The militia, in 1770's was every able bodied men in a set age range (i've heard various, although 16 to 56 comes up most of the time), who were trained in drill and combat by the standards set by congress (that's the well regulated part), with officers appointed by the states. What it wasn't was a bunch of drunk, fat, inbred rednecks playing dress up in camouflage so they could run around with their hands on their dicks playing soldier in the woods because they to big of fucking cowardly pussies to actually enlist and serve this country.
A government that's absolutely trusted to confiscate everyone's guns but can't be trusted with information.
Except only complete fucking idiots, or gun manufacturers, claim the government wants to confiscate everyone's guns.... and when i say complete fucking idiot, i mean complete head-up-ass fucking inbred dumbshit idiot who can't find a fucking brain cell left working in that useless waste of flesh head they have. That kind of completely fucked in the head moron had to make up a stupider than fuck strawman argument, and then beat it to death repeatedly with a lead pipe all the while hoping everyone else in the world has an iq of less than 10 so they'll believe the utter fucking bullshit pouring from their shit for brains head.
I hope that wasn't "too PC" for those out there whining about "PC running amok."
Islam is a religion; communism and NAZIism (fascism) are political ideologies.... and while you seem to disparage the NAZI's, you are certainly wanting to use the tactics they did against the Jews. So, why does an ignorant NAZI wanna-be like you hate the Constitution of the United States of America so much?
What we need is to recognize there are some people simply too fucking stupid, and their stupidity is having negative effects on our country. Right now, it's those people who are the biggest threat to this country.... and you've given a perfect example of their idiocy.
The whiny political correctness, the safe space garbage, attacks on speech, progressives supporting it. They made Trump a candidate because he doesn't give a shit. Welcome to the bed that the progressive left created, so bad that even liberals are likely to vote for Trump.
No. The victim doesn't make the criminal offender offend, and the liberals didn't make the fucking conservative bigoted fascists turn a worthless piece of shit autocratic dictator wanna-be into a candidate... the fucking right wing inbred, ignorant cowardly fascists did that all on their own because they're fucking idiots.
There... i tried not to be "too PC" for you. Won't matter, some of the reich-wingers on here who complain about things being to be "PC" will come along and need a tampon and try to censor this post anyway, ignorant bigoted hypocrites that they are.
The F-35 was conceived as a relatively affordable fifth-generation strike fighter..........Strike fighters are dual-role tactical aircraft that are capable of both air-to-ground (strike) and air-to-air (fighter) combat
operations.
Repeat after me... you're full of shit if you're trying to tell people a strike fighter, specifically designed to have TWO roles...air-to-ground and air-to-air combat capabilities are not designed for air-to-air combat. As for not being able to replace the F-15 or F-16.... planes that it was SPECIFICALLY suppose to replace.... you're right, it can't, and i think that pretty much defines it as a worthless piece of shit.
And you can get your panties in a wad and suggest that, for some reason, you know vastly more about it than i do... which might be true.... but what i'm saying isn't my opinion, it's the TEST PILOTS opinion..... and i'm pretty sure he knows more about the fucking flying brick than you do.
They still haven't gotten the HUD to be usable for night flight (so i'll add can't be flown after dusk to the list), the electronics is still shit, and the software is barely north of vaporware... unless you want software that can keep it in the air and not much else. Good luck with that. And as far as wet, i mean in a storm.. you know, where they're not entirely sure it won't just fucking explode from a lightning strike. The good news is it has one of the most powerful jet engines ever in an aircraft... the bad news is, it has to have it because it's a heavy piece of shit, and even with that engine, a floating bathtub has more maneuverability. Good news for the vendors though.... all the extra wear and tear from the engine will mean more money in their pockets fixing that fuck up.
You've got a hardon for the plane, i get it. But it's still a piece of shit that's too fucking expensive, and can't do a damn thing it was supposed to be able to.
Cost overruns don't surprise people... but that's the point, maybe they should. Maybe that's the level of attention that we need. People talk about government waste, then give a pass to things like this because they seem to think the military can do no wrong. The military industries know that, and they know they can leech untold amounts of money from taxpayers. It's an obscenity.... this 237million, and the 1.5trillion for the F-35; neither of those projects should ever have been funded.
And yah know what, i am repeating the same thing i've said before... because it is true; and anyone that's been paying attention anything in the last decade or more could see it all over the media, tech magazines, and congressional hearings.
I continue to see people blame Clinton for the Gramm–Leach–Bliley Act, you know.... Phil Gramm (REPUBLICAN), Jim Leach (REPUBLICAN), and Thomas J. Bliley, Jr. (REPUBLICAN)... and i have to wonder if anyone that does was even alive in the 1990's. I mean, you'd have to have been comatose to think that Clinton could have gotten much of anything passed the republican congress he had, and even worse off to think that 3 of the most powerful REPUBLICANS at the time would be THE ONLY THREE people whose name got put on the bill. I mean... serious brain-death, head up ass comatose to think that. Yet, people who wanted something that turned out to be a serious fuck-up will continue to try to place blame elsewhere.
The REPUBLICAN bill to repeal the Glass-Steagall, which they'd been attempting to do for 20+ years prior to Gramm-Leach-Bliley, passed without enough votes to sustain a veto, however democrats agree to go along with it after republicans yielded on privacy legislation to keep medical and financial records private (republicans didn't want them to be), and on consumer protection legislation (again, republicans at the time didn't give a flying fuck about consumers rights). After conference, Clinton was sent a version of the Gramm–Leach–Bliley Act that was veto-proof. Now, you could argue that he could have veto'd it, but it would have been purely symbolic.
So.... Glass-Steagall was actually repealed by republicans (because that's where bills get repealed... the house and senate, not the presidents desk), after they held consumer protections and private citizens privacy rights hostage to do what they'd been trying to do for decades. You can certainly blame Bill Clinton... but you'd be wrong, and anyone who lived through the 1990's (and actually remembers them) should know that.
You are correct though about that being a massive negative on economic stability.
Direct democracy has been around since the 5th century BC. Great Britain, in 1776, wasn't one.... remember, they had that whole king and parliament thing going on.
Once again, if you're going to talk about something, perhaps you should actually learn a little about what you talk about. The only thing you said that was accurate was that we have an electoral college... the rest is just ignorance.
Well, a greater portion of the people in Switzerland have a real education, and aren't knee-jerk reactionaries that prefer to be lied too rather than live in reality, so perhaps the line should be: direct democracies don't work when there's a lot of really stupid people around.
In a direct democracy, that's exactly what would happen. We live in a constitutional republic, which is basically indistinguishable from a representative democracy. https://www.washingtonpost.com...
Several of the founding fathers had very negative feelings towards democracy, give the only democracies around at the time were direct democracies. They saw tyranny of the majority play out, where what they believed to be inalienable rights could be stripped from people purely by the vote of the majority. A great example of that is these people who claim that states should have the right to vote on whether or not to allow same sex marriage. That is a classic example of tyranny of the majority.
The constitution doesn't empower the majority, it restricts them from committing tyranny of the majority and subjugating the minority to the majority's whims.
Price's point is this: "Cold fusion is dismissed as pseudoscience, the kind of thing that respectable scientists and science journalists simply don't talk about (unless to remind us of its disgrace)....the standard line is that the rejection of cold fusion in 1989 turned on the failure to replicate the claims of Fleischmann and Pons. Yet if that were the real reason, then the rejection would have to be provisional. Failure to replicate couldn't possibly be more than provisional – empirical science is a fallible business, as any good scientist would acknowledge. In that case, well-performed experiments claiming to overturn the failure to replicate would certainly be of great interest."
Which is true somewhat, although the wrong words are used: IF a well-performed (and repeatedly verifiable) experiment OVERCOMES the failure to replicate, it would be of interest. Lost in this is: THAT HASN'T HAPPENED. The author seems to think that because Rossi is "still doing business," then somehow his claim to fame is justified, and everyone else is wrong. That ain't it. Rossi may be selling something (PT Barnum knew about how that worked), but it isn't cold fusion... and given this guy is a convicted fraud, it's not hard to think that the device he claims to do something that physics says shouldn't be able to happen, while refusing to submit it to 3rd party testing... or any peer review at all, nor explain how it performs the physics/miracle, and yet seems to be constantly "seeking investors" (you know, that whole con man looking for a mark part), is probably just that... a con.
Now, it sounds like the author has been duped, and now either wants to cover his embarrassment, or still believes the con is real. Name recognition isn't what's making the whole cold fusion thing a reputation trap.... it's the fact that it's pseudo-science that's been beaten to death for almost 100 years now (cold fusion was first brought up in the 1920's), and now attracts people like Rossi and, well, Huw Price, who apparently are "simply looking for investors," while ignoring reality.
How about a society that respects liberty and accepts reality? Want to drive?
How about: Want the PRIVILEGE to drive (as it's not a RIGHT)? Then you're monitored every fucking second so you don't fuck up and hurt someone else. Don't want to be careful, don't fucking drive. Seriously, this libertarian type bullshit used as an excuse to kill people is just fucking idiotic. Anyone who actually believes that fucked in the head crap should have themselves committed so they're not such a blight on humanity. It gives real libertarians a bad fucking image.
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The militia, in 1770's was every able bodied men in a set age range (i've heard various, although 16 to 56 comes up most of the time), who were trained in drill and combat by the standards set by congress (that's the well regulated part), with officers appointed by the states. What it wasn't was a bunch of drunk, fat, inbred rednecks playing dress up in camouflage so they could run around with their hands on their dicks playing soldier in the woods because they to big of fucking cowardly pussies to actually enlist and serve this country.
....mostly deal with internal propaganda messages and music promoting its leader Kim Jong-un.
There for a minute i thought it would be something truly horrendously horrible... like rap or country music.
A government that's absolutely trusted to confiscate everyone's guns but can't be trusted with information.
Except only complete fucking idiots, or gun manufacturers, claim the government wants to confiscate everyone's guns.... and when i say complete fucking idiot, i mean complete head-up-ass fucking inbred dumbshit idiot who can't find a fucking brain cell left working in that useless waste of flesh head they have. That kind of completely fucked in the head moron had to make up a stupider than fuck strawman argument, and then beat it to death repeatedly with a lead pipe all the while hoping everyone else in the world has an iq of less than 10 so they'll believe the utter fucking bullshit pouring from their shit for brains head.
I hope that wasn't "too PC" for those out there whining about "PC running amok."
Islam is a religion; communism and NAZIism (fascism) are political ideologies.... and while you seem to disparage the NAZI's, you are certainly wanting to use the tactics they did against the Jews. So, why does an ignorant NAZI wanna-be like you hate the Constitution of the United States of America so much?
What we need is to recognize there are some people simply too fucking stupid, and their stupidity is having negative effects on our country. Right now, it's those people who are the biggest threat to this country.... and you've given a perfect example of their idiocy.
The whiny political correctness, the safe space garbage, attacks on speech, progressives supporting it. They made Trump a candidate because he doesn't give a shit. Welcome to the bed that the progressive left created, so bad that even liberals are likely to vote for Trump.
No. The victim doesn't make the criminal offender offend, and the liberals didn't make the fucking conservative bigoted fascists turn a worthless piece of shit autocratic dictator wanna-be into a candidate... the fucking right wing inbred, ignorant cowardly fascists did that all on their own because they're fucking idiots.
There... i tried not to be "too PC" for you. Won't matter, some of the reich-wingers on here who complain about things being to be "PC" will come along and need a tampon and try to censor this post anyway, ignorant bigoted hypocrites that they are.
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The F-35 was conceived as a relatively affordable fifth-generation strike fighter..... .....Strike fighters are dual-role tactical aircraft that are capable of both air-to-ground (strike) and air-to-air (fighter) combat
operations.
Repeat after me... you're full of shit if you're trying to tell people a strike fighter, specifically designed to have TWO roles...air-to-ground and air-to-air combat capabilities are not designed for air-to-air combat. As for not being able to replace the F-15 or F-16.... planes that it was SPECIFICALLY suppose to replace.... you're right, it can't, and i think that pretty much defines it as a worthless piece of shit.
And you can get your panties in a wad and suggest that, for some reason, you know vastly more about it than i do... which might be true.... but what i'm saying isn't my opinion, it's the TEST PILOTS opinion..... and i'm pretty sure he knows more about the fucking flying brick than you do.
They still haven't gotten the HUD to be usable for night flight (so i'll add can't be flown after dusk to the list), the electronics is still shit, and the software is barely north of vaporware... unless you want software that can keep it in the air and not much else. Good luck with that. And as far as wet, i mean in a storm.. you know, where they're not entirely sure it won't just fucking explode from a lightning strike. The good news is it has one of the most powerful jet engines ever in an aircraft... the bad news is, it has to have it because it's a heavy piece of shit, and even with that engine, a floating bathtub has more maneuverability. Good news for the vendors though.... all the extra wear and tear from the engine will mean more money in their pockets fixing that fuck up.
You've got a hardon for the plane, i get it. But it's still a piece of shit that's too fucking expensive, and can't do a damn thing it was supposed to be able to.
Cost overruns don't surprise people... but that's the point, maybe they should. Maybe that's the level of attention that we need. People talk about government waste, then give a pass to things like this because they seem to think the military can do no wrong. The military industries know that, and they know they can leech untold amounts of money from taxpayers. It's an obscenity.... this 237million, and the 1.5trillion for the F-35; neither of those projects should ever have been funded.
And yah know what, i am repeating the same thing i've said before... because it is true; and anyone that's been paying attention anything in the last decade or more could see it all over the media, tech magazines, and congressional hearings.
http://www.businessinsider.com...
It can't fight, it can't run, and it's afraid to get wet. The F-35 is a piece of shit that's going to cost us over 1.5 trillion dollars.
I continue to see people blame Clinton for the Gramm–Leach–Bliley Act, you know.... Phil Gramm (REPUBLICAN), Jim Leach (REPUBLICAN), and Thomas J. Bliley, Jr. (REPUBLICAN)... and i have to wonder if anyone that does was even alive in the 1990's. I mean, you'd have to have been comatose to think that Clinton could have gotten much of anything passed the republican congress he had, and even worse off to think that 3 of the most powerful REPUBLICANS at the time would be THE ONLY THREE people whose name got put on the bill. I mean... serious brain-death, head up ass comatose to think that. Yet, people who wanted something that turned out to be a serious fuck-up will continue to try to place blame elsewhere.
The REPUBLICAN bill to repeal the Glass-Steagall, which they'd been attempting to do for 20+ years prior to Gramm-Leach-Bliley, passed without enough votes to sustain a veto, however democrats agree to go along with it after republicans yielded on privacy legislation to keep medical and financial records private (republicans didn't want them to be), and on consumer protection legislation (again, republicans at the time didn't give a flying fuck about consumers rights). After conference, Clinton was sent a version of the Gramm–Leach–Bliley Act that was veto-proof. Now, you could argue that he could have veto'd it, but it would have been purely symbolic.
So.... Glass-Steagall was actually repealed by republicans (because that's where bills get repealed... the house and senate, not the presidents desk), after they held consumer protections and private citizens privacy rights hostage to do what they'd been trying to do for decades. You can certainly blame Bill Clinton... but you'd be wrong, and anyone who lived through the 1990's (and actually remembers them) should know that.
You are correct though about that being a massive negative on economic stability.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Direct democracy has been around since the 5th century BC. Great Britain, in 1776, wasn't one.... remember, they had that whole king and parliament thing going on.
http://direct-democracy.geschi...
https://www.washingtonpost.com...
Once again, if you're going to talk about something, perhaps you should actually learn a little about what you talk about. The only thing you said that was accurate was that we have an electoral college... the rest is just ignorance.
https://www.washingtonpost.com...
I seem to keep having to post this because people seem to keep not taking basic poly-sci classes, but still want to flap their gums.
And I'm getting sick and tired of explaining to you creatures that we live in a REPUBLIC.
https://www.washingtonpost.com...
Well, a greater portion of the people in Switzerland have a real education, and aren't knee-jerk reactionaries that prefer to be lied too rather than live in reality, so perhaps the line should be: direct democracies don't work when there's a lot of really stupid people around.
Western reality: https://www.washingtonpost.com...
Hint for those who don't want to throw away a good soundbite just because it's wrong: Switzerland.
In a direct democracy, that's exactly what would happen. We live in a constitutional republic, which is basically indistinguishable from a representative democracy. https://www.washingtonpost.com...
Several of the founding fathers had very negative feelings towards democracy, give the only democracies around at the time were direct democracies. They saw tyranny of the majority play out, where what they believed to be inalienable rights could be stripped from people purely by the vote of the majority. A great example of that is these people who claim that states should have the right to vote on whether or not to allow same sex marriage. That is a classic example of tyranny of the majority.
The constitution doesn't empower the majority, it restricts them from committing tyranny of the majority and subjugating the minority to the majority's whims.
Price's point is this: "Cold fusion is dismissed as pseudoscience, the kind of thing that respectable scientists and science journalists simply don't talk about (unless to remind us of its disgrace). ...the standard line is that the rejection of cold fusion in 1989 turned on the failure to replicate the claims of Fleischmann and Pons. Yet if that were the real reason, then the rejection would have to be provisional. Failure to replicate couldn't possibly be more than provisional – empirical science is a fallible business, as any good scientist would acknowledge. In that case, well-performed experiments claiming to overturn the failure to replicate would certainly be of great interest."
Which is true somewhat, although the wrong words are used: IF a well-performed (and repeatedly verifiable) experiment OVERCOMES the failure to replicate, it would be of interest. Lost in this is: THAT HASN'T HAPPENED. The author seems to think that because Rossi is "still doing business," then somehow his claim to fame is justified, and everyone else is wrong. That ain't it. Rossi may be selling something (PT Barnum knew about how that worked), but it isn't cold fusion... and given this guy is a convicted fraud, it's not hard to think that the device he claims to do something that physics says shouldn't be able to happen, while refusing to submit it to 3rd party testing... or any peer review at all, nor explain how it performs the physics/miracle, and yet seems to be constantly "seeking investors" (you know, that whole con man looking for a mark part), is probably just that... a con.
Now, it sounds like the author has been duped, and now either wants to cover his embarrassment, or still believes the con is real. Name recognition isn't what's making the whole cold fusion thing a reputation trap.... it's the fact that it's pseudo-science that's been beaten to death for almost 100 years now (cold fusion was first brought up in the 1920's), and now attracts people like Rossi and, well, Huw Price, who apparently are "simply looking for investors," while ignoring reality.
... especially the cowards.
So what you're saying is... stronger emission quality regulations are fighting terrorism. Got it.
Plus, any sort of arabic writing looks scary to westerners.
I think you underestimate the cowardly, knee-jerk, reactionary, idiocy of many westerners.... http://www.buzzfeed.com/davidm...
On cars and pickups? Seriously?
Is "the free market" too difficult a concept to understand?
....the entire local area that's received radio broadcasts of Slim Whitman, obviously. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
How about a society that respects liberty and accepts reality? Want to drive?
How about: Want the PRIVILEGE to drive (as it's not a RIGHT)? Then you're monitored every fucking second so you don't fuck up and hurt someone else. Don't want to be careful, don't fucking drive. Seriously, this libertarian type bullshit used as an excuse to kill people is just fucking idiotic. Anyone who actually believes that fucked in the head crap should have themselves committed so they're not such a blight on humanity. It gives real libertarians a bad fucking image.