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Mass surveillance is not a privacy issue.
[N]ot but a year or so ago, the entire country was up in arms about mass surveillance of everyone via the NSA, Facebook, and other organizations. Now we not only have the idea of creating a perpetual state of cameras watching from CCTV on the corner to cameras on LEOs, but many people are begging for more of it. Am I in the twilight zone? I'm guessing it is safe to assume that the people against mass surveillance aren't the same people wanting these cameras everywhere.
You are obviously confused. Watch the youtube video again. It explains it for you in very simple terms.
But if the earth is flat, the diameter is 40,000km across, then the arc of the sky becomes that same diameter as a round earth. We are now inside the circle/sphere looking out. The earth is flat remember. I'm pretty sick of telling you that. Its flat. When you consider my viewpoint, remember that the earth is flat.
If you use a sextant and measure the size of the sun it comes out a 32 arc minutes as you can see in the table linked.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angular_diameter#Use_in_astronomy
1 degree = 60 minutes of arc.
1 minute of arc = 1 nautical mile.
It's that simple.
A NAUTICAL MILE is equal to one minute of arc of a great circle. Latitude is measured north or south from the equator along a meridian (a great circle). One minute of latitude equals one nautical mile anywhere on the earth. Longitude is measured east or west from the prime meridian (zero degrees) at Greenwich, England. It is measured along a parallel of latitude (a small circle). One minute of longitude equals one nautical mile only at the equator. Approaching the poles, one minute of longitude equals less and less of a nautical mile.
Don't come back to this thread unless you have a source as specific as this disproving my source.
What has yet to be explained, however, is the incredible coincidence where the sun and moon under RET have a difference in size by over four million times yet appear to be the same size in the sky.
I never suggested my right wing attitude on "Palestine" was conventional for Judaism. In fact, most Jews of my acquaintance do NOT share my views. They still believe in the Two-State Solution. I did too, for MANY YEARS. I don't now, because my education has taught me that it is unrealistic and stupid to do so. But even in Israel, 85% of Israeli Jews (at least before the last war with Gaza) still believed in it.
I have said that many times in this forum as well. Perhaps you are all reading only that which you wish to read. Hell, I have even said, more than once, that if they would be willing to stop throwing their effing rockets, I might even be willing to reconsider, and that against my better judgement. But they haven't, and won't, I don't expect. So I have had no reason to actually go that route.
Most Muslims believe what the Qur'an tells them about non-Muslims. After reading it three times, and studying in a Mosque for two years before becoming observant, I know this. You evidently do not. Read the Sunnah as well, where these beliefs are confirmed. And every Muslim I ever met confirmed that nearly all of them upheld Qur'anic standards. One almost has to.
Legalising cannabis to reduce drinking is like banning guns to prevent obesity.
I never met anyone who doesn't put tobacco in a joint. For a start, it doesn't burn well without tobacco and keeps going out.
And by the way, how the hell do you smoke oils or resin in a joint without tobacco?
I know it has nothing to do with flat earth. But this is the flat earth society, and the society element of that is important. That's why people stick around. Not to answer your every round earth objection. That is actually very boring.
Making IRC easier to access is useful for those who use it and like that mechanism, but it looks to be posing a danger to these forums as conversations are shifted onto that platform. Personally I don't use IRC as I like to visit, interact and leave the forum. I may do this for half an hour twice a day for example. I have no interest in maintaining a 14 hour IRC connection to enjoy daily debates.
No, I am talking about Gary calling me a cunt.
bunch of idiot words not about proliferation
Iran has historically acted the same way world powers do, that is, in their own self interest. I don't see how their religion or culture impacts that.
I think the primary threat from Iranian nuclearization is less that Iran will first strike someone (Israel) and more that it all but requires their neighbors to follow suit. Saudi Arabia's alliance with Pakistan (and material support for its nuclear program) can be viewed almost exclusively through that lens. If Saudi Arabia and Iran both have nukes, then there's good reasons to believe that the proliferation will spread to neighbors like UAE, Jordan, Egypt, Syria, Turkey, etc. I really don't want to see what the Mid East would be like if half of the region had nukes.
I doubt Iran would first strike someone because that would be suicide. As I argued with Tausami, Iran isn't a country full of idiots. They have some religious nuts, yes, but not the kind that offs themselves. They have enemies they want to destroy, but like all countries, they want to destroy their enemies without destroying themselves in the process.
I disagree with you that history is good evidence in favor of 'proliferation=security.' I don't at all dispute that your statement is empirically true to this point in time, but nuclear weapons just haven't been around for that long, and they've been concentrated in the hands of a few states, most of which have exceptionally similar ideologies. I think it would be a mistake to draw sweeping conclusions from the very limited empirical data that exists. It's like flipping a coin 50 times and getting 25 heads/25 tails. The coin might appear to be fair, but we've haven't flipped enough times to know for sure.
"You're right, but you're not right enough!" Lol, okay.
When it comes to first-strike states being a bother to you, I would be more worried about Israel. They seem to be really intent on making sure they can fire off nukes in any direction and have their Iron Dome system fend off anyone who tries to fight back.
I want Iran to have nukes. Historically, a country that acquired nukes always became more stable and the region became more peaceful. Very recent examples include Israel, which threatened to nuke the entire region and subsequently survived an Egyptian beat-down, and then we have Ukraine, who gave up their nukes only to be invaded by Russia.
Nuclear weapons have only stopped wars, they have never started them.