I don't think that you were alive in the early 60's, were you? Castro was party to pushing the world right up to the last couple minutes before nuclear war. Shithouse crazy? If you ask me, Castro's government learned to restrain him some, after that face off.
Fidel had his good points, and his bad points, and he's not quite the demon that our government would like us all to believe. But he WAS shithouse crazy!
But, yes, my momma did teach me not to speak ill of the dead. And, I defied her in other ways, too.
Bye, Kim, we won't miss you at all. And, I hope the people are soon having rock and roll bands playing in your palaces, dancing with joy that you're gone.
And, yes, yes, yes - I'm aware that isn't likely to happen. The new Kim seems like a little putz, and he has to answer to an insane regime all the same. He couldn't throw parties for the people if he wanted to.
A former marine may or may not have made that statement. However, what AC stated is official military doctrine. I first read the statements in a "Military Requirements for Petty Officers First and Second Class" manual. A dead enemy soldier removes one enemy soldier from a conflict. A wounded enemy soldier removes as many as seven enemy soldiers from the conflict.
As has already been stated above, logistics win wars, not armament. And wounded soldiers seriously impair logistics.
I think that you are missing at least a portion of one important fact. That "remotely controlled" thing. The robots are reaching the point where programming can and does kick in, when remote control is lost.
To the point, that drone that Iran captured recently, was not under "remote control". Communications were jammed, and the GPS was spoofed to confuse the drone about it's position. So, it wasn't "remotely controlled" when it decided to land. In effect, the drone "decided" that it should land, and it did so.
Thank you, tsotha. I was about to post the same "not murder". It's amazing that people so blindly ramble on and on with that "thou shalt not kill" nonsense, when the Bible is filled with killing, in one form or another.
"really old wiring", ie, "widow maker" wiring, had no insulation. Just like an electric fence, you drove a nail through a ceramic insulator into a rafter or joist, then wrapped naked copper wire around it, to keep it in place. The two strands of wire were generally spaced about a foot apart, but sometimes they got closer. Add in the fact that a penny would fit into the fuse holder, and it created a LOT of widows. And, killed some widows too!
I can still find examples of widow maker wiring in the county I live in.
Actually - COPPA needs to die. Parents are supposed to be a child's first line of defense. Then the courts. Simply mandating that kids can't access and/or must be monitored by a provider such as Google is simply asinine. As a parent, and as a grandparent, I'd cheefully counsel my kids how to circumvent COPPA bullshit.
"See the box, where they ask how old you are? What's the minimum age? Alright, Honey, just add 3 or 6 to that minimum age, so your "birth year" is going to be 19xx, alright? Yeah, I know you're not 20 yet, but THEY don't know that!"
The finer nuances of the various licenses escape me. But, to imply that by using a bit of GPL'd code internally means that you must open source everything that you or your company has ever coded borders on insane. Not to mention, dishonest.
TFA has some speculation regarding that phenomena. Solar wind, magnetics, gravity, who knows at this point? Are you suggesting that it was really a rocket?
I keyed on that "armada" myself. Had to read TFS, so see where this "armada" came from. Unfortunately, the word has no bearing on the story - it was just thrown in there, much as the word "decimate" is oftentimes improperly used to generate attention.
One would expect an "armada" to, at the least, come under one common authority, and to share a common mission.
I have a few. One that I know still works. My family went through a shit ton of worthless Winmodems, but the external modems worked far more reliably. I'm quite positive that the old Zoom modem is still functional. That thing went through hundreds of thunderstorms, that would kill those shitty Winmodems! And, of course, we still have the dialup provider to fall back on, if our DSL should crap out for any reason. Which is possible, in our Backwoods, Nowhere community.
Asking Earthlings for ideas on space flight is like asking a sheep how to cook beef. They're just clueless. Most people can't even imagine that there's any reason to go into space.
Better off asking one of those fungus things from Kepler-16!
Oh, the suffering you must endure. Here, I'll play you a song on the world's smallest violin. Listen closely - it's a Christmas carol.
How 'bout instead of blaming Christians for your choice of songs, you simply admit that you don't fully understand your own psychology. The songs that meant the most to you - now, or in your youth - happen to be the very songs that you resent the most. Maybe you're wishing that you could remember the words to "popular" music? Phhht - pop music is as shallow as the bleach blondes who sing it on the airwaves. Like it or not, those Christmas carols are enduring, and they have meaning. The meaning may be different for whoever is listening to them, but they do have meaning. NO ONE memorizes the words to a Britney Spears song. The message is so vacuous!
There's a word I'm looking for, but it's escaped me. A term for being in awe of the universe, or whatever. Something that moves a person deeply. Just can't remember the word . . . aggravating. Anyway, with or without God, people desire such a moving experience. And, listening to that music, sung by a full choir, with proper training, does indeed inspire such feelings. You just don't find that with pop music.
So - see? You envy Christians something - that sense of awe and wonder.
And, again - the constitution DOES guarantee "Freedom OF religion". And, you do happen to enjoy that freedom of religion. Government agents aren't going to imprison you, to await an inquisition by a high priest, who may or may not condemn you to death, based on his judgement and/or mood. Be happy, just as the millions of Americans who practice whatever religion they choose.
"reestablishing a secular government"?? Really? There has been prayer in every congress of the United States. They have official chaplains. The military has had chaplains since about day one. There is no "reestablishing". The fact is, the atheists want to do away with tradition.
You will note that the constitution guarantees "Freedom OF religion", rather than "Freedom FROM religion".
And, since nobody has the freedom to subject others to their own point of view, then people who believe like you don't have the freedom to file suit every time you see some religious display like the nativity scene, on public property. That public property belongs to Christians, just as much as it belongs to you and/or the most militant atheists.
Those "interpretations" are made by nonconformists who really want to be conformists. It's utter nonsense. If there really is a Jehovah, he hates homosexuality, and that's all there is to it. Those who say otherwise just want to be like us who believe, so they try to twist words around to make themselves feel better.
No follower of Jehovah, in this age or any other, was permitted to take part in pagan rights. So, if they were partaking in rituals in pagan temples, the homosexual acts that may or may not have taken place in said temples were merely one more sin to be added to the others already committed.
The whole debate would be so much simpler if the gays would just 'fess up, and tell the world, "We hate your Jehovah, so we're going to have our own little religion, in which a gay saviour will rule the world under a rainbow!"
Define "Western religions", please. Judaism, Islam, and Christianity are all mideastern religions, it seems to me. The fact that Christianity has spread so far and wide in the last two thousand years doesn't change the fact that it started in Israel. Eastern concepts, routed through Rome, then through Europe, and branching to the American continents doesn't exactly constitute a "Western" religion.
If that's to "Western" for you, then you might look up the Druids. They were more "Western" than Christianity.
Buddha? Like most legendary figures, he probably wasn't what people think he is. The stories tend to take on a life of their own, and have little resemblance to the real man.
In plain language, the submitter and TFS are full of shit.
People are simply fucking OUTRAGED everytime there is an accidental death caused by possession and misuse of a firearm. But, no one is outraged that thousands of people are killed by distracted drivers every year? Let me get a dictionary up - we need to learn how to spell hypocrisy!
As has already been pointed out, those people who are best at multitasking seem to be very much aware of the consequences of screwing up. They won't risk texting and driving. While those people who are the worst at multitasking have this insane self image of themselves as superb multitaskers!
I'll make you a deal. If I can walk through your town's mall with a loaded Uzi, machined with a hair trigger and no safety, while texting, then you can drive through my city's streets while texting.
Bottom line - only a freaking IDIOT wants to get behind the wheel of a potentially deadly vehicle, and allow it to guide itself down a street full of real live people, while he distracts himself with inane bullshit.
And, don't even try to tell me that your cellphone stuff is important. Unless you're in contact with emergency personnel, speeding to the scene of a disaster and/or the hospital, then your shit is unimportant to that poor old woman you're about to run over.
I'd like to know in what year you managed to complete four years of college for 15 to 20 thousand dollars. That much money wouldn't have paid for basic tuition in several decades. And, that's assuming that your mom and dad lived so close to the university that you could live at home and commute.
http://web.saumag.edu/international/tuition-scholarships/cost/ At SAU, which is your typical "in-state school", 4 years of education is going to cost about $60k. That doesn't include books, of course, or snacks, or any damned thing, except the tuition. Projects, supplies, transportation, a night out once in awhile, toothpaste and soap are all additional.
Maybe you're referring to a vocational / agricultural education, in a local community college? Yeah, you can get by for a whole lot less,
The same reason that nerds use high dollar computers to visit every trashy site on the web? A guy who has good tools, no matter what trade, hobby, or profession he might be in, isn't going to keep a "backup" set of cheap tools around for those "less important" jobs. A real pro might have a workshop filled with ultra-expensive tools of his trade, but even his carry away bag of tools is going to be filled with quality items.
Whatever your profession is, look at your own carry away "toolbox". Did you buy a bunch of junk from WalMart to fill it?
How many times would you have to personally witness a cop lying, to decide that cops do lie? My sister is a retired state cop. She doesn't trust a cop because he's a cop - she trusts those cops that she knows she can trust, and she distrusts those that she knows deserve distrust. That's a lot like me, and the military. There are sailors whose word I would take if they told me that cats and dogs were raining down from the sky. There are other sailors that I wouldn't trust if they told me that I could expect the sun to shine tomorrow.
GP didn't say that cops always lie, after all. He said "very often" the police are the liars. I can vouch for that statement.
Your attention is on the conference call, rather than your driving. Listening to a radio talk show can be equally distracting. Or arguing with your wife about whatever inane thing the two of you find to argue about.
Your full, undivided attention belongs on the road, not on a conversation. Music is permissible, because it is background. Active participation in a conversation, not so much.
In short, you're trying to rationalize exceptions to a damned good rule: NO CELL PHONES FOR DRIVERS!!
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I don't think that you were alive in the early 60's, were you? Castro was party to pushing the world right up to the last couple minutes before nuclear war. Shithouse crazy? If you ask me, Castro's government learned to restrain him some, after that face off.
Fidel had his good points, and his bad points, and he's not quite the demon that our government would like us all to believe. But he WAS shithouse crazy!
Yes, I see the "speak il".
But, yes, my momma did teach me not to speak ill of the dead. And, I defied her in other ways, too.
Bye, Kim, we won't miss you at all. And, I hope the people are soon having rock and roll bands playing in your palaces, dancing with joy that you're gone.
And, yes, yes, yes - I'm aware that isn't likely to happen. The new Kim seems like a little putz, and he has to answer to an insane regime all the same. He couldn't throw parties for the people if he wanted to.
A former marine may or may not have made that statement. However, what AC stated is official military doctrine. I first read the statements in a "Military Requirements for Petty Officers First and Second Class" manual. A dead enemy soldier removes one enemy soldier from a conflict. A wounded enemy soldier removes as many as seven enemy soldiers from the conflict.
As has already been stated above, logistics win wars, not armament. And wounded soldiers seriously impair logistics.
I think that you are missing at least a portion of one important fact. That "remotely controlled" thing. The robots are reaching the point where programming can and does kick in, when remote control is lost.
To the point, that drone that Iran captured recently, was not under "remote control". Communications were jammed, and the GPS was spoofed to confuse the drone about it's position. So, it wasn't "remotely controlled" when it decided to land. In effect, the drone "decided" that it should land, and it did so.
Thank you, tsotha. I was about to post the same "not murder". It's amazing that people so blindly ramble on and on with that "thou shalt not kill" nonsense, when the Bible is filled with killing, in one form or another.
"really old wiring", ie, "widow maker" wiring, had no insulation. Just like an electric fence, you drove a nail through a ceramic insulator into a rafter or joist, then wrapped naked copper wire around it, to keep it in place. The two strands of wire were generally spaced about a foot apart, but sometimes they got closer. Add in the fact that a penny would fit into the fuse holder, and it created a LOT of widows. And, killed some widows too!
I can still find examples of widow maker wiring in the county I live in.
Actually - COPPA needs to die. Parents are supposed to be a child's first line of defense. Then the courts. Simply mandating that kids can't access and/or must be monitored by a provider such as Google is simply asinine. As a parent, and as a grandparent, I'd cheefully counsel my kids how to circumvent COPPA bullshit.
"See the box, where they ask how old you are? What's the minimum age? Alright, Honey, just add 3 or 6 to that minimum age, so your "birth year" is going to be 19xx, alright? Yeah, I know you're not 20 yet, but THEY don't know that!"
But - 95% of users are on WINDOWS! 95% of Linux users are hackers. So - where do we go with this?
The finer nuances of the various licenses escape me. But, to imply that by using a bit of GPL'd code internally means that you must open source everything that you or your company has ever coded borders on insane. Not to mention, dishonest.
TFA has some speculation regarding that phenomena. Solar wind, magnetics, gravity, who knows at this point? Are you suggesting that it was really a rocket?
I keyed on that "armada" myself. Had to read TFS, so see where this "armada" came from. Unfortunately, the word has no bearing on the story - it was just thrown in there, much as the word "decimate" is oftentimes improperly used to generate attention.
One would expect an "armada" to, at the least, come under one common authority, and to share a common mission.
Cool, then. When the last worms and viruses have eaten the hearts out of the last Windows installations, you can still get on the internets! ;^)
You're sure that those are modems, and not Winmodems?
http://www.amazon.com/New-56K-External-Serial-Modem-30490000DG/dp/B005DAZ4UI (note that the price is rather high there - that was just the first in a long line of hits from Google)
Most, but not all, of those internal modems were specially designed to run with Windows, and used your computer's system resources to operate.
I have a few. One that I know still works. My family went through a shit ton of worthless Winmodems, but the external modems worked far more reliably. I'm quite positive that the old Zoom modem is still functional. That thing went through hundreds of thunderstorms, that would kill those shitty Winmodems! And, of course, we still have the dialup provider to fall back on, if our DSL should crap out for any reason. Which is possible, in our Backwoods, Nowhere community.
WTF did he say? It's hard to find anything meaningful among his homoerotic dreamings.
Asking Earthlings for ideas on space flight is like asking a sheep how to cook beef. They're just clueless. Most people can't even imagine that there's any reason to go into space.
Better off asking one of those fungus things from Kepler-16!
Oh, the suffering you must endure. Here, I'll play you a song on the world's smallest violin. Listen closely - it's a Christmas carol.
How 'bout instead of blaming Christians for your choice of songs, you simply admit that you don't fully understand your own psychology. The songs that meant the most to you - now, or in your youth - happen to be the very songs that you resent the most. Maybe you're wishing that you could remember the words to "popular" music? Phhht - pop music is as shallow as the bleach blondes who sing it on the airwaves. Like it or not, those Christmas carols are enduring, and they have meaning. The meaning may be different for whoever is listening to them, but they do have meaning. NO ONE memorizes the words to a Britney Spears song. The message is so vacuous!
There's a word I'm looking for, but it's escaped me. A term for being in awe of the universe, or whatever. Something that moves a person deeply. Just can't remember the word . . . aggravating. Anyway, with or without God, people desire such a moving experience. And, listening to that music, sung by a full choir, with proper training, does indeed inspire such feelings. You just don't find that with pop music.
So - see? You envy Christians something - that sense of awe and wonder.
And, again - the constitution DOES guarantee "Freedom OF religion". And, you do happen to enjoy that freedom of religion. Government agents aren't going to imprison you, to await an inquisition by a high priest, who may or may not condemn you to death, based on his judgement and/or mood. Be happy, just as the millions of Americans who practice whatever religion they choose.
"reestablishing a secular government"?? Really? There has been prayer in every congress of the United States. They have official chaplains. The military has had chaplains since about day one. There is no "reestablishing". The fact is, the atheists want to do away with tradition.
You will note that the constitution guarantees "Freedom OF religion", rather than "Freedom FROM religion".
And, since nobody has the freedom to subject others to their own point of view, then people who believe like you don't have the freedom to file suit every time you see some religious display like the nativity scene, on public property. That public property belongs to Christians, just as much as it belongs to you and/or the most militant atheists.
Those "interpretations" are made by nonconformists who really want to be conformists. It's utter nonsense. If there really is a Jehovah, he hates homosexuality, and that's all there is to it. Those who say otherwise just want to be like us who believe, so they try to twist words around to make themselves feel better.
No follower of Jehovah, in this age or any other, was permitted to take part in pagan rights. So, if they were partaking in rituals in pagan temples, the homosexual acts that may or may not have taken place in said temples were merely one more sin to be added to the others already committed.
The whole debate would be so much simpler if the gays would just 'fess up, and tell the world, "We hate your Jehovah, so we're going to have our own little religion, in which a gay saviour will rule the world under a rainbow!"
Define "Western religions", please. Judaism, Islam, and Christianity are all mideastern religions, it seems to me. The fact that Christianity has spread so far and wide in the last two thousand years doesn't change the fact that it started in Israel. Eastern concepts, routed through Rome, then through Europe, and branching to the American continents doesn't exactly constitute a "Western" religion.
Want a real "Western" religion? You could start here, with the Cherokee, who I am proud to call kin: http://www.native-languages.org/cherokee_culture.htm
If that's to "Western" for you, then you might look up the Druids. They were more "Western" than Christianity.
Buddha? Like most legendary figures, he probably wasn't what people think he is. The stories tend to take on a life of their own, and have little resemblance to the real man.
In plain language, the submitter and TFS are full of shit.
People are simply fucking OUTRAGED everytime there is an accidental death caused by possession and misuse of a firearm. But, no one is outraged that thousands of people are killed by distracted drivers every year? Let me get a dictionary up - we need to learn how to spell hypocrisy!
As has already been pointed out, those people who are best at multitasking seem to be very much aware of the consequences of screwing up. They won't risk texting and driving. While those people who are the worst at multitasking have this insane self image of themselves as superb multitaskers!
I'll make you a deal. If I can walk through your town's mall with a loaded Uzi, machined with a hair trigger and no safety, while texting, then you can drive through my city's streets while texting.
Bottom line - only a freaking IDIOT wants to get behind the wheel of a potentially deadly vehicle, and allow it to guide itself down a street full of real live people, while he distracts himself with inane bullshit.
And, don't even try to tell me that your cellphone stuff is important. Unless you're in contact with emergency personnel, speeding to the scene of a disaster and/or the hospital, then your shit is unimportant to that poor old woman you're about to run over.
So, just eat shit and die, you fucking MORON!
I'd like to know in what year you managed to complete four years of college for 15 to 20 thousand dollars. That much money wouldn't have paid for basic tuition in several decades. And, that's assuming that your mom and dad lived so close to the university that you could live at home and commute.
http://web.saumag.edu/international/tuition-scholarships/cost/
At SAU, which is your typical "in-state school", 4 years of education is going to cost about $60k. That doesn't include books, of course, or snacks, or any damned thing, except the tuition. Projects, supplies, transportation, a night out once in awhile, toothpaste and soap are all additional.
Maybe you're referring to a vocational / agricultural education, in a local community college? Yeah, you can get by for a whole lot less,
The same reason that nerds use high dollar computers to visit every trashy site on the web? A guy who has good tools, no matter what trade, hobby, or profession he might be in, isn't going to keep a "backup" set of cheap tools around for those "less important" jobs. A real pro might have a workshop filled with ultra-expensive tools of his trade, but even his carry away bag of tools is going to be filled with quality items.
Whatever your profession is, look at your own carry away "toolbox". Did you buy a bunch of junk from WalMart to fill it?
How many times would you have to personally witness a cop lying, to decide that cops do lie? My sister is a retired state cop. She doesn't trust a cop because he's a cop - she trusts those cops that she knows she can trust, and she distrusts those that she knows deserve distrust. That's a lot like me, and the military. There are sailors whose word I would take if they told me that cats and dogs were raining down from the sky. There are other sailors that I wouldn't trust if they told me that I could expect the sun to shine tomorrow.
GP didn't say that cops always lie, after all. He said "very often" the police are the liars. I can vouch for that statement.
Your attention is on the conference call, rather than your driving. Listening to a radio talk show can be equally distracting. Or arguing with your wife about whatever inane thing the two of you find to argue about.
Your full, undivided attention belongs on the road, not on a conversation. Music is permissible, because it is background. Active participation in a conversation, not so much.
In short, you're trying to rationalize exceptions to a damned good rule: NO CELL PHONES FOR DRIVERS!!
Just hang up and drive, alright?