The whole ship would be like a traveling wave reactor, burning itself out while reaching its destination...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traveling_wave_reactor

Even the dead agrees "there's nothing trustworthy about this broad"...




https://twitter.com/DavidWhisenant/status/589231246280110080

Hillary Clinton's Big Benefactor Has Trade Links with Iran



Is another shoe about to drop on the Clinton Foundation, and on Hillary Clinton’s problematic rollout? Newsweek’s Rory Ross reported this morning that the largest individual donor to the Clinton family business has conducted trade with Iran, perhaps in breach of US sanctions. Ukrainian energy mogul Victor Pinchuk has connections to the Clintons that go back almost a decade, and financial connections to the regime in Tehran that go much farther:

The fourth richest man in Ukraine, Pinchuk owns Interpipe Group, a Cyprus-incorporated manufacturer of seamless pipes used in oil and gas sectors.

Newsweek has seen declarations and documents from Ukraine that show a series of shipments from Interpipe to Iran in 2011 and 2012, including railway parts and products commonly used in the oil and gas sectors.

Among a number of high-value invoices for products related to rail or oil and gas, one shipment for $1.8m (1.7m) in May 2012 was for “seamless hot-worked steel pipes for pipelines” and destined for a city near the Caspian Sea.

Both the rail and oil and gas sectors are sanctioned by the US, which specifically prohibits any single invoice to the Iranian petrochemical industry worth more than $1m.

In other words, Interpipe should have been slapped with penalties and sanctions for its operations with Iran. Pinchuk’s company has a US subsidiary, which means that US sanctions apply across the entire organization. The agency for imposing penalties for sanctions violations in these cases, Ross notes, is the State Department. Who was in charge at the State Department during this period? None other than Hillary Clinton.


http://hotair.com/archives/2015/04/18/newsweek-largest-individual-donor-to-clinton-foundation-has-trade-ties-to-iran/

One of the unforeseen thing that might happen is movie stars with 156 mile long imdb.com web pages...

Can freedom (for a country) exist without a strong military force?

Police traffic stops are in the news again, tragically, sparking a new round of discussion on whether and how to outfit police with cameras and other technology.

For several years now, researchers at Carnegie Mellon University’s CyLab Biometrics Center have been testing an iris recognition system that can be used to identify subjects at a range of up to 40 feet.

Like similar biometric technologies — fingerprint or facial recognition systems — the Carnegie Mellon project uses mathematical pattern-recognition techniques. The technology captures images from a live photographic or video feed and runs them through a database to find a potential match.

Like fingerprints, every iris is unique — thanks to enormously complex patterns that remain the same throughout a person’s lifetime. High-resolution cameras can capture images of the iris from a distance using light in the near-infrared wavelength band.

In the realm of law enforcement, iris recognition could be used to identify suspects at long range in various lighting conditions. The system can even be used to capture images through reflections in a mirror.

The CMU team recently posted a video successfully testing the system in a typical traffic stop scenario. Using the long-range iris scanner, the system was able to identify the driver of a vehicle by capturing an image of the eye via the side-view mirror. You can see the results below.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13zFQh7BPG4



http://news.discovery.com/tech/gear-and-gadgets/iris-scanner-identifies-a-person-40-feet-away-150410.htm

I hope for them too. How fast can we have them register maritime flags?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maritime_flag

Tell them not to forget their country's space is not just limited horizontally...

http://inhabitat.com/underground-skyscraper-that-heals-the-scars-of-open-pit-mining/above-below-skyscraper-5a/

http://www.cnn.com/2011/10/27/tech/gallery/earthscraper-underground-mexico/index.html


 

We always forget science and new ideas are not locked in separate vacuums. For example: the invention of concrete, then the invention of the elevator, then the invention of reinforced concrete, then the invention of sky scrappers... All together took 2000 years...

Now what is 2000 years if we can live to a 1000 years? I don't believe no other scientific discoveries will be made in a 1000 years. Propulsion, cheap energy, new "impossible" materials, etc...

Don't forget: Even if you start the treatment of living up to 1000 years at let say 70, you would gain 30 years of youth for the first time. Then the progress and the numbers of years you'll ad up will be exponential. Just like Moore's law and so many other advances in human technology (besides the pyramids and other multiple ton monuments we have yet to know how to re build but that's for another thread...)


So a "lifetime" to reach another planet or for people to get on other places, low cost space building cities, etc, will take place at the same time people will try to push back death.

If you purchased a map of Europe before April 13, it may already be out of date. This past Monday, Europe’s newest country was unveiled: the Free Republic of Liberland.





The tiny country sits on about seven square kilometers (less than 3 square miles) of land along the Danube River, between the official borders of Croatia and Serbia. According to Liberland’s President Vit Jedlicka, the land was considered “terra nullis” or nobody’s land.

Despite being just under three square miles in area, Liberland is not the smallest country on the planet. In fact, it is larger than the Vatican and Monaco.

According to a news release posted on the Liberland site, the founders are Czech citizens who formed something called a “Preparatory Committee,” elected a president (Jedlicka) and decided to declare their new state and planted a flag.








Those interested in becoming a citizen of the fledgling nation need to file an application. However, there is no official time frame attached to the process. According to the site, applications will be dealt with “in due time.”

What does it take to qualify to be a Liberland-ian? According the web site, potential citizens must:

- have respect for other people and respect the opinions of others, regardless of their race, ethnicity, orientation, or religion

- have respect for private ownership which is untouchable

- do not have communist, nazi or other extremist past

- were not punished for past criminal offenses

If you meet all of above criteria and have an interest in joining Liberland, you will need to fill out the citizenship application and file it electronically. (There is no place to send “snail mail” in the new country.)

Liberland does have a Facebook page which has already gotten more than 28,000 “likes.”



http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2015/04/17/taxes-are-optional-and-there-is-no-military-welcome-to-liberland-europes-brand-new-country/


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Do they know about BTC ?

 

An environmental activist shot an oil worker in West Virginia this week









Oil worker shot in Lincoln County


A gas company employee was shot in Lincoln County on Monday afternoon, Chief Sheriff’s Deputy J.J. Napier said Tuesday.

A man dressed in camouflage with his face painted black approached Mark Miller, an employee with HG Energy LLC, on Joe’s Creek near Sod, Napier said.

“At that time he played Mr. Miller a recording that said ‘Stop the drilling’ and then stuck a gun through the window of the passenger side of the truck,” Napier said.

Miller told police he grabbed the gun, which fired, shooting him in the hand, Napier said.

Miller then drove back to the HG Energy office in Yawkey, Napier said.

A person who answered the phone at HG Energy’s Parkersburg office said a spokesman for the company wasn’t available as of Tuesday morning.

HG Energy operates in 15 West Virginia counties, and owns and operates 1,300 oil and gas wells in West Virginia and Ohio, according to its website.

The incident was reported around 1:30 p.m. Monday.

Miller was in an unmarked work truck checking on a leaking oil well in the area, according to the West Virginia State Police, which is leading the investigation.

A State Police trooper said Miller was in a wildlife management area, not on private property.

Beth Little, a member of the West Virginia Sierra Club, said in a voicemail that the organization’s board members were shocked to learn of the incident.

“We think violence is deplorable,” Little said in her message.

No arrests had been made as of late Tuesday. State Police don’t have a specific suspect.

A scent was tracked four miles into the woods using a dog, but lost it at a set of four-wheeler tracks. A trooper with the State Police in the Hamlin detachment said police couldn’t determine if the scent was the suspect’s.

Napier said the suspect did not identify himself or say anything to Miller, and he didn’t know what kind of gun was used in the incident.

The State Police trooper said he believes the shooting was an isolated incident. This is the first incident of its kind the Sheriff’s Department has heard about, Napier said.


http://www.wvgazette.com/article/20150414/GZ01/150419682





Will there be a National Conversation after environmentalist shoots energy worker?

"Of course not..."

First locomotives with wagons for passengers: "Science went too far. Our internal organs won't cope with the speed..."

Even "anti-civil liberties nutcase" should have a fair case.

Docile robots are cheaper to maintain in the long run, especially with Amazon Cosmos' full space debris coverage for the first 1000 years...

What I was trying to say is: would abortion still be a viable solution for creature able to live for 10000 years, when space and energy won't be an issue anymore...

 

I shall not. I like the title the way it is...


And the collection of myths and fables can be found in any little red books... 

Video: Italian police arrest 15 after Muslim refugees throw 12 Christians overboard


Italian police have arrested 15 Muslim refugees after they murdered 12 Christians in their boat as they all fled Libya. The story of the murders broke yesterday afternoon, and CNN’s Ben Wederman provides the follow-up. Ten others rescued in another set of boats were also arrested for human trafficking:


Muslims who were among migrants trying to get from Libya to Italy in a boat this week threw 12 fellow passengers overboard — killing them — because the 12 were Christians, Italian police said Thursday.

Italian authorities have arrested 15 people on suspicion of murdering the Christians at sea, police in Palermo, Sicily, said.

The original group of 105 people left Libya on Tuesday in a rubber boat. Sometime during the trip north across the Mediterranean Sea, the alleged assailants — Muslims from the Ivory Coast, Mali and Senegal — threw the 12 overboard, police said.


They would have killed more, but the rest of the refugees linked themselves together to prevent it:


Other people on the voyage told police that they themselves were spared “because they strongly opposed the drowning attempt and formed a human chain,” Palermo police said.


The irony here, of course, is that the refugees only had one possible destination — Italy, a very Christian country. No other country has put as many resources into humanitarian efforts for North African refugees, and this won’t encourage many others to start. Where exactly did these murderers think they were going to land, anyway? Raqqa? Tehran? One has to wonder why these cowards got in the boats in the first place. Libya provides all sorts of havens now for those who want to kill Christians.

This may also force Italy to consider its policy in the Mediterranean as well. The sheer volume of refugees alone has already taxed its economic resources, but the Italians have a great deal of sympathy for those forced to flee because of terrorism and intolerance. If the intolerant are hitching rides, and indeed murdering Christians on the way to Italy, then they have to wonder how many more like them have already entered, and how many more may be on the way. Wederman notes at the end of this report that Italians are already questioning just how much more they can do, and this may have them wondering whether they have a lot more to do on internal security now as well.

If the Italians awaken to this threat, they’ll be a little ahead of the now-deceased editor of Charlie Hebdo. The Washington Post’s Daniela Deane reports that Stephane Charbonnier had just finished writing a short book two days before Islamists massacred “Charb” and several of his staff in which he argued that Islamaphobia was a form of racism, and that the danger from Islamists was no different than that from “Catholic fascists.” Charbonnier accused journalists and politicians of exploiting Islamists for their own ends:


In an eerily prescient reference, Charbonnier writes in the book that “one day, just for laughs, I should publish all the threat letters that I received at Charlie Hebdo from Catholic fascists and Muslim fascists” alike. Charbonnier received death threats after Charlie Hebdo first published cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad in 2006.

In his book, which contains no cartoon caricatures, Charbonnier criticizes people who demonize Muslims.

“If one day all Muslims in France converted to Catholicism … these foreigners or French of foreign origin would still be seen as responsible for all ills,” he wrote.

Charbonnier accused the media of helping to popularize the term “Islamophobia,” saying that “any scandal that contains the word Islam in its title sells. A terrorist is scary, but if you add that he’s an Islamist, everyone wets themselves,” he wrote.


That’s a little incoherent, although to be fair we are not seeing the full context of the remarks. The term “Islamophobia” is primarily used to accuse people of racism, not to indulge in it, although Charbonnier notes that the double standard employed by such critics also qualifies as a kind of racism. The media that sell the word “Islamophobia” do so in order to delegitimize criticism of Islamists, not to participate in it. And at any rate, it’s worth noting that the so-called “Catholic fascists” didn’t participate in any actual attacks, while Charlie Hebdo had suffered two from Islamists. Charbonnier appeared committed to his state of denial until the very end.


http://hotair.com/archives/2015/04/17/video-italian-police-arrest-15-after-muslim-refugees-throw-12-christians-overboard/

Also... If we live to 1000 years and beyond, each and every life would even be more precious... and 'concretely sacred'...


 

Are you forbidding me from talking about what I want in the thread I created?