So in other words, the perfect society is the one where people have no power due to being individually too weak, and where only those with power get to call how much anyone can earn.

I think US actually moved away from that for a long while. You know, Eisenhower and his "freedom is about freedom from want" angle. It's only recently that pro-business propaganda succeeded in running the narrative in the direction you are angling it at.

Ah yes, "notion that Irish economy is built on this loophole" strawman after I called you on your "debating properly is a bad idea" slip.
Rather understandable considering that you tend to lose most of your debates on merits here on slashdot because you tend to argue for an pretty badly defensible position.

Now if you only could quote were I suggested something even remotely like this. I'll wait.

Emperor is still not wearing any clothes, and no matter how much you herald ACs are trumpeting about it, he's still out there, still naked, still ugly as fuck.

And hence, people are still leaving FF for any options available when they're not using FF on tablets. Because as of typing this, FF is no longer a desktop browser and hasn't been one for a while. Yes it can be installed on a desktop, but it's in no way, shape or form designed or optimized for desktop usage scenario any more.

To be fair, it was about one mutation away from blowing up our current world order. Airborne virus with reasonably high lethality (for an airborne virus) among healthy population would be utterly devastating and largely unstoppable in modern world, and would collapse entire societies. As a result, I'm finding it hard to not justify the preparations for it. The risk was huge, and in relation to the risk, information and preparation was called for.

The problem is that our mainstream media tends to blow things out of proportion for profit, and as a result, very little of honest reporting was done on the topic.

Lockheed did no such thing.

They are all last ones. Since it's anal.

To be fair, it would not be too hard to implement a game like FTL in flash. It's a text based adventure + static small scale RTS combat. All of these are done on much more complex level in flash today.

Probably easier than implementing it in bastardized version of javascript as was done here.

Because as WoW has shown us, nothing is hated as much as makeup coming from stealth and killing you in stun.

Pirate Bay doesn't own the games, nor does it host them. Therefore you can't steal them from Pirate Bay no matter how much you would like to try.

There are plenty, including Chrome, IE, Safari, Opera.

And if you are into Firefox functionality such as add-ons, there are fully functional forks that keep most of the functionality such as Pale Moon.

It's going to go down even further now that one of the most popular Firefox forks for those that dropped Firefox for UI reasons, Pale Moon will now start to carry its own identifier by default.

Pale Moon sits on top of ESR, and they had to switch to a different identifier for the browser because they aren't going with australis insanity.

So far, they appear to be fine. You may want to check them out if you want to keep most of your plugins working, and your interface PC-centric rather than tablet-centric that mozilla is gunning for.

To be fair, I think this is the problem with general population more than anything. With success of vaccines people forgot that there are actually crippling and lethal infectious diseases. They may intellectually understand it, but there's very little understanding on everyday life level. The current panic underscores it as well - first people underreact and now they are overreacting.

CDC is supposed to be professionals trained for this kind of a situation, but they're not immune to being well off for last half a century.

Wait, so in your opinion, using proper debate methods approved in schools is bad and mud slinging that you practice is good?

Thanks for sharing. And folks modded me troll in the initial posts. Hah.

This is correct. However air fuel bomb is in some cases an adequate replacement for a tactical nuclear warhead because the detonation "epicentre" is spread much wider, which means that if your task is to hit a limited area (which is usually the purpose of the low yield tactical nuclear weapons), air fuel bombs can serve as a functional replacement.

One has to remember that destructive force of a tactical nuclear weapon falls off very quickly as range from epicentre increases. Modern MBTs are designed to survive just a short distance from it and come with thick enough armour to make neutron bomb unfeasible as well (main reason why NATO dropped neutron bombs from their list of countermeasures to Soviet tank rush in the 1970s and started to look for alternatives by increasing yields on tactical nuclear weapons).

One has to remember that Hiroshima and Nagasaki were strategic bombs, not tactical ones, as a result, the comparison here is flawed. A comparable (in terms of destructive yield) nuclear weapon is going to be something among these lines:
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