It you attack a cop with stones or a knife or even your hands, it is not excessive force for them to shoot you. Why should it be any different for the public?
So when are we going to start regulating birth rates?
I know this is seen as racist by many, since the minorities are the main ones reproducing at an alarming rate, with obvious octomom exceptions, but it is about the future of our planet and the survival of our race at this point. Race isn't even a factor.
Can you imagine how nasty those battles are going to get with this sort of law in place?
One of my friends ex-husbands can already get the cops to raid her house every few months if she pisses him off. They have to do it because he says she is hurting the child and they have to check it out. Now he can ge her declared a sex offender as well. Sure she can do it back, but he can afford the better lawyers and would probably win.
Man, they can arrest you for anything anymore in Ohio. Yes, I live there.
The war on drugs made plastic baggies, scales, and anything you can smoke tobacco out of into drug paraphernalia which carries a 3 year prison sentence in Ohio.
The War on Terror made pretty much anything you can carry into a public venue a crime. Plus if you refuse the search they don't just let you go, they throw you to the ground and point guns at you.
Then Cincinnati made taking your shirt off in public a sex crime and put you on the sex offender registry for it. Yes, even if it is a guy.
Now someone can just say you looked at their kid funny and you are basically on house arrest for life. But then mutual sex between two 17 year olds also gets you on the list for life, so I guess I saw this one coming.
The worst part of politics these days is that no matter who you vote for you always lose to the crappy child safety laws. both sides want to look like they are tough on drugs terrorists, and sex offenders, so the rest of us must suffer. I think I might say my senator looked at my nephew funny and see how they like this law.
The only solution is to get rid of political parties or get a third party, but even then I doubt we will get a pro-child porn party, not that I would relly want one.
At least I don't live in West Virginia though. I hear they are blocking out Comedy central shows like south park and the daily show. Then of course in england I would already be in jail for owning a few bondage videos.:(
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They could enhance WOW though.
actually being able to talk to people near you in the game without typing would be cool. Not a chat program, but an actual in game voice that everyone within 20 virtual feet of you can hear. They could even include a varity of voice filters so even the 10 year old boys sound like a large lumbering orc or a sexy night elf. Of course then freedom of speech becomes a reality that the game companies might not want to deal with. It is harder to filter out actual spoken words than typed words.
another improvement would be to allow people to buy property and set up stores and such. Trying to compete on a global market is too hard sometimes for casual palyers. Granted, I don't want a world of houses in the desert like in Galaxies, but pre placed rentable apartments/caves might be nice. Granted they may have something like this now. I haven't played WOW in over a year. Yes, I kicked the MMORPG habit.
For those of us who partake of the ganja, we will always have 4/20 once a year. The man can't take that away from us!
Ok, some little bastards in columbine tried, but it is still the national pot holiday no matter what they did on that day.
I agree. the Mayspace population has matured a lot over the last few months. The average age of users is around 25 now. I have 36 friends, and I know them all, and they all have bachelors or masters degrees.
It is a great tool for meeting old friends and making new ones in your town.
I am sure some of the uber nerds on here are just upset that non-nerds are actually using and enjoying the web. Besides most of them don't have the social skils to make new friends online or in real life, so myspace isn't of use to them.
Most myspace users are even learning basic HTML coding to make their site look pretty. Now all they have to do is learn moderation in web design and how to make your text a contrasting color from your background.:)
They are just learning though give them a year.
Yep, good old Nero the antichrist, known for his mark of 666 (or 616 depending on the Greek translation), should have not been so hard on the Christians. I wonder how different the world would be had Christianity and eventually Islam had not caused the Roman empire to implode upon itself, and burned or destroyed anything that argued against the agreed upon tenants of the Abraham religions. What a waste.:( Jesus and Mohammad suck. Stop worshiping them and maybe we will finally be able to create our own utopia while we are alive, and not just hope we end up in one when we die.
I bet George Bush's ancestor was a senator in Rome 2000 years ago when temperatures were this high the last time. I bet he refused to control the cow dung and the excess methane caused global temperatures to rise, which in turn caused the fall of the Roman empire.
Hey folks, you can't blame G.W. for everything. The fact is, the earth has been much much hotter than it is now, and much much cooler. Just be glad you don't have a desert or a glacier in your living room and go live your life.
A 1 degree rise in the last hundred years is all the proof we have!
Yes, I agree firefly died because of the network screwing with it, and I agree with the point made about how it cost too much and the reality shows are cheeper. That is why the network ruined firefly on purpose. It was just a way for them to get out of a contract. But when it ended people just watched whatever crap took it's place, and the ad dollars kept rolling in. So the people are partially to blame even if they really had no control. They are responsible for making those low budjet reality shows popular, and as long as people watch them there will not be any really new shows with a big budget taking the chance.
I am just glad the BBC came out with Dr. Who, HBO had Rome, and showtime had penn and teller Bullshit. Now those were some origional shows, well with the exception of DR. who, but it was reinvented for our generation. So at least the ratings don't control those entities. Not yet anyway.
Man you bastards get nasty when somebody bashes your type of tv. What a bunch of fucking fanboys!
Yes, I enjoy the odd cop or medical drama too. but there are how many different fucking Law and Order shows?
I was just pointing out that firefly was different. Not better. I just want variety, but the networks are afraid to take a chance on anything new because the ratings aren't there for it. The ratings aren't there because as someone else said, people want to just veg out and not try anything new. they are comfortable. But veging out is a form of self induced stupidity no matter how brainy you are during the day. That was my fucking point. Now stop saying I am elitist, I watch the same crap you do, I just want something new now and then as well.
Yes I understand that Firefly is not the end all be all of tv. Heck, even it took elements from other tv shows and jsut threw them together. but they did it in a different way, whether that was for better or worse.
Yeah, but even in a society where everyone gets a vote, you are still going to have around 20% that like reality shows, 15% that enjoy game shows, 20% that like daytime talkshows, 20% that like medical drama, and 20% that enjoy cop drama. So even in pefect world where everyone is counted, we will still have a lot of crap on tv because there are a lot of stupid people in the world that find comfort in watching the same old crap they have always watched.
Heck sometimes I think those people are threatened when a new show like firefly comes on. they just don't know how to classify it so they don't bother watching it.
We are gonna vote democrat! Oh shit they are behind it, well then republican, crap them too! Well then, crap there is no third choice and they have laws to prevent one from starting up!
As I understand it, Hemp naturally gains a THC level when fertalized, so to avoid this where it is legal, like in Canada, they have to separate out all the male plants from the crop or some crap.
So by the time you do all that it is probably cheaper to just grow corn or soybeans or something.
Hemp should be grown for paper too though. But in our country it probably costs less to grow trees because of the above bullshit as well.
I would like to see a real study that shows all the possible crops and how much ethanol a 1 acre field of that crop could produce in 1 season. Then we can offset that by production and fertilizer costs as well per crop. Too many studies are out to prove the bennefits of just one plant. we need some real data on the subject from an unbiased source.
My family owns a farm though, and I must say I want to keep the tarrifs or we would go broke. We barely squeeze out 30 grand a year in take home profits right now. (that is about half that has to go back into the farm) If you let foreign farms compete that don't have to meet all the regulations and standards we would go broke in a year. Plus our farmers are forced to rebuy all our seed every year. There is no such thing as letting some of your crop go to seed anymore. there are laws against it thanks to our screwed up patent laws.
Oh yeah, american farmers can't just stop farming and sell the farm either. You have to pay back taxes when you sell a farm and that can be hundreds of thousands of dollars which usually just about equals the price of the farm.
Yeah, Joss Wheadon just couldn't keep those spaceships in focus. The guys floating around in space filming it must have had too much to think about besides camera focus.:)
I am just tired of everyone saying Serenity had bad cinematography. Joss intentionally did zoom focus shots and motion blur shots to make it look like there was a camera guy right there filming the action. But of course since all the action is usually done against a green screen, or no screen at all, these affects were purposefully added later just like the space ships that were zoom focused on. It was a creative decision, and while it might not have been the best one, it has nothing to do with crappy cinematography. In fact after watching the making of on the dvd, I realized he went to great effort to make those effects happen.
Making everything look crisp and clear is easy today. He wanted the old spaghetti western camera shots for his space western movie. Show some respect for his genius even if you are too ignorant to appreciate it.
Jesus was initially portrayed as a sun god by early christian artists.
But the Celtic cross which includes the sun came about later when chistians tried to convert the sun worshipers of the Celtice regions into christians. (Hey, the sun is really important for warmth up in that region. The Christians just combined the two religions like they did with everything else.
Heck, easter is nothing but a pagan spring fertility festival, hence the eggs and bunnies. The christians just took a celebration of life and love and made it about death and sorrow, well ok it is about rebirth too I guess, but maybe that was invented jut so they could convince people to follow their magic son of god jesus instead of those pagan gods that hadn't been seen for a while.
Those silly christians just stole everything, and then killed anyone who said they did so.
Actually huge numbers of large herbavors roaming the plains of the United States IS natural. We just killed off all the buffalo and have now replaced them with cows.
If you think we have more cattle now than the buffalo we used to have, then you are sadly mistaken.
You nerds need to get out of LA and New York occasionally and learn abot the "flyover" country.
I read that article at realclimate and They failed to answer a few questions that are really big fricken questions.
They claim to know how the earth cooled to create the ice ages, yet they give no example of how they warmed up again. I mean the earth has cooled and warmed several times throughout it's history before humans were ever present, so this article saying that we are the only cause of rising C02 levels needs to explain first how the C02 got there in the first place, and secondly why the earth warmed up since the last Ice age. I only saw a reason for why it cooled myself. If I trust my geology 101 class, I believe it was increased volcanic activity that spewed out the first green house gasses. Why has that changed?
Also, while volcanoes do throw up dust that cools the earth temporarily, they can also throw up greenhouse gasses that do not come down as quick as the dust, therefore those gasses will have a long term warming effect even if it is cooler in the short term from the dust. I have seen at least 10 shows about this, so I am not just puling this out of my ass.
Some disagree how much greenhouse gas is spewed out by volcanoes, but I think they basically found it depends on the volcano. Plus, I never really saw anyone who could accurately measure the volcano emissions.
So my point is, there are still some issues I need addressed before I can support any large plan to cool our planet down especially if it costs a lot to do it.
Is this before or after California kicks out all the illegal immigrants? Because if you keep them they will continue to multiply while eating all of California's food. If you kick them out, you will have nobody to pick the fruit.
We need a way to talk on a headset and have those that are close to us in the 3d game be able to hear us as if they were standing next to us in real life.
Teamspeak is nice, but it is only for your friends. You can't just walk up to a troll and start talking to him without a lot of typing.
With 3d sound projection in game, the further away you stand the more distant the sound. You could even have a shout button to broadcast to a larger area, and of course a mute button to mute out the annoying prepubescent children.
The mute button could even be in the form of a gag that only you can see on the person. If they are gagged you can not hear them and must ungag them to hear them again.
Sure, game companies would have to spend a little more money to pay people to actually talk to the game players in certain key roles (forcing GMs to actually Gm), but they could still have monsters and robots armies running autonomously.
Then all we have to do is make VR glasses that work, and we would have the true virtual gaming we were promised 15 years ago.
My favorite was when they moved the servers to a new location across town. They even put up a GPS map showing their exact location so everyone would know how soon the site would be back up.
They must believe their country will protect them instead of hunting them down and arresting them.
I wonder if their government will still protect them when the US threatens to impose trade sanctions if they do not get rid of The Pirate Bay. Janet Reno did that with Australia and they caved soon after. Now Australia has some of the toughest copyright laws in the world. I think they are even harsher than the US equivalents.
Ok, lets just examine one of the top 20 list's examples just to prove how one sided and ignorant this whole story is.
"2. The ancient Greeks thought our eyes emitted rays, like a laser, which enabled us to see. The first person to realise that light enters the eye, rather than leaving it, was the 10th-century Muslim mathematician, astronomer and physicist Ibn al-Haitham. He invented the first pin-hole camera after noticing the way light came through a hole in window shutters. The smaller the hole, the better the picture, he worked out, and set up the first Camera Obscura (from the Arab word qamara for a dark or private room). He is also credited with being the first man to shift physics from a philosophical activity to an experimental one."
Yes, some greeks postulated that our eyes emitted rays to see. But it was not the entire greek society that believed this. And they definitely didn't use the word "laser" as that is a modern word. Ibn al-Haitham just popularized the opposing greek theory that light enters the eyes. It also makes it sound as if this guy invented the camera. Let's get this straight folks, he invented a hole in a box that was based on greek theories and examples. Sure the word Camera might have come from Gamera, but he didn't invent that either, even if he did associate that word with a hole in a box. His main invention then was his word association which is all that most of these "arabs" did in the first place.
Almost every "invention" on this list can be credited to the Greeks or Romans before them. It is just that after Rome fell and the empire moved to the east it took it's ideas with them. The "Arabs" or at least some of them were the last ones to writes them down until the enlightenment, but that does not mean they should be given credit for inventing anything.
The last statement about him taking philosophy to an experimental level is the most ignorant. Philosophy was always about observation and proving ones theory and still is. That is experimentation on a very primitive level. Perhaps they meant to say rhetoric instead of philosophy.
This story was nothing but pro-islamic propoganda. The British should be ashamed for promoting this as history.
Ok, lets just examine one of the top 20 list's examples just to prove how one sided and ignorant this whole story is.
"2. The ancient Greeks thought our eyes emitted rays, like a laser, which enabled us to see. The first person to realise that light enters the eye, rather than leaving it, was the 10th-century Muslim mathematician, astronomer and physicist Ibn al-Haitham. He invented the first pin-hole camera after noticing the way light came through a hole in window shutters. The smaller the hole, the better the picture, he worked out, and set up the first Camera Obscura (from the Arab word qamara for a dark or private room). He is also credited with being the first man to shift physics from a philosophical activity to an experimental one."
Yes, some greeks postulated that our eyes emitted rays to see. But it was not the entire greek society that believed this. And they definitely didn't use the word "laser" as that is a modern word. Ibn al-Haitham just popularized the opposing greek theory that light enters the eyes.
It also makes it sound as if this guy invented the camera. Let's get this straight folks, he invented a hole in a box that was based on greek theories and examples. Sure the word Camera might have come from Gamera, but he didn't invent that either, even if he did associate that word with a hole in a box. His main invention then was his word association which is all that most of these "arabs" did in the first place.
Almost every "invention" on this list can be credited to the Greeks or Romans before them. It is just that after Rome fell and the empire moved to the east it took it's ideas with them. The "Arabs" or at least some of them were the last ones to writes them down until the enlightenment, but that does not mean they should be given credit for inventing anything.
The last statement about him taking philosophy to an experimental level is the most ignorant. Philosophy was always about observation and proving ones theory and still is. That is experimentation on a very primitive level. Perhaps they meant to say rhetoric instead of philosophy.
This story was nothing but pro-islamic propoganda. The British should be ashamed for promoting this as history.
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Ratiation! Let's not forget the reluctance to allow a non-government agency the right to test the radiation levels.
It you attack a cop with stones or a knife or even your hands, it is not excessive force for them to shoot you. Why should it be any different for the public?
So when are we going to start regulating birth rates? I know this is seen as racist by many, since the minorities are the main ones reproducing at an alarming rate, with obvious octomom exceptions, but it is about the future of our planet and the survival of our race at this point. Race isn't even a factor.
Funny you bring up custody battles over children.
Can you imagine how nasty those battles are going to get with this sort of law in place?
One of my friends ex-husbands can already get the cops to raid her house every few months if she pisses him off. They have to do it because he says she is hurting the child and they have to check it out.
Now he can ge her declared a sex offender as well. Sure she can do it back, but he can afford the better lawyers and would probably win.
Man, they can arrest you for anything anymore in Ohio. Yes, I live there.
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The war on drugs made plastic baggies, scales, and anything you can smoke tobacco out of into drug paraphernalia which carries a 3 year prison sentence in Ohio.
The War on Terror made pretty much anything you can carry into a public venue a crime. Plus if you refuse the search they don't just let you go, they throw you to the ground and point guns at you.
Then Cincinnati made taking your shirt off in public a sex crime and put you on the sex offender registry for it. Yes, even if it is a guy.
Now someone can just say you looked at their kid funny and you are basically on house arrest for life. But then mutual sex between two 17 year olds also gets you on the list for life, so I guess I saw this one coming.
The worst part of politics these days is that no matter who you vote for you always lose to the crappy child safety laws. both sides want to look like they are tough on drugs terrorists, and sex offenders, so the rest of us must suffer. I think I might say my senator looked at my nephew funny and see how they like this law.
The only solution is to get rid of political parties or get a third party, but even then I doubt we will get a pro-child porn party, not that I would relly want one.
At least I don't live in West Virginia though. I hear they are blocking out Comedy central shows like south park and the daily show.
Then of course in england I would already be in jail for owning a few bondage videos.
They could enhance WOW though.
actually being able to talk to people near you in the game without typing would be cool. Not a chat program, but an actual in game voice that everyone within 20 virtual feet of you can hear. They could even include a varity of voice filters so even the 10 year old boys sound like a large lumbering orc or a sexy night elf.
Of course then freedom of speech becomes a reality that the game companies might not want to deal with. It is harder to filter out actual spoken words than typed words.
another improvement would be to allow people to buy property and set up stores and such. Trying to compete on a global market is too hard sometimes for casual palyers. Granted, I don't want a world of houses in the desert like in Galaxies, but pre placed rentable apartments/caves might be nice.
Granted they may have something like this now. I haven't played WOW in over a year. Yes, I kicked the MMORPG habit.
For those of us who partake of the ganja, we will always have 4/20 once a year. The man can't take that away from us! Ok, some little bastards in columbine tried, but it is still the national pot holiday no matter what they did on that day.
I agree. the Mayspace population has matured a lot over the last few months. The average age of users is around 25 now. I have 36 friends, and I know them all, and they all have bachelors or masters degrees. It is a great tool for meeting old friends and making new ones in your town. I am sure some of the uber nerds on here are just upset that non-nerds are actually using and enjoying the web. Besides most of them don't have the social skils to make new friends online or in real life, so myspace isn't of use to them. Most myspace users are even learning basic HTML coding to make their site look pretty. Now all they have to do is learn moderation in web design and how to make your text a contrasting color from your background. :)
They are just learning though give them a year.
Yep, good old Nero the antichrist, known for his mark of 666 (or 616 depending on the Greek translation), should have not been so hard on the Christians. :(
I wonder how different the world would be had Christianity and eventually Islam had not caused the Roman empire to implode upon itself, and burned or destroyed anything that argued against the agreed upon tenants of the Abraham religions.
What a waste.
Jesus and Mohammad suck. Stop worshiping them and maybe we will finally be able to create our own utopia while we are alive, and not just hope we end up in one when we die.
I bet George Bush's ancestor was a senator in Rome 2000 years ago when temperatures were this high the last time. I bet he refused to control the cow dung and the excess methane caused global temperatures to rise, which in turn caused the fall of the Roman empire.
Hey folks, you can't blame G.W. for everything. The fact is, the earth has been much much hotter than it is now, and much much cooler. Just be glad you don't have a desert or a glacier in your living room and go live your life.
A 1 degree rise in the last hundred years is all the proof we have!
Stop the fear mongering!
Yes, I agree firefly died because of the network screwing with it, and I agree with the point made about how it cost too much and the reality shows are cheeper. That is why the network ruined firefly on purpose. It was just a way for them to get out of a contract.
But when it ended people just watched whatever crap took it's place, and the ad dollars kept rolling in. So the people are partially to blame even if they really had no control. They are responsible for making those low budjet reality shows popular, and as long as people watch them there will not be any really new shows with a big budget taking the chance.
I am just glad the BBC came out with Dr. Who, HBO had Rome, and showtime had penn and teller Bullshit. Now those were some origional shows, well with the exception of DR. who, but it was reinvented for our generation. So at least the ratings don't control those entities. Not yet anyway.
Man you bastards get nasty when somebody bashes your type of tv.
What a bunch of fucking fanboys!
Yes, I enjoy the odd cop or medical drama too. but there are how many different fucking Law and Order shows?
I was just pointing out that firefly was different. Not better. I just want variety, but the networks are afraid to take a chance on anything new because the ratings aren't there for it. The ratings aren't there because as someone else said, people want to just veg out and not try anything new. they are comfortable. But veging out is a form of self induced stupidity no matter how brainy you are during the day. That was my fucking point. Now stop saying I am elitist, I watch the same crap you do, I just want something new now and then as well.
Yes I understand that Firefly is not the end all be all of tv. Heck, even it took elements from other tv shows and jsut threw them together. but they did it in a different way, whether that was for better or worse.
Yeah, but even in a society where everyone gets a vote, you are still going to have around 20% that like reality shows, 15% that enjoy game shows, 20% that like daytime talkshows, 20% that like medical drama, and 20% that enjoy cop drama. So even in pefect world where everyone is counted, we will still have a lot of crap on tv because there are a lot of stupid people in the world that find comfort in watching the same old crap they have always watched.
Heck sometimes I think those people are threatened when a new show like firefly comes on. they just don't know how to classify it so they don't bother watching it.
"What are you all going to do about it?"
We are gonna vote democrat! Oh shit they are behind it, well then republican, crap them too! Well then, crap there is no third choice and they have laws to prevent one from starting up!
As I understand it, Hemp naturally gains a THC level when fertalized, so to avoid this where it is legal, like in Canada, they have to separate out all the male plants from the crop or some crap.
So by the time you do all that it is probably cheaper to just grow corn or soybeans or something.
Hemp should be grown for paper too though. But in our country it probably costs less to grow trees because of the above bullshit as well.
I would like to see a real study that shows all the possible crops and how much ethanol a 1 acre field of that crop could produce in 1 season. Then we can offset that by production and fertilizer costs as well per crop. Too many studies are out to prove the bennefits of just one plant. we need some real data on the subject from an unbiased source.
My family owns a farm though, and I must say I want to keep the tarrifs or we would go broke. We barely squeeze out 30 grand a year in take home profits right now. (that is about half that has to go back into the farm) If you let foreign farms compete that don't have to meet all the regulations and standards we would go broke in a year. Plus our farmers are forced to rebuy all our seed every year. There is no such thing as letting some of your crop go to seed anymore. there are laws against it thanks to our screwed up patent laws.
Oh yeah, american farmers can't just stop farming and sell the farm either. You have to pay back taxes when you sell a farm and that can be hundreds of thousands of dollars which usually just about equals the price of the farm.
The american farmer is basically screwed.
Yeah, Joss Wheadon just couldn't keep those spaceships in focus. The guys floating around in space filming it must have had too much to think about besides camera focus. :)
I am just tired of everyone saying Serenity had bad cinematography. Joss intentionally did zoom focus shots and motion blur shots to make it look like there was a camera guy right there filming the action. But of course since all the action is usually done against a green screen, or no screen at all, these affects were purposefully added later just like the space ships that were zoom focused on. It was a creative decision, and while it might not have been the best one, it has nothing to do with crappy cinematography. In fact after watching the making of on the dvd, I realized he went to great effort to make those effects happen.
Making everything look crisp and clear is easy today. He wanted the old spaghetti western camera shots for his space western movie. Show some respect for his genius even if you are too ignorant to appreciate it.
Jesus was initially portrayed as a sun god by early christian artists.
But the Celtic cross which includes the sun came about later when chistians tried to convert the sun worshipers of the Celtice regions into christians. (Hey, the sun is really important for warmth up in that region. The Christians just combined the two religions like they did with everything else.
Heck, easter is nothing but a pagan spring fertility festival, hence the eggs and bunnies.
The christians just took a celebration of life and love and made it about death and sorrow, well ok it is about rebirth too I guess, but maybe that was invented jut so they could convince people to follow their magic son of god jesus instead of those pagan gods that hadn't been seen for a while.
Those silly christians just stole everything, and then killed anyone who said they did so.
Actually huge numbers of large herbavors roaming the plains of the United States IS natural. We just killed off all the buffalo and have now replaced them with cows.
If you think we have more cattle now than the buffalo we used to have, then you are sadly mistaken.
You nerds need to get out of LA and New York occasionally and learn abot the "flyover" country.
I read that article at realclimate and They failed to answer a few questions that are really big fricken questions.
They claim to know how the earth cooled to create the ice ages, yet they give no example of how they warmed up again. I mean the earth has cooled and warmed several times throughout it's history before humans were ever present, so this article saying that we are the only cause of rising C02 levels needs to explain first how the C02 got there in the first place, and secondly why the earth warmed up since the last Ice age. I only saw a reason for why it cooled myself.
If I trust my geology 101 class, I believe it was increased volcanic activity that spewed out the first green house gasses. Why has that changed?
Also, while volcanoes do throw up dust that cools the earth temporarily, they can also throw up greenhouse gasses that do not come down as quick as the dust, therefore those gasses will have a long term warming effect even if it is cooler in the short term from the dust. I have seen at least 10 shows about this, so I am not just puling this out of my ass.
Some disagree how much greenhouse gas is spewed out by volcanoes, but I think they basically found it depends on the volcano. Plus, I never really saw anyone who could accurately measure the volcano emissions.
So my point is, there are still some issues I need addressed before I can support any large plan to cool our planet down especially if it costs a lot to do it.
Is this before or after California kicks out all the illegal immigrants?
Because if you keep them they will continue to multiply while eating all of California's food.
If you kick them out, you will have nobody to pick the fruit.
We need a way to talk on a headset and have those that are close to us in the 3d game be able to hear us as if they were standing next to us in real life.
Teamspeak is nice, but it is only for your friends. You can't just walk up to a troll and start talking to him without a lot of typing.
With 3d sound projection in game, the further away you stand the more distant the sound. You could even have a shout button to broadcast to a larger area, and of course a mute button to mute out the annoying prepubescent children.
The mute button could even be in the form of a gag that only you can see on the person. If they are gagged you can not hear them and must ungag them to hear them again.
Sure, game companies would have to spend a little more money to pay people to actually talk to the game players in certain key roles (forcing GMs to actually Gm), but they could still have monsters and robots armies running autonomously.
Then all we have to do is make VR glasses that work, and we would have the true virtual gaming we were promised 15 years ago.
My favorite was when they moved the servers to a new location across town. They even put up a GPS map showing their exact location so everyone would know how soon the site would be back up.
They must believe their country will protect them instead of hunting them down and arresting them.
I wonder if their government will still protect them when the US threatens to impose trade sanctions if they do not get rid of The Pirate Bay. Janet Reno did that with Australia and they caved soon after. Now Australia has some of the toughest copyright laws in the world. I think they are even harsher than the US equivalents.
Ok, lets just examine one of the top 20 list's examples just to prove how one sided and ignorant this whole story is.
"2. The ancient Greeks thought our eyes emitted rays, like a laser, which enabled us to see. The first person to realise that light enters the eye, rather than leaving it, was the 10th-century Muslim mathematician, astronomer and physicist Ibn al-Haitham. He invented the first pin-hole camera after noticing the way light came through a hole in window shutters. The smaller the hole, the better the picture, he worked out, and set up the first Camera Obscura (from the Arab word qamara for a dark or private room). He is also credited with being the first man to shift physics from a philosophical activity to an experimental one."
Yes, some greeks postulated that our eyes emitted rays to see. But it was not the entire greek society that believed this. And they definitely didn't use the word "laser" as that is a modern word. Ibn al-Haitham just popularized the opposing greek theory that light enters the eyes.
It also makes it sound as if this guy invented the camera. Let's get this straight folks, he invented a hole in a box that was based on greek theories and examples. Sure the word Camera might have come from Gamera, but he didn't invent that either, even if he did associate that word with a hole in a box. His main invention then was his word association which is all that most of these "arabs" did in the first place.
Almost every "invention" on this list can be credited to the Greeks or Romans before them. It is just that after Rome fell and the empire moved to the east it took it's ideas with them. The "Arabs" or at least some of them were the last ones to writes them down until the enlightenment, but that does not mean they should be given credit for inventing anything.
The last statement about him taking philosophy to an experimental level is the most ignorant. Philosophy was always about observation and proving ones theory and still is. That is experimentation on a very primitive level. Perhaps they meant to say rhetoric instead of philosophy.
This story was nothing but pro-islamic propoganda. The British should be ashamed for promoting this as history.
Ok, lets just examine one of the top 20 list's examples just to prove how one sided and ignorant this whole story is. "2. The ancient Greeks thought our eyes emitted rays, like a laser, which enabled us to see. The first person to realise that light enters the eye, rather than leaving it, was the 10th-century Muslim mathematician, astronomer and physicist Ibn al-Haitham. He invented the first pin-hole camera after noticing the way light came through a hole in window shutters. The smaller the hole, the better the picture, he worked out, and set up the first Camera Obscura (from the Arab word qamara for a dark or private room). He is also credited with being the first man to shift physics from a philosophical activity to an experimental one." Yes, some greeks postulated that our eyes emitted rays to see. But it was not the entire greek society that believed this. And they definitely didn't use the word "laser" as that is a modern word. Ibn al-Haitham just popularized the opposing greek theory that light enters the eyes. It also makes it sound as if this guy invented the camera. Let's get this straight folks, he invented a hole in a box that was based on greek theories and examples. Sure the word Camera might have come from Gamera, but he didn't invent that either, even if he did associate that word with a hole in a box. His main invention then was his word association which is all that most of these "arabs" did in the first place. Almost every "invention" on this list can be credited to the Greeks or Romans before them. It is just that after Rome fell and the empire moved to the east it took it's ideas with them. The "Arabs" or at least some of them were the last ones to writes them down until the enlightenment, but that does not mean they should be given credit for inventing anything. The last statement about him taking philosophy to an experimental level is the most ignorant. Philosophy was always about observation and proving ones theory and still is. That is experimentation on a very primitive level. Perhaps they meant to say rhetoric instead of philosophy. This story was nothing but pro-islamic propoganda. The British should be ashamed for promoting this as history.
I am not sure what airbase that is on the above website but it is not area 51. the shape does not match any previous pictures. Here is area 51. It is just west of the Little a Le Inn in alamo nevada next to the white circular area. that is the groom lake dry lake bed. http://maps.google.com/maps?q=i-375+Alamo,+NV+8900 1&ll=37.361494,-115.491461&spn=0.477905,0.677032&t =k&hl=en