If we had of nuked all the population centers in Russia we would have killed off most of our own population and been breeding mutants for another century. Really I had no wish to play Fallout the Cuban Missile Crisis edition.

Become stupid ?

They have always been giant trolls, sucking in people with appeals to emotion rather than reason.

I'll take greatest generation and Cuban Missile Crisis for $500 Alex.

Able archer wasn't the first it's probably not the 2nd or the last either it's just one we found out about and isn't even all that well known currently.

That said the whole recent trend towards political correctness, and kids acting like Orwellian zampolits is not what I would call a good thing.

Well apparently silk road 1.0 and 2.0 both made the same mistake. There are lots of things that are really obvious in retrospect but get overlooked just the same.

Makes me want to support parallel construction. Seeing this forced out into the public just serves as a howto of things to avoid for the next silk road.

Sorry, in case you hadn't noticed it's the left that suffers from EDP.

That's why the agw fanatics generate negative opinions about science. It's apparent to everyone but them that they have gone over the edge.

That's why every other state with a hurricane problem manages.

I love the reality based community.

Probably the place you need to buried.

Has to be the absolutely most beautiful MMO ever made by a wide margin. I mean it's just stunning and the characters are just incredible. Makes Disney at its prime look like something that crawled out from under a rock.

I would hazard they are certain they can make the laws say whatever they want them to. Much the way taking someone's property to let developers have it was ruled a valid application of eminent domain. http://www.law.harvard.edu/stu...

You should be modded up for insightful
But you forgot to add "Whose local government did everything it could to screw up preparedness then blamed the man for keeping them down".

That was my thought. Watch LA's construction boom like the dot.bomb era.

Wow way to slam the oversimplify lever into overdrive.

I'll try for a basis we might both be able to agree on here. Improvements in living conditions correlate positively with per capita energy consumption (From whatever available resource be it animal power to nuclear). Barring artificial increases to the cost of fossil fuels they are still by far the cheapest sources of available energy. You can build a gas powered vehicle and run it for years, for less than the cost of a battery pack for an EV. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T... 1600$ U.S. how much does the battery pack on that Tesla cost ? That's transportation. They are also still the only reliable source for the electric grid with the exception of nuclear. You can talk about how cheap P.V. is all you want but without net metering backed up by a grid the economics are nowhere near as rosy.

So you raise the cost for people around the world to get the kind of things we consider basics not high life here just the basics, refrigerated food, safe water, communications systems that connect you to the world around you, opportunity to travel. Will making this more expensive and difficult for them to acquire make it impossible ? It's certainly going to make it harder and take longer and maybe not happen at all. It's for damn certain going to make sure some of those people will not get to that spot and not even have hope of getting there.

Thanks for letting me know what I was advocating and then showing where what you said I said was wrong.
I am sure there's a word for that kind of thing.

Anyway if you can let me know how citing applications of technologies developed long before the LHC was a dream of anyone's eye is relevant to its funding ?

Otherwise I expect you will come back with something about how basic physics lets us design buildings so that's why we should fund things like the LHC.