Unsurprising it would happen in Pakistan, for reasons may guess in advance, considering how much it happens everywhere else. (Only you are somewhat less likely to be brutally assaulted and/or jailed for such a display in some other places.)
I'm surprised the production went as far as it did that we even know about it. This sort of chilling must happens millions of times a day in people's heads.
Monoculture is and has always been a problem. I think the hedge these clowns play is that they can engineer something different (other than their planned re-engineering for other reasons of profit and control) if they have to.
Right. Lose job = spend money wisely. Good plan. I suppose people should suffer or die because the healthcare and insurance industries are due for some wallet-voting too?
You know, another thing is that some people do go without, for reasons like this. But one cannot go without everything and expect to function. We'd also have a different kind of disaster on our hands if everyone tried to move into caves and forests.
Life is somewhat better, although we are just as captive as we were in the good old days with Carnegie and his ilk. But things must have been great then with so little regulation and applicable law, eh?
I know, right? Because i too would be in fear of ambush when someone turns on a light an talks to me... uh... as opposed to actually ambushing me... or something. I think.
Yeah I thought Clinton already took everyone's guns and put us all in FEMA camps.
I don't know, but licenses and background checks, one would think, might keep guns out of the wrong people's hands - you know, the one's we supposedly need guns to defend ourselves against. The ones who largely get guns from shady sellers* and stealing them from houses where they are unsecured.
*This was one of the things that the abused (and purposely implemented awfully by the private sector) Chokepoint was for, also, besides things like banks processing payments from outfits who illegally charged people's CCs and such.
Too bad Dems suck at their own (putative) thing as much as they suck at what their antagonists make up about them.
That isn't what law enforcement requests from 1033, and LEOs are not the best at help and rescue in the first place.
I can just imagine drownings averted, only to be replaced by shooting and beatings because someone was too anxious or looked too... whatever. Also, you are going to have to let go of that baby so i can frisk and cuff you before pulling you out of the water, as my perceived personal safety overrides anything else.
Wanted to make some comment about "how do you define patent trolls" and "leftists" and "you hate IP", but i just can't be arsed to actually put it together.
I guess when one has surplus fucking LearJets to give away (or supercomputers, among other things), they make it easy for highly organized kleptos or thieves, and for the local police fiefdoms across the land.
But where should we cut government spending to fund something as insanely awful as a border wall? FEMA? Healthcare? Certainly not military spending, overspending, and the resultant giveaway system. And not when troops still don't get the actual support they need, in places they should never have been, creating perpetual enemies out of whole cloth. (And heaven forbid they get much help when they rotate back home, unless it is a nice job with one of the burgeoning "security consultant" firms.)
Nope, well hand over half-tracks and grenade launchers to cops, and deliver "surplus" servers to decay on a storage lot. For law and order.*
Windows was bad enough, but some of the machine vendors were/are far worse. Sometimes it is the OEM install that would require a reactivation where a retail copy of Windows would not.
emulators are not very hard to set up and run in most instances, even on old hardware.
this doesn't entirely disprove, on its own, that peolle just want free things. the tons of prior examples and research backs it up pretty handily. this is just a rather obvious case that does add evidence to the fact that not everyone just wants something free. sure, some people do, and they will even be trollishly loud and proud about it. but most people are happy to pay reasonably for something accessible.they even pay for things that become inaccessible under a variety of circumstances.
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I'm surprised the production went as far as it did that we even know about it. This sort of chilling must happens millions of times a day in people's heads.
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You know, another thing is that some people do go without, for reasons like this. But one cannot go without everything and expect to function. We'd also have a different kind of disaster on our hands if everyone tried to move into caves and forests.
Life is somewhat better, although we are just as captive as we were in the good old days with Carnegie and his ilk. But things must have been great then with so little regulation and applicable law, eh?
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https://youtu.be/z2myFLUDB74?t=74
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I don't know, but licenses and background checks, one would think, might keep guns out of the wrong people's hands - you know, the one's we supposedly need guns to defend ourselves against. The ones who largely get guns from shady sellers* and stealing them from houses where they are unsecured.
*This was one of the things that the abused (and purposely implemented awfully by the private sector) Chokepoint was for, also, besides things like banks processing payments from outfits who illegally charged people's CCs and such.
Too bad Dems suck at their own (putative) thing as much as they suck at what their antagonists make up about them.
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Oh. Maybe they did use HAARP... Need to fill those FEMA concentration camps somehow.
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I can just imagine drownings averted, only to be replaced by shooting and beatings because someone was too anxious or looked too... whatever. Also, you are going to have to let go of that baby so i can frisk and cuff you before pulling you out of the water, as my perceived personal safety overrides anything else.
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I guess when one has surplus fucking LearJets to give away (or supercomputers, among other things), they make it easy for highly organized kleptos or thieves, and for the local police fiefdoms across the land.
But where should we cut government spending to fund something as insanely awful as a border wall? FEMA? Healthcare? Certainly not military spending, overspending, and the resultant giveaway system. And not when troops still don't get the actual support they need, in places they should never have been, creating perpetual enemies out of whole cloth. (And heaven forbid they get much help when they rotate back home, unless it is a nice job with one of the burgeoning "security consultant" firms.)
Nope, well hand over half-tracks and grenade launchers to cops, and deliver "surplus" servers to decay on a storage lot. For law and order.*
*Great Justice has taken a leave of absence.
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Yeah.
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Ultimately, the role of the TSA in securing public safety is so significant ...
Yeah, citations sorely needed. All the citations of which i am aware flatly support an opposite conclusion.
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this doesn't entirely disprove, on its own, that peolle just want free things. the tons of prior examples and research backs it up pretty handily. this is just a rather obvious case that does add evidence to the fact that not everyone just wants something free. sure, some people do, and they will even be trollishly loud and proud about it. but most people are happy to pay reasonably for something accessible.they even pay for things that become inaccessible under a variety of circumstances.
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