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In the best case train is like being driven in a Limo on a free interstate

I think, actually that the region would have had its melt-down one way or the other. The Arab spring would have happened anyway. And he most likely would have swept Hussein away. Vietnam told us, that in the long run, no foreign power projection prevails against local interests aligned with local powers.

And it will happen again, in about 1.5 generations- waving over a region, who will be very much beyond peak oil. Which will have all those in power at that moment, trying to vent the tension the good old European style- by sending those revolutionary's with all the emotional words and no plans on how to make the world a better place into endless ditch wars.

So the board for the great game is been lay out- now the most relevant game piece has to be determined. Who is the Germany of the middle east?

As in a currently disassembled power-house without resources, that reassembled is capable of innovation and thus is a danger for all current major players.

If a lawyer would look at the contract, he would say we fulfilled the requirements of the contract.

If a customer would look at the contract, he would say "Never again, and will warn everyone i meet".

Never think like a spy. Never think of other people just as assets, constantly scanning for flaws and weakness to roll them "downhill", think about all the people you know - your family, your spouse, your kids, your neighbors as individuals you could get to do anything, so entangled in lies and corruption. Never be a spy. Because once you are a spy, can can never stop being one.

There was a lot of meta-game you could not grasp as a newb in arena-shooters. You heard the opponent grab the shotgun shells, you knew he could either reach door a or door b in 5 seconds. So you grenade launched into Door A and flung yourself at Door B.

For newcomers this resulted in dying horrible most of the time, all the time.

Sounds strange. Just have a collector service, that cleans them and you get a certified fresh package at the super-market?

Those enthusiasts do go all the way for the medieval dresses. As in buying wool and dying themselves, following medieval recipes. They even have books on the garments and stitches found with ancient bodies in those swamp ponds. Or they recover them from wood carvings - as seen here.

We had a dinner following the ancient roman cuisine with one of these history buffs once. These guys definitely overdid it with fish-paste and spices- to show off there riches.

If you are a deer, the save zones are obviously the territory borders. You migrate from one voronoi cell of trouble into the next.

If you could have a liquid 3D printer below the starting surface and a solid PLA printer above, you could start in the middle of the object and print into two directions, at twice the speed. Of course- the basic question remains, what holds the middle? Retractable titanium bolt?

Actually, participation often ruins the hobby. If your dad is better then you at a game/sports its loosing its value to differentiate you from your siblings.

Actually mobs holders are a great idea. I'm a men, and i find that jiggling fat disgusting. If you made that a new social norm, i would push it.

Ultrasound device identification? Had you two your phones on with the web-side loaded while meeting?

Saudi Arabias school book dont have nice words for america either. The 9/11 cause was that a whole generation of islamic men grew up hating infidels (russians & americans alike).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saudi_Arabian_textbook_controv...

I wonder, could one use users as bridges- like in irc - and communicate with whats app groups from outside the walled garden?

There are lots of buildings, with a dark history. Glue used for the carpet that constantly exhales solvents- its especially horrible if your building was a industrial site before. Those brick buildings near trainstations, that where formerly train maintenance sheds are particularly horrible, as the oil in most trains was highly carcinogenic and seeped right into the brick during maintenance. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transformer_oil#Polychlorinate... Always read up on the history of the building you are working in.

Also, always google industrial scandals in the local news-paper- usually they just rebuild right over spill sites- and the stuff smells up after rain.

For me its the similarity to another pre-relativistic concept- the invisible ether between the worlds- that rubs me the wrong way.

And its tough to imagine the consequences of something you are absolutely not able to detect, you could be flying towards with 250 km/s. Its kind of scary- imagine you hit something like that and it causes earth quakes or a shake up of the solar system. Just think if that missing gas giant was actually a Blob of DM cycling the solar system.

And, well - the situation seems similar to this over focused on the problem situations you sometimes have in coding. Everyone has committed to a very narrowed down problem solution, that is just not working out, but instead of stepping back, a thousand angles are tried to solve the problem in the narrow scope.

Many here, just want to help. Which, given the Enlightenment as a project of everyone capable, against a Elite fighting for dogmatic ignorance - is a good thing in my book.

The article is missing in my opinion a confidence rating for every observation- how often this has been tested in experiments or observed in space. Otherwise it was good.

The problem often starts, when the power dynamic in such a relationship suddenly swings around. It takes somebody well grounded to reality, to survive this with love.

Its one of those features of asymmetric warfare, that you can drag the enemy into the moral-mud-pits of combating opposition among the civilian population. For the opposite side this has the benefit of getting new recruits among the relatives and survivors and obviously of leading a far superior enemy by the noose ring through the public arena -which raises Opposition in a democracy - and reduces combat effectiveness in the military in dictatorships and democracy's (sovjet afghanistan).

I would really love to have the CIAs Information on how much vietnamese population was in active opposition to the american "police" action. My estimate would be around 75 %.

Sorry but- after the JSF debacle- is this not already a dead duck? Honestly- on a battlefield, everything in addition you want has to be unobtrusive, totally intuitive and non-view obstructing. The last thing you want after a IDE has blown up, to see MS Clippy hoping through the wreckage, producing friendly fire.

Just take the integrated battlefield promised with the JSF, generating more Noise then usage. Im sure, you could add something similar in theory to a FPS, basically estimating the position of a retreating shooter.

But why bother and risk - when some well placed mortars will do that?

Just because it looked good in scifi movies, doesent mean its good in reality.

Only parties that could benefit from this, are specialists- meaning, drone-flights, commanding officers and upgraded personal- (medics in need for direct instructions by a doctor) - even those could usually be easier given without the AR.

And thats from someone who is a huge AR fan. Maybe im overlooking some benefits- i would really appreciate some usecases - if i missed them.

I do no longer think that people actually learn from history. They do so if they percieve to gain a advantage from that, but the advantage of something "normal" like peace and prosperity in europe, is only visible in hindsight.

I think, people must be vaccinated against radicalism, again and again, by experiencing the outcomes for themselves.

If you are discriminated and robbed in your favorite online game, for no other reason then who you are or your name- without any success when appealing to the "state", you begin to understand what it is like to have been a jew in europe.

Another difficult fact remains- only the prosperity of the past and the nuclear weapons kept these dark tides at bay.

The politics, the memorials and the activism did & do nothing.

We communicate every day, with a lot of different people. So the common lowest denominator is the base assumption. Assume nobody you talk too knows anything, that way basics explanation becomes part of every "chat-handshake" but the maximum number of participants can be created.

It may be better for the environment to not own stuff, but instead have it produced by a socialistic society.

For example, take a fridge. If I buy a fridge, the company I buy it from has an incentive to make it break in N years, so they can sell me a new one, i.e. "planned obsolescence".

However, if I subscribe to a communistic society to keep my food and beverages at a certain temperature, then this society has the incentive to make the fridge last as long as possible.

EDIT: Besides eliminating planned obsolescence, there are more advantages:

- Increased market transparency. The market is more transparent if I know exactly what a 4 years planned product costs me per month, as opposed to buying a product and not knowing when it will fail. A more planned society leads to better resource distribution.

- Another advantage is that the whole life-cycle of the product, including recycling it, becomes a natural responsibility of one society.

Imagine if one group was more prone to psychosis then the other. I do not think the state makes for a good gatekeeper here.

I think relatives should access the right for a psychotic person and act as a guardian.

Another interesting thing- at what point is it more merciful to leave somebody in psychosis? This is the coma patient, waking up, only to find his life been gone, his youth being spend, his family to be gone.

Is it not more merciful to leave somebody in the delusion until his/her final moments?

You have very wrong assumptions about a innocent person. Some people are just naturally awkward. Some even try to play detective and pretend to compare themselves to the killer.

See the golemn, walk and talk, for to the perchment, spark and life was given, see the slave, stumble and fall, who once was bright and driven.

Why was it again, that everyone reels in distaste from the church of singularity... Oh, yes...

"Oh, powerful deus ex machina yet to come, the one above me is lost, take him into the loving arms of your personality review and do not judge your faithful followers by his threshold."

the same reason all other powerful organized religion is distasteful. Rampant Stasi denunciation and a constant attempt to subdue all opposition voices.

I wish there was some way to unionize dis-aligned interests. The whole public and all of the industry pays for such mobster schemes, but is unable to rally a viable defense against one little lobby, because...?

Sour losers make for funny headlines.

I m just saying, one has to appreciate Elons humor. He is selling tesla shorts right now:

http://choicegear.org/index.php/product/mens-tesla-bib-short...

Unfortunatly, they are not meant for swimming, so maybe- should expand his product-pallet with a bathing short in size r (for rat).

Its over- any attempt to delay solars victory with regulations, will result in solar being deployed elsewhere (offshore/ south-america) and then delivered at combat prices to the border, deforming a future energy grid even further.

It boils down to the question how dense you can encode, retrieve and write information- and this can be very dense.

Conways compression comes to mind, where a simple timing description and some start states can be used to describe a very complex outcome.

The problem is, that for every function computing a irrational number, you got to have the output as input again.

Imagine if it where otherwise, a completely lightweight PI-function, traveling for eternity, for which nothing in the universe could determinate if its going in a loop or going towards a circle constant.