They why not try to raise the living standards in those countries. Don't you think that if we vaccinate them for AIDS and leave them to be the way they are, we are not helping them that much. For them there will always be "another AIDS", it could be an STD, it could be Malaria, or substance abuse of just starvation. Finding an AIDS vaccine will make some drug company very-very rich. And then when another disease comes, some other company will become wealthy and so on, but the people who suffer the most will still be living in the same conditions, just dying from a different disease.
Why not develop a vaccine now, to give to the people while we try to raise the standerd of living in these countries. right now, disease (including HIV/AIDS) are one of the big problems leading to bad living conditions (either directly or indirectly.)
There is actually a vaccine out for Herpes now [1]. AFIAK, AIDS and Herpes are the two major STDs that cannot be cured. Others are just minor nuisances and/or can be vaccinated against. Furthermore, it is important that we continue to work on vaccines against difficuilt viruses, because, if we get good at making them, we will be able to prevent outbreaks that cause this much havoc in the future. And make no mistake about it - HIV/AIDS very nearly became a huge catrostrophy (not that it isn't already bad with 25 million dead)[2].
[1]Raven et. al. Biology. 7th ed. 2005. McGraw Hill.
[2] TFA
HIgh school student, asking a teacher to sign something that gives them permission bypass? This is going to happen anywhere, ever?
although i did not get anything signed, my high school admin actually asked me to hack through the security (a couple of times, too.) imagine her surprise when i brought up the command prompt, regedit, and some others in an instant:) of course, i never abused my abilities and i did have the trust of the admins before hand.
If we can't even maintain an environment that was _already set up for us_ what hope in HELL do we have of starting from scratch in any remotely usable form?
Easy - no body to fight regulations and talk about their rights to destroy the environment. also, wouldent terraforming Mars be an awful lot like what we are doing to earth now?
So what happens when we hit peak uranium? There are two major uranium isotopes, only one of which is suitable for use as nuclear fuel. It's also the one that there is the least supply of.
there is also thorium, which is very abundent and can be bread into U-133, which is also fissionable. of course, this does raise the same proliferation issue you mentioned with plutonium.
thankfully, there are new power plant designs being researched that could make this irrelevent. the overall idea is to burn all of the fissionable fuel in a reactor, instead of leaving it to the terrorists. hopefully, these technologies will prove themselves to be useful (the Heavy-metal core should also be able to burn current waste, reducing the time of storage to just a few hundred years.) if they do, we should not have any problems getting our fussion plants developed.
our current energy situation does not concern me as much as perhps it should. there will always be engineers searching for solutions to the world's problems. what does concern me is the patern that i have seen in politics lately. we only seem to concern ourselves with energy when its a problem. this makes me wonder if we will ever get fusion to work, or if we will stop research when alternatives are found (fission, solar, wind, biomass, etc.) i mean, under Clinton, we stoped funding the aquatic species program when gas prices were good. i also fear that the anti-environmental movement (what i call all the non-stop attempts to discredit "Green" energy solutions before they even evolve) will stop or slow down possible breakthroughs that also happen to be enviromentslly friendly.
A dirty bomb might make an effective terror weapon today (though I doubt it),
MIGHT?! it may not kill a lot of people, but you can bet yor ass it will terrorize the populice. in the end, isn't scaring the shit out of the population the objective of terrorism. imagine the reaction of america's citizans if we found out that this kind of material can slip through our boarders (the potential for a real atomic bomb being built).
copyright or not, this is bad news for tourism. If tourests cannot take pictures of local landmarks, statues, etc. then what will they do on their vacations?
OK, so this is a good thing for countries and cities that have popular nude beaches (i mean this as an alternative to the all exensive vacation to see the sights).
No, that is not the only reason. Another reason--the one that I spoke of in my post--is that people who hate Christianity are using evolution and the scientific community as tools in their attack against Christianity. It does not matter at all to these enemies of Christianity that the very sources they are using are Christian sources. What matters to them is that they can exclude or eliminate the reference of God from public discourse.
The legal system isn't intended to be anti-Christian, either, but the enemies of Christianity certainly try to force that use!
I cannot speak for all atheists or non-christions (althogh i am sure that these are the beliefs of the ACLU) as there are a lot of people out there, and it pains me to see some of the anti-religious posts on this and other boards, and i doubt that you would make excuses for those who think that everyone should be forced to convert. however, i can tell you, as someone who supports the kinds of actions you are misrepresenting that i would never seak to take away a person's right to express their own opinions or their own religion (nor would i seak to keep them from practicing that religion).
I think that there is mostly a miscommunication between parts of soceity that make for a very heated culture war. one of the man miscommunications involves the issue of seperation of chuch and state. i (and i've heard members of the much hated ACLU make simular statements - after i formed my opinions btw) believe people are not really free to choose and excersize their religion when the state officially endorses or denounces any religion (including atheism.) The things that are challenged, if you notice are cases where shcools, teachers, or laws attempt to force religion on people. Just so you know, the ACLU has sued over students being disiplined for excercising their right to express their religoin.
the real culture war, as i see it (between moderates) is about where the line is drawn as far as the goverment forcing religion on the people (or denouncing it). the atheists/non-christions tend to believe the line has already been crossed, and that forcing people to acknowldge the existance of any god/goddess/deity crosses that line (it would also be crossing that line to force people to deny the excistance of any god/goddess/deity).
it is my opinion that these stickers constituted an attempt to discredit a scientific theory by way of belittling it (the word ONLY is the really objectionable wording, although, if the district bought decent books, evolotion should have been presented as a theory, and reminding people of that is, itself an attempt to belittle the already stated theory). furthermore, these stickers, being implimented by a branch of the goverment, were an attempt by the goverment to influence peoples' religion.
There is a mountain of evidence just a Google away that shows that More Federal Money != Better Education For Kids.
I have to wonder if thats because all the goverment does with that money is spend it on tests (for "accountibility") instead of teachers, who can actually help the kids.
If "certain time period" > my_life_span then Encryption_will_protect_me = True.
more important:
if it takes too long for the feds to break the scheme, then the terrorist attack (what they are claiming this technology is for) will still go through, and the public will only become more frustrated when they find out that the FBI of CIA or whatever ACTUALLY had records of people planning the attack (even more trouble for the feds).
If the US was on a war against muslims, why are they rebuilding a muslim country (Afghnistan)? Why aren't they just nuking everyone? They're on a war against fascim and terrorism.
The reality (or our perception of it) is not what matters her. what does matter is what these people have been led to believe - thats what these people are going to act on. This attitude of "why do they call us [blank] when we are really doing [blank]" seams to be a problem in the US. remember that these people do not always have access to the best or true information (many American's are the same way), but everyone can only act on the information they have. and, if the information you have all points to "America (terrorists, invadors, etc.) is bad", then that is what you tend to believe. I'm sure you hold some beliefs that are equally uneducated, as does any person.
i have not read the while post (reading at midnight,) but it sounds like all the ideas of how to get the xxAA only accomplish half the task. What we need to do is to cause:
1)the xxAA to issue C&D letters over data that is not theirs.
2)a public backlash against the xxAA (maybe even the DMCA, but that just wishful thinkig)
3)the xxAA to give you an excuse to sue
I propose that someone start up a web site that writes and accepts reviews of movies/music/whatever. The reviews can then be tarballed into (movie|game|artist/song)name.tar.gz so that users can download all the reviews about whatever at one time.
When the xxAA's bot sees these files and sends the C&D letters, you can accuse the xxAA of trying to shut down people who say unflattery things about them (you didn't think these would be good reviews, did you?). The xxaa then opens themselves up to lawsuits, because of the potential damage to you (maybe the ISP will shut you down, or, better yet, the xxAA will follow up on their threat). when this happens:
1) you have further proof of the xxAA's monopolistic (sp?) practices, and their hatred of the consumer, etc. to wave in the public's face.
2) the xxAA has just (accorging to a previous post) violated the DMCA, because there is no real reason to believe that these files contain whole games, movies, or songs or whatever (yeah, right judge... i fit the whole 3cds of this game into a 100K file...) these C&D letters even give the size of the file in question, and a 100k file should not look to a person like a violation of any copyrights.
Now problem is how many of those dial-up users are still AoLers who are creating the majority of the on the intenet (ie: opening up silly attachments, spamming, not trolling slashdot...)
Hey - i'm an AOLer (not willingly though) and i havent done any of that stuff. Well, i guess i dont troll slashdot, but thats easily fixed. Darl is right. Linux sux go get a life u loosers. There that should make up for a couple of months:)
The Boy Scouts may be based on chrisrion values, but, much like the grandparent said, there is some selectivity in this issue. I have a couple of atheist friends that are members of the boy scouts - one even made eagle.
"The whole reason you know the name Abu Ghraib is because they were on camera."
Nobody was "on" camera in the same sense as the grandparent is sugesting. Instead, IIRC, the soldiers decided to document their abuses, and redistribute the pictures to their friends.
thought these (horrible) "reality shows" by definition involve common people (not actors, not professionals such as techies) to do whatever stuff they do in the show.
I believe that the Joe Schmo Show is considered a reality show. The whole idea of that show is that everyone except one or (this season) two people are actors.
This seams a good post to recomend Lt. Col. Dave Grossman's book "On Killing". It discusses exactly the issue of violant video games and their effect on soceity. It also seams to be a favorite reference of those who say that violent video games make people kill each other.
a couple of the relevent parts:
- killing, like sex, became a part of an underworld when it was pushed out of peoples' regular lives.
- he makes a point that training simular to violant video games is used to give soldiers the ability to overcome their built-in resistance to killing. it is important to note here that he does NOT say that video games make people kill, but rather that it gives them the ability to kill, but he makes a point of saying that it still takes a trigger to get these people to kill.
It's a shame that that had to happen only because of the recent FUD about IE.
its not FUD for me. i switched when i got tired of having to delete something out of the regestry (just to get a blank home page) everytime i decided i wanted to look at porn. i also got tired of hitting ctrl-alt-del so often. not to mentian all the hassle everytime i went to look for a serial or some other piracy thing.
of course, once i got opera, i discovered some of the features that users really should be switching over for. like the ability to select a web address, and have my browser open it in a new tab instead of the bad-old ctrl-c, ctrl-n, ctrl-v. or, even better, is the ability to choose what i load, and what i run. PS. i know that mozilla has these abilities (sp?) too. i'm not attacking mozilla.
I don't know the exact situation with UK ID cards, but it sounds like you will be required to own (and carry?) them. In America, i am not even sure about the requirement of a SSN card (although, a SSN is used by a lot of organizations as a form of identity . Drivers licences, however, are nowhere near required, unless you drive. Even if a cop pulls you over (at least in the state of Colorado,) you do not have to produce a dirvers licance for the police officer (you have 24 hours to prove to the goverment that you have one.)
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Why not develop a vaccine now, to give to the people while we try to raise the standerd of living in these countries. right now, disease (including HIV/AIDS) are one of the big problems leading to bad living conditions (either directly or indirectly.)
There is actually a vaccine out for Herpes now [1]. AFIAK, AIDS and Herpes are the two major STDs that cannot be cured. Others are just minor nuisances and/or can be vaccinated against. Furthermore, it is important that we continue to work on vaccines against difficuilt viruses, because, if we get good at making them, we will be able to prevent outbreaks that cause this much havoc in the future. And make no mistake about it - HIV/AIDS very nearly became a huge catrostrophy (not that it isn't already bad with 25 million dead)[2]. [1]Raven et. al. Biology. 7th ed. 2005. McGraw Hill. [2] TFA
although i did not get anything signed, my high school admin actually asked me to hack through the security (a couple of times, too.) imagine her surprise when i brought up the command prompt, regedit, and some others in an instant :) of course, i never abused my abilities and i did have the trust of the admins before hand.
they still play reruns: Adult Swim on the Cartoon Network (midnight in CO), and on TNT (again Adult Swim, but only on frinday nights).
Easy - no body to fight regulations and talk about their rights to destroy the environment. also, wouldent terraforming Mars be an awful lot like what we are doing to earth now?
there is also thorium, which is very abundent and can be bread into U-133, which is also fissionable. of course, this does raise the same proliferation issue you mentioned with plutonium.
thankfully, there are new power plant designs being researched that could make this irrelevent. the overall idea is to burn all of the fissionable fuel in a reactor, instead of leaving it to the terrorists. hopefully, these technologies will prove themselves to be useful (the Heavy-metal core should also be able to burn current waste, reducing the time of storage to just a few hundred years.) if they do, we should not have any problems getting our fussion plants developed.
our current energy situation does not concern me as much as perhps it should. there will always be engineers searching for solutions to the world's problems. what does concern me is the patern that i have seen in politics lately. we only seem to concern ourselves with energy when its a problem. this makes me wonder if we will ever get fusion to work, or if we will stop research when alternatives are found (fission, solar, wind, biomass, etc.) i mean, under Clinton, we stoped funding the aquatic species program when gas prices were good. i also fear that the anti-environmental movement (what i call all the non-stop attempts to discredit "Green" energy solutions before they even evolve) will stop or slow down possible breakthroughs that also happen to be enviromentslly friendly.
A dirty bomb might make an effective terror weapon today (though I doubt it), MIGHT?! it may not kill a lot of people, but you can bet yor ass it will terrorize the populice. in the end, isn't scaring the shit out of the population the objective of terrorism. imagine the reaction of america's citizans if we found out that this kind of material can slip through our boarders (the potential for a real atomic bomb being built).
copyright or not, this is bad news for tourism. If tourests cannot take pictures of local landmarks, statues, etc. then what will they do on their vacations? OK, so this is a good thing for countries and cities that have popular nude beaches (i mean this as an alternative to the all exensive vacation to see the sights).
The legal system isn't intended to be anti-Christian, either, but the enemies of Christianity certainly try to force that use!
I cannot speak for all atheists or non-christions (althogh i am sure that these are the beliefs of the ACLU) as there are a lot of people out there, and it pains me to see some of the anti-religious posts on this and other boards, and i doubt that you would make excuses for those who think that everyone should be forced to convert. however, i can tell you, as someone who supports the kinds of actions you are misrepresenting that i would never seak to take away a person's right to express their own opinions or their own religion (nor would i seak to keep them from practicing that religion).
I think that there is mostly a miscommunication between parts of soceity that make for a very heated culture war. one of the man miscommunications involves the issue of seperation of chuch and state. i (and i've heard members of the much hated ACLU make simular statements - after i formed my opinions btw) believe people are not really free to choose and excersize their religion when the state officially endorses or denounces any religion (including atheism.) The things that are challenged, if you notice are cases where shcools, teachers, or laws attempt to force religion on people. Just so you know, the ACLU has sued over students being disiplined for excercising their right to express their religoin.
the real culture war, as i see it (between moderates) is about where the line is drawn as far as the goverment forcing religion on the people (or denouncing it). the atheists/non-christions tend to believe the line has already been crossed, and that forcing people to acknowldge the existance of any god/goddess/deity crosses that line (it would also be crossing that line to force people to deny the excistance of any god/goddess/deity).
it is my opinion that these stickers constituted an attempt to discredit a scientific theory by way of belittling it (the word ONLY is the really objectionable wording, although, if the district bought decent books, evolotion should have been presented as a theory, and reminding people of that is, itself an attempt to belittle the already stated theory). furthermore, these stickers, being implimented by a branch of the goverment, were an attempt by the goverment to influence peoples' religion.
I have to wonder if thats because all the goverment does with that money is spend it on tests (for "accountibility") instead of teachers, who can actually help the kids.
more important:
if it takes too long for the feds to break the scheme, then the terrorist attack (what they are claiming this technology is for) will still go through, and the public will only become more frustrated when they find out that the FBI of CIA or whatever ACTUALLY had records of people planning the attack (even more trouble for the feds).
I can tell we just got over election day. when i first read "microwave the drive", ny eyes were expecting to read a parody of "rock the vote". lol
The reality (or our perception of it) is not what matters her. what does matter is what these people have been led to believe - thats what these people are going to act on. This attitude of "why do they call us [blank] when we are really doing [blank]" seams to be a problem in the US. remember that these people do not always have access to the best or true information (many American's are the same way), but everyone can only act on the information they have. and, if the information you have all points to "America (terrorists, invadors, etc.) is bad", then that is what you tend to believe.
I'm sure you hold some beliefs that are equally uneducated, as does any person.
1)the xxAA to issue C&D letters over data that is not theirs.
2)a public backlash against the xxAA (maybe even the DMCA, but that just wishful thinkig)
3)the xxAA to give you an excuse to sue
I propose that someone start up a web site that writes and accepts reviews of movies/music/whatever. The reviews can then be tarballed into (movie|game|artist/song)name.tar.gz so that users can download all the reviews about whatever at one time.
When the xxAA's bot sees these files and sends the C&D letters, you can accuse the xxAA of trying to shut down people who say unflattery things about them (you didn't think these would be good reviews, did you?). The xxaa then opens themselves up to lawsuits, because of the potential damage to you (maybe the ISP will shut you down, or, better yet, the xxAA will follow up on their threat). when this happens:
1) you have further proof of the xxAA's monopolistic (sp?) practices, and their hatred of the consumer, etc. to wave in the public's face.
2) the xxAA has just (accorging to a previous post) violated the DMCA, because there is no real reason to believe that these files contain whole games, movies, or songs or whatever (yeah, right judge... i fit the whole 3cds of this game into a 100K file...) these C&D letters even give the size of the file in question, and a 100k file should not look to a person like a violation of any copyrights.
My dad is going to build a clock out of all the different kinds of media he has worked with over his career.
I hear that dry-erase markers are quite entertaining too. supposidly, they also make interesting modern-day art (i just wish i was there for that :()
Hey - i'm an AOLer (not willingly though) and i havent done any of that stuff. Well, i guess i dont troll slashdot, but thats easily fixed. :)
Darl is right. Linux sux go get a life u loosers.
There that should make up for a couple of months
The Boy Scouts may be based on chrisrion values, but, much like the grandparent said, there is some selectivity in this issue. I have a couple of atheist friends that are members of the boy scouts - one even made eagle.
Nobody was "on" camera in the same sense as the grandparent is sugesting. Instead, IIRC, the soldiers decided to document their abuses, and redistribute the pictures to their friends.
I believe that the Joe Schmo Show is considered a reality show. The whole idea of that show is that everyone except one or (this season) two people are actors.
what really couts is how many rads are released onto the atmsphere. nuclear power plants do not rease this radiation into the atmosphere. coal does
believe me, as an American, I coulden't believe the scandal that caused
a couple of the relevent parts:
- killing, like sex, became a part of an underworld when it was pushed out of peoples' regular lives.
- he makes a point that training simular to violant video games is used to give soldiers the ability to overcome their built-in resistance to killing. it is important to note here that he does NOT say that video games make people kill, but rather that it gives them the ability to kill, but he makes a point of saying that it still takes a trigger to get these people to kill.
its not FUD for me. i switched when i got tired of having to delete something out of the regestry (just to get a blank home page) everytime i decided i wanted to look at porn. i also got tired of hitting ctrl-alt-del so often. not to mentian all the hassle everytime i went to look for a serial or some other piracy thing.
of course, once i got opera, i discovered some of the features that users really should be switching over for. like the ability to select a web address, and have my browser open it in a new tab instead of the bad-old ctrl-c, ctrl-n, ctrl-v. or, even better, is the ability to choose what i load, and what i run. PS. i know that mozilla has these abilities (sp?) too. i'm not attacking mozilla.
I don't know the exact situation with UK ID cards, but it sounds like you will be required to own (and carry?) them. In America, i am not even sure about the requirement of a SSN card (although, a SSN is used by a lot of organizations as a form of identity . Drivers licences, however, are nowhere near required, unless you drive. Even if a cop pulls you over (at least in the state of Colorado,) you do not have to produce a dirvers licance for the police officer (you have 24 hours to prove to the goverment that you have one.)