There was that accidental experiment a couple years ago in GA. A hard crackdown on migrant labor and a invitation for local unemployeds to work the fields - a few dozen showed up and none lasted more than a couple of days.

Wall Street doesn't get that killing the middle class in the US will ruin them - that's next year's problem and all they care about is this quarter at the longest-term.

But that makes sense. It'll never happen unless it can be monetized into campaign contributions.

It's not like the annealing heat of descent wouldn't cause the material to take on the local field, right?

In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded.

I voted Handmaid's Tale because the US seems headed toward a conjunction of that an 1984 - a technology-enabled theocracy.

Details, please?

The South started the war owning exactly zero cannon foundries and had a disjoint rail system with multiple track gauges. The North had a unified rail system (one gauge) and enough industrial capacity to make arms.

The strategic incompetence of an agrarian 'country' starting a war against an industrialized opponent outweighed the tactical advantage of field leadership ... eventually.

If he hadn't been already for Vista
or WinMe
or Clippy

I'm sure they'll manage. A cushy retirement/sinecure is too much to pass up.

Not compared with the Daring, the Audacity and the Suicidal Insanity.

/ please correct these?

A 120+GB solid state iPod is way past due. No, I don't want an iPhone. No, I don't want to stream (and pay for that bandwidth).

Citation requested - close enough that polio vax should have caught this?
Are we seeing the outcome of the antivaxxers' stupidity come to fruition with something closer to benign?
Can we spin it that way anyway?

While what you say is true, you fail to consider the number of protons in a baseball.

Those cameraphones capture late-stage action and aftermath. The bodycams should capture the leadup and escalation that are really needed for an impartial/fair evaluation of the event. The events you cite do sound damning, but more footage would be helpful in evaluating the encounter. Knowing that footage exists helps, too - if only to slow the officer's reach for applied violence.

Y'know, if I've got that cellphone app that streams direct to the cloud for protection from abuse of power, can't the bodycams do the same thing? Local-only data is too vulnerable to loss or abuse.

It was a gigantic pile of legislation - so big it looked like it had to have been ready to go on 9/10 - and was passed and signed in alarmingly little time, almost without debate or dissent. At least that's the way it seemed at the time.