They even lie in the truth, as it were "I did not have sexual relations with that woman (where 'sexual relations' is defined as coitus)" or "Had I known that *Al*Qaida* would attack *New*York* on *September* the *11th* I would have acted".
The invention of the 'nation state' is one of the worst things to happen to the human race in the last 10,000 years, barring epidemics such as black death or spanish flu. Maybe.
I'd be inclined to put disease organisms and national governments in the same category of vileness.
"Even then, most people as a whole weren't willing to."
but I doubt that the tribal cheif (or whatever) would have stopped anyone...
"until I see a rocket strapped to your ass"
It doesn't have to be on a rocket to be dangerous exploration. Believe me (or don't, whatever), I have stared death in the face while engaging in extremely risky exploration *plenty* of times so don't give me that shit.
We are all going to die.
The only question is do you die on your knees or do you die on your feet (or acceleration couch or whatever)?
"The sad thing is the astornauts themselves are not the one's complaining."
Absolutely; its the ones making decisions that complain. They don't mind sending other peoples children to die in wars but they don't want to risk other peoples children in exploration. Bizarre.
"Making this an anti-American argument was just silly though."
I get the impression that many other nations, while not as active in space exploration at present are a lot less squeamish than the USA.
Sorry, but thats the impression I get.
If current trends continue, China will accelerate past the USA's manned space programme.
"And it's easy for you to say, not your ass on the line."
Since the days of pre-history when intrepid explorers navigated the Pacific ocean or the Bering land bridge, those explorers were risking their lives routinely.
Are we, today, so squeamish and pathetically cowardly that we can't emulate the feats of our forefathers (and foremothers)??
Exploration is a high risk activity. Either get over it or don't get a job as an astronaut.
and spread via infected floppies or binaries. The vector makes all the difference; it required human intervention to get a virus onto a computer (For the pedants: Mostly).
"This worm has been found to be highly malicious, slowly destroying the systems it infects. Because of this activity, at some point this worm will cease to exist - unfortunately it will take all the affected systems with it. Rather than simply executing a "format C:" or similar destructive command, the worm slowly corrupts the filesystem while it continues to spread."
Like many biological viruses it slowly erodes the health of its host, permitting the host to go on infecting new hosts for some time. How long exactly appears to be unpredictable.
It doesn't kill its host outright immediately and it doesn't allow its host to continue indefinitely. Its like a true disease, a terminal illness for computers (pun not intended).
I think this will be with us for a while, particularly when mutations start showing up.
IIRC Clinton didn't exactly lie when he said "I did not have sexual relations with that woman" because 'sexual relations' was narrowly defined as 'coitus'.
If he had said he'd has 'sexual relations' and it transpired that she had merely blown him, *then* he would have lied under oath.
IIRC 'profane' means 'outside the temple' so I bloody well hope they start cracking down on references to God (or associates) made outside of an official church or temple or designated religious area.
'But the colloquial definition of "born-again" means to be part of a "born-again" movement, not just a Christian.'
Indeed, and born-again-ness is a fundamental component of many pre-christian religions in Europe and Asia-minor (before they were exterminated by christians or moslems).
Christianity absorbed a great many concepts from these religions before they destroyed them, born-again-ness being just one of them. Another would be 'the devil'.
Most christians just assume that 'the devil' was originaly a Jewish concept. This is quite wrong; judaism has absolutely *nothing* resembling the christian devil. *Nothing*. (ie something which is super-powerful, rebelled against god and is trying to corrupt or destroy humanity, eat our souls, whatever).
"many 3rd world ground forces are even going to spot it"
After all, for some truly *bizarre* and unfathomable reason, 3rd world nations pose the most imminent and dire threat to the security of the United States of America.
Yeah yeah troll, flamebait, *whatever*.
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And 20 million Russians killed by starvation in WW2, maybe ban food?:-/
This project was initiated by DARPA; *defense* advanced research project agency.
There are, however, other sad cases where autonomous vehicles rob people of their humanity in less violent ways.
Imagine what it must be like to be an astronaut in todays America.
One is reduced to being a desk-jockey button pusher because some jerk in Washington decides that its too *dangerous* for people to go up and fix satelites or explore space and because NASA can deploy autonomous vehicles instead.
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Politics is entirely composed of lies.
Simple.
They even lie in the truth, as it were "I did not have sexual relations with that woman (where 'sexual relations' is defined as coitus)" or "Had I known that *Al*Qaida* would attack *New*York* on *September* the *11th* I would have acted".
The invention of the 'nation state' is one of the worst things to happen to the human race in the last 10,000 years, barring epidemics such as black death or spanish flu. Maybe.
I'd be inclined to put disease organisms and national governments in the same category of vileness.
"Even then, most people as a whole weren't willing to."
but I doubt that the tribal cheif (or whatever) would have stopped anyone...
"until I see a rocket strapped to your ass"
It doesn't have to be on a rocket to be dangerous exploration. Believe me (or don't, whatever), I have stared death in the face while engaging in extremely risky exploration *plenty* of times so don't give me that shit.
We are all going to die.
The only question is do you die on your knees or do you die on your feet (or acceleration couch or whatever)?
yeah thats what I thought too.
It seems that almost every time I add;
"yeah yeah troll, flamebait, whatever"
(or words to that effect) to a post it gets modded up.
Go figure.
"The sad thing is the astornauts themselves are not the one's complaining."
Absolutely; its the ones making decisions that complain. They don't mind sending other peoples children to die in wars but they don't want to risk other peoples children in exploration. Bizarre.
"Making this an anti-American argument was just silly though."
I get the impression that many other nations, while not as active in space exploration at present are a lot less squeamish than the USA.
Sorry, but thats the impression I get.
If current trends continue, China will accelerate past the USA's manned space programme.
"And it's easy for you to say, not your ass on the line."
Since the days of pre-history when intrepid explorers navigated the Pacific ocean or the Bering land bridge, those explorers were risking their lives routinely.
Are we, today, so squeamish and pathetically cowardly that we can't emulate the feats of our forefathers (and foremothers)??
Exploration is a high risk activity. Either get over it or don't get a job as an astronaut.
Yeah exploration is *far* too dangerous to risk the lives of American astronauts.
American astronauts should sit at desks pushing their mouse around playing solitaire or somthing.
I really pity them... its sad that such cowardice should infect such a (formerly) great nation.
Yeah *troll*, *flamebait*, *whatever* but its true.
don't forget .eml attachments
but then you have other problems when users want to forward emails along.
I was completely wrong in another respect as well; it depends on a very specific vulnerability in a specific software package. I can't see it lasting.
"Back in DOS and Win3.1 days, many viruses"
and spread via infected floppies or binaries.
The vector makes all the difference; it required human intervention to get a virus onto a computer
(For the pedants: Mostly).
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"This worm has been found to be highly malicious, slowly destroying the systems it infects. Because of this activity, at some point this worm will cease to exist - unfortunately it will take all the affected systems with it. Rather than simply executing a "format C:" or similar destructive command, the worm slowly corrupts the filesystem while it continues to spread."
Like many biological viruses it slowly erodes the health of its host, permitting the host to go on infecting new hosts for some time. How long exactly appears to be unpredictable.
It doesn't kill its host outright immediately and it doesn't allow its host to continue indefinitely. Its like a true disease, a terminal illness for computers (pun not intended).
I think this will be with us for a while, particularly when mutations start showing up.
The whole of democracy (as we know it today) is a "political media show".
"A comparatively small number of countries can do it"
So your saying that, for example, Microsoft couldn't *possibly* produce one or more nukes?
(Or IBM, or Shell, or Haliburton for that matter?).
IIRC Clinton didn't exactly lie when he said "I did not have sexual relations with that woman" because 'sexual relations' was narrowly defined as 'coitus'.
If he had said he'd has 'sexual relations' and it transpired that she had merely blown him, *then* he would have lied under oath.
IIRC 'profane' means 'outside the temple' so I bloody well hope they start cracking down on references to God (or associates) made outside of an official church or temple or designated religious area.
Go FCC!
'But the colloquial definition of "born-again" means to be part of a "born-again" movement, not just a Christian.'
Indeed, and born-again-ness is a fundamental component of many pre-christian religions in Europe and Asia-minor (before they were exterminated by christians or moslems).
Christianity absorbed a great many concepts from these religions before they destroyed them, born-again-ness being just one of them. Another would be 'the devil'.
Most christians just assume that 'the devil' was originaly a Jewish concept. This is quite wrong; judaism has absolutely *nothing* resembling the christian devil. *Nothing*. (ie something which is super-powerful, rebelled against god and is trying to corrupt or destroy humanity, eat our souls, whatever).
I've often thought that refactoring the Linux kernel in Haskell would be rather nice.
C is the devils tool.
I know nothing about fluid breathing tech but I would guess that talking is difficult with lungs full of fluid.
Maybe this would make fluid breathing practical?
"many 3rd world ground forces are even going to spot it"
After all, for some truly *bizarre* and unfathomable reason, 3rd world nations pose the most imminent and dire threat to the security of the United States of America.
Yeah yeah troll, flamebait, *whatever*.
And 20 million Russians killed by starvation in WW2, maybe ban food? :-/
Exactly, if you had water poured over your desk and workstation several times an hour I bet they would be as clean as a toilet.
:)
Duh!
Of course, dude.
Capitalism works because of generic human stupidity and lack of awareness.
I *swear* that the human race is losing consciousness....
Aquateen Hunger Force 'Interfection' episode.
Wwwyzzardd: "You have been signed up to recieve free emails about other emails."
'And the surgery to have the implant inserted in the base of your skull is almost painless'
"most people are dolts"
:)
Well I'm glad that you at least see the truth in *that*.
I'm not objecting to robotic vehicles as such.
This project was initiated by DARPA; *defense* advanced research project agency.
There are, however, other sad cases where autonomous vehicles rob people of their humanity in less violent ways.
Imagine what it must be like to be an astronaut in todays America.
One is reduced to being a desk-jockey button pusher because some jerk in Washington decides that its too *dangerous* for people to go up and fix satelites or explore space and because NASA can deploy autonomous vehicles instead.