India's views on homosexuality are amongst the most hostile on the planet
India's views on inter-racial marriage, hell even marriage within the same race (as it is socially defined) but outside of your own caste is the most hostile on the planet. For that matter, India's views on just about every social issue are extremely hostile. They make the US look like a bastion of liberal tolerance.
We need a new legal category, Asshole. Beyond Guilty or Not Guilty the Asshole standard would be added after guilt or innocence so we could find someone was Not Guilty but still an Asshole.
But then, all of Congress would be in prison. Somehow, I don't think they'll pass something like that.
With all of these politicians, I'm never sure if they actually are so ignorant to reject science out of hand, or if they are so self-serving that they simply lie about what they actually believe in order to win votes from people who really are ignorant. I tend to think it's the latter, and that that is more despicable.
When it comes to politicians and lawyers (of course, there is considerable overlap), you can always count on the more despicable option.
If a creationist says that the Oort Cloud is unscientific, people mock them. But the reality is, it doesn't follow a single tenet of the scientific method. It exists purely because without it, the presence of comets in the solar system would prove that the solar system is too young. So a theoretical "comet-holding" cloud is invented out of thin air because long ages require it, not because of any sort of observation or because the facts led anyone there.
Funny, I thought the Oort Cloud hypothesis had something to do with the existence of long-period comets, their period being easily calculable according to orbital mechanics (but then you probably don't believe in that, either). What's next? Denial of detected background radiation since it is evidence of the Big Bang?
And I think it's worth me stating this outright, lest someone claim I am a shill for LS - I think their plan was stupid, their product flawed and their approach totally wrong, and I think that all of those things were obvious from day one.
Which is also why I think the FCC shares some responsibility here.
So, you are saying that the FCC should be a stonewalling, Catch-22ing, dinosaur? Personally, I find it refreshingly modern that they actually let LS try. If LS fucked it up, they have only themselves to blame.
That's my point - they were given provisional approval to proceed, and when they failed the tests the FCC allowed them for months to submit proposed solutions. The provisional approval should never have been given, as it's a totally different use for the band than allocated for in the license - the FCC should have closed the door right then and there.
Then we'd be reading a story about how some spoiled rich brat was suing because the mean ol' FCC wouldn't approve his nifty idea.
1. Spoiled rich brats usually aren't doing anything technical enough and affecting the EM spectrum enough to require FCC approval.
2. If they are, they usually have Daddy (or themselves if they are old enough) to buy off a few politicians to get the law changed, after a prolonged media campaign about "modernizing" the laws.
The most fascinating thing about this is the general hypocrisy involved. Whenever the whole "ClimateGate" matter occurred, Heartland was at the front of trumpeting the documents from that (which incidentally turned out to be utterly benign), with zero concern about the ethics of taking confidential documents from other people using hacking. Yet now, when the same thing happens to them, they use every bit of the legal system to go after not just the people who actually did do it but anyone who is then commenting or reproducing the documents. Really charming behavior.
You want to see even greater hypocrisy? Go to the Heartland Institute site and look up their articles on Tort Reform. Hypocrisy indeed!
Now if they could only figure out that carbon dioxide is not a pollutant, and therefore does not fall under the Clean Air Act either...
Well, anything is a pollutant in high enough quantities, but sometimes the cure is worse than the disease. The climate WILL change. If not from AWG, then from something else. Perhaps a meteor strike, or a massive volcano, or decreased/increased solar activity. Better to focus on creating an upwardly mobile society that can more easily adapt to these inevitable changes than to risk making society poorer and therefore less able to adapt. Within reason of course. Not to advocate for slash and burn in the name of economic expansion, but we're not ready to run our economies on windmills and horse manure yet.
Sure, and the human race could go completely batshit insane and commit mass suicide. Why don't you test this theory first on yourself?
Since people can't rationalize their hatred of science
Yea! Think about the Church of Global Warming
Church of Global Warming? Oh yeah! That's right next to the Church of Gravity and just up the street from the Church of Evolution and the Church of Quantum Mechanics.
We have freedom, and the love and admiration of the surviving family members of the bombed. We are bombing the Love into them.
So, in Apocolyse Now, when the air cavalry was flying in with the rising sun on their backs, they should have played Elton John's "Can You Feel The Love Tonight" instead?
Es tut mir leid. I must have gotten my joke detector at a car boot sale. Unfortunately, there are plenty of people who actually babble stuff similar to what you wrote, but are quite serious about it.
The advantage of the government holding this power though, is you can vote for someone else. Unfortunately, in the US there aren't enough options and elections are few and far between. Also the media is largely crappy and invested in the current political situation.
Well, therein lies the problem. We can either vote for the scum in office now, or we can vote for whichever totally batshit crazy candidate the Repugs will throw out there this time around.
People in the government who leak unauthorized information are people who have willfully disobeyed rules and procedures and display their own sense of self importance. This is not something to be encouraged, but something that must be prosecuted and punished because all the latest news of leakers has given the sense that this is somehow ok.
I think we must make them pay and pay hard.
So, if you uncovered classified documents proving Obama and Boehner were in cahoots running an underground pedophile ring staged out of the Lincoln Bedroom, you would just keep quiet?
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India's views on homosexuality are amongst the most hostile on the planet
India's views on inter-racial marriage, hell even marriage within the same race (as it is socially defined) but outside of your own caste is the most hostile on the planet. For that matter, India's views on just about every social issue are extremely hostile. They make the US look like a bastion of liberal tolerance.
We need a new legal category, Asshole. Beyond Guilty or Not Guilty the Asshole standard would be added after guilt or innocence so we could find someone was Not Guilty but still an Asshole.
But then, all of Congress would be in prison. Somehow, I don't think they'll pass something like that.
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With all of these politicians, I'm never sure if they actually are so ignorant to reject science out of hand, or if they are so self-serving that they simply lie about what they actually believe in order to win votes from people who really are ignorant. I tend to think it's the latter, and that that is more despicable.
When it comes to politicians and lawyers (of course, there is considerable overlap), you can always count on the more despicable option.
If a creationist says that the Oort Cloud is unscientific, people mock them. But the reality is, it doesn't follow a single tenet of the scientific method. It exists purely because without it, the presence of comets in the solar system would prove that the solar system is too young. So a theoretical "comet-holding" cloud is invented out of thin air because long ages require it, not because of any sort of observation or because the facts led anyone there.
Funny, I thought the Oort Cloud hypothesis had something to do with the existence of long-period comets, their period being easily calculable according to orbital mechanics (but then you probably don't believe in that, either). What's next? Denial of detected background radiation since it is evidence of the Big Bang?
It's also laughable how they believe there's even a remote possibility that they could swap spectrum with the DoD.
Indeed. The one agency that really could nuke them from orbit, just to be sure ^_^
And I think it's worth me stating this outright, lest someone claim I am a shill for LS - I think their plan was stupid, their product flawed and their approach totally wrong, and I think that all of those things were obvious from day one.
Which is also why I think the FCC shares some responsibility here.
So, you are saying that the FCC should be a stonewalling, Catch-22ing, dinosaur? Personally, I find it refreshingly modern that they actually let LS try. If LS fucked it up, they have only themselves to blame.
That's my point - they were given provisional approval to proceed, and when they failed the tests the FCC allowed them for months to submit proposed solutions. The provisional approval should never have been given, as it's a totally different use for the band than allocated for in the license - the FCC should have closed the door right then and there.
Then we'd be reading a story about how some spoiled rich brat was suing because the mean ol' FCC wouldn't approve his nifty idea.
1. Spoiled rich brats usually aren't doing anything technical enough and affecting the EM spectrum enough to require FCC approval.
2. If they are, they usually have Daddy (or themselves if they are old enough) to buy off a few politicians to get the law changed, after a prolonged media campaign about "modernizing" the laws.
all people at the institute rim goats and kiss underage boys. climate science is as false as my statement
Slanderous nonsense! Everyone knows they kiss goats and rim underage boys.
"methinks the lady doth protest too much"
if the documents were fake, they wouldn't elicit such a strong reaction. therefore, the documents are real
Not to be nit-picky, but when the queen said this in Hamlet, she meant "promise" too much, as the word was sometimes used then.
The most fascinating thing about this is the general hypocrisy involved. Whenever the whole "ClimateGate" matter occurred, Heartland was at the front of trumpeting the documents from that (which incidentally turned out to be utterly benign), with zero concern about the ethics of taking confidential documents from other people using hacking. Yet now, when the same thing happens to them, they use every bit of the legal system to go after not just the people who actually did do it but anyone who is then commenting or reproducing the documents. Really charming behavior.
You want to see even greater hypocrisy? Go to the Heartland Institute site and look up their articles on Tort Reform. Hypocrisy indeed!
Please, for the good of America. Shoot yourself. Now.
Now if they could only figure out that carbon dioxide is not a pollutant, and therefore does not fall under the Clean Air Act either...
Well, anything is a pollutant in high enough quantities, but sometimes the cure is worse than the disease. The climate WILL change. If not from AWG, then from something else. Perhaps a meteor strike, or a massive volcano, or decreased/increased solar activity. Better to focus on creating an upwardly mobile society that can more easily adapt to these inevitable changes than to risk making society poorer and therefore less able to adapt. Within reason of course. Not to advocate for slash and burn in the name of economic expansion, but we're not ready to run our economies on windmills and horse manure yet.
Sure, and the human race could go completely batshit insane and commit mass suicide. Why don't you test this theory first on yourself?
I thought it would be more along the lines of "Mr. Obama's Neighborhood".
Can you say, "Hope and Change?" I thought you could! Bwahahah!
We need coal-burning energy production like we need injections of benzene.
But, I love benzene! It's so yummy and )*&^&^%*&^[NO CARRIER]
That would require truly bizarre circumstances, bordering on world wide conspiracy involving hundreds thousands of people.
You apparently haven't been watching Alex Jones lately. Apparently, we are on the edge of the abyss. Again.
Since people can't rationalize their hatred of science
Yea! Think about the Church of Global Warming
Church of Global Warming? Oh yeah! That's right next to the Church of Gravity and just up the street from the Church of Evolution and the Church of Quantum Mechanics.
Given that China is hellbent on kicking the ass of every nation..
He says on a US-centric site. Oh, Irony, thou hast been outdone!
Okay, so run your own lines. You will then have:
1. Greater control
2. Greater security
3. Greater uptime (not competing with other users for limited bandwidth)
Oh, but that's right, it might cost a little more to set up a low-bandwidth network. I guess I should be thinking like a manager.
We have freedom, and the love and admiration of the surviving family members of the bombed. We are bombing the Love into them.
So, in Apocolyse Now, when the air cavalry was flying in with the rising sun on their backs, they should have played Elton John's "Can You Feel The Love Tonight" instead?
Where the fuck are my car keys?
So, you're saying that because the idea ran through her head, she must have given it proper thought.
Too bad she didn't just log into slashdot so she could get a more informed opinion.
Ah, the Internet! For all your important decisions!
Es tut mir leid. I must have gotten my joke detector at a car boot sale. Unfortunately, there are plenty of people who actually babble stuff similar to what you wrote, but are quite serious about it.
The advantage of the government holding this power though, is you can vote for someone else. Unfortunately, in the US there aren't enough options and elections are few and far between. Also the media is largely crappy and invested in the current political situation.
Well, therein lies the problem. We can either vote for the scum in office now, or we can vote for whichever totally batshit crazy candidate the Repugs will throw out there this time around.
People in the government who leak unauthorized information are people who have willfully disobeyed rules and procedures and display their own sense of self importance. This is not something to be encouraged, but something that must be prosecuted and punished because all the latest news of leakers has given the sense that this is somehow ok.
I think we must make them pay and pay hard.
So, if you uncovered classified documents proving Obama and Boehner were in cahoots running an underground pedophile ring staged out of the Lincoln Bedroom, you would just keep quiet?