Ask the aliens what their views on hacking their own bodies reproductive reward system, in order to avoid the reproduction part but still get the reward.
Hacking? Honey, I'm not hacking, I'm practicing. No, no, don't take them off. I like the way the line of the stocking goes up the back of your leg.
What makes you think this hasn't already happened?"
The uniform lack of any good advice indicating a technology in any way advanced from those the insights were supposedly given to. Nothing so advanced as "wash your hands before touching any wound", or a reasonable tip about cooking to eliminate parasites (instead of, for instance, forbidding shellfish and so on... just dumb, straight up primitive stuff.)
All religions fail this simple test: Their all-knowing patron (of whatever type) manifests as utterly clueless. So whatever else might have been going on -- and that certainly leaves a very wide field -- visiting aliens can be very cleanly ruled out.
Ebola is not contagious until you're symptomatic.
Which means this guy started being contagious within the last day or two at most.
So the people that were on the plane with him are no more at risk then I am.
the current administration has done more than any previous administration to expand it's[sic] intrusive power
No, sorry. Nothing's been done during Obama's terms that even remotely compare with the instantiation of the PATRIOT act and the TSA as far as harmful changes to the previously existing state of affairs by the government.
And then during Obama's terms, we've seen the drug war lighten up on marijuana, we've seen expansions of gay rights, we've seen increased rights and capabilities for consumers and less for credit card companies, access to Cuba has opened up, private sector spaceflight has been encouraged...
Obama's got his warts, all right -- constitutionally speaking, the man seems to be insane -- but on the scale of making life worse for all of us, he's done nothing even close, singly or in aggregate, to measuring up to the Bush/Cheney administration's insults to the body politic.
That's kind of funny, actually. Wonder what genius thought there was a usable market segment for a tablet without a touchscreen?
Just wish it had some level of IR control in addition to wifi.
Consider a Raspberry Pi B+. You can add IR (or bluetooth), it's full HD, has four USB so you can add WiFi and other stuff, has a camera interface, there's a media player configuration to fool with right out of the (NOOBS) box, Youtube et al are all available over the web, etc... and it's pretty easy to move, too. HDMI cable, power supply, that's all. Presuming you've an IR or bluetooth remote working with it.
And it's all about as open -- hardware and software -- as most stuff tends to get, which is handy if you want to get all hammer and tongs on it.
I find myself wondering what laws they actually broke...
It's not like they did any actual wiretapping themselves, so it wasn't the wiretapping laws.
Is there an actual law on the books that allows the Feds to arrest you for making software that ALLOWS wiretapping? If so, I suspect that the Feds should be chasing down a lot more people than just this lot...
in newbamamerica, you have no rights or freedoms.
If you think even for a *second* that this would not have happened during the prior administrations, or that the majority of damage to your freedoms had not already been done prior to Obama's terms, you really should see someone about that brain tumor, because it's made you into a flaming idiot.
I bet the NSA has had this, and more than this, for many years, and will only see to it that this fellow is stomped into mush.
That'd be the American public you're asking about.
When congress decided to shove the PATRIOT act up everyone's colon, lubricated only by a healthy dose of TSA, all the American public did was enquire how far they should bend over. They're still bent over. The majority likes it that way. Because fear. Unreasonable, agit-prop and ignorance based fear.
Drone strikes alone would probably eliminate most of the resistance very quickly, no matter how many small handguns they have,
One should note that if every handgun owner were to target member of the military, as long as the failure rate is not more then 98% or so, the US Military would run out of soldiers before the civilians ran out of handguns.
And this ignores that not every soldier would go along with fighting against American civilians....
...are you assuming sequential scans are orbits apart? That's not a reasonable limit. Heck, we don't even have that limit today on an *orbiting* sat, much less a geostationary one.
mmmm.... no.
No problem. *I* didn't remember the lava tubes, so we're even.
Dinosaurs aren't extinct. They've just learned to hide in the trees.
