Apparently these people have their noses so far up their own backsides that they don't think "Deterrence" is a goal in and of itself.
They apparently think that guns/nukes are little Evil generators that are responsible for Everything Bad in human history. And if they'd never existed, the world would be this felicitous land of fairies and unicorns.
NEWSFLASH! PEOPLE ARE ASSHOLES! This means that they're only as good as they NEED to be to keep the world from killing them outright.
Could we be as effective in stopping antagonistic regimes from nuking anyone standing in their way if they didn't KNOW FOR A FACT that we possess the power to glass their little shithole countries multiple times over?
In short, NO.
So, while NOBODY like the fact that the world has this much concentrated megadeath just lying around, looking for an excuse. The fact that it exists serves as a warning to any tin pot dictator with delusions of grandeur.
You're trying to stretch my finite argument into something else completely.
If you are unemployed through no fault of your own, you deserve some form of social safety net. BUT NOT FOREVER. If you are unemployed because you're simply too lazy to go out and find a job. STARVE.
So no. Your attributed motive is incorrect. Thus, so is your declaration of the invalidation of my argument.
What I'm saying is that there are a group of people that, if you give them the option to not go to work, WILL NOT GO TO WORK. And the rest of the labor force SHOULD NOT be forced to support these people.
And yes, I left the "turn to crime" option out.
The problem with that is, you run the risk of trying to rob the wrong person and you wind up a lifeless lump of meat.
Granted, some people ARE lazy enough that they'd prefer death to actual labor...But hey, that's their choice.
People have been proclaiming the desktop "dead" for a couple decades now.
It hasn't happened.
Certain niches that were originally filled by desktop PCs have adjusted for things like laptops, tablets, phones, etc. Additionally you saw the rise of web-based services where you didn't NEED to keep everything on a hefty central machine. So you saw market correction.
That's all we're seeing here.
The desktop PC is going nowhere.
The install base may continue to shrink as more targeted solutions claim niches. But desktops are not going to die.
Primarily because there ARE so many tools for modern conferencing. And I work with a myriad of clients. All with their own favorites.
If I'm working on Windows, I'm NOT junking up my primary-use OS with all that crap. If I'm working under Linux, much of it won't install. And my issues with junking a primary-use OS.
As such, I have a sacrificial VM for all that. If it blows up on me I lose nothing. I simply clone the clean base image and spin up again.
We don't know whether he's doing his job or committing treason, because we don't get any transcripts or recordings.
Exactly. You DON'T know. So you're inventing conspiracies.
My neighbor doesn't tell me what he's doing. So he MUST be turning the frogs gay for 5th dimensional alien takeover! Right?
You might be satisfied with that, since you celebrate ignorance. I am not.
Yep. But you just rocket-jumped right over the line between inquisitiveness and flat-out conspiracy theory. You're now so far over you can't even SEE the line where you're at.
Trump destroys emails too, but more relevantly, he's been spotted destroying his notes on more than one occasion.
His COMPANIES destroyed e-mail. BUSINESS E-MAIL.
Clinton destroyed GOVERNMENT e-amils. There's a MASSIVE legal difference. AND YOU KNOW IT!
As for the Fox News article. Yes. We'll just trust the word of Swalwell, who is only one of his political opponents. Completely without any sort of corroboration whatsoever.
Hahahahaha!
Oh. You're SERIOUS?
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
And Omarosa "Look At Me!" who has a history of blowing bullshit about Trump to keep herself in the limelight.
I refer you back to "BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!"
ou DO realize you just asked the man to prove a negative right?
No, that's not what I did at all. I want some evidence of good faith, of which there has been none.
Again, you're asking him to prove something you've imagined didn't happen.
That's called "proving a negative".
YOU! Prove to ME, that you aren't making plans to rule the universe!
As much as I dislike the woman, her Pocohontas bullshit and most of her policy stances. As much as I wish the market would fix itself on this. It ain't gonna happen.
As such, I'm all for a right-to-repair. I mean, we're not talking about a cheap. We;re not talking about a $300 lawmower here.
We're talking about actual farm equipment. Where each individual vehicle is worth HUNDREDS of thosuands of dollars. And they've been engineered in such a way that if something small breaks, the entire damn vehicle is USELESS. And the only to fix some of these things is to pay a vendor certified mechanic and WAIT for him to come out. Or try to ship the thing to him and hope it comes back in a timely manner!
And it's not like an 80 year old tractor. Where all you need is a couple parts and you can tear it down and rebuild yourself. You need parts which either which most vendors won't sell to you directly. Or you need to buy grey-market versions.
And all of this adds up to LOTS AND LOTS of additional cash outlay for a piece of equipment whose payments are a MAJOR chunk of said farmer's monetary outlay every year.
8400R Wheeled (Tracked option available too) Row-Crop tractor. Base Price: $424,055. And you can slap in upwards of $125,000 in additional equipment (not options). You can tweak options up to about $80,000 Hell, their longest warranty is 5 years and costs an extra $17,000! Yes, that's right. A warranty for one of these things is OPTIONAL!
I truly think that, while manufacturers have made lots of great advances that make a farmer's life easier, that they're too far into lock-in mentality to view this equitably.
And "Just go out and buy a different vehicle!" doesn't work because ALL OF THE VENDORS DO THIS.
In a legal system with clearly defined precepts of "Assumption of Innocence"
An inability to prove the commission of a crime *IS* an exoneration.
PERIOD!
Not that it matters.
So many have falllen to the indoctrination of The Church Of Russiagate". Shit that makes InfoWars stuff look like "The sun came up this morning!" And we all know that if reality differs with their dogma of "Orange Man Bad. Orange Man MUST Be Guilty!", then reality is "microaggressing" against their religion.
And any such microaggression is further proof that there's a conspiracy by "The Far Right Nazis" to "Hide The Truth".
Meanwhile, all the sane people in the country are wilting from Political Bullshit Fatigue.
Slashdot Mirror
Where you have the privileged "party members".
Then the rest of the poor schlubs are "The Proletariat".
They all think they're going to become (and remain) party members.
Apparently these people have their noses so far up their own backsides that they don't think "Deterrence" is a goal in and of itself.
They apparently think that guns/nukes are little Evil generators that are responsible for Everything Bad in human history. And if they'd never existed, the world would be this felicitous land of fairies and unicorns.
NEWSFLASH!
PEOPLE ARE ASSHOLES!
This means that they're only as good as they NEED to be to keep the world from killing them outright.
Could we be as effective in stopping antagonistic regimes from nuking anyone standing in their way if they didn't KNOW FOR A FACT that we possess the power to glass their little shithole countries multiple times over?
In short, NO.
So, while NOBODY like the fact that the world has this much concentrated megadeath just lying around, looking for an excuse.
The fact that it exists serves as a warning to any tin pot dictator with delusions of grandeur.
A very "Rock n' Roll" ending.
And I repeat...
Duuuuuuuuuupe!!!
Formulating an activist ruling based on something they have exactly ZERO grasp of.
As was pointed out to you before I replied:
You're not going to be robbing too many people if you're a lazy layabout who has trouble getting out of bed or off the couch.
Self-supporting criminal activity is as much a job as anything.
You're trying to stretch my finite argument into something else completely.
If you are unemployed through no fault of your own, you deserve some form of social safety net. BUT NOT FOREVER.
If you are unemployed because you're simply too lazy to go out and find a job. STARVE.
So no. Your attributed motive is incorrect. Thus, so is your declaration of the invalidation of my argument.
What I'm saying is that there are a group of people that, if you give them the option to not go to work, WILL NOT GO TO WORK.
And the rest of the labor force SHOULD NOT be forced to support these people.
And yes, I left the "turn to crime" option out.
The problem with that is, you run the risk of trying to rob the wrong person and you wind up a lifeless lump of meat.
Granted, some people ARE lazy enough that they'd prefer death to actual labor...But hey, that's their choice.
Sorry, but the US is nowhere NEAR full employment.
So you're essentially trying to discuss a fantasy situation.
Like "What if the world ran on unicorn jism and troll farts."
No. Like a child, you're assuming there was only ever one complaint.
Nice try though!
Yes. And that sort of dolist mentality tends to grow over time.
This year. $X is enough.
Next year, that's not enough! We need more!
The year after, that's not enough! We need more!
Let's just cut this off at the pass.
In America, you are free.
If you're a lazy fuck, you are free to STARVE.
And if you're unwilling to work, the only way you survive is on the charity of others.
The way Marx himself LIVED HIS ENTIRE LIFE!
there simply won't be possibility for that many people to be productive
Bullshit.
Right but if you read the whole paper, it didn't make the people getting it more likely to get a job.
It's still wealth redistribution at the bottom.
As such, there's no real incentive to achieve.
Lefty-speak for "Is discriminatory".
People have been proclaiming the desktop "dead" for a couple decades now.
It hasn't happened.
Certain niches that were originally filled by desktop PCs have adjusted for things like laptops, tablets, phones, etc.
Additionally you saw the rise of web-based services where you didn't NEED to keep everything on a hefty central machine.
So you saw market correction.
That's all we're seeing here.
The desktop PC is going nowhere.
The install base may continue to shrink as more targeted solutions claim niches. But desktops are not going to die.
Primarily because there ARE so many tools for modern conferencing.
And I work with a myriad of clients. All with their own favorites.
If I'm working on Windows, I'm NOT junking up my primary-use OS with all that crap.
If I'm working under Linux, much of it won't install. And my issues with junking a primary-use OS.
As such, I have a sacrificial VM for all that.
If it blows up on me I lose nothing.
I simply clone the clean base image and spin up again.
If I have to screen-share, I have a VM for that.
Exactly. You DON'T know. So you're inventing conspiracies.
My neighbor doesn't tell me what he's doing. So he MUST be turning the frogs gay for 5th dimensional alien takeover!
Right?
Yep. But you just rocket-jumped right over the line between inquisitiveness and flat-out conspiracy theory. You're now so far over you can't even SEE the line where you're at.
His COMPANIES destroyed e-mail. BUSINESS E-MAIL.
Clinton destroyed GOVERNMENT e-amils. There's a MASSIVE legal difference. AND YOU KNOW IT!
As for the Fox News article. Yes. We'll just trust the word of Swalwell, who is only one of his political opponents. Completely without any sort of corroboration whatsoever.
Hahahahaha!
Oh. You're SERIOUS?
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
And Omarosa "Look At Me!" who has a history of blowing bullshit about Trump to keep herself in the limelight.
I refer you back to "BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!"
Again, you're asking him to prove something you've imagined didn't happen.
That's called "proving a negative".
YOU! Prove to ME, that you aren't making plans to rule the universe!
GO!
Try harder...
As much as I dislike the woman, her Pocohontas bullshit and most of her policy stances.
As much as I wish the market would fix itself on this. It ain't gonna happen.
As such, I'm all for a right-to-repair. I mean, we're not talking about a cheap.
We;re not talking about a $300 lawmower here.
We're talking about actual farm equipment. Where each individual vehicle is worth HUNDREDS of thosuands of dollars.
And they've been engineered in such a way that if something small breaks, the entire damn vehicle is USELESS.
And the only to fix some of these things is to pay a vendor certified mechanic and WAIT for him to come out. Or try to ship the thing to him and hope it comes back in a timely manner!
And it's not like an 80 year old tractor. Where all you need is a couple parts and you can tear it down and rebuild yourself.
You need parts which either which most vendors won't sell to you directly.
Or you need to buy grey-market versions.
And all of this adds up to LOTS AND LOTS of additional cash outlay for a piece of equipment whose payments are a MAJOR chunk of said farmer's monetary outlay every year.
Here's a little something-something off the John Deere Site.
https://configure.deere.com/cb...
8400R Wheeled (Tracked option available too) Row-Crop tractor.
Base Price: $424,055.
And you can slap in upwards of $125,000 in additional equipment (not options).
You can tweak options up to about $80,000
Hell, their longest warranty is 5 years and costs an extra $17,000!
Yes, that's right. A warranty for one of these things is OPTIONAL!
I truly think that, while manufacturers have made lots of great advances that make a farmer's life easier, that they're too far into lock-in mentality to view this equitably.
And "Just go out and buy a different vehicle!" doesn't work because ALL OF THE VENDORS DO THIS.
YEAH!
And it's not from the coal we're burning in the US! Even with the coal we burn, we're DOWN, year over year.
Look at China and India though.
This is where the global rise is coming from.
"He keeps meeting with Putin."
You mean "doing his job by maintaining diplomatic ties with another nation's leader?"
"Not letting us know what was said."
You've been told everything you have the security clearance to know.
"Destroys evidence regularly"
Sorry? I think you mean Hillary Clinton. She's not the president, much as you might like.
Translation: CITATION REQUIRED.
"If he's so innocent, why is he so against there being any evidence to back up his good intentions."
You DO realize you just asked the man to prove a negative right?
This is the kind of blind, willful partisan religious impetus that's at the base of the problem.
It's not the high speeds.
It's the business model of the music industry...
Something that seems to prove their theory?
DEFINITIVELY AGW!
But, something like a growing glacier? Which contradicts it?
"A natural cycle."
It's a fucking religion at this point.
Just like being anti-Trump.
Most people don't dispute that climate is changing.
The problem is, the models for this shit are so shoddy and inflexible.
So when people point out the problems in the models, they get labeled a "climate denier".
In a legal system with clearly defined precepts of "Assumption of Innocence"
An inability to prove the commission of a crime *IS* an exoneration.
PERIOD!
Not that it matters.
So many have falllen to the indoctrination of The Church Of Russiagate". Shit that makes InfoWars stuff look like "The sun came up this morning!"
And we all know that if reality differs with their dogma of "Orange Man Bad. Orange Man MUST Be Guilty!", then reality is "microaggressing" against their religion.
And any such microaggression is further proof that there's a conspiracy by "The Far Right Nazis" to "Hide The Truth".
Meanwhile, all the sane people in the country are wilting from Political Bullshit Fatigue.
Yay.
So we can look forward to even MORE broken, badly researched, pointless garbage being published as academically or scientifically relevant.
Look at the finances of any journal pushing this crap. They're probably on borrowed time, in the financial sense.