So how long until another unneeded war begins? I'm placing my bets on next year around election cycle. The democans/republicrats like to trade off in 8 year cycles, so I foresee action taken in either Iran or Syria in the next 8-10 months, if not sooner. Americans rally behind the war and patriotism and fear of the word nuclear; Obama and his buddies get another 4 years of cronyism to the max and the republicrats step back into office to do the same thing, just flashing the other side of the same coin to give the illusion of 'our change is different than his change'.
Vote incumbents out. Vote 3rd party. Doing so is better than not. The mainstream dogs Ron Paul for his foreign policy, but I've got to say that it seems all other options we've been trying haven't yielded great results and are only cartwheeling America further into debt and enlarging the complex.
**I meant to type 'I deal more with relativity than I do QED/QCD', we haven't quite come to a point where the statement:
IF (Relativity == True && QED-QCD == True) THEN { TheoriesMergedWithoutIssue = True;}
Must of been my subconscious hoping for the yet to be completed reconciliation of the two:)
I've seen some comments stating that 'meh photoelectric effect nothing new to see here'. While it is true that emission/absorption is subject to quantum mechanics, specifically the photo-electric effect being governed by the work function hf = phi - eV, with hf = hc/lambda, phi being the work-function of the material, and eV being the 'escape velocity' of the electrons; the point being that energy emitted/absorbed must satisfy the above relationship, otherwise the photo-electric effect does not work.
What I believe this study is saying is that 'antennae' structures can act as a single quantum mechanical unit (the coherence) so that the incoming insolar radiation has more paths for electron conduction, since the transfer of energy/conduction of electrons is limited to the quantization by the work function, i.e., charge quantization limits the specific wavelengths/frequencies/energies of incoming photons that the plant can use to harvest energy, so in effect the evolution of these 'antennae' structures over time allows for a coherent systems that can act as single particles, with the different permutations of antennas allowing for vastly more permutations of allowed incoming wavelengths to satisfy the Schrodinger eqn (probably not dirac since these are most likely not relativistic interactions, at least the effects are negligible).
I deal more with relativity and QED/QCD, but that's my interpretation of the article.
Addendum/self-correction - That example is not the first ever, that article is a bit biased. My point was it will be easier for trade and less icebergs = more ships.
The northwest passage has always been a viable trade route. Anyone who things otherwise has been listening to warmists spout off that we've never used it. I'll give you three guesses as to why Canada and Russia have so many ice breakers up there.
As the globe continues to warm, eventually the Northwest Passage will be a viable route for less ice-hardy vessels more times out of the year, providing economic benefit for those who could utilize the shipping routes. I imagine there are lobbies that would love to see this happen. This is speculation, for I do now know if people actively encourage warming. Looking at the CO2 data and its positive correlation to the mean global temperature increase, it seems we may see that route in our lifetime.
Also as the permafrost disappears, another side affect is a cascading result in the loss of surface ice/snow pack. As the surface area of the snow/ice/arctic shelf shrinks, the Earth's regional albedo will be reduced, ie there will be less radiational cooling and more energy absorbed by the surface. Cycles such as this create feedback loops in the environment that cause these affects to amplify. Lower albedo -> less permafrost/snow/ice/glacier coverage -> more heat -> lower albedo -> ad inifinitum.
I am not a meteorologist, but based on some cursory research these seem to be realistic eventualities.
I did a college project and built a simple drone with Arduino parts and some model RC stuff. We had to come up with a business plan to present commercial applications for there are many:
firefighters need a temp profile of a building before they get there, send the drone
cops need eyes in the sky to find a perp, send the drone
high volume roadway monitoring, send the drone
video taping sports events (highschool, private, college, racing, etc), send the drone
monitoring wildlife/forestry/national park outdoorsey stuff, send the drone
weather monitoring and remote sensing in harsh environments, send the drone
Anything that requires helicopter eyes in the sky but doesn't need to transport human or heavy payloads (air fuel is not cheap)
many more than not 4th amendment violations, send all the drones you got baby.
With all the good that could come of this technology, I guarantee the loss of civil liberties and privacy will be ten-fold larger. First to market will make lots of money once they pay off the FAA and get through the red tape. Lockheed/Northrop/Boeing/large DoD contractors have the lock on the drone market for the gov't now, once a large demand is created in the non-government sector, we'll see more of these stateside once the red-tape and matters are worked out. Where drones are better at some things overseas, they will be utilized that way here as well (hopefully, but not guaranteed, to be ordinance free). Naturally drones are nothing new, the barriers to entry are cost, FAA regs, demand. But once contractors get the lock and private firms/governments see/feel/create the need, drones will become another fact of life here in Panopticonland.
Overreach much? Here we have ICE, Immigration & Customs Enforcement, with their own squads dedicated to protecting intellectual property. I quote this straight from the horses mouth:
WASHINGTON — To mark the official beginning of the online holiday shopping season, known as Cyber Monday, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), the National Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center (IPR Center), the Department of Justice and the FBI Washington Field Office have seized 150 website domain names that were illegally selling and distributing counterfeit merchandise.
Not only are there multiple alphabet soups working in collaboration on this, but taxpayer dollars, to use a talking point, tax payer dollars are being used to protect the profits of companies that a) people buying cheap counterfeits don't usually have money to buy the high dollar stuff or choose not to and b) many companies hide their profits overseas to avoid all the tax's imposed on them while simultaneously lobby congress to make import/export easier with the slave friggin labor used to make these fucking pointless articles of consumer whoredom. National Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center, ie, America production and creation capacity has been reduced to rubbish so we'll sue/block/censor anything that threatens the bank accounts. I'm not a 99%'er and all that jazz; this is a problem between stupid electorate continually rel-electing politicians who do not represent the people and are easily bought out. There are of course many more problems than this, but to boil it down this story is just icing on the turd-cake that will be served to future historians who write about the downfall of America.
Boggles the mind on one hand, on the other hand, well, nothing new under the sun, eh?
'Google's inconsistent standards are adversely affecting our ability to counter violent Islamist extremism online.'"
Well Mr. Lieberman, you're quite the one to talk about inconsistent standards. And I'm sure censorship is most definitely the best way to fight terrorism online. It always works, right? Right?
US Government: Fighting the symptoms, and not the causes. To get one vote at a time.
It is only a matter of time before we have another Kent State on our hands. Things will escalate between both sides and there will only be bloodshed before concessions are made. That is the only way I see this playing out. I imagine in the spring of next year, and during the height of 2010 election mania, there will be a surge in OWS as people become even more outraged at the current crop of incumbents. Who knows. Interesting times.
Perhaps the most complicated puzzle ever in the board-game sense, but for a real puzzle will somebody solve the Riemann Hypothesis so we can all enjoy the beauty of the solution in our lifetime. Now that would be amazing.
Makes sense from that perspective, however the fact that the interstate commerce clause is used for so many things other than interstate commerce makes it seem like if they are going to use selective application of the constitution and selective enforcement of certain measures, we might as well just have another constitutional convention in which all of our current governing bodies get together and take turns defecating on the current document and then write a new constitution that says:
"Section 1.0: We make the rules. Nothing you can do. Voting changes nothing. Get back in line citizen."
I too find it amusing that the 10th amendment is pretty much ignored with votes like this. Since when does the congress 'allow' things that are automatically reserved to the states?
Amendment 10: The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor
prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to
the people.
Conservatives love a good sales tax because it is nice and regressive.
What part of "Bipartisan Internet Sales Tax Bill Introduced" and "Four senators, including both Democrats and Republicans" makes you want to point at just conservatives, besides demagoguing a single party? Almost all politicians love a good tax on whatever. Like the Christmas tree tax that just got added into all the other ridiculous Agri-taxes the fed has imposed over the years to prop up industries the free-market would otherwise have let work out on its own, this is just another federal manipulation of market desires for the wrong reasons. I'm for regulation, but taxes are an area that need 100% overhaul. Not incremental change. Sweeping reform. For the most part we never see taxes being removed. And that is a bipartisan ailment. Regressive taxes favor all the good-ole-boy club members, and their unfairness or however you view it is perpetrated by both parties.
And the simplifications definitely do make sense. With mesoscale there is just no way to solve the PDEs, even computationally, accounting for every single BC (especially if the BCs are variably periodic). In the end it seems the systems are chaotic once you extend the time-lines long out far enough. Plus Navier-Stokes is a bitch once you start dealing with that kind of fluid-flow on the global scale. (it becoming 3+ dimensional non-linear problem with non-homogenous BCs IIRC).
Not to mention things like tidal forces changing the dimensions of the earth, with the surface bulges changing the average sea-level pressure and temperature gradients as the equinoxes come and go, this-in-itself alters the local wind patterns in a non-negligible way such that the global system is even more chaotic due to the periodic tidal bulge from lunar orbital locking.
I spend most my time in Hilbert space and manifolds, but modelling is a fantastic area to work in (since you modelers actually have tangible data to work with usually:) and not just what us theorist can conjure up:P
As for boundary conditions, the model is global, so the boundaries wrap around and you dont need to worry about them.
I don't believe that is correct. Say you are working with a two dimensional x-y plane, like a circular drum head. If the edges of the drum head are kept at 0, then you have a 'wraparound' boundary condition that you can represent in the polar plane as a regular linear boundary condition from -pi to pi on 0 to the radius (visualized as rectangular boundary conditions on the theta vs. r plot). In this situation your boundary is a closed, bounded surface without interruption, and yet it can still be modeled with separable boundary conditions and then solved using separation of variables to the laplacian operating on the circular plane.
If you jump up to higher dimensions, the same logic still applies. You still have to worry about the spherical boundary conditions, they don't just disappear. Removing the boundary conditions would alter the solution technique and the family of equations that satisfy the partial differential equation your using in your model. BCs are everything.
that leverages the processing power of video cards to generate Bitcoins, a popular type of virtual currency.
At that rate, summary might as well have said:
"A newly identified Mac OS X (a popular Mac operating system) Trojan (a popular method for exploits) bundles a component that leverages the processing power (a measure of processing) of video cards to generate Bitcoins, a popular type of virtual currency (something used for economic exchange (the process of trading one thing for another (something other than the one thing))). The new Trojan was dubbed DevilRobber by antivirus vendors (companies that write viruses) and is being distributed together with several software applications via BitTorrent sites, places to download torrents (links that track the locations of pieces of a file (a collection of bits (binary representations of data, ie information)))"
Either a) this is just emergent pop culture following its natural life-cycle or
b) There is a subconscious agreement that the breakdown of civilization is a real possibility in the near future. With this in mind (out of mind, whatever), people can prepare for such a horrific event by lightening it up in a more sci-fi manner, when in reality surviving a zombie apocalypse would in all honesty not be that different from a complete breakdown of modern society (minus the brain eating, but in a shortage of food and clean water and no electricity, you would see cannibalism as well). We rationalize it as "if I'm prepared for the zombie apocalypse, I'm prepared for almost anything", and plus it is more mainstream than gloom and doom survivalist chanting 'it's all going to end soon', so people observing your erratic preparations give you a more humorous passing glance than they would otherwise.
You nailed it. I'm not encouraging thin red line imperialism, just questioning the inconsistency in the rhetoric of it and its application across the globe. Perhaps I should have been less inflammatory and used less polarizing language, but the whole quagmire is just disgusting.
I get that. But we let the Cartels get away with it. We send them guns. We keep the region unstable. Sound familiar? Stability in Mexico apparently is not financially beneficial to the United States. Otherwise I believe we would be working with their government in a different way. Not that there are not good border patrol agents and good people working to fight the corruption and drugs and all that, but doesn't it seem like we should be doing more at the border to stabilize that region in our own country? Our border counties in the US are not the safest places in the world. There are safer provinces in Afghanistan. We are letting Mexico turn into new Afghanistan. Yes it is shameful. Sure it sounds condescending. But can you honestly say that we are sending more money to stabilize Mexico than we are the middle east? Where's the priorities? It is a damn sad shame what is happening to their government, and no I do not think we should impinge on their sovereignty or their people, no more than we should middle eastern nations, but the fact of the matter is immediate borders are important. I'm not talking about just rounding up all Mexicans and shooting them back across the border. I'm talking about smarter border policies and less incentives for the drugs to come here in the first place.
The second drugs are legalized across the board in the US, you can bet your bottom dollar that the value of all those illegal runs will drop to zero. But the political circus would never do that, nor anything else productive other than stay in gridlock lockstep to protect the old guard and keep things the way they are.
Can I just say that I think it is fucking ridiculous that we send troops all over the world, even just lately to Uganda, but yet we let fucking Mexico turn into New Afghanistan before our eyes. Oh wait. I know. Keep the drug flow up, keep the police state up. More drugs more problems more need for daddy DoD to swell and swell and enforce and strip rights way.
Nevermind Mexico. As you were. We'll come knocking when you actually threaten our financial interest. Until then, keep up the good show. We won't bother.
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So how long until another unneeded war begins? I'm placing my bets on next year around election cycle. The democans/republicrats like to trade off in 8 year cycles, so I foresee action taken in either Iran or Syria in the next 8-10 months, if not sooner. Americans rally behind the war and patriotism and fear of the word nuclear; Obama and his buddies get another 4 years of cronyism to the max and the republicrats step back into office to do the same thing, just flashing the other side of the same coin to give the illusion of 'our change is different than his change'.
Vote incumbents out. Vote 3rd party. Doing so is better than not. The mainstream dogs Ron Paul for his foreign policy, but I've got to say that it seems all other options we've been trying haven't yielded great results and are only cartwheeling America further into debt and enlarging the complex.
Here come the political down-mods!
**I meant to type 'I deal more with relativity than I do QED/QCD', we haven't quite come to a point where the statement:
:)
IF (Relativity == True && QED-QCD == True) THEN { TheoriesMergedWithoutIssue = True;}
Must of been my subconscious hoping for the yet to be completed reconciliation of the two
I've seen some comments stating that 'meh photoelectric effect nothing new to see here'. While it is true that emission/absorption is subject to quantum mechanics, specifically the photo-electric effect being governed by the work function hf = phi - eV, with hf = hc/lambda, phi being the work-function of the material, and eV being the 'escape velocity' of the electrons; the point being that energy emitted/absorbed must satisfy the above relationship, otherwise the photo-electric effect does not work.
What I believe this study is saying is that 'antennae' structures can act as a single quantum mechanical unit (the coherence) so that the incoming insolar radiation has more paths for electron conduction, since the transfer of energy/conduction of electrons is limited to the quantization by the work function, i.e., charge quantization limits the specific wavelengths/frequencies/energies of incoming photons that the plant can use to harvest energy, so in effect the evolution of these 'antennae' structures over time allows for a coherent systems that can act as single particles, with the different permutations of antennas allowing for vastly more permutations of allowed incoming wavelengths to satisfy the Schrodinger eqn (probably not dirac since these are most likely not relativistic interactions, at least the effects are negligible).
I deal more with relativity and QED/QCD, but that's my interpretation of the article.
Addendum/self-correction - That example is not the first ever, that article is a bit biased. My point was it will be easier for trade and less icebergs = more ships.
The northwest passage has always been a viable trade route. Anyone who things otherwise has been listening to warmists spout off that we've never used it. I'll give you three guesses as to why Canada and Russia have so many ice breakers up there.
I'm talking about shipping savings by sending unassisted regular old plain jane commercial ships without breakers or breaker escorts.
See this. (Circe 2008, fairly recently in terms of open-waters shipping history)
As the globe continues to warm, eventually the Northwest Passage will be a viable route for less ice-hardy vessels more times out of the year, providing economic benefit for those who could utilize the shipping routes. I imagine there are lobbies that would love to see this happen. This is speculation, for I do now know if people actively encourage warming. Looking at the CO2 data and its positive correlation to the mean global temperature increase, it seems we may see that route in our lifetime.
Also as the permafrost disappears, another side affect is a cascading result in the loss of surface ice/snow pack. As the surface area of the snow/ice/arctic shelf shrinks, the Earth's regional albedo will be reduced, ie there will be less radiational cooling and more energy absorbed by the surface. Cycles such as this create feedback loops in the environment that cause these affects to amplify. Lower albedo -> less permafrost/snow/ice/glacier coverage -> more heat -> lower albedo -> ad inifinitum.
I am not a meteorologist, but based on some cursory research these seem to be realistic eventualities.
I did a college project and built a simple drone with Arduino parts and some model RC stuff. We had to come up with a business plan to present commercial applications for there are many:
firefighters need a temp profile of a building before they get there, send the drone
cops need eyes in the sky to find a perp, send the drone
high volume roadway monitoring, send the drone
video taping sports events (highschool, private, college, racing, etc), send the drone
monitoring wildlife/forestry/national park outdoorsey stuff, send the drone
weather monitoring and remote sensing in harsh environments, send the drone
Anything that requires helicopter eyes in the sky but doesn't need to transport human or heavy payloads (air fuel is not cheap)
many more than not 4th amendment violations, send all the drones you got baby.
With all the good that could come of this technology, I guarantee the loss of civil liberties and privacy will be ten-fold larger. First to market will make lots of money once they pay off the FAA and get through the red tape. Lockheed/Northrop/Boeing/large DoD contractors have the lock on the drone market for the gov't now, once a large demand is created in the non-government sector, we'll see more of these stateside once the red-tape and matters are worked out. Where drones are better at some things overseas, they will be utilized that way here as well (hopefully, but not guaranteed, to be ordinance free). Naturally drones are nothing new, the barriers to entry are cost, FAA regs, demand. But once contractors get the lock and private firms/governments see/feel/create the need, drones will become another fact of life here in Panopticonland.
WASHINGTON — To mark the official beginning of the online holiday shopping season, known as Cyber Monday, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), the National Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center (IPR Center), the Department of Justice and the FBI Washington Field Office have seized 150 website domain names that were illegally selling and distributing counterfeit merchandise.
source
Not only are there multiple alphabet soups working in collaboration on this, but taxpayer dollars, to use a talking point, tax payer dollars are being used to protect the profits of companies that a) people buying cheap counterfeits don't usually have money to buy the high dollar stuff or choose not to and b) many companies hide their profits overseas to avoid all the tax's imposed on them while simultaneously lobby congress to make import/export easier with the slave friggin labor used to make these fucking pointless articles of consumer whoredom. National Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center, ie, America production and creation capacity has been reduced to rubbish so we'll sue/block/censor anything that threatens the bank accounts. I'm not a 99%'er and all that jazz; this is a problem between stupid electorate continually rel-electing politicians who do not represent the people and are easily bought out. There are of course many more problems than this, but to boil it down this story is just icing on the turd-cake that will be served to future historians who write about the downfall of America.
Boggles the mind on one hand, on the other hand, well, nothing new under the sun, eh?
'Google's inconsistent standards are adversely affecting our ability to counter violent Islamist extremism online.'"
Well Mr. Lieberman, you're quite the one to talk about inconsistent standards. And I'm sure censorship is most definitely the best way to fight terrorism online. It always works, right? Right?
US Government: Fighting the symptoms, and not the causes. To get one vote at a time.
*2012, unless they mastered TIMECUBE
It is only a matter of time before we have another Kent State on our hands. Things will escalate between both sides and there will only be bloodshed before concessions are made. That is the only way I see this playing out. I imagine in the spring of next year, and during the height of 2010 election mania, there will be a surge in OWS as people become even more outraged at the current crop of incumbents. Who knows. Interesting times.
Perhaps the most complicated puzzle ever in the board-game sense, but for a real puzzle will somebody solve the Riemann Hypothesis so we can all enjoy the beauty of the solution in our lifetime. Now that would be amazing.
Makes sense from that perspective, however the fact that the interstate commerce clause is used for so many things other than interstate commerce makes it seem like if they are going to use selective application of the constitution and selective enforcement of certain measures, we might as well just have another constitutional convention in which all of our current governing bodies get together and take turns defecating on the current document and then write a new constitution that says:
"Section 1.0: We make the rules. Nothing you can do. Voting changes nothing. Get back in line citizen."
Amendment 10: The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
Conservatives love a good sales tax because it is nice and regressive.
What part of "Bipartisan Internet Sales Tax Bill Introduced" and "Four senators, including both Democrats and Republicans" makes you want to point at just conservatives, besides demagoguing a single party? Almost all politicians love a good tax on whatever. Like the Christmas tree tax that just got added into all the other ridiculous Agri-taxes the fed has imposed over the years to prop up industries the free-market would otherwise have let work out on its own, this is just another federal manipulation of market desires for the wrong reasons. I'm for regulation, but taxes are an area that need 100% overhaul. Not incremental change. Sweeping reform. For the most part we never see taxes being removed. And that is a bipartisan ailment. Regressive taxes favor all the good-ole-boy club members, and their unfairness or however you view it is perpetrated by both parties.
And the simplifications definitely do make sense. With mesoscale there is just no way to solve the PDEs, even computationally, accounting for every single BC (especially if the BCs are variably periodic). In the end it seems the systems are chaotic once you extend the time-lines long out far enough. Plus Navier-Stokes is a bitch once you start dealing with that kind of fluid-flow on the global scale. (it becoming 3+ dimensional non-linear problem with non-homogenous BCs IIRC).
:) and not just what us theorist can conjure up :P
Not to mention things like tidal forces changing the dimensions of the earth, with the surface bulges changing the average sea-level pressure and temperature gradients as the equinoxes come and go, this-in-itself alters the local wind patterns in a non-negligible way such that the global system is even more chaotic due to the periodic tidal bulge from lunar orbital locking.
I spend most my time in Hilbert space and manifolds, but modelling is a fantastic area to work in (since you modelers actually have tangible data to work with usually
As for boundary conditions, the model is global, so the boundaries wrap around and you dont need to worry about them.
I don't believe that is correct. Say you are working with a two dimensional x-y plane, like a circular drum head. If the edges of the drum head are kept at 0, then you have a 'wraparound' boundary condition that you can represent in the polar plane as a regular linear boundary condition from -pi to pi on 0 to the radius (visualized as rectangular boundary conditions on the theta vs. r plot). In this situation your boundary is a closed, bounded surface without interruption, and yet it can still be modeled with separable boundary conditions and then solved using separation of variables to the laplacian operating on the circular plane.
If you jump up to higher dimensions, the same logic still applies. You still have to worry about the spherical boundary conditions, they don't just disappear. Removing the boundary conditions would alter the solution technique and the family of equations that satisfy the partial differential equation your using in your model. BCs are everything.
Because...well..my sig.
The resonance cascade!!!!! OH NOES Gordon Freeman save us!
that leverages the processing power of video cards to generate Bitcoins, a popular type of virtual currency.
At that rate, summary might as well have said:
"A newly identified Mac OS X (a popular Mac operating system) Trojan (a popular method for exploits) bundles a component that leverages the processing power (a measure of processing) of video cards to generate Bitcoins, a popular type of virtual currency (something used for economic exchange (the process of trading one thing for another (something other than the one thing))). The new Trojan was dubbed DevilRobber by antivirus vendors (companies that write viruses) and is being distributed together with several software applications via BitTorrent sites, places to download torrents (links that track the locations of pieces of a file (a collection of bits (binary representations of data, ie information)))"
Either a) this is just emergent pop culture following its natural life-cycle or
b) There is a subconscious agreement that the breakdown of civilization is a real possibility in the near future. With this in mind (out of mind, whatever), people can prepare for such a horrific event by lightening it up in a more sci-fi manner, when in reality surviving a zombie apocalypse would in all honesty not be that different from a complete breakdown of modern society (minus the brain eating, but in a shortage of food and clean water and no electricity, you would see cannibalism as well). We rationalize it as "if I'm prepared for the zombie apocalypse, I'm prepared for almost anything", and plus it is more mainstream than gloom and doom survivalist chanting 'it's all going to end soon', so people observing your erratic preparations give you a more humorous passing glance than they would otherwise.
Or it is just pop culture.
Well thought out, thank you for the reply.
You nailed it. I'm not encouraging thin red line imperialism, just questioning the inconsistency in the rhetoric of it and its application across the globe. Perhaps I should have been less inflammatory and used less polarizing language, but the whole quagmire is just disgusting.
I get that. But we let the Cartels get away with it. We send them guns. We keep the region unstable. Sound familiar? Stability in Mexico apparently is not financially beneficial to the United States. Otherwise I believe we would be working with their government in a different way. Not that there are not good border patrol agents and good people working to fight the corruption and drugs and all that, but doesn't it seem like we should be doing more at the border to stabilize that region in our own country? Our border counties in the US are not the safest places in the world. There are safer provinces in Afghanistan. We are letting Mexico turn into new Afghanistan. Yes it is shameful. Sure it sounds condescending. But can you honestly say that we are sending more money to stabilize Mexico than we are the middle east? Where's the priorities? It is a damn sad shame what is happening to their government, and no I do not think we should impinge on their sovereignty or their people, no more than we should middle eastern nations, but the fact of the matter is immediate borders are important. I'm not talking about just rounding up all Mexicans and shooting them back across the border. I'm talking about smarter border policies and less incentives for the drugs to come here in the first place.
The second drugs are legalized across the board in the US, you can bet your bottom dollar that the value of all those illegal runs will drop to zero. But the political circus would never do that, nor anything else productive other than stay in gridlock lockstep to protect the old guard and keep things the way they are.
Can I just say that I think it is fucking ridiculous that we send troops all over the world, even just lately to Uganda, but yet we let fucking Mexico turn into New Afghanistan before our eyes. Oh wait. I know. Keep the drug flow up, keep the police state up. More drugs more problems more need for daddy DoD to swell and swell and enforce and strip rights way.
Nevermind Mexico. As you were. We'll come knocking when you actually threaten our financial interest. Until then, keep up the good show. We won't bother.