"What do you do when the majority want to take away your freedoms?"
Kill as many of them as possible and work for fragmentation of the country. ENEMIES don't need to share dirt.
The former Republic of Yugoslavia is a model for what should happen to all these fractious countries. Break them up and they will be too weak to cause much problem.
Documents can do things such as verify toxic exposure to Afghan and Iraqi burn pits.
Their loss in past wars has caused vets many problems.For example, my friend worked VC-123Ks while TDY at Da Nang, but only has a single order amendment and no original order to verify boots-on-ground and exposure to Agent Orange.
The MIAs are dead (any VC in his right mind wouldn't bother saving useless prisoners) and the submarines are already war graves. The dead are dead, rituals over the dead are nice, but hundreds of thousands of LIVING veterans will be with us for nearly a century and perhaps longer.
"I mean the species. But if we had space elevators, and we stopped breeding, and we built sufficiently large ships, we could probably get a significant portion of the population out of here."
We don't need to evacuate anyone. Making a colony doesn't require moving a bunch of Terrans with short lifespans to Mars, it requires moving a cadre who whose progeny will become Martians.
....people didn't use the internet for secure communication because it didn't exist.
Now that the internet useless for secure communication, it would be wise to stop using it for anything other than a smokescreen.
OTOH, tiny storage is cheap and there are plenty of places one could conceal say a MicroSD card on the PC board of ordinary consumer products. You could tuck one under the heatsink of a notebook or other location where it would pass visual inspection.
"I have no idea of what I would need terabytes of stuff on my phone for."
That would defeat efforts to control online "piracy" for once everyone can swap terabytes of music, apps, movies and porn as easily as our ancient predecessors traded cassette tapes, the need to go online would be reduced.
Read about the massive, and legal, prostitution in Hawaii during WWII.
Any vet who was in the Pacific during the Cold War is familiar with the hardcore party culture that once was. Bar girls aplenty, public fucking in bars, good times.
The correct attitude IMO is "we kill for you folks back home, so if we want to fuck and party GTFO, MYOB, and STFU". It was that way during the Cold War and it was a blast.
The military in recent decades has been infested with Bible Thumpers and PC do-gooders who are under the delusion whores aren't volunteers and in general just hate other peoples fun. (Been there, saw that, '81-'07.)
I and many vets have years SOCIALISING with hookers, not just banging them. I kept it in my pants when I got married, but hung with Filipina "juicies" in Korea. Mostly nice (yes, really) girls just making a buck and good company when they were not making a buck. A job's a job and it beat anything they'd make back in the PI, which is why they did multiple years in Korea. They even bought us "ammo bowls" of soju when we partied at "their" bars, and we'd cook out in A-town where some Airmen rented houses. GI's would buy the food, the bar girls would make a feast, and it was chill.
You underestimate how well-informed many firearms hobbyists are about corporate support for the NRA and how delighted we are to get it!
We WELCOME those corporate dollars because they directly help us get the results we want. Businesses which donate to the NRA often proudly advertise that fact, and I prefer to vote with my wallet and shop there as to millions of firearm enthusiasts.
Most firearms owners are as far as can be from the criminal CHUDs who commit crimes with guns. We want those people either locked up or dead and we demand to be able to defend ourselves from them. You may have a personal police officer to babysit you but I don't. I don't have a personal fire department either, so I own both fire extinguishers and firearms. I have put out small fires over the years with the extinguishers, and deterred assault (without firing) with my weapons.
Of course I want the NRA and its corporate and private donors to fight for our COLLECTIVE good.
According to FactCheck.org, nearly half of the funding for the NRA comes from membership dues alone. Voluntary donations to the NRA, however, still account for a majority portion of the remaining funding. This includes voluntary donations made during gun purchases at the point of sale as well as programs like the "round-up" campaign, operated by the NRA-ILA and retailers, where consumers can round a purchase up to the nearest dollar for donation to support lobbying efforts. With that said, gun manufacturers do donate to the NRA as well. For example, Sturm, Ruger, and Co., ran the "Million Gun Challenge" in 2011, which directly ties gun sales to donations with the target being one million dollars. [/quote]
"Many of the people using Tor in restrictive countries won't have the luxury of switching away from Windows. Even if they don't, they won't necessarily know how."
Anyone can create bootable media with a short time spent practicing.
If you are at war you need to learn how to fight, not expect the rules to change for you. If that's not convenient, tough shit.
What one man can learn, another can learn. Plenty of Syrians didn't know how to kill tanks and APCs before "current events" either.
"If you are in a position to execute such a strategy you must have no children, no pets, no worthwhile romantic or platonic relationships etc."
My late wife was more than competent to "execute such a strategy" and my dogs are portable.
If you have dependants you'll may be forced to execute that strategy with them in tow! Gear is cheap enough and if you go camping now and then you'll get good fun out of it too. A side effect of going camping is you and yours can be comfortable in nature. It's peaceful and fun.
If you live in an area subject to floods or storm surge staying in place can kill you and yours. Some disasters FORCE you to evacuate. Your personal vehicle will move you and loved ones. Keep it fully fuelled (if you run near the bottom of your fuel tank on modern fuel-injected vehicles it kills fuel pumps by sucking up water etc) and serviced. You can add range by bringing additional fuel in (quality) gas cans you can already own and when TSHTF you grab your people and GTFO. It's better to be a live refugee than a dead statistic.
Most equipment you'd need is dual or multiple-use anyway. I won't derail this into a gear-fetish thread. I'm not a "prepper".
Basic "disaster preparedness" dovetails with "Apocalypse preparedness" (Apocalypse merely meaning "bigger more general disaster").
If you have people to defend in-place from disaster plus social collapse, know who will team with you (society is a team sport) and may help form the natural post-anarchy defensive unit which is a local "militia" (no political definition applied here, they vary globally but their purpose is similar).
I live inland and in a community that is very well-armed, has farms so it will not starve if the those are protected, and has various other advantages so I would prefer to defend in-place. That means aggressive patrolling to deter and expel enemy forces (my community has many veterans, another advantage). I can hand-pump water and happen to have backyard chickens (not out of paranoia, they are droll pets) which produce more eggs than I can eat. I enjoy welding and thanks to Craigslist have many oxygen/acetylene/LP cylinders so I can repair or build most anything I might need for a long time if the electricity goes out. Tools aplenty and skill to use them make self and other techy friends valuable during reconstruction.
"I would rather live a fulfilling life now, while it is still possible, and accept my untimely demise with the comfort that I enjoyed life while it was enjoyable."
So die if things get sticky, your life belongs to you. I lead a fulfilling life now and intend to keep at it because it makes me smile.
I admire human endurance. I have built a cozy life but if the excrement hits the Emerson I'd fight and help my friends and community for the sake of the challenge.
Read of the seiges of Leningrad and Moscow and the battle of Stalingrad. They make most "disasters" look like a day at the beach. What the people of those cities and the soldiers who fought there can do, other people and soldiers can do.
Sorry, gomer, but the Commies killed hundreds of millions of their own citizens.
While things are certainly "bad", stupid comparisons to Stalin and Mao and their lesser friends are deeply fucktarded and so easily seen through that the effect of making them is the reverse of their intent.
Slashdot Mirror
Bad analogy.
A clone isn't a lesser replica, it's the same creature. The only reason to resist cloning is to provide an artificial barrier to entry.
"It is awesome and even suggesting that the short attention span squad deserves being pandered to is borderline criminal."
The short attention span squad deserve to be ignored, with the exception of job training so they can be useful drones.
"What do you do when the majority want to take away your freedoms?"
Kill as many of them as possible and work for fragmentation of the country. ENEMIES don't need to share dirt.
The former Republic of Yugoslavia is a model for what should happen to all these fractious countries. Break them up and they will be too weak to cause much problem.
Yes we do, but Slashdot hasn't been News For Nerds for a long time because the new model gets more revenue.
Documents can do things such as verify toxic exposure to Afghan and Iraqi burn pits.
Their loss in past wars has caused vets many problems.For example, my friend worked VC-123Ks while TDY at Da Nang, but only has a single order amendment and no original order to verify boots-on-ground and exposure to Agent Orange.
The MIAs are dead (any VC in his right mind wouldn't bother saving useless prisoners) and the submarines are already war graves. The dead are dead, rituals over the dead are nice, but hundreds of thousands of LIVING veterans will be with us for nearly a century and perhaps longer.
Good find, and
citation very much needed.
"I mean the species. But if we had space elevators, and we stopped breeding, and we built sufficiently large ships, we could probably get a significant portion of the population out of here."
We don't need to evacuate anyone. Making a colony doesn't require moving a bunch of Terrans with short lifespans to Mars, it requires moving a cadre who whose progeny will become Martians.
Ants don't make new anthills by moving the group.
"Slashdot users are advised not to use Xerox copiers for submissions."
Yo dawg, we herd you like dupes in your dupes so we put dupes in your dupe so you can dupe while you dupe.
....people didn't use the internet for secure communication because it didn't exist.
Now that the internet useless for secure communication, it would be wise to stop using it for anything other than a smokescreen.
OTOH, tiny storage is cheap and there are plenty of places one could conceal say a MicroSD card on the PC board of ordinary consumer products. You could tuck one under the heatsink of a notebook or other location where it would pass visual inspection.
Dear Everyone Else
We are delighted you like our norther corporate appendage more than us
That will increase its value after assimilation is complete
Sincerely
America
"The demand for a malaria vaccine in rich countries is pretty low."
Won't somebody think of the tourists? (weeps)
"Block access to Slashdot?"
Then those 90 will quit.
"I have no idea of what I would need terabytes of stuff on my phone for."
That would defeat efforts to control online "piracy" for once everyone can swap terabytes of music, apps, movies and porn as easily as our ancient predecessors traded cassette tapes, the need to go online would be reduced.
Chromebook sales are strong. It's all about money, and that is not pointless.
Read about the massive, and legal, prostitution in Hawaii during WWII.
Any vet who was in the Pacific during the Cold War is familiar with the hardcore party culture that once was. Bar girls aplenty, public fucking in bars, good times.
The correct attitude IMO is "we kill for you folks back home, so if we want to fuck and party GTFO, MYOB, and STFU". It was that way during the Cold War and it was a blast.
The military in recent decades has been infested with Bible Thumpers and PC do-gooders who are under the delusion whores aren't volunteers and in general just hate other peoples fun. (Been there, saw that, '81-'07.)
I and many vets have years SOCIALISING with hookers, not just banging them. I kept it in my pants when I got married, but hung with Filipina "juicies" in Korea. Mostly nice (yes, really) girls just making a buck and good company when they were not making a buck. A job's a job and it beat anything they'd make back in the PI, which is why they did multiple years in Korea. They even bought us "ammo bowls" of soju when we partied at "their" bars, and we'd cook out in A-town where some Airmen rented houses. GI's would buy the food, the bar girls would make a feast, and it was chill.
They are trying to nullify totalitarian weapons control measures by democratization of production.
These are baby steps, not the House of Krupp in a fucking box.
Yes, because that will groom the public to want DRM implemented on these Printers of Evil.
Think of the children, the potential for terrorism, and the potential for terrorist children.
(Don't think of democratization of the means of production. That's subversive!)
"What's *new* here?"
Page Hits driven by delicious Fear and craving for tasty Drama.
Nothing else.
"Unwitting", "puppets"?
You underestimate how well-informed many firearms hobbyists are about corporate support for the NRA and how delighted we are to get it!
We WELCOME those corporate dollars because they directly help us get the results we want. Businesses which donate to the NRA often proudly advertise that fact, and I prefer to vote with my wallet and shop there as to millions of firearm enthusiasts.
Most firearms owners are as far as can be from the criminal CHUDs who commit crimes with guns. We want those people either locked up or dead and we demand to be able to defend ourselves from them. You may have a personal police officer to babysit you but I don't. I don't have a personal fire department either, so I own both fire extinguishers and firearms. I have put out small fires over the years with the extinguishers, and deterred assault (without firing) with my weapons.
Of course I want the NRA and its corporate and private donors to fight for our COLLECTIVE good.
[quote]
http://www.policymic.com/articles/23929/10-surprising-facts-about-the-nra-that-you-never-hear
According to FactCheck.org, nearly half of the funding for the NRA comes from membership dues alone. Voluntary donations to the NRA, however, still account for a majority portion of the remaining funding. This includes voluntary donations made during gun purchases at the point of sale as well as programs like the "round-up" campaign, operated by the NRA-ILA and retailers, where consumers can round a purchase up to the nearest dollar for donation to support lobbying efforts. With that said, gun manufacturers do donate to the NRA as well. For example, Sturm, Ruger, and Co., ran the "Million Gun Challenge" in 2011, which directly ties gun sales to donations with the target being one million dollars.
[/quote]
"There's no point in using it where it isn't necessary."
List matching alternatives to lead as a projectile component if you are prepared to assert it's not "necessary".
Gold would work in many cases, but is a tad spendy.
"Many of the people using Tor in restrictive countries won't have the luxury of switching away from Windows. Even if they don't, they won't necessarily know how."
Anyone can create bootable media with a short time spent practicing.
If you are at war you need to learn how to fight, not expect the rules to change for you. If that's not convenient, tough shit.
What one man can learn, another can learn. Plenty of Syrians didn't know how to kill tanks and APCs before "current events" either.
"If you are in a position to execute such a strategy you must have no children, no pets, no worthwhile romantic or platonic relationships etc."
My late wife was more than competent to "execute such a strategy" and my dogs are portable.
If you have dependants you'll may be forced to execute that strategy with them in tow! Gear is cheap enough and if you go camping now and then you'll get good fun out of it too. A side effect of going camping is you and yours can be comfortable in nature. It's peaceful and fun.
If you live in an area subject to floods or storm surge staying in place can kill you and yours. Some disasters FORCE you to evacuate. Your personal vehicle will move you and loved ones. Keep it fully fuelled (if you run near the bottom of your fuel tank on modern fuel-injected vehicles it kills fuel pumps by sucking up water etc) and serviced. You can add range by bringing additional fuel in (quality) gas cans you can already own and when TSHTF you grab your people and GTFO. It's better to be a live refugee than a dead statistic.
Most equipment you'd need is dual or multiple-use anyway. I won't derail this into a gear-fetish thread. I'm not a "prepper".
Basic "disaster preparedness" dovetails with "Apocalypse preparedness" (Apocalypse merely meaning "bigger more general disaster").
If you have people to defend in-place from disaster plus social collapse, know who will team with you (society is a team sport) and may help form the natural post-anarchy defensive unit which is a local "militia" (no political definition applied here, they vary globally but their purpose is similar).
I live inland and in a community that is very well-armed, has farms so it will not starve if the those are protected, and has various other advantages so I would prefer to defend in-place. That means aggressive patrolling to deter and expel enemy forces (my community has many veterans, another advantage). I can hand-pump water and happen to have backyard chickens (not out of paranoia, they are droll pets) which produce more eggs than I can eat. I enjoy welding and thanks to Craigslist have many oxygen/acetylene/LP cylinders so I can repair or build most anything I might need for a long time if the electricity goes out. Tools aplenty and skill to use them make self and other techy friends valuable during reconstruction.
"I would rather live a fulfilling life now, while it is still possible, and accept my untimely demise with the comfort that I enjoyed life while it was enjoyable."
So die if things get sticky, your life belongs to you. I lead a fulfilling life now and intend to keep at it because it makes me smile.
I admire human endurance. I have built a cozy life but if the excrement hits the Emerson I'd fight and help my friends and community for the sake of the challenge.
Read of the seiges of Leningrad and Moscow and the battle of Stalingrad. They make most "disasters" look like a day at the beach. What the people of those cities and the soldiers who fought there can do, other people and soldiers can do.
You can also duplicate most modern firearms (if you don't have a needed tool, you can make that too), and your work can be as good or superior.
http://www.cncguns.com/downloads.html
"To be effective, defiant writing will still require courage."
Surviving to be defiant may require anonymity.
"Now were every bit as bad."
Sorry, gomer, but the Commies killed hundreds of millions of their own citizens.
While things are certainly "bad", stupid comparisons to Stalin and Mao and their lesser friends are deeply fucktarded and so easily seen through that the effect of making them is the reverse of their intent.