Only TWO weapons of this type have been used in war, by ONE country in ONE war which was over 70 years ago. We all know the affect this had, the loss of life it caused and the moral implications of having used the weapons. Why is it a bad thing to *limit* the number of countries which have the ability to cause such destruction? Especially in the case where the major countries that *have* such weapons have shown great restraint for nearly as long as the weapons have existed.
Like it or not, there ARE crazies out there that wouldn't use the same logic in their moral and ethical views, but would gladly use such weapons to their advantage. It only makes sense to go to great pains to prohibit proliferation of such weapons for the good of all. It's not about keeping the lessor nations under control, but protecting the planet from those who don't hold the same value of life that prevents such weapons from being used now.
That is some Game of Thrones level of hypocrisy right there.
I won't click on the ads, and I sure as hell will keep blocking the hell out of them. If a website shows me the thing to turn on cookies, or enable javascript, or tells me that I can't see their site with an adblocker... I'll simply leave.
Hmm. I can't advocate DDOS-level of shenanigans, but if there were a couple of bots targeting news sites (if they are reputable, they owe open access to promote open societies, IMHO) that opened the sites with adblocking in place, waited a few seconds for the begging prompt, and then just... left. If there was a large bump in traffic showing just that 'screw you, I'm out of here' reaction, that might help accelerate the end to this greedy folly.
I'm guessing that most countries wouldn't want to be the subject of a real-world economic experiment...
I'm intimately aware of one on the US state level: Brownbackistan. It's being transformed into a Koch Brothers Randian paradise (i.e., hell on earth for the 99%).
To their credit, they have proven that by cutting taxes and gutting the state's regulatory, financial, and educational systems, you can indeed end up with far, far fewer real jobs and a demonstrably lower standard of living for those that can't even leave the state Grapes of Wrath style. Also having a White Power advocate as Secretary of State is just gravy.
Funny how Helicopter Parents are so concerned about nearly every facet of their snowflakes' lives... but don't give a flying fuck about their rights and privacies.
Kudos for leaping forward a more pervasive police state, you twisted egomaniacs.
At this rate, the warnings of Richard Stallman in the past casually dismissed as the ranting of an extremist will soon be commonly held as wise and insightful (though still widely ignored by sheep-like consumers).
The Internet was built from the ground up with fault-tolerant collaboration at the heart. It never occurred to the well meaning scientists and engineers that some of the users would be out and out assholes.
Internet 3 should be designed with jobs one, two and three being near-paranoiac levels of security (AND ANONYMITY) and purpose-built such that all the existing hardware-embedded code (bugs and all) won't even work, such that the entire 'net and equipment have no legacy garbage with neither lazy (corporate) nor intentional (governmental) backdoors built in (verified via all open code).
Of course, given the twin costs of new hardware and the spooks losing all their peepholes, none of this will ever happen (right, Langley?).
They better have rain sensors and automatic floor drains too; rational cars have horizontal roofs and vertical doors for a reason (that reason being the weather).
"Whoever implements, accommodates, or benefits from profit-driven militaristic foreign interventionist policies that destroy entire countries and causes an influx of immigrants to Europe and Germany is my enemy." FTFY
Can I point out that the NSA is only doing what the current administration tells them to do and that it is President Obama that has not pardoned him and is pushing for his arrest?
You have it backwards. I can't be the only one that noticed President Obama did a near 180 from Candidate Obama, far more than the usual irrelevant campaign lies. Gitmo stayed (and is still) open for business, no one from the Bush admin were prosecuted for their CRIMES, and the number of cowardly extra-judicial remote control murders went through the roof.
Which is more likely, Ockham: the first black Democratic president turns out to be more right-wing than Nixon, or just after the oath of office, he and his family are threatened by the Security-Intelligence empire that has more power than Hoover could have ever fantasized about?
Garbage - as it's mainly thinly-veiled training for 'let's all work long thankless hours for our corporate masters'. My kid almost didn't graduate school because of this hooey of having to drag along the dead weight of other kids that just didn't give a shit, nearly destroying his respect for or even seeing the point of higher education (a kid always in the top 5 percentile of their precious, holy standardized testing).
If you've committed a crime, it's more likely that you, rather than someone who has never committed a crime, will commit the next crime. The term is "recidivism."
No, the term is "Puritanism", meaning once a criminal, always a criminal (especially if you ain't UMC white), with ZERO chance of going straight as the entire society is arrayed against you. You can't live (rentals only) in vast swaths of the country because you will only be ever hired (if at all) at the worst, lowest type of jobs reserved for the Untouchables, and you can't even vote again, FFS!
'Going Straight' is a punchline to a cruel joke, given that in the US, you're literally worth more to the Prison-Industrial complex when you're locked up rather than 'free'. It's a fait accompli as just like the Scarlett Letter, most of this country still gets a secret near-sexual thrill from 'moralistically' brutalizing other people.
...I wouldn't be surprised if it will end up with a shitload of requests from the *.A.As spamming the ISPs as they will be able to argue that "IP address does not equal individual" no longer applies.
Eeep. I never thought of that; a number longer than Jacob Marleys' chain of boxes, following you forever. It's starting to feel like ipv6 was a collaboration between the NSA and Satan (beast numbers!).
He learned just a one cannot herd cats, one cannot reason with the outright psychotics that the Teabagging Koch Brothers, et al loosed on the Republican party (and the entire country).
To unGodwin myself a bit, I get the impression Automotive Engineering is not unlike most other engineering sectors: a lot of job movement between manufacturers, suppliers, consultancy, and back again, with plenty of drama and rollercoaster-like job security, depending on the sales figures and general economy. My point is: people talk - even German engineers. No way they were the only ones cheating, regardless of which continent we're talking about, for both diesel _and_ petrol. I suspect we're about to enter another dark age of more stringent emission controls / crap performance (depending on how much money the auto guys spend on buying politicians).
On the literally bright side: this may truly help the acceleration (if you will) to EVs becoming the norm. IC's are neat creatures, but I think even now, most modern mass-production cars would get smoked by a Tesla (in Insane Mode) in the quarter-mile.
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That is some Game of Thrones level of hypocrisy right there.
Hmm. I can't advocate DDOS-level of shenanigans, but if there were a couple of bots targeting news sites (if they are reputable, they owe open access to promote open societies, IMHO) that opened the sites with adblocking in place, waited a few seconds for the begging prompt, and then just... left. If there was a large bump in traffic showing just that 'screw you, I'm out of here' reaction, that might help accelerate the end to this greedy folly.
Cow farts and Bindweed?
I'm intimately aware of one on the US state level: Brownbackistan. It's being transformed into a Koch Brothers Randian paradise (i.e., hell on earth for the 99%).
To their credit, they have proven that by cutting taxes and gutting the state's regulatory, financial, and educational systems, you can indeed end up with far, far fewer real jobs and a demonstrably lower standard of living for those that can't even leave the state Grapes of Wrath style. Also having a White Power advocate as Secretary of State is just gravy.
Funny how Helicopter Parents are so concerned about nearly every facet of their snowflakes' lives... but don't give a flying fuck about their rights and privacies.
Kudos for leaping forward a more pervasive police state, you twisted egomaniacs.
They can't; they're all in prison.
You've probably never heard of it because you're not in my enclave.
So Windows 10 really does have our backs!
Always LOOKING out for the little guy! Thanks, Microsoft!
PS And Hello to the NSA!
Wow, that reads terribly. I forget; what are the attributes to be judged as being a 'fine woman' again?
At this rate, the warnings of Richard Stallman in the past casually dismissed as the ranting of an extremist will soon be commonly held as wise and insightful (though still widely ignored by sheep-like consumers).
The Internet was built from the ground up with fault-tolerant collaboration at the heart. It never occurred to the well meaning scientists and engineers that some of the users would be out and out assholes.
Internet 3 should be designed with jobs one, two and three being near-paranoiac levels of security (AND ANONYMITY) and purpose-built such that all the existing hardware-embedded code (bugs and all) won't even work, such that the entire 'net and equipment have no legacy garbage with neither lazy (corporate) nor intentional (governmental) backdoors built in (verified via all open code).
Of course, given the twin costs of new hardware and the spooks losing all their peepholes, none of this will ever happen (right, Langley?).
They better have rain sensors and automatic floor drains too; rational cars have horizontal roofs and vertical doors for a reason (that reason being the weather).
"Whoever implements, accommodates, or benefits from profit-driven militaristic foreign interventionist policies that destroy entire countries and causes an influx of immigrants to Europe and Germany is my enemy." FTFY
Thus, she is a Republican.
You have it backwards. I can't be the only one that noticed President Obama did a near 180 from Candidate Obama, far more than the usual irrelevant campaign lies. Gitmo stayed (and is still) open for business, no one from the Bush admin were prosecuted for their CRIMES, and the number of cowardly extra-judicial remote control murders went through the roof.
Which is more likely, Ockham: the first black Democratic president turns out to be more right-wing than Nixon, or just after the oath of office, he and his family are threatened by the Security-Intelligence empire that has more power than Hoover could have ever fantasized about?
Garbage - as it's mainly thinly-veiled training for 'let's all work long thankless hours for our corporate masters'. My kid almost didn't graduate school because of this hooey of having to drag along the dead weight of other kids that just didn't give a shit, nearly destroying his respect for or even seeing the point of higher education (a kid always in the top 5 percentile of their precious, holy standardized testing).
Four codes, actually; the last for mis-spelling the foreign body.
Watch The Fifth Element again.
No, the term is "Puritanism", meaning once a criminal, always a criminal (especially if you ain't UMC white), with ZERO chance of going straight as the entire society is arrayed against you. You can't live (rentals only) in vast swaths of the country because you will only be ever hired (if at all) at the worst, lowest type of jobs reserved for the Untouchables, and you can't even vote again, FFS!
'Going Straight' is a punchline to a cruel joke, given that in the US, you're literally worth more to the Prison-Industrial complex when you're locked up rather than 'free'. It's a fait accompli as just like the Scarlett Letter, most of this country still gets a secret near-sexual thrill from 'moralistically' brutalizing other people.
Eeep. I never thought of that; a number longer than Jacob Marleys' chain of boxes, following you forever. It's starting to feel like ipv6 was a collaboration between the NSA and Satan (beast numbers!).
He learned just a one cannot herd cats, one cannot reason with the outright psychotics that the Teabagging Koch Brothers, et al loosed on the Republican party (and the entire country).
Or just:
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"We were only following orders!"
To unGodwin myself a bit, I get the impression Automotive Engineering is not unlike most other engineering sectors: a lot of job movement between manufacturers, suppliers, consultancy, and back again, with plenty of drama and rollercoaster-like job security, depending on the sales figures and general economy. My point is: people talk - even German engineers. No way they were the only ones cheating, regardless of which continent we're talking about, for both diesel _and_ petrol. I suspect we're about to enter another dark age of more stringent emission controls / crap performance (depending on how much money the auto guys spend on buying politicians).
On the literally bright side: this may truly help the acceleration (if you will) to EVs becoming the norm. IC's are neat creatures, but I think even now, most modern mass-production cars would get smoked by a Tesla (in Insane Mode) in the quarter-mile.
"But enough about my house mates."
Unless you're Dick Cheney, then you can do whatever the fuck you want.