Honest question, no rhetoric, I don't know the answer: why couldn't the US have spent 11% more effort and money and destroyed ALL the stockpiles? What is taking so long? Is the last 10% more difficult to deal with or something?
Actually, it's 600-700 billion this most recent fiscal year. Your facts are lacking.
So in other words, your guy has run a higher deficit in every single one of his five years than the last guy ran in any of his eight years. Yeah, that's real progress.
As you correctly say, facts. Just keepin' it real, sans the rose colored glasses.
THREE DOLLARS for a simple letter??? FORTY BUCKS for a small package? I get small packages from Hong Kong and China all the time for zero dollars.
These prices are profoundly sick. Just what is wrong with Australia (and a lot of other places) that it seems to cost a king's ransom to order from China, when it is literally free for the US?
But S/MIME suffers from the hopeless reliance on Certificate Authorities. The NSA preys on the Certificate Authorities and any pretense that your privacy exists is shattered.
I'd just feel a bit happier if the new effort was based somewhere other than the USA; somewhere a bit harder for the NSA to get its sticky paws into.
I know the feeling. But let's explore this just a bit. Do you have any siggestions? I'm serious.
If the place is too small, it is open to bullying, all the way up to invasion.
If the place is so powerful the US cannot bully them, do you have any confidence at all that this other place will not itself constitute a serious potential threat to liberty and anonymity?
I would be attracted to the idea of Switzerland, except I am afraid they are too vulnerable in the area of commercial relations. Look what happened to invulnerable numbered Swiss bank accounts.
the cost of computing came down to the point where it was cost-effective to calculate likely health outcomes on an individual basis
Duh. There is nothing to calculate. I can tell you the "health outcome" of every single individual inhabitant on the planet. HE WILL DIE. Period. No uncertainty whatever. The only variable is how long he will take to do it. Of course I realize what TFS really means is calculate the likely consumption of healthcare resources during the individual's remaining lifetime and how long the "productive" lifetime will be - i.e. the period the poor sucker can pay in to the scam, so the insurance company can maximize its profit individually.
It's really no different than how any capitalistic enterprise would ideally like to run. For every transaction, the corporation would like if possible to soak the hapless victim for as much as it possibly can and still make the sale. Auction everything. Food, clothing, computers, everything. Drive its profit as high as it possibly can. If it can auction 10 million cans of spam at a mean price of $5.00, that would be preferable to 20 million cans of spam at $2.49 - for the seller. For the poor schmucks trying to live their lives, not so good. In fact, the prospect of selling a single can of spam for $50,000,001 would give the corporation an orgasm. Think of the savings due to the lower cost of having to produce only a single can.
Just look at ebay. Every goddam thing auctioned there can be bought cheaper at Amazon, Newegg, Best Buy, or the like. The only way ebay is ever worth using is for oddball items you can't find anywhere else, and sometimes used items.
The ultimate logical end of capitalistic enterprise is one fabulously wealthy and obsessive hoarder left to buy everything, and everyone else starved to death. Is that better than the logical end of socialism? Not for all the dead people; that's for damn sure.
The real problem is that the court system up to and including the supreme court is part of the corruption. When a national government falls into deeply seated corruption, it very seldom gets fixed without a revolution.
Who's "they"? Everyone who ever will be a politician? All of the hundreds of congressmen, and the thousands more who will be congressmen? How about the tens of thousands who will try to be congressmen? And the hundreds of thousands who work for and support them?
Everyone who gets assimilated by the corrupt federal politics System. At the very least 95% of Congressmen. It is the cancerous blob that assimilates all life and turns it to its sinister purpose.
That's exactly the reason for the 17th. The Senate was not a malleable enough rubber stamp for tyranny. It was brilliant how the Senate damped the stupidity of the House until the 17th turned the Senate into a half-assed extension of the House.
The 16th, 17th, and 18th. Three shitty amendments that did devastating damage to the nation, passed in a span of six years. The exact same six year span which also saw the corrupt Federal Reserve come into existence.
Is there a difference between what you can illegally be compelled to do despite the illegality, because authorities have decided they don't effectively have any Constitutional limits to their power, and your duty?
Actually, that is more accurately framed: "Is there a difference between your rights and what you can legally be required to do despite the unconstitutionality and unjustness of the law?" Rights always trump law. For example, dominion over your own body. The entire structure of telling you what drug you may not put in your own mouth or inject in your own vein is plainly unjust.
I use the word "require" rather than "compel" advisedly. The Man has the power to require certain things of you. He does not have the power to compel you. Your actions are always your own. Yes, he can make your life a living hell, but no, he can't for example compel you to denounce or betray someone.
What our founding fathers would probably say is that if a law is unjust it should be amended or repealed. I doubt they would say that citizens get to pick and choose what laws they wish to obey...
FYI, the founders had experience with tyranny. Yes, the first recourse is to reform the tyranny, but when that fails, when the tyranny is pervasive, entrenched, and impervious to reform, it must be overthrowm. Does the following ring a bell with you?
... whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends [securing the rights of the people], it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.
It is each person's prerogative and duty to decide when the line is crossed, when the servant has become the master, and at what point the most solemn and saddest action needs to be undertaken. When enough people reach that stage, it is called a revolution. It is not necessarily violent - witness Gorbachev and the Supreme Soviet, in contrast to King George and his power structure.
If your job is to wear a badge or gun, you are nothing but a grunt. You have to follow orders - as the TSA people do.
Yeah, following orders.. jawohl mein herr. Sorry. The Lieutenant can order you to smash the baby's skull against the tree, but following orders is not a defense. The puppet masters whom you are right to hold at fault would be nowhere if there weren't people willing to take their orders and play their part in tyrranizing the people.
Can't find a single thing to argue about in your point that the dumb boobs who don't value liberty are both contemptible and at fault.
People who mindlessly go along with abusive authoritarianism are part of the problem. Maybe not the largest part, but they do hold some of the responsibility for the problem.
Damn right. I'll take it further though.
People who go along to get along in the face of tyranny just make me sad. People who think tyranny is just fine are another thing entirely. They make me violently ill. They are true scum.
Most definitely the resolution and involvement of the people is presently at an extremely low ebb. My judgement is that a reversal will most likely be a lengthy wait. But I could be wrong. Not many in 1985 foresaw that the USSR had only six years left.
Too late? I'm not buying into that cop out; that excuse for resignation.
The USSR had the #1 gulag system. The USSR and East Germany had the #1 and #2 secret police systems.
But it's not too late for them, because that got fixed. Anything can be fixed. Look, I know it's too late for me personally at my age to see this fixed, but it's never too late for the nation, no matter how deep the whole that has been dug for it.
The constitution is not something for the elite to warp beyond recognition to further their imperial design. Unlike the manure now being produced by congress, signed by the president, and elaborately shored up by nine cloistered, aloof old men, the constitution is written in plain language, to be understood by anyone of reasonable intelligence, and appreciated by anyone of reasonably advanced devotion to liberty.
If congress, the president, and the supreme court all agree that things which are clearly unconstitutional are just fine and cannot be contested by the people whom they serve, that says nothing whatsoever about the constitutionality of those things, and everything about the evil, tyranny, and brazen corruption of those particular mortals. Every one of them who is a party to continual and pervasive violation of the constitution is a traitor to the nation and should be dealt with decisively.
If one believes that the constitution is dated, there has from the beginning existed a method to deal with that. It is called amendment, and has been used over the years to rectify several shortcomings, accomplish several questionable changes, and put in place at least three detestable impositions (the 16th, 17th, and 18th amendments). But those drunk on power who are openly defying the constitution every day in our time disdain this mechanism, and instead simply proclaim that the emperor is not naked, but instead is wearing a new suit of clothes that common people cannot see.
The subject of this article is one small part of a vast conspiracy. A revolution of one sort or another may happen, but it will be based on the entire conspiracy, not merely the shutdown of a single VPN service merely for enabling privacy. In view of the stupidity of the bulk of the electorate, who are so easily manipulated and continue to elect the same old tyrants time after time, when polls demonstrate they detest the result - in view of this, I am not entirely sanguine. But on the other hand, and unlike some, I don't revel in giving up hope.
Sorry. Most ships in the water use mechanical power transmission. Electric power transmission has been around since at least the 1920s and is still a small fraction.
The power source for essentially all vessels is still either fossil fuel (huge majority) or nuclear. The electric drive is just a distinction of the power transmission. Direct drive, geared, or electric, it's just a detail of how the engines drive the propellers or water jets.
LynxOS is a proprietary Unix, compatible with Linux binaries. It does not contain the Linux kernel and is closed source.
And your point is? From TFA:
The design of the Zumwalt solves that problem by using off-the-shelf hardware—mostly IBM blade servers running Red Hat Linux—and putting it in a ruggedized server room.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux certainly IS open source.
The design of the Zumwalt solves that problem by using off-the-shelf hardware—mostly IBM blade servers running Red Hat Linux—and putting it in a ruggedized server room.
Both LynxOS and Red Hat Enterprise Linux are on board.
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Honest question, no rhetoric, I don't know the answer: why couldn't the US have spent 11% more effort and money and destroyed ALL the stockpiles? What is taking so long? Is the last 10% more difficult to deal with or something?
So in other words, your guy has run a higher deficit in every single one of his five years than the last guy ran in any of his eight years. Yeah, that's real progress.
As you correctly say, facts. Just keepin' it real, sans the rose colored glasses.
THREE DOLLARS for a simple letter??? FORTY BUCKS for a small package? I get small packages from Hong Kong and China all the time for zero dollars.
These prices are profoundly sick. Just what is wrong with Australia (and a lot of other places) that it seems to cost a king's ransom to order from China, when it is literally free for the US?
But S/MIME suffers from the hopeless reliance on Certificate Authorities. The NSA preys on the Certificate Authorities and any pretense that your privacy exists is shattered.
I know the feeling. But let's explore this just a bit. Do you have any siggestions? I'm serious.
If the place is too small, it is open to bullying, all the way up to invasion.
If the place is so powerful the US cannot bully them, do you have any confidence at all that this other place will not itself constitute a serious potential threat to liberty and anonymity?
I would be attracted to the idea of Switzerland, except I am afraid they are too vulnerable in the area of commercial relations. Look what happened to invulnerable numbered Swiss bank accounts.
Duh. There is nothing to calculate. I can tell you the "health outcome" of every single individual inhabitant on the planet. HE WILL DIE. Period. No uncertainty whatever. The only variable is how long he will take to do it. Of course I realize what TFS really means is calculate the likely consumption of healthcare resources during the individual's remaining lifetime and how long the "productive" lifetime will be - i.e. the period the poor sucker can pay in to the scam, so the insurance company can maximize its profit individually.
It's really no different than how any capitalistic enterprise would ideally like to run. For every transaction, the corporation would like if possible to soak the hapless victim for as much as it possibly can and still make the sale. Auction everything. Food, clothing, computers, everything. Drive its profit as high as it possibly can. If it can auction 10 million cans of spam at a mean price of $5.00, that would be preferable to 20 million cans of spam at $2.49 - for the seller. For the poor schmucks trying to live their lives, not so good. In fact, the prospect of selling a single can of spam for $50,000,001 would give the corporation an orgasm. Think of the savings due to the lower cost of having to produce only a single can.
Just look at ebay. Every goddam thing auctioned there can be bought cheaper at Amazon, Newegg, Best Buy, or the like. The only way ebay is ever worth using is for oddball items you can't find anywhere else, and sometimes used items.
The ultimate logical end of capitalistic enterprise is one fabulously wealthy and obsessive hoarder left to buy everything, and everyone else starved to death. Is that better than the logical end of socialism? Not for all the dead people; that's for damn sure.
The real problem is that the court system up to and including the supreme court is part of the corruption. When a national government falls into deeply seated corruption, it very seldom gets fixed without a revolution.
Everyone who gets assimilated by the corrupt federal politics System. At the very least 95% of Congressmen. It is the cancerous blob that assimilates all life and turns it to its sinister purpose.
That's exactly the reason for the 17th. The Senate was not a malleable enough rubber stamp for tyranny. It was brilliant how the Senate damped the stupidity of the House until the 17th turned the Senate into a half-assed extension of the House.
The 16th, 17th, and 18th. Three shitty amendments that did devastating damage to the nation, passed in a span of six years. The exact same six year span which also saw the corrupt Federal Reserve come into existence.
And we were doing so well with the first fifteen.
Requiring ANYONE to give up ANY of his rights for ANY reason (let's say short of being convicted of a felony) is outright tyranny.
I'm hoping you mean the evidence is presented to a jury of my peers, not some judge in a kangaroo court.
Actually, that is more accurately framed: "Is there a difference between your rights and what you can legally be required to do despite the unconstitutionality and unjustness of the law?" Rights always trump law. For example, dominion over your own body. The entire structure of telling you what drug you may not put in your own mouth or inject in your own vein is plainly unjust.
I use the word "require" rather than "compel" advisedly. The Man has the power to require certain things of you. He does not have the power to compel you. Your actions are always your own. Yes, he can make your life a living hell, but no, he can't for example compel you to denounce or betray someone.
FYI, the founders had experience with tyranny. Yes, the first recourse is to reform the tyranny, but when that fails, when the tyranny is pervasive, entrenched, and impervious to reform, it must be overthrowm. Does the following ring a bell with you?
It is each person's prerogative and duty to decide when the line is crossed, when the servant has become the master, and at what point the most solemn and saddest action needs to be undertaken. When enough people reach that stage, it is called a revolution. It is not necessarily violent - witness Gorbachev and the Supreme Soviet, in contrast to King George and his power structure.
Yeah, following orders .. jawohl mein herr. Sorry. The Lieutenant can order you to smash the baby's skull against the tree, but following orders is not a defense. The puppet masters whom you are right to hold at fault would be nowhere if there weren't people willing to take their orders and play their part in tyrranizing the people.
Can't find a single thing to argue about in your point that the dumb boobs who don't value liberty are both contemptible and at fault.
Damn right. I'll take it further though.
People who go along to get along in the face of tyranny just make me sad. People who think tyranny is just fine are another thing entirely. They make me violently ill. They are true scum.
Actually it was sophomoric. Doesn't take much for some people to get their yucks.
Most definitely the resolution and involvement of the people is presently at an extremely low ebb. My judgement is that a reversal will most likely be a lengthy wait. But I could be wrong. Not many in 1985 foresaw that the USSR had only six years left.
Too late? I'm not buying into that cop out; that excuse for resignation.
The USSR had the #1 gulag system. The USSR and East Germany had the #1 and #2 secret police systems.
But it's not too late for them, because that got fixed. Anything can be fixed. Look, I know it's too late for me personally at my age to see this fixed, but it's never too late for the nation, no matter how deep the whole that has been dug for it.
The constitution is not something for the elite to warp beyond recognition to further their imperial design. Unlike the manure now being produced by congress, signed by the president, and elaborately shored up by nine cloistered, aloof old men, the constitution is written in plain language, to be understood by anyone of reasonable intelligence, and appreciated by anyone of reasonably advanced devotion to liberty.
If congress, the president, and the supreme court all agree that things which are clearly unconstitutional are just fine and cannot be contested by the people whom they serve, that says nothing whatsoever about the constitutionality of those things, and everything about the evil, tyranny, and brazen corruption of those particular mortals. Every one of them who is a party to continual and pervasive violation of the constitution is a traitor to the nation and should be dealt with decisively.
If one believes that the constitution is dated, there has from the beginning existed a method to deal with that. It is called amendment, and has been used over the years to rectify several shortcomings, accomplish several questionable changes, and put in place at least three detestable impositions (the 16th, 17th, and 18th amendments). But those drunk on power who are openly defying the constitution every day in our time disdain this mechanism, and instead simply proclaim that the emperor is not naked, but instead is wearing a new suit of clothes that common people cannot see.
The subject of this article is one small part of a vast conspiracy. A revolution of one sort or another may happen, but it will be based on the entire conspiracy, not merely the shutdown of a single VPN service merely for enabling privacy. In view of the stupidity of the bulk of the electorate, who are so easily manipulated and continue to elect the same old tyrants time after time, when polls demonstrate they detest the result - in view of this, I am not entirely sanguine. But on the other hand, and unlike some, I don't revel in giving up hope.
You might want to get a clue before before making silly declarations. It takes about one minute on Wikipedia to settle the fact.
France: 4.7 million, 7.5%
USA: 2.6 million, 0.8%
[root@wang]# ethereal
bash: ethereal: command not found
Sorry. Most ships in the water use mechanical power transmission. Electric power transmission has been around since at least the 1920s and is still a small fraction.
The power source for essentially all vessels is still either fossil fuel (huge majority) or nuclear. The electric drive is just a distinction of the power transmission. Direct drive, geared, or electric, it's just a detail of how the engines drive the propellers or water jets.
And your point is? From TFA:
Red Hat Enterprise Linux certainly IS open source.
Bzzzzt. Fail. From TFA:
Both LynxOS and Red Hat Enterprise Linux are on board.
So what? Red Hat Enterprise Linux IS open source. They are both used.