We can't really watch from a distance. We are worried that ISIS will produce another 9/11-style attack. That is why we are so much more involved in the Middle East than before.

You believe you were born guilty of something you don't even understand and carry guilt where ever you go, constantly fearing your "creator". A single thought will cause you fear of pissing-off your "creator". You even feel guilty because you may piss-off your "creator" in the future.

If you choose to live that way, that is your choice.

In your mind anything can be real as long as you have faith in it. The reason why you can't post anything to back-up your religious claims is because there is simply nothing there.
I'm surprised you are able to function.  Perhaps you don't. In real life people who can't tell reality from fantasy do not function well in society.
My guess is you are a liar. You don't really believe the bullshit you post on these boards. No one could possibly believe as you and function as a normal member of society.

If anything frightens me it is what some religious people does to otherwise mentally well-adjusted people. You are a shining example of the dangers.
In the past I've asked you why you don't believe in Santa Claus, and you could never give an answer. That's because in your delusional state of mind there is no clear reason. According to you, all you need do is have faith, and Santa will become just as real as your "creator". If you actually applied common sense and reason to your Santa beliefs, you'd have to apply the same common sense and reason to your creator beliefs, and your delusions would fall like a house of cards. You have to abandon common sense and reason in everything in-order for your religious beliefs to stand up.  That's what happens when you can't tell reality from fantasy, or truth from lies.  To you a lie is simply something that doesn't fit your religious . You can't definatively state the difference between truth and untruth. You can't afford to apply common sense and reason.

wow the hunt for him is a big deal huh?  what is the reward for this as I have friends in the FBI that I can strings pulled.

its funny and how easy it is to point out any person to be a scammer using blockchain, I think its not viable proof as I can get an address from the blockchain and say I paid this person.  I think the safe way of doing business is escrow. 

see, now that is very true. Usually one is smiling at best, not laughing. (And sometimes they're just trying to cover up the fact that they're really enraged and banging their head against their computer a la the gif of the same...) I sometimes feel obliged as well to actually note that I did really laugh.

I'm pretty confident that 90% of Americans agree that we need to be out of there. Even the haters on this forum screeching about "boots on the grounds" are just blowing hot air...they don't want it anymore than I do, but since Obama has expressed reluctance to do so, then of course the hate hamsters have to say just the opposite, otherwise they would have no reason for living.


If we use a few airstrikes just to remind folks we're still around there, that's fine by me. For the rest of the time, let them kill each other: every extremist killed by another extremist is one less we have to worry about.

It's about an American general, billed as a "Colin Powell type" lolol, who is trapped in Afghanistan with a few SF men who were serving as his escort and he and they have to fight their way out. Very relevant to our own day. Very well written. Very much enjoyed.

Which brings me to the theme of this thread. I tend to agree that boots on the ground are stupid. We need to listen to Clausewitz. "War is an extension of politics by other means.".

Well, we're not really engaged in politics in these countries, as they all hate us, there's no real give and take between the US and our ME enemies. We don't really have a strategic goal, other than protecting our access to oil.

So, it is idiotic for us be involved in their internecine squabbles--if they want to kill each other rather than rebuilding their nation, that's fine by me. I regret the Smirking Chimp's dragging us to war there to make himself feel like a man (apparently, even that wasn't enough since he had to pad his flight suit...something tells that he needs a pair of tweezers to pee).

I just finished a very interesting book, called "The Warlord" which has as its theme an apparent conflict in our armed forces between those who like Special Forces, and others who think that SF are a bunch of prima donnas and prefer "heavy metal", meaning traditional infantry and armor, to do our fighting there. Really a good book...these days, it's hard to get me to read a book all the way through, but I read about 200 of the 250 pages last night, really caught my interest.
The Warlord: Richard Dickinson
http://www.amazon.com/The-Warlord-Richard-Dickinson/dp/B000H2MKA4

I'm telling you, soylent green may not have been as much of a dystopian future fantasy as we might like to think.
 
Recently read in the Atlantic the 58 year old man whose name I've forgotten an essay on why he doesn't want to live longer than 75 - or, put another way, sees no reason to prolong life much beyond that.  The obvious response is to say "we'll check in with you on that at age 74...".  Lol. 

Ed - link to article above http://www.theatlantic.com/features/archive/2014/09/why-i-hope-to-die-at-75/379329/

What a crock of BS!

First you try to say its beyond me... now suddenly you agree its not!

And there was suppose to be some point.

I guess if you think contradicting yourself was the point!

I can always become qualified for any job by acquiring the necessary knowledge! So how is it beyond my thinking? Just knock Zolace and the door will be opened!

Basically in your opinion if anyone knows any data that I don't... then their thinking is beyond mine. That's pretty lame since that would imply that every one's thinking is beyond everyone else's since everyone probably knows something that someone else does not! And your own question demonstrates the error of that rationale.

Am I qualified for every job there is??? No!
So who is so qualified???  No one!


So after all that, you still have not presented a non subjective definition of what "beyond" really is.

I wasn't including every time you used the term, I meant that I immediately challenged the meaning, when you applied it to me.

As soon as you asked me specifically if there was any human being who was beyond my thinking, I asked for the definition.

So if it will get you back on track, I will include all your uses of the term, because even in those cases I believe it was subjective!

Having said that I think its irrelevant since I already knew your definition before you did!
Making the question rhetorical anyway. My answer was and is No!

Your definition is going to be as plastic as possible to avoid getting specific. or even worse the idea will be so simplistic as to suggest that if anyone knows some data that I dont, it proves there is thinking that is beyond mine. I have no intention of playing such ring around the rosie games!

So to make things easier

If you think there is thinking that is beyond my thinking, then it would be helpful if you stated what that thinking is.

Otherwise my experience says no there is no one capable of thinking better than I think!

Also,look around to see what those certs will gain you in employment because it seems to me every college kid going through any IT-related course seems to have Microsoft certs so they are a dime a dozen.

Check into VMware or Cisco certs. Seems to be lots of need there.

You can learn SQL free online or out of a book. Start there, find an entry level job where you can put that to work, and expand your knowledge base from there.

I plead guilty to using the term spin when I should have used "rotates on its own axis - with degrees of wobble)"

I feel I might give something to Zolace that agrees with his odd beliefs.

   http://chronicle.com/free/v55/i31/31b00601.htm

He said nothing about the guilt of murder or rape, he is talking about religious nitwits who believe they are born with the sins of man on their backs and then they have to turn to religion to try to fix it.  In other words, he is talking about you.

My conscience is undamaged.  I have nothing to feel guilty about.