Because, obviously, the cross is a Christian symbol. And since Satanists essentially believe Bible to be correct (albeit misleading) they had to have their own symbol.
As an atheist I quite respect some philosophical ideas behind Satanism: personal responsibility, freethinking, no emphasis on 'morals', etc. However, I can't care less about rituals and all that worship of Satan.
"Today at around 9:30 am, we detected water containing radiation dose over 1,000 mSv/h in the pit"
That doesn't make any sense. Sievert is a measure of absorbed radiation dose. The measure of 'radiactiveness' is Becquerel/Curie (per liter, kilogram, mole).
Some branches of Satanism think that Satan is at least as powerful as the God (which is not that far-fetched from the Biblical point of view). Other branches think that personal freedom is far better than slavery, even if their side is destined to lose.
And last but not least, a lot of Satanists are atheists who simply like to troll Christians.
Correction: implosion-type device will STILL go critical during the explosion. It just won't go supercritical and won't spend enough time in this state to generate sufficient amounts of heat for a large explosion.
"Cell phones" were invented independently many times, it's a fairly obvious idea.
However, its implementation is very complex. It was not technically possible to build a true cellular network until late 70-s.
A predecessor of cellular networks - a trunked mobile phone network was simultaneously developed in multiple countries. For example, the Soviet "Altai" mobile trunked phone system went live back in 1958 (about 4 months before analogous system in the USA).
So what? Mercury is contained naturally in a lot of minerals. It's dangerous only if it's concentrated enough. For example, in ash from coal powerplants.
My house is connected to 3 Internet providers. Each provider has a fiber-optic trunk line, mediaconverter and a switch with Cat5 wiring connecting individual flats to it.
Such providers are historically called "local local networks" (heh, almost like "ATM machines") here because they started appearing in late 90-s and early 2000-s when Internet connectivity was EXPENSIVE here, like 20 cents per _megabyte_ expensive. So operators of these networks provided 'local' resources for filesharing, game servers, forums, etc. Traffic to these local resources was either very cheap or completely free.
Oh, and I live in Ukraine.
So, wiring up everybody is possible. It's not that expensive because it was possible to do in a poor country 10 years ago. With much cheaper equipment it's even more possible now.
I can't find the Jini index for the USSR, and from my personal point of view USSR was quite egalitarian. For example, the difference in salary of CEO and an average worker on a factory was about 3-10 times. And an average worker often earned more than their immediate managers. Even the top members of the Communist Party lived quite modestly by today's standards for rich people.
"Under actual communism you would not have had a (pleasant) lifestyle provided for you - you would have been told "if you don't come to the government farm and work every day, you will starve to death. Under actual communism you would not have had a (pleasant) lifestyle provided for you - you would have been told "if you don't come to the government farm and work every day, you will starve to death."
Uhm. That's a pretty good description for a ruthless Ayan-Randian-capitalism.
The ideal communism would allow you to do your favorite job and get everything you want in return. That's exactly what makes it impossible in our current society.
But do you know what would happen if everyone started to use gold instead of fiat money? The answer: you wouldn't have any gold because you won't be able to save it from your starvation wages. What is good for an individual is not necessarily good for the economy as a whole.
"You are a troll, now I get it. You are a troll. Keynesians are what? They couldn't even predict what Austrian economics predicted correctly would have happened once the WWII ended - a boom. They thought that all that cheap labor force coming back from war and gov't stopping the war spending would send economy back into a depression."
And you're lying. Keynes correctly predicted a recession after the war end and it HAS happened (look it up - a recession of 1946 and 1947). It was not deep because the government's brains had not yet been eaten by the goldbuggers. Spare workforce was put into building the roads and inertia of WWII helped to boost consumption.
So I'm still waiting for a valid prediction different from Keynesian predictions from you. Can you find it? Of course, not.
"The video is from 2006. The guy is explaining the incoming 2008 crash in vivid details. He made money on shorting the mortgage market. So you are a fucking retard who is also ignorant, and with my SIGNATURE I refute your stupid ass claim that you sucked out of your asshole in that idiotic, retarded paragraph, moron."
You still don't get it? The scenario of the crash was predicted by Paul Krugman back in 2000-s and a dozen of other economists. It has NOTHING to do with gold standard or pegged currency. Absolutely NOTHING at all - bubbles can happen just fine in the gold-based economy, in fact they are AIDED by it because the limited supply of currency forces firms to use various credit mechanisms.
So you still have NO predictions at all. Zero. Zilch. None.
I think, next time you'll redefine 'sunrise' as 'inflation'.
And here's what happens when people listen to idiots like you: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ee_real_gdp_growth.svg - 20% of the GDP had been wiped by the austerity measures forced by the de-facto 'gold standard' (pegging the local currency to the euro).
"The only sound type of paper money is the kind that is simply a gold equivalent. If the currency has no reserve behind it, but it has a printing press - that's not money, it's not worth holding, it's not worth saving, it's a losing proposition, this has been shown over and over, by all the inflations, hyper-inflations, if you don't see it, you are blind."
No. You fucking goldbuggers don't know how economy works. Currency is not a way to replace gold, it's just an unforgeable token for certain amount wealth to be used in exchanges.
And the fact that we can change the amount of money in circulation with relative ease and use it to influence the economy is one of the greatest insights. And you want to throw it out for nothing.
Don't believe me? That's simple - prove me wrong. Show me a recent (50-60 years) crisis where a 'gold standard' of some kind (like pegging currency to dollar) and austerity has helped to make a sustainable recovery. I know of exactly ONE case, and in very unusual situation.
Slashdot Mirror
Oh, they've fixed the bit with Turing completeness - by adding JavaScript support to PDF.
Because, obviously, the cross is a Christian symbol. And since Satanists essentially believe Bible to be correct (albeit misleading) they had to have their own symbol.
As an atheist I quite respect some philosophical ideas behind Satanism: personal responsibility, freethinking, no emphasis on 'morals', etc. However, I can't care less about rituals and all that worship of Satan.
WTF?
"Today at around 9:30 am, we detected water containing radiation dose over 1,000 mSv/h in the pit"
That doesn't make any sense. Sievert is a measure of absorbed radiation dose. The measure of 'radiactiveness' is Becquerel/Curie (per liter, kilogram, mole).
"But not everyone on the Church is modern."
Yup. The Pope, for example.
Some branches of Satanism think that Satan is at least as powerful as the God (which is not that far-fetched from the Biblical point of view). Other branches think that personal freedom is far better than slavery, even if their side is destined to lose.
And last but not least, a lot of Satanists are atheists who simply like to troll Christians.
Sure, Catholics are encouraged to read the Bible.
They are just not encouraged to THINK about it. That's the whole point of the Index Libororum Prohibitorum.
Correction: implosion-type device will STILL go critical during the explosion. It just won't go supercritical and won't spend enough time in this state to generate sufficient amounts of heat for a large explosion.
I.e. you'll get a nuclear fizzle.
"Cell phones" were invented independently many times, it's a fairly obvious idea.
However, its implementation is very complex. It was not technically possible to build a true cellular network until late 70-s.
A predecessor of cellular networks - a trunked mobile phone network was simultaneously developed in multiple countries. For example, the Soviet "Altai" mobile trunked phone system went live back in 1958 (about 4 months before analogous system in the USA).
Well, we're Fukushima Daichi-d.
Coal-powered electric automobile is still cleaner than oil-powered cars.
So what? Mercury is contained naturally in a lot of minerals. It's dangerous only if it's concentrated enough. For example, in ash from coal powerplants.
Intensive means "with high enough frequency". Breaking chemical bonds usually results in formation of ions or radicals.
Though reactions like Cl + H2 come to mind which are catalyzed by visible light. And there are other cases where light can just be a trigger.
So you're right in general.
What does Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy has to do with HTTP?
Or do they have a new diagnostic technique?
Uhm. If a light is intensive enough to break chemical bonds than it's IONIZING by definition.
It's being done already, in other countries
My house is connected to 3 Internet providers. Each provider has a fiber-optic trunk line, mediaconverter and a switch with Cat5 wiring connecting individual flats to it.
Such providers are historically called "local local networks" (heh, almost like "ATM machines") here because they started appearing in late 90-s and early 2000-s when Internet connectivity was EXPENSIVE here, like 20 cents per _megabyte_ expensive. So operators of these networks provided 'local' resources for filesharing, game servers, forums, etc. Traffic to these local resources was either very cheap or completely free.
Oh, and I live in Ukraine.
So, wiring up everybody is possible. It's not that expensive because it was possible to do in a poor country 10 years ago. With much cheaper equipment it's even more possible now.
A small hint for you.
The USA != the world. Outside of the USA iPhone is available on multiple networks, and yet Android still beats it.
Don't use semantics to win an argument. It's standards compliant or it is not.
FireFox and Chrome are NOT standards-compliant. In fact, nobody implements the 4.2 spec completely and without problems.
"And no... IE9 is not yet standards compliant - better, yes - but as good as Chrome or FF (in that department)? No. "
IE9 is as good as Chrome or FF for all practical purposes in regards to standards compliance. It passes ACID3 with the same score as FF4, for example.
[citation needed]
I can't find the Jini index for the USSR, and from my personal point of view USSR was quite egalitarian. For example, the difference in salary of CEO and an average worker on a factory was about 3-10 times. And an average worker often earned more than their immediate managers. Even the top members of the Communist Party lived quite modestly by today's standards for rich people.
"Under actual communism you would not have had a (pleasant) lifestyle provided for you - you would have been told "if you don't come to the government farm and work every day, you will starve to death. Under actual communism you would not have had a (pleasant) lifestyle provided for you - you would have been told "if you don't come to the government farm and work every day, you will starve to death."
Uhm. That's a pretty good description for a ruthless Ayan-Randian-capitalism.
The ideal communism would allow you to do your favorite job and get everything you want in return. That's exactly what makes it impossible in our current society.
Under the REAL communism? Inventors would hack together a device to read books from the global library, because it's so much easier.
Of course, real communism can't exist in a scarcity-based economy.
Yeah, sure.
But do you know what would happen if everyone started to use gold instead of fiat money? The answer: you wouldn't have any gold because you won't be able to save it from your starvation wages. What is good for an individual is not necessarily good for the economy as a whole.
"You are a troll, now I get it. You are a troll. Keynesians are what? They couldn't even predict what Austrian economics predicted correctly would have happened once the WWII ended - a boom. They thought that all that cheap labor force coming back from war and gov't stopping the war spending would send economy back into a depression."
And you're lying. Keynes correctly predicted a recession after the war end and it HAS happened (look it up - a recession of 1946 and 1947). It was not deep because the government's brains had not yet been eaten by the goldbuggers. Spare workforce was put into building the roads and inertia of WWII helped to boost consumption.
So I'm still waiting for a valid prediction different from Keynesian predictions from you. Can you find it? Of course, not.
Oh no, you don't.
"The video is from 2006. The guy is explaining the incoming 2008 crash in vivid details. He made money on shorting the mortgage market. So you are a fucking retard who is also ignorant, and with my SIGNATURE I refute your stupid ass claim that you sucked out of your asshole in that idiotic, retarded paragraph, moron."
You still don't get it? The scenario of the crash was predicted by Paul Krugman back in 2000-s and a dozen of other economists. It has NOTHING to do with gold standard or pegged currency. Absolutely NOTHING at all - bubbles can happen just fine in the gold-based economy, in fact they are AIDED by it because the limited supply of currency forces firms to use various credit mechanisms.
So you still have NO predictions at all. Zero. Zilch. None.
You're back at redefining what the "inflation" means. For morons - it means an increase of prices which is nowhere to be seen. Indeed, it has actually fallen http://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2010/02/core-inflation-declines-for-first-time.html which had been PREDICTED by the Keynesian economists.
I think, next time you'll redefine 'sunrise' as 'inflation'.
And here's what happens when people listen to idiots like you: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ee_real_gdp_growth.svg - 20% of the GDP had been wiped by the austerity measures forced by the de-facto 'gold standard' (pegging the local currency to the euro).
Oh, or maybe an example of Britain should help you? http://www.usatoday.com/money/world/2011-01-25-britain-economy_N.htm - austerity measures kick in and economy 'surpisingly' stalls. Why would that happen when government slashes spending and pledges austerity?
Do you understand that you have exactly ZERO
"The only sound type of paper money is the kind that is simply a gold equivalent. If the currency has no reserve behind it, but it has a printing press - that's not money, it's not worth holding, it's not worth saving, it's a losing proposition, this has been shown over and over, by all the inflations, hyper-inflations, if you don't see it, you are blind."
No. You fucking goldbuggers don't know how economy works. Currency is not a way to replace gold, it's just an unforgeable token for certain amount wealth to be used in exchanges.
And the fact that we can change the amount of money in circulation with relative ease and use it to influence the economy is one of the greatest insights. And you want to throw it out for nothing.
Don't believe me? That's simple - prove me wrong. Show me a recent (50-60 years) crisis where a 'gold standard' of some kind (like pegging currency to dollar) and austerity has helped to make a sustainable recovery. I know of exactly ONE case, and in very unusual situation.