The idea that we can "make nice" with monsters... Reagan doctrine
Reagan's first act as President was to pay off terrorists in Iran, and it looks like there was some leadup of sabotage of Carter's efforts before the election via a back channel to Iran (but it's not treason if you get elected President before it comes out). Then there's the Afganistan thing funding people we had to fight later, some nasty types in Central America (who we had to fight later), sending the fleet in to help Saddam fucking Hussain (who we had to fight later), selling weapons to Hezbolla just after they had killed over a hundred US Marines (we sent weapons to Israel so they could fight them later) - a long, long list of "making nice" with monsters.
How about an example: that guy at Enron who said they were "doing God's work" by manipulating the price of electricity in California. He was acting according to his conscience. While in your or my view it was outright theft in his view it was the right thing to do. I think the above poster was referring to viewpoints like that skewed "doing God's work" when he wrote:
A bunch of people who sincerely believe in all the crap they do... those people are dangerous, unhinged, and will simply do anything they feel they need to.
Such should be obvious and I'm a bit curious as to why you are writing as if it is not.
It's especially scary when you compare the views of the US man in the street and the Chinese man in the street. Swap governments and have a "might makes right" USA and a lot of people will still be very happy with it. They'll still see criminals getting locked up and may even be happy with that 99% conviction rate where arrest is seen as proof of guilt.
I do believe that many of them are honourable people
A very poor assumption to make and one that is frequently abused by the dishonourable. Systems should be open enough that the dishonourable have no shadow to hide in, even if that means (shock! horror!) someone from the professional military or professional law enforcement being able to investigate the spooks.
The anti-American propaganda has been ongoing for a century, the main difference now is that starts in elementary school, so that brainwashed students never learn to reject the lies.
Where else is it perfectly acceptable for a poorly regulated sporting club to spread propaganda calling for everyone to arm for the purpose of some day overthrowing the government?
Being pushed back all the way from the border of China is pretty close to a loss, but you are technically correct as with your second example which also ended in a cease-fire for the years until Baby Bush decided he wanted to be remembered as a wartime President.
Yes but with no plan behind it or conflicting plans. Wind back to the 1950s and part of the CIA was running guns to Castro while another was seeing him as the threat he proved to be and were acting against him. Over the last few decades there's been pro-Arab and pro-Israeli factions in US intelligence stepping on each others toes enough for it to get out into the media. There was a Senator for sale to foreign powers, Charlie Wilson, who got US intelligence mixed up with a wide range of shady characters from South America to Africa, not just the people in Afganistan we ended up fighting later. Weirdness like Panama where an invasion was an object lesson to other puppets that there was no negotiation or second chances if a puppet went slightly off message. Bombs in Italy. A ridiculous attempt to remove the leader of Australia that backfired into being used as an excuse by agents to sell secrets to the USSR (Falcon and Snowman was based on that case). Abduction of citizens of allies. If there was a plan it's as if it's been written to do damage. The problem is not so much the exercise of power but doing it in a shambolic way to piss off the maximum number of people. It's the lack of control which results in a foreign policy being that of working around the mess produced by rogue spooks with agendas that are skewed towards the interests of other nations instead of that of the USA (eg. pro-Saudi and pro-Israeli factions).
It's an attempted joke based on the frequent US mistake of "loose" instead of "lose" for the past decade or so. Other English speakers don't seem to make it anywhere near as frequently, but maybe it's usage thing such as tablet/phone spellcheckers versus desktops/laptops.
Your blatant mistakes make it obvious that you are neither an engineer with any sort of experience or that you have spent any time in the electricity generation or transmission industries - so try a different lie that insults the intelligence of the readers less. I left the electricity industry in 1996 for coal and oil and a bit of part time academic work, but remember enough to spot a deliberate liar who is basing their lies on a less than high school understanding of the subject matter.
You've really hit rock bottom here. What will you claim to be next?
Lairs use sources that do not back up their words as a shell game. People with slightly better than a high school understanding of the topic in this simple case don't need a source, because they can spot the fucking obvious. Hot steel expands - is that grade 7 stuff or grade 9? Just design it so it doesn't? The world isn't fucking Star Trek! We both know you are not correct so why should I go running around looking for links when nobody else is going to read down this far?
Why are you trying to tell me things that I have known for decades but you do not understand yourself? You nearly got load following right - try harder and you'll see it applies to running a unit below capacity - almost never done these days now that we have sources of power of only a few megawatts that can be brought on and off line easily.
A very transparent and pathetic attempt to deflect from the fact that you are clearly wrong
Your attempted sidetrack into windmills is an example of this and not your misunderstanding of switching units held as spinning reserve on and off line as being "load following". If you would look it up and think back to some dusty memories of science from high school to get enough to understand it that would prevent you from making such a comical mistake in the future.
No, you just threw in the term "spinning reserve' as a trollish deflection
So I was cruel to the poor little boy that got old without growing up by using difficult words? That's the price you have to pay Peter Pan when for the sake of some luddite political bullshit you deliberately mislead the children who are trying to grow up.
then you don't know what that term means
So the coder boy is bleating to the engineer about the engineer not knowing anything about engineering? What a joke! Just fix thermal expansion like editing software - how funny.
Some of the "intel" came from a PR company FFS! There's no point pretending any more, not even his closest friends at the time are standing up for him and the Republican party has moved on.
In front of other audiences he is a denier. Rupert says what is required for the situation. He gave a series of lectures that seemed to show he's a huge fan of taxpayer funded education, but he's got very elaborate arrangements to avoid funding it by paying tax. Apple's double Dutch Irish tax dodge looks simple in comparison. Wherever you sit on the political spectrum there's no point standing up for him - he's not for Republicans, Tories or whatever, he's for Rupert telling those in power what to do. That's why he keeps his newspapers that are bleeding money. What he prints in them influences politics far better than his cable, satellite, studios etc that are not bleeding money.
He tunes out anyone who complains that the waterfront would be severed from the city, healthy neighborhoods splintered or paved over and the poor walled in
Yes that happened in some places like Detroit - don't blame the engineer for deliberate policy imposed by managers that are likely to have had a classical "liberal arts" background far more "well rounded" than today but were really just pricks who didn't care about the consequences when they set the policy.
As for the stereotype, many engineers of the late 1950s even had enough "liberal arts" to include a bit of latin, and in the current day while engineering students study far less non-engineering content there is often a mandatory amount of non-engineering content.
They have also screwed up the one major life decision they have made so far: Their college major.
As did we in the view of some by not studying law, not going into real estate and not getting rich by drawing tattoos on teenagers. For a general career in an office, retail, etc an arts degree is far better than high school alone.
It doesn't back up your point at all because you've decided to use a technical term you do not understand, just to try to look cool, and you are using something completely different to "back it up". In terms you may understand - you are calling the monitor "a computer" and calling the beige box plugged into it "the hard drive" and getting annoyed when being told it is not so.
Still here "just fix reality in software" guy? Try to understand what the text means in articles before linking to them! It's not actually very difficult in this case.
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A typo is bound to follow when you use a phrase such as "within your abusive illiteracy" to be critical of a few typos in another post.
Reagan's first act as President was to pay off terrorists in Iran, and it looks like there was some leadup of sabotage of Carter's efforts before the election via a back channel to Iran (but it's not treason if you get elected President before it comes out). Then there's the Afganistan thing funding people we had to fight later, some nasty types in Central America (who we had to fight later), sending the fleet in to help Saddam fucking Hussain (who we had to fight later), selling weapons to Hezbolla just after they had killed over a hundred US Marines (we sent weapons to Israel so they could fight them later) - a long, long list of "making nice" with monsters.
He was acting according to his conscience.
While in your or my view it was outright theft in his view it was the right thing to do.
I think the above poster was referring to viewpoints like that skewed "doing God's work" when he wrote:
Such should be obvious and I'm a bit curious as to why you are writing as if it is not.
It's especially scary when you compare the views of the US man in the street and the Chinese man in the street. Swap governments and have a "might makes right" USA and a lot of people will still be very happy with it. They'll still see criminals getting locked up and may even be happy with that 99% conviction rate where arrest is seen as proof of guilt.
A very poor assumption to make and one that is frequently abused by the dishonourable. Systems should be open enough that the dishonourable have no shadow to hide in, even if that means (shock! horror!) someone from the professional military or professional law enforcement being able to investigate the spooks.
Where else is it perfectly acceptable for a poorly regulated sporting club to spread propaganda calling for everyone to arm for the purpose of some day overthrowing the government?
Being pushed back all the way from the border of China is pretty close to a loss, but you are technically correct as with your second example which also ended in a cease-fire for the years until Baby Bush decided he wanted to be remembered as a wartime President.
Yes but with no plan behind it or conflicting plans.
Wind back to the 1950s and part of the CIA was running guns to Castro while another was seeing him as the threat he proved to be and were acting against him. Over the last few decades there's been pro-Arab and pro-Israeli factions in US intelligence stepping on each others toes enough for it to get out into the media. There was a Senator for sale to foreign powers, Charlie Wilson, who got US intelligence mixed up with a wide range of shady characters from South America to Africa, not just the people in Afganistan we ended up fighting later. Weirdness like Panama where an invasion was an object lesson to other puppets that there was no negotiation or second chances if a puppet went slightly off message. Bombs in Italy. A ridiculous attempt to remove the leader of Australia that backfired into being used as an excuse by agents to sell secrets to the USSR (Falcon and Snowman was based on that case). Abduction of citizens of allies. If there was a plan it's as if it's been written to do damage.
The problem is not so much the exercise of power but doing it in a shambolic way to piss off the maximum number of people. It's the lack of control which results in a foreign policy being that of working around the mess produced by rogue spooks with agendas that are skewed towards the interests of other nations instead of that of the USA (eg. pro-Saudi and pro-Israeli factions).
It's an attempted joke based on the frequent US mistake of "loose" instead of "lose" for the past decade or so.
Other English speakers don't seem to make it anywhere near as frequently, but maybe it's usage thing such as tablet/phone spellcheckers versus desktops/laptops.
Your blatant mistakes make it obvious that you are neither an engineer with any sort of experience or that you have spent any time in the electricity generation or transmission industries - so try a different lie that insults the intelligence of the readers less.
I left the electricity industry in 1996 for coal and oil and a bit of part time academic work, but remember enough to spot a deliberate liar who is basing their lies on a less than high school understanding of the subject matter.
You've really hit rock bottom here. What will you claim to be next?
Lairs use sources that do not back up their words as a shell game. People with slightly better than a high school understanding of the topic in this simple case don't need a source, because they can spot the fucking obvious. Hot steel expands - is that grade 7 stuff or grade 9? Just design it so it doesn't? The world isn't fucking Star Trek!
We both know you are not correct so why should I go running around looking for links when nobody else is going to read down this far?
Why are you trying to tell me things that I have known for decades but you do not understand yourself?
You nearly got load following right - try harder and you'll see it applies to running a unit below capacity - almost never done these days now that we have sources of power of only a few megawatts that can be brought on and off line easily.
Your attempted sidetrack into windmills is an example of this and not your misunderstanding of switching units held as spinning reserve on and off line as being "load following". If you would look it up and think back to some dusty memories of science from high school to get enough to understand it that would prevent you from making such a comical mistake in the future.
So I was cruel to the poor little boy that got old without growing up by using difficult words? That's the price you have to pay Peter Pan when for the sake of some luddite political bullshit you deliberately mislead the children who are trying to grow up.
So the coder boy is bleating to the engineer about the engineer not knowing anything about engineering? What a joke!
Just fix thermal expansion like editing software - how funny.
By spelling "lose" correctly I suppose you can be ejected for using the Queen's English instead of "yawl".
Some of the "intel" came from a PR company FFS!
There's no point pretending any more, not even his closest friends at the time are standing up for him and the Republican party has moved on.
If you want a real job go to China (manufacturing) or India (I.T.). Don't blame Obama for what HP and many others have been doing for years.
He may be better than some but do you really want an amoral blatant tax evader to run the place?
In front of other audiences he is a denier.
Rupert says what is required for the situation. He gave a series of lectures that seemed to show he's a huge fan of taxpayer funded education, but he's got very elaborate arrangements to avoid funding it by paying tax. Apple's double Dutch Irish tax dodge looks simple in comparison.
Wherever you sit on the political spectrum there's no point standing up for him - he's not for Republicans, Tories or whatever, he's for Rupert telling those in power what to do. That's why he keeps his newspapers that are bleeding money. What he prints in them influences politics far better than his cable, satellite, studios etc that are not bleeding money.
It's also common in areas of the third world where family and social connections matter more than ability.
Yes that happened in some places like Detroit - don't blame the engineer for deliberate policy imposed by managers that are likely to have had a classical "liberal arts" background far more "well rounded" than today but were really just pricks who didn't care about the consequences when they set the policy.
As for the stereotype, many engineers of the late 1950s even had enough "liberal arts" to include a bit of latin, and in the current day while engineering students study far less non-engineering content there is often a mandatory amount of non-engineering content.
As did we in the view of some by not studying law, not going into real estate and not getting rich by drawing tattoos on teenagers.
For a general career in an office, retail, etc an arts degree is far better than high school alone.
It doesn't back up your point at all because you've decided to use a technical term you do not understand, just to try to look cool, and you are using something completely different to "back it up".
In terms you may understand - you are calling the monitor "a computer" and calling the beige box plugged into it "the hard drive" and getting annoyed when being told it is not so.
That is why you are being laughed at.
I suggest looking up what load following actually means before posting stuff about taking full units offline at a time and having spinning reserve.
Still here "just fix reality in software" guy?
Try to understand what the text means in articles before linking to them!
It's not actually very difficult in this case.
Cake for breakfast! May as well have pancakes covered in syrup.