On either side. I know plenty of old vets who thouht it was bullshit that most of their buddies are screwed from that war, but that they had to call in every shot they took. snipers, grunts, etc. Then they get called home after "wiping out the majority of the bastards" during the mighty "Tet Offensive" (which, by the way, WE, the USA won.) That, as any grunt except John Kerry can tell you, was a won war, and then abanoned. Iraq isn't the same deal. In Vietnam we had a defined goal, in Iraq we don't. Back then we were fighting the Commies, and we KNEW who they were (China, Russia, Eastern Europe, Franklin Roosevelt, etc)... today we're fighting "terrorism" and we DONT know who they are.
Since WW2 we have not really had a WAR.. we've had "police action" undeclared wars of aggression with no real point, except to expend resoures and man power.
And for your remark, I had no issue with attacking if someone lobs a nuke, but HOW DO YOU KNOW THEY WILL LOB IT? I hang out with armed people, some cops, some not, some soldiers, some vets, some not. Not a ONE has ever shot me, despite the fact that the potential is there. I presume the same holds for wars of aggression.
The old adage holds true:
An armed society is a polite society. (I can assure you from experience that this holds true among those whom I consider my peers. Socialists do not count, since you folks keep saying "you don't trust yourselves with guns". Guess what? I don't trust you with guns either.)
But don't forget folks, this is still oppression gear. Have your laughs, because they're not building this stuff to oppress towel heads overseas, they're building this stuff to kick in your door, when you're hacking at 2400 hours, after 3 jolts of coffee and downloading your happy warez. Remember, violent offenders get out on good behaviour after raping women, while you, as a "l33t haxor" and "warez d00dz" will likely never see the sun again.
Its you that'll be facing the robo troopers, not the "bad guys". The bad guys will already have the anti robo trooper guns.
Anyone remember Kevin Mitnick arrested as if he was Wesley Snipes, at the point of several dozen M16's? Yeah... the "lethal" "warrior" Kevin "pudge" Mitnick. You, could be the next Mitnick.
Parasonic's insult may have been aimed at the UN politicians. Not the UN logistics crew.
Presuming that the logistics guys don't know, is like presuming that just because a politician only sees votes he'll win by dropping 1 million USD Raytheon Bunker Busters on random houses, hoping to catch Osama, doesn't mean that the ground crews don't know what it does, or the scientists that design them don't know how they work.
We live in a world of mentally retarded slaves and masters, neither of which speaks the other's language. The only difference is that slaves control each other on behalf of the masters, since the slaves hate seeing other slaves get free.
I say take out the vote as it is today. If you vote pro war in any issue, politician or not, you're INSTA DRAFTED.
I want to see how many "needless" or "unexplained/for someone's freedom" wars we would have then.
I'm not a leftist/socialist by any measure, but I find that drafts should be "voluntary" since a draft is slavery, and the worst form of it (its a socialist term for CONSCRIPTION!) so you should volunteer for it the moment you vote for any war or reduction in liberty. Or, if you don't support it (by not wanting to be the one to catch a bullet or trip wire bomb on the front lines) then don't join up by wanting war, and others to fight it.
This would be a most libertarian solution, since the only ones sent to the front lines in an invasion would be the idiots that voted for it. Be they NeoCon Dick Cheney, or anyone else.
Oh and a special treat would be to also autodraft the families of said politicians!
Aggression wars are aok... they should be committed ONLY by those who voted for them. The regular army should guard borders, and national guard should stay at home. They were meant to "protect from enemies foreign". And that is what they should do.
NOTE: Yes they do let you out, if your service is up. Many do not reenlist, but go merc. Good for them.
You sit at home and ASK for permits to protest, you 'badass liberal' you!
Yes, you cajole and scream as 'Anonymous Coward' but haven't the stones to stand behind your comment.
If, tomorrow, your loving Barbara Boxer or Chuck Schumer, or Hilary Clinton(ista) decided to ban guns or ammo in the USA, you'd gladly jump all over those "evil gun owners".
That is what saddens me, you're all a bunch of emasculated cowards. No balls, none whatsoever. There would be no war if the American People still had BALLS and BRAINS!
When a people separates its fighting men and its thinking men, it will have its thinking done by cowards, and its fighting done by fools! ~Thucydides
No google box can hold more than 10 characters? A google entry may not have a pistol stock, or selective fire modes, flash hiders or high caliber ammunition or a muffler (sound suppressor) or it is an Assault Google.
Oh yeah, rock and roll, DO IT COURTS!! Burn google, for being a Machine Google. Now we won't just have senseless gun control, we'll have GOOGLE CONTROL!
I don't know how to put this for you, but I was reading a suggested article in a rag you boys here probably never read, "Soldier of Fortune". In it, several of our past and present US Army Snipers and Marine Corps Snipers are all yacking about how the officers and politicians are using them in movie style "overwatch" positions. Which as you, enlightened, slashdotters would understand is a "WASTE" of people with training in REAL sniping (long range enemy personnel removal) not defensive positions in visible places.
As one sniper put it, "we're being use as cardboard cutouts on rooftops, any insurgent, or housewife with a gun is going to count her lucky stars and take a potshot at the *grunt* patrolling with a bolt action scoped rifle, this isn't how snipers are to be used in war".
At one point they lost 2 snipers because they were made to patrol town, with "protection", which means that he was surrounded by "support" personnel (some dozen guys or so). The guy said it too. "Snipers don't have firepower, we're being used like in the movies, and that is not what snipers are for, we're slow, deliberate and precise. But we do not have *firepower*, no sir, we deliver precise, surgical kills against crucial targets. We're not being employed to the best of our abilities, we're being employed as if we were in some hollywood movie set."
Many of them are quitting everyday and going "professional" or "contractor". Everyone here blames them, I frankly, cannot. Where would you rather be, fighting for the government under their inept, incompetent and totally demented leadership, or fighting for yourself, and choosing your contracts/battles. You're still spilling blood for money, or, if civilian and pro war, you're a coward asking others to spill blood in your stead. At the very least, mercs have some liberty and choice, and they aren't wasted like our military types are.
My personal opinion is that they're being flung to the wind and allowed to be killed so they can make room for the mexican "army amnesty program":)
So don't worry about google earth, its not the culprit, IDIOTS IN THE LEADERSHIP POSITIONS ARE THE CULPRIT! I hear it from less ignorant grunts and former marines all the time. They don't go back anymore, they quit and out they stay. One took my advice as did several buddies, and they've been looking at Blackwater USA. Personally, I don't care if they go there or not, but fighting for the government just is not SANE anymore, not as a profession. The commanding officers are largely movie watcher types, and the snipers are just the first to notice this (being as to how people of remarkable talent, such as snipers and sharpshooters are being wasted on patrol and overwatch duties).
I could agree that they would be dreamily "trying" to do things, and "hoping" to do good things, but their record is crap.
When they pulled the belgian paratroopers with ammo and food (those boys whup major ass and love it) from the canadian who ran the Rwanda peacekeeping op during the machete chop job, the UN proved that they represent "the state" and "not the individuals or the people at large". They are NOT on your side, and countless of their words, speeches, writings and resolutions ENDLESSLY proclaim that they support only "legitimate state actors, not nonstate actors". Guess what, Saddam, the Shah, Deng Xiaoping/Pres Hu, Mao Tse Dun, Hitler, Stalin, etc were "legitimate state actors". In fact, some of them got themselves on the security council, being such "fine" state actors.
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NOTE: The list above is a SUGGESTION, also if you do 7, 1 and 2 can be disregarded. But no matter what tool you use, you should (up to you) get to know your tools intimately. Stop demanding that "experts" save you. Most experts are simply amateurs who took a test. I once went through that before I quit doing IT.
Ironically, it is because they ran Echelon (and stop pretending it, or newer programs like it, including Carnivore, which did finally go online a few years ago, thanks to "9/11") to spy on everyone out there in Europe and it was eventually proven in several VERY unpublicized cases that it was also used to spy on various technological advances described in emails (back before email spying and hacking were commonplace tools for every script kiddie) and transferred the contents of those emails to various big corps that stood to make billions from the advances.
Same crap now. In my opinion is that the UN CAN run the "internet" but I don't want them to. My suggestion is to screw the UN, withdraw any support from them, no more than anyone else out there provides. Whoever provides the least funding should be the baseline. The USA is taxed, so the US can spend loan money on the UN, using the USA's taxes to pay off the interest.
Just like the IMF... just because it CAN be used as a world bank, doesn't mean it should replace the lower banks.
The more you centralize, the easier tyranny can survive. That is why none of us have gold and silver money (coin form) in all our countries, instead we have paper currency (current as money) which is used to speculate us into the "boom and bust" cycle that banks created, and banks uphold.
Bankers should've been lynched when they first didn't have enough gold to cover their "cash" and outright checks. They defrauded the world of its money, now they want to take our speech too. China has proven it can be done and the people can't stand up and fight (or won't, since it is a Democratic Socialist Republic (what a triple oxymoron that is)).
Mentally and physically. I frankly LIKE the different systems. Variable systems mean diversity.
Plus, as to temperature, remember that baseline is 32F (freezing) and 0C (freezing) and 0K (absolute freeze).
Meters versus Inches/Feet/Yards.
I learned this in measurements. I can convert either precisely (precise math) or quickly on the fly (quick estimate math) 100 meters ~ 110 yards ~ 330 feet (an no, I didn't look up a metric calculator). I just know, because i've had to deal with machinery in both systems.
Some things are nicer in metres, others are nicer in inches. And quite honestly, the inches/standard system is more fun, IMHO, because it uses a more varied system of unit translation / sub units. The metric system strives for the typical one world everything.
Pretty soon we'll do the same for language, if measurements go that way. And I really hope we do not. I like travelling to different places, or learning new things, and this will be ONE less thing for my kids to learn when they grow up. So I hope you socialists "demanding" that your politicians PUSH this thing on the rest of us that might not want it, learn that "variety" is as important as "sending someone to a gulag for not wanting to use metric".
I grew up on metric, and now I'm living in standard. Love'em both. I want to see them both around. If you want to FORCE me to use only one, then go walk out onto a an Israeli battle field with the UN flag taped to your forehead.
Look the issue is that you're confusing America with the U.S. Government.
There are two entities at stake, USG and USA... USA is us joes, USG Zionist controlled, autonomous federal government.
You can thank your buddy Alexander Hamilton for all the doublespeak we deal with, the central banks, the worldwide web of evil we've woven and consequently been woven into... you can thank that gun advocate Aaron Burr for killing Hamilton in a duel in 1804, else who knows how far into the New World Order we would be today... still, the banksters have accomplished in 200 short years, what we, normal, sane people had never seen coming... (well, can't say "all of we" but most of us, anyways).
Give the doom sayers their credit, they were right.
Its like Kasparov or Karpov checkmating themselves and saying "nah, couldn't see that coming, honest mistake, I swear!"
People of the caliber you see in the UN don't "make mistakes"... everyday joes like you and me, can make mistakes, international bureaucrats are too practiced to "make mistakes".
How many "free peoples" desire foreign troops on their soil?
Canadian eh?
Would you like some Russian troops peacekeeping there, to keep those evil marijuana dealers from shooting those poor mounties?
How about Australia, with their pacified populace, would you like some Kenyan guerillas, donated to the UN, to peacekeep there in Aussie land?
And for those in the US who so love the UN, I wonder how they'd like it when Chinese blue helmets are patrolling our streets, kicking in doors, and killing americans who don't subject to being tagged like cattle and controlled like videogame characters.
Think its not coming? Why did the UN use Darfur to justify their request to have a "standing army" and "mandate to invade a sovereign country, to right wrongs", I heard Kofi's speech on the BBC World News Hour... can't deny it. Why do you think the UN is fighting so hard to kill the world supply of food? It was down to thirty days of food worldwide supplies in recent years, and I'm sure now that they've discovered it isn't man, but cow farts causing "global warming", they will want livestock ranching to stop (while the idea has merits in some aspects, the UN isn't pushing those aspects, just like it didn't disarm south africa, rwanda, kenya, sudanese tribals for "peace" but for "pieces").
How many other Security Council members with veto power are there?
Russia, China, etc?
Why didn't those paragons of virtue jump in to save those Rwandans from US Government bigotry? How about France? England??
Until the UN stepped in with "disarmament of the people" (which left them helpless, as usual for the UN, they need someone to "protect" so the only route is to create "dependency" which it then pretends to fill). It happened again in Kenya, it happened in Rhodesia (when the entire "free world" let that place go to hell, not just the USG).
Why do you automatically assume that our government is any less autonomous than yours, that somehow hey abide by our will? They DICTATE TO US what to will, just like you gov't does you. You have a government that tells you how to vote, think, act and believe, and ours is the same. IT is NOT the US of A. USA and USG are DIFFERENT GROUPS. One is "We The People" and the other is "We The Inner Party" (1984 reference, hope you got it).
spent on the UN (taxpayer cash, btw) and I will gladly not dispute a thing you guys do that pisses me off. Until then, put up an equal purse, or shut up.
lead the troop there. Soldier of Fortune ran a longtime article on him awhile back, and detailed the way it played out on the ground. I had a friend of a friend point this out to me back when I actually believed the anti-gun lobby and the socialist lobby. I believed them up until I got out of college and realized that society shouldn't cost me out of MY earnings and the fruits of my labor. Suit yourself... but I shouldn't have to pay for something I don't support... namely your income:)
Recently, the UN requested rights to have a standing army, and to have mandate to invade sovereign nations that refuse their interventions.
Ironically, you might've missed that the same people not trusting the UN now, didn't trust them when they were touted as a force that would NEVER have standing armies, or try to have them. Hmm, kind of reminds me of many other things socialists promised they would not do, same as many things that the federalists promised they would or would not do.
Rule of thumb, unchecked powers, will always lead to slavery.
Strange, since the UN is the one that pulled out its peacekeepers from Rwanda, allowing the machete genocide, AFTER the UN was the one that disarmed the local population and left them helpless at the hands of the totalitarian overlords there.
Stranger still how you missed the fact that Kenya is also in the same hands because of UN "intervention". Yes, I've seen their "handiwork". How about the UN and the US/UK "radio free europe" handing the Hungarian anti communist Revolution to the Russians on a silver platter by stopping Franco from sending them guns.
Yes, guns are "bad", they reqire you to be responsible, and a good shot. I've seen the UN's "good works". I've lost family to the Russians and the Communists. I wager you've never even heard a gunshot, or seen a man executed for owning a business.
And I'll bring a knife or bottle neck, or my barehands.
Betcha I can kill you long before you "bruise" me, or *gasp* "shoot me". (And you'd be lucky that I am not a violent man, nor do I enjoy the sight of blood, except in my food (rare steaks)).
The one corollary to "don't bring a knife to a gun fight" is "don't bring a gun to a knife fight".
It tends to get you killed when you forget that statistics show a knife or club wielding goon can cover 21 feet while you take the gun from its holster, and if its a point blank fight, a knifeman can slice you open LONG before you've even reached the gun grip.
I studied a lot of defense tactics against armed goons, especially while unarmed or taken by surprise... I used to live in the big "gun wielding american cities".
Will there be any shootings if we all have guns but are wise enough and raised with enough responsibility to know that if we commit a murder in a town full of armed citizens (parts of Idaho come to mind), we're likely to die before we get out of town?
Besides, most murders are NOT comitted with guns, and never were. Axes, knives, poison, cars, cans of gasoline, solvents, etc. Many ways people are murdered that rarely include guns. Guns are simply the way to fight back. Thus the world government needs to stifle them and reduce them ineffective.
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On either side. I know plenty of old vets who thouht it was bullshit that most of their buddies are screwed from that war, but that they had to call in every shot they took. snipers, grunts, etc. Then they get called home after "wiping out the majority of the bastards" during the mighty "Tet Offensive" (which, by the way, WE, the USA won.) That, as any grunt except John Kerry can tell you, was a won war, and then abanoned. Iraq isn't the same deal. In Vietnam we had a defined goal, in Iraq we don't. Back then we were fighting the Commies, and we KNEW who they were (China, Russia, Eastern Europe, Franklin Roosevelt, etc)... today we're fighting "terrorism" and we DONT know who they are.
Since WW2 we have not really had a WAR.. we've had "police action" undeclared wars of aggression with no real point, except to expend resoures and man power.
And for your remark, I had no issue with attacking if someone lobs a nuke, but HOW DO YOU KNOW THEY WILL LOB IT? I hang out with armed people, some cops, some not, some soldiers, some vets, some not. Not a ONE has ever shot me, despite the fact that the potential is there. I presume the same holds for wars of aggression.
The old adage holds true:
An armed society is a polite society. (I can assure you from experience that this holds true among those whom I consider my peers. Socialists do not count, since you folks keep saying "you don't trust yourselves with guns". Guess what? I don't trust you with guns either.)
But don't forget folks, this is still oppression gear. Have your laughs, because they're not building this stuff to oppress towel heads overseas, they're building this stuff to kick in your door, when you're hacking at 2400 hours, after 3 jolts of coffee and downloading your happy warez. Remember, violent offenders get out on good behaviour after raping women, while you, as a "l33t haxor" and "warez d00dz" will likely never see the sun again.
Its you that'll be facing the robo troopers, not the "bad guys". The bad guys will already have the anti robo trooper guns.
Anyone remember Kevin Mitnick arrested as if he was Wesley Snipes, at the point of several dozen M16's? Yeah... the "lethal" "warrior" Kevin "pudge" Mitnick. You, could be the next Mitnick.
Just my ten cents. Hope you spend it well.
Parasonic's insult may have been aimed at the UN politicians. Not the UN logistics crew.
Presuming that the logistics guys don't know, is like presuming that just because a politician only sees votes he'll win by dropping 1 million USD Raytheon Bunker Busters on random houses, hoping to catch Osama, doesn't mean that the ground crews don't know what it does, or the scientists that design them don't know how they work.
We live in a world of mentally retarded slaves and masters, neither of which speaks the other's language. The only difference is that slaves control each other on behalf of the masters, since the slaves hate seeing other slaves get free.
I say take out the vote as it is today. If you vote pro war in any issue, politician or not, you're INSTA DRAFTED.
I want to see how many "needless" or "unexplained/for someone's freedom" wars we would have then.
I'm not a leftist/socialist by any measure, but I find that drafts should be "voluntary" since a draft is slavery, and the worst form of it (its a socialist term for CONSCRIPTION!) so you should volunteer for it the moment you vote for any war or reduction in liberty. Or, if you don't support it (by not wanting to be the one to catch a bullet or trip wire bomb on the front lines) then don't join up by wanting war, and others to fight it.
This would be a most libertarian solution, since the only ones sent to the front lines in an invasion would be the idiots that voted for it. Be they NeoCon Dick Cheney, or anyone else.
Oh and a special treat would be to also autodraft the families of said politicians!
Aggression wars are aok... they should be committed ONLY by those who voted for them. The regular army should guard borders, and national guard should stay at home. They were meant to "protect from enemies foreign". And that is what they should do.
NOTE: Yes they do let you out, if your service is up. Many do not reenlist, but go merc. Good for them.
You sit at home and ASK for permits to protest, you 'badass liberal' you!
Yes, you cajole and scream as 'Anonymous Coward' but haven't the stones to stand behind your comment.
If, tomorrow, your loving Barbara Boxer or Chuck Schumer, or Hilary Clinton(ista) decided to ban guns or ammo in the USA, you'd gladly jump all over those "evil gun owners".
That is what saddens me, you're all a bunch of emasculated cowards. No balls, none whatsoever. There would be no war if the American People still had BALLS and BRAINS!
When a people separates its fighting men and its thinking men, it will have its thinking done by cowards, and its fighting done by fools! ~Thucydides
You'll be seeing Google Control maybe?
No google box can hold more than 10 characters? A google entry may not have a pistol stock, or selective fire modes, flash hiders or high caliber ammunition or a muffler (sound suppressor) or it is an Assault Google.
Oh yeah, rock and roll, DO IT COURTS!! Burn google, for being a Machine Google. Now we won't just have senseless gun control, we'll have GOOGLE CONTROL!
I don't know how to put this for you, but I was reading a suggested article in a rag you boys here probably never read, "Soldier of Fortune". In it, several of our past and present US Army Snipers and Marine Corps Snipers are all yacking about how the officers and politicians are using them in movie style "overwatch" positions. Which as you, enlightened, slashdotters would understand is a "WASTE" of people with training in REAL sniping (long range enemy personnel removal) not defensive positions in visible places.
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As one sniper put it, "we're being use as cardboard cutouts on rooftops, any insurgent, or housewife with a gun is going to count her lucky stars and take a potshot at the *grunt* patrolling with a bolt action scoped rifle, this isn't how snipers are to be used in war".
At one point they lost 2 snipers because they were made to patrol town, with "protection", which means that he was surrounded by "support" personnel (some dozen guys or so). The guy said it too. "Snipers don't have firepower, we're being used like in the movies, and that is not what snipers are for, we're slow, deliberate and precise. But we do not have *firepower*, no sir, we deliver precise, surgical kills against crucial targets. We're not being employed to the best of our abilities, we're being employed as if we were in some hollywood movie set."
Many of them are quitting everyday and going "professional" or "contractor". Everyone here blames them, I frankly, cannot. Where would you rather be, fighting for the government under their inept, incompetent and totally demented leadership, or fighting for yourself, and choosing your contracts/battles. You're still spilling blood for money, or, if civilian and pro war, you're a coward asking others to spill blood in your stead. At the very least, mercs have some liberty and choice, and they aren't wasted like our military types are.
My personal opinion is that they're being flung to the wind and allowed to be killed so they can make room for the mexican "army amnesty program"
So don't worry about google earth, its not the culprit, IDIOTS IN THE LEADERSHIP POSITIONS ARE THE CULPRIT! I hear it from less ignorant grunts and former marines all the time. They don't go back anymore, they quit and out they stay. One took my advice as did several buddies, and they've been looking at Blackwater USA. Personally, I don't care if they go there or not, but fighting for the government just is not SANE anymore, not as a profession. The commanding officers are largely movie watcher types, and the snipers are just the first to notice this (being as to how people of remarkable talent, such as snipers and sharpshooters are being wasted on patrol and overwatch duties).
I could agree that they would be dreamily "trying" to do things, and "hoping" to do good things, but their record is crap.
When they pulled the belgian paratroopers with ammo and food (those boys whup major ass and love it) from the canadian who ran the Rwanda peacekeeping op during the machete chop job, the UN proved that they represent "the state" and "not the individuals or the people at large". They are NOT on your side, and countless of their words, speeches, writings and resolutions ENDLESSLY proclaim that they support only "legitimate state actors, not nonstate actors". Guess what, Saddam, the Shah, Deng Xiaoping/Pres Hu, Mao Tse Dun, Hitler, Stalin, etc were "legitimate state actors". In fact, some of them got themselves on the security council, being such "fine" state actors.
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5) All other tools are optional, and there are many, but you need to do number 6 for sure.
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NOTE: The list above is a SUGGESTION, also if you do 7, 1 and 2 can be disregarded. But no matter what tool you use, you should (up to you) get to know your tools intimately. Stop demanding that "experts" save you. Most experts are simply amateurs who took a test. I once went through that before I quit doing IT.
Ironically, it is because they ran Echelon (and stop pretending it, or newer programs like it, including Carnivore, which did finally go online a few years ago, thanks to "9/11") to spy on everyone out there in Europe and it was eventually proven in several VERY unpublicized cases that it was also used to spy on various technological advances described in emails (back before email spying and hacking were commonplace tools for every script kiddie) and transferred the contents of those emails to various big corps that stood to make billions from the advances.
Same crap now. In my opinion is that the UN CAN run the "internet" but I don't want them to. My suggestion is to screw the UN, withdraw any support from them, no more than anyone else out there provides. Whoever provides the least funding should be the baseline. The USA is taxed, so the US can spend loan money on the UN, using the USA's taxes to pay off the interest.
Just like the IMF... just because it CAN be used as a world bank, doesn't mean it should replace the lower banks.
The more you centralize, the easier tyranny can survive. That is why none of us have gold and silver money (coin form) in all our countries, instead we have paper currency (current as money) which is used to speculate us into the "boom and bust" cycle that banks created, and banks uphold.
Bankers should've been lynched when they first didn't have enough gold to cover their "cash" and outright checks. They defrauded the world of its money, now they want to take our speech too. China has proven it can be done and the people can't stand up and fight (or won't, since it is a Democratic Socialist Republic (what a triple oxymoron that is)).
Mentally and physically. I frankly LIKE the different systems. Variable systems mean diversity.
Plus, as to temperature, remember that baseline is 32F (freezing) and 0C (freezing) and 0K (absolute freeze).
Meters versus Inches/Feet/Yards.
I learned this in measurements. I can convert either precisely (precise math) or quickly on the fly (quick estimate math) 100 meters ~ 110 yards ~ 330 feet (an no, I didn't look up a metric calculator). I just know, because i've had to deal with machinery in both systems.
Some things are nicer in metres, others are nicer in inches. And quite honestly, the inches/standard system is more fun, IMHO, because it uses a more varied system of unit translation / sub units. The metric system strives for the typical one world everything.
Pretty soon we'll do the same for language, if measurements go that way. And I really hope we do not. I like travelling to different places, or learning new things, and this will be ONE less thing for my kids to learn when they grow up. So I hope you socialists "demanding" that your politicians PUSH this thing on the rest of us that might not want it, learn that "variety" is as important as "sending someone to a gulag for not wanting to use metric".
I grew up on metric, and now I'm living in standard. Love'em both. I want to see them both around. If you want to FORCE me to use only one, then go walk out onto a an Israeli battle field with the UN flag taped to your forehead.
But that probably skipped off the radar.
Look the issue is that you're confusing America with the U.S. Government.
There are two entities at stake, USG and USA... USA is us joes, USG Zionist controlled, autonomous federal government.
You can thank your buddy Alexander Hamilton for all the doublespeak we deal with, the central banks, the worldwide web of evil we've woven and consequently been woven into... you can thank that gun advocate Aaron Burr for killing Hamilton in a duel in 1804, else who knows how far into the New World Order we would be today... still, the banksters have accomplished in 200 short years, what we, normal, sane people had never seen coming... (well, can't say "all of we" but most of us, anyways).
Give the doom sayers their credit, they were right.
Banal, mistakes.
Its like Kasparov or Karpov checkmating themselves and saying "nah, couldn't see that coming, honest mistake, I swear!"
People of the caliber you see in the UN don't "make mistakes"... everyday joes like you and me, can make mistakes, international bureaucrats are too practiced to "make mistakes".
How many "free peoples" desire foreign troops on their soil?
Canadian eh?
Would you like some Russian troops peacekeeping there, to keep those evil marijuana dealers from shooting those poor mounties?
How about Australia, with their pacified populace, would you like some Kenyan guerillas, donated to the UN, to peacekeep there in Aussie land?
And for those in the US who so love the UN, I wonder how they'd like it when Chinese blue helmets are patrolling our streets, kicking in doors, and killing americans who don't subject to being tagged like cattle and controlled like videogame characters.
Think its not coming? Why did the UN use Darfur to justify their request to have a "standing army" and "mandate to invade a sovereign country, to right wrongs", I heard Kofi's speech on the BBC World News Hour... can't deny it. Why do you think the UN is fighting so hard to kill the world supply of food? It was down to thirty days of food worldwide supplies in recent years, and I'm sure now that they've discovered it isn't man, but cow farts causing "global warming", they will want livestock ranching to stop (while the idea has merits in some aspects, the UN isn't pushing those aspects, just like it didn't disarm south africa, rwanda, kenya, sudanese tribals for "peace" but for "pieces").
How many other Security Council members with veto power are there?
Russia, China, etc?
Why didn't those paragons of virtue jump in to save those Rwandans from US Government bigotry? How about France? England??
Until the UN stepped in with "disarmament of the people" (which left them helpless, as usual for the UN, they need someone to "protect" so the only route is to create "dependency" which it then pretends to fill). It happened again in Kenya, it happened in Rhodesia (when the entire "free world" let that place go to hell, not just the USG).
Why do you automatically assume that our government is any less autonomous than yours, that somehow hey abide by our will? They DICTATE TO US what to will, just like you gov't does you. You have a government that tells you how to vote, think, act and believe, and ours is the same. IT is NOT the US of A. USA and USG are DIFFERENT GROUPS. One is "We The People" and the other is "We The Inner Party" (1984 reference, hope you got it).
part of the megalopolis.
spent on the UN (taxpayer cash, btw) and I will gladly not dispute a thing you guys do that pisses me off. Until then, put up an equal purse, or shut up.
And it felt good, I agree.
Cheers back!
lead the troop there. Soldier of Fortune ran a longtime article on him awhile back, and detailed the way it played out on the ground. I had a friend of a friend point this out to me back when I actually believed the anti-gun lobby and the socialist lobby. I believed them up until I got out of college and realized that society shouldn't cost me out of MY earnings and the fruits of my labor. Suit yourself... but I shouldn't have to pay for something I don't support... namely your income :)
Interesting. I'm gonna buy a bow, since that means I'll never shoot anyone with it. How about slingshots?
Recently, the UN requested rights to have a standing army, and to have mandate to invade sovereign nations that refuse their interventions.
Ironically, you might've missed that the same people not trusting the UN now, didn't trust them when they were touted as a force that would NEVER have standing armies, or try to have them. Hmm, kind of reminds me of many other things socialists promised they would not do, same as many things that the federalists promised they would or would not do.
Rule of thumb, unchecked powers, will always lead to slavery.
Strange, since the UN is the one that pulled out its peacekeepers from Rwanda, allowing the machete genocide, AFTER the UN was the one that disarmed the local population and left them helpless at the hands of the totalitarian overlords there.
Stranger still how you missed the fact that Kenya is also in the same hands because of UN "intervention". Yes, I've seen their "handiwork". How about the UN and the US/UK "radio free europe" handing the Hungarian anti communist Revolution to the Russians on a silver platter by stopping Franco from sending them guns.
Yes, guns are "bad", they reqire you to be responsible, and a good shot. I've seen the UN's "good works". I've lost family to the Russians and the Communists. I wager you've never even heard a gunshot, or seen a man executed for owning a business.
And I'll bring a knife or bottle neck, or my barehands.
Betcha I can kill you long before you "bruise" me, or *gasp* "shoot me". (And you'd be lucky that I am not a violent man, nor do I enjoy the sight of blood, except in my food (rare steaks)).
The one corollary to "don't bring a knife to a gun fight" is "don't bring a gun to a knife fight".
It tends to get you killed when you forget that statistics show a knife or club wielding goon can cover 21 feet while you take the gun from its holster, and if its a point blank fight, a knifeman can slice you open LONG before you've even reached the gun grip.
I studied a lot of defense tactics against armed goons, especially while unarmed or taken by surprise... I used to live in the big "gun wielding american cities".
Will there be any shootings if we all have guns but are wise enough and raised with enough responsibility to know that if we commit a murder in a town full of armed citizens (parts of Idaho come to mind), we're likely to die before we get out of town?
Besides, most murders are NOT comitted with guns, and never were. Axes, knives, poison, cars, cans of gasoline, solvents, etc. Many ways people are murdered that rarely include guns. Guns are simply the way to fight back. Thus the world government needs to stifle them and reduce them ineffective.
How in blazes can the idiots be kept unarmed, when they are the ones that will NOT be abiding by the blanket ban.
Plus, if you read statistics, most cops die from wounds suffered from their OWN handguns.