Except that our tax on gasoline isn't repressive, it actually happens to be one of the lightest gas taxes in the civilized, developed world. The problem isn't taxes, its how the tax money is spent (or not spent).
You don't think that if the Democratic National Committee had even a hint of real vote fraud that they wouldn't be fomenting bloody rebellion? Are you kidding me?
You mean the same DNC that is in on the con? You think if they were a real opposition party Nancy Pelosi would have taken impeachment "off the table"? The sooner we all admit that basically all the ones with power are in on the con, the sooner we can implement a solution to get us out of this asschewing fucknut of a situation.
You're right, in a stopped clock kind of way, about Joe Q. Public not wanting to give up dangerous, polluting things. Sadly the bulk of your post is a bunch of straight up bullshit, distortions, outright lies, and just enough half truths to make it a floater instead of a sinker. Chances are you're aware of this and just don't give a shit, as long as you can keep your toys. Thats fine.
Here's the thing though: Its not sustainable. That'ss not ideology, that's just how it is. Joe Q. Public is living an unsustainable lifestyle, and that means that eventually, either something important is going to run out, or some combination of important things are going to become too expensive all in quick succession, and the rather robust system we live in is going to have a terminal shock. We can eat a certain amount of damage, but eventually the slams will hit resonance and the whole thing is going to go into a tailspin.
Is it possible to prevent this by preparing, planning, and mitigating? Sure. Will we do that? Not enough to save everyone.
When it comes down to it, it won't be citizens vs the military, it'll be everyone for themselves. Tanks, bombers, attack helicopters, and all the big toys are highly dependent on logistics and resupply and tend to break down if not given a lot of care. Small arms, especially the fun ones like the pump action shotgun and the AK-47, can stay in operation for years and years with minimal resource requirements.
The rifled barrel is the great equalizer. You don't need that much training to use it, and a band of starving English majors is going to be just as dangerous as anyone else after a year of pure survival mode. The lone survivalist libertarians will be off in their isolated patches, sitting on valuable stores of food, ammunition, clothing, and other supplies. They'll be the first to fall, either from the above mentioned pissed off gun toting liberals or the vestiges of the military-industrial-government overlords that still have a few working heavy weapons and a desire to get their hands on some easy canned goods and shotguns.
Nobody will be safe, and it will all be because douchebags today do their best to convince everyone that the people who are trying to work cooperatively, together, toward a common good are the enemy. You're sowing it, you better well fucking expect to reap it.
As for me, I'm fat, dimwitted, and have food allergies. I'll die quick, but I'll see you in Hell.
I remember the scene you're quoting, its from Next Generation season 6 episode 8 right? Right before the subspace rift opened and caused a negative parralax implosion in the dilithium crystals?
Oh for fucks sake. I guess we should just keep all our kids safely locked up in cages 24/7 so they can be protected from all the horrible evil things in the world, until they're 18 of course, when we can thrust them out into that world with absolutely no clue how to handle it and no experience dealing with a non-sanitized environment. Remember when we used to just tell our kids to avoid strangers and hang out with groups and then sent them outside to play?
So basically the guy enjoyed playing "guess the syntax" games, where you know WHAT you need to do but have to spend hours trying to guess how to tell the computer to make your character do it. Having to try 300 combinations to figure out how to unlock a door to discover that you had to type "put jade encrusted key into the keyhole, turn key and turn handle" or whatever isn't fun, the only challenge is how much boredom you can tolerate.
The best way to stop an asteroid is to crash your planet into it. On the other hand, if you want to deflect it, nukes might be a way to go. Though I like the idea of using mirrors better.
Huh. Thats a pretty fucking good idea. Very interesting. I bet if a congressslug knew for a fact he was pissing away $10k to make a lobbiest who bought him lunch that day happy, he might change his tune.
Exactly. I just bought Bioshock and the thing keeps crashing on my computer. I should have pirated it first, but I was trying to be honest and had waited for it to hit an acceptable price point (which it did on steam this weekend). Now I'm being punished for being honest. At least when I get viruses from pirating shit, I know what I'm getting in to.
Now I'm stuck with a couple of gigs of worthless data on my hard drive that I feel like I should keep around in case they patch it. And I'm convinced more than ever that when spore comes out, that shit is coming off the pirate bay. I'm not going to pay for another 60 dollar doorstop.
I always pictured an RIAA tea party involving a bunch of fat rich white motherfuckers in suits sinking to the bottom of a bay. Probably be more effective at sending a message than tossing in a thumb drive with the latest shit from Brittney on it, not to mention cheaper and more fun.
I disagree. I think the problem was that the game wasn't designed to be "Jedi Online" from the start. In a Galaxy so heavily populated as to have literally trillions of individuals, 2-3000 Jedi/Sith (about the normal server population as far as I know) sounds about right. Just set it up so that the players make up the bulk of the Jedi/Sith. Include things like Bounty Hunter or Dancer or whatever for the people who want to do that for RP purposes, and then don't try to balance the "classes." Jedi should be more powerful and better at basically everything. If you make a Bounty Hunter and get pwned by a Jedi (aka Jango Fett) don't cry, you knew what you were signing up for. If you want to kill a Jedi you better ambush them with about 20 clone troopers firing fully automatic blasters at point blank range, preferably into their back.
Eh, it was mostly just a rhetorical flourish. To many people a healthy burn looks like total destruction, and I've always appreciated the resonance of the "destroy the village in order to save it" phrase from the Vietnam war.
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Except that our tax on gasoline isn't repressive, it actually happens to be one of the lightest gas taxes in the civilized, developed world. The problem isn't taxes, its how the tax money is spent (or not spent).
You don't think that if the Democratic National Committee had even a hint of real vote fraud that they wouldn't be fomenting bloody rebellion? Are you kidding me?
You mean the same DNC that is in on the con? You think if they were a real opposition party Nancy Pelosi would have taken impeachment "off the table"? The sooner we all admit that basically all the ones with power are in on the con, the sooner we can implement a solution to get us out of this asschewing fucknut of a situation.
You're right, in a stopped clock kind of way, about Joe Q. Public not wanting to give up dangerous, polluting things. Sadly the bulk of your post is a bunch of straight up bullshit, distortions, outright lies, and just enough half truths to make it a floater instead of a sinker. Chances are you're aware of this and just don't give a shit, as long as you can keep your toys. Thats fine.
Here's the thing though: Its not sustainable. That'ss not ideology, that's just how it is. Joe Q. Public is living an unsustainable lifestyle, and that means that eventually, either something important is going to run out, or some combination of important things are going to become too expensive all in quick succession, and the rather robust system we live in is going to have a terminal shock. We can eat a certain amount of damage, but eventually the slams will hit resonance and the whole thing is going to go into a tailspin.
Is it possible to prevent this by preparing, planning, and mitigating? Sure. Will we do that? Not enough to save everyone.
When it comes down to it, it won't be citizens vs the military, it'll be everyone for themselves. Tanks, bombers, attack helicopters, and all the big toys are highly dependent on logistics and resupply and tend to break down if not given a lot of care. Small arms, especially the fun ones like the pump action shotgun and the AK-47, can stay in operation for years and years with minimal resource requirements.
The rifled barrel is the great equalizer. You don't need that much training to use it, and a band of starving English majors is going to be just as dangerous as anyone else after a year of pure survival mode. The lone survivalist libertarians will be off in their isolated patches, sitting on valuable stores of food, ammunition, clothing, and other supplies. They'll be the first to fall, either from the above mentioned pissed off gun toting liberals or the vestiges of the military-industrial-government overlords that still have a few working heavy weapons and a desire to get their hands on some easy canned goods and shotguns.
Nobody will be safe, and it will all be because douchebags today do their best to convince everyone that the people who are trying to work cooperatively, together, toward a common good are the enemy. You're sowing it, you better well fucking expect to reap it.
As for me, I'm fat, dimwitted, and have food allergies. I'll die quick, but I'll see you in Hell.
what gives the electron its mass?
The Pope?
You need to blow some xp on Arete there buddy.
I remember the scene you're quoting, its from Next Generation season 6 episode 8 right? Right before the subspace rift opened and caused a negative parralax implosion in the dilithium crystals?
Oh for fucks sake. I guess we should just keep all our kids safely locked up in cages 24/7 so they can be protected from all the horrible evil things in the world, until they're 18 of course, when we can thrust them out into that world with absolutely no clue how to handle it and no experience dealing with a non-sanitized environment. Remember when we used to just tell our kids to avoid strangers and hang out with groups and then sent them outside to play?
So basically the guy enjoyed playing "guess the syntax" games, where you know WHAT you need to do but have to spend hours trying to guess how to tell the computer to make your character do it. Having to try 300 combinations to figure out how to unlock a door to discover that you had to type "put jade encrusted key into the keyhole, turn key and turn handle" or whatever isn't fun, the only challenge is how much boredom you can tolerate.
The best way to stop an asteroid is to crash your planet into it. On the other hand, if you want to deflect it, nukes might be a way to go. Though I like the idea of using mirrors better.
I can say that I have direct experience that proves the existence of energy.
Well, thats a rigorous enough sample size for me, bring on the crystals and pyramids!
This post gives me mental images of everyone covered in stinky, rotting cuts of beef.
If you really want them to pay attention to you, become a lobbiest for a major corporation.
Or put a severed horse's head in their bed while they're sleeping.
Huh. Thats a pretty fucking good idea. Very interesting. I bet if a congressslug knew for a fact he was pissing away $10k to make a lobbiest who bought him lunch that day happy, he might change his tune.
Exactly. I just bought Bioshock and the thing keeps crashing on my computer. I should have pirated it first, but I was trying to be honest and had waited for it to hit an acceptable price point (which it did on steam this weekend). Now I'm being punished for being honest. At least when I get viruses from pirating shit, I know what I'm getting in to.
Now I'm stuck with a couple of gigs of worthless data on my hard drive that I feel like I should keep around in case they patch it. And I'm convinced more than ever that when spore comes out, that shit is coming off the pirate bay. I'm not going to pay for another 60 dollar doorstop.
I always pictured an RIAA tea party involving a bunch of fat rich white motherfuckers in suits sinking to the bottom of a bay. Probably be more effective at sending a message than tossing in a thumb drive with the latest shit from Brittney on it, not to mention cheaper and more fun.
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I like parrots.
How can you be on slashdot and not know about fair use. I'm going to go put my head in the oven now.
Yeah, actually, you did, though implicitly, I guess so you could have deniability later in order to extend your trolling effort?
Regular troops have the luxary of not having to go straight from getting off the plane to directly into the battlefield.
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Thanks for the laugh. I needed that.
Or from pissed off, heavily armed libertarians.
I disagree. I think the problem was that the game wasn't designed to be "Jedi Online" from the start. In a Galaxy so heavily populated as to have literally trillions of individuals, 2-3000 Jedi/Sith (about the normal server population as far as I know) sounds about right. Just set it up so that the players make up the bulk of the Jedi/Sith. Include things like Bounty Hunter or Dancer or whatever for the people who want to do that for RP purposes, and then don't try to balance the "classes." Jedi should be more powerful and better at basically everything. If you make a Bounty Hunter and get pwned by a Jedi (aka Jango Fett) don't cry, you knew what you were signing up for. If you want to kill a Jedi you better ambush them with about 20 clone troopers firing fully automatic blasters at point blank range, preferably into their back.
Ah, you're quoting the oft-overlooked direct to video sequel, "Alien vs Child Predator." A great flick, that one.
More importantly, can I get the icon in cornflower blue?
Eh, it was mostly just a rhetorical flourish. To many people a healthy burn looks like total destruction, and I've always appreciated the resonance of the "destroy the village in order to save it" phrase from the Vietnam war.