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FYI, the documentary is called Inside North Korea, and the behavior in question begins at around the 40:00 mark.

... Okay... so... you have an option to use a kill bot against the enemy that wants to kill you... and if you go out there... you could be killed.

Or... you send in your terminator bot and worst case they scrag the robot.

What are you going to prefer here?

A lot of people offering opinions here are not speaking from that perspective. They're speaking often as not from the perspective of some civilian ideologue that knows they're not going to go to war.

I know that if I go to war... I am going to want the best weapons my society can make for me along with the best defenses the best training and ideally leaders that are not complete fuckwits.

That means I want the robots. I want them and I want them to be fucking vicious.

Go on youtube and you'll see US soldiers cheering when air support shows up and blows the fuck out of someone shooting at them.
https://youtu.be/1IcvjD4VVjY?t...

Now... if you are a country that has the ability to build kill bots... and you might be on the firing line... do you or do you not want to use killer robots to kill your enemies?

You have to put your brain into war mode to understand the question.

My vote... is yes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

When I go to war... I go to WAR.

After 43 freaking YEARS, NASA just put out another "Earth from space" photo. Which was taken July 6, and released July 22nd, and was debunked A DAY LATER! If you look at the image there's the word "SEX" in the clouds, upside down, in the lower-left. They also put "SEX" in movie posters. See https://youtu.be/NldmxeiImNI

Some music to accompany the new knowledge: https://youtu.be/xSEOfxFr4I0

A great start for the technically-minded is Samuel Rowbotham's book, "Zetetic Astronomy", which can be read in its entirety here: http://www.sacred-texts.com/ea...

Mark Sargent -- https://www.youtube.com/user/m... -- has a radio show discussing the topic and new experiments performed; for instance, Jeranism just did a 4-mile laser-over-the-water experiment, and the laser was visible from one inch above the shoreline; the heights of the items on both shores was less than five feet, and the curvature at 4 miles should be more than 10 feet, meaning there is no way they should have been able to see it. This has huge implications.

After 43 freaking YEARS, NASA just put out another "Earth from space" photo. Which was taken July 6, and released July 22nd, and was debunked A DAY LATER! If you look at the image there's the word "SEX" in the clouds, upside down, in the lower-left. They also put "SEX" in movie posters. See https://youtu.be/NldmxeiImNI

Some music to accompany the new knowledge: https://youtu.be/xSEOfxFr4I0

A great start for the technically-minded is Samuel Rowbotham's book, "Zetetic Astronomy", which can be read in its entirety here: http://www.sacred-texts.com/ea...

Mark Sargent -- https://www.youtube.com/user/m... -- has a radio show discussing the topic and new experiments performed; for instance, Jeranism just did a 4-mile laser-over-the-water experiment, and the laser was visible from one inch above the shoreline; the heights of the items on both shores was less than five feet, and the curvature at 4 miles should be more than 10 feet, meaning there is no way they should have been able to see it. This has huge implications.

https://youtu.be/zYjlZVNFjiI?t...

In what way did my comment suggest to you that I'm a pseudo intellectual?

And what does that term even mean to you?

I find it ironic that someone making unqualified insults backed by non-falsifiable arguments suggests that someone else is a pseudo intellectual.

Your comment can't be audited because it isn't complete.

You're not saying X person because variable 5 = Y bad thing.

You're just saying X person = poopyhead.

and you presume to judge my intellectual credibility?

https://youtu.be/-5LEYG5TqaI?t...

No really.

... and since Android is basically a distro of Linux, (minus the normal GNU utilities that come with one,) I'm going to say what we're all no doubt thinking, and that's that Linus Torvalds, (inventor of Linux,) said it best when he said:

"Nvidia has been the single worst company we've EVER dealt with... so Nvidia..."
Ah, you know the rest!

You have that backwards.
https://youtu.be/B3lsJmwNO40?t...

Loaning the US government doesn't give you leverage over the US. It gives the US leverage over you.

How do you not know this?

1. The US repays the loans in US dollars. The US dollar is a fiat currency which means if we want more dollar we can just print more. The currency is backed by nothing but the US Federal Reserve's intention to keep inflation manageable.

2. US bonds are not demand loans. That is, you can't demand that the US repay a loan suddenly. The repayment terms are hardwired into the bond itself. Thus, repayment occurs after 10 years or 5 years or 1 year. But not before. So whomever you sell it to or buy it from... it doesn't matter to us because either way we're going to repay that bond when it matures and not before.

3. Holding US debt means the value of your investment is dependent on the value of the US dollar. If the value of the dollar goes down for some reason then the value of your bonds goes down as well. Thus it is in your interest if you own US debt to not undermine the US economy or the US Federal Reserve will print dollars to cover any shortfall required to pay off debt.

4. US bond interest rates are currently set BELOW projected US inflation. Thus other countries are basically paying the United States to loan the United States money. That is... after the bond has matured and we've paid it back, we've made a profit on the loan... not the person that loaned us the money. This is not always true. There are only a few countries in the world that can sell bonds with such a low interest rate. The US and Germany are two of them. It would actually make more sense if we funded our entire government with debt at these interest rates and then just used the taxes to pay off the loans when they come due. That is because again... the interest rates are very very low.

5. This low interest rate is a reflection of demand for US debt. That means, if you don't buy US debt then someone else will and we won't care. Which means... the Chinese for example can't hurt us if they decide to not buy our debt. Worst case, our interest rate will go up slightly to attract more buyers. Which generally won't matter to us.

6. The Chinese economy is having serious problems right now and they are in no position to be causing problems. The US can do just fine without Chinese manufacturing. At most they lower what we pay for certain consumer and industrial goods. However, China cannot survive without the US market to sell to.

7. The US remains the global Reserve currency. We've been that since WW2 and nothing has really changed. This nonsense in Europe with Greece as well as economic turmoil in China and other assorted nonsense makes people worried about the stability of the global market. That worry translates into conservative economic practices which means people squirrel money away in the American economy. The Chinese people for example are buying up US assets. US land, US housing, US... stuff. And the reason for that is that it is a hedge against problems in China. So wealthy chinese people feel safer putting a significant amount of their net worth in the US than keeping it all in China. Americans feel no such anxiety. we are not squirreling our money away in China. We are keeping it in the US. Which means there is a net transfer of wealth from China to the US. When the chinese buy something in the US, they give us money and get in return ownership of something in the US. But the value of that thing in the US is subject to US markets. So if they buy some land their investment only holds value if the US real estate market holds stable. We saw similar things from the Japanese in the 1980s. They were running all over the US buying stuff because people in their economy knew the wheels were about to come off.

Long story short... no one has us on a leash. Rather, we profit from the entire situation.

The funny thing is the US is being paid... but what you do

Someone had to show you guys how to surf ocean waves

And how to box with kangaroos as shown in this documentary:

https://youtu.be/unyTcIx2760

Sometimes?

First, you had better sound pretty fucking clever by the time I'm done reading your post or I'm going to jam the aforementioned shotgun your ass.
https://youtu.be/F1SfzV67Bqw?t... ... sigh...

First, the hospitals do not bid rates generally. They only tell the insurance companies what their price lists are and that is the only place those prices are really negotiated. Lots of things are inelastic while also being subject to market forces. Food is a good example. Just because you need to eat doesn't mean you're going to buy food from just anyone. You know what the prices are of most retailers or have a reasonable estimation. And based on that and with general market competition you can control costs by shifting from different sellers.

If I needed a certain type of treatment... not right now... but in a week or two... I'd have time to shop around. And the medical system could offer rates just like anything else is offered with rates. The fact that they're not is one of the reasons the market has a hard time controlling costs. Lets say a hospital 400 miles away is willing to do an operation that would cost me 50k where I am for only 25k? Now assuming quality is comparable, I then do a cost benefit analysis where I calculate the cost to me of traveling over there and doing that, possibly staying in a hotel or renting a car, and then compare that against the cost of doing it where I am.

Lets say you need to get a lot work done and you live in New York where it might be expensive. But if you fly to Texas you can get the same thing done with the same quality for much less. Just as an example.

That drives down the price in New York because their high prices are causing customers to go somewhere else. And business being business they need to maintain competitiveness.

This notion you have that medical treatment can't be subjected to conventional market forces is in error.

The only case where you're going to be forced to use the local whatever is going to be if you have a medical emergency. OKAY... in that specific circumstance you've got me. But their business model probably isn't sustainable on nothing but the emergency room. So they have to bring their prices down regardless IF patients are informed of prices.

But they're not. Hospitals are one of a very few set of businesses where they don't even hint at what your costs are going to be until you leave. And even then you might not know for weeks after you left. I got medical bills from a visit two weeks after I actually went to the hospital. They said one number two days after I left... then a week later they give me another number and then two weeks after I had initially gone, I got a third number.

Where did any of that come from ? apparently three separate billing departments from a single hospital.

Think of any business where that would happen outside of an American hospital? There isn't one. No US business works that way except for hospitals and only in America so far as I know.

There are many problems with the cost structure of the US medical industry. But to brush all that off and suggest I'm a hillbilly? I assume this is because I don't goosestep to socialism? You call me a hippy, I'm going to call you a nazi. Suck it. But to say I'm ignorant because I don't share your slavish devotion to your absurd little ideology? You're more a bible thumper than I am sport. Its your dogma you're damning me with.

You're saying I don't worship your book... so I'm in league with the devil. And you call me the hillbilly?

You're a retard.

*jams it up his ass until it goes click*

*rolls eyes*

Bureaucrats are pissed that they're being bypassed by military departments that have neither the time nor the inclination to waste the lives of soldiers on these pencil kings.

Here is the salient point: The military departments find the process too slow to be useful and so bypass it.

That's the story. Full stop. Not that the military over pays for stuff. But that this budget approval office is SLOW.

Fix that and the military will route their orders through them instead.

Here they'll say "we need more money to do that"

Okay... now we're doing a cost benefit analysis. Is it cheaper to over pay for some stuff or cheaper to pay the bureaucrats to make sure we don't over pay?

Ehm? I think we'll find it is probably a wash. Just my bias here. You'd think some bureaucrats were fairly cheap. Guys sitting there with some spreadsheets pushing numbers around. How expensive could it be? Well... horrifically expensive in many cases. Which... again based just on my bias here suggests this office complaining that because they're not used we over pay for stuff... well, maybe they're actually a net cost and the best way to save money is to just terminate them entirely and tell teh military departments and commanders and generals to use their budgets as best as they see fit. Who after all understands what the military needs better than the military? You could have some corrupt general or something but generally they're not. And generally they'll make a serious effort to make every penny go as far as they can. If you give the Marines a giant pile of money and say "this is your money for the year, spend it how you choose". I frankly think they'll make better use of it than if you hand it to the pentagon and say "okay here is everyone's money, spread that around through everything somehow."

A big problem with all governments i've ever really looked at is that there is a belief that you make things cheaper/more efficient/better by combining and centralizing. This is sometimes true but it is often not true. The primary thing centralization does is make it easier for people at the top to understand and manage the whole system. But that's why we invented delegation. Just delegate it. Then you don't need to centralize, combine, or simplify. The recent F35 project was a giant example of how combining a lot of projects together into one project actually made it more expensive and less useful.

We also see that with the DHS. The concept there was not costs but rather free flow of information... but we don't actually have the free flow of information the DHS was supposed to give us and by all indications it is frustrating the effective execution of orders simply because we have some of this going on:
https://youtu.be/_iiOEQOtBlQ?t...

Every time some organization under the DHS wants to do something they have to run upstairs and ask the DHS for permission. That can't help but slow things down massively as well as limit the scope of the organization to whatever the DHS can understand which is going to be less than what all the various departments could individually understand collectively.

I promise you it doesn't feel like Baton Rouge in Chicago. The heat index in Baton Rouge at 9pm while I type this is higher than it was at 4pm in Chicago.

Yeah, but you have andouille, cold Tin Roof beer and Joe Barry on the jukebox.

https://youtu.be/QcriNmPyY-Q?t...

^ This is all true, which is why I now have a truck that has auto-emergency braking, a feature that should become required just like seat belts and airbags.

I'll once again link my favorite commercial on the subject:

https://youtu.be/TKL_cn8vhjo

They're not smearing words. They're descriptive.

I would be like me saying your use of conservative christian or something was a smearing word. It isn't is it? Is democrat or republican or pineapple or spoon a smearing word? Or does it simply describe the thing?

Only progressives do this... this attempt to gaslight people in conversations by controlling language. You redefine words, prevent people from using words, and then use your own little buzz words to control the conversation.

I won't permit it. I am too rhetorically advanced to find such childish word games anything but laughable defenses. You don't get to decide which words I use and I will not permit you to redefine yourself or other concepts when they become toxic through the known history of what similar ideologues have done through time. If you want your ideology to have a less toxic image then stop being insufferable shitheads.

As to marx having good ideas... tell me one of them that is both good and original. Because whenever someone tells me marx had a good idea it either turns out to be laughably horrible or something about as interesting as "ketchup goes well with french fries"... aka nothing you could actually attribute to marx in the first place.

So tell me his good ideas.

As to socialism, lets not conflate the rabble with the ideologues. What the masses believe about anything has little influence on what an ideology is really about and what they want to happen is often not what actually happens. In the US, how many people actually read the federalist papers? Too few. How many of them actually inform themselves of legislation through congress or the various interest groups that ultimately legislation through the system? Almost none. So what do they know? The same is true in europe.

We've too many peasants in our societies. People that like to be led. They are the cannon fodder for ideologies like your own and they are the greatest threat to those few of us that are wish to be free but don't want to dominate people.

At the risk of sounding trite, there are three types of people on this world. Those that like to dominate people. Those that like to be dominated. And those that wish to be free.

My country was a government of the free, for the free, and by the free. Yes... the literal chattel slavery of Africans... but at the time they were not even believed to be properly human. A convenient dodge perhaps but philosophically valid in the context of the political system if it had been true. It was later found to not be true thus the justification for it became unsupportable.

So lets focus on the academics and the ideologues please. And expect me be fully ready for any word games. Let us not conflate the various joe six packs that join any group without especially understanding anything.

As to the failure of the working classes to rise up... yep. Which is when the cultural marxists started whispering in our ears.
https://youtu.be/b3w6c7RUbUs?t...

Dramatic? Sure. But accurate. This increasing fascination with political correctness is direct from them. Who came up with that term? The Eastern Europeans recognize it. Its a part of the system. Control the language. Control the thoughts. Control the history.

It's called the Maunder Minimum for a reason. There is definitely a correlation with sun activity... and my guess is that it's better than the correlation with volcanism. I don't know that for sure, but that's my best recollection. [Jane Q. Public, 2015-07-15]

It is easier to believe the documented condition of the sun going quiet for a few hundred years was the major factor behind the cooling than it is to believe one or more volcanoes were going off constantly for a few hundred years creating an ash blanket over the Earth for the whole period and caused it. [dunkindave, 2015-07-15]

Miller et al. 2012 says the Little Ice Age "can be linked to an unusual 50-year-long episode with four large sulfur-rich explosive eruptions".

Of course, the Maunder Minimum also contributed to the Little Ice Age. Regarding other contributors, Ruddiman 2003 (PDF) says "plague-driven CO2 changes were also a significant causal factor in temperature changes during the Little Ice Age (1300–1900 AD)."

There's been some debate about Ruddiman's "early anthropogenic" hypothesis. He discusses the LIA in his 2013 AGU lecture at 38m29s. Briefly, plagues killed many people in Europe and the Americas during the LIA, and their farms were overgrown by forests. That sequestered atmospheric CO2, causing even more cooling.

There is also a video of the approach at youbute. https://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ

relevant: https://youtu.be/xzkWTcDZFH0

What the fuck are you talking about? They have a fucking episode on exactly Jet engine and turbine fan production, here it is: https://youtu.be/vB0MIQVH9Mo Other episodes show how they make large trains, trucks, boats, etc.

You're not getting the message of the video though... I think you need to listen to it again:
https://youtu.be/-RwkYY7wb08?t...

https://youtu.be/-RwkYY7wb08?t...

It doesn't use the same tune. The alternative song I'm talking about was featured in a restaurant in The Emperor's New Groove, so here's a clip from that:

http://youtu.be/q9h57OIaMFs

especially as the bloke was clearly being a wanker

Was he?

http://www.surlatable.com/prod...

https://youtu.be/-RwkYY7wb08?t...

https://youtu.be/SvqnjEQljYs?t...

""You do know that a government budget is in a human readable format right?""

Which is why everyone knows what is in the budget and understands how much is being spent on what?...

Bitch please.

""You wave your magic wand and more doctors appear? Please explain how this mechanism works that allows you to increase more doctors on demand? It can't be through any sort of subsidy because as you say, that is the work of the devil.""

As to increasing supply, this is something we do all the time for lots of different things. That include labor. Even skilled labor can be generated simply by increasing the number of doctors put through the system. The current number of doctors we produce per year is strictly limited by the medical schools. We could do a lot of things to increase the numbers.

As to socialist militaries... I'm not even going to get into the many layers of idiot that it took concoct that argument... beyond of course for the first one where I point out that the state doing something does not mean it is socialist.

""Socialism is a social and economic system characterised by social ownership of the means of production and co-operative management of the economy,[1][2]""

Who makes the missiles? The guns? The uniforms? The everything?

Private companies.

https://youtu.be/qiukc1yfzCI?t...

You're just going into black knight mode at this point:
https://youtu.be/dhRUe-gz690?t...

Incorrect. And obviously so since mine came out of a dictionary and yours came out of your ass.

I literally cited the dictionary. Kill yourself.
https://youtu.be/qiukc1yfzCI?t...

As to your pedantic quibbles, they wouldn't have lids on the top sport if they didn't eject things with some force out of the top... would they?

I've used them... they absolutely do shoot shit everywhere. Use a cuisinart... that's the most popular brand... they are designed in fact to not even run without the top on them for safety reasons. That spinning blade. But if you press down the safety button so it thinks the top is on and press go with something in there... shit goes everywhere.

Because I'm sure you're going to disagree:
https://youtu.be/3DlIH97ywIQ?t...

You can see that shit bouncing off the top of the lid.

So there you go. You started out with a fucking annoying quibble... and you were fucking wrong.

Moving along.

As to puffery... its their actual value to their users. If they're not that then they're dog shit. So it isn't puffery.

As to indexing and hosting... I think I actually covered that issue in the previous post. You can read and respond to it or you're not having an interactive discussion. I anticipated your objection and responded to it before you even came up with a response. And you didn't even fucking read it.

As to moral repugnance... then don't run an open social network. I believe there are some evangelical social networks that are only for people of a given religion and ideology. So... you could set something up like that.

Sound like a winning strategy? That's your fucking idea and its as fucking stupid as your quibble about the food processor.

Don't even comment to me again. Just walk away. Your failure is so complete that you should be ashamed of yourself. And the fact that you're doubtless not ashamed of yourself speaks even more poorly of you. I think I'll leave you with this response because it simply amuses me:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

As to no one being without sin... I didn't say I was without sin, you trite little punk. Your whole philosophy is something I could have red off the back of a box of crackerjacks.

Either step up your game... or who can really take this mickey mouse shit seriously?

I am well aware of my biases sport. But the great civilizations of history were not built by people just looking after their own interests.

George Washington could have been king. He chose to be a term limited president. Your notions of the limitations of the human mind and soul are childishly simplistic.

Going over your next quote where you give me another crackerjack response... you sound like this guy:
https://youtu.be/b5I94bT23cQ?t...

This this is sad.

As to grandfatherly views... yes... the wording of it is not old timey and the profanity is likely making you think you have a point. But you don't... because another way of saying what I said is this:

"Life isn't fair. We all have our own burdens and we all have our own problems. We all have to make the best of the situation and muddle through as best we can."

How does that strike you? Same fucking concept which you'd know if you didn't have your head completely up your own ass.

As to marxism, it is related to modern feminism... the brain trust of the modern academic feminist movement is entirely marxist feminists... self described. I don't even have to label them that. That is how they label themselves.

As to MRA, I didn't bring that up. I was accused of being an MRA and then some other person that is an MRA said something positive about MRAs... I did not bring up MRAs.

As to current accusations getting out of hand... its dominated the media in various forms for about a year. You apparently don't read the news.

Slavery was not a big issue for the seceding states. They were primarily concerned about tariffs. Their ships exporting cotton to Europe would come back full of manufactured goods, and Lincoln's proposed protective tariff would have hurt them significantly. The Corwin Amendment (the first attempt at a 13th amendment), which would have enshrined the legality of slavery in the Constitution, was well on its way to passage. Lincoln (who was far from an abolitionist) even entreated the states to pass it during his inaugural address. The Simpsons addressed this dumbed down look at the war quite well.

Virginia, the largest slave holding state, didn't secede until the Union attacked the Confederacy, and cited that as the reason.

The republican congress didn't even bother trying to pass the 13th amendment outlawing slavery until the it looked like the courts would overturn the emancipation proclamation as an illegal executive order (all those newly freed southern blacks were voting republican, and a return to bondage would cost the republicans their majority).

If anything I would be more harsh with those people if only because they're in a position of trust.

it is worse when a cop sets you up than if any random person does it because the cop not only harms a person but he also undermines the public trust of the legal system etc.

I don't know how much more harsh I would be... but I'd be comfortable with the increase in severity being pretty extreme. As in... I'd like a fair number of the police that get caught doing that and know that they're going to get convicted... to basically have this response:
https://youtu.be/_ALBpFg8DEw?t...

So how does that sound to you? Fair? When I say double edged... I mean double edged. Anyone that presses the bladed should be able to feel its bite as well should they transgress the law themselves.

I believe in equality before the law.

OK, it's a borderline conspiracy theory site, but this guy does a good job analyzing events and media coverage.

My favorite post is on how he explains US military activity... everything makes much more sense now:
The Geopolitics of World War III: https://youtu.be/TC3tINgWfQE

Fight fire with fire. Let Lenny talk to them and amuse us at the same time.

https://youtu.be/m674Hq7-tyQ

You put in the vertical qualifier like it is difficult to stack shit on top of each other.

There are plenty of pot growers that use "wavelength tuned" LEDs to grow pot.

Give me a fucking break. In fact... just fuck me. That comment was so painfully annoying in its obtuseness that I deserve a blowjob just to take my mind off f'ing dumb that vertical qualifier was...

As to abandoned factories... go turn Detroit into the salad bowl of America then... what are you waiting for?

I don't want to hear about the fucking blue and red LEDs anymore like that is some kind of recent innovation. That has been going on for ages.

As to hydroponics being more expensive than soil... not as expensive as fucking LEDs. But that sure isn't stopping you is it?

As to costs declining... Sun light is free... good luck with your cost structure competiting with that. Here you're going to say "but in this urban factory blight area"... I'm sure... but you're not competiting against farms in other fucking factories. You're competiting against a sunny field some where with an unobstructed view of the sky, long clear days, good irrigation, and of course a global transit system that can move that produce anywhere in the world pretty damn cheaply pretty damn quick.

I am literally fucking sitting here chopping up a pineapple that was grown in Hawaii. I believe it cost me 4 dollars. Have fun with your revolution sport. I rather suspect the Empire will surprise you with a fully operational agro business battle station. :D

https://youtu.be/ZuPe-ly0BHM?t...

I have been looking at 3M's NOVEC line of products for a couple of years. 3M claims their fluids are safe and I've seen it demonstrated a couple of times. I'm wondering how this compares. I've seen it for sale for around $250 gallon so it aint cheap but the cooling savings over time should more than pay for itself.

I have been looking at 3M's NOVEC line of products for a couple of years. 3M claims their fluids are safe and I've seen it demonstrated a couple of times. I'm wondering how this compares. I've seen it for sale for around $250 gallon so it aint cheap but the cooling savings over time should more than pay for itself.

I have been looking at 3M's NOVEC line of products for a couple of years. 3M claims their fluids are safe and I've seen it demonstrated a couple of times. I'm wondering how this compares. I've seen it for sale for around $250 gallon so it aint cheap but the cooling savings over time should more than pay for itself.

I agree. "All men are created equal" is obvious bullshit.

Not all men are created equal. Some are created as sub-human savages who just aren't cut out for civilization, and therefore, probably deserve to be slaves.

I cannot let a story about supermassive black holes go by without posting this:

https://youtu.be/pta-gf6JaHQ

I'm not someone you would normally think would be a big fan of this music, but a few years ago, I was looking for some music to play in the background when I was playing open world racing video games, like NFS: Most Wanted, etc. One of my students game me a CD/mp3 mix with a bunch of Muse, My Chemical Romance, Meshuggah, some Finnish Dark Metal bands, and some other groups. This led me to make a 2000-song racing playlist on Spotify that I still play in the background to this day when I play The Crew. I've added in some early Stooges, Ramones, GenX, etc, as well as a smattering of rockabilly, Wu Tang and punjabi rap. There's nothing like being in the last lap of a race and having "Survival" playing in the background. It's like some cross between Queen's "We Are the Champions" and Leni Riefenstahl.

OK, carry on.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

VS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Japanese robots are very cute... a little too cute.

I mean... look at this:
https://youtu.be/_luhn7TLfWU?t...

Just some 'merican smack talk to inspire the japanese to try harder.

We're over here building skynet... so your work should be cut out for you.

I didn't explain properly. The military is not saying the new recruits are psychos. They're saying they don't have to be conditioned to kill. The average US WW2 vet was not a psycho. But after the war, he was much more able to shoot someone than he was prior to going to war.

He had had the violence normalized in his mind to a certain extent. However, that didn't mean he was a murderer. The crime rates after wars don't spike up above what they were went vets come home. They might go up above what they were during the war but they don't go up measurably above what they were before the war. And that is despite having many more people in your society that have psychologically normalized the concept of calculated methodical killing.

A certain amount of this is video games and violent movies. But that doesn't mean you're a psycho if you watch those things or even enjoy them as entertainment. But what it does mean is that when it comes time to actually pull the trigger it is less of a psychological shock. Parts of your mind are ready for it and it just blends into that same part of your mind.

Again, the military's attitude on the whole thing is that it is a mixed blessing. They like the "brains" of the new recruits. They find us to be better educated, smarter, faster with technology, less hesitant to pull the trigger, less psychologically conflicted about pulling the trigger... They are however fucking disgusted by the bodies.
https://youtu.be/RXhKpUfITV0?t...

Tab Cola had several problems, one it tasted like cola unlike Coke and Pepsi, much more like RC Cola, it was purchased to compete with RC's Diet Rite cola, It used sodium saccharin, which has been the target of several attempts to be listed as a health hazard, but those commercials killed them, https://youtu.be/DJL4yQn_7qQ, everybody remembers the commercial, few remembered the product.

No intelligent reader takes me seriously says an AC?

Who takes you seriously?

The unending hypocrisy of ACs to remain so anonymous they don't even use a consistent fake name like mine... and then to judge the histories of people that ACTUALLY log in. You could be posting about your love of goat sex in other threads and there'd be no way to associate that with you. But I'm a bad man because I actually log in? Who the fuck do you think you are? You're some garbage can that is so terrified of being judged he won't even use a fake name.

Oh... and I have an EXCELLENT karma rating. So... actually on average most people appreciate my posts. Suck it.

No one takes ACs seriously, shithead. You're all trolls and people that have been so crippled by negative judgements from your peers that you don't even feel comfortable posting under a fake name.

https://youtu.be/bafxzamsGgY?t...

And the video to prove it. https://youtu.be/ldII1t0Ulio

I can't think of Frank Herbert's Dune without sadness over the fact that Alejandro Jodorowsky didn't get to finish his movie version.

https://youtu.be/jg4OCeSTL08

Wright recalled. "A huge two-storey robot came marching up the street and swung its laser cannon arm towards him, and a voice boomed out, 'Citizen, drop your weapon immediately!' I assumed I was just recycling a movie that I'd already seen, but eventually, I came to the conclusion that maybe it was an original idea."

No, you were just having a Robocop flashback.

Much like a drug raid on your neighbor's house is in no way your doing if you secretly called the police to report a meth lab in the basement? Try that one on a judge.

Oh, I get it!

Saying something untrue which someone else learns of, and then decides to tell police, who then in an over-the-top knee-jerk reaction make utter fools of themselves, is *exactly* the same as intentionally and personally filing a false police report!

C'mon! I expect much better propaganda than this for my tax dollars!

https://youtu.be/qztuEucrNBc

Strat

I think I'd have been tempted to tell him that he knows how to fix it if he knows how to whistle. Of course, a lot depends on his personality; if he's an arrogant stuffed shirt, you'll be looking for your next job before you know what's happened.

If he's at all human, you'll end up being indispensable. A bos who fires you for pulling his ass out of a hot frying pan is no person to work for.

I was known for some wild seat of the pants fixes. My suits appreciated it - a lot. It's startling when a room of 7 figure folks applaud you after you bring a computer system back to life. And the weirder the fix the better the stories later. Versatility is a plus.

I think I'd have been tempted to tell him that he knows how to fix it if he knows how to whistle. Of course, a lot depends on his personality; if he's an arrogant stuffed shirt, you'll be looking for your next job before you know what's happened.