Couldn't we train up some captured North Koreans that we have brainwashed into being perfect assassins that can be activated by a remote code? Then we would have perfect deniability.
The long and the short of it is that China wants a buffer. That's it. They're willing to put up with the nuisance of North Korea (who are plenty annoying to them, also) to keep US troops away from their border.
The probability of the US attempting a land invasion of China is about the same as that of North Korea obliterating the US in an exchange of nuclear weapons, i.e. effectively zero.
Surely not even the most insane of Chinese or American military leaders would think it was a possibility? You might as well draw up a plan to invade Russia in the middle of winter, based on glorious historical precedents.
Exactly -- and, even more strongly, we have been genetically engineering other animals for millennia, by selective breeding. We built, for instance, the bulldog -- a dog with no face, that can't fuck on its own, can't give birth on its own, and is generally completely physically incompetent. How is building a goat that makes spider silk any more unnatural or cruel?
Hey, guess what? I don't approve of bulldogs OR goat-spiders!
Who knew that because A is worse than B, that doesn't make B good, since life is not just about binary choices?
I'm probably being thick, but why can't we just breed lots and lots of spiders and keep them all locked up in a big cage making spider silk? Why do we have to pass them through goats?
tl;dr, roman_mir implies that democracy and proper self-determination is "tyrannical" and makes thinly-veiled wishes for a de jure dictatorship of industrialists, as usual.
The US has a progressive federal income taxation system, from 10 to 35%. It's just not progressive to confiscatory, punitive levels as you'd like it.
i.e. it's not fully progressive
Sales taxes are regressive. Sin taxes such as those on alcohol and cigarettes are regressive. Taxes on fuel and carbon emissions are regressive. Interestingly, such taxes are very popular with liberals.
Yet again the meaningless American right wing use of the word "liberal" crops up. If by "liberal" you mean "left wing" then you are quite wrong. Left wingers do not approve of flat-rate (regressive) taxes at all. We think that taxes should come out of income with the wealthiest paying a LOT more. Sales taxes, especially on things like electricity, fuel, food or clothes are completely inequitable for those on low incomes.
I know that right wingers like to equate left wingers with being anti-pleasure, it's simply a feeble diversionary tactic.
Scratch a libertard, find a good old-fashioned oligarch underneath.
roman mir isn't a libertarian, he's an anti-government anarchist. He's also a damned fool unless he's filthy rich.
If you're anti-government but pro-capitalism, you're a libertarian, not an anarchist. I don't care how much people in the US want to try to hijack words to mean whatever suits them, the fact is that anarchists are on the left wing along with communists. If you believe in unfettered free markets and capitalism, you're not left wing.
That's just wrong. Whatever your opinion of him, I think Al Gore has got that one right. Crossing venomous, hairy, crawling spawns of Satan with the loveable and intelligent goat is just evil.
I've never heard that, but I have heard that people who drive trucks: pickups, SUVs etc are compensating for the size of their equipment. People with small cars don't seem to compensating for anything.
BCSD: big car, small dick. Personally, I drive a Mini.
In the UK, you can be required to leave licensed premises (i.e. somehwere selling alcohol) for any or no reason whatsoever. If you're barred by the landlord of a pub, tough shit.
Stalking is a pretty questionable offense, since it can apply to almost any behavior that the "victim" objects to. And according to you if the victim doesn't realize they are being stalked the stalking is worse! Of course companies and the government are experts in overt and covert tracking, but it's somehow criminal when impotent individuals do it?
Turds like you really don't help things. Stalking is not "a pretty questionable", it is a serious problem involving a seriously disturbed individual which always has the potential to end in murder.
And quite what it has to do with corporate or government espionage is beyond me.
The best solution to a stalker is to ambush them, cut their arms and legs off and shit down their neck after you've sliced their head off with a chainsaw.
However, I believe there would be certain legal...issues if you did this.
Underlying the concept of stalking is the danger of physical danger at least on some level. You cannot be stalked by a toddler. Stalking and recording via google glass are two completely different things. No threat of physical violence = ok.
That is pure bullshit, both legally and morally.
No offence, but I can only assume you are some creepy stalker trying to gustify their pathetic existence. I hope one of your victims cuts your fucking head off with a blunt bread knife after capturing and torturing you horribly for a few days.
I wish this was actually supposed to be funny, as you've been modded, rather than a deadly serious statement of ultimate entitlement and the death of privacy.
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I'm sure I've seen that in a film.
We could stop sending food aid to increase pressure, but the innocent people in NK will starve.
I thought the whole point of economic sanctions was to make people suffer, so that they eventually get fed up with their rulers and revolt?
It seems self evident that the leaders aren't going to be the ones going without food.
The long and the short of it is that China wants a buffer. That's it. They're willing to put up with the nuisance of North Korea (who are plenty annoying to them, also) to keep US troops away from their border.
The probability of the US attempting a land invasion of China is about the same as that of North Korea obliterating the US in an exchange of nuclear weapons, i.e. effectively zero.
Surely not even the most insane of Chinese or American military leaders would think it was a possibility? You might as well draw up a plan to invade Russia in the middle of winter, based on glorious historical precedents.
We've abstained from direct intervention in Cuba for over half a century on the word of a long dead president.
Well, yes, if you class the impostion of crippling economic sanctions as only an indirect intervention.
Hint: no they didn't.
"Goat sense"? Why does that name send jeebies up my spine?
It's down past your spine you have to worry about.
Exactly -- and, even more strongly, we have been genetically engineering other animals for millennia, by selective breeding. We built, for instance, the bulldog -- a dog with no face, that can't fuck on its own, can't give birth on its own, and is generally completely physically incompetent. How is building a goat that makes spider silk any more unnatural or cruel?
Hey, guess what? I don't approve of bulldogs OR goat-spiders!
Who knew that because A is worse than B, that doesn't make B good, since life is not just about binary choices?
tl;dr I love goats and hate spiders
tl;dr, roman_mir implies that democracy and proper self-determination is "tyrannical" and makes thinly-veiled wishes for a de jure dictatorship of industrialists, as usual.
tl;dr roman_mir is a libertarian
The US has a progressive federal income taxation system, from 10 to 35%. It's just not progressive to confiscatory, punitive levels as you'd like it.
i.e. it's not fully progressive
Sales taxes are regressive. Sin taxes such as those on alcohol and cigarettes are regressive. Taxes on fuel and carbon emissions are regressive. Interestingly, such taxes are very popular with liberals.
Yet again the meaningless American right wing use of the word "liberal" crops up. If by "liberal" you mean "left wing" then you are quite wrong. Left wingers do not approve of flat-rate (regressive) taxes at all. We think that taxes should come out of income with the wealthiest paying a LOT more. Sales taxes, especially on things like electricity, fuel, food or clothes are completely inequitable for those on low incomes.
I know that right wingers like to equate left wingers with being anti-pleasure, it's simply a feeble diversionary tactic.
Scratch a libertard, find a good old-fashioned oligarch underneath.
roman mir isn't a libertarian, he's an anti-government anarchist. He's also a damned fool unless he's filthy rich.
If you're anti-government but pro-capitalism, you're a libertarian, not an anarchist. I don't care how much people in the US want to try to hijack words to mean whatever suits them, the fact is that anarchists are on the left wing along with communists. If you believe in unfettered free markets and capitalism, you're not left wing.
"19th century USA created more wealth and the actual real middle class than 20th century"
Laughably incorrect. This alone makes me doubt all your claims.
I just look at the poster's name "roman_mir" and know it's going to be the same old libertarian bollocks.
That's just wrong. Whatever your opinion of him, I think Al Gore has got that one right. Crossing venomous, hairy, crawling spawns of Satan with the loveable and intelligent goat is just evil.
There are few things as dreary as a repressed homosexual.
I've never heard that, but I have heard that people who drive trucks: pickups, SUVs etc are compensating for the size of their equipment. People with small cars don't seem to compensating for anything.
BCSD: big car, small dick. Personally, I drive a Mini.
Old joke.
Otherwise, to this non-American, you just look like a child playing with a Tonka toy.
In the UK, you can be required to leave licensed premises (i.e. somehwere selling alcohol) for any or no reason whatsoever. If you're barred by the landlord of a pub, tough shit.
Stalking is a pretty questionable offense, since it can apply to almost any behavior that the "victim" objects to. And according to you if the victim doesn't realize they are being stalked the stalking is worse! Of course companies and the government are experts in overt and covert tracking, but it's somehow criminal when impotent individuals do it?
Turds like you really don't help things. Stalking is not "a pretty questionable", it is a serious problem involving a seriously disturbed individual which always has the potential to end in murder.
And quite what it has to do with corporate or government espionage is beyond me.
However, I believe there would be certain legal...issues if you did this.
Underlying the concept of stalking is the danger of physical danger at least on some level. You cannot be stalked by a toddler. Stalking and recording via google glass are two completely different things. No threat of physical violence = ok.
That is pure bullshit, both legally and morally.
No offence, but I can only assume you are some creepy stalker trying to gustify their pathetic existence. I hope one of your victims cuts your fucking head off with a blunt bread knife after capturing and torturing you horribly for a few days.
If your idea of a good time in a bar is having a burger, you're doing it wrong.
In point of fact, the plural of MILF would actually be MILF.
Mothers....
Similarly, Sheep I'd Like to Fuck is the same in either the singular or plural.
So I've been told.
I wish this was actually supposed to be funny, as you've been modded, rather than a deadly serious statement of ultimate entitlement and the death of privacy.
It's not a good thing or a bad thing. It's a different thing, and the culture will change to accommodate it.
Bollocks, society (culture) can always decide something is just bad. E.g. we don't let individuals own nuclear weapons.
We've slowly been working on a Cthulhu/Lovecraft style universe with erotic story aspects but thanks to the collapse of film making in Michigan it's slow going. Anyone interested check out http://www.hex.xxx/ we've got some short YouTube videos up and are looking for interested folks both here and online to participate. - HEX
I really wouldn't encourage a whole bunch of slashdotters to "help out" because they think they're going to get a chance to see some boobies.