I was talking about a conversation I had with someone who held the belief that 'contrails' were chemical experiments being performed.
Condensation trails, in otherwise clear skies, do not 'fall as pouring rain'. At no time did I mention there was a storm of any kind. Condensation droplets generally have a smaller diameter, by a factor of many magnitudes, than precipitating raindrops. A typical cloud droplet is on the order of 0.02 mm, and falls at a rate of 0.02 mph. The clouds are generally at flight altitude, which can be assumed to be between 25,000 and 35,000 ft(~4-6miles). The calculations were performed with the smaller droplets just as stated, as that was what the discussion was about.
I think your reading comprehension model needs some work.
I got sucked into a similar discussion once. I will never make that mistake again.
After doing some back of the envelope calculations, using the average size of cloud droplets, the velocity those droplets fall, and the average height those clouds are... I pointed out that the clouds seen over your head would take up to 10 hours(or substantially longer) to fall to ground, and even with a small breeze, would end up hundreds of miles away from the location seen by the time they would reach the ground.
Even faced with that simple math, they would STILL insist that they could see the 'residue' falling into their yard from the airplanes above....
I once 'knew a guy' when I was younger who did this exact thing. Heres how it went down.
Said 'guy' had a newtonian telescope on a very professional mount. Now usually, the purpose of the telescope is to take in light at the large opening and focus it into a small diameter at the eyepiece. However, the reverse also seems to work.
By sighting up the telescope first to the light sensor at the top of the assembly, one would then take out the eyepiece and replace it with a light source, preferably halogen. You could easily leave this on all night, to keep the light off, and turn it off in the day. At 1/4 mile, the beam is about 10ft across, and will still work to turn off the sensor, depending on the wattage of the source light.
But, thats just what I heard, as interfering with municipal/business fixtures you do not own is usually frowned upon by the police. It also becomes rather obvious who is doing it when there is a bright light coming from the line of sight from your house.
You do not even seem to be aware that the opinions you have against the Fed are shared by the progressive movement, in fact the recent Paul-Sanders bill to audit the Fed is a perfect example. Yes, Bernie Sanders is a progressive.
He killed friends of mine because they peacefully opposed him.
Doubtful. Its also trying to win an argument by evoking emotion, and that is a bad idea. And rings rather hollow as the leading party against Chavez right now is a socialist/progressive party. It also rings hollow because the previous opposition, led by conservative business leaders and military, attempted to usurp the constitution of the state instead of taking the correct route. In doing that, they lost most of the support they should have had when the referendum to remove him finally came up when presented by the progressive side. That movement to remove him was forever tainted by the failed military coup brought about by the business leaders a few years earlier with the help of the military, not the progressive movement in that country. Most of the populace remembered the non-democratic means that the previous opposition originally took against Chavez, and because of that, considered any further opposition worse than keeping Chavez. That is why he won, and you should know that having supposedly lived there. Instead, you are repeating what Ive heard dozens of times from the conservative movement in the US. I can understand why though, most of the private media ownership in that country were the ones behind the first failed coup, and you and your business associates(if true) more than likely got your version of events from that media.
John McCain is an example of a Republican/Progressive.
So when John McCain recently attempted to separate Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac from the control of the US govt and off the books, he was acting as a progressive? No wait, earlier you claimed that those types organizations were tools of the progressive movement to socially control the populace. Im sure there is a reason that your opinions conflict so much from situation to situation other than you just repeating what someone told you, but Im not seeing it.
With thinking like that you, sir, are your own (and everyone else) freedoms' worst enemy.
No, its quite the opposite... but you don't know why yet.
Somehow, in that rant, you managed to gloss over the fact that Chavez was elected, twice. Did any of your 'friends' participate in the national strike? I imagine they didnt, because that kind of greed is exactly what you are trying to pin on being caused by progressive ideals, and that would just be embarrassing. Or are you saying Mousolini was progressive? or Pol Pot? The Azaku? In other words, you are associating those horrible things with progressive ideals, because thats what you have been told. And any narrative can be pushed forward seemingly based on facts, when you selectively pick the facts, and present them to an ignorant and angry populace.
That aside, your view of why countries like Greece are failing is obviously skewed by what you have heard others say, instead of attempting to understand it on your own.
Greece is getting its bailout, for the same reason that the US did under the Bush administration. You remember TARP right? The one that passed under secretary Paulson? That pushed the US debt over the $10 trillion mark under the previous administration. The German banks hold almost 2/3 of the capital in Greece right now, and if they were allowed to take the losses, the contagion would spread to every other country in Europe. And Ill give you just one guess which company would fail(again) should those German banks fail. (All our AIGs really are in one basket here)
The federal reserve of the US reopened their swap lines with Greece over this past weekend to help bolster this failed attempt at capitalism(better described as the combination of government and finance- a.k.a Fascism). You remember who first appointed the chairman of the Fed, right? Was it a progressive? Granted his recent re-appointment was the height of absurdity, although that lines up with the fact that there is no political difference in the US. Opening the swap lines is just another way for the US taxpayer(YOU) to bailout the banks, but this time its global,instead of within the US. And it wont work, its Portugal you should be most concerned with. Because right now, there is no more money to bail them out. There is no more dry powder. The world used it to pay the big bankers bonuses.
I agree with you, that there is a collapse coming, but see different reasons for its cause. You see a bicameral political aspect to it, where as I see a solitary plutocracy that uses a narrative of us vs. them to distract the populace from what really goes on behind the scenes economically. All of your examples start with the assumption that current events are ex nihlo, or that they just came out of nowhere in the current time, without any regard to the history of events. You think Chavez is a monster, because that's what you have been told to think. Whether you like it or not, he was elected by the people, twice. Is it because he openly supports torture, or the revocation of habeus corpus? Oh, no thats us. Funny how none of the likes of Glenn Beck were screaming about that when their 'side' was the one doing it, but once its not their guy, its the end of the world as we know it. Give me a break.
Our ideals are probably very similar, however Im not interested in laying blame or finger pointing. Im interested in my life and those I care about, and the ways I can make that better. If some nutter is running around yelling in anger and blame, Ill do my best to put as much distance between us as possible. A person like that is disconnected from his own power to control his well being, as its always someone elses 'fault'. That kind of anger based on hindsight is useless for those moving forward. Ironically, thats the type of person that most needs government to interfere in their life, as they are not able to accurately comprehend social responsibility.
The government can not provide solutions in this regard. The government structure, regarding communication, is the problem that solutions will be invented for. Some of them already exist, and Im sure in about 10 years you might be exposed to them.
Until then, dont worry, you'll see... see you there!
Conservative Republicans believe in THEIR right to free speech. They could care less whether anyone else has it, let alone what they are saying. It takes one heck of a persecution complex to say that the government is trying to censor you, ON YOUR OWN NATIONALLY BROADCAST SHOW!
And for you to try to make a comparison between Venezuela and here, by saying you have been 'watching' whats happening, well thats just completely laughable. Unless by watching, you mean reading web sites and watching documentaries. I highly doubt you have ever set foot in that country, lived or worked in the community. I doubt you have ever talked to a resident there in their native tongue. Until you have done that, you haven't watched anything, you just read someone elses opinion or presentation of it and latched on to it because thats easier than getting the experience yourself and forming your own thoughts on the situation.
You dont seem to understand how simplistic you sound to those with other experiences than yourself. I would bet a substantial amount of money that you cant name the leader that was in power in Venezuela before Hugo Chavez, without looking it up.
Whether you like it or not, Chavez was democratically elected, twice. I imagine if your way of thinking matched the way of thinking of a native Venezuelan, he wouldnt have been elected again 4 years ago. Which brings us right back to conservative republicans only caring about their own freedom of speech and not about the rights of anyone else.
In a funny way, that's whats great about the thoughts you just presented. When push comes to shove, all you are going to do is sit back and let someone else take care of it and tell you what to think, just like you always have. Just go back to watching the teevee, that way you can keep out of the way of those people who are actually being productive.
In a way, I feel sorry for you. The world is so much larger than you will probably ever experience.
After reading all the above comments, Im kind of surprised that I am in the minority in that I do admin work, and dont hate computers really in any way.
In my work life, its heavily sysadmin type of stuff. I dont hate any of our servers, or the software that runs on them. This is what happens when you make good choices.
In my personal life, I have a house-wide LAN with a mix of linux and Windows machines, depending on the purpose of them.Some are mostly used for viewing DVD's, some are for work-related priorities, And one is a touchscreen display in the kitchen with a barcode scanner on the fridge. Linux is used in place of windows to perform the task of a domain controller for the other windows machines. Roaming profiles are used on the more interactive devices, with network shares to both public and user-specific data.
Between both of these aspects, the computers themselves work exactly as they should. The software in my house that relates to my specific setup was made, or code level changes to other existing programs, by me.
My windows profiles never have any problems, and my linux server likewise in both its private facing side as well as its public IP range.
In a different time, the common phrase for such behavior was;
My neighbor had that, except if I remember right, it had an 'A' 'B' and 'C' setting on it. But that might have been the way he had it setup to connect to the TV itself.
Surely, that was a typo. You meant to write 'come from the Earth'... not 'come from the sun', right?
That is after all, what is being measured here. The prefix 'geo-' in geomagnetic storm the article is talking about means 'Earth'. That is where the field is coming from, the Earth. The sun is simply throwing charged particles into that field, again from the Earth, at a rate that hasnt been seen since 2006. This is producing storm level flux for the first time in a few years in the Earths' magnetic field
For some reason, I feel you have too limited of a science background to understand what I'm saying to you, much less what the article is saying.
That seems like something you should have looked up before making baseless assumptions.
But then again, they wouldn't be baseless assumptions if you researched things before you asked them. Seriously, this isnt a classroom from the 1950's, you are already on the internet if you are posting here, how hard is it to look that up?
While you are looking things up, you can build your own ground based magnetometer in your own house and see what happens during a geomagnetic storm, based on the same principles of science that are being used to measure the magnetic fields in space.
Every question you just asked is irrelevant. Funny how science works like that.
The beginning part of that thought had crossed my mind as well.
But then another thought crossed my mind...
If the computer is malfunctioning, what makes you think the electronic switch used by the ignition control, or the electronic sensor for the gear indicator, will be working correctly?
For me, all this story is "a bunch of rumors not substantiated by an actual cause yet, so Ill wait to make my judgement"
Ill admit you have at least seemed to put some thought into this, which deserves respect....
However, why is it the world of Physics which will be able to, or not, tell you the definition of god? Why not music theory, why not philosophy, why not war? What is so important about Physics in particular that you think it will be able to one day 'answer' what god is?
What you seem to be doing, from an outside perspective, is wanting there to be a god, but are too uncertain in what you believe to form an opinion. For in the end, thats all it really is, just an opinion of how we as humans view the world. Its not right or wrong, its an observation that helps us to make sense of the world we interact with.
You also presuppose quite a few things as well, without the 'proof' you are requiring for the definition of god. Why presuppose the universe was 'created', why presuppose that Physics is the only true path to being able to make the definition of god that you currently admit is an 'empty set'.
If I write the word 'abseciturtizerits' but then say that its undefined until some point in the future when it can be fully understood, does that make much sense? Or does it make more sense that its simply a thought construct you(human beings) came up with and would like to find out after creating it out of mere belief, what it is?
You want to explain it, because thats what your brain does. It needs to explain things in order for those ideas to be useful, or not, to your existence. This fits in nicely with your admitted stance that the longer you live, the more you think about it and its meaning.
Drop the presuppositions, drop the need to explain the unexplainable, and things may make more sense.
That's what I keep telling my neighbor, yet he still insists on doing it. Worse still, he puts them out, and then takes them down just a few months later! Every single year!! How crazy is that!!!
I hope he doesn't do it again this year, I suppose I will just have to wait until December to find out...
Satellite radio was the first, and served its purpose until cell phone became able to stream. Have you noticed that almost all new radios have an/aux' input to plug in a mp3 player of your choice?
Personally, I just shifted away from satellite radio, and now use my Droid exclusively to stream music on my car, either from the local sd card, or direct from the internet at 3G speeds.
The last time I heard an FM station in my car was probably 6 years ago. I know Im an outlier on the spectrum, and considered an 'early-adopter', but the time is closer than you may think.
Im sorry, but while you may have read that, it does not seem that you understood it. Im not trying to be pretentious here, but legal terms have very specific meanings.
The legal use of the terms 'and' and 'or' is exactly the same as the way those terms are used in logic gates.
Please keep that in mind when you re-read that section you quoted. Specifically, the first line.
We may share the same opinions, but I think you arent reading the law, and are instead reacting to the poorly written summary.
What this will achieve is to be able to monitor a known groups members, if a self-identified member commits a crime of violence or force against a government employee. It does not simply mean they can go around rounding up every person who isnt registered at their whim.
I agree that its a bad law, and probably for the same underlying reasons. But the wording of this law does not allow for any of the things you are describing as its perceived shortcomings. Personally, I think the law is redundant, because there are already federal RICO laws on the books that cover most, if not all, of the things that this feel-good legislation attempts to do.
"By force" means different things to different people.
No, it has a very specific definition under the law. You should look it up.
The law is silly, mostly because it is incredibly redundant. Every single thing mentioned in it is already illegal. The only significant difference is the monetary penalties now associated with the already existing punitive penalties, should you be prosecuted for one of these already illegal activities.
This bill doesnt make any of those things illegal either.
What it does do, however, is require members of those groups to register if that is their stated modus operandi.
If they dont, and then get caught prosecuted along such lines, then everyone in the group also gets prosecuted for lack of registration.
You are still quite free to ramble on about killing people, kidnapping family members, and other threats that go with 'small penis' syndrome without any worries of being arrested for simply saying it...
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I was talking about a conversation I had with someone who held the belief that 'contrails' were chemical experiments being performed.
Condensation trails, in otherwise clear skies, do not 'fall as pouring rain'. At no time did I mention there was a storm of any kind. Condensation droplets generally have a smaller diameter, by a factor of many magnitudes, than precipitating raindrops. A typical cloud droplet is on the order of 0.02 mm, and falls at a rate of 0.02 mph. The clouds are generally at flight altitude, which can be assumed to be between 25,000 and 35,000 ft(~4-6miles). The calculations were performed with the smaller droplets just as stated, as that was what the discussion was about.
I think your reading comprehension model needs some work.
I got sucked into a similar discussion once. I will never make that mistake again.
After doing some back of the envelope calculations, using the average size of cloud droplets, the velocity those droplets fall, and the average height those clouds are... I pointed out that the clouds seen over your head would take up to 10 hours(or substantially longer) to fall to ground, and even with a small breeze, would end up hundreds of miles away from the location seen by the time they would reach the ground.
Even faced with that simple math, they would STILL insist that they could see the 'residue' falling into their yard from the airplanes above....
I once 'knew a guy' when I was younger who did this exact thing. Heres how it went down.
Said 'guy' had a newtonian telescope on a very professional mount. Now usually, the purpose of the telescope is to take in light at the large opening and focus it into a small diameter at the eyepiece. However, the reverse also seems to work.
By sighting up the telescope first to the light sensor at the top of the assembly, one would then take out the eyepiece and replace it with a light source, preferably halogen. You could easily leave this on all night, to keep the light off, and turn it off in the day. At 1/4 mile, the beam is about 10ft across, and will still work to turn off the sensor, depending on the wattage of the source light.
But, thats just what I heard, as interfering with municipal/business fixtures you do not own is usually frowned upon by the police. It also becomes rather obvious who is doing it when there is a bright light coming from the line of sight from your house.
Damn it. I should not post while distracted.
Now excuse me while I go work out these computations for the next Mars Lander program...
World oil demand is around 85,000,000 barrels of oil per day, and increases almost 2% per year.
1 trillion barrels of oil is about 3 months of world consumption at current rates.
10 trillion barrels meets just over 2 years of world demand at current rates.
Large numbers are hard to comprehend without a reference point. I hope that helps, but I guess it depends on what your definition of 'soon' is.
You do not even seem to be aware that the opinions you have against the Fed are shared by the progressive movement, in fact the recent Paul-Sanders bill to audit the Fed is a perfect example. Yes, Bernie Sanders is a progressive.
He killed friends of mine because they peacefully opposed him.
Doubtful. Its also trying to win an argument by evoking emotion, and that is a bad idea. And rings rather hollow as the leading party against Chavez right now is a socialist/progressive party. It also rings hollow because the previous opposition, led by conservative business leaders and military, attempted to usurp the constitution of the state instead of taking the correct route. In doing that, they lost most of the support they should have had when the referendum to remove him finally came up when presented by the progressive side. That movement to remove him was forever tainted by the failed military coup brought about by the business leaders a few years earlier with the help of the military, not the progressive movement in that country. Most of the populace remembered the non-democratic means that the previous opposition originally took against Chavez, and because of that, considered any further opposition worse than keeping Chavez. That is why he won, and you should know that having supposedly lived there. Instead, you are repeating what Ive heard dozens of times from the conservative movement in the US. I can understand why though, most of the private media ownership in that country were the ones behind the first failed coup, and you and your business associates(if true) more than likely got your version of events from that media.
John McCain is an example of a Republican/Progressive.
So when John McCain recently attempted to separate Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac from the control of the US govt and off the books, he was acting as a progressive? No wait, earlier you claimed that those types organizations were tools of the progressive movement to socially control the populace. Im sure there is a reason that your opinions conflict so much from situation to situation other than you just repeating what someone told you, but Im not seeing it.
With thinking like that you, sir, are your own (and everyone else) freedoms' worst enemy.
No, its quite the opposite... but you don't know why yet.
Somehow, in that rant, you managed to gloss over the fact that Chavez was elected, twice. Did any of your 'friends' participate in the national strike? I imagine they didnt, because that kind of greed is exactly what you are trying to pin on being caused by progressive ideals, and that would just be embarrassing. Or are you saying Mousolini was progressive? or Pol Pot? The Azaku? In other words, you are associating those horrible things with progressive ideals, because thats what you have been told. And any narrative can be pushed forward seemingly based on facts, when you selectively pick the facts, and present them to an ignorant and angry populace.
That aside, your view of why countries like Greece are failing is obviously skewed by what you have heard others say, instead of attempting to understand it on your own.
Greece is getting its bailout, for the same reason that the US did under the Bush administration. You remember TARP right? The one that passed under secretary Paulson? That pushed the US debt over the $10 trillion mark under the previous administration. The German banks hold almost 2/3 of the capital in Greece right now, and if they were allowed to take the losses, the contagion would spread to every other country in Europe. And Ill give you just one guess which company would fail(again) should those German banks fail. (All our AIGs really are in one basket here)
The federal reserve of the US reopened their swap lines with Greece over this past weekend to help bolster this failed attempt at capitalism(better described as the combination of government and finance- a.k.a Fascism). You remember who first appointed the chairman of the Fed, right? Was it a progressive? Granted his recent re-appointment was the height of absurdity, although that lines up with the fact that there is no political difference in the US. Opening the swap lines is just another way for the US taxpayer(YOU) to bailout the banks, but this time its global,instead of within the US. And it wont work, its Portugal you should be most concerned with. Because right now, there is no more money to bail them out. There is no more dry powder. The world used it to pay the big bankers bonuses.
I agree with you, that there is a collapse coming, but see different reasons for its cause. You see a bicameral political aspect to it, where as I see a solitary plutocracy that uses a narrative of us vs. them to distract the populace from what really goes on behind the scenes economically. All of your examples start with the assumption that current events are ex nihlo, or that they just came out of nowhere in the current time, without any regard to the history of events. You think Chavez is a monster, because that's what you have been told to think. Whether you like it or not, he was elected by the people, twice. Is it because he openly supports torture, or the revocation of habeus corpus? Oh, no thats us. Funny how none of the likes of Glenn Beck were screaming about that when their 'side' was the one doing it, but once its not their guy, its the end of the world as we know it. Give me a break.
Our ideals are probably very similar, however Im not interested in laying blame or finger pointing. Im interested in my life and those I care about, and the ways I can make that better. If some nutter is running around yelling in anger and blame, Ill do my best to put as much distance between us as possible. A person like that is disconnected from his own power to control his well being, as its always someone elses 'fault'. That kind of anger based on hindsight is useless for those moving forward. Ironically, thats the type of person that most needs government to interfere in their life, as they are not able to accurately comprehend social responsibility.
Yawn...
The government can not provide solutions in this regard. The government structure, regarding communication, is the problem that solutions will be invented for. Some of them already exist, and Im sure in about 10 years you might be exposed to them.
Until then, dont worry, you'll see... see you there!
Conservative Republicans believe in THEIR right to free speech. They could care less whether anyone else has it, let alone what they are saying. It takes one heck of a persecution complex to say that the government is trying to censor you, ON YOUR OWN NATIONALLY BROADCAST SHOW!
And for you to try to make a comparison between Venezuela and here, by saying you have been 'watching' whats happening, well thats just completely laughable. Unless by watching, you mean reading web sites and watching documentaries. I highly doubt you have ever set foot in that country, lived or worked in the community. I doubt you have ever talked to a resident there in their native tongue. Until you have done that, you haven't watched anything, you just read someone elses opinion or presentation of it and latched on to it because thats easier than getting the experience yourself and forming your own thoughts on the situation.
You dont seem to understand how simplistic you sound to those with other experiences than yourself. I would bet a substantial amount of money that you cant name the leader that was in power in Venezuela before Hugo Chavez, without looking it up.
Whether you like it or not, Chavez was democratically elected, twice. I imagine if your way of thinking matched the way of thinking of a native Venezuelan, he wouldnt have been elected again 4 years ago. Which brings us right back to conservative republicans only caring about their own freedom of speech and not about the rights of anyone else.
In a funny way, that's whats great about the thoughts you just presented. When push comes to shove, all you are going to do is sit back and let someone else take care of it and tell you what to think, just like you always have. Just go back to watching the teevee, that way you can keep out of the way of those people who are actually being productive.
In a way, I feel sorry for you. The world is so much larger than you will probably ever experience.
After reading all the above comments, Im kind of surprised that I am in the minority in that I do admin work, and dont hate computers really in any way.
In my work life, its heavily sysadmin type of stuff. I dont hate any of our servers, or the software that runs on them. This is what happens when you make good choices.
In my personal life, I have a house-wide LAN with a mix of linux and Windows machines, depending on the purpose of them.Some are mostly used for viewing DVD's, some are for work-related priorities, And one is a touchscreen display in the kitchen with a barcode scanner on the fridge. Linux is used in place of windows to perform the task of a domain controller for the other windows machines. Roaming profiles are used on the more interactive devices, with network shares to both public and user-specific data.
Between both of these aspects, the computers themselves work exactly as they should. The software in my house that relates to my specific setup was made, or code level changes to other existing programs, by me.
My windows profiles never have any problems, and my linux server likewise in both its private facing side as well as its public IP range.
In a different time, the common phrase for such behavior was;
Who said anything about being surprised?
My fascination was the lengths people will go to to keep their drug.... I mean TV.
There's a world out there without TV ya know.
Wow. OnTV. There's a flashback
My neighbor had that, except if I remember right, it had an 'A' 'B' and 'C' setting on it. But that might have been the way he had it setup to connect to the TV itself.
I find it fascinating that after the business model that you just described, that you still want to give these people money.
Like cable? Or like satellite?
Surely, that was a typo. You meant to write 'come from the Earth'... not 'come from the sun', right?
That is after all, what is being measured here. The prefix 'geo-' in geomagnetic storm the article is talking about means 'Earth'. That is where the field is coming from, the Earth. The sun is simply throwing charged particles into that field, again from the Earth, at a rate that hasnt been seen since 2006. This is producing storm level flux for the first time in a few years in the Earths' magnetic field
For some reason, I feel you have too limited of a science background to understand what I'm saying to you, much less what the article is saying.
That seems like something you should have looked up before making baseless assumptions.
But then again, they wouldn't be baseless assumptions if you researched things before you asked them. Seriously, this isnt a classroom from the 1950's, you are already on the internet if you are posting here, how hard is it to look that up?
While you are looking things up, you can build your own ground based magnetometer in your own house and see what happens during a geomagnetic storm, based on the same principles of science that are being used to measure the magnetic fields in space.
Every question you just asked is irrelevant. Funny how science works like that.
The beginning part of that thought had crossed my mind as well.
But then another thought crossed my mind... If the computer is malfunctioning, what makes you think the electronic switch used by the ignition control, or the electronic sensor for the gear indicator, will be working correctly?
For me, all this story is "a bunch of rumors not substantiated by an actual cause yet, so Ill wait to make my judgement"
Now let me get back to editing my perl scripts
WIN +10
Ill admit you have at least seemed to put some thought into this, which deserves respect....
However, why is it the world of Physics which will be able to, or not, tell you the definition of god? Why not music theory, why not philosophy, why not war? What is so important about Physics in particular that you think it will be able to one day 'answer' what god is?
What you seem to be doing, from an outside perspective, is wanting there to be a god, but are too uncertain in what you believe to form an opinion. For in the end, thats all it really is, just an opinion of how we as humans view the world. Its not right or wrong, its an observation that helps us to make sense of the world we interact with.
You also presuppose quite a few things as well, without the 'proof' you are requiring for the definition of god. Why presuppose the universe was 'created', why presuppose that Physics is the only true path to being able to make the definition of god that you currently admit is an 'empty set'.
If I write the word 'abseciturtizerits' but then say that its undefined until some point in the future when it can be fully understood, does that make much sense? Or does it make more sense that its simply a thought construct you(human beings) came up with and would like to find out after creating it out of mere belief, what it is?
You want to explain it, because thats what your brain does. It needs to explain things in order for those ideas to be useful, or not, to your existence. This fits in nicely with your admitted stance that the longer you live, the more you think about it and its meaning.
Drop the presuppositions, drop the need to explain the unexplainable, and things may make more sense.
That's what I keep telling my neighbor, yet he still insists on doing it. Worse still, he puts them out, and then takes them down just a few months later! Every single year!! How crazy is that!!!
I hope he doesn't do it again this year, I suppose I will just have to wait until December to find out...
Oh, but thats already started.
Satellite radio was the first, and served its purpose until cell phone became able to stream. Have you noticed that almost all new radios have an /aux' input to plug in a mp3 player of your choice?
Personally, I just shifted away from satellite radio, and now use my Droid exclusively to stream music on my car, either from the local sd card, or direct from the internet at 3G speeds.
The last time I heard an FM station in my car was probably 6 years ago. I know Im an outlier on the spectrum, and considered an 'early-adopter', but the time is closer than you may think.
Im sorry, but while you may have read that, it does not seem that you understood it. Im not trying to be pretentious here, but legal terms have very specific meanings.
The legal use of the terms 'and' and 'or' is exactly the same as the way those terms are used in logic gates.
Please keep that in mind when you re-read that section you quoted. Specifically, the first line.
We may share the same opinions, but I think you arent reading the law, and are instead reacting to the poorly written summary.
What this will achieve is to be able to monitor a known groups members, if a self-identified member commits a crime of violence or force against a government employee. It does not simply mean they can go around rounding up every person who isnt registered at their whim.
I agree that its a bad law, and probably for the same underlying reasons. But the wording of this law does not allow for any of the things you are describing as its perceived shortcomings. Personally, I think the law is redundant, because there are already federal RICO laws on the books that cover most, if not all, of the things that this feel-good legislation attempts to do.
No, it has a very specific definition under the law. You should look it up.
The law is silly, mostly because it is incredibly redundant. Every single thing mentioned in it is already illegal. The only significant difference is the monetary penalties now associated with the already existing punitive penalties, should you be prosecuted for one of these already illegal activities.
This bill doesnt make any of those things illegal either.
What it does do, however, is require members of those groups to register if that is their stated modus operandi.
If they dont, and then get caught prosecuted along such lines, then everyone in the group also gets prosecuted for lack of registration.
You are still quite free to ramble on about killing people, kidnapping family members, and other threats that go with 'small penis' syndrome without any worries of being arrested for simply saying it...