Oh, absolutely. That whole hysteria about WWII was even more ridiculous. I mean, what were the odds of a German attacking in Iowa?!? Yet people were going insane with rubber drives and paper drives, and rationing and all sorts of thing. Mass hysteria. They should have been much more worried about their cholesterol intake.
Yeah, they're almost as bad as the ones who go around labeling Christians as nutbags. No matter what kind of evidence you point at them like, say, the writings of C.S. Lewis, or Aquinas or Augustine or Calvin, or Wesley or Luther or Origien or Tertullian, they just go on believing that all Christians are nutbags.
Yeah, right. Snotty kid brags about turning a G5 into a PC, gets about 30,000 emails, many of them variations on the theme of: You are a total idiot, and a few days later, said kid comes out and says: Uh, it was just a hoax, guys, I didn't really do it.
The only reason you expect to get less sold out by liberals is because you've fallen for the propaganda. If you do any kind of research into the facts, you'll find that it's the liberals in these governments all over the world that are completely in bed with business. And if you took the time to think about it, you'd see why. Liberalism is about government control of all aspects of business. Well, if you are controlling business, then the business will seduce you to control them favorably. If your philosophy is hands off the business (the conservative agenda, generally speaking), then there is no point in the business cozying up to you because you aren't going to give them any favors.
The one thing I will give liberals. They're very good at propaganda.
The US isn't invading North Korea for three reasons:
North Korea has Nukes. North Korean nukes can hit South Korean cities. Kim Il Jong is willing to talk. Saddam wasn't.
This whole oil idea is so stupid I'm surprised people still bring it up. You'd think they'd be ashamed at looking like total morons.
If you wanted cheap oil, all you had to do was lift the sanctions. Saddam didn't have a problem selling his oil to the US at all.
If you wanted cheap oil, invading Kuwait is a whole lot easier than invading Iraq.
Iraq was simply what it was stated to be: The removal of a threat to the United States while the threat was still manageable. We're safer because of it, and the Iraqi people are better off because of it.
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Pollution is NOT a cumulative thing. Biological systems are self-purifying. Talk to any chemist. It's the dosage, not the substance. Toxicity is all about dosage.
There is NOT horrible proof right in our faces. Frogs mutate easily. This has been true since the beginning of frogs.
The Earth spews out toxins. This has been the case since the beginning of the Earth.
Biological systems are not as delicate and sensitive as certain environmental fearmongers would have you believe. This has been true since the beginning of life.
Most environmental activists are simply watermelons. Green on the outside, Red on the inside. The modern environmentalist movement is home for all the communists and socialists who were discredited with the fall of the Soviet Union.
You want proof? Go to an environmental protest sometime. Count the number of signs attacking globalization and capitalism despite the fact that capitalist nations have the cleanest environments in the world. See how many booths you can spot hosted by ANWAR and other communist organizations.
What do you mean terrorists are not allied with any country and have no home bases of any sort?
How do they get training camps? How do they get weapons? How do they get funding?
The truth is, terrorists are the COVERT armies of any number of nations who like what the terrorists do, but want to be able to keep their involvement at a distance.
Thus you have Afghanistan housing terrorists. Iraq offering training facilities and money. Iran providing haven. Syria smuggling weapons, etc.
Terrorists can only be effective WHEN they have alliances with various nations.
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Be prepared to be modded down. Thinking is not allowed here. Only hysteria is permitted.
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Um, maybe because of the first line of your post? Frogs are hypersensitive to this stuff. What mutates a frog doesn't even make a human baby burp.
--- Ruling people is easy. Make them terrified then offer to deliver them from their fear.
Who would use photovoltaic cells? For crying out loud, you make a mirror farm and focus the sun on a point source. You've got two weeks of sunlight in a vaccum in a 1/6th gravity field. You can make tremendously efficient solar power stations on the moon.
That would be the treat the US followed beyond its requirements to do so, even to the point of formally announcing its intent to withdraw according to the terms specifically outlined in the treaty, even though the government with which the treaty was signed no longer existed?
That's the ABM treaty you are talking about, right?
The American military today is worried about pinpoint precision precisely BECAUSE we have the ability to wipe out any nation on the planet if we need to, and they know it, so they attack us in different ways (a lot of it pscyhological, which, after listening to many of the people on slashdot, they seem to be doing quite well at).
That psychological aspect is a vital part of any war (read some Sun Tzu). A strong US Military (or more likely allied presence, since Britain, Poland, Australia, and other US allies will be up there, too) will have a VERY powerful psychological effect against our enemies. Just KNOWING we could drop a rock on, say, Syria, would do a lot to keep that country in line in the smaller things. Esp. when we can create a nuclear explosion without the nasty radioactive fallout.
Actually, the moon has the best of both worlds (pardon the pun).
Enough gravity to be useful (it's way easier to build things in gravity than not). A large stable base (as in bedrock, anchors for building foundations, etc.), an enormous supply of raw materials, yet a low enough gravity to where getting into orbit is extremely easy.
You want to talk about space elevators? We could build them from the moon with today's technology.
You need space stations? Build them in Lunar orbit. It takes a fraction of the energy, and you can orbit them 10 miles up if you want to.
Folks, the moon makes enormous sense if you want to BE in space. If all you are interested in is SYMBOLIC GESTURES about space, then a dozen Apollo-like trips to Mars is what you want.
Well, considering the M and the A applied to the Soviet Union and NOT the United States since we're not the ones who publicly proclaimed the goal of our system of government was global domination and the murder of all capitalists, and then promptly attempted to bring it about (Korea, Vietnam, Cambodia, Cuba, Nicaruagua, Laos, China, Greece, Turkey, etc. etc.), I don't see what point you are trying to make, other than loudly proclaiming you have been successfully indocrinated by the American Public Education system.
The ignorance here is astounding. It is NOT possible to derive self-replicating RNA molecules simply by mixing the precursor chemicals together. They won't form. The intermediary chemicals are unstable and will collapse back into the primordial goup. That's why the time frame is so ridiculously long.
And many of the precursor chemicals do NOT exist outside of living organisms. You may find Adenine in a nebula, but I don't think you're going to find N10-Formyl-THF in an interstellar gas cloud.
Actually, for Earth-like life, we have a pretty good idea of what precursor chemicals are required for replication to commence. And since we are looking for Earth-like life on Mars (for the simple reason that it is the kind we can easily recognize), the same rules on precursor chemicals applies.
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No wonder you're whining about losing jobs when your first response to something that's hard to do is: It's not a viable option.
Remind me never to hire your sorry a$$ for anything.
Sagan's ghost writer was quite good.
In 1969, an American stood on the surface of the moon. In 2004, a golf cart travels 300 yards, and another finds what MAY have been mud.
Guess which one we're more excited about?
If you think a Democrat is EVER going to reduce the deficit, I've got a bridge in Brooklyn to sell you.
Oh, absolutely. That whole hysteria about WWII was even more ridiculous. I mean, what were the odds of a German attacking in Iowa?!? Yet people were going insane with rubber drives and paper drives, and rationing and all sorts of thing. Mass hysteria. They should have been much more worried about their cholesterol intake.
Citing Bowling for Columbine is like citing the National Enquirer. Neither one has much of a basis in reality.
Yeah, they're almost as bad as the ones who go around labeling Christians as nutbags. No matter what kind of evidence you point at them like, say, the writings of C.S. Lewis, or Aquinas or Augustine or Calvin, or Wesley or Luther or Origien or Tertullian, they just go on believing that all Christians are nutbags.
Yeah, right. Snotty kid brags about turning a G5 into a PC, gets about 30,000 emails, many of them variations on the theme of: You are a total idiot, and a few days later, said kid comes out and says: Uh, it was just a hoax, guys, I didn't really do it.
Uh-huh. Sure.
You're talking dwarfism, I'm talking true midgets, who are perfectly proportioned.
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Charles Sherwood Stratton (General Tom Thumb) and his wife Lavinia Warren come to mind.
Stratton was 25 inches tall and perfectly proportioned. He could sing, dance and mime.
Lavinia Warren was 32 inches tall and perfectly proportioned. She worked as a shool teacher before being hired by Barnum and marrying Stratton.
Here's a wedding photo
http://www.npr.org/programs/disability/ba_shows
The only reason you expect to get less sold out by liberals is because you've fallen for the propaganda. If you do any kind of research into the facts, you'll find that it's the liberals in these governments all over the world that are completely in bed with business. And if you took the time to think about it, you'd see why. Liberalism is about government control of all aspects of business. Well, if you are controlling business, then the business will seduce you to control them favorably. If your philosophy is hands off the business (the conservative agenda, generally speaking), then there is no point in the business cozying up to you because you aren't going to give them any favors.
The one thing I will give liberals. They're very good at propaganda.
The US isn't invading North Korea for three reasons:
North Korea has Nukes.
North Korean nukes can hit South Korean cities.
Kim Il Jong is willing to talk. Saddam wasn't.
This whole oil idea is so stupid I'm surprised people still bring it up. You'd think they'd be ashamed at looking like total morons.
If you wanted cheap oil, all you had to do was lift the sanctions. Saddam didn't have a problem selling his oil to the US at all.
If you wanted cheap oil, invading Kuwait is a whole lot easier than invading Iraq.
Iraq was simply what it was stated to be: The removal of a threat to the United States while the threat was still manageable. We're safer because of it, and the Iraqi people are better off because of it.
Or why human midgets can have a brain size smaller than a chimpanzee and still have a genius IQ.
I think brain size is probably the least important determiner of human intelligence.
Um, the scroll wheel is a hardware patent.
Pollution is NOT a cumulative thing. Biological systems are self-purifying. Talk to any chemist. It's the dosage, not the substance. Toxicity is all about dosage.
There is NOT horrible proof right in our faces. Frogs mutate easily. This has been true since the beginning of frogs.
The Earth spews out toxins. This has been the case since the beginning of the Earth.
Biological systems are not as delicate and sensitive as certain environmental fearmongers would have you believe. This has been true since the beginning of life.
Most environmental activists are simply watermelons. Green on the outside, Red on the inside. The modern environmentalist movement is home for all the communists and socialists who were discredited with the fall of the Soviet Union.
You want proof? Go to an environmental protest sometime. Count the number of signs attacking globalization and capitalism despite the fact that capitalist nations have the cleanest environments in the world. See how many booths you can spot hosted by ANWAR and other communist organizations.
What do you mean terrorists are not allied with any country and have no home bases of any sort?
How do they get training camps? How do they get weapons? How do they get funding?
The truth is, terrorists are the COVERT armies of any number of nations who like what the terrorists do, but want to be able to keep their involvement at a distance.
Thus you have Afghanistan housing terrorists. Iraq offering training facilities and money. Iran providing haven. Syria smuggling weapons, etc.
Terrorists can only be effective WHEN they have alliances with various nations.
Be prepared to be modded down. Thinking is not allowed here. Only hysteria is permitted.
Um, maybe because of the first line of your post? Frogs are hypersensitive to this stuff. What mutates a frog doesn't even make a human baby burp.
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Ruling people is easy. Make them terrified then offer to deliver them from their fear.
Who would use photovoltaic cells? For crying out loud, you make a mirror farm and focus the sun on a point source. You've got two weeks of sunlight in a vaccum in a 1/6th gravity field. You can make tremendously efficient solar power stations on the moon.
That would be the treat the US followed beyond its requirements to do so, even to the point of formally announcing its intent to withdraw according to the terms specifically outlined in the treaty, even though the government with which the treaty was signed no longer existed?
That's the ABM treaty you are talking about, right?
OK. A little lesson on military strategy.
The American military today is worried about pinpoint precision precisely BECAUSE we have the ability to wipe out any nation on the planet if we need to, and they know it, so they attack us in different ways (a lot of it pscyhological, which, after listening to many of the people on slashdot, they seem to be doing quite well at).
That psychological aspect is a vital part of any war (read some Sun Tzu). A strong US Military (or more likely allied presence, since Britain, Poland, Australia, and other US allies will be up there, too) will have a VERY powerful psychological effect against our enemies. Just KNOWING we could drop a rock on, say, Syria, would do a lot to keep that country in line in the smaller things. Esp. when we can create a nuclear explosion without the nasty radioactive fallout.
Actually, the moon has the best of both worlds (pardon the pun).
Enough gravity to be useful (it's way easier to build things in gravity than not). A large stable base (as in bedrock, anchors for building foundations, etc.), an enormous supply of raw materials, yet a low enough gravity to where getting into orbit is extremely easy.
You want to talk about space elevators? We could build them from the moon with today's technology.
You need space stations? Build them in Lunar orbit. It takes a fraction of the energy, and you can orbit them 10 miles up if you want to.
Folks, the moon makes enormous sense if you want to BE in space. If all you are interested in is SYMBOLIC GESTURES about space, then a dozen Apollo-like trips to Mars is what you want.
Well, considering the M and the A applied to the Soviet Union and NOT the United States since we're not the ones who publicly proclaimed the goal of our system of government was global domination and the murder of all capitalists, and then promptly attempted to bring it about (Korea, Vietnam, Cambodia, Cuba, Nicaruagua, Laos, China, Greece, Turkey, etc. etc.), I don't see what point you are trying to make, other than loudly proclaiming you have been successfully indocrinated by the American Public Education system.
The headline I want to see is:
Autozone sues SCO under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act for attempted extortion.
The ignorance here is astounding. It is NOT possible to derive self-replicating RNA molecules simply by mixing the precursor chemicals together. They won't form. The intermediary chemicals are unstable and will collapse back into the primordial goup. That's why the time frame is so ridiculously long.
And many of the precursor chemicals do NOT exist outside of living organisms. You may find Adenine in a nebula, but I don't think you're going to find N10-Formyl-THF in an interstellar gas cloud.
Actually, for Earth-like life, we have a pretty good idea of what precursor chemicals are required for replication to commence. And since we are looking for Earth-like life on Mars (for the simple reason that it is the kind we can easily recognize), the same rules on precursor chemicals applies.