Doomsday Machine is pretty much my favorite TOS episode. It had suspense, tension, action, madness, Spock on the bridge, Kirk being heroic, Bones getting to relieve a lunatic of command, Scotty working miracles on TWO starships, one kick-ass killer robotic spaceship (even if it looks like badly rolled joint). Really was Trek at its very best.
What irritates me is that why, with all those rather good British actors, they keep having to bring in Americans with bad English accents to replace them. I watched the Nanny McPhee sequel and kept thinking through the whole film, "Surely they could have gone out on to the street and found someone with a better accent that Maggie Gyllenhaal."
Indeed. That Western nations don't see the irony of condemning places like Iran and China for heavy censorship and monitoring of the Internet even as they seem to entertain every single "digital rights" demands of the entertainment industry is a rather sad testament to just how compartmentalized, corrupted and in some cases just outright stupid lawmakers are.
It's been sitting on a shelf for over 40 years. It wasn't even resuscitated for any of the "official" series. It would have been a nice nod to the fans.
Considering the importance of bees to agriculture, I think the potential of any link between pesticides and colony collapses warrants both extreme concern and funding.
But hey, maybe you're looking forward to do the day we eat nothing but algal cultures or soylent green.
The scientists are not giving simplistic solutions. They are in fact telling us that the solutions are very expensive, will require an extraordinary amount of ingenuity and, if we're really lucky, if we started at it now, maybe, just maybe we can avoid the worst of it. Yes, populizers talk about things the common folk can do, and they certainly are not bad in and of themselves, but the real solutions are going to cost a lot of money.
But, I think peak oil is going to come along at some point and make reality set in no matter what happens. For me, the question is will it happen before or after the more deleterious effects of AGW begin to be felt. But one way or the other, the oil economy is unsustainable. Whether it's fifty years or a hundred years, at some point we're going to have a situation where cheap complex long-chain hydrocarbons are going to cease to exist, and then our descendants are going to curse us as the worst sort of fools, because using them to power our cars and airplanes will be shown to be the most recklessly moronic use of an unrenewable resource ever thought up. The fact that the grain belt will have migrated north and Canada will be a superpower and coastal cities will have to build dikes to keep the low-lying areas water free will only be another aspect of the bitter pill future generations will have to swallow so some fucking assholes could make a whole lot of money now, and a larger group of credulous fucking assholes who are utterly reactionary and unwilling to face facts empowered that behavior.
I don't think you need any smoking gun to see what the Heartland Institute has been up to. It's framed its positions as Conservative, but overwhelmingly it is producing reports and articles in favor of industries or groups that feel under threat by one form of science or another.
I stopped using Firefox and don't stress at all. I want my fucking browser to just work, and since i have no particular emotional investment in it, it got uninstalled, and it is unlikely, unless I start doing a lot of web work again, to ever reappear on my machine.
Was there some reason to bring up Al Gore? Are you under the misapprehension I give a rat's ass what he says. I've seen three minutes of Inconvenient Truth and couldn't tolerate it. I read what scientists say, not what some form ex-president who has no meaningful qualifications has to say. So why do you fixate on him?
How can I be modded flamebait? You can disagree with me, even mod the post Overrated. But jeezus krist, Flamebait? The editors are letting some legitimately idiotic people get mod points.
As much as I think the Pi is a cool project, I'm beginning to put it in the same category as BitCoin. When I can actually order one and expect to receive it in anything approaching a timely fashion, I'll move it out of that category, for now, it's still "pi in the sky" to me.
I don't even know what you mean by the "public face of science". Most scientists don't particularly have a public face. If you're talking about populizers and science journalists, by and large I have little time for them. But I don't think you're talking about them at all. I think you're just looking for some easily identifiable group that says things like "We're using too many fossil fuels and it's going to screw us over" and using them as a whipping boy for your frustration. You prefer science to be your ideological dog, or at least to stay in sufficiently rarified circles as to not intrude upon you too much. Sort of a Sunday morning newspaper version of science "Look at that dear, they've found a new kind of neutron star", but science has always been more than that, and in the past when it collided with comfort zones, well, you had events like the Scopes Monkey Trial.
Oh bullshit. Scientists observe a phenomena, they study it, they make recommendations. At the end of the day politicians and the wider society decide what to do with it. You just don't like what you're hearing, so you attack the messenger. It's an infantile response.
I'm not sure what you're little story had to do with what he side. Can your side at least try for ten seconds not to invoke red herrings and every other logical fallacy at every turn.
It's a good question. What does regulation have to do with evolution? Why has the Right decided to continue a war on a theory for which has been mainstream science for a century, or for education that gets rid of some of the ludicrous myths of sex? And how does some crazy teacher demonstrating masturbation in Japan have to do with any of it?
The worst part about this is that I think you've probably got your fucking head so far up your ass, you can't even see how moronic you make yourself look with these sort of Rush Limbaugh-styled outbursts. Surely you're not a halfwit, so why do you insist on playing one on Slashot?
Science merely reports. Scientists can make suggestions. What do you want scientists to do, just say "Sludge kills people", but not offer any solutions like "Get rid of sludge."
What strikes me about this is that commercial interests, who basically use Conservatives as their bitches, want to keep producing sludge and spend as few resources as possible mitigating sludge effects, so you get commercial-backed "think tanks" like the Heartland Institute, which talk a conservative talk, advocating for sludge, casting dispersions on any scientist who dares condemn sludge production or state that health problems arise from sludge.
You don't want scientists, you want ideologues who will suppress or ignore any data that in any way impinges on your world view. No bad news for me, thank you very much, I want to do what I've always done and if you tell me the universe is going to stomp on me eventually, well fuck you, I'm an American, and in America the laws of physics mean only what we want them to mean.
It's called omphalism, and the minute you invoke it to explain away inconvenient time spans, you open the door to concepts like Last Thursdayism. If God can make a 6,000 year old universe look 13.8 billion years old, then why not a six second old universe look 13.8 billion years old? At the end of the day, it's just another form of epistemological nihilism
It's not just stupid. It ought to be criminal. Not only does ethanol making a shitty energy source, but all it did was jack up food prices. Absolute madness. It's literally like taking the contents of a refrigerator, throwing it all on the fire and telling the guy "See how warm you feel?"
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Doomsday Machine is pretty much my favorite TOS episode. It had suspense, tension, action, madness, Spock on the bridge, Kirk being heroic, Bones getting to relieve a lunatic of command, Scotty working miracles on TWO starships, one kick-ass killer robotic spaceship (even if it looks like badly rolled joint). Really was Trek at its very best.
What irritates me is that why, with all those rather good British actors, they keep having to bring in Americans with bad English accents to replace them. I watched the Nanny McPhee sequel and kept thinking through the whole film, "Surely they could have gone out on to the street and found someone with a better accent that Maggie Gyllenhaal."
I bet the drive-in cashiers love you...
Indeed. That Western nations don't see the irony of condemning places like Iran and China for heavy censorship and monitoring of the Internet even as they seem to entertain every single "digital rights" demands of the entertainment industry is a rather sad testament to just how compartmentalized, corrupted and in some cases just outright stupid lawmakers are.
It's been sitting on a shelf for over 40 years. It wasn't even resuscitated for any of the "official" series. It would have been a nice nod to the fans.
Well, they can eat it, I suppose.
Considering the importance of bees to agriculture, I think the potential of any link between pesticides and colony collapses warrants both extreme concern and funding.
But hey, maybe you're looking forward to do the day we eat nothing but algal cultures or soylent green.
The scientists are not giving simplistic solutions. They are in fact telling us that the solutions are very expensive, will require an extraordinary amount of ingenuity and, if we're really lucky, if we started at it now, maybe, just maybe we can avoid the worst of it. Yes, populizers talk about things the common folk can do, and they certainly are not bad in and of themselves, but the real solutions are going to cost a lot of money.
But, I think peak oil is going to come along at some point and make reality set in no matter what happens. For me, the question is will it happen before or after the more deleterious effects of AGW begin to be felt. But one way or the other, the oil economy is unsustainable. Whether it's fifty years or a hundred years, at some point we're going to have a situation where cheap complex long-chain hydrocarbons are going to cease to exist, and then our descendants are going to curse us as the worst sort of fools, because using them to power our cars and airplanes will be shown to be the most recklessly moronic use of an unrenewable resource ever thought up. The fact that the grain belt will have migrated north and Canada will be a superpower and coastal cities will have to build dikes to keep the low-lying areas water free will only be another aspect of the bitter pill future generations will have to swallow so some fucking assholes could make a whole lot of money now, and a larger group of credulous fucking assholes who are utterly reactionary and unwilling to face facts empowered that behavior.
I don't think you need any smoking gun to see what the Heartland Institute has been up to. It's framed its positions as Conservative, but overwhelmingly it is producing reports and articles in favor of industries or groups that feel under threat by one form of science or another.
I stopped using Firefox and don't stress at all. I want my fucking browser to just work, and since i have no particular emotional investment in it, it got uninstalled, and it is unlikely, unless I start doing a lot of web work again, to ever reappear on my machine.
Was there some reason to bring up Al Gore? Are you under the misapprehension I give a rat's ass what he says. I've seen three minutes of Inconvenient Truth and couldn't tolerate it. I read what scientists say, not what some form ex-president who has no meaningful qualifications has to say. So why do you fixate on him?
How can I be modded flamebait? You can disagree with me, even mod the post Overrated. But jeezus krist, Flamebait? The editors are letting some legitimately idiotic people get mod points.
Well, I'm glad you cleared that up. I'm sure you can buy a new pair of paints with all the pedant points you just earned there, mate.
And again with strawmen claims as to what scientists are doing. Does this level of misrepresentation help you to reject what you don't want to hear?
As much as I think the Pi is a cool project, I'm beginning to put it in the same category as BitCoin. When I can actually order one and expect to receive it in anything approaching a timely fashion, I'll move it out of that category, for now, it's still "pi in the sky" to me.
I don't even know what you mean by the "public face of science". Most scientists don't particularly have a public face. If you're talking about populizers and science journalists, by and large I have little time for them. But I don't think you're talking about them at all. I think you're just looking for some easily identifiable group that says things like "We're using too many fossil fuels and it's going to screw us over" and using them as a whipping boy for your frustration. You prefer science to be your ideological dog, or at least to stay in sufficiently rarified circles as to not intrude upon you too much. Sort of a Sunday morning newspaper version of science "Look at that dear, they've found a new kind of neutron star", but science has always been more than that, and in the past when it collided with comfort zones, well, you had events like the Scopes Monkey Trial.
Oh bullshit. Scientists observe a phenomena, they study it, they make recommendations. At the end of the day politicians and the wider society decide what to do with it. You just don't like what you're hearing, so you attack the messenger. It's an infantile response.
Been a week since the last Raspberry Pi post. Must make another one quick!
Next week "Raspberry Pi delayed because appropriate chicken was not sacrificed. Now waiting on God."
I don't know how something obviously so false could me modded up.
I'm not sure what you're little story had to do with what he side. Can your side at least try for ten seconds not to invoke red herrings and every other logical fallacy at every turn.
It's a good question. What does regulation have to do with evolution? Why has the Right decided to continue a war on a theory for which has been mainstream science for a century, or for education that gets rid of some of the ludicrous myths of sex? And how does some crazy teacher demonstrating masturbation in Japan have to do with any of it?
The worst part about this is that I think you've probably got your fucking head so far up your ass, you can't even see how moronic you make yourself look with these sort of Rush Limbaugh-styled outbursts. Surely you're not a halfwit, so why do you insist on playing one on Slashot?
Science merely reports. Scientists can make suggestions. What do you want scientists to do, just say "Sludge kills people", but not offer any solutions like "Get rid of sludge."
What strikes me about this is that commercial interests, who basically use Conservatives as their bitches, want to keep producing sludge and spend as few resources as possible mitigating sludge effects, so you get commercial-backed "think tanks" like the Heartland Institute, which talk a conservative talk, advocating for sludge, casting dispersions on any scientist who dares condemn sludge production or state that health problems arise from sludge.
You don't want scientists, you want ideologues who will suppress or ignore any data that in any way impinges on your world view. No bad news for me, thank you very much, I want to do what I've always done and if you tell me the universe is going to stomp on me eventually, well fuck you, I'm an American, and in America the laws of physics mean only what we want them to mean.
It's called omphalism, and the minute you invoke it to explain away inconvenient time spans, you open the door to concepts like Last Thursdayism. If God can make a 6,000 year old universe look 13.8 billion years old, then why not a six second old universe look 13.8 billion years old? At the end of the day, it's just another form of epistemological nihilism
It's not just stupid. It ought to be criminal. Not only does ethanol making a shitty energy source, but all it did was jack up food prices. Absolute madness. It's literally like taking the contents of a refrigerator, throwing it all on the fire and telling the guy "See how warm you feel?"
File post under "There's a sucker born every minute". It's right next "My latest iPhone is still the greatest even though..."
of games I won't buy.
Give me a break. This is like patenting any mathematical formula. It's a ludicrous patent.