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Compare our invasion of Korea with that of Vietnam only a few years later. Before you say "Korea was UN-approved" — no, that's a lame excuse. Stalin boycotted UN at the time action on Korea was decided, but by the time of Vietnam USSR has changed its approach. That's all.

In both cases American military was sent to fight in remote lands against people, who didn't threaten America directly in any way — for fear of the domino effect of Communism. In both cases the fighting was heavy and numerous war-crimes have taken place.

And yet, there was no domestic opposition to the Korean war — virtually none. No protests against the draft, no accusations of returning soldiers being "baby-killers". John Kerry, for example, has gained more political capital for opposing the war (and returning his medals), than for fighting in it (for an entire 4 months).

Vietnam was widely considered a national shame long before the war was lost. Meanwhile the only source of any negativity about the Korean war in mass culture was the M*A*S*H series.

Why was the domestic reaction to the two wars so drastically different? The theory of propagandists controlled and funded (with or without their own knowledge) by the USSR would explain the known facts.

The Russian's don't give a damn about connecting London to North America.

What would be of more importance to them is better transport infrastructure between European Russia and the Russian Far East. Across much of thet route, roads are simply non-existant even today. If you drive from Moscow to Vladivostok then you're not taking a journey, you're mounting an expedition

Why would they want this infrastructure? Well large numbers of Chinese are moving north to settle in Russia. There's speculation that Chinese will be a majority in the Russian Far East few decades. See:

http://abcnews.go.com/Internat... http://newobserveronline.com/r...

Better commincations across Russia will help them counter this and help tie the country together.

oh my godsies, parents have to take care of their kids. Wow, that's terrible. Next thing you know they'll have to find them too... tough shit, have a kid, you better be there to take care of them and raise them.

"Being there" and "taking care" of a kid also involves gradually giving them the freedom to make their own choices and do their own things as they grow. If you don't do this, you end up with kids who never learn to take care of themselves and are still living at home in their late 20s or 30s.

Anyhow, this needs to be based on age and maturity level, obviously. But nowadays we can't trust a 10-year-old to play outside with a 6.5-year-old younger sibling or to walk home from a park together (and yes, the parents ultimately were found responsible for neglect), nor can we trust an 11-year-old alone in a car for a few minutes while Mommy goes into the store.

Etc., etc. Sadly, these stories are not uncommon. There are things like this that come up on a regular basis across the U.S., and if you search a bit you can also read some of the harrowing stories of parents who are force to spend months or years struggling to get their kids back or living under draconian state "supervision" by CPS when they do.

Yes, as parents, you need to supervise your kids when they are little, and then you gradually allow them more freedom. It's called "growing up." But nowadays, people call the cops if they see a kid younger than 16 without a parent around, and CPS comes knocking.

You don't think that's extreme?

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/po...

Actually it did.

Apologize.

That's a good try, but the White House stood behind the NASA Administrator's words - it wasn't the 'conversational puffery' you want to portray it as...

Remember when then President-elect Obama promised to "put science back in it's rightful place"? I guess you just find it hard to believe that in President Obama's opinion the 'rightful place' for science is in the service of making foreigners feel better about themselves.

Not according to President Obama's own directives to his NASA Chief

A few days ago, in Cairo, Bolden told Al Jazeera that when he became the NASA administrator, President Obama charged him with three things: "One, he wanted me to help re-inspire children to want to get into science and math; he wanted me to expand our international relationships; and third, and perhaps foremost, he wanted me to find a way to reach out to the Muslim world and engage much more with dominantly Muslim nations to help them feel good about their historic contribution to science and engineering â" science, math and engineering."

Source

It's a shame that politics is interfering with NASA's primary objectives from President Obama...

At least, I was assume it was in his biography (as I never read it). But when it came out, there were quite a few reports that Jobs said he had figured out TV interfaces:

• An Apple TV: Steve Jobs Confided Plans Before His Death
• Steve Jobs told biographer he 'cracked' the secret to a simple HDTV

It's entirely possible that because he didn't like the TVs, he had come up with a better UI ... but we haven't seen a dramatic revision of the Apple TV since he died ... so we might never know what it was that he came up with.

yes! publish their IP net space and show the logs of them editing their own pages to create a spin of bullshit propaganda. then lock that fucking page!

enough is enough. its time they learn that they are not the ultimate masters of us all.

the thugs are great at physical violence; but they are not thinkers; and they will not win this kind of war against the people. as dumb as people generally are, they are - on average - smarter than the average cop.

and yes, you have to fail an IQ test (so to speak) to be a cop. search on the CT guy who tried to apply to the police academy and was turned down because he scored too high on the test:

http://abcnews.go.com/US/court...

Are you saying that the CIA would trump up a fake rape charge just because someone was foolish enough to threaten U.S. interests, only for the truth to come out as soon as they got what they wanted?

That's just ludicrous!

I'd say leaving office apparently broke and then making shitloads-times-fuckloads of money later, is a sign of a successful president.

Well, then President Clinton neatly skirts any accusation of being successful by that metric: http://www.washingtonpost.com/...

They left office not just with millions, but also with the White House dinnerware: http://abcnews.go.com/Politics...

Diverting 93% of the water to grow lettuce in the desert since 1920 had nothing to do with it.

Also, ignore the arctic ice that's been increasing for three years, the antarctic ice that's always grown and hit a new record in 2014, snow in Hawaii, and the great lakes that have frozen early,and that have frozen over compete the last two years. Ignore Niagara falls that has frozen over two years in a row and ignore all the record cold around the country. Ignore the fact we kill killed half the worlds trees in the last 100 years and where we do theres drought and ignore the fact the IPCC did not admit trees ate CO2 until 2010. Ignore the fact NAS falsified the CO2 hypothesis in 2010 and ignore the fact the climate models now have 95% error.Ignore the fact corals have genes that upregulate to ignore acidification and warming and ignore the fact pollution (I'm especially looking at you big oil) has gotten worse while we're distracted by this nonsense. Ignore the fact not a single IPCC prediction ever came true.

And especially ignore NAA/NOAA when they say "there has been no warming this century"

Creation science, social science, climate science... if you have to add "science" to a word to give it legitimacy, it's not science any more than the Democratic People's republic of North Korea is a democracy. Real sciences yield natural laws to quote Feynman.

Instead, look at 01% of a country that is 2% of the world.

Refs:
1) Ice
http://rs79.vrx.net/opinions/i...
http://rs79.vrx.net/opinions/i...
http://rs79.vrx.net/opinions/i...
http://news.ku.dk/all_news/201...
http://www.nasa.gov/topics/ear...
http://www.nasa.gov/content/go...

2) records:
http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/vide...
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
http://www.staradvertiser.com/...
https://www.facebook.com/video...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...
http://ottawa.ctvnews.ca/febru...
http://www.latimes.com/local/l...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...

3) Trees:
http://www.pri.org/stories/201...
https://web.archive.org/web/20...
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com...
http://www.agu.org/news/press/...

North Carolina does not allow planning to take account of sea level rise because it impedes permitting new development. http://abcnews.go.com/US/north... Florida faces wide scale loss of real estate which hurts some constituencies if dealt with honestly.

They could re-use all the things they said in North Carolina, when passing legislation requiring coastal development planning to ignore sea level rises.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/north...

> Sounds like the best way to prolong your life is to avoid treadmills

Indeed

Or given classified documents to his biographer. I hear that you can just plead guilty to a misdemeanor in that case.

Maybe at the beginning "tech" sounded like a potential solution for border control. But a combination of immature technology and contractor graft made it way too expensive.

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/po...

Do we have alcohol vending machines now?

Yes.
http://espn.go.com/mlb/story/_...

Story says that isn't so. If Cody declared himself a gay man they would be in trouble for refusing to ship for him. But I'm guessing he is a white hetero male, so discrimination is ok in that case.

sure thing butchie, ole pal:

http://abcnews.go.com/Technolo...

http://www.businessinsider.com...

http://www.discourse.net/2011/...

that set of articles refers to michigan, but a device IS out there and you'd think it would be well known by slashies, at this point.

knowing about calea, its not a big stretch to see how this is yet another 'tool' that was given to cops to allow privacy invasions.

and like networking vendors who MUST give backdoors to products or they will not be allowed to move forward in their business - cell phone vendors MUST allow cops to break into your phone if they have one of these magic keys.

I'm really surprised you have not heard of this before.

Airlines are supported in several ways. One is that they pay less fuel tax. Then there are the bailouts that they get every now and then. The tax breaks that they give to airports. Not to mention incentives, grants, funding, etc to airports.

meerling was describing the implications of the system setup, as any engineer should, and used the term "Death squad" to describe the predicted outcome. It doesn't seem to be far off, as shooting people seems to be a startle reflex for US police. It's not like this in my country, and it doesn't need to be in yours either. The first two of the following links describe a baby and a toddler being shot by police. The third makes the point that when police are given military gear, they start behaving like soldiers, instead of the civilians that they are. http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/he... http://www.salon.com/2014/06/2... http://www.popularmechanics.co...

...as well as an increased risk of heart attack.

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/he...

I'll pass, since I already have heart disease in my family history. You can choose otherwise.

Already happened in the U.S. -- http://abcnews.go.com/Health/k... and http://cjonline.com/news/2014-... and many others... In this case, it is sperm donor and it is the 'State' law...

The most hilarious (or sad, depending on how you look at it) political correctness story that I've heard actually involved a guy using the term "African American" inappropriately. You see, he happened to be from Mozambique, and he immigrated to the USA, so he used it to refer to himself. But, unfortunately for him, he was white. Apparently, a white person saying that they're African American constitutes "misappropriating a cultural identity to which he is not entitled", even if they had been born in Africa and are American citizens.

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics... I searched your italicized quote there. First result.

...will become less invested in a rigged game

too late.

patriots didn't deserve to be in the superbowl (and this was not the first time they've been caught cheating either. ref.), and seattle was the defending champ you want to see get beat. no point in watching when you want both teams to lose... so we did not watch it. not the game, not the commercials. the hell with it. nfl needs to pay me to watch.

I'm aware of two sorts of evidence. First, there's the rhetoric used by the President, for example, "bitter clingers" speech and his statements about the Trayvon Martin shooting indicate he is at least in support of some sort of federal level gun control.

Second, there's the ATF Fast and Furious scandal. On the surface, it's supposedly a sting operation meant to uproot gun smuggling networks in the US in order to assist with the taming of the Cartel war in next door Mexico. In actuality, this sting delivered considerable material support to the Sinaloa Cartel, 2,000 guns guaranteed not to be intercepted plus whatever else the Cartel was able to smuggle out with those weapons (such as laundered money or more guns), a pretext (which turned out to be too flimsy when the scheme was revealed) for introducing additional regulations on gun purchases, and these guns turning up at over 200 murders in Mexico and the US and which are still turning up at crime scenes.

"(AC:) There's always someone who wants more than safety."

And how in practice are you going to deter someone or defend yourself from someone "who want's more safety" (or even know such a person exists and is out to make trouble for you) unless you are part of a community who are all looking out for each other?

Of course, you also have to be willing to listen and pay attention in that case. Example:
"Hoekstra on Underwear Bomber: "We Missed Him at Every Step""
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/po...
"In November the suspect's father went to the US Embassy in Abuja, the Nigerian capital, to warn that his son was being radicalized in Yemen."

Still, I have to agree that the challenge of what to do about mentally ill people or politically ill countries, when they become violent, is a challenging one for any community.

Related movie:
"The Day the Earth Stood Still"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T...
"Klaatu warns the professor that the people of the other planets have become concerned for their safety after humans developed atomic power."

Or, as Einstein said: "The release of atomic power has changed everything except our way of thinking ... the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker. (1945)"

Although, in an age where even watches have enough CPU power to do the calculations that produced the original atomic bombs, retreating from the problem gets a little more complicated...

Sorry, fucker, if I didn't give you the whole history of this.

He's wrong because you don't know the meaning of the word "pedophile" and went the full Fox News at the same time? Is anyone who calls Reagan a Republican or Warren a Democrat also a fucker? I don't think so.

You engaged in 10-pounds-of-bullshit-in-a-five-pound-sack willful dumbfuckery and are now whining like a bitch because you got caught.

Gee, I wonder why you didn't just type "resume female name acceptance" into Google. That'll get you a whole slew of citations.

Why didn't you do that utterly trivial task, instead of shooting, er, downmodding the messenger?

It couldn't possibly be because you can't handle the truth? Naaahhh....

Here, silly little AC, since you'd rather go LA LA LA I CAN'T HEAR YOU than type four measly words into Google, have some citations.

http://blogs.scientificamerica...
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/bu...

These are far from the only ones out there. If only you could be bothered to look.

And just for a bonus, here's a citation (from those same four simple words you can't be bothered typing into Google) that shows racism biasing hiring in the same pervasive, insidious ways sexism does.
https://selfuni.wordpress.com/...

Don't forget the rapes

Chicago

Boston

Los Angeles

India

I've not see any vote selling things reported on,

Then let me help you in in this very difficult search.

though it's trivial to prove how you voted. Yes, even today, with secret ballots.

You will have to be a lot more specific for your assertion to carry any weight.

Why do I hear so many cases of eminent domain being used to build malls and WalMarts, or indeed to *block* Walmarts?

http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/Indu...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...

http://www.denverpost.com/head...

http://bizwest.com/eminent-dom...

Not so sure the US is all that different to China in that regard...

a weak, poor country can be defeated in myriad ways

china doesn't have to militarily invade siberia. it can just corrupt officials, pay russian legislators to make laws friendly to it, own all of the companies operating in siberia, flood the area with immigrants, etc

such that the map may say russia, but for all intents and purposes, it will be china's siberia

russia showed us how to unilaterally take another country's sovereign territory with crimea

flood the area with your own citizens. then they simply announce what country they really are a part of after some political turmoil in the country's capital. which, weak as russia is, should be easy for a rich china to corrupt

bloodless

http://abcnews.go.com/Internat...

sure, texas being snatched form mexico wasn't bloodless, but by the time the mexicans put up a fight, it was too late: the immigrant population had already tipped allegiances

the change will be slow and inevitable. nobody will nuke anyone because it won't be an overnight military invasion. just immigration leading to gradual social and political realignment, helped along by corrupting influence

http://www.nytimes.com/roomfor...

The studies are about as rigorous as it is possible to be with questions like this - that is, not very rigorous by the standards of the "hard sciences", but as good as it gets by medical and social science standards:

http://greatist.com/happiness/...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/hea...
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/he...

I can supply plenty of more links, but I think it is clear from these and prior ones that this effect is well established in the literature. There's lots of speculation about the causes (community, stronger moral inhibitions against harmful behavior like smoking, ???) but the relationship is fairly consistent - religion does seem to correlate with favorable outcomes. For that matter, the fact that every major civilization has developed a religious tradition means that either humans are naturally prone to creating religions, or the civilizations with religion dominated the ones without, or some blend of the two. That in and of itself should make us question the impulse to dismiss it unilaterally.

Performing artists don't get paid for radio play. - http://www.americansongwriter....
Radio is a form of promotion and does not pay performers royalties. http://abcnews.go.com/Business...
https://www.futureofmusic.org/...

One less gun-toting idiot to vote in the next election lol.

I'm glad the common standards for safety make it safe to do 65 on the Turnpike both in mid summer at 90 degrees and in light snow sub-32.

Yeah, it'd make much more sense if the law said you should drive according to the conditions, and not always at the speed limit, wouldn't it?

Wait, it does?

Have you ever talked to a cop about speed limits?

Nope.

Do you know what the majority I've met have said about them?

No fucking idea. Don't particularly think it's relevant, because without some kind of citation, you're most likely making shit up to support your own case.

"We can't pull over everyone going this speed, so we look for people who are actually dangerous, whether they're swerving or going so far over that it's unsafe. You're not going to get pulled over going 5 above it."

Ah, the old "We won't ticket you for going 5 over the limit." Sorry, that's a load of shit.

Happens every fucking day in my country, most especially around holiday times, but it's not restricted to that.

Gops completely understand what's safe to drive on a given road at a given time

No, they don't. They're not traffic engineers.

they're trained more extensively than your average driver, both in recognizing dangerous behaviors in others and how to drive themselves.

This is not the same as being an expert in road design. They are not traffic engineers.

Have you ever seen a cop observing the speed limit with open road in front of them outside of a residential area?

Yup. Also saw a cop parked in a no parking zone right on a roundabout, making it really difficult for people to get through.

I've also seen a number of police officers prosecuted for speeding when not responding to an emergency (and not on official business).

Speed limits, as a hard limit for safety regardless as to the actual conditions present, are bullshit,

Possibly. You've presented nothing but opinion to back that up, though. Not a single fact.

and cops tacitly recognize that fact and use their near-immunity to get away with what you're defending so vehemently. Case closed.

No, not "Case closed." You're meant to say "FACT." That's how you make sure nobody can dispute it.

Cops demonstrating extra-legal behaviour is fairly typical. My boss breaks the law all the time, and he knows he does it, he also knows he'll get away with it because his boss is a multimillionaire and has friends in the various governmental departments who'll stop it. Doesn't mean it's legal, doesn't mean it's right.

I guess this is the part where someone should ask "If all the cops in town jumped off a bridge, would you?"

Frankly, I think someone should push you off a bridge, because you're an idiot.

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Oh good one, Slashdot, you worthless piece of shit.

just saying....

Are you sure about that?

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Oh yeah, it's "bombing" in the US alright...

...I realized that Walgreens makes better prints than my inkjet printer can at less cost.

Yeah, just be careful with the baby pics

Sheesh... The US gets crazier by the year...

...I realized that Walgreens makes better prints than my inkjet printer can at less cost.

Yeah, just be careful with the baby pics

Dear Sick: if you had bothered to put on your Google goggles you could have easily found instances of pilot eye damage:

http://abcnews.go.com/News/jet...

It was just that in James P. Hogan's post-scarcity society you generally acquired status through demonstrating competence in some way (could be anything, even being a good waiter or running some interesting attraction like a steam locomotive), not by acquiring material wealth. Skill in *producing* or repairing high quality goods would be respected, not generally the skill in *acquiring* such goods, especially since most material things were freely available for the taking as they could be mass produced by robots as copies as desired. Even for original works of art, it was the creator of the work who would get the status, not the ultimate possessor of the artwork (who in a way became indebted to the artwork's creator by acknowledging the competency of the creator). There is a section of the book where with some hand waving it is suggested that if you grow up in such a society you just know the rules almost instinctively and also can spot a pretender at competence the way a shopkeeper in today's society could spot a counterfeit hundred dollar bill. Projects there self-organized on the basis of individuals deferring to each other based on specific competences -- not sure what the would have made of the recent "systemd" controversy? :-)

So, projecting that idea into the Star Trek universe, it might be that overall most "red shirts" are just in some sense less competent than someone who had worked his way up, like Kirk or Picard? So, no wonder they are getting killed so easily, if they don't have the competencies the blue shirt characters have? :-) All that said, Worf demonstrated that "red shirt" security on the Enterprise could be highly competent and respected -- although, come to think of it, I'm not sure what color his uniform was? Gold? Anyway, it is all fiction of course. Just something to think about. Iain Banks had his own take on all that with the Culture series as well.

In general, US society has trouble with the idea that status could come from competence and gift giving as opposed to acquiring and hoarding wealth. For example:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P...
"A potlatch is a gift-giving feast practiced by indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast of Canada and the United States,[1] among whom it is traditionally the primary economic system.[2] ... Typically the potlatch was practiced more in the winter seasons as historically the warmer months were for procuring wealth for the family, clan, or village, then coming home and sharing that with neighbors and friends. ... Potlatching was made illegal in Canada in 1884 in an amendment to the Indian Act[16] and the United States in the late 19th century, largely at the urging of missionaries and government agents who considered it "a worse than useless custom" that was seen as wasteful, unproductive, and contrary to 'civilized values' of accumulation.[17] The potlatch was seen as a key target in assimilation policies and agendas. Missionary William Duncan wrote in 1875 that the potlatch was "by far the most formidable of all obstacles in the way of Indians becoming Christians, or even civilized".[18] Thus in 1884, the Indian Act was revised to include clauses banning the Potlatch and making it illegal to practice."

An example of a modern day laws banning gift giving:
"90-Year-Old Man Charged With Feeding Homeless Says He Won't 'Give Up' "
http://abcnews.go.com/US/90-ye...
"The Fort Lauderdale Police told ABC News that Abbott will get his court subpoena in the mail and a judge will decide whether he will spend up to 60 days in jail and a $500 fine. "Arnold thinks he can feed wherever he wants and the laws say differently. Despite the fact that he's a super nice guy and he's a gentleman and a kind soul we have to enforce the law," Seiler said. Although Abbott has been cited twice in less than a week,

Nope, that still gets you shot.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/dashc...

So you're going to go by definitions in dictionaries that were written a couple of centuries ago? Our understanding has changed in the last 50 years.

That's very much incorrect. Both of these dictionaries are routinely updated. In fact Merriam-Webster has a series of videos they published recently that describe the processes they go through to determine when to add words, when to add new definitions, when to revise definitions, and when to remove (or rather, mark as archaic) old ones. They're actually pretty interesting to watch.

Chromosomes don't cut it - there are animals that spontaneously change sex - even to the point of bearing offspring, when environmental conditions change - without changing their chromosomes. So your dictionary is wrong.

I didn't make any such claim, so you can put away your straw man. If you want to have a rational debate, then don't try to spin my statements in a direction I never sent them.

So as far as your definition is concerned, a woman who is infertile is really a man. You should tell your mom that after she finishes menopause - she'll straighten you out :-)

Very very false. Menopause is merely the state of a female having depleted their supply of eggs, however all of the reproductive functions remain intact and they very much CAN bear children. Case in point:

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/he...

none of those will be taken seriously. Its all about Rand Paul in 2016

No. It's Sarah Palin 2015 - on the road to 1400 Pennsylvania Ave ... :-)

Link

I distinctly remember after the crash there were comparisons between the way ambulance service is done in this country and how it is done in (most of) France.

Here, the general rule is scoop and go whereas in France the idea is perform treatment on the spot then get the person to a hospital.

This difference was used to explain why she died (bled out from internal injuries). The idea was, and as others on here have already commented, had she been taken directly to a hospital she had a better chance of survival than being held at the scene for nearly two hours while they worked on her.

For reference.