No, time travel itself isn't, but examining its implications is. It's why Star Trek TNG was science fiction when it came to time travel, but Star Trek 2009 was an action movie that incorporated time travel.
Rolling my eyes so hard here. I said it was okay to object. It's great. Please do so. Pretending it's not business as usual for decades now is what was silly.
Well, no, not entirely. Sometimes you get occasional "high science fiction" type elements raising interesting questions about time-travel and its implications or the ethics of dealing with other forms of intelligence. But monster-of-the-week adventures, or battling the daleks again tends to be very fantastical and short on the interesting considerations.
The U.S. has treaties of some sort with essentially every nation on the planet, with the exception of those we pretend don't exist. You can't think of international diplomacy like high school, where you've got friends and you've got foes. All alliances between nations are ones of convenience, and not of any sort of emotional bond.
In fact, the U.S's "closest allies" are all nations we've waged war or proxy war against in the past: U.K., Canada, Germany, Japan. Realpolitik dominates international diplomacy(and its best buddy, espionage), and not without reason.
Unfortunately, for the first time ever, Nintendo was selling a new console at a loss. Which means a single title that sells that platform isn't enough to make a profit anymore. When people bought the wii for wii sports or wii fit, it was a good thing. If people did the same with WiiU, nintendo would go bankrupt.
The nukes weren't even the deadliest bombings by the U.S.against Japan in WWII, much less including the blitz or the bombing of dresden. The tools used don't alter the morality of killing in war. Tokyo was worse, Dresden was worse, London was worse, some parts of southern Italy may have been worse.
No, not really. Tradecraft refers to the individual skills and best practices used in actual espionage. I was trying to use a term referring to the overall national strategy and chose a distinct one on purpose.
Oh no! You've found my weakness! Because I suggest improvement of my environment, I must be personally perfect and literally a deity, and being human, that's impossible. There's no way a flawed individual could ever find a flaw in anything! Progress is literally impossible!
Hmm, if we're not excusing historical behavior... I seem to recall that the United States had a large indigenous population prior to the founding of the US government. What happened to them? Oh yeah, genocide.
And wasn't one of the most barbaric forms of slavery practiced in modern history done in the U.S? Why yes it was!
And didn't we have institutionalized racism, with official laws enforcing it until the 19-fucking-70s? Oh, we sure did!
What possible metric of justice, opportunity, and education could you possibly be using?
Number of people jailed, amount of wealth accumulated by the wealthiest, and amount spent on tuition? Because we do top out those categories, quite nicely.
But if you want say... Low crime rates, social mobility, and objective skills testing for those metrics, the US has fallen behind basically every other first world country.
I don't think you've noticed, but we are a barbaric nation, by-and-large. Less educated, more violent, and more plutocratic than comparable nations. Our barbarism in our justice system isn't a mysterious artifact of unknown origin, it's a reflection of a larger anti-intellectual culture.
No, this is pretty much normal spying. If you had a spy agency and didn't monitor other nations for strategic advantage, you'd wonder what the hell they were doing. I'm not saying it's unreasonable to be opposed, because moral objections are best objections, just that pretending it's bad spycraft is silly.
Yeah, no, it was just another eutopianist whacking off at his dreamworld. "No one is fat because computer implants run on bodyfat" had me rolling my eyes pretty hard.
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People have, and the airlines have handled this by merging more, and forming a stronger panopoly.
No, time travel itself isn't, but examining its implications is. It's why Star Trek TNG was science fiction when it came to time travel, but Star Trek 2009 was an action movie that incorporated time travel.
Markov chains? With some sort of weighted algorithm to re-using words from my post?
And it's duplicitous to pretend Bush wasn't doing both.
Your analogy sucks. Because whatever else is true, at least we're not fucking torturing people(ourselves) anymore.
Rolling my eyes so hard here. I said it was okay to object. It's great. Please do so. Pretending it's not business as usual for decades now is what was silly.
That's basically what I came to expect from Bush officials like him. I sometimes forget how bad things were.
Congratulations, now you're a monster too! Problems actually solved: 0.
Well, no, not entirely. Sometimes you get occasional "high science fiction" type elements raising interesting questions about time-travel and its implications or the ethics of dealing with other forms of intelligence. But monster-of-the-week adventures, or battling the daleks again tends to be very fantastical and short on the interesting considerations.
The U.S. has treaties of some sort with essentially every nation on the planet, with the exception of those we pretend don't exist. You can't think of international diplomacy like high school, where you've got friends and you've got foes. All alliances between nations are ones of convenience, and not of any sort of emotional bond.
In fact, the U.S's "closest allies" are all nations we've waged war or proxy war against in the past: U.K., Canada, Germany, Japan. Realpolitik dominates international diplomacy(and its best buddy, espionage), and not without reason.
Unfortunately, for the first time ever, Nintendo was selling a new console at a loss. Which means a single title that sells that platform isn't enough to make a profit anymore. When people bought the wii for wii sports or wii fit, it was a good thing. If people did the same with WiiU, nintendo would go bankrupt.
The nukes weren't even the deadliest bombings by the U.S. against Japan in WWII, much less including the blitz or the bombing of dresden. The tools used don't alter the morality of killing in war. Tokyo was worse, Dresden was worse, London was worse, some parts of southern Italy may have been worse.
No, not really. Tradecraft refers to the individual skills and best practices used in actual espionage. I was trying to use a term referring to the overall national strategy and chose a distinct one on purpose.
Oh no! You've found my weakness! Because I suggest improvement of my environment, I must be personally perfect and literally a deity, and being human, that's impossible. There's no way a flawed individual could ever find a flaw in anything! Progress is literally impossible!
Hmm, if we're not excusing historical behavior...
I seem to recall that the United States had a large indigenous population prior to the founding of the US government. What happened to them? Oh yeah, genocide.
And wasn't one of the most barbaric forms of slavery practiced in modern history done in the U.S? Why yes it was!
And didn't we have institutionalized racism, with official laws enforcing it until the 19-fucking-70s? Oh, we sure did!
And didn't the Nazis ride in on an anti-intellectualist platform? Why, yes they did.
Come on man, there's never been an intellectual justification for pretty violence, and you know it.
What possible metric of justice, opportunity, and education could you possibly be using?
Number of people jailed, amount of wealth accumulated by the wealthiest, and amount spent on tuition? Because we do top out those categories, quite nicely.
But if you want say...
Low crime rates, social mobility, and objective skills testing for those metrics, the US has fallen behind basically every other first world country.
Yes, you're free to object on moral grounds. I said that. I'm quite sure of it.
Yes, there is, and for a year or so around 2010, my state couldn't do any executions because they couldn't find doctors willing to murder someone.
Yep, reality doesn't contain any mental illness. Genius.
That's why I said "culture" and not "people". The two aren't separable, per se, but they are distinct.
No, he quite distinctly had 2 points.
1. Hypocrisy
2. Free-slinging of nukes as a foreign policy.
#2 is hyperbole, but there's nothing wrong with identifying hyperbole and asking for a more restrained perspective.
I don't think you've noticed, but we are a barbaric nation, by-and-large. Less educated, more violent, and more plutocratic than comparable nations. Our barbarism in our justice system isn't a mysterious artifact of unknown origin, it's a reflection of a larger anti-intellectual culture.
No, this is pretty much normal spying. If you had a spy agency and didn't monitor other nations for strategic advantage, you'd wonder what the hell they were doing. I'm not saying it's unreasonable to be opposed, because moral objections are best objections, just that pretending it's bad spycraft is silly.
Thank you for the current state of movie releases, clearly generic American consumer. Do you somehow get invited to all the focus groups?
Yeah, no, it was just another eutopianist whacking off at his dreamworld. "No one is fat because computer implants run on bodyfat" had me rolling my eyes pretty hard.