the unassailble fact that humanity is in everlasting war
sophomoric drivel
Really Okay first thing you have to do is prove that war is a rare punctuation of the normal condition, peace and harmony. Then prove we don't like it.
war is not an ongoing process
SRSLY? Here's a listing of US wars just the 20th century: Some overlap due to turn of century..
Yaqui war - 1896-1918
Phillipine-American War - 1899-1902
Moro rebellian - 1899 - 1913
Boxer Rebellion - 1899 - 1901
Crazy Snake - 1909
Mexican border war - 1910 - 1919
Bannana War Negro Rebellion - 1912
Nicaraaugua occupation - 1912 - 1933
Bluff War - 1914 - 1915
Bananna War Haiti occupation - 1915 - 1934
Bananna War Sugar - 1916 - 1918
Dominican Republic occupation - 1916 - 1924
World War 1 - 1917 1918
Russian Civil War - 1918 - 1920
Samsum Turkey - 1922
Posey War - 1923
World War 2 - 1941 - 1945
Korean War - 1950 - 1953
Lebanon - 1958
Bay of Pigs 1961
Dominican Civil War 1965 - 1966
Vietnam War 1965 - 1973
Zaire - 1978
Lebanese Civil War - 1982 - 1984
Grenada - 1983
Tanker war when Iraq was a ally - 1987 - 1988
Panama - 1989 - 1990
Gulf War 1 - 1990 - 1991
Iraq No Fly - 1991 - 2003
Somalia 1992 - 1995
Haiti - 1994 - 1995
Bosnia - 1994 - 1995
Kosovo - 1998 - 1999
And to bring it to the present
Afghanistan- 2001 to present
Iraq as enemy 2001 - 2011
Pakistan Drone strikes 2004 - present
Ocean Shield 2009 - present
Libya - 2011
ISIL - 2014 - present
So "sophomoric" or not, I'm right.
And your thesis that it's all leaders, sorry, it isn't - we elect them, and our young folks are quite willing to go to fight and die and kill- except for some notables who ironically in their older years, want to use war as an economic stimulus.
This isn't an anti-war screed, I'm nowhere near a pacifist. All I'm doing is stating a pretty simple truth. We love this shit. Otherwise we wouldn't do it so often or so well, or with so little opposition from the populous.
The point of war without killing people is identical to the point of war with killing people.
Do not agree at all. While there are different "reasons" given all the time, the unassailble fact that humanity is in everlasting war means either we are doing what we like to do (my thesis) or we are the very definition of masochists, forever drawn to something we hate to do.
I'm certain that once we achieve symmetry to the point of machines killing machines, we'll quickly figure out a new reason and way to kill each other.
You let me know when one F-35 can out compete four A-10's for air to ground combat.
From what I have heard, there were two American planes that you never wanted to see as the enemy - The Tomcat and the Warthog. One's a beauty, and one's fugly.
i have no idea how that thing could outperform one A-10. You simply cannot extract the highest performance needed by trying to make a one plane fits all missions concept.
Probably for the same reason I don't take my Jeep to the dragstrip, and I don''t ride my motorcycle off road.
Yeah, this. Only thing I don't like is you have to take an extra step and install a driver for the crappy broadcom wifi it has, but otherwise macbook pros, especially the retina versions, really rock and run linux like a champ.
Yup. Linux finally clicked 100 percent for me when my mentor told me that you just have to think of OSX as the shiniest slickest ditro of Linux. I run linux on my iMac from time to time, and haven't had a problem yet.
The firmware changed to pass while it was being tested, so it seems the fix will be to leave the car in 'test' mode permanently. Apparently performance will suffer when that happens, but that doesn't really matter when you're stuck in a line of traffic on the freeway.......
It's a compression/peak flame temperature thing. With the high compression of a diesel engine, max economy comes at the expense of NOxide emissions.
Here is a really nice explanation of the parameters involved. It''s an old pdf scan of typewritten pages, but very clear and understandable
s/make money/make her money and leave the shareholders, er, citizens with a big mess after she leaves office/
When she was fired, after making that mess, she got a 21.4 million severance package. Imagine making more money for being shitcanned than most of us will make in our lifetime.
All teenagers have the capacity to be attention-whores, and it's worse when they're in an artificial environment that forces a whole bunch of people to interact with each other that would not have chosen to be around each other.
Odd you mention that. The same people who are all up in arms calling him an attention whore, are probably applauding the media whoring of that woman in Kentucky who won't sign gay marriage certificates, and now has been caught altering them - a definite crime.
So if this was because he was muslim then surely the dozens to hundreds of other kids arrested and expelled for things even more asinine, like chewing a poptart into the wrong shape, must have been because of their race too... right? I mean surely you aren't holding a double standard here only for your precious designated victim class...
Your logic is, um, really bad. Let's try that over again so you can take a look at what you wrote.
One evil doesn't excuse another. But overlooking an evil because it is your kind of evil is the worst kind of evil.
Further, Obama has had six years to fix this "evil" and hasn't. And yet, nobody is blaming him for not doing anything about it... because he is "your kind of evil" so you overlook it.
To be correct, a lot of people have been yapping about it a lot.
But it just gets lost in the Demon Baby from Kenya birth certificate claims, the claims he's a muslim, his FEMA death camps, his death panels, and all the other batshit crazy accusations that have made most Americans numb. And somtimes roll with laughter. So it just gets thrown on the pile with all the other kooky stuff.
My favorite one, and I shit you not - is that He made a secret deal with Mexico for them to send diseased Illegal immigrant Mexicans across the border to infect and kill Americans.
That one doesn'e even make any sense. It's right up there with the conspiracy that W. Clinton sent all his bodyguards to Waco so the Branch Davidians could kill them - which means the Davidians were in cahoots with Clinton. All of this makes me wonder if conservative Republicans are seriously into meth.
The skill set required to accumulate profits is not the same as the skill set for running a country.
In business you can write off bad investments. In government you can't write off states and cities that are a financial drag.
If I'm not mistaken, Fiorina's plan is to buy Canada, and lay off all the Canadians, in order to make money. No use getting rid of a game plan that worked for ya in the past.
But they'll know Facebook still works, and hey, some of their old sites now show up there!
Technical evolution in action.
Actually, I think a lot of us will just find something different to do with our time. If facebook was the internet, I'd be out making telescopes, or big model rockets. At which point I don't care if Facebook sends someone to your house to beat the shit out of you until you buy something off the web.
Otherwise I block every ad and I sleep like a baby for it. I don't have a lot of power in this fucking society, if I can't even control where my attention goes to, then what the fuck can I control?
And people do, I've done it. It's just that either I present it in an un-compelling way (or at least a way that's easily ignored), or I get spoken to about being "negative".
I've found that the mere mention of "massive liability exposure" tends to get serious traction, especially when there are bean counters present. Sometimes it's a bit of a trick play, but often instead of being thought as negative, it's more of a "Thank you very much for pointing that out - we never thought of that".
Given that the typical slashdotter believes that Apple users are clueless hipster sheeples who know nothing except that they worship any Apple product, and the guy pulls his app because it instantly became the number 1 download, there is something askew with your hypothesis.
Guess I'm not the typical Slashdotter then. Assumptions can make you look pretty silly. I've used Apple products on and off since the IIe. I haven't installed iOS 9 but probably will this evening.
Same here - but do you get my point? Number one apps are not typically number one because of people being seriously web savvy - Its because they are popular. It's a Candy Crush and Bad Piggies world for apps, and here is something you'd expect to be obscure out pacing them. The situataino is getting so dire that normal users are needing adblocking.
The MBA gets listened to, the dev does as he's told or he gets fired.
There is a pecking order to be sure. And once you have the task, you do it. But if you have zero input, and if you have to do immoral things because the MBA told you to, then you gotta get out of there. Because I know from personal experience that there are MBA''s and supervisors and Director's who do take input
Slashdot Mirror
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scary, isn't it? I could imagine that happening.
the unassailble fact that humanity is in everlasting war
sophomoric drivel
Really Okay first thing you have to do is prove that war is a rare punctuation of the normal condition, peace and harmony. Then prove we don't like it.
war is not an ongoing process
SRSLY? Here's a listing of US wars just the 20th century: Some overlap due to turn of century..
Yaqui war - 1896-1918
Phillipine-American War - 1899-1902
Moro rebellian - 1899 - 1913
Boxer Rebellion - 1899 - 1901
Crazy Snake - 1909
Mexican border war - 1910 - 1919
Bannana War Negro Rebellion - 1912
Nicaraaugua occupation - 1912 - 1933
Bluff War - 1914 - 1915
Bananna War Haiti occupation - 1915 - 1934
Bananna War Sugar - 1916 - 1918
Dominican Republic occupation - 1916 - 1924
World War 1 - 1917 1918
Russian Civil War - 1918 - 1920
Samsum Turkey - 1922
Posey War - 1923
World War 2 - 1941 - 1945
Korean War - 1950 - 1953
Lebanon - 1958
Bay of Pigs 1961
Dominican Civil War 1965 - 1966
Vietnam War 1965 - 1973
Zaire - 1978
Lebanese Civil War - 1982 - 1984
Grenada - 1983
Tanker war when Iraq was a ally - 1987 - 1988
Panama - 1989 - 1990
Gulf War 1 - 1990 - 1991
Iraq No Fly - 1991 - 2003
Somalia 1992 - 1995
Haiti - 1994 - 1995
Bosnia - 1994 - 1995
Kosovo - 1998 - 1999
And to bring it to the present
Afghanistan- 2001 to present
Iraq as enemy 2001 - 2011
Pakistan Drone strikes 2004 - present
Ocean Shield 2009 - present Libya - 2011
ISIL - 2014 - present
So "sophomoric" or not, I'm right.
And your thesis that it's all leaders, sorry, it isn't - we elect them, and our young folks are quite willing to go to fight and die and kill- except for some notables who ironically in their older years, want to use war as an economic stimulus.
This isn't an anti-war screed, I'm nowhere near a pacifist. All I'm doing is stating a pretty simple truth. We love this shit. Otherwise we wouldn't do it so often or so well, or with so little opposition from the populous.
Your 'mentor' is a fucking tool.
Explain. You're in at the deep end of the pool now, so it better be good.
Thanks for making it weird.
That's what she said...
The point of war without killing people is identical to the point of war with killing people.
Do not agree at all. While there are different "reasons" given all the time, the unassailble fact that humanity is in everlasting war means either we are doing what we like to do (my thesis) or we are the very definition of masochists, forever drawn to something we hate to do.
I'm certain that once we achieve symmetry to the point of machines killing machines, we'll quickly figure out a new reason and way to kill each other.
War is not about killing people
The fact that we had daily body counts in Vietnam kinda argues against that.
Plus you seem to be arguing that humans don't enjoy killing each other? It's what we do best.
With enough effort you can make a Jeep worthy of racing.
http://northgeorgiaweather.wee...
to be fair that is the only one i know of which i would say meets the need and as you can see requires heavy modifications.
And I saw a 4WD Vette once. Big ass tires and one hellauva lot of lift on it. Of course it was worthless for anything other than mud bugging.
These examples sort of prove that it's pretty hard to have a one size fits all role the F35 is supposed to perform.
You let me know when one F-35 can out compete four A-10's for air to ground combat.
From what I have heard, there were two American planes that you never wanted to see as the enemy - The Tomcat and the Warthog. One's a beauty, and one's fugly.
i have no idea how that thing could outperform one A-10. You simply cannot extract the highest performance needed by trying to make a one plane fits all missions concept.
Probably for the same reason I don't take my Jeep to the dragstrip, and I don''t ride my motorcycle off road.
You know how I know you have no idea what you're talking about?
You mean this?
https://medium.com/war-is-bori...
Yeah, this. Only thing I don't like is you have to take an extra step and install a driver for the crappy broadcom wifi it has, but otherwise macbook pros, especially the retina versions, really rock and run linux like a champ.
Yup. Linux finally clicked 100 percent for me when my mentor told me that you just have to think of OSX as the shiniest slickest ditro of Linux. I run linux on my iMac from time to time, and haven't had a problem yet.
The firmware changed to pass while it was being tested, so it seems the fix will be to leave the car in 'test' mode permanently. Apparently performance will suffer when that happens, but that doesn't really matter when you're stuck in a line of traffic on the freeway.......
It's a compression/peak flame temperature thing. With the high compression of a diesel engine, max economy comes at the expense of NOxide emissions.
Here is a really nice explanation of the parameters involved. It''s an old pdf scan of typewritten pages, but very clear and understandable
http://web.anl.gov/PCS/acsfuel...
This is correct. I have never seen 42 MPG in actuality. I drive 75-80 mph on the highway so my mileage is more like 34 mpg.
Yup. At that speed, most of your power is being used to push air out of the way. Add another 10 MPH, and you should be hitting the 20's.
http://sciencelearn.org.nz/Sci...
It's pretty dramatic.
s/make money/make her money and leave the shareholders, er, citizens with a big mess after she leaves office/
When she was fired, after making that mess, she got a 21.4 million severance package. Imagine making more money for being shitcanned than most of us will make in our lifetime.
Almost certainly nothing.
It sounds crass and nasty. But if we have manned engines of war fighting other unmanned enginnes of war, there is no point.
Because everyone else will catch up. It won't always be unmanned on people, all will eventually have dronish devices.
Be cheaper to run simulations and the best one wins.
All teenagers have the capacity to be attention-whores, and it's worse when they're in an artificial environment that forces a whole bunch of people to interact with each other that would not have chosen to be around each other.
Odd you mention that. The same people who are all up in arms calling him an attention whore, are probably applauding the media whoring of that woman in Kentucky who won't sign gay marriage certificates, and now has been caught altering them - a definite crime.
So if this was because he was muslim then surely the dozens to hundreds of other kids arrested and expelled for things even more asinine, like chewing a poptart into the wrong shape, must have been because of their race too... right? I mean surely you aren't holding a double standard here only for your precious designated victim class...
Your logic is, um, really bad. Let's try that over again so you can take a look at what you wrote.
One evil doesn't excuse another. But overlooking an evil because it is your kind of evil is the worst kind of evil.
Further, Obama has had six years to fix this "evil" and hasn't. And yet, nobody is blaming him for not doing anything about it ... because he is "your kind of evil" so you overlook it.
To be correct, a lot of people have been yapping about it a lot.
But it just gets lost in the Demon Baby from Kenya birth certificate claims, the claims he's a muslim, his FEMA death camps, his death panels, and all the other batshit crazy accusations that have made most Americans numb. And somtimes roll with laughter. So it just gets thrown on the pile with all the other kooky stuff.
My favorite one, and I shit you not - is that He made a secret deal with Mexico for them to send diseased Illegal immigrant Mexicans across the border to infect and kill Americans.
That one doesn'e even make any sense. It's right up there with the conspiracy that W. Clinton sent all his bodyguards to Waco so the Branch Davidians could kill them - which means the Davidians were in cahoots with Clinton. All of this makes me wonder if conservative Republicans are seriously into meth.
It's like when a puppy craps on your living room floor. That puppy isn't evil. But when your brother does it, that's a different story.
And when your girlfriend does it, you're probably into scat porn.
The skill set required to accumulate profits is not the same as the skill set for running a country.
In business you can write off bad investments. In government you can't write off states and cities that are a financial drag.
If I'm not mistaken, Fiorina's plan is to buy Canada, and lay off all the Canadians, in order to make money. No use getting rid of a game plan that worked for ya in the past.
But they'll know Facebook still works, and hey, some of their old sites now show up there!
Technical evolution in action.
Actually, I think a lot of us will just find something different to do with our time. If facebook was the internet, I'd be out making telescopes, or big model rockets. At which point I don't care if Facebook sends someone to your house to beat the shit out of you until you buy something off the web.
Otherwise I block every ad and I sleep like a baby for it. I don't have a lot of power in this fucking society, if I can't even control where my attention goes to, then what the fuck can I control?
Your language?
And people do, I've done it. It's just that either I present it in an un-compelling way (or at least a way that's easily ignored), or I get spoken to about being "negative".
I've found that the mere mention of "massive liability exposure" tends to get serious traction, especially when there are bean counters present. Sometimes it's a bit of a trick play, but often instead of being thought as negative, it's more of a "Thank you very much for pointing that out - we never thought of that".
Man, if you are actually in that sort of situation, you need to get away from it.
Guess I'm not the typical Slashdotter then. Assumptions can make you look pretty silly. I've used Apple products on and off since the IIe. I haven't installed iOS 9 but probably will this evening.
Same here - but do you get my point? Number one apps are not typically number one because of people being seriously web savvy - Its because they are popular. It's a Candy Crush and Bad Piggies world for apps, and here is something you'd expect to be obscure out pacing them. The situataino is getting so dire that normal users are needing adblocking.
The MBA gets listened to, the dev does as he's told or he gets fired.
There is a pecking order to be sure. And once you have the task, you do it. But if you have zero input, and if you have to do immoral things because the MBA told you to, then you gotta get out of there. Because I know from personal experience that there are MBA''s and supervisors and Director's who do take input