Excuse me, but that's fucking retarded. Counter example: the US Constitution "We hold these truths to be self-evident...", meaning they existed to civilized folk prior to writing them down.
The painful fact of the matter is that black people kill more black people, and cops kill more more whites than blacks. This is a case of myopia caused by the press and professional victimization industry.
. Look at what happened when our last one trick pony the F-117 has it's stealth penetrated. The entire platform became useless.
I think you are missing the point. An aircraft designed in 30 months: "The Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk, the first operational aircraft to be designed around stealth technology, made its maiden flight in 1981 and since then was employed in several armed conflicts across the world. Only one F-117 was lost in combat, shot down by a Soviet-made S-125 Neva (NATO reporting name: SA-3 Goa) surface-to-air missile system during the NATO bombing campaign against Yugoslavia in 1999."
So, it gave us 35 years of service, only was downed once, and was used in basically every conflict since its inception. If we get the same out of drones, what a great deal.
This is ridiculous on the face of it. Do you expect a General to consult with the populace on war tactics? These types of activities have always existed, the only question is, do they have an independent body for oversight. That's what Snowden's concern was. That these programs were being given enormous power without the checks necessary on that power. In interviews he repeatedly says spying and covert ops are necessary.
If they can get this to work it will also be better for the environment in terms of energy use, CO2 and methane production. Right now, my wife and I are both not complete vegetarians but very rarely eat any form of meat. This is for ethical, environmental and financial reasons. In her case, she'd be probably pretty happy never eating meat, whereas I've got a strong craving for it generally that is a little annoying. I'm really looking forward to vat meat.
Not to mention vats don't produce oceans of shit and piss.
This is the capitalist version of "let them eat cake." Because god help them if the proles feel like they deserve some of the money they're making capitalists.
This is such as astute criticism of capitalism. It's a simply breathtaking indictment of the system. Well done.
Even the KKK deserves their freedom of speech. I might support a temporary disruption of service purposes of raising awareness of an issue - the online equivalent of a sit-in protest - but I think everyone is already aware that the KKK exists.
I completely agree. Everyone should have the right to speak their mind, no matter how loathsome or idiotic the position. The must defended until the end. If we applaud this, then what's to stop a "might makes right" approach to free speech? Is the idea that only speech that doesn't offend anyone be allowed? Ridiculous, I say!
These hackers did exactly the wrong thing. A much better thing would be to call attention to these indefensible ideas and have a discussion about them. Driving it underground only makes it stronger.
Basic scientific fact: all species drive the evolution of all other species, and thus form interdependent chains. Natural extinctions tend to be caused by calamities that hit very nearly *all* species at once, meaning the leftovers can start from scratch.
Taking out species one at a time however is almost entirely unprecedented in evolutionary history, and it happening repeatedly in a short space of time IS entirely unprecedented in evolutionary history. There is no way to know how the death of *any* species will end up impacting us (contrary to common belief: we are not special or any less dependent on the interdependent networks of species than any other). The cause of our own species end could be the extinction of one unknown single-celled organism we didn't even know existed. That is an entirely LIKELY scientific scenario.
The main reason to preserve biodiversity is because it's utterly impossible to even begin to predict the impact of any extinction on all other species -and we're one of the species being impacted.
Extinction is part of nature, but so are we - extinction should be something we, like all other species, try to avoid - not something we fucking cause. There will never be a time when doing so is not self-defeating to the point of insanity.
Seriously "things go extinct naturally so we can cause whatever extinctions we want and it doesn't matter" has about the same effect on a biologist as you would have on a physicist if you told him you were busy banging two pieces of subcritical uranium together to keep warm.
I, for one, am prepared to bow, should I be spared, to our new Cephalopoid masters. Besides, we can't stop on a dime, who says we can affect the outcome at all?
At one time the Luminiferous Aether theory was "Consensus" before we got relativity. All I see is a bunch poorly designed experiments. I've noticed that most of the hysterical conclusions come from anti-human, anti-capitalist newspapers and magazines, not from the peer-reviewed journals.
Then you're shit-for-brains who is historically ignorant. Hitler was a vegan, animal rights spewing collectivist. And by definition commission IS the left.
You non-vegetarian, capitalist, war-monger. This all stems, from your position of white privilege. How do I know you're white? Because you hate Obama, and don't support a $100/hr living wage. Oh, and I am waiting for Code Pink, Move-on, and huff-po, Rachel Maddow and Blac Chyna to tell ME what to think.
I think it's funny how it's a weapon of fear when people don't agree with the politician. Otherwise, it's just called a social media campaign. No different from saying, for example, "Yes we can" a billion times, and getting uninformed teenagers college students to vote.
I know of a great many people who feel like you do. Like we've handed away our basic rights. The question is what do we do about it? I am thinking of some kind political group to oppose all of this.
Maybe before we push STEM, we mightv want to push higher standards. After a generation of "no one gets a grade because they are damaging to self-esteem", we might try actually teaching that there really are right and wrong answers.
America had been priveleged enough to avoid this for years while the rest of the world dealt with the treat of terror. Now it's on our shores as well. Suck it up, and stick to the Terrorists by keeping America free. That's why they hate America: women are free, gays are free, atheists are free scientists are free, religious critics are free. Doing otherwise is doing their jobs for them.
I really hope people realize how empty and stupid these "Just give up being Americans and we'll keep you safe"-arugments are. We will never get these rights back once we give them up. Already a generation has grown up thinking it's OK to get strip searched at the airport. They know no different. I get pissed every time I fly (which is weekly). The thought of everywhere being like a TSA checkpoint makes my stomach turn.
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Excuse me, but that's fucking retarded. Counter example: the US Constitution "We hold these truths to be self-evident...", meaning they existed to civilized folk prior to writing them down.
Don't forget Hitler was vegan, for animal rights, national health and all about loyalty to the collective.
The painful fact of the matter is that black people kill more black people, and cops kill more more whites than blacks. This is a case of myopia caused by the press and professional victimization industry.
. Look at what happened when our last one trick pony the F-117 has it's stealth penetrated. The entire platform became useless.
I think you are missing the point. An aircraft designed in 30 months:
"The Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk, the first operational aircraft to be designed around stealth technology, made its maiden flight in 1981 and since then was employed in several armed conflicts across the world. Only one F-117 was lost in combat, shot down by a Soviet-made S-125 Neva (NATO reporting name: SA-3 Goa) surface-to-air missile system during the NATO bombing campaign against Yugoslavia in 1999."
So, it gave us 35 years of service, only was downed once, and was used in basically every conflict since its inception. If we get the same out of drones, what a great deal.
Causality is part of my white-privilege, leave it alone ;-)
Meanwhile we're still pretending this has nothing to do with the "Religion of Peace"
Just sayin'
This is ridiculous on the face of it. Do you expect a General to consult with the populace on war tactics? These types of activities have always existed, the only question is, do they have an independent body for oversight. That's what Snowden's concern was. That these programs were being given enormous power without the checks necessary on that power. In interviews he repeatedly says spying and covert ops are necessary.
Not everyone hates sex as much as the Utah governor.
If they can get this to work it will also be better for the environment in terms of energy use, CO2 and methane production. Right now, my wife and I are both not complete vegetarians but very rarely eat any form of meat. This is for ethical, environmental and financial reasons. In her case, she'd be probably pretty happy never eating meat, whereas I've got a strong craving for it generally that is a little annoying. I'm really looking forward to vat meat.
Not to mention vats don't produce oceans of shit and piss.
This is the capitalist version of "let them eat cake." Because god help them if the proles feel like they deserve some of the money they're making capitalists.
This is such as astute criticism of capitalism. It's a simply breathtaking indictment of the system. Well done.
Now go back to your Mom's basement and WOW.
Fucktard.
Even the KKK deserves their freedom of speech. I might support a temporary disruption of service purposes of raising awareness of an issue - the online equivalent of a sit-in protest - but I think everyone is already aware that the KKK exists.
I completely agree. Everyone should have the right to speak their mind, no matter how loathsome or idiotic the position. The must defended until the end. If we applaud this, then what's to stop a "might makes right" approach to free speech? Is the idea that only speech that doesn't offend anyone be allowed? Ridiculous, I say!
These hackers did exactly the wrong thing. A much better thing would be to call attention to these indefensible ideas and have a discussion about them. Driving it underground only makes it stronger.
Consensus science is mythology, not science.
Don't forget how spectacularly spot-on Phlogiston and the Ether were.
Basic scientific fact: all species drive the evolution of all other species, and thus form interdependent chains. Natural extinctions tend to be caused by calamities that hit very nearly *all* species at once, meaning the leftovers can start from scratch.
Taking out species one at a time however is almost entirely unprecedented in evolutionary history, and it happening repeatedly in a short space of time IS entirely unprecedented in evolutionary history. There is no way to know how the death of *any* species will end up impacting us (contrary to common belief: we are not special or any less dependent on the interdependent networks of species than any other). The cause of our own species end could be the extinction of one unknown single-celled organism we didn't even know existed. That is an entirely LIKELY scientific scenario.
The main reason to preserve biodiversity is because it's utterly impossible to even begin to predict the impact of any extinction on all other species -and we're one of the species being impacted.
Extinction is part of nature, but so are we - extinction should be something we, like all other species, try to avoid - not something we fucking cause. There will never be a time when doing so is not self-defeating to the point of insanity.
Seriously "things go extinct naturally so we can cause whatever extinctions we want and it doesn't matter" has about the same effect on a biologist as you would have on a physicist if you told him you were busy banging two pieces of subcritical uranium together to keep warm.
I, for one, am prepared to bow, should I be spared, to our new Cephalopoid masters. Besides, we can't stop on a dime, who says we can affect the outcome at all?
At one time the Luminiferous Aether theory was "Consensus" before we got relativity. All I see is a bunch poorly designed experiments. I've noticed that most of the hysterical conclusions come from anti-human, anti-capitalist newspapers and magazines, not from the peer-reviewed journals.
Then you're shit-for-brains who is historically ignorant. Hitler was a vegan, animal rights spewing collectivist. And by definition commission IS the left.
You non-vegetarian, capitalist, war-monger. This all stems, from your position of white privilege. How do I know you're white? Because you hate Obama, and don't support a $100/hr living wage. Oh, and I am waiting for Code Pink, Move-on, and huff-po, Rachel Maddow and Blac Chyna to tell ME what to think.
I think it's funny how it's a weapon of fear when people don't agree with the politician. Otherwise, it's just called a social media campaign. No different from saying, for example, "Yes we can" a billion times, and getting uninformed teenagers college students to vote.
GPS is a result of two theories, Quantum Theory, and General Relativity. Same with spaceflight relying on GR. Seems pretty impactful to me.
I liked this story the first time when the headline was "Politicians Demand that Math Work Differently"
I know of a great many people who feel like you do. Like we've handed away our basic rights. The question is what do we do about it? I am thinking of some kind political group to oppose all of this.
Maybe before we push STEM, we mightv want to push higher standards. After a generation of "no one gets a grade because they are damaging to self-esteem", we might try actually teaching that there really are right and wrong answers.
Yet another Presidential "Moonshot". Every one always wants to have a Kennedy moment, but they are not Kennedy, and this isn't the Moon.
America had been priveleged enough to avoid this for years while the rest of the world dealt with the treat of terror. Now it's on our shores as well. Suck it up, and stick to the Terrorists by keeping America free. That's why they hate America: women are free, gays are free, atheists are free scientists are free, religious critics are free. Doing otherwise is doing their jobs for them.
I really hope people realize how empty and stupid these "Just give up being Americans and we'll keep you safe"-arugments are. We will never get these rights back once we give them up. Already a generation has grown up thinking it's OK to get strip searched at the airport. They know no different. I get pissed every time I fly (which is weekly). The thought of everywhere being like a TSA checkpoint makes my stomach turn.