Discussion of demographics and violence in the US is almost taboo, due to the controversial reflections on the race and culture of a disproportionate number of the perps.
Other interesting outcomes, like "floods in New Orleans" vs "floods in the Midwest", are instructive.
"I think it's time to really consider leaving the US before this sort to stupid political strife becomes a full blown civil war..."
Post here when you split. It bores me hearing that old song yet again.
Incidentally, there ARE plenty of opportunities for US expats to make phat bank overseas. I'm surprised more don't take advantage of them and see the world.
Just tell anyone who asks that you hate US policies, despise the government, and you'll be welcome. (This even worked when I was in the military and the person I spoke to knew it. It helps to be convincing. I consider tactical disinformation acceptable to blend in overseas.)
Most of Slashdotters are very Liberal, and the victim was both. Nobody likes own-side casualties, but politics is war and if you can't get your way peacefully there really is no reason not to escalate except inconvenience.
If someone had whacked a TeaPartista the response here would be more muted. It's OK to admit we take sides, have enemies, and cheer their misfortune (or just plain want them to FUCKING DIE!). Human nature, nothing to see here. We should expect those we disagree with to wish us death also. There is no victory without defeat.
"This type of story is news for everybody, including nerds."
Good thing Slashdot aired it or we'd never know it happened.
"Secondly, she serves or served on the House Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics which affects funding for one of Slashdot's favorite government programs called NASA. Her husband is also an Astronaut for NASA."
Not strictly true, though that is a deeply cherished illusion. If you disagree with someone on how the country should be run, and they do not change, or stop, and their movement is a sufficient threat, violence is an option.
The US was founded on violence, the people killed, wounded, and maimed their lawful government until it packed up and went back to England. Right or wrong, whatever those are at any given time, have NOTHING to do with the effectiveness of political violence. Mao was right in that power flows from the barrel of a gun, so choose a side and make sure they have more guns. That "side" can include the current government (has MANY guns!) or something else, but it still comes down to firepower in the end.
Her staff should have been armed and ready to respond. Do you anti-gunners out there think LEGISLATION is going to protect you from POLITICAL attacks?
A motivated attacker can fashion weapons from raw steel if he's motivated. (Can you say Sten gun? Probably not, but anyone with a basic lathe and hand tools can make them all day.) If politics in the US turns into a streetfight, there aren't enough cops to issue everyone a bodyguard.
Laws only restrain the lawful. Arm up and mobb deep.
I'm glad to be rid of meter readers in my area. I don't need ANY visitors on my property scoping out my stuff.
I don't need new people entering my property when my dogs are out. My property is MINE. Stay the fuck out thanks very much.
I don't need the massive waste of fuel, or the pollution that goes with meter readers driving all over my rural county. That's thousands of gallons of fuel every year, oil changes, antifreeze changes, and a large carbon footprint.
"Actually, meter readers working in pairs is not a bad idea in some neighborhoods. One can cover the other while he's walking around behind the house."
That's another reason not to use them. Meter reading is no reason to send people into dangerous areas where they require a "covering force" of another person to enter safely. It just endangers two people.
"The free-thinking, modern parents would be ostracized by the society that would be formed by a glut of morons who can get by specifically being morons"
They will be anyway, which is why economic SEGREGATION is a good idea. I went to a secular boarding school and advocate that choice for others.
The way to avoid the Hellmouth is to buy your way out and seek a separate lifestyle. The US is a large place, and choice vouchers would help anyone with initiative to help their offspring move in different circles.
Poor people suck, religious people suck, and the way to avoid being fucked with by them is to grow up in a superior environment _isolated from_ them.
We can't fix society or the beasts in it, but we can work an alternate lifestyle track to avoid getting fucked over. The way to beat the enemy is to be more educated. Let them be stupid. They lick that shit up, they crave it, so give it to them.
I am beginning to understand WHY the folks who sold mortgage-backed securities felt no compunction about doing so and why elites run roughshod over the naive. It's because their victims deserve their contempt, deserve to be used, deserved to have their jobs outsourced and their shit factory towns shut down.
A track for those who deserve better can be cut by exploiting situations the beasts like. They can have their madrassas, while others can opt to use THE SAME enabling legislation to school elsewhere. Many Slashdotters want to change the way the public schools do business. That's a mistake and not affordable or politically tenable. Instead, do what the enemy does and seek private or home schooling in order to raise more competitive offspring.
"You talk as if you own the hardware or something."
I DON'T own Apple hardware. They are not less evil than Microsoft.
I don't want to adapt Apple hardware to my purpose with Free software, I want to deny them my money. Their fanbitches make them rich enough without my help.
Selling options is a sweet money maker for dealers.
Never forget that the average buyer has no fucking idea how cars work. At all. If you doubt this, sell cars for a while.
Makers don't give a fuck if your feature-bloated blingbox takes a shit several years down the road, since you have infinite credit and can finance another one.
Salvage yards win because parts cost more, mechanics win because complex vehicles cost more to fix, and when expensive vehicles sustain damage it's easier to total them (airbags fired, it's done!) which puts more organ donors into the food chain.
"When I was a kid doing well in school meant you were a nerd & a loser."
When the masses are fucking morons dedicated to making school a Hellmouth for anyone with a brain, of course that deters excellence.
Instead of focusing on useless programs like how to integrate window-lickers into normal public schools, we should be focusing on nurturing the FEW who are more likely to advance society. Standard education is absurd. Train the drones to be drones, and allow school choice so parents who were responsible to have children they could afford can take their taxes out of the public retard mill and send their offspring to private school.
Of course, the Bible Thumpers will take advantage, but that's IMO a good thing since they will remove themselves from the system. Free-thinking, modern parents would be enabled to send their kids to superior private schools and produce superior citizens.
The thugs, trailer trash, and ghetto trash already own the public schools. I was fortunate my folks could afford to send me away from that cesspool of human garbage, and so I advocate economic segregation. In the developed world, you are poor because you suck, and I shouldn't have to associate with you.
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Discussion of demographics and violence in the US is almost taboo, due to the controversial reflections on the race and culture of a disproportionate number of the perps.
Other interesting outcomes, like "floods in New Orleans" vs "floods in the Midwest", are instructive.
Nonsense. During the Cold War it was standard to brief military and government employees to be wary of espionage attempts and trust no one.
If there is anything the internet age should reaffirm about security, it's that trust is naive and stupid, not admirable.
Owning a fire extinguisher doesn't make me paranoid of fire, merely prepared if one should happen.
"I think it's time to really consider leaving the US before this sort to stupid political strife becomes a full blown civil war..."
Post here when you split. It bores me hearing that old song yet again.
Incidentally, there ARE plenty of opportunities for US expats to make phat bank overseas. I'm surprised more don't take advantage of them and see the world.
Just tell anyone who asks that you hate US policies, despise the government, and you'll be welcome. (This even worked when I was in the military and the person I spoke to knew it. It helps to be convincing. I consider tactical disinformation acceptable to blend in overseas.)
Gun laws didn't stop Timmy McVeigh. They didn't even inconvenience him.
"This is not the society we should be planning. This is not the world we should be creating"
Being prepared is NOT the same thing as "hoping it will happen".
If it DOES happen, would you prefer to be on the losing side because you failed to prepare? Pacifism doesn't deter serious people.
Most of Slashdotters are very Liberal, and the victim was both. Nobody likes own-side casualties, but politics is war and if you can't get your way peacefully there really is no reason not to escalate except inconvenience.
If someone had whacked a TeaPartista the response here would be more muted. It's OK to admit we take sides, have enemies, and cheer their misfortune (or just plain want them to FUCKING DIE!). Human nature, nothing to see here. We should expect those we disagree with to wish us death also. There is no victory without defeat.
"This type of story is news for everybody, including nerds."
Good thing Slashdot aired it or we'd never know it happened.
"Secondly, she serves or served on the House Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics which affects funding for one of Slashdot's favorite government programs called NASA. Her husband is also an Astronaut for NASA."
Trifles.
"This doesn't solve anything."
Not strictly true, though that is a deeply cherished illusion. If you disagree with someone on how the country should be run, and they do not change, or stop, and their movement is a sufficient threat, violence is an option.
The US was founded on violence, the people killed, wounded, and maimed their lawful government until it packed up and went back to England. Right or wrong, whatever those are at any given time, have NOTHING to do with the effectiveness of political violence. Mao was right in that power flows from the barrel of a gun, so choose a side and make sure they have more guns. That "side" can include the current government (has MANY guns!) or something else, but it still comes down to firepower in the end.
Her staff should have been armed and ready to respond. Do you anti-gunners out there think LEGISLATION is going to protect you from POLITICAL attacks?
A motivated attacker can fashion weapons from raw steel if he's motivated. (Can you say Sten gun? Probably not, but anyone with a basic lathe and hand tools can make them all day.) If politics in the US turns into a streetfight, there aren't enough cops to issue everyone a bodyguard.
Laws only restrain the lawful. Arm up and mobb deep.
So sack up or shut up.
"This matters"
That in no way means it "matters" in a way that justifies posting it here.
There are many things that "matter", shall we forget the purpose of Slashdot and turn it into a generic news site? To what purpose?
I'm glad to be rid of meter readers in my area. I don't need ANY visitors on my property scoping out my stuff.
I don't need new people entering my property when my dogs are out. My property is MINE. Stay the fuck out thanks very much.
I don't need the massive waste of fuel, or the pollution that goes with meter readers driving all over my rural county. That's thousands of gallons of fuel every year, oil changes, antifreeze changes, and a large carbon footprint.
"Actually, meter readers working in pairs is not a bad idea in some neighborhoods. One can cover the other while he's walking around behind the house."
That's another reason not to use them. Meter reading is no reason to send people into dangerous areas where they require a "covering force" of another person to enter safely. It just endangers two people.
"The free-thinking, modern parents would be ostracized by the society that would be formed by a glut of morons who can get by specifically being morons"
They will be anyway, which is why economic SEGREGATION is a good idea. I went to a secular boarding school and advocate that choice for others.
The way to avoid the Hellmouth is to buy your way out and seek a separate lifestyle. The US is a large place, and choice vouchers would help anyone with initiative to help their offspring move in different circles.
Poor people suck, religious people suck, and the way to avoid being fucked with by them is to grow up in a superior environment _isolated from_ them.
We can't fix society or the beasts in it, but we can work an alternate lifestyle track to avoid getting fucked over. The way to beat the enemy is to be more educated. Let them be stupid. They lick that shit up, they crave it, so give it to them.
I am beginning to understand WHY the folks who sold mortgage-backed securities felt no compunction about doing so and why elites run roughshod over the naive. It's because their victims deserve their contempt, deserve to be used, deserved to have their jobs outsourced and their shit factory towns shut down.
A track for those who deserve better can be cut by exploiting situations the beasts like. They can have their madrassas, while others can opt to use THE SAME enabling legislation to school elsewhere. Many Slashdotters want to change the way the public schools do business. That's a mistake and not affordable or politically tenable. Instead, do what the enemy does and seek private or home schooling in order to raise more competitive offspring.
"You talk as if you own the hardware or something."
I DON'T own Apple hardware. They are not less evil than Microsoft.
I don't want to adapt Apple hardware to my purpose with Free software, I want to deny them my money. Their fanbitches make them rich enough without my help.
Selling options is a sweet money maker for dealers.
Never forget that the average buyer has no fucking idea how cars work. At all. If you doubt this, sell cars for a while.
Makers don't give a fuck if your feature-bloated blingbox takes a shit several years down the road, since you have infinite credit and can finance another one.
Salvage yards win because parts cost more, mechanics win because complex vehicles cost more to fix, and when expensive vehicles sustain damage it's easier to total them (airbags fired, it's done!) which puts more organ donors into the food chain.
"You think a normal person cares about horsepower?"
No, but they certainly DO care about torque and acceleration, which make merging and overtaking easier.
Gaia designed me to be omnivorous. Who is anyone to argue with HER? :P
Animals have the inalienable right of all living things to eat what they are able to kill by luck or circumstance.
I eat them, and avoid situations where I'll be dinner (until I die, rot, and go back into the system.)
"When I was a kid doing well in school meant you were a nerd & a loser."
When the masses are fucking morons dedicated to making school a Hellmouth for anyone with a brain, of course that deters excellence.
Instead of focusing on useless programs like how to integrate window-lickers into normal public schools, we should be focusing on nurturing the FEW who are more likely to advance society. Standard education is absurd. Train the drones to be drones, and allow school choice so parents who were responsible to have children they could afford can take their taxes out of the public retard mill and send their offspring to private school.
Of course, the Bible Thumpers will take advantage, but that's IMO a good thing since they will remove themselves from the system. Free-thinking, modern parents would be enabled to send their kids to superior private schools and produce superior citizens.
The thugs, trailer trash, and ghetto trash already own the public schools. I was fortunate my folks could afford to send me away from that cesspool of human garbage, and so I advocate economic segregation. In the developed world, you are poor because you suck, and I shouldn't have to associate with you.
Don't consume DRM'ed products.
You don't need Hollywood or RIAA products, all of which are trifling bullshit that can be dispensed with.
If you WANT them, then shut up and KNOW that by spending your MONEY on them you are gorging on corporate cock.
Vote with your wallet or grab your ankles.
Helicopter flying hours are very expensive, which is why even in wartime they aren't used for long loiter missions.
Don't challenge these loons. Do use the situation, gently, for advantage.
Irrational people should be controlled and guided by their betters, even the purpose be benign and to help them.
"Get rid of your mother-in-law "
Your ideas intrigue me and I would like to subscribe to your newsletter.
If we get the same efficiency as the military, I'd gladly take the trade.