...on any subject, plant third-party recorders in the audience to capture it all.
Also, stream it live.
Technology should be used to defeat censorship. Keep all options in mind. You may capture anything from superstitionist madmen to cops beating OWS demonstrators. GET IT ON RECORD and DISPERSE IT beyond censorship.
"its not like we aren't just as fucked if a nuclear powerplant blows up in france or in belgium"
There being no reason a modern nuke plant should "blow up", it makes more sense to pay France for power and avoid the construction, maintenance, closure, and remediation expenses of having plants in Belgium.
You need electricity. You don't need to own what produces it, and a microscopic country such as Belgium risks nothing by outsourcing power production next door. OTOH it avoids all the pitfalls of new construction.
The folks who enjoy making your lives a Hellmouth don't fucking know the Maker Movement exists.
Seek wealth and power, then outsource their jobs and leave them destitute. Living well is the best revenge, but society has made the effort to deserve sociopaths. No reason not to become one.
"WHERE'S YOUR BALLS NOW, U.S.? Send a few dozen cruise missiles up their asses!"
The US is absolutely guaranteed counterproductive blowback should it try such a thing. Internal violence in Mexico is a Mexican problem reflecting complex internal alliances. As long as it kills mostly Mexicans it's not a US problem.
When Mexicans get tired of the current situation they can stop it, but that takes a "Pinochet" and a modest compromise in Law Ritual because cartels are too strong for law and democracy to defeat.
The idea that some opponents can be too strong for Law Ritual and democracy to defeat is heresy, so don't expect things to change unless they get much worse.
The only way to "stand up" to extreme threats whose power is beyond the limits of mere Law Ritual to stop is to kill them.
That's why revolutions kill human obstacles. Qaddafi is gone because his people were willing to KILL him and KILL his troops and KILL his supporters and burn their homes and desolate their towns.
The world isn't all effeminate Politically Correct US suburbia. Law Ritual is made practical by first KILLING obstacles.
See "American Revolution" (dead Brits, Hessians, and Tories), the War Between the States (dead Confederates), and many others where Law Ritual didn't work but overwhelming violence worked just dandy. World War II is the canonical example, where Total War got the job done and postwar Law Ritual sanctified the contest.
Even with friendly management and CEOs who worked for free running benevolent privately held companies with no stockholders to which any fiduciary duty is owed, cheaper labor is still cheaper labor.
"My god! $30K/year and health insurance? What a bunch of greedy bastards! Don't they know how those extravagant wages will affect the incomes of the top 1%?"
How much MORE are YOU willing to pay to fund those wages as opposed to buying from a cheaper supplier?
The reason Americans can afford personal computers is that we don't MAKE them.
Alcohol Prohibition was a disaster for the same reasons Other Drug Prohibition is a disaster, and the laws against drugs were both the product of superstitionists. The Harrison Act was signed in the heyday of the Prohibitionist movement.
Until we attack religion we will live under the oppression of its insane followers who insist on banning pleasures not got from suffering for their (oops, "their imaginary friends") amusement.
The drug lords are merely capitalists, no different from the owners of "legal" businesses. The religious are much worse. The drug lords kill for business, but the insane kill for something that doesn't exist at all.
"Due process exist for a very good reason, laws were not written by tree hugging hippies, they were wrote by victorious revolutionaries that put their life in the line to make a better society."
That didn't happen in Mexico, which needs another revolution to liquidate organized crime.
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...on any subject, plant third-party recorders in the audience to capture it all.
Also, stream it live.
Technology should be used to defeat censorship. Keep all options in mind. You may capture anything from superstitionist madmen to cops beating OWS demonstrators. GET IT ON RECORD and DISPERSE IT beyond censorship.
It offers EVERY opportunity to expose superstition.
"its not like we aren't just as fucked if a nuclear powerplant blows up in france or in belgium"
There being no reason a modern nuke plant should "blow up", it makes more sense to pay France for power and avoid the construction, maintenance, closure, and remediation expenses of having plants in Belgium.
You need electricity. You don't need to own what produces it, and a microscopic country such as Belgium risks nothing by outsourcing power production next door. OTOH it avoids all the pitfalls of new construction.
The folks who enjoy making your lives a Hellmouth don't fucking know the Maker Movement exists.
Seek wealth and power, then outsource their jobs and leave them destitute. Living well is the best revenge, but society has made the effort to deserve sociopaths. No reason not to become one.
"And here I thought those two would be about on even ground in terms of power, ruthlessness, and lawlessness."
That shows more about your preferences than any interest in truth.
Reasons do not exist to perpetuate Prohibition. Reasons do not exist to outlaw marijuana.
Reasons DO exist for thoughtful, nuanced policies which treat DIFFERENT chemicals DIFFERENTLY.
"WHERE'S YOUR BALLS NOW, U.S.? Send a few dozen cruise missiles up their asses!"
The US is absolutely guaranteed counterproductive blowback should it try such a thing. Internal violence in Mexico is a Mexican problem reflecting complex internal alliances. As long as it kills mostly Mexicans it's not a US problem.
When Mexicans get tired of the current situation they can stop it, but that takes a "Pinochet" and a modest compromise in Law Ritual because cartels are too strong for law and democracy to defeat.
The idea that some opponents can be too strong for Law Ritual and democracy to defeat is heresy, so don't expect things to change unless they get much worse.
The only way to "stand up" to extreme threats whose power is beyond the limits of mere Law Ritual to stop is to kill them.
That's why revolutions kill human obstacles. Qaddafi is gone because his people were willing to KILL him and KILL his troops and KILL his supporters and burn their homes and desolate their towns.
The world isn't all effeminate Politically Correct US suburbia. Law Ritual is made practical by first KILLING obstacles.
See "American Revolution" (dead Brits, Hessians, and Tories), the War Between the States (dead Confederates), and many others where Law Ritual didn't work but overwhelming violence worked just dandy. World War II is the canonical example, where Total War got the job done and postwar Law Ritual sanctified the contest.
"Less american influence, the better the world will be."
Agreed, and the less Americans will be blamed for outcomes.
Stagdot?
Citation of course needed.
There is no good reason for giving the United Nations a dime. It's a farce MY money shouldn't be taken for.
The US doesn't benefit from its UN membership. The UN is merely a League of Nations, useless to those who have been paying its bills.
If a culture is preserving, let the locals do it, because said culture belongs to THEM.
The US is worse than broke, it's deeply in debt. Cut everything we spend on other people. They aren't Americans.
That's identical to a punitive tariff, so what you are actually advocating is a trade war.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoot%E2%80%93Hawley_Tariff_Act
"It should be easy enough to restart these (or gear them up), with lower wages."
Citation sorely needed. A building without the specific tooling and production machinery for current drives is....a building.
Even with friendly management and CEOs who worked for free running benevolent privately held companies with no stockholders to which any fiduciary duty is owed, cheaper labor is still cheaper labor.
That choice means they don't care about security. Ridicule is perfectly appropriate in this case.
"My god! $30K/year and health insurance? What a bunch of greedy bastards! Don't they know how those extravagant wages will affect the incomes of the top 1%?"
How much MORE are YOU willing to pay to fund those wages as opposed to buying from a cheaper supplier?
The reason Americans can afford personal computers is that we don't MAKE them.
They should invest in Texas solar, sell the power to the US grid, then send the MONEY back to Canada.
No transmission losses at all.
Alcohol Prohibition was a disaster for the same reasons Other Drug Prohibition is a disaster, and the laws against drugs were both the product of superstitionists. The Harrison Act was signed in the heyday of the Prohibitionist movement.
Until we attack religion we will live under the oppression of its insane followers who insist on banning pleasures not got from suffering for their (oops, "their imaginary friends") amusement.
The drug lords are merely capitalists, no different from the owners of "legal" businesses. The religious are much worse. The drug lords kill for business, but the insane kill for something that doesn't exist at all.
Mexicans are too proud to submit to Yanquis. They are too divided to man up and liquidate the cartels. That will never be different.
"Due process exist for a very good reason, laws were not written by tree hugging hippies, they were wrote by victorious revolutionaries that put their life in the line to make a better society."
That didn't happen in Mexico, which needs another revolution to liquidate organized crime.
Refusal to pull over coupled with sustained high-speed evasion is a pretty clear "line".
It requires considerable deliberate effort and repeated decisions to resist apprehension.
That's why I advocate killing the runners to END the pursuit.
Explain why you value them more than good people.
Explain why you value them...at all.
Murder is killing an INNOCENT person.
Killing a fleeing criminal is DEFENDING the public, lawful in many areas.
Why do you value the criminal more than "everyone else"?