the embargo of the 1970s was a direct result of US and British support for Israel
Right, so the Western world should allow oilmongers to dictate our foreign policy to us, not merely with respect to themselves but also with respect to anyone about whom they have particularly strong feelings.
You forgot the bizarre tendency for software developers enjoying the social and technological benefits of a social-democratic society to put forward strictly laissez-faire views.
Risk-taking for productive enterprise is good. Risk-taking for no reason other than to make your balls look bigger or keep up with the Joneses is what got us here.
That... doesn't make sense ontologically. Our data used to describe reality is not reality. The data of an H2 molecule isn't an H2 molecule... so if you hypothesize that it is, and that our matter/energy view of things is an illusion that arises from the macro-scale at which we measure, how do we use a theory like this to access the information of reality directly, without indirecting through matter and energy? In other words, if we suppose that reality is information rather than matter and energy, how do we experiment on information?
Actually, given the way they had levitation and earth-normal gravity in-ship, it doesn't seem at all unbelievable that they installed gravity manipulation planet-wide on the planets and moons they terraformed.
have raverdom be an Infectious Prion form of the original chemical (see mad cow disease). Still need to drop Miranda and the one central sun, but now being force-fed a little reaver flesh would maybe make you one of the family.
Hell no. That just turns Reavers into vampires that can fly spaceships, and we all know what happens when you hand Joss Whedon vampires... Spikeification...
Well they should drop Serenity from the continuity. It copped out of treating River Tam's madness as a serious mental illness, explained away the Reavers, ended in some Glorious Revolution crap, and killed two members of the core ensemble cast. Bring back Firefly the series, and if the writing team wants to make those plots happen again let them play out over multiple episodes or whole seasons instead of mere minutes.
Well He said that He would take us out of the Land of Egypt and He did that... Oh, you wanted predictions in terms of physics. And for current-day events. Yeah, God's an arbitrary SOB sometimes.
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I can see a problem with your approach... namely that Ha'aretz and al-Jazeera provide narrow regional news rather than broad coverage.
the embargo of the 1970s was a direct result of US and British support for Israel
Right, so the Western world should allow oilmongers to dictate our foreign policy to us, not merely with respect to themselves but also with respect to anyone about whom they have particularly strong feelings.
Well no, neo-imperialism doesn't prevent sectarian violence. It does, however, move it to somewhere it won't hurt the oil trade.
So how are you planning to get out of the Sun's gravity well?
Holy shit, they got windows in upstate NY!? Damn, their civilization has advanced so much in the week-and-a-half that I've been back at university!
Actually, last I heard there had been major class-action lawsuits against EA and IBM for this kind of thing by the developers. They won, too.
You forgot the bizarre tendency for software developers enjoying the social and technological benefits of a social-democratic society to put forward strictly laissez-faire views.
Risk-taking for productive enterprise is good. Risk-taking for no reason other than to make your balls look bigger or keep up with the Joneses is what got us here.
So Firefly is coming true much earlier than we thought?
So I take it you've never heard of Richard Dawkins or Christopher Hitchens?
GATTACA won't happen in a world that has this thing... what do we call it.... universal health-care.
Personally, knowing scientists (and Slashdotters), I'm going to guess that they just never got a truly competent proof-reader.
By the way, you really shouldn't even talk about proof reading the way you wrote that post.
Comin again to save the motherfuckin day yeah!
Oh thank God, I was worrying nobody would make a Hitchhiker's Guide reference!
Well great, that makes ontological sense, but then how can gravity arise as an imbalance of information on holographic "screens"?
Floating islands? The Mule?
cons: 'alpha -> 'beta -> ('alpha X 'beta)
That... doesn't make sense ontologically. Our data used to describe reality is not reality. The data of an H2 molecule isn't an H2 molecule... so if you hypothesize that it is, and that our matter/energy view of things is an illusion that arises from the macro-scale at which we measure, how do we use a theory like this to access the information of reality directly, without indirecting through matter and energy? In other words, if we suppose that reality is information rather than matter and energy, how do we experiment on information?
Oh God in Heaven! What Hell have you unleashed upon the world!?!!?!?!
I've got an original idea. I just don't have a TV/film production deal.
Actually, I've invented an original SF series idea. I just don't have connections with producers, writers, actors, etc.
conveniently having nearly earth-normal gravity
Actually, given the way they had levitation and earth-normal gravity in-ship, it doesn't seem at all unbelievable that they installed gravity manipulation planet-wide on the planets and moons they terraformed.
have raverdom be an Infectious Prion form of the original chemical (see mad cow disease). Still need to drop Miranda and the one central sun, but now being force-fed a little reaver flesh would maybe make you one of the family.
Hell no. That just turns Reavers into vampires that can fly spaceships, and we all know what happens when you hand Joss Whedon vampires... Spikeification...
Well they should drop Serenity from the continuity. It copped out of treating River Tam's madness as a serious mental illness, explained away the Reavers, ended in some Glorious Revolution crap, and killed two members of the core ensemble cast. Bring back Firefly the series, and if the writing team wants to make those plots happen again let them play out over multiple episodes or whole seasons instead of mere minutes.
Well He said that He would take us out of the Land of Egypt and He did that... Oh, you wanted predictions in terms of physics. And for current-day events. Yeah, God's an arbitrary SOB sometimes.