The StarChase system is a pursuit reduction technology that contains a miniature GPS module encased in a tracking projectile/tag and a launcher mounted on a police vehicle. It is neither a bullet nor a weapon as the BBC story claims. It doesn't use gunpowder, it uses compressed air. The word bullet does not appear anywhere on the company's website - except where another ignorant journalist has used it. You'd think the BBC would be better and more educated than the Des Moines, Iowa local news. You would also be incorrect in that assumption.
You can argue that 'weapon' means 'tool used to achieve a goal' - but come on, this is the BBC we're talking about. You put the words "American police" and "bullet" together and quite naturally scare words like "weapon" come out. Look at the quote on the page: "There are other ways to track vehicles and this could raise some civil liberties issues." What does that even mean? Fleeing from the police, endangering the lives of everyone on the road and all the BBC can think of is how the criminal's rights might be violated...somehow. Unfortunately this mental rot extends throughout the entire organization and its journalists are simply no longer able to think straight. I doubt anyone even thought for a second about the bias. Sad, because once the BBC was a paragon of honesty. Look back at newsreels and 80s broadcasts and you will see a very different organization.
You are mistaken if you think China has the capability to be rational. The Chinese will cheer going to war and gut out the economic consequences. They desire one thing above all else: humiliate others and place themselves back where they belong, as the center of the world. The average Chinese doesn't have that much to lose.
Tragically our best hope for peace is the Communist Party. They're the ones with something to lose.
Looking down on rural Americans is the new socially acceptable bigotry. As with all bigotry it is founded on ignorance. After all, these people are stupid so why does it matter if we make shit up? What's important is that we all get to exercise the ugly side of human nature in public.
I rather think it was the hundred million human beings they murdered in pursuit of their goals. But hey, don't trust me, let's go straight to the horse's mouth:
"If the nuclear missiles had remained, we would have fired them against the heart of the U.S. including New York City. The victory of socialism is worth millions of atomic victims."
-- Che Guevara to the London Daily Worker, November 1962
Did you...did you...just compare President Obama to Hitler? I know you racists love to do that...but really. Come on. Fascist? The man is a protege of a radical leftist who set off bombs in the U.S. Capitol.
Read between the lines. Liberal is a polite word. What else would you call an organization that openly supports far-left causes not only on the editorial page but the news pages?
Is the New York Times a liberal newspaper? Of course it is.
Do you disbelieve this phrase? Highlight the entire two sentences with the mouse, right-click, and select 'search'.
The press is certainly a government lapdog. They have had plenty of chances to go after the administration but refused. Tough questions are not asked, investigations are not launched, Pulitzer Prizes are not won.
There's no such thing as "the 4th world". It's something you just made up. For the record: 1st world: USA and its allies. 2nd world: USSR and its satellites. Doesn't exist anymore, it's an obsolete term. 3rd world: everyone else.
Unions were the reason jobs left offshore in the first place. Unions only care about the interests of union bosses - to pretend that they represent workers is laughable.
I was all set to make a comment right before you said "architecture", which is the ONE FIELD that has long been considered the crossroads between art and science. Your perspective is skewed.
Yes, probably. A felony is a very serious crime. It's quite possible to go your entire life without committing one. Why is it that your kind always has more sympathy for evil men who have free choice and use that choice to commit crimes than innocent people?
I'm in China getting things delivered to my U.S. address either to pick up the next time I'm home or to have drop-shipped to me here. Lots of places refuse to ship internationally or are idiots about it. Try ordering online from a Chinese IP address and let me know how that works out for you.
First of all, it's "Soviets", not Russians. People forget the first country enslaved by the Bosheviks was Russia.
Secondly, if you look at 50s and 60s science fiction, there was the concept of "Space Mongols". This was a race that had space travel, but didn't invent it and didn't know how to create new starships. Instead they conquered other races that could do so. The Klingons are clearly this type.
The real cost of this is people who allow constant connectivity to take over their whole lives. The most obvious example I can think of right now is the mainstream media, which fell in love with Twitter a long time ago. It shapes their thoughts and they can't even think any more without applying a hashtag. The idea that there might be a world beyond is a foreign, strange idea.
Others stay glued to their phones and computers all day long and blithely use slang and jargon from whatever site they use most frequently in public. Nobody else can understand them, they can't figure out that it only makes sense in context. Nope, the whole world uses that slang, and if you don't understand, then how can you really be a person?
I've met plenty of actual "lefties" and their words chill my soul. They'd like to do to America what the Khmer Rouge did to Cambodia. Not even joking. Source: left-wingers after they've had a few drinks and I agree with whatever they say.
The Tea Party appeared after Obama was elected because Obama is of the far-left and the Republican Party doesn't give a shit about ordinary Americans. Obama's mentor - the man who had the most influence on his life - should have gone to prison for bombing the US Capitol building. Yes, that's right, domestic terrorism of the Boston Bomber sort.
After the NSA revelations, who can really say that martial law is out of the question? The NSA stuff confirmed what a lot of "nutters" had been saying for a long time.
Well, what do you expect when the media turned on its heel in 2009 and became solidly pro-government? To the extent that they refuse to investigate the administration even when crimes are clearly being committed? All because they're simpatico with the political leanings of the President. Disgraceful, eh?
Man, if you think countries shouldn't have spy agencies you're nuts. Big Brother was a totalitarian government, not a spy agency. Remember, the only thing the NSA did wrong was to spy on Americans. If you think other countries aren't working overtime to spy on America, you're froot loops.
Seeing that the current administration is, by their own admission, the most transparent administration in history, it shouldn't be difficult. Moreover an entire legion of crusading journalists are just waiting for leads to fall into their laps so they can take down high-ranking Democratic government officials for corruption. There are multiple Pulitzer Prizes waiting for those who do these deeds. So, don't worry!
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The StarChase system is a pursuit reduction technology that contains a miniature GPS module encased in a tracking projectile/tag and a launcher mounted on a police vehicle. It is neither a bullet nor a weapon as the BBC story claims. It doesn't use gunpowder, it uses compressed air. The word bullet does not appear anywhere on the company's website - except where another ignorant journalist has used it. You'd think the BBC would be better and more educated than the Des Moines, Iowa local news. You would also be incorrect in that assumption.
You can argue that 'weapon' means 'tool used to achieve a goal' - but come on, this is the BBC we're talking about. You put the words "American police" and "bullet" together and quite naturally scare words like "weapon" come out. Look at the quote on the page: "There are other ways to track vehicles and this could raise some civil liberties issues." What does that even mean? Fleeing from the police, endangering the lives of everyone on the road and all the BBC can think of is how the criminal's rights might be violated...somehow. Unfortunately this mental rot extends throughout the entire organization and its journalists are simply no longer able to think straight. I doubt anyone even thought for a second about the bias. Sad, because once the BBC was a paragon of honesty. Look back at newsreels and 80s broadcasts and you will see a very different organization.
You didn't see what happened during the Diaoyu island crisis last year. There was HUGE public support for war with Japan, and economics be damned.
You are mistaken if you think China has the capability to be rational. The Chinese will cheer going to war and gut out the economic consequences. They desire one thing above all else: humiliate others and place themselves back where they belong, as the center of the world. The average Chinese doesn't have that much to lose.
Tragically our best hope for peace is the Communist Party. They're the ones with something to lose.
In 1997 I would have closed down Apple too. The company was a wreck.
Looking down on rural Americans is the new socially acceptable bigotry. As with all bigotry it is founded on ignorance. After all, these people are stupid so why does it matter if we make shit up? What's important is that we all get to exercise the ugly side of human nature in public.
I rather think it was the hundred million human beings they murdered in pursuit of their goals. But hey, don't trust me, let's go straight to the horse's mouth:
"If the nuclear missiles had remained, we would have fired them against the heart of the U.S. including New York City. The victory of socialism is worth millions of atomic victims."
-- Che Guevara to the London Daily Worker, November 1962
Did you...did you...just compare President Obama to Hitler? I know you racists love to do that...but really. Come on. Fascist? The man is a protege of a radical leftist who set off bombs in the U.S. Capitol.
I think it may be an inconvenient truth to point out that both of them are factually correct...
What could have happened in the past to make socialism a dirty word? Start with the events of 20th century.
Read between the lines. Liberal is a polite word. What else would you call an organization that openly supports far-left causes not only on the editorial page but the news pages?
Is the New York Times a liberal newspaper? Of course it is.
Do you disbelieve this phrase? Highlight the entire two sentences with the mouse, right-click, and select 'search'.
The press is certainly a government lapdog. They have had plenty of chances to go after the administration but refused. Tough questions are not asked, investigations are not launched, Pulitzer Prizes are not won.
There's no such thing as "the 4th world". It's something you just made up. For the record: 1st world: USA and its allies. 2nd world: USSR and its satellites. Doesn't exist anymore, it's an obsolete term. 3rd world: everyone else.
Unions were the reason jobs left offshore in the first place. Unions only care about the interests of union bosses - to pretend that they represent workers is laughable.
I was all set to make a comment right before you said "architecture", which is the ONE FIELD that has long been considered the crossroads between art and science. Your perspective is skewed.
Well, it's wrong to oppose Obama. You can't expect people do do something outrageous like that in 2013.
Yes, probably. A felony is a very serious crime. It's quite possible to go your entire life without committing one. Why is it that your kind always has more sympathy for evil men who have free choice and use that choice to commit crimes than innocent people?
I'm in China getting things delivered to my U.S. address either to pick up the next time I'm home or to have drop-shipped to me here. Lots of places refuse to ship internationally or are idiots about it. Try ordering online from a Chinese IP address and let me know how that works out for you.
First of all, it's "Soviets", not Russians. People forget the first country enslaved by the Bosheviks was Russia.
Secondly, if you look at 50s and 60s science fiction, there was the concept of "Space Mongols". This was a race that had space travel, but didn't invent it and didn't know how to create new starships. Instead they conquered other races that could do so. The Klingons are clearly this type.
The real cost of this is people who allow constant connectivity to take over their whole lives. The most obvious example I can think of right now is the mainstream media, which fell in love with Twitter a long time ago. It shapes their thoughts and they can't even think any more without applying a hashtag. The idea that there might be a world beyond is a foreign, strange idea.
Others stay glued to their phones and computers all day long and blithely use slang and jargon from whatever site they use most frequently in public. Nobody else can understand them, they can't figure out that it only makes sense in context. Nope, the whole world uses that slang, and if you don't understand, then how can you really be a person?
I've met plenty of actual "lefties" and their words chill my soul. They'd like to do to America what the Khmer Rouge did to Cambodia. Not even joking. Source: left-wingers after they've had a few drinks and I agree with whatever they say.
The Tea Party appeared after Obama was elected because Obama is of the far-left and the Republican Party doesn't give a shit about ordinary Americans. Obama's mentor - the man who had the most influence on his life - should have gone to prison for bombing the US Capitol building. Yes, that's right, domestic terrorism of the Boston Bomber sort.
After the NSA revelations, who can really say that martial law is out of the question? The NSA stuff confirmed what a lot of "nutters" had been saying for a long time.
Well, what do you expect when the media turned on its heel in 2009 and became solidly pro-government? To the extent that they refuse to investigate the administration even when crimes are clearly being committed? All because they're simpatico with the political leanings of the President. Disgraceful, eh?
How do you even DO that? How would you be able to name the forum, set up subforums, etc.?
Funny, I thought women wanted to be treated equally.
Man, if you think countries shouldn't have spy agencies you're nuts. Big Brother was a totalitarian government, not a spy agency. Remember, the only thing the NSA did wrong was to spy on Americans. If you think other countries aren't working overtime to spy on America, you're froot loops.
Seeing that the current administration is, by their own admission, the most transparent administration in history, it shouldn't be difficult. Moreover an entire legion of crusading journalists are just waiting for leads to fall into their laps so they can take down high-ranking Democratic government officials for corruption. There are multiple Pulitzer Prizes waiting for those who do these deeds. So, don't worry!