Comment Re:Why do people think Snowden would've done that? (Score 1) 168
Where else could he go and avoid extradition to the US?
He doesn't have to go anywhere. All he had to do was not break the law in the first place.
Where else could he go and avoid extradition to the US?
He doesn't have to go anywhere. All he had to do was not break the law in the first place.
And why would trucks stop coming into the city?
For lack of available fuel? For lack of refrigeration in the warehouses that used to store the food they deliver? For lack of whole chunks of the supply chain upstream from their knife's-edge just-in-time delivery infrastructure? Because roads would be blocked or at least hosed up for lack of traffic control? Because people would be truck-jacking anything that looked valuable?
The entire infrastructure that brings food to people right before they actually need it is incredibly fragile. The trucks, needing fuel, communications, functioning computer-controlled drive trains, and managed roadways, are just one part of it.
The biggest risk is that all these ignorant survivalist cause people to panic becasue of all the FUD that have been spreading.
The numbre of survivalist-type people is completely, utterly eclipsed by the number of people who have no clue about (or interest in) being sensible in an emergency. Look at New Orleans, where people living below sea level had days of warning, and couldn't be bothered to fill up a few jugs of drinking water or move their fleet of school buses into a useful place. And they're used to big storms down there! Now imagine lower Manhattan suddenly without any power or comms or viable transportation for weeks or more. Or the suburbs around DC. Yeah.
And this drivel gets +5 insightful?
It was a live call-in show.
You're so cute, there.
The Soviet Union fell a long, long time ago you know.
Even more cute!
They other guy in the conversation was a KGB agent, has said publicly that he thinks the end of the Soviet Union was a huge tragedy, and is slowly but surely trying to build that empire back up again - and once again, using force.
That "phone in" show was completely scripted. You utterly embarrass yourself pretending otherwise. For you to go to that much trouble with the charade suggests that you're every bit the shill/puppet that Snowden was during that little bit of theater. You're not fooling anybody, so please stop trying.
By 'we' you mean the people puppeting the astroturfers who are trying to discredit snowden to support the govt line on the issue in forums such as these?
No, by "we" he means all of us who think that. Thinking that doling out the huge amount of information he stole, and then wandering his way through one totalitarian country before setting up shop in another is a bad thing and indicative of his muddled world view
And then you can build a mega-city out of such mega-buildings. And then Judge Dredd can't be far behind
Also, there's a high likelihood that anything from a link to Fox News doesn't contain much factual information.
So rather than address the issue linked to, you're just going to slip into typical lefty ad hominem in order to avoid the substance of the matter? Yup, that's what you did.
..,pharma compnaies are "barely regulated"?
You really do have no idea what you're talking about, do you?
It's not bribery, it's a "campaign contribution"
It should be no surprise that a system run by corrupt politicians passes laws that makes corruption legal..
Ah see? You can ignore words. You almost had me there...
Of course I can ignore words. But some words matter, and some don't.
Always draw your curves, then plot your reading.
