"Pink" and "broken outlines" still works, note that Stealth aircraft are black to appeal to aircrew. Black isn't optimal for the night ops required by stealth systems, which is why WWII night fighters were often a lighter color.
"He also just called for increased funding for the development and testing of nuclear weapons. That was all on him."
One relies on (reliably) superior destructive power (includes resilient assymetric destructive power), on the kindness of others, or a combination of the two.
There is no third way, however desirable that might be and however much earnest anguish that causes among the "earnest anguish" crowd.
US public opinion is wilfully uninformed (not you, dear readers, the OTHER ~300,000,000 morons you share space with).
There are only "identity politics", where the morons seek affirmation. The nation being split between religious zealot white bigot conservatives (not to say they don't have some good ideas) and leftists who want complete redistribution of wealth (not to say they don't have some good ideas) along the "forty acres and a mule" promise model.
None of the issues in the US are actually about the issues, they are about stupid mobs who hate each other (and love free stuff ONLY for their pet projects). We relentlessly elect mediocrities because our people are mediocre, we hate the exceptional and gifted, and prefer "leaders" who won't challenge us to think. Each mob is self-righteous and blind to its own numerous defects.
The American public think their country is the center of the world, and since they don't read history they don't remember when it was not. They want to recapture past glories but are unaware of the mechanism and historic context of those successes. They confuse their ignorance and immunity to humility with strength. Decades of being rich (note even our "poor" have cars and are fat as hogs by choice) have removed the challenge that is REQUIRED for humans to rise to greatness. While Americans fap to the glorious Greatest Generation they forget that the "GG" was hardened in (real) poverty and war.
We deserve the periodic train wrecks we create, and we need one to force down our wages to compete with the rest of the world (the Industrial Revolution workplace looked a lot like mainland China today).
PS: Much of the distrust of national health in the US is based on the absolute certainty that it will be very badly implemented. Unlike Europe, the US has a vast unproductive underclass swelled by immigration policies that are part of the deliberate demographic war against those who precede the current immigrant groups. Because resources WILL NOT be conserved by access controls, national health funds will be sucked dry.
"Spoken like someone who is too self-important and socially inept to ever get to the point of being a parent."
Spoken like a parent who cannot control their screaming snot monsters and thinks that having them around is a blessing for bystanders. If it screams, stop it from screaming.
"I can't see the need for special batteries for every single device. How is that progress? (And Apple and Logitech have one step stupider and made devices with irreplacable batteries)."
It's progress toward Vendor Lock, nothing else. Volume makes it cheap for vendors and easy to inflict on the public.
Desktop computing is the last holdout of standard form-factors, but desktops don't have batteries.
"Perhaps a battery size standard law is required instead?"
From the POV of economic production, replacement, and being able to re-use old notebooks whose dead batteries turn them into throwaways, that's a good idea.
"We have lived for thousands of years without street level photos online of our homes and without navagable photos of the insides of public buildings and retail spaces, do we really need them?"
We don't "need" anything past living a hunter-gatherer lifestyle (it worked for thousands of years!) but the convenience of easily accessing such already public information is tremendous.
Street View is very handy for quickly finding my precise destination and for sending directions to others by screencap. I've even used it for going to pick up junk cars. (Pull up address, switch to satellite view, ask owner where car is sitting, refine location via Street View, print map and go get vehicle. It's fast, it's easy, and beats the shit out of driving around asking for directions!
"...an education is supposed to turn one into a good little worker bee..."
That's exactly what PUBLIC education is for. Private education is for whoever pays the bills to determine.
If the customer/student wants a particular curriculum, they can choose freely among the offerings in the market (or self-educate if the market doesn't suit).
"To my utter despair I have discovered, and discover every day anew, that there is in the masses no revolutionary idea or hope or passion."
Leaders matter and masses are literally stupid cattle to be manipulated for good of ill by their betters. If some of those students become leaders, we may see change.
"I would hope that institutes of education would take a stand against such an inequity, but apparently this is what happens when school start to be run as businesses rather than as institutes of learning."
'Start??" Education IS a business, to train people to function in a world of business so they can trade for food, clothing, and shelter.
"Also, I totally don't think it is reasonable to shoot someone breaking and entering. Hell it could be an old friend throwing a surprise, or a drunk gone to the wrong house or... lots of things."
Depends on location. No one gets to my house then over the fence and past the dogs/ducks/chickens then to break and enter by "accident".
There have been home invasions now and then, and no one who doesn't deserve to get shot would dare actually BREAK into an occupied house. I expect people to behave themselves and stay out of MY space, and if they violate my house it is reasonable to expect they are willing to kill anyone in it in order to do their will.
"when you take pleasure in the infliction of pain on others, no matter the context or scenario, you begin to become the bully you are fighting"
Just revenge isn't necessarily "bullying". There is no reason NOT to enjoy punishing someone who has worked hard to deserve it, and if more bullies were rewarded with on-the=spot correction they would be less likely to go on bullying for years.
"a truly moral person takes no sense of joy in the unfortunately necessary action, only sadness"
According to your morals, which like ALL morals, are subjective. Not all of us crave to bathe in guilt for doing what is right, and many can sleep well after fighting a just fight.
The real-world answer is to learn that social skills are a rewarding game even if you really would rather beat the asshole you are manipulating until his brains run out his ears.:)
Learn how people work, not as you would have them work, but how to guide their behaviors without them knowing you are doing it. Get better and better at it, it's great fun and the best revenge. Don't isolate yourself, but thoughtfully engage and learn the games all humans play.
Back in they day before the Wave of Pedo Fear, actual nekkid babbies running about the house were pretty common. Of course, that was before we discovered that genital representation has a huge blast radius and turns all nearby adults into baby boffers, just as bare ankles uncontrollably arouse men.
I'd go on, but have ASCII pron requiring fappage...
In the US, car drivers expect to use the road rather than have it clogged with Asian-style mobs of two-wheelers, and speeds are a good bit faster. I doubt we are willing to accept a South Korean splatter rate.:)
US culture has a huge anti-intellectual streak driven by ruralism, worship of the Common Man, and other such nonsense. It doesn't take a conspiracy for people to move further toward their comfortable default.
"I've long wondered when the day will come that these people have a small car for their daily needs, then rent a truck for their occasional needs."
Rental isn't the only solution since vehicles are cheap. Multiple vehicle families are very common, and typical in many areas of the US, since it is quite practical to own a few cars/trucks/motorcycles. They don't burn fuel when they aren't being driven.
"The fact that the whole world drives cars without complaing much about these facts, "
They pay for it, but they are used to that. Those facts aren't critical because there are workarounds like generic code scanners, and for those with a few wrecked vehicles, the ability to play "swaptronics" then reset the ECU. For vehicles where this no workee, mechanics and used car dealers may send the work to a friendly new car dealer.
Cars aren't cheap to repair unless one is a mechanic connected to good salvage sources, but the public can afford to REPLACE them with used or new rides, and they are then sent back into the food chain where they are fixed/cannibalized/crushed.
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"Pink" and "broken outlines" still works, note that Stealth aircraft are black to appeal to aircrew. Black isn't optimal for the night ops required by stealth systems, which is why WWII night fighters were often a lighter color.
Factory stealth camo:
http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/ac/f-117-camo.jpg
"He also just called for increased funding for the development and testing of nuclear weapons. That was all on him."
One relies on (reliably) superior destructive power (includes resilient assymetric destructive power), on the kindness of others, or a combination of the two.
There is no third way, however desirable that might be and however much earnest anguish that causes among the "earnest anguish" crowd.
The advice that would help is not to breed what you can't care for, but the people who have the most brats are the least intelligent.
"I'M NOT TELLING YOU THAT! YOU MEN YOU'RE ALL THE SAME!"
That's rather harsh. We're not all like that.
Pics with timestamp will do.
US public opinion is wilfully uninformed (not you, dear readers, the OTHER ~300,000,000 morons you share space with).
There are only "identity politics", where the morons seek affirmation. The nation being split between religious zealot white bigot conservatives (not to say they don't have some good ideas) and leftists who want complete redistribution of wealth (not to say they don't have some good ideas) along the "forty acres and a mule" promise model.
None of the issues in the US are actually about the issues, they are about stupid mobs who hate each other (and love free stuff ONLY for their pet projects). We relentlessly elect mediocrities because our people are mediocre, we hate the exceptional and gifted, and prefer "leaders" who won't challenge us to think. Each mob is self-righteous and blind to its own numerous defects.
The American public think their country is the center of the world, and since they don't read history they don't remember when it was not. They want to recapture past glories but are unaware of the mechanism and historic context of those successes. They confuse their ignorance and immunity to humility with strength. Decades of being rich (note even our "poor" have cars and are fat as hogs by choice) have removed the challenge that is REQUIRED for humans to rise to greatness. While Americans fap to the glorious Greatest Generation they forget that the "GG" was hardened in (real) poverty and war.
We deserve the periodic train wrecks we create, and we need one to force down our wages to compete with the rest of the world (the Industrial Revolution workplace looked a lot like mainland China today).
PS:
Much of the distrust of national health in the US is based on the absolute certainty that it will be very badly implemented.
Unlike Europe, the US has a vast unproductive underclass swelled by immigration policies that are part of the deliberate demographic war against those who precede the current immigrant groups. Because resources WILL NOT be conserved by access controls, national health funds will be sucked dry.
"Spoken like someone who is too self-important and socially inept to ever get to the point of being a parent."
Spoken like a parent who cannot control their screaming snot monsters and thinks that having them around is a blessing for bystanders.
If it screams, stop it from screaming.
"I can't see the need for special batteries for every single device. How is that progress? (And Apple and Logitech have one step stupider and made devices with irreplacable batteries)."
It's progress toward Vendor Lock, nothing else. Volume makes it cheap for vendors and easy to inflict on the public.
Desktop computing is the last holdout of standard form-factors, but desktops don't have batteries.
"Perhaps a battery size standard law is required instead?"
From the POV of economic production, replacement, and being able to re-use old notebooks whose dead batteries turn them into throwaways, that's a good idea.
"I wouldn't be surprised if the contest includes rules mandating you to do certain things that make you catchable. "
One way you could stay "connected" via CB or amateur radio and a human proxy to handle internet communication. No cell, no IP address, no problem.
"Observe trials from uphill side of road."
It's an Audi, not a Toyota!
"We have lived for thousands of years without street level photos online of our homes and without navagable photos of the insides of public buildings and retail spaces, do we really need them?"
We don't "need" anything past living a hunter-gatherer lifestyle (it worked for thousands of years!) but the convenience of easily accessing such already public information is tremendous.
Street View is very handy for quickly finding my precise destination and for sending directions to others by screencap. I've even used it for going to pick up junk cars. (Pull up address, switch to satellite view, ask owner where car is sitting, refine location via Street View, print map and go get vehicle. It's fast, it's easy, and beats the shit out of driving around asking for directions!
"...an education is supposed to turn one into a good little worker bee..."
That's exactly what PUBLIC education is for. Private education is for whoever pays the bills to determine.
If the customer/student wants a particular curriculum, they can choose freely among the offerings in the market (or self-educate if the market doesn't suit).
"To my utter despair I have discovered, and discover every day anew, that there is in the masses no revolutionary idea or hope or passion."
Leaders matter and masses are literally stupid cattle to be manipulated for good of ill by their betters. If some of those students become leaders, we may see change.
"I would hope that institutes of education would take a stand against such an inequity, but apparently this is what happens when school start to be run as businesses rather than as institutes of learning."
'Start??" Education IS a business, to train people to function in a world of business so they can trade for food, clothing, and shelter.
"Hey, it's okay when it's 'our guys' doing it."
Yes it is. It's the only way to win, so do it better than the enemy, end of story.
"Also, I totally don't think it is reasonable to shoot someone breaking and entering. Hell it could be an old friend throwing a surprise, or a drunk gone to the wrong house or... lots of things."
Depends on location. No one gets to my house then over the fence and past the dogs/ducks/chickens then to break and enter by "accident".
There have been home invasions now and then, and no one who doesn't deserve to get shot would dare actually BREAK into an occupied house. I expect people to behave themselves and stay out of MY space, and if they violate my house it is reasonable to expect they are willing to kill anyone in it in order to do their will.
"People have always tried to end bullying by punishing the bullies, but it has never been an effective way to solve the problem."
Most bullies go unpunished, so let's not assert punishment is ineffective when it is generally absent.
"when you take pleasure in the infliction of pain on others, no matter the context or scenario, you begin to become the bully you are fighting"
Just revenge isn't necessarily "bullying". There is no reason NOT to enjoy punishing someone who has worked hard to deserve it, and if more bullies were rewarded with on-the=spot correction they would be less likely to go on bullying for years.
"a truly moral person takes no sense of joy in the unfortunately necessary action, only sadness"
According to your morals, which like ALL morals, are subjective. Not all of us crave to bathe in guilt for doing what is right, and many can sleep well after fighting a just fight.
The real-world answer is to learn that social skills are a rewarding game even if you really would rather beat the asshole you are manipulating until his brains run out his ears. :)
Learn how people work, not as you would have them work, but how to guide their behaviors without them knowing you are doing it. Get better and better at it, it's great fun and the best revenge. Don't isolate yourself, but thoughtfully engage and learn the games all humans play.
"Telling the browser to not trust that entity at all is what I'm talking about."
Looks like time for a convenient extension.
Back in they day before the Wave of Pedo Fear, actual nekkid babbies running about the house were pretty common. Of course, that was before we discovered that genital representation has a huge blast radius and turns all nearby adults into baby boffers, just as bare ankles uncontrollably arouse men.
I'd go on, but have ASCII pron requiring fappage...
In the US, car drivers expect to use the road rather than have it clogged with Asian-style mobs of two-wheelers, and speeds are a good bit faster. I doubt we are willing to accept a South Korean splatter rate. :)
Enough with blaming that shit on "The Man"!
US culture has a huge anti-intellectual streak driven by ruralism, worship of the Common Man, and other such nonsense. It doesn't take a conspiracy for people to move further toward their comfortable default.
We use mules, but they aren't cheap and require food and water.
http://abcnews.go.com/International/story?id=7537174&page=1
Electro-mechanical jackknifing cluster fuck waiting to happen, rather like pushing a rope.
A small pickup OTOH can get excellent gas mileage and still tow.
"I've long wondered when the day will come that these people have a small car for their daily needs, then rent a truck for their occasional needs."
Rental isn't the only solution since vehicles are cheap. Multiple vehicle families are very common, and typical in many areas of the US, since it is quite practical to own a few cars/trucks/motorcycles. They don't burn fuel when they aren't being driven.
"The fact that the whole world drives cars without complaing much about these facts, "
They pay for it, but they are used to that. Those facts aren't critical because there are workarounds like generic code scanners, and for those with a few wrecked vehicles, the ability to play "swaptronics" then reset the ECU. For vehicles where this no workee, mechanics and used car dealers may send the work to a friendly new car dealer.
Cars aren't cheap to repair unless one is a mechanic connected to good salvage sources, but the public can afford to REPLACE them with used or new rides, and they are then sent back into the food chain where they are fixed/cannibalized/crushed.