I hope you don't work as an English teacher.

Japanese Americans have an even lower violent crime rate than Japanese at in Japan.

LK

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 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.

You're so cute, there.

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.

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 ... that's not "the government line," that's being realistic. Snowden was and is being handled. His appearance on TV with Putin couldn't have looked more scripted, or more set up to allow Putin to answer in the dismissive, oily way that he did - all while sending the Useful Idiots that think Snowden is a clear-headed hero a nice little pat on the head.

Actually, Brass Fetcher uses 20% gelatin, whereas FBI requires only 10% gelatin for penetration testing. So Brass Fetcher's youtube page is a terrific resource.

I actually started loading Remington Golden Sabers instead of Hornady Critical Max in my Glock based on the ballistics tests on Brass Fetcher's channel.

even looking for anybody that acts sanely and rationally that would reform it.

Welcome aboard the Ted Cruz bandwagon.... oh wait, you don't like the 1 guy in DC saying we should abolish the IRS.

I guess it's true -- you really are "Ready For Hillary".

Looking forward to part 2, I'm sure you've seen some of the same coding horrors I have in my career.

It's a dog-whistle for the obviously racist intent of "majority white". That's what they mean, that's what they're saying, they just lack the guts to be explicit with it.

LK

You're welcome.

Yes, let's be real. The primary obstacle to people like Obama, Bush, Clinton, Bush, Reagan, etc from becoming like Mao, Pol Pot or insert your favorite genocidal dictator here, is that they face a strong opposition.

LK

Keep in mind that these are laws which constrain the actions of the law abiding while doing nothing to change the behavior of those already committing crimes.

This is why US law permits what it doesn't explicitly ban. So people like you can't just block things without a reason. Making money is not something that just magically happens. It occurs for two reasons, either someone is providing a service of value and receiving adequate compensation for it. Or someone is forcing someone to buy their shit. Making money in the absence of coercion implies that a good or service of value is being traded voluntarily.

There are several problems with this point of view. First, those who are greedy may throw their support to a harmful ideology (such as happened with German business and the Nazis prior to the Second World War). They can cause great harm in their own right, such as the Congo Free State or the British East India company.

Third, they can hold ideologies and attempt to pursue their greed in a way steered by their ideological blinders. For example, the Russian sell off of oil assets was expected to be a massive generator of economic value by a lot of generic business people, and it was - for a clique of well-connected oligarches. Everyone else who wasn't so well connected didn't do as well as they thought they would.

This is the third great division of power in US politics.

It makes Google's power generation holdings more valuable, if there is a net shift from oil to electric powered vehicles.

Your assumption would be incorrect.

Let's look at the actual definition. This is the first one listed:

There are other definitions which do fit your opinion more or less, but they aren't the only definitions of "republic" - in the US.