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Comment Re:in unrelated news (Score 0) 212

'Round my Indian shanty in the gutters wave paraiahs,
In the distant recycling centre and leper colony.
Oftentimes my thoughts revert to scenes of childhood,
Where I first received my lessons, nature's school.
But one thing there is missing in the picture,
Without her face it seems so incomplete.
I long to see my mother in the doorway,
As she stood there years ago, on all her feet.

Oh, the starlight's fair tonight in Martain orbit,
And the red dust smells just like I've never been away.
In thin atmosphere the candles' hardly gleaming,
On the backs of the dobi wallahs, far away.

Comment Now then, where did I put my time machine? (Score 0) 40

What we really need is an outlay like this that can be used by General Patton and ...who was that imbecile they replaced him with for D-Day?

errrr..
It looks a bit like a wheel barrow with antenna like handles and those hydrostatic non-friction wheels (that haven't been invented yet.)

Only bigger.

Comment Re:Conspiracy to defraud (Score 0) 212

Never mind:
>So when can we expect "conspiracy to defraud" cases to be initiated against,
>the suits in charge of RBS leading up to the 2008 financial crisis?
WHEN CAN WE SEE THE LIKES OF TORY B. LIAR in court AND IN GAOL at twice the going rate.

Tell people there's the film of the book and... W_H_A_P_!_!_!
Tell people there's the weapons of mass destruction and... meh we all knew that.

It's all about the Arab Spring isn't it?
Australia to Malasia, China and Vietnam; they are all worried about who's in charge of the boat. The UK and the USA just want everyone to sit down like good little passengers. They are not worried at all about who is making waves. How come?

They control the committees that look into their nefarious deeds.
But then...
So does China, Vietnam, Malasia and Australia.

Comment Re:Cost (Score 0) 214

Only if count on the fact that US pilots were not up against Russian ones.

The USSR would hardly send the best batches of the very latest stuff to even very friendly allies since those very friendly allies tended to hate the USSR with passion.

Russian rocket engines were far superior to US ones for the reason given above. They just got it done and made improvements on the shop floor.

Rolls Royce sold them their first jet engines, not realising their capabilities to make do and mend would allow them to produce superior versions of the same and have them in fighters within a few years and have the older ones sent to whatever satellite war zone was part of the great game at the time.

Even in WW2 they were utilising failed armaments intended for things such as gun shells as rocket warheads. The Wehrmacht was just scrapping their duds and recycling them and at a time it could least afford to be particular.

In other words the German war effort was over-engineered and they lost. The Russians were hands on, low tech, high volume, modification oriented -as was Britain to a lesser extent; and they won.

It seems that the USA has become the neonazi military regime. It barely worked in Korea, failed miserably in Vietnam and hasn't even got started yet in Iraq or Afghanistan.

 

Comment Re:Cost (Score 0) 214

Back in the air but not on active service?
For a nation at war it is fortunate it has its choice of enemies.

I rather think Iran is going to with their next one. Especially if all it has to do is sell oil and not import any more Windows operating systems.

In fact an oil rich embargoed country has never been put to the test. A coal rich embargoed country managed to conquer most of Europe twice in half a century.

 

Comment Who is riding whom? (Score 1) 58

The consensus of opinion seems to be that the sharks in Hollywood etc are riding the lawmakers and the lawmakers are riding the feds.
But suppose it is the secret police who are riding the copyright laws.

It certainly seems an odd business practice that has gone on for far too long to be a case of sheer corporate stupidity.
Lala land has been a traditionally innovative force. And filled with people whose first idea is to make money.
Is it truly festooned with idiots and lawyers these days, so inept they are alienating a group of people that were once called fans?

 

Comment Re:Thank goodness! (Score 0) 178

I know very little about UN, other than it was supposed to be where all governments go to agree on how to be civil to each other.

It's quite easy to understand. It is based on a tenet implemented by the last legally elected Prime Minister of Britain before World War 2. It was called appeasement then. Today it is called world peace.

It's about how to let other countries and such type states commit genocide without having to step in and do anything about it. (Unless they have oil. In that case it is all about having a Veto (and allies with vetos.))

Comment Re:Absolutely amazed by this decision (Score 0) 385

Yup. The only people I know equating libertarians and corporate personhood are people who knee-jerk hate libertarians.

I don't know any who support corporate personhood, and many who either imply or explicitly state that, since corporations are a status created by the state they are liable to the state for all their actions.

After some accidents due to shoddy management a few years ago, Britain decided to hold corporations responsible at law as though persons. So in theory a company could be sent to gaol.
Since then of course no managers or directors have been sent to gaol for incompetence and negligence, not even bankers.

The managers of Barclays for example or RBS, won't even get a wrist slapping through the legal system.

> It should be noted that this was not the result of political (i.e., congressional, etc.) action
> but a Supreme Court decision in the mid-late 1800s (1870-something?)

Was the US law determined for such cases in the past, because of slavery and the KKK for example?

 

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