You present the answer to the problem, or more correctly stated, why their GDP is not necessarily a problem in your diatribe.
Simply put, their GDP is based on population size, that population has to be supported via that self-same number. Our per capita productivity and wealth far outstrips their numbers by such a margin as to be laughable. Therefore, we can afford to spend far more of our capital on warfare than they can without resorting to cannibalizing our infrastructure or quality of life to do so.
Over time this gap will shrink. What will be interesting to see is how quickly the tables will turn against China's economy as their productivity far outstrips their ability to import foodstuffs and raw materials.
That will be an interesting geo-political situation.
Conformity is the coinage of the Franco-Prussian instruction system that our schools grew out of. Originally, they were based on Scottish schools that grew out of the Socratic method. However, it was figured by several "Captains of Industry" that the schools of Scottish/Presbyterian origin used too much energy trying to create too many thinkers. Instead, instruction needed to be streamlined to produce people that were good at a very specific task requiring very little thought but a high degree of obedience. During this search, funded in good part by Carnegie... They found the Franco-Prussian model of education. You must be trained to assemble cars because, on average, that's all you are good for.
Sucks to be outside the norm. Sucks more to be normal.
You can see a similar behavior from Cisco IPS if you enable and tune the anomaly detector engine. This in turn feeds MARS... which is groovy except the alerting stinks within MARS. So you have to beat up Cisco and they'll hash out a xslt that will prettify the XML garbage into a nice little HTML email for the desktop support guys to chase down the offender. Couple that with some Perl to grab the fields and shove them in a DB for easy reference...
It works, and it works a lot more easily than anything else that I have deployed to accomplish a similar task.
Ummm, no. Sensors can be wrong, and can be artificially tuned to weight the instance so that people who are not guilty will be, as was the case in San Diego. The company that provided the red light camera installation to the city earned a commission based on the number of tickets issued. They adjusted the timers and software to interpret someone who had pulled too far into the intersection as running the light as well as firing as much as 2 seconds earlier that the light was actually red.
So, back to your point. If the supposition of guilt is based on a system built by humans who have an interest in padding the numbers then you have serious problem. As a judge I would probably reason that for the system to be fair that each and every defendant should have the opportunity to test and question the data collection methodology, which would be overly burdensome to the court and the defendant. This would result in me throwing the case out on grounds that it violates the principle of supposition of innocence and within my opinion I might encourage the city to issue 'warnings' to the errant drivers instead.
Something along the lines of:
"Mr/Mrs Driver, please be aware that our red light camera system has been triggered while your car was most likely running a red light. Running red lights are the leading cause of automobile crashes and create a hazard to those of us on the road each day. Please be more courteous and thoughtful in the future or you may earn a ticket from one of our Police Officers.
If you were not driving your car at the time, please pass along our sentiments to the appropriate person and reconsider allowing them to borrow your vehicle in the future. Their misbehavior in your vehicle may adversely affect your insurance rates."
First, I want to note that it is silly for me to respond to this post, but being a veteran of over 20yrs of D&D I am accustomed to such banter. That said...
One, due to the International Sorcery Secrecy Treaty or some such, the wizarding world willingly fragmented itself from society overall. This would result in a highly fractionalized world of the common citizen as the communties are small and often self-sufficient. For reference consider the overall response to Voldemort's return.
Two, consider the modern world and it's highly fragmented nature. (I don't consider this a bad thing most of the time.) There are countries all over the world undergoing violent and somewhat violent changes of power. See former Soviet bloc countries for an example of a first-world country still feeling the waves of the sundering of the USSR. Do you see Great Britain sending troops into Chechnya?
If you could master Transfiguration, Herbology, and Basic Healing, you could be mostly independent of the gov't. How willing would you be to fight to preserve a system that you have little need for, when today we have a hard time justifying the self-sacrifice required to preserve a governmental system upon which we are dependent for our basic rights and lifestyle?
Lastly, the protagonist and the antagonist are both headquartered in England. The key players are going to be closer to the battle than from afar. The only time you'd have to look outside of the area would be to find those of singular knowledge, e.g. Gregorovitch.
Your logic is correct. Draco disarmed Dumbledore because Albus was busy casting a Full Body-Bind Curse on Harry and of course his reactions were dulled due to the harrowing capture of the Horcrux.
The Elder Wand recognized the wielder of Draco's wand as it's true master. Draco's wand (which Harry was wielding) was predisposed to win the duel as the Elder did not recognize Voldemort's mastery.
Unfortunately, that's a cost that we have to bear as we currently have an economic system that presses companies ever closer to monopolies. As a standard, the DoD has a preference for domestic providers when engaged in a conflict. In this case, security and logistics are handled by the only bidder large enough to provide (relatively) low cost solutions to the problem.
It's a no win scenario for the tax payer, if the government handles all of the logistics and security internally the DoD would take an order of magnitude more money to subsist. This would also be much slower to grow and shrink from war to peace and back again. Not only that but then you'd end up with horrible mis-management anyway. Look at the credit card vouchers given to the Katrina victims.
If we had hired the only other company capable of providing that sort of service at that scale we'd be screaming about all the money wasted on a bid contract that has had overruns and out-of-schedule setbacks, and worse yet, that money would be headed out of country, to France.
With Halliburton moving to Dubai... that last point is moot.
In short, the screamers about Halliburton are just throwing a talking point around...
That's funny. My family doctor, who has been my doctor for 17 yrs, is also a lawyer. He is a great doctor and is very popular with his clients. He also still does housecalls. Oddly enough, he said the biggest problem he has with being a doctor is the cost of malpractice insurance, and the number of patients who can't afford his regular office rates because of the cost of doing business. Luckily, he gets a lot of help from patients and charitable institutions to continue working with those who cannot afford to pay their way.
His brother, also a lawyer and doctor, got out of medicine because of the risk and cost. He practices contract law or some such now.
Ummm, no. It couldn't go any further because several journalist's refused to reveal their sources. The actual source of the information (Valerie Plame's identity) was disclosed by a party unknown to Libby.
Thus, Libby has been convicted of perjury for the _perception_ of impropriety. It was a boondoggle of a prosecution from the get-go.
Incidentally, the disclosure of Valerie Plame's identity was not a crime in the first place, which in most cases is the context that predicates a perjury charge (I am not a lawyer,but Rudy Guiliani made this point in the Weekend edition of the Wall Street Journal.)
I am very happy living the way I do. I don't think anyway _has_ to live any particular to achieve any particular goals, unless those goals are important to them.
If they can find a better way to get there, more power to them. I was just offering a very simple way to address decision making so that you might have a little more coin at the end of the day. I find that simple discipline helps me in all things that I do, and I encourage everyone to cultivate it.
That being said, happiness is far more important than money... That's why I live in Tulsa, OK, rather than Las Vegas, or Los Angeles. The pay was much better out west, but I am a lot happier here.
Actually McCain-Feingold was upheld under a liberal court.
Ostensibly it was to enable the little guy, but we (the conservatives) fought against upholding McCain-Feingold for exactly the reason you don't like it. When you artificially complicate a system (taxes, campaign finance) only the people who can afford to pay people to lawyer a way out of the maze can participate fairly.
That was _the_ eminent domain decision. When that decision was made the Court was weighted to the left. It decided that the gov't can take your land and sell it to the highest bidder in the interest of collecting higher taxes.
Basically, it allowed large developers to lower their land acquisition costs. If you want too much for your little slice of heaven, the guys with guns will come and take it away. An erosion of one of the most basic rights in Western civilization.
I hate to respond to myself but I think this time it serves the conversation.
For those who have responded wondering about my lack of regard for ethnicity, personal medical issues, etc.
Those are all well and good, but none of them are excuses or reasons for failure. In my own family, schizophrenia and autism have shown themselves to be challenges. In the past Native American heritage made my progenitors difficult or impossible to employ. In my own personal history, I have made very poor decisions that have landed me a great deal of hardship. My first wife (I married at 19) had severe drug dependency issues that dovetailed nicely with my own codependency issues. It happens. We move on.
My 'no excuses' attitude is from life experience, I have seen successes and failures from every walk of life, don't think me so shallow as to assume that we all have the same path. I just insist that you would do more for yourself by walking than by sitting.
I guess I am your diametrically opposite anecdote.
Nothing cooks bacon better than my 'properly' seasoned cast iron skillet. That goes the same for fried chicken, chicken fried steak, gizzards, okra, and potatoes.
I have bought the most expensive plastic handled shovels on the market and broken all of them within weeks. I own the majority stake of a light construction business and no one that works for me will use a fiberglass handled shovel. Hell, I broke one stumping a small azalea.
Wood handled mauls and axes stand up better if the user is prone to overstroking. If you don't use your tool regularly I would recommend oiling it, and storing in in a cool place rather than a hot shed. If you store it in the shed it's going to dry out very quickly and splinter or break.
I think what he's saying is that present behavior allows an estimate of past behavior, past behavior (to some extent) can be linked to current status and then used to predict future status.
Several economists and social scientists have done studies of the wealthy and found that great majority of them have elevated themselves from a lower wealth-class through smart money management. I, myself, started out very poor and have managed to work my way up to have some wealth. This while supporting my wife in a single income family and paying for her continuing education.
I have a high school education from a podunk school from a town of 3000 people. If I can do it, you have no excuses.
It's not how much you spend. It's how you spend it. I don't have cable(I don't watch TV at all), I have two vehicles that I paid cash for, I do all of my own home and car maintenance. I built a gym in my home rather than pay out monthlies. (The equipment paid for itself in 12mos.) I don't eat out much, I don't go to convenience stores except to buy gas. These decisions add up.
For instance, eating out, including StarSucks and QuickTrip, usually accounted for $100 per week in expenses, by eating food that I or my have prepared and avoiding 'convenience food' I am saving at least that much per week.
The "Millionaire Next Door" has several references for further research on the topic. It has survived the empirical evidence gathered from the several millionaires that I have met and do business with.
To change your position in life, you must change your behavior.
Several companies do this for diagnosis of a machine. Rather than bother a customer with "this log,that log" questions we (at Hitachi) had several scripts to collect the most commonly needed data to diagnose a storage problem.
Easy money. Why every support organization doesn't do the same is beyond me.
(AIX, HP-UX, Solaris, Linux, and Windows all had their own flavor of script)
Meh, everyone including the "Natives" are benefiting from the 'booty of the crimes of the whites' only it wasn't just the whites. Oh, you didn't know that there were black immigrants as well? Even Hispanic and Moorish as well...
As a card carrying (literally) "native" whose white relatives first set foot in NA in the 1700's, and promptly married into a tribe and disappeared into the tribal family until the mid 1800's (That whole trail of tears thing was a bitch.) I could give shit less what happened to my ancestors. As my last full blood relative(great-granpa) often said about the situation between natives and whites. Shit happens, get over it. The people begging for hand-outs have been weakened by their fear of the white man. Don't take his pity.
Or as it went in another seminal childhood experience; One fine summer day I was working in great-grandparents garden, weeding and hoeing away when I took a break to eat a PB&J and down some water. As I was sitting there I thought it would be neat to carve an actual seat into the tree stump I was sitting on. So I grabbed my hatchet and got to work. When I was nearly done I was working a tough bit when the hatchet bounced from an awkward strike and severed the meat between the thumb and forefinger. Biting back tears I wrapped my hand in my t-shirt(boy was mom pissed) and considered whether to finished my work or go to grandma and tell her what had happened. The pain won out and I ran to the house and show her the damage. She opined that it would take a few stitches to fix that up just as great-granpa walked in. He asked me whether or not the garden was done. I told him the story about what had happened and he told great-grandma to sew it up so that I could finish. She grabbed the alcohol, a needle, some black thread and went to work. As I sat there whimpering, with tears pouring off my face, my great-granpa grabbed my chin, knelt to look me in the eye, and sternly told me. "Stop the crying, it's the white man in you."
Avarice through welfare is a construct of the weak. Use it at your own peril.
Live under the law of the land. Play by the same rules as everyone around you and beat them at it. Then no one can take your victories by saying, "He's Indian, so the tribe probably helped him out" or "He's black, so he's an affirmative action winner"
I disagree. ID can be easily disproven and life goes on. The people that will embrace ID and completely disregard scientific method and evidence wouldn't necessarily be involved in the professions that would be responsible for the design and/or manufacture of a product.
However, the consequences of infringing on one's liberty can and should be taught and reinforced whenever possible, to enable acceptable mores and a healthy paranoia toward an overreaching gov't.
Or perhaps one should consider the damage done to a child by an overbearing micro-managing parent. Maybe you could even consider that sort of relationship between manager and working stiff.
It tends to make people uninsightful, fearful, and unimaginative. So, what do you get by over-scrutinizing the gov'ts every move? A gov't peopled by lackeys and lickspittles who lack the courage to do what is necessary to prevail.
You get what you ask for I suppose. It just saddens me to know that most people are officious enough that they can't see how they've been played into making the political process a soap-opera.
Guess they've never fired a rifle whilst being battle-trained eh?
My dad was a international level shooter and you wouldn't believe how fast he could reload a bolt-action rifle.
One of those thing's that make me laugh. Like saying that taking an assault rifle away is going to lower the body count when someone walks into a classroom and starts shooting. With a little practice you can fire a clip empty and reload before someone can get out of their seat.
Just shows how ignorant people become when they have zero experience in a field.
No, more than likely not. Once a technology gets to the point where it becomes anywhere near a displacement technology, they will convert part of the very large research lab just west of me to exploiting that new technology.
Plastics, LNG, nuclear fuels, bitumen mining, acoustics, imaging, and god knows what else goes on over there...
There will be no technology that will result in an energy utopia. The more energy we can efficiently make, the more we will learn to consume. Someone will have to manufacture the portable units, someone else will have to mine or refine the raw materials, and someone will have to deliver it to your door.
I would bet on the companies that already have a very large infrastructure to refine, manufacture, track and ship materials. The only question will be which of those companies will be leading the pack?
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You present the answer to the problem, or more correctly stated, why their GDP is not necessarily a problem in your diatribe.
Simply put, their GDP is based on population size, that population has to be supported via that self-same number. Our per capita productivity and wealth far outstrips their numbers by such a margin as to be laughable. Therefore, we can afford to spend far more of our capital on warfare than they can without resorting to cannibalizing our infrastructure or quality of life to do so.
Over time this gap will shrink. What will be interesting to see is how quickly the tables will turn against China's economy as their productivity far outstrips their ability to import foodstuffs and raw materials.
That will be an interesting geo-political situation.
Conformity is the coinage of the Franco-Prussian instruction system that our schools grew out of. Originally, they were based on Scottish schools that grew out of the Socratic method. However, it was figured by several "Captains of Industry" that the schools of Scottish/Presbyterian origin used too much energy trying to create too many thinkers. Instead, instruction needed to be streamlined to produce people that were good at a very specific task requiring very little thought but a high degree of obedience. During this search, funded in good part by Carnegie... They found the Franco-Prussian model of education. You must be trained to assemble cars because, on average, that's all you are good for.
Sucks to be outside the norm. Sucks more to be normal.
It would be nice if your link was more visible.
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You can see a similar behavior from Cisco IPS if you enable and tune the anomaly detector engine. This in turn feeds MARS... which is groovy except the alerting stinks within MARS. So you have to beat up Cisco and they'll hash out a xslt that will prettify the XML garbage into a nice little HTML email for the desktop support guys to chase down the offender. Couple that with some Perl to grab the fields and shove them in a DB for easy reference...
It works, and it works a lot more easily than anything else that I have deployed to accomplish a similar task.
Ummm, no. Sensors can be wrong, and can be artificially tuned to weight the instance so that people who are not guilty will be, as was the case in San Diego. The company that provided the red light camera installation to the city earned a commission based on the number of tickets issued. They adjusted the timers and software to interpret someone who had pulled too far into the intersection as running the light as well as firing as much as 2 seconds earlier that the light was actually red.
So, back to your point. If the supposition of guilt is based on a system built by humans who have an interest in padding the numbers then you have serious problem. As a judge I would probably reason that for the system to be fair that each and every defendant should have the opportunity to test and question the data collection methodology, which would be overly burdensome to the court and the defendant. This would result in me throwing the case out on grounds that it violates the principle of supposition of innocence and within my opinion I might encourage the city to issue 'warnings' to the errant drivers instead.
Something along the lines of:
"Mr/Mrs Driver, please be aware that our red light camera system has been triggered while your car was most likely running a red light. Running red lights are the leading cause of automobile crashes and create a hazard to those of us on the road each day. Please be more courteous and thoughtful in the future or you may earn a ticket from one of our Police Officers.
If you were not driving your car at the time, please pass along our sentiments to the appropriate person and reconsider allowing them to borrow your vehicle in the future. Their misbehavior in your vehicle may adversely affect your insurance rates."
Read up on prions.
Essentially it's a protein that affects the structure of other similar proteins by virtue of it's structure.
A self replicating protein. An inanimate object that replicates itself? Maybe.
First, I want to note that it is silly for me to respond to this post, but being a veteran of over 20yrs of D&D I am accustomed to such banter. That said...
One, due to the International Sorcery Secrecy Treaty or some such, the wizarding world willingly fragmented itself from society overall. This would result in a highly fractionalized world of the common citizen as the communties are small and often self-sufficient. For reference consider the overall response to Voldemort's return.
Two, consider the modern world and it's highly fragmented nature. (I don't consider this a bad thing most of the time.) There are countries all over the world undergoing violent and somewhat violent changes of power. See former Soviet bloc countries for an example of a first-world country still feeling the waves of the sundering of the USSR. Do you see Great Britain sending troops into Chechnya?
If you could master Transfiguration, Herbology, and Basic Healing, you could be mostly independent of the gov't. How willing would you be to fight to preserve a system that you have little need for, when today we have a hard time justifying the self-sacrifice required to preserve a governmental system upon which we are dependent for our basic rights and lifestyle?
Lastly, the protagonist and the antagonist are both headquartered in England. The key players are going to be closer to the battle than from afar. The only time you'd have to look outside of the area would be to find those of singular knowledge, e.g. Gregorovitch.
Your logic is correct. Draco disarmed Dumbledore because Albus was busy casting a Full Body-Bind Curse on Harry and of course his reactions were dulled due to the harrowing capture of the Horcrux.
The Elder Wand recognized the wielder of Draco's wand as it's true master. Draco's wand (which Harry was wielding) was predisposed to win the duel as the Elder did not recognize Voldemort's mastery.
Complex and mysterious magic. [;-)
Unfortunately, that's a cost that we have to bear as we currently have an economic system that presses companies ever closer to monopolies. As a standard, the DoD has a preference for domestic providers when engaged in a conflict. In this case, security and logistics are handled by the only bidder large enough to provide (relatively) low cost solutions to the problem.
It's a no win scenario for the tax payer, if the government handles all of the logistics and security internally the DoD would take an order of magnitude more money to subsist. This would also be much slower to grow and shrink from war to peace and back again. Not only that but then you'd end up with horrible mis-management anyway. Look at the credit card vouchers given to the Katrina victims.
If we had hired the only other company capable of providing that sort of service at that scale we'd be screaming about all the money wasted on a bid contract that has had overruns and out-of-schedule setbacks, and worse yet, that money would be headed out of country, to France.
With Halliburton moving to Dubai... that last point is moot.
In short, the screamers about Halliburton are just throwing a talking point around...
That's funny. My family doctor, who has been my doctor for 17 yrs, is also a lawyer. He is a great doctor and is very popular with his clients. He also still does housecalls. Oddly enough, he said the biggest problem he has with being a doctor is the cost of malpractice insurance, and the number of patients who can't afford his regular office rates because of the cost of doing business. Luckily, he gets a lot of help from patients and charitable institutions to continue working with those who cannot afford to pay their way.
His brother, also a lawyer and doctor, got out of medicine because of the risk and cost. He practices contract law or some such now.
Ummm, no. It couldn't go any further because several journalist's refused to reveal their sources. The actual source of the information (Valerie Plame's identity) was disclosed by a party unknown to Libby.
Thus, Libby has been convicted of perjury for the _perception_ of impropriety. It was a boondoggle of a prosecution from the get-go.
Incidentally, the disclosure of Valerie Plame's identity was not a crime in the first place, which in most cases is the context that predicates a perjury charge (I am not a lawyer,but Rudy Guiliani made this point in the Weekend edition of the Wall Street Journal.)
I am very happy living the way I do. I don't think anyway _has_ to live any particular to achieve any particular goals, unless those goals are important to them.
If they can find a better way to get there, more power to them. I was just offering a very simple way to address decision making so that you might have a little more coin at the end of the day. I find that simple discipline helps me in all things that I do, and I encourage everyone to cultivate it.
That being said, happiness is far more important than money... That's why I live in Tulsa, OK, rather than Las Vegas, or Los Angeles. The pay was much better out west, but I am a lot happier here.
Actually McCain-Feingold was upheld under a liberal court.
Ostensibly it was to enable the little guy, but we (the conservatives) fought against upholding McCain-Feingold for exactly the reason you don't like it. When you artificially complicate a system (taxes, campaign finance) only the people who can afford to pay people to lawyer a way out of the maze can participate fairly.
That was _the_ eminent domain decision. When that decision was made the Court was weighted to the left. It decided that the gov't can take your land and sell it to the highest bidder in the interest of collecting higher taxes.
Basically, it allowed large developers to lower their land acquisition costs. If you want too much for your little slice of heaven, the guys with guns will come and take it away. An erosion of one of the most basic rights in Western civilization.
He not only works for MS but is the director of security strategy.
So, this is self-performance review. I'm guessing he's vying for a pay raise.
I hate to respond to myself but I think this time it serves the conversation.
For those who have responded wondering about my lack of regard for ethnicity, personal medical issues, etc.
Those are all well and good, but none of them are excuses or reasons for failure. In my own family, schizophrenia and autism have shown themselves to be challenges. In the past Native American heritage made my progenitors difficult or impossible to employ. In my own personal history, I have made very poor decisions that have landed me a great deal of hardship. My first wife (I married at 19) had severe drug dependency issues that dovetailed nicely with my own codependency issues. It happens. We move on.
My 'no excuses' attitude is from life experience, I have seen successes and failures from every walk of life, don't think me so shallow as to assume that we all have the same path. I just insist that you would do more for yourself by walking than by sitting.
I guess I am your diametrically opposite anecdote.
Nothing cooks bacon better than my 'properly' seasoned cast iron skillet. That goes the same for fried chicken, chicken fried steak, gizzards, okra, and potatoes.
I have bought the most expensive plastic handled shovels on the market and broken all of them within weeks. I own the majority stake of a light construction business and no one that works for me will use a fiberglass handled shovel. Hell, I broke one stumping a small azalea.
Wood handled mauls and axes stand up better if the user is prone to overstroking. If you don't use your tool regularly I would recommend oiling it, and storing in in a cool place rather than a hot shed. If you store it in the shed it's going to dry out very quickly and splinter or break.
I think what he's saying is that present behavior allows an estimate of past behavior, past behavior (to some extent) can be linked to current status and then used to predict future status.
Several economists and social scientists have done studies of the wealthy and found that great majority of them have elevated themselves from a lower wealth-class through smart money management. I, myself, started out very poor and have managed to work my way up to have some wealth. This while supporting my wife in a single income family and paying for her continuing education.
I have a high school education from a podunk school from a town of 3000 people. If I can do it, you have no excuses.
It's not how much you spend. It's how you spend it. I don't have cable(I don't watch TV at all), I have two vehicles that I paid cash for, I do all of my own home and car maintenance. I built a gym in my home rather than pay out monthlies. (The equipment paid for itself in 12mos.) I don't eat out much, I don't go to convenience stores except to buy gas. These decisions add up.
For instance, eating out, including StarSucks and QuickTrip, usually accounted for $100 per week in expenses, by eating food that I or my have prepared and avoiding 'convenience food' I am saving at least that much per week.
The "Millionaire Next Door" has several references for further research on the topic. It has survived the empirical evidence gathered from the several millionaires that I have met and do business with.
To change your position in life, you must change your behavior.
Several companies do this for diagnosis of a machine. Rather than bother a customer with "this log,that log" questions we (at Hitachi) had several scripts to collect the most commonly needed data to diagnose a storage problem.
Easy money. Why every support organization doesn't do the same is beyond me.
(AIX, HP-UX, Solaris, Linux, and Windows all had their own flavor of script)
Meh, everyone including the "Natives" are benefiting from the 'booty of the crimes of the whites' only it wasn't just the whites. Oh, you didn't know that there were black immigrants as well? Even Hispanic and Moorish as well...
As a card carrying (literally) "native" whose white relatives first set foot in NA in the 1700's, and promptly married into a tribe and disappeared into the tribal family until the mid 1800's (That whole trail of tears thing was a bitch.) I could give shit less what happened to my ancestors. As my last full blood relative(great-granpa) often said about the situation between natives and whites. Shit happens, get over it. The people begging for hand-outs have been weakened by their fear of the white man. Don't take his pity.
Or as it went in another seminal childhood experience; One fine summer day I was working in great-grandparents garden, weeding and hoeing away when I took a break to eat a PB&J and down some water. As I was sitting there I thought it would be neat to carve an actual seat into the tree stump I was sitting on. So I grabbed my hatchet and got to work. When I was nearly done I was working a tough bit when the hatchet bounced from an awkward strike and severed the meat between the thumb and forefinger. Biting back tears I wrapped my hand in my t-shirt(boy was mom pissed) and considered whether to finished my work or go to grandma and tell her what had happened. The pain won out and I ran to the house and show her the damage. She opined that it would take a few stitches to fix that up just as great-granpa walked in. He asked me whether or not the garden was done. I told him the story about what had happened and he told great-grandma to sew it up so that I could finish. She grabbed the alcohol, a needle, some black thread and went to work. As I sat there whimpering, with tears pouring off my face, my great-granpa grabbed my chin, knelt to look me in the eye, and sternly told me. "Stop the crying, it's the white man in you."
Avarice through welfare is a construct of the weak. Use it at your own peril.
Live under the law of the land. Play by the same rules as everyone around you and beat them at it. Then no one can take your victories by saying, "He's Indian, so the tribe probably helped him out" or "He's black, so he's an affirmative action winner"
My apologies.
I was cranky yesterday and I did what I often criticize others for doing, impugning the decency and intelligence of those who believe in God.
I am sorry, your post clarifies the matter in a way that is much closer to my true feelings.
Thanks.
I disagree. ID can be easily disproven and life goes on. The people that will embrace ID and completely disregard scientific method and evidence wouldn't necessarily be involved in the professions that would be responsible for the design and/or manufacture of a product.
However, the consequences of infringing on one's liberty can and should be taught and reinforced whenever possible, to enable acceptable mores and a healthy paranoia toward an overreaching gov't.
Or perhaps one should consider the damage done to a child by an overbearing micro-managing parent. Maybe you could even consider that sort of relationship between manager and working stiff.
It tends to make people uninsightful, fearful, and unimaginative. So, what do you get by over-scrutinizing the gov'ts every move? A gov't peopled by lackeys and lickspittles who lack the courage to do what is necessary to prevail.
You get what you ask for I suppose. It just saddens me to know that most people are officious enough that they can't see how they've been played into making the political process a soap-opera.
captcha: treasury
Guess they've never fired a rifle whilst being battle-trained eh?
My dad was a international level shooter and you wouldn't believe how fast he could reload a bolt-action rifle.
One of those thing's that make me laugh. Like saying that taking an assault rifle away is going to lower the body count when someone walks into a classroom and starts shooting. With a little practice you can fire a clip empty and reload before someone can get out of their seat.
Just shows how ignorant people become when they have zero experience in a field.
No, more than likely not. Once a technology gets to the point where it becomes anywhere near a displacement technology, they will convert part of the very large research lab just west of me to exploiting that new technology.
Plastics, LNG, nuclear fuels, bitumen mining, acoustics, imaging, and god knows what else goes on over there...
There will be no technology that will result in an energy utopia. The more energy we can efficiently make, the more we will learn to consume. Someone will have to manufacture the portable units, someone else will have to mine or refine the raw materials, and someone will have to deliver it to your door.
I would bet on the companies that already have a very large infrastructure to refine, manufacture, track and ship materials. The only question will be which of those companies will be leading the pack?