It's nice to see someone trying to follow things through to their logical conclusions--to discover the problems in ideas that haven't been carefully scrutinized.
Hardly anyone really questions: "what does this *really* mean?"
I notice people regurgitating the same sound bites all the time, believing they have some sort of independent mind, yet never straying from the obvious dogmas of their in-group, and having "debates" in which the boundaries of thought are pre-constrained.
It's no wonder we are going around in circles at an ever frenzied pace, but getting nowhere. Watching a society chasing its own tail is one thing, but when every sway in the balance of ignorance&ideology implies the application of ever more state power, having to also watch (or be a potential victim of) the inevitable resulting further chaos and violence due to non-comprehended unintended consequences--after a while one just starts to want to check out and say "fuck you all!"
Men like women. Women like men. This is nature. The constant accusations that everything is sexist represent a war with nature. The origin of this war is the Bible. Progressive SJWs, even if they are atheists and whether they know it or not, are acting on a fundamentally Abrahamic world-view.
This is a choice, though maybe not a conscious one. But it is an ignorant one.
It is not necessary, or essential, or the only possible interpretation that I take offense if women on average, want to mate with men who are more physically attractive than I. I can simply accept this, and play the cards I'm dealt as skillfully as I can. The same applies for women, and the fact that men like attractive females.
Attempting to redefine reality, what is attractive, etc. is intractable. So is the situation in which any time someone feels offended, the world is obliged to change its behavior to ensure that they never feel bad again.
This nonsense needs to be put down. It is treasonous to the very idea of civilization, as it entrenches an attitude of constant conflict between identity groups. It is an insidious threat to individual liberty and a recipe for societal breakdown. It is not ethical. It is not noble. It is none of the things it is said to be by its promoters.
I recently bought some very expensive Armstrong (made in USA) ignition wrenches, hoping I'd get some very precisely formed tools. They were crap. Now days, Tekton tools are better quality than most consumer-grade tools.
I go through quite an ordeal to find quality tools for reasonable prices. For screwdrivers, its German made Wiha. For wrenches, sockets, and some other things, Tekton has taken the limelight.
For a.0005in resolution dial test indicator, I tried a Chinese one. It was crap. So I bought a second B&S BesTest on Ebay and got a good one.
Electronic pliers: Tronex (the very best there is), Erem, Xuron. Even the German brands have become crap now: CK and Xcelite. Larger wire cutting pliers by Swanstrom are very nice.
I just opted to not buy another set of cheap needle files, and instead bought a $70 set of Grobet/Teborg ones. Very worth it!
I tried an economy model Mitutoyo caliper to have a 2nd pair in addition to my good Mitutoyo calipers. It was crap. Now iGaging makes calipers for $40-$60 that are as repeatable and solid as good Mitutoyo. Maybe I won't trust them when.0005-.001 accuracy really matters, but for routine measures, they are great.
In order to be "weak on defense," there must first be an offense. There isn't one. There hasn't been any "threat" to the US that couldn't be prevented by simply not letting certain people into the country, since the WWII era.
Police get paid to arrest people. That is all there is to it. Oaths and ideals are irrelevant. People act according to incentives. Period. Police are just as comfortable arresting people and subjecting their children to very real trauma (as being forcibly kidnapped by the state from normal, non-abusive parents IS a serious trauma) as soldiers are, and as we are as a nation, wrecking whole countries, killing a million people, etc. just because they "might" be a "threat."
Unfortunately, most people in the USA are still desperately agitating to create ever more laws. Freedom is the last thing they care about, because they fear the associated responsibility more than anything else.
My wife decided that she wanted to go to 1st grade at the better school which was also farther away from her suburb of Bangkok, necessitating that she take two public busses (and the songtao ride out of the village to the main road bus stop) every day. She often fell asleep on the bus, and strangers who got familiar with her presence and where she let off, as well as the bus driver, would wake her up.
No, it should be shut down, the people fired, the laws that led to its creation rescinded, and then a criminal investigation launched into activities that effectively amount to state ordained kidnapping.
"I'd better send him my final rev. of the application due tomorrow within a few hours" after I got to work. I had expected to have until the end of the day. The night before I had almost given up in despair, that the thing could ever be made so that his way of saying what I tried to tell him was invented could ever make sense. And that he covered the important shit, instead of the irrelevant stuff.
By some miracle I was able to send it off within a couple hours.
My first and hopefully last experience with patents (though his Claims are still completely looking the wrong way, so we'll have to amend those later.)
I basically hate patents. My boss made me do it. Yesterday came close to being my last day working there. And I still haven't decided if 2015 will have been my last year there. Thankfully, I've got a couple weeks off to think about it.
C3PO should act like an old man because he wasn't carefully manufactured in some high-tech. factory, but rather put together out of junk parts from a scrap dealer's heap by Anakin Skywalker.
We are a society in transition. Ancient systems of belief are failing. These were the (weak) basis of our (crude) morality, yet are unsupported by evidence. We need a new basis for absolute moral principles. Democracy is a threat to the stability of society because ethics can no more be decided democratically than can scientific matters. Utilitarianism that denies individuals and tries to optimize statistical parameters on society, including by the use of mass coercion and even war produces large numbers of disenfranchised who's individual suffering is ignored and who have no legal recourse. And we wonder why so many people snap. Idiots!
Ironically, it is in the concept of "militia" where an innovative new idea for a solution may be found. Notice that people seem to believe that the policeman's badge, much like the priest's robe, confers some magical power of noble goodness. Almost no one wishes there would be less cops around when someone starts acting violently, because they know the police have guns and can stop it. Yet the pro gun ban people see the members of the "gun culture" as latent mass shooters. This is an irrational belief. Lawful gun owners should instead be thought of as latent police!
Thus, what may help to deter mass shootings would be to have a program to create a larger population of "deputies" of law enforcement (or perhaps a new term, such as "community security volunteer") with the restricted yet purely voluntary role of being on guard for incidents of deadly violence. They would be armed and could choose to use their weapon to stop a deadly violence situation. However, they would report to no one, nor would they be expected to enforce any other laws, make arrests, etc.
This would amount to a "shall issue upon completion of training" CCW program, where, unless there are clearly defined reasons under the law why a person must be prohibited from owning and carrying a gun, they may take the training. Training would emphasize de-escalation and violence prevention tactics. Followed by understanding of the laws relating to use of force. Finally, gun safety and shooting proficiency. Upon successful completion of the training, they would receive a CCW permit. It is possible they could also receive a special badge after taking an "enhanced" training. That badge would have to be displayed in order to "open carry" guns (loaded or otherwise). Yearly re-certification would be required to maintain this badged status.
Ie., this is an economical way to dramatically increase the number of officially sanctioned "police" whose duties are a restricted subset of normal law enforcement, and in no way obligatory.
Anyone who doesn't take this training may still own guns but may only carry them loaded and outside of locked containers in a place of residence, business, a shooting range, or in the wilderness. All gun ownership to be preceded by background checks with strictly defined conditions under the law which preclude gun ownership.
There is no way to make this perfect, because our culture is what it is--we have the US Constitution. That is very unlikely to change any time soon. So we have to be pragmatic, yet consistent with our legal principles which hold up gun ownership as an individual right. My idea bridges the gap between the "only police should have guns" and the "more people should be carrying guns" positions, with a sincere attempt to find a practical way to actually reduce violence and the likelihood of it.
It is a new idea. We need new and actionable ideas. There may be better ideas. There may be complementary ideas. But surely we can do better than to keep repeating and arguing over the same non-actionable ideas. We can't make progress by approaching this ideologically. We must think logically and creatively.
What are the goals? What are the constraints? Then, what are the possibilities?
Your "solution" fundamentally denies the individual right to defend one's life. It's a non-starter. I am not a statistic. I am an individual human being. Fuck You!
Why "regulated and taxed?" Why does everyone add "it should be regulated and taxed" to everything? Can you even imagine some economic activities that are simply unregulated? Should there be 2000 pages of rules and licensing boards for kids who want to make a few bucks from snow shoveling?
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Greed is good.
It's nice to see someone trying to follow things through to their logical conclusions--to discover the problems in ideas that haven't been carefully scrutinized.
Hardly anyone really questions: "what does this *really* mean?"
I notice people regurgitating the same sound bites all the time, believing they have some sort of independent mind, yet never straying from the obvious dogmas of their in-group, and having "debates" in which the boundaries of thought are pre-constrained.
It's no wonder we are going around in circles at an ever frenzied pace, but getting nowhere. Watching a society chasing its own tail is one thing, but when every sway in the balance of ignorance&ideology implies the application of ever more state power, having to also watch (or be a potential victim of) the inevitable resulting further chaos and violence due to non-comprehended unintended consequences--after a while one just starts to want to check out and say "fuck you all!"
Exactly. But the "solutions" are always more government. This is a death spiral of totalitarianism. With humanity to be crushed under its wheels.
I used to ask the Blockbuster manager: "how's business?" He'd always tell me it was going all right. A months later they were gone.
It is not about individual rights. It is about the rights of a collective identity group. Don't get confused about this.
"The evolution of technology is defined by those are affected by it and by those who govern its use."
WTF?
Men like women. Women like men. This is nature. The constant accusations that everything is sexist represent a war with nature. The origin of this war is the Bible. Progressive SJWs, even if they are atheists and whether they know it or not, are acting on a fundamentally Abrahamic world-view.
This is a choice, though maybe not a conscious one. But it is an ignorant one.
It is not necessary, or essential, or the only possible interpretation that I take offense if women on average, want to mate with men who are more physically attractive than I. I can simply accept this, and play the cards I'm dealt as skillfully as I can. The same applies for women, and the fact that men like attractive females.
Attempting to redefine reality, what is attractive, etc. is intractable. So is the situation in which any time someone feels offended, the world is obliged to change its behavior to ensure that they never feel bad again.
This nonsense needs to be put down. It is treasonous to the very idea of civilization, as it entrenches an attitude of constant conflict between identity groups. It is an insidious threat to individual liberty and a recipe for societal breakdown. It is not ethical. It is not noble. It is none of the things it is said to be by its promoters.
Mercola. Ugh.
I recently bought some very expensive Armstrong (made in USA) ignition wrenches, hoping I'd get some very precisely formed tools. They were crap. Now days, Tekton tools are better quality than most consumer-grade tools.
I go through quite an ordeal to find quality tools for reasonable prices. For screwdrivers, its German made Wiha. For wrenches, sockets, and some other things, Tekton has taken the limelight.
For a .0005in resolution dial test indicator, I tried a Chinese one. It was crap. So I bought a second B&S BesTest on Ebay and got a good one.
Electronic pliers: Tronex (the very best there is), Erem, Xuron. Even the German brands have become crap now: CK and Xcelite. Larger wire cutting pliers by Swanstrom are very nice.
I just opted to not buy another set of cheap needle files, and instead bought a $70 set of Grobet/Teborg ones. Very worth it!
I tried an economy model Mitutoyo caliper to have a 2nd pair in addition to my good Mitutoyo calipers. It was crap. Now iGaging makes calipers for $40-$60 that are as repeatable and solid as good Mitutoyo. Maybe I won't trust them when .0005-.001 accuracy really matters, but for routine measures, they are great.
In order to be "weak on defense," there must first be an offense. There isn't one. There hasn't been any "threat" to the US that couldn't be prevented by simply not letting certain people into the country, since the WWII era.
Now you should also see why they love arresting potheads so much.
Police get paid to arrest people. That is all there is to it. Oaths and ideals are irrelevant. People act according to incentives. Period. Police are just as comfortable arresting people and subjecting their children to very real trauma (as being forcibly kidnapped by the state from normal, non-abusive parents IS a serious trauma) as soldiers are, and as we are as a nation, wrecking whole countries, killing a million people, etc. just because they "might" be a "threat."
Unfortunately, most people in the USA are still desperately agitating to create ever more laws. Freedom is the last thing they care about, because they fear the associated responsibility more than anything else.
My wife decided that she wanted to go to 1st grade at the better school which was also farther away from her suburb of Bangkok, necessitating that she take two public busses (and the songtao ride out of the village to the main road bus stop) every day. She often fell asleep on the bus, and strangers who got familiar with her presence and where she let off, as well as the bus driver, would wake her up.
No, it should be shut down, the people fired, the laws that led to its creation rescinded, and then a criminal investigation launched into activities that effectively amount to state ordained kidnapping.
Suing a .gov agency merely punishes the taxpayers.
"I'd better send him my final rev. of the application due tomorrow within a few hours" after I got to work. I had expected to have until the end of the day. The night before I had almost given up in despair, that the thing could ever be made so that his way of saying what I tried to tell him was invented could ever make sense. And that he covered the important shit, instead of the irrelevant stuff.
By some miracle I was able to send it off within a couple hours.
My first and hopefully last experience with patents (though his Claims are still completely looking the wrong way, so we'll have to amend those later.)
I basically hate patents. My boss made me do it. Yesterday came close to being my last day working there. And I still haven't decided if 2015 will have been my last year there. Thankfully, I've got a couple weeks off to think about it.
I didn't like the Shuttle Program. They never went anywhere.
C3PO should act like an old man because he wasn't carefully manufactured in some high-tech. factory, but rather put together out of junk parts from a scrap dealer's heap by Anakin Skywalker.
We are a society in transition. Ancient systems of belief are failing. These were the (weak) basis of our (crude) morality, yet are unsupported by evidence. We need a new basis for absolute moral principles. Democracy is a threat to the stability of society because ethics can no more be decided democratically than can scientific matters. Utilitarianism that denies individuals and tries to optimize statistical parameters on society, including by the use of mass coercion and even war produces large numbers of disenfranchised who's individual suffering is ignored and who have no legal recourse. And we wonder why so many people snap. Idiots!
Ironically, it is in the concept of "militia" where an innovative new idea for a solution may be found. Notice that people seem to believe that the policeman's badge, much like the priest's robe, confers some magical power of noble goodness. Almost no one wishes there would be less cops around when someone starts acting violently, because they know the police have guns and can stop it. Yet the pro gun ban people see the members of the "gun culture" as latent mass shooters. This is an irrational belief. Lawful gun owners should instead be thought of as latent police!
Thus, what may help to deter mass shootings would be to have a program to create a larger population of "deputies" of law enforcement (or perhaps a new term, such as "community security volunteer") with the restricted yet purely voluntary role of being on guard for incidents of deadly violence. They would be armed and could choose to use their weapon to stop a deadly violence situation. However, they would report to no one, nor would they be expected to enforce any other laws, make arrests, etc.
This would amount to a "shall issue upon completion of training" CCW program, where, unless there are clearly defined reasons under the law why a person must be prohibited from owning and carrying a gun, they may take the training. Training would emphasize de-escalation and violence prevention tactics. Followed by understanding of the laws relating to use of force. Finally, gun safety and shooting proficiency. Upon successful completion of the training, they would receive a CCW permit. It is possible they could also receive a special badge after taking an "enhanced" training. That badge would have to be displayed in order to "open carry" guns (loaded or otherwise). Yearly re-certification would be required to maintain this badged status.
Ie., this is an economical way to dramatically increase the number of officially sanctioned "police" whose duties are a restricted subset of normal law enforcement, and in no way obligatory.
Anyone who doesn't take this training may still own guns but may only carry them loaded and outside of locked containers in a place of residence, business, a shooting range, or in the wilderness. All gun ownership to be preceded by background checks with strictly defined conditions under the law which preclude gun ownership.
There is no way to make this perfect, because our culture is what it is--we have the US Constitution. That is very unlikely to change any time soon. So we have to be pragmatic, yet consistent with our legal principles which hold up gun ownership as an individual right. My idea bridges the gap between the "only police should have guns" and the "more people should be carrying guns" positions, with a sincere attempt to find a practical way to actually reduce violence and the likelihood of it.
It is a new idea. We need new and actionable ideas. There may be better ideas. There may be complementary ideas. But surely we can do better than to keep repeating and arguing over the same non-actionable ideas. We can't make progress by approaching this ideologically. We must think logically and creatively.
What are the goals? What are the constraints? Then, what are the possibilities?
Your "solution" fundamentally denies the individual right to defend one's life. It's a non-starter. I am not a statistic. I am an individual human being. Fuck You!
Would the American Revolutionary War been started and won if the populace did not have guns?
Sometimes cleaning is a most fulfilling thing to do.
You aren't forced to accept the GPL at gunpoint, unlike a law.
Why "regulated and taxed?" Why does everyone add "it should be regulated and taxed" to everything? Can you even imagine some economic activities that are simply unregulated? Should there be 2000 pages of rules and licensing boards for kids who want to make a few bucks from snow shoveling?