Is there a list of people who died this year who actually deserved to die and whose deaths actually left us better off? You know, fascist or communist dictators, serial killers, people who talk loudly on their cellphones in restaurants? That kind of thing?
Trump? Oh wait, that will probably be next year....
The way to beat overpopulation is to not have children, not kill children/adults.
Most developed/western nations already have a fertility rate near 2.0 (ie 2 children for every couple), which means we have already reached a stable population. The problem is all those poor nations breeding like rats. Culturally this will only create more race based issues as the ratio of brown people steadily increases over time.
They've put together a pretty clever approach to each of these problems.
For kinetic threats, a system that would detect the attack would trigger one of a few possible reactions. One reaction is the emission of foam to cushion the drone from the direction of the threat. This would temporarily degrade its flight performance, but only on an as-needed basis. Another would be avoidance, if possible.
The obvious threat will be capture ie a projectile net to catch the drone and its payload, or if you see one landing at your neighbours, you pop next door and take their stuff and/or smash the drone for shits and giggles. Other risks are injuries to unsuspecting pets/children, or accidents (the crash rate will be above zero),
How will these be handled?
Fraud obviates consent. Or, to put it another way, if consent is obtained fraudulently, the consent is not legally effective. Accordingly, there was no legally effective consent to sex.
So when I take a girl home from a bar and fuck her, only to wake up the next day and find the makeup, pushup bra, high heels were all part of a fraud, and my princess is actually a monster can I claim rape?
So it would -- were I on FB (or any of my email accounts) with my real name, birthday etc. #sorry_Zuck
You don't have to have an account. If people you know have a FB account and the app, and have you in their contacts, they already have a profile on you. And with your phone number and email address, they can buy all your online activity from all these online analytics companies to build up a FB profile even though you've never signed up. #you_lose
You blame alternative media for Trump's victory, but you're still so brainwashed by corporate media that you still don't realize he's a boyscout compared to Hillary, and he's really the best we deserve.
Oh give up with that brainwashed by media routine. Most of the senior Republicans know that a Trump presidency will be a net loss for most Americans. Or do you think they also get their information from CNN?
3. "... we're not saying Trump administration is a creation of the Russian state... *wink wink nudge nudge* but the Trump administration is obviously a creation and stupid dumb puppet of the Russian state... for realz tho... also, don't listen to fake news"
There is an immense effort right now to make us take mental shortcuts, to skip certain events in our memories, to forget that certain misdeeds were done not by Russians but by Americans.
I look at this a different way. Put the election behind you, what is done is done, and Trump is soon to be in charge. Is his behaviour towards one of our enemies acceptable to you? If you woke up today without knowing a single thing about the last two year's campaigns, wouldn't you read own Trump's words about Russia and think WTF? The guy is shitting on Americans to cosy up to a Russian tyrant. Something is going on there that is sus, and I don't care about the DNC, I care about the future of our country. This is all very dangerous territory, and the source is not MSM, it's from the man himself.
We should all be worried about the way things are going, regardless of your political leanings.
Although they do an amazing job of allowing you to avoid the fact of the matter which is that Hillary Clinton was a turd of a candidate who rigged the parties primary, and enjoyed limited popularity outside major metropolitan areas.
Still more popularity than the turd that won though right?
We know what nation state level hacking looks like thanks,
No we don't. I have some experience in government, not defence or intelligence, but govt none the less. And with govt, like any extremely large organisation, is messy. It isn't a borg hive mind.
Some govt projects can involve the smartest people in the country using bleeding edge technology, while equally another project could have a bunch of turkeys all scratching their heads trying to work out how to flush a toilet.
It would be naive to rule out government involvement purely because it was not advanced enough for your liking.
The camera can OCR the speed limit signs. It combines that with GPS based data. It works well most times. It actually knows not to apply the change until you pass the sign, which also happens to match the laws.
Yes, yes but you missed the point. How does this system combat thousands of people printing off their own speed limit signs to frustrate robot car users?
The whole value proposition of the car is personal freedom. This is exactly the opposite.
How does it know what the official speed limit is?
What happens if this is interfered with?
I'm struggling to see how any customer could consider this a good thing.
I'm always curious about this blame game. The "great recession" was a worldwide phenomenon. Are you suggesting that if Bush hadn't been president of the US (say, Kerry was elected instead), that the entire world would NOT have gone into recession? Or that the world would have, but the US wouldn't have? I'm just curious.
The US is a cog. An oversized and important cog no doubt, but it's just one part of the whole.
I can't say, but here in Australia we had leadership that foresaw the effects of the GFC and acted immediately to reduce it's impacts. The result is we didn't go into recession at all, while the rest of the west did. We rode out the GFC relatively unscathed due to superior economic policy and regulations.
So yeah, it is entirely possible that some different actions could've resulted in a better outcome for other countries too.
I wonder what the next 5 sites will be. And the 5 after that...
Slipperly slopes are slippery.
Since it is easier to create a new domain than it is to add a new domain to the ban list, it won't matter.
We already know that whack-a-mole is an ineffective strategy for censorship. All this will do is give foreign VPN providers more business.
I'm that man that speaks up and stops situations like Syria from happening in the first place.
But it did happen, so how's that working out??
That type of situation was allowed to happen because nobody stood up for freedom.
The government will take care of the people. That worked out fine didn't it?
You clearly know nothing of the subject matter. There are plenty of people standing up for freedom, and they are being murdered where they stand.
Sometimes if you wait for the action to start it's too late.
My ancestors fought tyranny from an oppressive government. Yes my family goes back to revolutionary war against a country called England. I'm guessing you know of that country. I'm a Swamp Yankee we don't tolerate oppression by any person or government.
Yes that all sounds very cute, but by western standards your average American citizen is already more oppressed, or do you think the illegal NSA spying, torture, drone strikes, and vast incarceration isn't tyranny? The bad guys aren't always going to walk down the street in a clearly defined uniform and announce their intentions. The oppression has already begun and don't seem to be tolerating that ok.
As I've stated I'm a man and accept that responsibility. I'm willing to kill or die to defend that freedom. I'm a good friend to many a great friend to a few but above all I'm an excellent enemy. I actually enjoy confrontation. It's part of life and I expect it.
Gee that's great, but you don't really. You live in a safe community provided to you by others then claim you're a big man in control of it all. As a comparison why don't you head over to Syria and see how you get on? Or maybe you aren't as manly as you think.
Trump is the president elect working on his transition. Unless his request can be shown to be unduly burdensome he should be given the courtesy of a reply. I'm no fan of Trump but fuck the DoE bureaucrats for hiding behind "respect[ing] the professional and scientific integrity and independence of our employees" and playing into his hand. Trump has the right to turn it into his own Travelgate if he wishes.
You obviously don't know how government works. The whole system is designed to make it impossible to get anything done. DoE employees know this all too well, and this letter is merely the first of a million evasion techniques they have ready. Trump could spend months trying to get this one little task done, which is months he can't spend doing other things. And every other department will do exactly the routine until he realises 3 years in that he has achieved nothing.
You think public servants who have been doing this 30 years haven't seen this before? They are pros at this game. Trump is about to learn that being a bully is not the appropriate skill set to apply in this environment.
That is a real crock if I ever heard one. I worked in an agency once and people were constantly changing position like a game of musical chairs, presumably to increase pay grades. There was no continuity at all.....
I've worked in govt too. There is a lot of dead wood there, but the people that move, generally move to another dept, so still retain knowledge of govt policy and process. It's always fun to see a fresh face from the private sector come in and try and shake things up. I've seen it plenty of times, they see the dead wood and think they can strip it out and run a lean ship like private enterprise, but it doesn't work like that. There's so many rules and regulations that even the smallest change gets bogged down in process until you lose the will to live. Eventually those people either leave or learn the hard way that resistance is futile.
Bureaucracy might be bad at moving quickly, but this is it's very strength, as it is extremely useful at repelling attempts to destroy it.
That being said...aren't the departments pretty much at the behest of the Exective Branch? Could the new President not just completely disband them with the stroke of a pen? I mean, these are NOT part of congress, etc. They are set up by the Exec. branch to help enact and follow laws from congress, but they really aren't constitutional established or protected government entities are they?
I work for the govt, not your govt, and I'm a contractor, not a public servant for the record, so I should be able to shed some light here.
You are right, a "department" is headed by a minister (or secretary). The minister reports to the Prime Minister (or President), and the agencies or departments are completely arbitrary at the bequest of this person. In fact here we have a team of people dedicated to swapping various task across different agencies after every election because the new Prime Minister always wants things changed up.
I believe it is the same there, if POTUS wanted an agency gone he could just do it. eg he could say Energy is now a Defence problem and hand it to them. It would make it extremely hard to get things done, but it is possible.
Anarchy isn't freedom. How you were taught that or somehow came to that conclusion is simply wrong. Two entirely different concepts that don't simultaneously exist as you suggest.
Of course it does. Regulations are what prevent the anarchy. You can go too far one way or to far the other, but claiming you are in complete control of all external forces and don't need others to do it for you is childish. "I'll choose what works best for me" only works until you meet someone else that has the exact same opinion and wants what you have.
From everything I have seen, the Surface is a pretty neat device and I think it is getting better with every rev.
Well allow me to contrast those opinions. I have a Surface Pro 3 as a work device. It does ok, but I still prefer my Dell XPS laptop that I have at home it's an actual laptop, so sits in your lap properly. The whole convertible/detachable keyboard/kickstand format is just goofy. The weight is all in the screen so tries it's best to topple over at any opportunity.
I'll choose the standard laptop form factor any time.
Yes I do. That way I control my environment. I don't need others to do that for me. I'll choose what's best for me and accept all risks. I'm not a child that needs constant supervision. I'm a man.
No you don't. You don't have to face most of those risks because someone else is already protecting you from them.
Your perception of freedom is laughable. Perhaps you should go spend some time is a really free environment like Afghanistan or Syria and see how you manhood holds up under truly free conditions? The USA or any western country is like a Fisher Price playpen by comparison.
It's best to look at wealth, not income, when deciding who belongs to the group of "folks with all the money." The person in the US making $33k/year likely is in debt - in fact, the article you link says "the typical U.S. household carries a whopping $70,000 in debt."
I agree with most of what you say, but given the choice of being born in the third world living on $10/day and a life expectancy of 50, or earning $33k/year with $70k debt, I think most people prefer the latter.
I think the point of the article I linked to is to demonstrate that even if you are poor by your neighbour's standard, you are still rich on a global standard. That is not to say you are doing ok, but it shows how bad most others have it.
I'm relatively well off, yet I also feel poor next to my peers with $2mil houses and $100k cars. The summary is that this feeling seems to stick with you no matter where you are on the wealth ladder. So blaming "the rich" makes no sense since most of us are rich in relative to the global average.
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Is there a list of people who died this year who actually deserved to die and whose deaths actually left us better off? You know, fascist or communist dictators, serial killers, people who talk loudly on their cellphones in restaurants? That kind of thing?
Trump? Oh wait, that will probably be next year....
The way to beat overpopulation is to not have children, not kill children/adults.
Most developed/western nations already have a fertility rate near 2.0 (ie 2 children for every couple), which means we have already reached a stable population. The problem is all those poor nations breeding like rats. Culturally this will only create more race based issues as the ratio of brown people steadily increases over time.
Why not both?
Because choosing to not having babies is a lot more civilised than mass slaughter
They've put together a pretty clever approach to each of these problems.
For kinetic threats, a system that would detect the attack would trigger one of a few possible reactions. One reaction is the emission of foam to cushion the drone from the direction of the threat. This would temporarily degrade its flight performance, but only on an as-needed basis. Another would be avoidance, if possible.
The obvious threat will be capture ie a projectile net to catch the drone and its payload, or if you see one landing at your neighbours, you pop next door and take their stuff and/or smash the drone for shits and giggles.
Other risks are injuries to unsuspecting pets/children, or accidents (the crash rate will be above zero),
How will these be handled?
Fraud obviates consent. Or, to put it another way, if consent is obtained fraudulently, the consent is not legally effective. Accordingly, there was no legally effective consent to sex.
So when I take a girl home from a bar and fuck her, only to wake up the next day and find the makeup, pushup bra, high heels were all part of a fraud, and my princess is actually a monster can I claim rape?
So it would -- were I on FB (or any of my email accounts) with my real name, birthday etc. #sorry_Zuck
You don't have to have an account. If people you know have a FB account and the app, and have you in their contacts, they already have a profile on you. And with your phone number and email address, they can buy all your online activity from all these online analytics companies to build up a FB profile even though you've never signed up. #you_lose
You blame alternative media for Trump's victory, but you're still so brainwashed by corporate media that you still don't realize he's a boyscout compared to Hillary, and he's really the best we deserve.
Oh give up with that brainwashed by media routine. Most of the senior Republicans know that a Trump presidency will be a net loss for most Americans. Or do you think they also get their information from CNN?
3. "... we're not saying Trump administration is a creation of the Russian state... *wink wink nudge nudge* but the Trump administration is obviously a creation and stupid dumb puppet of the Russian state... for realz tho... also, don't listen to fake news"
There is an immense effort right now to make us take mental shortcuts, to skip certain events in our memories, to forget that certain misdeeds were done not by Russians but by Americans.
I look at this a different way. Put the election behind you, what is done is done, and Trump is soon to be in charge. Is his behaviour towards one of our enemies acceptable to you? If you woke up today without knowing a single thing about the last two year's campaigns, wouldn't you read own Trump's words about Russia and think WTF? The guy is shitting on Americans to cosy up to a Russian tyrant. Something is going on there that is sus, and I don't care about the DNC, I care about the future of our country. This is all very dangerous territory, and the source is not MSM, it's from the man himself.
We should all be worried about the way things are going, regardless of your political leanings.
Although they do an amazing job of allowing you to avoid the fact of the matter which is that Hillary Clinton was a turd of a candidate who rigged the parties primary, and enjoyed limited popularity outside major metropolitan areas.
Still more popularity than the turd that won though right?
We know what nation state level hacking looks like thanks,
No we don't. I have some experience in government, not defence or intelligence, but govt none the less. And with govt, like any extremely large organisation, is messy. It isn't a borg hive mind.
Some govt projects can involve the smartest people in the country using bleeding edge technology, while equally another project could have a bunch of turkeys all scratching their heads trying to work out how to flush a toilet.
It would be naive to rule out government involvement purely because it was not advanced enough for your liking.
The camera can OCR the speed limit signs. It combines that with GPS based data. It works well most times. It actually knows not to apply the change until you pass the sign, which also happens to match the laws.
Yes, yes but you missed the point. How does this system combat thousands of people printing off their own speed limit signs to frustrate robot car users?
The whole value proposition of the car is personal freedom. This is exactly the opposite.
only applies to autopilot. Assuming that soon this will be the norm,
That seems to be a rather brash assumption. Unless your definition of 'soon' is the next 100 years or so...
How does it know what the official speed limit is?
What happens if this is interfered with?
I'm struggling to see how any customer could consider this a good thing.
I'm always curious about this blame game. The "great recession" was a worldwide phenomenon. Are you suggesting that if Bush hadn't been president of the US (say, Kerry was elected instead), that the entire world would NOT have gone into recession? Or that the world would have, but the US wouldn't have? I'm just curious.
The US is a cog. An oversized and important cog no doubt, but it's just one part of the whole.
I can't say, but here in Australia we had leadership that foresaw the effects of the GFC and acted immediately to reduce it's impacts. The result is we didn't go into recession at all, while the rest of the west did. We rode out the GFC relatively unscathed due to superior economic policy and regulations.
So yeah, it is entirely possible that some different actions could've resulted in a better outcome for other countries too.
I wonder what the next 5 sites will be. And the 5 after that...
Slipperly slopes are slippery.
Since it is easier to create a new domain than it is to add a new domain to the ban list, it won't matter.
We already know that whack-a-mole is an ineffective strategy for censorship. All this will do is give foreign VPN providers more business.
I'm that man that speaks up and stops situations like Syria from happening in the first place.
But it did happen, so how's that working out??
That type of situation was allowed to happen because nobody stood up for freedom. The government will take care of the people. That worked out fine didn't it?
You clearly know nothing of the subject matter. There are plenty of people standing up for freedom, and they are being murdered where they stand.
Sometimes if you wait for the action to start it's too late.
My ancestors fought tyranny from an oppressive government. Yes my family goes back to revolutionary war against a country called England. I'm guessing you know of that country. I'm a Swamp Yankee we don't tolerate oppression by any person or government.
Yes that all sounds very cute, but by western standards your average American citizen is already more oppressed, or do you think the illegal NSA spying, torture, drone strikes, and vast incarceration isn't tyranny? The bad guys aren't always going to walk down the street in a clearly defined uniform and announce their intentions. The oppression has already begun and don't seem to be tolerating that ok.
As I've stated I'm a man and accept that responsibility. I'm willing to kill or die to defend that freedom. I'm a good friend to many a great friend to a few but above all I'm an excellent enemy. I actually enjoy confrontation. It's part of life and I expect it.
Gee that's great, but you don't really. You live in a safe community provided to you by others then claim you're a big man in control of it all. As a comparison why don't you head over to Syria and see how you get on? Or maybe you aren't as manly as you think.
Trump is the president elect working on his transition. Unless his request can be shown to be unduly burdensome he should be given the courtesy of a reply. I'm no fan of Trump but fuck the DoE bureaucrats for hiding behind "respect[ing] the professional and scientific integrity and independence of our employees" and playing into his hand. Trump has the right to turn it into his own Travelgate if he wishes.
You obviously don't know how government works. The whole system is designed to make it impossible to get anything done. DoE employees know this all too well, and this letter is merely the first of a million evasion techniques they have ready. Trump could spend months trying to get this one little task done, which is months he can't spend doing other things. And every other department will do exactly the routine until he realises 3 years in that he has achieved nothing.
You think public servants who have been doing this 30 years haven't seen this before? They are pros at this game. Trump is about to learn that being a bully is not the appropriate skill set to apply in this environment.
I'm out of mod points, but that was a great post.
That is a real crock if I ever heard one. I worked in an agency once and people were constantly changing position like a game of musical chairs, presumably to increase pay grades. There was no continuity at all.....
I've worked in govt too. There is a lot of dead wood there, but the people that move, generally move to another dept, so still retain knowledge of govt policy and process. It's always fun to see a fresh face from the private sector come in and try and shake things up. I've seen it plenty of times, they see the dead wood and think they can strip it out and run a lean ship like private enterprise, but it doesn't work like that. There's so many rules and regulations that even the smallest change gets bogged down in process until you lose the will to live. Eventually those people either leave or learn the hard way that resistance is futile.
Bureaucracy might be bad at moving quickly, but this is it's very strength, as it is extremely useful at repelling attempts to destroy it.
That being said...aren't the departments pretty much at the behest of the Exective Branch? Could the new President not just completely disband them with the stroke of a pen? I mean, these are NOT part of congress, etc. They are set up by the Exec. branch to help enact and follow laws from congress, but they really aren't constitutional established or protected government entities are they?
I work for the govt, not your govt, and I'm a contractor, not a public servant for the record, so I should be able to shed some light here.
You are right, a "department" is headed by a minister (or secretary). The minister reports to the Prime Minister (or President), and the agencies or departments are completely arbitrary at the bequest of this person. In fact here we have a team of people dedicated to swapping various task across different agencies after every election because the new Prime Minister always wants things changed up.
I believe it is the same there, if POTUS wanted an agency gone he could just do it. eg he could say Energy is now a Defence problem and hand it to them. It would make it extremely hard to get things done, but it is possible.
Anarchy isn't freedom. How you were taught that or somehow came to that conclusion is simply wrong. Two entirely different concepts that don't simultaneously exist as you suggest.
Of course it does. Regulations are what prevent the anarchy. You can go too far one way or to far the other, but claiming you are in complete control of all external forces and don't need others to do it for you is childish. "I'll choose what works best for me" only works until you meet someone else that has the exact same opinion and wants what you have.
From everything I have seen, the Surface is a pretty neat device and I think it is getting better with every rev.
Well allow me to contrast those opinions. I have a Surface Pro 3 as a work device. It does ok, but I still prefer my Dell XPS laptop that I have at home it's an actual laptop, so sits in your lap properly. The whole convertible/detachable keyboard/kickstand format is just goofy. The weight is all in the screen so tries it's best to topple over at any opportunity.
I'll choose the standard laptop form factor any time.
Yes I do. That way I control my environment. I don't need others to do that for me. I'll choose what's best for me and accept all risks. I'm not a child that needs constant supervision. I'm a man.
No you don't. You don't have to face most of those risks because someone else is already protecting you from them.
Your perception of freedom is laughable. Perhaps you should go spend some time is a really free environment like Afghanistan or Syria and see how you manhood holds up under truly free conditions? The USA or any western country is like a Fisher Price playpen by comparison.
It's best to look at wealth, not income, when deciding who belongs to the group of "folks with all the money." The person in the US making $33k/year likely is in debt - in fact, the article you link says "the typical U.S. household carries a whopping $70,000 in debt."
I agree with most of what you say, but given the choice of being born in the third world living on $10/day and a life expectancy of 50, or earning $33k/year with $70k debt, I think most people prefer the latter.
I think the point of the article I linked to is to demonstrate that even if you are poor by your neighbour's standard, you are still rich on a global standard. That is not to say you are doing ok, but it shows how bad most others have it.
I'm relatively well off, yet I also feel poor next to my peers with $2mil houses and $100k cars. The summary is that this feeling seems to stick with you no matter where you are on the wealth ladder. So blaming "the rich" makes no sense since most of us are rich in relative to the global average.