Redundancy is everything in war. There are never enough tanks, guns or bullets......or nukes. Better to have too many than not enough. Imagine if you missed a couple of Russian towns. That would never do.
Good point even if a little snarky. Once people become frightened they start looking for a big stick. 20 megatons is a big stick. It's easy to be pacifist when you think you're safe. When you wake up to what a barbaric nest of savages the world is then it's not all that easy.
I think the idea is to make sure you have enough that even in the event you get surprised and the other guys get in a first strike you still have enough left to make 'em pay. I like the old quote, I think it was Churchill, that stated the second and third waves were there to make the rubble bounce.
Nuke 'em 'till they glow, then shoot 'em in the dark!
Truth. The nuclear subs are the true deterrent. Let us say you've nuked the US into oblivion. Ah, success! The Capitalist Empire is dead! Don't celebrate yet, you forgot something important. All those moving subs hiding in the ocean depths and under polar ice caps. It's payback time bitch! This might be a good time to read "On the beach" or you could just grab the movie torrent off pirate bay. I'd bet thepiratebay will survive even a thermonuclear war.
That was the prototype. Production cars had none of those problems. What "the man" did was get the SEC to pursue him with a pack of lies. Tucker was acquitted on every single charge without calling a single witness for the defense. He was acquitted based on the prosecution's testimony! One of the prosecution's witnesses stated that he was still driving one of the Tucker 48s and that it had over 30,000 miles on it and still handled smoothly at 90 miles per hour. The SEC charges were baseless and were brought simply to discredit Tucker and cause his company financial difficulty. Not the last time such tactics have been used to destroy competition. If you can't compete, litigate.
It's the New York Times, I find it hard to believe anyone thinks the article is accurate considering the source. The only thing in the Times worthwhile is the crossword puzzle.
The problem with illegal drugs is more the dosage than anything else. If you get a prescription for pain killers then you take them say one or two pills every 4 to 6 hours. When they are gone they are gone. This means that you take enough to help with the pain which is of course what they are for. If you buy them off the street then generally people take them as they want them. The only limit is how much money they have. More money, more drugs. Now they are damaging their bodies. Long term use results in a resistance to the drug, now you have to take more to get the same results. Eventually serious problems result and most likely, if there is no intervention death will come through overdose or damage to liver or other organs. Heroin users usually overdose and it's off to the ER, back to the street, ER again in a vicious cycle until eventually death occurs or maybe they kick the habit. I know people rant for legalization of drugs but I don't know that they really think about unlimited cheap drugs and the effects it will have on society. No, most people aren't going to become addicts, especially once the ones that do present glaringly obvious object lessons on what such behavior results in. Mostly though the problem will be the easy availability and lower price accelerating the process. I don't know, maybe it'll be better than the crazy war on drugs but the problems wont be minor.
So you think the high cost is the only problem? If it were cheap and legal that everything would be all nice and problem free? I lean toward Libertarian concepts but although I'd like to see the drug war end I know that all those junkies would be the taxpayers' responsibility. If legality included provisions to make sure that people who chose to ingest that stuff were on their own to deal with the repercussions I'd say fine. Never gonna happen though.
What facts are wrong? I don't disagree that most people will not poison themselves knowingly. The problem is that we do have to care for the people that do. They show up at emergency rooms and we take care of them. It's a simple fact.
I'm okay with that but it'd never fly in the Nanny State. You can't interfere with peoples' rights to bring children into the world that they are totally incapable of raising.
Drugs aren't legal because we have to take care of idiots after they fuck themselves and their lives and their children's lives up. If we could let people live with the consequences of their actions then I'd fully agree they should be legal. Eventually most of the real idiots would die but noooooooo! We have to care for them and make sure they get treatment and counseling. That's why they are illegal.
Yes. Most people don't even have a clue how the light in their room comes on when they flip the switch and could care less about electricity as long as when they flip the switch the light comes on. Almost no one knows anything about internal combustion that drives a car daily they just know that when you turn the key it should start. The how and why is beyond them. Computers are even more complex to these people and it's crazy to think they'll ever know or care how they work.
Bad management means that no matter how great your products might be you are still screwed. Commdore Business Machines made more money their last year in business than ever before but the massive hole the idiots running the place (Mehdi Ali and Irving Gould) had blown in the bottom of the boat meant they couldn't bail enough water to possibly stay afloat. It takes savvy businessmen as well as great engineering to make a profitable company.
Actually they need to cut the dead weight at the top more than anything. I still remember the jackass exec that mouthed off that anyone interested in rooting their phones should buy it from somebody else. I bought a Samsung and he can kiss my ass. That kind of attitude is why I'm glad they are suffering. Too bad about the worker bees but when you've got that kind of management it's bound to happen.
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Only one? I've got one trained on each house in my neighborhood. I don't trust any of them.
Population problem solved. Too bad about all the animals.
We figure their nukes will work about as good as all the other cheap shit they make.
Redundancy is everything in war. There are never enough tanks, guns or bullets......or nukes. Better to have too many than not enough. Imagine if you missed a couple of Russian towns. That would never do.
Good point even if a little snarky. Once people become frightened they start looking for a big stick. 20 megatons is a big stick. It's easy to be pacifist when you think you're safe. When you wake up to what a barbaric nest of savages the world is then it's not all that easy.
I think the idea is to make sure you have enough that even in the event you get surprised and the other guys get in a first strike you still have enough left to make 'em pay. I like the old quote, I think it was Churchill, that stated the second and third waves were there to make the rubble bounce.
Nuke 'em 'till they glow, then shoot 'em in the dark!
Truth. The nuclear subs are the true deterrent. Let us say you've nuked the US into oblivion. Ah, success! The Capitalist Empire is dead! Don't celebrate yet, you forgot something important. All those moving subs hiding in the ocean depths and under polar ice caps. It's payback time bitch! This might be a good time to read "On the beach" or you could just grab the movie torrent off pirate bay. I'd bet thepiratebay will survive even a thermonuclear war.
The sequel is even worse.
They still state no one died there. That's why the US government loves them. They make the lying SOB's in Washington look like honest people.
That was the prototype. Production cars had none of those problems. What "the man" did was get the SEC to pursue him with a pack of lies. Tucker was acquitted on every single charge without calling a single witness for the defense. He was acquitted based on the prosecution's testimony! One of the prosecution's witnesses stated that he was still driving one of the Tucker 48s and that it had over 30,000 miles on it and still handled smoothly at 90 miles per hour. The SEC charges were baseless and were brought simply to discredit Tucker and cause his company financial difficulty. Not the last time such tactics have been used to destroy competition. If you can't compete, litigate.
It's the New York Times, I find it hard to believe anyone thinks the article is accurate considering the source. The only thing in the Times worthwhile is the crossword puzzle.
He should look what the American Automakers did to Preston Tucker.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1948_Tucker_Sedan
If the Tiananmen Square massacre didn't bother them I don't think some toxic waste will concern them either.
The problem with illegal drugs is more the dosage than anything else. If you get a prescription for pain killers then you take them say one or two pills every 4 to 6 hours. When they are gone they are gone. This means that you take enough to help with the pain which is of course what they are for. If you buy them off the street then generally people take them as they want them. The only limit is how much money they have. More money, more drugs. Now they are damaging their bodies. Long term use results in a resistance to the drug, now you have to take more to get the same results. Eventually serious problems result and most likely, if there is no intervention death will come through overdose or damage to liver or other organs. Heroin users usually overdose and it's off to the ER, back to the street, ER again in a vicious cycle until eventually death occurs or maybe they kick the habit. I know people rant for legalization of drugs but I don't know that they really think about unlimited cheap drugs and the effects it will have on society. No, most people aren't going to become addicts, especially once the ones that do present glaringly obvious object lessons on what such behavior results in. Mostly though the problem will be the easy availability and lower price accelerating the process. I don't know, maybe it'll be better than the crazy war on drugs but the problems wont be minor.
So you think the high cost is the only problem? If it were cheap and legal that everything would be all nice and problem free? I lean toward Libertarian concepts but although I'd like to see the drug war end I know that all those junkies would be the taxpayers' responsibility. If legality included provisions to make sure that people who chose to ingest that stuff were on their own to deal with the repercussions I'd say fine. Never gonna happen though.
What facts are wrong? I don't disagree that most people will not poison themselves knowingly. The problem is that we do have to care for the people that do. They show up at emergency rooms and we take care of them. It's a simple fact.
I'm okay with that but it'd never fly in the Nanny State. You can't interfere with peoples' rights to bring children into the world that they are totally incapable of raising.
You could argue that. I don't know that you'd be right though I can see your point.
Good point. That's enough to kill off all cognitive functions. I guess the little head just had to take over.
Drugs aren't legal because we have to take care of idiots after they fuck themselves and their lives and their children's lives up. If we could let people live with the consequences of their actions then I'd fully agree they should be legal. Eventually most of the real idiots would die but noooooooo! We have to care for them and make sure they get treatment and counseling. That's why they are illegal.
Wisdom and knowledge are two separate things. Lots of really smart people do really stupid things.
Yes. Most people don't even have a clue how the light in their room comes on when they flip the switch and could care less about electricity as long as when they flip the switch the light comes on. Almost no one knows anything about internal combustion that drives a car daily they just know that when you turn the key it should start. The how and why is beyond them. Computers are even more complex to these people and it's crazy to think they'll ever know or care how they work.
Bad management means that no matter how great your products might be you are still screwed. Commdore Business Machines made more money their last year in business than ever before but the massive hole the idiots running the place (Mehdi Ali and Irving Gould) had blown in the bottom of the boat meant they couldn't bail enough water to possibly stay afloat. It takes savvy businessmen as well as great engineering to make a profitable company.
I think Google just wanted the patents so they couldn't be used against them and also to fend off attacks in the coming patent wars.
Actually they need to cut the dead weight at the top more than anything. I still remember the jackass exec that mouthed off that anyone interested in rooting their phones should buy it from somebody else. I bought a Samsung and he can kiss my ass. That kind of attitude is why I'm glad they are suffering. Too bad about the worker bees but when you've got that kind of management it's bound to happen.