He divided all military personnel into four quadrants.
Slow-minded, lazy -- assigned as footsoldier
Slow-minded, energetic -- dismissed from corps
Quick-minded, energetic -- staff officer
Quick-minded, lazy -- commanding officer
Are we enraged killers? Do we think killing someone repairs something else?
If we kill out out anger or if we kill according to the irrational calculus that one death offsets another, then we share a common indulgence or a common delusion with angry and vengeful murderers.
The death penalty is nothing more than a political appeasement and an opportunistic exercise of our worst impulses.
Ah, but does killing a murderer prevent future deaths? Is the death penalty just a prophylactic extermination, a cost-effective way to save lives? If so, let's put it somewhere on that list of cost-effective ways to save lives by killing a few people -- the one that starts with Attorneys for Tobacco Companies.
Sorry. I considered installing the dual-unit spedometer into the wording but thought it might seem punctilious and condescending.
This is the crowd I grew up with, so I may be the unkowning carrier of disinformation, but here is my read:
All drove very fast. They did get ticketed frequently stateside, but the personnel office had resources. Justifications were welded onto all damage.
A small number drove mad fast because they couldn't pull out of some high-danger mentality even after the helicopter lift. They flouted the law like city kids who are "in the system", since they felt doomed anyway. You can see that kind of driving around the exits for military bases, where soldiers drive ninety to work because that is their permanent risk profile.
But most were just trying to feel the thrill, to act like the real thing. They had race-car training and cop evasion training and could surprize you when they decided to treat some ordinary sight as a threat. But they suffered that ordinary human pathetic weakness for emergency powers and a starring role.
Of course, the British are pioneering. Wait for the feedback effect, when someone challenges the phony backstory for a traffic death, and a file is opened on this new strain of domestic saboteur.
Britain has significantly fewer fatalities per billion miles driven than Germany. This may partly result from the difficulty of finding a lane fast enough to kill. There was a point when New Jersey had the highest automobile insurance rates in the United States and the fewest deaths per billion car-miles, because everyone was stuck in bumper-car traffic.
And that is why you will not sit on a jury. You mind has been polluted by experience and reading.
It is not reasonable to ask you to suspend the epithets and other personal criticisms, because your observations appear to be truthful, you warning well-meant, and your anger righteous.
Still, please do hold back, because your state of anger and contempt puts you in a fighting stance, and it makes calming your reaction seem more urgent than monitoring the police.
Your frustration is not the problem here. It isn't even one of the effects of the problem. It is the effect of others' not seeing or not wanting to see the problem.
There used to be a category of personalities known as "anti-social". They were criminals, even though the cops had nothing on them. It turned out that a lot of them were just very loud early-warning sentries who saw injustice where most other people saw happiness and order.
You hold a well-polished mirror to the police. Keep the attention there.
Police forces are not baskets of individuals. They are organizations, and those organizations train and direct their personnel. Humans generally adapt to the culture of the organizations where they are attached.
You let the culprit escape if you debate whether all, most, or only some cops are bad.
Fixing the missions and organizational designs of police forces is within our political power.
L. Frank Baum published a series of (mediocre, weird) children's books, from around 1900-1910, all with OZ in the title.
The term Oz was derived from his filing system. He had two or three filing cabinets, the last one labeled O-Z.
The claims to trademark by movie companies are entirely court-muscled by the despicable showboats who call themselves "entertainment lawyers."
just what DNA discloses about the current metabolytes in one's system?
I'm pretty sure your DNA does not change when you have a beer, and I'm pretty sure there are no DNA mutations that uniquely and reliably signal the ingestion of any psychoactive substance.
Now, maybe other tests are done as well, and the DNA is used just as a label for your file, instead of "sample subject #012345".
This is someone obsessed enough with credentials to put the entire community into mortal fear and to kill a whole day for a group of people known to get a lot done in a day.
Shame and ruin will suffice. Jail won't be the worst punishment. Being recognized in public will.
Your sodium nickel chloride battery operates on at temperatures where the salts are molten, does it not? 350 Celsius, maybe? Do they leak heat even when not in use?
Because the cars are already there and fully expensed for personal transportation. This is not about optimal investment. It's about making use of pre-existing noggins.
While we're at it, why do I have to run a compressor for the refrigerator in my kitchen when it is exactly thirty degrees Fahrenheit outside, only six feet away, where another giant compressor creates heat for the interior of the house, and incidentally heats the interior of the refigerator?
"The right of the people to be secure
Let me paraphrase the original article for clarity:
The NSA has been rerouting traffic at the backbone level in order to obtain traffic patterns that fit the agency's approved search criteria.
Dinosaurs aren't extinct. They've just learned to hide in the trees.
