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2012-04-08, 17:27 | Link #6884 |
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Reality check on Russia's 'zombie ray gun' program
"Are we on the brink of an arms race over zombie ray guns? You might think so,
based on the alarms being rung over Russia's potential to create mind-scrambling weapons. But the reality is that it'll be a long time before we have to worry about super-soldiers taking over our brains. The Americans as well as the Russians have been looking into psychotronic weapons for more than 15 years. You can find ample references to the subject on the Internet, including a feature published by U.S. News and World Report in 1997 and a report written for a U.S. Army publication in 1998. Such weapons purport to take advantage of the effect that pulsed microwaves can have on brain activity. Some researchers have reported an effect known as microwave hearing, in which a directed beam of radiation produces a sensation of buzzing, clicking or hissing in the head. "This technology in its crudest form could be used to distract individuals," according to a declassified Army review of non-lethal weapons." See: http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/_news...ay-gun-program |
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2012-04-08, 19:49 | Link #6886 |
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Ah, but what he's getting at is that the other religions are not. It's not politically correct to make fun of any other religion but Christianity. I'm not Christian myself, but I do realize that yes, it is the most picked on religion out there.
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2012-04-08, 20:05 | Link #6887 | |
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2012-04-08, 21:31 | Link #6888 | |
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OTOH, in some other countries (e.g. Egypt, most Islam dominated countries, etc), Christians are sometimes in very precarious situations.
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2012-04-08, 22:05 | Link #6889 | |
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Turkmen president wins on racing track
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2012-04-09, 01:57 | Link #6891 | |
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2012-04-09, 02:02 | Link #6892 | |
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This may have something to do with the fact that extreme Islamic types are more than happy to threaten to kill people for drawing a picture of their Christ figure, or making some vaguely anti-Islamic tweets, or burning a Koran.
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2012-04-09, 09:19 | Link #6895 |
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Young Chinese Women in Trouble for Writing Dirty Website
How dare they! Leave these women alone and let them write their erotic fiction!
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2012-04-09, 09:25 | Link #6896 | |
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In my case, I simply observe that if one were to cherry pick evidence to suit one's proposition, we can argue till the cows come home and never come to agreement. Secular experiments at social organisation have come and gone. China's Cultural Revolution comes to mind, as does the American Dream (which, going by last season's Occupation movement, I might be tempted to believe is more a nightmare than a dream). The evils of religious fundamentalism are easily matched by the horrors of secular totalitarianism. Why condemn one and conveniently forget the other? The plain fact is that, no matter how benign the original intention, good ideas often go bad. Confucian principles are about as secular as they come. Confucius loved the customs and rituals of the "ancients" not because he was a stickler for tradition, but because he saw in them examples by which others could live by, even as he tried to set a personal example for his students. Yet those who followed him eventually turned his teachings into a quasi-religion, a means to justify an emperor's mandate to lord it over all-under-heaven. In other words, it's the people, not the idea. To me, that has been clear for a very long while. But the message, it seems, just doesn't get drummed home often enough. I would much prefer to celebrate the good things that ideology or religion share, like the principles of non-violent protest, for example, from the Buddha to Christ to Gandhi and to Aung San Suu Kyi. We are awash in a sea of mediocrity, but we manage the best we can. That, quite simply, is about being human. |
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2012-04-09, 16:09 | Link #6898 |
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We now have flying cars:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-17626818
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2012-04-09, 19:17 | Link #6900 |
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Good morning mister. Just as you posted that, I was about to ask you about a certain article titled "Believers are winning against Atheists" on mypaper.
Couldn't find the online version to post that. The CCP has my backing for this.
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