If there is meat in the cockpit it's a non-issue, be it police meat or the hundreds of thousands of recce aircraft training sorties the US had back when we used RF and RB-series aircraft.
Meatless cockpits are scary, so let's use Virginia's current Bell 407s for everything instead.
A Communist enables all Communists by being Communist, and so does a Superstitionist enable all his/her fellow Delusionals.
Religion, ALL of it, is based on lies. No Sky Fairie can be proven, and therefore there is no reason to treat belief in such fantastic absurdity with other than contempt.
The modern anti-education movements are ALL religionist.
Pay attention, politically and historically ignorant AC:
We went to war to get AL QAEDA.
There was never a prospect of turning Kabul into San Francisco. We cannot make Muslims convert to free-thinking.
What happened was "mission creep", and it cost the US dearly. Unlike Iraq, A-stan has Pakistan for a neighbor and the "Pakiban" government hate our guts as they take our money to arm against India.
The Cold War utterly dwarfed the current Al Qaeda/Talisquabble, including 9/11, and cost far more casualties.
While the 1970s have passed from living memory, in those ancient times the world was racked with contention between great nuclear kingdoms. They waged "proxy wars" because Mutual Assured Destruction preserved the world from nuclear war as it does now....
Part of wearing down the US was entangling it in the Viet Nam conflict, and part of wearing down the Soviets was wearing them down with an equally worthless set of local clients in Afghanistan.
The US then made the mistake of trying to teach a pig to sing (which never works and annoys the pig) and must now extricate itself from a trap baited with American hubris.
All violent anti-education movements after the Cold War ended are RELIGIOUS in nature.
Superstition is the enemy of free thought because it is the enemy of critical thinking. The only folks who don't get that ARE superstitionists.
I'll recant if anyone can PROVE (not fucking "faith" or "axioms", but cold hard irrefutable proof) their Sky Fairie exists and bow before their Deity's Noodly Appendage. Otherwise, all superstition merits scorn and contempt because it is not proven to beTruth.
"You know, so that the electorate can make electoral decisions based on actual information rather than fear-mongering?"
As if they would ever do such a thing. Most people are contemptibly stupid and deserve the politicians they CHOOSE to elect and support with such passion.
OTOH if you're Active duty and not deployed to a combat zone at the time, you usually do get it off or get informal "comp" time if you pull holiday duty.
The law of conquest is the greatest law. Countries are made and unmade by war. Small wars are rackets with limited benefit, while large wars sometimes enormously benefit victorious populations.
The US benefits me, and it was borne and expanded by conquest. It was created by killing enough Brits that they (after two wars) lost interest in keeping it.
Man exists to fight. It's our nature. That's why it takes so little to get us to kill each other.
EVOLUTION rewarded such behaviors, and political evolution rewards them still. That's why we have a vast framwork of laws, and groups like the UN, to MITIGATE the perceived rewards of war.
War didn't only reward the US. War unified China. War removed the Tsars and moved Russia into the modern era.
War is neither all good nor all bad. It's worth is situational.
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If there is meat in the cockpit it's a non-issue, be it police meat or the hundreds of thousands of recce aircraft training sorties the US had back when we used RF and RB-series aircraft.
Meatless cockpits are scary, so let's use Virginia's current Bell 407s for everything instead.
"I'll have you know the Supreme Court has roundly rejected prior restraint."
Unless Slashdot is now the US government, that decision doesn't apply.
"They just need to up their offer. Go invisible hand!"
The Invisible Hand is a fiction invoked to squeeze your Invisible Balls until you do what the Masters want.
"You do if you are a gamer. "
That's a "want", not a "need", unless you are a developer or otherwise make money from game.
Games are fun, fun is fine, but a toy is a toy and never forget that.
"How many more ways can they screw us out of our rights?"
They won't be screwing ME because I won't be buying Windows 8.
"Seriously someone should do a Kennedy on him."
Turning him into an fat drunk might not help much.
"I'd rather 200 people file small claims suits than someone file a class action."
Here's an example which supports your contention!
http://www.autoguide.com/auto-news/2012/03/honda-civic-hybrid-class-action-lawsuit-settled-tentatively.html
"They're not anti-girl, they're anti-empowered girls."
Racial version:
"We don't hate niggers. We just hate uppity niggers."
Superstition is PRACTICE, the theory is nothing.
All superstitions are based on lies. They cannot be proven, therefore they should be treated as nonsense and their adherents as delusional.
Prove your Sky Fairie exists or piss off. Do it NOW. Here, in this thread.
Lies and liars merit no respect.
End the discussion forever by proving your Imaginary Friend is real.
A Communist enables all Communists by being Communist, and so does a Superstitionist enable all his/her fellow Delusionals.
Religion, ALL of it, is based on lies. No Sky Fairie can be proven, and therefore there is no reason to treat belief in such fantastic absurdity with other than contempt.
The modern anti-education movements are ALL religionist.
Pay attention, politically and historically ignorant AC:
We went to war to get AL QAEDA.
There was never a prospect of turning Kabul into San Francisco.
We cannot make Muslims convert to free-thinking.
What happened was "mission creep", and it cost the US dearly. Unlike Iraq, A-stan has Pakistan for a neighbor and the "Pakiban" government hate our guts as they take our money to arm against India.
The Cold War utterly dwarfed the current Al Qaeda/Talisquabble, including 9/11, and cost far more casualties.
While the 1970s have passed from living memory, in those ancient times the world was racked with contention between great nuclear kingdoms. They waged "proxy wars" because Mutual Assured Destruction preserved the world from nuclear war as it does now....
Part of wearing down the US was entangling it in the Viet Nam conflict, and part of wearing down the Soviets was wearing them down with an equally worthless set of local clients in Afghanistan.
The US then made the mistake of trying to teach a pig to sing (which never works and annoys the pig) and must now extricate itself from a trap baited with American hubris.
Here's another hint to the historical illiterates who modded the above post "Flamebait":
"The Eastern Front."
Have some numbers:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_casualties_in_World_War_II#Wartime_Statistics_Compiled_by_German_High_Command
The US did great things in the ETO and with Lend-Lease aid to the other Allies, but the Red Army destroyed far more of the Wehrmacht.
All violent anti-education movements after the Cold War ended are RELIGIOUS in nature.
Superstition is the enemy of free thought because it is the enemy of critical thinking. The only folks who don't get that ARE superstitionists.
I'll recant if anyone can PROVE (not fucking "faith" or "axioms", but cold hard irrefutable proof) their Sky Fairie exists and bow before their Deity's Noodly Appendage. Otherwise, all superstition merits scorn and contempt because it is not proven to beTruth.
That wasn't racist.
I've met plenty of White folks who can't speak English and were BORN in the US. They do construction and landscaping and similar gigs.
They are also pissed at being displaced by immigrants who work harder for less money. (Cry me a river....)
A WWI torpedo is sufficient if you can score a hit on a valuable merchantman loaded with military assets.
Scapa Flow is sufficient to establish him as an intrepid leader.
"Same way those who support murdering doctors who perform abortions rationalize away "thou shalt not kill."
It's "thou shalt not MURDER", which distinction turns the discussion into a mere matter of personal opinion instead of an absolute rule.
http://people.ucalgary.ca/~elsegal/Shokel/001102_ThouShaltNotMurder.html
The Bible was not originally written in English and all Englsh translations should be take with a grain of salt.
The Anarchist movement has a LONG (WELL over a century) history of terrorism, so no empathy here.
"You know, so that the electorate can make electoral decisions based on actual information rather than fear-mongering?"
As if they would ever do such a thing. Most people are contemptibly stupid and deserve the politicians they CHOOSE to elect and support with such passion.
"Except that unobfuscated isn't a word."
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/unobfuscated
OTOH if you're Active duty and not deployed to a combat zone at the time, you usually do get it off or get informal "comp" time if you pull holiday duty.
No shit!
The law of conquest is the greatest law. Countries are made and unmade by war. Small wars are rackets with limited benefit, while large wars sometimes enormously benefit victorious populations.
The US benefits me, and it was borne and expanded by conquest. It was created by killing enough Brits that they (after two wars) lost interest in keeping it.
Man exists to fight. It's our nature. That's why it takes so little to get us to kill each other.
EVOLUTION rewarded such behaviors, and political evolution rewards them still. That's why we have a vast framwork of laws, and groups like the UN, to MITIGATE the perceived rewards of war.
War didn't only reward the US. War unified China. War removed the Tsars and moved Russia into the modern era.
War is neither all good nor all bad. It's worth is situational.
"Resource wars of the future my friend, resource wars of the future."
The idea of having to invade our Northern Corporate Appendage is absurd, and politicians are cheaper to buy than armaments.
"Building" /= "maintaining".