Bullshit, the militarization of the police has been going on all through the Clinton years and in fact, ever since the start of the Drug War. It has NOTHING to do with ex-soldiers being the problem. In fact, the ex-soldiers have at least been trained properly in violent use of force.
Actually, Bioshock is a damned piss poor rebuttal of Objectivism. Mind you, it tries so very hard, but it happens in a closed system with a hard limit on resources that has already been reached. Any remotely intelligent economist could tell you that it was already fucked, no matter the economic system. Add in the fact that extremely life-altering changes were introduced in an astonishingly rapid fashion, and any two-bit hack could tell you bad things would go down. Not to mention that from a scientific standpoint the discovery of the uses of ADAM happened entirely too rapidly. Genetics takes time to make understandable changes as there are so very many options. And without modern computers I fail to understand how they were even supposed to understand how to make those changes. Gaping plot holes abound. A much better rebuttal of Objectivism is simply this: Given that Objectivism expects around 95% of citizens to be almost completely rational in deed if not thought, it is doomed to failure in a world populated by humans.
Most hate speech cannot be considered incitement to violence. For an incitement to violence charge to occur, one has to be advocating immediate action. Now, depending on the speech itself, one might get a conspiracy charge out of it, but incitement must be immediate in nature or have immediate consequences.
We don't need to contemplate defense because we have more weapons per capita in the hands of civilians than any other country on earth and those who legally hold weapons tend to be better shots than your average soldier. This combined with the military infrastructure already in place means that any actual invasion of the US is just plain FUCKED.
*shrugs* The lists themselves, no matter what of, are not the problem. It's just info. The problem is what the people in power will do with that info. Of course, the EU is fucked, partly because of their socialist tendencies and partly because of that overwhelming abortion of a government that spans the continent which accedes to the UN and ICC in its decisions. Unless there are major changes, it's heading down the fucking drain long term. The US still has a chance, but given that it would require the majority of the population to pull its head out and actually look at how much power the govt. wields and find offense with that, it too is most probably fucked in the long term. It depends in part upon how the Parker decision turns out and whether the Supreme Court justices will actually do their duty. We'll see.
Actually, at least for small arms, the US is the worlds best customer. Well, except for that cheap chinese shit. There the terrorists are the worlds best customers. The US would be even better customers if it weren't for extremely ineffectual gun laws that don't actually solve any violence problem. Mind you, if you get enough of them on the books they tend to solve political opposition problems quite nicely.
Medicare and SocSec account for approx. 2.5-3 trillion a year in debt. Of course, because the govt. uses cash accounting which is about as honest on a large scale as your average compulsive liar, this isn't reported in the yearly tab. Meanwhile the much, much lesser yearly amount spent on defense is strictly that and not predicated on the future in any way, shape, or form. Not to mention that both SocSec and Medicare as well as most pension systems are long-term insoluble, which the math easily notes if anybody bothers to look at it, but everybody ignores it because they refuse to take responsibility for the fallout in the case of the politicians, or responsibility for themselves in the case of the average joe.
CNN. You expect CNN to rationally report something like overused police power? Heh. The fact that you think you can rely on any of the mainstream to report something like that until after an uproar over the issue is already started is fucking laughable.
Actually, the proper car analogy would be, you convert your car to biodiesel and the next time you take it in for maintanence they yank the engine and give the rest of the car back to you.
Congrats, you've just described every fucking human on the face of the bloody planet. How does it feel to take home the title of Captain Fucking Obvious. We're all ignorant enough to qualify for that, and if you think otherwise you're a deluded, small-minded idiot.
Humanity has been truly recording history for how long? And has been trying to get through the NW Passage for how little a time compared to that? And has been able to actually measure the ice differential for even shorter than that? It's only remotely extreme with such a small geologic data set. It amazes me how people automatically characterize conditions they haven't seen before as extreme.
Richard Dawkins is about as rational as any of the hoplophobes at the VPC. Anyone who professes to be an atheist has voided any claim at rationality, period. It requires just as much, if not more, blind faith as any actual religion.
Actually, it means that in a simple binary solution set they are better at accurately achieving an objective. In a truly chaotic system their gullibility factor probably is much more of a hindrance. After all, there seem to be very, very few conservative scientologists.
Acknowledging the fact that it's their business to do what they want with it is no reason not to bitch about it, especially as doing so may get the business in question to change their minds.(It's unlikely mind you, but it's possible.)
Yeah, the policies of the president. Like, you know, attempting to begin to fix the utterly FUBARed system of SocSec. Or protesting tax cuts without actually looking at the amount of government revenue in subsequent years. Or any one of a hundred and one other things which would simply be good policy. Now, as for the war, only those who would have no issue with another Cambodia circa 1976-79 could really advocate withdrawal as is. Mind you, the current idiots in power need to be removed, but things under the upper layer are doing surprisingly well considering the amount of covert activity by the Syrians and Iranians in the country. And if you think there aren't Syrians or Iranians there actively opposing the US and current Iraq government, well, you're an idiot.
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The Razor is actually of limited utility in most cases given that all it essentially says is that the majority of the time the simplest answer will be the correct one. Of course, that still leaves the other 49% of the time, but hey, we'll just ignore that.
Anything that requires truly serious processing power? Currently programming for the PS3 is more of an art than a science, but as soon as all the tricks begin to filter throughout the community, the PS3 will have a shitload more power than the 360 is capable of. This refers to both processing and graphical power, as the Cell is capable of major support in the latter area. However, this is going to take TIME. Until then the Wii will steadily pull ahead and until some big names come out, the 360 will probably continue to do slightly better than the PS3. I doubt that the PS3 will ever catch the Wii's sales figures in the run of the console, though it might after Nintendo comes out with their next one.
Neither of which is libertarian in thought. Theocratic strife does not a libertarian paradise make. Libertarianism assumes at least some level of rationality, which the whole islamic domination setup does not mesh well with(nor would any other X domination setup, so don't get your panties in a twist). As well, libertarianism assumes that there is govt. but that it is VERY limited in it's action and has almost full transparency.
They take an Excel spreadsheet and put up 5 columns. G is weighted at one, PG 2, PG-13 3, R 4, and NC-17 5. Then they put the events in the movie/game under each category. Then they make a pie chart of the results, put it on a dartboard, and throw 7 times. Whichever rating area gets the most is the rating of the movie.
TS should just come back and say okay, as soon as the MPAA can provide us with a system to provide memory logs in a timely fashion, we will do so. Until then, we maintain that it is impossible given the nature of the hardware to do so in a timely fashion.
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Bullshit, the militarization of the police has been going on all through the Clinton years and in fact, ever since the start of the Drug War. It has NOTHING to do with ex-soldiers being the problem. In fact, the ex-soldiers have at least been trained properly in violent use of force.
Since it's a microwave, wouldn't wearing EM-shielding cloth completely negate the ray?
Actually, Bioshock is a damned piss poor rebuttal of Objectivism. Mind you, it tries so very hard, but it happens in a closed system with a hard limit on resources that has already been reached. Any remotely intelligent economist could tell you that it was already fucked, no matter the economic system. Add in the fact that extremely life-altering changes were introduced in an astonishingly rapid fashion, and any two-bit hack could tell you bad things would go down. Not to mention that from a scientific standpoint the discovery of the uses of ADAM happened entirely too rapidly. Genetics takes time to make understandable changes as there are so very many options. And without modern computers I fail to understand how they were even supposed to understand how to make those changes. Gaping plot holes abound. A much better rebuttal of Objectivism is simply this: Given that Objectivism expects around 95% of citizens to be almost completely rational in deed if not thought, it is doomed to failure in a world populated by humans.
Most hate speech cannot be considered incitement to violence. For an incitement to violence charge to occur, one has to be advocating immediate action. Now, depending on the speech itself, one might get a conspiracy charge out of it, but incitement must be immediate in nature or have immediate consequences.
We don't need to contemplate defense because we have more weapons per capita in the hands of civilians than any other country on earth and those who legally hold weapons tend to be better shots than your average soldier. This combined with the military infrastructure already in place means that any actual invasion of the US is just plain FUCKED.
*shrugs* The lists themselves, no matter what of, are not the problem. It's just info. The problem is what the people in power will do with that info. Of course, the EU is fucked, partly because of their socialist tendencies and partly because of that overwhelming abortion of a government that spans the continent which accedes to the UN and ICC in its decisions. Unless there are major changes, it's heading down the fucking drain long term. The US still has a chance, but given that it would require the majority of the population to pull its head out and actually look at how much power the govt. wields and find offense with that, it too is most probably fucked in the long term. It depends in part upon how the Parker decision turns out and whether the Supreme Court justices will actually do their duty. We'll see.
Alles in ordnung.
Actually, at least for small arms, the US is the worlds best customer. Well, except for that cheap chinese shit. There the terrorists are the worlds best customers. The US would be even better customers if it weren't for extremely ineffectual gun laws that don't actually solve any violence problem. Mind you, if you get enough of them on the books they tend to solve political opposition problems quite nicely.
Medicare and SocSec account for approx. 2.5-3 trillion a year in debt. Of course, because the govt. uses cash accounting which is about as honest on a large scale as your average compulsive liar, this isn't reported in the yearly tab. Meanwhile the much, much lesser yearly amount spent on defense is strictly that and not predicated on the future in any way, shape, or form. Not to mention that both SocSec and Medicare as well as most pension systems are long-term insoluble, which the math easily notes if anybody bothers to look at it, but everybody ignores it because they refuse to take responsibility for the fallout in the case of the politicians, or responsibility for themselves in the case of the average joe.
CNN. You expect CNN to rationally report something like overused police power? Heh. The fact that you think you can rely on any of the mainstream to report something like that until after an uproar over the issue is already started is fucking laughable.
Actually, the proper car analogy would be, you convert your car to biodiesel and the next time you take it in for maintanence they yank the engine and give the rest of the car back to you.
It's an unintended consequence. My God, man! Didn't you ever play Half Life?
Congrats, you've just described every fucking human on the face of the bloody planet. How does it feel to take home the title of Captain Fucking Obvious. We're all ignorant enough to qualify for that, and if you think otherwise you're a deluded, small-minded idiot.
Humanity has been truly recording history for how long? And has been trying to get through the NW Passage for how little a time compared to that? And has been able to actually measure the ice differential for even shorter than that? It's only remotely extreme with such a small geologic data set. It amazes me how people automatically characterize conditions they haven't seen before as extreme.
Demonstrated lack of intelligence? Care to back that statement up with something a bit more substantive?
Richard Dawkins is about as rational as any of the hoplophobes at the VPC. Anyone who professes to be an atheist has voided any claim at rationality, period. It requires just as much, if not more, blind faith as any actual religion.
I saw die hard when I was 8. And was playing Doom by 10. Well, mostly watching my dad play it, the bastard. But once he finished, then I played it.
Actually, it means that in a simple binary solution set they are better at accurately achieving an objective. In a truly chaotic system their gullibility factor probably is much more of a hindrance. After all, there seem to be very, very few conservative scientologists.
Acknowledging the fact that it's their business to do what they want with it is no reason not to bitch about it, especially as doing so may get the business in question to change their minds.(It's unlikely mind you, but it's possible.)
Yeah, the policies of the president. Like, you know, attempting to begin to fix the utterly FUBARed system of SocSec. Or protesting tax cuts without actually looking at the amount of government revenue in subsequent years. Or any one of a hundred and one other things which would simply be good policy. Now, as for the war, only those who would have no issue with another Cambodia circa 1976-79 could really advocate withdrawal as is. Mind you, the current idiots in power need to be removed, but things under the upper layer are doing surprisingly well considering the amount of covert activity by the Syrians and Iranians in the country. And if you think there aren't Syrians or Iranians there actively opposing the US and current Iraq government, well, you're an idiot.
The Razor is actually of limited utility in most cases given that all it essentially says is that the majority of the time the simplest answer will be the correct one. Of course, that still leaves the other 49% of the time, but hey, we'll just ignore that.
Anything that requires truly serious processing power? Currently programming for the PS3 is more of an art than a science, but as soon as all the tricks begin to filter throughout the community, the PS3 will have a shitload more power than the 360 is capable of. This refers to both processing and graphical power, as the Cell is capable of major support in the latter area. However, this is going to take TIME. Until then the Wii will steadily pull ahead and until some big names come out, the 360 will probably continue to do slightly better than the PS3. I doubt that the PS3 will ever catch the Wii's sales figures in the run of the console, though it might after Nintendo comes out with their next one.
Neither of which is libertarian in thought. Theocratic strife does not a libertarian paradise make. Libertarianism assumes at least some level of rationality, which the whole islamic domination setup does not mesh well with(nor would any other X domination setup, so don't get your panties in a twist). As well, libertarianism assumes that there is govt. but that it is VERY limited in it's action and has almost full transparency.
They take an Excel spreadsheet and put up 5 columns. G is weighted at one, PG 2, PG-13 3, R 4, and NC-17 5. Then they put the events in the movie/game under each category. Then they make a pie chart of the results, put it on a dartboard, and throw 7 times. Whichever rating area gets the most is the rating of the movie.
TS should just come back and say okay, as soon as the MPAA can provide us with a system to provide memory logs in a timely fashion, we will do so. Until then, we maintain that it is impossible given the nature of the hardware to do so in a timely fashion.