Are you willing to cut off all traffic to and from the UK? China? India? Mexico? Italy?
Yes.
Are you willing to start World War 3 as you demand nations who refuse to bow to your demands provide internet to those countries you deem evil?
Care to test out some ASAT weapons on those pesky Geosats as well?
All of this for something that will only make most of the world our enemy. And not work. It's not like wars and rebellions and terrorists didn't exist before the internet.
Indeed, a much broader net than you seem to think. For this to be at all effective you would need to cut off not only "unfriendly" parts of the world, but also anyone who doesn't go along with your plan and cut themselves off from places you consider "unfriendly".
I think Trump's plan, and am almost certain that Cruz's plan is to ignite World War 3. Because as you note, "cutting off" whatever nations we decide need to be cut off is not throwing a swich in the majick Internet input house at the entrance to each country, we would have to completely destroy each country's cummunication infrastructure.
But from what I know about far right evangelical conservatives, Cruz would be getting exactly what he wants. As a dominionist, End times are an essential part of their religion
Its like Curz said the other day "I'll direct the pentagon to destroy ISIS".
Like no one thought of that before? So easy - who knew?
I'm can only assume he's talking about another invasion - since we are already doing airstrikes against ISIL in Syria. There is a big problem with that though. The Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan sucked a lot of money out of th economy, especially since we went into them on the pay later plan of emergency appropriations, and that particular chicken came home to roost.
Not to mention that Russia is an ally of the Syrian Government. Y'all want get in a row with the Russians? They've proven to be at least as formidible of an enemy as we have proven to others. Right now we are on the same side as they are, and the French and others. And ISIL, who used to be happy to obtain land, is actually losing the battle. That's why they are now resorting to old school terrorism.
War is not an economy stimulus, It's more of a drug addiction that eventually has to be paid for by withdrawal. It seems like lots of fun and stuff when you can pass it on to the next administration. But we are not infinitely wealthy. Wht there is even some consensus that one of th ewars we've been in has been the wrong place to be, perhaps just settling an old family feud.
Trump with his silly Bully bluster, And Ted Cruz, who is probably looking to ignite Armageddon and be the darling of the religious right, are pointing to a very dangerous path to follow.
but what you have to realize about that kind of stuff is that policy like that is unlikely to be lasting. In fact such policies probably would not survive more than a few weeks after Trump leaves office.
Jeezuz Christ man, move to the middle east where your Fearless leader can do anything he wants type ideal flies pretty well.
You don't like rule of law and would prefer that Trump, do any damn thing he wants to do, but we got this, we'll win, and we won't have to become indistinguishable form the enemy to do it.
Are we really so scared that we will turn proto-fascist?
More like the percentage of Americans that are already that way are already that way.
Don't for a second think that Trump somehow represents anything but the lunatic fringe.
Not that the Republicans don't deserve the monster they've created. As they have purged the party of conservatives that like to think (moi), and gone so radical pseudo right that people who used to be considered conservative (moi) are thought of as libtards, or whatever pejorative they use at the moment, it is only natural that as the bottom of the barrel is scraped, that this sort of horrorbaby will come out of it.
And lest the faithful think I'm pro gun control, not really. I'm just anti-kook.
Says the guy making a fool of himself on the internet ?
Says the guy who wins the internet for the biggest non sequitur of the week?
As noted before, you and your kook ilk have th ecapacity to go apeshit nuts if somene doesnt agree 100 percent with the idea that the jack booted thugs are a-comin to take yer guns.
Talk is cheap. He ain't done shit. If he actually cared, he would have done it during his first two years, it wasn't on his top 10.
Careful- the bubble will envelope the faithful, and they'll start their panic. They'll be talking about how he's trying to take away their guns 20 years form now.
And lest the faithful think I'm pro gun control, not really. I'm just anti-kook.
Every time there is a mass-shooting or similar, gun sales go up because the marketing department of the gun manufacturing lobby (NRA) goes into full swing about how the gubement is gona take yer guns. So this is perfectly timed to capitalize on the latest shooting.
Yup, the faithful also do the same with ammo. A report goes out tht the majick negro army or the hipster revolt is going to take away their ammo, and presto - the in stock stuff gets sold out in no time.
It's not like they faithful can be manipulated or anything.
During the Last Big Gun Panic I was looking for a nice pistol, and everything I wanted was sold out, and the prices were heading far north.
Nothing like fear based marketing to fear based people.
just wait for the response I get from them, it's like they want to be taken advantage of.
This is investing 101. If your friends withdrew their money in 2000 or 2008 then they were suckers. Let the money ride and live on other sources (bond dividends, cash equivalents, or if you have to continued wages).
Despite your silly investing 101 comment, perhaps because of it you are missing the point.
Time.
Using the money.
I'll use the example of the guy who lost out twice.
in 2000, he was 65, which is a pretty normal retirement age. He will be living on the money he made by investing through the years.
Give me the scenario in which him losing almost all of his money means something to him at that time.
So since he did not have the money to retire on any more, he did not retire.
Being a little desperate, he socked away a lot more money between 2000 and 2008.
He was now 73 years old, and simply not going to be working much longer.
After the second big loss, he gave up, worked another year, and retired with SS being his major source of income. The only upside being that he had delayed to the max pulling his SS.
Now we can say how stupid people like him were - but he and the others were not stupid. They were greedy. They just bought into the mantra that "the stock market always goes up", paying no attention to the fact that when building a nest egg, the most important part is not the general upward trend, but where your investments are when you need to start drawing them down.
The country is full of people who for one reason or another simply cannot make the distinction. It's expressed in some of the dumbass ways we invest. It's expressed in greed taking over from sound financial savvy.
I built much of my money via the stock market. But I always had some money in very conservative investments. Then as I came closer to retirement, I moved more and more to safer investments. Now that I'm retired (did it at 55) most of it is in pretty safe stuff, with some tied to the stock market, and a little in the riskier stuff just for fun.
What can I say - it worked a whole lot better than the people who tried to maximize every investment, and who had almost no money at the time when they needed it most.
Sadly no, more disappointed in the general stupidity.
And how. It's pretty widely known that I'm so stupid I forget to breath at times.
But define hipster for me. Seems for some that it is like hardcore neoconservatives calling anyone who disagrees with them a Libtard or some other useless pejorative.
And to think, no one brought up "neckbeards"
And with millennials. Ive experience with quite a few, and for the most part, they consume, they do not produce. But even that's a forced generalization.
To cap it all off we have seen the same sort of ruination of browsers since before the millenials were even in secondary education.
The problem with Firefox is that it is being run/developed by people who by a combination of ego, and who have failed in the fight against software bloat, have seriously screwed up their flagship program.
And big egos and and screwing up your product have existed pretty much forever.
So has identifying some mythical enemy to serve as some sort of scapegoat.
I've done seven machines now, and Microsoft has been doing everything automatically with no input from me despite my settings. All Windows 10 Professional. An 8th is a Mac with Windows 7 in Bootcamp that I have to fight with them to keep it from installing and updating because it's a mid 2011 model, and will need a lot of experimenting to see if it will work because Apple doesn't support W10 in bootcamp that far back.
So call me a liar. Makes not one bit of difference to what I and others have been experiencing.
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I think he's apping apps today.
Perhaps we need more women mooCow men apping apps?
It doesn't say report them.
Yet.
Anything oyu Brits haven't turned into a crime or someone to spy on to make certain they, you know, do right things.
Basically, the UK hates nerds and wants to make sure that no British kid ever grows up to start or get anywhere in an e-business.
Join Great Britain in the war on intelligence.
MooCow guy - this is your shining moment. Sing your song dude.
Dilbert - the Knack.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
I gotta agree with you there. I'm thinking 6 virgins (for the novelty), 6 average (nice) girls, and 60 hard core filthy sluts.
Dude! Wrong religion. You're thinking of the Church of the Flying spaghetti monster. Beer volcanos as well!
I've been touched by his noodly appendage, have you?
Are you willing to cut off all traffic to and from the UK? China? India? Mexico? Italy?
Yes.
Are you willing to start World War 3 as you demand nations who refuse to bow to your demands provide internet to those countries you deem evil?
Care to test out some ASAT weapons on those pesky Geosats as well?
All of this for something that will only make most of the world our enemy. And not work. It's not like wars and rebellions and terrorists didn't exist before the internet.
Indeed, a much broader net than you seem to think. For this to be at all effective you would need to cut off not only "unfriendly" parts of the world, but also anyone who doesn't go along with your plan and cut themselves off from places you consider "unfriendly".
I think Trump's plan, and am almost certain that Cruz's plan is to ignite World War 3. Because as you note, "cutting off" whatever nations we decide need to be cut off is not throwing a swich in the majick Internet input house at the entrance to each country, we would have to completely destroy each country's cummunication infrastructure.
Oh, and satellites https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Trump wouldn't care as long as his ass was safe http://www.thesmokinggun.com/d...
But from what I know about far right evangelical conservatives, Cruz would be getting exactly what he wants. As a dominionist, End times are an essential part of their religion
http://www.alternet.org/speake...
And they consider Ted to be a "King" who will go to war to bring the money of those they consider wicked, and give it to.............
themselves!!! Gawd, you just can't make this stuff up. Here's a fun video to watch.
http://www.talk2action.org/sto...
Its like Curz said the other day "I'll direct the pentagon to destroy ISIS".
Like no one thought of that before? So easy - who knew?
I'm can only assume he's talking about another invasion - since we are already doing airstrikes against ISIL in Syria. There is a big problem with that though. The Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan sucked a lot of money out of th economy, especially since we went into them on the pay later plan of emergency appropriations, and that particular chicken came home to roost.
Not to mention that Russia is an ally of the Syrian Government. Y'all want get in a row with the Russians? They've proven to be at least as formidible of an enemy as we have proven to others. Right now we are on the same side as they are, and the French and others. And ISIL, who used to be happy to obtain land, is actually losing the battle. That's why they are now resorting to old school terrorism.
War is not an economy stimulus, It's more of a drug addiction that eventually has to be paid for by withdrawal. It seems like lots of fun and stuff when you can pass it on to the next administration. But we are not infinitely wealthy. Wht there is even some consensus that one of th ewars we've been in has been the wrong place to be, perhaps just settling an old family feud.
Trump with his silly Bully bluster, And Ted Cruz, who is probably looking to ignite Armageddon and be the darling of the religious right, are pointing to a very dangerous path to follow.
Right,
but what you have to realize about that kind of stuff is that policy like that is unlikely to be lasting. In fact such policies probably would not survive more than a few weeks after Trump leaves office.
Jeezuz Christ man, move to the middle east where your Fearless leader can do anything he wants type ideal flies pretty well.
You don't like rule of law and would prefer that Trump, do any damn thing he wants to do, but we got this, we'll win, and we won't have to become indistinguishable form the enemy to do it.
Agreed, but I don't think it hurts to note that the Internet gives us the unprecedented ability to reach out to radicals, too. .
You know it is a very very interesting thing. People have their identities stolen from businesses all the time, like Target this past year.
Here's some fun ones - how about 40 million credit cards stolen?
http://www.caconsumeradvocate....
However, have you seen anyone yell about closing off the internet to keep people from spending money?
No, no, no. See, it's not fascist if you only do it to bad people.
I wonder who nutty old Uncle Don will go for next?
Is anyone left?
Are we really so scared that we will turn proto-fascist?
More like the percentage of Americans that are already that way are already that way.
Don't for a second think that Trump somehow represents anything but the lunatic fringe.
Not that the Republicans don't deserve the monster they've created. As they have purged the party of conservatives that like to think (moi), and gone so radical pseudo right that people who used to be considered conservative (moi) are thought of as libtards, or whatever pejorative they use at the moment, it is only natural that as the bottom of the barrel is scraped, that this sort of horrorbaby will come out of it.
GodDAMMIT I miss Barry Goldwater!
I lost 25lbs in a week with no diet or exercise and you can too. All you need to do is attend a trump campaign rally!
Come on guys, how come there is no #trumpcrazypromises meme yet?
They're having trouble keeping up.
BUT it is interesting to see the "same" Ross-Perot-splitting-the-votes situation all over again.
And some split it will be, when you even have Sith Lord Dick Cheny opposing him.
A moose bit my sister once ... it was very painful.
We must keeel this squirrel and moose!
This Muslim hysteria is turning out to be the best serous action and comedy on in one popcorn flick ever.
Yellow bodily fluids? Eeeew!
Strange how so many fans of the First Amendment forget that there's more to it than freeze peach.
How we gonna get whirled peas than?
And lest the faithful think I'm pro gun control, not really. I'm just anti-kook.
Says the guy making a fool of himself on the internet ?
Says the guy who wins the internet for the biggest non sequitur of the week? As noted before, you and your kook ilk have th ecapacity to go apeshit nuts if somene doesnt agree 100 percent with the idea that the jack booted thugs are a-comin to take yer guns.
Stoke that anger - feel that burn Booyea!
Talk is cheap. He ain't done shit. If he actually cared, he would have done it during his first two years, it wasn't on his top 10.
Careful- the bubble will envelope the faithful, and they'll start their panic. They'll be talking about how he's trying to take away their guns 20 years form now.
And lest the faithful think I'm pro gun control, not really. I'm just anti-kook.
Every time there is a mass-shooting or similar, gun sales go up because the marketing department of the gun manufacturing lobby (NRA) goes into full swing about how the gubement is gona take yer guns. So this is perfectly timed to capitalize on the latest shooting.
Yup, the faithful also do the same with ammo. A report goes out tht the majick negro army or the hipster revolt is going to take away their ammo, and presto - the in stock stuff gets sold out in no time.
It's not like they faithful can be manipulated or anything.
During the Last Big Gun Panic I was looking for a nice pistol, and everything I wanted was sold out, and the prices were heading far north.
Nothing like fear based marketing to fear based people.
just wait for the response I get from them, it's like they want to be taken advantage of.
Do you wake up and check Twitter on your phone, check your ironic beard, slide into some skinny jeans, and then ride your fixie bike to Starbucks?
pssst, that's Instagram. Twitter is for people to attempt to ruin their lives in as few characters as possible.
On behalf of those of us who have never used Twitter ... whatever. Do let us know if they change the font, too.
Yes indeed. I've managed to get this far without either Twitter and Facebook, and it looks like a good decision so far.
This is investing 101. If your friends withdrew their money in 2000 or 2008 then they were suckers. Let the money ride and live on other sources (bond dividends, cash equivalents, or if you have to continued wages).
Despite your silly investing 101 comment, perhaps because of it you are missing the point.
Time.
Using the money.
I'll use the example of the guy who lost out twice.
in 2000, he was 65, which is a pretty normal retirement age. He will be living on the money he made by investing through the years.
Give me the scenario in which him losing almost all of his money means something to him at that time.
So since he did not have the money to retire on any more, he did not retire.
Being a little desperate, he socked away a lot more money between 2000 and 2008.
He was now 73 years old, and simply not going to be working much longer.
After the second big loss, he gave up, worked another year, and retired with SS being his major source of income. The only upside being that he had delayed to the max pulling his SS.
Now we can say how stupid people like him were - but he and the others were not stupid. They were greedy. They just bought into the mantra that "the stock market always goes up", paying no attention to the fact that when building a nest egg, the most important part is not the general upward trend, but where your investments are when you need to start drawing them down.
The country is full of people who for one reason or another simply cannot make the distinction. It's expressed in some of the dumbass ways we invest. It's expressed in greed taking over from sound financial savvy.
I built much of my money via the stock market. But I always had some money in very conservative investments. Then as I came closer to retirement, I moved more and more to safer investments. Now that I'm retired (did it at 55) most of it is in pretty safe stuff, with some tied to the stock market, and a little in the riskier stuff just for fun.
What can I say - it worked a whole lot better than the people who tried to maximize every investment, and who had almost no money at the time when they needed it most.
You mad bro?
Sadly no, more disappointed in the general stupidity.
And how. It's pretty widely known that I'm so stupid I forget to breath at times.
But define hipster for me. Seems for some that it is like hardcore neoconservatives calling anyone who disagrees with them a Libtard or some other useless pejorative.
And to think, no one brought up "neckbeards" And with millennials. Ive experience with quite a few, and for the most part, they consume, they do not produce. But even that's a forced generalization.
To cap it all off we have seen the same sort of ruination of browsers since before the millenials were even in secondary education.
The problem with Firefox is that it is being run/developed by people who by a combination of ego, and who have failed in the fight against software bloat, have seriously screwed up their flagship program.
And big egos and and screwing up your product have existed pretty much forever.
So has identifying some mythical enemy to serve as some sort of scapegoat.
Who do you work for? Apple? Google?
Myself.
I've done seven machines now, and Microsoft has been doing everything automatically with no input from me despite my settings. All Windows 10 Professional. An 8th is a Mac with Windows 7 in Bootcamp that I have to fight with them to keep it from installing and updating because it's a mid 2011 model, and will need a lot of experimenting to see if it will work because Apple doesn't support W10 in bootcamp that far back. So call me a liar. Makes not one bit of difference to what I and others have been experiencing.