Ever consider if those bad people can sometimes be us? I have a fairy-tale, one where the world's most powerful nation still acts as if it's existence is jeopardized by even the smallest nation (i.e. North Korea) that can barely feed it's population.
You mention China as a major threat but it is only now reaching a technical level we reached in the 1950s. Who exactly is the big threat to the US? Mexico? Canada? The last time the US borders were threatened was during the War of 1812. All of our engagements have been over exerting our power overseas. If China rattles a saber remember we are the ones with military units posed near them, not the other way around. We would never stand for a foreign nation to treat us the way we treat other nations such as Cuba (Guatanamo) or Japan (Okinawa).
We have long ago left the point of self-defense and have wandered into the realm of domination. Our goal isn't to protect ourselves anymore but to mold the world to match our desires.
To say "It is only by military power that this world is as safe as it is now." is asinine, it is the existence of large militaries that justify their own existence, not unlike a bureaucracy that has ceased to serve it's original purpose and now exists just to exist. History is an endless series of nations who worshipped militarism (Nazis, Stalin, Great Britain, etc) and, surprise, ended up in countless wars. If you obsess over something you can control it will eventually come to pass. Our unrealistic obsession with war will drive us to it.
I agree, the Tom Clancy-esque worship of military technology seems to have steadily risen since the Reagan years. One never saw this during Vietnam or Korea. Seems that extended peacetime creates a fascination with all things military in a civilian population naive as to the realities of war. The DOD likes to keep it that way by limiting press access and only engaging in proxy wars or remote attacks (i.e. send in the B-52s and let the Northern Alliance do the dirty work).
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And diseases like the black death and cancer have spurred biomedical progress. I don't think that is justification for deadly illnesses though.
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Of course you leave out the little detail about how this technology supported an evil apartheid regime fighting ugly brush wars against it's neighbors. But hey, they were just doing their jobs, right!?
I'd love to only have to pay a $1-2 per channel and only get those channels I wanted. No more Home Shopping Network! No more Telemundo! It would cut my cable bill in half.
Lets see, 5 billion people and growing. Spending huge amounts of money on artificially generating people when it can be done easily already via sex and when we don't need a bigger population anyway. Really frigg'n brilliant. If this guy wants to make a name for himself he should work on generating a human being without blind selfishness.
Which is worse the a-hole who (ab)uses the system or the a-holes who set up a system so it can easily be abused ? Hint, politicians are usually lawyers and they write the laws and guess who profits from packed courthouses?
Yah right, you'd be the only neighbor with a big ass bass speaker, megawatt amp, and a signal generator. No one would suspect a thing!
Easier solution, find circuit breaker (not obvious but frequently insecure), trip switch, repeat as necessary. People will assume it is the idiot's overpowered stereo that keeps tripping the breaker.
Please make it legal for me to beat the life out of those a-holes who drive around with their bass cranked up to the point where you can hear it inside buildings. I don't care if they have arrested development issues or a desperate need for attention, I don't want to hear their crappy music. Hell, you can't even hear the music, just the same monotonous thudding (c)rap beat. These clowns must have no eardrums left.
A clear case of society getting shafted just a little bit more in the name of the all-mighty inDUHvidual. I'd be amazed if they actually started enforcing local sound laws (already on the books) against these jerks.
Bets are on for how long until someone wears a pair of sound blocking headphones while walking on railroad tracks, "Gee, the ground is vibrating but I don't hear a thing."
Now if we could just get rid of the a-holes who produce all the noise (i.e. souped up Harley riders, those damn backing-up beepers on trucks, etc).
If they went with this sceme somone could really have fun blowing up people's systems by setting the clock ahead on them. Voila`! No need to take down systems the old fashioned way, let them do it to themselves!
Isn't crashing a service on a system equivalent to what security is trying to prevent intruders from doing in the first place? It's like saying "I'll chop off my foot so I'll never have to risk losing it in an accident."
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So what was the point of the test ban? Save money? It seems the treaty had nothing to do with stepping back from weapons building.
Something stinks in Denmark.
Ever consider if those bad people can sometimes be us? I have a fairy-tale, one where the world's most powerful nation still acts as if it's existence is jeopardized by even the smallest nation (i.e. North Korea) that can barely feed it's population.
You mention China as a major threat but it is only now reaching a technical level we reached in the 1950s. Who exactly is the big threat to the US? Mexico? Canada? The last time the US borders were threatened was during the War of 1812. All of our engagements have been over exerting our power overseas. If China rattles a saber remember we are the ones with military units posed near them, not the other way around. We would never stand for a foreign nation to treat us the way we treat other nations such as Cuba (Guatanamo) or Japan (Okinawa).
We have long ago left the point of self-defense and have wandered into the realm of domination. Our goal isn't to protect ourselves anymore but to mold the world to match our desires.
To say "It is only by military power that this world is as safe as it is now." is asinine, it is the existence of large militaries that justify their own existence, not unlike a bureaucracy that has ceased to serve it's original purpose and now exists just to exist. History is an endless series of nations who worshipped militarism (Nazis, Stalin, Great Britain, etc) and, surprise, ended up in countless wars. If you obsess over something you can control it will eventually come to pass. Our unrealistic obsession with war will drive us to it.
I agree, the Tom Clancy-esque worship of military technology seems to have steadily risen since the Reagan years. One never saw this during Vietnam or Korea. Seems that extended peacetime creates a fascination with all things military in a civilian population naive as to the realities of war. The DOD likes to keep it that way by limiting press access and only engaging in proxy wars or remote attacks (i.e. send in the B-52s and let the Northern Alliance do the dirty work).
And diseases like the black death and cancer have spurred biomedical progress. I don't think that is justification for deadly illnesses though.
Of course you leave out the little detail about how this technology supported an evil apartheid regime fighting ugly brush wars against it's neighbors. But hey, they were just doing their jobs, right!?
Hey, I see a 747 on the horizon...oops!
What's in my pocket?
(Apologies to Bilbo Baggins)
I'd love to only have to pay a $1-2 per channel and only get those channels I wanted. No more Home Shopping Network! No more Telemundo! It would cut my cable bill in half.
I'd pay to see marketing & entertainment execs kill each other in gladitorial combat. Now THAT would be bread & circuses!
Another bitter high-school drop out sounds off against those damn inteelektuals.
I've talked to my neighbors. Believe me, I'm better off watching reruns of "Three's Company"
My ears are too crappy to hear the difference either.
"There! There! Did you hear that!? The bass was much warmer!....ahhh, ok, sure, whatever you say"
The evil scientist population is obviously the issue he is referring to.
Lets see, 5 billion people and growing. Spending huge amounts of money on artificially generating people when it can be done easily already via sex and when we don't need a bigger population anyway. Really frigg'n brilliant. If this guy wants to make a name for himself he should work on generating a human being without blind selfishness.
As he was going to the hospital you could hear this argument:
"Moops!"
"Moors you idiot!"
"Moops!"
"Its Moors!"
"Sorry, the card clearly says 'Moops'"
Which is worse the a-hole who (ab)uses the system or the a-holes who set up a system so it can easily be abused ? Hint, politicians are usually lawyers and they write the laws and guess who profits from packed courthouses?
Doesn't NY (or wherever Novak lives) have laws against filing frivilous lawsuits?
I just can't believe some of the defendents settled instead of countersuing. It is time for "loser pays" laws in this country.
Could you hear the people asking you to turn your headphones down?
Try, this...
Stick your fingers in your ears while chanting "I can't hear you!" or humming the national anthem.
"deny any knowledge when questioned."
Yah right, you'd be the only neighbor with a big ass bass speaker, megawatt amp, and a signal generator. No one would suspect a thing!
Easier solution, find circuit breaker (not obvious but frequently insecure), trip switch, repeat as necessary. People will assume it is the idiot's overpowered stereo that keeps tripping the breaker.
Please make it legal for me to beat the life out of those a-holes who drive around with their bass cranked up to the point where you can hear it inside buildings. I don't care if they have arrested development issues or a desperate need for attention, I don't want to hear their crappy music. Hell, you can't even hear the music, just the same monotonous thudding (c)rap beat. These clowns must have no eardrums left.
A clear case of society getting shafted just a little bit more in the name of the all-mighty inDUHvidual. I'd be amazed if they actually started enforcing local sound laws (already on the books) against these jerks.
Bets are on for how long until someone wears a pair of sound blocking headphones while walking on railroad tracks, "Gee, the ground is vibrating but I don't hear a thing."
Now if we could just get rid of the a-holes who produce all the noise (i.e. souped up Harley riders, those damn backing-up beepers on trucks, etc).
Naaah, you just keep the clock set to 1/1/2002 for the rest of your career. Problem solved!
If they went with this sceme somone could really have fun blowing up people's systems by setting the clock ahead on them. Voila`! No need to take down systems the old fashioned way, let them do it to themselves!
Isn't crashing a service on a system equivalent to what security is trying to prevent intruders from doing in the first place? It's like saying "I'll chop off my foot so I'll never have to risk losing it in an accident."