You're an intelligent person. Look it up. What do I look like, a school marm? Learn to think for yourself, fella. You let other people think for you, they're gonna fill your head up with a lot of crap.
It's a lot of things, including foreign intervention in local politics by, dare I say it, the CIA and other western intelligence agencies. And do you really think any kind of local authority beyond that of an Israeli military state could defend their territorial waters against a Chinese ship dumping nuclear waste?
I don't know much about the Somalis. I do know that Al Qaida was created and bankrolled by the CIA as a response to the Soviets in Afghanistan (and secondarily as a kind of "get even" strategy for Russian actions in Vietnam), so I really don't think "some responsibility" quite covers it.
As for terrorism, you can either believe that some guy in a mountain cave engineered an operation that totally confounded the combined military defences of the United States of America or you can believe that the handlers of that guy in the cave rolled out the red carpet for that operation and not only made it possible but to a large extent made it happen.
Now there are folks here who will immediately make ad hominem attacks on any suggestion that the world according to Katie Couric isn't quite how it really is in the real world. But what an intelligent citizen has to keep in mind is that this new technology isn't going to help prevent any kind of attack any more than the technology that was already in place on 911--including a ban on box cutters!--if the powers that be see a political or monetary advantage in such an attack.
They're already watching sea traffic from space. What this does is allow them to quickly remove "legitimate" traffic from the database so they can focus on traffic that's antithetical to the Empire.
"I was going to bring this up myself.
"Yes, THEY can murder thousands of people both here and abroad, but YOU cannot accidentally fart in public without them wanting to lock you up for the rest of your life.
"What just blew me away last night watching a video from PilotsFor911Truth was that the NTSB simulation agrees with the interviews done by the guys at NationalSecurityAlert, that the plane at the Pentagon followed a northerly flight path that could not possibly have knocked over the light poles. The only folks who were out of step on this were the 911 Commission. Add to this the failure to reset the altitude gauge in the simulation upon descent and you have the plane at 400+ feet, flying OVER the Pentagon and not into it."
Moderators are idiots.
Why do you bother to argue with these idiots? They can't help it. They grew up staring at a TV screen. Their brains are rotted. They believe whatever Katie Crock tells them.
Charles Fort documents cases that returned to the same city after several years. This clearly has nothing to do with our normal concept of space (or of time).
Indeed. This is classic Forteana. Amazing how few people even recognize it as such. The man wrote four books in the early decades of the 20th Century about these occurrences and yet the scientific community cannot even grasp the context. Even Americans don't realise the day the British left at the end of the Revolutionary War, there was a black rain in New York.
See: Book of the Damned, Lo!, Wild Talents, and New Lands.
I remember when you couldn't buy a condom in the State of Connecticut. How many goddamned rightwing Italian Catholics on the Supreme Court do you think it will take before we're right back there again?! Wake up you imbeciles. This isn't hypothetical. This is staring at you from the frontpage of the newspaper. You can call me a troll all you want. I don't give a shit anymore. If you don't have the intelligence to see your own impending doom, then you can take your silly little chatroom and shove it. I am done with you morons. You can burn in Hell as far as I care. Adios, nitwits. Have fun living under the Baptist Taliban. You deserve it.
Maybe, when they walk into a pharmacy and the druggist tells them they can't buy a condom because it's against the bible, they will finally get it. These folks work for the corporations and the fundamentalist right and anybody who thinks they are genuine is kidding themselves.
My point was that they send these probes halfway across the inner solar system and they are using optics that can't see anything as large as a lander. Basically, they are saying that there is nothing that size that could possibly be of interest. Any indication to the contrary is hooted off the stage. And they insure that they won't be contradicted by their own observations because the probes they send are half blind.
I shop at a supermarket that does NOT require me to carry/produce a card to buy stuff. They are getting my money and the others are not. Get the picture, Einstein?
We have satellites orbiting Earth that can read the numbers on a license plate and they can't get a good shot of the lander? Am I missing something here?
There seems to be an element here of the old "Heaven is perfect and immutable" belief system popularized by those ever so happy-go-lucky inhabitants of the Vatican over a couple of thousand years. Every time something changes, especially on Mars, the earlier observations are assumed to have been in error and the present conditions are assumed to be permanent and never changing. This goes back to the original observations of "canali" on Mars and includes the "proof" that the Martian face really wasn't there because it is no longer there. Now a spacecraft has been found; but NO, it couldn't have been found; because it's NOT THERE NOW! The parachute couldn't have blown away? The dust couldn't have covered the crash site? NO! IMPOSSIBLE! Why? Because it's not there now.... Perfect and immutable, just like the religious authorities have been telling us all along.
To paraphrase Richard Nixon, I am not a Dickhead! though I have read most of his novels.
But the "discussion" is about space elevators/sky hooks. And the one remaining technological hurdle is coming up with a material that will support the elevator and will not snap, and the only thing available, as far as I can tell, is carbon-nanotube-based fiber. That is why LiftPort (http://www.liftport.com/) is building their plant at Millville for the specific purpose of providing the technical and financial support for a space elevator they plan to build by 2018. As for the tenor of my post, it was in response to a single instance of a multitude of responses whose basis in fact is what the posters perceive to be true and not what is readily accessible on the web. And my complaint is that there has been a flurry of such offtopic threads of late that focus on some tiny little bit of a factoid that has nothing to do with the actual story, the main reason for which seems to have something to do with the attitude that the posters are smarter than the expert because they know more about xyz than he does. I would, actually, rather read a discussion of the details of the story, if that isn't asking too much.
Because they are just now building the first plant to manufacture carbon nanotubes in Milville, New Jersey, you dolt.
I read this website and I realise that beyond the limited realm of computers the folk who hang out here are, with a few exceptions, generally as ignorant as the average man in the street. The idea that someone with a computer and access to the internet would not understand that carbon nanotubes are cutting edge technology and not something available off the shelf at your local Ace Hardware is mind boggling. This cuts to the very heart of the question of worldview. I have to wonder what the worldview is of someone who doesn't understand where his civilization stands technologically--what is possible and what is not yet possible.
My FTP program (WS_FTP) has the annoying property of not working if left alone for a few minutes. I always figured this was a bug. But maybe it's a feature! It certainly makes sense to kill a process that can be used to modify the registry, if it's just sitting there doing nothing. Does anybody know if this is intentional? Could it be that someone actually had some foresight for a change?
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They don't call you guys anonymous cowards for nothing.
There's lots of evidence. You're just too lazy or too stupid to look it up.
You're an intelligent person. Look it up. What do I look like, a school marm? Learn to think for yourself, fella. You let other people think for you, they're gonna fill your head up with a lot of crap.
It's a lot of things, including foreign intervention in local politics by, dare I say it, the CIA and other western intelligence agencies. And do you really think any kind of local authority beyond that of an Israeli military state could defend their territorial waters against a Chinese ship dumping nuclear waste?
I don't know much about the Somalis. I do know that Al Qaida was created and bankrolled by the CIA as a response to the Soviets in Afghanistan (and secondarily as a kind of "get even" strategy for Russian actions in Vietnam), so I really don't think "some responsibility" quite covers it.
As for terrorism, you can either believe that some guy in a mountain cave engineered an operation that totally confounded the combined military defences of the United States of America or you can believe that the handlers of that guy in the cave rolled out the red carpet for that operation and not only made it possible but to a large extent made it happen.
Now there are folks here who will immediately make ad hominem attacks on any suggestion that the world according to Katie Couric isn't quite how it really is in the real world. But what an intelligent citizen has to keep in mind is that this new technology isn't going to help prevent any kind of attack any more than the technology that was already in place on 911--including a ban on box cutters!--if the powers that be see a political or monetary advantage in such an attack.
They're already watching sea traffic from space. What this does is allow them to quickly remove "legitimate" traffic from the database so they can focus on traffic that's antithetical to the Empire.
While you are at it you might want to blast the ships dumping toxic waste in the Gulf of Aden. Wonder if they'll be trackable from space.
Somali pirates are former fishermen who took up piracy when Western and Chinese ships began dumping toxic waste in the Gulf of Aden.
"I was going to bring this up myself. "Yes, THEY can murder thousands of people both here and abroad, but YOU cannot accidentally fart in public without them wanting to lock you up for the rest of your life. "What just blew me away last night watching a video from PilotsFor911Truth was that the NTSB simulation agrees with the interviews done by the guys at NationalSecurityAlert, that the plane at the Pentagon followed a northerly flight path that could not possibly have knocked over the light poles. The only folks who were out of step on this were the 911 Commission. Add to this the failure to reset the altitude gauge in the simulation upon descent and you have the plane at 400+ feet, flying OVER the Pentagon and not into it." Moderators are idiots.
Why do you bother to argue with these idiots? They can't help it. They grew up staring at a TV screen. Their brains are rotted. They believe whatever Katie Crock tells them.
Charles Fort documents cases that returned to the same city after several years. This clearly has nothing to do with our normal concept of space (or of time).
Nor was Fort the last to take notice of these phenomena. See, for example, The Sourcebook Project http://www.science-frontiers.com/sourcebk.htm .
Indeed. This is classic Forteana. Amazing how few people even recognize it as such. The man wrote four books in the early decades of the 20th Century about these occurrences and yet the scientific community cannot even grasp the context. Even Americans don't realise the day the British left at the end of the Revolutionary War, there was a black rain in New York.
See: Book of the Damned, Lo!, Wild Talents, and New Lands.
I remember when you couldn't buy a condom in the State of Connecticut. How many goddamned rightwing Italian Catholics on the Supreme Court do you think it will take before we're right back there again?! Wake up you imbeciles. This isn't hypothetical. This is staring at you from the frontpage of the newspaper. You can call me a troll all you want. I don't give a shit anymore. If you don't have the intelligence to see your own impending doom, then you can take your silly little chatroom and shove it. I am done with you morons. You can burn in Hell as far as I care. Adios, nitwits. Have fun living under the Baptist Taliban. You deserve it.
Maybe, when they walk into a pharmacy and the druggist tells them they can't buy a condom because it's against the bible, they will finally get it. These folks work for the corporations and the fundamentalist right and anybody who thinks they are genuine is kidding themselves.
This is precisely why my webhost is multi-homed with over 150 carriers.
My point was that they send these probes halfway across the inner solar system and they are using optics that can't see anything as large as a lander. Basically, they are saying that there is nothing that size that could possibly be of interest. Any indication to the contrary is hooted off the stage. And they insure that they won't be contradicted by their own observations because the probes they send are half blind.
No, channels. Incorrectly translated canals.
I shop at a supermarket that does NOT require me to carry/produce a card to buy stuff. They are getting my money and the others are not. Get the picture, Einstein?
We have satellites orbiting Earth that can read the numbers on a license plate and they can't get a good shot of the lander? Am I missing something here?
There seems to be an element here of the old "Heaven is perfect and immutable" belief system popularized by those ever so happy-go-lucky inhabitants of the Vatican over a couple of thousand years. Every time something changes, especially on Mars, the earlier observations are assumed to have been in error and the present conditions are assumed to be permanent and never changing. This goes back to the original observations of "canali" on Mars and includes the "proof" that the Martian face really wasn't there because it is no longer there. Now a spacecraft has been found; but NO, it couldn't have been found; because it's NOT THERE NOW! The parachute couldn't have blown away? The dust couldn't have covered the crash site? NO! IMPOSSIBLE! Why? Because it's not there now.... Perfect and immutable, just like the religious authorities have been telling us all along.
On Mars, YOU are the alien...
To paraphrase Richard Nixon, I am not a Dickhead! though I have read most of his novels.
But the "discussion" is about space elevators/sky hooks. And the one remaining technological hurdle is coming up with a material that will support the elevator and will not snap, and the only thing available, as far as I can tell, is carbon-nanotube-based fiber. That is why LiftPort (http://www.liftport.com/) is building their plant at Millville for the specific purpose of providing the technical and financial support for a space elevator they plan to build by 2018. As for the tenor of my post, it was in response to a single instance of a multitude of responses whose basis in fact is what the posters perceive to be true and not what is readily accessible on the web. And my complaint is that there has been a flurry of such offtopic threads of late that focus on some tiny little bit of a factoid that has nothing to do with the actual story, the main reason for which seems to have something to do with the attitude that the posters are smarter than the expert because they know more about xyz than he does. I would, actually, rather read a discussion of the details of the story, if that isn't asking too much.
Because they are just now building the first plant to manufacture carbon nanotubes in Milville, New Jersey, you dolt.
I read this website and I realise that beyond the limited realm of computers the folk who hang out here are, with a few exceptions, generally as ignorant as the average man in the street. The idea that someone with a computer and access to the internet would not understand that carbon nanotubes are cutting edge technology and not something available off the shelf at your local Ace Hardware is mind boggling. This cuts to the very heart of the question of worldview. I have to wonder what the worldview is of someone who doesn't understand where his civilization stands technologically--what is possible and what is not yet possible.
My FTP program (WS_FTP) has the annoying property of not working if left alone for a few minutes. I always figured this was a bug. But maybe it's a feature! It certainly makes sense to kill a process that can be used to modify the registry, if it's just sitting there doing nothing. Does anybody know if this is intentional? Could it be that someone actually had some foresight for a change?