The solution is martial law, and killing the cartel members without trial or possibility of intervention. War without prisoners is best because all prisoners do is take over the prisons.
The preconditions for democracy don't exist in Mexico. It needs a revolution, and that the winners impose order by overwhelming force.
Do what Soviets would do to enemy partisans and that would be a fine start.
What you need is a revolution to impose order and kill all the criminals.
Due process has failed and so has Mexico. Democracy isn't any good for imposing order when a large portion of the population are members of the "opposing force".
"It will be only a short time before drug lords and other baddies start getting anti aircraft missiles to take out the UAV's."
That becomes war, at which point it becomes reasonable to simply kill all the drug lords and tidily end the problem.
We tolerate a high degree of organized crime because it supplies many things the public desires and we refuse to end the War On Some Drugs. The organized criminals who are violent generally kill people we don't mind being dead, and historically as long as they do that they are tolerated to a great extent.
There's nothing precious about robbers. If you run and refuse to stop during high-speed pursuit you are PERFECTLY WILLING TO RUN OVER CIVILIANS.
I don't get shot by the cops because I don't rob other people. I don't run from blue lights and crash through barricades and bounce off the fucking scenery in an effort to avoid apprehension.
Fuck yes kill those who run roadblocks and shoot back at pursuers. How dare YOU value such people over GOOD people?
The US is extremely disorderly and has vast numbers of violent criminals compared to most modern nations. The police didn't create them. There is not a way to make such folks be different, and as our borders collapse our society becomes less and less unified. That means people feel no obligation to each other.
If we want any degree of personal safety from each other we unfortunately need a police state to keep the lower class trash in line.
So did banking. The masters are utterly corrupt, which has removed any moral reason to respect them or their property. I shed no tears for the rich when they lose what to them is a pittance.
True, but the Aggravated Sexual Battery types are worth keeping tabs on.
All criminal convictions should be publicly accessible online forever. That would both breed indifference to the "little shit" and allow avoiding more permanently toxic humans.
"but to claim that you, or just about anyone else, is prepared because you're handy in a few or even a few dozen ways is hubris."
Humans are TEAM players. You won't have to do it all yourself unless you are ALONE and then all you need do find water and kill for food.
The farmers would be supported by artisans (many farmers are "techies" themselves) and breeding draft animals is old news. There are plenty of mules happy to make more mules, and plenty of folks still producing tack. These technologies aren't dead just because mass media don't feature them!
I can manually pump water from my well, and fix and repair such pumps with hand tools I own. MANY people near me can do those things, and those who can't can trade labor or goods. I could make pumps from scrap if need by. Leather disc valves are simple, and they can also be made of plastic. An apocalypse isn't going to dig all the "foot valves" out of the ground and those work too. Anyone who has replaced their shallow-well pipe and foot valve knows in a pinch you can just stroke the whole tube and get water until you can rig a manual pump.
The vast amount of "junk" in a hypothetical "rollback" situation means plenty of advanced equipment to be repurposed. Turn off the power and the equipment remains. That means returning QUICKLY to "early 1900s" tech is PRACTICAL. Blacksmithing can be done over charcoal fires. The smith can forge tools from (abundant in a "rollback") scrap, and built tools with those tools. Hammer begets chisel begets file begets more advanced tools.
Pneumatic tools would still be runnable off compressors, though building pressure would take far more time with hand crank then pedal conversions.
Grinders and drills and chisels and files and saws remove surprising amounts of metal. Manual wrenches and other tools would be unimpeded by grid power loss.
Electricity can be produced by generators which can drive advanced tools to produce advanced machines. The US has thousands of machine shops using (old) lathes and mills and shapers from the early through mid-1900s which work just fine and could continue to work from non-grid power. Line shafting and steam engines were practical and could be again. Millions of vehicle alternators could be spun any number of ways. Amateur radio would still function.
We are not as "disconnected" from older tech as it looks. People who don't deal with such things often may think so, but the "gearhead" culture is robust.
The "toaster project" misses that even the first toasters had a social context and an existing trade/logistics system to support them! You don't backtrack from the end item, you build the context as your abilities and resources allow.
"In order to Support Our Troops, could we try to have a few more sinister foreign policy developments in places with nice, temperate climates?"
Cultures and people worth defending would be a plus too. One pleasant aspect of the Cold War for both the US and Soviets was that it was common to be deployed to defend places where the locals drank booze, smoked weed, liked to party and fuck, and favored secular governments.
It was a pleasure to defend NATO. Even the protesters who picketed my base were polite, though there was the odd bombing now and then. (My congrats to the Libyans who killed Qaddafi. They did in a much nicer way what the El Dorado Canyon mission wasn't able to accomplish.)
Now there isn't much difference between the supposed good guys and the bad ones. They are all religious fanatic lunatics I'd cheerfully hose with nerve agent, and most of that loathing is based visiting more advanced Muslim societies. Those societies are without virtue, theocratic and tribal and beastly with only a veneer of refinement provided by the modern objects they purchase. I would that Islam had but one throat, and my hands were on it.
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The solution is martial law, and killing the cartel members without trial or possibility of intervention. War without prisoners is best because all prisoners do is take over the prisons.
The preconditions for democracy don't exist in Mexico. It needs a revolution, and that the winners impose order by overwhelming force.
Do what Soviets would do to enemy partisans and that would be a fine start.
What you need is a revolution to impose order and kill all the criminals.
Due process has failed and so has Mexico. Democracy isn't any good for imposing order when a large portion of the population are members of the "opposing force".
And when there is no more "News for Nerds", what filter will BRING IT BACK?
"the detachment between a UAV operator and the actual person they see in their monitor enables these kinds of casualties."
Trebuchet, Catapult, Cannon Artillery, and Aerial Bombing called, citing prior art.
How do you plan to stop the debris from hitting innocents?
You can fire a wide variety of "non-bullety" items from shotguns:
http://tinyurl.com/63fyzb9
"It will be only a short time before drug lords and other baddies start getting anti aircraft missiles to take out the UAV's."
That becomes war, at which point it becomes reasonable to simply kill all the drug lords and tidily end the problem.
We tolerate a high degree of organized crime because it supplies many things the public desires and we refuse to end the War On Some Drugs. The organized criminals who are violent generally kill people we don't mind being dead, and historically as long as they do that they are tolerated to a great extent.
If he runs he doesn't care who he runs over.
There's nothing precious about robbers. If you run and refuse to stop during high-speed pursuit you are PERFECTLY WILLING TO RUN OVER CIVILIANS.
I don't get shot by the cops because I don't rob other people. I don't run from blue lights and crash through barricades and bounce off the fucking scenery in an effort to avoid apprehension.
Fuck yes kill those who run roadblocks and shoot back at pursuers.
How dare YOU value such people over GOOD people?
Not news for nerds. Now go take an ice axe to the head like your hero.
Those who object to non-tech stories polluting this site, speak up and don't post AC when you do it.
Enough. We have sufficient ordinary news sites and don't need that distracting bullshit here.
If it's not a relevant TECHNOLOGY or related story, post that shit somewhere else.
You don't need to post it here. We don't need it here.
"Tech or GTFO!"
They aren't. Here's the newest site with more tech news than Slashdot:
tmz.com
Non-lethal grenade launchers are common, and if there's room modern lethal launchers are respectably accurate.
They'd be a fine way to end vehicular chases where there is room. There's no reason not to kill a fleeing robber who has no hostages.
They aren't invading MY life. At all.
The US is extremely disorderly and has vast numbers of violent criminals compared to most modern nations. The police didn't create them. There is not a way to make such folks be different, and as our borders collapse our society becomes less and less unified. That means people feel no obligation to each other.
If we want any degree of personal safety from each other we unfortunately need a police state to keep the lower class trash in line.
It's not been a tech-only site for a while. Page hits are all that matter.
Also land of thugs who rob and shoot their fellow citizens.
This is Slashdot so nearly everyone hates government and cops, but the cops don't hassle me or steal or rob in my neighborhood.
You were modded Flamebait, but most consumers do exactly that.
Geeks can afford to fuck about with phones for FUN, we do, but I don't whine about phones being what they are.
ARM is intended for disposable devices such as phones.
Only to geeks are they not completely expendable.
"I think acting as a fake fireman is a felony"
Is Google broken today?
"It sounds almost like a respectable profession."
So did banking. The masters are utterly corrupt, which has removed any moral reason to respect them or their property. I shed no tears for the rich when they lose what to them is a pittance.
The fatasses who lost limbs to "diabesity" are less gratifying to picture.
True, but the Aggravated Sexual Battery types are worth keeping tabs on.
All criminal convictions should be publicly accessible online forever. That would both breed indifference to the "little shit" and allow avoiding more permanently toxic humans.
"but to claim that you, or just about anyone else, is prepared because you're handy in a few or even a few dozen ways is hubris."
Humans are TEAM players. You won't have to do it all yourself unless you are ALONE and then all you need do find water and kill for food.
The farmers would be supported by artisans (many farmers are "techies" themselves) and breeding draft animals is old news. There are plenty of mules happy to make more mules, and plenty of folks still producing tack. These technologies aren't dead just because mass media don't feature them!
I can manually pump water from my well, and fix and repair such pumps with hand tools I own. MANY people near me can do those things, and those who can't can trade labor or goods. I could make pumps from scrap if need by. Leather disc valves are simple, and they can also be made of plastic. An apocalypse isn't going to dig all the "foot valves" out of the ground and those work too. Anyone who has replaced their shallow-well pipe and foot valve knows in a pinch you can just stroke the whole tube and get water until you can rig a manual pump.
The vast amount of "junk" in a hypothetical "rollback" situation means plenty of advanced equipment to be repurposed. Turn off the power and the equipment remains. That means returning QUICKLY to
"early 1900s" tech is PRACTICAL. Blacksmithing can be done over charcoal fires. The smith can forge tools from (abundant in a "rollback") scrap, and built tools with those tools. Hammer begets chisel begets file begets more advanced tools.
Pneumatic tools would still be runnable off compressors, though building pressure would take far more time with hand crank then pedal conversions.
Grinders and drills and chisels and files and saws remove surprising amounts of metal. Manual wrenches and other tools would be unimpeded by grid power loss.
Electricity can be produced by generators which can drive advanced tools to produce advanced machines. The US has thousands of machine shops using (old) lathes and mills and shapers from the early through mid-1900s which work just fine and could continue to work from non-grid power. Line shafting and steam engines were practical and could be again. Millions of vehicle alternators could be spun any number of ways. Amateur radio would still function.
We are not as "disconnected" from older tech as it looks. People who don't deal with such things often may think so, but the "gearhead" culture is robust.
The "toaster project" misses that even the first toasters had a social context and an existing trade/logistics system to support them! You don't backtrack from the end item, you build the context as your abilities and resources allow.
"I bought my playbook on the premise I'd be able to actually fucking USE it for something soon."
That's why I'm a LATE adopter. Everyone else should beta test so I can learn from their experience.
"In order to Support Our Troops, could we try to have a few more sinister foreign policy developments in places with nice, temperate climates?"
Cultures and people worth defending would be a plus too. One pleasant aspect of the Cold War for both the US and Soviets was that it was common to be deployed to defend places where the locals drank booze, smoked weed, liked to party and fuck, and favored secular governments.
It was a pleasure to defend NATO. Even the protesters who picketed my base were polite, though there was the odd bombing now and then. (My congrats to the Libyans who killed Qaddafi. They did in a much nicer way what the El Dorado Canyon mission wasn't able to accomplish.)
Now there isn't much difference between the supposed good guys and the bad ones. They are all religious fanatic lunatics I'd cheerfully hose with nerve agent, and most of that loathing is based visiting more advanced Muslim societies. Those societies are without virtue, theocratic and tribal and beastly with only a veneer of refinement provided by the modern objects they purchase. I would that Islam had but one throat, and my hands were on it.
"I remember when XP came out everyone was complaining about its online activation requirement."
Who activates? "VLK 4 teh win."