And basically that's my point: it pushes the focus towards a distinct philosophy, positivism. Not that there's inherently wrong with that, actually. A...
For something as developed and complex living being as a human, the word "soul" and the definition of a soul is extremely useful when describing the c...
Thanatos Sand, North Korea is not a threat to China. China has it's own nuclear deterrence and the North Korean nukes aren't there against them. These...
China being onboard with UN resolutions that the US has pushed for is clearly to the benefit of the US. Because I'm not convinced that North Korea pos...
Well, China didn't like the nuclear tests for one thing, even if the countries have been allies. Just to give one example, China has supported UN sanc...
China can allways use the North Korea card: Let's say that Trump gets angry at China for some reason and starts imposing something extremely annoying ...
Actually there's no real failure on the part of the US. You hear of the line that "Well, they saw what happened to Ghaddafi", but that's not the real ...
The Soviet Union is the perfect example. That example is very current now as ex-KGB officer lead Russia is using same antics and 'active measures' ext...
You have a point in that this isn't anything new. Yet other nations aren't built on the same foundations. The Russian Empire, especially in it's last ...
A late answer, Mongrel Yes. Finns generally see themselves as honest people and there is a lot of trust even in strangers thanks to the high level of ...
Yeah, they might even know that they are lying, but the real thing is if something can be shown as a lie. A lie we can see is a lie that is knowingly ...
Trump surely puts lying into a whole new dimension, basically that lying simply doesn't matter at all. The usual way is just to pick the facts that he...
Sometimes else I would have been quite nervous about this. But now we know how simply inept Trump is and that his cabinet (Tillerson, Mattis, etc.) an...
Special events ordinary mean that special attention is given the type of photos one takes. Many do think so. Having photo's that are out of the ordina...
Why cannot Euclidean and non-Euclidean geometries be both part of Geometry? You still talk about geometry. Why cannot there be a field about questions...
Seems like the existence of a standing army itself is the biggest risk that OP sees in armed forces. Not that actually militaries are there to fight a...
I think the larger problem is the bipolarization and outright alienation of the different camps in the US. Trump will just increase this. Above all, t...
Trump's ignorance and utter lack of judgement is the reason of all this. I think the Steele dossier puts it as it is, that basically Trump is a willin...
I think Dennet makes a point. We can use machines, technologies and treatments and the whole panoply of what science and technology has given us and t...
Oh, we survived Stalin and the Cold War alone, so this isn't anything new. Actually, the real worry was with the Baltic States. There Putin could trul...
This would be the likely way for any capable politician to wiggle out from the mess they are in. Basically just the way that Iran-Contra didn't touch ...
Don't forget that the actual war happened in Eastern Ukraine, in the Donbass region. It's not a separate issue here. And there the Russians didn't jus...
Classic reply would be: so did the Sudetenland Germans want to join Germany. And the question is, just how many do have to have to "join" Russia. Russ...
One of the reason why math seems for many so different, something equivalent of making crossword puzzles and something opposite to using intuitive (or...
That true. And they will take time. The only thing is that Trump himself just makes things worse by what he does, what he says and what he tweets. I c...
Has anybody mentioned Ingmar Bergman's films? Bergman uses quite a lot of metaphors in his films. The Seventh Seal is quite philosophical (among other...
There is allways a first time and likely nobody believed this could happen... not likely even the Russians at first. The Russians has for a long time ...
??? If the teacher refers to "Apollo nonsense" and states that "the corrected version" now in textbooks are that the Apollo mission were fake and she ...
I think the reason is understandable, at least in my opinion. And should we say by today's rhetoric: anti-science. The World where "everybody is a far...
It is very philosophical. And also very telling of the age before the energy crisis and the 70's when our thoughts on the near future started to chang...
People applying for a job in the intelligence community or the armed forces or those inside them moving to positions where they handle confidential ma...
Yep. Russia and Trump is real. Those Champagne bottles weren't opened in celebrating in Trump's win just for Trump winning, but for the brilliant work...
A bit of a problem: The idea of just what is "leftist", "centrist" and what is "right-wing" differs especially between the US and Europe. Europeans wh...
And then of course, there is the trail of dead & arrested Russians... which give credibility to the Steele dossier. Interesting to see what kind of ca...
Well, that was the way basically referring to, that's how the Russian did get him... recruited. And likely there is the money trail. With Carter Page ...
They are intertwined deeply. The difference in the mathematical schools of thought cannot be done away with some mathematical proof. The differences a...
The real thing is his lack of judgement and ignorance in this case. So his enterprises went bankrupt and he couldn't get financing from the US, so he ...
Long. Besides, if Trump would be even a moderately capable politician this would go away... likely with Michael Flynn and Carter Page etc. getting eit...
As I've said, how we get out from using oil is when there is a cheaper method of producing energy. Or to say it another way: when oil is so expensive ...
First, Hubbert's theory of Peak Oil was about the production in general. Second, we surely haven't reach that point and likely never, ever will. Remem...
Actually, 19th Century Sci-Fi did many times underestimate the technological advances. All that what now has become Steampunk. Naturally extremely rar...
First and foremost: it doesn't want to do that. What the rulers of North Korea want is simple: to remain in power. And in order to do so, they need th...
Please tell me, just how would we become extinct in 500 years? We are talking about the most adaptive animal that ever has lived on this planet. 1517 ...
Bitter, nuclear non-proliferation agreements talks did have an effect. It's a thing that people don't realize that especially the nuclear deterrent in...
How so? What is so different now from earlier times? That the US has Trump? Nah. If the cease-fire has held since the 1950's, a part a few incidents, ...
Actually, the change would be more a mental issue than physical on the global scale. Of course, the term Limited nuclear war is a bit puzzling. A Limi...
First and foremost, a free market needs legal and political rules to function as otherwise the premises for a free market to function don't exist (and...
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