Maybe people shouldn't have to work so much? Just pay people a living salary for doing 10 hours per week or something. Isn't that the dream? If we get more stuff for less work, let's kick back a little bit and let people do what they want most of the time. I think we'll be amazed at what will happen when most of the world's time is freed.
So your whole country is being incinerated from the air. You have a few downed pilots who could tell you a thing or two about how to stop them.
Case Closed.
Only we hanged the Japanese torturers for doing that, and rightly so.
"Should any American soldier be so base and infamous as to injure any [prisoner]. . . I do most earnestly enjoin you to bring him to such severe and exemplary punishment as the enormity of the crime may require. Should it extend to death itself, it will not be disproportional to its guilt at such a time and in such a cause... for by such conduct they bring shame, disgrace and ruin to themselves and their country." -- George Washington, charge to the Northern Expeditionary Force, Sept. 14, 1775
Without regulated net neutraility, your concept would never work, since the big carriers could just pick favorites among the little guys and dictate who actually gets to run fiber into your neighborhood. Yeah, other companies could, but they're going to get just a trickle of bandwidth.
There is something disturbing about people that feel personally accused anytime some brings up the (painfully obvious) societal biases on race, sexuality, gender etc.
That sounds quite unhinged. Maybe you should consider their statement rather than just blowing up about it. You probably are racist in ways you don't even comprehend. Most people are.
"Black people can be every bit as racist as white people"
Well, never mind then! I guess racism is only a problem if Black folk are significantly better than white folk. If they're only just as good, then racism makes sense.
You're sick and tired? Boo Hoo. How sad. Maybe you need a nap. When you wake up, we'll make sure you never have to hear anything that might trouble your beautiful mind.
Try having to live with actual racism and see how fast that wears on you. Oh, that's right, you can't be bothered.
We should be scared of nuclear war daily. This system are all in place and ready to go. The folks are still manning the controls. Things are getting worse. Weapons are proliferating, and almost everyone who remembers the actual nuking of people is dead.
And the pentagon papers were released to impress a woman. Snowden fled to Hong Kong and got stuck in Russia. There aren't super heroes for real, so you'll have to handle good deeds coming from regular folk.
During the first gulf war he wanted to parachute the 101st into a Western Iraq with no support, have them capture a city then hold it hostage until Saddam relented. Schwartzkoff. Cheney was Sec. Def. at the time. Schwartzkopf had to fend off this incredible idea more than once.
Stanislaw Lem's "Return to Earth" is all about this subject.
Haldeman's "Forever War" deals with it in parts.
Both deal with people who do to time dilation come home far in the future.
I don't remember the details, but at one point the main character returns to earth to find his mother, now old, in a lesbian relationship and is disgusted, even though society now accepts it. Interesting that Haldeman got that right back in the '70s.
I am 38. They did not have this when I was a kid. I only know about because of my own kids. It does seem very weird. Not just slightly Orwellian, but also dumb because kids lose these things all the time.
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Maybe people shouldn't have to work so much? Just pay people a living salary for doing 10 hours per week or something. Isn't that the dream? If we get more stuff for less work, let's kick back a little bit and let people do what they want most of the time. I think we'll be amazed at what will happen when most of the world's time is freed.
You do the job long enough and it's bound to happen.
They say they would have backed you up, but you can't trust those guys.
So your whole country is being incinerated from the air. You have a few downed pilots who could tell you a thing or two about how to stop them.
Case Closed.
Only we hanged the Japanese torturers for doing that, and rightly so.
"Should any American soldier be so base and infamous as to injure any [prisoner]. . . I do most earnestly enjoin you to bring him to such severe and exemplary punishment as the enormity of the crime may require. Should it extend to death itself, it will not be disproportional to its guilt at such a time and in such a cause... for by such conduct they bring shame, disgrace and ruin to themselves and their country." -- George Washington, charge to the Northern Expeditionary Force, Sept. 14, 1775
You are a coward and a monster.
... Unless the escape was harrowing.
Without regulated net neutraility, your concept would never work, since the big carriers could just pick favorites among the little guys and dictate who actually gets to run fiber into your neighborhood. Yeah, other companies could, but they're going to get just a trickle of bandwidth.
In the end, it all comes down to cock size.
You have to balance all that against white people's inability to dance and, in general, to carry a syncopated rhythm.
I'm just going to hope you're a troll. If you managed to post that without irony, then you're too stupid to read and understand a reply anyway.
A significant number of people are still anti-torture, but they weren't a majority yesterday, either.
Hey, if torturing some random guy makes you feel better about not saving those kids, who are we to stand in your way?
There is something disturbing about people that feel personally accused anytime some brings up the (painfully obvious) societal biases on race, sexuality, gender etc.
That sounds quite unhinged. Maybe you should consider their statement rather than just blowing up about it. You probably are racist in ways you don't even comprehend. Most people are.
Jesus Christ. Wake up. You're part of the problem. If you don't think being white is a big benefit in the US, you are seriously deluded.
"Black people can be every bit as racist as white people"
Well, never mind then! I guess racism is only a problem if Black folk are significantly better than white folk. If they're only just as good, then racism makes sense.
"like the current President who keeps telling me how much more privileged I am than he was."
Your racism is showing. He doesn't say this kind of thing. Who are these knobs who mod up the parent post?
You're sick and tired? Boo Hoo. How sad. Maybe you need a nap. When you wake up, we'll make sure you never have to hear anything that might trouble your beautiful mind.
Try having to live with actual racism and see how fast that wears on you. Oh, that's right, you can't be bothered.
Ordinary people are pro-torture. Thanks 24! Thanks GWB! Thanks Obama!
Which of us will it empower?
Germans called the French Resistance terrorists.
We should be scared of nuclear war daily. This system are all in place and ready to go. The folks are still manning the controls. Things are getting worse. Weapons are proliferating, and almost everyone who remembers the actual nuking of people is dead.
And the pentagon papers were released to impress a woman. Snowden fled to Hong Kong and got stuck in Russia. There aren't super heroes for real, so you'll have to handle good deeds coming from regular folk.
Cheney has always been a stupid and evil bastard.
During the first gulf war he wanted to parachute the 101st into a Western Iraq with no support, have them capture a city then hold it hostage until Saddam relented. Schwartzkoff. Cheney was Sec. Def. at the time. Schwartzkopf had to fend off this incredible idea more than once.
Starting a war isn't a war crime either, it's a crime against the peace, but it's still a hanging offense. Time to string them up.
Stanislaw Lem's "Return to Earth" is all about this subject.
Haldeman's "Forever War" deals with it in parts.
Both deal with people who do to time dilation come home far in the future.
I don't remember the details, but at one point the main character returns to earth to find his mother, now old, in a lesbian relationship and is disgusted, even though society now accepts it. Interesting that Haldeman got that right back in the '70s.
I am 38. They did not have this when I was a kid. I only know about because of my own kids. It does seem very weird. Not just slightly Orwellian, but also dumb because kids lose these things all the time.
If it ended up in a non-evolutionary form than dynamism could be lost.