And as a final annoying pointer…

Oh am I lucky, living in Finland, where education is free ;)

we went to the moon

i didn’t

100% certain

not never nothing gets 100%
or rather in a quantum computer
the speed of thought
exceeds the speed of light

i think Hawking is wrong
or was 40 years ago
now rumour has it he’s not so sure – maybe
the info is in the event horizon – i understand somedays
he is in residence

you should meet him
i’m sure it would be as easy
as a drive and a walk
and an open door and

hello world

are you certain we went to the moon – don’t you find it odd we went so far so fast and stopped

and take a cautionary from E.D.
as soon as we generalize or opinionize we give others cause to not listen to us

you of all people more home-schooled and self-schooled know better – tell people your truths – how did you learn programming – and what about games – as DIYER says – who would Jesus kill –

Of course I don’t know and neither do you and by the by that’s the essence of the Hawking Paradox

is info lost in the event horizon or is it in the event horizon

useful error

that’s as good as our truths get
but you know that

nicht wahr

If we go to Mars asap it
will be courtesy the complex
of power most in this thread decry.

Maybe better we wait for buying a ticket to go.

Anyway, it doesn’t matter to objective reality where $5 billion is coming from in terms of level of government. Point is that it’s getting cut and some really unpleasant things result.

As to the $60 million to the stadium, in a crumbling economy that has a pathetic education system (even if you are satisfied with it), it seems to me that some extravagant stadium that is used by a small percentage of the public and SERIOUSLY enriches an even smaller percentage, that it would make a lot more sense to spend money on making sure that the next generation has the best and most opportunity for success.

https://www.sustainableprosperity.ca/debate

going to be aired on CBC about massive change needed and the lack of global political will do do anything of the sort until major crises occur. Or at least that is the implication.

Yep, it is! The Repug rights would like nothing better than to see what used to be the middle class in our country looking for our next meal in garbage dumps. You know, that’s pro’bly wrong, they don’t give a shit where we get a last meal or if we’re alive…I’m seriously thinking of moving out of the country. I think we should be up in arms, but there’s not too many people willing to take to the streets. I have felt embarrassed for my country ever since they elected Ronald Raygun as president…

It’s one stadium, not plural. Paid for by city dollars. The citizens of Allen VOTED FOR IT. We have one of the best school districts in the state, if not the country, and the vast majority of us agree that since everything else in the schools is well-funded, it’s time we replaced the stadium we outgrew 15 years ago! And it’ll be used for MANY other sports also, but that doesn’t seem to be mentioned anywhere…

The $5B you mentioned is state money, not local (city) dollars. And it’s probably pretty specific, too, if they’re considering it. (Too late to check tonight, since you didn’t link to your source, but I’ll look around tomorrow.)

I hope that clarifies it some for you!

There’s a great documentary on that subject whose name is currently escaping me but if I think of it I will make one more post and urge you to seek it out. But yeah, that speech was eerie. Hell, I’ll quote it here:

“We have been compelled to create a permanent armaments industry of vast proportions. Added to this, three and a half million men and women are directly engaged in the defense establishment. We annually spend on military security more than the net income of all United States corporations. This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience. The total influence — economic, political, even spiritual — is felt in every city, every State house, every office of the Federal government. We recognize the imperative need for this development. Yet we must not fail to comprehend its grave implications. Our toil, resources and livelihood are all involved; so is the very structure of our society.”

“In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the militaryindustrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.”

I really think that the age of Hilters and Alexander the Greats and Attila the Huns and so on is a thing of the past anyway. And again, even if I’m wrong, it’s just not an issue in America because it’s not like some Chinese neoHitler is going to fly an invasion force into the US mainland to conquer… what… it’s customer base? I mean, war is a farce.

A big giant THE EMPEROR WEARS NO CLOTHES farce. In the immortal words of Smedley Butler, “WAR IS A RACKET”. And wow, if you haven’t read that in a while, do so: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Is_a_Racket

As true now as it was when he wrote it in the thirties.

Also the so-called Hitlers of the world exist because of large militaries.

More relevantly, no Hitler-powered army has the capability of invading the US or Canada. It’s a physical impossibility. We’re an unconquerable continental monolith. Could an airforce come an nuke us? Sure, but to what end? The world is not run by madmen — and Hitler was no madman bent on world destruction. He wanted to expand German borders to what made sense to many Germans, and apply a certain set of cultural and political ideals inside his borders. He did not want to go around randomly nuking other continents, Silvervogel project notwithstanding.

I’m a non-interventionalist. I don’t think we have the duty to save or police the world. We are better off leading by example. Don’t make the world want to fight you because they’re afraid of you. Make the world love you because you are the future.

I think that the only reason that there’s a gut instinct to say “no” is that it’s so ingrained as the status quo that America has serious military might.

I’m not talking about scrapping over night — probably a 15 year phase out is realistic. Also it makes sense to keep a small elite force to do things like hostage retrieval, but this could be under the mandate of the CIA and is more akin to international policing than traditional military.

Also, much of the techology development that agencies like DARPA do — and these are not to be scoffed at — would be handled by NASA and so on. So certain non-military things that the military currently do would actually be expanded under my plan, rather than cut.

I just would completely scrap the idea of throwing money at war or the potential of war. War is something humanity is ready to leave behind us in my opinion. And of course war and terrorism are very different things, and if we’ve learned anything in the last years of Iraq/Afghanistan, it’s that a traditional military makes one hell of a mess when fighting “terrorism” and ends up making the problem worse. And another way of saying “makes the problem worse” is “should never have done it”.

I feel pretty secure in the logic of my proposal.

It’d be a huge step forward for humanity, and would push us to innovate our technology for purposes other than creating the next cool palm-sized gadget.