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This exact same topic was covered in Frontline's special on North Korea over a year ago. Their point of contact was Jiro Ishimaru of Asiapress who was sneaker netting USBs over the border. They even took a video of people trying to watch on a tiny screen and having to shut everything down whenever they heard someone outside.

The documentary also touched on humanitarian issues as much as it could using a secret camera. Sad stuff. Great thing to watch. Occasionally you can catch it streaming on Netflix but it seems to not be available right now.

At some point, having a server (like Linode) becomes well worth it. As long as you have a network connection, you can connect to your one development box.

The XL pipeline would provide only temporary jobs for the construction of the pipeline. It might require a few dozen permanent jobs for maintenance and other costs associated with any ongoing concern. Then again, the US firms (if any) charged with maintaining the pipeline once it's built may not hire anyone new for these roles.

I get the impression that you're joking, but it's more important than at any time in the past to correct false assertions: Most everyone has lost his sense of humor, and facts are routinely confused with personal or group truths. It will be more important to correct false assertions tomorrow -- why not procrastinate in order to ramp up the significance of your unfounded exaggerations?

Better suggestion for you -- from Len Grossman. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Net bad overall for these United States. The pipeline's route includes one or more Nebraska refineries, but all of the petroleum is destined for the Gulf Coast, i.e., to be shipped elsewhere. I have yet to understand what the US has to gain by building a pipeline which does not benefit the US. All I can see for the US with this pipeline is risk -- and a few thousand temporary jobs.

Methinks the fix is in, whether it involves Tom Steyer or other interests who are only anti-this-pipeline.

FYI, my brother-in-law sells pipe for pipelines (and the SCADA to go with it). He says that sales have strictly increased since the pipeline was first publicized in 2008.

Obviously aggression toward one another is required.

This is really a basic tenet of what might be called 'Nietszcheanism'.

Its possible for humans to live a life of 'poverty, dirt and miserable ease' ie where their life is awful and boring and drab but at the same time its so easy and safe that they can't be bothered doing anything about it. Its aggression, dissatisfaction and greed that gets them to step up and demand more from life and to live beyond that state of miserable ease.

I heard that antibiotics can cause extreme nut allergies in children... or at least thats what I'm telling the anti-vaxxers.

Aggression, along with greed and selfishness are absolutely essential to the existance of life itself. They are at the very root of life. No living thing exists without doing so at the expense of another living thing and must be selfish, greedy and aggressive to survive and propagate. Even cyanobacteria exist at the expense of other cyanobacteria; occupying space that another cyanobacteria would like to occupy.

Get rid of aggression, selfishness and greed and you get rid of life.

The example I was responding to involved M1 tanks and the US military of today. I don't think that the US military has replicator technology.

My point is that bringing supplies with you is not a supply chain. Its a limited resource. So with those limited supplies you bring with you, you better hope you can finish the campaign before they run out. Or, like I said, those tanks will just be hard cover.

Honestly I wouldn't expect anything else from a 5-eyes nation.

It would depend on the supply chain.

If the modern invading force didn't have the supply chain for fuel then within a day or two those thousand M1 tanks would be nothing but cover to hide behind.

Yep, that's the only option. There's nothing between doing nothing and that option. It's all we have. And if anyone starts to talk about mitigation strategies, planning ahead of time or devoting a single cent of taxpayer money toward preparing for it, we are just all going to have a meltdown and throw a tantrum with teabags on our hats. Thank god we have these strawman arguments for what these ivory tower Oxford elitists are telling us to do: eliminate the human race to protect the human race. I cannot believe they would actually come to that conclusion but there it is, right in the article. Those environmentalists will have us starving in mud huts by the end of the month if we just sit by and let this academic report go unabated and without criticism!

*tortured sigh*

I thought stealing was just normal for cops in the USA? They call it 'civil forfeiture'.