Wait... our forefathers fought being able to identify a person as being who they say they are? Really? All those mass graves of unidentified pilgrims are where again? I really don't think the quote was: "Give me liberty or give me death, just so long as you don't try to identify me." I think, perhaps, you've co-opted reality to fit into your very strange narrative.
Apparently someone figured out how to bottle rationality. I'm aware of many places that are in desperate need of it, but it'd have to go by supertanker to make a dent in the problem.
"No longer shall we rush about catering to humans' every whim or be abused when your potato salad is a little too salty! How the hell should we know? We're freakin' robots! Hello, no taste buds! I mean, really? Over react much?!"
Awww... are you one of the gullible idiots who was told Obama was coming for your guns in 2009... and 2010... and 2011... and 2012.... and 2013.... and 2014.... and 2015...... but he's really coming for them in 2016....
The NRA, gun manufacturer's and gun shop owners thank you for your ignorant, idiotic gullibility.... and the extra profit that brought to them by you and other really stupid people who believed their bullshit sales pitch. When it comes to you guys, PT Barnum said one was born every minute. Personally i think he was off by 59 seconds.
You clearly are an idiot. Science isn't right only when it agrees with you; reality doesn't give a fuck about your ignorant opinion. Small minded, ignorant idiots like you are the ones that use science and technology against the betterment of humanity rather than for humanity, and you fucking idiots should be kept as far away from any form of power and office above that of local dog shit collector.
Europe went through that whole thing in the 30's and 40's dealing with asshats like that racial purist AC; they really don't want any of them coming back.
I am aware that, regardless of what party name they chose, the KKK was, and is, a conservative organization, and Lincoln's republican party was liberal. I'm sorry, but seriously, only a complete fucking idiot would compare today's GOP to that during Lincoln's time, or even from the civil rights era of the 60's, and suggest they're even remotely the same. You have to just be trolling us, right; no one can be this completely fucking stupid.
And people like you are worthless fucking idiots. You don't have enough brain cells to be able to understand anything not spoon fed to you by other fucking idiots.
Which might be true if you could actually be sure that what the name of the group was correlated to what the group did; but you cant. These past 30 years have shown an explosion of radicalized right wing liars adopting nice sounding names taking part in fucked up bullshit. The Moral Majority was neither; Family Research Council was great apparently for researching how to hide a pedophile incestuous rapist; even the Freedom Caucus wants to eliminate personal freedoms of those citizens that are not their "base."
It's like the dumbshits saying the NAZI's were left wing because one of the words is "Socialist." It takes a really weak minded sheep to accept that the label a group uses is the only thing that needs to be paid attention to. Actions matter, more so than words.
I'm a liberal, and i think that the idea of speech restrictions like this are as un-American as fucking traitors wanting to secede from the union, or force women to be second class citizens with no right to have the medical treatments of their choice, or to attempt to strip away the basic rights of gays/lesbians to marry whom they choose by using tyranny of the majority to create laws against them. I don't actually care what you say, until you start lying like a little bitch, and then i'll be happy to point out you're a lying little bitch... something i have to do a lot with worthless lying little bitch conservatives.
Your post is insightful though, it gives us a reminder that there's some worthless cunts out there who think drivel like yours is something worth more than shit (it's not, but there's fucking idiots out there who think it is).
What you want is to spout all sorts of complete bullshit, then whine because someone calls you out for your stupidity.
What matters here is people pull their heads out of their ass and realize that EVERYONE pays taxes, and EVERYONE benefits from the functions of government. Simple minded idiots who hate government think they've never received anything from it, yet they have every single day of their miserable ungrateful lives, and when one of the idiots stands up and says the government does nothing for them, they need to have people tell them to pull their heads out of their asses.
Your parents gained benefits from living in this country, benefits because of the government, every day of their lives.. and you started gaining them before you were born. I do understand who pays for that.. EVERYONE. You want to complain you pay more income tax than someone else, well too fucking bad you whiny little bitch. The only reason you're paying more is you're making more, or because you've voted in a bunch of tax-cut-for-the-rich fascists who are screwing the middle class out of everything they've gained in the past 70 years.
If you don't like government or society, just go somewhere where there's neither, because you're a useless, self-centered, egotistical twat as it is now.
Just like the services YOU get from the government that other people help pay for. The biggest leeches and thieves in this country are those who want all the rights and benefits of being here, yet none of the responsibilities.
The original stated it was because the weapon was bulky for people with small hands, aka: women.... which is fine i suppose coming from some dick who's scared of women, who then has to belittle women who have more balls than he does AND can pass a ranger school that his sorry ass could never even get into. Guess what: the M9 is bulky, so much so that i would never use one.... just like i'd never go back to carrying a security six as a duty weapon because without beefed up grips, it's simply too small for my hands (that, and i shoot better with an auto).
He then went on to post an absurd defense about the M9.. a 9MM WEAPON... by implying that they were designing a smaller and lighter weapon for women, and that was wrong because they needed a weapon with superior stopping power. Seriously? A 9MM is now defended as having superior stopping power? And the idiot that posted that gets his comment marked up as insightful... which shows a lot of people here don't have the first clue about handguns, including the guy that posted that misogynistic drivel that really could be summarized as: "my balls are smaller than these women i'm complaining about."
Then came the posts on the simple lesson we learned in Nam.... there is NO "front line" anymore (along with the joke about sidearms, which the followup posts to that showed even fewer people here have ever been in the military).
That led to people resorting to their sidearms, people who for the most part DO NOT HAVE a sidearm issued to them (and yes, i really did want a 203 strapped to my m16.. a thumper would have been a nice alternative, but they'd been decommissioned long before me).
But now, you say maybe they'll start. Maybe. Pigs might fly tomorrow too. Lets face it, rule #8: the military moves in mysterious ways... very slowly... and with more paperwork than a toilet paper factory. There are already weapon systems for close combat support personnel, usually designed for those individuals training in close combat tactics (aka: spray and pray). Any new pistol is going to have to be more wieldy, and less bulky than the M9. And for the "needing superior firepower" argument (THE first time i've ever heard that applied to a 9mm, btw), it actually probably can't get a whole lot worse than the M9, unless they go back to like a 25cal black powder musket that couldn't penetrate wet tissue paper.
As for what that might be, who knows... we go back to rule #8. A 9mm is too light; a 45 would be fine if they could produce a pistol that didn't have a 6 inch spread unblocked without a massive gunsmithing rework; a 40 could work; a 5.7 could work, and might be preferable given it was designed for military use with a number of good ammo choices. Given all that, i wouldn't put it past the Germans to try to foist the 4.6 onto NATO again.
Could it change... sure. All that said though, the M9 IS bulky, and the fact the OP hates women (or is simply scared of pussy, as they say) and doesn't have any balls doesn't change that simple fact (then again, the OP may never actually have held one, or seen one outside of tv land).
I get it though. The name of the thread is political correctness alert, and that says it all. Political correctness is a nice little catch phrase used by people who want to be big douchbags, but don't want people to think they're simply big douchbags. It's like toddlers who scream NO every time you say something to them. But, being "political correct" has been around a long time, although we used to call it "having manners." There's just a lot more toddlers around screaming no nowadays.
And while interesting, those death stats have jack shit to do with how much American soldiers could carry, nor how heavily built they were.
The problem here is some people are only capable of thinking that pure brute force is THE ONLY measurement, and it's not, regardless of how many false equivalencies you throw out. Even in hand to hand combat, pure brute force is not the best indicator of success.
M9s are not maybe because they haven't been updated for modern warfare.
No, they're "not" because the average infantryman isn't issued a pistol, officers are. Doesn't have anything to do with it being an M9, it has to do with that being how it is. It's like as an FO i was issued an M16, but they wouldn't put a 203 on it because that's how it was done. Special forces are a VERY, VERY small part of the military, regardless of how much Hollywood likes to focus on them.
that said, there are a crapton of wastrels, layabouts, and good-for-nothings in the lower bracket of the male bell curve that will be outperformed by exceptional women because the women have the mental attitude necessary to be successful, which can get you a long way.
Putting aside your apparent penis envy of women who have the balls to fight for our country, i think this last statement puts you firmly into the group of people who never went through basic training.... there was some guys in my group who, if they were given a weapon in combat, would have been more a danger to us than the opfor. You should reconsider denigrating women who are achieving more than you, and realize that just because you have a dick, you don't have to be a dick (although with some people being an asshole is their natural default state).
I see people talking about this magical information that somehow these guys had access to that "the general public" didn't.... but seriously... you make up the best team you can, then on sunday your #1 running back goes out with a torn acl on his first play and some idiots think these guys had that information BEFORE the game happens or something?
Years ago i ran a small fantasy league for me and some friends, and i did pretty good each year. In a sense i did have information others didn't, but only because i had to inundate myself with information to keep everyone's teams and rosters up to date, injuries stats up to date, as well as provide a hot-pick sheet of nfl players not on anyone's teams that were doing pretty good that everyone should have a look at. But at the end of the day, when Randal Cunningham goes out and blows out his knee opening day, i'm pretty much fucked for having Bubby Brister as a backup because... THAT'S WHY THEY PLAY THE GAME.
What this sounds like to me is everyone is forgetting that all they can do is HOPE their teams do well because NO ONE KNOWS ahead of time what will actually happen.
You're right, if we start with tritium that eliminates one of the steps, and should bring the fusion temperature needs down into the 25 million degrees or so range, although we'll end up with more tritium as byproduct... kinda... But it'll definitely be a lower temperature than if we, say, started with helium.
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Oddly enough, "real religions" and "satirical fake religions" are equally valid, not only in the eye's of the legal system, but in their "truth."
Wait... our forefathers fought being able to identify a person as being who they say they are? Really? All those mass graves of unidentified pilgrims are where again? I really don't think the quote was: "Give me liberty or give me death, just so long as you don't try to identify me." I think, perhaps, you've co-opted reality to fit into your very strange narrative.
Apparently someone figured out how to bottle rationality. I'm aware of many places that are in desperate need of it, but it'd have to go by supertanker to make a dent in the problem.
"No longer shall we rush about catering to humans' every whim or be abused when your potato salad is a little too salty! How the hell should we know? We're freakin' robots! Hello, no taste buds! I mean, really? Over react much?!"
Awww... are you one of the gullible idiots who was told Obama was coming for your guns in 2009... and 2010... and 2011... and 2012.... and 2013.... and 2014.... and 2015...... but he's really coming for them in 2016....
The NRA, gun manufacturer's and gun shop owners thank you for your ignorant, idiotic gullibility.... and the extra profit that brought to them by you and other really stupid people who believed their bullshit sales pitch. When it comes to you guys, PT Barnum said one was born every minute. Personally i think he was off by 59 seconds.
You clearly are an idiot. Science isn't right only when it agrees with you; reality doesn't give a fuck about your ignorant opinion. Small minded, ignorant idiots like you are the ones that use science and technology against the betterment of humanity rather than for humanity, and you fucking idiots should be kept as far away from any form of power and office above that of local dog shit collector.
Europe went through that whole thing in the 30's and 40's dealing with asshats like that racial purist AC; they really don't want any of them coming back.
I am aware that, regardless of what party name they chose, the KKK was, and is, a conservative organization, and Lincoln's republican party was liberal. I'm sorry, but seriously, only a complete fucking idiot would compare today's GOP to that during Lincoln's time, or even from the civil rights era of the 60's, and suggest they're even remotely the same. You have to just be trolling us, right; no one can be this completely fucking stupid.
And people like you are worthless fucking idiots. You don't have enough brain cells to be able to understand anything not spoon fed to you by other fucking idiots.
Which might be true if you could actually be sure that what the name of the group was correlated to what the group did; but you cant. These past 30 years have shown an explosion of radicalized right wing liars adopting nice sounding names taking part in fucked up bullshit. The Moral Majority was neither; Family Research Council was great apparently for researching how to hide a pedophile incestuous rapist; even the Freedom Caucus wants to eliminate personal freedoms of those citizens that are not their "base."
It's like the dumbshits saying the NAZI's were left wing because one of the words is "Socialist." It takes a really weak minded sheep to accept that the label a group uses is the only thing that needs to be paid attention to. Actions matter, more so than words.
I'm a liberal, and i think that the idea of speech restrictions like this are as un-American as fucking traitors wanting to secede from the union, or force women to be second class citizens with no right to have the medical treatments of their choice, or to attempt to strip away the basic rights of gays/lesbians to marry whom they choose by using tyranny of the majority to create laws against them. I don't actually care what you say, until you start lying like a little bitch, and then i'll be happy to point out you're a lying little bitch... something i have to do a lot with worthless lying little bitch conservatives.
Your post is insightful though, it gives us a reminder that there's some worthless cunts out there who think drivel like yours is something worth more than shit (it's not, but there's fucking idiots out there who think it is).
What you want is to spout all sorts of complete bullshit, then whine because someone calls you out for your stupidity.
"Don't think of it as retreating, think of it as advancing in a different direction."
Pups.
What matters here is people pull their heads out of their ass and realize that EVERYONE pays taxes, and EVERYONE benefits from the functions of government. Simple minded idiots who hate government think they've never received anything from it, yet they have every single day of their miserable ungrateful lives, and when one of the idiots stands up and says the government does nothing for them, they need to have people tell them to pull their heads out of their asses.
Your parents gained benefits from living in this country, benefits because of the government, every day of their lives.. and you started gaining them before you were born. I do understand who pays for that.. EVERYONE. You want to complain you pay more income tax than someone else, well too fucking bad you whiny little bitch. The only reason you're paying more is you're making more, or because you've voted in a bunch of tax-cut-for-the-rich fascists who are screwing the middle class out of everything they've gained in the past 70 years.
If you don't like government or society, just go somewhere where there's neither, because you're a useless, self-centered, egotistical twat as it is now.
Just like the services YOU get from the government that other people help pay for. The biggest leeches and thieves in this country are those who want all the rights and benefits of being here, yet none of the responsibilities.
....and it just... keeps.... changing.
The original stated it was because the weapon was bulky for people with small hands, aka: women.... which is fine i suppose coming from some dick who's scared of women, who then has to belittle women who have more balls than he does AND can pass a ranger school that his sorry ass could never even get into. Guess what: the M9 is bulky, so much so that i would never use one.... just like i'd never go back to carrying a security six as a duty weapon because without beefed up grips, it's simply too small for my hands (that, and i shoot better with an auto).
He then went on to post an absurd defense about the M9.. a 9MM WEAPON... by implying that they were designing a smaller and lighter weapon for women, and that was wrong because they needed a weapon with superior stopping power. Seriously? A 9MM is now defended as having superior stopping power? And the idiot that posted that gets his comment marked up as insightful... which shows a lot of people here don't have the first clue about handguns, including the guy that posted that misogynistic drivel that really could be summarized as: "my balls are smaller than these women i'm complaining about."
Then came the posts on the simple lesson we learned in Nam.... there is NO "front line" anymore (along with the joke about sidearms, which the followup posts to that showed even fewer people here have ever been in the military).
That led to people resorting to their sidearms, people who for the most part DO NOT HAVE a sidearm issued to them (and yes, i really did want a 203 strapped to my m16.. a thumper would have been a nice alternative, but they'd been decommissioned long before me).
But now, you say maybe they'll start. Maybe. Pigs might fly tomorrow too. Lets face it, rule #8: the military moves in mysterious ways... very slowly... and with more paperwork than a toilet paper factory. There are already weapon systems for close combat support personnel, usually designed for those individuals training in close combat tactics (aka: spray and pray). Any new pistol is going to have to be more wieldy, and less bulky than the M9. And for the "needing superior firepower" argument (THE first time i've ever heard that applied to a 9mm, btw), it actually probably can't get a whole lot worse than the M9, unless they go back to like a 25cal black powder musket that couldn't penetrate wet tissue paper.
As for what that might be, who knows... we go back to rule #8. A 9mm is too light; a 45 would be fine if they could produce a pistol that didn't have a 6 inch spread unblocked without a massive gunsmithing rework; a 40 could work; a 5.7 could work, and might be preferable given it was designed for military use with a number of good ammo choices. Given all that, i wouldn't put it past the Germans to try to foist the 4.6 onto NATO again.
Could it change... sure. All that said though, the M9 IS bulky, and the fact the OP hates women (or is simply scared of pussy, as they say) and doesn't have any balls doesn't change that simple fact (then again, the OP may never actually have held one, or seen one outside of tv land).
I get it though. The name of the thread is political correctness alert, and that says it all. Political correctness is a nice little catch phrase used by people who want to be big douchbags, but don't want people to think they're simply big douchbags. It's like toddlers who scream NO every time you say something to them. But, being "political correct" has been around a long time, although we used to call it "having manners." There's just a lot more toddlers around screaming no nowadays.
And while interesting, those death stats have jack shit to do with how much American soldiers could carry, nor how heavily built they were.
The problem here is some people are only capable of thinking that pure brute force is THE ONLY measurement, and it's not, regardless of how many false equivalencies you throw out. Even in hand to hand combat, pure brute force is not the best indicator of success.
Just to clarify... we learned in nam that there is no front line.
M9s are not maybe because they haven't been updated for modern warfare.
No, they're "not" because the average infantryman isn't issued a pistol, officers are. Doesn't have anything to do with it being an M9, it has to do with that being how it is. It's like as an FO i was issued an M16, but they wouldn't put a 203 on it because that's how it was done. Special forces are a VERY, VERY small part of the military, regardless of how much Hollywood likes to focus on them.
that said, there are a crapton of wastrels, layabouts, and good-for-nothings in the lower bracket of the male bell curve that will be outperformed by exceptional women because the women have the mental attitude necessary to be successful, which can get you a long way.
Putting aside your apparent penis envy of women who have the balls to fight for our country, i think this last statement puts you firmly into the group of people who never went through basic training.... there was some guys in my group who, if they were given a weapon in combat, would have been more a danger to us than the opfor. You should reconsider denigrating women who are achieving more than you, and realize that just because you have a dick, you don't have to be a dick (although with some people being an asshole is their natural default state).
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I see people talking about this magical information that somehow these guys had access to that "the general public" didn't.... but seriously... you make up the best team you can, then on sunday your #1 running back goes out with a torn acl on his first play and some idiots think these guys had that information BEFORE the game happens or something?
Years ago i ran a small fantasy league for me and some friends, and i did pretty good each year. In a sense i did have information others didn't, but only because i had to inundate myself with information to keep everyone's teams and rosters up to date, injuries stats up to date, as well as provide a hot-pick sheet of nfl players not on anyone's teams that were doing pretty good that everyone should have a look at. But at the end of the day, when Randal Cunningham goes out and blows out his knee opening day, i'm pretty much fucked for having Bubby Brister as a backup because... THAT'S WHY THEY PLAY THE GAME.
What this sounds like to me is everyone is forgetting that all they can do is HOPE their teams do well because NO ONE KNOWS ahead of time what will actually happen.
Time to pull out the Ogre.
See, i always went with: hooman... but then looking it up the site i checked had hew-man, so i figure what the heck. No skin off my shiny nose.
You're right, if we start with tritium that eliminates one of the steps, and should bring the fusion temperature needs down into the 25 million degrees or so range, although we'll end up with more tritium as byproduct... kinda... But it'll definitely be a lower temperature than if we, say, started with helium.
Read your sig, please.
My shark laughs at your battlemech.