My father was an engineer for Western Electric and I remember him telling me many years ago about a MIG pilot that defected with the plane. Our guys were surprised to find that the advanced fighter used tubes in it's avionics. It was determined that the Soviets couldn't put together a good enough clean room to produce chips.
All the comments here about how all Republican supporters are old, out of touch dumbasses are a little too smug.
1. Many, many eligible voters didn't vote at all. For anyone.
2. Romney still got only a few percentage points less than Obama in the popular vote.
3. Many, many voters are as dumb as mud no matter who they voted for.
3. Ron Paul would have had the enthusiastic support of many of the type of young tech savvy folks that Obama has working for him but the “real” Republicans, and Democrats for that matter, are terrified of him. The Republican power mongers are just that, more interested in power than their supposed ideology.
Asking a dope smoker if they're smarter, more creative, etc. for doing it is as dumb as asking a concussed person if they're OK. It's is known to be a bad idea. They've injured the organ that makes the diagnostic call.
>they could almost declare themselves functionally independant from Malaysia.
They are already independant politically.
Functionally independant? Malaysia is large, largly rural country just a bridge away and Indonesia is hardly farther. Closer than NYC to it's surrounding farmland. Is it really a problem for a large city to "import" food from nearby farmlands?
It's also one of the reasons I'm more "left" leaning politically - I want "society" (with other peoples money) to take care of the lesser fortunate people so I don't have to...
Direct connection is a BAD idea. How do you propose to do that? Anything that penetrates the skin, particularly with a direct cardiac connection is a huge infection vector. And yes, I used to work for a class III medical device manufacturer.
They *are* sane, reasonable human beings. Just evil. The two aren't mutually exclusive. They are parasites that have a willing, or at least passive, host.
Quite reasonable and rational from their point of view.
>>The problem is not the government. The fact that the government is becoming the family of last resort is just a symptom. The problem is we've got an economic elite that has decided to shit on the social contract, reflected mainly in a corporate ownership class who no longer feels any connection or responsibility to society, because their "global" status has unmoored them from any particular society. They are above all that now, having broken away from any community save the community of the elite. And the rest of society is just eating each other, young ones first.
That's right, if we just had more government to run our lives, the evil "corporations" couldn't do all the bad stuff.
The evil corporations, and I do believe there are evil corporations by the way, *get* to do evil stuff because of a totalitarian state, (or at least wanna be totalitarian state) that supports them.
See ObamaCare. It punishes those wascally insurance companies by making sure every American is forced to buy their products.
I pretty much agree with you on this in America specifically. Some people are going stay poor no matter what, but most people here can better themselves to some degree even if it's really hard. Any given person will be born with strengths and weaknesses that can make life damn hard or a lot easier.
As a wise man one said in the debate about fate vs free will "Fate is what you're born into, free will is what you do with the hand you're dealt."
Same damn thing as in the books. You only rent something, never "own" it. Kelo vs New Haven showed who owns your home. The county or city, not you. You only get to buy and sell the leases fairly freely, but you don't own your house. That's why you have to get permission from the actual owner to alter it. In most places in the U.S., you can't even replace your kitchen faucet without permission from the real owner. Nearly everyone in an urban area walking out of a Home Depot is, or soon will be, in violation of local laws and often don't even realize it.
That's really the historical American dream. Most people will only want to work somewhere where they get decent pay for decent work, but no real hope of wealth. It's the exceptional person that is willing not to just move up in a company over time, but to really make the effort to go for the gold.
I see this all the time in business, sports, entertainment, investing, etc. Most people are willing to work for a tangible reward, but only a few are really ready to risk everything for huge success.
I'm not talking about lottery ticket buyers here, but people willing to take calculated risks in a productive way knowing that they might fail and will pick up the pieces and try again if it fails. Probably the best world has a stable base of workers from which true entrepreneurs can launch.
I have a friend that's a food researcher at a large Midwestern university. He's not opposed to Roundup per se, but rather the *massive* use of it on vast areas of monoculture.
He says that this is guaranteed to produce Roundup impervious weeds. At some point these super weeds will need very toxic chemicals to kill. The real problem is that vast areas of monoculture are unsustainable.
Nature abhors a vacuum and will fill it up with what can tolerate the environment.
No conflict if you see God as first cause instead of a grumpy old magician in the sky. Something makes the bosons move between other particles or vibrate strings or whatever. Knowlege of God isn't limited to a Judeo/Christian/Muslim meme.
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What's that in Hobbs?
Perhaps a Welcome Wagon would make more sense, as in "Let's build some modern nuke plants".
Issa's basically wasting everyone's time for a "feel good" measure that's stupid on every single level.
Works for me! I'd offer the bastards triple pay if enough would stay home and quit screwing us even more.
My father was an engineer for Western Electric and I remember him telling me many years ago about a MIG pilot that defected with the plane. Our guys were surprised to find that the advanced fighter used tubes in it's avionics. It was determined that the Soviets couldn't put together a good enough clean room to produce chips.
1. Many, many eligible voters didn't vote at all. For anyone.
2. Romney still got only a few percentage points less than Obama in the popular vote.
3. Many, many voters are as dumb as mud no matter who they voted for.
3. Ron Paul would have had the enthusiastic support of many of the type of young tech savvy folks that Obama has working for him but the “real” Republicans, and Democrats for that matter, are terrified of him. The Republican power mongers are just that, more interested in power than their supposed ideology.
Asking a dope smoker if they're smarter, more creative, etc. for doing it is as dumb as asking a concussed person if they're OK. It's is known to be a bad idea. They've injured the organ that makes the diagnostic call.
They are already independant politically.
Functionally independant? Malaysia is large, largly rural country just a bridge away and Indonesia is hardly farther. Closer than NYC to it's surrounding farmland. Is it really a problem for a large city to "import" food from nearby farmlands?
It's also one of the reasons I'm more "left" leaning politically - I want "society" (with other peoples money) to take care of the lesser fortunate people so I don't have to...
Now it says what you actually mean.
Direct connection is a BAD idea. How do you propose to do that? Anything that penetrates the skin, particularly with a direct cardiac connection is a huge infection vector. And yes, I used to work for a class III medical device manufacturer.
Quite reasonable and rational from their point of view.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_Will_Come_Soft_Rains_(short_story)
That's right, if we just had more government to run our lives, the evil "corporations" couldn't do all the bad stuff.
The evil corporations, and I do believe there are evil corporations by the way, *get* to do evil stuff because of a totalitarian state, (or at least wanna be totalitarian state) that supports them.
See ObamaCare. It punishes those wascally insurance companies by making sure every American is forced to buy their products.
As a wise man one said in the debate about fate vs free will "Fate is what you're born into, free will is what you do with the hand you're dealt."
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Same damn thing as in the books. You only rent something, never "own" it. Kelo vs New Haven showed who owns your home. The county or city, not you. You only get to buy and sell the leases fairly freely, but you don't own your house. That's why you have to get permission from the actual owner to alter it. In most places in the U.S., you can't even replace your kitchen faucet without permission from the real owner. Nearly everyone in an urban area walking out of a Home Depot is, or soon will be, in violation of local laws and often don't even realize it.
Isn't that the dream of the Obamas of the world, people paying more and more taxes?
I see this all the time in business, sports, entertainment, investing, etc. Most people are willing to work for a tangible reward, but only a few are really ready to risk everything for huge success.
I'm not talking about lottery ticket buyers here, but people willing to take calculated risks in a productive way knowing that they might fail and will pick up the pieces and try again if it fails. Probably the best world has a stable base of workers from which true entrepreneurs can launch.
You're all over thinking this. A good deer rifle will be more than good enough. Hi powered and accurate. Vastly cheaper than the drones.
Jesus, what kind of crap do you usually eat??
Not less vulnerable, just less experienced.
He says that this is guaranteed to produce Roundup impervious weeds. At some point these super weeds will need very toxic chemicals to kill. The real problem is that vast areas of monoculture are unsustainable.
Nature abhors a vacuum and will fill it up with what can tolerate the environment.
I thought that was what American public schools were for...
I'll donate to his ticket fund.
I lost 40 lbs in about a year by reducing starchy carb calories and increasing fat calories and so have a bunch of my friends. It works.
No conflict if you see God as first cause instead of a grumpy old magician in the sky. Something makes the bosons move between other particles or vibrate strings or whatever. Knowlege of God isn't limited to a Judeo/Christian/Muslim meme.