Nukes don't "go off" in plane crashes. A deliberate sequence of events must occur. Disobeying nuclear weapons procedure is bad indeed but let's not make shit up. Otherwise we're no better than environmentalists who think that nuclear power plants can blow up like a nuclear bomb.
Right-wing propaganda won't work. Solzhenitsyn, are you kidding? Talk about an outdated, out-of-touch weirdo. It's like if Abraham Lincoln suddenly arose from the grave and began giving advice to George W. Bush. Totally inappropriate for the situation. Solzhenitsyn was a right-wing nutbag, no doubt about it.
These are the same standards that previous generations could achieve. Hard standards that do not change according to the whims of political winds, nor the Air Force's racial preferences. The Strategic Air Command (the mooks responsible for all our nukes) attitude was called the "Sundown Policy". In other words, if you screwed up no matter who you were, your ass was gone by sundown. If you so much as got a traffic ticket: "If a man is not responsible enough to drive a car, he has no business around nuclear weapons." The offender would often be kicked out of the Air Force and tossed off the base by the close of the day.
And now, what? Remedial training lessons? Are you joking? Our current generation can't handle the hard standards set by their forefathers. Note that nuclear weapon handling procedures are not what you might call "difficult". They are merely "thorough". If you figure out the underlying idea, it's a piece of cake - as demonstrated repeatedly by the generations of SAC airmen who scored 100% (the only passing score) on test after test after test. However all we see here are people who cannot see the idea, merely dozens and dozens of checklists which must be memorized by heart, none of it makes any sense.
Why should we be surprised when an officer fails to order armed guards to stand watch over a nuclear weapons storage facility? It's just another one of those nitpicking details - "quit your post only when properly relieved"? Who can possibly be bothered to memorize these technical details and meaningless trivia?
It contributes to the preservation of peace within families. All paternity testing does is cause disputes. A biological father has nothing to do with a real father. He's just a sperm donor, nothing more. Fatherhood is determined by society, not DNA.
Biological father means nothing. Fatherhood is determined by sociology, not biology. Keep repeating this until it gets into your tiny brain. Who the hell cares that a child's socially acknowledged father is not biological? Nobody that matters!
No, no, no, absolutely not. Paternity testing without the mother's consent is rightly illegal in most of the world's civilized countries. The power differential is already skewed in men's direction without this extra weapon. Fatherhood is determined by society not by biology.
All I saw in this video was white people. Where's the diversity? If McMurray and Guthrie-Honea had been named Robinson and Coleman, would they have attracted the same level of investment? In this year 2013, is "makerspace" just a code word for "safe place without African-Americans"? These are serious questions, deserving of serious answers. Unfortunately, I don't think the answers will be complimentary to mainstream USA culture.
You have no choice. What are you going to do, stop using Photoshop? I don't think so. You make a lot of noise but when it comes down to your livelihood vs. paying more money and losing freedom, you'll make the correct choice. What are you going to do, buy a single share of Adobe and lead a stockholder revolt? I don't think so.
It amazes me how many times "B-B-B-But Bush!" excuses everything done by Obama. I mean, here it is again. And it worked, too...let's lay off Obama because Bu$hitler. He gets a free pass. Mind-boggling. What happened to hopenchange?
It's because standard code won't do all the bells and whistles that customers expect. Do you really not know this, in 2013? Seriously?
Oh, and stop starting your comments in the Subject line, that's freaking stupid. The Subject line is for the subject of your post, the body is where you start writing.
Yes, but in those days the government did not spend like it does today. Today the government desperately needs money, and lots of it. This $12 billion is badly needed and will enable the government to operate for almost thirty hours. Not to mention the additional revenue available by borrowing against future revenue of this sort.
Mention something like "public good" to anyone who works in Washington DC and watch the smiles and guffaws start. You just mark yourself as a redneck and an idiot with talk like that.
Strangely, that wasn't the impression I got from that Dan Brown novel. The one where they take the rocket plane to Europe. The reader is informed that the Americans did shit, it was CERN that invented the internet as we know it, in other words the web.
Insularity. Being around people who think the same and shunning anyone who thinks otherwise. It leads to this sort of thing where the person cannot see outside the Self. It's called "solipsism" and is especially pronounced among the liberal media. There was a journalist who worked for the mainstream media who, 40 years ago, famously said "I live in a rather special world. I only know one person who voted for Nixon. Where they are I don't know. They're outside my ken. But sometimes when I'm in a theater I can feel them." The same attitude is alive and well today.
Yeah, I used to have to do that. It sucked. First, heavy groceries are no fun to lug home. Second, you can't buy very much, so you're going to the store every two days. Sucks. Maybe the "urban hip" crowd likes to hang out in the grocery store, but I don't. Another "I like to do this so everyone should be forced to do it" thing.
This is precisely why I want scientists naming planets according to an accepted method of taxonomy. Koozebane? Seriously? Because muppets? I like the muppets as much as the next man but come on - a heavenly object stuck with a ridiculous name like that forever just because some guy thought it would be funny? Ugh no.
The moment that reproduction becomes a privilege is the moment that elites exempt themselves and apply the rules to everyone else. It's not an exaggeration, it's already happened in China. Have we considered that the European population is actually *declining* and hence they need *more* babies? How else are they going to fund today's borrowing if there are fewer future taxpayers?
Famines used to be common, a simple fact of life. They just happened, like earthquakes. Today they fall under the category of "man-made disasters". Why could that be?
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Nukes don't "go off" in plane crashes. A deliberate sequence of events must occur. Disobeying nuclear weapons procedure is bad indeed but let's not make shit up. Otherwise we're no better than environmentalists who think that nuclear power plants can blow up like a nuclear bomb.
Right-wing propaganda won't work. Solzhenitsyn, are you kidding? Talk about an outdated, out-of-touch weirdo. It's like if Abraham Lincoln suddenly arose from the grave and began giving advice to George W. Bush. Totally inappropriate for the situation. Solzhenitsyn was a right-wing nutbag, no doubt about it.
These are the same standards that previous generations could achieve. Hard standards that do not change according to the whims of political winds, nor the Air Force's racial preferences. The Strategic Air Command (the mooks responsible for all our nukes) attitude was called the "Sundown Policy". In other words, if you screwed up no matter who you were, your ass was gone by sundown. If you so much as got a traffic ticket: "If a man is not responsible enough to drive a car, he has no business around nuclear weapons." The offender would often be kicked out of the Air Force and tossed off the base by the close of the day.
And now, what? Remedial training lessons? Are you joking? Our current generation can't handle the hard standards set by their forefathers. Note that nuclear weapon handling procedures are not what you might call "difficult". They are merely "thorough". If you figure out the underlying idea, it's a piece of cake - as demonstrated repeatedly by the generations of SAC airmen who scored 100% (the only passing score) on test after test after test. However all we see here are people who cannot see the idea, merely dozens and dozens of checklists which must be memorized by heart, none of it makes any sense.
Why should we be surprised when an officer fails to order armed guards to stand watch over a nuclear weapons storage facility? It's just another one of those nitpicking details - "quit your post only when properly relieved"? Who can possibly be bothered to memorize these technical details and meaningless trivia?
I'm experiencing cognitive dissonance; can anyone help me out? This seems to be cheered by posters who say that national laws are a good thing and foreigners should be forced to bend their knees whenever there is a conflict. However, in previous stories I have heard precisely the opposite: local standards are for ignorant redneck bullies who are too stupid to realize that their hillbilly local ordnances should be harmonized with international standards. Please reconcile.
It contributes to the preservation of peace within families. All paternity testing does is cause disputes. A biological father has nothing to do with a real father. He's just a sperm donor, nothing more. Fatherhood is determined by society, not DNA.
Biological father means nothing. Fatherhood is determined by sociology, not biology. Keep repeating this until it gets into your tiny brain. Who the hell cares that a child's socially acknowledged father is not biological? Nobody that matters!
No, no, no, absolutely not. Paternity testing without the mother's consent is rightly illegal in most of the world's civilized countries. The power differential is already skewed in men's direction without this extra weapon. Fatherhood is determined by society not by biology.
All I saw in this video was white people. Where's the diversity? If McMurray and Guthrie-Honea had been named Robinson and Coleman, would they have attracted the same level of investment? In this year 2013, is "makerspace" just a code word for "safe place without African-Americans"? These are serious questions, deserving of serious answers. Unfortunately, I don't think the answers will be complimentary to mainstream USA culture.
You have no choice. What are you going to do, stop using Photoshop? I don't think so. You make a lot of noise but when it comes down to your livelihood vs. paying more money and losing freedom, you'll make the correct choice. What are you going to do, buy a single share of Adobe and lead a stockholder revolt? I don't think so.
It amazes me how many times "B-B-B-But Bush!" excuses everything done by Obama. I mean, here it is again. And it worked, too...let's lay off Obama because Bu$hitler. He gets a free pass. Mind-boggling. What happened to hopenchange?
Huh? What does politics have to do with web standards? WTF
It's because standard code won't do all the bells and whistles that customers expect. Do you really not know this, in 2013? Seriously?
Oh, and stop starting your comments in the Subject line, that's freaking stupid. The Subject line is for the subject of your post, the body is where you start writing.
There we go, playing the race card. Sigh. What does a kid with a BB gun have to do with this? Nothing, but it "creates the narrative". We all know what the narrative is, race race race. It's always first on the list and it always gets shoehorned in even if it doesn't belong. Everyone sees it but due to the mainstream media's gatekeeper role nobody can talk back. This is why Americans distrust the media, with 60% saying they have little or no trust in the mass media to report the news fully, accurately, and fairly.
Nobel prizes are greatly overrated and don't deserve worship. The guy probably had personal politics that didn't agree with the prize committee's.
Yes, but in those days the government did not spend like it does today. Today the government desperately needs money, and lots of it. This $12 billion is badly needed and will enable the government to operate for almost thirty hours. Not to mention the additional revenue available by borrowing against future revenue of this sort.
Mention something like "public good" to anyone who works in Washington DC and watch the smiles and guffaws start. You just mark yourself as a redneck and an idiot with talk like that.
Strangely, that wasn't the impression I got from that Dan Brown novel. The one where they take the rocket plane to Europe. The reader is informed that the Americans did shit, it was CERN that invented the internet as we know it, in other words the web.
Insularity. Being around people who think the same and shunning anyone who thinks otherwise. It leads to this sort of thing where the person cannot see outside the Self. It's called "solipsism" and is especially pronounced among the liberal media. There was a journalist who worked for the mainstream media who, 40 years ago, famously said "I live in a rather special world. I only know one person who voted for Nixon. Where they are I don't know. They're outside my ken. But sometimes when I'm in a theater I can feel them." The same attitude is alive and well today.
Dude, where is your brain? You seem to have a hatred problem, suddenly spouting off like that apropos of nothing.
Yeah, I used to have to do that. It sucked. First, heavy groceries are no fun to lug home. Second, you can't buy very much, so you're going to the store every two days. Sucks. Maybe the "urban hip" crowd likes to hang out in the grocery store, but I don't. Another "I like to do this so everyone should be forced to do it" thing.
This is precisely why I want scientists naming planets according to an accepted method of taxonomy. Koozebane? Seriously? Because muppets? I like the muppets as much as the next man but come on - a heavenly object stuck with a ridiculous name like that forever just because some guy thought it would be funny? Ugh no.
Well, let's nip this idea in the bud, then. Because a cobra looks just like a sinuous reptile and it's totally OK to pander to superstitions.
The moment that reproduction becomes a privilege is the moment that elites exempt themselves and apply the rules to everyone else. It's not an exaggeration, it's already happened in China. Have we considered that the European population is actually *declining* and hence they need *more* babies? How else are they going to fund today's borrowing if there are fewer future taxpayers?
Famines used to be common, a simple fact of life. They just happened, like earthquakes. Today they fall under the category of "man-made disasters". Why could that be?
Then we can drive the African farmers out of business, because nobody can compete with free.
So, in other words...it...breaks the flow of a message?
You see what I did there?