You are of course referring to the Total Perspective Vortex, which all extremists of any sort should be forced into.
Why bother building such a thing. All you need is an island. Dump all the extremists on it and they'll annihilate each other.
(This is because of the principle of supersymetrie. For every extremist there is an equaly hatefull anti-extremist. e.g. the White suppremist and the anti-white suppremist, better know as the Muslim fundamentalist)
The real question is: Why would the FBI mail him anything without first confiscating the evidence? Why give him the chance to destroy the evidence?
Is the FBI run by Chief Wiggum?
I hadn't recognized that pr0n is not only comparable to organized crime, drug dealing and child abuse but was also an explicit indicator of the end times.
Pr0n is loosing its taboos and that tends to scare a lot of people. I don't believe these are the signs of the end of the world, just signs of change. You could argue that the loss of morals ended the Roman empire, but that wasn't the end of the world, just another change in it.
Their's nothing stopping you from removing the cover of your favorite electronic gadget or appliance and seeing what components it uses.
Nothing? There are plenty IC you can't optain, because they are specialy made for one particular corporation. And how about the many differend flavors of programmable ICs? Many are protected against having their code read.
What I am saying is that if you turn control of your software code over to someone else, you run the risk of them altering it to their advantage.
That's a nice example of paranoia. And why wouldn't US companies do the same. Especialy when a particular government agency would ask for it.
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Perhaps that dude you captured wasn't the real Saddam. Sure, his DNA matches with that of Saddams sons, but that could also mean Saddams wifes didn't know that guy wasn't Saddam.
why is suicide morally wrong in the west when it is honourable (or can be) in the east?
One word: religion.
Western society had centuries of religious suppression from the Catholic church. And that religion says that only God (and, ofcourse, the power hungry dictators who controlled the church) can decide when you should die.
By commiting suicide you take away some of Gods power.
They will, eventually. Governments are slow (except when it comes to taxes) and it'll take some time before spam topics will become wide spread enough for politicians to notice them (they only notice those problems that'll win them the most votes).
The situation of every man, woman and child on this world is immeasurably better than than it was even 100 years ago and much of that is due to capitalist endeavors.
For us, sure, things are pretty good. But you do know there are still plenty of people who die of diseases that could be easily cured if they could afford to buy the medication (medication that's even used on animals to make them grow faster rather than to cure illness, because it's more profitable)? That there are still plenty of people who can hardly feed themselfs? And not all of those people live in an African (or asian) country with an unpronouceble name. You might want to visit a local homeless shelter.
We are the lucky few on the bright side of capitalisme.
Mind you, I'm as pro-capitalism as they come, so being driven by the battle cry of "returns!" is a good thing, IMHO.
When someone starts a company, (s)he does it with the purpose to earn the salt on his/her potatoes, makeing the world a better place could be a second objective, but mainly it's like any other job.
I'm not a capitalist, but at the moment capitalisme is the most succesfull. It would be nice if we would be working to better ourselves and rest of humanity, but so far no one has figured out how to make that work in the real world. Even communisme has a leathal flaw in it nobody so far was able to remove (They had to build a wall around their country to keep their inhabitants inside, think that says enough)
The americans are still interested in americaizing us with american news and stole the de-domain.
And now you want to use the name recognition of slashdot for another site. Its creators have spend their time and effords to build it up from scratch and I can understand they wouldn't like to discover someone else to use a simular name to steal traffic away from them.
If you want a German news site, then go ahead and invent a name for it yourself or start negotiating. But at least show some respect for other peoples work.
(Put "IMHO" at the appropriated places)
I'm at GMT +1. I can hardly be blamed for time zones, can I?
I thought it was funny to write happy new year that late. I finished sending my best wishes sometime around 1h30 last night (local time). (Sending an SMS at newyears eve is almost impossible here)
I assume this means it would need to have been told where to point the solar panel or something like that. But the news articles I read made it not sound silly, like some control-freak designed it and chose not to use an automatic system. I know it cannot be that simple.
My guess is that it can't communicate or perform usefull tasks while it's recharging. And perhaps they want to be able to control when it's not active.
Another guess would be that an automatic system would be too expensive in cost and weight.
On the other hand, NASA has two spacecraft on the way to Mars right now. The first one will land on January 3rd.
Now if NASA started a gambling departement, they could take bets on where the probe would land and in how many pieces. They might be able to fund their missions with it.
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(This is because of the principle of supersymetrie. For every extremist there is an equaly hatefull anti-extremist. e.g. the White suppremist and the anti-white suppremist, better know as the Muslim fundamentalist)
We have forgotten we're all monkeys who fell from the same tree.
I think Hollywood and the porn industry are the same thing. they both produces movies with lots of visuals and a crapy story.
Perhaps that dude you captured wasn't the real Saddam. Sure, his DNA matches with that of Saddams sons, but that could also mean Saddams wifes didn't know that guy wasn't Saddam.
Western society had centuries of religious suppression from the Catholic church. And that religion says that only God (and, ofcourse, the power hungry dictators who controlled the church) can decide when you should die.
By commiting suicide you take away some of Gods power.
Are piranas dangerouse to humans?
Can nude people survive on the North Pole?
Is there really no air in space?
Is smoking in a gasoline filled room dangerous?
Can humans conduct electricity between high voltage lines?
Can people really live inside a whale?
If an anvil is droped on someones head, does he really see birds and stars flying around his head?
They will, eventually. Governments are slow (except when it comes to taxes) and it'll take some time before spam topics will become wide spread enough for politicians to notice them (they only notice those problems that'll win them the most votes).
We are the lucky few on the bright side of capitalisme.
I'm not a capitalist, but at the moment capitalisme is the most succesfull. It would be nice if we would be working to better ourselves and rest of humanity, but so far no one has figured out how to make that work in the real world. Even communisme has a leathal flaw in it nobody so far was able to remove (They had to build a wall around their country to keep their inhabitants inside, think that says enough)
I guess there's still a lot of work ahead.
If you want a German news site, then go ahead and invent a name for it yourself or start negotiating. But at least show some respect for other peoples work.
(Put "IMHO" at the appropriated places)
I'm at GMT +1. I can hardly be blamed for time zones, can I?
I thought it was funny to write happy new year that late. I finished sending my best wishes sometime around 1h30 last night (local time). (Sending an SMS at newyears eve is almost impossible here)
Guess AC had a good party.
Lawyers don't reproduce. They are cast into existence by the forces of evil.
Another guess would be that an automatic system would be too expensive in cost and weight.
Nor in the favor of the other party. The 3th Reigh didn't exactly last its 1000 years.