The existence of an MRAP with a civilian police force creates a need to use
It will be interesting to see what happens with the nearly 100,000 suppressors (silencers) that have now been distributed to municipal police departments by the federal government.
The use of SWAT teams has skyrocketed since the early 1980's. The 2nd Amendment of the US Constitution has been in existence a hell of a lot longer than that, so I don't think it's an issue of there being a lot of guns in private ownership.
Violent law enforcement is also pretty old. From slave patrols to sheriffs in the Old West, the mythology of policing in the United States includes a lot of "leaving the bad guy in a pool of blood".
And now that our police departments have filled with veterans of the longest wars in US history, who find it easier to continue to wear a uniform instead of mainsteaming back into productive society, those wars are coming home. The tactics are different, but the result is the same.
The elephant in the room in the US is that there are so many laws, rules, and regulations with the force of law that it takes an immense amount of manpower to police & enforce them all.
There are much older societies, with bigger government than the US that have even more laws, but don't end up with the police slaughtering people left and right. There's a seemingly unique quality to US policing that results in more officer-involved shootings. Maybe it's the number of weapons in private hands, which means US police have to go into every encounter with a civilian as if it were against an armed combatant. Maybe it's just that policing in the US is a more macho, militarized affair.
I honestly don't know the answer. Maybe there's something unique about the US that makes us more likely to be violent.
what's crazy isn't that they don't block him, what's crazy is that the things he says have gotten so out there they have to apologize for not blocking him.
I like to think that the apology is not for not banning him, but rather for all the people it has banned for much less.
So, are these what they call the Clovis or "pre-Clovis" people or are we talking way before them? We visited a Clovis site in New Mexico this summer, and they were a fascinating culture who hunted mammoths. If I remember correctly, they also died out, so are considered a "dead end".
To use a term from the old newspaper days, none of the Tweets from President Trump should be in the "A" section at all.
It would be a huge mistake for Twitter to ban Donald Trump's tweets. It's important that the nation (and to some extent, the world) has an unfiltered view into his thoughts. Statements from the US president are always worth examining.
I have a feeling that his tweets are going to be very valuable as a historical record in the near future. And useful to the electorate here at home.
They're throttling the internet speed in response to copyright infringement notices.
And we know that copyright infringement notices have never been wrong. Let's see...I seem to recall a news story about copyright infringement from earlier today:
That was, once upon a time, the magic of America, applying bottom up legislation allows for what works in specific areas to be applied and for other areas to not be applied.
Yeah, I seem to remember that approach didn't work out so well in the 1860s.
The government cannot be trusted to decide what is fake news and what is not
Nobody can. When you can convince enough people that facts are lies, then you end up with tyranny, which is what we have now. Trust is a thing of the past.
There were a lot of posts on the alt-right chatrooms before the holidays about when you go to visit your family, you should be prepared to defend yourself against the false things they will definitely tell you, and instead you should "redpill" your family, because they cannot be trusted until you can convince them of the things you believe.
You can see where this is going. Eventually you end up like the guy who killed his girlfriends parents because he was afraid they had found out he was a nazi or the guy with the pepe memes who shot up the deputies in Colorado because no law enforcement could be trusted. They had learned you can't trust anyone and people need to die. It's how radical Islam started and will end up the same way.
Ajit Pai and Martin Shkreli are very similar characters. Pai seems a little more eager to please his masters, whereas Shkreli would unabashedly throw a baby off a bridge for a dollar.
Pai has a family that might miss him, but who knows. Maybe not. Nobody in the world would miss Martin Shkreli. I'll bet his mother has his number blocked and changed her last name.
In other words, one has to stretch the definition of the term "subsidy" quite a bit to call what Norway is doing that.
Except, your little excerpt left out the sentence that started that paragraph:
"The report uses the internationally recognized definition of a “subsidy” established by the World Trade Organization (WTO) as a starting point for identifying subsidies for upstream oil and gas activities. "
So, not only is the definition of "subsidy" used in this report not a "stretch", but it's actually the exact same definition used by the entire world.
A falsehood. Even if we stipulate, that each of the enumerated measures constitutes a subsidy, it is not much. From your own link again:
By "not much", do you mean that it's only more than 5 times the subsidies for electric vehicles?
The total subsidies for electric vehicles amount to about $880 million. The subsidies for the oil industry amount to over $4 billion.
But Myles Allen, a climate expert at the University of Oxford, believes scientists can blame individual natural disasters on climate change.
When is the world gonna smarten up and start listening to Slashdot posters and not Oxford scientists when it comes to climate change?
Clearly, it's all gotta be a hoax because it's cold as fuck here right now. And, the smartest man in America told us it was a hoax, so there's that, too.
Slashdot Mirror
In case you are wondering, "Who is this cuck James Damore?" here he is, pictured with two normal-sized men, for scale:
https://www.dreuz.info/wp-cont...
Damore denies allegations made by the two men in the photograph that it was taken shortly after they spitroasted him in a Google break room.
It will be interesting to see what happens with the nearly 100,000 suppressors (silencers) that have now been distributed to municipal police departments by the federal government.
I'm sure there's nothing to be alarmed about. We've got a steady hand in control of the U.S. government.
As of this weekend, that word no longer means what you think it does.
How long before we have the first death attributed to a hacked "smart home" device? I'm thinking the over/under is about August 1, 2018.
That is a very good point, but the mythology of violence runs through our history prior to the age of the automobile.
Violent law enforcement is also pretty old. From slave patrols to sheriffs in the Old West, the mythology of policing in the United States includes a lot of "leaving the bad guy in a pool of blood".
And now that our police departments have filled with veterans of the longest wars in US history, who find it easier to continue to wear a uniform instead of mainsteaming back into productive society, those wars are coming home. The tactics are different, but the result is the same.
There are much older societies, with bigger government than the US that have even more laws, but don't end up with the police slaughtering people left and right. There's a seemingly unique quality to US policing that results in more officer-involved shootings. Maybe it's the number of weapons in private hands, which means US police have to go into every encounter with a civilian as if it were against an armed combatant. Maybe it's just that policing in the US is a more macho, militarized affair.
I honestly don't know the answer. Maybe there's something unique about the US that makes us more likely to be violent.
I like to think that the apology is not for not banning him, but rather for all the people it has banned for much less.
It's not quite the same. A better comparison would be tweeting, "I'm thinking of the number six. Can you guess what number I'm thinking of?"
When someone tells you what they're thinking - when they communicate directly in their own words, it's best to believe them.
So, are these what they call the Clovis or "pre-Clovis" people or are we talking way before them? We visited a Clovis site in New Mexico this summer, and they were a fascinating culture who hunted mammoths. If I remember correctly, they also died out, so are considered a "dead end".
Tomorrow is the Feast of the Epiphany, and I wish you a blessed day.
It would be a huge mistake for Twitter to ban Donald Trump's tweets. It's important that the nation (and to some extent, the world) has an unfiltered view into his thoughts. Statements from the US president are always worth examining.
I have a feeling that his tweets are going to be very valuable as a historical record in the near future. And useful to the electorate here at home.
And we know that copyright infringement notices have never been wrong. Let's see...I seem to recall a news story about copyright infringement from earlier today:
https://gizmodo.com/man-s-yout...
That's true. Also, owning people and making them work for free was kind of a bad look.
Hey! I am %100 american too, comrade! Za zdorovje!
Yeah, I seem to remember that approach didn't work out so well in the 1860s.
Sometimes, looking for the simplest answer forces you to make up some BS. Remember when UFOs were "swamp gas"?
Nobody can. When you can convince enough people that facts are lies, then you end up with tyranny, which is what we have now. Trust is a thing of the past.
There were a lot of posts on the alt-right chatrooms before the holidays about when you go to visit your family, you should be prepared to defend yourself against the false things they will definitely tell you, and instead you should "redpill" your family, because they cannot be trusted until you can convince them of the things you believe.
You can see where this is going. Eventually you end up like the guy who killed his girlfriends parents because he was afraid they had found out he was a nazi or the guy with the pepe memes who shot up the deputies in Colorado because no law enforcement could be trusted. They had learned you can't trust anyone and people need to die. It's how radical Islam started and will end up the same way.
Boy, if you believe that, you're stupid.
Yeah, like I said: stupid.
Ajit Pai and Martin Shkreli are very similar characters. Pai seems a little more eager to please his masters, whereas Shkreli would unabashedly throw a baby off a bridge for a dollar.
Pai has a family that might miss him, but who knows. Maybe not. Nobody in the world would miss Martin Shkreli. I'll bet his mother has his number blocked and changed her last name.
I think we're done here.
Except, your little excerpt left out the sentence that started that paragraph:
So, not only is the definition of "subsidy" used in this report not a "stretch", but it's actually the exact same definition used by the entire world.
By "not much", do you mean that it's only more than 5 times the subsidies for electric vehicles?
The total subsidies for electric vehicles amount to about $880 million. The subsidies for the oil industry amount to over $4 billion.
Yes, they do. And it adds up to a much bigger subsidy than the electric vehicles get.
https://www.earthtrack.net/doc...
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/0...
When is the world gonna smarten up and start listening to Slashdot posters and not Oxford scientists when it comes to climate change?
Clearly, it's all gotta be a hoax because it's cold as fuck here right now. And, the smartest man in America told us it was a hoax, so there's that, too.