Actually not. Poison is extremely easy to make with a minimum of knowledge of chemistry. You can make chlorine gas with household supplies, in closed spaces it will cause lethal damage to lungs. Neurotoxins are easy as well and dosage is not a problem, just use enough of it. I've been mixing up poisons since I was 11. You will spend a lot for guns and ammunition, you will have to show papers. Household chemicals are cheap. Equipment to distill toxins from plants is cheap and you can build it at home out of store-bought glassware. Moreover, firearms are messy: once the first shots are fired, most of your targets will flee or hide while poison once absorbed will do its work. Incendiaries are also great, they do way more damage per mass than explosives and are easier to make. The panic will kill more than the fire, and the superheated air will get everywhere and kill people far from the point of origin. Smoke will kill more. Don't pull statements out of your ass, it only shows everybody how stupid you are.
The sooner the catastrophes strikes, the better. It will be the long awaited-for reason for social purging and decontamination. We, the beautiful and athletic people will, of course, have the best chances to reproduce and survive while the lower specimens will die out. Nerds in particular will be eradicated quickly enough, and recycled mainly as pig food and fertilizer, although me might decide to dessiccate some of their corpses for use as combustible. The future does not bode well for you, nerdinhos, I'd get out of life before life gets done with you because even if the apocalypse doesn't come, the days you were "protected" by social conventions are coming to an end.;)
... Something useful instead. Coders are now a dime a dozen, and it's a job easily offshored. The Internet took care of that part. Seriously, how many programmers do you really need? This is not the '80s or '90s when you could make it big, now there's fewer and fewer IT giants and they don't need that many workers. The cloud and outsourcing are killing off IT departments in many companies. Technology is cleaning itself up for good. When in less than a decade Silicon Valley will have become IT's Detroit and all the jobs have been offshored, the tech-heads will have to reinvent themselves, most certainly as street sweeper. Unless robots have taken that role as well, and in that case they will have to reinvent themselves as emaciated corpses.
More like a SF/Fantasy store. You can't teach a geek how to LIVE because those things (geeks are not really human) do not have any life in them. The only thing you can do with them is beat them up and shit on their faces.
The EU stand up to the US? The EU that stopped diplomatic flights on the order of the High Lord Bonobo because it was suspected that the soundrel Edward Snowden, who mightly displeased the High Lord Bonobo, could be on them? They will not antagonize the US media lobby, which is actively supported by the High Lord Bonobo: instead they will do the European Salute (right arm and hand extended, palm facing down) and shout "JAWOHL MEIN FÜHRER" (in German to honor their proud cultural heritage of course).
If "the internet" is what takes to change your view of the world on anything, then you didn't have much of a view to begin with and probably can't even read. Seriously, there have been those analog information storage units called "books" around for centuries. Reading Voltaire will cause you to rethink religion but the internet? LOL. If ANY of your choices have been influenced by the internet, you're weak-minded and pathetic: the moment the web buzz changes you will drink cyanide-laces kool-aid and love it. Stupid marketoid bot. Do the world a favour, you internet-worshipping loserboys: kill yourselves, rid the world of your weak-minded pathetic ilk. Do it. Now.
Shit on the children. What have the future generations ever done for us? Besides, no children = no pedophiles. Burn them in a furnace for heat, like they do in England. Winter is coming.
Hunting with drones is for sissies. You want that wildlife killed, you get your rifle, shotgun or pistol or whatever and you do it yourself. What's next, tapping animals' phones? Intercepting their e-mail? And for what, pray tell? Are you seriously telling me you've got any evidence, backed by solid intelligence, that some wild hares are planning to hijack a couple of bald eagles and fly them into some ol' sequoia tree because they've got religious issues with the squirrels? Think again, smartass. What's this fucking world come to that you can't hunt deer without blowing bucks into drones. Oh the huge manatee! THE HUGE MANATEE!
Not all at once. It can't form complex machines. Guns and explosives have chemicals in them. Moving parts. It doesn't work that way, but it can form solid metal shapes. Knives and stabbing weapons.
You're wrong: we will look back on things like this and mutter "this is how it started". And then a friendly security patrolman (they will be called that way) will look at us sternly from behind a dark visor and growl: "Are you harboring illegal thoughts, citizen? We are watching you."
That's why I said "counterforce", loserboy. "Counterforce" means you take out your enemy strategic assets, "countervalue" means you take out your enemy's cities, factories and civilian infrastructure. By the way, they don't even have to airburst to kill off the US: some explosions in the upper atmosphere and pop goes your electronic communication structure. Don't play tough with Russia over something as trivial as Crimea, it ain't worth it.
Big difference: the main counterforce targets in the US are uncomfortably close to inhabited areas, while a counterforce strike against Russia wouldn't affect the population and the rest of the infrastructure to the same extent. Unless the US chooses a countervalue strategy, of course. And it only takes one nuke to completely destroy the EU, economically as the panicked population goes into survival mode and politically as each member state scrambles for separate peace negotiation. Do not underestimate Russia: its citizens can withstand difficulties, while we Westerners would probably commit mass suicide after one day without Fecesbook.
... Die like the rest. Deal with it. But by all means go and delude some kids who will spend their early lives and probably up until mid-40s believing that, yes, they will live forever. It will only make it harder for them - and funnier for the rest of us - when in the end the dream evaporates and they will have spent a sizeable amount of the only life they have wondering about the centuries they will live to see instead of, like, living.:)
... The next pigfucker just gets to ride on a bus, just like everybody else, and learns to stand up for a couple of hours with the vehicle moving, all the while smelling in the sweat and the farts of the other passengers? What about it, hunh?
Those who have them are effectively safe from everyone.
No, unless they show they're perfectly willing and able to use them. A weak government will simply have them taken away either through sanctions or through conventional military strikes. There must be no doubt whatsoever that those weapons will be used, quickly and without targeting limitations, in the event of aggression and that the damage inflicted to the aggressor - and its homeland, industrial facilities and civilian populace - will be crippling and unrecoverable for at least a generation or two. It's the same as confronting a thug in a dark alley: showing off your holstered gun and whispering in a trembling voice "Ah... Ah... I'll... Shoot you..." won't work. Drawing, aiming at the head or chest and beginning the trigger pull will: either the thug breaks, or the trigger breaks.
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Actually not. Poison is extremely easy to make with a minimum of knowledge of chemistry. You can make chlorine gas with household supplies, in closed spaces it will cause lethal damage to lungs. Neurotoxins are easy as well and dosage is not a problem, just use enough of it. I've been mixing up poisons since I was 11. You will spend a lot for guns and ammunition, you will have to show papers. Household chemicals are cheap. Equipment to distill toxins from plants is cheap and you can build it at home out of store-bought glassware. Moreover, firearms are messy: once the first shots are fired, most of your targets will flee or hide while poison once absorbed will do its work. Incendiaries are also great, they do way more damage per mass than explosives and are easier to make. The panic will kill more than the fire, and the superheated air will get everywhere and kill people far from the point of origin. Smoke will kill more. Don't pull statements out of your ass, it only shows everybody how stupid you are.
That fucking cannibal planet will eat it soon. I say, castrate the fucker with a stone sickle and be done with it.
Groovy.
Who's the homosexual?
The one who doesn't like to see a couple of women - homosexual or not - going down on each other.
The sooner the catastrophes strikes, the better. It will be the long awaited-for reason for social purging and decontamination. We, the beautiful and athletic people will, of course, have the best chances to reproduce and survive while the lower specimens will die out. Nerds in particular will be eradicated quickly enough, and recycled mainly as pig food and fertilizer, although me might decide to dessiccate some of their corpses for use as combustible. The future does not bode well for you, nerdinhos, I'd get out of life before life gets done with you because even if the apocalypse doesn't come, the days you were "protected" by social conventions are coming to an end. ;)
... Something useful instead. Coders are now a dime a dozen, and it's a job easily offshored. The Internet took care of that part. Seriously, how many programmers do you really need? This is not the '80s or '90s when you could make it big, now there's fewer and fewer IT giants and they don't need that many workers. The cloud and outsourcing are killing off IT departments in many companies. Technology is cleaning itself up for good. When in less than a decade Silicon Valley will have become IT's Detroit and all the jobs have been offshored, the tech-heads will have to reinvent themselves, most certainly as street sweeper. Unless robots have taken that role as well, and in that case they will have to reinvent themselves as emaciated corpses.
C'est la France pour toi! Ils prennent leur idéels Républicains serieusement! À la guillotine, bordel de merde!
More like a SF/Fantasy store. You can't teach a geek how to LIVE because those things (geeks are not really human) do not have any life in them. The only thing you can do with them is beat them up and shit on their faces.
But they had the Obnoxious Order working for them.
The EU stand up to the US? The EU that stopped diplomatic flights on the order of the High Lord Bonobo because it was suspected that the soundrel Edward Snowden, who mightly displeased the High Lord Bonobo, could be on them? They will not antagonize the US media lobby, which is actively supported by the High Lord Bonobo: instead they will do the European Salute (right arm and hand extended, palm facing down) and shout "JAWOHL MEIN FÜHRER" (in German to honor their proud cultural heritage of course).
If "the internet" is what takes to change your view of the world on anything, then you didn't have much of a view to begin with and probably can't even read. Seriously, there have been those analog information storage units called "books" around for centuries. Reading Voltaire will cause you to rethink religion but the internet? LOL. If ANY of your choices have been influenced by the internet, you're weak-minded and pathetic: the moment the web buzz changes you will drink cyanide-laces kool-aid and love it. Stupid marketoid bot. Do the world a favour, you internet-worshipping loserboys: kill yourselves, rid the world of your weak-minded pathetic ilk. Do it. Now.
Shit on the children. What have the future generations ever done for us? Besides, no children = no pedophiles. Burn them in a furnace for heat, like they do in England. Winter is coming.
... The production collapsed when they went down on each other's tools.
Hunting with drones is for sissies. You want that wildlife killed, you get your rifle, shotgun or pistol or whatever and you do it yourself. What's next, tapping animals' phones? Intercepting their e-mail? And for what, pray tell? Are you seriously telling me you've got any evidence, backed by solid intelligence, that some wild hares are planning to hijack a couple of bald eagles and fly them into some ol' sequoia tree because they've got religious issues with the squirrels? Think again, smartass. What's this fucking world come to that you can't hunt deer without blowing bucks into drones. Oh the huge manatee! THE HUGE MANATEE!
Not all at once. It can't form complex machines. Guns and explosives have chemicals in them. Moving parts. It doesn't work that way, but it can form solid metal shapes. Knives and stabbing weapons.
They can regain it. It just takes some beatings, burning coals and waterboarding.
You're wrong: we will look back on things like this and mutter "this is how it started". And then a friendly security patrolman (they will be called that way) will look at us sternly from behind a dark visor and growl: "Are you harboring illegal thoughts, citizen? We are watching you."
Very well, by all means go ahead and start WW3 over Ukraine. The economy will recover for sure after that. ;)
That's why I said "counterforce", loserboy. "Counterforce" means you take out your enemy strategic assets, "countervalue" means you take out your enemy's cities, factories and civilian infrastructure. By the way, they don't even have to airburst to kill off the US: some explosions in the upper atmosphere and pop goes your electronic communication structure. Don't play tough with Russia over something as trivial as Crimea, it ain't worth it.
Big difference: the main counterforce targets in the US are uncomfortably close to inhabited areas, while a counterforce strike against Russia wouldn't affect the population and the rest of the infrastructure to the same extent. Unless the US chooses a countervalue strategy, of course. And it only takes one nuke to completely destroy the EU, economically as the panicked population goes into survival mode and politically as each member state scrambles for separate peace negotiation. Do not underestimate Russia: its citizens can withstand difficulties, while we Westerners would probably commit mass suicide after one day without Fecesbook.
... Die like the rest. Deal with it. But by all means go and delude some kids who will spend their early lives and probably up until mid-40s believing that, yes, they will live forever. It will only make it harder for them - and funnier for the rest of us - when in the end the dream evaporates and they will have spent a sizeable amount of the only life they have wondering about the centuries they will live to see instead of, like, living. :)
... The next pigfucker just gets to ride on a bus, just like everybody else, and learns to stand up for a couple of hours with the vehicle moving, all the while smelling in the sweat and the farts of the other passengers? What about it, hunh?
Oh well, if you can't retire them just wait 4 years and they'll be gone.
Sorry about your friend. Are they better now?
Those who have them are effectively safe from everyone.
No, unless they show they're perfectly willing and able to use them. A weak government will simply have them taken away either through sanctions or through conventional military strikes. There must be no doubt whatsoever that those weapons will be used, quickly and without targeting limitations, in the event of aggression and that the damage inflicted to the aggressor - and its homeland, industrial facilities and civilian populace - will be crippling and unrecoverable for at least a generation or two. It's the same as confronting a thug in a dark alley: showing off your holstered gun and whispering in a trembling voice "Ah... Ah... I'll... Shoot you..." won't work. Drawing, aiming at the head or chest and beginning the trigger pull will: either the thug breaks, or the trigger breaks.