> I wanted to point out your security failures, so I opened your safe
Your safe is yours, their safe is $everyones.
> actually opened the safe and took the money out"
No. He made a digital _copy_ of the "money," their "wallet" still has the original "money." IOW, I have a Melbourne Red Metallic 2011 BMW M3, you are welcome to copy it (that's what the metaphor you're buying into is saying)! I will still have mine. Is OK with me, 'cause, I want a copy of your 1955 Chevrolet Series 3100 pickup. Hey if this off topic, it was your metaphor. The mind that's co-opted could be yours.
If Truman didn't use atomics against China's forces crossing the Korean border and involving itself during that war, they wont be used against Iran. I can foresee North Korea being nuked in retaliation for nuclear warfare against the USA. Their math is bad enough to think they can profit from doing so.
After a decade of contemplation of the issues I can not understand the reticence the ROK, and the USA have calling the DPRK's bluff. The shit gets worse decade after decade. Videlicet, if Clinton would have attacked the North, as it is claimed he nearly did, in the 1990s we would have resolution without the nuclear issue being a concern.
Ultimately this continuing mess is the South's creation. They habitually coddle their lunatic northern _Korean_ brothers!{1] It's no secret. As a result, the USA not too long ago moved their majority of DMZ forces miles _behind_ the South's. It signaled to the South that when the lead flies eventually, because of your negligence, the brunt of the immediate losses will be yours. Till then the South felt secure in being last (second) to the fight and slaughter behind the USA's lines. FYI, when the North restarts the war it will rain tens of thousands of artillery rounds on Seoul within minutes of major hostilities.
Guy walks into a bar, kicks your date, spits on you, blackmails you for drinks, and then says `fuck you! do as I say or I'll shoot myself in the head.' Go ahead, it's better than this.
[1] The present fury with North Korea is the exception ( Yeonpyeong Island attack, Cheonan sinking ). Will it last? Maybe.
Axiom: For every generalization there's an exception. 007; Cantinflas; The Tramp; Die Hard or better yet my fave Die Harder. The problem really is inspiration, craftsmanship or lack thereof. At this time I'd like to quote Keith Richards vis-a-vis Hollywood: it's "bereft of creativity."
: : it doesn't mean you have to live with it when it clearly ticks you off so much.
: So now I have to manually check for updates? And this is your idea of fixing things?
I am the anti-Wrath0fb0b. First thing years ago, I disabled "download & update automatically." I want to know when updates occur; plugins go kaput and such---bad. But that's just me. I have to thank you, I kinda noticed that Chrome updated itself and I didn't know when or if it just my imaginings. Now I know. I would have bought a clue but I can't find more than one useful toggle in the wrench toolbox. And I am a guy that likes Ikebana, wtf. I must need more engine time.
> $40 Unlimited Broadband2Go Plan at such a great price, we're putting a speed limit
It would behoove us to pay attention to words. Words matter. These plans are really _unmetered_ plans. Why not unlimited?
Well, the number of hours in a day is a limit. The number of days in a week is a limit. The number of weeks in a month is a limit. Scilicet, if you decided to download the Internet you would not be on the meter, but you would be on a clock limit. That is before they start parsing the word "unlimited."
Remember, a "speed limit" is a limit, and a limit is not without limits. Stop being fooled, or better yet coopted.
* Where's my climbing gear (kit)?! Oi! * You going to sell all that old computer shit/stuff/gear (kit) on Ebay? * My dad went fishing at 3 this morning, at 8 this morning he sheepishly came back to pick up his fishing gear (kit). * I'm jonesing where's my gear (kit)? * Reverse gear (kit) is left and up! Don't you know how to drive a manual gear (kit) shift? [NAH! =]
Then again kit is gear.[2] My Mum says I tell porkies.
The US medical establishment cannot survive without the scut work[1] that newly minted doctors provide for menial wages, at 48, 72 hours shifts. Medical residents are fodder to be used and abused, and periodically the AMA will fight tooth and nail when some congressman wants to overhaul the status quo system. So forget about interns or full fledged doctors that resident that's digging around your guts, or your child's brain is on a multi-day shift, all the time, for years on end.
{1] "SCUT = Some Common Useless Task
A task of no educational value that keeps you from doing something that you might learn from or related to your residency or med school education.
[To wit,] being told to do the work of an orderly or ward clerk."
The airlines started doing that what in the last decade prior to the fee-bonanza-mania they have discovered to reach profitability. Oh! I remember, it was during 2005, 2006 during the President G.W. Bush historic $2+, $3+, $4+ per gallon of gasoline rise. They noticed that flying around free food cost lots of money, as did bottled water, blankets, and lots of overhead carry-on luggage. Charge for that shit, my son and ye shall prosper, they said. =) Lower flying speed vs increased travel time was the bargain they struck.
> but the fuel consumption goes up as Mach 1 is approached
Yeah, but what commercial airliner wants to go near Mach 1? The Concorde was a dodo bird walking since its 1950s birth and tech. And if anything transonic civilian is where it'd be at. And what does it matter. Supersonic is the realm of military flying, and supersonic varies by altitude, and military jets reach stratospheric heights that commercial jets can not reach. It's all so moot.
Supercruise, now when is that going to come form military application to civilian use?
> I'd be willing to pay quite a bit for quick and hassle free transportation around the country, > but it simply can't be done right now.
*Ahem* Sorry to make an example out of you, but people talk a good game. They want cheap fares, bus travel prices for air travel. So don't be surprised dear public when you are treated like a bus passenger.
Have you ever traveled long distance by bus? I have, twice and whilst one ride was horrible the other was exhausting. YMMV. I once took the red eye Greyhound from the NYC Port Authority Bus Terminal to Buffalo, NY, ~403 miles. The bus was full, it was full of a handful of jerks, one was a superlative jerk.Halfway into the 8-9 hour ride, in the middle of nowhere NY, PA? with the cabin lights off, with no outside illumination in the rural countryside, with nearly all passengers sleeping peacefully one idiot, twenty something, burly, Hip Hop aficionado starts rapping loudly without shame in the darkness. Stupefied we endured it for a minute or two till one guy shouted abuse at him, then the cabin rained a din of screams to ~shut the fuck up!~ It took for a few minuted then it started again, and shouting disapproval was useless. Until, the driver stopped in the _middle_ of the desolate road, then drenched the cabin with sunlight brightness and shouted at the top of his lungs "the next time I have to stop you are getting kicked out in the middle of nowhere, without a refund or your fucking luggage!" I arrived exhausted but excited in Buffalo. On the return on a non overnight bus trip, after multiple stops for food, passenger pickups at three different towns I was just dead-in-my-seat exhausted, it was sleep deprivation, exhaustion like I never had. I promised never to take a long distance bus trip in my life! I hated the experience that much.
So long bus trips are painful, they are cheap but they are painful. So we fly. And we want bus trip prices. You want pampered _anytime_ travel fly First Class. But then your NY to buffalo is not $60.00 but $1,600.00 on Delta + fees and fees and fees, so what 18, 19 hundred dollars? They do have expedited access at airports, talk yourself a VIP. If you're a regular/. reader you can even know how to have your precious electronics or valuables be transported under lock-and-key, and accountable, un-stealable, and logged by federal law at all times. But you have to be a regular reader.
> this is the difference between a state that has long term goals of improving it countr[y] vs. > corporations that can't see beyond the next quarterly report.
***China is an elephant that can fly!***
This planet has never seen such an _economic_ rise, not post WWII Europe, not even 20th century USA with its post-war advantage of a devastated first world manufacturing base whilst its own plant was ascendant.
The USA's economic orthodoxy is that attenuated (save Tea Party, Rep. Ron Paul, right wing Republicans) laissez faire, minimal market regulation, minimal market interference, no industrial policy will lead to maximum national economic gains. Since Deng Xiaoping's 1972 market/China opening China has amalgamated Japan's MITI approach (industrial policy) with the West's form of capitalism. In essence they are _demonstrating_ that there is more than one form of capitalism. And their form kicks ass, to the chagrin of western economists and politicos. These Chinese market tactics are if not identical wholly descendant from 1980's Japan Golden Age[1].
BTW, contrary to your quote above, Japan is an economy legendary for putting the long term above ALL ELSE. Yet since 1990 Japan has been in an economic depression that shattered the once indomitable, invulnerable, invincible myth that once was a nation of "Samurai businessmen." I frankly am very surprised at how low Japan's business savvy has sunk. Once upon a time called the 1980s, Japan would do the same sort of thing as in the OP, it would diversify its supply of commodities (1.) to eliminate supplier supremacy and (2.) to achieve lower prices and (3.) gain influence. So, if it needed iron ore, copper ore, petroleum, aluminium, whatever it would set rival nation suppliers against one another---say, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Chile, the USA! whomever---for fractional supply quantities. Thusly, low economies of scale would lead to higher cost for Japan, initially, but no one supplier had a stranglehold on Japan. Two, Eventually suppliers would plead for bigger market shares with lower prices for the booming Japanese economy. Three, nations would enact laws beneficial to Japan, nations' indigenous corporations would lobby their governments for infrastructure projects in an effort to ingratiate themselves for future Japanese business or to supply the commodities needed for said infrastructure projects, etc. But now I see that Japan, like the rest of teh globe is a decade away from weaning themselves away from and is presently on bended knee kowtowing to China for rare earth exports. THAT! gentlemen would never have happened to the 1980s Japan. The master is getting tutored!
So I remind you that ***China is an elephant that can fly!***
The planet has never seen a nation rise from so low ECONOMICALLY to so high. Mind you the Middle Kingdom (China) is a nation of deep cultural depth. Reaching back millenia! They are not they were not ignorant not last century, not two three centuries ago either. Think of the Communist Party as the last in a succession of Emperors. China has had them all along its history, some have lasted centuries, some have lasted fifty to ninety years, some have not even been Chinese but barbarian. The communist nation is only sixty-two years old. Their modern ascendancy is thirty-nine years old. Will it last? Will it keep flying? Will the Chinese subsume their liberty to the Party for another sixty-two or thirty-nine years? Even Japan looked unstoppable. Once. It makes an omelet out of our American, western, libertarian, Tea Party, Austrian Economic school orthodoxy.
[1] "Dogs and Demons: tales for the dark side of Japan", Alex Kerr, 2001. A never seen analysis (by a long time nipponophile) in the western press on the cultural, economic, spiritual, ecological malaise of Japan.
You can shoot DUI/DWI/DWD motorists on the spot for all I care. I care about being stopped, delayed, forced to _submit_, forced to provide _complete_ documentation of my vehicle and self at a deliberate bottleneck checkpoint, like a highway off ramp, a service road, etc. When I have done nothing unlawful. When nothing is unlawful about me or my vehicle whilst the BS corrections officer, sanitation guy, court officer, civil service hack flashes a badge and is _summarily_ waved off! And another thing, Leandra was a nice little girl I'm sure, but a special law for special punishment for the one act is foolish. Children are not magical, life is magical, whether alone or with children apply the law.
> indicia of drunkenness (e.g. slurred speech, bloodshot eyes, smell of booze)
I have a right not to speak (5th Amendment rights) to the police. I work lots of overtime. I use Binaca. I say again, calling Dr. Bombay^W^WA.C.L.U. The prisoner has rights.
> You're saying, we may as well let the government and the corporations operate in > secret, because we know that exposing their crimes won't do any good anyway.
He's saying 'quit your rationalizing,' or 'give me another bullshit hypothetical.'
> > the dominant language of the internet is about to become Chinese > There might be more data in Chinese, but
You beat me to the punch, great. Abundant and dominant are not synonymous terms. The USA has never demanded that its dialect be the globally dominant---the French have been having fits over their lingua franca status for decades, BTW---language on the planet. It is so because of the US's economic, cultural hegemony. Whist the French once in their envy had, under Mitterrand, a Ministry du Rap (honestly, check it out) the USA just lets the (population) cauldron boil. It boils over sometimes but we tend to say fuckit! Though we hand wring over it quite a lot. Not to mythologize the point but the USA's economic means with its cultural laissez faire leading to the the english language status quo demonstrates a global aspiration for freedom, economic, cultural, political. I believe it's that simple. For that reason the chinese language will not become the successor to french, english.
You do know that corn ethanol has fewer BTUs than unadulterated gasoline, right? What you sort of observe is common. BTW, adding ethanol doesn't reduce the efficiency of the unadulterated gasoline in the tank, rather E10 _is_ less efficient than the equivalent amount of E0 gasoline. Your statement is inaccurate and sensationalist as it stands.
I dunno about mints and gum but I do no know we should start favoring diesel over gasoline by equalizing their tariff rates. Stop the higher tariff rates on diesel fuel. Or by favoring (the higher BTU energy of) diesel fuel by having lower rates on it rather than on gasoline, which has been the norm for decades.
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My buxom blonde date and I are single. She chose the an a la carte entree. Not the same thing.
> I wanted to point out your security failures, so I opened your safe
Your safe is yours, their safe is $everyones.
> actually opened the safe and took the money out"
No. He made a digital _copy_ of the "money," their "wallet" still has the original "money." IOW, I have a Melbourne Red Metallic 2011 BMW M3, you are welcome to copy it (that's what the metaphor you're buying into is saying)! I will still have mine. Is OK with me, 'cause, I want a copy of your 1955 Chevrolet Series 3100 pickup. Hey if this off topic, it was your metaphor. The mind that's co-opted could be yours.
If Truman didn't use atomics against China's forces crossing the Korean border and involving itself during that war, they wont be used against Iran. I can foresee North Korea being nuked in retaliation for nuclear warfare against the USA. Their math is bad enough to think they can profit from doing so.
After a decade of contemplation of the issues I can not understand the reticence the ROK, and the USA have calling the DPRK's bluff. The shit gets worse decade after decade. Videlicet, if Clinton would have attacked the North, as it is claimed he nearly did, in the 1990s we would have resolution without the nuclear issue being a concern.
Ultimately this continuing mess is the South's creation. They habitually coddle their lunatic northern _Korean_ brothers!{1] It's no secret. As a result, the USA not too long ago moved their majority of DMZ forces miles _behind_ the South's. It signaled to the South that when the lead flies eventually, because of your negligence, the brunt of the immediate losses will be yours. Till then the South felt secure in being last (second) to the fight and slaughter behind the USA's lines. FYI, when the North restarts the war it will rain tens of thousands of artillery rounds on Seoul within minutes of major hostilities.
Guy walks into a bar, kicks your date, spits on you, blackmails you for drinks, and then says `fuck you! do as I say or I'll shoot myself in the head.' Go ahead, it's better than this.
[1] The present fury with North Korea is the exception ( Yeonpyeong Island attack, Cheonan sinking ). Will it last? Maybe.
> sequels are usually worse than the original
Axiom: For every generalization there's an exception. 007; Cantinflas; The Tramp; Die Hard or better yet my fave Die Harder. The problem really is inspiration, craftsmanship or lack thereof. At this time I'd like to quote Keith Richards vis-a-vis Hollywood: it's "bereft of creativity."
> Re:Wikileaks (Score:0)
Fuck you, hippie.
: : it doesn't mean you have to live with it when it clearly ticks you off so much.
: So now I have to manually check for updates? And this is your idea of fixing things?
I am the anti-Wrath0fb0b. First thing years ago, I disabled "download & update automatically." I want to know when updates occur; plugins go kaput and such---bad. But that's just me. I have to thank you, I kinda noticed that Chrome updated itself and I didn't know when or if it just my imaginings. Now I know. I would have bought a clue but I can't find more than one useful toggle in the wrench toolbox. And I am a guy that likes Ikebana, wtf. I must need more engine time.
> Oh wait, Wikileaks...
Facile, too facile. To TOS or not to toss the fuckers who violate them. Hmmmm? Interesting. Provocative.
Silver haired megalomaniac pooty hounds, grifters, "dirt bags?" bemoan the leak, the squeal to their service providers.
> $40 Unlimited Broadband2Go Plan at such a great price, we're putting a speed limit
It would behoove us to pay attention to words. Words matter. These plans are really _unmetered_ plans. Why not unlimited?
Well, the number of hours in a day is a limit. The number of days in a week is a limit. The number of weeks in a month is a limit.
Scilicet, if you decided to download the Internet you would not be on the meter, but you would be on a clock limit. That is before they start parsing the word "unlimited."
Remember, a "speed limit" is a limit, and a limit is not without limits. Stop being fooled, or better yet coopted.
I've always taken it to mean: gear[1].
* Where's my climbing gear (kit)?! Oi!
* You going to sell all that old computer shit/stuff/gear (kit) on Ebay?
* My dad went fishing at 3 this morning, at 8 this morning he sheepishly came back to pick up his fishing gear (kit).
* I'm jonesing where's my gear (kit)?
* Reverse gear (kit) is left and up! Don't you know how to drive a manual gear (kit) shift? [NAH! =]
Then again kit is gear.[2] My Mum says I tell porkies.
[1] http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gear , 2.
[2] http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gear , 4. "dialect chiefly British : absurd talk : nonsense "
> > with a backup battery ...
> the alarm will not ring if the power is out at the time of the alarm.
Ha? Hence the backup battery. 5 Informative, really?
The US medical establishment cannot survive without the scut work[1] that newly minted doctors provide for menial wages, at 48, 72 hours shifts. Medical residents are fodder to be used and abused, and periodically the AMA will fight tooth and nail when some congressman wants to overhaul the status quo system. So forget about interns or full fledged doctors that resident that's digging around your guts, or your child's brain is on a multi-day shift, all the time, for years on end.
{1] "SCUT = Some Common Useless Task
A task of no educational value that keeps you from doing something that you might learn from or related to your residency or med school education.
[To wit,] being told to do the work of an orderly or ward clerk."
> Even subsonic jets used to fly faster,
The airlines started doing that what in the last decade prior to the fee-bonanza-mania they have discovered to reach profitability. Oh! I remember, it was during 2005, 2006 during the President G.W. Bush historic $2+, $3+, $4+ per gallon of gasoline rise. They noticed that flying around free food cost lots of money, as did bottled water, blankets, and lots of overhead carry-on luggage. Charge for that shit, my son and ye shall prosper, they said. =) Lower flying speed vs increased travel time was the bargain they struck.
> but the fuel consumption goes up as Mach 1 is approached
Yeah, but what commercial airliner wants to go near Mach 1? The Concorde was a dodo bird walking since its 1950s birth and tech. And if anything transonic civilian is where it'd be at. And what does it matter. Supersonic is the realm of military flying, and supersonic varies by altitude, and military jets reach stratospheric heights that commercial jets can not reach. It's all so moot.
Supercruise, now when is that going to come form military application to civilian use?
> I'd be willing to pay quite a bit for quick and hassle free transportation around the country,
> but it simply can't be done right now.
*Ahem* Sorry to make an example out of you, but people talk a good game. They want cheap fares, bus travel prices for air travel. So don't be surprised dear public when you are treated like a bus passenger.
Have you ever traveled long distance by bus? I have, twice and whilst one ride was horrible the other was exhausting. YMMV. I once took the red eye Greyhound from the NYC Port Authority Bus Terminal to Buffalo, NY, ~403 miles. The bus was full, it was full of a handful of jerks, one was a superlative jerk.Halfway into the 8-9 hour ride, in the middle of nowhere NY, PA? with the cabin lights off, with no outside illumination in the rural countryside, with nearly all passengers sleeping peacefully one idiot, twenty something, burly, Hip Hop aficionado starts rapping loudly without shame in the darkness. Stupefied we endured it for a minute or two till one guy shouted abuse at him, then the cabin rained a din of screams to ~shut the fuck up!~ It took for a few minuted then it started again, and shouting disapproval was useless. Until, the driver stopped in the _middle_ of the desolate road, then drenched the cabin with sunlight brightness and shouted at the top of his lungs "the next time I have to stop you are getting kicked out in the middle of nowhere, without a refund or your fucking luggage!" I arrived exhausted but excited in Buffalo. On the return on a non overnight bus trip, after multiple stops for food, passenger pickups at three different towns I was just dead-in-my-seat exhausted, it was sleep deprivation, exhaustion like I never had. I promised never to take a long distance bus trip in my life! I hated the experience that much.
So long bus trips are painful, they are cheap but they are painful. So we fly. And we want bus trip prices. You want /. reader you can even know how to have your precious electronics or valuables be transported under lock-and-key, and accountable, un-stealable, and logged by federal law at all times. But you have to be a regular reader.
pampered _anytime_ travel fly First Class. But then your NY to buffalo is not $60.00 but $1,600.00 on Delta + fees and fees and fees, so what 18, 19 hundred dollars? They do have expedited access at airports, talk yourself a VIP. If you're a regular
> this is the difference between a state that has long term goals of improving it countr[y] vs.
> corporations that can't see beyond the next quarterly report.
***China is an elephant that can fly!***
This planet has never seen such an _economic_ rise, not post WWII Europe, not even 20th century USA with its post-war advantage of a devastated first world manufacturing base whilst its own plant was ascendant.
The USA's economic orthodoxy is that attenuated (save Tea Party, Rep. Ron Paul, right wing Republicans) laissez faire, minimal market regulation, minimal market interference, no industrial policy will lead to maximum national economic gains. Since Deng Xiaoping's 1972 market/China opening China has amalgamated Japan's MITI approach (industrial policy) with the West's form of capitalism. In essence they are _demonstrating_ that there is more than one form of capitalism. And their form kicks ass, to the chagrin of western economists and politicos. These Chinese market tactics are if not identical wholly descendant from 1980's Japan Golden Age[1].
BTW, contrary to your quote above, Japan is an economy legendary for putting the long term above ALL ELSE. Yet since 1990 Japan has been in an economic depression that shattered the once indomitable, invulnerable, invincible myth that once was a nation of "Samurai businessmen." I frankly am very surprised at how low Japan's business savvy has sunk. Once upon a time called the 1980s, Japan would do the same sort of thing as in the OP, it would diversify its supply of commodities (1.) to eliminate supplier supremacy and (2.) to achieve lower prices and (3.) gain influence. So, if it needed iron ore, copper ore, petroleum, aluminium, whatever it would set rival nation suppliers against one another---say, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Chile, the USA! whomever---for fractional supply quantities. Thusly, low economies of scale would lead to higher cost for Japan, initially, but no one supplier had a stranglehold on Japan. Two, Eventually suppliers would plead for bigger market shares with lower prices for the booming Japanese economy. Three, nations would enact laws beneficial to Japan, nations' indigenous corporations would lobby their governments for infrastructure projects in an effort to ingratiate themselves for future Japanese business or to supply the commodities needed for said infrastructure projects, etc. But now I see that Japan, like the rest of teh globe is a decade away from weaning themselves away from and is presently on bended knee kowtowing to China for rare earth exports. THAT! gentlemen would never have happened to the 1980s Japan. The master is getting tutored!
So I remind you that ***China is an elephant that can fly!***
The planet has never seen a nation rise from so low ECONOMICALLY to so high. Mind you the Middle Kingdom (China) is a nation of deep cultural depth. Reaching back millenia! They are not they were not ignorant not last century, not two three centuries ago either. Think of the Communist Party as the last in a succession of Emperors. China has had them all along its history, some have lasted centuries, some have lasted fifty to ninety years, some have not even been Chinese but barbarian. The communist nation is only sixty-two years old. Their modern ascendancy is thirty-nine years old. Will it last? Will it keep flying? Will the Chinese subsume their liberty to the Party for another sixty-two or thirty-nine years? Even Japan looked unstoppable. Once. It makes an omelet out of our American, western, libertarian, Tea Party, Austrian Economic school orthodoxy.
[1] "Dogs and Demons: tales for the dark side of Japan", Alex Kerr, 2001. A never seen analysis (by a long time nipponophile) in the western press on the cultural, economic, spiritual, ecological malaise of Japan.
You can shoot DUI/DWI/DWD motorists on the spot for all I care. I care about being stopped, delayed, forced to _submit_, forced to provide _complete_ documentation of my vehicle and self at a deliberate bottleneck checkpoint, like a highway off ramp, a service road, etc. When I have done nothing unlawful. When nothing is unlawful about me or my vehicle whilst the BS corrections officer, sanitation guy, court officer, civil service hack flashes a badge and is _summarily_ waved off! And another thing, Leandra was a nice little girl I'm sure, but a special law for special punishment for the one act is foolish. Children are not magical, life is magical, whether alone or with children apply the law.
> indicia of drunkenness (e.g. slurred speech, bloodshot eyes, smell of booze)
I have a right not to speak (5th Amendment rights) to the police. I work lots of overtime. I use Binaca. I say again, calling Dr. Bombay^W^WA.C.L.U. The prisoner has rights.
The prisoner has rights! There is a `'no refusal' checkpoint judge,' where is the `'no refusal' checkpoint defense lawyer?'
> You do realise that America gets twice as much oil from Canada as from Saudi, right?
You do realize that petroleum is a fungible commodity, right?
> You're saying, we may as well let the government and the corporations operate in
> secret, because we know that exposing their crimes won't do any good anyway.
He's saying 'quit your rationalizing,' or 'give me another bullshit hypothetical.'
> I personally have no respect for Wikileaks simplistic view of total transparency when
> they are shrouded in secrecy themselves
I'd mod you up to Score: 6, Incisive, if possible.
When Assange starts acting like RMS, total transparency, in belongings and all, it would be a moral stance I could acknowledge.
Farm Boy, hi! Methinks that was "East Asia." Nam, yaknow. "Oooh! you can't say Nam, only Vietnam Veterans can say Nam."
> > the dominant language of the internet is about to become Chinese
> There might be more data in Chinese, but
You beat me to the punch, great. Abundant and dominant are not synonymous terms. The USA has never demanded that its dialect be the globally dominant---the French have been having fits over their lingua franca status for decades, BTW---language on the planet. It is so because of the US's economic, cultural hegemony. Whist the French once in their envy had, under Mitterrand, a Ministry du Rap (honestly, check it out) the USA just lets the (population) cauldron boil. It boils over sometimes but we tend to say fuckit! Though we hand wring over it quite a lot. Not to mythologize the point but the USA's economic means with its cultural laissez faire leading to the the english language status quo demonstrates a global aspiration for freedom, economic, cultural, political. I believe it's that simple. For that reason the chinese language will not become the successor to french, english.
> Kevin Poulsen and Adrian Lamo are both federal informants
{{Citation needed|reason=I thought he was an ethical concerned citizen.}}
You do know that corn ethanol has fewer BTUs than unadulterated gasoline, right? What you sort of observe is common. BTW, adding ethanol doesn't reduce the efficiency of the unadulterated gasoline in the tank, rather E10 _is_ less efficient than the equivalent amount of E0 gasoline. Your statement is inaccurate and sensationalist as it stands.
I dunno about mints and gum but I do no know we should start favoring diesel over gasoline by equalizing their tariff rates. Stop the higher tariff rates on diesel fuel. Or by favoring (the higher BTU energy of) diesel fuel by having lower rates on it rather than on gasoline, which has been the norm for decades.