contain Nazi tech. If you ever did anything that involved hypothermia, you have Dr. Mengele to thank, of course he got that very useful information by freezing hundred of Jews to death, which while useful makes it one of the hardest won pieces of medical information ever collected and forever Mengele a scumbag of monumental proportions.
In fact the Nazis were brilliant engineers and there are literally thousands of improvements in motors, cars, trains, heavy machinery, factories and engineering and applied sciences that are a permanent part of everything we do. That doesn't mean they weren't barbaric. It does mean that they produced some amazing technology in the headlong race to self destruction. Hmmmm, sound at all familiar?
Yes, AC, of course... I know I shouldn't, but just a wee snack. As an American, I'm not very proud of the stupid things my government has done, for... oh, let's say the last 12 years or so. I voted against all of it, as did most of my friends, but its my country and I feel responsible when it screws up, even when it did it against my wishes or blessing (I'm guessing parents must feel this way about wayward children.)
That doesn't make America a bad place or Americans evil (well not all of us :-) There is plenty of dirty rotten to go around and some of the dirtiest and most rotten is coming from large monied interests in Western and Central Europe. The Saudis have been exporting the worst kind of Islamic poison for decades now. China has always been one of the top manufacturers of the most viscous weapons for international sale including mines designed to look like toys that children bring home and then explode killing the entire family. Like I said, there's plenty of rotten to go around. Fact is, wherever you find money grubbing, greedy, grind babies up for a buck scumbags, you find the kind of nasty I'm talking about, and sadly this in not a conversation limited by geography. There is sadly an abundance of human toxic waste on this planet and my guess is that I could find a couple examples of such talking with the same accent speak with, so hate America all you want, just remember, that we haven't got anything resembling a corner on the market of evil fscks.
And that would change anything how? The Reps are claiming Obama is the Antichrist and the Dems are calling all the Reps a bunch of Knuckle Draggers and Mouth Breathers. Two guys at the Republican Convention start throwing nuts at a black CNN camera person. When ask what they're doing they respond "Feeding the Animals." By the way, they got tossed out on their ears, but Sheriff Joe Arpaio, is there with a badge on declaring a special "Honorary". This ftom the guy who would hunt and skin Illegal Mexicans if they'd just stop classifying them as human. Forgive me but the Republican Convention just proved the Reps haven't got the vaguest clue how to fix the mess we're in (except rape the middle class and give their organs to the wealth), and that they don't care anything for the middle class save caring that the middle class think they care about the middle class. Now we get to see what a bunch of weenies the Dems will be roasting. Someone said you gotta have more than clowns to run a circus. I don't know if D.C. is proof or the exception.
Allowing what to happen? Fred Flintstone and Barny Rubble become partners in building weapons of mass destruction? Oh be still my heart. Anybody with an IQ above small single digits should be able to manipulate this situation all day long to hilarious situation-comedic effect. Think of it as "Laverne and Shirley" with fissionable materials... "One, Two, Three, Four, Five, Six, Seven, Eight, Schlemiel, Shlemazel, Hasenpfefffer Incorpor BOOM!