Oh, come on; everything's more futuristic in a geodesic dome.

You need to buy a dictionary.

this is even worse on political forums, if you dont parrot the forums groupthink, be it right leaning or left leaning you are assaulted by the majority and you end up getting labeled troll, even if your responses are level headed and you are the one being attacked.

thats true i guess, the first time it happened to me i was on the highway and i was just like hmm, thats odd, kicked the car into neutral turned the key, kicked the car back to drive and continued on my way. But then again, the avg american is not brought up around cars (my father owned car dealerships growing up) and most americans dont know how to drive in perfect conditions let alone when something out of the ordinary happens

the truth is the issue is no wheres near as big of an issue as its being talked about. I had a GM with an ignition problem. all it meant was the key could come out when the car was running, even if it powered off if its not as if the brakes engage, you simply hit the brakes and come to a stop, or throw it in neutral and start the car back up, not a big deal. the airbag recalls im more concerned with than this

I think you're mixing up programs. The mobile command center is probably not military surplus, it was likely purchased and customized under a homeland security grant.

These things aren't unreasonable purchases for a medium-sized city like Milford. They aren't military vehicles, the're basically mobile office space.

No they are not supposed to, nor is that what they are paid for. Sometimes they *have* to shoot people, but that is and should be regarded as a failure, albeit sometimes an avoidable one.

Modern policing is governed by the "Peelian Principles" (for Sir Robert Peel). The very first principle: "To prevent crime and disorder, as an alternative to repression by military force and severity of legal punishment." Furthermore, the principles state that policing is only effective if it can secure the respect and cooperation of the public and "the extent to which the co-operation of the public can be secured diminishes proportionately the necessity of the use of physical force and compulsion for achieving police objectives." (principle 4)

So the idea that it's part of a cop's job description to shoot people is rubbish. It's a cop's job to keep the peace, and if a good cop shoots someone it's because it's the lesser of two failures.

im not sure we are looking at the same car companies. the biggest gainers over the past 6 years would be the koreans with hundei and kia, and the domestics are making cars that are just as good if not better than the imports these days.

so eventhough obama did EXACTLY what the republicans asked for to avoid the shutdown...in your eyes the shutdown is still the republicans fault....

this right here, is just one of the many problems with this country these days

On the other hand, an idea that can explain anything isn't really scientific. There's no question that evolution by natural selection is a scientific idea, but somehow it gets garbled in translation into an "organism trying to find a variation". In other cases (visible in this discussion) it's seen as benign intelligent force that will compensate for our mistakes. You can purge the white-bearded sky god from your iconography, but it's harder to get him out of your thinking.

So is death.

obviously i was referring to the point that i DONT have to do business with them if i dont like what they are doing. Cant get away with that when its the government

i think you need to look at fergison MO, i dont think its republicans out there on the streets rioting....

so what you are saying, if i understand correctly is fuck the reality of things, we need to keep up the political theater to screw the people

that makes the dems look EVEN worse in my mind when you put it that way.

"sorry folks, we know the website is broken, but we are going to force you to use it so we can save face with the other side"

thats cowardice

The point to this practice (yearly rank-n-yank) is really nothing more than a little S&M show to keep the shareholders and investors hard, and to keep them pumping. There is little actual value to this practice, and it has been shown to be actively BAD for overall performance. (don't get me wrong, you can still fire the slackers for slacking) - but in the commercial world, you have to occasionally perform these human sacrifices to the golden calf.

Same actually goes for outsourcing and offshoring. Long term, losing practice. But it gets those shareholders WET WET WET to believe that management is tough on the mythical "undeserving bottom 10%".