The obvious difference being I radiate infrared light incidentally. I don't chose to do so, I can't stop from doing so, and unless I have some scientific background, chances are I don't even know that I'm doing so.
It is very different from me making an active attempt to make a radio broadcast using specialized equipment. If you don't see the difference between these two scenerios, then thank god you arn't in politics or law.
You know what really grinds my gears? People who take something as awesome as space exploration, and try to spoil it by injecting partisan politics into it.
Bad comparison. The shuttles were not the first set of rockets NASA had launched. You are comparing one generation of rockets (a generation pretty late in the game for that matter) with the entirety of SpaceX's run. NASA had quite as few failures back when it was still learning the ropes, as SpaceX did their first launches.
For more fun unfair comparisons, check out the progress NASA made on Ares, then check out the progress SpaceX made on Falcon 9. Pick your "track records" correctly and you can make anybody look better than anyone else, and it's not particularly hard to pick them to make SpaceX look pretty damned good.
Think of it this way. Unlike NASA, SpaceX has been building the majority of everything in-house. That means unlike NASA spacecrafts, SpaceX crafts are not build by the lowest bidder.
Of course NASA has had a pretty good track record in recent years, but I think we will find that SpaceX will as well.
How exactly do you figure I've asked you for permission to speak? You need to get back on your meds. I would say the toes comment baffles me, but I know you guys have some sort of anti-foot fetish. Protip: come up with cuturally relevant insults next time. Being called "NOTHING" might be the worst people where you come from can think up, but here it just makes you look like an inbreed hick who is unaware of a larger world around him.
PS: You "owned" about jack shit. If being a failed google-PI is all you've done with your life, then it has been a sad existence for you indeed.
internet tough guy needs permission to do things now? You are embarrassing yourself. Just know that while you flail around helplessly on the internet trying to find a way to get at me, I'll be chilling in my awesome screentent playing a nice game of GoW. What's it feel like to be a failure?
What are you talking about dumbshit? I've never done anything to hide online.
Now really, I'm touched that your taking so much time out of saturday morning for me, since I am NOTHING (got nothing better to do then internet toughguy at people who are NOTHING?) but this is a little sad. I already told you you could find me with 5 minutes of googling so you're not impressing me for shit, the question is if you have the balls to do anything after that.
Fairly sure it's both. He started off pretending to be a nihilist, but let his true colors slip pretty early on. Note this comment:
look at this thread... every one of my posts modded down multiple times.... [clipped]...you are inciting people with free speech, and then attacking them when they respond with their own free speech and attempt to enforce their local laws.
Seems pretty clear to me that he considers himself to be one of the "them", which in this case refers to the Pakistanis who want to execute Zuckerberg. In fact, he's stated that he thinks Zuckerberg and people on facebook should die, as well as anyone on slashdot that's supportive of those who insult Islam.
Really though, I think the first tipoff was when he obviously just gave too much of a shit to be a convincing nihilist. He's just using that as a way to hide what he really is, so that people don't immediately discredit him, he has no idea what nihilism actually means.
He is a fun though. One of those rare specimen that most likely honestly don't believe that they are trolling. Lots of fun to counter-troll.
I assume by "someone new" you mean yourself. Cute, way to be the bigger man.
if you attempt to kill the muslims
No. I'm not the one throwing around death threats. That is you and your Pakistani buddies.
that are fulfilling their claims to kill you from posted terms that were violated seemingly on purpose to test the fulfillment of those claims.
You speak as though cock-guzzling koran-thumping hicks such as yourself actually have juristiction over me, and as though my challenge of your authority somehow justifies murder or threats of murder. "He dared me to do it your honor" makes you sound like a child, it is not a logical or rational defense.
who are you going to not "hide" from first?
I'm not going to "not hide" from anyone "first". I'm simply not going to hide. Come and get me you pedophile worshipping faggot, with about 5 minutes of googling, a plane ticket, and a cab ride you could find me. You think just because you can sign up for facebook, make racist and ignorant remarks, then make 'abstracted' death threats like a wanna be gangster from the movies, I'm going to shut up and respect you and your beliefs?
Think again pig-fucker.
8===D O:
Hey looky there, I just depicted Mohammed choking down a big dick!
8=D ~~~ [koran]
And oh shit! He liked it so much he just jizzed all over the koran!
Better inform me of how I am "NOTHING" and make vague threats which you would never have the balls to carry out about how I am soon going to die! If you do it one more time it'll shut me up for sure! Do it for the glory of Allah!
You implied that it's difference is what made it fundamentally hard to model. The fact that one can model the other and vice versa implies that they are in fact equivalent.
Either they both are, or they both aren't, it's really just a matter of interpretation I think. Do you judge a religion by the actions of it's followers, or by it's intent? If you judge it by the actions of it's followers, do you look at the negative actions of it's followers, or do you disregard those men as nutters and look at the people who "truly believe"?
It's a discussion that is worth having in it's own right I think, and I don't think there is any one answer. Regardless though, we can still criticize one without implying the other must be free of criticism.;)
I will respect absolutely nothing about them if they insist on beheading foreigners for insulting their god.
True Scotsman fallacy aside, they are living proof that a country can be an absolute shithole and still have a government rich enough to construct nuclear weapons. And if, as you are suggesting, they are unstable enough to use nuclear weapons over something this trivial, then I don't expect I will be respecting them anytime in the foreseeable future.
Care to enlighten me then oh wise one? What exactly do you wish to imply, other than my own (already known and well understood) mortality?
I notice you've stopped posting with your account. Get tired of rightfully being moderated as a troll? Your facade has been completely destroyed and you're not attempting to conceal the fact that you are Michael Kristopeit, so I guess it's not an attempt to save face.
Maybe someday people won't be stupid enough to transmit passwords in the clear and expect privacy. It's not like the technology to do it doesn't exit, people are just too resistant to chance and "inconvenience".
So the way I see it, that statement can reasonably be interpreted in two ways:
1) That is a threat against my life. 2) I hit the nail on the head, your a terribly offend-able muslim that somehow found his way onto the internet and got worked up into a tizzy by a slashdot comment.
So, which is it? Both maybe? Somehow I'm not terribly concerned regardless.
And let me guess: you won't die because Allah has granted you eternal life and 72 virgins for so deftly defeating enemies of Islam on the internet with your fine words? Is that about right?
keep poking the muslims, who you claim are not peaceful, with a stick and see what happens.
ah, but I've already learned what happens: I get e-raged at by Michael Kristopeit who proceeds to CAPS at me while telling me he's not raging, while making passive aggressive threats. Kind of like Muslims who demand the beheading of those who challenge Islam's peacefulness.
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The obvious difference being I radiate infrared light incidentally. I don't chose to do so, I can't stop from doing so, and unless I have some scientific background, chances are I don't even know that I'm doing so.
It is very different from me making an active attempt to make a radio broadcast using specialized equipment. If you don't see the difference between these two scenerios, then thank god you arn't in politics or law.
So what happened, did you sleep through the 90s?
You know what really grinds my gears? People who take something as awesome as space exploration, and try to spoil it by injecting partisan politics into it.
Bad comparison. The shuttles were not the first set of rockets NASA had launched. You are comparing one generation of rockets (a generation pretty late in the game for that matter) with the entirety of SpaceX's run. NASA had quite as few failures back when it was still learning the ropes, as SpaceX did their first launches.
For more fun unfair comparisons, check out the progress NASA made on Ares, then check out the progress SpaceX made on Falcon 9. Pick your "track records" correctly and you can make anybody look better than anyone else, and it's not particularly hard to pick them to make SpaceX look pretty damned good.
Think of it this way. Unlike NASA, SpaceX has been building the majority of everything in-house. That means unlike NASA spacecrafts, SpaceX crafts are not build by the lowest bidder.
Of course NASA has had a pretty good track record in recent years, but I think we will find that SpaceX will as well.
My grandmother has greater google-fu than you. Eat a dick.
How exactly do you figure I've asked you for permission to speak? You need to get back on your meds. I would say the toes comment baffles me, but I know you guys have some sort of anti-foot fetish. Protip: come up with cuturally relevant insults next time. Being called "NOTHING" might be the worst people where you come from can think up, but here it just makes you look like an inbreed hick who is unaware of a larger world around him.
PS: You "owned" about jack shit. If being a failed google-PI is all you've done with your life, then it has been a sad existence for you indeed.
internet tough guy needs permission to do things now? You are embarrassing yourself. Just know that while you flail around helplessly on the internet trying to find a way to get at me, I'll be chilling in my awesome screentent playing a nice game of GoW. What's it feel like to be a failure?
And what have you accomplished with your life I might inquire?
You've yet to live up to my expectations.
You know what I think? You are just jealous of my pimpin' screen tent.
What are you talking about dumbshit? I've never done anything to hide online.
Now really, I'm touched that your taking so much time out of saturday morning for me, since I am NOTHING (got nothing better to do then internet toughguy at people who are NOTHING?) but this is a little sad. I already told you you could find me with 5 minutes of googling so you're not impressing me for shit, the question is if you have the balls to do anything after that.
We both know you don't.
Congrats. Your 5 minutes of googling yeilded a years old youtube account and a blog post, both under the same handle. I'm really trembling now faggot.
Yes, but the question is who would actually want to use them?
Fairly sure it's both. He started off pretending to be a nihilist, but let his true colors slip pretty early on. Note this comment:
Seems pretty clear to me that he considers himself to be one of the "them", which in this case refers to the Pakistanis who want to execute Zuckerberg. In fact, he's stated that he thinks Zuckerberg and people on facebook should die, as well as anyone on slashdot that's supportive of those who insult Islam.
Really though, I think the first tipoff was when he obviously just gave too much of a shit to be a convincing nihilist. He's just using that as a way to hide what he really is, so that people don't immediately discredit him, he has no idea what nihilism actually means.
He is a fun though. One of those rare specimen that most likely honestly don't believe that they are trolling. Lots of fun to counter-troll.
I assume by "someone new" you mean yourself. Cute, way to be the bigger man.
No. I'm not the one throwing around death threats. That is you and your Pakistani buddies.
You speak as though cock-guzzling koran-thumping hicks such as yourself actually have juristiction over me, and as though my challenge of your authority somehow justifies murder or threats of murder. "He dared me to do it your honor" makes you sound like a child, it is not a logical or rational defense.
I'm not going to "not hide" from anyone "first". I'm simply not going to hide. Come and get me you pedophile worshipping faggot, with about 5 minutes of googling, a plane ticket, and a cab ride you could find me. You think just because you can sign up for facebook, make racist and ignorant remarks, then make 'abstracted' death threats like a wanna be gangster from the movies, I'm going to shut up and respect you and your beliefs?
Think again pig-fucker.
8===D O:
Hey looky there, I just depicted Mohammed choking down a big dick!
8=D ~~~ [koran]
And oh shit! He liked it so much he just jizzed all over the koran!
Better inform me of how I am "NOTHING" and make vague threats which you would never have the balls to carry out about how I am soon going to die! If you do it one more time it'll shut me up for sure! Do it for the glory of Allah!
You're on slashdot and you really need this explained to you? Do you even know what copyleft means, or should we start from the top?
You implied that it's difference is what made it fundamentally hard to model. The fact that one can model the other and vice versa implies that they are in fact equivalent.
An un-programmed computer is like a dead brain, it's just a piece of metal/meat...
Either they both are, or they both aren't, it's really just a matter of interpretation I think. Do you judge a religion by the actions of it's followers, or by it's intent? If you judge it by the actions of it's followers, do you look at the negative actions of it's followers, or do you disregard those men as nutters and look at the people who "truly believe"?
It's a discussion that is worth having in it's own right I think, and I don't think there is any one answer. Regardless though, we can still criticize one without implying the other must be free of criticism. ;)
I will respect absolutely nothing about them if they insist on beheading foreigners for insulting their god.
True Scotsman fallacy aside, they are living proof that a country can be an absolute shithole and still have a government rich enough to construct nuclear weapons. And if, as you are suggesting, they are unstable enough to use nuclear weapons over something this trivial, then I don't expect I will be respecting them anytime in the foreseeable future.
Care to enlighten me then oh wise one? What exactly do you wish to imply, other than my own (already known and well understood) mortality?
I notice you've stopped posting with your account. Get tired of rightfully being moderated as a troll? Your facade has been completely destroyed and you're not attempting to conceal the fact that you are Michael Kristopeit, so I guess it's not an attempt to save face.
Maybe someday people won't be stupid enough to transmit passwords in the clear and expect privacy. It's not like the technology to do it doesn't exit, people are just too resistant to chance and "inconvenience".
A man can dream though, a man can dream...
Well to be fair, nobody expected it.
So the way I see it, that statement can reasonably be interpreted in two ways:
1) That is a threat against my life.
2) I hit the nail on the head, your a terribly offend-able muslim that somehow found his way onto the internet and got worked up into a tizzy by a slashdot comment.
So, which is it? Both maybe? Somehow I'm not terribly concerned regardless.
And let me guess: you won't die because Allah has granted you eternal life and 72 virgins for so deftly defeating enemies of Islam on the internet with your fine words? Is that about right?
hilarious indeed.
ah, but I've already learned what happens: I get e-raged at by Michael Kristopeit who proceeds to CAPS at me while telling me he's not raging, while making passive aggressive threats. Kind of like Muslims who demand the beheading of those who challenge Islam's peacefulness.
Most amusing.