The US exports, among other things, BMWs to China.
When Americans choose to compete, they can. Automation is the counter to "Asian hordes of cheap labor", which is why companies like Stihl can produce in the US at close to Chinese costs.
"Buy American and subsidise inefficiency" doesn't help US _GLOBAL_ competitiveness.
Remember to bring this up when the wankers who say the OLPC concept is terrible and we should be handing out food instead of computers pipe up in other threads!
Hilarious! Guns are also "on the streets" (++ for open carry laws) of many State whose crime rates are quite low.
Obammy is vigorously continuing the War On Some Drugs, with AG Holder attacking medicinal cannabis vigourously!
The "brown man" is capable of getting his shit together. In the US he often chooses otherwise due to the SAME sort of "culture" which keeps male White Trash, "trash".
That's why "brown women" are, despite even greater challenges, moving upward faster than their male counterparts. Take my word for none of this and look it up yourself.
The problem with religion is that religion endorses precisely such repression! There is no getting away from it, and "democracy" doesn't in any way mean that the net result of a democratic choice is a secular society.
As a Muslim you cannot critically view a religion that defines your life. Those of us who are free of superstition can see them clearly.
That shouldn't be modded "flamebait", but superstition is strong.
The proper attitude for modern man to superstition and witch doctors should be utter, bottomless scorn and contempt. Religion is now an obstacle to the progress of man and of human rights. It is ALL "Taliban", either "Taliban Lite" or "By the Book" Fundamentalist versions.
Religion is fine for some aborigine with a bone in his nose BECAUSE HE KNOWS NOTHING ELSE and only has what has been told him to work with.
Mandatory national service for the US is a self-destructive idea. There was a reason we needed LARGE military jails during the Viet Nam War.
An an Air Force NCO (1981-2007), I don't want the average POS off the street running to the AF recruiter because they are scared of conscription to become cannon fodder. It happened before and it sucked. Drug and discpline problems were rife in the old Hollow Force.
Who wants national defense depending on people who resent having the job?
National service would be a resource hog that would not address the need for retaining mid-level technicians and supervisors. It would take money away from force enhancement to sustain a rotating pool of low level troops who would haul ass out the gate after soaking up vital training time.
The volunteer force works well. Let's keep it that way.
They aren't absolutely necessary. Aircrew have multiple ways (called "multiple radios") of knowing what's going on at their destination if they are pub-less.
Shipping.printing, updating and schlepping pubs is a rather large hassle and won't be missed.
IANAP (I Am Not A Pilot) but did flightline fighter maintenance for 26 years. (Avionics, engines, crew chief.)
"care to take a guess how they "found" the sheep's with broken bones ?"
I could care less. I'm at the top of the food chain and have the Natural right to use those below me.
In other news, both my cat and my chickens play with mice for fun before eating them. (Chickens act quite like one would imagine their dinosaur predecessors did!) Neither asked me if they had the right to do that.
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The US exports, among other things, BMWs to China.
When Americans choose to compete, they can. Automation is the counter to "Asian hordes of cheap labor", which is why companies like Stihl can produce in the US at close to Chinese costs.
"Buy American and subsidise inefficiency" doesn't help US _GLOBAL_ competitiveness.
Calling out scumbags like Santorum who attack CIVIL RIGHTS is hardly "bullying".
Santorum is pure "Christian Taliban", that is all.
Windows is free (there is no logical reason to burden themselves with paying for it) and has drivers for "winperipherals".
Remember to bring this up when the wankers who say the OLPC concept is terrible and we should be handing out food instead of computers pipe up in other threads!
Hilarious! Guns are also "on the streets" (++ for open carry laws) of many State whose crime rates are quite low.
Obammy is vigorously continuing the War On Some Drugs, with AG Holder attacking medicinal cannabis vigourously!
The "brown man" is capable of getting his shit together. In the US he often chooses otherwise due to the SAME sort of "culture" which keeps male White Trash, "trash".
That's why "brown women" are, despite even greater challenges, moving upward faster than their male counterparts. Take my word for none of this and look it up yourself.
The problem with religion is that religion endorses precisely such repression! There is no getting away from it, and "democracy" doesn't in any way mean that the net result of a democratic choice is a secular society.
As a Muslim you cannot critically view a religion that defines your life. Those of us who are free of superstition can see them clearly.
All religion is bad, but the past of Christian superstition doesn't make CURRENT Islam less toxic!
"The horse-shoers all lost their jobs."
Not all of them, and modern mobile horse shoeing can be quite profitable.
A niche market is still a market, and oat-burners are still popular for much more than dog food.
Religion = bad, and the current (YMMV over history) worst is Islam.
"so anything with religious motivation is bad no matter what they do?"
Anything done with religious motivation has BAD MOTIVATION.
Secular analogy:
We may enjoy driving on the Autobahn, but we shouldn't forget who built them and why.
That shouldn't be modded "flamebait", but superstition is strong.
The proper attitude for modern man to superstition and witch doctors should be utter, bottomless scorn and contempt. Religion is now an obstacle to the progress of man and of human rights. It is ALL "Taliban", either "Taliban Lite" or "By the Book" Fundamentalist versions.
Religion is fine for some aborigine with a bone in his nose BECAUSE HE KNOWS NOTHING ELSE and only has what has been told him to work with.
No reader here has that excuse.
As with " battery hens", few readers will know what "battery" means in that context.
Cannon artillery analogies are as obsolete as ballista analogies.
Superstition kills and maims opposing cultures. It's quite a weapon.
I'm fine with pointing them out if they will assist potential customers in
making a different choice!
"No Linux distro does ISO mounting as easily as Windows 8"
The writers of ISO Master may disagree.
"I've often wondered why nobody ever nicks the body and VIN of an economy car to reduce theft risk and insurance costs of a sports car"
Because they hot rod the economy car to get a sufficiently similar performance result.
That's been done for almost one hundred years, and "Gow jobs" (for example) were being built before (possibly all) Slashdot posters were born.
...Roseanne Barr beaver shot collection.
I just zap them with a piezo-electric gas grill igniter. Extend the wires as needed and send high voltage at low amps coursing through your target.
No burn marks, no problem. Does motherboards etc too.
About five bucks and a nice addition to your tool kit.
Don't sell me junk and I won't RMA a brick.
"More power to them. Hope you guys like watching a lot of midgets shitting on grannies. And I mean a *LOT* of midgets shitting on grannies."
I'm a midget seeking to enter the elder care industry.
Any advice?
Mandatory national service for the US is a self-destructive idea.
There was a reason we needed LARGE military jails during the Viet Nam War.
An an Air Force NCO (1981-2007), I don't want the average POS off the street running to the AF recruiter because they are scared of conscription to become cannon fodder. It happened before and it sucked. Drug and discpline problems were rife in the old Hollow Force.
Who wants national defense depending on people who resent having the job?
National service would be a resource hog that would not address the need for retaining mid-level technicians and supervisors. It would take money away from force enhancement to sustain a rotating pool of low level troops who would haul ass out the gate after soaking up vital training time.
The volunteer force works well. Let's keep it that way.
A reminder of How Things Really Worked:
http://chss.montclair.edu/english/furr/Vietnam/heinl.html
"Eeeee! Teh dronz!" Ahem...
Put the same equipment in a manned aircraft and it's a snoozer.
Some appropriate Beechcraft antenna pron. I like antennae (328X0 represent!):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Beechcraft_RC-12N_Huron_in_flight.jpg
"Why not scrap all the other taxes for a consumption-based tax? After all, that's what the people hate, right?"
Because it deters consumption of products, such as boats, made by blue-collar workers.
Pubs don't cause aircraft to "fall out of the air" unless you beat the shit out of the pilot with the pub bag.
They aren't absolutely necessary. Aircrew have multiple ways (called "multiple radios") of knowing what's going on at their destination if they are pub-less.
Shipping.printing, updating and schlepping pubs is a rather large hassle and won't be missed.
IANAP (I Am Not A Pilot) but did flightline fighter maintenance for 26 years. (Avionics, engines, crew chief.)
"care to take a guess how they "found" the sheep's with broken bones ?"
I could care less. I'm at the top of the food chain and have the Natural right to use those below me.
In other news, both my cat and my chickens play with mice for fun before eating them. (Chickens act quite like one would imagine their dinosaur predecessors did!) Neither asked me if they had the right to do that.