Comment What kind of country (Score 2) 591
is stupid enough to leave the health of its citizens up to the vagaries of the profit motive? How many assets does a a nation have that are more valuable than a healthy population?
is stupid enough to leave the health of its citizens up to the vagaries of the profit motive? How many assets does a a nation have that are more valuable than a healthy population?
when we're too cheapskate to maintain our existing infrastructure.
Q: Why are the Astros like Michael Jackson?
A: They run around with a glove on one hand for no useful reason.
Right up until the point you said "baseball." In the title.
Cue classic xkcd on tests of manhood.
I am so bloody sick and tired of the lame and mindless "reboots" Hollywood keeps churning out.
So... you think Hollywood needs a reboot?
The fact that this is published tells me it's most likely not true.
They lost me at "may have prevented a nuclear war". Transparent scaremongering.
1973 version. See it if you haven't!
Look at astrophysics. There's enough of it that's just untestable speculation passed off as fact. The Big Bang Theory is a superb example of this. It's treated as absolute and indisputable fact, yet it was never (and likely never will be) directly observed.
FYI, the Big Bang Theory isn't astrophysics.
Please learn a teensy tiny bit about the fields of knowledge you wish to dismiss.
You don't need to directly observe something in order to prove that it exists. That notion is a load of hooey propagated by someone with no scientific knowledge or experience.
I would have said, by someone who desperately needs to dismiss a shitload of evidence that conflicts with their beliefs.
Anything presented in PowerPoint is easy enough to ignore, dismiss, or sleep through.
I sometimes wish my honesty and self-respect were low enough to let me cash in by publishing any kind of drek people are dying to hear.
And that means the strike is very unlikely to happen by any rational power because they know a lethal retaliation is certain.
[Emphasis added.]
In addition to the possibility of someone irrational getting control, you have to consider launches based on accidents or limited/inaccurate information.
We really need a system that fails-safe rather than fails-MAD. Not that I have any suggestions...
BTW, supposedly a Soviet submarine commander and his political officer agreed to launch a nuclear torpedo against the US Navy during the Cuban missile crisis, and were only stopped because the fleet commander happened to be on the sub and overruled them.[*]
[*] Per a documentary on PBS last week. Unfortunately, it was not clear whether we have any evidence other than the sub's radio operator's word for it. But it was a very nasty limited-information scenario.
Not sure it would be very effective on such an unsophisticated military. Maybe burn their trucks out. Certainly cause a lot of misery in the already-miserable cities.
Cue young earth creationists claiming this dinosaur was intelligently designed 5000 years ago.
Sigh.
Some of them already claim that soft tissue discoveries proved that dinosaurs were recent. IIRC it was listed in the "creationist rigs search results" article a week or two ago.
Of course, there's a pending religious schism between those who claim all the dinos died in the flood, those who claim that they were saved by Noah and died later, and those who say they never existed at all (the fossils being planted by God to make sure no eviloutionists believe the bible).
Archaeologists can only afford tiny little sheds.
BLISS is ignorance.
