The one thing you don't do, that you must never, ever do as a scientist is jump to conclusions on flimsy data
And yet the major thrust of everything you've been saying is to jump to the enormous, and currently unsupportable, conclusion that some UFOs are actually alien spacecraft which have, somehow, travelled billions of light years from their home worlds all the way here to Earth and then spend 10mins or so flying around, maybe a day or so inserting probes in rednecks and then somehow disappear.
Not so fast cowboy, I too remember the church I attended spent very little directly on charitable causes. How do I know this ? Because they published a breakdown of the income/expenses during the previous week in each Sunday newsletter. Mostly it was for the priests and the building.
V was awful. Possibly the worst ever day of my life is when I was forced to watch the whole thing from start to finish. It was some sort of dreadful Sci-Fi Dallasty.
A huge number of EU cars already do better than that so no luck required with that. You may need luck to translate that success over to America mind you where the extra 20 stone per American person might drag the figures down.
The chances are you don't actually pay for your healthcare out of your own pocket you probably buy insurance instead. EU healthcare is just like having an insurance company which includes the entire population and is thus more effective that smaller commercial insurance companies. The additional benefit we have is that we don't have to argue as to whether such and such an illness is covered in the policy - we're looked after brilliantly whatever the problem.
This is almost completely off topic but I visited Magnetic Island once which is the same general area as Bowen and one afternoon I saw a sign advertising a Kangaroo & Wild Animal Sanctuary which, bored of the beach, I decided to visit hoping to learn something about Kangaroos and other native Australian creatures.
The sanctuary was at the end of a dusty track and turned out to be a collection of dilapidated shacks and some worn out fencing surrounded by trees. Having rung the bell at the turnstile to summon an attendant my friend and I were already having our doubts about the place which were only heightened by the appearance of a jolly old crone who told us she was the owner of the sanctuary and would be happy to show us around.
The smaller kangeroos were in cages and shacks dotted around the property with a couple of paddocks with groups of kangeroos in them.
"What sort of Kangeroos are these ?" we asked "Ah, you know the sort that lives around here" she replied "Right ?" "Yeah, I mean really there's lots of kangeroos round here you might have seen some running around on your way up. All I do when I'm running out in the sanctuary is go out and trap a few and put them in the paddock so I don't go for any particular sort just whatever's about but you can see I've got the big ones in there and then the smaller ones in the sheds so you can get up close to them."
She also had a talking parrot in a cage she wanted us to meet and her annoying little yapping dog which had been following us around was also told to come and see the parrot because apparently they got on like a house on fire.
"He usually talks" she said banging on the side of his cage "Go on you bugger say something !"
The parrot was just staring out the dog which had stopped yapping and was beginning to look nervous.
Bang ! Bang ! Bang ! "Ah well the buggers staying quiet today alright but listen I need to get back to the TV but you blokes just have a look round and let yourselves out OK"
Once the crone had left the Parrot sideled up to the dog and said "Fuck off bugger" and the dog started yapping at it so the parrot started laughing at it and then gnashed it's beak and said "Come here bugger I'll have you !". The dog whimpered and ran off and the parrot told us to "Fuck Off !" so we did.
I once took a girlfriend... along Wet Beaver Creek
I must admit I was expecting a different outcome to this story but am relieved you stuck to the straight and narrow.
According to the Townsville Bulletin the area has been unusually wet lately so all the spiders have thought to themselves "Excellent nice ground to dig my burrow in and just enough water to drink - life is good !" Unfortunately now that the area has reverted back to it's normal dry condition their burrows don't have any water so rather than lurking down their holes as they would like they are being forced into wandering around outside to find water.
Also it's quite easy to see large planes heading towards tower blocks it's much harder to spot terrorist mole machines tunneling up to the lower floors and surrounding them with a jacket of high explosive.
Apparently they have just over 30million doses of Tamiflu in their stockpile so hopefully that would be enough to be going on with if it does hit here.
Duh, there's an excellent scientific documentary showing exactly how we can do this. I think it's called "The Core", the author is already working on his unobtanium powered "Mole" and I believe they've already made first contact with the Whales.
The fishing boats are already armed, they have anti aircraft guns and assorted other weaponary which is why the pirates don't attack them so much any more. I'm not sure many other countries have this particular problem and if they did I suspect the method other countries would use to deal with it would be send warships to sort out the fishing vessels.
Obviously Somalia doesn't have any warships and Somali fishermen are not capable of dealing with anti aircraft armed fishing raiders yet so they have decided to tax vessels moving through their waters in order to earn enough money to buy an effective counter to the armed fishing raiders. This is a perfectly acceptable international practice with a long pedigree since at least Elizabethan times if not longer.
Kraftwerk are 5 people pressing big play buttons and people are quite happy to go and to listen to them doing it.
What do you mean 'defeats the purpose' ? The purpose of musicians is to play music surely, and for a bonus have people pay them to continue making it, and if people come to listen to them doing it then their purpose is achieved is it not ?
Why would you be constrained to either going to concerts or listening to crappy bootlegs of concerts ? I, like most people, decide which bands I would like to go and listen to live based on the albums they produce. If their source of income is purely limited to what they make from live appearances then it's going to be in their interests to provide me, the potential listener, with a high quality sample of their work so I decide to pay money and come to listen to them live isn't it ?
The basic fact is some bands tour almost constantly and are excellent musicians but the bands most favoured by record companies hardly know one end of their instrument from the other, couldn't care less about playing their music and shift a lot of units in the targetted demographic. The sooner such bands/artists fall down dead the better.
What is 'electronic' music any different to any other sort of music ? I'd say a band such as Kraftwerk are probably a good example of what I'd call elelectronic music and they tour and perform just the same as any other band.
Having ridden on the NY subway and the equivalents in Madrid, Barcelona, Cologne and London I can say that NY is hardly the greatest. Look to the Spanish metro system if you really want to see how a properly integrated system should work.
Fair enough if you're 'dragged' into war but there's no way the US was dragged into the Iraq war, it actively sought a war and invented no end of trumped up lies to justify having one.
I'm actually not sure what sort of war it is when one side decides to simply pro-actively attack the other but it's surely not one I'd like to glorify in any way.
I have visited Machu Pichu and it's still in a fairly ruinous condition really so they didn't get everything exactly right. The method they used is no secret, simply using randomly shaped interlocking blocks of stone rather than regular courses helps the structure lock together in earthquakes and keep it standing and we could do the same thing today but it would probably quite labour intensive and expensive and not as effective as other cheaper methods using re-enforced concrete.
Also Machu Pichu is not all that old, probably no where near as old as the the medieval town L'Aquila in Italy is.
Hang on just a minute here, whilst this may well be against company policy its far from clear that the journalist has done anything actually illegal.
If he'd been making copies of the movie and distributing them then he would be in breach of the copyright but there's no evidence he was doing that, no siree none at all.
Writing about a movie does not violate copyright so his review was perfectly legal.
So what has he done that's illegal ? I'd say nothing at all.
I can't see any reason why NK would refuse to sell it's arms to the US, if the price is right then they'll sell. As to how much it would cost the US that depends on how keen they are to prevent other parties getting their hands on these weapons.
I would imagine the US might presume its self to be a target for other parties who do manage to buy NK nukes so the only question is how much do they value not having New York or Washington atomised by a nuclear capable terrorist. NK is obviously well within it's moral rights to manufacture goods for sale and sell them on the free market, once the US became a valued customer for their weapons its likely the NKs would take this into consideration when setting their prices for random terrorist groups so eventually the terrorists would be priced out of the market.
I'd like to the see the actual US citizens organise this themselves rather than rely on the federal government but until that is dismantled its probably the best organisation in a position to act.
I don't see how thats going to help you, all those random sites you visit will still be logged and since you don't have much control over what exactly you are visiting you may find yourself having to explain your interest in Islamic training camps or extreme child porn. Claiming that you didn't actually visit these places and your computer 'just randomly went there its self' is not going to cut much ice with your interrogation team.
It's obviously wrong for any government to place restrictions on the free market, this is a problem which can only be tackled using the market. If the US doesn't want other groups to buy any weapons on sale by North Korea they have the option of buying all the weaponary NK produces themselves and then disposing of them safely and responsibly.
I really don't know why everyone gets so worked up about the idea of evil AIs and robots wiping us all out.
It's highly likely that any AI we do develop will have less scope for moving around and manipulating it's environment than a chimpanzee and I would be utterly flabbergasted if we developed anything even a 100th as intelligent as a chimpanzee within the next couple of hundred years.
Chimpanzees have obviously not yet managed to wipe out humanity despite being far more capable, and probably motivated to do so, than any AI is going to be.
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And yet the major thrust of everything you've been saying is to jump to the enormous, and currently unsupportable, conclusion that some UFOs are actually alien spacecraft which have, somehow, travelled billions of light years from their home worlds all the way here to Earth and then spend 10mins or so flying around, maybe a day or so inserting probes in rednecks and then somehow disappear.
Not so fast cowboy, I too remember the church I attended spent very little directly on charitable causes. How do I know this ? Because they published a breakdown of the income/expenses during the previous week in each Sunday newsletter. Mostly it was for the priests and the building.
V was awful. Possibly the worst ever day of my life is when I was forced to watch the whole thing from start to finish. It was some sort of dreadful Sci-Fi Dallasty.
A huge number of EU cars already do better than that so no luck required with that. You may need luck to translate that success over to America mind you where the extra 20 stone per American person might drag the figures down.
Almost immediately, only 200 million years.
Yep the EU sure works great when it comes to trade. Where it falls down is where it branches out into making all sorts of other laws.
The chances are you don't actually pay for your healthcare out of your own pocket you probably buy insurance instead. EU healthcare is just like having an insurance company which includes the entire population and is thus more effective that smaller commercial insurance companies. The additional benefit we have is that we don't have to argue as to whether such and such an illness is covered in the policy - we're looked after brilliantly whatever the problem.
This is almost completely off topic but I visited Magnetic Island once which is the same general area as Bowen and one afternoon I saw a sign advertising a Kangaroo & Wild Animal Sanctuary which, bored of the beach, I decided to visit hoping to learn something about Kangaroos and other native Australian creatures.
The sanctuary was at the end of a dusty track and turned out to be a collection of dilapidated shacks and some worn out fencing surrounded by trees. Having rung the bell at the turnstile to summon an attendant my friend and I were already having our doubts about the place which were only heightened by the appearance of a jolly old crone who told us she was the owner of the sanctuary and would be happy to show us around.
The smaller kangeroos were in cages and shacks dotted around the property with a couple of paddocks with groups of kangeroos in them.
"What sort of Kangeroos are these ?" we asked
"Ah, you know the sort that lives around here" she replied
"Right ?"
"Yeah, I mean really there's lots of kangeroos round here you might have seen some running around on your way up. All I do when I'm running out in the sanctuary is go out and trap a few and put them in the paddock so I don't go for any particular sort just whatever's about but you can see I've got the big ones in there and then the smaller ones in the sheds so you can get up close to them."
She also had a talking parrot in a cage she wanted us to meet and her annoying little yapping dog which had been following us around was also told to come and see the parrot because apparently they got on like a house on fire.
"He usually talks" she said banging on the side of his cage "Go on you bugger say something !"
The parrot was just staring out the dog which had stopped yapping and was beginning to look nervous.
Bang ! Bang ! Bang ! "Ah well the buggers staying quiet today alright but listen I need to get back to the TV but you blokes just have a look round and let yourselves out OK"
Once the crone had left the Parrot sideled up to the dog and said
"Fuck off bugger" and the dog started yapping at it so the parrot started laughing at it and then gnashed it's beak and said "Come here bugger I'll have you !". The dog whimpered and ran off and the parrot told us to "Fuck Off !" so we did.
I must admit I was expecting a different outcome to this story but am relieved you stuck to the straight and narrow.
According to the Townsville Bulletin the area has been unusually wet lately so all the spiders have thought to themselves "Excellent nice ground to dig my burrow in and just enough water to drink - life is good !" Unfortunately now that the area has reverted back to it's normal dry condition their burrows don't have any water so rather than lurking down their holes as they would like they are being forced into wandering around outside to find water.
Also it's quite easy to see large planes heading towards tower blocks it's much harder to spot terrorist mole machines tunneling up to the lower floors and surrounding them with a jacket of high explosive.
Apparently they have just over 30million doses of Tamiflu in their stockpile so hopefully that would be enough to be going on with if it does hit here.
Duh, there's an excellent scientific documentary showing exactly how we can do this. I think it's called "The Core", the author is already working on his unobtanium powered "Mole" and I believe they've already made first contact with the Whales.
The fishing boats are already armed, they have anti aircraft guns and assorted other weaponary which is why the pirates don't attack them so much any more. I'm not sure many other countries have this particular problem and if they did I suspect the method other countries would use to deal with it would be send warships to sort out the fishing vessels.
Obviously Somalia doesn't have any warships and Somali fishermen are not capable of dealing with anti aircraft armed fishing raiders yet so they have decided to tax vessels moving through their waters in order to earn enough money to buy an effective counter to the armed fishing raiders. This is a perfectly acceptable international practice with a long pedigree since at least Elizabethan times if not longer.
Kraftwerk are 5 people pressing big play buttons and people are quite happy to go and to listen to them doing it.
What do you mean 'defeats the purpose' ? The purpose of musicians is to play music surely, and for a bonus have people pay them to continue making it, and if people come to listen to them doing it then their purpose is achieved is it not ?
Why would you be constrained to either going to concerts or listening to crappy bootlegs of concerts ? I, like most people, decide which bands I would like to go and listen to live based on the albums they produce. If their source of income is purely limited to what they make from live appearances then it's going to be in their interests to provide me, the potential listener, with a high quality sample of their work so I decide to pay money and come to listen to them live isn't it ?
The basic fact is some bands tour almost constantly and are excellent musicians but the bands most favoured by record companies hardly know one end of their instrument from the other, couldn't care less about playing their music and shift a lot of units in the targetted demographic. The sooner such bands/artists fall down dead the better.
What is 'electronic' music any different to any other sort of music ? I'd say a band such as Kraftwerk are probably a good example of what I'd call elelectronic music and they tour and perform just the same as any other band.
Having ridden on the NY subway and the equivalents in Madrid, Barcelona, Cologne and London I can say that NY is hardly the greatest. Look to the Spanish metro system if you really want to see how a properly integrated system should work.
Fair enough if you're 'dragged' into war but there's no way the US was dragged into the Iraq war, it actively sought a war and invented no end of trumped up lies to justify having one.
I'm actually not sure what sort of war it is when one side decides to simply pro-actively attack the other but it's surely not one I'd like to glorify in any way.
I have visited Machu Pichu and it's still in a fairly ruinous condition really so they didn't get everything exactly right. The method they used is no secret, simply using randomly shaped interlocking blocks of stone rather than regular courses helps the structure lock together in earthquakes and keep it standing and we could do the same thing today but it would probably quite labour intensive and expensive and not as effective as other cheaper methods using re-enforced concrete.
Also Machu Pichu is not all that old, probably no where near as old as the the medieval town L'Aquila in Italy is.
Hang on just a minute here, whilst this may well be against company policy its far from clear that the journalist has done anything actually illegal.
If he'd been making copies of the movie and distributing them then he would be in breach of the copyright but there's no evidence he was doing that, no siree none at all.
Writing about a movie does not violate copyright so his review was perfectly legal.
So what has he done that's illegal ? I'd say nothing at all.
I can't see any reason why NK would refuse to sell it's arms to the US, if the price is right then they'll sell. As to how much it would cost the US that depends on how keen they are to prevent other parties getting their hands on these weapons.
I would imagine the US might presume its self to be a target for other parties who do manage to buy NK nukes so the only question is how much do they value not having New York or Washington atomised by a nuclear capable terrorist. NK is obviously well within it's moral rights to manufacture goods for sale and sell them on the free market, once the US became a valued customer for their weapons its likely the NKs would take this into consideration when setting their prices for random terrorist groups so eventually the terrorists would be priced out of the market.
I'd like to the see the actual US citizens organise this themselves rather than rely on the federal government but until that is dismantled its probably the best organisation in a position to act.
I don't see how thats going to help you, all those random sites you visit will still be logged and since you don't have much control over what exactly you are visiting you may find yourself having to explain your interest in Islamic training camps or extreme child porn. Claiming that you didn't actually visit these places and your computer 'just randomly went there its self' is not going to cut much ice with your interrogation team.
It's obviously wrong for any government to place restrictions on the free market, this is a problem which can only be tackled using the market. If the US doesn't want other groups to buy any weapons on sale by North Korea they have the option of buying all the weaponary NK produces themselves and then disposing of them safely and responsibly.
I really don't know why everyone gets so worked up about the idea of evil AIs and robots wiping us all out.
It's highly likely that any AI we do develop will have less scope for moving around and manipulating it's environment than a chimpanzee and I would be utterly flabbergasted if we developed anything even a 100th as intelligent as a chimpanzee within the next couple of hundred years.
Chimpanzees have obviously not yet managed to wipe out humanity despite being far more capable, and probably motivated to do so, than any AI is going to be.
You are wrong. It is explainable and has been explained.