Even funnier is their behaviorr in the South China Sea. Totally unreasonable, bullying behaviour, but if you want to see somebody go off their brains, trying pointing out to China they're objectively behaving like bullies and that they have no right to seize territory that isn't theirs...
Everyone in their local neighbourhood thinks they're cunts, but in the eyes of the Chinese themselves, they can do no wrong, and it's everyone else's fault.
I guess we know why China and Russia are getting so lovey-dovey recently. They both have the disease of 19th-century nationalism, lunacy and paranoia -- and misery loves company.
I guess state-level paranoia and stupidity is the season's new look.
So having millions of machines running unpatched XP, and then telling the Americans to go fuck themselves by banned a supported OS... isn't that a bit like cutting off your nose to spite your face?
I'm sure the Fifty Cent Army will find a way to justify this stupidity though.
If you believe that the smartest people on Earth are working on a 17 billion euro machine like ITER, when they could be building cheap focus fusion machines for 1000x cheaper, then I have some shares in the Tower Bridge to sell you...
I'll take this seriously when somebody demonstrates feasibility of running aluminium smelters and other extremely high-energy processes off wind turbines and solar panels...
This is about as dumb as an old acquaintance who wanted to convert his car to run on electricity, run by solar panels on the roof (yes, there are really people that stupid out there).
Our corporate overlords who would have us do nothing about climate change.
After all, our Galtian supermen overlords can pay to make the problem disappear for themselves, and us useless eaters can just go and die of starvation, disease -- and war, when the 3 billion-odd even-more-useless eaters show up on our borders, demanding their rights.
Set up a neighbourhood watch scheme, and have everyone buy webcams. But have the webcams pointing to somebody else's house. That way, a thief has to do much more work to get away without being caught on camera.
Have an idea of what you want to protect, and what lengths you're willing to go to protect it.
Don't have too much portable stuff lying around the house, that can be easily nicked.
And make sure that data (especially on the hardware that is portable) is encrypted and backed up. For me, I don't care that much about the hardware because I buy the minimum I need to do the job and it's mostly obsolete anyway; it's the stuff on the machines I care about.
If somebody stole my laptop tomorrow; I'd merely be very annoyed; but if they take my only copy of my wedding photos with it, I'd be nigh-homocidal.
All the data that I care about and can't easily replace is backed up to the cloud. Anything sensitive or financial is encrypted. Easily-replaceable things like DVD/music rips and MAME roms, I don't bother with.
In most country towns, "fitness" is either 1) holding your piss and holding your own in a fight; or 2) having the brains to up sticks and move somewhere civilized.
Sounds like a bit of a sausage fest. Like (say), mining towns, where no self-respecting woman would live, bar fights start at a drop of a hat, and hookers come in on a fly-in-fly-out basis... And where most entertainment is paid-for.
Actually, I've been to Seattle, and it's not that bad at all, and quite a nice part of the world (apart from the weather). But still, you have to broaden your horizons if you want to find a mate...
Last thing I read about this, the secret sauce in these engines, is the metallurgy -- the Russians have developed alloys that allow them to run them oxidiser-rich without everything getting destroyed by the extremely corrosive preburner exhaust. You can build as many engines as you want, if you don't have the recipe and process, you're literally going to go nowhere.
Sorry to break it to you mate, but freedom isn't absolute. While the people who guard those freedoms are not perfect (no human is), they deserve a little credit.
Not so. High death rates sustain high birth rates. The only proven way to do this, is by economic development to the extent that they pass the demographic transition -- a key milestone where kids turn from being an asset to a liability. THAT'S how you contain population growth.
How to achieve that by conventional means? No idea; fixing Africa is like the labours of Hercules, and nobody knows how to fix that cesspool of ignorance and corruption.
Easy. You force the old to pay for their retirements by making them buy private pensions. You force them to sell their houses to pay for aged care, and soak them through taxes.
The boomer generation hogs all the wealth and political power; they will be forced to pay for their own mess, because there is no alternative.
Japan doesn't have a problem. They have succeeded in first making the demographic transition, and then are successfully making the transition to a steady-state, sustainable population. They'll overcome their surfeit of old people, the trains will keep running on time, and they'll emerge without their country overrun, and cultures diluted by Third World trash (unlike, say, Europe).
So good for them. They're doing just fine.
The problem here is the stupid pro-"growth" rhetoric, and the fact that the growth-without-limit model peddled by our useless elites is failing.
Overly generous welfare is also a key draw factor for the sort of low-quality Third World immigration that's been an issue in Europe since we had the postwar labour shortages.
It's called 'motivated reasoning', but I doubt these idiots have ever heard of it.
Must be a conservative state, because this peculiar strain of stupidity is generally right-wing in nature. It's all about me! me!! me!! and screw the consequences, especially for the environment, our grandkids, or poor people.
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The butthurt is strong with these guys.
Even funnier is their behaviorr in the South China Sea. Totally unreasonable, bullying behaviour, but if you want to see somebody go off their brains, trying pointing out to China they're objectively behaving like bullies and that they have no right to seize territory that isn't theirs...
Everyone in their local neighbourhood thinks they're cunts, but in the eyes of the Chinese themselves, they can do no wrong, and it's everyone else's fault.
I guess we know why China and Russia are getting so lovey-dovey recently. They both have the disease of 19th-century nationalism, lunacy and paranoia -- and misery loves company.
I guess state-level paranoia and stupidity is the season's new look.
So having millions of machines running unpatched XP, and then telling the Americans to go fuck themselves by banned a supported OS... isn't that a bit like cutting off your nose to spite your face?
I'm sure the Fifty Cent Army will find a way to justify this stupidity though.
If you believe that the smartest people on Earth are working on a 17 billion euro machine like ITER, when they could be building cheap focus fusion machines for 1000x cheaper, then I have some shares in the Tower Bridge to sell you...
Quote from Professor Brian Cox: Britain spends more on ringtones than fusion research.
Goes to show you where our priorities lie as a nation; and how our worthless so-called leaders are asleep at the switch, as usual.
I'll take this seriously when somebody demonstrates feasibility of running aluminium smelters and other extremely high-energy processes off wind turbines and solar panels...
This is about as dumb as an old acquaintance who wanted to convert his car to run on electricity, run by solar panels on the roof (yes, there are really people that stupid out there).
Our corporate overlords who would have us do nothing about climate change.
After all, our Galtian supermen overlords can pay to make the problem disappear for themselves, and us useless eaters can just go and die of starvation, disease -- and war, when the 3 billion-odd even-more-useless eaters show up on our borders, demanding their rights.
It's the American way. Let freedom ring!
Set up a neighbourhood watch scheme, and have everyone buy webcams. But have the webcams pointing to somebody else's house. That way, a thief has to do much more work to get away without being caught on camera.
Have an idea of what you want to protect, and what lengths you're willing to go to protect it.
Don't have too much portable stuff lying around the house, that can be easily nicked.
And make sure that data (especially on the hardware that is portable) is encrypted and backed up. For me, I don't care that much about the hardware because I buy the minimum I need to do the job and it's mostly obsolete anyway; it's the stuff on the machines I care about.
If somebody stole my laptop tomorrow; I'd merely be very annoyed; but if they take my only copy of my wedding photos with it, I'd be nigh-homocidal.
All the data that I care about and can't easily replace is backed up to the cloud. Anything sensitive or financial is encrypted. Easily-replaceable things like DVD/music rips and MAME roms, I don't bother with.
Tabloid press is, well... tabloid.
Works best that way. Women can smell desperation a mile away. Best way to improve your luck is to stop trying.
In most country towns, "fitness" is either 1) holding your piss and holding your own in a fight; or 2) having the brains to up sticks and move somewhere civilized.
Sounds like a bit of a sausage fest. Like (say), mining towns, where no self-respecting woman would live, bar fights start at a drop of a hat, and hookers come in on a fly-in-fly-out basis... And where most entertainment is paid-for.
Actually, I've been to Seattle, and it's not that bad at all, and quite a nice part of the world (apart from the weather). But still, you have to broaden your horizons if you want to find a mate...
Thanks, Obama.
Last thing I read about this, the secret sauce in these engines, is the metallurgy -- the Russians have developed alloys that allow them to run them oxidiser-rich without everything getting destroyed by the extremely corrosive preburner exhaust. You can build as many engines as you want, if you don't have the recipe and process, you're literally going to go nowhere.
Sorry to break it to you mate, but freedom isn't absolute. While the people who guard those freedoms are not perfect (no human is), they deserve a little credit.
Greenwald is a friend of Dorothy, so this is less of a problem than you think.
No idea why you're being downmoderated. It's *absolutely* the NSA's job to eavesdrop on foreigners. That's what they're being paid to do.
What is Greenwald's problem that makes him such a compulsive Judas? Isn't his Brazilian rentboy putting out, or something?
You've been trolled. Congratulations.
Not so. High death rates sustain high birth rates. The only proven way to do this, is by economic development to the extent that they pass the demographic transition -- a key milestone where kids turn from being an asset to a liability. THAT'S how you contain population growth.
How to achieve that by conventional means? No idea; fixing Africa is like the labours of Hercules, and nobody knows how to fix that cesspool of ignorance and corruption.
Easy. You force the old to pay for their retirements by making them buy private pensions. You force them to sell their houses to pay for aged care, and soak them through taxes.
The boomer generation hogs all the wealth and political power; they will be forced to pay for their own mess, because there is no alternative.
Japan doesn't have a problem. They have succeeded in first making the demographic transition, and then are successfully making the transition to a steady-state, sustainable population. They'll overcome their surfeit of old people, the trains will keep running on time, and they'll emerge without their country overrun, and cultures diluted by Third World trash (unlike, say, Europe).
So good for them. They're doing just fine.
The problem here is the stupid pro-"growth" rhetoric, and the fact that the growth-without-limit model peddled by our useless elites is failing.
Overly generous welfare is also a key draw factor for the sort of low-quality Third World immigration that's been an issue in Europe since we had the postwar labour shortages.
Italy is, by virtue of its ageing population, a gerontocracy, with the old hogging the levers of power.
Expect cultural stagnation (e.g. conservatism) as a consequence.
The pindicks who make our economic policies still haven't gotten the memo.
It's called 'motivated reasoning', but I doubt these idiots have ever heard of it.
Must be a conservative state, because this peculiar strain of stupidity is generally right-wing in nature. It's all about me! me!! me!! and screw the consequences, especially for the environment, our grandkids, or poor people.