Why is nuclear deterrence sensible when America does it, but "crazy" when NK does it?
Think about this... In the North, they are taught that they won the war on their own and drove the USA to the bargaining table by defeating them. The role that Russia and China played is not discussed, nor is the fact that the whole conflict was a proxy war between Russian, China and the USA. In their mythology, the USA was and is the aggressor which they defeated though the divine intervention of the Kims. They won the war.
That seems crazy to us, but in North Korea it's not seen that way. Of course they are misinformed about a great many things, but what little Kim says and does plays totally different to his people.
Kim knows he gets one WMD shot. After that it's game on and he's not going to win that game.
I don't think he's going to do anything that stupid. He IS going to push up as close to the line as he can and still have the ability to deny he fired first.
Not really if you understand that the PR coming from the North is only really for local consumption. Little Kim's PR campaign is about keeping the Kim dynasty in power, not about getting into a war with the USA. I know that's hard to understand, but it actually makes perfect sense if you have an idea what the average North Korean has been taught to believe about the world in general and the USA specifically.
Little Kim is literally in between a rock and a hard place because if his people catch any whiff of the truth about their actual military standing, or realize that the PR is more bluster than actual capability and that they are literally dirt poor compared to nearly all of the rest of the world, Kim will be facing a rebellion from within his ranks he won't be able to control fast enough. He's walking a really fine line between open conflict with the US which he will lose and local rebellion which could quickly unseat him should he lose face.
To that end, look for a large military display on their independence day which is a few days out. I'm guessing a parade in the capital, a really nice missile shot or two over Japan, and perhaps a nuclear test all in a day. Trust me, he's planning some kind of military surprise here.
The people who hired him. No more, no less. I don't care what some CEO of some obscure company does or doesn't do as long as I'm not an investor. It is literally none of my business, or yours (unless you own part of the business) what some guy with the CEO title does.
Anything further is nothing more than class envy... Where the folks who assume all CEO's are corrupt, greedy and bad actors who get too much compensation, are shoveling out their drivel about how unfair things are.
What are we anyway? Socialists? Communist? or Capitalists? Take your pick because you cannot have all three.
CEOs shouldn't vacation while their company is failing.
From my perspective, what a CEO should or shouldn't do us up to the people who hired them. Assuming the Board Of Directors hired the CEO, it's up to the board to decide when it is appropriate for said CEO to vacation and when it's not. If the CEO hired themselves (I.E. own the company) it's up to them and/or their investors to decide.
All the rest of this "debate" amounts to little more than class envy, where the "have not's" are bad mouthing the obviously bad rich CEO's...
I remember Elon Musk said that the AI could can cause the WW3. I've got an impression at that time that he was kind of a pacifist.
It's all about the adulation for Musk... He will say anything to get folks to praise him, especially if it means he gets rich at the same time. it's his way of proving to himself that the taunts of his childhood are not true.
So the folks who might want to know where this thing is cannot find out easily. Of course, it's not like you can hide a satellite from those who are intent on finding it. Amateur astronomers have found and tracked past X37b flights pretty quickly by knowing the launch time, launch location and making a few assumptions about the kind of orbits would be used.
I won't argue that... My kids are attending UTD here in Dallas for 1/10th that cost (or less, depending on scholarships) and getting a degree that isn't from Harvard but is from a well respected school. I cannot see how it's worth paying Harvard, or any of the ivy league schools price. But I'm just the first college graduate from a farming family in the Midwest who didn't inherit a trust fund to live on all my life working as a software engineer, so what do I know?
Next they will pas a law to make it illegal... Yea, that will fix it! See how well it works in Chicago on the gun problem.
I don't get it, so are they going to take attendance now at Harvard? Proctor tests better? Start an automated scan of all the project source code to keep people from googling the answers? Yea, that's going to help.
Personally, I figure the idiots that cheat on their first CS course are going to get washed out of the program eventually. Where I'm not going to help you cheat, as a student, I don't care all that much. The point of school is to learn something and that takes work, if you don't want to learn, you won't be a problem for me.
Reality TV? Oh, that cheaply made, closely edited and scripted stuff made to look like it's real? Personally it seems like a bit of a fad to me, one that will hopefully end soon.
And after 90 years there is still nothing worth watching on...
And all mainstream music is shit and Hollywood sucks right? The more I learn about snobs of all varieties - not just the classic intellectual snobs but also the anti-intellectual counter-snobs and even the grumpy everything was better before-snobs the more I realize they're just shooting themselves in the foot by not enjoying what other people enjoy in order to somehow feel superior to them. Take the serious for what it is. Take the silly and fun for what it is. If you go to the opera, enjoy the opera. If you go to a barn dance, enjoy the barn dance. Things get a lot more fun when you stop comparing to the things it is not.
Calm down.... What I posted was a paraphrase of a classic joke.. (it was supposed to be funny...)
Why on earth it got moderated Insightful is beyond me...
That stuff is lethal if you breath it. It kills hundreds of children every year, many times more than firearms! Only takes a few tablespoons to kill you! AND they sell it by the gallon in the grocery store in plastic bottles... This must stop.
electric vehicles will go mainstream long before self driving cars do.
Wow! That long? You know EV's are NOT going to be mainstream until fossil fuels become too expensive to use and THAT's not happening in my lifetime. All Hail Hydraulic FRACKING!
Great, let me get that coded up for you.... Let's see, I think I'll use C, agile development and run it on my old Pentium 90 I was going to toss into the recycling bin next week....
If you make it onto the expressway alive, I'm pretty sure something bad is going to happen.
Problem here is that if the NPR formats you like where profitable, *somebody* would be duplicating it. As it sits, only NPR can do this kind of thing because they are not as profit driven.
Radio simply is NOT profitable. Advertising dollars are better spent on other media. Radio really only has one place left to cut costs and that's in it's on air talent and other "people" doing the business. So what do they do? Put the same programming on air in multiple markets using their most popular talent, consolidate and reduce labor costs, so they can reduce their advertisement rates to keep the business afloat. Radio stations are playing a losing hand and they know it.
Some may bitch about it being a "progressive echo chamber" or whatever, but I've rarely heard something poorly researched, not not supported by appropriate evidence.
I heard such things on NPR on a regular basis. They do *attempt* to do their research, but they are very slanted to the left in both their approach to their stories (They take a very left of center view) and they clearly pick stories that naturally slant left. I've often felt that they did great research, but only on their presupposed perspective and ignored information that was contrary to their preferred storyline.
But that's the media's everyday problem. Reporters are guilty of confirmation bias every day because few are willing or able to step back from a story and try to see it from other perspectives. Objectivity has simply gone out of style and NPR's objectivity has gone with it.
Personally, I enjoy NPR from time to time, but they are pushing their bias, just like Rush Limbaugh is pushing his in another direction.
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That's not class envy.
No, I guess it just makes it none of your business in that case...
The North seems crazy
Why is nuclear deterrence sensible when America does it, but "crazy" when NK does it?
Think about this... In the North, they are taught that they won the war on their own and drove the USA to the bargaining table by defeating them. The role that Russia and China played is not discussed, nor is the fact that the whole conflict was a proxy war between Russian, China and the USA. In their mythology, the USA was and is the aggressor which they defeated though the divine intervention of the Kims. They won the war.
That seems crazy to us, but in North Korea it's not seen that way. Of course they are misinformed about a great many things, but what little Kim says and does plays totally different to his people.
Kim knows he gets one WMD shot. After that it's game on and he's not going to win that game.
I don't think he's going to do anything that stupid. He IS going to push up as close to the line as he can and still have the ability to deny he fired first.
The North seems crazy,
Not really if you understand that the PR coming from the North is only really for local consumption. Little Kim's PR campaign is about keeping the Kim dynasty in power, not about getting into a war with the USA. I know that's hard to understand, but it actually makes perfect sense if you have an idea what the average North Korean has been taught to believe about the world in general and the USA specifically.
Little Kim is literally in between a rock and a hard place because if his people catch any whiff of the truth about their actual military standing, or realize that the PR is more bluster than actual capability and that they are literally dirt poor compared to nearly all of the rest of the world, Kim will be facing a rebellion from within his ranks he won't be able to control fast enough. He's walking a really fine line between open conflict with the US which he will lose and local rebellion which could quickly unseat him should he lose face.
To that end, look for a large military display on their independence day which is a few days out. I'm guessing a parade in the capital, a really nice missile shot or two over Japan, and perhaps a nuclear test all in a day. Trust me, he's planning some kind of military surprise here.
The people who hired him. No more, no less. I don't care what some CEO of some obscure company does or doesn't do as long as I'm not an investor. It is literally none of my business, or yours (unless you own part of the business) what some guy with the CEO title does.
Anything further is nothing more than class envy... Where the folks who assume all CEO's are corrupt, greedy and bad actors who get too much compensation, are shoveling out their drivel about how unfair things are.
What are we anyway? Socialists? Communist? or Capitalists? Take your pick because you cannot have all three.
CEOs shouldn't vacation while their company is failing.
From my perspective, what a CEO should or shouldn't do us up to the people who hired them. Assuming the Board Of Directors hired the CEO, it's up to the board to decide when it is appropriate for said CEO to vacation and when it's not. If the CEO hired themselves (I.E. own the company) it's up to them and/or their investors to decide.
All the rest of this "debate" amounts to little more than class envy, where the "have not's" are bad mouthing the obviously bad rich CEO's...
Elon Musk is someone a lot of people love to hate. Say what you will, but I think this tech is fucking awesome and he's the one who made it possible.
In this case Musk didn't make it possible, he just made it cheaper. Of course that's it's own achievement.
I remember Elon Musk said that the AI could can cause the WW3. I've got an impression at that time that he was kind of a pacifist.
It's all about the adulation for Musk... He will say anything to get folks to praise him, especially if it means he gets rich at the same time. it's his way of proving to himself that the taunts of his childhood are not true.
But then why exactly is its orbit such a secret?
Why do you think?
So the folks who might want to know where this thing is cannot find out easily. Of course, it's not like you can hide a satellite from those who are intent on finding it. Amateur astronomers have found and tracked past X37b flights pretty quickly by knowing the launch time, launch location and making a few assumptions about the kind of orbits would be used.
I won't argue that... My kids are attending UTD here in Dallas for 1/10th that cost (or less, depending on scholarships) and getting a degree that isn't from Harvard but is from a well respected school. I cannot see how it's worth paying Harvard, or any of the ivy league schools price. But I'm just the first college graduate from a farming family in the Midwest who didn't inherit a trust fund to live on all my life working as a software engineer, so what do I know?
Next they will pas a law to make it illegal... Yea, that will fix it! See how well it works in Chicago on the gun problem.
I don't get it, so are they going to take attendance now at Harvard? Proctor tests better? Start an automated scan of all the project source code to keep people from googling the answers? Yea, that's going to help.
Personally, I figure the idiots that cheat on their first CS course are going to get washed out of the program eventually. Where I'm not going to help you cheat, as a student, I don't care all that much. The point of school is to learn something and that takes work, if you don't want to learn, you won't be a problem for me.
Reality TV? Oh, that cheaply made, closely edited and scripted stuff made to look like it's real? Personally it seems like a bit of a fad to me, one that will hopefully end soon.
You don't need a TV for any "on demand" content...
LOL
And after 90 years there is still nothing worth watching on...
And all mainstream music is shit and Hollywood sucks right? The more I learn about snobs of all varieties - not just the classic intellectual snobs but also the anti-intellectual counter-snobs and even the grumpy everything was better before-snobs the more I realize they're just shooting themselves in the foot by not enjoying what other people enjoy in order to somehow feel superior to them. Take the serious for what it is. Take the silly and fun for what it is. If you go to the opera, enjoy the opera. If you go to a barn dance, enjoy the barn dance. Things get a lot more fun when you stop comparing to the things it is not.
Calm down.... What I posted was a paraphrase of a classic joke.. (it was supposed to be funny...)
Why on earth it got moderated Insightful is beyond me...
PBS? Seriously?
I rest my case....
Now get off my lawn!
There is still nothing worth watching on...
I'm just curious, what's the issue with ingesting plastics? They exist in the environment because they are very stable, what is the issue?
Sometimes I think folks get all crazy about "man made" == "Not Natural" == "Bad for you" assumptions. This isn't always true.
That stuff is lethal if you breath it. It kills hundreds of children every year, many times more than firearms! Only takes a few tablespoons to kill you! AND they sell it by the gallon in the grocery store in plastic bottles... This must stop.
Whoa! STOP Congress!
FIFY
electric vehicles will go mainstream long before self driving cars do.
Wow! That long? You know EV's are NOT going to be mainstream until fossil fuels become too expensive to use and THAT's not happening in my lifetime. All Hail Hydraulic FRACKING!
Great, let me get that coded up for you.... Let's see, I think I'll use C, agile development and run it on my old Pentium 90 I was going to toss into the recycling bin next week....
If you make it onto the expressway alive, I'm pretty sure something bad is going to happen.
I hope you are not surprised by this.. The FCC has been this way for decades now.
Problem here is that if the NPR formats you like where profitable, *somebody* would be duplicating it. As it sits, only NPR can do this kind of thing because they are not as profit driven.
Radio simply is NOT profitable. Advertising dollars are better spent on other media. Radio really only has one place left to cut costs and that's in it's on air talent and other "people" doing the business. So what do they do? Put the same programming on air in multiple markets using their most popular talent, consolidate and reduce labor costs, so they can reduce their advertisement rates to keep the business afloat. Radio stations are playing a losing hand and they know it.
Hear, hear.
Some may bitch about it being a "progressive echo chamber" or whatever, but I've rarely heard something poorly researched, not not supported by appropriate evidence.
I heard such things on NPR on a regular basis. They do *attempt* to do their research, but they are very slanted to the left in both their approach to their stories (They take a very left of center view) and they clearly pick stories that naturally slant left. I've often felt that they did great research, but only on their presupposed perspective and ignored information that was contrary to their preferred storyline.
But that's the media's everyday problem. Reporters are guilty of confirmation bias every day because few are willing or able to step back from a story and try to see it from other perspectives. Objectivity has simply gone out of style and NPR's objectivity has gone with it.
Personally, I enjoy NPR from time to time, but they are pushing their bias, just like Rush Limbaugh is pushing his in another direction.
Yea, Gen Z is going to be lost when some natural (or man made) disaster separates them from their technology. What do you mean "Read a Book?"