Taxation is theft. He has every right to be angry at the government.
No. No it isn't. If you don't think so, keep off the roads, and keep your kids out of the schools the rest of us have paid for. Starve alone in the dark, you rugged individualist, you*.
*Unless, of course, you inherited enough money to not pay any taxes, like our Fuhrer-elect.
I recall the IRS doing something very similar in Nevada (Reno & Vegas) back in the early 80's; before gaming was a nationwide phenomenon -- even Atlantic City didn't have casinos in those days. Blackjack dealers were (overnight) told the amounts of tips they were "estimated" to have made, and that they would have to pay taxes on those estimated amounts. "The IRS deals seconds" (Google or YouTube "dealing seconds" if you don't know what that is) was their rallying cry. Ronald Reagan was president, and all the air traffic controllers were out of work. The more things change, the more they don't.
A few things, after 5 minutes of Googling, in no particular order:
1) That max range was 100 km, not 100 miles; so, 53 miles. It's only been tested to 83km/45mi. And that's just the "let's see how far it will go" test.
2) Yeah, it's 155mm, but not compatible with any other 155mm munitions.
3) The elevation is 70 degrees, so it's really a guided missile launcher, not a "gun".
4) There's so much guidance and propulsion crap onboard, there's hardly any (24 lbs) room for the High Explosive for the warhead.
5) Most of the lethality estimates involve using the Multiple Round Simultaneous Impact theory. So the plan is to have half-a-dozen rounds land on target, at the same time. Good luck with that.
6) So, $80,000 per shot was the pie-in-the-sky target cost??? From a glorified cannon?
I can't help but think that an M-dwarf system would have a much narrower orbital Goldilocks zone, which would *reduce* the odds of having a habitable planet in that orbital belt.
Verhoeven's Starship Troopers is based on the book in the same way that Monty Python's Life of Brian is based on the Gospel of Mathew.
Don't get me wrong: the movie was awful and I loved it, it remains one of my favorites; but it wasn't "Starship Troopers", it was "Klendathu 90210" or "Doogie Howser, SS".
Heinlein's book was an unselfconscious Libertarian fantasy, Verhoeven's movie was a sarcastic anti-authoritarian polemic.
Interesting; as I said nothing that was illiterate, or bigoted, or partisan. But you're entitled to your own opinion, ignorant and uninformed as it may be.
"Starting over" on a manned fighter is a ridiculous idea. If we really wanted to be building a "next generation" fighter, we'd be building a semi-autonomous UAV that could do hi-G turns and accelerations that a manned fighter could never dream of, meanwhile costing approximately 1/8 per unit. While the A-10 is an awesome up-close-and-personal troop killer that's already debugged and in production, the F-35 as a next-next-gen P-51/Messerschmitt-killer is a defence department contractor boondoggle of epic proportions that should be killed like the overpriced Thanksgiving turkey that it is.
I would be willing to bet serious money that as unionized miners go away and are replaced by many many fewer non-union robot repair guys that mine safety precautions go way down and safety related deaths (percentage-wise) go way up.
Yes, I'll concede your point that operating a worker-safe mine is more expensive than running a "Arrows cost money. Use up the Irish. The dead cost nothing." operation.
Are you serious? Mining is and always has been the POSTER CHILD for worker exploitation. Your notion that the government is somehow trampling on the poor put-upon mine owners is laughable on its face. Are you choosing to forget that hundreds of workers were killed (less than 100 years ago) by company goons for trying to unionize? Are you choosing to forget the thousands of miners who have died due to the incredibly lax and callous safety practices of mine owners, both from cave-ins and from firedamp?
Ling-ling was born a biological lesbian male panda, then transitioned to an asexual post-operative female panda, but he/she/it currently identifies mentally as a pan-sexual hermaphroditic alligator.
So where is he/she allowed to poop in North Carolina?
<snort> AH HA HA HA Stop it! As if... <snort> HEE HEE "US banking regulators" <giggle> Did they mention what the unicorns and tooth fairies were up to?
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When I want to have some fun. This is the thing the pearl-clutching gun-grabbers consistently overlook: lots and lots of people think that hunting or target shooting at the range, or plinking, or simply going out in the woods/desert and shooting the fuck out of old washing machines or whatever is a ton of fun. Sure, sometimes we tell ourselves it's to protect our homes and families from home invaders or the zombie apocalypse or big government run amuck, but the real truth is simply that it's a fucking blast (no pun intended) to go out 3 or four times a year and waste $50 worth of ammo. Lots and lots of people spend an equal amount per annum on fantasy football or a dozen other equally harmless pursuits; and they present an equal danger to society as we do, which is to say: none whatsoever.
That's why "assault weapons" (which is to simply say "any modern semi-automatic rifle") are so popular, because they're fun to shoot. The much-touted violence in places like Chicago (and I live nearby) are the result of out-of-control gang members using ALREADY ILLEGAL 9mm pistols, NOT any kind of "assault weapons". Convicted felons possessing firearms is ALREADY another felony and no "common sense gun safety" (can you say "lipstick on a pig?") legislation is going to make that less likely to happen. When the gun-grabbers tout this kind of "common sense anti-assault weapon" talismanic-thinking crap, they're specifically targeting law-abiding gun owners, AND THEY KNOW IT. If they were serious about the issue, they'd spend a tenth of the money on gang-unit intelligence and get far better results. And they'd stop being disingenuous by not counting suicides (~63%) in their "OMG gun death!" statistics. Illinois has some of the strictest gun laws in the country; Rahm Emanuel (mayor of Chicago) has been cutting gang unit budgets and police retirement replacement hiring for YEARS, and then blaming the resulting upswing in violence on a lack of yet-more draconian anti-gun laws.
Now, a couple of caveats: 1) being a responsible gun owner (to say nothing of being a responsible parent) means NOT leaving a loaded handgun lying around (with the safety off and one in the chamber FFS) where a toddler is likely to get their hands on it and kill themselves, and 2) I'm under ZERO delusions that the SWAT team (much less the US military) are outside my house saying to themselves "We better not risk it men, he's got a shotgun in there".
Had he done the same thing as an employee of Goldman Sachs, he'd have gotten a big year-end bonus and a promotion. The real lesson here is "know your place": only club members get away with this kind of shit.
Actually, it's Ronald Reagan you have to thank for all the things you're bitching about. Many of us at the tail end of the Boomer generation have had the same shit-sandwich experience as you later generations; at least those of us who didn't become bankers.
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No. No it isn't. If you don't think so, keep off the roads, and keep your kids out of the schools the rest of us have paid for. Starve alone in the dark, you rugged individualist, you*.
*Unless, of course, you inherited enough money to not pay any taxes, like our Fuhrer-elect.
I recall the IRS doing something very similar in Nevada (Reno & Vegas) back in the early 80's; before gaming was a nationwide phenomenon -- even Atlantic City didn't have casinos in those days. Blackjack dealers were (overnight) told the amounts of tips they were "estimated" to have made, and that they would have to pay taxes on those estimated amounts. "The IRS deals seconds" (Google or YouTube "dealing seconds" if you don't know what that is) was their rallying cry. Ronald Reagan was president, and all the air traffic controllers were out of work. The more things change, the more they don't.
$DEITY, I wish I had some mod points today... Yeah, the Obama Derangement Syndrome / Reality Denial Field is strong in this one.
Anybody have a script I can run to join in the fun?
A few things, after 5 minutes of Googling, in no particular order:
1) That max range was 100 km, not 100 miles; so, 53 miles. It's only been tested to 83km/45mi. And that's just the "let's see how far it will go" test.
2) Yeah, it's 155mm, but not compatible with any other 155mm munitions.
3) The elevation is 70 degrees, so it's really a guided missile launcher, not a "gun".
4) There's so much guidance and propulsion crap onboard, there's hardly any (24 lbs) room for the High Explosive for the warhead.
5) Most of the lethality estimates involve using the Multiple Round Simultaneous Impact theory. So the plan is to have half-a-dozen rounds land on target, at the same time. Good luck with that.
6) So, $80,000 per shot was the pie-in-the-sky target cost??? From a glorified cannon?
I can't help but think that an M-dwarf system would have a much narrower orbital Goldilocks zone, which would *reduce* the odds of having a habitable planet in that orbital belt.
was completely unambiguous. The absence of power suits was an Instant Loser for me, in terms of faithfullness to the book, philosophy be damned.
Nonsense.
Verhoeven's Starship Troopers is based on the book in the same way that Monty Python's Life of Brian is based on the Gospel of Mathew.
Don't get me wrong: the movie was awful and I loved it, it remains one of my favorites; but it wasn't "Starship Troopers", it was "Klendathu 90210" or "Doogie Howser, SS".
Heinlein's book was an unselfconscious Libertarian fantasy, Verhoeven's movie was a sarcastic anti-authoritarian polemic.
Hmmmm. I thought they were both ROT-13.
Interesting; as I said nothing that was illiterate, or bigoted, or partisan. But you're entitled to your own opinion, ignorant and uninformed as it may be.
Yes, I know what he's saying, he's a well-known knee-jerk RWNJ fucktard. Hasn't got the brains $DEITY gave northern geese.
"Starting over" on a manned fighter is a ridiculous idea. If we really wanted to be building a "next generation" fighter, we'd be building a semi-autonomous UAV that could do hi-G turns and accelerations that a manned fighter could never dream of, meanwhile costing approximately 1/8 per unit. While the A-10 is an awesome up-close-and-personal troop killer that's already debugged and in production, the F-35 as a next-next-gen P-51/Messerschmitt-killer is a defence department contractor boondoggle of epic proportions that should be killed like the overpriced Thanksgiving turkey that it is.
I would be willing to bet serious money that as unionized miners go away and are replaced by many many fewer non-union robot repair guys that mine safety precautions go way down and safety related deaths (percentage-wise) go way up.
Yes, I'll concede your point that operating a worker-safe mine is more expensive than running a "Arrows cost money. Use up the Irish. The dead cost nothing." operation.
Are you serious? Mining is and always has been the POSTER CHILD for worker exploitation. Your notion that the government is somehow trampling on the poor put-upon mine owners is laughable on its face. Are you choosing to forget that hundreds of workers were killed (less than 100 years ago) by company goons for trying to unionize? Are you choosing to forget the thousands of miners who have died due to the incredibly lax and callous safety practices of mine owners, both from cave-ins and from firedamp?
So where is he/she allowed to poop in North Carolina?
<snort> AH HA HA HA Stop it! As if... <snort> HEE HEE "US banking regulators" <giggle> Did they mention what the unicorns and tooth fairies were up to?
Well done. I absolutely cannot tell if you're trolling or dead serious.
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Please present a SINGLE instance of this EVER happening. I triple dog dare you. I'll wait.
When I want to have some fun. This is the thing the pearl-clutching gun-grabbers consistently overlook: lots and lots of people think that hunting or target shooting at the range, or plinking, or simply going out in the woods/desert and shooting the fuck out of old washing machines or whatever is a ton of fun. Sure, sometimes we tell ourselves it's to protect our homes and families from home invaders or the zombie apocalypse or big government run amuck, but the real truth is simply that it's a fucking blast (no pun intended) to go out 3 or four times a year and waste $50 worth of ammo. Lots and lots of people spend an equal amount per annum on fantasy football or a dozen other equally harmless pursuits; and they present an equal danger to society as we do, which is to say: none whatsoever.
That's why "assault weapons" (which is to simply say "any modern semi-automatic rifle") are so popular, because they're fun to shoot. The much-touted violence in places like Chicago (and I live nearby) are the result of out-of-control gang members using ALREADY ILLEGAL 9mm pistols, NOT any kind of "assault weapons". Convicted felons possessing firearms is ALREADY another felony and no "common sense gun safety" (can you say "lipstick on a pig?") legislation is going to make that less likely to happen. When the gun-grabbers tout this kind of "common sense anti-assault weapon" talismanic-thinking crap, they're specifically targeting law-abiding gun owners, AND THEY KNOW IT. If they were serious about the issue, they'd spend a tenth of the money on gang-unit intelligence and get far better results. And they'd stop being disingenuous by not counting suicides (~63%) in their "OMG gun death!" statistics. Illinois has some of the strictest gun laws in the country; Rahm Emanuel (mayor of Chicago) has been cutting gang unit budgets and police retirement replacement hiring for YEARS, and then blaming the resulting upswing in violence on a lack of yet-more draconian anti-gun laws.
Now, a couple of caveats: 1) being a responsible gun owner (to say nothing of being a responsible parent) means NOT leaving a loaded handgun lying around (with the safety off and one in the chamber FFS) where a toddler is likely to get their hands on it and kill themselves, and 2) I'm under ZERO delusions that the SWAT team (much less the US military) are outside my house saying to themselves "We better not risk it men, he's got a shotgun in there".
Had he done the same thing as an employee of Goldman Sachs, he'd have gotten a big year-end bonus and a promotion. The real lesson here is "know your place": only club members get away with this kind of shit.
Personally, I was going to go with:
Thanks, Obama!!
Actually, it's Ronald Reagan you have to thank for all the things you're bitching about. Many of us at the tail end of the Boomer generation have had the same shit-sandwich experience as you later generations; at least those of us who didn't become bankers.
Yeah. Typically, the best Science Officers are Vulcans.
Now with systemd!!!