They teach military and law enforcement that someone has to have capability, intent, and opportunity to hurt you before you can use deadly force. I've heard civilians state they used a similar model but sometimes with the added condition that other options are fairly unreasonable. If someone has a gun and indicates they intend to use it on me, if I can disable them I'd be smart to jump at the chance.

Repetitive behavior like scratching sores into their skin and scalp or spending six hours kicking a soccer ball against a wall.
Also little kids are learning how to make themselves do shit on their own, if they're not having to learn that at a young age when it's easy they're going to be dependent on chemicals. Decreased executive function. In the long term. Not to mention they become much less social.

As far as "no a problem, the problems that are removed are normal hyper child personality things, adderall and ritilin is just as likely to make your kid punch some other kid.. it's likely to turn him into an unstable drama queen when his dosage hits a low point... you

Go ahead and show me some long term data on the effectiveness of addreall. Have you taken this stuff? It feels really gross.

Except the stimulants they give kids are bad for them, personality changes, repetitive behavior, loss of creativity, abnormal development of normal executive function skills.

The rest of society gets the kids they raise too. Many parents would be better parents but they really just don't know what to do. My ex's kids used to get out of bed 10x a night and it'd been going on for years, I just did a simple google search that we needed to provide a lot of structure at bedtime with stories, snacks, teeth brushing and then things calmed down considerably. Adding structure to other things seemed to help provide discipline for routine things like homework as well. The difference was night and day. The kids liked the results and were generally happier getting attention at night instead of the hassles we'd gone through before, my ex was pretty happy and of course i was happy to be getting my sleep back.

Nobody told her this she would have done this a long time ago but she just didn't know.

Anyhow I have digressed a bit when people raise lousy kids we get them as co-workers, bosses, neighbors, girlfriends.... etc. It's bad for society.

You do realize that one of those pictures is a joke intended to make smug Europeans look dumb right? The beer and the outlets are from europe somewhere.

I was being a smartass but I'd mod your comment interesting if I could as I didn't know this. It seems like there is a niche market here that can't be served due to human stupidity.

They don't let you smoke in a hospital or plane of course. But the sort of injuries I'm talking about they send you down to medical or have a medic give you stitches and you're back to business in 5 or 10 minutes, in the military you have to be very fucked up to end up in the hospital, I guess the exception is if you say cut yourself in a way needing minor medical care right away but doc has gone home for the night. I wasn't talking about heavy injures, stitches or burns, they think I might have broken a finger once and the corpsman didn't even send me to the hospital for that, do you know that in the military they perform minor surgery without the presence of a doctor for things like ingrown toenails and stuff? Basically the military won't function properly if you can't smoke unless you give people something else to do, everyone in the military drinks like 8 pots of coffee a day and half of them smoke a lot. Even most of the military non-smokers are what you would consider occasional smokers having one every week or two and when things are awful you'll see a lot of people who never smoke most of the year taking up the habit for a month or so.

I know smoking is a disgusting habit and I see that addictions make you come up with excuses why you *need* something, but this is something the military has tried.. .they've tried it several times and the results were bad each time. You haven't been so you don't know what you're talking about in this case. It's a world so nasty that talking about smoking is laughable.

The start menu is horrible I wish it would go away. It was designed so that someone with no idea what they're doing can guess their way to the correct destination. Much like the horrible category mode that control panel had. Example:
Uhmmm I've never seen a computer before I guess I want to start here uhm games, uhm Myst, uhm Start Myst.
  That's the thinking but it even fails at that because it's more like:
I want uhm start... wow that's a list of things hmm.. oops the menu closed ok open it up again ok uhm games... no.. I want Borderbund software... uhm ok Cyan Games? Uhm Myst... Play myst in window.. no play myst fullscreen.. yes.

I heard there is a new one called uhaul that is ok with it.

I use public transit frequently despite owning a car, and last year when I was in college I did it so much that my battery deep discharged. I just slashdotted in the morning and studied in the evening. Sometimes I would watch netflix, do banking, pay bills, write mom, organize my todo list, when I move I'll be able to do my grocery shopping on the bus. My biggest complaint was the smell of meth people and hippies permanently rubbed into the seats. Don't consider commute time on public transit wasted consider it reserved time for certain sorts of tasks, I was actually saving myself 30 minutes a day by taking public transit, not losing 40 (or I forget) at first glance.

I'm moving to Seattle soon and I think I'm going to ditch my car completely and get one of those folding powered scooters to use to catch the bus if it's raining or get where I need to go depending.... and then use a rental car anytime I need a car. The really fast lightweight scooters seem to break frequently but the parts are inexpensive and even the worst engine teardowns get done in 5 or 10 minutes on youtube so probably the worst repairs will take me 30 or 40 minutes max the first time I do it.

Oh lord, I have a super religious roommate. Every good thing that happens.... God. Every bad thing that happens.... Still good, we just don't know why yet. I've actually brought up good things happening to me, or mulsims, buddhists, and mormons. Either god being mysterious, or the true evil doesn't just prance in with horns like we think. Depends on her mood. Most conversation with her about anything of substance reduces to canned responses that are usually not directly from the bible, each one short and used over and over even if it means digressing far off topic to get there.

She also becomes excited whenever the world inches closer to collapse or war, she denies this but it's become clear that she can't wait for everyone to die so she can go to heaven. I move out in a few days and after a year of this shit, life will be so beautiful (No doubt life away from her is another of God's blessings).

I didn't think this is what religious people actually thought but I've seen her talk to some more composed people who have similar views to her and they're just not as undisciplined with their mouths and actions until they're around one of their own. Truly frightening.

Human beings are constantly doing things that would make themselves less combat ready, have a soda, stay up late, don't stretch, even getting your way once in awhile makes you less combat effective. The military is likewise doing things to military personnel that make them less combat ready. Exposing them to harmful fumes comes to mind. Before you argue how important whatever task they're undertaking is worth exposing them to these fumes, it's just as often busywork. Other military people will back me up on this.

Nonetheless most military personnel are indeed combat ready and are tested for their readiness, smoking is very popular in the military and it might shock you to learn that they just train hard enough that they stay in shape anyhow. Efforts to ban smoking on ships and things have caused MASSIVE problems, imagine that your entire day is shit and there are only four things you have to look forward to in a day, food, sleep, jacking off, and smoking. Your free time consists of 5 minute increments where you happen to be idle. These are the best parts of your day for sometimes months at a time and sometimes you're not getting sleep either. Then someone tells you that you can't smoke. People start falling asleep on station, even months later people are still irritable because they're not able to provide an artificial source of satisfaction in an otherwise totally unsatisfying way of life.

Forget that. You can't even imagine the sort of lives military people live. It's the SMALLEST of things that you get to enjoy and it's almost intolerable when you've already been injured several times or completed some sort of dangerous task and some safety nerd comes around taking your last bit of fun away. Imagine the stitches are still bleeding somewhere on your filthy body and someone with soft hands in a clean dry uniform yanks a cigarette out of your mouth and reminds you how bad it is for you, or when nobody has given a shit about you in a year and then someone has the nerve to tell you that people have heard you're drinking every night they're going to send you to drug counseling. When your day consists of working so hard that you think maybe you might pass out, but you keep working because you figure you'll pass out and get a few days rest in medical or maybe you won't pass out but man you feel funny and right while this is going through your head some guy tells you that they don't like you walking around without a shirt over your t-shirt. You're that guy.

Needs to be large enough to remove alien parasites

it seems to me that nuclear destroyers had a wider beam than fossil fuel ships. Couldn't explain the details.

Those ships aren't electric propulsion. Anyhow I feel it's worth pointing out navy has built nuclear destroyers but they're not practical, but maybe they are.

Of course the goal is to deploy this on an existing platform.