2011-09-29, 12:39 | Link #16902 |
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Technically speakinh there are at least three replacements for tje shuttle in the works. At least in terms of getting men and materials into orbit. The civilian-privbate ones should ne operational by the beginning of next year for cargo.n with manned missions after they get more experiance (up to three or four yuears). NASA,s Orion shoul ne funtional in about six years and is slated to nbe used for extra-orbital flights, while the civilian craft (Dragon and Cygnus) are for orbital work and the ISS.
Plus there is the military's space plane and of course Virgin Galactic's VSS Enterprise, and the eventual increase along those technology paths.
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2011-09-30, 01:13 | Link #16903 |
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Wow, this came faster than I thought......I was expecting it to occur next year after BofA let go of their CCB stocks.
China real estate stocks drop in Hong Kong This is probably No-2 since the CCB-BofA share dump. One more and we will have the Chinese economy spiralling downwards along with US and Euro.
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2011-09-30, 02:18 | Link #16904 |
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I keep waiting for this shoe to really drop --- all religions go through it sometime after their "adolescent years" (well, particularly the other Abrahamic faiths) and so far the "youngest brother" Islam has been pretending the problem isn't there but it just looms larger every year...
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/30/wo...hemselves.html
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2011-09-30, 05:19 | Link #16905 | |
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might be a result of Islam not having a papacy equivalent.
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2011-09-30, 06:25 | Link #16906 | |
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2011-09-30, 06:46 | Link #16907 | |
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Too much criticism is bandied about at Islam (and it's adherents) when the real criticism should be levelled at extreme reactionary religiosity. I see little difference between the extreme religious right in the US, and the religious right in Egypt, except that the latter is more willing to use violence. But then, let's not forget the Klans... |
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2011-09-30, 07:26 | Link #16908 | |
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It is always claimed that "Allah is the most merciful", but why do most Middle-Eastern dwellers still kill and oppress senselessly, often targeting people that are not of their religion? Even more wrongly interpreted is the concept of "Muslim Brother" - if a "Muslim brother" takes an inhuman approach to life, why side with him?
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2011-09-30, 08:54 | Link #16909 | |
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South Korea deploys cloned sniffer dogs at Incheon airport
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2011-09-30, 09:47 | Link #16910 | |
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2011-09-30, 12:00 | Link #16911 | |
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Scientology (not Abrahamic at all but a sci-fi scam) ... well they're like "last week" and damn near psychotic they're so insecure/aggressive
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2011-09-30, 12:21 | Link #16912 |
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World's Oldest Person Found Thriving in the Amazon
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"At the beginning of my time in Pakistan, I could not distinguish between the various forms of violence I encountered and I was astonished and appalled by much that I read, saw and reported. Then, after a year or so, I found myself becoming more habituated to the brutality that was so much a part of life of the country and began to see it's variety...However it was not violence that dominated lives but insecurity. Everyone in the country was worried about threats, potential and actual...One of the reasons this took a while for me to grasp might have been that, having been raised on the post-Enlightenment optimism of the West with it's faith in reason and progress, such endemic existential fear was alien to me. People in the West trust their technology and...more or less their leaders to protect them. For the average citizen of Pakistan, as in any country where authority depends not on consent but on force and custom, there is no such safety net." (Burke had already previously gievn examples of cases where the police were corrupt and next to useless in maintaining order and how religion provided a conveient subsitute for all the things that were still lacking in a developing society or were simply not affordabale to the average citizen. e.g. a free spiritual healer that acted as "a GP, consumer helpline, counsellor and psychotherapist all in one) Then he goes into more detail about the Pashtuns: "But Parachar was most troubled, he told me repeatedly, not by the Shias and the supposed heresy and the divisons within Islam but the 'moral corruption' that threatened his community...it appeared to include, more or less any change that might alter the traditional customs of the Pashtun society. These customs, Parachar had decided were also 'Islamic' customs. So for him modernisation, Wsternisation, globalisation..were all fused into one great assault into what was right and certain and Muslim...And it was clear that if violence was neccessary to maintain social order, then Parachar supported violence."
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2011-09-30, 13:50 | Link #16914 | |
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People characterise Islam as a violent religion, but it's not religion that's the problem, it's the nature of those societies, which happen to be insecure. This lack of secuirty means that their inhabitants are willing to great lengths (including use of violence) to protect themselves, their tradition and their way of life. They see the west as personifying the forces assaulting their traditions. In olden times they would just have to smolder and take it. Now they can hijack planes. In reality they're a lot more like the Luddites of the 19th centure, futilely lashing out at the face of what is destroying the fabric of life as they know it. It's like if a casino opened up in a conservative community in the US, while a host of other forces destroyed people's livelihoods. People might first lash out at the Casino, which has brought so much degeneracy and vice to their community. Or they might bomb Las Vegas (the "root" of gambling in the US). In reality though, there's very little they can really do. |
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2011-09-30, 13:54 | Link #16915 | |
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Humans have always been sheep, it's not really new and even less specific to muslim. |
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2011-09-30, 16:46 | Link #16916 |
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Blowout
"NPR argues that the new oil capital of the world may soon be in North
America. “By 2017, investment bank Goldman Sachs predicts the US could be poised to pass Saudi Arabia and overtake Russia as the world’s largest oil producer.”" See: http://pajamasmedia.com/richardferna...09/30/blowout/ |
2011-09-30, 20:04 | Link #16917 |
Gamilas Falls
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I was figuring that was the plan. Drain the rest of the world first. Get prices up, and then return to being the largest producer of oil on the planet. Because if the Middle East and the other oil producing regions that the USA has been supporting or fighting over the last near century have nothing left that we want...what do you think will happen?
We will probably pull out and ignore them...unless they want to buy things with what is left of the money they made producing oil. Cause if they have nothing we need, we will probably let them rot...politically at least.
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2011-09-30, 20:33 | Link #16918 |
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Talking about oil.....
Explosions heard at Pulau Bukom refinery The fire started 3 days ago in late morning/afternoon. The whole of that area even surrounding Bukom, is an oil and logistics industrial plant. Let's hope that it isn't another BP styled error. If it is, let's hope that the idiot who decided to cut costs from safety measures died in the fire.
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2011-09-30, 23:03 | Link #16919 | |
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Such ''idiot'' would probably be in a office situated far away from any big danger.
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2011-09-30, 23:12 | Link #16920 | |
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EDIT : Is this the real thing or a troll just for the lulz?
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