It's about the war machine and the fascists that hold its leash, wanting to stick their hands deep into the pockets of the tax payers yet again. It gives them money and political power. They need this kind of distraction because a state of war will let them handled civil unrest here "legally". It kills a couple of birds with one stone. They know the average Joe is not at ease and those evil liberals just might get elected. War and candyassed liberals don't mix, so start another one and it will keep the liberals away.
Besides, they don't want the military here at home, they might lynch the entire lot of them for treason.
When you have aerosol drones capable of dispensing enough biological agents to render that entire side of the world extinct of human life, knit picking about resilient concrete is the least of anyone's worries. America, just keep taking your "flu shots".
I find the concrete tech fascinating though. I wonder what it would do for the roads? We seriously need to talk to them, because we need to spend the next decade working on our own hi-ways before they crumble under us. We could use more rails to save road traffic from trucks as well. Infrastructure, people! We need to improve it!
I some how got into some Fox Engine stuff looking at the links. That engine looks amazing. The question is, what kind of a beast of a computer does one need to run that at acceptable frame rates?
Ha! Everyone else whores out to China, why not you guys as well? We keep talking about our amazing, best in the world system all the while China crushes us economically. The irony, huh? A Communistic country adapts and uses capitalistic tactics to achieve world domination. I would venture to say that tapping their vast labor pool and undercutting our prices, while we do NOTHING to protect our people kind of sums it up.
How can I forget those very old days of Dial Up AOL and a $189 dollar bill for using it with wild abandon. AOL should be like a giant fat tick filled with money STILL from those days. We should roll them around like a giant beach ball and see if any money falls out. We can roll out a few crop circles while we are at it for giggles.
No, it' just needs to be completely left alone by governments. They need to take care of the pipes, but what goes through it, is none of their concern. I can remember when the Internet declared it's Independence and told governments to keep their hands off of it, or that there would be a price to pay. It was a citizenship in a different realm, outside of the BS that we have built over the years, and it was to be the new hope of the information age.
What a dream. This cookie jar has a lot of hands in it now, and it's proving to be yet another yoke about our necks instead of freeing us of crusty old paradigms. I keep thinking of the movie Space Balls and Dark Helmet saying "Evil wins because Good is dumb." I feel like we the people are the dumb ones for some reason anymore.
It seems like a full court press on the Internet lately. Too much freedom of information to suit the powers that be I guess. Agree with or not, the censorship of Occupy Wall Street should have a chilling effect on anyone breathing "free air". Note how this kicked into high gear after OWS and the fact we have probably the most polarized elections in recent history coming.
In the mean time, the middle class slides into the poverty class and the rich get richer.
It's very simple. We have to gain control of our elected officials again, even if that means we have to put them down. The next batch will be more cautious about betraying us. Second we need to Constitutionally establish rules about bribery and I would have it a capital offense. Then we can truly have a democracy and a representative government.
We need to visit all treaties and also go back to how the original founders intended for the Feds to get their money and that was through tariffs. We lost serious control over them when they ILLEGALLY posed the income tax on us. Check, that was not legally ratified. There is a stink about that, which of course gets ignore. We were built upon "protectionism" and we intended to have our own economy and let the rest of the world frankly go fuck itself.
We've also allowed corporations to twist corporate law far out of what it was originally intended for. We've let it them grow until they are now our masters, they control those whom we are suppose to have representing us. Their reach goes into various high powered governments of the world. Look how they manipulated two enemies, the United States and China into being their lackey whores.
I'm not optimistic about any of this. The brainwashing that has established this form of slavery over modern mankind is elegant, and well thought out. It harnesses the very intellect, and base values and instincts of it's victims, to forge the chains on us all. Most people are just drones, living day to day on the mental pablum dished to them. I doubt very much the drones will awaken, they don't want to.
Your "automation" only sets us up for a fall as a species at this point. The most important thing on this planet isn't the ore or other inert resources, but the human beings on it. These are our most valuable assets, and we piss them away into slavery, or just let them rot. Automation is abomination when there are human hands around that live in a system like ours and need jobs to survive.
Lastly, our success can't be measure and dictated to us by those that are on top of a foul and corrupt system. We need to measure our success by that of the whole, not the privileged few. The "privileged few" are the bane of humanity. They will not only resist positive change that is need for the survival of the species, they will plummet us further and faster to our collective doom just to spite us. It is imperative that not only do we resist them with unbridled violence, but we set an example of complete and utter horror as a cautionary tale for those in the future.
I don't see us doing this, hence I foresee our doom. Trust me, it's far, far more horrifying that what I propose.
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Elegant proof of this hypothesis would be Fox News and the foam-at-the-mouth Republicans they brainwash.
It's about the war machine and the fascists that hold its leash, wanting to stick their hands deep into the pockets of the tax payers yet again. It gives them money and political power. They need this kind of distraction because a state of war will let them handled civil unrest here "legally". It kills a couple of birds with one stone. They know the average Joe is not at ease and those evil liberals just might get elected. War and candyassed liberals don't mix, so start another one and it will keep the liberals away.
Besides, they don't want the military here at home, they might lynch the entire lot of them for treason.
Conventional bombing? Silliness!
When you have aerosol drones capable of dispensing enough biological agents to render that entire side of the world extinct of human life, knit picking about resilient concrete is the least of anyone's worries. America, just keep taking your "flu shots".
I find the concrete tech fascinating though. I wonder what it would do for the roads? We seriously need to talk to them, because we need to spend the next decade working on our own hi-ways before they crumble under us. We could use more rails to save road traffic from trucks as well. Infrastructure, people! We need to improve it!
No thanks, we choke on small bones.
/rimshot
I some how got into some Fox Engine stuff looking at the links. That engine looks amazing. The question is, what kind of a beast of a computer does one need to run that at acceptable frame rates?
I know, L2Research.
Don't give them ideas.
Why aren't they being charged with fraud? Class action lawsuits until they are toast.
Pics or it didn't happen.
Did they pry that letter from the rectum of the teacher after it was jammed there by an angry parent?
Inquiring minds want to know more.
The Department of Redundancy Depart is filing a injunction against this thread, they are also talking to a judge about it as well.
I meta cop once, he gave me a ticket.
Ha! Everyone else whores out to China, why not you guys as well? We keep talking about our amazing, best in the world system all the while China crushes us economically. The irony, huh? A Communistic country adapts and uses capitalistic tactics to achieve world domination. I would venture to say that tapping their vast labor pool and undercutting our prices, while we do NOTHING to protect our people kind of sums it up.
How can I forget those very old days of Dial Up AOL and a $189 dollar bill for using it with wild abandon. AOL should be like a giant fat tick filled with money STILL from those days. We should roll them around like a giant beach ball and see if any money falls out. We can roll out a few crop circles while we are at it for giggles.
Btw, how do you spell S.O.S. in alien?
This smacks of a comic book start, lets throw in a lab accident and we might get a super hero?!
Glueman
Mr Sticky
Gluemiester
Wonderglueman
The Glue
GlueNinja
I need to find something that sticks. /drum hit
Send him a check and I'm sure it will happen.
Obligatory addition: ...for the children!
No, it' just needs to be completely left alone by governments. They need to take care of the pipes, but what goes through it, is none of their concern. I can remember when the Internet declared it's Independence and told governments to keep their hands off of it, or that there would be a price to pay. It was a citizenship in a different realm, outside of the BS that we have built over the years, and it was to be the new hope of the information age.
What a dream. This cookie jar has a lot of hands in it now, and it's proving to be yet another yoke about our necks instead of freeing us of crusty old paradigms. I keep thinking of the movie Space Balls and Dark Helmet saying "Evil wins because Good is dumb." I feel like we the people are the dumb ones for some reason anymore.
It seems like a full court press on the Internet lately. Too much freedom of information to suit the powers that be I guess. Agree with or not, the censorship of Occupy Wall Street should have a chilling effect on anyone breathing "free air". Note how this kicked into high gear after OWS and the fact we have probably the most polarized elections in recent history coming.
Sovereignty, who's got it anymore? It seems Canada sold us theirs at a garage sale.
Obligatory response is obligatory.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcArnepkhv0
One more time so you can be the last word freak.
SEZ THE DUMBASS DRONE.
That's all you get, you aren't worth anything more.
Now get that last word....
Sez the frightened, frustrated little drone.
Sez the drone
You are dreaming.
In the mean time, the middle class slides into the poverty class and the rich get richer.
It's very simple. We have to gain control of our elected officials again, even if that means we have to put them down. The next batch will be more cautious about betraying us. Second we need to Constitutionally establish rules about bribery and I would have it a capital offense. Then we can truly have a democracy and a representative government.
We need to visit all treaties and also go back to how the original founders intended for the Feds to get their money and that was through tariffs. We lost serious control over them when they ILLEGALLY posed the income tax on us. Check, that was not legally ratified. There is a stink about that, which of course gets ignore. We were built upon "protectionism" and we intended to have our own economy and let the rest of the world frankly go fuck itself.
We've also allowed corporations to twist corporate law far out of what it was originally intended for. We've let it them grow until they are now our masters, they control those whom we are suppose to have representing us. Their reach goes into various high powered governments of the world. Look how they manipulated two enemies, the United States and China into being their lackey whores.
I'm not optimistic about any of this. The brainwashing that has established this form of slavery over modern mankind is elegant, and well thought out. It harnesses the very intellect, and base values and instincts of it's victims, to forge the chains on us all. Most people are just drones, living day to day on the mental pablum dished to them. I doubt very much the drones will awaken, they don't want to.
Your "automation" only sets us up for a fall as a species at this point. The most important thing on this planet isn't the ore or other inert resources, but the human beings on it. These are our most valuable assets, and we piss them away into slavery, or just let them rot. Automation is abomination when there are human hands around that live in a system like ours and need jobs to survive.
Lastly, our success can't be measure and dictated to us by those that are on top of a foul and corrupt system. We need to measure our success by that of the whole, not the privileged few. The "privileged few" are the bane of humanity. They will not only resist positive change that is need for the survival of the species, they will plummet us further and faster to our collective doom just to spite us. It is imperative that not only do we resist them with unbridled violence, but we set an example of complete and utter horror as a cautionary tale for those in the future.
I don't see us doing this, hence I foresee our doom. Trust me, it's far, far more horrifying that what I propose.
Are you kidding me? Automation = even fewer jobs.
The world's problems aren't ours. Fuck 'em. Besides, it will sort it's self out fine as soon as we rid the world of the scum at the top.