I've gotten to the point where people like this simply need to be removed from society. This isn't an accident or something they didn't know they shouldn't do. They know perfectly well what they're trying to accomplish.
This goes for all criminals at this point in time. It's not as if the rules of society aren't known. One can't claim they didn't know they shouldn't rob/rape/murder/steal from someone. These basic rules weren't enabled yesterday.
For the sake of argument, let's say one could get the temperature down to absolute zero. Let us further assume a single atom is subjected to this temperature.
Would one be able to "freeze" the atom so that its constituent parts would be immobile and visible? Or would it fall apart?
The millennial generation seems to have a sense of entitlement as big as a politicianÃ(TM)s ego
Unlike the previous generation who feels entitled to someone else's music, movie or tv show without paying for it, right?
and 95% of the time they aren't the older 50+ drivers, they are the 20-somethings and 30-somethings.
Don't know where you live, but around me it's closer to 40-60. Yes, the majority are the "younger" generation, but there are plenty of midlife folks yakking on their phones while driving.
Here's something else. At a local nature reserve I go to on weekends, I'm usually there around 6:30. You know who the folks are yakking on their phones at that hour, disturbing the animals? Senior citizens.
Ah yes, the infamous "God created man and gave him free will, but whines and bitches when man uses that free will."
It seems if your god, or any god, was truly omnipotent, it would have created perfect beings from the beginning. Instead, we get stories of how it's a woman's fault we're screwed up because she exercised her free will.
That this being, who screwed up from the beginning, then impregnated another man's wife so she would have his child who would then be sent to his death by God's own chosen people, is even proof of the ridiculousness of religion.
If one can live a good life not going around robbing, raping or stealing, and still not be considered to go to your heaven, again, I'll pass.
Thank you for showing the evils of religion. Because this man, or any person, didn't believe in a magical guy in the sky, even though he did nothing wrong his entire life and in fact suffered most of his life because the magical guy in the sky "has a plan", he'll be in torment for eternity.
If that's the "loving" god you worship, I'll pass.
No, what is bullshit is people like you thinking you're entitled by divine right to the work of others.
If someone produces something, and decides not to release it, for whatever reason, that does not entitle you to have access to it. The same goes even if it was released. It's not yours, you're not entitled to it, nor is the public entitled to it.
You claim to be a game developer but don't understand this simple concept. If you didn't produce it, it's not yours. End of discussion.
the agency conducted a quiet campaign to bolster its cyberattack story with the aid of friendly and easily duped reporters
In other words, the Fox tabloid was complicit in this sham. What a surprise. This is the same group who is furiously backpedaling when they put out a picture of a Philadelphia Eagle's player kneeling, but used the picture for a story about players kneeling for the anthem. The player is a Christian and was doing a pre-game prayer. He even called them out for their propaganda.
I want my PC to do one thing and one thing only: do what I tell it to do. I don't want it to "think" for me, make guesses at what it thinks I'm going to do, or get in the way of what I'm doing.
I want a platform which is stable so I can do my work.
he had to dispose of multiple chemical weapons, which went unreported by the media.
Bullshit. The finds were reported and the reason was those weapons were from the 80's, not something which had been produced recently. Which was the whole point of Bush's lie. He said Iraq had an active wmd program, that he was producing chemical and biological weapons.
If those weapons you claim had been found, don't you think the Bush administration would have been crowing from the highest lightpost about being right? If those weapons had been found, why did Dick Cheney say he knew where those weapons were every time he was asked about not finding wmds rather than saying they had found them and here's the proof?
the current lack of ethics in journalism in order to push an agenda.
You mean not pushing lies like finding wmds when they weren't? You mean like reporting the facts of a situation rather than what the sprayed orange con artist says? You mean like not being a mouthpiece for said same person and abandoning any pretense of being fair and balanced?
To cook the steak. The pan part is merely to sear the outside and start the maiard reaction. However, the steak won't be cooked through since there isn't enough prolonged heat in a pan.
Granted, if you like your steak raw or rare, you can skip the oven step.
Assuming it were possible to drop the temperature to absolute zero, would an atom in this state be able to be observed, including its constituent parts? Could it be moved in one piece like a piece of matter?
Or would the fact it is at absolute zero cause it to fall to pieces (no pun intended)? How would quantum mechanics come into play in this scenario?
But I don't see a problems with our tax dollars funding studies to see the benefits and detrimental effects of things like drugs,
And how many more decades should this be done? It's not like the government hasn't been warning people since before I was born (something something decades ago). How many more studies need to be done telling people, "Drugs are bad, m'kay?"
How many news articles are there every day telling us how many more people died from opioid overdoses? How about the articles about someone "famous" who OD'd? Someone who thought marijuana was harmless and either killed themselves or someone else? The list goes on and on, every day, yet apparently between those articles and the government going out of its way to warn people about the dangers, all those "experts" know more than the doctors.
There is only so much money, only so many studies, all saying the same thing, that can be put out before one has to say, "No one's listening, so what's the point?"
As the OP said, the government shouldn't be a nanny state to protect people from their idiocy. If people don't want to listen to all the evidence showing they could die using drugs, they should be on their own without the government to help them.
The government is not (supposed to be) here to be a nanny over the populace, and protect them from their own idiocy.
Which is exactly why the government should stop warning people about the dangers of drugs. Stop the nanny state. If people are too stupid to realize there is a good chance they will die from using drugs, that's their problem.
The same goes for publicly-funded drug rehab. It's not the government's responsibility to force other people to pay for your idiocy.
as it would cause mass and energy to be created in the new time period and mass and energy to be removed from the exiting time period.
Not necessarily. Depending on how the device used to enable time travel is created, energy could be used in our time to create the portal to the past while not sending energy to the past. Think wormhole. It's simply an opening.
As to the mass, the person going back in time would be the mass but they would eventually return (assuming they weren't killed in the past.)
It's not that you would just poof out of existence if you travelled back and killed an ancestor; you would poof out of existence by your theory if you went back AT ALL
Again, not necessarily. In the Many Worlds interpretation, changing something in the past would create another line of Time which would prevent you from going poof. You may have killed your ancestor in the past, but because you come from a different line of Time, you still exist. Your ancestor was killed in a different timeline which doesn't affect you.
They almost certainly would have changed certain events (if they could).
Not unless they were instructed not to change anything but only be an observer. If we somehow are able to enable time travel to be possible, do you think we would let every Tom, Dick, and Harry go gallivanting through Time? Most likely it would be limited to those in the scientific fields who would be trained and instructed what not to do when going to the past.
Further, since there would most likely not be a way for us to determine if a multiverse exists, or if any changes we made in the past affect our future, we wouldn't be able to determine if what anyone did in the past has affected our present. To us, history is history.
Let us not forget, this is the same corrupt administration whose head of EPA, who is literally in bed with lobbyists, recently outlawed any science-based studies for the agency. Only if they're funded by businesses who would never, ever manipulate the data, are studies allowed. Anything independent is verboten.
The thing is, this is the same con artist who said he needed to build a sea wall to protect his failing Irish golf course from the effects of climate change.
"A Do nothing/Do minimum option will have the least impact on [natural] processes but the existing erosion rate will continue and worsen, due to sea level rise, in the next coming years, posing a real and immediate risk to most of the golf course frontage and assets."
Which raises the question: if the con artist doesn't believe in climate change and is scrapping this program because it's not needed, why did he need to build a sea wall to protect his failing golf course?
Here's an even better question: how can his uneducated supporters continue to be such hypocrites and not call him out for his own hypocrisy? Are they really that stupid or is it they simply don't care? Either scenario is not something to be proud of, yet they can continue to wallow in their own ignorance.
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Naw. They need to be shot.
I've gotten to the point where people like this simply need to be removed from society. This isn't an accident or something they didn't know they shouldn't do. They know perfectly well what they're trying to accomplish.
This goes for all criminals at this point in time. It's not as if the rules of society aren't known. One can't claim they didn't know they shouldn't rob/rape/murder/steal from someone. These basic rules weren't enabled yesterday.
And yes, this is a reference to ST:TNG, Justice.
Thanks for the explanation and breaking down what I asked about.
I understand the Bose-Einstein condensate is about groups of atoms, but it got me thinking about individual atoms and absolute zero.
For the sake of argument, let's say one could get the temperature down to absolute zero. Let us further assume a single atom is subjected to this temperature.
Would one be able to "freeze" the atom so that its constituent parts would be immobile and visible? Or would it fall apart?
What happens to an atom at absolute zero?
The millennial generation seems to have a sense of entitlement as big as a politicianÃ(TM)s ego
Unlike the previous generation who feels entitled to someone else's music, movie or tv show without paying for it, right?
and 95% of the time they aren't the older 50+ drivers, they are the 20-somethings and 30-somethings.
Don't know where you live, but around me it's closer to 40-60. Yes, the majority are the "younger" generation, but there are plenty of midlife folks yakking on their phones while driving.
Here's something else. At a local nature reserve I go to on weekends, I'm usually there around 6:30. You know who the folks are yakking on their phones at that hour, disturbing the animals? Senior citizens.
Hailing a ride is what you do with taxis. It's redundant to call a taxi service a ride hailing service when that is what one does to get a ride.
If we don't have Gundams, what's the point?
Ah yes, the infamous "God created man and gave him free will, but whines and bitches when man uses that free will."
It seems if your god, or any god, was truly omnipotent, it would have created perfect beings from the beginning. Instead, we get stories of how it's a woman's fault we're screwed up because she exercised her free will.
That this being, who screwed up from the beginning, then impregnated another man's wife so she would have his child who would then be sent to his death by God's own chosen people, is even proof of the ridiculousness of religion.
If one can live a good life not going around robbing, raping or stealing, and still not be considered to go to your heaven, again, I'll pass.
Thank you for showing the evils of religion. Because this man, or any person, didn't believe in a magical guy in the sky, even though he did nothing wrong his entire life and in fact suffered most of his life because the magical guy in the sky "has a plan", he'll be in torment for eternity.
If that's the "loving" god you worship, I'll pass.
No, what is bullshit is people like you thinking you're entitled by divine right to the work of others.
If someone produces something, and decides not to release it, for whatever reason, that does not entitle you to have access to it. The same goes even if it was released. It's not yours, you're not entitled to it, nor is the public entitled to it.
You claim to be a game developer but don't understand this simple concept. If you didn't produce it, it's not yours. End of discussion.
That's $600 per year. Every year.
That is far more expensive than a single license of CS which could be used for years once you paid for it.
the agency conducted a quiet campaign to bolster its cyberattack story with the aid of friendly and easily duped reporters
In other words, the Fox tabloid was complicit in this sham. What a surprise. This is the same group who is furiously backpedaling when they put out a picture of a Philadelphia Eagle's player kneeling, but used the picture for a story about players kneeling for the anthem. The player is a Christian and was doing a pre-game prayer. He even called them out for their propaganda.
"that machine is 8 years old, just replace it already"
And there's the biggest problem with Macs: you can't upgrade, let alone replace any part which fails.
Until Apple changes this one aspect, they will be relegated to a tiny fraction of the PC market, just like Linux.
I want my PC to do one thing and one thing only: do what I tell it to do. I don't want it to "think" for me, make guesses at what it thinks I'm going to do, or get in the way of what I'm doing.
I want a platform which is stable so I can do my work.
he had to dispose of multiple chemical weapons, which went unreported by the media.
Bullshit. The finds were reported and the reason was those weapons were from the 80's, not something which had been produced recently. Which was the whole point of Bush's lie. He said Iraq had an active wmd program, that he was producing chemical and biological weapons.
If those weapons you claim had been found, don't you think the Bush administration would have been crowing from the highest lightpost about being right? If those weapons had been found, why did Dick Cheney say he knew where those weapons were every time he was asked about not finding wmds rather than saying they had found them and here's the proof?
the current lack of ethics in journalism in order to push an agenda.
You mean not pushing lies like finding wmds when they weren't? You mean like reporting the facts of a situation rather than what the sprayed orange con artist says? You mean like not being a mouthpiece for said same person and abandoning any pretense of being fair and balanced?
Speaking of pushing an agenda. . .
What is the oven part for? I'm asking seriously.
To cook the steak. The pan part is merely to sear the outside and start the maiard reaction. However, the steak won't be cooked through since there isn't enough prolonged heat in a pan.
Granted, if you like your steak raw or rare, you can skip the oven step.
Assuming it were possible to drop the temperature to absolute zero, would an atom in this state be able to be observed, including its constituent parts? Could it be moved in one piece like a piece of matter?
Or would the fact it is at absolute zero cause it to fall to pieces (no pun intended)? How would quantum mechanics come into play in this scenario?
Don't use their search engine any more, don't use any of their services, don't use any of their products, and block their trackers while web browsing.
I fail to see how they'll do anything with me.
This new strategy must be why the con artist eliminated the top cyber adviser post.
After all, what better way to counter cybersecurity threats than eliminating the person in charge of overall cybersecurity.
But I don't see a problems with our tax dollars funding studies to see the benefits and detrimental effects of things like drugs,
And how many more decades should this be done? It's not like the government hasn't been warning people since before I was born (something something decades ago). How many more studies need to be done telling people, "Drugs are bad, m'kay?"
How many news articles are there every day telling us how many more people died from opioid overdoses? How about the articles about someone "famous" who OD'd? Someone who thought marijuana was harmless and either killed themselves or someone else? The list goes on and on, every day, yet apparently between those articles and the government going out of its way to warn people about the dangers, all those "experts" know more than the doctors.
There is only so much money, only so many studies, all saying the same thing, that can be put out before one has to say, "No one's listening, so what's the point?"
As the OP said, the government shouldn't be a nanny state to protect people from their idiocy. If people don't want to listen to all the evidence showing they could die using drugs, they should be on their own without the government to help them.
The government is not (supposed to be) here to be a nanny over the populace, and protect them from their own idiocy.
Which is exactly why the government should stop warning people about the dangers of drugs. Stop the nanny state. If people are too stupid to realize there is a good chance they will die from using drugs, that's their problem.
The same goes for publicly-funded drug rehab. It's not the government's responsibility to force other people to pay for your idiocy.
as it would cause mass and energy to be created in the new time period and mass and energy to be removed from the exiting time period.
Not necessarily. Depending on how the device used to enable time travel is created, energy could be used in our time to create the portal to the past while not sending energy to the past. Think wormhole. It's simply an opening.
As to the mass, the person going back in time would be the mass but they would eventually return (assuming they weren't killed in the past.)
It's not that you would just poof out of existence if you travelled back and killed an ancestor; you would poof out of existence by your theory if you went back AT ALL
Again, not necessarily. In the Many Worlds interpretation, changing something in the past would create another line of Time which would prevent you from going poof. You may have killed your ancestor in the past, but because you come from a different line of Time, you still exist. Your ancestor was killed in a different timeline which doesn't affect you.
They almost certainly would have changed certain events (if they could).
Not unless they were instructed not to change anything but only be an observer. If we somehow are able to enable time travel to be possible, do you think we would let every Tom, Dick, and Harry go gallivanting through Time? Most likely it would be limited to those in the scientific fields who would be trained and instructed what not to do when going to the past.
Further, since there would most likely not be a way for us to determine if a multiverse exists, or if any changes we made in the past affect our future, we wouldn't be able to determine if what anyone did in the past has affected our present. To us, history is history.
Let us not forget, this is the same corrupt administration whose head of EPA, who is literally in bed with lobbyists, recently outlawed any science-based studies for the agency. Only if they're funded by businesses who would never, ever manipulate the data, are studies allowed. Anything independent is verboten.
The thing is, this is the same con artist who said he needed to build a sea wall to protect his failing Irish golf course from the effects of climate change.
"A Do nothing/Do minimum option will have the least impact on [natural] processes but the existing erosion rate will continue and worsen, due to sea level rise, in the next coming years, posing a real and immediate risk to most of the golf course frontage and assets."
Which raises the question: if the con artist doesn't believe in climate change and is scrapping this program because it's not needed, why did he need to build a sea wall to protect his failing golf course?
Here's an even better question: how can his uneducated supporters continue to be such hypocrites and not call him out for his own hypocrisy? Are they really that stupid or is it they simply don't care? Either scenario is not something to be proud of, yet they can continue to wallow in their own ignorance.
Get government out of regulating business.
You mean like having an Iowa Senator get the taxpayers to subsidize ethanol producers year round?
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Perhaps if you would stop reading/watching the Fox tabloid you would get real news from a real news organization.
we should shoot someone at random to solve the problem?
No, we shoot the criminals once they are convicted. The ones who have multiple convictions go first.