the local swat decided it would be a good idea to use an ambulance to go in and conduct a raid
For which the genius who approved that idea should have been fired without pension, if not summarily executed. Even in a war zone they don't send in soldiers under cover of a red cross.
Perhaps you are not aware of the ruse used to assassinate Osama bin Laden.
The Patriot Act - that's why people trust Facebook more than the government. It used to be that a warrant was needed for the government to invade a person's privacy, but ever since that little rat-faced git had those buildings blown up in New York City they've seen it as their God-given right to trample all over the Constitution. And shame on the current occupant for continuing the process.
Congress? Do something? I love the way they created meaningful gun control legislation after the Newtown shootings. And the whole sequestration fiasco. But don't get me wrong - they are the best legislative body that money can buy.
So I save up my pennies and travel half way around the world to climb one of the truly iconic mountain peaks only to have people yammering on their cell phones on the trail and vending machines at the summit? Thanks for the warning, that's one less item on my bucket list. By the way, how does 4G fit in with Mt. Fuji being listed as a World Heritage site?
The government doesn't rely much on old-fashioned human intelligence anymore. So while they're fairly inundated with information, their ability to process and interpret that information has suffered. You can write all the computer algorithms you want, but intelligence, real intelligence, requires human interaction. But welcome to The Matrix.
In reference to the government of the United States turninng a blind eye to science, I think you would be astounded at some of the bullshit coming out of the beltway: if it doesn't have economic or defense benefits it won't be funded. We're allowing a misinformed few (Congress) to stifle pure research just when we're discovering some really interesting things about the universe and the prospect for life having evolved on other planets.
Yes, let's have both houses of congress telecommute; that way they could either use the Capitol Building as a movie theater or, I know, let's make it the best set ever for American Idol!
Now why in the world would anyone give up such a powerful position? I know, he's going to donate all his time and energy to charitable organizations. Yeah, I didn't really think so either.
Oh look, we just pissed away a billion dollars on something that doesn't work against a country that not an actual threat. Reminds me of the way we threw away a large part of The Constitution in order to win the War Against Terror. The beacon of liberty is shining brighter all of the time...
And the "Powers That Be" don't seem to change with a change in the political party that controls the legislative and/or executive branches of government. Now that SCOTUS has lost much of its principle of judicial oversight, checks and balances no longer really exist.
So this little country is bankrupting itself so they will have the capability to lob a nuclear weapon at us? They need to up the ante a little bit and build up a huge stockpile of weapons and delivery systems. Then I'll show you bankrupt - morally and economicaly.
This planet is overpopulated with people. Until there is a viable way to control population growth we are on a path to eventually destroy the planet we live on. Producing more food through genetic modification is a panacea as is fracking. Both have serious ethical issues attached to them. The Earth cannot sustain a population of 6 billion people and it can't begin to sustain 9 billion. Argue all you want to about whether a person has achieved "scientific enlightenment," but for fucks sake let's sometime take a look at the real issues.
They used the kilogram because it's fucking difficult to see a gram of anything. You can call a kilometer a click; the military has been doing it for years. It's not the metric system that is flawed, it's Americans that can't drop their illogical and cumbersome system of measurement.
Ask the "average" American to point out any foreign country on a globe or map. The intellect is there, in other words people have the mental capability to comprehend scientific and mathematical concepts, but they don't take the time and effort necessary to learn them. A system of base 10 measurement is much easier to use than converting 12 inches to a foot and 5,280 feet to a mile, or 16 ounces to a pint and 8 pints to a gallon. Americans are comfortable with their systems of measurement; are they comfortable with being at the bottom of the barrel in math and science?
It may not be flat out stupidity. Perhaps it is a matter of not having the data required to make the appropriate calculations. We know everything in orbit, gravitational tug well beyond 20 decimal places on all faces of the earth. Just a couple of those missing variables could really make physics not work how you predict
We absolutely do not know everything in orbit and I would hazard a guess that hundreds if not thousands of objects launched by the U.S and Soviet Union/CIS are now "tumbling out of control." At the birth of the space age there was a lot of room up there and they just never thought to provide a way to bring things back down to Earth in a controlled manner. The countries lambasting the North Koreans need to collectively drink a large cup of shut the fuck up until they clean up their own acts.
But I wouldn't know where to begin. Does the bubble burst now on inexpensive natural gas? Do they (the fracking companies) stop their activties or just go on with business as usual? Do the citizens in fracking areas have legal recourse? Is what passes for mainstream journalism going to pay any attention to what has happened? Will there be a congressional inquiry or are they too busy impersonating lemmings at the fiscal cliff?
Yep, some days it's just not worth chewing through the restraints...
Two of my machines run Windows 7 and one is running Mint. When support ends for Windows 7 I'll have three machines running Mint. MS should have remained MS, but they were so busy trying to keep up with Apple that they lost sight of their true customer base. The people I have the most sympathy for are the ones trying to support Windows in a multi-user environment.
I wonder if Congressman Smith is aware that the Earth is billions of years old. It could be that he is among the millions of Americans who aren't aware of that scientific fact.
Those presumptions worked fine when both the electorate and their representatives were educated. Unfortunately we have legislators who don't fuck things up every 2 years, they keep them fucked up for decades. Take a look at the FDA and the way that food regulations have been written by/for the fast food industry and the food mega-corporations. It would be humorous if it weren't so damned pathetic. George Carlin hit the nail on the head when he said, "This country has been bought and sold."
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the local swat decided it would be a good idea to use an ambulance to go in and conduct a raid
For which the genius who approved that idea should have been fired without pension, if not summarily executed. Even in a war zone they don't send in soldiers under cover of a red cross.
Perhaps you are not aware of the ruse used to assassinate Osama bin Laden.
The Patriot Act - that's why people trust Facebook more than the government. It used to be that a warrant was needed for the government to invade a person's privacy, but ever since that little rat-faced git had those buildings blown up in New York City they've seen it as their God-given right to trample all over the Constitution. And shame on the current occupant for continuing the process.
Congress? Do something? I love the way they created meaningful gun control legislation after the Newtown shootings. And the whole sequestration fiasco. But don't get me wrong - they are the best legislative body that money can buy.
So I save up my pennies and travel half way around the world to climb one of the truly iconic mountain peaks only to have people yammering on their cell phones on the trail and vending machines at the summit? Thanks for the warning, that's one less item on my bucket list. By the way, how does 4G fit in with Mt. Fuji being listed as a World Heritage site?
The government doesn't rely much on old-fashioned human intelligence anymore. So while they're fairly inundated with information, their ability to process and interpret that information has suffered. You can write all the computer algorithms you want, but intelligence, real intelligence, requires human interaction. But welcome to The Matrix.
Americans should have no expectation of privacy. "Step out of line, the man come and take you away." Welcome to The Matrix.
In reference to the government of the United States turninng a blind eye to science, I think you would be astounded at some of the bullshit coming out of the beltway: if it doesn't have economic or defense benefits it won't be funded. We're allowing a misinformed few (Congress) to stifle pure research just when we're discovering some really interesting things about the universe and the prospect for life having evolved on other planets.
Yes, let's have both houses of congress telecommute; that way they could either use the Capitol Building as a movie theater or, I know, let's make it the best set ever for American Idol!
Now why in the world would anyone give up such a powerful position? I know, he's going to donate all his time and energy to charitable organizations. Yeah, I didn't really think so either.
Oh look, we just pissed away a billion dollars on something that doesn't work against a country that not an actual threat. Reminds me of the way we threw away a large part of The Constitution in order to win the War Against Terror. The beacon of liberty is shining brighter all of the time...
And the "Powers That Be" don't seem to change with a change in the political party that controls the legislative and/or executive branches of government. Now that SCOTUS has lost much of its principle of judicial oversight, checks and balances no longer really exist.
Just one more step in the downfall of what used to be our country.
So this little country is bankrupting itself so they will have the capability to lob a nuclear weapon at us? They need to up the ante a little bit and build up a huge stockpile of weapons and delivery systems. Then I'll show you bankrupt - morally and economicaly.
This planet is overpopulated with people. Until there is a viable way to control population growth we are on a path to eventually destroy the planet we live on. Producing more food through genetic modification is a panacea as is fracking. Both have serious ethical issues attached to them. The Earth cannot sustain a population of 6 billion people and it can't begin to sustain 9 billion. Argue all you want to about whether a person has achieved "scientific enlightenment," but for fucks sake let's sometime take a look at the real issues.
They used the kilogram because it's fucking difficult to see a gram of anything. You can call a kilometer a click; the military has been doing it for years. It's not the metric system that is flawed, it's Americans that can't drop their illogical and cumbersome system of measurement.
Ask the "average" American to point out any foreign country on a globe or map. The intellect is there, in other words people have the mental capability to comprehend scientific and mathematical concepts, but they don't take the time and effort necessary to learn them. A system of base 10 measurement is much easier to use than converting 12 inches to a foot and 5,280 feet to a mile, or 16 ounces to a pint and 8 pints to a gallon. Americans are comfortable with their systems of measurement; are they comfortable with being at the bottom of the barrel in math and science?
Except the rest of the world is metric and U.S. Math and Science scores are pathetic. Students are wasting time learning two systems of measurement.
It may not be flat out stupidity. Perhaps it is a matter of not having the data required to make the appropriate calculations. We know everything in orbit, gravitational tug well beyond 20 decimal places on all faces of the earth. Just a couple of those missing variables could really make physics not work how you predict
We absolutely do not know everything in orbit and I would hazard a guess that hundreds if not thousands of objects launched by the U.S and Soviet Union/CIS are now "tumbling out of control." At the birth of the space age there was a lot of room up there and they just never thought to provide a way to bring things back down to Earth in a controlled manner. The countries lambasting the North Koreans need to collectively drink a large cup of shut the fuck up until they clean up their own acts.
Are anti-fracking studies from members of Greenpeace or the Sierra Club suddenly invalid too?
Yes, but only if they are not based on SCIENCE.
No, sometimes they just implode all by themselves.
But I wouldn't know where to begin. Does the bubble burst now on inexpensive natural gas? Do they (the fracking companies) stop their activties or just go on with business as usual? Do the citizens in fracking areas have legal recourse? Is what passes for mainstream journalism going to pay any attention to what has happened? Will there be a congressional inquiry or are they too busy impersonating lemmings at the fiscal cliff? Yep, some days it's just not worth chewing through the restraints...
Two of my machines run Windows 7 and one is running Mint. When support ends for Windows 7 I'll have three machines running Mint. MS should have remained MS, but they were so busy trying to keep up with Apple that they lost sight of their true customer base. The people I have the most sympathy for are the ones trying to support Windows in a multi-user environment.
I wonder if Congressman Smith is aware that the Earth is billions of years old. It could be that he is among the millions of Americans who aren't aware of that scientific fact.
Those presumptions worked fine when both the electorate and their representatives were educated. Unfortunately we have legislators who don't fuck things up every 2 years, they keep them fucked up for decades. Take a look at the FDA and the way that food regulations have been written by/for the fast food industry and the food mega-corporations. It would be humorous if it weren't so damned pathetic. George Carlin hit the nail on the head when he said, "This country has been bought and sold."
And how long has Adobe been pushing Acrobat down peoples's throats with that damned "must have Acrobat to read PDFs" BS?