Posts by Immanuel Goldstein

Hundreds of people dead under  a building which collapsed Wednesday near Dhaka, Bangladesh. Bangladesh Building Collapse Toll Rises to 328 | Indiatimes   Excerpt:     Quote: “Fourteen people were...

Quote: Originally Posted by sr2012 But this might work out well for the galactic community. Because only civilisations that can have this technology and ~NOT~ totally annihilate themselves will be able to make...

Quote: Originally Posted by sr2012  The thing is that humans are too unevolved to have meaningful contact with higher intelligences. We'll find bacteria and stuff in space, which is good, but first contact will have to...

It looks to me more like “tourism” than “exploration”, the latter being actual hard and sometimes dangerous work (much of that work is likely to be done by robots). Although commercial exploration is definitely probable, once private...

Quote: Originally Posted by nvidia2008  “…suddenly I have flashes of imagining them, not necessarily naked straight away, but in a wedding dress!   […]   I've been in the past 100%...

Quote: Originally Posted by sunilraman Indeed, not many wealthy Aussies would bother importing and converting them, because by that stage you can get "f*** off" cars like the BMW 6 Series Coupe or a DB9 which I saw today on...

Quote: Originally Posted by sunilraman Figure out why the heck outside the US we get the lousy American cars. We want the stuff we see in Transformers and the like, really (Chevy Spark is a success story). We want the new Mustangs,...

Quote: Originally Posted by jazzguru He was saying that life, liberty, and property are natural laws… He didn’t call life, liberty, or property “laws”. Quote: …just like gravity, that cannot legitimately be repealed or...

Quote: Originally Posted by jazzguru I think you are confusing "laws" with natural "rights". I adressed Spooner who, in the quoted text, talked about “laws”. You can see it in the text you quoted...

Quote: Originally Posted by jazzguru “Lawmakers, as they call themselves, might just as well claim the right to abolish, by statute, the natural law of gravitation, the natural laws of light, heat, and electricity, and all the...