The carrying capacity of the earth is not static. Technological advancements continually expand it. We aren't living in a glass bottle, but a rubber balloon.
+1 On that one, I'm fully with Myrkul ! Technology can bring the carrying capacity of the earth well beyond we think possible. You had me right up to here. The monetary system and corrupted values that it promotes make the actual "beleived carying capacity" !
Now, when you say "monetary system," do you mean the debt-as-money the world runs on now, or sound money, as well? Capitalism puts breaks on technological advancement, and whitout those outdated-capitalist constraint, we could have 100x more effectiver solar panel, lab grown meat that is exactly the same as the actual meat we eat, cure for cancer... etc..
Capitalism drives progress. Every time capitalism is suppressed, progress is stagnated. Remove $ and we can more than double the carrying capacity of the earth. We are not short on space to live, we are short on food and energy, because of the $ system.
Could you please explain how money limits food and energy artificially? I agree, that technology can increase the carrying capacity of the earth. But that is in fact my point -- technology has (and may continue to) increase the carrying capacity of the earth. But technology requires energy. For example take some supercomplex cryptography algorithm where brute force is written off because solving it would take more energy than exists in the solar system. It's like that. How can we use technology to solve the world's ills when there is not enough energy to apply that technology all over the world? There are going to be serious issues even if we transition to solar right now, because it costs more energy to build a solar panel using today's technology that will be realized by said solar panel in it's lifetime. The reason why it feels cheap now, is because of the reliance on fossil fuels which are a diminishing resource. I don't know how to solve this problem. A famous economist named Julian Simon studied resources and resource depletion, and laid bets with Paul Erlich on the subject. He won, of course. One of his most famous comments, was that the only scarce resource which was in danger of becoming scarcer was human intelligence, talent and skill applied to practical problems... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Simon |
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Slingshots need experienced shooters, are better for outdoors.
Paintball markers are easier to target shoot at point- blank to 20 metre ranges.
Okay, I am not going to disagree COMPLETELY with you. In the moment when one realized the door was being broken down, and THEY were coming in, you'd grab whatever you had. If it was a speargun, I'd grab that. I'd certainly grab a shovel, knowing the huge number of WW1 soldiers that were killed fighting in the trenches with shovels, after their guns jammed or they ran out of ammo. If there was a decorative Japanese sword set on the wall, it's going to be practice time. And if the first thing I could grab was a paintball gun with hard nylon balls, they bad guys are going to have to deal with that. In defense of the paintball gun, we have the fact that it projects about the same power and rate of fire regardless of the physical strength, agility, and experience of the operator. A small female or an 80 year old guy is about the same threat with a paintball gun as a 20 year old Special Forces soldier with a paintball gun. That's not the case with the sword, speargun or shovel. Next question is "stopping power." That's really conjecture, but it could easily be tested - just like tasers and electric shock guns can and are tested. |
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So now we have to worry about the guys on our side as well as the terrorists.
This is a far fringe concern. People who want to commit suicide generally don't participate in mass murder in the process, and whatever concern this warrants has already been solved with all the airlines announcing no pilot will ever be in the cockpit alone anymore....and this is the era of the far fringe.... |
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From the article: Fliers aren't ready for pilotless flights either, according to Cummings.
"People want a human as a pilot who shares their own fate," she said. "We also need a babysitter up front, both to monitor the automation and to take charge if there's an unruly passenger."
Pilotless passenger planes are therefore probably decades away, said John Hansman, an aeronautics and astronautics professor at MIT who heads up the division of humans and automation.
"It's not a technical issue, it's an issue of societal trust," he said.
This describes me perfectly. It seems like more of a perception problem, based on the statistics of drone accidents vs. commercial accidents, but I can state unequivocally I will never fly on a pilotless flight. The thought of it just makes me too uncomfortable. What about when the pilot catches an error by air traffic control? For example two airports are close together, and air traffic lines him up for the runway at the wrong airport. The human would protest, the error would be corrected. Consequently, do you think this was a bad pilot or bad air traffic control? http://www.cnn.com/2014/01/13/travel/southwest-plane-wrong-airport/index.htmlI do not know the exact details. It happens both ways, though. There is a tendency to think the other guy has taken care of checking something so you don't need to worry about it - in fact the other guy may be thinking you took care of it. The specific issue here is the pilot's check of the Morse code three or four character identifier of the runway he is lined up on, prior to final approach and touch down. And that's the "ILS" - those are largely being replaced by the new precision GPS approaches, which do not have the identifier. Yet there are still issues. What if an airport has two parallel runways? Then the instructions would be "12R" or "12L", verbal only. Repeating back and having confirmation, everything should be okay. Really? And it may be at the last moment, say less than a minute before touchdown, that the instruction to switch runway is recieved. |
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being a Jew, i had to check. surprisingly, yes you are right about those quotes. will not make me a muslim, but making me wanting to look into the religion. born in Isreal we are forbidden to communicate with muslims, many things goes down here
H^5BBBB (Church of Bob the Holiest, book 15,328,734,267, chapter 3, verse 5). 15,328,734,267:3.5 "Verily I say to thee, that the bowels of the Earth shall spew forth sock puppets and shills of the foulest kind in vast multitudes, and their striving and shouting shall be in vain, against the Righteous." |
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LMAO... I could just imagine someone pulling a tippman on me... I'd bust that shit over their head so fast... Forget a paintball gun man.. If anything arm yourself with a Bat, golfclub, butcher knife, tire iron ect..... you gotta put the toys away dude, for real!
I am talking about home defence. With a paintball marker with solid nylon balls shooting at over 350 fps, you can hit a target 10 metres away, just like punching somebody that is 10 metres away. You could even fire from a hidden location, if it is all dark, etc. More importantly, it is NON-LETHAL, so you can do a "HIT AND RUN". I can see it now, talking about home defense to the wife/girlfriend. "Honey, I'm ready for anything bad that might happen here. I have my Paintball Gun." Versus... "Honey, if anyone breaks in, what size holes would you like in them? How many? Okay, no problem." |
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The IRS commissioner on Tuesday brushed aside GOP proposals to abolish his agency, insisting the U.S. would have to have a tax collector one way or another. ....
Let's discuss the issue of abolishing the agency after abolishing this particular IRS commissioner with someone who is not at all adverse to abolishing the aagency. |
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From the article: Fliers aren't ready for pilotless flights either, according to Cummings.
"People want a human as a pilot who shares their own fate," she said. "We also need a babysitter up front, both to monitor the automation and to take charge if there's an unruly passenger."
Pilotless passenger planes are therefore probably decades away, said John Hansman, an aeronautics and astronautics professor at MIT who heads up the division of humans and automation.
"It's not a technical issue, it's an issue of societal trust," he said.
This describes me perfectly. It seems like more of a perception problem, based on the statistics of drone accidents vs. commercial accidents, but I can state unequivocally I will never fly on a pilotless flight. The thought of it just makes me too uncomfortable. Cummings is an armchair general. I'm sure she knows it all. Personally I'd rather have a pilot discuss issues of flight, one who has perhaps a hundred difficult and dangerous situations they have managed. Situations in which one error made could lead to a cascade of more serious problems and result in a crash. A lot of that would be weather related. In many cases, severe thunderstorms will inhibit or even completely block communication between the aircraft and the ground. So forget someone on the ground monitoring and ready to take control of the unmanned aircraft. What about when the pilot catches an error by air traffic control? For example two airports are close together, and air traffic lines him up for the runway at the wrong airport. The human would protest, the error would be corrected. It was previously mentioned that sensor problems can cause computerized systems to go crazy. Pilots are required to train, over and over, to detect sensor and instrument failures and react correctly. The logical error here I think is to assume that because computerized aircraft control systems can operate the plane 98% of the time flawlessly that they can do the other 2%. That's incorrect, because that other 2% is a thousand times more problematic than the routine. Think of it as "driverless cars." Sure you can create a driverless car. Let me know when you have a driverless car that you will get in to on on icy winter mountain roads. |
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Something has been troubling me ever since this anti-greenhouse gas campaign began. I've never thought of carbon dioxide as being the real menace, particularly since that's exactly what plants breathe. Instead, my concerns have always been with the amount of carbon monoxide and other extremely dangerous pollutants industries introduce into the environment, which is hardly ever mentioned. I believe this omission is made on purpose to protect industries from receiving legitimate criticism in regards to their dirty and secretive pollutive practices.
[Now, obviously too much CO2 is indeed a problem, since we don't breathe it. Nevertheless, as long as we didn't destroy all the trees and plant life (in the name of progress) and kept enough of them around, it wouldn't have ever been such a big problem. Yet, as it turns out, that is exactly what is happening. Consequently, the reduction in trees and other plant life through clear-cut logging practices and ever expanding parking lots is indeed exacerbating the (otherwise inappreciable) carbon dioxide problem.]
Well, CO has high internal energy (it burns quite nicely) so one way or another it will react to form CO2. I would not worry at all about atmospheric levels of CO - worry about it in enclosed spaces. Other pollutants, yes - suspicion that they are being ignored while the spotlight is on CO2 is valid suspicion. Good old style pollution. However, old style pollution emitters in the USA are cleaner than they even have been. Now China, that's a completely different story... |
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I'm a big supporter of what Snowden has accomplished and is still accomplishing. However, I wonder how we can know that Snowden really controls this address (I may have missed it somewhere in the thread, if that's the case, please forgive me).
All he needs to do is to hold up a card with his address(es) in one of the next video broadcasts. That's positive confirmation. |
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"Mohammed is God's apostle. Those who follow him are harsh to the unbelievers but merciful to one another" Quran 48:29 is this how the islam preach peace? ... see site link http://www. thereligionofpeace .com/ you should make sure your links you provide dont come from people who hate muslims, because the real quotation is THIS : http://quran.com/48/29true,coz if the source it comes from people who hate Muslims, there is the possibility of the statements they make deviated from the truth or misunderstanding There is no difference between the "real quote" and the "quote from people who hate muslims", as you put it. There may be some places where an extended quote provides explanation for a piece taken out of context. But this is not such. |
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Because I live in a judeo christian culture. I have never lived in a predominately Islamic culture, and that makes all the difference. this just explains everything about your hate for Islam  http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-28439404sorry the palestinians killed over 2100 in Israel since August 27 2014. that explains your hate. i would also like to point out, if you have not lived within a Muslim community, all your talks just got BIAS You go on IGNORE now. Goodbye. |
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Let me guess.
She wouldn't look good in one of those bikinis that Global Warming would bring to her villages?
I would guess just looking at a bikini could be a cause of micro aggression for her and her whole culture...  Let's be clear about one thing. There is something that the "advanced nations" are marketing to the third world, to ignorant people of the world, and undeveloped and underdeveloped nations. The ability of the "Advanced nations" to control weather, to control the future of the world, and the type of climate a particular region will get. Clearly, this is a message that underdeveloped nations should suck up to and heed, or face the consequences. |
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Canadian Activist Claims Global Warming Violating Arctic-Dwelling Inuit’s “Right To Be Cold”…Perhaps no Canadian has done as much for the people of the Arctic than Sheila Watt-Cloutier. In her new memoir The Right to be Cold Let me guess. She wouldn't look good in one of those bikinis that Global Warming would bring to her villages? |
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"where natural born citizens have to show their papers"
How would those agencies know if someone is a citizen if they don't show 'papers' to back that up?
A couple clarifications. All major roads along the four states bordering Mexico have "Border Checkpoint stations" about fifty miles into the USA from the border. These are what forces illegal Mexicans to go cross country instead of just using the roads. These stations are in addition to the Border stations at the actual border. All cars and trucks must stop at these stations, and it is not unusual to see very long lines and 30 minute wait times. They have asked me the same routine questions. "Are you a US citizen." "Pop the trunk." Then you go on your way. The way agencies know if someone is a citizen if they don't show papers is to get some data items, address, date of birth, so forth, then run that through their computer. US citizens are not required to carry any papers or proof of citizenship. The driver of the car should have a drivers license. Not defending what these stations do, actually they are extremely annoying to people that live in the area who have to routinely deal with them. |
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Executive orders that hit peoples' pocketbooks would be resisted. |
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Sounds like a great idea. Flat tax makes everything simple and easier. The IRS can't be removed (unless there is LOTS of support for that) but it can be scaled down and made much easier.
Tax form in Australia does take five minutes to fill out. Same in Russia post-1992. |
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While Greece’s lenders are pushing the Greek government to accept their terms in order to allocate funds so the country will not go bankrupt, Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis seems to have another ace up his sleeve. The second top thinker in the world according to prospect magazine surprised even his closest aids at a secret meeting when he said “We ‘ve had enough, we ‘ll run on Bitcoin.” Sources very closed to Greece’s minister of finance told Greek Reporter that today Yanis Varoufakis held a top secret meeting with high-ranking finance ministry officials to prepare them in case negotiations at the upcoming Eurogroup fail. The anonymous source noted that everybody in the room was staring at each other when Varoufakis – also a prominent blogger – said “We ‘ll go to Bitcoin, we will be ahead of all the world economies and although it may be painful in the beginning, Greece’s economy will thrive in the long term.” The Greek Finance Minister went on to explain what is the cryptocurrency and how it will be implemented into Greeks’ day to day life by using a special mini computerized card with a chip. All citizens will carry the card as an electronic wallet. The card will be distributed for free to all Greek citizens via the local tax offices but it will also be available for purchase at the country’s entry points for 45 euros, or 0,20 Bitcoin each. The sale of the card to tourists is expected to be another form of revenue for cash-strapped Greece. http://greece.greekreporter.com/2015/04/01/yanis-varoufakis-greece-will-adopt-the-bitcoin-if-eurogroup-doesnt-give-us-a-deal/  It does not look as if he fully understands Bitcoin. From the article... “This is the smartest move to beat corruption and tax evasion, all transactions will be recorded to the Greek Ministry of Finance new secure and dedicated Bitcoin servers and we ‘ll be able to track transanctions at any given moment,” said Varoufakis defending his decision. |
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So if you, not a Christian, can show how various sects have misinterpreted Christianity, why don't you, not a Muslim, just answer your own question as well? Obviously you being Christian is not a prerequisite to knowing how things are misinterpreted in Christianity, so being Muslim should not be a prerequisite to knowing how terrorists justify anything.
Because I live in a judeo christian culture. I have never lived in a predominately Islamic culture, and that makes all the difference. |
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