Period. It's a waste of time. Any government that tries to force standard of living reduction will be voted out of office. This is essentially what happened with Obama, and he tried to do it in a stealthy way. Imagine someone openly taking an axe to public prosperity in the interest of climate change? They'd shove knives up his ass like Quaddafi.
You have to create a totalitarian state with the full apparatus of secret police, surveillance, detention camps and summary executions to even start to go there, and the focus on climate change would impair your ability to maintain that social control. Beside which, the inherent corruption in such a state would ultimately subvert your efforts to reduce your carbon footprint.
Also, i'd rather have the climate change than the secret police, thanks.
The climate change police are getting more and more shrill over time. This decreases rather than increases their power to convince. But it was all futile anyway because you are asking people to reduce their standard of living by choice to accomplish a community goal. Even people who see the danger are loath to do that...thinking Al Gore and his planes and houses. It's the Whole Earth Catalog thing all over. "living guilt-free with our appropriate technology like Indians in the woods...free at last!". Only a tiny percentage of people will ever share in that goal meaningfully.
Nothing is going to change politically even when the oceans start encroaching cities, because the argument then will be that it is too late to fix the problem at that point. So, why bother with the stupid political activity, when we all know it's a nonstarter? Aren't there more constructive uses for their time? Instead of futile political activity, how about carbon sequestration-related work? Fund startups to do that... Plant trees. Do *something* to combat the problem you see rather than all of this wasted political activity...dare I say hot air? Solve the problem and stop trying to force others to change to 'solve' it.
But they won't, because it's not really about climate change. It's about social control and mandating lifestyles. People who apparently really don't like personal success very much because they choose goals that are unachievable.
It's a non-obvious fact. One would have to be steeped in German history to know it intrinsically. I'm not, but I have gotten the broad brush over the last few decades.
Homelessness is almost nonexistent because people with mental disorders generally aren't allowed to wander free in Korea. However, the living conditions in some areas are not up to First World snuff.
Also, the whole country smells like an open sewer and stale tobacco.
I think most people assume another Nazi-like state would be the Fourth Reich. I note the Weimar Republic wasn't the "Second Reich". The German Empire pre-1918 was. The First Reich was the Holy Roman Empire.
"Reich" doesn't mean Republic. Something more like "regime" or "empire".
That only works if you are willing to kill all of the pretenders in the next generation(s) and rape their women until you snuff out the memory. That is expressly not the case today. In regards another topic - It's one of the big reasons the Mideast is such a mess - no one ever wins a clear-cut victory anymore, obsessed with the short-term brutality of the steps required, but never thinking of the long term conflict thus sown.
Also, the remaining people who actually experienced Nazi Germany are very thin on the ground. When I was a kid, the retirement communities were literally filled with people with numbers tattooed on their arms. That is over, they are all dead. Give it another decade and you'll be hard pressed to find anyone who remembers directly.
They are - not facetiously, seriously - quaking in their boots.
My personal hope is that CDA section 230 is repealed. It is a distinct possibility. The follow-on effects will be delicious for actual freedom of expression. It'll also break all the social media giants. And good riddance to the whole bunch.
I'm quite aware of peering fees. Been doing this a long time. My issue is with incumbent last mile providers. The current system is regulatory capture defined. What Trump is doing will upset the apple cart. For better or worse, it offers an opportunity to fuck with the incumbents. Sure, in the short term, they can discriminate and extort fees. That extra cost will be about the only thing that will finally bring actual competition to last mile providers - albeit through a convoluted process.
The ban on Nazi symbology in Germany will cause the rise of a Fourth Reich almost surely. The memory just has to get a little further distant, and the right mix of economic distress and/or military threat, some demagogue will use its taboo status to his advantage. It's a natural reaction to an unnatural ban. Banning names and symbols doesn't make their impact or ideas go away - if anything it keeps them more in memory.
Net neutrality only made sense in a world where people actually believed in the old Internet dream of open networks and small providers doing their thing. In the hypercommercialized and segmented Internet of today, it was quaint. The dream is dead.
Facebook is for old people, Twitter for a certain segment of the left. Both groups will let it go with their cold, dead hands. The platforms could literally translate each of their posts into Urdu shit porn and they'd still keep logging in.
I honestly only had a Twitter account (aside from tweeting my shits for a time in 2009) for about 3 months this year watching Milo Yiannopoulos troll the shit out of people. After he got banned, there was no point in even going on that cesspool. But the stupid family still uses FB so...
Umm, do you think that Eric Schmidt and Zuckerberg were doing anything but lobbying Washington for the last 8 years? Please...getting those assholes out of Washington will definitely reduce the depth of the swamp.
Besides which, this will create jobs. The effect of this will be to create a huge incentive for content providers to finance infrastructure buildout and alternative network providers to assure their core business. About time they paid their own way instead of freeloading. They'll either have to pay fees or convince people to use another provider. The smart play would be to do both, perhaps as a joint venture on the infrastructure side.
If this ends up driving a stake through both Verizon and Comcast's hearts, all the better.
Leftist idiots are going to expand the Internet Archive. Yay!
They aren't going to accomplish what they think they are going to do. It would be pointless anyway, the whole premise is retarded. But that's okay. The Internet Archive is getting bigger!
Most rural places don't allow you to fire on the roads. So you choose an aiming point so that the fire is confined to your own property and away from the road. I'm also not interested in killing people, which a shot to a tire might possibly cause. A pilotless drone, on the other hand, flying over my property - different story.
I think you must live in the city, based on your comments about firearm discharge.
Humankind will be fighting wars until there is only one person left. It is a hard wired thing. Blaming it on a select group of psychopaths is inaccurate.
I did some time in Iraq with an EOD group. They made big booms. I work around controlled dets all day, even now. Big booms also, though not as big as the ones the EOD guys made in abandoned dwellings. Anyway, i'd rather have the det be 40 yards away than right near me, thanks. Also, a drone can't carry all that much metal aloft, so the shrapnel possibilities are low. More worried about shrapnel than the actual explosive.
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I think we all know the tent in the desert was just propaganda...
Period. It's a waste of time. Any government that tries to force standard of living reduction will be voted out of office. This is essentially what happened with Obama, and he tried to do it in a stealthy way. Imagine someone openly taking an axe to public prosperity in the interest of climate change? They'd shove knives up his ass like Quaddafi.
You have to create a totalitarian state with the full apparatus of secret police, surveillance, detention camps and summary executions to even start to go there, and the focus on climate change would impair your ability to maintain that social control. Beside which, the inherent corruption in such a state would ultimately subvert your efforts to reduce your carbon footprint.
Also, i'd rather have the climate change than the secret police, thanks.
The climate change police are getting more and more shrill over time. This decreases rather than increases their power to convince. But it was all futile anyway because you are asking people to reduce their standard of living by choice to accomplish a community goal. Even people who see the danger are loath to do that...thinking Al Gore and his planes and houses. It's the Whole Earth Catalog thing all over. "living guilt-free with our appropriate technology like Indians in the woods...free at last!". Only a tiny percentage of people will ever share in that goal meaningfully.
Nothing is going to change politically even when the oceans start encroaching cities, because the argument then will be that it is too late to fix the problem at that point. So, why bother with the stupid political activity, when we all know it's a nonstarter? Aren't there more constructive uses for their time? Instead of futile political activity, how about carbon sequestration-related work? Fund startups to do that... Plant trees. Do *something* to combat the problem you see rather than all of this wasted political activity...dare I say hot air? Solve the problem and stop trying to force others to change to 'solve' it.
But they won't, because it's not really about climate change. It's about social control and mandating lifestyles. People who apparently really don't like personal success very much because they choose goals that are unachievable.
It's a non-obvious fact. One would have to be steeped in German history to know it intrinsically. I'm not, but I have gotten the broad brush over the last few decades.
Chocolate has lots of fat in it. Not impacted.
Been around the homeless my whole life. The photogenic kind always have a disorder that causes them to stay on the street.
Homelessness is almost nonexistent because people with mental disorders generally aren't allowed to wander free in Korea. However, the living conditions in some areas are not up to First World snuff.
Also, the whole country smells like an open sewer and stale tobacco.
It is only those costs that will drive their demise. We need to let them kill themselves.
In other important news, I heard the local sewage plant is shutting down a valve for cleanup.
I think most people assume another Nazi-like state would be the Fourth Reich. I note the Weimar Republic wasn't the "Second Reich". The German Empire pre-1918 was. The First Reich was the Holy Roman Empire.
"Reich" doesn't mean Republic. Something more like "regime" or "empire".
That only works if you are willing to kill all of the pretenders in the next generation(s) and rape their women until you snuff out the memory. That is expressly not the case today. In regards another topic - It's one of the big reasons the Mideast is such a mess - no one ever wins a clear-cut victory anymore, obsessed with the short-term brutality of the steps required, but never thinking of the long term conflict thus sown.
Also, the remaining people who actually experienced Nazi Germany are very thin on the ground. When I was a kid, the retirement communities were literally filled with people with numbers tattooed on their arms. That is over, they are all dead. Give it another decade and you'll be hard pressed to find anyone who remembers directly.
They are - not facetiously, seriously - quaking in their boots.
My personal hope is that CDA section 230 is repealed. It is a distinct possibility. The follow-on effects will be delicious for actual freedom of expression. It'll also break all the social media giants. And good riddance to the whole bunch.
I'm quite aware of peering fees. Been doing this a long time. My issue is with incumbent last mile providers. The current system is regulatory capture defined. What Trump is doing will upset the apple cart. For better or worse, it offers an opportunity to fuck with the incumbents. Sure, in the short term, they can discriminate and extort fees. That extra cost will be about the only thing that will finally bring actual competition to last mile providers - albeit through a convoluted process.
The current state of affairs will leave the incumbents in place forever. Who was it that was stupid?
Trump is not. He grabs pussies.
More seriously, he has tools to deploy to make a company's life miserable.
The ban on Nazi symbology in Germany will cause the rise of a Fourth Reich almost surely. The memory just has to get a little further distant, and the right mix of economic distress and/or military threat, some demagogue will use its taboo status to his advantage. It's a natural reaction to an unnatural ban. Banning names and symbols doesn't make their impact or ideas go away - if anything it keeps them more in memory.
Net neutrality only made sense in a world where people actually believed in the old Internet dream of open networks and small providers doing their thing. In the hypercommercialized and segmented Internet of today, it was quaint. The dream is dead.
Facebook is for old people, Twitter for a certain segment of the left. Both groups will let it go with their cold, dead hands. The platforms could literally translate each of their posts into Urdu shit porn and they'd still keep logging in.
I honestly only had a Twitter account (aside from tweeting my shits for a time in 2009) for about 3 months this year watching Milo Yiannopoulos troll the shit out of people. After he got banned, there was no point in even going on that cesspool. But the stupid family still uses FB so...
Umm, do you think that Eric Schmidt and Zuckerberg were doing anything but lobbying Washington for the last 8 years? Please...getting those assholes out of Washington will definitely reduce the depth of the swamp.
Besides which, this will create jobs. The effect of this will be to create a huge incentive for content providers to finance infrastructure buildout and alternative network providers to assure their core business. About time they paid their own way instead of freeloading. They'll either have to pay fees or convince people to use another provider. The smart play would be to do both, perhaps as a joint venture on the infrastructure side.
If this ends up driving a stake through both Verizon and Comcast's hearts, all the better.
Can't say i'm unhappy about the upcoming shitcanning of Net Neutrality and the corrosive effect it will have on certain companies, however.
The pendulum is swinging hard...you might consider altering your stock portfolio in light of these facts.
Leftist idiots are going to expand the Internet Archive. Yay!
They aren't going to accomplish what they think they are going to do. It would be pointless anyway, the whole premise is retarded. But that's okay. The Internet Archive is getting bigger!
Most rural places don't allow you to fire on the roads. So you choose an aiming point so that the fire is confined to your own property and away from the road. I'm also not interested in killing people, which a shot to a tire might possibly cause. A pilotless drone, on the other hand, flying over my property - different story.
I think you must live in the city, based on your comments about firearm discharge.
The FAA is very thin on the ground in rural areas.
Humankind will be fighting wars until there is only one person left. It is a hard wired thing. Blaming it on a select group of psychopaths is inaccurate.
I did some time in Iraq with an EOD group. They made big booms. I work around controlled dets all day, even now. Big booms also, though not as big as the ones the EOD guys made in abandoned dwellings. Anyway, i'd rather have the det be 40 yards away than right near me, thanks. Also, a drone can't carry all that much metal aloft, so the shrapnel possibilities are low. More worried about shrapnel than the actual explosive.