I have to disagree with you on this, at least from a historical perspective:
"The Nuremberg trials were a series of military tribunals, held by the Allied forces after World War II, most notable for the prosecution of prominent members of the political, military, and economic leadership of Nazi Germany. " http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N...
Particular to the antisemitism of the Nazis, one can look at the need to find a villain, some group that they could hold responsible for their economic depression (largely the result of WW1 and the Treaty of Versailles) that did not require that they question their Germanic superiority.
If for example, they admitted that the Great War was a colossal screw up, it would insult the people that they were busy ass-kissing and complimenting into believing that there was some divine justification for mounting another world war. So it was awfully convenient to blame everything bad that was happening on social groups that had been historically blamed for things being bad, thus the Gypsies and homosexuals and Jews were convenient targets for the social rage that most Germans should have been pointing at themselves and their leaders who were busily stoking the furnaces of war all over again.
Unfortunately it is a pattern of behavior that has not been the sole property of the Nazis. We can see it in American political parties, Putin's 'social engineering', even in the political manipulations of Israel as they simultaneously drive the Palestinians into a corner and blame their reaction as the reason that they must be treated so harshly
We can expect this to continue for as long at the people who put these politicians into power fall for the same stupid tricks. The continued use by leaders of the Big Lie (Lie big and repeat the lie until people believe it to be true) and an unwillingness on the part of the populace to deal with the pain of Cognitive Dissonance (the mental stress or discomfort experienced by an individual who is confronted by new information that conflicts with existing beliefs, ideas, or values) explains so much that is bad in this world.
There was an interesting problem within Christianity throughout the Dark and Middle ages where Christians would not allowed to act as moneylenders. This resulted in the Jewish population being pressed into 'marginalized' occupations of tax collection and money lending. These professions were profitable, but led to isolation from the Christian populations that they lived among. Beyond that the Lutheran Reformation made use of negative stereotypes and suggested that they be permanently oppressed or removed from Christian countries http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M...
You might just say that Christians, in particular, the Lutherans were awful pikers and sought to use antisemitism over paying their debts
Certainly he had a place of power in the Nazi elite, and he used that place to drive home a pet project:
During 1942,[1] Goebbels continued to press for the "final solution to the Jewish question" to be carried forward as quickly as possible now that Germany had occupied a huge swathe of Soviet territory into which all the Jews of German-controlled Europe could be deported. There they could be worked into extinction in accordance with the plan agreed on at the Wannsee Conference convened by Heydrich in January. It was a constant annoyance to Goebbels that, at a time when Germany was fighting for its life on the eastern front, there were still 40,000 Jews in Berlin.[2] They should be "carted off to Russia," he wrote in his diary. "It would be best to kill them altogether."[3] Although the Propaganda Ministry was not invited to the Wannsee Conference, Goebbels knew by March what had been decided there.[4] He wrote:
The Jews are now being deported to the east. A fairly barbaric procedure, not to be described in any greater detail, is being used here, and not much more remains of the Jews themselves. In general, it can probably be established that 60 percent of them must be liquidated, while only 40 percent can be put to work... A judgment is being carried out on the Jews which is barbaric, but fully deserved.[5]
1. Jewish Virtual Library 2. Kershaw, Hitler, II, p 519 3. Kershaw, Hitler, II, p 473 4. Browning, The Origins of the Final Solution, p 415 5. Kershaw, Hitler, II, p 494 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J...
This goes well past any notion of free speech and well into advocating and driving on the process of genocide
In the US there are plenty of legal codes that do not allow a criminal to make money from their crimes, such as a mass murderer making money from publishing a autobiography
I think that it is debatable whether the widespread use of antibiotics have exposed an existing population of antibiotic resistant bacteria, or if there have been recent mutations that have allowed bacteria to survive antibiotics
This paper discusses bot the existence of antibiotic resistance strains of bacteria, and the non-mutative processes that are involved in transferring resistant r-genes between different types of bacteria http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pm...
I would even go further out on the limb and suggest that antibiotic resistant bacteria have always been present
It is imply the presence of antibiotic substances that weed out the rest of the bacteria, leaving the resistant ones as the 'last man standing' so that we notice them
It is not so much the case that our use of antibiotics have caused antibiotic resistant strains to 'develop', we have simply eliminated the rest and exposed the resistant ones
I'm thinking more like leveling the fields with tractors that have fricking lasers on them, using irrigation to distribute water and covering the canals with mylar
It works in many deserts that have agriculture, just spend some time looking at what is being used effectively instead of making up pipe dreams that are so expensive that nobody will ever use them
My first experience working with people from India was in 1996. Absolutely some of the most intelligent people that I had ever worked with A decade later another Indian fellow that I worked with explained the selection process that lead to the slightest fraction of the top percentage of their people making it to the US in that time period I would expect that the standards have been loosened somewhat since then
While watching the last landing attempt I had to wonder if the rocket experiences different amounts of lift when it is over water, as opposed to being over the barge...
Will this be a factor that is alleviated by landing on terra firma? If they do make their next attempt on land, what are the potential take off and landing points? Many people noted advantages to landing down range of the launch point, and not being able to launch over the continental US Does that leave the options of 1. Launching from Brownsville Texas and landing at Cape Canaveral Florida 2. Launching from Florida and landing on some Island downrange 3. Launch from Kwaj (or at sea) and land at Vandenberg 4. Launching and landing at the same site, presumably solving whatever fuel issues there were 5. ???
Armstrong was an exceptional pilot, I read on old NASA report about him regaining control of a space capsule that started spinning before it could kill them. Something to do with a malfunctioning thruster rocket.
Here it is: "And, make a decision he did. In a rule-breaking move, Armstrong manually disabled the OAMS thrusters and activated the re-entry control system (RCS) thrusters to stabilize the spacecraft. With hand controllers aboard the spacecraft now functioning properly, correct motion of the capsule was restored." http://www.spaceline.org/fligh...
So, that would prevent overflight of the continental US and landing to the East for use of limited fuel Is there any indication that this is the actual plan?
The Space News article indicates that Space-x has plans to build a landing pad at Vandenberg as well. Any ideas what would be landing there?
1. That is why I mentioned Vandenberg, which is on the West coast and launches to the South for Polar Orbits 2. Space-x has mentioned moving their landings to terra-firma
I appreciate your reply, hopefully somebody who know more than either of us will offer up some tidbits of info
In many conversations the parts that cannot be directly discussed, and that may only be approached in tangents, are frequently the most interesting and informative.
I learned quite a lot about information systems from the long and tangential stories of a retired mathematician who had decided to work at the local DOT as a form of amusement. He had odd habits like programming off of the top of his head at the card punch machine, and a demonstrated ability to know the current price of any US 50 cent piece ever minted
I learned a lot from Lou, many aspects of Neal's story telling remind me of him
I did get a Heinlein-ish feel from the first part of the preview, mostly from the Delilah and the Space Rigger era of Heinlein's work.
The thing that Stephenson does, which Heinlein never really tried to do, is set a bunch of smaller stories reeling about and, like a pile of icbms, cruise missiles and long range bombers, bring them all together at the final targeted story point
Maybe I am a pathetic doofus, but I really do enjoy Stephenson's work
Tylenol can cause significant liver damage with a moderate overdose, even recommended doses taken over a course of two weeks can cause moderate liver damage
The biggest problem occurs when a person takes many different medications, each of which has a normal dose of acetaminophen
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I swear, sometimes people act like they just crossed over from an alternate universe
I have to disagree with you on this, at least from a historical perspective:
"The Nuremberg trials were a series of military tribunals, held by the Allied forces after World War II, most notable for the prosecution of prominent members of the political, military, and economic leadership of Nazi Germany. "
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N...
Particular to the antisemitism of the Nazis, one can look at the need to find a villain, some group that they could hold responsible for their economic depression (largely the result of WW1 and the Treaty of Versailles) that did not require that they question their Germanic superiority.
If for example, they admitted that the Great War was a colossal screw up, it would insult the people that they were busy ass-kissing and complimenting into believing that there was some divine justification for mounting another world war. So it was awfully convenient to blame everything bad that was happening on social groups that had been historically blamed for things being bad, thus the Gypsies and homosexuals and Jews were convenient targets for the social rage that most Germans should have been pointing at themselves and their leaders who were busily stoking the furnaces of war all over again.
Unfortunately it is a pattern of behavior that has not been the sole property of the Nazis. We can see it in American political parties, Putin's 'social engineering', even in the political manipulations of Israel as they simultaneously drive the Palestinians into a corner and blame their reaction as the reason that they must be treated so harshly
We can expect this to continue for as long at the people who put these politicians into power fall for the same stupid tricks. The continued use by leaders of the Big Lie (Lie big and repeat the lie until people believe it to be true) and an unwillingness on the part of the populace to deal with the pain of Cognitive Dissonance (the mental stress or discomfort experienced by an individual who is confronted by new information that conflicts with existing beliefs, ideas, or values) explains so much that is bad in this world.
There was an interesting problem within Christianity throughout the Dark and Middle ages where Christians would not allowed to act as moneylenders.
This resulted in the Jewish population being pressed into 'marginalized' occupations of tax collection and money lending.
These professions were profitable, but led to isolation from the Christian populations that they lived among.
Beyond that the Lutheran Reformation made use of negative stereotypes and suggested that they be permanently oppressed or removed from Christian countries
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M...
You might just say that Christians, in particular, the Lutherans were awful pikers and sought to use antisemitism over paying their debts
Certainly he had a place of power in the Nazi elite, and he used that place to drive home a pet project:
During 1942,[1] Goebbels continued to press for the "final solution to the Jewish question" to be carried forward as quickly as possible now that Germany had occupied a huge swathe of Soviet territory into which all the Jews of German-controlled Europe could be deported. There they could be worked into extinction in accordance with the plan agreed on at the Wannsee Conference convened by Heydrich in January. It was a constant annoyance to Goebbels that, at a time when Germany was fighting for its life on the eastern front, there were still 40,000 Jews in Berlin.[2] They should be "carted off to Russia," he wrote in his diary. "It would be best to kill them altogether."[3] Although the Propaganda Ministry was not invited to the Wannsee Conference, Goebbels knew by March what had been decided there.[4] He wrote:
The Jews are now being deported to the east. A fairly barbaric procedure, not to be described in any greater detail, is being used here, and not much more remains of the Jews themselves. In general, it can probably be established that 60 percent of them must be liquidated, while only 40 percent can be put to work ... A judgment is being carried out on the Jews which is barbaric, but fully deserved.[5]
1. Jewish Virtual Library
2. Kershaw, Hitler, II, p 519
3. Kershaw, Hitler, II, p 473
4. Browning, The Origins of the Final Solution, p 415
5. Kershaw, Hitler, II, p 494
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J...
This goes well past any notion of free speech and well into advocating and driving on the process of genocide
In the US there are plenty of legal codes that do not allow a criminal to make money from their crimes, such as a mass murderer making money from publishing a autobiography
I think that it is debatable whether the widespread use of antibiotics have exposed an existing population of antibiotic resistant bacteria, or if there have been recent mutations that have allowed bacteria to survive antibiotics
This paper discusses bot the existence of antibiotic resistance strains of bacteria, and the non-mutative processes that are involved in transferring resistant r-genes between different types of bacteria
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pm...
There was plenty of motivation of the conquering Spaniards to demonize the culture that they were destroying
I would expect that to be the case
I would even go further out on the limb and suggest that antibiotic resistant bacteria have always been present
It is imply the presence of antibiotic substances that weed out the rest of the bacteria, leaving the resistant ones as the 'last man standing' so that we notice them
It is not so much the case that our use of antibiotics have caused antibiotic resistant strains to 'develop', we have simply eliminated the rest and exposed the resistant ones
The tech is trivial, but not free
What politician has the guts to raise taxes to fix infrastructure when rain is falling from the sky for free?
Oh, wait... A drought? I suppose they will just shove their heads into the sand until they cannot ignore it
forcing the farms to be accountable for how they use water would go a long way to solving the problem
Of course it is not free, so who's gonna pay 10% more for their produce?
oh teh lulz, nimbys in cali forced to build nukes
Arizona called California, it wants it's share of Colorado river water back
I'm thinking more like leveling the fields with tractors that have fricking lasers on them, using irrigation to distribute water and covering the canals with mylar
It works in many deserts that have agriculture, just spend some time looking at what is being used effectively instead of making up pipe dreams that are so expensive that nobody will ever use them
solar power robots, what a fucking joke
My first experience working with people from India was in 1996.
Absolutely some of the most intelligent people that I had ever worked with
A decade later another Indian fellow that I worked with explained the selection process that lead to the slightest fraction of the top percentage of their people making it to the US in that time period
I would expect that the standards have been loosened somewhat since then
While watching the last landing attempt I had to wonder if the rocket experiences different amounts of lift when it is over water, as opposed to being over the barge...
Will this be a factor that is alleviated by landing on terra firma?
If they do make their next attempt on land, what are the potential take off and landing points?
Many people noted advantages to landing down range of the launch point, and not being able to launch over the continental US
Does that leave the options of
1. Launching from Brownsville Texas and landing at Cape Canaveral Florida
2. Launching from Florida and landing on some Island downrange
3. Launch from Kwaj (or at sea) and land at Vandenberg
4. Launching and landing at the same site, presumably solving whatever fuel issues there were
5. ???
Armstrong was an exceptional pilot, I read on old NASA report about him regaining control of a space capsule that started spinning before it could kill them. Something to do with a malfunctioning thruster rocket.
Here it is:
"And, make a decision he did. In a rule-breaking move, Armstrong manually disabled the OAMS thrusters and activated the re-entry control system (RCS) thrusters to stabilize the spacecraft. With hand controllers aboard the spacecraft now functioning properly, correct motion of the capsule was restored."
http://www.spaceline.org/fligh...
Yeah, they were 'hands on'
Carmack joined Space-X?!
I'm pretty sure that they will portray Thompson in a positive light... or maybe just in the headlights of a car trying to run him down
OK, here may be some related items
Space-X leases Cape Canaveral pad for landings
http://spacenews.com/spacex-le...
Space-X breaks ground on Brownsville commercial launch facility
http://www.space.com/27234-spa...
So, that would prevent overflight of the continental US and landing to the East for use of limited fuel
Is there any indication that this is the actual plan?
The Space News article indicates that Space-x has plans to build a landing pad at Vandenberg as well. Any ideas what would be landing there?
1. That is why I mentioned Vandenberg, which is on the West coast and launches to the South for Polar Orbits
2. Space-x has mentioned moving their landings to terra-firma
I appreciate your reply, hopefully somebody who know more than either of us will offer up some tidbits of info
I think that landing at sea has been useful for 'proof of concept', but they need to move the next landing to several square miles of desert.
When are they planning on launching from Vandenberg for a test landing at the NM spaceport?
In many conversations the parts that cannot be directly discussed, and that may only be approached in tangents, are frequently the most interesting and informative.
I learned quite a lot about information systems from the long and tangential stories of a retired mathematician who had decided to work at the local DOT as a form of amusement. He had odd habits like programming off of the top of his head at the card punch machine, and a demonstrated ability to know the current price of any US 50 cent piece ever minted
I learned a lot from Lou, many aspects of Neal's story telling remind me of him
I did get a Heinlein-ish feel from the first part of the preview, mostly from the Delilah and the Space Rigger era of Heinlein's work.
The thing that Stephenson does, which Heinlein never really tried to do, is set a bunch of smaller stories reeling about and, like a pile of icbms, cruise missiles and long range bombers, bring them all together at the final targeted story point
Maybe I am a pathetic doofus, but I really do enjoy Stephenson's work
Tylenol can cause significant liver damage with a moderate overdose, even recommended doses taken over a course of two weeks can cause moderate liver damage
The biggest problem occurs when a person takes many different medications, each of which has a normal dose of acetaminophen