The nations LAYING the mines are not the nations REMOVING the mines. One is not like the other.
Side note: BTW, the US (whose mine use is not a problem, and since no one, anywhere, ever, gives a fuck about moral examples need not set one) doesn't buy-in to getting rid of its own mines because they are useful in slowing and channelizing an attack on the Korean peninsula.
When most people were hallucinating Friendly Norks this was frowned on. Every now and then the Norks remind us they aren't friendly, and that if they DO wig out and crash across the DMZ we might ought to slow the process so we can kill enough of them to save South Korea.
I'd like to see School Choice legislation so we can let the Christian Taliban keep their bullshit in their own madrassas. Any way we can let these fools fail in making their spawn competitive is fine with me. We need superior people to rise in business, science, government, etc. Let the white trash self-segregate.
"The "greenness" of a train doesn't come close to the "greenness" of a bike. It's not even within an order of magnitude... probably not even within two."
The train is not a Green way to move a single cyclist, but bicycles may not be a particularly Green way to move thousands of tons of cargo.
Zimbra is also nice because you can back up the whole program in one shot, messages included. Google 'Zimbra Portable'. It doesn't move well between machines, but as a backup on a single set of hardware or VM is quite nice.
"We have inflicted the current situation upon ourselves, by letting them take hold of our freedom."
They master their fear of death, and fight, often to the death. They aren't very nice people, but they still wage war against the best-equipped war machine on the planet! They have the courage of their superstition, because they are strong in their faith!
If your faith were genuine, you could be as brave. That leaves either cowardice (to judge by religious metrics) or hypocrisy as an excuse for failure.
Why aren't the (sneers) "supposedly" "moderate" Muslims taking their world back with the same level of commitment the "supposedly" "radical" Muslims used to take precedence and power?
I accuse you of all being essentially the same, the passive enablers and the fighters are one.
When you serve the "radicals", yet claim not to be of them, do you not sin before your God? Then be ready to explain to him why you fucked up.
They either have the same courage of their faith as those they oppose, or they are cowards not worth helping.
It is perfectly fair to judge people by the standards of their own professed faith. The Taliban and the 9/11 bombers may be the only Muslims with courage, however misused.
"They were in international waters when boarded. No nation has the right to board ships in international waters unless the ship in question is registered in that country."
The ships were on a declared mission to enter Israeli space. No one disputes that they were trolling for contact. They got what they asked for.
Israel cannot, ever, defend itself in a manner acceptable to its enemies, because they are its enemies. Laws therefore cease to matter. Power and force matter.
Good luck with that. It takes much less to be a pro gamer than an athlete, and with that low barrier to entry would come enough competition to crush any organizing effort.
"I hope that your locale actually builds sidewalks."
They can't build sidewalks everywhere, so in the extremely rare event I walk anywhere, I walk on the dirt, not the road.
In the case of there being no alternative, I don't go there. Many roads are not designed for pedestrians nor is there a logical reason to do that. I find another way to get where I wish to go.
I don't walk on railroad tracks either, due to other users for which the tracks were intended. Splatty outcomes are thus avoided.
The lukewarm hobbyist/social Muslims don't have the physical courage of their own faith.
The Taliban and other Jihadists, for all their failings, believe in Allah to the extent that they master their fear of death. If you cannot trust your God to validate your faith despite all opposition, then you aren't serious and need a new hobby.
Don't feel bad. Most religion is a social club and Christian cave in too. Jews had their Kapos, etc.
"but somehow I need to dissociate myself from them."
I dissociate myself from Christianity by being an atheist. If they were going to kill me for it I'd leave, or kill them if opportune.
I do have a point. Just because you may not _like_ the ChiComs doesn't mean they can't be useful against religious enemies. They still have the courage to kill religionists, and they have the will to fight their domestic Islamovermin using methods the effeminate West dare not.
Would you say that supporting Stalin against Hitler was a bad call? It worked superbly, bled the Wehrmacht to death in the East, and cost the Commies dearly at the same time.
Why is insulting the idiotic beliefs of others "sad"? Why shouldn't everything be open to ridicule?
Pretending the real issue is with extremists is to deliberately ignore what Muslim societies are really like, and what believers do as they get power. That plays into the hands of Islamists who know they can exploit people who share your oh-so-very-PC _ideological_ worldview.
The car bombers aren't the problem. Islam is the problem.
"if they were *really* as bad as fox "news" would have you believe, we'd have turned this place into a self-illuminating glass-floored parking lot by now."
False asserted conclusion. "Bad"/= "energetic" or "capable". A vast base of approving enablers doesn't (immediately) translate into action, especially when most of them are poor and extremely backward.
"Actually people do this all the time against Christianity and the US, even in Alabama, with nary a peep. We don't kill anyone, burn something down, or attack innocents"
No, you disclaim inconvenient Christians such as Eric Rudolph and the Ku Klux Klan.
"Why the cheap shot against the "left"? You could say I'm a "leftie" (especially by US standards), and I'm pissed off by this."
Because (many) Leftists who begat and maintain the ideology of Political Correctness.
This made for a slick weapon ("everything is everything, so be nice to me, all beliefs are "valid", whatever that means") when Leftists were on the offensive, but it got jacked by everyone else who could play that card and sound convincing.
I personally miss the Old School Leftists who openly hated religion, and shot the religious when they had the power to do so. What we forget post-Cold War is that the social failings which gave energy to the Left included religion, and that attacks on religion in the West helped make religionists tame enough that todays generation think they were always like that!
Marxism is IMO as noxious as religionists said it was, but religion is as noxious as Marxists said it is.
"However, you need to realize that for every Muslim that doesn't want the Western Oil companies there pumping the oil, there are probably three that do."
Inaction is not enthusiastic support, and redirecting that sweet oil money (as the Saudis have done) to Jihad isn't exactly news.
Some Muslims have the balls to fight. Some Muslims don't have the balls to fight, but do money and logistics. Some just stand and cheer. Some are our enemies because they promote Islam thus helping the whole Jihadist movement.
Because Islam is, itself, profoundly anti-freedom and demands theocratic slavery, there can be no "non-toxic Islam". Islam, like Juche in North Korea, or like Stalinism, cannot be benign without ceasing to be. That's not a decision followers can even make, because the part supports the whole.
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Exhale slowly and put down the glass pipe.
The nations LAYING the mines are not the nations REMOVING the mines. One is not like the other.
Side note:
BTW, the US (whose mine use is not a problem, and since no one, anywhere, ever, gives a fuck about moral examples need not set one) doesn't buy-in to getting rid of its own mines because they are useful in slowing and channelizing an attack on the Korean peninsula.
When most people were hallucinating Friendly Norks this was frowned on. Every now and then the Norks remind us they aren't friendly, and that if they DO wig out and crash across the DMZ we might ought to slow the process so we can kill enough of them to save South Korea.
"A soldier could walk to where the known unmined area ends and fire this thingie."
Some folks have been known to rudely interrupt mine clearing by shooting at those clearing the mines.
Give them an iTarget instead of a trooper, that they may plink it and reveal themselves for some iPayback.
I'd like to see School Choice legislation so we can let the Christian Taliban keep their bullshit in their own madrassas.
Any way we can let these fools fail in making their spawn competitive is fine with me. We need superior people to rise in business, science, government, etc. Let the white trash self-segregate.
"The "greenness" of a train doesn't come close to the "greenness" of a bike. It's not even within an order of magnitude... probably not even within two."
The train is not a Green way to move a single cyclist, but bicycles may not be a particularly Green way to move thousands of tons of cargo.
"What's the cost? Every feature in the world for infinite cost doesn't make a good product..."
HUSH! The Early Adopters will hear you and might not subsidize my future purchases.
"Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain" :)
Zimbra is also nice because you can back up the whole program in one shot, messages included. Google 'Zimbra Portable'.
It doesn't move well between machines, but as a backup on a single set of hardware or VM is quite nice.
Exposing an enemy by exploiting their standard reaction to ridicule is not sophomoric, it's smart.
It most eloquently demonstrates Jihadist reaction and underscores the point that such reaction is ideologically mandatory.
"We have inflicted the current situation upon ourselves, by letting them take hold of our freedom."
They master their fear of death, and fight, often to the death. They aren't very nice people, but they still wage war against the best-equipped war machine on the planet! They have the courage of their superstition, because they are strong in their faith!
If your faith were genuine, you could be as brave. That leaves either cowardice (to judge by religious metrics) or hypocrisy as an excuse for failure.
Why aren't the (sneers) "supposedly" "moderate" Muslims taking their world back with the same level of commitment the "supposedly" "radical" Muslims used to take precedence and power?
I accuse you of all being essentially the same, the passive enablers and the fighters are one.
When you serve the "radicals", yet claim not to be of them, do you not sin before your God? Then be ready to explain to him why you fucked up.
They either have the same courage of their faith as those they oppose, or they are cowards not worth helping.
It is perfectly fair to judge people by the standards of their own professed faith. The Taliban and the 9/11 bombers may be the only Muslims with courage, however misused.
"They were in international waters when boarded. No nation has the right to board ships in international waters unless the ship in question is registered in that country."
The ships were on a declared mission to enter Israeli space. No one disputes that they were trolling for contact. They got what they asked for.
Israel cannot, ever, defend itself in a manner acceptable to its enemies, because they are its enemies. Laws therefore cease to matter. Power and force matter.
Those are wonderful working conditions compared to most of China in most of its history. Tough, but hardly as tough as working in a steel mill.
Kudos to the workers if they can get more money, but plenty of people in the rest of the world would kill for a job that good.
Good luck with that. It takes much less to be a pro gamer than an athlete, and with that low barrier to entry would come enough competition to crush any organizing effort.
"It reminds me how porn works."
Citation needed.
6. Printing books has a long pollution consequence chain, from the paper mill onward.
7. Electronic media are great for giving to friends. I email .pdf manuals quite often. Did I mention "no packing or postage"?
8. I can carry many electronic pubs on my USB key. No one steals my electronics at airports because I hand-carry them too.
"Please, kids, don't use the pull-out method -- there's a reason it's called the Vietnam of contraception."
Good.
I'll call the result "Peace With Honor" and run away!
My sack tears when I sit naked on a running table saw.
Is the problem with the table saw, or my sack?
"I hope that your locale actually builds sidewalks."
They can't build sidewalks everywhere, so in the extremely rare event I walk anywhere, I walk on the dirt, not the road.
In the case of there being no alternative, I don't go there. Many roads are not designed for pedestrians nor is there a logical reason to do that.
I find another way to get where I wish to go.
I don't walk on railroad tracks either, due to other users for which the tracks were intended. Splatty outcomes are thus avoided.
To make it short, the faithful have won.
The lukewarm hobbyist/social Muslims don't have the physical courage of their own faith.
The Taliban and other Jihadists, for all their failings, believe in Allah to the extent that they master their fear of death. If you cannot trust your God to validate your faith despite all opposition, then you aren't serious and need a new hobby.
Don't feel bad. Most religion is a social club and Christian cave in too. Jews had their Kapos, etc.
"but somehow I need to dissociate myself from them."
I dissociate myself from Christianity by being an atheist. If they were going to kill me for it I'd leave, or kill them if opportune.
I do have a point. Just because you may not _like_ the ChiComs doesn't mean they can't be useful against religious enemies. They still have the courage to kill religionists, and they have the will to fight their domestic Islamovermin using methods the effeminate West dare not.
Would you say that supporting Stalin against Hitler was a bad call? It worked superbly, bled the Wehrmacht to death in the East, and cost the Commies dearly at the same time.
Why is insulting the idiotic beliefs of others "sad"? Why shouldn't everything be open to ridicule?
Pretending the real issue is with extremists is to deliberately ignore what Muslim societies are really like, and what believers do as they get power.
That plays into the hands of Islamists who know they can exploit people who share your oh-so-very-PC _ideological_ worldview.
The car bombers aren't the problem. Islam is the problem.
"if they were *really* as bad as fox "news" would have you believe, we'd have turned this place into a self-illuminating glass-floored parking lot by now."
False asserted conclusion. "Bad" /= "energetic" or "capable". A vast base of approving enablers doesn't (immediately) translate into action, especially when most of them are poor and extremely backward.
I'm an American atheist. I served in the military to defend the country, not the flag, and understand the difference as did the Founders.
Bring on the flaming turds of Free Speech!
(E-hugs Brit Freethinker buddies.)
"Actually people do this all the time against Christianity and the US, even in Alabama, with nary a peep. We don't kill anyone, burn something down, or attack innocents"
No, you disclaim inconvenient Christians such as Eric Rudolph and the Ku Klux Klan.
"Why the cheap shot against the "left"? You could say I'm a "leftie" (especially by US standards), and I'm pissed off by this."
Because (many) Leftists who begat and maintain the ideology of Political Correctness.
This made for a slick weapon ("everything is everything, so be nice to me, all beliefs are "valid", whatever that means") when Leftists were on the offensive, but it got jacked by everyone else who could play that card and sound convincing.
I personally miss the Old School Leftists who openly hated religion, and shot the religious when they had the power to do so. What we forget post-Cold War is that the social failings which gave energy to the Left included religion, and that attacks on religion in the West helped make religionists tame enough that todays generation think they were always like that!
Marxism is IMO as noxious as religionists said it was, but religion is as noxious as Marxists said it is.
"However, you need to realize that for every Muslim that doesn't want the Western Oil companies there pumping the oil, there are probably three that do."
Inaction is not enthusiastic support, and redirecting that sweet oil money (as the Saudis have done) to Jihad isn't exactly news.
Some Muslims have the balls to fight.
Some Muslims don't have the balls to fight, but do money and logistics.
Some just stand and cheer.
Some are our enemies because they promote Islam thus helping the whole Jihadist movement.
Because Islam is, itself, profoundly anti-freedom and demands theocratic slavery, there can be no "non-toxic Islam". Islam, like Juche in North Korea, or like Stalinism, cannot be benign without ceasing to be. That's not a decision followers can even make, because the part supports the whole.