Exactly! Unless you're already there, it's totally pointless to go somewhere. Better off to just stay in your cave near the savannah. The rains are certain to return this year and no doubt the fruit trees and vegetables will return as well. Those others that moved off and started hunting animals? FOOLS!
Mars is not the Earth. You just don't understand that what you just wrote does not apply to Mars. This is the response I get constantly. Apparently, people just do not yet get that Mars is not an extension of the Earth and the ways we are used to expressing ourselves about the Earth do not apply to Mars. What savannahs? What animals? What anything?
And shows how desperate they are to find SOME, ANY, reason to believe there is enough water on Mars to justify multi-trillion dollar funding of completely useless trips to Mars.
Education for the sake of education is a waste of time and effort. We live in a credentialist society, and the only thing that matters is the paper you get from your academic efforts. But I guess this kind of thing allows the macroparasitic education institutions to assuage their consciences as they jack up the cost of the actual paper education (the REAL education) they sell to their students at relentlessly rising cost. "Are we not wonderful? We provide education for free (or "low" cost) to the lumpenproletariat!"
This is just the macroparasitic elites of wealth and power identifying and converting still another asset source. The infection continues worldwide. Who do these corrupt researchers work for? There is the real problem.
Isn't it wonderful how safe, efficient, and effective the systems are that are constructed by the macroparasites and their familiars in government for scooping dollars out of your pocket? But electronic voting on issues nationwide -- nah, not possible.
Good for Brazil. At least they are trying to advance the machinery of democracy. In this "great experiment" of ours in the United States the macroparasites have so co-opted the government that we can not hope to have even a serious discussion about electronic democracy. The extension of the theory of democracy cannot be explored. Where has it been mentioned? We have 310 million people and no one is theorizing about the evolution of democracy? It is supressed by the familiars of the macroparasite in the media. They just love what we have already - a system so ancient and creaky that they can just about do whatever they want to the American people in order to make a buck, or two, or a trillion. The idea that a handful of people in the Congress of the United States of America has the right to make the most egregious mistakes imaginable when dealing with the vital affairs of the American people, but the American people themselves have no right to make and correct their own mistakes through electronic democracy--that they are some kind of mindless mob in the aggregate--undermines the very idea of democracy itself whether it is representative or direct. If you argue that representative democracy is correct, you argue that direct democracy is correct, for it is the democracy that is modified by the words "representative" or "direct." They are mere colors of the same thing. Does not a coat perform the same function whether it is red or green?
Are they taking any precautions against the probability that the genome contains viral components just as ours does? If they cannot prove beforehand that no virus will start replicating from the Wolly Mammoth genome once they activate it, they should not be allowed to proceed.
The assumption is always that paper ballot voting is secure. Electronic fraud is somehow more important than paper ballot fraud. President Kennedy wasn't even a legitimate President according to some due to paper ballot fraud and they have a good case. See the "Controversies" section of the Wikipedia article on the 1960 election: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,_1960. No, the whole controversy over the safety of voting is just a reason not to do what is required by a belief in Democracy and what is absolutely necessary in a period of time which illustrates the obsolescence of the old system. The Macroparasites have taken control of our system of government and true electronic democracy is the only way we will get power back into our hands. As for the safety of electronic voting, let me say this: It is safe to do internet banking; it is safe to transfer trillions of dollars of assets around the world daily; but it is somehow not safe to cast a single vote electronically . I don't believe that is the truth. And those who argue against electronic Democracy are merely the familiars of the Macroparasites.
It does not compare. And that is the problem. People are using Earth-related comparisons, concepts and terminology that simply does not apply off planet. Did your Earth surface immigrants have to fight to have daily oxygen? Did they not have a superabundance of water if they wanted to go to it? Did they not have natural Earth temperatures? Were they not naturally protected from cosmic rays by the Earth's magnetosphere? Did they not have the amount of gravity the human body expects? On and on. Try to wrench your mind away from the comparison to Earth and see that space is not Earth and the perceptions and terminology of Earth do not apply to the Moon or Mars. Real life is not science fiction. There are no "colonies" possible in space. There is just suffering for human beings. And you have no right to call for it.
The power of democracy comes from people feeling they have some control over their lives. Whether they put the "best" people in office or not is irrelevant. It is the decision, the asking for permission, that is the true foundation of democracy, It is the sense of inclusion. And, as a bonus, while people cannot tell who is the "best" for a position, they sure can tell when they don't want someone. The power to throw someone out of office is essential to short circuiting rising social discontent. It feels good to "throw the bum out."
Any company that causes or supports the colonization of the Moon or Mars is going to bankrupt itself. The immorality of causing or supporting the birth of a human being on Mars or the Moon is so obvious that lawsuits are inevitable It is impossible to imagine that the results would be less than enormous sums for each and every human being who is robbed of 4 billion years of genetic legacy - the natural right to be born and live on the Earth. If I were a lawyer, I would love to have such cases.
And if you are thinking that laws can be passed stripping legal rights from people forced to be born on the Moon or Mars, well, if our country does something like that it puts the lie to everything it professes to stand for. It may as well reinstitute slavery.
does not exist in nature or, naturally, in our perception. Consider how long it took to use the steam engine for rotational motion. And I don't mean the railroad engine. It seems natural and obvious today, but it still isn't. I remember watching a baby stare in uttter facination at a piece of cereal twirled over and over again on a tray. She showed a concentration and determination to understand that far exceeded anything expected from one her age. I was impressed. But obviously this was something her visual abilities could not comprehend.
"Finding incompetence is always easier than designing around it."
And when do you find it? After people have died?
Sensors on the machinery I work on save my life and limbs every work day. And they do not need to be maintained, replaced, tested, etc as you say
except very rarely. They do the job for the FSS machine in the USPS, and they would have done the same for the AF if the manufacturer had designed one in here.
You can be sure they festoon the plane.
It is ass-covering of the lowest order to blame a lowly mechanic for what is obviously a design flaw. A simple sensor to monitor the presence of a plug in order to save a 244 million dollar craft is not too much to expect from the maker. Someone high should be fired, but they will throw the poor mechanic under the bus and feel competent and effective.
I've noticed this from my reading. Isolation and lack of entertainment seem to cause the brain to go inward and create its own novelty: new ideas and peceptions. Boredom is the great source of creative thought in my opinion. But do we have much boredom anymore? We have so many young people wasting the creative years of their lives playing XBOX and pursuing the multitude of boredom-slaying options of today that I'm afraid that creative thought is coming to a screeching halt. We need to turn off the TVs and the XBOXs and tell children (and adults) to find something to do themselves instead of having it given to them, costless. We need to cultivate boredom once again in children (and ourselves). "Go out to play." "But what can I do?" "I don't know, find something." We built treehouses and thought about the universe. We tried to catch frogs and wondered about how frogs came about from the masses of squirming pollywogs that appeared each year. Einstein was riding his bike as a kid -- no doubt bored to death -- and wondered what it would be like to be at the head of a beam of light. If he were playing a shooter in his every spare minute, or watching TV, would he have?
Once again: space is a vast desert like no desert on the face of our Earth and unworthy of our money. And to cause someone to be born outside the Earth steals from them their genetic legacy of life on the Earth. This is immorality of the highest order and anyone who works to bring about phony "colonies" on other planets is immoral because they work to bring about massive unhappiness and suffering in human beings. It is simple and it is obvious. We are not living on the Earth; We ARE the Earth. We are not Mars and we are not the Moon and we can never live comfortably or at all anywhere else. Period. Stop the nonsense.
when a society, from a warped sense of equality, gynocentrifies itself and ends up designing everything using a "cute" template for a feminine sensibility and a generally lower level of technical knowledge or interest. If you think it is bad now, wait a couple of years. You'll be talking to a computer that calls itself Hello Kitty.
Read Plagues and Peoples by William H. MacNeill and then tell me if you think going off planet to some place humans can actually live for a short time is anything but insanity. Leaving the planet is scifi nonsense and I'm sick of hearing it from scientists who should know better. Jules Verne was correct in "War of the Worlds." Microparasites (bacteria and viruses) would kill an alien species. And the ones found in amenable environments off planet would kill us too. And wipe out the Earth population of humans when brought back. Hawkins is either naive, or wilfull.
that the same macroparasites that brought you the mortgage investments debacle internationally identified the college degree as another asset of the actual wealth creating class that it could exploit. A college degree used to be an asset that an individual bought and paid for and which brought value to an individual's effort over a lifetime. In short, it brought you more money lifelong. The macroparasites came to understand this and decided to tap the lifelong value of the college degree. Not content just to be paid for the college degree, they now demand a cut of the take lifelong. This is also what business CEO macroparasites are doing in corporations: they are demanding, and getting, not pay, but a cut of the take. Like tapeworms, they suck a growing proportion of the passing nutrients from the corporations that they have infected. We have a deadly financial macroparasitic infection worldwide at all levels going on right now. This is why pay and benefits are going down. They are not evaporating; they are just being transferred more efficiently to the one percent class of financial macroparasites. This is proven by the increasing distance between the graph lines (gap) of the assets of the wealthy and the workers who actually create that wealth. Until we are able to see this as an actual infection of the system by a macroparasitic class, we are not going to be able to deal with it. In the end, an unchecked macroparasite kills its host.
We are not living on the Earth. We ARE the Earth. There is no separation. We are not Mars. We are not the Moon. We are no other place in this universe. Space is not a final frontier or any frontier at all. And using surface-of-the-Earth terms in the discussion of space, terms like "frontier" and "colony" and "travel," is not a valid use of such terms and concepts. "Space" is a vast desert like no desert on the face of the Earth. We are going nowhere.
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Exactly! Unless you're already there, it's totally pointless to go somewhere. Better off to just stay in your cave near the savannah. The rains are certain to return this year and no doubt the fruit trees and vegetables will return as well. Those others that moved off and started hunting animals? FOOLS!
Mars is not the Earth. You just don't understand that what you just wrote does not apply to Mars. This is the response I get constantly. Apparently, people just do not yet get that Mars is not an extension of the Earth and the ways we are used to expressing ourselves about the Earth do not apply to Mars. What savannahs? What animals? What anything?
And shows how desperate they are to find SOME, ANY, reason to believe there is enough water on Mars to justify multi-trillion dollar funding of completely useless trips to Mars.
Education for the sake of education is a waste of time and effort. We live in a credentialist society, and the only thing that matters is the paper you get from your academic efforts. But I guess this kind of thing allows the macroparasitic education institutions to assuage their consciences as they jack up the cost of the actual paper education (the REAL education) they sell to their students at relentlessly rising cost. "Are we not wonderful? We provide education for free (or "low" cost) to the lumpenproletariat!"
This is just the macroparasitic elites of wealth and power identifying and converting still another asset source. The infection continues worldwide. Who do these corrupt researchers work for? There is the real problem.
I think you have a point that needs to be explored. It makes far more sense than vaccines.
And I hold in high regard anyone who would spend so much of his lifetime bringing computing to the autistic.
Isn't it wonderful how safe, efficient, and effective the systems are that are constructed by the macroparasites and their familiars in government for scooping dollars out of your pocket? But electronic voting on issues nationwide -- nah, not possible.
Good for Brazil. At least they are trying to advance the machinery of democracy. In this "great experiment" of ours in the United States the macroparasites have so co-opted the government that we can not hope to have even a serious discussion about electronic democracy. The extension of the theory of democracy cannot be explored. Where has it been mentioned? We have 310 million people and no one is theorizing about the evolution of democracy? It is supressed by the familiars of the macroparasite in the media. They just love what we have already - a system so ancient and creaky that they can just about do whatever they want to the American people in order to make a buck, or two, or a trillion. The idea that a handful of people in the Congress of the United States of America has the right to make the most egregious mistakes imaginable when dealing with the vital affairs of the American people, but the American people themselves have no right to make and correct their own mistakes through electronic democracy--that they are some kind of mindless mob in the aggregate--undermines the very idea of democracy itself whether it is representative or direct. If you argue that representative democracy is correct, you argue that direct democracy is correct, for it is the democracy that is modified by the words "representative" or "direct." They are mere colors of the same thing. Does not a coat perform the same function whether it is red or green?
Are they taking any precautions against the probability that the genome contains viral components just as ours does? If they cannot prove beforehand that no virus will start replicating from the Wolly Mammoth genome once they activate it, they should not be allowed to proceed.
The assumption is always that paper ballot voting is secure. Electronic fraud is somehow more important than paper ballot fraud. President Kennedy wasn't even a legitimate President according to some due to paper ballot fraud and they have a good case. See the "Controversies" section of the Wikipedia article on the 1960 election: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,_1960. No, the whole controversy over the safety of voting is just a reason not to do what is required by a belief in Democracy and what is absolutely necessary in a period of time which illustrates the obsolescence of the old system. The Macroparasites have taken control of our system of government and true electronic democracy is the only way we will get power back into our hands. As for the safety of electronic voting, let me say this: It is safe to do internet banking; it is safe to transfer trillions of dollars of assets around the world daily; but it is somehow not safe to cast a single vote electronically . I don't believe that is the truth. And those who argue against electronic Democracy are merely the familiars of the Macroparasites.
It does not compare. And that is the problem. People are using Earth-related comparisons, concepts and terminology that simply does not apply off planet. Did your Earth surface immigrants have to fight to have daily oxygen? Did they not have a superabundance of water if they wanted to go to it? Did they not have natural Earth temperatures? Were they not naturally protected from cosmic rays by the Earth's magnetosphere? Did they not have the amount of gravity the human body expects? On and on. Try to wrench your mind away from the comparison to Earth and see that space is not Earth and the perceptions and terminology of Earth do not apply to the Moon or Mars. Real life is not science fiction. There are no "colonies" possible in space. There is just suffering for human beings. And you have no right to call for it.
The power of democracy comes from people feeling they have some control over their lives. Whether they put the "best" people in office or not is irrelevant. It is the decision, the asking for permission, that is the true foundation of democracy, It is the sense of inclusion. And, as a bonus, while people cannot tell who is the "best" for a position, they sure can tell when they don't want someone. The power to throw someone out of office is essential to short circuiting rising social discontent. It feels good to "throw the bum out."
Any company that causes or supports the colonization of the Moon or Mars is going to bankrupt itself. The immorality of causing or supporting the birth of a human being on Mars or the Moon is so obvious that lawsuits are inevitable It is impossible to imagine that the results would be less than enormous sums for each and every human being who is robbed of 4 billion years of genetic legacy - the natural right to be born and live on the Earth. If I were a lawyer, I would love to have such cases.
And if you are thinking that laws can be passed stripping legal rights from people forced to be born on the Moon or Mars, well, if our country does something like that it puts the lie to everything it professes to stand for. It may as well reinstitute slavery.
does not exist in nature or, naturally, in our perception. Consider how long it took to use the steam engine for rotational motion. And I don't mean the railroad engine. It seems natural and obvious today, but it still isn't. I remember watching a baby stare in uttter facination at a piece of cereal twirled over and over again on a tray. She showed a concentration and determination to understand that far exceeded anything expected from one her age. I was impressed. But obviously this was something her visual abilities could not comprehend.
"Finding incompetence is always easier than designing around it."
And when do you find it? After people have died?
Sensors on the machinery I work on save my life and limbs every work day. And they do not need to be maintained, replaced, tested, etc as you say
except very rarely. They do the job for the FSS machine in the USPS, and they would have done the same for the AF if the manufacturer had designed one in here.
You can be sure they festoon the plane.
The twenty traits of a political psychopath:
1. glib and superficial charm
2. grandiose (exaggeratedly high) estimation of self
3. need for stimulation
4. pathological lying
5. cunning and manipulativeness
6. lack of remorse or guilt
7. shallow affect (superficial emotional responsiveness)
8. callousness and lack of empathy
9. parasitic lifestyle
10. poor behavioral controls
11. sexual promiscuity
12. early behavior problems
13. lack of realistic long-term goals
14. impulsivity
15. irresponsibility
16. failure to accept responsibility for own actions
17. many short-term marital relationships
18. juvenile delinquency
19. revocation of conditional release
20. criminal versatility
It is ass-covering of the lowest order to blame a lowly mechanic for what is obviously a design flaw. A simple sensor to monitor the presence of a plug in order to save a 244 million dollar craft is not too much to expect from the maker. Someone high should be fired, but they will throw the poor mechanic under the bus and feel competent and effective.
I've noticed this from my reading. Isolation and lack of entertainment seem to cause the brain to go inward and create its own novelty: new ideas and peceptions. Boredom is the great source of creative thought in my opinion. But do we have much boredom anymore? We have so many young people wasting the creative years of their lives playing XBOX and pursuing the multitude of boredom-slaying options of today that I'm afraid that creative thought is coming to a screeching halt. We need to turn off the TVs and the XBOXs and tell children (and adults) to find something to do themselves instead of having it given to them, costless. We need to cultivate boredom once again in children (and ourselves). "Go out to play." "But what can I do?" "I don't know, find something." We built treehouses and thought about the universe. We tried to catch frogs and wondered about how frogs came about from the masses of squirming pollywogs that appeared each year. Einstein was riding his bike as a kid -- no doubt bored to death -- and wondered what it would be like to be at the head of a beam of light. If he were playing a shooter in his every spare minute, or watching TV, would he have?
Once again: space is a vast desert like no desert on the face of our Earth and unworthy of our money. And to cause someone to be born outside the Earth steals from them their genetic legacy of life on the Earth. This is immorality of the highest order and anyone who works to bring about phony "colonies" on other planets is immoral because they work to bring about massive unhappiness and suffering in human beings. It is simple and it is obvious. We are not living on the Earth; We ARE the Earth. We are not Mars and we are not the Moon and we can never live comfortably or at all anywhere else. Period. Stop the nonsense.
the anthrax attack.
Look in the mirror; you will see the intelligent life in this Universe. We are the Universe asking itself what it is; and we are not schizophrenic.
when a society, from a warped sense of equality, gynocentrifies itself and ends up designing everything using a "cute" template for a feminine sensibility and a generally lower level of technical knowledge or interest. If you think it is bad now, wait a couple of years. You'll be talking to a computer that calls itself Hello Kitty.
Read Plagues and Peoples by William H. MacNeill and then tell me if you think going off planet to some place humans can actually live for a short time is anything but insanity. Leaving the planet is scifi nonsense and I'm sick of hearing it from scientists who should know better. Jules Verne was correct in "War of the Worlds." Microparasites (bacteria and viruses) would kill an alien species. And the ones found in amenable environments off planet would kill us too. And wipe out the Earth population of humans when brought back. Hawkins is either naive, or wilfull.
that the same macroparasites that brought you the mortgage investments debacle internationally identified the college degree as another asset of the actual wealth creating class that it could exploit. A college degree used to be an asset that an individual bought and paid for and which brought value to an individual's effort over a lifetime. In short, it brought you more money lifelong. The macroparasites came to understand this and decided to tap the lifelong value of the college degree. Not content just to be paid for the college degree, they now demand a cut of the take lifelong. This is also what business CEO macroparasites are doing in corporations: they are demanding, and getting, not pay, but a cut of the take. Like tapeworms, they suck a growing proportion of the passing nutrients from the corporations that they have infected. We have a deadly financial macroparasitic infection worldwide at all levels going on right now. This is why pay and benefits are going down. They are not evaporating; they are just being transferred more efficiently to the one percent class of financial macroparasites. This is proven by the increasing distance between the graph lines (gap) of the assets of the wealthy and the workers who actually create that wealth. Until we are able to see this as an actual infection of the system by a macroparasitic class, we are not going to be able to deal with it. In the end, an unchecked macroparasite kills its host.
We are not living on the Earth. We ARE the Earth. There is no separation. We are not Mars. We are not the Moon. We are no other place in this universe. Space is not a final frontier or any frontier at all. And using surface-of-the-Earth terms in the discussion of space, terms like "frontier" and "colony" and "travel," is not a valid use of such terms and concepts. "Space" is a vast desert like no desert on the face of the Earth. We are going nowhere.