No, you aren't "basically evil", but that doesn't mean that _I_ benefit from having _poor_ Latin Americans in MY country. I'd be fine with selling citizenships for a million dollars each, but barrios full of thugs do me no good.
I and many others don't need you and my country doesn't belong to you, so I advocate that you stay outside the US.
The lifeboat is full, and it makes very good sense for those who are in the lifeboat to resist those whose grasp at the rail will help sink it.
Your inability to make countries to the south of the US work has coerced Latin Americans to leave for the US. That isn't a favor, it's flight from failure. Your countries have not accomplished that which the US has, so demonstrate why I should want to be invaded by people who compete for vanishing resources. I want my country to serve me, as is my birthright.
I'm culturist BTW, not racist. Cultures are belief sets, and backward cultures don't improve modern countries. The US is sufficiently infested with backward religionists, and we don't need any more Latin American Catholics (or any other believers in religion of any sort.)
Pure fighters are ancient history, and with the development of nice things like the Small Diameter Bomb it makes no sense to design any large UAV without the ability to kill enemy it locates.
24+ hour flight is expensive, but not prohibitive for "living pilots" if their bomber can carry extra aircrew. B-52s have flown up to 35 hour missions.
Pilots can be mass-produced. We have a surplus of military aviators. Piloted AIRFRAMES are the limiting factor.
UAVs are useful because supporting pilots is expensive, and sending CSAR teams to rescue them is extremely expensive when they get shot down. Downed aircrew are a huge political liability when the public expect no casualties and Hollywood outcomes. Pilots require a huge training and logistics tail that can be shrunk dramatically by taking meat out of the cockpit. Remotely-manned systems need not return if the mission is worth it, and in extreme situations could be deliberately crashed into a target. Unmanned systems need not obey the "G" limits of manned aircraft. Instead of trying to fight while straining against gravity and worrying about not dying a UAV crew can concentrate on the mission.
"Open the old hard drive and use a sawsall to cut the disks in to little pieces and scatter them."
That only applies to aluminum platter hard disks. Glass is common now. Sawzalls are awkward for destroying a drive and rather expensive.
Bash it with a hammer or unscrew the cover, then beat the platters. Anyone with shop tools has more entertaining options, but the average geek doesn't need to buy a cutting torch for drive disposal.
"Its just like buying a used car from a drug dealer and going across a border checkpoint.."
You can have your local K-9 unit run the dog through any car you buy if you ask nicely. The military will do so too, and when I was in the USAF I had them do one car I bought as a precaution.
Compare Finnish demographics and culture to US demographics and subcultures. As the US became less demographically "European" the crime rate skyrocketed.
The US has many toxic people we should never let out of prison, has a vast thug culture, and has vast numbers of immigrants who are here for the money be it legal or illegal.
"I'm not from the US so perhaps someone could explain to me why the "land of the free" has the largest prison population on the planet?"
We have many very backward, uneducated and education-averse people who literally cannot handle freedom.
Even the well-behaved citzens are often religious simpletons who don't make for enlightened social policy and perpetuate wasteful programs like the War on Some Drugs instead of adopting the Portuguese model.
Since we do not protect our borders, we maintain a vast number of imported poor people in addition to the domestic sort. The Industrial Revolution is dead and we don't have the manual labor market to employ people who don't know how to do anything. It is Politically Incorrect to point this out, because populist ideals exclude blaming the backward "public" and only allow blaming "leaders".
The flip side of diversity is that diverse groups have nothing in common and thus no incentive to accept common social mores. As the US became less "European" in demographic the crime rate skyrocketed.
We don't have a large enough prison system. Our criminals love crime (demonstrated by gangsta boasting in the media) and perpetuate subcultures that love crime. They are willfully beyond redemption.
Many Americans aren't sophisticated enough to handle freedom, and they idealize other simple people and simple idiotic ideas instead of treating them with the contempt they deserve. For the civilized Americans to maintain any sort of security will require an ever-more-restrictive police state. The public are not self-aware and will never change.
Fortunately we have the Second Amendment, because it at least gives us the power to shoot back.
"There were so many batteries in the EV1 that California called it a rolling toxic waste dump. GM wasn't allowed to sell any of them and I have no idea why this was never brought out in that documentary."
Because "rolling toxic waste dump" is an absurd assertion and anyone making it didn't know WTF they were talking about.
Almost all lead vehicle batteries are scrapped because lead is valuable, recycling lead-acid batteries is profitable, and this has been the case since long before the EV1. Motor vehicle recycling in general is quite profitable, which is why we don't send cars to landfills. Shred, separate, smelt, and reprocess is very old news.
Scrap = wealth, and I'd be delighted to have one or ten thousand dead EV1s to "dispose" of even in the current economy.
I have a wonderful idea. Don't buy their products.
People crave games. movies and other utter trifles and then snivel when the trifle-makers take advantage of their craving. This perpetuates the very conditions they snivel about because they still hand their money to the trifle-maker.
"It isn't religion that is the problem, it is organization and trust. "
We know religion is superstition designed to persuade fearful simpletons into submitting to their masters, be those masters priest, preacher, or mullah. Religion is absurd to truly modern man, and belief in imaginary friends is a psychological defect.
"Hmm, how come every Scientology story must have some post diverting attention to Catholicism, trying to lend legitimacy to Scientology as a religion?"
The comparisons I make tend to show why both should be attacked. Superstition deserves contempt, and sustained attack can pay off for those who value humanity over nonsense.
Note that the Catholic Church base of support has now moved to the most simple and backward people. It is growing strong in Africa, and in the US many churches rely on congregations of ignorant immigrants.
Expose religion to the weapons that work against it, which are scorn and contempt. Laugh at it and the fools who believe it, for it deserves no more protection than any non-superstitious belief. The Catholics grovel before priests who bugger their children (the hundreds of millions of hush money/settlement dollars prove my point), and Scientologists grovel before leaders who enslave them. How's THAT for an apt comparison?
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"No longer a wealthy nation, no longer a problem to import migrants, right?"
What will more poor people who compete for resources do for me?
Well?
I DEFY you to demonstrate why I, who benefit from exclusion, should want the US to be filled with poor people from elsewhere.
No, you aren't "basically evil", but that doesn't mean that _I_ benefit from having _poor_ Latin Americans in MY country. I'd be fine with selling citizenships for a million dollars each, but barrios full of thugs do me no good.
I and many others don't need you and my country doesn't belong to you, so I advocate that you stay outside the US.
The lifeboat is full, and it makes very good sense for those who are in the lifeboat to resist those whose grasp at the rail will help sink it.
Your inability to make countries to the south of the US work has coerced Latin Americans to leave for the US. That isn't a favor, it's flight from failure. Your countries have not accomplished that which the US has, so demonstrate why I should want to be invaded by people who compete for vanishing resources. I want my country to serve me, as is my birthright.
I'm culturist BTW, not racist. Cultures are belief sets, and backward cultures don't improve modern countries. The US is sufficiently infested with backward religionists, and we don't need any more Latin American Catholics (or any other believers in religion of any sort.)
Fix your own countries or fuck off.
Pure fighters are ancient history, and with the development of nice things like the Small Diameter Bomb it makes no sense to design any large UAV without the ability to kill enemy it locates.
If there is a voice-controlled version, under no circumstances say "Jerk it off!".
24+ hour flight is expensive, but not prohibitive for "living pilots" if their bomber can carry extra aircrew.
B-52s have flown up to 35 hour missions.
Pilots can be mass-produced. We have a surplus of military aviators. Piloted AIRFRAMES are the limiting factor.
UAVs are useful because supporting pilots is expensive, and sending CSAR teams to rescue them is extremely expensive when they get shot down. Downed aircrew are a huge political liability when the public expect no casualties and Hollywood outcomes. Pilots require a huge training and logistics tail that can be shrunk dramatically by taking meat out of the cockpit. Remotely-manned systems need not return if the mission is worth it, and in extreme situations could be deliberately crashed into a target. Unmanned systems need not obey the "G" limits of manned aircraft. Instead of trying to fight while straining against gravity and worrying about not dying a UAV crew can concentrate on the mission.
"Open the old hard drive and use a sawsall to cut the disks in to little pieces and scatter them."
That only applies to aluminum platter hard disks. Glass is common now. Sawzalls are awkward for destroying a drive and rather expensive.
Bash it with a hammer or unscrew the cover, then beat the platters. Anyone with shop tools has more entertaining options, but the average geek
doesn't need to buy a cutting torch for drive disposal.
"Its just like buying a used car from a drug dealer and going across a border checkpoint.."
You can have your local K-9 unit run the dog through any car you buy if you ask nicely. The military will do so too, and when I was in the USAF I
had them do one car I bought as a precaution.
Compare Finnish demographics and culture to US demographics and subcultures. As the US became less demographically "European" the crime rate skyrocketed.
The US has many toxic people we should never let out of prison, has a vast thug culture, and has vast numbers of immigrants who are here for the money be it legal or illegal.
"I'm not from the US so perhaps someone could explain to me why the "land of the free" has the largest prison population on the planet?"
We have many very backward, uneducated and education-averse people who literally cannot handle freedom.
Even the well-behaved citzens are often religious simpletons who don't make for enlightened social policy and perpetuate wasteful programs like the War on Some Drugs instead of adopting the Portuguese model.
Since we do not protect our borders, we maintain a vast number of imported poor people in addition to the domestic sort. The Industrial Revolution is dead and we don't have the manual labor market to employ people who don't know how to do anything. It is Politically Incorrect to point this out, because populist ideals exclude blaming the backward "public" and only allow blaming "leaders".
The flip side of diversity is that diverse groups have nothing in common and thus no incentive to accept common social mores. As the US became less "European" in demographic the crime rate skyrocketed.
We don't have a large enough prison system. Our criminals love crime (demonstrated by gangsta boasting in the media) and perpetuate subcultures that love crime. They are willfully beyond redemption.
Many Americans aren't sophisticated enough to handle freedom, and they idealize other simple people and simple idiotic ideas instead of treating them with the contempt they deserve. For the civilized Americans to maintain any sort of security will require an ever-more-restrictive police state. The public are not self-aware and will never change.
Fortunately we have the Second Amendment, because it at least gives us the power to shoot back.
"I just wonder if i should ever buy/use a used HD again ?!?"
DBAN it for a few days if that worries you. Electricity is cheap.
http://www.dban.org/download
"The unit has two spikes that can deploy on command/DRM violation, rendering the user blind."
Your ideas intrigue me and my company would like to subscribe to your newsletter.
...porn. :)
"There were so many batteries in the EV1 that California called it a rolling toxic waste dump. GM wasn't allowed to sell any of them and I have no idea why this was never brought out in that documentary."
Because "rolling toxic waste dump" is an absurd assertion and anyone making it didn't know WTF they were talking about.
Almost all lead vehicle batteries are scrapped because lead is valuable, recycling lead-acid batteries is profitable, and this has been the case since long before the EV1. Motor vehicle recycling in general is quite profitable, which is why we don't send cars to landfills. Shred, separate, smelt, and reprocess is very old news.
Scrap = wealth, and I'd be delighted to have one or ten thousand dead EV1s to "dispose" of even in the current economy.
"Murdock has ushered in the era of factless journalism and pure opinion as news."
William Randolph Hearst beat him by a century.
I have a wonderful idea. Don't buy their products.
People crave games. movies and other utter trifles and then snivel when the trifle-makers take advantage of their craving. This perpetuates the very conditions they snivel about because they still hand their money to the trifle-maker.
He was using them for personal business, comparable to using a company truck without permission.
I may repair a company truck, but I don't get to drive it for non-company business without authorization.
They are in business to make money, not play nice.
As long as users continue to pay for their product their business model is valid.
Mod parent up! :)
"When it comes to light, though, those responsible have been brought to justice."
Sometimes, when they aren't reshuffled by Church leadership as was done by the Catholic Church in many cases.
"That's a very poor argument. You can swap out "church" for almost any other childhood activity. For example, soccer:"
A soccer coach has less scope for compelling sodomy than does a priest representing an imaginary celestial friend.
BTW, soccer coaches aren't paying hundreds of millions of dollars in pedophilia settlement money.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19762878/
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/04/us/boston-archbishop-will-sell-residence-for-abuse-payout.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4655265.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4147431.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3872083.stm
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/29/us/catholic-priest-who-aids-church-sexual-abuse-victims-loses-job-military-chaplain.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2003/aug/17/religion.childprotection
http://www.boston.com/globe/spotlight/abuse/scandal/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2003/aug/17/religion.childprotection
Too bad this doesn't happen more often:
http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/08/24/geoghan/index.html
"The only defense I can think of is that they could be a lot worse (ie. Jonestown, Heaven's Gate), "
Their body counts run in the millions so their net effect was and is vastly worse!
Jonestown and Heaven's Gate were good religions because their believers self-terminated before the beliefs metastasized.
The ideas were never pure, and designed to be excuses for one man to master another.
"It isn't religion that is the problem, it is organization and trust. "
We know religion is superstition designed to persuade fearful simpletons into submitting to their masters, be those masters priest, preacher, or mullah. Religion is absurd to truly modern man, and belief in imaginary friends is a psychological defect.
Also note that "not for profit" doesn't mean that the people who work there cannot make mad cash in personal compensation...
"Hmm, how come every Scientology story must have some post diverting attention to Catholicism, trying to lend legitimacy to Scientology as a religion?"
The comparisons I make tend to show why both should be attacked. Superstition deserves contempt, and sustained attack can pay off for those who value humanity over nonsense.
Note that the Catholic Church base of support has now moved to the most simple and backward people. It is growing strong in Africa, and in the US many churches rely on congregations of ignorant immigrants.
Expose religion to the weapons that work against it, which are scorn and contempt. Laugh at it and the fools who believe it, for it deserves no more protection than any non-superstitious belief. The Catholics grovel before priests who bugger their children (the hundreds of millions of hush money/settlement dollars prove my point), and Scientologists grovel before leaders who enslave them. How's THAT for an apt comparison?