Like slavery. In the old testament it even states how to handle a slave, and in the new it does not even condamn it really. If anybody really wanted evidence that the bible are a product of human within their time, then just look at what it excplicitely support or does not bother condamning, which we find today abbhorrent. It becomes quickly clear that the bible is nowhere near the moral guidance it is purported to be.

It can be stopped by a law book (at least in country where privacy is held at a premium like Europe, probably not in the US where privacy is substandard). And in case the law is too weak, since law book are so huge, you can still accidentally bump the glass off the head of somebody and let the heavy law book drop on the glass. After a while, people will start to get "it". As for making the glass innocuous looking, that would be a nightmare for everybody wearing classic normal corrective glasses, because you can bet we WILL be collateral damage. But glass being allowed and accepted by the big public ? Doubtful.

The problem is the enrgy needed to escape the gravity well. Until you solve that problem efficiently, you are pretty much screwed and it might take hundred of year, if ever, to get colony or industrial extraction on other planetoid or moon.

Every time the concept of dirty bomb is used in film, or TV or in TV news, it is hyped to the extrem. But do the journalist and media do their job to make people understand that panick would be the risk, and radiation not the risk ? nope. nope. Nope. Here is your media failure. Journalist informing people ? Forget it.

Who *DARE* to say that he or she is absolutely 100% free of racism ?

I am not here saying that racism is a good thing, but to point out that RACE is something that is deeply ingrained into what we are.

It's in our psyche, it's in the genes, man.

And it is in our "gene" to also (as men) widely spread our sperm in as many nubile women as possible, them willing or not, and it is in our "gene"
  (as women) to sleep wizth as many strong men as possible. Yet you don't see women sleeping with any men passing by, nor do men rape any women passing by.

I am not racist. I never understood the concept of racism. So I call bullshit on you. Yes, some people have a little bit of melanine than other in their skin ? So what ? I am deeply white (I prefer cold climate so that does not help with sun exposition), but if I move to south california and go in the sun every day, my melanine amount will spike and I will get all brown. Despite the change of melanine in my skin I will not be any different. What makes me , is my environment, my education, my history. Not my skin color. Races is all bullshit made up by people to categorize other as inferior *on sight*. It has as little relevance to reality as categorizing women or men as inferior because of their gender. It has as little relevance as categorizing people as inferior by nationality. It has as little relevance as categorizing people inferior because of their belief. I am an atheist, but I am neither ifnerior nor superior to a catholic/moslem/Buddhist.
 
What makes you an idiot, and all those who qualified you as insightful, is that you fall for the trippe that race exists.

Due to intensity of transmission diminushing in 1/r^2, there is almost no signal which left earth coded or not, and went beyond 1 light year before being lost in interstellar noise. The only signal were intentional high powered highly directional signal sent to in the direction of a galaxy (M10?M32?M52 ? Can't remmember). They amount tom maybe a few hours signal, and those few hours are the ONLY signal which went beyond a few light year still being detectable.

So realistically in all our history We emitted maybe at worst a few hours of signal a remote civilisation 4 light year away (or beyond) would detect !.

Arecibo was never set to detect unintentional SETI signal, we are looking for the same type of "we are here" signal we sent. As for the rest , they might be theoretical or even fantastical construct, but that's pretty much all we have, beside hoping that the spectra of the planet we try to observe has something special which makes us say "this one might have something".

And I am overtly cheering the new pope. I mean, at least he IS reminding chrisitan about their faith. And the richess/poverty thingy. Funnily it makes the conservative looks like ass, when they tell the pope he does not know what he is speaking of (yeah I know that quote from that guy on fox is slightly out of context , but that's still funny).

The catholic, the protestant, and the torah 10 commandment were slightly changed. Which makes sense since shabbath has absolutely no significance for, say, the catholic. But remember, at the start , Jesus was a jew, and he did not think of stopping the jewish religion. As such, christianism (or paulinism) are a sub-sect of the jew main trunk ;).

But also buying from coal central, or using a lot of coal electricity (think enorm open field, for which they even moved/destroyed whole town http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a6/Tagebau_Vereinigtes_Schleenhain_panorama_midi.jpg/1000px-Tagebau_Vereinigtes_Schleenhain_panorama_midi.jpg here is anotehr one : http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/Tagebau_Garzweiler_Panorama_2005.jpg/800px-Tagebau_Garzweiler_Panorama_2005.jpg) and I am not even touchign the thematic that biurning brown coal is terrible. Not sure what is the amount of heavy metal radioelement there is in brown coal, but in black coal it ain't rosy.

So yeah, it is the perfect example how nuclear irrational panics threaten a whole economy (heavy electricity prices) and make it worst for CO2 emission. I am pretty sure the german politician are fucking hyprocit and realize that nuclear could be made better, but would rather think "vote!" and bent to the folks panic.

Journalist keep touting the dirty bomb concept, but even with a big blast you would not propel enough Co 60 to kill people in a wide radius. There are study on this go look it up. The only reason such a bomb would be effective would be as a *psychological* tool. Since journalist and movie media keep touting the dirty bomb danger, it becomes one in the mind of people, and they would really panick if one was really set off. The reality is that it would be nasty to clean up, but even if not cleaned up it would not be that bad.

Since a dirty bomb is unlikely to cause many deaths by radiation exposure, many do not consider this to be a weapon of mass destruction.[5] Its purpose would presumably be to create psychological, not physical, harm through ignorance , mass panic, and terror.

If a dirty radiological bomb is set off and panick subsequentely kill people, you can point the finger at journalist and media not doing their proper job to inform people about the real risk.

You are confusing "were those car you drove in 1950 too dangerous comapred to the average 1950's car" and you are right that response is indeed no. But are cars with a security concept from the 1950 too dangerous compared to today's security you listed ? hell yeah. 1950's car were not deformable. That alone make a huge difference. When was the last time you heard somebody dying because the steering column destroyed his sternum ? You don't anymore. But you used to. Those car are nowadays too dangerous, because there are SAFER alternative. As for the porsche, it is a circuit car in its optimum usage. On road usage, it is a sub optimum car, and it is definitively a car in which people are bound to go for bad habits , like speeding. The few porsche user I ever saw were *always* highly speeding. One things to remember, is that luckily those guys killed themselves on an inanimate object. It could have been another car instead, and we have had enough example here around of BMW, porsche user piling themselves into innocent bystander at 200+ kmh.

Our market are (thankfully - see polution, health, company script scam, worker security from the robber baron time) regulated to the wazoo. And what is not regulated tend to natural monopoly, and not even counting that copyright, patent, distort the market. And don't start me on "information" as it is supposed to be the value we use for the free market, but it is distorted.

There probably hasn't been a real free market for quite a time.

really, nowadays I play a bit MMO around until mid level, then give up. They become repetitive and raiding is only a slightly less rewarding skinner box.

1) Indeed the authenticity of josephus passage is highly disputed. basically the grammar and the spelling suddenly change, a good sign of copyist adding their own "stuff".

2) So what if jesus existed ? That would be a human which died. the rest the miracle the resurrection are myth. In fact since we are speaking of historical consensus, all historian will recognize that the consensus is that it was a really normal human and he died. The rest is religious baggage. The best proof that I am not desperate as you pretend I am , is that I assign a higher probability of jesus existence as human (60%). . That alone directly contradict your diatribe.

3) and finally, you are reversing the "reverse the burden of proof" fallacy of most religious people. We agnostic-atheist do not search for proof of non-existence, it would be rather hard for obvious reason. It is up to others to bring up evidence of their claim. And therein is the problem. Even if there is weak evidence for the existence of jesus, there is absolutely no evidence whatsoever of anything else.

It only shows that there was a localized in place and time source. It does not show that that source be ONLY a person. That is jumping to the conclusion. In fact taking into account the contradiction, you quickly realize there is absolutely nothing you can do about the person jesus, except it was an homo sapiens male, and his mother. The rest is in dispute. Again the best contemporain specialist, Bart ehrman himself admit that it was highly likely that jesus existed. There is no certainty, as opposed to contemporain people which have a lot of artifact. Jesus , contrary to what fundemmentalist state , has none solid except the bible.