he'd appoint the same kind of viscous, vindictive, psychopathic cronies
I can see where we might be concerned by vindictive or psychopathic cronies, but I can't see much need to be concerned about cronies with a thick, sticky consistency between solid and liquid...
Or did you mean viscious? Yeah, that much be it....
The only rational thing to do is to reduce the size of these states to the point where they don't pose such risks.
Then we could have hundreds of little wars, like we had in the Middle Ages and Wars of Religion - think of the fun if Vermont and New Hampshire went to war, while California was busy conquering Oregon, And New York trying to annex Jersey.
Extend that all over the world, and we could have great fun adding to the history books...
Well, Japan *does* still manufacture stuff, unlike the U.S. Maybe forcing people to buy locally isn't an unwanted outcome.
Senator Smoot? Representative Hawley? Is that you?
It would be nice if someone learned a lesson from the last time countries started trying to protect local industries from competition, but the evidence is that they haven't....
So they started atheist crusades? They sent out inquisitors specifically to root out non-atheists?
Sounds like the French Revolution...
That aside, it must be remembered that the Spanish Inquisition (there were other Inquisitions, but the Spanish one was the most notorious) wasn't about religion so much as filling the Spanish treasury with the gold confiscated from "secret Jews" and "secret Muslims". Religion was just an excuse - if they hadn't had that one, they'd have used another, because a government that really needs gold will find someone to take it from...
This is exactly like Enders Game. If you dissociate yourself from the consequences of reality, and think things are just a game, or exercise without consequences, that you want to do the best at, you will achieve the same goals faster and better with less losses than if you are empathising about the consequences from a the affected individuals perspective.
My experience with wargamers is that they consider their "troops" to be completely expendable, which is at odds with this notion....
ou have a perpetual stream of newcomers coming into congress who haven't a clue what is going on but who are determined to "fix things".
You really need to look into the re-election rate of incumbents.
Yes, there is a trickle of new-comers... but the bulk of them remain unchanged year-to-year.
You should have included the whole sentence you quoted, rather than just the part that reversed the meaning.
Here's the original sentence:
I think that's backwards: with term limits, you have a perpetual stream of newcomers coming into congress who haven't a clue what is going on but who are determined to "fix things".
Do note the "with term limits" clause. It's important.
people naturally look to the next thing up the chain which actually could be enforced if it weren't for a certain amendment.
If you don't like the Second Amendment, why don't you, instead of trying to pretend it doesn't really mean anything, try to get it amended out of existance.
There IS a procedure in the Constitution for doing that, you know. Look it up, then follow it.
Assuming, of course, that your fellow citizens agree with you, it should be a piece of cake.
Absent intervention by government, economic activity will trend toward the minimum possible price for any economic activity.
Note that a local monopoly is "intervention by government". As is a corporation (which is licensed by the government, and given special legal privileges by government).
Might want to read the Heller decision before you say anything else stupid.
Note that by your definition, the First Amendment could be restricted to newspapers manually typeset with hand-powered presses, and what someone could say with his own voice, unassisted by any electrical/electronic amplification (to include TV, the internet, loudspeakers, etc.)
Your state militia has everything it needs in order to overthrow an oppressive government.
I do realize most National Guard units are the last units to be upgraded to the latest and greatest hardware
The National Guard is NOT the militia. Read the Militia Act sometime. *I* am a member of the militia, as are you, assuming you are a male citizen.
Properly speaking, the women should be part of the militia too, but oddly, the feminists have never insisted that that particular right/obligation isn't discriminatory....
Overthrowing an oppressive government (what the second amendment is about) requires modern military hardware. In this age, that means tanks, RPGs and military aircraft. When the Supreme Court rules that private ownership of these must be allowed then I will believe that it is handling the Second Amendment "correctly".
Umm, no.
The "militia", if you'd ever bothered to read the Miltia Act is a source of light infantry. And light infantry weapons should be allowed. And they mostly are - yeah, fully automatic weapons are next to impossible to get, but the semiauto only versions of the M16/M4 are to be had just by laying down the cash in most parts of the country.
We require some demonstration of competence to let people drive, I don't see any reason a similar demonstration of competence to own a gun is unreasonable.
Probably that pesky Second Amendment again.
Doesn't seem to be a counterpart for driving, so we can license and restrict drivers all we want.
You aren't reading what the court says. They very clearly prefer for society to make a determination on the issue rather than legislate it one way or the other. They won't be making a definitive ruling on the subject of gay marriage anytime soon.
They'll let the States deal with it because it's not Federal business. Marriage has ALWAYS been a State matter in the USA - remember when people went to Nevada to get divorced, because their State didn't allow that, but Nevada did?
Anytime a company chooses to do something and passes it off to consumers as a mega corp will foot the bill, we usually end up paying in the end anyway.
Hint: you ALWAYS pay for everything you use in the end. Whether it's a fee charged up front, or a hidden cost, you're paying for it. Raise taxes on corporations, you pay for it. Raise fees, you pay for it.
Only question is how you pay for it - fees, taxes, whatever works....
, "Brutal conditions are expected in Detroit, which has had only five days in living memory when temperatures stayed below freezing all day." I find that hard to believe.
Large cities have heat traps over them - they tend to stay rather warmer than the surrounding countryside.
And, no, we don't need to know the precise mass of Earth for satellites to work. Admittedly, we'd need to be pretty damn close for things to actually be in their design orbits.
However, this guy is making noise because he's seeing long-term effects on his satellites that he (supposedly) can't account for by more conventional means. Personally, I think it would have been noticed before now, if such effects exist, but you never can tell. And a belt of Dark Matter is certainly possible, though extremely unlikely.
According to General Millsâ(TM) vice president of global communications, this is just a marketing stunt - Cheerios are made from oats, and there is no GMO oats.
All they're doing is changing the source of sugar that they use in making cheerios to non-GMO. Which means the sucrose, glucose, and fructose (which are specific chemicals) will come from non-GMO sources, even though the sucrose, glucose and fructose will be exactly the same as they've always been,
As he says, they're doing it because: âoeItâ(TM)s simple. We did it because we think consumers may embrace it.â
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I can see where we might be concerned by vindictive or psychopathic cronies, but I can't see much need to be concerned about cronies with a thick, sticky consistency between solid and liquid...
Or did you mean viscious? Yeah, that much be it....
Then we could have hundreds of little wars, like we had in the Middle Ages and Wars of Religion - think of the fun if Vermont and New Hampshire went to war, while California was busy conquering Oregon, And New York trying to annex Jersey.
Extend that all over the world, and we could have great fun adding to the history books...
Senator Smoot? Representative Hawley? Is that you?
It would be nice if someone learned a lesson from the last time countries started trying to protect local industries from competition, but the evidence is that they haven't....
Sounds like the French Revolution...
That aside, it must be remembered that the Spanish Inquisition (there were other Inquisitions, but the Spanish one was the most notorious) wasn't about religion so much as filling the Spanish treasury with the gold confiscated from "secret Jews" and "secret Muslims". Religion was just an excuse - if they hadn't had that one, they'd have used another, because a government that really needs gold will find someone to take it from...
My experience with wargamers is that they consider their "troops" to be completely expendable, which is at odds with this notion....
Many are.
And others can't tell the difference between "lose" and "loose", or "they're" and "their" and "there", or "where" and "wear", or "your" and "you're".
Those aren't exactly uncommon mistakes on /.
Note the big ball of light in the sky.
It develops about 1.3 KW/m^2 above the atmosphere. So a parabolic mirror 2km across should give you ~4 GW at the focus.
If you can't melt an asteroid with that much heat available, you've got no business going into space.
You should have included the whole sentence you quoted, rather than just the part that reversed the meaning.
Here's the original sentence:
Do note the "with term limits" clause. It's important.
If you don't like the Second Amendment, why don't you, instead of trying to pretend it doesn't really mean anything, try to get it amended out of existance.
There IS a procedure in the Constitution for doing that, you know. Look it up, then follow it.
Assuming, of course, that your fellow citizens agree with you, it should be a piece of cake.
Absent intervention by government, economic activity will trend toward the minimum possible price for any economic activity.
Note that a local monopoly is "intervention by government". As is a corporation (which is licensed by the government, and given special legal privileges by government).
Might want to read the Heller decision before you say anything else stupid.
Note that by your definition, the First Amendment could be restricted to newspapers manually typeset with hand-powered presses, and what someone could say with his own voice, unassisted by any electrical/electronic amplification (to include TV, the internet, loudspeakers, etc.)
The National Guard is NOT the militia. Read the Militia Act sometime. *I* am a member of the militia, as are you, assuming you are a male citizen.
Properly speaking, the women should be part of the militia too, but oddly, the feminists have never insisted that that particular right/obligation isn't discriminatory....
Umm, no.
The "militia", if you'd ever bothered to read the Miltia Act is a source of light infantry. And light infantry weapons should be allowed. And they mostly are - yeah, fully automatic weapons are next to impossible to get, but the semiauto only versions of the M16/M4 are to be had just by laying down the cash in most parts of the country.
Probably that pesky Second Amendment again.
Doesn't seem to be a counterpart for driving, so we can license and restrict drivers all we want.
They'll let the States deal with it because it's not Federal business. Marriage has ALWAYS been a State matter in the USA - remember when people went to Nevada to get divorced, because their State didn't allow that, but Nevada did?
Hint: you ALWAYS pay for everything you use in the end. Whether it's a fee charged up front, or a hidden cost, you're paying for it. Raise taxes on corporations, you pay for it. Raise fees, you pay for it.
Only question is how you pay for it - fees, taxes, whatever works....
The US Civil War?
World War II?
Two of the most obvious examples of a justifiable war. There are others.
The real sequel to "Sharknado" seems to be "Shark Avalanche"....
Large cities have heat traps over them - they tend to stay rather warmer than the surrounding countryside.
Does whoever wrote this think that a decade is 20 years? Or am I slow this AM?
Would've. It's a contraction of "would have".
And, no, we don't need to know the precise mass of Earth for satellites to work. Admittedly, we'd need to be pretty damn close for things to actually be in their design orbits.
However, this guy is making noise because he's seeing long-term effects on his satellites that he (supposedly) can't account for by more conventional means. Personally, I think it would have been noticed before now, if such effects exist, but you never can tell. And a belt of Dark Matter is certainly possible, though extremely unlikely.
Haven't been to Honolulu or Hilo, I gather?
Much less the Pearl Harbor Naval Base, Schofield Barracks, Wheeler Army Air Base, and the other cities and military installations....
False. H2/O2 engines on an ICBM make the ICBM useless for defensive purposes (you can't do a quick launch in response to an attack).
They CAN be used for a first strike just fine - not like you're on a timetable when YOU are the one initiating the action.
Hmm, by my quick count, we have 56 our of 157 of those fabs.
So, more than 1/3 of the world's fabs, and 1/20 of the world's people.
I fail to see the relevance of us not having "the majority" of fabs....
According to General Millsâ(TM) vice president of global communications, this is just a marketing stunt - Cheerios are made from oats, and there is no GMO oats.
All they're doing is changing the source of sugar that they use in making cheerios to non-GMO. Which means the sucrose, glucose, and fructose (which are specific chemicals) will come from non-GMO sources, even though the sucrose, glucose and fructose will be exactly the same as they've always been, As he says, they're doing it because: âoeItâ(TM)s simple. We did it because we think consumers may embrace it.â