Yeah, genius, because invading them would be *so* much easier than repealing the U.S. laws that made it illegal to trade with Iraq in the 90's. Which is why the Europeans and Russia were trading with them and the U.S. was "left out".
Google is owned by people, many if not most of whom are American citizens, so yeah, the government is raiding their offices. If you owned a bakery, would it be OK for the government to search the place without a warrant? If a legal resident alien owned it, would it be OK?
Some people have a lot of books. My bookshelves are stacked 4 deep for paperbacks, and 2 deep for hardbacks. If I made them one deep, I'd run out of wall space in my 2000 sq ft house and I'd have to buy a bigger house.
Besides, why spend money on shelving when you can spend it on more books?:)
Reese wasn't Sarah Conner's son. Her son was the leader of the future resistance, and sent Reese back without telling him he was going actually his father.
You don't have to be a small business owner to see that those goals are incompatible. You just have to not be a moron. Of course, anyone who thinks the Republicans are currently providing greater economic freedoms than the Democrats isn't too bright either.
Ion thrusters are the last thing you'd want to use to move an asteroid. Mass driver would work far better. Your limiting factor would be the energy to drive your reaction mass, not the availability of reaction mass.
The *laws* can be established decades ahead of commercialization. Not ownership. The law would probably say the first entity that gets a working mine going on 3554 Amun gets to own it. When my ancestors homesteaded in Nebraska, they got 160 acres for free, but only if they farmed it and put a house on it.
Please mail me your computer, your iPod, and any other "possessions" of yours that I may mistakenly believe have "worth". Or are you still living with mommy and daddy?
Feel free to go back to living on the savannah. You'll be hyena turds within 24 hours.
The only problems with modern society is it subverts natural selection and gives morons way too much free time.
Uh, when they teach children about how people used to believe the world was flat, it's in the context of "this is what people used to believe before they figured out what it was *really* like". If they want to teach creationism the same way, I have no problem with it. Although I imagine a lot of people will.
If you post a response, please include non-idiotic evidence for ID. To prevent wasting my time with crap like "it violates entropy" or "irreducible complexity", please check out talkorigins first to see if any argument you plan on presenting hasn't already been thoroughly refuted. After all, unlike you, I'm going to cease to exist when I die so I really don't like wasting time wrestling with pigs.
Makes me think about the Larry Niven short story "Man Of Steel, Woman Of Kleenex" that speculates on what would happen if Superman were to get it on. The phrase "would gut her like a trout, then blow her brains through the top of her head" comes to mind.
And if he *did* manage to get a woman pregnant without killing her, once the baby starts kicking . . .
Here's something I thought was cool when I found out about it; your eyes are wired directly to your inner ears to improve their tracking ability. Hold something out in front of you and focus on a point on it, hold it still and move your head around. You can track it easily. Now hold your head still and move the object around; it's much harder to track.
I read Pat Buchanan's column every Monday and Wednesday. He seems quite intelligent. But he would want to teach ID in public schools. There seems to be some assumptions that he's not willing to question (and I suspect the same holds true of you).
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Yeah, genius, because invading them would be *so* much easier than repealing the U.S. laws that made it illegal to trade with Iraq in the 90's. Which is why the Europeans and Russia were trading with them and the U.S. was "left out".
Google is owned by people, many if not most of whom are American citizens, so yeah, the government is raiding their offices. If you owned a bakery, would it be OK for the government to search the place without a warrant? If a legal resident alien owned it, would it be OK?
Well, they can just let a contract to a private firm to do the searches and collate the data. Your dad's parole office could have done the same thing.
Hmmm. Wonder if there are any companies like that, and if there are, are they hiring . . .
You know, slander falls into this category. As well as yelling "Fire" in a crowded theater.
And when you're vertical, slow dancing is a lot more fun . . .
Looking at my hardware purchases since 1990, I'd say that hard drive density per dollar goes up an order of magnitude every 4 years. So:
2010: 5 terabyte
2014: 50 terabyte
2018: 0.5 petabyte
The main problem is, what are people going to use them for?
Some people have a lot of books. My bookshelves are stacked 4 deep for paperbacks, and 2 deep for hardbacks. If I made them one deep, I'd run out of wall space in my 2000 sq ft house and I'd have to buy a bigger house.
:)
Besides, why spend money on shelving when you can spend it on more books?
Ron Jeremy in hi-def. Thanks. You've just ruined my weekend.
Reese wasn't Sarah Conner's son. Her son was the leader of the future resistance, and sent Reese back without telling him he was going actually his father.
No, I'm Spartacus and so's my wife!
You don't have to be a small business owner to see that those goals are incompatible. You just have to not be a moron. Of course, anyone who thinks the Republicans are currently providing greater economic freedoms than the Democrats isn't too bright either.
The Rosenbergs weren't fried because they were Communists. They were fried because they helped pass the atom bomb designs to the Soviets.
Incidentally, after the collapse of the USSR, historians gained access to KGB documents, and yes, they were both guilty as hell of doing it.
Ion thrusters are the last thing you'd want to use to move an asteroid. Mass driver would work far better. Your limiting factor would be the energy to drive your reaction mass, not the availability of reaction mass.
The *laws* can be established decades ahead of commercialization. Not ownership. The law would probably say the first entity that gets a working mine going on 3554 Amun gets to own it. When my ancestors homesteaded in Nebraska, they got 160 acres for free, but only if they farmed it and put a house on it.
Please mail me your computer, your iPod, and any other "possessions" of yours that I may mistakenly believe have "worth". Or are you still living with mommy and daddy?
Feel free to go back to living on the savannah. You'll be hyena turds within 24 hours.
The only problems with modern society is it subverts natural selection and gives morons way too much free time.
Maybe he's Jewish.
No, *Satan* put them in the ground to make us believe in evolution and reject Christ. Please pay attention.
Uh, when they teach children about how people used to believe the world was flat, it's in the context of "this is what people used to believe before they figured out what it was *really* like". If they want to teach creationism the same way, I have no problem with it. Although I imagine a lot of people will.
If you post a response, please include non-idiotic evidence for ID. To prevent wasting my time with crap like "it violates entropy" or "irreducible complexity", please check out talkorigins first to see if any argument you plan on presenting hasn't already been thoroughly refuted. After all, unlike you, I'm going to cease to exist when I die so I really don't like wasting time wrestling with pigs.
Holy cow. They used that in "Cryptonomicon", but I thought the author just made it up.
Makes me think about the Larry Niven short story "Man Of Steel, Woman Of Kleenex" that speculates on what would happen if Superman were to get it on. The phrase "would gut her like a trout, then blow her brains through the top of her head" comes to mind.
And if he *did* manage to get a woman pregnant without killing her, once the baby starts kicking . . .
Just make sure your pilots aren't born-again Christians.
Here's something I thought was cool when I found out about it; your eyes are wired directly to your inner ears to improve their tracking ability. Hold something out in front of you and focus on a point on it, hold it still and move your head around. You can track it easily. Now hold your head still and move the object around; it's much harder to track.
Yeah, right. They can buy a couple dozen senators for less than the price of an F-16.
:)
Now carefully planned assassinations, that I can see
Yeah, it got extremely weird at the end. Although Cory Doctorow's "Ownz0red" is more topical.
I read Pat Buchanan's column every Monday and Wednesday. He seems quite intelligent. But he would want to teach ID in public schools. There seems to be some assumptions that he's not willing to question (and I suspect the same holds true of you).