"Being able to crush the enemy when they dare to stand and fight is meaningless when the survivors, the smart ones, will just fade in the face of the attack and blend back into the population."
Which is why one should have a Phoenix Program to find and kill them.
The Viet Cong were pretty much expended during the Tet Offensive. It was well worth using them up (because Tet so disillusioned the US that it eventually lost interest in supporting the South) but the VC weren't what finally beat the South. The final, very conventional invasion by the very well-equipped North Vietnamese Army is what ended the war.
"The quality of TV lately has sucked the fun of turning on the 'Idiot Box'."
It sucked even more when I was growing up in the 1960s. I'm fortunate my parents forbade excess TV watching at such an early age I never grew fond of it. I grew to appreciate that TV isn't much more than a pacifier for morons.
Comparing accusations by abuse made by loyal CATHOLICS to the actions of Chinese authorities is a bit of a stretch.
As for self-policing, do tell us why, when MANY Church members played shuffle-the-pedo for decades, we should regard that idea with anything but scorn? What's worse, being a pedo or hiding a pedo so he can prey again?
How high did it go without punishment? I'll use the tactical relocation of Cardinal Law as an example.:)
$660,000,000 bucks isn't an act of desperate damage control?
The Vatican ratlines are well documented by many sources that have nothing to do with evangelicals or Jack Chick. Nothing _I_ linked is sourced from Bible Thumpers. Google "Vatican ratlines" if you wish.
How about some links documenting YOUR assertions, AC?
Ratzinger can certainly favor Church over flock when expedient. DO note that the settlements of hundreds of millions of dollars were a CHOICE, and essentially an admission of guilt. That much money would have bought lawyers enough to put up quite a fight if there was something viable to fight for instead of more to expose:
Pedophilia Scandal: What of Ratzinger's role in the Vatican's much-delayed response to reports of massive sexual abuse of children by Catholic priests, a scandal that has rocked the Catholic Church in the US? In 2002, sounding almost Tom DeLayish, Ratzinger told the Catholic News Service that he thought that the pedophile priest scandal was being driven by a media set on making the Catholic Church look bad:
"I am personally convinced that the constant presence in the press of the sins of Catholic priests, especially in the United States, is a planned campaign, as the percentage of these offences among priests is not higher than in other categories, and perhaps it is even lower.
"In the United States, there is constant news on this topic, but less than 1% of priests are guilty of acts of this type. The constant presence of these news items does not correspond to the objectivity of the information nor to the statistical objectivity of the facts.
"Therefore, one comes to the conclusion that it is intentional, manipulated, that there is a desire to discredit the Church. It is a logical and well-founded conclusion."
"Ratzinger's letter states that the church can claim jurisdiction in cases where abuse has been 'perpetrated with a minor by a cleric'.
'In my opinion, the demand that a bishop be obligated to contact the police in order to denounce a priest who has admitted the offence of paedophilia is unfounded,' Bertone said.
Shea criticised the order that abuse allegations should be investigated only in secret tribunals. 'They are imposing procedures and secrecy on these cases. If law enforcement agencies find out about the case, they can deal with it. But you can't investigate a case if you never find out about it. If you can manage to keep it secret for 18 years plus 10 the priest will get away with it,' Shea added. "
Given the proven record of the Vatican protecting Nazis, that is not flamebait.
The cooperation between the Vatican and escaping Fascists taints anyone rising to Pope, because those approving him for the position would have either been involved or known of it and kept silent. They would not appoint a "boss of bosses" who would turn on them. Remember the age of the Cardinals when you consider what they do and who they elevate.
Church corruption blowback is helpful in discrediting superstition.
For example, the hundreds of millions spent by the Catholic Church to settle out of court rather than be exposed as a pedo haven is doing useful financial damage. Considering the level of legal representation that money would buy, they must be hiding a far vaster problem than the settlements indicate.
Better billions invested to make more wealth than feeding the icky flock, which job is that of the nations the evil tax cheats are depriving of sweet, sweet loot.
The Vatican perspective on money is interesting. Some background on what they were willing to do to get it while advancing their agenda. The background of the current Pope fits well with this:
"If you're in upper management at SCO, what do you do all day? "
If I had a job that paid well and required little, I'd enjoy the paycheck "all day". If I'm not personally breaking any laws, what do I care what happens to the company? Companies are expendable.
"My fear would be wind flipping one. 10' is still enough head first to kill you."
Running into objects because you do not have positive braking is even riskier! What do you do on a long downhill when another vehicle pulls in front of you and you can't climb due to obstacles like powerlines?
Other problems will be dust clouds from the downwash (so much for visibility-this problem kills helicopters with experienced pilots, let alone low time civilians), foreign object damage when objects get sucked into the fans, fan blade separation when they fail from FOD, etc.
"All it takes is one moron doing something stupid in one of the saucers and the lawyers will eat his company for lunch."
All it takes is a malfunction killing a competent pilot and the lawyers will eat his company for lunch. Look at the design and consider what will happen with an engine or two out. It'll flip like a flapjack, except flapjacks don't explode when they hit the griddle.
"That doesn't make Moller a scam artist it makes him a dreamer. "
It won't be approved because the design is idiotic. It is unstable (hence the tethered demos!), cannot autorotate or glide, and even with adaptive flight controls would be hard put to withstand the loss of an engine due to their location.
Ever wonder why investors with aviation knowledge and money to burn DON'T fund him?
The MIT design looks like a passable aircraft but it's still a lousy car. The folded wings and other control surfaces will restrict visibility leaving dangerous blind spots. It would be interesting to use in rural communities designed around airparks. Instead of being restricted to hangars, it could land, fold the wings, and be driven to the owners home.
The other nice thing is, unlike Mollers unstable abortions, the MIT machine could glide for a while after engine failure.
The flying car is a terrible idea. Besides being extremely dangerous, it is wasteful of energy, has little cargo capacity, and still requires professional maintenance.
Joe Sixpack isn't an Aviation Maintenance Technician or a pilot. Joe Sixpack does not need to be making low-level flights over residential areas.
The appropriate response would be to restrict all air traffic to officially designated airports/heliports and kill this idiocy off (if someone ever builds a viable machine). Requiring flying cars to pass all standard vehicle crash tests would also work.
"I don't want to insult your coworkers, but as far as I'm concerned, allowing jokes about a product name to cloud one's technical judgment is not at all professional."
PHBs and co-workers don't always think that way. Since there is absolutely no reason not to use names that help marketing, what is the point? Stupid product names are only appropriate in certain markets. If we want to encourage Linux adoption, understanding the market isn't a bad way to start.
"Cute" = "Fscking Stupid", not just unprofessional.
There is no level of scorn harsh enough for these fvcktarded release names. I'd like to see the people who pick them named and shamed for the damage they are doing to Linux adoption.
Dear readers, unless you are doing childrens software where "cute" helps marketing, please avoid cutesy names for anything. Should you be tempted, ask a good friend to punch you in the throat until that temptation fades.
You first. Post when you do. These/. "time to move" posts are tedious.
Wake me when some of you actually DO bug out and become expats because your feelings were sufficiently hurt by goverment actions that don't affect you. Be brave and lead by example. Given the many overseas employment opportunities it's not that difficult, and my expat buddies make good bank.
As society becomes more Balkanized and the US population grows, effective surveillance options will be required to protect against internal and external criminal and ideological enemies.
As information technology improves, surveillance tech must catch up to be effective. Sensible enough. If I were a criminal or terrorist I'd be looking for safe ways to move and communicate. Who wouldn't?
In the world according to (much) of Slashdot, everything is wonderful and our only enemies are the government and law enforcement orgs. Quite like the fear of ZOG by the white supremacists...
Your post was innocent in that respect. My reason for responding is that "McCarthyism" is normally invoked and discussed without the background context.
"If anything, his excesses tried to make opposing the U.S. government in any fashion wrong."
No, they tried to make opposing Tailgunner Joe's CAREER wrong. Let's remember that he was frequently attacking people in government and the Army. The other fallout of his antics is that because they were largely directed against the wrong people, they did serious damage to legitimate anti-Communism.
"If the Democrats think they'll get the White House next"
They can't NOT think that. Our parties are not built that way.
IWBGLAS (I Will Be Giggling Like A Schoolgirl) when the Democrats inherit (as they will, sooner or later) all the delicious power structures the Republicans built on the assumption they would hold power for a very long time.
"If you're about it call me antisemitic for that remark, stop and think about that for a second."
It isn't anti-Semitic (or anti-Jewish, since all Semites are not Jews nor are all Jews Semitic) to point that out.
I also point out that it eventually backfired and is now being used vigorously against them. People should beware when they use such techniques to stifle debate and criticism because they can be turned against them.
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"Being able to crush the enemy when they dare to stand and fight is meaningless when the survivors, the smart ones, will just fade in the face of the attack and blend back into the population."
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Which is why one should have a Phoenix Program to find and kill them.
The Viet Cong were pretty much expended during the Tet Offensive. It was well worth using them up (because Tet so disillusioned the US that it eventually lost interest in supporting the South) but the VC weren't what finally beat the South. The final, very conventional invasion by the very well-equipped North Vietnamese Army is what ended the war.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/
Note the famous photo of the T54 tank (hint: not manned by a barefoot guy in black pajamas) crashing through the gates of the Independence Palace:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fall_of_Saigon
"The quality of TV lately has sucked the fun of turning on the 'Idiot Box'."
It sucked even more when I was growing up in the 1960s.
I'm fortunate my parents forbade excess TV watching at such an early age I never grew fond of it. I grew to appreciate that TV isn't much more than a pacifier for morons.
"Before you cheer their attitude to the Scientologists, consider the collateral damage
I'm an anti-theist. The collateral damage is a sacrifice I'm willing to accept.
Consider sandboxing your browser. This has been out for a while:
http://www.sandboxie.com/
Oops. Last link should have been this letter:
s ource-files/churchdocs/EpistulaEnglish.htm
http://www.bishop-accountability.org/resources/re
Comparing accusations by abuse made by loyal CATHOLICS to the actions of Chinese authorities is a bit of a stretch.
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As for self-policing, do tell us why, when MANY Church members played shuffle-the-pedo for decades, we should regard that idea with anything but scorn?
What's worse, being a pedo or hiding a pedo so he can prey again?
How high did it go without punishment? I'll use the tactical relocation of Cardinal Law as an example.
$660,000,000 bucks isn't an act of desperate damage control?
http://www.americancatholic.org/News/ClergySexAbu
The Vatican ratlines are well documented by many sources that have nothing to do with evangelicals or Jack Chick.
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Nothing _I_ linked is sourced from Bible Thumpers. Google "Vatican ratlines" if you wish.
How about some links documenting YOUR assertions, AC?
Ratzinger can certainly favor Church over flock when expedient. DO note that the settlements of hundreds of millions of dollars were a CHOICE, and essentially an admission of guilt. That much money would have bought lawyers enough to put up quite a fight if there was something viable to fight for instead of more to expose:
http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Apr05/Whitney0426.h
Pedophilia Scandal: What of Ratzinger's role in the Vatican's much-delayed response to reports of massive sexual abuse of children by Catholic priests, a scandal that has rocked the Catholic Church in the US? In 2002, sounding almost Tom DeLayish, Ratzinger told the Catholic News Service that he thought that the pedophile priest scandal was being driven by a media set on making the Catholic Church look bad:
"I am personally convinced that the constant presence in the press of the sins of Catholic priests, especially in the United States, is a planned campaign, as the percentage of these offences among priests is not higher than in other categories, and perhaps it is even lower.
"In the United States, there is constant news on this topic, but less than 1% of priests are guilty of acts of this type. The constant presence of these news items does not correspond to the objectivity of the information nor to the statistical objectivity of the facts.
"Therefore, one comes to the conclusion that it is intentional, manipulated, that there is a desire to discredit the Church. It is a logical and well-founded conclusion."
So much for secular law:
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/international/stor
"Ratzinger's letter states that the church can claim jurisdiction in cases where abuse has been 'perpetrated with a minor by a cleric'.
'In my opinion, the demand that a bishop be obligated to contact the police in order to denounce a priest who has admitted the offence of paedophilia is unfounded,' Bertone said.
Shea criticised the order that abuse allegations should be investigated only in secret tribunals. 'They are imposing procedures and secrecy on these cases. If law enforcement agencies find out about the case, they can deal with it. But you can't investigate a case if you never find out about it. If you can manage to keep it secret for 18 years plus 10 the priest will get away with it,' Shea added. "
http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/c
Given the proven record of the Vatican protecting Nazis, that is not flamebait.
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The cooperation between the Vatican and escaping Fascists taints anyone rising to Pope, because those approving him for the position would have either been involved or known of it and kept silent. They would not appoint a "boss of bosses" who would turn on them. Remember the age of the Cardinals when you consider what they do and who they elevate.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ratlines_(history)
http://www.thetrumpet.com/index.php?page=article&
Church corruption blowback is helpful in discrediting superstition.
For example, the hundreds of millions spent by the Catholic Church to settle out of court rather than be exposed as a pedo haven is doing useful financial damage. Considering the level of legal representation that money would buy, they must be hiding a far vaster problem than the settlements indicate.
Better billions invested to make more wealth than feeding the icky flock, which job is that of the nations the evil tax cheats are depriving of sweet, sweet loot.
_ the_usa/163217.html
n g-Nazis.html
The Vatican perspective on money is interesting. Some background on what they were willing to do to get it while advancing their agenda. The background of the current Pope fits well with this:
http://www.shoahrose.com/vatican.html
http://www.totse.com/en/politics/the_world_beyond
sizzerb.com/images/images/pavelic_degenerate.pdf
http://www.srpska-mreza.com/Yugoslavia/views/savi
"If you're in upper management at SCO, what do you do all day? "
If I had a job that paid well and required little, I'd enjoy the paycheck "all day".
If I'm not personally breaking any laws, what do I care what happens to the company?
Companies are expendable.
"My fear would be wind flipping one. 10' is still enough head first to kill you."
Running into objects because you do not have positive braking is even riskier!
What do you do on a long downhill when another vehicle pulls in front of you and you can't climb due to obstacles like powerlines?
Other problems will be dust clouds from the downwash (so much for visibility-this problem kills helicopters with experienced pilots, let alone low time civilians), foreign object damage when objects get sucked into the fans, fan blade separation when they fail from FOD, etc.
"All it takes is one moron doing something stupid in one of the saucers and the lawyers will eat his company for lunch."
All it takes is a malfunction killing a competent pilot and the lawyers will eat his company for lunch.
Look at the design and consider what will happen with an engine or two out. It'll flip like a flapjack, except flapjacks don't explode when they hit the griddle.
"That doesn't make Moller a scam artist it makes him a dreamer. "
The two are not mutually exclusive.
It won't be approved because the design is idiotic. It is unstable (hence the tethered demos!), cannot autorotate or glide, and even with adaptive flight controls would be hard put to withstand the loss of an engine due to their location.
Ever wonder why investors with aviation knowledge and money to burn DON'T fund him?
This fellow isn't another Igor Sikorsky.
The MIT design looks like a passable aircraft but it's still a lousy car. The folded wings and other control surfaces will restrict visibility leaving dangerous blind spots.
It would be interesting to use in rural communities designed around airparks. Instead of being restricted to hangars, it could land, fold the wings, and be driven to the owners home.
The other nice thing is, unlike Mollers unstable abortions, the MIT machine could glide for a while after engine failure.
The flying car is a terrible idea. Besides being extremely dangerous, it is wasteful of energy, has little cargo capacity, and still requires professional maintenance.
Joe Sixpack isn't an Aviation Maintenance Technician or a pilot. Joe Sixpack does not need to be making low-level flights over residential areas.
The appropriate response would be to restrict all air traffic to officially designated airports/heliports and kill this idiocy off (if someone ever builds a viable machine). Requiring flying cars to pass all standard vehicle crash tests would also work.
He funds the project. As to the release names, he may or may not choose those. It would be interesting to really know.
"It does have a 28 day release cycle."
Patch release is spotty though.
"I don't want to insult your coworkers, but as far as I'm concerned, allowing jokes about a product name to cloud one's technical judgment is not at all professional."
PHBs and co-workers don't always think that way.
Since there is absolutely no reason not to use names that help marketing, what is the point? Stupid product names are only appropriate in certain markets. If we want to encourage Linux adoption, understanding the market isn't a bad way to start.
"Cute" = "Fscking Stupid", not just unprofessional.
There is no level of scorn harsh enough for these fvcktarded release names. I'd like to see the people who pick them named and shamed for the damage they are doing to Linux adoption.
Dear readers, unless you are doing childrens software where "cute" helps marketing, please avoid cutesy names for anything.
Should you be tempted, ask a good friend to punch you in the throat until that temptation fades.
"Time to move"
/. "time to move" posts are tedious.
You first.
Post when you do.
These
Wake me when some of you actually DO bug out and become expats because your feelings were sufficiently hurt by goverment actions that don't affect you. Be brave and lead by example. Given the many overseas employment opportunities it's not that difficult, and my expat buddies make good bank.
As society becomes more Balkanized and the US population grows, effective surveillance options will be required to protect against internal and external criminal and ideological enemies.
As information technology improves, surveillance tech must catch up to be effective. Sensible enough. If I were a criminal or terrorist I'd be looking for safe ways to move and communicate. Who wouldn't?
In the world according to (much) of Slashdot, everything is wonderful and our only enemies are the government and law enforcement orgs. Quite like the fear of ZOG by the white supremacists...
"Can you say "low-hanging fruit" boys and girls? I knew you could."
"Low-hanging fruit" as in "yarbles over a bear trap". I think I'll not be an early adopter...
Your post was innocent in that respect.
My reason for responding is that "McCarthyism" is normally invoked and discussed without the background context.
"If anything, his excesses tried to make opposing the U.S. government in any fashion wrong."
No, they tried to make opposing Tailgunner Joe's CAREER wrong.
Let's remember that he was frequently attacking people in government and the Army.
The other fallout of his antics is that because they were largely directed against the wrong people, they did serious damage to legitimate anti-Communism.
McCarthy's excesses didn't make opposing Mao and Stalin wrong.
"If the Democrats think they'll get the White House next"
They can't NOT think that. Our parties are not built that way.
IWBGLAS (I Will Be Giggling Like A Schoolgirl) when the Democrats inherit (as they will, sooner or later) all the delicious power structures the Republicans built on the assumption they would hold power for a very long time.
"If you're about it call me antisemitic for that remark, stop and think about that for a second."
It isn't anti-Semitic (or anti-Jewish, since all Semites are not Jews nor are all Jews Semitic) to point that out.
I also point out that it eventually backfired and is now being used vigorously against them.
People should beware when they use such techniques to stifle debate and criticism because they can be turned against them.