The Mexicans who do enter illegally aren't exactly "stealing" great jobs from American citizens.
Seriously, how does an adult person get to be this fucking stupid? Are you ex-military? Did your mother do drugs while pregnant?
Every 100 crop-picking immigrants equals three Americans driving tractors, one American maintaining those tractors, and one American building them. We have chemicals and vacuum-cleaners and disposable wet-mops. We don't need a million immigrants with toothbrushes hand-scrubbing out houses for us. I'd rather have a job producing steam-cleaners than being unemployed, and most Americans would too. Burgers can be flipped by machines. Drinks at your nearest McDonalds are already filled automatically, no immigrants required. I'd rather have the job of making those machines than have a million more minimum-wage mouths to feed, dragging down the average wage along with living standards.
Even if you're too lazy or stupid to do productive work, please stop pissing all over your fellow citizens who are.
No, it assumes that an increase in "government coffers" doesn't mean shit to the average person already living here who is negatively affected by an influx of worthless immigrants.
I'm going to take this sentence out of context since the rest of your post seems to be a bunch of rambling nonsense that has nothing to do with the issue presented.
Define "enemy". (without using the term "combatant")
No, actually, if you'd stop doing a half-assed job of "cleaning up" other countries, terrorists might not have flown planes into fucking office buildings and we wouldn't be having this retarded discussion.
First of all, "this Republic" hasn't declared war on anyone but Saddam Hussein, who is now dead and deposed. I doubt you can define who our "enemies" even are.
Secondly, US Citizens retain their rights regardless of their location or whether the military feels like assassinating them. The Constitution defines treason for a reason.
And, yes, I'm sure the ACLU and anyone else with half a brain objects to the US military engaging in undeclared warfare targeting US citizens.
Temporarily, yes. But once the earth-moon system is tidally-locked, it will come back. Extracting tidal energy slows the earth's rotation and hastens the process.
Of course, a million years is slightly exaggerated. It's probably more than 30 billion years, without help, and of course the sun would vaporize us all long before then. We would have to build a lot of tidal generators to actually speed it up.
I wonder what it will be like for those humans, a million years from now, when they realize that the moon is crashing into the earth because their great-great-great-great-etc uncles needed more electricity to post on slashdot.
First of all, I'm going to assume that we're only talking about this because it involves warrantless snooping. And it's not like the feds have actually bothered to get warrants for years now anyways, so that's a pretty safe assumption.
So then the question is, at what point does "lying in order to gain access" become indistinguishable from "picking the locks to gain access". Because what we're talking about here is really no different from, say, an officer pretending to be an inspector from your insurance company in order to snoop around your house, or pretending to be your landlord in order to enter your apartment. You would probably let someone in to check your house for gas leaks. You probably wouldn't let someone in to check your ashtray for joints.
And those are legitimate issues in and of themselves, completely aside from the repugnant fact that Americans are now being forced to pay a disgustingly large portion of their incomes in order to support a bloated incompetent soviet-era spy apparatus fishing through their personal lives trolling for petty crimes.
From a thermodynamic point of view, we can't really have a resource shortage at all - only an energy shortage.
Hahahaha. Technically, you're right. But let's re-join reality for a moment. How many orders of magnitude more energy does it take to recycle bits of "diluted" materials than it does to dig them up out of huge monolithic sources? We can't even manage to offset a tiny fraction of our total current energy usage with renewables, and that's just counting energy, not extropy. Add in trying to offset physical resource depletion, and you'd have to cover entire countries with solar collectors to even come close to sustainability. From a thermodynamic point of view, in the "long term", we're screwed. And what we're doing now is trading short-term non-screwedness of energy abundance for medium-term screwedness of resource scarcity.
economic interdependence helps to foster peaceful, albeit sometimes tense, negotiations
Give me your wallet.
No, seriously, "economic interdependence", which on a global scale is just a code word for "sell off your natural resources" just ensures that we all hit the brick wall of resource depletion at the exact same time, driven there by the countries that consume the least responsibly.
The peace of plenty and content today; and, tomorrow, the peace of unburied death.
Sure, any state with mandatory education laws that collects taxes to pay for public education without issuing vouchers to those who home school, which means at least 43 of them by my count.
This effectively "requires" millions of Americans to "send their kids to school" by using government force to deprive them of their own resources that could otherwise be used to keep their kids at home and avoid all sorts of other invasive rights-violating measures, measures which are not ultimately voluntary at all but which are enforced by government economic force.
Where are the researchers who want to prevent intrusion in the first place instead of having lots of clever techniques for identifying/limiting its damage after it happens?
They're at home, unemployed, reading Slashdot on a completely secure text console.
who's to say that the kernel space is guaranteed free of malware itself?
Of course. It's obvious to say that if we can guarantee the kernel, we can reliably use it to scan for malware. What this completely misses, of course, is that the kernel itself can be compromised and there is zero way to guarantee it, after the fact, without a cold boot and poking around in all the stored memory contents of the system.
This fact continually fails to deter the snake-oil salesmen from peddling on-line virus scanning as an infallible cure.
You're right that most OSS developers don't want to deal with nagging simple questions, and frankly they shouldn't have to. In a large enough project or distro channel, plenty of other people will be happy to answer the annoying repetitive questions for you.
But it's wrong to suggest that developers should avoid IRC entirely. Unless you want your project to remain just a hobby, useful to no one but yourself and a few others, it's a good idea to listen to actual users every once in a while.
Since you claim to have a problem with forced participation, I'm sure you won't mind that some of the rest of us are unwilling to participate in the expensive, wasteful, and ethically repugnant collectivization schemes required to carry out your unproductive utopian bullshit.
You don't seem to understand how it works. The politicians, judges and lawyers are the ones handing out the licenses. They don't need them. The license just conveys a degree of immunity from them.
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Catching up with what? We're digging a fucking hole and you think we need more people to help?
The Mexicans who do enter illegally aren't exactly "stealing" great jobs from American citizens.
Seriously, how does an adult person get to be this fucking stupid? Are you ex-military? Did your mother do drugs while pregnant?
Every 100 crop-picking immigrants equals three Americans driving tractors, one American maintaining those tractors, and one American building them. We have chemicals and vacuum-cleaners and disposable wet-mops. We don't need a million immigrants with toothbrushes hand-scrubbing out houses for us. I'd rather have a job producing steam-cleaners than being unemployed, and most Americans would too. Burgers can be flipped by machines. Drinks at your nearest McDonalds are already filled automatically, no immigrants required. I'd rather have the job of making those machines than have a million more minimum-wage mouths to feed, dragging down the average wage along with living standards.
Even if you're too lazy or stupid to do productive work, please stop pissing all over your fellow citizens who are.
No, it assumes that an increase in "government coffers" doesn't mean shit to the average person already living here who is negatively affected by an influx of worthless immigrants.
If a US Citizen is an enemy, they are fair game.
I'm going to take this sentence out of context since the rest of your post seems to be a bunch of rambling nonsense that has nothing to do with the issue presented.
Define "enemy". (without using the term "combatant")
And the answer is "no".
The goddamn president doesn't get to define the "enemies of the Republic" and he certainly doesn't have any authority to assassinate US citizens.
No, actually, if you'd stop doing a half-assed job of "cleaning up" other countries, terrorists might not have flown planes into fucking office buildings and we wouldn't be having this retarded discussion.
First of all, "this Republic" hasn't declared war on anyone but Saddam Hussein, who is now dead and deposed. I doubt you can define who our "enemies" even are.
Secondly, US Citizens retain their rights regardless of their location or whether the military feels like assassinating them. The Constitution defines treason for a reason.
And, yes, I'm sure the ACLU and anyone else with half a brain objects to the US military engaging in undeclared warfare targeting US citizens.
Did you eat lead paint as a child, or what?
I would respond seriously, but unfortunately your post is now classified also.
Temporarily, yes. But once the earth-moon system is tidally-locked, it will come back. Extracting tidal energy slows the earth's rotation and hastens the process.
Of course, a million years is slightly exaggerated. It's probably more than 30 billion years, without help, and of course the sun would vaporize us all long before then. We would have to build a lot of tidal generators to actually speed it up.
I wonder what it will be like for those humans, a million years from now, when they realize that the moon is crashing into the earth because their great-great-great-great-etc uncles needed more electricity to post on slashdot.
Why is this so hard?
First of all, I'm going to assume that we're only talking about this because it involves warrantless snooping. And it's not like the feds have actually bothered to get warrants for years now anyways, so that's a pretty safe assumption.
So then the question is, at what point does "lying in order to gain access" become indistinguishable from "picking the locks to gain access". Because what we're talking about here is really no different from, say, an officer pretending to be an inspector from your insurance company in order to snoop around your house, or pretending to be your landlord in order to enter your apartment. You would probably let someone in to check your house for gas leaks. You probably wouldn't let someone in to check your ashtray for joints.
And those are legitimate issues in and of themselves, completely aside from the repugnant fact that Americans are now being forced to pay a disgustingly large portion of their incomes in order to support a bloated incompetent soviet-era spy apparatus fishing through their personal lives trolling for petty crimes.
That's hilarious that you think drilling our own oil is a long term solution.
From a thermodynamic point of view, we can't really have a resource shortage at all - only an energy shortage.
Hahahaha. Technically, you're right. But let's re-join reality for a moment. How many orders of magnitude more energy does it take to recycle bits of "diluted" materials than it does to dig them up out of huge monolithic sources? We can't even manage to offset a tiny fraction of our total current energy usage with renewables, and that's just counting energy, not extropy. Add in trying to offset physical resource depletion, and you'd have to cover entire countries with solar collectors to even come close to sustainability. From a thermodynamic point of view, in the "long term", we're screwed. And what we're doing now is trading short-term non-screwedness of energy abundance for medium-term screwedness of resource scarcity.
economic interdependence helps to foster peaceful, albeit sometimes tense, negotiations
Give me your wallet.
No, seriously, "economic interdependence", which on a global scale is just a code word for "sell off your natural resources" just ensures that we all hit the brick wall of resource depletion at the exact same time, driven there by the countries that consume the least responsibly.
The peace of plenty and content today; and, tomorrow, the peace of unburied death.
Sure, any state with mandatory education laws that collects taxes to pay for public education without issuing vouchers to those who home school, which means at least 43 of them by my count.
This effectively "requires" millions of Americans to "send their kids to school" by using government force to deprive them of their own resources that could otherwise be used to keep their kids at home and avoid all sorts of other invasive rights-violating measures, measures which are not ultimately voluntary at all but which are enforced by government economic force.
Where are the researchers who want to prevent intrusion in the first place instead of having lots of clever techniques for identifying/limiting its damage after it happens?
They're at home, unemployed, reading Slashdot on a completely secure text console.
who's to say that the kernel space is guaranteed free of malware itself?
Of course. It's obvious to say that if we can guarantee the kernel, we can reliably use it to scan for malware. What this completely misses, of course, is that the kernel itself can be compromised and there is zero way to guarantee it, after the fact, without a cold boot and poking around in all the stored memory contents of the system.
This fact continually fails to deter the snake-oil salesmen from peddling on-line virus scanning as an infallible cure.
You're right that most OSS developers don't want to deal with nagging simple questions, and frankly they shouldn't have to. In a large enough project or distro channel, plenty of other people will be happy to answer the annoying repetitive questions for you.
But it's wrong to suggest that developers should avoid IRC entirely. Unless you want your project to remain just a hobby, useful to no one but yourself and a few others, it's a good idea to listen to actual users every once in a while.
unwilling participants
Since you claim to have a problem with forced participation, I'm sure you won't mind that some of the rest of us are unwilling to participate in the expensive, wasteful, and ethically repugnant collectivization schemes required to carry out your unproductive utopian bullshit.
You should be more clear. It's not just "drugs", it's illicit drugs. Pharmaceuticals are a-okay.
your genetic makeup is something you cannot influence and which a caring society should insure you from
$250,000
So, it's not enough that I have to pay for your economic failures, now.
I get to pay for your genetic defects as well?
You don't seem to understand how it works. The politicians, judges and lawyers are the ones handing out the licenses. They don't need them. The license just conveys a degree of immunity from them.
What fantasy land do people like you live in. Seriously?
And someone actually modded this up?
I would think you would be less glib, if you're interested in people taking you seriously.
You think "travel" is stressful enough to trigger autism, but not assault.
Does your dataset include information on the administering doctor/nurse?
You don't think getting jabbed with a needle constitutes environmental stress?