I want to meet the person who has no drinking experience that can down half a liter of vodka without throwing most of it back up. Keep in mind there's a time component too, if you kill a bottle of vodka over the course of an evening you're going to just wake up slightly dehydrated (good stuff) or with a nasty hangover (bottom shelf); if you kill it in five minutes you're liable to have some problems.....

It's not that ideologies are always harmful, so much as that acting without thinking can be harmful, and ideology discourages people from thinking things through for themselves.

If people are carefully and honestly thinking through the consequences of their actions, they are less likely to harm themselves or others.

If, OTOH, people are blindly following dogma rather than engaging in rational thought.... well, often that isn't an immediate problem (either because the dogma is reasonably applicable to the situation at hand, or because the consequences of the decisions being made on auto-pilot are not too severe). But it does open the door for serious harm to occur, because people who aren't thinking are not able to quickly or easily detect or amend their mistakes.

http://someonewhocares.org/hos...

censorship?

Which sounds awesome on paper but is completely meaningless in the real world. NATO's standard rifle cartridge relies on tumbling and fragmentation for its terminal effects. I'm not certain why it matters if a bullet fragments because of a small explosive charge or because of the design of the projectile; the end result is the same.

the heroin crack meth of money in politics is not defeated by voting for the fourth party candidate wackjob

the laws need to be changed like this:

http://www.wolf-pac.com/

using money to defeat money. corruption jujitsu

Umm; it's pretty hard for someone without tolerance to get to the LD50 of ethanol without first throwing up or passing out.

you're correct, they want an alternative stream

but it's not altruistic, they just want to set up their own competing ~1% ~2% steal

It's called proportionality; it applies on both the individual level (I can't shoot you in response to an open handed slap across my face) and the nation-state level (you can't nuke a country in response to a platoon of infantryman crossing the frontier)

thank you. well explained

the banks can't cut out the ccs, the ccs will punish them

so the best power play is OS/ phone manufacturer and the phone companies cutting out the banks AND the ccs

i get it

but you know the ccs are working furiously with dirty tricks right now like purchased legislation to protect their revenue streams, i mean EHEM, "protect the consumer"

If you want to acquire political power from the barrel of a gun you should probably stop and ask yourself if you can actually win before you cross the Rubicon.

And the Supreme Court says that the Congressional power to regulate interstate commerce extends even to plants that you grow for personal use with no intention of resale.

I don't really like or agree with those rulings but they are the law of the land, for better or worse....

american banks are finally waking the fuck up from all of the easy expensive hacks and finally giving americans european style smart chip cards:

http://www.cnbc.com/id/1014121...

the chips in smart cards are the same thing as phone SIM cards:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S...

so why can't banks team up with verizon/ att/ sprint/ etc (and do an end run around google/ apple/ samsung/ etc. plus mastercard/ visa/ etc.) and just give us phone = bankcard thataways?

what am i missing?

do i get my $30 million bonus now?

the only reason we don't have phone = bankcard technology is this power game pissing contest between all of the players here, correct?

someone please explain to me what i am missing

The fact that they were addons actually made them even bigger disasters. Because they required custom software, they behaved like they were standalone systems (a Sega CD game was useless to a purely Sega Genesis owner). But at the same time, the maximum possible market for the SegaCD was existing Genesis owners.

The Saturn was the biggest component of why the industry was pissed at Sega, but their scattershot console strategy leading up to the Saturn was definitely a factor on peoples minds.