Using Disaster

Roger Wright

While striking a woman is morally reprehensible to me, executing one of such blatant stupidity should be viewed not as a crime, but as a laudable effort to cleanse the gene pool. A public reward should be offered for providing this service to humanity. Nobody wants to read a diary by someone who has not seen the shadow of Bubba on the prison shower wall in front of them!
Paul Watson, on BLOGS and privacy - 1/16/2003

Paul Watson

Shog9 wrote: The thought of others doing less with more must be a comfort. Oh but Shog! She attends charity events and even had some previously disadvantaged kids over to her house the other day for supper. Really, she is saving souls! X| Shog9 wrote: What indicator are you looking for? Err, ok, I just wanted to rant about bees with itches like her. So I never thought this far ahead.. ummm.. an indicator... like litmus... dropping them in acid might be a good idea... but no, then the anti-acid people will be given ammunition.. no... hmm.. indicatorrrrr... doghnuttttsss... damned Tab key never gives me any Tab... wheres that any key now? Baarrrtt!!!... doogghhnnutttss... Indicator: First official press release with the words "We told you so" and "Columbia" from any organisation with a previous anti-space stance. Or something like that. Anything official I guess.

Paul Watson
Bluegrass
Cape Town, South Africa

Roger Wright wrote: Using a feather is kinky; using the whole chicken is perverted!

Konstantin Vasserman

I went to a few places yesterday: a few stores, some work on my car, got a haircut and so on. Everywhere people were talking about the tragedy. There were 2 main themes: 1. god this and god that... 2. They have no business flying into space in the first place because there are still unsolved problems on the earth... Both of the views really make me angry. I've got an impression that majority of the people think that way. Maybe it's time for me to move somewhere... Can someone take me to ISS and leave me there? I am sick of stupid people.

ColinDavies

Paul Watson wrote: So you see, I wanted to thump her. Lets edit that eh! So you see, I wanted to hump her. This will be a lot better, and you can hump some sense into her while you are about it. Regardz Colin J Davies

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I'm guessing the concept of a 2 hour movie showing two guys eating a meal and talking struck them as 'foreign' Rob Manderson wrote:

Jason Henderson

She's relying on the government to do what she should be doing herself. In othere words, if she wants to make a difference in someone's life, she should do it herself.

Jason Henderson
"You must be the change you wish to see in the world." - Gandhi

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Paul Watson

Konstantin Vasserman wrote: I've got an impression that majority of the people think that way. Holy crap, serious? So the average Americans apathy for anything outside of the borders of America reaches even to space. That is sad to hear. Bet they get all excited when things blow up though.

Paul Watson
Bluegrass
Cape Town, South Africa

Roger Wright wrote: Using a feather is kinky; using the whole chicken is perverted!

Paul Watson

Colin Davies wrote: This will be a lot better, and you can hump some sense into her while you are about it. Thanks, but I don't want to catch whatever she has got. :|

Paul Watson
Bluegrass
Cape Town, South Africa

Roger Wright wrote: Using a feather is kinky; using the whole chicken is perverted!

Christian Graus

Paul Watson wrote: That she then walked out of the shop and into a brand new BMW made me even more enraged. :omg::wtf: That is truly classic stuff. Christian No offense, but I don't really want to encourage the creation of another VB developer. - Larry Antram 22 Oct 2002
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Konstantin Vasserman

Paul Watson wrote: Bet they get all excited when things blow up though. No. Everyone is upset and sad and feel very bad for what happened. It's just majority of the people don't even understand what it's all about. They don't know why we fly to space. The don't know much of anything outside of the bible that was "stamped" into their heads from childhood. Hell, most of them don't even know the bible...

Michael A Barnhart

Well, I can not quite recent figures but some time back I saw figures that showed when you look at spawned off industry (like the PC Market) NASA has actually made more revenue for the US than it cost. Now throw in the lives that have been improved with the technologies and it is one of the clearly good things the US Gov has promoted IMO. "I will find a new sig someday."

Chris Austin

Konstantin Vasserman wrote: 2. They have no business flying into space in the first place because there are still unsolved problems on the earth... Funny, I had the exact opposite experiance. As I sat down for my lonely dinner I heard a lot of people opining that it should be fixed asap and how nasa needs more money. Konstantin Vasserman wrote: 1. god this and god that... LOL! What part of the country are you in? I hope it's not somewhere in the deep south like Mississippi. If so get out before it's too late. :) "Veni, Vidi, Booyah!" - Ceasar

Konstantin Vasserman

Chris Austin wrote: heard a lot of people opining that it should be fixed asap and how nasa needs more money. I don't know about people in media coverage. I am just talking about people on the "streets". Maybe I just got very unlucky... Chris Austin wrote: What part of the country are you in? I hope it's not somewhere in the deep south like Mississippi. If so get out before it's too late. :) I am in Ohio. But it does not matter where I live - just listen to Bush's speech yesterday. There is word "god" in every other sentence...

Chris Austin

Konstantin Vasserman wrote: Maybe I just got very unlucky... You must have. I was out at a resturant when I heard this stuff. Konstantin Vasserman wrote: just listen to Bush's speech yesterday LOL!!! Again, when I heard he was going to give a speech I poped in "Chasing Amy" and watched that. I have been boycotting his speeches because when he talks I get pissed off. "Veni, Vidi, Booyah!" - Ceasar

Konstantin Vasserman

Chris Austin wrote: I was out at a resturant when I heard this stuff. Was it an expensive restaurant? ;) Chris Austin wrote: I have been boycotting his speeches because when he talks I get pissed off. I need to learn from you and stop watching news all together. Every time I watch news I get pissed off.

Lost User

I just voted a 5, excellent comment. And your quote from Ghandi (which I like) provides an interesting comment on the Ghandi thread above. Elaine The tigress is here :-D

Rob Graham

Paul Watson wrote: whatever she has got. Stupidity Transmitted Disease?:suss: Some ideas are so stupid that only an intellectual could have thought of them - George Orwell

Stan Shannon

The Earth first argument against space exploration is pathetically stupid. To wait until every child on the planet is fat and happy before we can go exploring is to say that we will never go exploring because every child will never be fat and happy. Still, I think the U.S. does need to totally rethink its objectives in space. As long as the government is running the space program it will probably continue to be a waste of money and lives. Private coorporations wishing to exploit and develope space based resources should be given sufficient tax incentives for doing so. If there are sound fiscal reasons for putting people into space, than private companies should assume the risks. If those 7 gallent public employees aboard Columbia had just been so many capitalists pigs coming back after raping the moon, nobody would have cared or noticed their deaths. Government sponsered space exploration will always be done for the wrong reasons. For example, to even consider sending people to Mars before we have established a functional lunar colony is ludicrous. Yet, the government would do that just to leave a foot print and a flag. For the expense we have poured into that stupid "space station" we could have already had people permanently on the moon. So I guess I come down on the defund NASA side, but I'm not at all "anti-spacer". I hope they defund it soon and let private enterprise take us into the next frontier. "Any clod can have the facts, but having opinions is an art." Charles McCabe, San Francisco Chronicle

Anna Jayne Metcalfe

I don't blame you one bit for feeling that way Paul. :rose: I'd have told her what I thought of her. ;) Anna :rose: www.annasplace.me.uk

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Stan Shannon

Konstantin Vasserman wrote: I am in Ohio Which part? I live in Indiana and have found it to be about the most religious place I have ever lived, and that includes Oklahoma, Alabama and Utah. I doubt Ohio would be much different. I thought Bush gave an appropriate speech. However, I can't help but be amused at how the press goes on about it. It wasn't that good. Although I'm not overtly religious, I don't have a problem with religion myself. I wouldn't think any seriously non-religious person would find the U.S. a comfortable place to live. Although I suppose its more comfortable than the former Soviet Union, antheism or not, eh? "Any clod can have the facts, but having opinions is an art." Charles McCabe, San Francisco Chronicle

Konstantin Vasserman

Stan Shannon wrote: Which part? Cincinnati area. Stan Shannon wrote: I live in Indiana and have found it to be about the most religious place I have ever lived, and that includes Oklahoma, Alabama and Utah. I doubt Ohio would be much different. I haven't lived in other states for long periods of time, but from what I hear from others you are correct and Ohio and Indiana are about the same as far as religion concern. Stan Shannon wrote: I wouldn't think any seriously non-religious person would find the U.S. a comfortable place to live. Although I suppose its more comfortable than the former Soviet Union, antheism or not, eh? It all depends on what you are looking for. Personal belief or lack thereof were not one of the decisive factors for my move.