You're a fool if you can't properly contextualize that. Did you really think that the military was going to sympathize with people who openly hated them and whose primary purpose for protesting was to denounce their actions and defame their character? Kent State was an atrocity, but it was also one that a lot of soldiers fantasized about doing themselves. It's really little wonder that the unit involved fired in the first place considering the general antipathy for hippies among the National Guard.
There is no real comparison here, especially since the rank and file of persons likely to be chosen for suppression now would have been waving 'support the troops' banners a decade ago. It's the polar opposite of people who were calling soldiers baby-killing fascist murderers.
He wasn't court martialed, and neither was his unit. While I am cognizant of the Milgram experiment and its implications, I hold out a lot of hope that servicemen will take their oaths seriously. I think that the common soldier is more principled than you give him credit for, and that he isn't going to be that much less motivated just because it's another state.
And to address another point you make, not all local police are eager to help. There is another movement, especially but not exclusively among sheriffs, to to refuse to work with Federal agencies in actions or enforcements that are unconstitutional or otherwise detrimental to their local constituents.
There is actually a rising groundswell of anti-federal sentiment at every level of society. There are nullification bills being worked on in several states like Virginia and Wyoming, around a hundred sheriffs and growing are making public statements against enforcement of overreaching federal policy. If you think that with so many people and organizations, the fathers, mothers, brothers and sisters of soldiers, increasingly standing against the power grabs of federal agencies there will not be significant defection within the armed forces, you didn't pay close enough attention in history class with regard to the last Civil War. As more states and more agencies at the state level and below proceed with nullification laws and ordinances, you'd be blind not see that the nation is as close to another Civil War as it has been at least 50 years.
Mob mentality works both ways, and thanks to groups like Oathkeepers, there are some who will stand up and lead that mob to actually honor the oath they took and refuse all illegal orders. Like this Staff Sergeant.
Sorry, I couldn't hear you over the sound of the (albeit slow) fall of Syria's regime based on small arms, since 'The West' has refused to intervene like they did in Libya and are now doing in Mali.
Small arms were also enough for many revolutions in the last century, including but not limited to the Russian and Cuban revolutions, and to a large extent the Chinese as well (although there was a lot of post-war hardware floating around, most of the conflict was between plain conscripts). I won't even try to list all the African revolutions based well nigh wholly on small arms.
Anybody who thinks that a force largely comprised of small arms cannot stand against a mechanized war machine would do well to study the Finnish Winter War. The Soviets threw a million man army supported by thousands of tanks and thousands of aircraft against a force of a few hundred thousand men and a literal handful of tanks and aircraft (most of which were destroyed quickly), and the Finns through sheer tenacity killed five Russians for every one of their own that they lost. Outnumbered and outgunned they held the line for more than three months against the full force of the largest nation on earth with virtually nothing more than their bare hands and unbreakable will. So just because you're an armchair-bound, roll-over-and-die sycophant and don't have the spine to do anything against tyranny, don't tell me it can't be done. It's being done right now in Syria, it's been done throughout the modern era, and furthermore it's been done throughout human history.
The US is an information/service economy, physical capacity is irrelevant for anything other than health and being sexually attractive, which you'd think were major until you realize just how lazy people are now.
Not to mention from what I've seen there just seems to be collectively lowered standards. I suppose it depends on which social strata you're in. This might be somewhat reversed by the trend toward nanny-statism which is slowly making being unhealthy illegal. Pretty soon we'll be off of the metaphorical hamster wheels of workaday existence and onto real, compulsory hamster wheels. Considering that's the way people vote they deserve it.
In the original movie it was Nicaragua and Cuba alongside the Russians. When it was written it was during a political crisis in Central America. China never had anything to do with it. (Which isn't surprising since China has not been historically expansionist.)
I like how you say you could 'develop' an entirely new market out of thin air but you 'just don't want to'. How convenient. You're a joke and everybody is laughing at you.
The whole reason I started working with small banks is for a while I worked *for* one. Titles are immaterial, the bank I worked for had a 'President and CEO' which I refer to as CEO because it balanced out the CFO and COO. He answered, like most CEOs regardless of industry, to a board, but like the other board members he too owned shares in the business and as such was as much an 'owner' as any of the other shareholders.
Besides which, for the average consumer power at the broader board level is unnecessary. It's not like I ever needed some huge dispensation, nor indeed did I ever even have to leverage my relationships with the bank's upper echelon since the ops manager was herself a helpful, ethical, and overall nice person.
I have an account with a different bank today because I moved to another state, but here too it is small and I have a great first name relationship with branch management and team. When I've had any issues the corporate side has been responsive and helpful. All of this is in stark contrast to experiences I've had with major banks and CUs.
So you might have some broad brush axe to grind against "banks" with no room in your ideology to differentiate, I have spent time working day in and day out with the people who comprise small banks and know from personal experience on both sides of the counter how decent and ethical they can be.
Wow... AC is such a BAMF that they can't even take responsibility for their own post. Your vaguely intimidating 'prove it' challenge falls flat when the goal is not survival, but managing growth in a stagnant economy in largely established markets with increasingly limited margins, less available credit, increasing logistical challenges and regulatory overhead. I expect you couldn't market research your way out of a wet paper bag and wouldn't know a business or process constraint if it kicked you in the nuts.
When my debit card was compromised I found the dispute and recovery process reasonable and painless. But then again for the last decade I have only worked with small banks where they actually give a shit about you and you can actually talk to the bank's CEO without too much effort.
Since I posted about it above, I'll expand a bit further here. So, I'm a man that hides his gender in online games and leans toward subtly misrepresenting it as female... hi, nice to meet you. Why? In part because on the whole women are treated better online. For every harasser there are several white knights who hand out preferential treatment and/or gifts.
Meanwhile, men are invisible. Unless they are being assholes or saviors of some kind (of which the white knight is a subset) nobody has any interest in them. People who are perceived to be women are frequently given more attention on that basis alone, attention that is alternately good or bad, but net good. So you'll pardon me if I'm not very sympathetic to this trumped up victimhood.
No doubt by your standards this makes me "misogynist" since that's the brush with which everybody gets painted that doesn't enthusiastically ascribe to every dimension of modern feminist ideology.
If you think even half of the players on STO that present themselves as women are actually women, you're delusional.
~Signed, a former STO "girl"
Granted, I think I really played the part well. Some guys refused to believe it when I told them my IRL physical gender, but then that's probably also half the power of wishful thinking, and I never told guys my gender unless ERP was on the table (which ironically added to the believability that I was female since that is common behavior for women online).
I might further add, since I'm talking about it and it's germane to the topic, that in playing as an ostensible female I found the harassment to be minimal, and frequently where there was any there were twice or thrice as many 'white knights' to attempt to mitigate the harassment as there were harassers. The harassment of women is really overblown, and indeed in most of the communities (in and far beyond STO) I've observed known or believed female players are venerated, often for little more than their ostensible feminity. It's part of, but not wholly why I went that route in STO in the first place. (The primary reason being that mentally I'm a genderfluid pansexual with very little real world opportunity to interact from a 'feminine' perspective.)
But no really, I've never understood how people can't understand that if some women can and do enjoy anal sex, why wouldn't some men? Hell, for men it's even more enjoyable since they have prostates. Anuses are anuses... people are so repressed about arbitrary social conditioning. Of course people are going to have different tastes about things, but this sort of attitude is like saying 'why would anybody like onions' or something.
Why aren't you the Secretary of the Dept. of Energy? I can't understand how a Nobel laureate physicist is running things and seems to be in complete denial about the practical aspects of energy policy. He seems to think we can power the world on puppies and raibows, and it will only cost a billion times more, but everything will work out in the end in magical fantasy land.
I just use a mental algorithm to generate passwords based on time and thing. That way I can have new passwords at will that are consistent with a standard that only I know (and no, it's not just simple +1 number stepping). The only time I have problems is when my system is too long, like with classic VNC...
I know you're trying to make a joke, but circumcision *in no way* makes you immune to HIV/AIDS, and the study that correlates it with decreased risk is both methodologically suspect and motivated by some socio-political agenda (and even the decrease percentage it claims is barely significant).
I know right? More FoIA requests were denied in the last four years than the 8 years before that. How much will the American people take before they rid themselves of BusHitler and his evil?
Disingenuous as always. You know the US is not a monolith? Utah which is full of guns has a lower murder rate than Luxembourg. New Hampshire has a lower murder rate than France. And where is the most murder in the US? In the places with the most gun control, like Chicago. Places like New Hampshire prove unequivocally that you can have freedom and low murder rates at the same time. The problem of violence is not one of tools (guns, knives, hammers or plain old hands and feet) but one of economy. The most violence happens in the poorest places, this is UNIVERSALLY true, in every city, state and nation. It doesn't matter if the homicides are gun-induced or not.
If somebody wanted to pass a whole bunch of stupid laws relating to software, and then they started calling things by wrong terms and demonstrating they don't understand anything about the field they're proposing to make binding laws for, would you respect them? I sure as hell wouldn't. I thought Ted Stevens and others like him were completely unqualified to legislate on internet related matters, and I think that many of the congresspersons and lobbyists who wouldn't know DA from SA if their life depended on it are completely unqualified to legislate on issues upon which other people's lives do depend.
Are you confusing Chrome with Firefox? On my primary system I usually have Chrome running for weeks with like three or four dozen tabs. Many of which are some pretty resource intensive pages. Usually I only have problems after a week or two and then only with pages like tumblr archives that have 200 animated gifs on them visible at once.
I will concur though that some kind of tab overview would be great. Didn't early versions of Chrome have that?
Well considering that all the sports teams called 'Indians' or 'Braves' are being shamed for being 'racist' for what are clearly neutral or even positive terms, I think that 'Bojangles' falls on a more derogatory side of the line since it evokes/connotes minstrel shows. My wife, who is black, agrees.
That is one of the dumbest theories I've ever heard. Whether or not a severe trade drought with the US will happen is immaterial, the idea that SE China will suddenly want to migrate west is absurd. An economic downturn in the SE cannot in any way lead to an economic upturn in China's west. Downturns are downturns, and the whole reason that infrastructure exists in the SE is because it's logistically better for trading, period. Not just trading with the US, but trading with the whole world. What nonsense.
Real life is funnier than jokes, you know in some parts of the country there is still a chain of restaurants called Bojangles. I shit you not, look it up.
Your cognitive dissonance is staggering. If we can reclaim rare earths through recycling (which is true), it really doesn't matter if we "run out" of initial extraction possibilities (which is nowhere even near the horizon). Reclamation can happen at any time, and it will happen precisely when all things happen, when it makes more logistical sense to reclaim than extract.
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You're a fool if you can't properly contextualize that. Did you really think that the military was going to sympathize with people who openly hated them and whose primary purpose for protesting was to denounce their actions and defame their character? Kent State was an atrocity, but it was also one that a lot of soldiers fantasized about doing themselves. It's really little wonder that the unit involved fired in the first place considering the general antipathy for hippies among the National Guard.
There is no real comparison here, especially since the rank and file of persons likely to be chosen for suppression now would have been waving 'support the troops' banners a decade ago. It's the polar opposite of people who were calling soldiers baby-killing fascist murderers.
He wasn't court martialed, and neither was his unit. While I am cognizant of the Milgram experiment and its implications, I hold out a lot of hope that servicemen will take their oaths seriously. I think that the common soldier is more principled than you give him credit for, and that he isn't going to be that much less motivated just because it's another state.
And to address another point you make, not all local police are eager to help. There is another movement, especially but not exclusively among sheriffs, to to refuse to work with Federal agencies in actions or enforcements that are unconstitutional or otherwise detrimental to their local constituents.
There is actually a rising groundswell of anti-federal sentiment at every level of society. There are nullification bills being worked on in several states like Virginia and Wyoming, around a hundred sheriffs and growing are making public statements against enforcement of overreaching federal policy. If you think that with so many people and organizations, the fathers, mothers, brothers and sisters of soldiers, increasingly standing against the power grabs of federal agencies there will not be significant defection within the armed forces, you didn't pay close enough attention in history class with regard to the last Civil War. As more states and more agencies at the state level and below proceed with nullification laws and ordinances, you'd be blind not see that the nation is as close to another Civil War as it has been at least 50 years.
Mob mentality works both ways, and thanks to groups like Oathkeepers, there are some who will stand up and lead that mob to actually honor the oath they took and refuse all illegal orders. Like this Staff Sergeant.
Sorry, I couldn't hear you over the sound of the (albeit slow) fall of Syria's regime based on small arms, since 'The West' has refused to intervene like they did in Libya and are now doing in Mali.
Small arms were also enough for many revolutions in the last century, including but not limited to the Russian and Cuban revolutions, and to a large extent the Chinese as well (although there was a lot of post-war hardware floating around, most of the conflict was between plain conscripts). I won't even try to list all the African revolutions based well nigh wholly on small arms.
Anybody who thinks that a force largely comprised of small arms cannot stand against a mechanized war machine would do well to study the Finnish Winter War. The Soviets threw a million man army supported by thousands of tanks and thousands of aircraft against a force of a few hundred thousand men and a literal handful of tanks and aircraft (most of which were destroyed quickly), and the Finns through sheer tenacity killed five Russians for every one of their own that they lost. Outnumbered and outgunned they held the line for more than three months against the full force of the largest nation on earth with virtually nothing more than their bare hands and unbreakable will. So just because you're an armchair-bound, roll-over-and-die sycophant and don't have the spine to do anything against tyranny, don't tell me it can't be done. It's being done right now in Syria, it's been done throughout the modern era, and furthermore it's been done throughout human history.
Molon labe.
The US is an information/service economy, physical capacity is irrelevant for anything other than health and being sexually attractive, which you'd think were major until you realize just how lazy people are now.
Not to mention from what I've seen there just seems to be collectively lowered standards. I suppose it depends on which social strata you're in. This might be somewhat reversed by the trend toward nanny-statism which is slowly making being unhealthy illegal. Pretty soon we'll be off of the metaphorical hamster wheels of workaday existence and onto real, compulsory hamster wheels. Considering that's the way people vote they deserve it.
In the original movie it was Nicaragua and Cuba alongside the Russians. When it was written it was during a political crisis in Central America. China never had anything to do with it. (Which isn't surprising since China has not been historically expansionist.)
I like how you say you could 'develop' an entirely new market out of thin air but you 'just don't want to'. How convenient. You're a joke and everybody is laughing at you.
The whole reason I started working with small banks is for a while I worked *for* one. Titles are immaterial, the bank I worked for had a 'President and CEO' which I refer to as CEO because it balanced out the CFO and COO. He answered, like most CEOs regardless of industry, to a board, but like the other board members he too owned shares in the business and as such was as much an 'owner' as any of the other shareholders.
Besides which, for the average consumer power at the broader board level is unnecessary. It's not like I ever needed some huge dispensation, nor indeed did I ever even have to leverage my relationships with the bank's upper echelon since the ops manager was herself a helpful, ethical, and overall nice person.
I have an account with a different bank today because I moved to another state, but here too it is small and I have a great first name relationship with branch management and team. When I've had any issues the corporate side has been responsive and helpful. All of this is in stark contrast to experiences I've had with major banks and CUs.
So you might have some broad brush axe to grind against "banks" with no room in your ideology to differentiate, I have spent time working day in and day out with the people who comprise small banks and know from personal experience on both sides of the counter how decent and ethical they can be.
Wow... AC is such a BAMF that they can't even take responsibility for their own post. Your vaguely intimidating 'prove it' challenge falls flat when the goal is not survival, but managing growth in a stagnant economy in largely established markets with increasingly limited margins, less available credit, increasing logistical challenges and regulatory overhead. I expect you couldn't market research your way out of a wet paper bag and wouldn't know a business or process constraint if it kicked you in the nuts.
When my debit card was compromised I found the dispute and recovery process reasonable and painless. But then again for the last decade I have only worked with small banks where they actually give a shit about you and you can actually talk to the bank's CEO without too much effort.
Since I posted about it above, I'll expand a bit further here. So, I'm a man that hides his gender in online games and leans toward subtly misrepresenting it as female... hi, nice to meet you. Why? In part because on the whole women are treated better online. For every harasser there are several white knights who hand out preferential treatment and/or gifts.
Meanwhile, men are invisible. Unless they are being assholes or saviors of some kind (of which the white knight is a subset) nobody has any interest in them. People who are perceived to be women are frequently given more attention on that basis alone, attention that is alternately good or bad, but net good. So you'll pardon me if I'm not very sympathetic to this trumped up victimhood.
No doubt by your standards this makes me "misogynist" since that's the brush with which everybody gets painted that doesn't enthusiastically ascribe to every dimension of modern feminist ideology.
If you think even half of the players on STO that present themselves as women are actually women, you're delusional.
~Signed, a former STO "girl"
Granted, I think I really played the part well. Some guys refused to believe it when I told them my IRL physical gender, but then that's probably also half the power of wishful thinking, and I never told guys my gender unless ERP was on the table (which ironically added to the believability that I was female since that is common behavior for women online).
I might further add, since I'm talking about it and it's germane to the topic, that in playing as an ostensible female I found the harassment to be minimal, and frequently where there was any there were twice or thrice as many 'white knights' to attempt to mitigate the harassment as there were harassers. The harassment of women is really overblown, and indeed in most of the communities (in and far beyond STO) I've observed known or believed female players are venerated, often for little more than their ostensible feminity. It's part of, but not wholly why I went that route in STO in the first place. (The primary reason being that mentally I'm a genderfluid pansexual with very little real world opportunity to interact from a 'feminine' perspective.)
That's what she said.
But no really, I've never understood how people can't understand that if some women can and do enjoy anal sex, why wouldn't some men? Hell, for men it's even more enjoyable since they have prostates. Anuses are anuses... people are so repressed about arbitrary social conditioning. Of course people are going to have different tastes about things, but this sort of attitude is like saying 'why would anybody like onions' or something.
I guess we'll know if he comes back... in greater numbers.
Why aren't you the Secretary of the Dept. of Energy? I can't understand how a Nobel laureate physicist is running things and seems to be in complete denial about the practical aspects of energy policy. He seems to think we can power the world on puppies and raibows, and it will only cost a billion times more, but everything will work out in the end in magical fantasy land.
I just use a mental algorithm to generate passwords based on time and thing. That way I can have new passwords at will that are consistent with a standard that only I know (and no, it's not just simple +1 number stepping). The only time I have problems is when my system is too long, like with classic VNC...
I know you're trying to make a joke, but circumcision *in no way* makes you immune to HIV/AIDS, and the study that correlates it with decreased risk is both methodologically suspect and motivated by some socio-political agenda (and even the decrease percentage it claims is barely significant).
I know right? More FoIA requests were denied in the last four years than the 8 years before that. How much will the American people take before they rid themselves of BusHitler and his evil?
Disingenuous as always. You know the US is not a monolith? Utah which is full of guns has a lower murder rate than Luxembourg. New Hampshire has a lower murder rate than France. And where is the most murder in the US? In the places with the most gun control, like Chicago. Places like New Hampshire prove unequivocally that you can have freedom and low murder rates at the same time. The problem of violence is not one of tools (guns, knives, hammers or plain old hands and feet) but one of economy. The most violence happens in the poorest places, this is UNIVERSALLY true, in every city, state and nation. It doesn't matter if the homicides are gun-induced or not.
If somebody wanted to pass a whole bunch of stupid laws relating to software, and then they started calling things by wrong terms and demonstrating they don't understand anything about the field they're proposing to make binding laws for, would you respect them? I sure as hell wouldn't. I thought Ted Stevens and others like him were completely unqualified to legislate on internet related matters, and I think that many of the congresspersons and lobbyists who wouldn't know DA from SA if their life depended on it are completely unqualified to legislate on issues upon which other people's lives do depend.
Are you confusing Chrome with Firefox? On my primary system I usually have Chrome running for weeks with like three or four dozen tabs. Many of which are some pretty resource intensive pages. Usually I only have problems after a week or two and then only with pages like tumblr archives that have 200 animated gifs on them visible at once.
I will concur though that some kind of tab overview would be great. Didn't early versions of Chrome have that?
Well considering that all the sports teams called 'Indians' or 'Braves' are being shamed for being 'racist' for what are clearly neutral or even positive terms, I think that 'Bojangles' falls on a more derogatory side of the line since it evokes/connotes minstrel shows. My wife, who is black, agrees.
That is one of the dumbest theories I've ever heard. Whether or not a severe trade drought with the US will happen is immaterial, the idea that SE China will suddenly want to migrate west is absurd. An economic downturn in the SE cannot in any way lead to an economic upturn in China's west. Downturns are downturns, and the whole reason that infrastructure exists in the SE is because it's logistically better for trading, period. Not just trading with the US, but trading with the whole world. What nonsense.
Real life is funnier than jokes, you know in some parts of the country there is still a chain of restaurants called Bojangles. I shit you not, look it up.
Your cognitive dissonance is staggering. If we can reclaim rare earths through recycling (which is true), it really doesn't matter if we "run out" of initial extraction possibilities (which is nowhere even near the horizon). Reclamation can happen at any time, and it will happen precisely when all things happen, when it makes more logistical sense to reclaim than extract.