You know, I don't understand why more extreme right wing people didn't vote for Hillary. They typically say they want a strong president, and evidently Hillary is in charge of every intelligence agency and enforcement organization, even while not actually holding public office. Such that those organizations dare not even speak her name. Her power is so complete that she can kill people who she has never met, and force every news agency on earth, even fox, not to carry the story. She can run an international pedophile ring out of a pizza parlor and never even get investigated.
In short, her power to control the nation is basically supernatural. Hillary is the witch in every wardrobe. She is the horror under every bed.
One would think that kind of competence would appeal to someone all about authority.
Yeah, because those slackers making 15k a year should TOTALLY pay a third of their income to make filing easy. No other possible solution could exist. All those countries which fill their citizen's tax forms out for them are merely fake news.
I mean, give him SOME credit. After launching trade wars with our allies and China, going against basically every economic lesson we learned in the 20th century, the global supply chains are basically being re-written. Once the tariffs are dropped, buyers of things like soybean are going to have no compelling reason to switch back to American suppliers. Whole industries will likely be changed for decades.
He worked HARD to hasten this recession, give credit where credit is due!
I just want to interject here that conservatives have been complaining for the last 2 decades that the UN isn't a legitimate organization, and have been citing china being on the human rights council as proof of it. Bush full on suggested leaving and making our own UN, then appointed John Bolton to spit in the face of the world.
I understand that you want the new testament to be all about love and good feels, but it has it's fair share of hateful, ignorant crap as well. You can't condemn the bad parts of someones holy book while rose coloring your own, at least not if you want to be taken seriously.
There are over a billion Muslims. Mostly in India and Indonesia. If you don't think that the ones committing all the violence are a fringe group, then you are vastly underestimating the damage a billion people could do, if they really wanted to.
c) Launching 3236 new satellites into low-earth-orbits? What could possibly go wrong?
Let's see... LEO is anything up to 1200 miles above the surface... so 4pi(1200^2)/3236.... Dude, that is like one small satellite every 5,591 miles. And that is lowballing because the 1200 mi is not being calculated from the center of the earth (i'm lazy). Literally the distance between a buoy in the atlantic and one in the pacific. I think it will be just fine.
The only way something like that would work is if it comes with a crap ton of regulators to enforce it. Which, I don't consider a bad thing, but in today's political climate of deregulation, do you honestly see that passing?
Exactly, the rich one who has the power to tell the not rich one "forget about security, just get it done." Next time, maybe think about the topic for 10 literal seconds before posting.
There are billions of WHOLE PLANETS we can not directly "see" yet, and you have a problem with the idea that there might be some widely diffuse clouds of exotic matter that we can't identify? Wow, you have a lot of faith in telescopes without much in the people who made those telescopes.....
30 seconds of googling revealed this. To save you the reading,
Several lines of evidence indicate that nicotine may contribute to the development of cancer. Evidence from experimental in vitro studies on cell cultures, in vivo studies on rodents as well as studies on humans inclusive of epidemiological studies indicate that nicotine itself, independent of other tobacco constituents, may stimulate a number of effects of importance in cancer development (5, 6).
BTW, I was a smoker for 20 years and loved every second of it. If I thought for a minute that any form of nicotine wasn't terrible for my health, I would be on it again in a heartbeat.
That's an interesting take, but not very representative of history. They largest period of wage growth in america coincided with the largest percentage of union participation. As union participation dropped, wages stagnated. While there is no guarantee that this is causation in action, it's certainly harder to logically argue the reverse. People these days have no perspective on what things were like in this country prior to unionization, and how easily we are getting rid of protections that our forefathers literally lost their lives to win.
This place has become a cesspool. Umpteen years ago when I started coming here, there was plenty of debate, but usually it had something to do with facts or or at the very least science. Comments like this would have been down modded into oblivion for being flaimbait. I dunno if mod bots are to blame or what, but it seems like the only posts you see if you browse at 2 are shitposts like this. That, or an anti science conspiracy. Slashdot used to be the best location on the internet to get detailed, informed conversation about any science topic there was. Now it is just a forum for superkendal and his sad asshole ac stalker to stroke each other for attention.
Does anyone have ANY suggestions for a nerd news site where the community hasn't become so toxic? I need a new haunt. I was hoping I could stick around until things got better, but I think I need to admit to myself that this place is dead. This crowd is just picking over the bones.
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“Knock the crap out of him, would you? I promise you, I will pay your legal fees” - Donald J. Trump
Could a computer recognize the whoosh sound as the joke flies over your head?
I pretty sure I could code a computer to pull out in front of me while doing worthless stuff on a cell phone in way under a million lines of code.
The rest of the world also know that the US has no left left. You can vote either idiot con man or lunatic.
FTFY
You know, I don't understand why more extreme right wing people didn't vote for Hillary. They typically say they want a strong president, and evidently Hillary is in charge of every intelligence agency and enforcement organization, even while not actually holding public office. Such that those organizations dare not even speak her name. Her power is so complete that she can kill people who she has never met, and force every news agency on earth, even fox, not to carry the story. She can run an international pedophile ring out of a pizza parlor and never even get investigated.
In short, her power to control the nation is basically supernatural. Hillary is the witch in every wardrobe. She is the horror under every bed.
One would think that kind of competence would appeal to someone all about authority.
Right, just like I say every time I see the picture of a cat. "Is it really a picture of a cat, or just the light bouncing off a cat?" ...
Yeah, because those slackers making 15k a year should TOTALLY pay a third of their income to make filing easy. No other possible solution could exist. All those countries which fill their citizen's tax forms out for them are merely fake news.
I mean, give him SOME credit. After launching trade wars with our allies and China, going against basically every economic lesson we learned in the 20th century, the global supply chains are basically being re-written. Once the tariffs are dropped, buyers of things like soybean are going to have no compelling reason to switch back to American suppliers. Whole industries will likely be changed for decades.
He worked HARD to hasten this recession, give credit where credit is due!
What low slouching reptilian beast would be "worse-than-trump?" I'm almost positive the bar has hit the floor.
I just want to interject here that conservatives have been complaining for the last 2 decades that the UN isn't a legitimate organization, and have been citing china being on the human rights council as proof of it. Bush full on suggested leaving and making our own UN, then appointed John Bolton to spit in the face of the world.
Don't pretend one side owns this sort of thing.
Mathew disagrees with you.
I understand that you want the new testament to be all about love and good feels, but it has it's fair share of hateful, ignorant crap as well. You can't condemn the bad parts of someones holy book while rose coloring your own, at least not if you want to be taken seriously.
Mathew 12 :31-32
Christians should read their holy book more carefully.
There are over a billion Muslims. Mostly in India and Indonesia. If you don't think that the ones committing all the violence are a fringe group, then you are vastly underestimating the damage a billion people could do, if they really wanted to.
c) Launching 3236 new satellites into low-earth-orbits? What could possibly go wrong?
Let's see... LEO is anything up to 1200 miles above the surface... so 4pi(1200^2)/3236.... Dude, that is like one small satellite every 5,591 miles. And that is lowballing because the 1200 mi is not being calculated from the center of the earth (i'm lazy). Literally the distance between a buoy in the atlantic and one in the pacific. I think it will be just fine.
And it's a fact that the bible mandates violence against people who take the lord's name in vain. Your point?
The only way something like that would work is if it comes with a crap ton of regulators to enforce it. Which, I don't consider a bad thing, but in today's political climate of deregulation, do you honestly see that passing?
Exactly, the rich one who has the power to tell the not rich one "forget about security, just get it done." Next time, maybe think about the topic for 10 literal seconds before posting.
A criminal could steal your gun and use it. Happens literally every day.
Agnostics are just Atheists in training.
There are billions of WHOLE PLANETS we can not directly "see" yet, and you have a problem with the idea that there might be some widely diffuse clouds of exotic matter that we can't identify? Wow, you have a lot of faith in telescopes without much in the people who made those telescopes.....
30 seconds of googling revealed this. To save you the reading,
Several lines of evidence indicate that nicotine may contribute to the development of cancer. Evidence from experimental in vitro studies on cell cultures, in vivo studies on rodents as well as studies on humans inclusive of epidemiological studies indicate that nicotine itself, independent of other tobacco constituents, may stimulate a number of effects of importance in cancer development (5, 6).
BTW, I was a smoker for 20 years and loved every second of it. If I thought for a minute that any form of nicotine wasn't terrible for my health, I would be on it again in a heartbeat.
Whoah! Hold up there Boudreaux, the British pallet can't handle those kind's of spices!
That's an interesting take, but not very representative of history. They largest period of wage growth in america coincided with the largest percentage of union participation. As union participation dropped, wages stagnated. While there is no guarantee that this is causation in action, it's certainly harder to logically argue the reverse. People these days have no perspective on what things were like in this country prior to unionization, and how easily we are getting rid of protections that our forefathers literally lost their lives to win.
Why? For ideological zealots who are offended by every attempt to better ones station in life?
This place has become a cesspool. Umpteen years ago when I started coming here, there was plenty of debate, but usually it had something to do with facts or or at the very least science. Comments like this would have been down modded into oblivion for being flaimbait. I dunno if mod bots are to blame or what, but it seems like the only posts you see if you browse at 2 are shitposts like this. That, or an anti science conspiracy. Slashdot used to be the best location on the internet to get detailed, informed conversation about any science topic there was. Now it is just a forum for superkendal and his sad asshole ac stalker to stroke each other for attention.
Does anyone have ANY suggestions for a nerd news site where the community hasn't become so toxic? I need a new haunt. I was hoping I could stick around until things got better, but I think I need to admit to myself that this place is dead. This crowd is just picking over the bones.