Show me the health and sustainability advantages.

Health - people focus on the issue of over-eating fat; that does not mean do not eat meat. What health issues does a balance diet [with meat] have?

Sustainability - I've said it 100's of times - there is no difference for the environment between 3 billion meat eaters, 7 billion vegetarians, 10 billion vegans or 15 billion insect and fungi eaters. No difference in terms of environmental impact of producing food that is. Huge difference on any other front as those 15 billion will still require water, air, housing, clothing, utilities and so on...there will be no sustainability ever without retrain on population expansion.

And NATO does exactly the same. Both sides test the awareness of the others all the time. Such "accidents" happen tens of times per year...of course the public is ignorant and unwilling to educate themselves so it is easy to manipulate in this manner....

The wackos are preparing for WWIII. It scares the hell out of me and don't you think for a second that there is a good guy in this mess. They are all guilty as sin – the Russians and the West.
Do you know what actually happened? On a psychological/diplomatic/social level. The winners from the cold war turned out to be ungracious winners. Military doctrine states that after you win if you do not use your victory properly, if you overdo on punishing, pillaging and humiliating the losers, sooner or later they will rise aging and kick you. Germany after WWI anyone? Russia after the Cold war? First, the “sound financial advices” from the west almost destroyed Russia [don’t tell me you don’t know that IMF are the modern day slave-traders], the mafia gained the power, the military bases started cropping, the promise that NATO will not expand east was broken. What did you expect would happen after such humiliation and desperation? Naturally, a strong leader emerges [reinforced by historical tradition] that turns all the tables against the west and start solidifying the nation around anything, anything at all that is different from the western ideology.
Very simple, but very notable example, just for illustration – the prevailing opinion in the east these days is that west is a bloated plutocracy populated chiefly with drug-users, pedos and gays [notice the lumping those people together in one group of “evils” – already the propaganda is apparent]. And the fact the west has all those evils is due to the very socio-economic system they live in so we should never, ever adapt it or even respect it – it only breeds “monsters”. And so on and so forth it goes.naturally similar stereotypes are propagandized in the west as well. So that when the bastards on the top make the wars they so much desire the people will support them since we are fighting sub-humans anyway
Thus, in my opinion, anyone who expresses preference to either side in this conflict is supporting the devils themselves and acts against his/her own interest and the interest of the species.

And BTW, admins, Amsterdam is the capital of the Netherlands.

My father bought me Casio when I began primary school. It has a batery but also 4 small sollar panels of sorts, so it did not work in darkness. Basic aritmetic operation only [fit for 7 year old]. At the moment it's in another country, so I cannot tell you the model. It still works though [and has been used first by me and then by mom and dad]. Let me see, that was...33 years ago. Astonishing!

They did not know about planets 2000 years ago? Yhea, right...

From wiki [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babylonian_astronomy]

Planetary theory

The Babylonians were the first civilization known to possess a functional theory of the planets. The oldest surviving planetary astronomical text is the Babylonian Venus tablet of Ammisaduqa, a 7th-century BC copy of a list of observations of the motions of the planet Venus that probably dates as early as the second millennium BC.[6] The Babylonian astrologers also laid the foundations of what would eventually become Western astrology.[7] The Enuma anu enlil, written during the Neo-Assyrian period in the 7th century BC,[8] comprises a list of omens and their relationships with various celestial phenomena including the motions of the planets.[9]

Not surprised, really!

Yesterday I was watching old episodes of Top Gear. Aston Martin DB 5, the famous 007 car was beaten by an average, awfully average modern Honda. Then it went around the track and it was the slowest car ever! Old tech is old...

I sometimes wonder [being quite the fan of Japan] - is really a 400 year old katana as good as the best modern metallurgy can offer? I doubt it...

Yes, in the long run we will all have to commit suicide. When technology makes our bodies eternal the only think left is to see how long the "software" can survive. If you live for say 5000 years, would you remember anything from, say, the first 1000? And if not then you are by all means another person. Then it is not "you" that survives for 5000 years. Or maybe we will never loose sense of who we are and it will be still "you".

One way or another it will become boring to be immortal. IMHO, immortality that cannot be ended is a severe punishment, not a blessing. In that respect I find it a bit hilarious that the believers have sentenced their gods to worst possible existence - immortal and all-knowing. What a drag....

Ohh, how I wish it was something like 9 out of 10. Or better 99 out of a 100. Can you imagine how many women will be left "unattended"? Can you?

I never understood the hatred towards gay men. It means more women for the rest of us, you sillies! Now, lesbians are another matter entirely...yet heterosexual males looooove lesbians [or at least lesbian porn] but hate gays. So weird...

There is a speculation that I find compelling - men, being cheaper than women in evolutionary sense means that it is "safer" to experiment with men. Thus, you will find more men than women at the edges of virtually every distribution. As we know extreme ability in something usually comes with a cost [I have never heard about evolutionary solution that is completely "good" or "bad"] Therefore there are more genius level maths men, but also more morons men [the other end of the distribution].

It makes sense to me [again, I caution this is speculation, not fact or theory]

Question: Since we can't cram omniscience into a kid's head, who decides what gets in the curriculum and what doesn't? Your opinion? Some dictator's opinion?

Answer: reality. And the only working, proven method to study reality is science.

See, that was easy.

Why reality? Because if you behave motivated by distorted or wrong view of reality, it turns and bites your head off. Also - it does not disappear if you don't believe in it. Tough luck, but there you go...

"The solution to pollution is dilution" - man, that was one big lie, wasn't it? It started dying with this [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minamata_Bay].

More than 15 years ago I was involved in such study and already at that time it was understood that the water might be safe for drinking but should you eat fish from it you are in trouble. The operative word here is "bio accumulation". I was working on a project commissioned by the [much smaller] EU at the time to readjust the safety levels of heavy metals in marine and river waters. We worked along the south-west coast of France and north-west cost of Spain. You know what's funny - because of the importance of our finds which would lead to legislation change we worked "under cover" .I am not kidding. A fishing boat was used with an analytical lab on board but we would always say on the radio we were fishermen. Even to the people that direct the traffic in harbors. We were told not to say to anyone what we research. I think the very fact that such measures were taken on a EU project no less, says something...something that is not nice.

However, your particular anger is not warranted in this case, IMO. The radioactive material form that disaster is truly insignificant compared to the heavy metal pollution from everything else. I am not saying that we should close our eyes and mouths of course...

You may post this 1000 times [you do good work on this tread, I see] but it ain't gonna change anything. This technology will not fly....

Also, idiots are those who only know "it's the law, it's the law". The law, my friend is made by people, changed by people and abandoned by people.

An exercise for you - tell me how many serious politicians have stated loud and clear that "privacy is dead" or that "you have no reasonable expectation of privacy outside your home". You DO realize that such statements would mean political suicide in most countries in the world, right? It's the fucking corporations that are stating this all the time and their shills [with the silent support of governments, of course]. And you in particular are carrying water for them ATM, at the expense of the majority of the population. I hope you at least get paid for it...otherwise take that word "idiot" that you like so much and stick it to your forehead.

Back in the USSR?!

You cannot pass! [the spelling test]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B...

WTF is this?

First post calling everyone in a bar "rejects" gets "insightful" and this denigrating, straw man...whatever utter bullocks post is also at +5?!?

50% of post are shills, right...I read that somewhere...oh wait, it was here! How ironic...

Which in turn is an exaggerated version of a....mirror. Major reduction of expense I'd say...

Read the following two books or more details:

http://www.amazon.com/The-Man-...
http://www.amazon.com/Phantoms...