“Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.” Henry David Thoreau
I will never understand the pride Europeans seem to take in their craven boot-licking impulses. Sometimes I wonder if this had something to do with the rise of fascism in Italy, Germany and Spain, and the rise of equally authoritarian-trending socialism elsewhere, including Greece (where fascists and communists are still having their punch-ups and occasionally trading grenades.) But I suppose that's the gulf one observes between cultures. Many Americans tend to view Europeans as essentially similar to Americans - we're all first-world citizens working desk jobs and driving cars, after all - but the differences run much deeper than most of us seem to realize.
Exactly the article I'd expect from Vice. "HOW DARE THIS WEBSITE SUGGEST MORE CONTENT OF THE EXACT SAME TYPE THE USER IS ALREADY SEEKING OUT ON THEIR OWN!?" This is simply Vice and their ilk trying to normalize the practice of active thought-policing by social media companies and big tech. Plucking the low-hanging fruit simply establishes a precedent that can then be turned against any thought they don't agree with.
Nobody "falls down" an anti-vax rabbit hole. Anyone stupid enough to seek it out actively is stupid enough to believe any dumb shit they're told. The people who write this trash honestly, truly believe that common people are all stupid sheep who believe what they're told to believe, and don't want social media - or anything else - competing with their position as media outlets in exercising that supposed control.
This article was completely fucking pointless and of significance to pretty much nobody on the entire damn site. "Slightly more hipsters buying cassette tapes than last year."
I'm called nasty names on Twitter all the time - I just had a random troll drop in to start sassing me not ten minutes ago - but apparently the abuse directed at me doesn't matter because I don't have a vagina. Really makes you think, doesn't it?
For the same reason we sent a war fleet to fuck up a bunch of state-sponsored terrorists with the aid of private military corporations without a Congressional declaration of war... in 1812. Barbary pirate war. The South China Sea is one of the globe's most important waterborne trade routes, and on a planet that's 70% water, that's kind of important. Because of a few simple laws of physics, shipping by water is hands-down the cheapest way to do it. China's claiming an entire ocean as their rightful property, and once their control is unchallenged, they will do what every wanton imperialist power has done before it - enrich themselves at the cost of everyone else, and weaponize their stranglehold on trade and commerce at every opportunity to punish the United States should we push back against their desires and ambitions elsewhere - and they WILL have desires and ambitions elsewhere. That stranglehold includes all our regional allies, trade with whom is a crucial component of our economy. The motherboard of the computer I type this on was made in Taiwain, and my phone's a Samsung.
You want a Communist dictatorship calling the shots for the world economy? Because I sure as hell don't.
That's pretty fucking rich coming from a country that's pouring billions of dollars into building artificial islands in the South China Sea, a brand-new war fleet and expensive ballistic missiles, all of which are designed for the sole and explicit purpose of ejecting the United States from SE Asia by force of arms. To say nothing of blowing tens of billions on the "Belt and Road" initiative, which was intended to spread Chinese influence and control across the region, but has ended up being a colossal waste of money, just like skeptics warned. And this shithead's going to sass us for "wasting money?" Fuck him.
Besides, he knows damn well where the money from globalization went - straight into the pockets of the huge multinational corporations that directly benefited from labor outsourcing, who've either sat on it or re-invested it in expanding factories overseas to employ more foreign workers and create more cheap product - everything and anything butb injecting it into the US economy. We know why our economy stagnated - worker wages flatlining (considering inflation, actual falling) while the globalizing corporations profits skyrocketed. And some of that money went into the pockets of Reps and Senators on both sides of the aisle to keep them lecturing those silly rube voters on why globalism "works."
I guess these researchers just plumb forgot that buffalo are still raised as domestic animals in much of the country. There's a ranch not a few miles from me that does, and a few local small-town eateries have "bison burgers" on the menu - expensive, but literally a nice change of taste on occasion.
I hate it when scientists do this - massage facts for better PR impact (the link between cows and human domestication for human use is much stronger than with bison.) Those worthies among us who worship "The Science" with pseudoreligious zeal take exception to those who can't reconcile that faith with the less-than-saintly deviations scientists make into PR.
Somewhere along the line, scientists figured out that if journalists could twist their papers into moronic headlines and get away with it, then they could write the headlines into their conclusions and do the same. What a shitshow.
If only we had stealth drones equipped with synthetic aperture radar that can generate FLIR-quality images through cloud cover. Like the RQ-170 and its successor, the RQ-180...
Excuse me, but you don't know what the fuck you're talking about.
First, some background. I doubt nukes will be used against the artillery aimed at Seoul, because only two North Korean artillery systems can actually reach Seoul from the DMZ - the 170mm Koksan and the 300mm rocket artillery. And the 170mm can only range some of Seoul. The rockets are also better for delivering chemical weapons, so they'll be the primary concern.
Fortunately these emplacements (500 or so, if targeting the long-range systems threatening Seoul) can be effectively engaged by a plethora of conventional firepower, and a goodly fraction of that deliverable via artillery (thus, almost instantly available as counter-battery fire.) DPRK weapons are dug into protected shelters called HARTs, meaning their locations are fixed, and known. Constructed bunkers will be proofed against shells of up to 203mm (8-inch) and ones dug into mountains or natural caves will be even sturdier. Fortunately, no matter how tough the bunker, they still need a "window" to fire out of, which must be a few feet wide and tall to allow the gun to train on targets (windage and elevation.) This is well within the accuracy margins of weapons like the M31 guided rocket, fired by the MLARS ("the 70km sniper rifle") or laser-guided anti-tank munitions, like the 155mm Copperhead shell, or GPS guided shells like the Excalibur. These weapons will handily penetrate any blast doors over said portals as well, since those will be far less sturdy than several feet of granite rock. Additionally, there's the Small Diameter Bomb, a small, standoff (60 nautical mile) GPS guided glide bomb that can penetrate up to three feet of reinforced concrete, or the Tomahawk missile, which has a penetrating warhead variant (TTPV,) and has been successfully employed against bunkers and caves in Afghanistan many times. These weapons in particular are available in mass quantity - the USS Michigan carries 154 of them alone. When you factor in other considerations - like the empirically demonstrated 25% dud rate of DPRK artillery shells and the questionable ROF sustainable by under-trained, underfed gun crews, as well as the overwhelming reconnaissance advantage enjoyed by allied forces (which will have drones overhead to laser-designate targets for pinpoint strikes,) it's clear that the military is not boasting when they say they can attack the DPRK without serious harm befalling Seoul.
The real problem is the DPRK's Short Range Ballistic Missile force (SRBM,) they have an estimated 100-200 TELs, and something on the order of 200 actual missiles. I'm prone to believe it's something like 100 TELs (Transporter Erector Launchers, the trucks that elevate and fire the missiles,) with a single reload for each. The DPRK has around 28 missile bases, (according to Janes,) which are essentially drive-in tunnel/bunkers to house their TELs safe from attack. These bunkers may welll be impregnable to anything but the 30,000 pound Massive Ordinance Penetrator, of which we've only a few. Fortunately, we needn't destroy the bunkers - we simply need to blow up the tunnel entrances, sealing the TELs inside where they cannot fire. This can be done with much lighter munitions; the usual bunker-busting bombs, but it greatly multiplies the number of targets. Assuming an average of eight tunnel entrances at each missile base, that's 228 targets to hit. This is doable, especially with the ability to sortie B-24s and B-1B bombers from America to make intercontinental attacks, carrying 12-24 JASSM bunker-penetrating stealth cruise missiles apiece. However, war planners might want much greater assurances that enough TELs will be wiped out to ensure SRBM attacks cannot penetrate the Anti-Ballistic Missile defenses of the ROK an
You just aptly described how Trump made his money by turning his own name into a brand, rather than actual real estate investment, and then followed it with "stop thinking of Trump in terms of politics," politics being that game where it's all about turning your name into a brand...
"Scientific racism and sexism," eh? Here are four actual scientists with doctorates in relevant fields saying the author's points on the science were correct, and that he was correct in raising the issue for debate. Do you also hold these people to be advocates of "scientific racism and sexism?"
But under this document's matte black, angled surface, it carries a rather primitive payload of scientific racism and sexism.
Ah, the fabled "reducto ad F-117 argument," where instead of refuting another's argument with facts, logic, or cited sources, the argument's very reasonableness is alleged as proof that it's a stealth bomber out to bomb you and everyone you love. Similar to reducto ad velociraptor.
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“Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.” Henry David Thoreau
I will never understand the pride Europeans seem to take in their craven boot-licking impulses. Sometimes I wonder if this had something to do with the rise of fascism in Italy, Germany and Spain, and the rise of equally authoritarian-trending socialism elsewhere, including Greece (where fascists and communists are still having their punch-ups and occasionally trading grenades.) But I suppose that's the gulf one observes between cultures. Many Americans tend to view Europeans as essentially similar to Americans - we're all first-world citizens working desk jobs and driving cars, after all - but the differences run much deeper than most of us seem to realize.
Exactly the article I'd expect from Vice. "HOW DARE THIS WEBSITE SUGGEST MORE CONTENT OF THE EXACT SAME TYPE THE USER IS ALREADY SEEKING OUT ON THEIR OWN!?" This is simply Vice and their ilk trying to normalize the practice of active thought-policing by social media companies and big tech. Plucking the low-hanging fruit simply establishes a precedent that can then be turned against any thought they don't agree with.
Nobody "falls down" an anti-vax rabbit hole. Anyone stupid enough to seek it out actively is stupid enough to believe any dumb shit they're told. The people who write this trash honestly, truly believe that common people are all stupid sheep who believe what they're told to believe, and don't want social media - or anything else - competing with their position as media outlets in exercising that supposed control.
This article was completely fucking pointless and of significance to pretty much nobody on the entire damn site. "Slightly more hipsters buying cassette tapes than last year."
Fuck this. I'm done with Slashdot.
I wonder where they got their primary data. I'm sure the Party officials gave them full unfettered access to compile unbiased data, right?
"Any day now" says increasingly nervous shill
I'm called nasty names on Twitter all the time - I just had a random troll drop in to start sassing me not ten minutes ago - but apparently the abuse directed at me doesn't matter because I don't have a vagina. Really makes you think, doesn't it?
We also support roads and lighthouses, what's your point?
Yes, we are the "warmongers" when China's the one building forts on artificial islands to claim an entire fucking sea as their rightful property.
Blow it out your ass.
I, too, unequivocally trust the social data and statistics reported by Communist dictatorships, who are well known for their truthfulness and honesty.
For the same reason we sent a war fleet to fuck up a bunch of state-sponsored terrorists with the aid of private military corporations without a Congressional declaration of war... in 1812. Barbary pirate war. The South China Sea is one of the globe's most important waterborne trade routes, and on a planet that's 70% water, that's kind of important. Because of a few simple laws of physics, shipping by water is hands-down the cheapest way to do it. China's claiming an entire ocean as their rightful property, and once their control is unchallenged, they will do what every wanton imperialist power has done before it - enrich themselves at the cost of everyone else, and weaponize their stranglehold on trade and commerce at every opportunity to punish the United States should we push back against their desires and ambitions elsewhere - and they WILL have desires and ambitions elsewhere. That stranglehold includes all our regional allies, trade with whom is a crucial component of our economy. The motherboard of the computer I type this on was made in Taiwain, and my phone's a Samsung.
You want a Communist dictatorship calling the shots for the world economy? Because I sure as hell don't.
Don't cram that fedora on too tight, shitwit.
That's pretty fucking rich coming from a country that's pouring billions of dollars into building artificial islands in the South China Sea, a brand-new war fleet and expensive ballistic missiles, all of which are designed for the sole and explicit purpose of ejecting the United States from SE Asia by force of arms. To say nothing of blowing tens of billions on the "Belt and Road" initiative, which was intended to spread Chinese influence and control across the region, but has ended up being a colossal waste of money, just like skeptics warned. And this shithead's going to sass us for "wasting money?" Fuck him.
Besides, he knows damn well where the money from globalization went - straight into the pockets of the huge multinational corporations that directly benefited from labor outsourcing, who've either sat on it or re-invested it in expanding factories overseas to employ more foreign workers and create more cheap product - everything and anything butb injecting it into the US economy. We know why our economy stagnated - worker wages flatlining (considering inflation, actual falling) while the globalizing corporations profits skyrocketed. And some of that money went into the pockets of Reps and Senators on both sides of the aisle to keep them lecturing those silly rube voters on why globalism "works."
Fuck Jack Ma, and fuck the Chicoms that brung'im.
And you'll resist the Federal Marshalls with all those assault weapons you banned and no longer have? "MOLON LA- oops!"
Wow. Never expected to see my /k/ copypasta percolate over to /. !
Yeah I'd hate for someone who isn't me to break into my home and commit suicide with my gun. FFS pal not everyone is suicidal.
BINGO. Great hardware - SHIT software.
I guess these researchers just plumb forgot that buffalo are still raised as domestic animals in much of the country. There's a ranch not a few miles from me that does, and a few local small-town eateries have "bison burgers" on the menu - expensive, but literally a nice change of taste on occasion.
I hate it when scientists do this - massage facts for better PR impact (the link between cows and human domestication for human use is much stronger than with bison.) Those worthies among us who worship "The Science" with pseudoreligious zeal take exception to those who can't reconcile that faith with the less-than-saintly deviations scientists make into PR.
Somewhere along the line, scientists figured out that if journalists could twist their papers into moronic headlines and get away with it, then they could write the headlines into their conclusions and do the same. What a shitshow.
If only we had stealth drones equipped with synthetic aperture radar that can generate FLIR-quality images through cloud cover. Like the RQ-170 and its successor, the RQ-180...
Excuse me, but you don't know what the fuck you're talking about.
First, some background. I doubt nukes will be used against the artillery aimed at Seoul, because only two North Korean artillery systems can actually reach Seoul from the DMZ - the 170mm Koksan and the 300mm rocket artillery. And the 170mm can only range some of Seoul. The rockets are also better for delivering chemical weapons, so they'll be the primary concern.
Fortunately these emplacements (500 or so, if targeting the long-range systems threatening Seoul) can be effectively engaged by a plethora of conventional firepower, and a goodly fraction of that deliverable via artillery (thus, almost instantly available as counter-battery fire.) DPRK weapons are dug into protected shelters called HARTs, meaning their locations are fixed, and known. Constructed bunkers will be proofed against shells of up to 203mm (8-inch) and ones dug into mountains or natural caves will be even sturdier. Fortunately, no matter how tough the bunker, they still need a "window" to fire out of, which must be a few feet wide and tall to allow the gun to train on targets (windage and elevation.) This is well within the accuracy margins of weapons like the M31 guided rocket, fired by the MLARS ("the 70km sniper rifle") or laser-guided anti-tank munitions, like the 155mm Copperhead shell, or GPS guided shells like the Excalibur. These weapons will handily penetrate any blast doors over said portals as well, since those will be far less sturdy than several feet of granite rock. Additionally, there's the Small Diameter Bomb, a small, standoff (60 nautical mile) GPS guided glide bomb that can penetrate up to three feet of reinforced concrete, or the Tomahawk missile, which has a penetrating warhead variant (TTPV,) and has been successfully employed against bunkers and caves in Afghanistan many times. These weapons in particular are available in mass quantity - the USS Michigan carries 154 of them alone. When you factor in other considerations - like the empirically demonstrated 25% dud rate of DPRK artillery shells and the questionable ROF sustainable by under-trained, underfed gun crews, as well as the overwhelming reconnaissance advantage enjoyed by allied forces (which will have drones overhead to laser-designate targets for pinpoint strikes,) it's clear that the military is not boasting when they say they can attack the DPRK without serious harm befalling Seoul.
The real problem is the DPRK's Short Range Ballistic Missile force (SRBM,) they have an estimated 100-200 TELs, and something on the order of 200 actual missiles. I'm prone to believe it's something like 100 TELs (Transporter Erector Launchers, the trucks that elevate and fire the missiles,) with a single reload for each. The DPRK has around 28 missile bases, (according to Janes,) which are essentially drive-in tunnel/bunkers to house their TELs safe from attack. These bunkers may welll be impregnable to anything but the 30,000 pound Massive Ordinance Penetrator, of which we've only a few. Fortunately, we needn't destroy the bunkers - we simply need to blow up the tunnel entrances, sealing the TELs inside where they cannot fire. This can be done with much lighter munitions; the usual bunker-busting bombs, but it greatly multiplies the number of targets. Assuming an average of eight tunnel entrances at each missile base, that's 228 targets to hit. This is doable, especially with the ability to sortie B-24s and B-1B bombers from America to make intercontinental attacks, carrying 12-24 JASSM bunker-penetrating stealth cruise missiles apiece. However, war planners might want much greater assurances that enough TELs will be wiped out to ensure SRBM attacks cannot penetrate the Anti-Ballistic Missile defenses of the ROK an
If so little coal is being mined these days, then will the (apperently small) number of remaining coal power plants make that big a difference?
We don't think we're better. We know it.
Spoken like a true zealot.
You just aptly described how Trump made his money by turning his own name into a brand, rather than actual real estate investment, and then followed it with "stop thinking of Trump in terms of politics," politics being that game where it's all about turning your name into a brand...
Gee, what if there was a country that has high tensions with the United States right now and is also obsessed with attacking, injuring or harming the United States as a matter of ideological zealotry, and actually has a goddamned physical embassy in Cuba to base agents out of? Gee, I fuckin wonder.
"Scientific racism and sexism," eh? Here are four actual scientists with doctorates in relevant fields saying the author's points on the science were correct, and that he was correct in raising the issue for debate. Do you also hold these people to be advocates of "scientific racism and sexism?"
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But under this document's matte black, angled surface, it carries a rather primitive payload of scientific racism and sexism.
Ah, the fabled "reducto ad F-117 argument," where instead of refuting another's argument with facts, logic, or cited sources, the argument's very reasonableness is alleged as proof that it's a stealth bomber out to bomb you and everyone you love. Similar to reducto ad velociraptor.