"people like me will soon be dead so you needn't worry further about people like me"
Don't be to sure of that. I have a son who is just as much an asshole as I am. The great pain in my ass made me proud the first time he told a cop that he did NOT have permission to search the car he was driving. From all accounts that filtered back to me, I think the cop was just short of having a stroke.
Uhh, alright. So you do it that way. Others of us might just walk into Wally-World, pick up a pre-paid credit card, pay for it with cash, and use that for our online transactions. And, never reload the damned card. And, most certainly never reload the card using a real credit card. This is the same way that I pay for my prepaid wireless phone. No credit card to trace, no name on the sequence of numbers used to pay for the card.
Sure, the gubbermint can find me, but I'm not doing their work FOR THEM! Let the detectives do some detecting if they really want me.
And, one thing that you did get wrong. That gun is indeed a "rifle". A non-rifled gun, or a smoothbore, might be good in some place, for some purposes. But, for the most part, that rifling is essential to a destroyer's mission. Of course, with "smart" ammunition, the rifling would probably be redundant.
12" and 16" guns tend to be a bit heavy. If you can get it aboard a destroyer, and fire it, you'll probably tear the ship apart. 8" is about as big as I care to be around.
But, we are as accurate as any sniper. As long as I was aboard, we NEVER missed a shot. We literally shot missiles out of the air - our own, when they lost a target, and circled around to target us!
You've read something into my post that I didn't put there. Did I perhaps suggest that the white men hadn't spent the same millenia killing each other? Could you point that out, if it is in my post? Did I suggest that the white men had a single, continent spanning nation in Europe? Did I somehow suggest that the white man's culture was any more homogenous than the native's?
Just like Europe, some of the natives were rather civilized, and others were less civilized.
What the Native Americans lacked was TECHNOLOGY! And, the thing that killed of more natives than anything else was disease. They certainly weren't lacking for civilization.
Yes - of course. But, let's not forget that the natives had spent millenia killing each other too.
Off on a tangent with that now. The "big news" in "immigration" (or, alternatively, "invasion") issues are Mexicans. Or, Azteca. Funny that today's Azteca seem to claim the land that they attempted to take by way of genocide for a thousand years before the white man came. "We killed millions of Apache before you whites ever showed up, so it should be OUR land!"
" It does nothing to stop the ability to prosecute the people who are breaking the laws involved."
Personally, I don't recognize that Wikileaks is breaking any laws. I'm an American, and a veteran of the US Armed Forces. But that doesn't blind me to the fact that Corporate America has been throwing their weight around, using their bought congressmen to bully the rest of the world into submission.
I'm grateful for posts such as GP made. I'm very much aware, due to poor color vision, that not all people see the world the same way. So, I saw the title of this article, and immediately I thought: "What's this going to look like to some poor, unfortunate Phanboi?"
jmcbain stepped forward, and satisfied my curiosity quite promptly. "Oooooh, looky, Google is copying Apple!" Poor sod - there's probably no cure for his disease.
Actually, the Native Americans welcomed the white men. That's why so many of us have mixed blood. Or, did you think that all mixed breed Americans were the result of rape?
How about you find any part of government and government contracting that Obama has changed? Just one, please. No president can walk in, and clean house, changing the rules of the game. Obama is doing military contracting just like Bush did, just like Clinton did, right on back to Kennedy at least. And, probably further. One man isn't going to change the system, no matter how much authority he has. DERP!!
Dude, I'm still hating on Clinton, and Bush, and I'm starting to hate on Obama. And, don't forget Carter! Damned push-button wannabe sailor, couldn't have led a bunch of horny boy scouts to a whorehouse!
Just for a rule of thumb guideline - in the Navy, we never threw anything away without the Captain's permission. Something broke, the responsible parties looked at it, calculated what it would cost to repair, then reported to the Old Man. If the repair cost was greater than 60% of a new replacement, then it was deep-sixed. Otherwise, we repaired.
And, labor didn't factor into the calculations. With 350 men aboard who weren't going anywhere without the Captain's permission, the cost of labor didn't merit any consideration.
To be honest - I think that I first heard that nonsense when Carter was president. Not quite certain, but I believe so. But, Reagan most certainly was onboard with the whole scheme. Party makes no difference.
" America has largely abandoned the kind of job training that makes both good electronics assembly workers and the foremen that oversee them"
A lot of us said as much when the fools in Washington first uttered the words, "service economy". Services, such as fast food restaurants, are somewhat important to the economy. But, you don't BUILD a freaking economy around something that amounts to nothing more than a support industry.
I read about those dormitories more than two or three years ago. I'd have a hard time pinpointing when I first heard of it, but it's most definitely more than two years ago. Google "foxconn dormitories", and you'll get pages and pages of hits dated between May and September of 2010. I'm looking for stuff dated further back, because I know that I heard of suicides much further back than that.
It's your speakers. Get rid of the douche speakers, and normal people won't post with that douche tone you complain of. And, while you're at it, take a real douche. You smell, and THAT comes through in your posts too.
I was wondering about that. Was asking myself, "Self, when did you first hear of WinAmp? And, when did you first hear of DoubleTwist? Wouldn't the latter be the clone?" And, Self answered me with his usual smartass inanities, so I couldn't make my mind up.
In the case of most lard assed Americans, your " "long distance" snow shoeing" would be getting across the front yard of their 1/8th acre home without falling.;^)
So - - - next time I read of an American citizen raping some backwoods village or town for millions of dollars, causing the local citizens to become destitute, I should cheer for him because he's an American.
I don't know any Latvians personally. I can only hope that most Latvians are better people, and smarter, than you are.
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"people like me will soon be dead so you needn't worry further about people like me"
Don't be to sure of that. I have a son who is just as much an asshole as I am. The great pain in my ass made me proud the first time he told a cop that he did NOT have permission to search the car he was driving. From all accounts that filtered back to me, I think the cop was just short of having a stroke.
Uhh, alright. So you do it that way. Others of us might just walk into Wally-World, pick up a pre-paid credit card, pay for it with cash, and use that for our online transactions. And, never reload the damned card. And, most certainly never reload the card using a real credit card. This is the same way that I pay for my prepaid wireless phone. No credit card to trace, no name on the sequence of numbers used to pay for the card.
Sure, the gubbermint can find me, but I'm not doing their work FOR THEM! Let the detectives do some detecting if they really want me.
"The money went into the coffers of Monsoto the death and misery should be absorbed by someone else?"
Of course. It's Monsanto. Monsanto does not absorb anything other than profits.
And, one thing that you did get wrong. That gun is indeed a "rifle". A non-rifled gun, or a smoothbore, might be good in some place, for some purposes. But, for the most part, that rifling is essential to a destroyer's mission. Of course, with "smart" ammunition, the rifling would probably be redundant.
12" and 16" guns tend to be a bit heavy. If you can get it aboard a destroyer, and fire it, you'll probably tear the ship apart. 8" is about as big as I care to be around.
But, we are as accurate as any sniper. As long as I was aboard, we NEVER missed a shot. We literally shot missiles out of the air - our own, when they lost a target, and circled around to target us!
Navy snipers can exceed 5 mile killing shots easily. You're doing it all wrong. We kick ass, and don't bother taking names.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SusumfLtYZM
You've read something into my post that I didn't put there. Did I perhaps suggest that the white men hadn't spent the same millenia killing each other? Could you point that out, if it is in my post? Did I suggest that the white men had a single, continent spanning nation in Europe? Did I somehow suggest that the white man's culture was any more homogenous than the native's?
Just like Europe, some of the natives were rather civilized, and others were less civilized.
What the Native Americans lacked was TECHNOLOGY! And, the thing that killed of more natives than anything else was disease. They certainly weren't lacking for civilization.
Yes - of course. But, let's not forget that the natives had spent millenia killing each other too.
Off on a tangent with that now. The "big news" in "immigration" (or, alternatively, "invasion") issues are Mexicans. Or, Azteca. Funny that today's Azteca seem to claim the land that they attempted to take by way of genocide for a thousand years before the white man came. "We killed millions of Apache before you whites ever showed up, so it should be OUR land!"
" It does nothing to stop the ability to prosecute the people who are breaking the laws involved."
Personally, I don't recognize that Wikileaks is breaking any laws. I'm an American, and a veteran of the US Armed Forces. But that doesn't blind me to the fact that Corporate America has been throwing their weight around, using their bought congressmen to bully the rest of the world into submission.
Wikileaks has violated no reasonable law.
I'm grateful for posts such as GP made. I'm very much aware, due to poor color vision, that not all people see the world the same way. So, I saw the title of this article, and immediately I thought: "What's this going to look like to some poor, unfortunate Phanboi?"
jmcbain stepped forward, and satisfied my curiosity quite promptly. "Oooooh, looky, Google is copying Apple!" Poor sod - there's probably no cure for his disease.
Actually, the Native Americans welcomed the white men. That's why so many of us have mixed blood. Or, did you think that all mixed breed Americans were the result of rape?
You've just got to have a guber in a gubernatorial, don't you?
The Fox News gig doesn't require literacy. I think he still has a chance of succeeding in life!
Ho-hum. Peter puffer, or fudge packer, it makes no difference to me. Queer is queer. Why quibble over details?
How about, "The law is unjust, and I don't recognize them as legitimate."
That is all the reason I need to "break the law".
How about you find any part of government and government contracting that Obama has changed? Just one, please. No president can walk in, and clean house, changing the rules of the game. Obama is doing military contracting just like Bush did, just like Clinton did, right on back to Kennedy at least. And, probably further. One man isn't going to change the system, no matter how much authority he has. DERP!!
Dude, I'm still hating on Clinton, and Bush, and I'm starting to hate on Obama. And, don't forget Carter! Damned push-button wannabe sailor, couldn't have led a bunch of horny boy scouts to a whorehouse!
Just for a rule of thumb guideline - in the Navy, we never threw anything away without the Captain's permission. Something broke, the responsible parties looked at it, calculated what it would cost to repair, then reported to the Old Man. If the repair cost was greater than 60% of a new replacement, then it was deep-sixed. Otherwise, we repaired.
And, labor didn't factor into the calculations. With 350 men aboard who weren't going anywhere without the Captain's permission, the cost of labor didn't merit any consideration.
To be honest - I think that I first heard that nonsense when Carter was president. Not quite certain, but I believe so. But, Reagan most certainly was onboard with the whole scheme. Party makes no difference.
" America has largely abandoned the kind of job training that makes both good electronics assembly workers and the foremen that oversee them"
A lot of us said as much when the fools in Washington first uttered the words, "service economy". Services, such as fast food restaurants, are somewhat important to the economy. But, you don't BUILD a freaking economy around something that amounts to nothing more than a support industry.
I read about those dormitories more than two or three years ago. I'd have a hard time pinpointing when I first heard of it, but it's most definitely more than two years ago. Google "foxconn dormitories", and you'll get pages and pages of hits dated between May and September of 2010. I'm looking for stuff dated further back, because I know that I heard of suicides much further back than that.
http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/06/06/14/photos_inside_foxconns_ipod_city.html ...
Jun 14, 2006 – One photo shows shows a dormitory within E3 -- a Foxconn-owned manufacturing facility responsible for churning out iPod nanos -- packed
More than five years old. I can't say that I became aware of conditions there in 2006 - maybe I did, maybe I didn't. But, the news has been out there.
It's your speakers. Get rid of the douche speakers, and normal people won't post with that douche tone you complain of. And, while you're at it, take a real douche. You smell, and THAT comes through in your posts too.
I was wondering about that. Was asking myself, "Self, when did you first hear of WinAmp? And, when did you first hear of DoubleTwist? Wouldn't the latter be the clone?" And, Self answered me with his usual smartass inanities, so I couldn't make my mind up.
In the case of most lard assed Americans, your " "long distance" snow shoeing" would be getting across the front yard of their 1/8th acre home without falling. ;^)
So - - - next time I read of an American citizen raping some backwoods village or town for millions of dollars, causing the local citizens to become destitute, I should cheer for him because he's an American.
I don't know any Latvians personally. I can only hope that most Latvians are better people, and smarter, than you are.