Hysterical nonsense. No developed country is more right-wing and hands-off than the US government. And the nation suffers for it through market failure.
The penalty for this very serious crime is unbelievably lenient. The muslims of France who would wish her ill, must be pissing themselves laughing now.
Given what we know about religious people, their black-and-white utter certainty about themselves and the world, it's not hard to see why they'd be stupid enough to try and roll their own security software.
Frankly, I'm delighted that our enemies are so stupid, and ecstatic that their stupidity is getting them killed.
I work in the Canary Wharf estate, which in the past, has been subject of terrorist attacks, and is quite close to the Olympic site. We also are near several hundred thousand dirt-poor, angry, and possibly radicalized Third World muslims, as part of the Olympics bid was the idea of spending billions to do up one of the poorest and most squalid pockets of the Western World.
Recently, my company tried to buy insurance, and half the insurers we approached simply refused to insure us outright because of the risks. You know you have an issue when you can't buy insurance.
Personally, I couldn't give a damn about the missiles (although they will look cool, and remind our bearded friends that they're not completely unopposed). What I AM concerned about, is contingency planning for things like Mumbai-style gun attacks (which could be devastating in a crowded place like where I work), bomb attacks, mass poisonings, or some other display of general Islamist asshattery. I'm not sure how we can get that reassurance that the planning has been done though.
Power balance in tokamaks and other magnetic fusion machines is well understood enough, to the point where they're covered in chapters in various textbooks on the subject. They lay out, in black and white, roughly what design decisions need to be made to have tokamaks and friends produce significant net power. The books I have are quite a few years old too.
OTOH, there are quite a few papers out there, outlining why farnsworth fusors and polywells make rubbish power plants.
Good news for us in Europe then. We take the problem seriously, and are devoting significant resources to it.
It's not like the old days either, where the British did all the innovating, and then the US made all the money. Technological leadership is heading away from the US, and shifting back towards Europe and the rising powers.
It is an easy trend to spot. Neoliberals know the cost of everything, but the value of nothing.
You certainly see this with muslims; they've gone backwards culturally and economically. Quite possibly, the great Islamic revival is a symptom of economic and social collapse, and people fall back on superstition, religion and crazy and paranoid conspiracy theories.
Having dealt with many of these people, they are incredibly paranoid, superstitious people utterly prone to ridiculous conspiracy theories (especially if it involves Jews). They're so credulous, they'll believe anything -- like the lie that Jews were told to evacuate the Twin Towers before 9/11.
Crazy talk. Germany is a big country and its people work hard and smart. They exercise economic leadership as a consequence; it's to be expected.
It's an iron law of nature, is that sometimes the big kids get to tell the little kids what to do. Compared to China, I'll take Germany any way, because by and large, they innovate, play fair and work hard.
The fact that the Nazis were once a very human reality, is what made them so monstrous: otherwise average, nice people being turned into delusional mass murderers for the sake of a warped ideology.
I feel sorry for people like my grandfather. He grew up in Hamburg and saw things that any human should EVER see, because that madman chose to sacrifice his country and people for his own conceit.
The real tragedy that might be hard to see now (the universal belief that (rightly) the Nazis were 100% evil), was that the German people believed in him and thought he was on a mission to 'save Germany', right to the bitter end.
BTW, just writing the Nazis off as pure evil is intellectually lazy; we don't examine how they got to where they got, and how they were able to brainwash so many people and do so much damage.
I've heard of stories where Chinese road-building companies would use local labour with picks and shovels to build roads during the day (to keep the local Big Men happy), and then send in Chinese workers with heavy earthmoving equipment to do the actual work.
Not training the locals was a deliberate strategy by the Chinese to prevent skilling up the local workforce and giving them ideas that they might be able to complete.
As always with the Chinese -- it's ALL about self-interest. The Han will always come first, and everyone else are racially inferior.
Flywheel storage. Under existing service station forecourts, are massive fuel tanks. Replace them with flywheel energy storage systems (which can be trickle-charged from the grid and discharged very fast if need be), and we may yet be in business.
Flywheel storage are used to augment the National Grid in powering the Joint European Torus, and can deliver many tens of megawatts of power on demand.
So far, Pakistan and its proxies have spent decades being violent terrorist barbarians and being a nuisance, and are then shocked (SHOCKED! I say...) that the entire world hates their guts.
China plays the bullshit 'we are a developing country' lie card all the time. It's a pile of crap, as they already pretty much bully and control the world like the Americans. The only thing they lack now is a blue water Navy -- when that happens -- and as another poster recently said -- all us non-Han will be niggers.
Unlike many other countries, like North Korea, the muslim countries, and even the US, I think the Indians can be trusted with nuclear weapons, and there's no reason not to believe that they won't break their 'no first use' doctrine.
Remember the muslim dictator of Pakistan, who said that he'd have a nuclear weapon (to threaten the neighbours with) even if the people had to eat grass?
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Hysterical nonsense. No developed country is more right-wing and hands-off than the US government. And the nation suffers for it through market failure.
The penalty for this very serious crime is unbelievably lenient. The muslims of France who would wish her ill, must be pissing themselves laughing now.
I'm shocked, SHOCKED to hear that the 1% habitually lie, cheat and act unethically to get ahead.
SAY IT AIN'T SO.
Anybody willing to be sucked into such a scheme is a traitorous maggot, who deserves to have their heads flushed in Club Gitmo.
Absolutely no sympathy here. None whatsoever.
I think the FBI should be commended for taking out the trash, and deterring other wannabe jihadi shitbags from biting the hand that feeds them.
Q: how do you get a muslim woman pregnant?
A: cum on her shoes and let the flies do the work.
I'm okay with the Americans getting a blood nose; the West is a learning culture, and the US will emerge leaner, meaner, fitter and stronger.
The Islamic world is anything but. All they'll do is throw toddler temper tantrums, and just blame Whitey and the Jews, as always.
Given what we know about religious people, their black-and-white utter certainty about themselves and the world, it's not hard to see why they'd be stupid enough to try and roll their own security software.
Frankly, I'm delighted that our enemies are so stupid, and ecstatic that their stupidity is getting them killed.
Had to check my watch to see if it was April 1st.
This place certainly HAS changed since the days of CmdrTaco.
I work in the Canary Wharf estate, which in the past, has been subject of terrorist attacks, and is quite close to the Olympic site. We also are near several hundred thousand dirt-poor, angry, and possibly radicalized Third World muslims, as part of the Olympics bid was the idea of spending billions to do up one of the poorest and most squalid pockets of the Western World.
Recently, my company tried to buy insurance, and half the insurers we approached simply refused to insure us outright because of the risks. You know you have an issue when you can't buy insurance.
Personally, I couldn't give a damn about the missiles (although they will look cool, and remind our bearded friends that they're not completely unopposed). What I AM concerned about, is contingency planning for things like Mumbai-style gun attacks (which could be devastating in a crowded place like where I work), bomb attacks, mass poisonings, or some other display of general Islamist asshattery. I'm not sure how we can get that reassurance that the planning has been done though.
Only stupid right-wing Americans complain about "nanny states". It's a curiously American disease.
Everybody else is too busy getting on with their lives and enjoying universal health care to have time to mouth off about 'teh evul gubmint'
I think somebody's been reading too much Tom Clancy.
AC speaks the truth.
Power balance in tokamaks and other magnetic fusion machines is well understood enough, to the point where they're covered in chapters in various textbooks on the subject. They lay out, in black and white, roughly what design decisions need to be made to have tokamaks and friends produce significant net power. The books I have are quite a few years old too.
OTOH, there are quite a few papers out there, outlining why farnsworth fusors and polywells make rubbish power plants.
Good news for us in Europe then. We take the problem seriously, and are devoting significant resources to it.
It's not like the old days either, where the British did all the innovating, and then the US made all the money. Technological leadership is heading away from the US, and shifting back towards Europe and the rising powers.
It is an easy trend to spot. Neoliberals know the cost of everything, but the value of nothing.
Says the expert.
I've SEEN a working fusion reactor. Tokamaks work right now.
ITER merely take scientificially-demonstrated technology, and makes it industrial-scale.
Makes perfect sense.
You certainly see this with muslims; they've gone backwards culturally and economically. Quite possibly, the great Islamic revival is a symptom of economic and social collapse, and people fall back on superstition, religion and crazy and paranoid conspiracy theories.
Having dealt with many of these people, they are incredibly paranoid, superstitious people utterly prone to ridiculous conspiracy theories (especially if it involves Jews). They're so credulous, they'll believe anything -- like the lie that Jews were told to evacuate the Twin Towers before 9/11.
Crazy talk. Germany is a big country and its people work hard and smart. They exercise economic leadership as a consequence; it's to be expected.
It's an iron law of nature, is that sometimes the big kids get to tell the little kids what to do. Compared to China, I'll take Germany any way, because by and large, they innovate, play fair and work hard.
The fact that the Nazis were once a very human reality, is what made them so monstrous: otherwise average, nice people being turned into delusional mass murderers for the sake of a warped ideology.
I feel sorry for people like my grandfather. He grew up in Hamburg and saw things that any human should EVER see, because that madman chose to sacrifice his country and people for his own conceit.
The real tragedy that might be hard to see now (the universal belief that (rightly) the Nazis were 100% evil), was that the German people believed in him and thought he was on a mission to 'save Germany', right to the bitter end.
BTW, just writing the Nazis off as pure evil is intellectually lazy; we don't examine how they got to where they got, and how they were able to brainwash so many people and do so much damage.
They're run by a vicious theocracy, they still wipe their asses with their bare hands and pray five times a day.
I'd call that pretty backwards.
I've heard of stories where Chinese road-building companies would use local labour with picks and shovels to build roads during the day (to keep the local Big Men happy), and then send in Chinese workers with heavy earthmoving equipment to do the actual work.
Not training the locals was a deliberate strategy by the Chinese to prevent skilling up the local workforce and giving them ideas that they might be able to complete.
As always with the Chinese -- it's ALL about self-interest. The Han will always come first, and everyone else are racially inferior.
Flywheel storage. Under existing service station forecourts, are massive fuel tanks. Replace them with flywheel energy storage systems (which can be trickle-charged from the grid and discharged very fast if need be), and we may yet be in business.
Flywheel storage are used to augment the National Grid in powering the Joint European Torus, and can deliver many tens of megawatts of power on demand.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_European_Torus
Respect is earned.
So far, Pakistan and its proxies have spent decades being violent terrorist barbarians and being a nuisance, and are then shocked (SHOCKED! I say...) that the entire world hates their guts.
China plays the bullshit 'we are a developing country' lie card all the time. It's a pile of crap, as they already pretty much bully and control the world like the Americans. The only thing they lack now is a blue water Navy -- when that happens -- and as another poster recently said -- all us non-Han will be niggers.
Unlike many other countries, like North Korea, the muslim countries, and even the US, I think the Indians can be trusted with nuclear weapons, and there's no reason not to believe that they won't break their 'no first use' doctrine.
Remember the muslim dictator of Pakistan, who said that he'd have a nuclear weapon (to threaten the neighbours with) even if the people had to eat grass?
Don't feed the troll.