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by dm2 12y ago
If we can get the US government to divert 75% of the money spent towards terrorism prevention towards autonomous vehicle research and electric vehicle subsidizing, then let's do it. Maybe you're right, maybe we're both partia
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In all fairness, that was in direct response to some idiot getting on a plane with a shoe bomb. I don't think it's necessary, but if they didn't require that then people would be blaming them for not taking enough action. The
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Sorry, let me clarify, the government has the responsibility to protect me from things that I have no control over, like a foreign invasion, terrorist attacks, and other citizens (and government agencies) obstructing my rights. Makes perfec
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That was exactly what was happening before 9/11 and the Patriot Act. Other agencies argued that they couldn't properly do their job because they didn't have access to the information the NSA collected. I think it should go ba
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If you eliminated the NSA, what do you think our terrorism score would be? Higher, or lower? That number probably directly relates to deaths caused by terrorism. "When you do things right, people won't be sure you've done any
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It's not about the largest risk, it's about personal freedoms and choice. I should have the choice to decide whether or not I am unhealthy, it doesn't affect anyone but myself (and my family if they are dependent on me). The
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> "You don't mean this. If you did, you would support mandatory exercise regimens and diet monitoring, and aggressive eugenics programs that include mandatory sterilization of folks at very high risk for nonviable offspring.&qu
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Regarding Example #3, you investigate ~10,000 citizens and only ~100 are real terrorists, when we are talking about peoples lives, it's worth saving as many as possible in my opinion. There is also the fear aspect that is difficult to
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I do agree that targeted killings are doing more harm than good. There are interviews with special operations soldiers saying that they would receive a kill list, they would work their way down the list, then the next month the new kill lis
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Our "rights" were put in place before mass communications were available, long before the internet was conceived. Presidents being shot. Planes flying into buildings. A nuclear weapon or any bomb being detonated inside of the coun
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Things have changed dramatically since the constitution was conceived. Nobody predicted the internet, WMDs (which could easily be smuggled into the country, they're not just movie fiction), and other nations having spying capabilities.
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I'd argue that the NSA needs to retain limited spying capabilities, but with very very strict control of how the data is used and stored. Dragnet surveillance is not acceptable or necessary. It's the sharing of this information th
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I have wanted more adoption of community centers for a long time, just a place for children and adults to go for support and supplemental education. I could write a very long article about their benefits and reasons, but this probably isn&#
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"We" as in me and normal people without psychology or biology or neurology degrees. Yes, "we" as in humans have no limits to what we can discover.
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Large companies and governments are obsessed with big data and data analysis. You need a degree or relevant past work to land those jobs though. There are also companies that you would work for that would provide these services rather than
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I have an interest in the brain and psychosis but do not want to "dip my toes in" without allocating sufficient time to research and study this. It's just such a complex issue and there seems to be such a large spectrum of ps
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There's no reason to assume it's fake or a parody in my opinion. Psychosis/Schizophrenia is very real and affects many people, who can function very normally but think slightly weird thoughts and have the urge to express them
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This looks like a good explanation of what you are talking about: http://www.kittiwake.com/refinery_process
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http://www.geee.net/blog082.htm This is a list of the recent posts. There's no way he could be this dedicated to a "joke" website. The recent events mentioned suggest that it's not just changing the tim
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It would be nice to put them on new oil tankers, but then what would we do with all the excess bunker fuel? Can low quality fuel be used for anything else? Also it would be very bad if one was taken by pirates, much worse than any existing
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by dm2 12y ago
So could a large enough railgun, or laser, or even a large enough marshmallow could take out an entire city. Or even bats: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bat_bomb WMD doesn't mean take out an entire city though.
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It's debatable. Fire it at a ship/building and most of the people on that ship/building would die. I don't think many objects could survive being hit by a railgun, is that considered mass destruction? According to US law
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They've been invented, but we're not giving up our current nuclear weapons. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prompt_Global_Strike https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railgun Thermobaric bombs are
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Oops, you're correct, it does have IR LEDs for night vision, which would still be somewhat useful.
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The article said, "Search teams using dogs, helicopters and volunteers". Aren't "search teams" usually police? And other than police who else would have dogs trained to track people? "But it is also going to al
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Wow, that's pretty cool, I haven't researched them in years so I still assumed they were very expensive. That's a really nice price on the one you linked to http://therm-app.com/ (an android verison, too expe
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Don't police helicopters usually have thermal / infrared cameras? There's very little chance this drone had an infrared camera, correct? I'm thinking that the drone pilot just got lucky. Or he saw the man previously and
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I completely agree. I had heard of the incident you mentioned but it's not the first time that near exact situation has happened and I didn't realize it was just this year. http://rt.com/usa/swat-billings-burn
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Ok, ok, I get it, some kind of long distance communication was imaginable 200 years ago. It's highly debatable whether or not anyone could imagine the internet in it's current form, it's very amazing with giant fiber optics s
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Richard Feynman, Carl Sagan, Bill Gates, Bill Clinton, Richard Branson and thousands of other top minds would agree with what you said. I don't think anyone would actually disagree and be able to provide a valid reason. Politics, money

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