I sat in a cafe along a river in Hiroshima a couple of years ago wondering where the mutant and clouds of dry ice blowing about were. Very disappointing as a 'Forbidden Zone', very pleasant as a place to eat dinner.
Maerx's theories were just stupid utopian fantasies. It figures the "politically brilliant" Eurotrash fell for such nonsense. As the 20th Century has shown, they do like their police states in the Old World. Guess they miss their Kings and other aristocratic what-not.
Um... the reason this is known is because he went to the newspaper about it. Considering his 10 other FOI requests, ya think he might have been looking for something to cry fascist about? To distrust the police's motive but not his is nothing but naivety on your part. Think for once ya tool.
The article said the kid had filed 10 FOI requests in his first semester as a freshman. Strikes me he was trolling for an outrage to yap about. I guess geting asked a couple of questions when he filed a FOI request for the tunnel info -- [i]after he had been told it was confidential due to 911 concerns -- gave him the outrage to yap about.
I would take his version of the unbearable harassment he suffered with a HUGE grain of salt. Anybody with a brain in their head would know that such a request would trigger a reaction -- and prodding to get a reaction you can spin as being an outrage is an age old activist tactic.
It might be enlightening, and a lot less lazy on the journalists part, if we knew what those other FOI requests were about.
If the information is so sensitive, then it shouldn't be open, and shouldn't be available by request. Requests for it should be met with an immediate "No", and then there's nothing more to it.
You do not understand the Freedom of Information Act. That was the mechanism he used to make his request for information. The above quoted statement sounds incredibly docile and passive to an American. Obviously, if that were the attitude of the public then officials could stamp anything secret and there would be no accountability for there decision.
The Freedom of Information Act (FOI) allows U.S. citizens to request any government information. That information may or may not be provided, or may be provided in part. The FOI is a mechanism to begin the review of the decision to label the information secret. For example, this could -- although it likely won't -- trigger public debate over keeping that information confidential.
As for travelling in the U.S., just like travelling anywhere, one should be respectful of local culture and very circumspect when discussing their local politics (my son will be studying in Taiwan this summer and he will get the same advice from me).
Frankly, if you run around the U.S. talking about what a Freedomless Slave State it is you'll be treated like a arrogant, no-nothing European jerk. Talk, in this forum and others, of the U.S. being a police state is just misinformed hyperbole and nothing more. Go to the U.S. with an open mind and you might be surprised by how much reality differs from the nonsense spouted in here
At any rate, enjoy your visit. And if you're going to pass through the Tampa Florida area drop me an email -- maybe we could hook up for a drink or two.
Seesh, some how my post got connected to the wrong parent. I'll repost it here so it makes, hopefully at least, more sense when seen in the proper contex.
Well, or maybe there is another way of looking at it... I think moslems insisting on externalizing the problems their culture have had in the modern era is a good part of the problem. Many of their countries, quite a few that are awash in oil wealth, are running at over 50% unemployment rates for men in their 20s. At the same time the corrupt rulers are living lavishly and practicing the "let's put our country's wealth in personal Swiss Bank accounts" style of financial management.
Those ruling elites can face either explaining their citizens poverty as a result of their mismanagement, or pointing the finger to external causes for the decline of Islamic civilization. Four at least 150 years Islamic elites have chosen to externalize the problem rather than look in the mirror.
In the Islamic world the guys with guns are controlling the debate. Try to tell them you don't want the shi'ra enforced and see how long before you end up in a soccer stadium getting the crap beat out of yourself. The long term solution is forcing the governments of the Islamic world to stop satanizing the west to cover up their own corruption and mismanagement. After 911 it was inevitable that at least two middle eastern governments were going to get dropped. The west either tolerates being demonized by despots -- and hence targeted by unemployed middle eastern youths -- or the message has to be sent that the sweet life will come to an end quickly for those middle eastern rulers that tolerate such misdirection.
Saddam's Palaces getting hit by cruise missile after cruise missile was a message most of the world missed -- I'm guessing folks sitting in other middle eastern palaces got a glimmering of that message. Until the externalizing of Islams problems end, and true dialog and criticism begins, expect that message to be delivered on several more occassions.
Well, or maybe there is another way of looking at it... I think moslems insisting on externalizing the problems their culture have had in the modern era is a good part of the problem. Many of their countries, quite a few that are awash in oil wealth, are running at over 50% unemployment rates for men in their 20s. At the same time the corrupt rulers are living lavishly and practicing the "let's put our country's wealth in personal Swiss Bank accounts" style of financial management.
Those ruling elites can face either explaining their citizens poverty as a result of their mismanagement, or pointing the finger to external causes for the decline of Islamic civilization. Four at least 150 years Islamic elites have chosen to externalize the problem rather than look in the mirror.
In the Islamic world the guys with guns are controlling the debate. Try to tell them you don't want the shi'ra enforced and see how long before you end up in a soccer stadium getting the crap beat out of yourself. The long term solution is forcing the governments of the Islamic world to stop satanizing the west to cover up their own corruption and mismanagement. After 911 it was inevitable that at least two middle eastern governments were going to get dropped. The west either tolerates being demonized by despots -- and hence targeted by unemployed middle eastern youths -- or the message has to be sent that the sweet life will come to an end quickly for those middle eastern rulers that tolerate such misdirection.
Saddam's Palaces getting hit by cruise missile after cruise missile was a message most of the workld missed -- 'm guessing folks sitting in other middle eastern palaces and leading the sweet life got a glimmering of that message. Until the externalizing of Islams problems end, and true dialog and criticism begins, expect that message to be delivered on several more occassions.
There is actually more to it than you point out. The people who are pulling miracles out of their butts left and right are ignoring the context of the Flood story.
That is, the history of man doesn't just break off at that point and jump eons forward. Rather the story keeps getting told -- with no mention of these curious miracles. We go on through the genrations of Noah's descendents, the Tower of babble, etc., etc. Again, all of this takes place without any mention of further miracles. You would think that food flopping out of the sky for years and years to feed all of the animals would have been mentioned.
Beats the hell (no pun intended) out of spending the rest of eternity with a bunch of christian nincompoops singing praises to the big ego-maniac. Now, THAT would be agony.
OK, I'm still laughing from your succint summary of the parent post. I got about half way through the parent post and thought to myself, "WTF... ???????"
I logged onto Slashdot Tuesday morning to see this topic had over a thousand posts. As a regular to the science section, it is depressing to see this nonsensical drivel get such a response while more serious science threads get barely one hundred repsonses.
What next, an out pouring of support for expeditions to find dinosaurs in the Amazon?
For point 2, the whole "dinosaurs in a tropical paradise thing", you have to remember that dinosaurs had very little infrastructure. If the coastal plain they were living in flooded, they just wandered somewhere else. We don't have that luxury - lots of our population lives in coastal plains, and we have essentially irreplaceable investments in infrastructure in some of them (he looks out his window at Manhattan...). Paying to handle greenhouse gasses now may be economically painful, but not stopping the rising seawaters may be excruciating.
This is about the fourth or fifth post in this thread that makes the above, rather peculiar, argument. Of course what the original poster was driving at is that we are moving out of an ice age into a warmer climate. I may or may not agree, but could see arguing that human caused CO2 emissions are dangerously accelerating the problem. However, that isn't what is being advocated in the quote above. Instead, for all practical purposes what is being suggested is that we reverse the natural process to preserve the status quo. Radical environmentalists take it even a step further and are really pushing for a roll back of technology to return to a mythical age of man living in a more "natural" state.
I've noticed that appeal to preserving the status quo, coupled with the bum's rush argument that "we don't have time to stop and think -- WE HAVE TO DO SOMETHING NOW!!!", is pretty prevalent among the environmentalist fanatics. I really don't trust their motives, especially since I'm 52 years old and well remember the "ice age is upon us" stories and the claims we would be out of oil by 1985.
I'm a conservationist. Environmentalism is agenda driven quackery.
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Squealing noise? Obviously the hamster wheel that powers it needs a squirt of WD-40.
I would post an answer, but my Windows is updating
A good geek joke ignored -- such a shame.
Feh, sounds like intergalactic war to me.
I dunno ... being a prison bitch is probbably bad enough, much less facing being an ape's prison bitch.
I beg you --- don't do it! As we know from SciFi movies, only bad things happen when astronauts wake up.
I'm hungry. Anybody have good recipe for one of these critters?
I sat in a cafe along a river in Hiroshima a couple of years ago wondering where the mutant and clouds of dry ice blowing about were. Very disappointing as a 'Forbidden Zone', very pleasant as a place to eat dinner.
Then it would look a lot like Detroit
I wonder how many numbers I have? Oh, I hope it is few enough to be respected.
Find out how many pixels wide a piece of paper is and you'll have your answer Grasshopper.
What's a Quisling?
Maerx's theories were just stupid utopian fantasies. It figures the "politically brilliant" Eurotrash fell for such nonsense. As the 20th Century has shown, they do like their police states in the Old World. Guess they miss their Kings and other aristocratic what-not.
Lovely bunch, aren't they? If Collectivists of any stripe get in power I'll be behind barb wire getting re-educated, that's for sure.
Um... the reason this is known is because he went to the newspaper about it. Considering his 10 other FOI requests, ya think he might have been looking for something to cry fascist about? To distrust the police's motive but not his is nothing but naivety on your part. Think for once ya tool.
I would take his version of the unbearable harassment he suffered with a HUGE grain of salt. Anybody with a brain in their head would know that such a request would trigger a reaction -- and prodding to get a reaction you can spin as being an outrage is an age old activist tactic.
It might be enlightening, and a lot less lazy on the journalists part, if we knew what those other FOI requests were about.
The Freedom of Information Act (FOI) allows U.S. citizens to request any government information. That information may or may not be provided, or may be provided in part. The FOI is a mechanism to begin the review of the decision to label the information secret. For example, this could -- although it likely won't -- trigger public debate over keeping that information confidential.
As for travelling in the U.S., just like travelling anywhere, one should be respectful of local culture and very circumspect when discussing their local politics (my son will be studying in Taiwan this summer and he will get the same advice from me).
Frankly, if you run around the U.S. talking about what a Freedomless Slave State it is you'll be treated like a arrogant, no-nothing European jerk. Talk, in this forum and others, of the U.S. being a police state is just misinformed hyperbole and nothing more. Go to the U.S. with an open mind and you might be surprised by how much reality differs from the nonsense spouted in here
At any rate, enjoy your visit. And if you're going to pass through the Tampa Florida area drop me an email -- maybe we could hook up for a drink or two.
Well, or maybe there is another way of looking at it... I think moslems insisting on externalizing the problems their culture have had in the modern era is a good part of the problem. Many of their countries, quite a few that are awash in oil wealth, are running at over 50% unemployment rates for men in their 20s. At the same time the corrupt rulers are living lavishly and practicing the "let's put our country's wealth in personal Swiss Bank accounts" style of financial management. Those ruling elites can face either explaining their citizens poverty as a result of their mismanagement, or pointing the finger to external causes for the decline of Islamic civilization. Four at least 150 years Islamic elites have chosen to externalize the problem rather than look in the mirror. In the Islamic world the guys with guns are controlling the debate. Try to tell them you don't want the shi'ra enforced and see how long before you end up in a soccer stadium getting the crap beat out of yourself. The long term solution is forcing the governments of the Islamic world to stop satanizing the west to cover up their own corruption and mismanagement. After 911 it was inevitable that at least two middle eastern governments were going to get dropped. The west either tolerates being demonized by despots -- and hence targeted by unemployed middle eastern youths -- or the message has to be sent that the sweet life will come to an end quickly for those middle eastern rulers that tolerate such misdirection. Saddam's Palaces getting hit by cruise missile after cruise missile was a message most of the world missed -- I'm guessing folks sitting in other middle eastern palaces got a glimmering of that message. Until the externalizing of Islams problems end, and true dialog and criticism begins, expect that message to be delivered on several more occassions.
Those ruling elites can face either explaining their citizens poverty as a result of their mismanagement, or pointing the finger to external causes for the decline of Islamic civilization. Four at least 150 years Islamic elites have chosen to externalize the problem rather than look in the mirror.
In the Islamic world the guys with guns are controlling the debate. Try to tell them you don't want the shi'ra enforced and see how long before you end up in a soccer stadium getting the crap beat out of yourself. The long term solution is forcing the governments of the Islamic world to stop satanizing the west to cover up their own corruption and mismanagement. After 911 it was inevitable that at least two middle eastern governments were going to get dropped. The west either tolerates being demonized by despots -- and hence targeted by unemployed middle eastern youths -- or the message has to be sent that the sweet life will come to an end quickly for those middle eastern rulers that tolerate such misdirection.
Saddam's Palaces getting hit by cruise missile after cruise missile was a message most of the workld missed -- 'm guessing folks sitting in other middle eastern palaces and leading the sweet life got a glimmering of that message. Until the externalizing of Islams problems end, and true dialog and criticism begins, expect that message to be delivered on several more occassions.
So why was this such a surprise to God who supposedly is omniscient?
That is, the history of man doesn't just break off at that point and jump eons forward. Rather the story keeps getting told -- with no mention of these curious miracles. We go on through the genrations of Noah's descendents, the Tower of babble, etc., etc. Again, all of this takes place without any mention of further miracles. You would think that food flopping out of the sky for years and years to feed all of the animals would have been mentioned.
Beats the hell (no pun intended) out of spending the rest of eternity with a bunch of christian nincompoops singing praises to the big ego-maniac. Now, THAT would be agony.
OK, I'm still laughing from your succint summary of the parent post. I got about half way through the parent post and thought to myself, "WTF... ???????"
What next, an out pouring of support for expeditions to find dinosaurs in the Amazon?
This is about the fourth or fifth post in this thread that makes the above, rather peculiar, argument. Of course what the original poster was driving at is that we are moving out of an ice age into a warmer climate. I may or may not agree, but could see arguing that human caused CO2 emissions are dangerously accelerating the problem. However, that isn't what is being advocated in the quote above. Instead, for all practical purposes what is being suggested is that we reverse the natural process to preserve the status quo. Radical environmentalists take it even a step further and are really pushing for a roll back of technology to return to a mythical age of man living in a more "natural" state.
I've noticed that appeal to preserving the status quo, coupled with the bum's rush argument that "we don't have time to stop and think -- WE HAVE TO DO SOMETHING NOW!!!", is pretty prevalent among the environmentalist fanatics. I really don't trust their motives, especially since I'm 52 years old and well remember the "ice age is upon us" stories and the claims we would be out of oil by 1985.
I'm a conservationist. Environmentalism is agenda driven quackery.