Congress is like a horse and donkey show . . . you trade a bit . . . and then a NASA contract gets awarded to your state . . . which means jobs, that you can brag about.
What is best for the country? Who cares?
It's not about the arms or the training . . . it's about the will of the people to fight. Germany could give 200,000 folks all the arms and training they need . . . including anti-tank weapons and flak weapons. But the will of the soldiers must be there. They must want to end the Islamic Tyranny . . . otherwise the project is doomed to failure. Read some von Clausewitz for more ideas about what war really is.
Taking in refugees is not going to solve the root of the problem.
A long time ago, the folks in a country ruled by a formidable Imperialist Empire got up the courage to fight against them. The folks will ill-armed, untrained, and just country bumpkins, more or less. You can fight tyranny. But the will of the people needs to be there.
Islamic countries tolerate persecution of females wanting to get an education . . . because that is what Islam says. Get rid of Islam, and then your girls can go to school safely. Otherwise, don't bother me with your own problems.
The cruel joke about that, is that if the Crusades had succeeded, the Muslim folks there would have eventually had a liberal, tolerant government . . . instead of the feudal tribal oligarchy mess that they now have.
"The Economist" had an editorial a while back which clearly put the blame on the misery in the Middle East on Islam. The Greeks want to have the economic success with Europe, without having the responsibilities . . . no corruption, no tax cheating. The Muslims want the same. They want to come to Europe, and enjoy the success of a liberal democracy, but they want an extremist Islamic government.
How could the ISIS take over a huge chunk of the Middle East, with their extreme Islamic views? Well, because the folks there are Islamic to begin with, and do not resist. Just look at how the folks in Iraq beat the Americans out of their country: with bombs on the sides of the road, etc. If the folks in the ISIS areas wanted them out, they would kick them out.
This is a Muslim problem. Let them take care of it. Oh, and all those rich Gulf Muslim states are really doing their best . . .
There is an ancient Arab Proverb, that goes something like this:
I fight against my brother. But my brother and I fight against others in my neighborhood. The boys in my neighborhood fight together with us, against people in other parts of the city. All the people in my city fight against people in other cities.
Scale that as you will.
Shias have been fighting Sunnis since day one. When Muslims are not killing Westerners, they are killing each other.
I'm non-Muslim and have friends who are Muslim. This may come as a shock, but they are not all the same, any more than all conservative Christians are ignorant xenophobes. They're not all ignorant xenophobes, right?
Conservative Christian ignorant xenophobes are quite annoying, like the Westboro Baptist Church . . . but they are not killing anybody, unlike the Muslim extremists. Go to an airport, and try to get on a flight. You'll get your balls frisked. This is not because of the Ohio Presbyterian Grandmothers Association Luncheon . . . it's because of Muslims.
Only Muslims themselves can solve this problem with extremist terrorists. Ask your Muslim friends to speak out in their Mosque against terrorism . . . oh, they won't . . . I get it. That is the root of the problem. Mainstream Muslims condone terrorism. Once they reject it, it will be gone. When non-Muslims condemn terrorism, Muslims don't listen.
The ISIS war in the Middle East is Muslim against Muslim. Any action from the U.S. or other civilized nations is irrelevant. It's Muslim against Muslim, they cooked their own stew, and now must eat it. Which means that I am not really enthused about them bringing their barbarian ways to Europe. When will we see Muslims immigrants burning folks in cages in their Ghettos? Really soon!
OK, Germany is expecting 600,000 immigrants from Syria. Take the half off for women and children, and that leaves 300,000. Another lop for young boys and old men. That still leaves 200,000 of fighting age. Give them some training and weapons, and send them back, and tell them to do their duty, if they want to save their country. ISIS will be gone really soon!
Of course, when I read the title of your post, I thought of Bash, Perl and Python scripts. Maybe somebody can write a Python script, that writes better TV scripts than TV script writers?
The most amusing TV show that I ever watched, was a cable "local access" program in Austin, Texas. It was titled "Guns of the Trailer Parks". It featured such things as bayonets for tactical shotguns. One quote was "Lots of folks like to have a bayonet on their shotguns!" In case this whooshed you, it was in no way serious.
I guess if you run out of ammunition while hunting a bear . . . you can engage in "hand-to-paw combat" with it.
"We had very little work to do to get it going, as it has been being used as a high tech hydroponic farm, wink, for decades."
Actually, that was my first thought when I read the summary. Nobody ever got rich farming lettuce. But herb/weed . . . whatever you want to call it . . . that is a cash crop.
I'm thinking that they have a couple of secret backrooms in that facility. What an excellent cover story! Urban herb farms get busted, because their electricity usage is way above that of the neighbors. If you already declare that you are farming "lettuce" . . . you claim that is why your electricity bill is so high.
it will be always be a challenge to have these control systems anticipate what human drivers intend to do.
This is complicated by the fact that some human drivers do not even know themselves, what they intend to do. So how should a computer control system be able to anticipate what a human driver intends to do, when the human drivers don't even know themselves?
I really don't think it is that many . . . maybe only 1% of all human drivers. However, one clueless driver can confuse and tie up 99 drivers who know where they want to go, and can communicate it to other drivers.
It's like being on a escalator at the airport or train station. Two folks don't know where they are going. So they stop dead in their tracks at the end of the escalator, blocking the path for all the other folks on the escalator. An accordion affect ensues, with all the folks on the escalator getting squished together. The two people doing the blocking, are totally oblivious to this fact. Their field of vision ends at their own noses. They are entirely engulfed in themselves, and can't even conceive that there are other living beings around them.
This is what happens on the road, as well. The driver of the car parked halfway into the street, is just not capable of thinking, that other drivers might be confused by this. Is the car really parked? Or is the driver trying to park? Or maybe trying to drive away . . . ? At any rate, some drivers need to be taught that it is terribly important to anticipate how others might interpret their actions.
Well, once the infrastructure is in place, we might as well use it to scan other groups of US citizens, as well. Such as, convicted criminals and the members of the Ohio Presbyterian Grandmothers Association Luncheon.
Why members of the Ohio Presbyterian Grandmothers Association Luncheon?
I don't want to shoot down the drone. I want to shoot the person piloting the drone. Triangulate the signal controlling the drone to locate the pilot, and then shine your own laser at the pilot.
Wow! We don't have a nuclear arms escalation race anymore. But we have a drone arms escalation race. Armaments manufacturers will make a bundle on drone/anti-drone selling weapons.
Let's get pedophilia, incest, multiple non-abrahamic religions, polytheism, zombies, ghouls, various fantasy figures, idol worship and paganism off the TVs in America, and back into the White House, where it belongs!
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The folks in Syria are voting with their feet . . . they are trotting up to Hungary, and trying to get into Germany.
Who should you arm in Syria? The Kurds, who were until recently on the list of terrorist organizations?
Who is fighting with ISIS . . . or, who is against them . . . ? Does anyone know for sure?
Congress is like a horse and donkey show . . . you trade a bit . . . and then a NASA contract gets awarded to your state . . . which means jobs, that you can brag about. What is best for the country? Who cares?
It's not about the arms or the training . . . it's about the will of the people to fight. Germany could give 200,000 folks all the arms and training they need . . . including anti-tank weapons and flak weapons. But the will of the soldiers must be there. They must want to end the Islamic Tyranny . . . otherwise the project is doomed to failure. Read some von Clausewitz for more ideas about what war really is.
Taking in refugees is not going to solve the root of the problem.
A long time ago, the folks in a country ruled by a formidable Imperialist Empire got up the courage to fight against them. The folks will ill-armed, untrained, and just country bumpkins, more or less. You can fight tyranny. But the will of the people needs to be there.
Islamic countries tolerate persecution of females wanting to get an education . . . because that is what Islam says. Get rid of Islam, and then your girls can go to school safely. Otherwise, don't bother me with your own problems.
The cruel joke about that, is that if the Crusades had succeeded, the Muslim folks there would have eventually had a liberal, tolerant government . . . instead of the feudal tribal oligarchy mess that they now have.
"The Economist" had an editorial a while back which clearly put the blame on the misery in the Middle East on Islam. The Greeks want to have the economic success with Europe, without having the responsibilities . . . no corruption, no tax cheating. The Muslims want the same. They want to come to Europe, and enjoy the success of a liberal democracy, but they want an extremist Islamic government.
How could the ISIS take over a huge chunk of the Middle East, with their extreme Islamic views? Well, because the folks there are Islamic to begin with, and do not resist. Just look at how the folks in Iraq beat the Americans out of their country: with bombs on the sides of the road, etc. If the folks in the ISIS areas wanted them out, they would kick them out.
This is a Muslim problem. Let them take care of it. Oh, and all those rich Gulf Muslim states are really doing their best . . .
There is an ancient Arab Proverb, that goes something like this:
I fight against my brother. But my brother and I fight against others in my neighborhood. The boys in my neighborhood fight together with us, against people in other parts of the city. All the people in my city fight against people in other cities.
Scale that as you will.
Shias have been fighting Sunnis since day one. When Muslims are not killing Westerners, they are killing each other.
I'm non-Muslim and have friends who are Muslim. This may come as a shock, but they are not all the same, any more than all conservative Christians are ignorant xenophobes. They're not all ignorant xenophobes, right?
Conservative Christian ignorant xenophobes are quite annoying, like the Westboro Baptist Church . . . but they are not killing anybody, unlike the Muslim extremists. Go to an airport, and try to get on a flight. You'll get your balls frisked. This is not because of the Ohio Presbyterian Grandmothers Association Luncheon . . . it's because of Muslims.
Only Muslims themselves can solve this problem with extremist terrorists. Ask your Muslim friends to speak out in their Mosque against terrorism . . . oh, they won't . . . I get it. That is the root of the problem. Mainstream Muslims condone terrorism. Once they reject it, it will be gone. When non-Muslims condemn terrorism, Muslims don't listen.
If you want a military solution, why don't you start with actually arming them properly rather than involuntarily drafting refugees?
We tried arming Muslims with Iraq . . . guess where all those armaments are being used now . . .
This succinctly shows that you have no historical knowledge whatsoever.
This succinctly shows why you are posting as an Anonymous Coward. Take a quick google over the Moors in Spain or over the Muslim siege of Vienna.
Muslims don't view non-Muslims as "brothers and sisters." We are "Kafirs" to them: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
The ISIS war in the Middle East is Muslim against Muslim. Any action from the U.S. or other civilized nations is irrelevant. It's Muslim against Muslim, they cooked their own stew, and now must eat it. Which means that I am not really enthused about them bringing their barbarian ways to Europe. When will we see Muslims immigrants burning folks in cages in their Ghettos? Really soon!
OK, Germany is expecting 600,000 immigrants from Syria. Take the half off for women and children, and that leaves 300,000. Another lop for young boys and old men. That still leaves 200,000 of fighting age. Give them some training and weapons, and send them back, and tell them to do their duty, if they want to save their country. ISIS will be gone really soon!
Microsoft bought Nokia for their patents. Any other money is just chump change.
Of course, when I read the title of your post, I thought of Bash, Perl and Python scripts. Maybe somebody can write a Python script, that writes better TV scripts than TV script writers?
The most amusing TV show that I ever watched, was a cable "local access" program in Austin, Texas. It was titled "Guns of the Trailer Parks". It featured such things as bayonets for tactical shotguns. One quote was "Lots of folks like to have a bayonet on their shotguns!" In case this whooshed you, it was in no way serious.
I guess if you run out of ammunition while hunting a bear . . . you can engage in "hand-to-paw combat" with it.
Hence the Physics jokes about spherical cows.
Cows are not spherical. They are fractal:
http://mndl.hu/2008-02-01-frac...
"We had very little work to do to get it going, as it has been being used as a high tech hydroponic farm, wink, for decades."
Actually, that was my first thought when I read the summary. Nobody ever got rich farming lettuce. But herb/weed . . . whatever you want to call it . . . that is a cash crop.
I'm thinking that they have a couple of secret backrooms in that facility. What an excellent cover story! Urban herb farms get busted, because their electricity usage is way above that of the neighbors. If you already declare that you are farming "lettuce" . . . you claim that is why your electricity bill is so high.
it will be always be a challenge to have these control systems anticipate what human drivers intend to do.
This is complicated by the fact that some human drivers do not even know themselves, what they intend to do. So how should a computer control system be able to anticipate what a human driver intends to do, when the human drivers don't even know themselves?
I really don't think it is that many . . . maybe only 1% of all human drivers. However, one clueless driver can confuse and tie up 99 drivers who know where they want to go, and can communicate it to other drivers.
It's like being on a escalator at the airport or train station. Two folks don't know where they are going. So they stop dead in their tracks at the end of the escalator, blocking the path for all the other folks on the escalator. An accordion affect ensues, with all the folks on the escalator getting squished together. The two people doing the blocking, are totally oblivious to this fact. Their field of vision ends at their own noses. They are entirely engulfed in themselves, and can't even conceive that there are other living beings around them.
This is what happens on the road, as well. The driver of the car parked halfway into the street, is just not capable of thinking, that other drivers might be confused by this. Is the car really parked? Or is the driver trying to park? Or maybe trying to drive away . . . ? At any rate, some drivers need to be taught that it is terribly important to anticipate how others might interpret their actions.
Well, as Marie Antoinette said, "Let them eat plastic!"
I'm thinking that a this would make a great Godzilla type film . . . the big monster, that eats plastic.
"Mom! Godzilla ate my Nintendo!
Well, once the infrastructure is in place, we might as well use it to scan other groups of US citizens, as well. Such as, convicted criminals and the members of the Ohio Presbyterian Grandmothers Association Luncheon.
Why members of the Ohio Presbyterian Grandmothers Association Luncheon?
Why not? "Because we can", says the NSA . . .
I don't want to shoot down the drone. I want to shoot the person piloting the drone. Triangulate the signal controlling the drone to locate the pilot, and then shine your own laser at the pilot.
Wow! We don't have a nuclear arms escalation race anymore. But we have a drone arms escalation race. Armaments manufacturers will make a bundle on drone/anti-drone selling weapons.
A laser mounted on a drone could blind you . . . permanently . . . but you would still be very much alive. That's definitely "Less than Lethal".
Such weapons are banned under the Geneva Conventions. But North Dakota can claim that they never signed it.
Paint the drone to look like shark for even more amusement.
I'd be happy if folks would just bother to use their blinkers, instead of fiddling around with other hi-tech in their cars.
Let's get pedophilia, incest, multiple non-abrahamic religions, polytheism, zombies, ghouls, various fantasy figures, idol worship and paganism off the TVs in America, and back into the White House, where it belongs!
Doesn't that expression validly describe more or less the entire content of the Internet . . . ?
Well, that and porn.
Actually, it would have been more amusing, if the actual message was an announcement of the latest release of Duke Nukem . . . really soon now!
It's valuable technology spinoffs like this zero-g whiskey that justify the taxpayers shelling out over $100B on the ISS.
But if you get the taxpayers tanked on this stuff . . . they won't give a damn either way . . .