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  1. America has a similar system ... on China Bans 23 Million From Buying Travel Tickets as Part of 'Social Credit' System (theguardian.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    ... people who break the law or don't pay dept are low value and, depending, denied employment, guns, voting rights, incarcerated, evicted, fined, denied credit, denied loans ...

    The approach is certainly newsworthy but the outcome is similar.

  2. Perhaps msmash could publish a tutorial on how to use Internet search engines to satisfy your craving for more information regarding Twitter/YouTube censoring Alex Jones and Joe Rogan.

  3. Re:They can come back on Prominent New Yorkers Are Trying To Get Amazon To Bring Back HQ2 (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Businesses don't think that far ahead.

    It's "money now, mitigation later." That pattern is ubiquitous. We see it regarding cybersecurity, pollution, fraud, data whoring ...

  4. Re:They can come back on Prominent New Yorkers Are Trying To Get Amazon To Bring Back HQ2 (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    This.

    America has three major political parties: Democrat, Republican, and Capitalism.

    Both traditional parties have merged with the Capitalist party and "American values," are gone. Nobody wants those any more.

    The voters are playing the lottery hoping they will be prosperous by way of association. Shareholders are greedy motherfuckers who blame corporate heads for shareholder misery.

    I'm 73 years old, raised in the oil patch and I can tell you the exact moment this goddam shit all started:

    It was the day the first union was created to protect workers from the beast.

  5. Re:money-mouth on Prominent New Yorkers Are Trying To Get Amazon To Bring Back HQ2 (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    And there's the constant bickering and blackmail.

    Port Arthur, Texas is an example. The place is heavily oil refineries and ports for incoming crude and outgoing finished products.

    Port Arthur is truly a shithole. Efforts to get the refineries (who employ a lot of lower middle class belonging to ineffective unions) to make Port Arthur a more hospitable place result in empty threats to relocate or lay off people and hire contract labour ... shit like that.

    Now, Port Arthur is a fucking slum overtaken by gangs who paint graffiti on buildings declaring turf boundaries.

    Meanwhile, the refineries are gated, with high security, and upper management runs the place remotely, far away from the contamination that cooking hydrocarbons brings.

  6. Re: Actually, Beau, no we are NOT on Prominent New Yorkers Are Trying To Get Amazon To Bring Back HQ2 (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I missed the deepfake showing the riots as business executives hit the streets at HQ2, fighting a land-grab war, too.

  7. Re: Actually, Beau, no we are NOT on Prominent New Yorkers Are Trying To Get Amazon To Bring Back HQ2 (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't know why in simple hell this is not modded up.

    I don't see a goddam turf war in the HQ2 area where people are fighting over the land.

    And, 25,000 workers are not getting a fucking tax break, are they?

  8. Re:Sorry to hear they died. on Amazon Prime Air Cargo Plane Crashes in Texas, Three Dead (weather.com) · · Score: 1

    Update:

    The local authorities have found the remains of two (2) persons, as yet unidentified. A third is still missing.

    They said they responded to reports that an aircraft went down in that area. Appreciate that the shallow bay is quite large. Normally, they would look for an oil sheen but there was none.

    It wasn't until they spotted the debris field, composed of many small pieces and packages, that they were able to pinpoint the area.

    I find it very odd that there was no fireball, either in the air or on the ground. Also, there is no impact crater. That area is water, silt, and mud. I was expecting to see mud splatter from overhead shots, but that's not the case.

    Going out on a limb, I'm going to say flame-out, attempted restart, flood of avgas and clean explosion. One witness did say there was a sound "like lightning."

    I'm sure he meant thunder.

    If the crew was aware of trouble, it's easy to squawk a mayday both verbally and through the transponder. However, the number one rule of aviation is to fly first and report later.

  9. Re: Sorry to hear they died. on Amazon Prime Air Cargo Plane Crashes in Texas, Three Dead (weather.com) · · Score: 1

    Read this real slow and you can move your lips, OK?

    Avgas is a term we used to generically describe any fuel used for aviation.

    Aboard a carrier, we had a mixture of aircraft and you can call it gasoline, or kerosene, or whatever you want.

    That's you.

    We called it "gas that went into an airplane," or "avgas." We weren't interested in semantics.

  10. Re:Sorry to hear they died. on Amazon Prime Air Cargo Plane Crashes in Texas, Three Dead (weather.com) · · Score: 0

    See how long it took you to make a distinction? Aboard an aircraft carrier, it's controlled chaos. We had a mixture of prop and jet. We didn't have time for hydrocarbon molecular chain discussions.

    We just called it avgas.

  11. Re: Sorry to hear they died. on Amazon Prime Air Cargo Plane Crashes in Texas, Three Dead (weather.com) · · Score: 1

    Actually, it's fluorescent orange with strips of reflective tape that help in locating the box. Also, the box has a pinger that hydrophones can listen to under water for echolocation.

    If the box is covered with mud (these waters are shallow), that nay not be a lot of help.

    --

    BLACK BOX

    It's a term used in avionics to generically describe any electronic box on board be it radar, altimeter, airspeed, radios, and the like.

    I was a flight deck troubleshooter aboard the aircraft carrier USS Wasp. When something avionic broke, I would jump aboard the aircraft and either fix it (loose cable), replace it (call for a black box), or scrub the mission.

  12. Re:Sorry to hear they died. on Amazon Prime Air Cargo Plane Crashes in Texas, Three Dead (weather.com) · · Score: 1

    No. The black box records just about every instrument on board and it can be installed on a simulator to reproduce the last few moments of flight. I've never heard of a black box blowing up.

  13. Re:Sorry to hear they died. on Amazon Prime Air Cargo Plane Crashes in Texas, Three Dead (weather.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't think it was a bomb, but I have no way of knowing. I'd expect witnesses reporting a mid-flight fireball if it was a bomb.

  14. Re:Sorry to hear they died. on Amazon Prime Air Cargo Plane Crashes in Texas, Three Dead (weather.com) · · Score: 2

    Thanks. I was in Uncle Sam's Yacht Club for 9 years as part of the air group on air craft carriers and at NAS Jax, NAS Key West, NS Mayport, NAS San Diego.

    I've seen some things and, like OP, I too am very sorry to hear that there are no survivors.

    They're going after the black box now.

  15. Re:Sorry to hear they died. on Amazon Prime Air Cargo Plane Crashes in Texas, Three Dead (weather.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    This happened just West of me. Reports are sketchy but a witness said there was a sound like lightning. We have very light rain and no reports of a thunderstorm in the area.

    The water at the impact site is only 1-5 feet deep. We used to get fresh oysters from there.

    Looking at the overhead shots, I didn't see am impact crater. I would expect one because it's a marshy area.

    No witnesses reported an impact fireball. When planes hit the ground, avgas hits the jets and it's BOOM!

    The debris field shows very small pieces as if the plane had a catastrophic unplanned disassembly before crashing.

  16. Agreed.

    "Deep State," is a term misused by pundits who get paid by the eyeball. Headline skimmers pick up on the shiny object and imagine what it means and, like me, when I guess, 87% of the time I don't know what the fuck I'm talking about.

    That's why I've resorted to research before I use unfamiliar phrases.

  17. You're giving up on America.

    She's down, but not out.

  18. It's a land grab ... on Israel To Launch First Privately Funded Moon Mission (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    ... equivalent to a gold rush.

    For those simple bastards who want to go to Mars, here's your alpha and beta site.

    Experiments on the far side (see Gary Larson) will be shielded from instrument noise generated by Earth. That's good science.

    Imagine launching payloads from the Moon to reach either the Earth or Mars or targets of opportunity.

    If China would only mention, "nuclear weapons," we could get this show on the road.

  19. Re: Need to pass a data privacy liability act too on Proposed Bill Would Force Arizonians To Pay $250 To Have Their DNA Added To a Database (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    No one wants it. Cool. This whole article is nullified. Thanks.

  20. Hell, I voted cross-party last time in an effort to spoil the outcome of the primary. I failed, but I tried.

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  22. I'm 73 goddam years old. Don't school me.

  23. Get your fucking ass to the voting poll and bring like-minded friends.

  24. If you're on a desktop, press Ctrl+F and search for the word, "parties." You'll not find it in my post. Some careless jackholes elected this Bubba and those are the jackholes who'll get him off the bus.

  25. The term "Deep State" is about as meaningless as "snowflake," "libertard," and other stupid motherfucking words that you use as placeholders for knowledge.