Tomorrow it's McDonalds and Coca Cola. The old timers are dying off. They have to find somebody that can keep their recipes secret. It's like Willy Wonka finding his successor.
Yes they are connected, by the petrodollar. That is the 'empire' that needs to be protected, at all costs. You can safely shitcan all the philosophical and political bullshit.
Or we could go with anarchy and let the guy with the biggest stick take over.
It's not anarchy if anybody 'takes over'. Well, okay, it is for the guy who took over, but for everyone else it's the same old shit. And by the way, the guy with the biggest stick is in charge, in case you haven't noticed. Either way, no bureaucracy should be given a license to kill...
I can't say how 'local' it is, but yes it does, and it protects us from other mafias that would try to muscle in on our territories. It is entirely plausible that governments arise from powerful criminal organizations. They are the ones with all the tools already in place. It's a perfectly natural evolution. For instance, look who regulates the liquor industry.. The liquor industry. Former bootleggers and run runners, who then become your major generals and presidents and prime ministers and kings... These are the people who built up the business, churches, and schools, pirates, all of them. Politics and crime are as distinguishable as Kang and Kodos. The relationship is well documented, and well cemented, heh, so to speak...
To be allowed to live... To avoid 'detainment'. These are the things you pay for. I don't know why people are so repulsed when the mafia does these kinds of things.
Snowden's leaks are a disaster for US, British, and who knows what other intelligence agencies.
Absolutely not true. It's a great opportunity to clean house, so to speak. 'Nonproductive' personnel will be thrown under the bus, and the agencies will be getting much bigger budgets, to... uh.. 'rebuild'.. yeah, that's it. To me, this whole affair is brilliant. You know, shake the trees occasionally.
Can't do that. Even if we don't need the resources, we can't let our 'adversaries' get their hands on them and grow stronger. We will leave the middle east the way Iraq left Kuwait in a trail of destruction. What the hell, it's not like we'll get our security deposit back. Make ' em start over.
Yes, a man without any followers is easy to ignore, a pragmatic way of running a system. The listeners always let themselves off the hook, as if resisting temptation is not part of the deal.
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...one of our customers was one of the biggest porn companies...
What, was the Catholic church muscling in on the e-book business and expanding into vids?
Dewey, Cheatham...
If funding is cut off, they will simply revert back to this, not that they ever stopped doing things that way.
Term limits are stupid. Just look towards Mexico to see how effective they are. Corruption sees the law as damage and will always route around it.
Authority has gone rogue, and instead of trying to stop it, most people are looking for a piece of the action. That's just nature at work.
Really, and National Geographic without pictures is like Anita Bryant without orange juice.
Drown 'em in paperwork. That'll keep 'em busy for a few years. In the meantime business is just humming right along.
We don't have much orbiting Jupiter taking nice closeups right now.
Cluster bombs! Get yer cluster bombs right here!
They'll get the Amazon rejects. No wait, Al Qaeda needs people with security clearance also. Let's see who pays better..
Tomorrow it's McDonalds and Coca Cola. The old timers are dying off. They have to find somebody that can keep their recipes secret. It's like Willy Wonka finding his successor.
Yes they are connected, by the petrodollar. That is the 'empire' that needs to be protected, at all costs. You can safely shitcan all the philosophical and political bullshit.
Your sources are questionable and highly biased. We can hardly expect to find the truth there.
Yes, it is...
Or we could go with anarchy and let the guy with the biggest stick take over.
It's not anarchy if anybody 'takes over'. Well, okay, it is for the guy who took over, but for everyone else it's the same old shit. And by the way, the guy with the biggest stick is in charge, in case you haven't noticed. Either way, no bureaucracy should be given a license to kill...
I can't say how 'local' it is, but yes it does, and it protects us from other mafias that would try to muscle in on our territories. It is entirely plausible that governments arise from powerful criminal organizations. They are the ones with all the tools already in place. It's a perfectly natural evolution. For instance, look who regulates the liquor industry.. The liquor industry. Former bootleggers and run runners, who then become your major generals and presidents and prime ministers and kings... These are the people who built up the business, churches, and schools, pirates, all of them. Politics and crime are as distinguishable as Kang and Kodos. The relationship is well documented, and well cemented, heh, so to speak...
So what are we paying them for, anyway?
To be allowed to live... To avoid 'detainment'. These are the things you pay for. I don't know why people are so repulsed when the mafia does these kinds of things.
Throughout this entire thread you have failed to provide any evidence that Assad gassed anybody.
And Israel is also being propped up from the outside. Let's see how well they do if they were cut off like the attempts on Iran.
I find your style of 'argument'... intriguing, because we all know that *because inside every gook there is an American trying to get out.*
We put things in our mouths that are not food all the time, even as adults.
Nice people don't swallow...
So what stops the feds from seizing your 'cloud' and locking it up in the impound?
Snowden's leaks are a disaster for US, British, and who knows what other intelligence agencies.
Absolutely not true. It's a great opportunity to clean house, so to speak. 'Nonproductive' personnel will be thrown under the bus, and the agencies will be getting much bigger budgets, to... uh.. 'rebuild'.. yeah, that's it. To me, this whole affair is brilliant. You know, shake the trees occasionally.
They are a display of their secrecy.
Remember that Buckyballs were being marketed as "toys" quite specifically.
But they were never marketed as "food", specifically or otherwise. It is notable that a "reasonable person" needs to be reminded of the distinction.
I respect these people.
Yeah, we respect you people, too.
Lets just stay out of it.
Can't do that. Even if we don't need the resources, we can't let our 'adversaries' get their hands on them and grow stronger. We will leave the middle east the way Iraq left Kuwait in a trail of destruction. What the hell, it's not like we'll get our security deposit back. Make ' em start over.
Yes, a man without any followers is easy to ignore, a pragmatic way of running a system. The listeners always let themselves off the hook, as if resisting temptation is not part of the deal.
It's not a 'push'. It's a dance, a Capoeira