Comment Re:so that's it... (Score 2) 96
If that PTSD thing is true that's interesting as it's believed I'm suffering PTSD. (Seriously. Not trying to make a joke.)
If that PTSD thing is true that's interesting as it's believed I'm suffering PTSD. (Seriously. Not trying to make a joke.)
I have a wife... But I think after that my amygdala got removed. Socializing? What's that?
if it is true, and flying is already safer than road travel, then why do we need all the security?
1) The elite prefer, at this time, to control the masses by fear. Americans are carefully social engineered to be cowards, and the elite like it that way. Otherwise, all the lives ruined by the elites might want to take a few with em on the way out. So, keep them scared.
2) Do you have any idea how much freaking money that "security theater" costs? Lots of campaign contributions later, it turns out we have a need.
I called this over a year ago in the "Air Force One NYC Flyby" incident:
"We are a bunch of fuckin' wussy people."
- 3 planeloads of people let 5 men armed with hand tools take over airplanes - because that's what they've been told to do. As soon as the 4th planeload of people find out how they've been lied to, they take action and save many more lives.
- Hundreds of students cower under desks waiting be rescued from 1 man with 2 handguns, and the only person to do ANYTHING is an octogenarian who gets killed for his efforts to protect the strong, healthy, 18-22 year old "adults" hiding in fear. The most played interview is of a young man who was simply waiting to die. He is called "heroic".
- A man starts shooting in an immigrant center, and police take 45 minutes to enter the building, while people hide like scared rabbits waiting to be rescued. The police state that their response time was irrelevant - the victims would have died anyway.
Oh yes, we have reached the point where helplessness is considered noble, where former soldiers are considered security risks because the government trained them to kill, and the people whose "job" it is to protect us simply shrug their shoulders and pick up the bodies.
Wussies doesn't really cover it.
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A year and a half later, it's only gotten worse. One of the victims at VT is now making his name running "investigations" on how easy it is to get guns at gun shows - even though the guy who shot him bought from gun shops and passed the background checks. Soldiers passing through to Afghanistan are being told they need to check their bayonets - while they KEEP their rifles and sidearms. And once you enter the "secure zone", you must either submit to the scanner or the search or be arrested - you can't simply decide not to fly.
It's not even a question anymore about whether something really bad is going to happen - the question is what are people going to do WHEN it happens.
Functions and variables shouldn't be a problem; they are already into algebra in his math class, and they are something that I understand vis a vis programming, so I can explain it.
Would this book be suitable for a relatively precocious 10 year old? My son wants to learn how to make computer games, but he has the attention span of a gnat on Red Bull. But his math skills are excellent (about 7th grade level) and his reading is above average too, with a scary vocabulary. He'd be attracted to the comic format, but what level of programming knowledge does it assume? I'd be available to help him, except the last time I programmed anything was 20 years ago - in FORTRAN.
"White-Fi"? Really? Do they have the check to Al Sharpton already made out??
This spring my wife wanted to buy $$$ worth of plants for the yard.
My response? "Honey, last year the only thing green in the yard was the pool."
We HAVE a right to privacy - things done in private should stay there.
We THINK we have a right to anonymity - that somehow, things done in a public place or forum will not be connected with our identity.
People ACT with stupidity, when they post private information on a public forum with their identity specifically attached.
Society needs to read some Niven and Pournelle and learn what "Evolution in action means."
Not sure about the gay porn thing, but he definitely writes as though he's never held a REAL gun in his life - and he desperately wants to.
Dear Mr. Raab;
Recently your request to have your official email addressed removed from the public directory. I suggest you look up the term "Streisand Effect" on Wikipedia (or rather, have one of your more internet literate staffers do so).
Sincerely
a_colonist
Aren't computer types always accused of working in their mother's basements or the bowels of a data center? Sound like caves to me.
Oh, and read John Ringo's The Council Wars - it's a sort of retelling of the Silmarillion with sex and violence (and violent sex) replacing erudition and pretension. In the books, the rings are represented by cryptographic keys.
I'm thinking of the millions of Long Duck Dong accounts.
The sig lines alone would be worth it.
The reason the RQ-4 has not gotten munitions is because it would be, by SALT II, a cruise missile if armed with deployable kinetics.
Did anyone else first read that as "deployable kittens?" No?
That's ok - it didn't really phase me either.
"Right now the closest thing you're going to get is creating a whole new profile."
Why is this a problem? People have been maintaining separate internet persona's since it started. And modern browser features make it easier: don't feel like filling out the same info for 3 different profiles? Browser auto-fill will handle that, as well as remember your different logins and passwords.
What am I missing here?
Let's just ask the octopus how to invest.
All seems condemned in the long run to approximate a state akin to Gaussian noise. -- James Martin