Short of discovering cold fusion tomorrow and mass producing small devices with unlimited power that could change the CO2 back into a solid, we're screwed.
You wood think we wood have other means of trapping CO2 by now.
In the US, the people in charge are still the health insurance companies. They will call the shots during this situation just as they have for decades (including during the writing of the 2010 "health care reform" bill).
Snowden is on record stating that the only reason he took the NSA job was to steal top secret information. Snowden has yet to produce any actual evidence that he even tried to use the internal process. There have been reports that NSA can't find records of him doing so. You would think that since he managed to steal 1.7 million documents he might have managed a copy of an email or two.... funny that he didn't get anything to bolster his case. So much for Snowden and your first point.
Exposing foreign intelligence operations harms American national security. That takes Snowden out of the realm of "whistleblowing" if he was ever in it.
Snowden has demonstrated the opposite of loyalty to the US and its people. Snowden rejects and undermines the process of representative government. If the Constitution permits something he doesn't like he simply ignores it. Snowden is acting like an anti-democratic vigilante, trying to impose his view of the world and how it should be on all of us as he continues to damage America and aid its enemies.
You may want to reread that again since I don't think you quoted the relevant figures: "... 65 percent of U.K. scientists identify as nonreligious, only 6 percent of Indian scientists identify as nonreligious."
It's funny that you keep harping on the one variable in the article that *is* actually irrelevant to the whole thing, which is comparing across different populations. The whole point of a *scientific* study is to change one variable and see the effect, and clearly when you do that the difference is highly (statistically) significant.
Science seems to have more techniques than you are aware of. Studying the differences between societies was a major purpose of the study. The author reference that. This isn't a yield study, or lifetime testing, or any of that. Note that no titration is involved. Note (FTA): "...the first cross-national study of religion and spirituality among scientists." That seems pretty easy to understand.
And secondly - you are making a complete straw man to try to disprove the OPPOSITE correlation, ie. atheism leads to scientific study, when the obvious causation would be scientific study leads to atheism.
If you were more observant you would notice a common theme in Slashdot discussions that only atheists can really do science. What rubbish. I'm not sure how people maintain that cognitive dissonance given that many of the great scientists in history and even today believe in God. Nonetheless it keeps popping up.
Anyway, this thread has gone exactly nowhere as you keep repeating the same irrelevant statistic. I'm not even sure why I'm debating with a known/. troll. My own fault. Sigh.
It is difficult to get anywhere if you keep going down the wrong path, or asserting false things as you have.
It isn't that I'm a "troll" so much as I bring unwelcome perspectives and facts to the argument that many people would prefer to not acknowledge. Calling me a "troll" is much easier than assembling facts and good arguments. That is why you refer to me as a "troll."
You are indeed responsible for your own actions so I can understand the despair. "Sigh."
Systems in class (A1) are functionally equivalent to those in class (B3) in that no additional architectural features or policy requirements are added. The distinguishing feature of systems in this class is the analysis derived from formal design specification and verification techniques and the resulting high degree of assurance that the TCB is correctly implemented. This assurance is developmental in nature, starting with a formal model of the security policy and a formal top-level specification (FTLS) of the design. Independent of the particular specification language or verification system used, there are five important criteria for class (A1) design verification:
4.2 BEYOND CLASS (A1)
Most of the security enhancements envisioned for systems that will provide features and assurance in addition to that already provided by class (Al) systems are beyond current technology. The discussion below is intended to guide future work and is derived from research and development activities already underway in both the public and private sectors. As more and better analysis techniques are developed, the requirements for these systems will become more explicit. In the future, use of formal verification will be extended to the source level and covert timing channels will be more fully addressed. At this level the design environment will become important and testing will be aided by analysis of the formal top-level specification. Consideration will be given to the correctness of the tools used in TCB development (e.g., compilers, assemblers, loaders) and to the correct functioning of the hardware/firmware on which the TCB will run. Areas to be addressed by systems beyond class (A1) include:
I see that you were able to insert the word "narcissist" in a sentence, but you don't seem to understand its meaning. The Israeli government isn't "arguably genocidal" in any meaningful way.
Given the context of the discussion you seem to be claiming that Jews in Europe should be threatened or killed due to the actions of Wall Street. Your view is wrong, not connected to the facts, and an open invitation to terrible evil. Don't you understand anything? How could someone believe that type of nonsense today?!
Is there some reason you shouldn't be attacked for the actions of the Israeli government? If Israel bombs a rocket launcher used to attack them is there some reason a mob shouldn't come and attack you in retaliation? It makes just as much sense to attack you in revenge as it does to attack Jews in other countries. French Jews are citizens of France. Italian Jews are citizens of Italy. German Jews are citizens of Germany. The Jews in Europe aren't Israelis, they are citizens of whatever country they are living in. If you think it is ok to threaten or attack them, and to make genocidal threats against them, for something they are not related to there is something very wrong with your ethics, your sense of right and wrong.
And what is this "ethnic cleansing" you refer to? I very much doubt that Israel is engaged in mass murder.
One other thing you should consider - there is a meaningful overlap among people that want to kill the Jews and people that want to kill the LGBT community. If you keep down playing the threat to the Jews you are down playing the threat to the LGBT community even if you don't realize it. That relationship isn't always clear, or explicit, but it is there.
The late unlamented Fred Phelps and his crew took any expression of disgust and outrage against him as evidence they were doing the Lord's work. That's how these folks think.
So you're suggesting that they could be compared to a non-violent ACT UP San Francisco ?
If you are the same person that has been replying to this thread, and you are asking what I think you are asking, my apologies. You many not be an actual anti-Semite, just a narcissist. But I'll give you a clue: pretend that anti-Semitism is actually bad if you don't believe that already, and then compare the two responses we wrote regarding the violence and what they imply about the seriousness of the issue. Can you identify the difference?
I would be unsurprised to see you invert that reaction on other issues.
Background: Facebook pulled down the hunting photos of Kendall Jones citing a violation of the social-media site's "community standards," but they allowed the page titled "Kill Kendall Jones" to remain stating that it did not violate their policies. A tad hypocritical, to say the least.
.... eight synagogues were attacked. One, in the Paris suburb of Sarcelles, was firebombed by a 400-strong mob. A kosher supermarket and pharmacy were smashed and looted; the crowd's chants and banners included "Death to Jews" and "Slit Jews' throats"....In Germany last month, molotov cocktails were lobbed into the Bergische synagogue in Wuppertal – previously destroyed on Kristallnacht – and a Berlin imam, Abu Bilal Ismail, called on Allah to "destroy the Zionist Jews Count them and kill them, to the very last one." Bottles were thrown through the window of an antisemitism campaigner in Frankfurt; an elderly Jewish man was beaten up at a pro-Israel rally in Hamburg;... An Amsterdam rabbi, Binjamin Jacobs, had his front door stoned, and two Jewish women were attacked – one beaten, the other the victim of arson – after they hung Israeli flags from their balconies. In Belgium, a woman was reportedly turned away from a shop with the words: "We don't currently sell to Jews."
In Italy, the Jewish owners of dozens of shops and other businesses in Rome arrived to find swastikas and anti-Jewish slogans daubed on shutters and windows. One slogan read: "Every Palestinian is like a comrade. Same enemy. Same barricade"; another: "Jews, your end is near." Abd al-Barr al-Rawdhi, an imam from the north eastern town of San Donà di Piave, is to be deported after being video-recorded giving a sermon calling for the extermination of the Jews." -- Antisemitism on rise across Europe 'in worst times since the Nazis'
Until then you'll no doubt do your part to combat the "Jewish problem" with lies and distortion until the "New Order" arrives.
Sometimes that metric is correct. Sometimes government policy and the views of society are corrupt or evil and would strongly disapprove of various good deeds. See:
Slashdot Mirror
Short of discovering cold fusion tomorrow and mass producing small devices with unlimited power that could change the CO2 back into a solid, we're screwed.
You wood think we wood have other means of trapping CO2 by now.
You might be confused about a few points there.
ALL of our founding fathers would be arrested as terrorists.
they fought their own country, the English.
The Founding Fathers were rebels, not terrorists. It is not a confusing distinction.
In the US, the people in charge are still the health insurance companies. They will call the shots during this situation just as they have for decades (including during the writing of the 2010 "health care reform" bill).
Your view is popular, but just simply wrong.
Center For American Progress President Shares Part In Obamacare: "I Helped Write The Bill"
Obamacare Architect: ‘Insurance Companies As We Know Them Are About To Die’
Trade secrets only work for things that are so difficult and complicated that there is little chance of someone else duplicating the invention.
Meaningful power generated by successful and reproducible "cold fusion" would seem to fit that description.
Snowden is on record stating that the only reason he took the NSA job was to steal top secret information. Snowden has yet to produce any actual evidence that he even tried to use the internal process. There have been reports that NSA can't find records of him doing so. You would think that since he managed to steal 1.7 million documents he might have managed a copy of an email or two.... funny that he didn't get anything to bolster his case. So much for Snowden and your first point.
Exposing foreign intelligence operations harms American national security. That takes Snowden out of the realm of "whistleblowing" if he was ever in it.
Snowden has demonstrated the opposite of loyalty to the US and its people. Snowden rejects and undermines the process of representative government. If the Constitution permits something he doesn't like he simply ignores it. Snowden is acting like an anti-democratic vigilante, trying to impose his view of the world and how it should be on all of us as he continues to damage America and aid its enemies.
You may want to reread that again since I don't think you quoted the relevant figures: "... 65 percent of U.K. scientists identify as nonreligious, only 6 percent of Indian scientists identify as nonreligious."
It's funny that you keep harping on the one variable in the article that *is* actually irrelevant to the whole thing, which is comparing across different populations. The whole point of a *scientific* study is to change one variable and see the effect, and clearly when you do that the difference is highly (statistically) significant.
Science seems to have more techniques than you are aware of. Studying the differences between societies was a major purpose of the study. The author reference that. This isn't a yield study, or lifetime testing, or any of that. Note that no titration is involved. Note (FTA): "...the first cross-national study of religion and spirituality among scientists." That seems pretty easy to understand.
And secondly - you are making a complete straw man to try to disprove the OPPOSITE correlation, ie. atheism leads to scientific study, when the obvious causation would be scientific study leads to atheism.
If you were more observant you would notice a common theme in Slashdot discussions that only atheists can really do science. What rubbish. I'm not sure how people maintain that cognitive dissonance given that many of the great scientists in history and even today believe in God. Nonetheless it keeps popping up.
Anyway, this thread has gone exactly nowhere as you keep repeating the same irrelevant statistic. I'm not even sure why I'm debating with a known /. troll. My own fault. Sigh.
It is difficult to get anywhere if you keep going down the wrong path, or asserting false things as you have.
It isn't that I'm a "troll" so much as I bring unwelcome perspectives and facts to the argument that many people would prefer to not acknowledge. Calling me a "troll" is much easier than assembling facts and good arguments. That is why you refer to me as a "troll."
You are indeed responsible for your own actions so I can understand the despair. "Sigh."
This feels like a blast from the past, specifically the Trusted Computer System Evaluation Criteria (TCSEC) aka the "Orange Book."
DoD 5200.28-STD - December 26, l985
4.1 CLASS (A1): VERIFIED DESIGN
Systems in class (A1) are functionally equivalent to those in class (B3) in that no additional architectural features or policy requirements are added. The distinguishing feature of systems in this class is the analysis derived from formal design specification and verification techniques and the resulting high degree of assurance that the TCB is correctly implemented. This assurance is developmental in nature, starting with a formal model of the security policy and a formal top-level specification (FTLS) of the design. Independent of the particular specification language or verification system used, there are five important criteria for class (A1) design verification:
4.2 BEYOND CLASS (A1)
Most of the security enhancements envisioned for systems that will provide features and assurance in addition to that already provided by class (Al) systems are beyond current technology. The discussion below is intended to guide future work and is derived from research and development activities already underway in both the public and private sectors. As more and better analysis techniques are developed, the requirements for these systems will become more explicit. In the future, use of formal verification will be extended to the source level and covert timing channels will be more fully addressed. At this level the design environment will become important and testing will be aided by analysis of the formal top-level specification. Consideration will be given to the correctness of the tools used in TCB development (e.g., compilers, assemblers, loaders) and to the correct functioning of the hardware/firmware on which the TCB will run. Areas to be addressed by systems beyond class (A1) include:
DEF CON 20 - Tom Perrine - Creating an A1 Security Kernel in the 1980s
DEF CON 20 Archive
I see that you were able to insert the word "narcissist" in a sentence, but you don't seem to understand its meaning. The Israeli government isn't "arguably genocidal" in any meaningful way.
Given the context of the discussion you seem to be claiming that Jews in Europe should be threatened or killed due to the actions of Wall Street. Your view is wrong, not connected to the facts, and an open invitation to terrible evil. Don't you understand anything? How could someone believe that type of nonsense today?!
Is there some reason you shouldn't be attacked for the actions of the Israeli government? If Israel bombs a rocket launcher used to attack them is there some reason a mob shouldn't come and attack you in retaliation? It makes just as much sense to attack you in revenge as it does to attack Jews in other countries. French Jews are citizens of France. Italian Jews are citizens of Italy. German Jews are citizens of Germany. The Jews in Europe aren't Israelis, they are citizens of whatever country they are living in. If you think it is ok to threaten or attack them, and to make genocidal threats against them, for something they are not related to there is something very wrong with your ethics, your sense of right and wrong.
And what is this "ethnic cleansing" you refer to? I very much doubt that Israel is engaged in mass murder.
Nice jacket. You ever check out a Technicolor Dream Coat?
A London theater refused to stage a Jewish film festival because the event had received a small grant from the Israeli embassy.
Oh no! The next step must surely be the gas chambers!
That is "+2 Insightful"!? No, that is taking a cherry picked AC comment intended to mislead and then using moderation to lie.
There is no shortage of idiots in the world.
One other thing you should consider - there is a meaningful overlap among people that want to kill the Jews and people that want to kill the LGBT community. If you keep down playing the threat to the Jews you are down playing the threat to the LGBT community even if you don't realize it. That relationship isn't always clear, or explicit, but it is there.
Of course some people are so conflicted they don't seem to be able to notice.
The late unlamented Fred Phelps and his crew took any expression of disgust and outrage against him as evidence they were doing the Lord's work. That's how these folks think.
So you're suggesting that they could be compared to a non-violent ACT UP San Francisco ?
If you are the same person that has been replying to this thread, and you are asking what I think you are asking, my apologies. You many not be an actual anti-Semite, just a narcissist. But I'll give you a clue: pretend that anti-Semitism is actually bad if you don't believe that already, and then compare the two responses we wrote regarding the violence and what they imply about the seriousness of the issue. Can you identify the difference?
I would be unsurprised to see you invert that reaction on other issues.
You just have to be on the "politically correct" side for Facebook to act.
Facebook Finally Deletes the ‘Kill Kendall Jones’ Page
Background: Facebook pulled down the hunting photos of Kendall Jones citing a violation of the social-media site's "community standards," but they allowed the page titled "Kill Kendall Jones" to remain stating that it did not violate their policies. A tad hypocritical, to say the least.
Which campaign is that?
That is the idea of some of them, yes.
.... eight synagogues were attacked. One, in the Paris suburb of Sarcelles, was firebombed by a 400-strong mob. A kosher supermarket and pharmacy were smashed and looted; the crowd's chants and banners included "Death to Jews" and "Slit Jews' throats". ...In Germany last month, molotov cocktails were lobbed into the Bergische synagogue in Wuppertal – previously destroyed on Kristallnacht – and a Berlin imam, Abu Bilal Ismail, called on Allah to "destroy the Zionist Jews Count them and kill them, to the very last one." Bottles were thrown through the window of an antisemitism campaigner in Frankfurt; an elderly Jewish man was beaten up at a pro-Israel rally in Hamburg; ... An Amsterdam rabbi, Binjamin Jacobs, had his front door stoned, and two Jewish women were attacked – one beaten, the other the victim of arson – after they hung Israeli flags from their balconies. In Belgium, a woman was reportedly turned away from a shop with the words: "We don't currently sell to Jews."
In Italy, the Jewish owners of dozens of shops and other businesses in Rome arrived to find swastikas and anti-Jewish slogans daubed on shutters and windows. One slogan read: "Every Palestinian is like a comrade. Same enemy. Same barricade"; another: "Jews, your end is near." Abd al-Barr al-Rawdhi, an imam from the north eastern town of San Donà di Piave, is to be deported after being video-recorded giving a sermon calling for the extermination of the Jews." -- Antisemitism on rise across Europe 'in worst times since the Nazis'
Until then you'll no doubt do your part to combat the "Jewish problem" with lies and distortion until the "New Order" arrives.
That's almost funny. Almost.
Anti-snitch campaign riles police, prosecutors
Of course we may see some irony unfold here.
14-Year-Old Shot In The Head Was Son Of ‘Stop Snitching’ DVDs Creator
Do you think he prefers his son's murder to go unsolved?
Picking on the LGBT community with this is probably the most effective way of combatting the policy ...
Very likely to be true given the political leanings of Facebook's leadership and the political power of the LGBT segment of society.
If it had been people fleeing life threatening abuse or other victims of crime they would probably simply be screwed.
"Snitch" is also a word used by thugs to try to terrorize people into accepting their vulnerability and victimhood.
Sometimes that metric is correct. Sometimes government policy and the views of society are corrupt or evil and would strongly disapprove of various good deeds. See:
Underground Railroad
Hidden Children In France During the Holocaust*
Tour de France champ saved Jews in WWII
Sadly such measures may be needed again in the future to save Jews in Europe.
Antisemitism on rise across Europe 'in worst times since the Nazis'
Europe's Alarming New Anti-Semitism
A pity your post is burdened by being false.