It seems to me like he handled it a bit badly. Constitutionally, the federal government is not allowed to take private property for public use without just compensation.
wait, isn't that what they are doing with fines?? Taking private property (money) for public use (paying for policing) without just compensation.
Uhm, you know that US imports most of its consumer goods?
That means that the US also need to export things to have a healthy trade balance, otherwise the economy will go in the crapper (even more so than it is).
The US has been running a trade deficient since 1980's and if foreign countries stop buying US made products it's going to be a huge problem financially. In March the US trade deficit was a staggering $40 billion. See http://www.tradingeconomics.com/united-states/balance-of-trade for current and historical data on the US trade.
In other words, saying that "the US is not particularly dependent on foreign trade" is patently wrong.
The USA 'exports' 'intellectual property' problems to the rest of the world.
if you rooted your car and installed something like 'Cyanogenmod for cars' which unlocked some features like exceeding the speed limit... and then sat there reading the newspaper...
Considering how quite a bit of money is stowed in the general area, and not from the poor people of this planet, turning off access to those accounts from the US just might cause a few owners of senators to prod their whores.
I guess the Bahamas could do some discrete 'lobbying'; "hey mr US Senator you wouldn't want this secret bank account coming out would you, what with elections coming up and all that?"
When I was in a certain 3rd world country, which shall remain nameless, I found that a router at the National Datacenter had snmp public exposed to the world. It was interesting to find that it had ports named for all the ISPs in the country and a mirror port carrying lots of data, the volume of which corresponded to the sum of all the ISP's ports... and all these ISPs routes went through that National Datacenter.
Also SNMPv3 is very poorly supported by many monitoring tools.
I sometimes wonder if SNMPv3 is *deliberately* made awkward and easy to misconfigure, somewhat like IPSEC...
Why is this guy still called a General, he's a fucking politician already, a political appointee and from his spintalk he's learning the DC shuffle pretty well. A real general would lead his troops into battle and kill the fucking enemy, not continually spy on the citizens or trample on the constitution he's sworn to protect. You have soliders to fight wars, not play political games and trying to color everything with spintalk.
If you are in the USA then he is, in effect, a politician as are all your Generals. Until the corporates get enough leverage to be able to neutralise these Generals and replace them as your de-facto politicians.
The problem even in countries like New Zealand is that the only people who are willing to stand up and say NO to this kind of crap are fringe parties with no real chance of getting any political power.
Here in Australia the 2 big parties want to change the voting process to make it even harder for the little guys to get into parliament.
Thats nothing, in Mongolia they are trying to make it so that if you don't have seats in parliament you can't run in an election!
"But the electorate would be pissed because like an oversized diamond encrusted neckless it doesn't do anything but costs a shit ton"
Like the multiple wars US is engaged in?
The way all those damn war-on-X's are working out, holy shit I'm glad they aren't declaring war on war.
I've also been considered insane from time to time.
What I want:
1.) rpm/zypper/yum based package management. This allows rpm dependency resolution and installed package verification by the package manager.
2.) SysV init. It's clean and it "just" works.
I think those two are a good start. Being able to use an established automated build system is probably a good idea too.
Any other thoughts?
What I want is a distro with the huge array of available packages and well-testedness of Debian but using Yum/RPM instead of apt/deb.
CentOS is not an option due to severely limited availability of packages and, no, the third party repos are not an option as they are nowhere near as rigorously tested as Debian before going into the stable release (of course with the CentOS 3rd party repos (epel, rpmforge etc etc) there is no 'stable' release its just a gigantic mess). But Yum/RPM is just a much better package management system than apt/deb.
This distro would also pledge to stick with sysvinit.
I also want this RPM based distro to support in place release upgrades like Debian is unlike the CentOS philosophy of 'reformat and rebuild with the new release).
After it became apparent the plane didn't mysteriously land somewhere and the passengers were actually alive, I just didn't want to hear about it anymore. There's enough death and misery in the news. Then the South Korean ferry full of high school kids sank. As a parent of two kids, it makes me sick just thinking about that and I haven't even been reading the news since.
Are you kidding? The plane could easily have been ditched in the sea, the passengers and cargo transferred to a waiting ship and then scuttled and sent to the bottom in one piece leaving no floating wreckage. Use your imagination.
Someone who can produce antibiotics would be absolutely amazingly valuable. Assuming that the fall of civilisation wasn't due to the evolution of broad band antibiotic resistance.
Its not hard to do; on the documentary 'Sliders' one guy made an antibiotic just out of mouldy bread and saved a civilisation.
But yeah, antibiotics is what makes modern civilisation possible, enhances population growth rate, increases productivity etc etc etc and without them we would be fucked.
You can bet that someone is currently working on something like a pseudo-narcotic and that they and/or someone else is working on malware based on a pseudo-narcotic.
I doubt it'll be connected to the Sumerian language though.
The brake pedal is elevated with regard to the gas pedal meaning that in essentially any situation you hit the break first. If you double pedal the car will break and not only that, it WILL tell you that you are pressing both pedals and make an audible noise.
So I'd have to conclude that the problem lies between the pedals and the seat in this case.
And I know cause I drive one daily and I have managed to double pedal a total of two-three times when being lazy and it's never been a situation where it'd lead to the car not stopping. Also, with regard to hill hold the firmware 5.9 comes with hill hold where after breaking the car remains holding the current position no matter what angle 1s after you release the brake to allow for easy hill hold. At least that's what the first owners of 5.9 report.
'Gas' pedal?
So, pretty much what we have today? So it's true, war is the terror of the rich, terror is the war of the poor?
It hasn't even really got going yet.
War as a dick-waving contest between nation states is largely over. Its going to get a lot more personal and a lot more involved in the lives of civilians.
God doesn't play dice. -- Albert Einstein
