I Robot was unbearable because it had Will Smith basically playing Fresh Prince of Bel Air Kicks Robot Ass. I'm not putting Smith down in general, because he has some serious acting chops when he puts his mind to it. Independence Day was kind of tongue in cheek anyways, so I could be amused by Will Smith playing a fighter pilot version of himself, much as I could forgive Jeff Goldblum for basically resurrecting his character from Jurassic Park, but the writers shit all over one of Asimov's better known works, and worst of all, they seemed to be trying to create some version of Blade Runner. The movie was a mess, and by the end I was rooting for the robots to kill all those stupid fucking humans.
In China, I doubt there is. I imagine most hacking by Chinese nationals is, if not outright overseen by the Chinese government, is most certainly approved of.
Hitler was given every reason to think that he could annex countries. The League of Nations had basically stood by while the Italians invaded Eritrea and the Japanese invaded China, it had sat on its hands while Spain descended into civil war. If you were an ambitious dictator in the mid-1930s what would have been your takeaway from the Allies confusion, disunity and mindless disarmament that had the ridiculous effect of leaving a country like France largely impotent?
Hitler had every reason to believe that the US and the British Empire would just fold, and would force France to capitulate. That he misjudged his opponents is a given, but judging by the quality of leadership in all three Allies, it was an understandable mistake.
NATO's military might dwarfs Russia's. Hell, NATO's military might dwarfs the rest of the world's combined military capability. Yes, Putin could do a helluva lot of damage to NATO's member states if he wanted, but if he ever did, we'd end up with a modern version of the Roman salting of the fields of Carthage would bring Russia so low it's hard to see how it would ever rise again.
The two nuclear attacks on Japan basically ended any chance of World War III, and guaranteed that the Great Powers would never again become directly embroiled in a major war against each other. Yes, it's meant lots of proxy wars, but those are far preferable than a nuclear age version of the great wars of the past.
Nuclear weapons are the most profoundly successful peacemaker in history.
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And there probably will be. Parliamentary supremacy is still a constitution fact in Britain, and if Parliament decides MPs get absolute unlimited immunity from being spied on, then that's that.
Yes, he isn't qualified. It's been years since he was involved in any kind of research of this kind, and you're massively overstating the involvement he had. Not even Dyson claims to be a climate expert.
AGW is happening. Period. Clinging to an exceedingly small minority, including people like Dyson who are not experts in the field, is a sign of your stupidity and pathetic cowardice. Grow up, moron. CO2 traps heat in the lower atmosphere and reacts with seawater to fuck up ocean Ph levels. Not even Dyson argues with that.
None of them are Freeman Dyson, however. He is not a climate expert, it is not his field of expertise. Qualifications are more than a degree, so no, he is not an expert, no matter how much he or pseudo-skeptics say he is. Beyond that, it's hard to tell if his skepticism is even real, he seems to regard himself as a provocateur.
Which is utterly irrelevant. He is not a climatologist. He may be somewhat more equipped to look at the models, but not much more equipped. He's playing on passing familiarity with the subject a quarter of a century ago, which would not have been enough even then to declare him an authority.
He is not an authority, he isn't recognized by anyone except a pack of science deniers as an authority. And frankly, I don't think Dyson is even considered that profound an authority in his area of expertise. He's rather like Dawkins and Sagan, a scientist with a well known public persona, but in reality not significant players in their fields.
But at least Dawkins and Sagan had the good sense to be rather cautious when they were making declarations outside their fields of expertise, rather than posing as what they were not.
No, he has not, and since almost every expert in that actual field says he's wrong, not only is he not an authority, but his continued insistence that his largely layman understanding is equivalent to that of a researcher that has actually dedicated themselves to studying climatology is, to be quite blunt, deeply dishonest. Dyson I condemn for what even he must know is a dishonest set of claims. You I condemn because you're a fucking ignoramus.
What he's not is a climatologist, and one should be very cautious about any scientist speaking out of their area of expertise. That you rely on him as an authority suggests you've bought into a fallacious appeal to authority.
This makes the assumption that energy will be as difficult to harness for an alien civilization as it is for us, which I sincerely doubt.
The Universe is filled unimaginable amounts of energy, it just needs sufficient technological development to harness it. Moving 150,000 tons of goods in one ship would have been unimaginable five centuries ago, and yet that's what one container ship can move today.
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I Robot was unbearable because it had Will Smith basically playing Fresh Prince of Bel Air Kicks Robot Ass. I'm not putting Smith down in general, because he has some serious acting chops when he puts his mind to it. Independence Day was kind of tongue in cheek anyways, so I could be amused by Will Smith playing a fighter pilot version of himself, much as I could forgive Jeff Goldblum for basically resurrecting his character from Jurassic Park, but the writers shit all over one of Asimov's better known works, and worst of all, they seemed to be trying to create some version of Blade Runner. The movie was a mess, and by the end I was rooting for the robots to kill all those stupid fucking humans.
Frankly, that's the direction I thought the TNG universe should have taken, a civil war within the Federation as the militarists seize control.
Odd, I never get such an error with bittorrent.
It will Abrams Trek, so we'll have lens flair and quick cuts so bad that the show will have a warning "Can cause seizures and brain damage"
Meesah loving Wesley Crusher!
Enterprise could best be described as "Run Away! Run Away!"
No, they both sucked equally.
In China, I doubt there is. I imagine most hacking by Chinese nationals is, if not outright overseen by the Chinese government, is most certainly approved of.
Hitler was given every reason to think that he could annex countries. The League of Nations had basically stood by while the Italians invaded Eritrea and the Japanese invaded China, it had sat on its hands while Spain descended into civil war. If you were an ambitious dictator in the mid-1930s what would have been your takeaway from the Allies confusion, disunity and mindless disarmament that had the ridiculous effect of leaving a country like France largely impotent?
Hitler had every reason to believe that the US and the British Empire would just fold, and would force France to capitulate. That he misjudged his opponents is a given, but judging by the quality of leadership in all three Allies, it was an understandable mistake.
NATO's military might dwarfs Russia's. Hell, NATO's military might dwarfs the rest of the world's combined military capability. Yes, Putin could do a helluva lot of damage to NATO's member states if he wanted, but if he ever did, we'd end up with a modern version of the Roman salting of the fields of Carthage would bring Russia so low it's hard to see how it would ever rise again.
The two nuclear attacks on Japan basically ended any chance of World War III, and guaranteed that the Great Powers would never again become directly embroiled in a major war against each other. Yes, it's meant lots of proxy wars, but those are far preferable than a nuclear age version of the great wars of the past.
Nuclear weapons are the most profoundly successful peacemaker in history.
The guy is a grade a sociopath. I keel saying that when sociopaths out themselves they should be removed from society.
I feel quite the same way about you.
There's no link, because it isn't true. Canadian hate laws don't work like that.
Challenge it. Oddly enough, there are other sources of energy that do not require fossil fuels to be burned.
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And there probably will be. Parliamentary supremacy is still a constitution fact in Britain, and if Parliament decides MPs get absolute unlimited immunity from being spied on, then that's that.
Yes, he isn't qualified. It's been years since he was involved in any kind of research of this kind, and you're massively overstating the involvement he had. Not even Dyson claims to be a climate expert.
AGW is happening. Period. Clinging to an exceedingly small minority, including people like Dyson who are not experts in the field, is a sign of your stupidity and pathetic cowardice. Grow up, moron. CO2 traps heat in the lower atmosphere and reacts with seawater to fuck up ocean Ph levels. Not even Dyson argues with that.
None of them are Freeman Dyson, however. He is not a climate expert, it is not his field of expertise. Qualifications are more than a degree, so no, he is not an expert, no matter how much he or pseudo-skeptics say he is. Beyond that, it's hard to tell if his skepticism is even real, he seems to regard himself as a provocateur.
Which is utterly irrelevant. He is not a climatologist. He may be somewhat more equipped to look at the models, but not much more equipped. He's playing on passing familiarity with the subject a quarter of a century ago, which would not have been enough even then to declare him an authority.
He is not an authority, he isn't recognized by anyone except a pack of science deniers as an authority. And frankly, I don't think Dyson is even considered that profound an authority in his area of expertise. He's rather like Dawkins and Sagan, a scientist with a well known public persona, but in reality not significant players in their fields.
But at least Dawkins and Sagan had the good sense to be rather cautious when they were making declarations outside their fields of expertise, rather than posing as what they were not.
No, he has not, and since almost every expert in that actual field says he's wrong, not only is he not an authority, but his continued insistence that his largely layman understanding is equivalent to that of a researcher that has actually dedicated themselves to studying climatology is, to be quite blunt, deeply dishonest. Dyson I condemn for what even he must know is a dishonest set of claims. You I condemn because you're a fucking ignoramus.
What he's not is a climatologist, and one should be very cautious about any scientist speaking out of their area of expertise. That you rely on him as an authority suggests you've bought into a fallacious appeal to authority.
This makes the assumption that energy will be as difficult to harness for an alien civilization as it is for us, which I sincerely doubt.
The Universe is filled unimaginable amounts of energy, it just needs sufficient technological development to harness it. Moving 150,000 tons of goods in one ship would have been unimaginable five centuries ago, and yet that's what one container ship can move today.
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