Being also a "PAFM", I note that G.I.s game heavily. From bored pilots gaming in the Alert shack to enlisted gaming in the dorms, it's wired force.
If _knowing_ a game exists where one side can _choose_ to play ragheads is going to wig someone out, they need help immediately before they go to NTC or into an exercise and flip out when facing the OPFOR in training.
"Lessons that the unlearned will learn will be repetitive, merciless, and unyielding." Yeah, but it pisses them off when pointed out. I now tend toward the "popcorn" option.:)
"Because they like to dump their problems on the young generation in the form of short-term gains." If the young believe this, they should fucking VOTE. Inaction is consent.
"How we see prostitutes as shameful, prostitution as sad, yet pimps as the gold standard of cool."
Consider that a skilled pimp is a brilliant social engineer. Consider his ho's "lusers", and that isn't hard to understand. Being able to talk your way into that kind of power is certainly attractive.
The population WILL be controlled by Evolutionary mechanisms such as Famine, War, Pestilence, and Death happening as dictated by circumstance.
We don't all need to survive, and we are groomed by Evolution to be violently competitive for survival. I'd rather gorge on resources and kill the competition if required. I don't really care about the survival of those outside my preferred sort of societies, nor do I expect them to care about me. That, if nature be the reference, would be profoundly un-natural.
"Now you understand how Right-wingers feel at being labeled 'The American Taliban."
You mean _RELIGIOUS_ Right-wingers, and sorry, when your ideology (like the Islamovermin who are the other side of the same coin) flows from the contemptible superstition of desert tribesmen, being "Taliban Light" for _lack_of_current_political_Dominion_ doesn't meant "Not Taliban".
I'm fine with freedom of religion, but that means freedom FROM religion, not freedom to install a theocracy.
"Committing violence is never the way to gain true followers."
Bullshit:
"Deus Vult!", "Allahu Akbar!", "Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Führer!", "Peace, Bread, and Land!" (Bolsheviks, who had enough "true followers" to smash the Tsarist government then win the Russian civil War), "To rebel is justified!" (Maoists, the most successful violent revolutionaries of the last century whose victory put China into the modern age).
They live in a boring, conformist hive culture so when they blow off steam, they REALLY need to blow off steam. An accepted social outlet is a non-disruptive way to do that. The old way to vent was upon the neighbors, and we've seen (Nanjing) what that leads to. Better they watch that stuff as a cartoon, fap, and go about their day. Every culture does this to some extent, but the Nips are less prudish than USians.
""Beer is living proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy." - Attributed to Ben Franklin and I'm too lazy to verify it." Depends on your choice of imaginary friend. Allah would not be pleased.:)
NASA could pull of plenty if it skipped sending humans for fifty or seventy-five years then spent the time perfecting the robots we must have anyway to effectively exploit what we find.
If the mission is really "exploration" then send (lots of) remotely-manned missions.
There is no urgency to manned missions. We already mechanize as much mining on Earth as possible, to cut costs which include expensive miners (who get killed, maimed, and expensively buried for month).
If we want to mine space resources, don't bring people, make remote systems so good we won't need humans onsite.
"But I don't think it will be economically rewarding without our lifetime."
Of course not, given the silly desire to send humans early in the game.
There isn't a good reason not to send forty or fifty or whatever remote-manned missions first. Humans would be along for the ride merely for the adventure, which is nice but can wait. If we want to mine space, don't increase the cost by having miners onsite.
The dumbest idea in the movie Total Recall was that there would be any need for human miners on Mars in the first place.
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"They are voluntarily risking their own lives while travelling halfway cross the world to kill people that never harmed them in any way"
Hosting Al Qaeda would certainly qualify as an act of war by the Taliban. That was rather harmful to the folks in the WTC.
Being also a "PAFM", I note that G.I.s game heavily. From bored pilots gaming in the Alert shack to enlisted gaming in the dorms, it's wired force.
If _knowing_ a game exists where one side can _choose_ to play ragheads is going to wig someone out, they need help immediately before they go to NTC or into an exercise and flip out when facing the OPFOR in training.
Their dependants who shop on base are for fucking sure sensitive, far more so than G.I.s.
Pulling it from bases removes it from view of sensitive dependants who shop there.
Meh. Industrial accidents kil, maim, and injure thousands of people every year.
There need be no conspiracy. Shit happens, sucks to be the victim, but that doesn't make it anything special.
"critical thought, "
Except when applied to the superstition itself. The essence of religion is prohibition and submission.
Religions are exclusive, so either all are lies and one is truth, or they are all lies.
There is no reason to respect religion. I don't believe in your imaginary "grace". Prove it exists or fuck off.
"... because if it does, I'll have a killer suit against Burger King for making their food too delicious."
Small potatoes. I'll sue all owners of a vagina!
"Lessons that the unlearned will learn will be repetitive, merciless, and unyielding." :)
Yeah, but it pisses them off when pointed out. I now tend toward the "popcorn" option.
"Because they like to dump their problems on the young generation in the form of short-term gains."
If the young believe this, they should fucking VOTE.
Inaction is consent.
"How we see prostitutes as shameful, prostitution as sad, yet pimps as the gold standard of cool."
Consider that a skilled pimp is a brilliant social engineer. Consider his ho's "lusers", and that isn't hard to understand. Being able to talk your way into that kind of power is certainly attractive.
The population WILL be controlled by Evolutionary mechanisms such as Famine, War, Pestilence, and Death happening as dictated by circumstance.
We don't all need to survive, and we are groomed by Evolution to be violently competitive for survival. I'd rather gorge on resources and kill the competition if required. I don't really care about the survival of those outside my preferred sort of societies, nor do I expect them to care about me.
That, if nature be the reference, would be profoundly un-natural.
"Now you understand how Right-wingers feel at being labeled 'The American Taliban."
You mean _RELIGIOUS_ Right-wingers, and sorry, when your ideology (like the Islamovermin who are the other side of the same coin) flows from the contemptible superstition of desert tribesmen, being "Taliban Light" for _lack_of_current_political_Dominion_ doesn't meant "Not Taliban".
I'm fine with freedom of religion, but that means freedom FROM religion, not freedom to install a theocracy.
"Committing violence is never the way to gain true followers."
Bullshit:
"Deus Vult!", "Allahu Akbar!", "Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Führer!", "Peace, Bread, and Land!" (Bolsheviks, who had enough "true followers" to smash the Tsarist government then win the Russian civil War), "To rebel is justified!" (Maoists, the most successful violent revolutionaries of the last century whose victory put China into the modern age).
"This guy is a representation of all atheists, right? :)"
He was clearly driven insane as part of a Vatican plot to distract the media from pedo priests. :)
"Personally I lost all respect for Sony with the whole rootkit deal."
Most people don't care. It's a TOY, it plays games, it's a trifle.
"How would you feel if your girlfriend told you robot dick feels better than yours?"
Fine if I can have Robocunt. :)
I'm an American and resent the offensive comparison of innocent urine to our loathsome fake "beer".
They live in a boring, conformist hive culture so when they blow off steam, they REALLY need to blow off steam. An accepted social outlet is a non-disruptive way to do that.
The old way to vent was upon the neighbors, and we've seen (Nanjing) what that leads to. Better they watch that stuff as a cartoon, fap, and go about their day. Every culture does this to some extent, but the Nips are less prudish than USians.
""Beer is living proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy." - Attributed to Ben Franklin and I'm too lazy to verify it." :)
Depends on your choice of imaginary friend. Allah would not be pleased.
That's why they have the term CFIT, "Controlled Flight Into Terrain".
...one reason it's cheap is it's disposable.
Me lubs MilSpec equipment, but would hate to pay that much for rugged repairability when not required.
NASA could pull of plenty if it skipped sending humans for fifty or seventy-five years then spent the time perfecting the robots we must have anyway to effectively exploit what we find.
If the mission is really "exploration" then send (lots of) remotely-manned missions.
There is no urgency to manned missions. We already mechanize as much mining on Earth as possible, to cut costs which include expensive miners (who get killed, maimed, and expensively buried for month).
If we want to mine space resources, don't bring people, make remote systems so good we won't need humans onsite.
"But I don't think it will be economically rewarding without our lifetime."
Of course not, given the silly desire to send humans early in the game.
There isn't a good reason not to send forty or fifty or whatever remote-manned missions first. Humans would be along for the ride merely for the adventure, which is nice but can wait. If we want to mine space, don't increase the cost by having miners onsite.
The dumbest idea in the movie Total Recall was that there would be any need for human miners on Mars in the first place.