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Post by
Adamsm
Using nuke is path that will probably lead to downfall of Iran, they are not that stupid to pursue suicide path. And I don't think they would be able to produce enough capability to nuke US.
Which is what logical people think...but when you have Fox News stirring things up, there isn't much logic that comes into play anymore.
Seriously though: Iran has been a 'bad' for the last few months, but pretty much every single one their threats has already been countered. They fire any missiles skyward, they get blown out of the air by anti-aircraft fire from any of the multitudes of bases that surround it.
Hell, even in the article itself that MyTie linked that started this whole crazy conversation: Iran said it would only fire if it was fired on first. So, keep the cold war going, and we don't have to worry about being crispy critters in World War 3.
In all honesty, no one is dumb enough to drop a nuke on another target, since that will just start up a chain reaction of everyone nuking everyone else....now, EMP nukes; we'll have to wait and see who's gonna do the first one.
Post by
MyTie
Higgs Boson found
blah blah blah... but what does this mean for me? What inventions may come from this knowledge? Does it... does it actually change anything? I want a time travel box, a lightsabre, and a teleport device. Have my chances for any of those gone up?
Post by
Ksero
Higgs Boson found
blah blah blah... but what does this mean for me? What inventions may come from this knowledge? Does it... does it actually change anything? I want a time travel box, a lightsabre, and a teleport device. Have my chances for any of those gone up?
Since the only 1 out of those 3 is even possible (light saber), and the higgs boson isn't related to any of the 3 I would say no.
What does it change, well we know know that the standard model of the universe is pretty much right, all that remains is to find all of the properties of the higgs boson, and see if they fit with what the standard model predicts.
To a lay-person it means almost nothing right now, but in the physics world it's huge.
Post by
Magician22773
What it means is that millions, if not billions of our tax dollars have been granted, and will continute to be granted, to these guys to keep to eternal research on theroies that will likely never produce a single, useful product.
I have no problem at all with this type of science, but it should be 100% funded by private money. As it stands, the US government has provided at least half a billion dollars to the the LHC project to date.
Post by
Ksero
What it means is that millions, if not billions of our tax dollars have been granted, and will continute to be granted, to these guys to keep to eternal research on theroies that will likely never produce a single, useful product.
I have no problem at all with this type of science, but it should be 100% funded by private money. As it stands, the US government has provided at least half a billion dollars to the the LHC project to date.
Finding out how the universe works might not be important to you, but there a quite a few who have it high on a list of priorities. most people thought electricity was useless when it was first discovered, they don't look very smart now. If you can't grasp what this means that's fine but don't say it won't produce anything useful. Half a billion is nothing to the US is nothing, they spend 600 billion plus every year on their military, how much good is coming from that.
Post by
Magician22773
they spend 600 billion plus every year on their military, how much good is coming from that.
Aside from one lucky punch on 9/11, I don't see anyone else launching a successful attack on US soil, so I would say its money well spent. Not to mention the dozens of other countries (probably one's that 90% of the people on this forum live in), that our military helps protect.
Finding out how the universe works might not be important to you, but there a quite a few who have it high on a list of priorities. most people thought electricity was useless when it was first discovered, they don't look very smart now.
I don't know that I would call the physics community, and maybe a portion of the theroretical medical community "quite a few". thats really the only people that could give a squat about this discovery, that has costs billions so far, and will cost billions more.
Electricity, internal combustion......lots of early inventions were met by skeptics. But the world was 1000 times less informed about science back then, so its understandable why they would think that way. Current society pretty much knows at least the limits of what can be done now. So to say their likely isn't anything that will become, at least to mainstream society, useful from discovery of sub-atomic particles, is a fairly good guess. And, the governments of the world were not funding Tesla, Edison, and Westinghouse back then either. Like I said, let the private sector fund it, and I could care less. but as long as my taxes are paying for it, than I have earned the right to $%^&* about it being a total waste of money.
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168916
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Post by
Squishalot
Ever wondered what makes up an internet troll
?
Post by
Adamsm
Ever wondered what makes up an internet troll
?
Penny Arcade still put it best Squish.
Post by
gamerunknown
Here's how
Zimbardo put it
.
Post by
Gone
http://www.cnn.com/2012/06/11/justice/texas-abuser-killed/index.html?hpt=hp_t2
A father kills a man sexually abusing his daughter. IMO he was just defending his daughter, your thoughts?
Post by
Squishalot
http://www.cnn.com/2012/06/11/justice/texas-abuser-killed/index.html?hpt=hp_t2
A father kills a man sexually abusing his daughter. IMO he was just defending his daughter, your thoughts?
Question mark over excessive force or not - it takes a lot to punch someone to death. Perfectly justified in beating him up generally though - self defense extends to your family.
Post by
Gone
http://www.cnn.com/2012/06/11/justice/texas-abuser-killed/index.html?hpt=hp_t2
A father kills a man sexually abusing his daughter. IMO he was just defending his daughter, your thoughts?
Question mark over excessive force or not -
it takes a lot to punch someone to death
. Perfectly justified in beating him up generally though - self defense extends to your family.
Not always, Ive heard cases where somebody just gets hit the wrong way and they die.
Post by
134377
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Post by
gamerunknown
self defense extends to your family.
Well, in US law it's called
various other things
.
In England,
rules are much stricter
. My parents read a test case of a minor held in captive and raped, whose captor was going to kill him. He hit the captor with a pan and fled the house. The captor died and he was charged with murder.
Lol
.
Post by
MyTie
Apparently, Iran is a great candidate for making arms trafficking laws.
Post by
Magician22773
It's scarily easy to die as a result of head and neck injuries; brain hemorrhaging, broken neck etc. The article says that the man was hit repeatedly. If the attacker was strong, or had some kind of fighting experience, I wouldn't be at all surprised.
He did what anybody, myself included, would've done. However, he deliberately assaulted the paedophile, unintentionally causing his death. That's manslaughter. How this is prosecuted, and sentenced, is a different matter. I hope he is not dealt with too harshly, as he was defending his daughter.
That case is a few weeks old. It was ruled justified and no charges were filed.
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134377
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Post by
ElhonnaDS
Apparently
, you can get off with probation for killing someone while drunk driving. Thoughts?
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