Man. This is a barrel scraper 'tho.

I have one proposition for Gennady. Why not stop killing each other first? Work that angle on the "Death is Wrong" gig. Then, when we have problem A solved, get to the advanced degree shit. You dig?

I think you forgot about the 1% or so of useful information from our friends and family, that is the reason for having a facebook account, but the internet is not facebook, most people I know don't use slashdot for example but slashdot does cater to some of my interests. Soylentnews is now overlapping quite nicely with slashdot similar subjects but a lot less spammy trolls. It's probably not going to stay that way.

There are quite a few other sites I use as well such as photography sites , gardening sites and others ebay is useful to me for buying relatively obscure items that are not available locally. there are local market place sites to use as well for example donedeal.ie is good for finding cars in ireland adverts.ie can be a handy place to find items locally.

So honestly facebook is just a feed to me of things i might actually care about and a lot i don't. I don't think i am unusual in using it that way. The instant messaging side of facebook is also handy when there is something i want to talk about with a particular person.

I honestly don't believe facebook has what it thinks it has, because most of the stuff that matters to people is not done on facebook and g+ is a complete failure because it doesn't provide anything that is of any use. one feed of mostly useless crap is enough.

No shit?

Was it? IIRC, their prediction was for the collapse starting around 2030. I also recall reading somewhere a year ago that so far we're moving along the worst-case scenario with a very good fit.

"Give me one other part of history where everybody shows up to the same social space."

Ok, late 80s, to mid 90s: usenet.

"Fragmentation is a more natural state of being."

Bears are natural. Also, botulotoxin and cyanide. Just because it's natural doesn't mean it's beneficial to you or good for you.

Well, it would certainly appear that you also have a very significant problem with your courts, perhaps having popularity contests to elect judges wasn't the brightest idea after all. Without doubt the US justice system has systematic problems throughout the whole system with justice not so much being blind as being blindly greedy. Trying to eliminate the corruption with out prosecuting those causing the problems, with out recruiting more of the same kind, will just leave you chasing your own tail. It is the management of your systems of justice that is a severe fault.

How'd you remember the PW? :-)

We could be little be gentler. Just perhaps, just maybe, his money might well and truly exceed his ability and whilst trying to do good, surrounded by yes men hungering after that money, he ends up doing evil. Of course continued failure to recognise errors, publicly apologise and allow others to fix them, does reflect ego supplanting recognition of what is actually going on, typically again as a result of being surrounding by flunkies desperate for a piece of the cash pile, creating that bubble delusion.

The only thing common core should be is, a complete set of educational material freely available, including texts, software programs, videos and lesson plans. This to reduce the costs of education programs for schools and students. The range of common core free educational materials should be quite broad to allow choice et al. The government should fund the production of those materials and release them into a creative commons framework where all educated persons can contribute and the materials are freely available for use in educational environments but should be paid for in commercial environments. So schools can either pay or get free common core stuff. Better to work at shaping properly than just trying to block it.

Buffoon. The reality is far simpler, the society as a whole continually grows with the limits of growth set by the ability to exploit the resources and environment that it controls to it's maximum sustainable ability (actually they normally exceed that and degrade them). The downfall of course is, we most definitely do not live in a stable environment. High impact events routinely occur which severely reduce the ability of societies to produce resources from that environment. In smaller more regional societies, extended drought, flooding, extreme storm, volcanic eruption were sufficient to tip that society into collapse because the event sufficiently reduced the ability of that localised environment to support that society resulting in collapse (they occur to this day and would be far worse without external intervention).

The reason why NASA did they research is they are able to research more rare events, major volcanic events, larger more spread coincidental seismic events, major astronomical impacts and even something like the Earth moving through astronomical dust cloud severely reducing the level of radiation from the sun reaching the earth. All of these would have a global impact upon the ability of the environment to sustain the dominant species and hence lead to collapse and they are all just a matter of probability not an if but a when. Politics has nothing to do with unless you are some kind of religiosity nut, it still has no impact but you and your like can run around screaming that is does and like idiots pray for a solution, rather than doing something about it.

Perhaps you should reference a map first. Chernobyl is one of the booby prizes the EU gets to keep, along with the Ukraine debt and the tens of thousands of neo-nazis. Of course as an 'applying' member of the EU Ukraine will no longer be able to do a middle man attack on the gas supplies between Russia and the EU when it comes to extorting reduced gas prices (that application might drag on quite a bit, seriously who Europe would want tens of thousands of neo-nazis, just the right mix to set of mass conflict with European Muslims and Jews)

It has to go to trial not to prosecute law enforcement but so law enforcement can justify it's actions with false claims and attempt to force wrongful prosecution. Hence it is a prosecution of the victim that forces the trial to justify the criminal activity of law enforcement. When the prosecution fails, the victim should then be entitled to prosecute law enforcement as in the eyes of the court there was no legal justification for their actions. This reflects exactly the same kind of activity the FBI likes to get into when after achieving a successful court case against a person who pleaded not guilty and gave what the court ended up defining as false evidence, go on to prosecute them for perjury. Hence the opposite is fair, when the prosecution fails to prove guilt are they not now guilty of perjury et al.

A free thinker. Which means I will perform thought experiments, with assumed values that are contrary to my observation or bias, and see where that leads. Often an otherwise undiscovered insight or new set of observable conditions can arise - to be confirmed with primary documentary sources.

One thing I can assure you - the USA is no inherently or morally "better" than Russia. Their murdered millions were mostly within the borders of their assumed territory. US's are continual, in secondary economic fiefdoms.

I said "99%". You came up with the other 1%. Congratulations, here's your cookie, now sod off.

He's a third generation fascist terrorist.

Diego Garcia

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