tkdguy Posted July 29, 2017 Author Report Share Posted July 29, 2017 Yeah, call this the apolitical news thread. That's a good way to think about it, although this thread predates the political thread. I started this because cable news channels were focusing on 2 or 3 stories (including the Malaysian Airlines flight that disappeared) as if they were the only things going on in the world. This thread started long before the last election cycle heated up. I don't have a problem with political news, but I think politics should be limited to the other thread, as Simon intended. All other news, including "weird news," would fit well in here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted July 29, 2017 Report Share Posted July 29, 2017 Well American politics. I think it is fairly safe to put UK, Canadian or Australian politics here, if we can discuss it rationally and even handed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Hopcroft Posted July 29, 2017 Report Share Posted July 29, 2017 Is it possible to move or copy the post to the correct thread? It's worth talking about, just not here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hermit Posted July 30, 2017 Report Share Posted July 30, 2017 I just quoted it in the proper thread. Inelegant, but it worked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted July 30, 2017 Report Share Posted July 30, 2017 if we can discuss it rationally and even handed. You know you're on the internet right? TheDarkness 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted July 30, 2017 Report Share Posted July 30, 2017 You know you're on the internet right? Yes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted July 30, 2017 Author Report Share Posted July 30, 2017 IIRC, military news is okay if politics don't come into it. Latest railgun test Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted August 1, 2017 Report Share Posted August 1, 2017 Negative reaction to giant robot spider attack on cathedral surprises Ottawa archbishop Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Hopcroft Posted August 2, 2017 Report Share Posted August 2, 2017 IIRC, military news is okay if politics don't come into it. Latest railgun test Just once, it would be nice if somebody said "this weapon is too dangerous in the wrong hands, so why are we building it?" and then stopped building it. That's probably happened exactly never. And after seeing the video attached, by initial thought was "This is not as good a way to kill roadrunners as he thought it was".... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tech priest support Posted August 2, 2017 Report Share Posted August 2, 2017 Just once, it would be nice if somebody said "this weapon is too dangerous in the wrong hands, so why are we building it?" and then stopped building it. That's probably happened exactly never.If we don't build it our enemies might. That's how it happens. However I don't think anyone ever did go ahead and build "salted nukes" because they were extremely dangerous and really offered no actual value to anyone intelligent enough to build one. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salted_bomb DasBroot 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hermit Posted August 2, 2017 Report Share Posted August 2, 2017 Negative reaction to giant robot spider attack on cathedral surprises Ottawa archbishop I can't blame them, I'd be a bit alarmed if I were Catholic to have backed the church all my life only to have found Anansi the trickster now reigned supreme! (or Grand Mother Spider for that matter) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted August 2, 2017 Author Report Share Posted August 2, 2017 Now I want a giant robotic spider. Armed with a railgun, of course. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted August 2, 2017 Report Share Posted August 2, 2017 Sounds reasonable. tkdguy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted August 2, 2017 Report Share Posted August 2, 2017 Not a giant radioactive robot spider with railgun? So when it bites you you can have giant radioactive robot spider with railgun powers? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygnia Posted August 2, 2017 Report Share Posted August 2, 2017 Possible Third Death In The Rockies Hunting For Forrest Fenn’s $2 Million Buried Treasure Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted August 2, 2017 Report Share Posted August 2, 2017 However I don't think anyone ever did go ahead and build "salted nukes" because they were extremely dangerous and really offered no actual value to anyone intelligent enough to build one. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salted_bomb Now if they made them salted caramel nukes...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Hopcroft Posted August 2, 2017 Report Share Posted August 2, 2017 However I don't think anyone ever did go ahead and build "salted nukes" because they were extremely dangerous and really offered no actual value to anyone intelligent enough to build one. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salted_bomb "Intelligent enough to build one" seems contradictory, since it implies that an intelligent person would want to build one. Then again, intelligence and rationality are two very different things. You can be rational and ignorant. You can also be very intelligent, but believe things that rival psychotic delusions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enforcer84 Posted August 2, 2017 Report Share Posted August 2, 2017 Now if they made them salted caramel nukes...... Mmmmm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted August 2, 2017 Report Share Posted August 2, 2017 Now if they made them salted caramel nukes......... it'd be weapons of mass tooth destruction. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tech priest support Posted August 2, 2017 Report Share Posted August 2, 2017 "Intelligent enough to build one" seems contradictory, since it implies that an intelligent person would want to build one. Then again, intelligence and rationality are two very different things. You can be rational and ignorant. You can also be very intelligent, but believe things that rival psychotic delusions. Fair enough. So far while people possessing the intelligence to research and develop new types of nuclear weapons have discovered the scientific principles that prove salted nukes are possible and how to build them, the people who are in charge of nuclear weapon development and deployment have rationally determined, after examining the concept and it's likely effects, that there is no practical, rational, useful reason to develop and deploy salted nukes and have therefore not done so. Now I am sure a lot of people with low or defective intelligence would, given the option, have such weapons built, deployed and used. A lot of Muslim fanatics, for example, might dream of annihilating Israel and exterminating it's populace with salted nukes. Likewise a lot of other anti Semites would want to do the same. Also someone like north Korea's dictator might get off on using one on America. And to be fair a lot of stupid ignorant americans might want to eliminate all Muslim, communist, socialist, etc countries with salted nukes. Thankfully so far the people in charge of nuclear weapon policy have either decided not to do so for very sound reasons or are unable to. So far. BTW I tried to keep this post as apolitical as possible by pointing out that the people who would use salted nukes if they could were of, IMO, low or defective intelligence, so I tried not to mention political groups. I don't consider talking about north Korea's leader talking about politics but talking about hereditary insanity and power. I do believe that it would exhibit questionable intelligence for any human agency to deploy salted nukes. Now something like skynet or the rebooted cylons might see a practical use for them, given they both had genocidal intentions. In fact it was implied Cylon's had used salted nukes in the past. So to answer your original point, yes there has been at least one type of weapon so awful the human race has so far shunned it's development. That's something I suppose. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted August 3, 2017 Report Share Posted August 3, 2017 Nevada makes it illegal to drive slowly in the left lane Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted August 3, 2017 Report Share Posted August 3, 2017 Do they define "slowly"? Or is everyone doing ander 110 antivehicle rocket bait? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Posted August 3, 2017 Report Share Posted August 3, 2017 You can also be very intelligent, but believe things that rival psychotic delusions. Which is why I am trying to swear off politics. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Posted August 3, 2017 Report Share Posted August 3, 2017 Nevada makes it illegal to drive slowly in the left lane I live in the South, we believe in driving the exact same speed as the guy in the right lane. Especially when somebody behind is in a hurry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted August 3, 2017 Report Share Posted August 3, 2017 ... I'm familiar with the phenomenon, and it is the reason the Almighty gave the rest of us antivehicle artillery. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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