"Nova gun" type weapons would solve that problem, of course.
Remember that FTL travel implies time displacement as well. An FTL projectile fired from 3 light minutes away could might arrive on target 3 minutes before it is fired.
I think people are talking about two different BSGs. Shame on the marketers for screwing it up, but the recent series with the confusingly identical name is what you are describing. The actual BSG plot was radically different, however.
Absolutely false, and again you are just trying to change the subject because you dont want to answer the question. Providing proof of the existence of a historical figure is harder than people think, but it's not impossible and it can be done in many cases. So when someone comes along confidently asserting there is 'plenty of proof' and in fact, there is none, I am not supposed to challenge that?
You say many witnesses wrote down meetings? Yet where are these writings? If what you say were true, you would be able to produce them. You cannot. You pontificate but produce no evidence at all. You fall back on 'it is generally accepted that' and that's true but that is still zero evidence that it's actually true.
So we are right where we were before you posted. Zero proof of any kind.
Well I wasnt implying that the european slaves actually 'lightened' the populations to a significant degree, I was just pointing out that if ANYTHING did so, it would have to be that, and the timeframe was wrong for that to help the other posters argument.
In reality skin colour tended to track very quickly to the climate, before modern medicine, it's just not a good indicator of ancestry because it is so sensitive to climate.
Your Egyptian is well within the current range in the same area, which is exactly what I would expect.
I dont 'support' people that kill people and probably my words there were poorly chosen. But what became the UK has indeed an 800 year history of colonisation in Ireland, and that should be appreciated. The footprint is strong and clear, and it just makes no sense to talk about the violence without acknowledging the historical causes behind the violence.
And yes, I dont treat the native american issue differently. There are a few things that are clear cases of right or wrong and broken treaties are among them.
They shall rediscover it's blessings, again and again, each time as if new. And the world shall fall flat, and laugh uproriously, at such ignorance, and such arrogance. These people are actually expecting people will believe this BS, no?
Nope, I am a 'friend' of the USA only to the extent that, you know, being a citizen and all, I would kind of like them to be, say, less than total douchebags?
And in all seriousness, if you are bombing innocents because you think there might just be a 'bad guy' in the group... you ARE the bad guy. You're worse than most of them, better than none. If you are out there being just as much of a bad guy as the bad guys, and claiming to do this in my name, for my benefit? Then FUCK YOU.
Yes, well over 99% of working website designers are absolute morons. This cannot possibly be in doubt, within the circle of persons who have actually attempted to use a popular website within the last several years it is so obvious as to be non-controversial.
Well all I can say in response to that is that these 'hawks' of yours are bloody morons. One of these days there might be a real clash of civilisations to worry about, and I hope to hell every one of these morons that's been associated with the US government over the last few years winds up on the other side, because DAMN it sucks when the only option is obvious fraud, huh?
Well let me first say I approach your question based on the assumption you arent a total imbecile and understand that HTML is a semantic markup language, not a layout language.
Ok, now that the roaring laughter has dropped to a dull roar, let's try again. Your freaking website has absolutely no business trying to dictate fonts you fracking moron!
In all freaking seriousness, if you are asking us what FONT to use on your WEBSITE you do not understand the meaning of the word FONT or the meaning of the word WEBSITE or quite possibly you dont understand either one. I dont even know what to tell you. Your ignorance is truly EPIC. Please CODAD, thanks.
I agree with you. Pretty much every substantial thing you said.
Oh, I also support the IRA, at least in a relative sense. The UK government has spent over 800 years now brutally dominating Ireland, and among many others they did their damndest to exterminate my own family in the process. You think we wont take an opportunity to stick it to the UK? You are living in a freaking dreamworld if you think we would hesitate for the tiniest fraction of a second.
After WWII I understand a lot of hand-grenades made it over via regular postal service... and if you think any of the old folks in my neighborhood might have a pang of conscience, you can put that right out of your head. They might have been several generations removed, but they were pretty damn solid on the point that anyone wearing a UK uniform needs to die, ASAP, and no one should ever feel sorry about helping out on that front.
But your post is right on. The lessons the UK had to learn are the same ones the US now needs to learn. Lessons like "you may be an arrogant SOB but you still need to act like a real human being to curry support." And how about "it's their country quit being such an obnoxious jackass." That would be a good one.
Still, the bedrock bottom-dollar take away is always going to be "go home" and the quicker that advice is taken the better for all involved.
It's true that it is very difficult to come up with anything approximating proof that ANYONE in particular was really alive 2k years ago.
The AC I was originally talking with claimed to have plenty of PROOF that J.C. was a real person 2k years ago. Just on general principles, we should immediately suspect that AC is a liar. And in fact, it's obvious that AC really is a liar, because there is sure as hell no clear proof of that. Even if we assume that it is true, we wouldnt expect it to be easily provable.. making that first AC not just a liar, but a bad liar.
Y'all must have an extraordinarly F'd up dynamic if the obvious short-form of a national name is so sensitive people get offended by it. "Paki" is the obvious, inescapable short form of Pakistani, in the English language at least. No offense was intended and I dont believe any can be reasonably taken. It's not even plausible as an ethnic slur, since Pakistan is a state of many ethnicities, not one of which is called 'Paki'. It's really hilarious that people are focusing on this, and ignoring the meat of my message.
Well, apparently , while Joshua can be accurately described as a late bronze age Tiger Woods, Tiger himself canNOT be accurately described as a modern Joshua.
Oh man you think I didnt see that one coming? It's comical.
Josephus reported after Jesus supposedly lived, and indicated that there were people around that thought he lived, many decades earlier. That doesnt cover the last item, it doesnt get anything thrown in for free, it's just pathetic. No one questioned whether there were Christians around in Josephus lifetime, only whether there is as claimed 'proof' of his historical existence.
Anyone is free to interpret anything they care to interpret as whatever kind of slur they want to. I dont give a damn about your feelings. I really dont. My post was by far the best defense of the 'Paki' POV on this issue I see displayed in the article, if the shortening of the long form 'Pakistani' to 'Paki' actually offends you enough you care more about correcting me than you do about the substance of my message? Too bad. I call em as I see em and if that means both 'sides' hate me then screw you both.
Are you a foreigner? You sound like someone that would make a Good American. Someone that understands Thomas Jefferson and Thomas Paine. We need more like you. This country has been overrun by fools and buffoons, and their inevitable masters.
Well if that's correct his points are nonsense. Religious persecution is religious persecution, prejudice is prejudice, in any country. There is nothing ridiculous about it. Civilians murdered are civilians murdered, regardless of their religion. And if I bomb civilians in an area I know is 98% Muslim, the implication that I am deliberately murdering Muslims would seem a fairly strong one, whether or not I manage to kill a Christian or two in the process.
As a side note, apparently there was a memo I missed, and Eastern rite christians dont really count as Christians. At least Western rite Christians dont seem to care at all when they are murdered or dispossessed. In the last dozen years we (as in the USA) has essentially eliminated Christianity from Iraq, something many centuries of Muslim and even Mongol rulers have never been able to do. Al Queda thanks you, US Government!
Eh, the thing is, Pakistani christians are just as pakistani as anyone else. Just as native. A family may have been Christian since before Mohammed. It's not right to imply they should leave, particularly when many may have no practical option to leave, but even if they all did - would you leave your homeland like that? That line of thought is all wrong.
Now that said, I dont think it is the duty or the legitimate business in any way of the US to go around trying to dictate how other countries work. If I were in the government I would be very careful with my words as a result. But as a private citizen I dont need to do that and I do find religious discrimination anywhere, against anyone, unacceptable, and thus I find your defense a bit offensive.
What I took away from the story was that the authorities in Pakistan are actually deserving of a little faith. This so-called Imam, representing the powerful majority faith, set this poor girl up and in the sort of country the pakistan-bashers paint, it would have worked. It didnt. That Imam, last I heard, is the focus of police investigation, and is likely to be arrested, tried, and convicted of the crime of blasphemy for which he attempted to frame the girl.
If that's how it works out, then it's hard for me to see how the Pakistani authorities could possibly have handled it better.
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"Nova gun" type weapons would solve that problem, of course.
Remember that FTL travel implies time displacement as well. An FTL projectile fired from 3 light minutes away could might arrive on target 3 minutes before it is fired.
I think people are talking about two different BSGs. Shame on the marketers for screwing it up, but the recent series with the confusingly identical name is what you are describing. The actual BSG plot was radically different, however.
Absolutely false, and again you are just trying to change the subject because you dont want to answer the question. Providing proof of the existence of a historical figure is harder than people think, but it's not impossible and it can be done in many cases. So when someone comes along confidently asserting there is 'plenty of proof' and in fact, there is none, I am not supposed to challenge that?
No, that's not my logic, that's just you squirming and throwing out red herrings. Do you have evidence or dont you?
You say many witnesses wrote down meetings? Yet where are these writings? If what you say were true, you would be able to produce them. You cannot. You pontificate but produce no evidence at all. You fall back on 'it is generally accepted that' and that's true but that is still zero evidence that it's actually true.
So we are right where we were before you posted. Zero proof of any kind.
Well I wasnt implying that the european slaves actually 'lightened' the populations to a significant degree, I was just pointing out that if ANYTHING did so, it would have to be that, and the timeframe was wrong for that to help the other posters argument.
In reality skin colour tended to track very quickly to the climate, before modern medicine, it's just not a good indicator of ancestry because it is so sensitive to climate.
Your Egyptian is well within the current range in the same area, which is exactly what I would expect.
I dont 'support' people that kill people and probably my words there were poorly chosen. But what became the UK has indeed an 800 year history of colonisation in Ireland, and that should be appreciated. The footprint is strong and clear, and it just makes no sense to talk about the violence without acknowledging the historical causes behind the violence.
And yes, I dont treat the native american issue differently. There are a few things that are clear cases of right or wrong and broken treaties are among them.
They shall rediscover it's blessings, again and again, each time as if new. And the world shall fall flat, and laugh uproriously, at such ignorance, and such arrogance. These people are actually expecting people will believe this BS, no?
*ROFL*
Nope, I am a 'friend' of the USA only to the extent that, you know, being a citizen and all, I would kind of like them to be, say, less than total douchebags?
And in all seriousness, if you are bombing innocents because you think there might just be a 'bad guy' in the group... you ARE the bad guy. You're worse than most of them, better than none. If you are out there being just as much of a bad guy as the bad guys, and claiming to do this in my name, for my benefit? Then FUCK YOU.
Yes, well over 99% of working website designers are absolute morons. This cannot possibly be in doubt, within the circle of persons who have actually attempted to use a popular website within the last several years it is so obvious as to be non-controversial.
Well all I can say in response to that is that these 'hawks' of yours are bloody morons. One of these days there might be a real clash of civilisations to worry about, and I hope to hell every one of these morons that's been associated with the US government over the last few years winds up on the other side, because DAMN it sucks when the only option is obvious fraud, huh?
Either one will work in terms of selecting a more educated, judisk, and desireable readership.
But it's still a very important question, which?
Well let me first say I approach your question based on the assumption you arent a total imbecile and understand that HTML is a semantic markup language, not a layout language.
Ok, now that the roaring laughter has dropped to a dull roar, let's try again. Your freaking website has absolutely no business trying to dictate fonts you fracking moron!
In all freaking seriousness, if you are asking us what FONT to use on your WEBSITE you do not understand the meaning of the word FONT or the meaning of the word WEBSITE or quite possibly you dont understand either one. I dont even know what to tell you. Your ignorance is truly EPIC. Please CODAD, thanks.
You know what?
I agree with you. Pretty much every substantial thing you said.
Oh, I also support the IRA, at least in a relative sense. The UK government has spent over 800 years now brutally dominating Ireland, and among many others they did their damndest to exterminate my own family in the process. You think we wont take an opportunity to stick it to the UK? You are living in a freaking dreamworld if you think we would hesitate for the tiniest fraction of a second.
After WWII I understand a lot of hand-grenades made it over via regular postal service... and if you think any of the old folks in my neighborhood might have a pang of conscience, you can put that right out of your head. They might have been several generations removed, but they were pretty damn solid on the point that anyone wearing a UK uniform needs to die, ASAP, and no one should ever feel sorry about helping out on that front.
But your post is right on. The lessons the UK had to learn are the same ones the US now needs to learn. Lessons like "you may be an arrogant SOB but you still need to act like a real human being to curry support." And how about "it's their country quit being such an obnoxious jackass." That would be a good one.
Still, the bedrock bottom-dollar take away is always going to be "go home" and the quicker that advice is taken the better for all involved.
Now THAT is an intelligent response!
Are you the same AC I was talking with earlier?
It's true that it is very difficult to come up with anything approximating proof that ANYONE in particular was really alive 2k years ago.
The AC I was originally talking with claimed to have plenty of PROOF that J.C. was a real person 2k years ago. Just on general principles, we should immediately suspect that AC is a liar. And in fact, it's obvious that AC really is a liar, because there is sure as hell no clear proof of that. Even if we assume that it is true, we wouldnt expect it to be easily provable.. making that first AC not just a liar, but a bad liar.
Any comments?
Y'all must have an extraordinarly F'd up dynamic if the obvious short-form of a national name is so sensitive people get offended by it. "Paki" is the obvious, inescapable short form of Pakistani, in the English language at least. No offense was intended and I dont believe any can be reasonably taken. It's not even plausible as an ethnic slur, since Pakistan is a state of many ethnicities, not one of which is called 'Paki'. It's really hilarious that people are focusing on this, and ignoring the meat of my message.
Well, apparently , while Joshua can be accurately described as a late bronze age Tiger Woods, Tiger himself canNOT be accurately described as a modern Joshua.
And that explains the whole thing, does it not?
Oh man you think I didnt see that one coming? It's comical.
Josephus reported after Jesus supposedly lived, and indicated that there were people around that thought he lived, many decades earlier. That doesnt cover the last item, it doesnt get anything thrown in for free, it's just pathetic. No one questioned whether there were Christians around in Josephus lifetime, only whether there is as claimed 'proof' of his historical existence.
And there is not.
What, Paki?
Anyone is free to interpret anything they care to interpret as whatever kind of slur they want to. I dont give a damn about your feelings. I really dont. My post was by far the best defense of the 'Paki' POV on this issue I see displayed in the article, if the shortening of the long form 'Pakistani' to 'Paki' actually offends you enough you care more about correcting me than you do about the substance of my message? Too bad. I call em as I see em and if that means both 'sides' hate me then screw you both.
Are you a foreigner? You sound like someone that would make a Good American. Someone that understands Thomas Jefferson and Thomas Paine. We need more like you. This country has been overrun by fools and buffoons, and their inevitable masters.
Well if that's correct his points are nonsense. Religious persecution is religious persecution, prejudice is prejudice, in any country. There is nothing ridiculous about it. Civilians murdered are civilians murdered, regardless of their religion. And if I bomb civilians in an area I know is 98% Muslim, the implication that I am deliberately murdering Muslims would seem a fairly strong one, whether or not I manage to kill a Christian or two in the process.
As a side note, apparently there was a memo I missed, and Eastern rite christians dont really count as Christians. At least Western rite Christians dont seem to care at all when they are murdered or dispossessed. In the last dozen years we (as in the USA) has essentially eliminated Christianity from Iraq, something many centuries of Muslim and even Mongol rulers have never been able to do. Al Queda thanks you, US Government!
Eh, the thing is, Pakistani christians are just as pakistani as anyone else. Just as native. A family may have been Christian since before Mohammed. It's not right to imply they should leave, particularly when many may have no practical option to leave, but even if they all did - would you leave your homeland like that? That line of thought is all wrong.
Now that said, I dont think it is the duty or the legitimate business in any way of the US to go around trying to dictate how other countries work. If I were in the government I would be very careful with my words as a result. But as a private citizen I dont need to do that and I do find religious discrimination anywhere, against anyone, unacceptable, and thus I find your defense a bit offensive.
What I took away from the story was that the authorities in Pakistan are actually deserving of a little faith. This so-called Imam, representing the powerful majority faith, set this poor girl up and in the sort of country the pakistan-bashers paint, it would have worked. It didnt. That Imam, last I heard, is the focus of police investigation, and is likely to be arrested, tried, and convicted of the crime of blasphemy for which he attempted to frame the girl.
If that's how it works out, then it's hard for me to see how the Pakistani authorities could possibly have handled it better.
And well he should, since he's a mythological remake of Joshua, who was a late bronze age Tiger Woods himself.
There is precisely zero proof of any kind for that thesis. I defy you to produce anything that even vaguely looks like proof of such a thing.