That god(s) is certainly a tricky fellow. Imagine being able to conjure up all this extraordinary evidence, for the sole purpose of casting doubt on your own existence! I mean, you either accept that or the unlikely conclusion that some group of barbarians several millenia ago may have made some stuff up after eating unusually coloured mushrooms!
I've been wondering recently if the US news services are actually taking money/favours when putting together their news broadcasts. With what is happening in US politics I'm absolutely astounded that the media are not having a field day with some of these events. Why are people not being held accountable? Why are the hard questions not being asked? The only people who seem to be doing this are Stewart, Colbert and Olbermann and 2 out of the 3 are working under the guise of comedy.
I thought the visit by George Galloway to the US Congress highlighted some of the differences in the way politics works in different democracies, he basically stunned the congress by simply refuting the facts and pointing out the reality of the situation without worrying about ruffling feathers, at this point I thought that cultural differences may explain the poor news coverage, in that it was simply the American way to not want to be seen to criticise itself in any way, but some of the most recent coverage I've seen has been too blatantly partisan than to be explained away by any other means than someones getting paid to spin news stories.
I feel it is of vital importance to a healthy political system to have a strong independant news source that is funded by public money outside of governmental/corporate control. Do you have one in the USA that i'm not aware of?
Sounds more like they were transferring the quantum state of a Bose-Einstein condensate FTFA - "onto a cloud of room-temperature cesium atoms whose spins were all pointing in the same direction", in which case isn't this more or less the same process as transmitting the quantum state of a single atom?
Talk to your kids, explain the facts and don't try to hide the ugly stuff. Treat your children as human beings that are able to think for themselves, otherwise you may as well pull out all your wall sockets and lock them in a padded room.
Kids should be allowed to make mistakes, but let them know in no uncertain terms that there are some things they cannot afford to make a mistake with even once, and this is one of them.
I think lessons like this can be extrapolated to a national level as well, bad things can, and will happen. But a fortress mentality or an attempt to control information is always going to be doomed to failure.
Ohh and stop electing Perverts and Fuckwits.
Seems to me that this is the logical conclusion to the great Capitalist experiment. Welcome to the world of competition folks, want to keep your jobs? Do it cheaper, better, smarter or occupy a niche market that cannot be offshored.
Methane, itself, is a much more potent greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide. If these Hydrate deposits are released we'll see the mother of all positive feedback cycles.
The Acacia tree is sensitive to chemicals given off by other Acacia trees when they are damaged. It responds by increasing it's Tannin production in order to help ward off possible predators. I'm not sure of what the scientific definition of smell is, but I'd probably define it as "the ability to sense the existance of airborne chemicals".
Whereas in The US, the President believes we are in the 'end times', is willing to start illegal wars, and has his alcoholic/ex Drug using finger firmly on the launch button.
The cold fusion cells just keep chugging along, producing excess energy indifferent to the army of physicists wishing they'd just stop making life difficult and play by the rules.
In Siberia the Methane Hydrate deposits are largely capped by permafrost. This is not the case in the Gulf Of Mexico, nor in ANWR. Your analogy does not hold true, though it is certainly anal.
The point of my post is that another inhibitor of offshore drilling in the Arctic Circle is the existance of unstable Methane Hydrate deposits.
I disagree, I believe a much more achievable short term solution for getting large amounts of materials into space, would be to start investing in Railguns/Massdriver technology:
I wouldn't worry to much about it. The gigatonnes of trapped methane hydrate deposits will soon erupt all by themselves, once the permafrost cap melts.
DVD, CD technology are both crap, I'd say at least 25% of the time I have problems with playing a DVD (especially if children have been near it).
Surely we can come up with a better medium than these coasters. I have the feeling that 'Big Money' are more interested in built in obsolesence and format lock-in than in longevity and useability.
I'm still waiting for a digital storage/retrieval medium thats better than a hard-drive, surely that can't be too difficult?
Sounds like a great idea but I'm still a bit skeptical about the composition of the byproducts. Contaminants like mercury don't simply go away, I assume they will be bound into the sludge portion of the byproduct, which is likely to be quite high given the fact that they are re-processing sewage.
What about the Dioxins from vapourised plastics, A plasma arc produces an incredible heat but Dioxins are also very resistant to being broken down in this way.
Sulphur? How is this kept out of the exhaust gases?
You want to block Indians and Asians from accessing a website by posing a mathematical problem that Americans can solve without a calculator, but they can't?
Last I Heard he'd gone bush somewhere in Russia. Let's face it this guy is just not interested in Awards/Prizes, he just wants to play with his math and be left alone.
Most Atheists I have had contact with would cringe at your description. I think you'll find it goes a bit more like this:
(Soft) Atheist: is the lack of belief in the existence of God(s), without claiming their non-existance
(Hard) Atheist: Claims that the existance of God(s) is logically impossible to determine and so accepts the default position of non-belief as it is impossible to prove the non-existance of something.
Every adult should be responsible for their ideas about reality. If you base your ideas upon faith then you are in effect opening yourself up to any kind of belief system, regardless of evidence (or lack of) that supports or contradicts those ideas.
America is a country that has it's finger on the largest stockpile of destructive weaponry that has ever existed. I do not like to consider that the person with their finger on the trigger, is praying for "The End Times". A society in which the majority of people ignore evidence to support an irrational belief is a warning that should not be ignored.
I am convinced that the greatest danger to global security is the irrational belief system of the American people and their politicians.
Phsychosis:
A psychotic episode is often described as involving a "loss of contact with reality".
reality:
"the state of the world as it really is rather than as you might want it to be."
The belief in something that can't be shown to exist = psychosis
"Tabs on OLGA aren't from published sheet music, they're written by people learning to play the song by ear. (And, they're usually wrong, in my experience)"
Perhaps someone can help me?
Is a copy of intellectual property in violation of copyright if the copy is incorrect?
Ta in advance
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That god(s) is certainly a tricky fellow. Imagine being able to conjure up all this extraordinary evidence, for the sole purpose of casting doubt on your own existence! I mean, you either accept that or the unlikely conclusion that some group of barbarians several millenia ago may have made some stuff up after eating unusually coloured mushrooms!
I've been wondering recently if the US news services are actually taking money/favours when putting together their news broadcasts. With what is happening in US politics I'm absolutely astounded that the media are not having a field day with some of these events. Why are people not being held accountable? Why are the hard questions not being asked? The only people who seem to be doing this are Stewart, Colbert and Olbermann and 2 out of the 3 are working under the guise of comedy.
I thought the visit by George Galloway to the US Congress highlighted some of the differences in the way politics works in different democracies, he basically stunned the congress by simply refuting the facts and pointing out the reality of the situation without worrying about ruffling feathers, at this point I thought that cultural differences may explain the poor news coverage, in that it was simply the American way to not want to be seen to criticise itself in any way, but some of the most recent coverage I've seen has been too blatantly partisan than to be explained away by any other means than someones getting paid to spin news stories.
I feel it is of vital importance to a healthy political system to have a strong independant news source that is funded by public money outside of governmental/corporate control. Do you have one in the USA that i'm not aware of?
Sounds more like they were transferring the quantum state of a Bose-Einstein condensate FTFA - "onto a cloud of room-temperature cesium atoms whose spins were all pointing in the same direction", in which case isn't this more or less the same process as transmitting the quantum state of a single atom?
Talk to your kids, explain the facts and don't try to hide the ugly stuff. Treat your children as human beings that are able to think for themselves, otherwise you may as well pull out all your wall sockets and lock them in a padded room. Kids should be allowed to make mistakes, but let them know in no uncertain terms that there are some things they cannot afford to make a mistake with even once, and this is one of them. I think lessons like this can be extrapolated to a national level as well, bad things can, and will happen. But a fortress mentality or an attempt to control information is always going to be doomed to failure. Ohh and stop electing Perverts and Fuckwits.
Seems to me that this is the logical conclusion to the great Capitalist experiment. Welcome to the world of competition folks, want to keep your jobs? Do it cheaper, better, smarter or occupy a niche market that cannot be offshored.
Methane, itself, is a much more potent greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide. If these Hydrate deposits are released we'll see the mother of all positive feedback cycles.
The Acacia tree is sensitive to chemicals given off by other Acacia trees when they are damaged. It responds by increasing it's Tannin production in order to help ward off possible predators. I'm not sure of what the scientific definition of smell is, but I'd probably define it as "the ability to sense the existance of airborne chemicals".
Whereas in The US, the President believes we are in the 'end times', is willing to start illegal wars, and has his alcoholic/ex Drug using finger firmly on the launch button.
The cold fusion cells just keep chugging along, producing excess energy indifferent to the army of physicists wishing they'd just stop making life difficult and play by the rules.
In Siberia the Methane Hydrate deposits are largely capped by permafrost. This is not the case in the Gulf Of Mexico, nor in ANWR. Your analogy does not hold true, though it is certainly anal. The point of my post is that another inhibitor of offshore drilling in the Arctic Circle is the existance of unstable Methane Hydrate deposits.
I disagree, I believe a much more achievable short term solution for getting large amounts of materials into space, would be to start investing in Railguns/Massdriver technology:
http://www.oz.net/~coilgun/theory/electroguns.htm
I wouldn't worry to much about it. The gigatonnes of trapped methane hydrate deposits will soon erupt all by themselves, once the permafrost cap melts.
DVD, CD technology are both crap, I'd say at least 25% of the time I have problems with playing a DVD (especially if children have been near it).
Surely we can come up with a better medium than these coasters. I have the feeling that 'Big Money' are more interested in built in obsolesence and format lock-in than in longevity and useability.
I'm still waiting for a digital storage/retrieval medium thats better than a hard-drive, surely that can't be too difficult?
Sounds like a great idea but I'm still a bit skeptical about the composition of the byproducts. Contaminants like mercury don't simply go away, I assume they will be bound into the sludge portion of the byproduct, which is likely to be quite high given the fact that they are re-processing sewage.
What about the Dioxins from vapourised plastics, A plasma arc produces an incredible heat but Dioxins are also very resistant to being broken down in this way.
Sulphur? How is this kept out of the exhaust gases?
You want to block Indians and Asians from accessing a website by posing a mathematical problem that Americans can solve without a calculator, but they can't?
um
Good Luck with that one.
Is this an endemic problem from The Well? I am quite surprised by this.
"... can't be that smart!" "...waste of money!" "...Lunar Eclipse!" "... blah blah blah!" wish I could crash into the bloody moon.
Last I Heard he'd gone bush somewhere in Russia. Let's face it this guy is just not interested in Awards/Prizes, he just wants to play with his math and be left alone.
Fair enough I say.
Most Atheists I have had contact with would cringe at your description. I think you'll find it goes a bit more like this:
(Soft) Atheist: is the lack of belief in the existence of God(s), without claiming their non-existance
(Hard) Atheist: Claims that the existance of God(s) is logically impossible to determine and so accepts the default position of non-belief as it is impossible to prove the non-existance of something.
Every adult should be responsible for their ideas about reality. If you base your ideas upon faith then you are in effect opening yourself up to any kind of belief system, regardless of evidence (or lack of) that supports or contradicts those ideas. America is a country that has it's finger on the largest stockpile of destructive weaponry that has ever existed. I do not like to consider that the person with their finger on the trigger, is praying for "The End Times". A society in which the majority of people ignore evidence to support an irrational belief is a warning that should not be ignored. I am convinced that the greatest danger to global security is the irrational belief system of the American people and their politicians.
Fcuk you all and your insipid cynicism, they made their point. good for them.
Flamebait? The parent post is the only thing worth reading on this thread.
"Tabs on OLGA aren't from published sheet music, they're written by people learning to play the song by ear. (And, they're usually wrong, in my experience)" Perhaps someone can help me? Is a copy of intellectual property in violation of copyright if the copy is incorrect? Ta in advance
Trash 80 was everywhere and cheap first