And the college kids driving the Uhaul to move in for a semester have no idea what's happening as they drive a tall truck for the first time ever... They manage to mangle few underpasses every new semester.
U-Do-It Electronics in Needham, MA still has a lot of little packaged kits, and they are packed full of books and components. They also have all the A/V, ethernet, and other wiring solutions for the DIY guy. Still one of my favorite stores. Their stereo equipment is crap as they carry Gemini and some awful Chinese knockoffs, but they have great professional level tools for any sort of electrical/electronic related field.
Would you ask the insurgents to put on uniforms and march in rank and file against tanks and air strikes??
While the techniques described are great for fighting wars, they also destabilize the same elements that rebuild the country and restore its stability. That stability is what keeps a country from moving back to armed chaos, militia rule, or autocratic leadership. Take a long hard look at places like Japan or Germany and I will tell you there are realistic option other than the blind application of destabilization to win a war with fewer friendly casualties.
No, it means that you need to display your motivation. If you understand the purpose of Operation Ajax - to prevent Iran from nationalizing their oil resource by any means necessary - then you would also understand that their animosity was directly related to us getting into their business and not dealing fairly with them. We did everything but invade that country, and then hired Saddam to do exactly that...
The Iranians are very right to fear the US and the British. How could you approach a negotation position with Iran and not understand why we are called the Great Satan and worse? Because of what was done 60 years, 50 years, 10 years ago...
I agree with you 100%. Certainly I have no interest in trying this all over again and implementing the neo Marshall Plan again with feeling. My point is that the two situations were similar enough that with a little competency at the beginning, the situation was able to have been recitified in a way that actually served everyone's better interests.
That's where my comparison ends. It's as if Bush took the list of successful occupation ideas and told his people to do the exact opposite.
My Marshall example was to show the opposite of what we have today, and why some people are still clinging to the hope of a victory and reconciliation that will not occur in our lifetime...
I agree, it's time to move on.
The other very important piece to securing a post-war peace was the Marshall Plan, designed to rebuild the shattered countries.
The reason that the Weimar government in Germany was so screwed up and produced quadrulple-digit inflation was due to the fact that the winner countries in WWI forced Germany to make a lot of expensive reparations, and never helped them rebuild their industry or economy.
That bad government in turn allowed Hitler his rise to power with the disaffected citizens and workers - and subsequent horror of the second war. It took a lot of effort and money to make the Marshall Plan work, but look at the Axis countries 70 years later - they are some of our strongest allies now!
Also quite useful would be McCain creating gridlock against a majority Democrat Congress. That is part of why we enjoyed a budget surplus during Clinton's lame duck second term - gridlock keeping spending down. I like him better than pandering Romney or foot-mouth speaker Huckabee.
Although I think McCain will end up picking Romney as his VP to secure the hard-conservatives who dislike McCain as a moderate conservative.
Who do you think will be the Repub VP pick?
You got to give it to the Democrats though; they managed to find the worst candidate possible in Kerry. He's such a loser, and I am a democrat from Massachusetts.
shoot the plane down. during the 9-11 attacks, the ground people had very little warning that there was more than one hijacking, even after the first plane flew into the WTC. They definitely did not have any assets ready to shoot down the other planes. This would provide a little early warning at least. Not saying this idea is smart, makes sense, and contains more value than the other TSA kabuki, but early warning is useful.
The depiction of the Federal govt employee life in Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson was hilarious - a several-page memo circulating about rules on toilet paper pooling and the endless polygraphs that everyone submitted to.
CDC is authorized to contain and treat outbreaks. Doctors and hospitals are legally tasked to heal people and be limited in thier liability for damages when something goes wrong. People seek out doctors and hospitals when they find out they are sick. It's a bad analogy.
The infected machine users have no idea that they are infected. They have not sought out healing. And there's no agency currently tasked to handle an infection and be shielded from liability when something goes wrong in treatment.
I'm less worried about infected hospital heart monitor computers, which may not be networked, and banking transaction systems, which are definitely networked. Those infections are more serious, and if you crash the systems with a unauthorized patch, its very possible to lose information. That's why corp IT announces the patches, so you can properly back up sensitive data.
I think his position is similar to Einstein's position on God: God as an idea is a pleasant one to have, and I have no reason to just throw the idea away or tell other people to stop thinking about a God, just as we may like to think about unicorns and dragons and other such thoughts.
But God as the supervisor over all your thoughts and activities, and the ultimate judge of your actions, and the one thing that you should worship, sacrifice your children, give your money to, build your laws around, beat other people up according to their different-sounding God-idea - that's the God that Dawkins and Einstein rejected.
You have described one of the big concerns, but there's another even larger concern regarding health care. We have structured our health care system to provide care to everyone and to try as hard as we can to keep people alive. We change how bill collectors treat medical debt, we force hospitals to heal illegal immigrants at the cost of taxpayers, we demand that the elderly be given some form of care even when they are old, chronically ill, and broke.
It's like the adversarial system for lawyers; we protect the lawyers so they fight as hard as they can for their clients and don't have to worry about clients withholding useful information for fear of guilt. We want our doctors and nurses and emts to be driven into the field to help people. When these black markets spring up and take hold with lots of available money, it motivates the wrong people, and makes the right person make the wrong decision because the opportunity is available. I shouldn't worry that the emt at the accident scene is checking my kidney health as they are worth some bucks; he should worry about my blood loss or head trauma first!
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And the college kids driving the Uhaul to move in for a semester have no idea what's happening as they drive a tall truck for the first time ever... They manage to mangle few underpasses every new semester.
90 Minute IPA for the win!!!
The tragedy of the commons writ large on the world wide web.
Get yah crowbar Ma, we're goin' Nihilant huntin!
they will probably both vote for it to not be tarred and feathered for being weak on terror/security theatre.
U-Do-It Electronics in Needham, MA still has a lot of little packaged kits, and they are packed full of books and components. They also have all the A/V, ethernet, and other wiring solutions for the DIY guy. Still one of my favorite stores. Their stereo equipment is crap as they carry Gemini and some awful Chinese knockoffs, but they have great professional level tools for any sort of electrical/electronic related field.
Then it's turtles all the way down young man! Who watches the watchers...
Would you ask the insurgents to put on uniforms and march in rank and file against tanks and air strikes?? While the techniques described are great for fighting wars, they also destabilize the same elements that rebuild the country and restore its stability. That stability is what keeps a country from moving back to armed chaos, militia rule, or autocratic leadership. Take a long hard look at places like Japan or Germany and I will tell you there are realistic option other than the blind application of destabilization to win a war with fewer friendly casualties.
No, it means that you need to display your motivation. If you understand the purpose of Operation Ajax - to prevent Iran from nationalizing their oil resource by any means necessary - then you would also understand that their animosity was directly related to us getting into their business and not dealing fairly with them. We did everything but invade that country, and then hired Saddam to do exactly that... The Iranians are very right to fear the US and the British. How could you approach a negotation position with Iran and not understand why we are called the Great Satan and worse? Because of what was done 60 years, 50 years, 10 years ago...
General Sherman would agree, and then burn your city to the ground! :-)
Or Operation Ajax! "Why do they hate us?" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d'%C3%A9tat
That only applies where we do not have any agreements or treaties for extradition with the other countries.
I agree with you 100%. Certainly I have no interest in trying this all over again and implementing the neo Marshall Plan again with feeling. My point is that the two situations were similar enough that with a little competency at the beginning, the situation was able to have been recitified in a way that actually served everyone's better interests. That's where my comparison ends. It's as if Bush took the list of successful occupation ideas and told his people to do the exact opposite. My Marshall example was to show the opposite of what we have today, and why some people are still clinging to the hope of a victory and reconciliation that will not occur in our lifetime... I agree, it's time to move on.
The other very important piece to securing a post-war peace was the Marshall Plan, designed to rebuild the shattered countries. The reason that the Weimar government in Germany was so screwed up and produced quadrulple-digit inflation was due to the fact that the winner countries in WWI forced Germany to make a lot of expensive reparations, and never helped them rebuild their industry or economy. That bad government in turn allowed Hitler his rise to power with the disaffected citizens and workers - and subsequent horror of the second war. It took a lot of effort and money to make the Marshall Plan work, but look at the Axis countries 70 years later - they are some of our strongest allies now!
Also quite useful would be McCain creating gridlock against a majority Democrat Congress. That is part of why we enjoyed a budget surplus during Clinton's lame duck second term - gridlock keeping spending down. I like him better than pandering Romney or foot-mouth speaker Huckabee. Although I think McCain will end up picking Romney as his VP to secure the hard-conservatives who dislike McCain as a moderate conservative. Who do you think will be the Repub VP pick?
You got to give it to the Democrats though; they managed to find the worst candidate possible in Kerry. He's such a loser, and I am a democrat from Massachusetts.
shoot the plane down. during the 9-11 attacks, the ground people had very little warning that there was more than one hijacking, even after the first plane flew into the WTC. They definitely did not have any assets ready to shoot down the other planes. This would provide a little early warning at least. Not saying this idea is smart, makes sense, and contains more value than the other TSA kabuki, but early warning is useful.
The depiction of the Federal govt employee life in Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson was hilarious - a several-page memo circulating about rules on toilet paper pooling and the endless polygraphs that everyone submitted to.
CDC is authorized to contain and treat outbreaks. Doctors and hospitals are legally tasked to heal people and be limited in thier liability for damages when something goes wrong. People seek out doctors and hospitals when they find out they are sick. It's a bad analogy. The infected machine users have no idea that they are infected. They have not sought out healing. And there's no agency currently tasked to handle an infection and be shielded from liability when something goes wrong in treatment. I'm less worried about infected hospital heart monitor computers, which may not be networked, and banking transaction systems, which are definitely networked. Those infections are more serious, and if you crash the systems with a unauthorized patch, its very possible to lose information. That's why corp IT announces the patches, so you can properly back up sensitive data.
I think his position is similar to Einstein's position on God: God as an idea is a pleasant one to have, and I have no reason to just throw the idea away or tell other people to stop thinking about a God, just as we may like to think about unicorns and dragons and other such thoughts.
But God as the supervisor over all your thoughts and activities, and the ultimate judge of your actions, and the one thing that you should worship, sacrifice your children, give your money to, build your laws around, beat other people up according to their different-sounding God-idea - that's the God that Dawkins and Einstein rejected.
You have described one of the big concerns, but there's another even larger concern regarding health care. We have structured our health care system to provide care to everyone and to try as hard as we can to keep people alive. We change how bill collectors treat medical debt, we force hospitals to heal illegal immigrants at the cost of taxpayers, we demand that the elderly be given some form of care even when they are old, chronically ill, and broke. It's like the adversarial system for lawyers; we protect the lawyers so they fight as hard as they can for their clients and don't have to worry about clients withholding useful information for fear of guilt. We want our doctors and nurses and emts to be driven into the field to help people. When these black markets spring up and take hold with lots of available money, it motivates the wrong people, and makes the right person make the wrong decision because the opportunity is available. I shouldn't worry that the emt at the accident scene is checking my kidney health as they are worth some bucks; he should worry about my blood loss or head trauma first!
But how did you die? By yourself, or did the medic with 2 car payments "forget" to put in the IV?
MOM!!! I found another Fifth Columnist!!!
Bravo sir. Who watches the watchers?
It will ship with Duke Nukem.