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11981  Other / Politics & Society / Re: France plane crash: No survivors expected [Condolences to the families] on: March 27, 2015, 02:13:03 PM
Then I think huge parachutes can be a good option to lower the speed. Or there can be a big fan underneath the plane like those having stability like helicopters.

Those are doesn't really matter if the pilot want to crash the plane.
A big parachute needs high altitude and "thick" air to open and slow down stuff. In addition we are talking about a big and relative fragile 60-70 tons plane, so you would really need quite a lot of huge parachutes.

Just one more reason why everyone needs their own personal jetpack.
11982  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Why do islam hates people? on: March 27, 2015, 12:36:24 PM
I don't hate people,What I have been taught from cruel experience is hatred of peoples actions,such as corruption,manipulation,and bigotry for personal gain.
 I have to live in this world that the ones who practice these things visit upon myself and others who think like me.
 I wish very much it wasn't this way,but it will remain this way until those fundamental concepts change and the Human race actually evolves to a more enlightend state of being.

Here is a portrait of an Islamic hater.

http://yourdailymuslim.com/2014/12/02/your-daily-muslim-648-khalil-attieh/

and another...

http://yourdailymuslim.com/2014/11/20/your-daily-muslim-642-jimmy-stepney/

I wonder if there is something about the Koran and it's teachings that affects different people differently.  Most everybody eats peanuts, but some people are severely allergic.  They eat peanuts, then get very sick and if not rushed to the hospital die.  Maybe a few simply convert to Islam, read the Koran and become violent.

Obviously the whole issue of Islamic violent minority is multifactorial, though.
11983  Other / Politics & Society / Re: France plane crash: No survivors expected [Condolences to the families] on: March 27, 2015, 11:48:59 AM
Where the fuck are huge parachutes for whole cabin? Totally technically plausible.
The flight recorder revealed the passengers were calm until seconds before the crash, there was no time to evacuate even if they had parachutes.

It's harder than you might think. Usually people are afraid of heights and would hesitate or even panic before the jump, so the evacuation would take at least 10 min. What is more, you wouldn't be able to use front doors because they would be sucked by the engines, so everyone would have to jump out the rear.

No, there is no way to provide ejection equipment for passengers.  They could be provided with airbags,which would help in some cases.

The air at 38,000 feet is so thin you cannot survive without immediate and continual pure oxygen such as from an oxygen mask.  It is really, really cold.  Like -50C.  This is why in a depressurization the pilot must dive the aircraft to immediately get to a safe altitude like 10,000 feet.
11984  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Reddit’s science forum banned climate deniers. on: March 27, 2015, 01:55:32 AM



Bill Nye: We Need To “Redistribute Wealth” By Implementing A Carbon Tax…






Speaking to students at the University at Albany, Bill Nye the Science Guy said that a carbon tax was needed for the purpose of redistributing wealth.
....

Nye's idea of good government?

About as horrible as his idea of a good leg.

Here some real legs.

http://thechive.com/2012/02/21/for-the-leg-guys-out-there-35-photos/
11985  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Why do islam hates people? on: March 27, 2015, 01:50:09 AM
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To get back back to "as long as they fight ISIS" - there are many reports that the U.S. is helping ISIS (still), and even more reports that the U.S.'s allies are.   While the enemies of ISIS also happen to be the U.S's enemies... hmmmmm...  Shouldn't the U.S. be strengthening ISIS's real enemies not threatening them?  Perhaps you are not on the side you think you are in this war on terror?  

We happen at this time, and hopefully not for long, to have a President who simply does not care what the people want, and who is following a pretty strange agenda.

This is not your normal suck up to Isreal, play nice to the arms manufacturers series of events.

Just one word suffices.

Bengazi.
11986  Other / Politics & Society / Re: DEA agents had sex parties with prostitutes hired by drug cartels on: March 26, 2015, 07:04:54 PM
Great job if you can get it...

Quote
...some of the agents received suspensions of between two to 10 days...

Is that all! Makes you wonder what crime a DEA agent would have to commit to get sacked, I thought institutions like this were meant to set a good example to world, instead they're banging whores whilst coked up to the eyeballs Smiley

EVERYTHING is a racket. I'm sure those suspensions come with pay.

To answer your question, "what crime a DEA agent would have to commit to get sacked?" It's simple. Become a whistle blower. That's about the only thing they absolutely will not tolerate in any organization.
+1
11987  Other / Politics & Society / Re: France plane crash: No survivors expected [Condolences to the families] on: March 26, 2015, 07:01:40 PM
Germanwings flight 4U9525 deliberately flown into mountain, says prosecutor

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/26/germanwings-flight-4u9525-deliberately-flown-into-mountain-says-prosecutor

<< The co-pilot of the Germanwings plane that crashed in the French Alps on Tuesday, killing 150 people, appears to have deliberately flown it into a mountain after locking the flight captain out of the cockpit. During the last eight minutes of the flight, the co-pilot "voluntarily" carried out actions that led to the destruction of the aircraft, Brice Robin, a French public prosecutor, said at a press conference in Marseille.

Citing evidence from a cockpit voice recorder recovered from the Airbus A320, Robin outlined the last moments of the doomed plane in a chilling account of the actions of the co-pilot, whom he named as 28-year-old Andreas Lubitz. Robin said Lubitz could be heard breathing right up until the point of impact, suggesting he had not lost consciousness. However, he failed to respond to increasingly desperate calls from the captain trying to break down the cockpit door, or to air traffic controllers. Passengers could be heard screaming just before the crash, Robin said. >>



Is there any indication if it was religiously motivated?

Updated: 26 March 2015

MARSEILLE, France -- Barely a day after the New York Times reported that the voice recorder of Flight 9525 revealed the pilot banging on the door to get back into the cockpit, authorities have released the name of the presumably suicidal co-pilot, and happily, his first name is not "al-".

French prosecutor Brice Robin said that co-pilot Andreas Lubitz, 29, was initially "courteous," though when the captain asked about going for lunch after the flight, Lubitz gave a cryptic reply about preferring virgins.

Evidently, the pilot left for the toilet (für gepißßing) and the co-pilot locked the door, hardened cockpit doors being an innovation adopted after the last time a plane was intentionally crashed. The Airbus A320 is designed with safeguards to allow emergency entry into the cockpit — which can never be used by anyone who does not belong inside to begin with — but the override code is disabled in the case of a co-pilot desiring to commit mass murder and suicide.

Standard U.S. operating procedure is not to leave the co-pilot alone in the cockpit but to put a stewardess inside, because she is never a jihadi, as of course the co-pilot is not either.

Mr. al-Lubitz was a veteran flier who had flown thousands of flights without ending any of them in the side of a mountain. But Mr. Robin refused to disclose the co-pilot's religion.

Yeah, it'll most likely shape up into yet another Allah Akbar.
11988  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Why do islam hates people? on: March 26, 2015, 06:19:03 PM


Picture stolen from Vod
....the Internet is, truly, at times a terrifying place...
11989  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Reddit’s science forum banned climate deniers. on: March 26, 2015, 02:20:44 AM

Speaking of the Koch brothers, I thought it interesting that one of them landed the two on the conservatives shit-list by giving an interview where he made no great secret that he is fairly liberal socially.  I apologize if I was steered toward this item of interest from a post in this thread.

I am fairly addicted to those 'air crash investigation' series which I watch when they come up on youtube.  A long time ago there was one where a continental jet landed right on top of a smaller commuter.  The crash was pretty severe and included fire iirc.  One of the guys they interviewed was sitting in first class in the continental (everyone on the commuter was killed.)  The guy said he bailed and ran like a motherfucker.  No real attempt to help injured passengers and such.  He said he felt a little bit bad about it, but that's how he reacted to the situation.  I was kind of impressed at his honesty and figure that most people would probably do the same in that particular situation.  Later on I learned about the Koch brothers and kind of recognized a picture.  After some looking I found the ACA vid again, and sure enough, it was one of the Koch brothers.  Forgot which one.

On an entirely third topic, I have a good friend who is very much a Democrat and believes whole-heartedly the mainstream '97% of scientists blah blah blah' stuff.  I was very surprised that he seemed kind favorable to the Koch brothers on the basis of some of their charitable work.  Not sure which.  I personally never knew of any of it.  Relatedly, two other people I know who are more on the eco-centric side of things (one to the extreme) both mentioned to me independently what great people the 'younger' Rockefellers are and how they have abandoned all of their oil legacy and yada-yada.  I found this interesting.  They must have some sort of a PR campaign going.  Since I'm not really hooked into popular media I am unaware of what it might be, but I strongly hypothesize that it exists.  One of these days I'll look it up.  I'll bet it comes from NPR or PBS.

The first tier of the left wing propaganda machine produces crap that is picked up by the second and third tiers.  Those include TV and paper, and the less known websites and such.

That first tier is Media Matters, Think Progress, the Young Turks on Youtube, couple others.  Bunch of Soros money in this level. 

Climate science/propaganda is off to the side and feeds the first level.  Climate prop sources include Climate Progress, Desmogblog, Skeptical Science with John Cook, Real Climate, and the blogs of Tamino, Stout, Connelly (past Wikipedia climate controller).

Generally what is done in the climate propaganda is to take reputable scientific articles and warp them and mis state their conclusions, making them seem to support alarmist global warming.  There are exceptions, scientists who themselves are true believers such as Hansen and Mann.  These produce alarmist junk science directly.

"Oil company funding" of skeptics is only one of the complete fabrications pushed by these organized groups.  While they push the conspiracy theory that skeptics of global warming (or skeptics of the conclusions of pro-green power) are shills of fossil fuel companies, in fact it is the Warmers who all along have been engaged in conspiracies and actively trying to dupe the public.

To the side of all of this are real, live, actual scientists, who are embarrassed and at times cowed and intimidated by it all.
11990  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Why do islam hates people? on: March 26, 2015, 02:04:53 AM
He will properbly burn it.. lol

Muhammed was a rapist and properbly a psycho.

Anyone could have written the book.

So, you're saying that the Holy Quran is written by human hands?
Cant stop laughing 'cause you can see clearly that it's the word of Allah (God).
I wish one day all of you non-muslim will be shown the straight path.

So you are also a member of ISIS and wish that every non muslim should have their head cut off and women should raped and killed.
And children set on fire for the fun of it.

Sick muslim fucks like ISIS and Muslims who wants non muslims to change the way they live to follow your ideals should be thrown on an island and then you can do what ever you want.

The book was written by a man, person, human a homosapien like you and I.
There is no god.

So..you're saying that im a member of ISIS?
Do you think Islam teach violation? Absolutely NO!
ISIS has gone mind control or something
They have been using Islam as a shield
Many of people claim that the ISIS is not muslims because they have broke the laws


I don't care if people claim ISIS is muslim or is not muslim as long as they fight ISIS (and ideas such as ISIS has, where ever such ideas may be found.)
11991  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Why do islam hates people? on: March 25, 2015, 08:43:18 PM
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will get back to the rock belt in due time. let me finish these first
No rush on that moon and rock belt, they aren't going anywhere.


Except into the lake of fire when the judgment day comes... which could happen any time now.

Smiley
Well, buddy we can disagree on many things.

But not on the fact that this is totally cool.  I found one with lyrics for our foreign friends.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNoT7JLPS-Q
11992  Other / Politics & Society / Re: USA to be dismantled by internal & external threats on: March 25, 2015, 07:15:45 PM
A Russian EMP attack will instantly put the USA back in the pre-electricity age and there will be massive chaos and deprivation.
.....

There is mutiny within the USA military waiting to pounce on the opportunity to do a military coup.
.....

Well, damn.

Should I save my beer or drink it?
11993  Other / Politics & Society / Re: i don't hate muslims on: March 25, 2015, 07:09:22 PM
Where are those people who hate muslims? ISIS and other terrorist groups are not real muslims. A muslim doesn't kill an innocent/guilty person with no reason and doesn't cut the head of a person.... those are not real muslims.
 

http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/No_True_Scotsman#Religious

You may disagree with their particular 'type' of Islam, but when it comes to religious ideologies there's no 'true something', they are all equally 'true'.

People in some kind of denomination always think they are the true ones and they always see other denominations or religions, as false ones.

Still, there is an implicit logical error here that's left open.  Here's my take on it.

Joe:  "They say they are X, and they are very bad.  So X is bad."
Jim:  "But X is good, so they cannot be X."
Joe:  "But they claim to be X, so at least part of X is bad."
Jim:  "But X is good!"

It's much more correct to simply note...

Jane:  "Well, there is XY and XZ.  XY is good, and XZ is batshit crazy, dudes."
Joe:  "But lots of XY are too, because they cut off hands and stone women who fucked around."
Jim:  "Sure we do but the Koran says...."
Jane:  "Okay, but there's still XY and XZ, because all those XY good guys are going to line up with you to kill off the XZ....."
11994  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Why do islam hates people? on: March 25, 2015, 07:00:09 PM
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will get back to the rock belt in due time. let me finish these first
No rush on that moon and rock belt, they aren't going anywhere.
11995  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Why do islam hates people? on: March 25, 2015, 05:00:14 PM
do you know something about the "rock belt" ?

in the Quraan when the prophet (saw) was a child he split the moon in half and then stick it again. and happened again when people was asking him what proof he has, and that he is just a magician. so he split the moon again.

now based of SCIENCE, the rock belt has only one meaning, the moon has been split in two and then brought back again.

but the Quraan says that 1400+ years back. so how come a book where no probable science was present at that time, can say that. and you cannot deny, the real form of the Quraan, its an unmistaken and no error can be found in it. this is what when people debate, they never go to THAT subject because they cannot possibly find a way to disrupt that fact.
Netpryder let me explain my point of view.  Yes I am an atheist but not a hater.  I am sure your religion as well as Christianity and Jewish has done much good for many people.  

At the same time, I am knowledgeable in science.  In fact, I am very knowledgeable on Lunar science (currently writing a book on it).  You can ask me anything you like about our moon.  Yes, I am familiar with the "rock belt" - the usual English phrase is "asteroid belt."  The asteroid belt and the Moon are not related.

The US spacecraft LROC in 2009-2010 mapped the entire moon down to about 0.5 meters.  That's an entire world mapped, not just a tiny section.    This is truly an amazing thing, and tells us many things.  One of them is that the moon never was split in two.

Ask anything you like about the Moon, I will be happy to answer based on science, and if you want the technical references I will provide them.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Splitting_of_the_moon
This reference does not support the assertion that your prophet split the moon apart.

I can show why that could not have happened quite easily. 

I am familiar with arguments that it was a sort of optical illusion.  That is a different thing than what you have claimed.
11996  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Reddit’s science forum banned climate deniers. on: March 25, 2015, 04:53:53 PM
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Three dozen scientists sent an open letter to museums of natural history calling on them to cut ties with the Koch brothers and anyone else with connections to the fossil fuel industry.

In the letter, and a subsequent petition related specifically to the billionaire Koch brothers, the scientists contend that museums of science and natural history should not be associated with “those who profit from fossil fuels or fund lobby groups that misrepresent climate science.”

The petition specifically calls for David Koch to be kicked off the boards of the American Museum of Natural History in New York and the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in Washington. The movement is being organized by a new “mobile” museum called The Natural History Museum, on a 15-passenger bus.

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Actually I could understand their complaint if for example the Koch brothers had put up an exhibit on the lack of global warming - they can't have Deniers copulating on the alter of their Church, of course.

The Warmers fear that reasonable people could interfere with their plans to cram polar bears vanishing and icecaps melting into museums.  Well I certainly hope they do interfere. 

Can we interfere, too?

I wonder if it were possible to generate a crowd sourced effort to inspect places like museums, and report on a website the level of bias in the exhibits on climate and the history of climate.  Maybe something like what Anthony Watts did with the temperature stations around the country.
11997  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Why do islam hates people? on: March 25, 2015, 04:44:35 PM
do you know something about the "rock belt" ?

in the Quraan when the prophet (saw) was a child he split the moon in half and then stick it again. and happened again when people was asking him what proof he has, and that he is just a magician. so he split the moon again.

now based of SCIENCE, the rock belt has only one meaning, the moon has been split in two and then brought back again.

but the Quraan says that 1400+ years back. so how come a book where no probable science was present at that time, can say that. and you cannot deny, the real form of the Quraan, its an unmistaken and no error can be found in it. this is what when people debate, they never go to THAT subject because they cannot possibly find a way to disrupt that fact.
Netpryder let me explain my point of view.  Yes I am an atheist but not a hater.  I am sure your religion as well as Christianity and Jewish has done much good for many people.  

At the same time, I am knowledgeable in science.  In fact, I am very knowledgeable on Lunar science (currently writing a book on it).  You can ask me anything you like about our moon.  Yes, I am familiar with the "rock belt" - the usual English phrase is "asteroid belt."  The asteroid belt and the Moon are not related.

The US spacecraft LROC in 2009-2010 mapped the entire moon down to about 0.5 meters.  That's an entire world mapped, not just a tiny section.    This is truly an amazing thing, and tells us many things.  One of them is that the moon never was split in two.

Ask anything you like about the Moon, I will be happy to answer based on science, and if you want the technical references I will provide them.

At the same time, you should know that neither the prophet that you believe in, or Jesus, told people to look for and believe in miracles.  Others on this forum can discuss that with you I am sure.
11998  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Reddit’s science forum banned climate deniers. on: March 25, 2015, 03:24:04 AM
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Even if local monkeys are managing the changes for now, these tropical trees feed a host of other mammals, reptiles, birds, and insects. All of them are on a new food regimen they didn’t ask for, which could affect the health of the whole ecosystem.
This is totally nuts. 
Let me know the next time some other-than-human mammals "ask for a new food regimen."
11999  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Why do islam hates people? on: March 24, 2015, 09:23:51 PM
I would respect more, the man or women who stood between the person who was going to be stoned, and the crowd, than anyone who said a bunch of things in efforts to convince people of this or that, regardless of what book they base their thinking on.  They would be people standing idly by while a great injustice occurred.

Because of that punishment, people started to avoid "committing adultery". It may seem a bit harsh but a fee strong rules can make this better. As my native language isn't English, I don't know how to explain correctly! Sad

Both you and BADecker are not righteous, but self righteous.  I am not willing to suppose that in one case, it is due to the teachings of a religion and in the other it is a basic personality attribute.  Most likely it is simply the personalities.

This is not really good.

Odd, really that it would be the likes of me, an atheist to be saying such things.  If it comes to the point that an atheist feels obliged to an extent, to lecture devout Christians and devout Muslims on proper thinking and behavior, then so be it.

Smiley

Analysis.

Because of that punishment, people started to avoid "committing adultery".  Were this true, then we should bring back the punishments of drawing and quartering, the rack, the Iron Maiden, the cutting out of tongues, tarring and feathering, and all other atrocities of the past.
Clearly this is nonsense.

This post is evidence that atheism is really man making himself out to be God. If man wasn't so bold as to say that God didn't exist, then he might possibly be acknowledging that God did exist. In such a case, he would not be placing himself on the pedestal as God.

When an atheist says that there is no God, he is lying. Why? He doesn't have enough knowledge to say for sure that there is no God. Yet he is making himself out to be God by making such an assertion that he is not qualified to make, that God doesn't exist.

Lying atheists.

Smiley

Suit yourself.  

Both you and BADecker are not righteous, but self righteous.  I am not willing to suppose that in one case, it is due to the teachings of a religion and in the other it is a basic personality attribute.  Most likely it is simply the personalities.  This is not really good.  Odd, really that it would be the likes of me, an atheist to be saying such things.

I am only reflecting on you and Zahir's respective attitudes.  What am I to call it but "self righteous?" Both of you are certain you are right, and I just watch your discussion objectively, because I am not involved with it.

Hey, like noted, it does seem odd.

Smiley

Well, what can you expect? Atheists, just to be atheists, especially in front of all the evidence presented here https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=737322.msg10718395#msg10718395, gotta be kinda odd just to be atheists.

Smiley
Not saying there are not a good percentage of self righteous atheists, either.

There certainly are...
12000  Other / Politics & Society / Re: France plane crash: No survivors expected, French President says on: March 24, 2015, 09:20:51 PM

There isn't any one cause. Each disaster has it's own causes. Most likely you're just identifying what you perceive to be a pattern (grouping of air disasters) in recent memory. It's kinda how people say "deaths always happen in threes" when two celebrities die in close proximity, and then people wonder who the third is going to be. Logically, that makes no sense, it's just how our brains are wired to see patterns and is a type of information and confirmation bias.
except when there is only one cause...
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