GunboatDiplomat

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by GunboatDiplomat 10y ago
That's part of it, but I wouldn't put it at more than 20-30% of the total explanation.
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by GunboatDiplomat 10y ago
A lot of areas around me that went for Obama in the last 2 elections went Trump this time around. And a lot of the areas that went Hillary around here went a lot less heavily Hillary than they did Obama 4 & 8 years ago. This is in subur
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by GunboatDiplomat 10y ago
You know why we're doing it. We need to deter a resurgent Russia and China. People like you thought that nukes made conventional militaries obsolete in the 50's. That was wrong then and it's wrong now. In order to maintain co
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by GunboatDiplomat 10y ago
Well a Tomahawk is also a precision weapon, which can take out a single building.
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by GunboatDiplomat 10y ago
I dunno if it's that much of a bargain. A Tomahawk carries a 1000 lbs. warhead. These shells weigh a total of like 225 lbs., of which 25 lbs. or so is explosives.
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by GunboatDiplomat 10y ago
Zumwalt's more of a technology demonstrator. And note, that they do plan to fit rail guns to the Zumwalt class later on, which is possible thanks to their increased electrical capacity. They're not useless.
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by GunboatDiplomat 10y ago
>Boy Scouts is hardly secular Scouts is pretty secular around here. At least my troop was. Never a mention of religion, really.
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by GunboatDiplomat 10y ago
Be glad you don't work in my office, then. We've got 2 Model Ms and about a dozen cherry MX blue keyboards rattling around. Pure bliss.
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by GunboatDiplomat 10y ago
Well they haven't been focusing on yield, really. They've been doing things like making the crops resistant to glyphosate to make weed control easier, or incorporating Bt to decrease the need for insecticide. Nothing specifically
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by GunboatDiplomat 10y ago
I'm not sure whether the average US university is better or worse than the average European university, but I can say that once you're not talking about the top few schools (Harvard, Stanford, Oxford, whatever) the university itse
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by GunboatDiplomat 10y ago
If we're all racist, and that racism is enough to condemn any of us at the whim of someone else, what's the point in trying to not be racist?
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by GunboatDiplomat 10y ago
You're not supposed to unless you're on a secure network, i.e. SIPRnet, etc.
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by GunboatDiplomat 10y ago
No, it cannot. Trespass is illegal. Trespassing because you want to speak on the property is still illegal.
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by GunboatDiplomat 10y ago
Uh... no you can't. The first amendment does not protect you from trespassing charges. The second doesn't protect you from bringing a gun into a court room. And so on.
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by GunboatDiplomat 10y ago
Mormons seem to me a bit like displaced New England puritans. They're currently aligned with the south and evangelicals, but it doesn't look like an alignment that can't change.
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by GunboatDiplomat 10y ago
Wikipedia does not show Utah as having laws against faithless electors. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faithless_elector
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by GunboatDiplomat 10y ago
Not going to happen because it's not clear that there's a way to call such a convention without giving it the power to basically do whatever it wants. See the last constitutional convention for precedent.
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by GunboatDiplomat 10y ago
>The electoral college is designed to protect the country from manifestly unqualified presidents. Well, it doesn't do that in practice. The electoral college which goes against the will of the voters will quickly become the last ele
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by GunboatDiplomat 10y ago
>Indeed, a party-list proportional representation for the state legislatures would strongly encourage minority parties to obtain seats, as votes cast for a party not winning in one's district would be go on to matter on the state-wi
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by GunboatDiplomat 10y ago
>It'll work, but in a lot of cases, it's the hardware equivalent of pirating software. :/ Let me find my eye patch and parrot.
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by GunboatDiplomat 10y ago
> They were selling them for $10 a pop as well. How is that even possible? The raw materials almost have to cost more than that on the market.
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by GunboatDiplomat 10y ago
That's kind of handwavy, don't you think? How does an AI, presumably requiring specialized (and expensive) hardware, simply escape? Further, this requires humans to be easily hackable by the AI, which is not obviously going to be
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by GunboatDiplomat 10y ago
Free food. Unless you are parasite, in which case, gulag for you.
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by GunboatDiplomat 10y ago
The DMV is a pain as an American. Even if every worker in the DMV is diligent, helpful, and courteous, the DMV somehow conspires to make the whole process difficult. Go to the front desk. Fill out this form. Stand in that line. Get a stamp
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by GunboatDiplomat 10y ago
>Registration takes ~3-5 months to get an appointment, god forbid you're a foreigner and have to also register at the ausländerbehörde and wait from 3am for the 1 of 50 tickets available that day. Your bureaucracy makes American bur
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by GunboatDiplomat 10y ago
>cyclists in The Netherlands don't want to wear helmets for their daily commuting, it doesn't solve any sort of safety problem for them when you factor in the inconvenience they cause. This sounds very much like "I don&#x2
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by GunboatDiplomat 10y ago
Put the lock cable through one of the holes in the top of the helmet. Now you can't get it off without breaking it.
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by GunboatDiplomat 10y ago
> The U.S. may have ended the policy of openly torturing people, but they're still proudly assassinating people in foreign countries with drones. That's a bit different. Arguably, that's taking place in a state of war. Als
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by GunboatDiplomat 10y ago
Newark is terrible, but at least it's connected directly to NJTransit rail.
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by GunboatDiplomat 10y ago
What is with authors and melodrama about common everyday things?

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