Americans aren't doing shit about it and haven't had the balls to protest much of anything since the Viet Nam war.
They are stupid, frequently religious (essentially the same thing) fools who want to be entertained. Americans are, except for a tiny few, as bad or worse than the stereotype. (None of this means foreigners are any better, BTW.)
Both Democrats and Republicans are at least as awful as they describe each other. Too bad Flight 93 didn't slam into Congress, fuck 'em all.
The last two major organizations that fight for freedom are the NRA and the ACLU, though they only like specific, different bits of the Constitution and hate each other.
"Am I the only person that believes we have certifiable retards running our country? Like, seriously I think you have to be retarded if you actually think you can remove data from the internet."
We have plenty of retards relentlessly electing the "retards" who run the country.
We really need to admit that most of the American public are, to be polite, stupid, superstitious, willfully ignorant, and vicious. Smart, clueful people will always be a tiny, often beseiged, minority.
"Anything that predates this decade should be irrelevant."
Bullshit. Fraud, theft, sexual assault etc come to mind as examples why that is a bad idea.
A business doesn't belong to the employees. I don't care about trivia, but I'd do a thorough background check on any employee because any business I own is my responsibility and that means running a tight ship.
"And irrespective of that, two-stroke doesn't necessarily mean less fuel consumption - and is far more likely to mean higher lubrication oil consumption."
Hence the Lotus wet sump, removing the need for oil injection or premix methods.
The US and many other places can grow their own food as they did (within living memory) before much of it became a petroleum product. We also have plenty of ammo and many of us will be fine with using it to keep what's ours under our control. Nothing to see here except gasoline rationing.
Autorotation after damage in combat is common. The air bag is a natural safety measure for helos at low height with little/no forward speed over a landing zone.
"The development of an advanced "airbag" like this will really help accelerate the dawn of "highways in the sky","
There is no need for energy-wasting mass adoption of light aircraft,and no airbag/drogue chute/etc will solve the problems of midair collisions and running into expensive stuff such as buildings. Most people should not be trusted with an airplane of any sort because they are simple, easily distracted, and not very intelligent.
The best thing about general aviation is the high barrier to entry.
"There's going to be a large, violent revolution soon."
Supporting evidence please?
Students whining and protesting/= cutting down Basij and Revolutionary Guards with IEDs or frying them with fougasse (petrol thickened with styrofoam or other expedient) bombs. The Pahlevi government was a pushover, secular and weak.
When they realize the outside world can't help them, they'll have to either give up or fight with the toughness of the Jihadists who oppose them.
"Yes, but it doesn't really matter to spies because just being a spy is a war crime. Spies that get caught get executed anyway, so what's a little more?"
Espionage isn't a war crime, but any country may choose to punish it by death (logical enough, and a fine incentive for the spy to flip) according to their own laws. Espionage is simply not a protected category of wartime activity.
"Unfortunately none of those calling in will be following the one step solution; stop going to German porn sites on a windows box."/me boots Windows in a VM and sets out to research the problem...
"oh wait... looks like they are just giant dictatorship that oppresses workers, a fact that we capitalists love to take advantage of."
Yes, that's horrid. Now compare China in 1948 to today. The masses of people have never lived better. Freedom is nice, but food/clothing/shelter and physical security have much more practical value.
The only way to help the victims of Darfur is to arm and train them to kill their enemies because no visiting force can defend every one of them in detail. The answer to Janjaweed is more Kalashnikovs.
Religion(s) may not in theory be political cultures, but in practice they are, which makes theory useless except for propaganda.
The "theory excuse" (also used for Communism) for beliefs which happen to be flawlessly crafted for exalting believers that they may do their will on non-believer victims should be ridiculed, so I will.
Conveniently, the so-called "proper religionists" are always marketable and safe, while the aggressive, violent, and effective sort that run the show and are responsible for the expansion of the belief in the first place are disavowed.
Islam is what its leaders and followers do and support, tacitly or actively.
"The US is no freer than China or those other countries you like knocking on, your government just has better PR spinners."
The US has problems, but isn't nearly as oppressive as the countries I mention. Try committing public blasphemy in all of them, then get back to us. I suggest the Piss Test, where you duplicate the Serrano work "Piss Christ" with a Quran. Serrano, unlike Salman Rushdie, isn't living under a fatwah. I don't care for Christianity either, but most of the Christians have been housebroken.
As for being watched more than the Iranians, perhaps electronically but not otherwise. The manning and resources don't exist and never have, not even for the misbegotten War on Some Drugs. We certainly aren't interfered with as much, and vilifying our elected officials is a national sport.:)
As for KSA, we support them, but we didn't CREATE them or their ideology. Their turf, their tribe, their rules. In the real world on cuts deals with some barbarians in hope of using them against others. One cannot change them, because they vociferously object and become violent.
"it's a critique of tinpot dictators who Muslims do not want or support"
The Iranians sure as shit "supported" their form of government and institutionalized a theocracy. Muslims are the ones enforcing the rule of these governments. Of course, the "helpless Muslim" model where everything is blamed on someone else is understandably popular. "Muslims" are whoever claims to be one, you don't get to choose your co-religionists or conveniently disavow the embarrassing ones (barring whatever the equivalent of excommunication).
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"If cops can learn to use a radio with complex codes to remember, or a laptop connected to a specialized system, so can anyone else."
The cop is getting PAID to do it, and most of them have some desire to appear professional to their peers.
Joe Sixpack doesn't give a shit about much of anything.
Americans aren't doing shit about it and haven't had the balls to protest much of anything since the Viet Nam war.
They are stupid, frequently religious (essentially the same thing) fools who want to be entertained.
Americans are, except for a tiny few, as bad or worse than the stereotype. (None of this means foreigners are any better, BTW.)
Both Democrats and Republicans are at least as awful as they describe each other.
Too bad Flight 93 didn't slam into Congress, fuck 'em all.
The last two major organizations that fight for freedom are the NRA and the ACLU, though they only like specific, different bits of the Constitution and hate each other.
"I suspect this is just red meat for the typical angry "Fuck the police", authority-hating responses."
Of course. All authority is bad and an interference with humankinds natural state of perfect lovingkindness.
"I can see doctors in India, China, and The Dominican Republic... "
If it's ever perfected, those may be the only affordable places for US citizens to get the treatment.
"Am I the only person that believes we have certifiable retards running our country? Like, seriously I think you have to be retarded if you actually think you can remove data from the internet."
We have plenty of retards relentlessly electing the "retards" who run the country.
We really need to admit that most of the American public are, to be polite, stupid, superstitious, willfully ignorant, and vicious.
Smart, clueful people will always be a tiny, often beseiged, minority.
"Anything that predates this decade should be irrelevant."
Bullshit.
Fraud, theft, sexual assault etc come to mind as examples why that is a bad idea.
A business doesn't belong to the employees.
I don't care about trivia, but I'd do a thorough background check on any employee because any business I own
is my responsibility and that means running a tight ship.
No likee? Become self-employed.
I'd be interested in the hacker, but the sex offender would have to have committed a VICTIMLESS sex crime ("sex offender" is a broad category).
If they are a pedo, then the only rehabilitation and repentance that matters is suicide, which should be publicly encouraged.
They don't get better:
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/world/year-old-sex-offender-theodore-sypnier-released-from-new-york-jail/story-e6frf7lf-1225808832795
"And irrespective of that, two-stroke doesn't necessarily mean less fuel consumption - and is far more likely to mean higher lubrication oil consumption."
Hence the Lotus wet sump, removing the need for oil injection or premix methods.
"Be a man and take responsibility for your actions."
Post your story on 4chan with a plea for Anons to help.
The US and many other places can grow their own food as they did (within living memory) before much of it became a petroleum product. We also have plenty of ammo and many of us will be fine with using it to keep what's ours under our control.
Nothing to see here except gasoline rationing.
Autorotation after damage in combat is common. The air bag is a natural safety measure for helos at low height with little/no forward speed over a landing zone.
"The development of an advanced "airbag" like this will really help accelerate the dawn of "highways in the sky","
There is no need for energy-wasting mass adoption of light aircraft,and no airbag/drogue chute/etc will solve the problems of midair collisions and running into expensive stuff such as buildings. Most people should not be trusted with an airplane of any sort because they are simple, easily distracted, and not very intelligent.
The best thing about general aviation is the high barrier to entry.
"trying to trick unsuspecting users to install a malicious script by hiding it as a theme or screensaver."
Screensavers are an easy threat to negate. I don't run them, on any OS.
It's natural to bait people who prefer fluff over control with fluff.
Boycotting only reinforces those in power, who pass the suffering on to the populace.
Note how the _US_ is blamed for how _Saddam_ kept resources from Iraqis while diverting wealth to his armed forces and government.
Anyone who believes boycotts work against people of will needs prompt LARTing.
"There's going to be a large, violent revolution soon."
Supporting evidence please?
Students whining and protesting /= cutting down Basij and Revolutionary Guards with IEDs or frying them with fougasse (petrol thickened with
styrofoam or other expedient) bombs. The Pahlevi government was a pushover, secular and weak.
When they realize the outside world can't help them, they'll have to either give up or fight with the toughness of the Jihadists who oppose them.
"I don't get Google fanboyism."
Nor do I. Remember when AOL was respected?
Times change, as do corporations.
"Yes, but it doesn't really matter to spies because just being a spy is a war crime. Spies that get caught get executed anyway, so what's a little more?"
Espionage isn't a war crime, but any country may choose to punish it by death (logical enough, and a fine incentive for the spy to flip) according to their own laws. Espionage is simply not a protected category of wartime activity.
"Because exhausted call center employees will force government to hire more staff."
Or put "Arbeit Macht Frei" over the gate to the call center.
"Unfortunately none of those calling in will be following the one step solution; stop going to German porn sites on a windows box." /me boots Windows in a VM and sets out to research the problem...
No, we don't. They'd just expand their cult of victimhood.
Iranians need to rise in violent revolt. They are too cozy, so most of them won't.
Twitter isn't shit. Fighting like the Jihadists who oppose them shows the will to power.
"oh wait... looks like they are just giant dictatorship that oppresses workers, a fact that we capitalists love to take advantage of."
Yes, that's horrid. Now compare China in 1948 to today. The masses of people have never lived better. Freedom is nice, but food/clothing/shelter and physical security have much more practical value.
The only way to help the victims of Darfur is to arm and train them to kill their enemies because no visiting force can defend every one of them in detail. The answer to Janjaweed is more Kalashnikovs.
That's not PC, so it won't happen.
Religion(s) may not in theory be political cultures, but in practice they are, which makes theory useless except for propaganda.
The "theory excuse" (also used for Communism) for beliefs which happen to be flawlessly crafted for exalting believers that they may do their will on non-believer victims should be ridiculed, so I will.
Conveniently, the so-called "proper religionists" are always marketable and safe, while the aggressive, violent, and effective sort that run the show and are responsible for the expansion of the belief in the first place are disavowed.
Islam is what its leaders and followers do and support, tacitly or actively.
"Jews did WTC"
Flamebait? I thought this was a geek forum.
It's a reference to the hilarious GNAA troll that CNN thought was legit and aired portions of..
Paula Zahn is a howl!
Safe link:
http://www.poetv.com/video.php?vid=13965
"The US is no freer than China or those other countries you like knocking on, your government just has better PR spinners."
The US has problems, but isn't nearly as oppressive as the countries I mention. Try committing public blasphemy in all of them, then get back to us.
I suggest the Piss Test, where you duplicate the Serrano work "Piss Christ" with a Quran. Serrano, unlike Salman Rushdie, isn't living under a fatwah. I don't care for Christianity either, but most of the Christians have been housebroken.
As for being watched more than the Iranians, perhaps electronically but not otherwise. The manning and resources don't exist and never have, not even for the misbegotten War on Some Drugs. We certainly aren't interfered with as much, and vilifying our elected officials is a national sport. :)
As for KSA, we support them, but we didn't CREATE them or their ideology. Their turf, their tribe, their rules. In the real world on cuts deals with some barbarians in hope of using them against others. One cannot change them, because they vociferously object and become violent.
"it's a critique of tinpot dictators who Muslims do not want or support"
The Iranians sure as shit "supported" their form of government and institutionalized a theocracy. Muslims are the ones enforcing the rule of these governments. Of course, the "helpless Muslim" model where everything is blamed on someone else is understandably popular. "Muslims" are whoever claims to be one, you don't get to choose your co-religionists or conveniently disavow the embarrassing ones (barring whatever the equivalent of excommunication).