'The global-warmers were bound to attack, but why are they so feeble?'

The Daily Telegraph UK ^ | 17 march 2007 | Martin Durkin

[Thickman]

This article "The Law of Accelerating Returns" is fascinating. And I get your point about its implications regarding "global warming".

[Dick Bachert]

Here's MY quite EXTREME method to deal with the WOT problem.
It's a method I think Teddy Roosevelt would understand -- and implement:

NOTICE TO ALL FOREIGN CITIZENS and THEIR GOVERNMENTS!
(EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY)

1. As a sovereign nation, you have the same rights to govern your nation as we have. Whether freely elected or despotic tyranny, how you run your government and DOMESTIC affairs is between you and your leaders. If you people don't like how your government is behaving, we suggest you read some American history for the period between, say, 1774 and 1789. The world is awash in various sorts of small arms and other weapons. Getting enough to turn out your tyrant-du-jour ought not be a problem. Yes, many people will die (just as they did HERE in the late 1700s). It's the price of freedom. But -- and this is important to us -- our SOLDIERS will not be among them. But trust us when we tell you that the casualties of your revolution will pale compared to those you will suffer should we be forced to invoke Clause 3!

2. Please pay SPECIAL attention to the word "domestic" in number 1.

3. The MINUTE we become privy to firm, corroborated intelligence that you have plans to harm the United States or one of our recognized allies -- or, worst case -- DO, in fact carry out such an operation, the United States and any such allies who wish to assist will come to you and request that you cease and desist. If you refuse to do so, we will TURN MOST OF YOUR LAND INTO A SMOKING RUIN. We include in this list of threats AIDING, ABETTING, HARBORING, TRAINING OR SUPPLYING THOSE WHO, ALTHOUGH NOT CITIZENS OF YOUR NATION, MAKE PLANS TO HARM US OR AN ALLY.

We wish to live and trade in peace with all peoples -- BUT harm us or injure/kill American/allied citizens AND YOUR WORLD AS YOU HAVE KNOWN IT WILL SIMPLY GO AWAY -- FOREVER.

(If you have never seen it, slide on down to Blockbuster and rent "The Day the Earth Stood Still" with Arabic/Farsi subtitles, of course. REREAD 3 AND THINK "GORT.")

4. Once those smoking ruins have sufficiently cooled, we will put boots on the ground, clear any remaining resistance and seize your former property for the benefit of those who participated in the neutralization of the threat you posed. Casualties among our troops should be very limited because, as we think you have seen, the weapons possessed by the United States will leave very few to resist. REREAD 4 AND THINK 51st STATE!

QUESTIONS????

Thank you for your support in this vital matter.

The People of the United States of America

[RightWhale]

Before the Little Ice Age the Northwest Passage north of Canada was open so Chinese traders reached as far as Baffin Island.

[RightWhale]

Before the Little Ice Age the Northwest Passage north of Canada was open so Chinese traders reached as far as Baffin Island.

[Zon]

This article "The Law of Accelerating Returns" is fascinating. And I get your point about its implications regarding "global warming".

Yes. And it's not limited to the AGW hoax. All dogma and propaganda will be rendered ineffective.

[plenipotentiary]

The Law of Accelereting Returns.

Super intelligent life may well have bypassed this planet long ago.

[Zon]

Super intelligent life may well have bypassed this planet long ago.

It has. Err, their technology advancement has surpassed Earthlings before the human species existed. They haven't surpassed us as such, as they are way out in the lead. They probably have a billion years or more on us. Earthlings are not intelligent, leastwise not by their civilizations' sans irrationality being the norm. Perhaps the only similarity between us is consciousness. Albeit, seemingly eons ago they successfully out-competed their own anti-civilization that was mired in irrationality. Which they have long forgotten.

Matter and energy being the two macro components of existence, what if consciousness is the third macro component? What if conscious beings are the supreme controllers of matter and energy -- the supreme controllers of existence; manipulating the laws of nature/physics? 

We know that conscious Earthlings increasingly understand the laws of nature/physics to increasingly control nature. It's how we advance technology. Because knowledge begets new knowledge conscious beings are limitless -- within the laws of physics --  in their control of existence.