"It creates a lot of cognitive dissonance to acknowledge that we're actually ok with letting some people die, because we don't like to tell ourselves that we allow that sort of thing. But we're still going to make the tradeoffs."
People worry about dying in ways unlikely to kill them, then contract "diabesity" from eating factory "food" and being slothful. Both are perceived as "safe" activities. Their toll in suffering, premature debility, and death dwarfs war, auto accidents, and the space program. The toll for the US space program is less than a days worth of auto accidents.
ALL lives are eventually lost. To do nothing out of terror that some may be lost early is absurd.
Consider the MANY dead test pilots, and the FEW dead astronauts. They SHARED the idea that risk is acceptable and loss is tolerable because they knowingly chose to risk their own loss!
"Disempowering" religion doesn't require "outlawing" it.
Religions only function is to enslave. Religion teaches persecution of non-believers. Religion teaches persecution of homosexuals like Turing.
There is no defense for religion. It should be tolerated, but anyone believing it deserves scorn and contempt. All "religion" = "Taliban" at the core, dress it up all you like.
Just another example of proof that the only function of Islam is to restrict freedom of those not Muslim.
Islam is so toxic that, like Communism, anyone advocating it deserves to be liquidated. The social restrictions imposed by Islam are unfit for modern man, so the only "good" Muslim is a dead one.
Too bad the Hindu didn't boot them ALL to Pakistan during the Partition or just slay them in place.
The vigorous Vichy cooperation with Germany including help with the Endlosung, the French Waffen SS Division Charlemagne, and other actions such as refusal to hand over the French Fleet to the Allies (making necessary its destruction) argue that French enthusiasm for resistance against Germany in the first place was weak.
The French Left wisely disposed of most of the French Right at the end of the war, so testimony is of course one-sided.
The T-34 was the best tank of the war AND was produced in vast numbers.
Tigers had limited mobility, tiny production runs, and Panthers (the German T-34 copy) were unreliable. Most German tanks were Panzers, comparable to Allied tanks.
The German AFV with the most kills was the StuG, not any conventional tank.
I demand to be protected and don't care if it bothers you.
Coercing people to obey traffic laws and removing their license if they do not to deter others is reasonable. Lojack isn't universal or universally effective. Mechanics know how to disable them.
I do repos and carrying off vehicles which folks think are "secure" is actually quite easy.
"With all the police out there? How can that be? It's almost like the police aren't solving the problem..."
The problem isn't going to be solved without mechanisms for RAPID detection of offenders and efficient enforcement, both of which you find objectionable. I demand others be insured, I demand they be deterred from dangerous actions by threat of punishment, and I demand they be punished where necessary.
Primates maintain order by deterrence and force. That is all.
"People try very hard to avoid crashing. If there were no police on the roads, the exact same people would try just as hard to avoid crashing."
You assume people Give the Proverbial Fuck without being reminded. Maybe you do, in which case congrats on your virtue but don't expect it to scale.
Drunks don't try hard to avoid crashing and crash often. Many drivers crash but refuse to carry insurance. Many drivers run expired license tags or swap them from other vehicles. Auto theft is common.
Even Communism, which supported science, was far better than modern Islam (the past is dead and doesn't affect current Islam) in respect to human rights and education.
The only thing standing between Islam and the utter contempt it deserves is that so many people want tolerance for THEIR idiotic superstition that they believe the nonsense of religion and people who are superstitionists deserve respect.
There is no God, religion is nonsense, and while those who believe it are fools. When they try to run societies based on their insanity they are dangerous fools.
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"It creates a lot of cognitive dissonance to acknowledge that we're actually ok with letting some people die, because we don't like to tell ourselves that we allow that sort of thing. But we're still going to make the tradeoffs."
People worry about dying in ways unlikely to kill them, then contract "diabesity" from eating factory "food" and being slothful. Both are perceived as "safe" activities. Their toll in suffering, premature debility, and death dwarfs war, auto accidents, and the space program.
The toll for the US space program is less than a days worth of auto accidents.
ALL lives are eventually lost. To do nothing out of terror that some may be lost early is absurd.
Consider the MANY dead test pilots, and the FEW dead astronauts. They SHARED the idea that risk is acceptable and loss is tolerable because they knowingly chose to risk their own loss!
No. You can delegate it and pretend the world runs on rainbows and unicorns.
Storage is still dirt cheap.
(Insert annoying Old Fart anecdote about expensive, tiny hard disks and walking to the computer store in a blizzard to go buy one.)
Snipers are a very efficient way to use lethal force.
They avoid collateral damage, blowback from killing bystanders, etc. Ideally every soldier would be a proficient rifleman.
Contrast with mortars, cluster bomblets, cannon fire, etc.
The ideal date turns into a case of beer and a pizza when you're done.
A seat cover and lamb chops ain't bad!
Actual eugenics, as opposed to "pseudo-science in its name with ideological agendas", is not a bad idea at all.
"We trade with communists now. "
There being no Communist countries left, is this done by Ouija Board?
No has proven or even supplied convincing evidence any "God" exists, therefore certainty there is not one is reasonable.
"Disempowering" religion doesn't require "outlawing" it.
Religions only function is to enslave. Religion teaches persecution of non-believers. Religion teaches persecution of homosexuals like Turing.
There is no defense for religion. It should be tolerated, but anyone believing it deserves scorn and contempt. All "religion" = "Taliban" at the core, dress it up all you like.
Just another example of proof that the only function of Islam is to restrict freedom of those not Muslim.
Islam is so toxic that, like Communism, anyone advocating it deserves to be liquidated. The social restrictions imposed by Islam are unfit for modern man, so the only "good" Muslim is a dead one.
Too bad the Hindu didn't boot them ALL to Pakistan during the Partition or just slay them in place.
...and my hands were on it.
Which is why I'd never do that. Fuck 'em. No one who may be hostile to me gets my help. I laugh at their misfortune and wish them more of same.
Shoot all the messengers ya want, I won't be among them.
That's why man requires punitive measures to keep order.
Most folks "get it". For those who refuse to get it, a knouting is in order.
The vigorous Vichy cooperation with Germany including help with the Endlosung, the French Waffen SS Division Charlemagne, and other actions such as refusal to hand over the French Fleet to the Allies (making necessary its destruction) argue that French enthusiasm for resistance against Germany in the first place was weak.
The French Left wisely disposed of most of the French Right at the end of the war, so testimony is of course one-sided.
The T-34 was the best tank of the war AND was produced in vast numbers.
Tigers had limited mobility, tiny production runs, and Panthers (the German T-34 copy) were unreliable. Most German tanks were Panzers, comparable to Allied tanks.
The German AFV with the most kills was the StuG, not any conventional tank.
I demand to be protected and don't care if it bothers you.
Coercing people to obey traffic laws and removing their license if they do not to deter others is reasonable. Lojack isn't universal or universally effective. Mechanics know how to disable them.
I do repos and carrying off vehicles which folks think are "secure" is actually quite easy.
"With all the police out there? How can that be? It's almost like the police aren't solving the problem..."
The problem isn't going to be solved without mechanisms for RAPID detection of offenders and efficient enforcement, both of which you find objectionable. I demand others be insured, I demand they be deterred from dangerous actions by threat of punishment, and I demand they be punished where necessary.
Primates maintain order by deterrence and force. That is all.
Then, as in any other trade, you'll need to consider working for what the market will bear, abuse included.
"People try very hard to avoid crashing. If there were no police on the roads, the exact same people would try just as hard to avoid crashing."
You assume people Give the Proverbial Fuck without being reminded. Maybe you do, in which case congrats on your virtue but don't expect it to scale.
Drunks don't try hard to avoid crashing and crash often. Many drivers crash but refuse to carry insurance. Many drivers run expired license tags or swap them from other vehicles. Auto theft is common.
"Two thousand an hour at 95-98 percent accuracy gives 40 to 100 wrongly-read plates."
Whose status can be confirmed by other means if the vehicle is pulled over.
Now try the same thing with the "Mark 1 human eyeball" then compare error rates.
Works for me. I pay MY insurance and don't care for some idiot crashing into me and causing damage he/she/it can't pay for.
Likewise, the more stolen vehicles recovered the better for insurance rates. I don't steal cars, no problem.
The PURPOSE of a license plate is to publicly identify the vehicle.
Even Communism, which supported science, was far better than modern Islam (the past is dead and doesn't affect current Islam) in respect to human rights and education.
The only thing standing between Islam and the utter contempt it deserves is that so many people want tolerance for THEIR idiotic superstition that they believe the nonsense of religion and people who are superstitionists deserve respect.
There is no God, religion is nonsense, and while those who believe it are fools. When they try to run societies based on their insanity they are dangerous fools.
Death to superstition. All of it.
"First I stopped buying.
Then I stopped pirating.
Then I stopped caring."
Sounds like my Windows experience...
"Or did you lose a bet before? :)"
Nah. Found it on Ebay.
The businesses who OWN the government should reimburse taxpayers for its services to them.