It takes common sense to know when you are overdoing things; it takes common sense to know where to direct your awareness. My point still stands, and with sless words, too. Sorry you wrote so much only to reaffirm my point in the end.
You know, air superiority has been a major factor in the last 50 years. Why would you want to hamstring us now?
I want 100x more drones for low-level threats, and $300bn jet fighters for high level threats. And wow, $300bn is quite an exaggeration. Most funding things are talked about in a per-year basis, you're talking about total program costs.
We still have air superiority and we still have significant programs to keep us superior.
300bn is not an exaggeration, its the actual amount. I'm sorry if it's not listed in a tricky and hard-to-see-total-cost way such as 'per year'.
Removing this one program would not 'hamstring us now'. Now who's exaggerating?
It's probably smarter and more cost effective to equip the visually impaired with a sonar-type device than to force *every* (i'm thinking future) vehicle to maintain noise pollution for such a small number of people.
what you've described is either suicide or natural selection.... both being forces that we cannot 'fix'.
awareness is tied to common sense; common sense is less common every day it seems.. no wonder we 'need' a mommy government. I'd prefer the lower noise pollution and the reduced population of idiots --- but I know I'll get modded down for calling an idiot an idiot. who cares, mod me down -- idiots are idiots. We learned to look both ways before kindergarten.
Cut *RIDICULOUS* defense spending. Back when everyone was screaming about 700 billion dollar spending.... way back then.... there was news about this fighter jet program that costs 300 BN!
A 300BN fighter jet program when people are screaming about 700BN, or we have a 800BN spending deficit... well... THAT IS RIDICULOUS. ----- And that's just ONE program.
Please let me know if my point isn't clear enough.
The word presented does not need any redefinition, lol. And we could use DIFFERENT words to describe the same relationship we are trying to discuss -- one where the licenser and assumed 'licensee' actually come to an agreement. So please don't even point at the semantics of it that way --- its not the word 'presented' that we're even talking about here; we're talking about something bigger than one word. Get it?
And so what if they even have it printed there. I'm not required to read the contents of a coke before I can open it and use it. I'm not required to even speak english, or actually jump through odd hoops to get translated versions of senseless and unagreed legal babble.
Don't you get it? I buy a box with a CD in it and some agreement. I bought all the stuff in the box. But, well, I have this CD, and its mine. Great. Thanks to the store I have what I wanted... But then I look in the box and there's this 'license agreement'. Well I *bought* the agreement, too, but I don't want that and I wouldn't agree to it anyway... So i toss that. The garbage company gets that now and its not mine... Whatevs. Fortunately, the software, or xbox, or whatever I bought, is still mine. Great!
Don't you get it? I never had to agree before I PAID and OWNED the thing. And even if I did, it would only be an agreement under the duress of the thing I own being kept hostage by their stupid attempt at making me agree. ITS MINE. LET ME USE IT. I"M NOT ACTUALLLY HURTING YOU OR ANYONE ELSE. GO BE A TURD SOMEWHERE ELSE. (thats what I say to their lawyers).
I should lightly reiterate something. If I already OWN the thing, and from there I receive a paper with some agreement on it... Well then what if I don't agree? I still own it. Its mine and I paid for it. The 'agreement' says what I can and cannot do, but I simply don't agree. Get me? I buy the whole box of stuff... And I don't agree with that paper that came with it, so I just toss that out... I don't want *THAT* anymore, so I don't own the 'agreement' anymore -- I think trash becomes public domain @ the curb... So tha'ts when the agreement and I are now in no way related. Cool thing I still have an xbox!
Oh.. and agreements in software are only agreed as a product duress caused by the software holding my technology hostage. I think people either agree with me that they do not read and or care about EULAs, or they ironically violate them on accident, even if they oppose my view here and tell me they make sense.
... if thats what happened, and he had video of the whole shebang... lets see it.. is that what we see in the video?
Lets quit playing silly games here... if you can mod an xbox you know what it can/will be used for. DUH. Right, lets look at a burned CD and pretend its all open/free music. Oh wait ! Its just some GS Wavetable played re-created MIDI files.... pfft no... its Lil' Wayne's Discography on 320kbps mp3.
Lets get to the point where we should be able to do what we want with our own equipment. I don't care if some lawyer wrote up some 'license agreement' for me to read; in the end I never bought a product from its maker, I buy it from a store. At no point do I agree with anyone. I give money to a person, they hand me what I picked out. I go home and after i already OWN the thing, there's some agreement there... nah... But I'm glad I still own this THING I have here now! And it's great I paid a fair price for everything that went into it. But its mine now. You don't get the cake and to eat it all --- I got this piece and its mine. Its not yours (the company) anymore. Be gone./rant off
Additionally, IMAGINARY NUMBERS, like squareroot of negative i. W T F.
Never, in my life, have I used that crap.
They could teach very very BASIC versions of some of the subjects that are too deeply studied and get similar results.
--- One thing that having a good grasp of mathematics does for me is that it gives me a way to foresee/predict/interpret/understand the world around me. And most powerfully, Algebra. Algebra should get more focus, and still maybe less overall sub-topics but more overall time spent grasping it. People around me who quite obviously lack strong algebra are regularly asking me 'how did you know that?", even though to me the answer was obvious... I"m not talking about a math problem here, either, just crap that happens in real life where you observe a few data points of some sort and can start to plot it mentally.
For the schools: Less on shakespeare and learning French -- more on critical thinking. Less on nearly useless math like imaginary numbers -- more practical math with problems that appear real to the doer. Predict the new justin beiber CD cost after 2 years with a 10% annual reduction in cost... etc. Less in jewelry, more in software programming. Less in history about the cotton gin and sharecropping, more history about social evolution and true leaders like MLK, JFK, Gandhi, Rosa Parks, etc. -------
But then again, you can't really make progress in america. Texans are simply rewriting history, and despite my assumption they would be appalled by Islamic prayer in pub schools, they want christian prayer. Its a shame that those who thump the constitution the hardest have no sense of what it means. And while I don't think the constitution should require extensive review (because we, the people, should be crafting our laws, not simply learning 'this is the way it is'), the basic principles and protections in it should be made clear and obvious to everyone.
The PLO/PLFF/etc have faced Israel in exactly that sense with Israel basically destroying palestinians in exchange. And yet some palestinians still foster enough hate to continue.
Scorched earth won't solve terrorism. Terrorism has little to do with any specific group, purpose, or culture. Terrorism is a means by which a small group or individual can garner attention and fear for some purpose.
The point being that 'some purpose' could be anything. DC Sniper. Red Brigades. IRA. Militant Islam.
Hell, the owner of LEGO could wipe out hundreds in some easily brainstormed plot --- like driving a large bus into a Linkin Park concert crowd at 120mph -- and then make an announcement that he wants us all to say we love his LEGOs.
Terror. Terror-ism.
And if you desire a world that has any sense of freedom, even far less than we enjoy now --- terrorism will not be defeated in any serious sense. Given the risks, such that I'd more likely die from a car accident, or eating meat, or food poisoning --- I say lets keep the freedom going and take basic precaution to known threats.
I agree with your post title. I used to be one of those soldiers, too. And I never got to benefit from much of the tech that was 'for me' in the end --- come to find out much of the spending is just a cash handout to Gov contractors that reinvest part of it to political campaigns... who knew? lol.
I would imagine it served to illustrate the truth about terrorism and the farce of what is claimed to be successes in the supposed 'war' against it. Most people either have a working knowledge, or immediate/easily-found access, to various approaches to the harm/killing of large numbers of people; they just don't know it until they try to think in that mode. I'm sure most people reading this article, or my post, may be inspired to also brainstorm --- and thus uncover the obvious: it is very easy to kill lots of people and terrorize.
I think the main barrier to terrorism isn't the ways by which it can happen, but rather the incapacity of most people to actually do it.
It's a shame that some groups of people are left with no other options (some cases), and other groups of people are deceived/manipulated by their faith (other cases), to use terrorism. But its also a shame to carry out multi-billion dollar war efforts against only a fraction of all terrorists, and then continue barking out faux success stories through accomplice and complicit media, as if they are in any way based in reality; the truth being that we've done almost nothing that will truly protect us and while having barely dented the numbers of those in that fraction, we have enraged easily influenced youth to replenish the ranks.
You can do the same with a netbook. My laptop would be awkward to hold in one hand, but an acer aero is relatively the same thing as holding a iPad. But to you it isn't... not because its almost the same size and shape (and thus your hand can mechanically hold it the same way) -- but because it says Apple on it. And so you 'hold' it differently when its an iPad. You 'hold' it more comfortably, to you, because you're an irrational fanatic.
I'm glad its useful to feed your ego and materialistic training. Good American, you are. You rockin Air Jordans too?
Lol. Move out of the basement. I'm long past that, but don't let your imagination fail you; i'm sure you've got the capacity to create more fallacious reasoning for your crippled device. But as I stated in another post, a fanatic enjoys their product beyond reason -- and so I envy your capacity to be so happy having overpaid for a mal-equipped device.
I'm on a laptop with a touchpad at this very moment and its on my legs. If it were a netbook I could have it propped up in one hand like a tacobell taco, like you pretend only an iPad can do, lol... and I'm using the touchpad just like any other touch surface -- the great thing, though, being that my hand isn't between my eyes and what i'm manipulating on screen. Oh the comedy! Just when you thought a tablet touchscreen was useful, someone like me comes along to point out how a touchpad serves the exact same purpose with added ease of use by not having your hands all over the viewing area (and finger smudges).
You don't need to put a laptop on the other side of the room to not get mess on it --- well, unless you learned how to cook from the cookie monster. Are you so incapable of controlling ingredients that you would need a laptop across the room so as not to get food all over it? Try learning not to be a sloppy slob and you'll benefit much more in your life than owning an iPad, LOL.
Wtf, you're saying you can hold an iPad in your hand but you cant' hold a netbook? Do you have selective hands or something? I can hold a netbook and manipulate a touchpad and get the same results you're pretending are only possible in your second to last one.
I dare you to get flour on your iPad, lol. My wife uses her laptop in the kitchen --- you're acting like thats impossible, lol.
Pffft.. you can hold a netbook just like you would an iPad... and you can use a touchpad just like a touchscreen with the added benefit that your finger/hand isn't occluding your view of what you're doing.
have u beem tp LA lately? in short, yes there are people out there whose analysis of others involves the 'status' of their purchases or purchasing capacity. wtf kind of world is it, right? sadly its real.
a good PDA costed well over 200 even 5 years ago, and aside from havig a phone in them, smartphones have progressed with the tech the same as sole-pdas would. You say you want beyond ipod functionality but wont pay more for it? Sounds like you are creating your own barriers now. Im typing this from my HTC Touch Pro, which is extremely more functional than ipod, iphone, but will run you 500 bucks. But its a sick PDA too. The 500 you pay is not for the gsm/cdma radios, but rather for all the pda tech.
That sounds like a good case and point for why these evaluations should be made public and the lagging teachers let go. In my experience you have to do a better job before you get a raise. Since the teachers are unionized, the sum of the teachers needs to get better.
And so to the guy whose mother is such a great teacher; tell her to push her union to enforce better teaching policies and have more competitive hiring -- tell her to blame the ranks of her union that are lagging and dragging her 'value' down. Sure, the good teachers should get paid more, but it doesn't work like that -- they are unionized and they all want the same pay and bennies.... Well, like I said, you gotta perform better to get the raise. Get the union as a whole to teach well and I'm sure the taxpayers would notice.
His job likely isn't to serve the public, whereas these teachers are directly serving the pay of the public, and thus their performance analysis should be visible.
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Still, the number is miniscule when next to "every car out there" (like I said, future thinking here).
It takes common sense to know when you are overdoing things; it takes common sense to know where to direct your awareness. My point still stands, and with sless words, too. Sorry you wrote so much only to reaffirm my point in the end.
You know, air superiority has been a major factor in the last 50 years. Why would you want to hamstring us now?
I want 100x more drones for low-level threats, and $300bn jet fighters for high level threats. And wow, $300bn is quite an exaggeration. Most funding things are talked about in a per-year basis, you're talking about total program costs.
We still have air superiority and we still have significant programs to keep us superior.
300bn is not an exaggeration, its the actual amount. I'm sorry if it's not listed in a tricky and hard-to-see-total-cost way such as 'per year'.
Removing this one program would not 'hamstring us now'. Now who's exaggerating?
It's probably smarter and more cost effective to equip the visually impaired with a sonar-type device than to force *every* (i'm thinking future) vehicle to maintain noise pollution for such a small number of people.
what you've described is either suicide or natural selection.... both being forces that we cannot 'fix'.
awareness is tied to common sense; common sense is less common every day it seems.. no wonder we 'need' a mommy government. I'd prefer the lower noise pollution and the reduced population of idiots --- but I know I'll get modded down for calling an idiot an idiot. who cares, mod me down -- idiots are idiots. We learned to look both ways before kindergarten.
I was looking forward to the reduced noise pollution..... and people using AWARENESS in life so as not to get hit by moving objects.
But awareness is tightly tied to common sense ---- both are fading rapidly in the US... and we wonder why we 'need' a mommy government...
Cut *RIDICULOUS* defense spending. Back when everyone was screaming about 700 billion dollar spending.... way back then.... there was news about this fighter jet program that costs 300 BN!
http://www.opinion-maker.org/2010/11/f-35-shot-down-before-it-could-fly/
I've been in our military. We are amazing.
A 300BN fighter jet program when people are screaming about 700BN, or we have a 800BN spending deficit... well... THAT IS RIDICULOUS.
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And that's just ONE program.
Please let me know if my point isn't clear enough.
The word presented does not need any redefinition, lol. And we could use DIFFERENT words to describe the same relationship we are trying to discuss -- one where the licenser and assumed 'licensee' actually come to an agreement. So please don't even point at the semantics of it that way --- its not the word 'presented' that we're even talking about here; we're talking about something bigger than one word. Get it?
And so what if they even have it printed there. I'm not required to read the contents of a coke before I can open it and use it. I'm not required to even speak english, or actually jump through odd hoops to get translated versions of senseless and unagreed legal babble.
Don't you get it? I buy a box with a CD in it and some agreement. I bought all the stuff in the box. But, well, I have this CD, and its mine. Great. Thanks to the store I have what I wanted... But then I look in the box and there's this 'license agreement'. Well I *bought* the agreement, too, but I don't want that and I wouldn't agree to it anyway... So i toss that. The garbage company gets that now and its not mine... Whatevs. Fortunately, the software, or xbox, or whatever I bought, is still mine. Great!
Don't you get it? I never had to agree before I PAID and OWNED the thing. And even if I did, it would only be an agreement under the duress of the thing I own being kept hostage by their stupid attempt at making me agree. ITS MINE. LET ME USE IT. I"M NOT ACTUALLLY HURTING YOU OR ANYONE ELSE. GO BE A TURD SOMEWHERE ELSE. (thats what I say to their lawyers).
I should lightly reiterate something. If I already OWN the thing, and from there I receive a paper with some agreement on it... Well then what if I don't agree? I still own it. Its mine and I paid for it. The 'agreement' says what I can and cannot do, but I simply don't agree. Get me? I buy the whole box of stuff... And I don't agree with that paper that came with it, so I just toss that out... I don't want *THAT* anymore, so I don't own the 'agreement' anymore -- I think trash becomes public domain @ the curb... So tha'ts when the agreement and I are now in no way related. Cool thing I still have an xbox!
Oh.. and agreements in software are only agreed as a product duress caused by the software holding my technology hostage. I think people either agree with me that they do not read and or care about EULAs, or they ironically violate them on accident, even if they oppose my view here and tell me they make sense.
Fun topic.
... if thats what happened, and he had video of the whole shebang... lets see it.. is that what we see in the video?
Lets quit playing silly games here... if you can mod an xbox you know what it can/will be used for. DUH. Right, lets look at a burned CD and pretend its all open/free music. Oh wait ! Its just some GS Wavetable played re-created MIDI files.... pfft no... its Lil' Wayne's Discography on 320kbps mp3.
Lets get to the point where we should be able to do what we want with our own equipment. I don't care if some lawyer wrote up some 'license agreement' for me to read; in the end I never bought a product from its maker, I buy it from a store. At no point do I agree with anyone. I give money to a person, they hand me what I picked out. I go home and after i already OWN the thing, there's some agreement there... nah... But I'm glad I still own this THING I have here now! And it's great I paid a fair price for everything that went into it. But its mine now. You don't get the cake and to eat it all --- I got this piece and its mine. Its not yours (the company) anymore. Be gone. /rant off
Additionally, IMAGINARY NUMBERS, like squareroot of negative i. W T F.
Never, in my life, have I used that crap.
They could teach very very BASIC versions of some of the subjects that are too deeply studied and get similar results.
--- One thing that having a good grasp of mathematics does for me is that it gives me a way to foresee/predict/interpret/understand the world around me. And most powerfully, Algebra. Algebra should get more focus, and still maybe less overall sub-topics but more overall time spent grasping it. People around me who quite obviously lack strong algebra are regularly asking me 'how did you know that?", even though to me the answer was obvious... I"m not talking about a math problem here, either, just crap that happens in real life where you observe a few data points of some sort and can start to plot it mentally.
For the schools:
Less on shakespeare and learning French -- more on critical thinking.
Less on nearly useless math like imaginary numbers -- more practical math with problems that appear real to the doer. Predict the new justin beiber CD cost after 2 years with a 10% annual reduction in cost... etc.
Less in jewelry, more in software programming.
Less in history about the cotton gin and sharecropping, more history about social evolution and true leaders like MLK, JFK, Gandhi, Rosa Parks, etc.
-------
But then again, you can't really make progress in america. Texans are simply rewriting history, and despite my assumption they would be appalled by Islamic prayer in pub schools, they want christian prayer. Its a shame that those who thump the constitution the hardest have no sense of what it means. And while I don't think the constitution should require extensive review (because we, the people, should be crafting our laws, not simply learning 'this is the way it is'), the basic principles and protections in it should be made clear and obvious to everyone.
The PLO/PLFF/etc have faced Israel in exactly that sense with Israel basically destroying palestinians in exchange. And yet some palestinians still foster enough hate to continue.
Scorched earth won't solve terrorism. Terrorism has little to do with any specific group, purpose, or culture. Terrorism is a means by which a small group or individual can garner attention and fear for some purpose.
The point being that 'some purpose' could be anything. DC Sniper. Red Brigades. IRA. Militant Islam.
Hell, the owner of LEGO could wipe out hundreds in some easily brainstormed plot --- like driving a large bus into a Linkin Park concert crowd at 120mph -- and then make an announcement that he wants us all to say we love his LEGOs.
Terror. Terror-ism.
And if you desire a world that has any sense of freedom, even far less than we enjoy now --- terrorism will not be defeated in any serious sense. Given the risks, such that I'd more likely die from a car accident, or eating meat, or food poisoning --- I say lets keep the freedom going and take basic precaution to known threats.
I agree with your post title. I used to be one of those soldiers, too. And I never got to benefit from much of the tech that was 'for me' in the end --- come to find out much of the spending is just a cash handout to Gov contractors that reinvest part of it to political campaigns... who knew? lol.
I would imagine it served to illustrate the truth about terrorism and the farce of what is claimed to be successes in the supposed 'war' against it. Most people either have a working knowledge, or immediate/easily-found access, to various approaches to the harm/killing of large numbers of people; they just don't know it until they try to think in that mode. I'm sure most people reading this article, or my post, may be inspired to also brainstorm --- and thus uncover the obvious: it is very easy to kill lots of people and terrorize.
I think the main barrier to terrorism isn't the ways by which it can happen, but rather the incapacity of most people to actually do it.
It's a shame that some groups of people are left with no other options (some cases), and other groups of people are deceived/manipulated by their faith (other cases), to use terrorism. But its also a shame to carry out multi-billion dollar war efforts against only a fraction of all terrorists, and then continue barking out faux success stories through accomplice and complicit media, as if they are in any way based in reality; the truth being that we've done almost nothing that will truly protect us and while having barely dented the numbers of those in that fraction, we have enraged easily influenced youth to replenish the ranks.
As CT that map is one of the hardest to break without a serious coordinated effort or a set of stupid enemies. Counterstrike rocks.
You can do the same with a netbook. My laptop would be awkward to hold in one hand, but an acer aero is relatively the same thing as holding a iPad. But to you it isn't... not because its almost the same size and shape (and thus your hand can mechanically hold it the same way) -- but because it says Apple on it. And so you 'hold' it differently when its an iPad. You 'hold' it more comfortably, to you, because you're an irrational fanatic.
I'm glad its useful to feed your ego and materialistic training. Good American, you are. You rockin Air Jordans too?
Lol. Move out of the basement. I'm long past that, but don't let your imagination fail you; i'm sure you've got the capacity to create more fallacious reasoning for your crippled device. But as I stated in another post, a fanatic enjoys their product beyond reason -- and so I envy your capacity to be so happy having overpaid for a mal-equipped device.
I'm on a laptop with a touchpad at this very moment and its on my legs. If it were a netbook I could have it propped up in one hand like a tacobell taco, like you pretend only an iPad can do, lol... and I'm using the touchpad just like any other touch surface -- the great thing, though, being that my hand isn't between my eyes and what i'm manipulating on screen. Oh the comedy! Just when you thought a tablet touchscreen was useful, someone like me comes along to point out how a touchpad serves the exact same purpose with added ease of use by not having your hands all over the viewing area (and finger smudges).
You don't need to put a laptop on the other side of the room to not get mess on it --- well, unless you learned how to cook from the cookie monster. Are you so incapable of controlling ingredients that you would need a laptop across the room so as not to get food all over it? Try learning not to be a sloppy slob and you'll benefit much more in your life than owning an iPad, LOL.
Wtf, you're saying you can hold an iPad in your hand but you cant' hold a netbook? Do you have selective hands or something? I can hold a netbook and manipulate a touchpad and get the same results you're pretending are only possible in your second to last one.
I dare you to get flour on your iPad, lol. My wife uses her laptop in the kitchen --- you're acting like thats impossible, lol.
Pffft.. you can hold a netbook just like you would an iPad... and you can use a touchpad just like a touchscreen with the added benefit that your finger/hand isn't occluding your view of what you're doing.
have u beem tp LA lately? in short, yes there are people out there whose analysis of others involves the 'status' of their purchases or purchasing capacity. wtf kind of world is it, right? sadly its real.
a good PDA costed well over 200 even 5 years ago, and aside from havig a phone in them, smartphones have progressed with the tech the same as sole-pdas would. You say you want beyond ipod functionality but wont pay more for it? Sounds like you are creating your own barriers now. Im typing this from my HTC Touch Pro, which is extremely more functional than ipod, iphone, but will run you 500 bucks. But its a sick PDA too. The 500 you pay is not for the gsm/cdma radios, but rather for all the pda tech.
That sounds like a good case and point for why these evaluations should be made public and the lagging teachers let go. In my experience you have to do a better job before you get a raise. Since the teachers are unionized, the sum of the teachers needs to get better.
And so to the guy whose mother is such a great teacher; tell her to push her union to enforce better teaching policies and have more competitive hiring -- tell her to blame the ranks of her union that are lagging and dragging her 'value' down. Sure, the good teachers should get paid more, but it doesn't work like that -- they are unionized and they all want the same pay and bennies.... Well, like I said, you gotta perform better to get the raise. Get the union as a whole to teach well and I'm sure the taxpayers would notice.
His job likely isn't to serve the public, whereas these teachers are directly serving the pay of the public, and thus their performance analysis should be visible.