I think that the point of GP's question is, why are they getting SIX shots all AT ONCE?
The only place I ever got that many shots all on the same day, was in boot camp. My children never got stuck that many times in one day. My memory isn't perfect, but I'm pretty sure that none of my sons got more than three injections on the same day.
Some of those required vaccinations CANNOT be administered within several days of each other. Possibly even weeks apart.
My boys are all grown now, it's been about 20 years since I read all those brochures, warnings, etc - but I DID read them at the time.
They could write contracts with Microsoft, Facebook, Google and more, in which they assist in tracking users, for a fee. It seems pretty obvious that hasn't happened yet. I don't see it happening in the near to medium future, either. The distant future? Hell, anything can happen twenty years down the road.
That's easy. 90% of the market believes that a computer can't run without a Microsoft ritual blessing. With that godly blessing, computers are safe. It's a cult thing, really - get your WGA approval, run your updates, and everything is fine in computer heaven.
Whether that faith is warranted or not is subject for another discussion.
"We could have killed the Taliban already if we were willing to just level any settlement in the country, but that isn't good PR."
Could we, now? You're certain of that?
Osama stood and duked it out with our forces, for awhile, in the Tora Bora hills. He and his forces dug in, and basically invited us to come get him. We were unable and/or unwilling to get down and dirty with him, going hand-to-hand in the trenches. Osama bragged that American soldiers had no stomach for man-to-man combat. We sat back, and shelled his positions, never venturing out to make personal contact.
I don't know about individual soldiers on the front line - maybe THEY were willing to go. But, our leaders had no balls.
Saying that "we could have killed" is easy. Going out and killing is a whole different story.
If you quit shaving, you don't need to worry about blade disposal, or batteries, or even worry about dropping your shaver in the sink. I never figured out why guys want to shave, or bother with it. Just let the foliage grow!!
I believe they might take longer than a dissolving disk platter. I can't know that, but I believe that might be the case. DD might be interrupted if your command post is overrun, or penetrated. A simple signal to dissolve is probably irreversible, and depending on the mechanism, might be much faster.
Of course, for dissolving platters to work, I guess you'd have to abandon iron disks, for some kind of a matrix that holds iron in suspension. That might be more complicated, or less, than making plain magnetic iron disks.
That "hearts and minds" thing is complete and utter bullshit. I sorta believed in that shit when I was a boot, fresh out of boot camp. Sorta. That wore off, though.
YOU DO NOT WIN HEARTS AND MINDS BY MARCHING ARMED GRUNTS AROUND FOREIGN CITIES AND COUNTRIES!!
Either you were genuinely, openly invited to be there - or you're an invader. Invaders aren't loved anywhere. Hearts and minds are dead set against invaders, always and forever.
Indoctrination can take many forms. Here, we see the initial moves toward suspending posse comitatus.
"Any use of the Armed Forces under either Title 10/Active Duty or Title 10/Reserves at the direction of the President will offend the Constitutional Law also known as Public Law prohibiting such action unless declared by the President of the United States and approved by Congress. Any infringement will be problematic for political and legal reasons."
The legal reasons have already been addressed in the Patriot Act. The political reasons will seem absurd to the victims, after the fact. And, they'll probably seem just as absurd to the people who aren't targets.
Will Miami be the next Beruit City? Houston? New York?
The people aren't the same people. I don't think they speak the same language. The cultures are different. Their histories are different. Their politics are different. At this point in history, they share similar religions, but their religions are apparently viewed quite differently. In Persia, or Iran, women are respected a great deal more than they are in Afghanistan. Iran may not meet OUR standards, but Afghanistan certainly doesn't come up to Iran's standards. As has been pointed out already, there is no comparison between the two nation's education. Afghanistan's tribalism helps to ensure that they don't get educated. Iran competes with many first world countries on education.
The difference between Iran and Afghanistan is greater than the difference between the US and Mexico.
There may be more than a continent between the two countries.
The just-world thing? I guess that's possible. But, my thinking is more military than philosophical. You just don't challenge authority, unless you're prepared to DEAL WITH authority. It's a matter of relativity, if you care to think of it that way. A squad of trained men can take on a panzer, with the right weapons. We'll call it a sapper team. Two to six unarmored men, with a limpit mine can go up against a tank, if they are stealthy and lucky.
But, by no stretch of the imagination does this mean that a recruit straight out of boot camp can take on a platoon of panzers, armed with only an assault rifle. If he's dumb enough to try, he will die.
Stupidity kills. It doesn't bargain, it doesn't warn, it doesn't care - it just kills.
OMG, so THAT'S what Uncle Sam meant when he trained me to fight Class Delta fires!! Well, just push the damned thing overboard, and let the giant squids at the bottom of the sea worry about the fire!
Which reminds me - I saw a video one time - wonder if I can find it again . . . .
A fire department arrived at the scene of a cargo fire on board a tractor trailer. They proceeded to hose the fire down, and before they were done, a dozen other trailers had caught on fire. The fire would burn merrily along, the firemen would turn a hose on it, it exploded, they ran, and when the flames started to die down some, they would repeat. I wanted to laugh - but I've stood to close to the fire to many times to laugh, I kept expecting the fools to kill themselves.
Collins is hilarious - and enlightening. He also refreshes my memory. Watching those guys on the moon was BORING! No aliens ever came out to bite their heads off, like on 'The Outer Limits'. No alien spaceships. No meteor storms. Not even a solar flare! I mean, NOTHING HAPPENED!
It was all a huge disappointment for all of us kids in school. 1969 - fifth grade for me. I had just discovered that I liked reading. I hadn't yet discovered science fiction. Looking back, that seems unfortunate now. I could have better imagined all sorts of things happening on those moon trips, had I been primed with some Heinlein, or Asimov.
"Buried 300 feet underground, the nuclear fortress at Fordow is immune to air strikes or bunker bombs."
That bit is nonsense. If men dig a hole in the ground, then close it up, then they have left an entrance somewhere. Pinpoint that entrance, hit that entrance with the bunker buster, and watch it fly down the tunnel before exploding. Sure, they can put a pair of blast doors at the top, and another pair of blast doors at the bottom. A nice accurate cruise missile can pinpoint the center of the first blast door, and if lined up with the second blast door, just blow through it. So what if the tunnel curves? The nuke warhead blows 1/4, or 3/4 down the shaft, everything flies through the gates of hell just the same as if the missile flew all the way down into the laboratory. We've all studied what air blasts can do. Contain that blast within a tunnel, and there is NOTHING that is going to survive within the tunnel, or any connected chambers.
A lot of people expect that very thing. We're going to have cashless economies, etc, just because technology advances. I think the sci-fi writers have had things right all along. Technology might take us to the stars, but we'll still be a race of assholes and douchebags, dreaming up excuses to kill each other. Doesn't much matter why, someone is going to need to feel important, so they'll kill some other poor bastards for being different.
People aren't going to change just because they get shiny toys to play with.
Is it possible that some of you guys are confusing Iran with Afghanistan? The Taliban doesn't rule Iran. There's about half of a continent between the two places.
Please, you're undermining years of propaganda there. Carefully crafted stereotypes, smashed to the ground! Please, don't destroy our egocentric arrogance like that! It is absolutely necessary that American believe that Iranians live in caves, eat raw meat (when meat is available), and that they have pedal cars on their cobblestone roads.
Next, you'll actually expect us to believe that Iranians are LITERATE!
That's a lie! They never put a motorcycle in space! No Mazdas, no Farmalls, all they ever put into space are a few stupid cosmonauts, a few satellites, and some worthless debris. They certainly haven't put a CORVETTE into space! That was an American feat!
Oh, wait. Hell - Heavy Metal, the movie, was fiction, wasn't it? Fek . . . .
No thing is bad. Doesn't matter how ugly you think an item is, it is inanimate. Inanimate objects are neither good, nor bad. Without motivation and free will, there is no good, no bad. People are bad, and people are good.
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I think that the point of GP's question is, why are they getting SIX shots all AT ONCE?
The only place I ever got that many shots all on the same day, was in boot camp. My children never got stuck that many times in one day. My memory isn't perfect, but I'm pretty sure that none of my sons got more than three injections on the same day.
Some of those required vaccinations CANNOT be administered within several days of each other. Possibly even weeks apart.
My boys are all grown now, it's been about 20 years since I read all those brochures, warnings, etc - but I DID read them at the time.
They could write contracts with Microsoft, Facebook, Google and more, in which they assist in tracking users, for a fee. It seems pretty obvious that hasn't happened yet. I don't see it happening in the near to medium future, either. The distant future? Hell, anything can happen twenty years down the road.
That's easy. 90% of the market believes that a computer can't run without a Microsoft ritual blessing. With that godly blessing, computers are safe. It's a cult thing, really - get your WGA approval, run your updates, and everything is fine in computer heaven.
Whether that faith is warranted or not is subject for another discussion.
"We could have killed the Taliban already if we were willing to just level any settlement in the country, but that isn't good PR."
Could we, now? You're certain of that?
Osama stood and duked it out with our forces, for awhile, in the Tora Bora hills. He and his forces dug in, and basically invited us to come get him. We were unable and/or unwilling to get down and dirty with him, going hand-to-hand in the trenches. Osama bragged that American soldiers had no stomach for man-to-man combat. We sat back, and shelled his positions, never venturing out to make personal contact.
I don't know about individual soldiers on the front line - maybe THEY were willing to go. But, our leaders had no balls.
Saying that "we could have killed" is easy. Going out and killing is a whole different story.
He's brave enough to post with a name that is potentially trackable?
If you quit shaving, you don't need to worry about blade disposal, or batteries, or even worry about dropping your shaver in the sink. I never figured out why guys want to shave, or bother with it. Just let the foliage grow!!
I believe they might take longer than a dissolving disk platter. I can't know that, but I believe that might be the case. DD might be interrupted if your command post is overrun, or penetrated. A simple signal to dissolve is probably irreversible, and depending on the mechanism, might be much faster.
Of course, for dissolving platters to work, I guess you'd have to abandon iron disks, for some kind of a matrix that holds iron in suspension. That might be more complicated, or less, than making plain magnetic iron disks.
Ditto - but make mine 300%.
Electronic devices are built to last until you actually put them to use."
Are you un-lost yet?
That "hearts and minds" thing is complete and utter bullshit. I sorta believed in that shit when I was a boot, fresh out of boot camp. Sorta. That wore off, though.
YOU DO NOT WIN HEARTS AND MINDS BY MARCHING ARMED GRUNTS AROUND FOREIGN CITIES AND COUNTRIES!!
Either you were genuinely, openly invited to be there - or you're an invader. Invaders aren't loved anywhere. Hearts and minds are dead set against invaders, always and forever.
+5000 insightful
Indoctrination can take many forms. Here, we see the initial moves toward suspending posse comitatus.
"Any use of the Armed Forces under either Title 10/Active Duty or Title 10/Reserves at the direction of the President will offend the Constitutional Law also known as Public Law prohibiting such action unless declared by the President of the United States and approved by Congress. Any infringement will be problematic for political and legal reasons."
The legal reasons have already been addressed in the Patriot Act. The political reasons will seem absurd to the victims, after the fact. And, they'll probably seem just as absurd to the people who aren't targets.
Will Miami be the next Beruit City? Houston? New York?
I left off the "figuratively speaking"? Sorry.
The people aren't the same people. I don't think they speak the same language. The cultures are different. Their histories are different. Their politics are different. At this point in history, they share similar religions, but their religions are apparently viewed quite differently. In Persia, or Iran, women are respected a great deal more than they are in Afghanistan. Iran may not meet OUR standards, but Afghanistan certainly doesn't come up to Iran's standards. As has been pointed out already, there is no comparison between the two nation's education. Afghanistan's tribalism helps to ensure that they don't get educated. Iran competes with many first world countries on education.
The difference between Iran and Afghanistan is greater than the difference between the US and Mexico.
There may be more than a continent between the two countries.
WTF did "I'm not a racist, but..." come from?
The just-world thing? I guess that's possible. But, my thinking is more military than philosophical. You just don't challenge authority, unless you're prepared to DEAL WITH authority. It's a matter of relativity, if you care to think of it that way. A squad of trained men can take on a panzer, with the right weapons. We'll call it a sapper team. Two to six unarmored men, with a limpit mine can go up against a tank, if they are stealthy and lucky.
But, by no stretch of the imagination does this mean that a recruit straight out of boot camp can take on a platoon of panzers, armed with only an assault rifle. If he's dumb enough to try, he will die.
Stupidity kills. It doesn't bargain, it doesn't warn, it doesn't care - it just kills.
Are the drivers unavailable, or do they have some http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AARD_code
OMG, so THAT'S what Uncle Sam meant when he trained me to fight Class Delta fires!! Well, just push the damned thing overboard, and let the giant squids at the bottom of the sea worry about the fire!
Which reminds me - I saw a video one time - wonder if I can find it again . . . .
Can't find that particular video now, but this one gives you the idea:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95O-bQo04Ok
A fire department arrived at the scene of a cargo fire on board a tractor trailer. They proceeded to hose the fire down, and before they were done, a dozen other trailers had caught on fire. The fire would burn merrily along, the firemen would turn a hose on it, it exploded, they ran, and when the flames started to die down some, they would repeat. I wanted to laugh - but I've stood to close to the fire to many times to laugh, I kept expecting the fools to kill themselves.
Collins is hilarious - and enlightening. He also refreshes my memory. Watching those guys on the moon was BORING! No aliens ever came out to bite their heads off, like on 'The Outer Limits'. No alien spaceships. No meteor storms. Not even a solar flare! I mean, NOTHING HAPPENED!
It was all a huge disappointment for all of us kids in school. 1969 - fifth grade for me. I had just discovered that I liked reading. I hadn't yet discovered science fiction. Looking back, that seems unfortunate now. I could have better imagined all sorts of things happening on those moon trips, had I been primed with some Heinlein, or Asimov.
"Buried 300 feet underground, the nuclear fortress at Fordow is immune to air strikes or bunker bombs."
That bit is nonsense. If men dig a hole in the ground, then close it up, then they have left an entrance somewhere. Pinpoint that entrance, hit that entrance with the bunker buster, and watch it fly down the tunnel before exploding. Sure, they can put a pair of blast doors at the top, and another pair of blast doors at the bottom. A nice accurate cruise missile can pinpoint the center of the first blast door, and if lined up with the second blast door, just blow through it. So what if the tunnel curves? The nuke warhead blows 1/4, or 3/4 down the shaft, everything flies through the gates of hell just the same as if the missile flew all the way down into the laboratory. We've all studied what air blasts can do. Contain that blast within a tunnel, and there is NOTHING that is going to survive within the tunnel, or any connected chambers.
Yes, but it would REALLY be frowned up if she had stopped to give some guy a ride! No hitchhiking outside the atmosphere!!
A lot of people expect that very thing. We're going to have cashless economies, etc, just because technology advances. I think the sci-fi writers have had things right all along. Technology might take us to the stars, but we'll still be a race of assholes and douchebags, dreaming up excuses to kill each other. Doesn't much matter why, someone is going to need to feel important, so they'll kill some other poor bastards for being different.
People aren't going to change just because they get shiny toys to play with.
Is it possible that some of you guys are confusing Iran with Afghanistan? The Taliban doesn't rule Iran. There's about half of a continent between the two places.
Please, you're undermining years of propaganda there. Carefully crafted stereotypes, smashed to the ground! Please, don't destroy our egocentric arrogance like that! It is absolutely necessary that American believe that Iranians live in caves, eat raw meat (when meat is available), and that they have pedal cars on their cobblestone roads.
Next, you'll actually expect us to believe that Iranians are LITERATE!
Protesting != crime - the protests are usually aimed AT the criminals, not BY the criminals.
Bush ain't no monkey. Get your facts straight, boy! What are you, racist or something?
http://politicalhumor.about.com/library/images/blbushchimplookalikes.htm
That's a lie! They never put a motorcycle in space! No Mazdas, no Farmalls, all they ever put into space are a few stupid cosmonauts, a few satellites, and some worthless debris. They certainly haven't put a CORVETTE into space! That was an American feat!
Oh, wait. Hell - Heavy Metal, the movie, was fiction, wasn't it? Fek . . . .
No thing is bad. Doesn't matter how ugly you think an item is, it is inanimate. Inanimate objects are neither good, nor bad. Without motivation and free will, there is no good, no bad. People are bad, and people are good.