Sayonara

Right now they are hiding from my mighty kingliness. Earlier on they were ambushing crickets. One has the hang of it, the others charge over too long a distance, run through the space where the cricket was, and go "bonk" into something. Most amusing.

Right now they are hiding from my mighty kingliness. Earlier on they were ambushing crickets. One has the hang of it, the others charge over too long a distance, run through the space where the cricket was, and go "bonk" into something. Most amusing.

Ah ha ha ha haaaaa. I now have three very entertaining Pandinus imperator. They're pretty neat. Anyone else keep scorps?

Ah ha ha ha haaaaa. I now have three very entertaining Pandinus imperator. They're pretty neat. Anyone else keep scorps?

If you want to perv over another member, I suggest you do it by by a means other than public discussion.

If you want to perv over another member, I suggest you do it by by a means other than public discussion.

I am sure you must be able to change that - it will be a piece of graphical furniture, probably stored in your windows profile's Application Data folder somewhere.

I am sure you must be able to change that - it will be a piece of graphical furniture, probably stored in your windows profile's Application Data folder somewhere.

Bloodhound does have a point, but whereas "spherical" is precisely mathematically defined as an adjective, this does not make the ball precisely spherical.

Bloodhound does have a point, but whereas "spherical" is precisely mathematically defined as an adjective, this does not make the ball precisely spherical.

Surely you mean month old update? Everyone ought to be using release 1.0 by now, not the preview release or any version of the beta.

Surely you mean month old update? Everyone ought to be using release 1.0 by now, not the preview release or any version of the beta.

ypsilantuseritus is probably some hilariously witty anagram.

ypsilantuseritus is probably some hilariously witty anagram.

Grow up.

Grow up.

The economic rise of China could be quite funny in a devastating, "the West have decided we look better without our nose" kind of way.

The economic rise of China could be quite funny in a devastating, "the West have decided we look better without our nose" kind of way.

I am not just criticising him for "acting in accordance with his beliefs" in an airy-fairy, hand waving kind of way. I am criticising him for taking religiously founded beliefs that he has subscribed to and using those as a basis for national policy, on behalf of millions of people (the majority of whom will most likely not share those beliefs, seeing as he is a BAC). If he believed for instance that X needed to be corrected because while at school he was taught that Y was caused by X, and Y is bad as has been demonstrated and confirmed by the work of many people over the years, he'd have a solid basis for allowing such a belief to influence his decision. But to drive such important decisions based on something someone told you came with the package seems like a very dangerous thing to do.

I am not just criticising him for "acting in accordance with his beliefs" in an airy-fairy, hand waving kind of way. I am criticising him for taking religiously founded beliefs that he has subscribed to and using those as a basis for national policy, on behalf of millions of people (the majority of whom will most likely not share those beliefs, seeing as he is a BAC). If he believed for instance that X needed to be corrected because while at school he was taught that Y was caused by X, and Y is bad as has been demonstrated and confirmed by the work of many people over the years, he'd have a solid basis for allowing such a belief to influence his decision. But to drive such important decisions based on something someone told you came with the package seems like a very dangerous thing to do.

And on us, don't forget. *cough* Flyingdales *cough* I suspect the USA has enough sat->sat killers up there already to knock everything else down, including all communist flying devil boxes.

And on us, don't forget. *cough* Flyingdales *cough* I suspect the USA has enough sat->sat killers up there already to knock everything else down, including all communist flying devil boxes.

I'd appreciate the glibness if (a) we weren't debating at 01.42 and (b) in this particular case, it wasn't so ironically true. Irrelevant. Their function is to PREVENT the acquired personal beliefs of one person driving decisions that affect millions by providing rational advice, the requisite experience, and factual information. How their own beliefs are shaded makes no difference, unless they all happen to strongly coincide and drive their advice.

I'd appreciate the glibness if (a) we weren't debating at 01.42 and (b) in this particular case, it wasn't so ironically true. Irrelevant. Their function is to PREVENT the acquired personal beliefs of one person driving decisions that affect millions by providing rational advice, the requisite experience, and factual information. How their own beliefs are shaded makes no difference, unless they all happen to strongly coincide and drive their advice.

I don't think you've read the article or the report it relates to. Possibly not even the whole thread. To reiterate: From my point of view, fancy orbital weapons are the worst case scenario. The first phase of this is to be conducted using conventional systems that are already in place. The budget issue is a fickle beast. What does the US do when its economy needs propping up? Drive the furnaces harder, maybe have a bit of a war. Perhaps the administration and stock exchange will move so fast these weapons and tactics will never come about. But the actual threat here is the attitude towards non-Americanianoids and the egocentric self-belief that generated the report in the first place.