Posts by LogicGate 848 publicly visible posts • joined 6 Nov 2020
"snatching people off the street" = conscription.
Happens in most country facing a threat of total destruction and genocide. Is also reported in most mainstream media.
If you were to look a little into it, you would find plenty of infrared drone footage. Is done, still atmospheric conditions can make drones less effective.
NK and China are communist in the name only.
It is like saying that East Germany was a democracy because it called itself Deutsche Demokratische Republik, and that the Nazis were socialists (which is a surprisingly much used MAGA talking point) because the called themselves National-Sozialistischer Deutsche Arbeiterpartei.
Anyway: allignments come in many shapes and colors. Remember which two alligned political systems invaded Poland in 1939?
You are right,
The US of A has gon full facist already.
It started with 9-11. Bin Laden's goal was to make the US implode. He succeeded:
Patriot act
TSA
Iraq-War
State legislated torture
Spying on US citicens
With P47 Felon we can now add to it:
Secret police roaming the streets and arresting or killing people
Consentration camps
Retooling the Department of Justice into an enforcer operation
A suppressed freedom of the press
A political court system judging by party alignment, not law
Massive corruption at the highest level
Realignment with Russia, North Korea and China
Purges within all government agencies including defence
Shal I go on?
"Have you bailed out of a tech support job? If so, click here to email us what happened and why. We promise not to give up on your story. ®"
Challenge accepted:
"We can’t bust heads like we used to, but we have our ways. One trick is to tell them stories that don’t go anywhere, like the time I caught the ferry over to Shelbyville. I needed a new heel for my shoe, so, I decided to go to Morganville, which is what they call Shelbyville in those days, so I tied an onion to my belt, which was the style at the time. So, to take the ferry cost a nickel, and in those days, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on ‘em. Give me five bees for a quarter you’d say. Now where were we? Oh yeah! The important thing was I had an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time. They didn’t have white onions, because of the war. The only thing you could was those big yellow ones."
I wish El Reg all the best in creating a Friday article from that one..
Trumps legacy is sealed whether the AI bubble bursts or not.
He single handedly ended "pax Americana", alienated ALL existing allies while allying the US with the worst dictatorships in the world.
He destroyed the separation of powers
He turned the judicial system and the policing forces into his personal enforcers.
He took away the freedom of the press.
He created a secret police and built concentration camps
He attemped an insurrection
He took and takes bribes in the billions of dollars
He killed and kills millions through mishandling of COVID and the destruction of USAID
He let science and technology be overruled by his (admittedly large) gut feelings, sence of "style (goldish paint and marble) and political convenience.
He used up the US antiballistic deterrent in a war of his own choosing where the current outcome was clear for anyone to see up front.
The list goes on and on...
..but he will never spend a night in jail
Amen brother!
A truer word has not been said since Abraham Lincoln held the Yalta congress. However, it must be remembered that the Congress never voted straight unless there was a blue moon.
Still, once in a blue moon, the icicles will melt just like the heart of a Fishmonger.
It must also be kept in mind that, after all that has happened since P47 Felon came into office, approximately 1/3 of the US Population still approves.
Seeing that "every village has an idiot" and the average US village has more than 3 inhabitants, it must be concluded that substantially more people than only the average US village idiot still will vote for him.
From this it can be deducted that it is more than likely that we will see another catastrophic POTUS in not too long, no matter whether the currect one experiences the revenge of the Hamberder tomorrow or in 10 years.
And this is why we can not have nice things.
I used to be exited about SpaceX, finally seeing a future in space exploration and utilization.
Then Elon self radicalized on drugs and yes-men, and now the millstone of the AI Bubble has been firmy attaced to SpaceX.
And as a result I can neither have space exploration nor a decent new PC where I can pretend to explore space.
Bummer
Valid points, but there is no way that any kind of vehicle speed will save the astronauts.
A rocket explosion tends to be a binary event: Everything is good changes into everything is bad at the blink of an eye.
If you stand next to the pad at this moment, then even an MRAP will have a "BAD DAY" (TM)
However, if you are at any distance from the event, then an MRAP can survive the distance being much shorter than a CRAP (see below).
Thus, if my statistics are correct, then this is a situation where one would rather have armor than speed.
A James-bond style bunker tunnell with a seats only monorail might be the best solution though.
I am pretty sure that an MRAP provides more protection than a shoddily built SUV no matter where the problem comes from. Prematurely discarded spacecraft components will much more easily fall through a large sloping windshield than throuh a roof that is "only" shrapnel-proof.
Tesla is circling the drain and Space Karen is doing anything to keep it relevant... ..at the cost of SpaceX.
My thoughts exactly!
While the movie creators may have tried to illustrate a kind of dystopian travel experience (seeing that everything else is shown as maximally inshittificated, modern day airlines have managed to make the 5th element air transportation seem very idyllic.
"Getting on board with 2 litres of water in your hand luggage is a good idea"
However, since 9.11 and TSA, purchasing 2 liters of water at the airport after having gone through the security check costs approximately as much as upgrading to first class.
For some strange reason, airports have not made it a priority to update screening hardware to differentiate between consumable liquids and two component liquid explosives.
It was hard to build a society without any card carrying officials, so they (the allies plus what was left of non Nazi Germany) had to limit themselves to trying to get rid of the upper echelon / the worst of the worst. At the same time, in the east, GESTAPO basically morphed directly into the STASI with very few changes in personell.
Note that in order to be able to have any kind of responsible job in Nazi Germany, you had to join the party and get a Parteibuch. Quite a few joined out of convenience.
Hence, an equivalent clean sweep in the US would need not only to toss the whole republican party out of public office, but also toss out EVERY 2020 republican voter.
It must be mentioned that the Trump got a higher percentage of US vots in 2020 than Hitler ever did in Germany, and US Americans have spent the last 85 years bashing all Germans for that event.
Many moons ago, I had a class at the Uni where (numerical analysis?) "homework" was handed out on floppy disks. These contained a small program which presented tasks and then gave us 3 shots at solving these. The results were graded by amount of tasks solved with 1 to 3 tries, and tasks not solved.
Being wary of problems with strange floppy disks, the first thing I did was to run chkdisk.
This found and fixed disk errors, so I congratulated myself for having dodged that bullet., until I tried to run the program, which promptly failed.
I found out later that, in order to prevent disk multiplication, the disk had been equipped with disk errors which the program needed to see before it was run.
Having optained fresh working disks, a group of us sat down and started solving the identical tasks as a group, making sure that not a single stundent needed more than 2 tries for any task...
You are misunderstanding the article.
What reality reflects is that shoddy workmanship and a motorcade of armored vehicles will damage the sealant on a reflecting pool much more easily than an invisible man with a box cutter.
What reality reflects is that bombing nations that have potential control of two narrow passages where much of the world's oil has to pass through may lead to this potential control lead become real control.
What reality reflects is that when you ignore international deals and start trade-wars with your closest allies, because this is easier than trade wars with your adversaries, then this may alienate your allies.
What reality reflects is that cutting back on disease prevention may result in more diseases.
All of these items are today consideres leftist. The problem is not the reality, the problem is that the right wing moronocracy has left reality so far behind that everything that does not involve the gargling of the orange balls has become "leftist".
"$300 billion to burn through a large proportion the West's inventories of tanks, missiles, artillery pieces and shells does not seem like money well spent IMO, especially as Russia continues to advance on the battlefield with just 3 of the 9 fortress cities in the Donbas fortress belt left under Ukrainian control."
$300 billion to burn through all of Russia's ridiculously large inventory of military hardware and "military age" males at the cost of not a single Nato soldier?
A bargain! The Trump one week SMO in Iran has cost more without accounting for world economic losses.
The US has tried to uphold the doctrine of the two war capability, meaning that they have tried to be capable of stopping BOTH Russia and CHINA at the same time.
With much of the rRussian threat to Nato being bled out in Ukraine, this shoud mean more capabilities available for China..
..Unless somebody decides to blow through most of the available strategic inventory on trying to get a deal that is significantly worse than one tore up in 2015..
Poland?
The Baltic states?
Finland?
Northern Norway?
All places that have has Soviet boots on the ground at some point in time, which according to Putin means that they belong to Russia.
All Nato members, which means that an attack on them is an attack on you.
Also: The UK is the only Nato nation that has been attacked by Russia by means of chemical warfare.
> “It's just a vast amount of sort of thrown away compute and recycling is a terrible option for most of these smartphones.”
Which is why Google is nagging me about the battery in my 6a and offering discounts on a new phone.
Building phones that can last would be a better solution than figuring out ways to second-life the phone after screen or battery stops working.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gleichschaltung
"One of the most critical steps towards Gleichschaltung of German society was the introduction of the "Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda" under Joseph Goebbels in March 1933 and the subsequent steps the Propaganda Ministry took to assume complete control of the press and all means of social communication. This included oversight of newspapers, magazines, films, books, public meetings and ceremonies, foreign press relations, theater, art and music, radio, and television."
Keep in mind that Hitler nerver won a popular vote, and that the rest of the world (including Austria) has sepent the last 80+ years bashing the Germans for their (parent's and grandparent's) choices.
The article mentions kids as young as 14 years old performing the crimes, and that the ones performing the crimes often only get a small amount of the ill gotten goods.
The logical conclusion is that there is somebody else behind it all, and that these abuse both the elderly that are being robbed and the young and misled that do the footwork.
This does not mean that the kid perpetrators should get off with just a slap on the hand.
As I have posted before, If a European military purchases a stockpile of 100.000 modern combat drones, in half a year they will have a stockpile of 100.000 obsolete combat drones.
The best thing to do today is to build up an industrial base that can churn out combat drones at a high pace, send these to Ukraine in exchange for feedback and continuously improve the combat drones that the national industrial base can produce. Should the nation itself then have s sudden need for combat drones beyond what is used in training and exersizes, then the production can be increased and redirected.
At some later point, when the technology has matured and the evolution is slowing down, one can concider stockpiles. Now is not the time.
