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...and the literary exploits of some English major qualify them for quantum physics... how?

The usual: mozzarella chese, bacon, double ham, corn, pepper, pepperoni, hot sauce.

We already have a corporate oligarchy, just because they have a publicity stunt called election where people can choose between different brands and still get the same shit doesn't change the fact that they *own* the national policy and Joe Average *no longer has any influence* in the policy making.

Another guy who you should read is Mark Ames. He's a gonzo journalist who has written some heavy hitting stuff. In his book "Going Postal" he makes a very convincing argument that school and workplace shootings are like old slave rebellions: incomprehensible to the contemporary ruling class, but from a different perspective a natural reaction to the inhuman conditions that were forced on people.

You should also read Noam Chomsky he's the creator of the propaganda model that is a solid framework of the problem and is backed up by ample evidence. He postulates that in a representative democracy where mass media is used to disseminate ideas, big capital has gained a massive influence on national policy making.

Not bothersome, you should just know what you're doing.
Boot from your Windows 7 disc, select the recovery console and fix the main boot record.

1 minute of googling:

http://www.ehow.com/how_4836283_repair-mbr-windows.html

#Step 1

Insert Win 7 installation DVD and boot from DVD drive. While in some older systems you may have to change boot order through system BIOS, most newer systems allow booting from DVD without changing boot order by simply clicking on any key when prompted to doing so.

#Step 2

Choose your default "Language", "Time", and "keyboard Input" on the first window and click next.

#Step 3

You're now presented with 3 choices. Click on "Repair Your Computer" to gain access to the System Recovery window. Now choose "Command Prompt" in order to run the desired utility which is called "bootsect.exe". Bootsect is located inside the boot folder so change your directory to boot. Now run "bootsect /nt60 C:\" if you had Win 7 initially installed in the C partition. Alternatively, you can run "bootsect /nt60 SYS" or "bootsect /nt60 ALL" to repair the system partition or all partitions. Eject the DVD, and restart computer. Your computer should now boot Win 7 again.

No you don't get it either. We're not talking about the oxygen that's part of water. We're talking about the gaseous oxygen that's dissolved in water. Big difference.

@Ethil: as good as that sounds that's unlikely to pass. What other source is there? We don't have 50 years to discover something new. We need it in 10 since we'll also need time to develop a whole new infrastructure around it.

Forget about getting the money back. It's not something tangible. The money we use is debt based, a legal fiction that we *chose* to believe in.

What is needed a distribution of wealth and responsibilities - be it through money, socialist collectivization, democratic empowerment through local communities, inervention by a military junta ...or getting more money into everybody's pocket (which is problematic, since what prevents the current estabilishment from printing/loaning more money into their own pockets once again?) - that finally doesn't drive Joe Average as a slave...

...and maybe, just maybe is something more sustainable than the exponential banking system we currently use.

Concerted effort - a revolution if you will, even if we don't storm the buildings of government with guns blazing - is needed or the only long term alternative is catastrophic collapse. Then guns blazing aggression is a given.

We call it penetration testing and security intrusion testing.
Neither of which is illegal, but have hard moral as well as legal boundaries one must adhere to. The tools in themselves don't lead to crime. Criminal behavior does.

You'll have to think of ways of making people part with their money for your (company's) useless crap instead spending it (or saving it) on something useful. You'll have to dream up schemes to trick them, dazzle them with shiny stuff and sucker punch them with populist slogans...

...that is if you're higher employed. What you'll most likely end up is a glorified salesman. Telemarketing there you go, to bugger the rest of us, may God have mercy on your soul for the rest of us won't.

In the last decade 10% of the population owned 40% of national assets.
Right now - the same 10% - owns about 50%...and it seems like they'll be owning 60% within 5 years.

How did they achieve this? The same way money is made. Through inflation. By owning the means of production and also owning the means of exchange of production to goods (money). You believe I'm a Marxist hack? (Yes I am. I come from a Communist family in an East European country).

However I don't have to use Marxist dogma to convince you.
Just watch these videos made by a Bona Fide Capitalist Economist and despair:

http://www.chrismartenson.com/crashcourse

So in other words: YES. The world is heading towards a crash as the rich have robbed us all, enslaved us and our future children and with the advent of Reagenomics have transformed from mere robber-barons into real slave drivers:

Going Postal: Rage, Murder, and Rebellion: From Reagan's Workplaces to Clinton's Columbine and Beyond

Read more horror stories here then realize that the film won't end and it's staring you:
http://exiledonline.com/

What appals me is that people keep babbling about how Global Warming is or isn't happening. That's not the issue.


That got your attention? Good. Time to be scared now. Time to move on to serious stuff.

Read up on peak oil: that's some serious shit an no one has given me an adequate answer. Frankly: we're gone have less and less oil and it's gona cost more and more...

..and it's in everything. From the petrol in your car, to the tires of your car to the plastic in the cup you hold water, to the very food you eat since it was grown with pesticides made from, tended and harvested by vehicles running on and nurtured with fertilizers derived from oil.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ulxe1ie-vEY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwNgNyiXPLk

Actually if you think about it the presence of Fate is given if you accept that you can't change the past. Eventually your present becomes past so then the whole of history is fixed since if you traveled to the "end" of it it would be unchangeable.

However this doesn't exclude free will. That would mean that you have no control over the result. That's why predestination and so on in religion is so complicated because even your garden variety philosopher had to admit that your choices *did* influence the outcome.

We could also pose the problem as one of the observer: Observed from inside the time-stream there is change since the you can't look ahead and see the future. From outside the time-stream (how a time traveler would look at it) it's all fixed an unchanging, since all the choices have been *already made* by the participants.

This is a linear view of events and how we experience it.
However what if it isn't really like that? What if there are several realities that one can experience one outside the (perceived) time-stream?

What if not only the future but the past could be changing and instead a single "stream of events" you'd get a texture of diverging pasts and futures that converge in various presents.

BTW here's the catch of Time Travel:

Any Faster Than Light phenomenon also holds the potential of Time Travel.
This is why physicists like to address this like this:

"Relativity, Faster Than Light, Casuality - pick two"

Ergo if both FTL/TT and Relativity are true than we're not living in a casual universe where cause and effect follow each other. (It seems to be so... however what if it's only how we perceive it?)

When I was a frequent visitor of the pizza joint next door (so much so that I knew most of the staff) I saw two girls entering. They were pretty cool, but I as usual was sitting in my own corner enjoying my evening pizza and beer...

...so they probably didn't notice me. Then I heard this comment:

"He always says he loves you!"
"Yeah... I know he always does it..."
"When he's coming, he probably really feels that way, he's cute like that."

At that moment I almost choked on my beer, but didn't say a word. The girls noticed me then and there and seemed most embarrassed. Well, turns out I was having dinner with two porn stars.

If you're serious about your weapon of choice it should be:
[list]
[*]*Cheap
[*]*Reliable
[*]*Effective
[/list:u]
So forget:
[list]
[*]*Custom/Sport
[*]*Rare/Unusual
[*]*Uses rare or expensive ammo
[/list:u]

...guns. When the shit hits the fan you'll need something that each and every other GI of your country or each and every farmer of the state will own. Why? Cause it'll be a reliable design, with plenty of knowledge on how to care for it, use it and plenty of spare parts.

For me the choice is your garden variety AKM. It's the most prolific weapon in use by people who want to kill each other (...and not mug, protect their cowardly self or blow shit up) - and it's also the weapon of choice by the armed services in my country.



It's closely followed by the H&K G3 and FN FAL the two second most prolific weapons in the world.





...and finally the M-16 AKA AR-15 if you live in the States.



...or the AK-74 if you live in the Russian Federation

I can't belive no one has posted this yet:

The hero of "My Balls", the saint of this thread a guy who had to go a whole month without fapping since he had Imanual the queen of darkness sealed in his balls.





Meanwhile - unlike your sorry lot - he has to put with this:

Once again prepare to be laughed at.
Back then only a tiny fraction of society had education or franchise compared to what we have now. They also had a lot shittier life expectancy, the politics of the day were often turbulent and resulted in violent conflict and bloodbaths.

The general public was meanwhile suffering under a back breaking toil of producing merely enough to feed themselves and your "elite" and as a consequence had even worse quality of life.

I'm sorry but what you've written is utter bullshit.
There is no such thing as "black matter brain". (Back than black matter wasn't in the know how yet as it is a mathematically predicted - and not yet proven - phenomenon that tries to solve the problem of integrating general relativity into quantum physics).

You could have written about a myriad things that actually could change the colonists, like the effect gravity has on phenotypical expression of the genome (people would be taller or smaller, we don't know yet which will happen since no creatures were yet raised in lower gravity) or its physiological effects (some of our endocrine systems could be screwed up) or its psychological effects (people raised in lower gravity could suffer from lower IQ). Remember that I talk about people born and raised in lower gravity. Our astronauts didn't suffer from any of this.

All of this is possible, but our understanding currently doesn't make any of them likely. People even on Earth are brought up in very different environments and we can already do a lot to fix things that are the result of the environment.

However while lower gravity has a potential to influence all of the above we're yet to see evidence that would indicate drastic problems.

Add in more hidden and sinister stuff like how the microbes we must inevitably carry with us will react to the new environments. Like how our biochemistry depends on this microbes and their chemistry in turn depends on the specific composition of their environment. All of which we must religiously replicate wherever we go as well as shield them from unexpected dangers (like higher solar radiation).

In the end I believe it will take mature genetic engineering to tailor humans to whatever place we go to, as it will be the only self-sustaining solution as well as the one solution that won't require tons of money in the long run.

Extended stay in microgravity - that's freefall! In space you still *do* have gravity, it just doesn't affect you - can results in muscle loss and weakened bones and heart conditions. I'm talking about half to one year. A couple of weeks or months won't produce severe problems. Extended stay in microgravity will require artificial gravity (like a spinning station that uses centrifugal force to simulate gravity) to amend these health problems.

What it comes down to are "mere" economic factors and the embarrassing detail that we can't yet make - or even operate! - a self sustaining life support system. To have any prolonged stay in anywhere the Solar System other than Earth we would have to ship supplies to it for quite a while until we got the hang of it...

...and those supplies would cost a lot as they'd need to be raised into orbit and from there transported to wherever. Even the lift into orbit demands exorbitant prices by our current economy.

With advances in our space lift capability we will be able to operate small stations near Earth (the ISS is pretty much the prototype of this, but right now it demands the resources of not one, but three superpowers). It won't be cheap, and it will be a really gradual, slow development (Say 3-5% per year).

Don't expect any sizable population until we're into the late 2200'.

It's turn based with a Real-time combat element:

Sword of the Stars. (Be sure to get BoB,MoC and the Argos Naval Yard expansions as these fix and streamline a lot of things. You can buy the whole pretty cheap).

Cowboy Bebop.

First: It has high production values and the director wasn't screwed by a committee, so he could tell a coherent and finished story.

Second: It's accessible. It I want to hook someone on anime (or gently take the anime virginity of someone) I show them Cowboy Bebop. It has archetypical characters that everyone can relate to yet they're fleshed out in the story and grain gravity as authentic characters.

Third: No fan pandering, genre shit. (To watch this show you don't have to be into moe, mecha or any other subcultural movement of the decade)...though being familiar with John Woo choreography helps.

Fourth: It's whimsical and light, the show never takes itself too seriously and it is jam packed of cultural references that - unless you lived under a rock for the last *20 years* - you should *get*. It still can tell moving or insightful stories, and when it finally tries to do drama or tragedy it still has an air of brevity about it, that stylized "jazz of storytelling" that entertains and makes you feel welcome from the get go... and still do some heavy shit, not pull punches and make us feel for our heroes.

Five: The music, the music. Yohko Kanno has never been so good ever since. This and Escaflowne were her masterpieces that she has yet to top. Light, whimsical and badass, serious at the same time. Just like the show.

If you need to communicate personal info use the PM system. Says right on the cover: Private Message. It won't be indexed and people other than the recipents can't see it either.

Beside with the proliferation of TFT monitors it's starting to become a non issue.