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[Deathbearer]

http://usgovinfo.about.com/od/defenseandsecurity/a/draftreg.htm

I really ought to find out if I remembered to do that..

[broughtpain]

http://usgovinfo.about.com/od/defenseandsecurity/a/draftreg.htm

I really ought to find out if I remembered to do that..

I've never heard of someone being prosecuted for not registering. Never heard of anyone being denied welfare for not registering either. Typically, you just fill out a little card that registers you for the draft and voting, then mail it in. It's stupid simple and should be mandatory for any program funded by taxpayers dollars just like vaccines are mandatory for public schools.





As with all things Washington, there's more to it than what's being said. The initiative to get women registered for the draft is more about equality under the law than anything else.
A part of being socially equal is being equal and treated equally under the law...

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/ct-plane-explosion-somalia-20160202-story.html

[whiterabbit]

They don't ask if you've registered for SS on any voting application that I've seen. I think in most cases people just do it because they understand that's just how it goes. I mean shit the military as it is, is all voluntary anyways. No lack of demand to serve in the united states even during a time of war. Sure the benefits are great but I figured if it ever got so bad that I'd be drafted then I'd probably would have voluntary signed up anyways.

http://www.staradvertiser.com/sports/sports-breaking/kings-remove-chinese-new-year-tshirts-on-first-day-of-black-history-month/

I just have no words to... I mean what are they trying to say here? I can't stop laughing, I mean this has to be some sort of particle joke right?

[broughtpain]

http://video.foxnews.com/v/4734194129001/police-chiefs-from-around-us-testify-on-growing-isis-threat/?#sp=show-clips


The numbers aren't a laughing matter. Think about the groups in France and the damage done there.

Sadly, nobody has a plan beyond the definition of insanity to address the problem.

[whiterabbit]

http://www.space.com/31810-alien-megastructure-star-flickering-mystery-continues.html

"The results also change the requirements for the alien megastructure hypothesis. Plait pointed out that the general fading is actually what you'd expect to see if aliens were building a massive sphere around their star. But before you get your hopes up, consider this: Plait calculated that aliens would need to build a minimum of 750 billion square kilometers (290 billion square miles) of solar panels to account for the 20 percent drop in their star's brightness. "That's 1,500 times the area of the entire Earth," Plait wrote. "Yikes.""

We've got problems if that's true.

[Hubbs]

http://video.foxnews.com/v/4734194129001/police-chiefs-from-around-us-testify-on-growing-isis-threat/?#sp=show-clips


The numbers aren't a laughing matter. Think about the groups in France and the damage done there.

Sadly, nobody has a plan beyond the definition of insanity to address the problem.

And most just get let into western countries under the disguise of being refugees, yet still people champion it. There is nothing you can do to stop it, people won't understand until it too late.

[Topazora]

http://www.space.com/31810-alien-megastructure-star-flickering-mystery-continues.html

"The results also change the requirements for the alien megastructure hypothesis. Plait pointed out that the general fading is actually what you'd expect to see if aliens were building a massive sphere around their star. But before you get your hopes up, consider this: Plait calculated that aliens would need to build a minimum of 750 billion square kilometers (290 billion square miles) of solar panels to account for the 20 percent drop in their star's brightness. "That's 1,500 times the area of the entire Earth," Plait wrote. "Yikes.""

We've got problems if that's true.

http://cdn.meme.am/instances/53240592.jpg

From the great words of Sherlock Holmes- "when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth"

I think many of us have accepted that the universe is a very large and strange place, and very likely to be the home for many civilizations.  And I've always believed that making assumptions about aliens based on human parameters- is extremely erroneous and arrogant.  I don't see why extraterrestrial civilizations could not have found ways of doing things that we would have never thought of.  So, if nature can't explain why the star is losing its brightness, why not an artificial explanation?
Fascinating article.

[SpreadEagleBeagle]

http://video.foxnews.com/v/4734194129001/police-chiefs-from-around-us-testify-on-growing-isis-threat/?#sp=show-clips


The numbers aren't a laughing matter. Think about the groups in France and the damage done there.

Sadly, nobody has a plan beyond the definition of insanity to address the problem.

And most just get let into western countries under the disguise of being refugees, yet still people champion it. There is nothing you can do to stop it, people won't understand until it too late.

That's not why at all. There's a disconnect as you want to label all immigrants as the same and not as complicated, diverse groups of individuals - you know, the opposite way to how we treat Westerners. Vilifying and demonizing refugees and immigrants won't change anything for the better - it actually has the opposite effect!

And the saddest part of the whole thing is that Muslim immigrants and Libyan and Syrian refugees condemn and hate ISIS and their like more than anyone. They protest and oppose radicalized Islamist Islam more than anyone, even though media barely covers that part at all. Gets drowned in the sidelines as it is more interesting to focus on the terrorists rather than the actual victims.

They, regular Middle-Easterners (be it Muslim, Christian, be it Syrian, Libyan, Kurd, Iraqi) are the main ground forces fighting them "back home". ISIS/ISIL are the main reason they fled in the first place. They got their families harassed, terrorized and killed by those assholes, their homes bombed and their lives ruined. They hate them. Yet we focus on this absolute minority of psychotic crazies, these groups of radicalized individuals and think that it's ok and defensible to let them represent all Middle-Easterners/Muslims in the world, and for some heartless reason especially focusing on the ones in need. That's just inhumane and shows a total lack of empathy and it's a huge double-standard, and it won't solve the problem one bit - it'll just make it worse as you give into ISIS's agenda, which is to start some apocalyptic BS war between "the right kind of Muslims" and the rest of the world.

There are other ways to fight disguised terrorists than discrediting, discriminating, vilifying and alienating entire civilian populations. No? We're already fighting together on the ground with people from the region against ISIS in these war zones, why not doing the same here in the West?

[whiterabbit]

http://www.space.com/31810-alien-megastructure-star-flickering-mystery-continues.html

"The results also change the requirements for the alien megastructure hypothesis. Plait pointed out that the general fading is actually what you'd expect to see if aliens were building a massive sphere around their star. But before you get your hopes up, consider this: Plait calculated that aliens would need to build a minimum of 750 billion square kilometers (290 billion square miles) of solar panels to account for the 20 percent drop in their star's brightness. "That's 1,500 times the area of the entire Earth," Plait wrote. "Yikes.""

We've got problems if that's true.

http://cdn.meme.am/instances/53240592.jpg

From the great words of Sherlock Holmes- "when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth"

I think many of us have accepted that the universe is a very large and strange place, and very likely to be the home for many civilizations.  And I've always believed that making assumptions about aliens based on human parameters- is extremely erroneous and arrogant.  I don't see why extraterrestrial civilizations could not have found ways of doing things that we would have never thought of.  So, if nature can't explain why the star is losing its brightness, why not an artificial explanation?
Fascinating article.

It's not just that but the fact that a Dyson Sphere is just that, a sphere that encapsulates an entire star. It's supposed to be huge as f**k. So I don't see why that is troubling to her.

[The Alien Predator]

http://www.space.com/31810-alien-megastructure-star-flickering-mystery-continues.html

"The results also change the requirements for the alien megastructure hypothesis. Plait pointed out that the general fading is actually what you'd expect to see if aliens were building a massive sphere around their star. But before you get your hopes up, consider this: Plait calculated that aliens would need to build a minimum of 750 billion square kilometers (290 billion square miles) of solar panels to account for the 20 percent drop in their star's brightness. "That's 1,500 times the area of the entire Earth," Plait wrote. "Yikes.""

We've got problems if that's true.

http://cdn.meme.am/instances/53240592.jpg

From the great words of Sherlock Holmes- "when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth"

I think many of us have accepted that the universe is a very large and strange place, and very likely to be the home for many civilizations.  And I've always believed that making assumptions about aliens based on human parameters- is extremely erroneous and arrogant.  I don't see why extraterrestrial civilizations could not have found ways of doing things that we would have never thought of.  So, if nature can't explain why the star is losing its brightness, why not an artificial explanation?
Fascinating article.

It's not just that but the fact that a Dyson Sphere is just that, a sphere that encapsulates an entire star. It's supposed to be huge as f**k. So I don't see why that is troubling to her.

It's Space Jockeys, and they're building a giant biomechanical phallus to siphon the energy from the star. I've seen it with my telescope.

But seriously, I've noticed this appearing several times on the news. I posted a link a bit earlier in the thread. It's really exciting to see this stuff. Although we should be careful, because once people thought "channels" were built on Mars by aliens until we went there and found out that it's just canyons.

Aw screw it, it's aliens building a freakin' Dyson Sphere. That's more exciting. Aliens until proven otherwise! Come on Nasa, build a powerful telescope so we can see it in detail!

[whiterabbit]

The truth is that no one, here anyways, on earth, knows whats going with that star. It could be Cthulhu for all we know.

[FiorinaFury161]

... Or Charles Montgomery Burns.

[Gate]

...Sure... finding alien mega structures is all exciting until they turn out to be Reapers...

[Novak 1334]

Dave Mirra died, apparent suicide.  2016 sucks balls

[broughtpain]

http://video.foxnews.com/v/4741111798001/suspect-in-massachusetts-murder-could-have-been-held-by-ice/?#sp=show-clips

The logistics of criminal syndicates is grossly neglected at the discussion tables.