the_ancient

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by the_ancient 10y ago
Umm, that is exactly what they are going They are bring forth the mission to decommission the A10, congress is saying no....
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by the_ancient 10y ago
>>This is something congress really shouldn't be doing. Then who should? Should we simple give the military a Trillion Dollar a year blank check and say "go forth and spend it however you want" the F35 is a terrible pl
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by the_ancient 10y ago
I see you have made a common mistake, you see we do not have a justice system. We have a legal system to the extent any justice occur is only a coincidence
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by the_ancient 10y ago
I am not extrapolating from American tax law at all I as an American citizen am in no way bound by German law For example If I put a website selling digital Nazi Merchandise, and a german citizen buys it, I am in no way violating the Germa
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by the_ancient 10y ago
>If they have German customers, they are bound to German laws because they are doing business in Germany. that is simply not true... Now for DO it might be because they have EU possibly even German Data centers but simply because a Citi
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by the_ancient 10y ago
Because people are a bunch of bastards https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVSlE28hOgI
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by the_ancient 10y ago
>>It is amazing how terribly managed our military resources are no really, military is a government program like any other... Government is nothing if not terrible at managing anything
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by the_ancient 10y ago
Yea, they are producing a non-functional aircraft, that under preforms, and can not keep pace with aircraft 20 years older than it... Yea USAF.... the F35 is terrible plane...
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by the_ancient 10y ago
Then Build more Airframes... Start up the production again, I would rather them scrap the F35 program, which is vaporware at this point, than the A10
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by the_ancient 11y ago
History would seem to indicate we will go the Way of Elysium not Star Trek.... Most of the world will live in poverty (just like today) and a increasingly smaller group of humans will live in extreme luxury. While idea's like UBI would
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by the_ancient 11y ago
That would require a change to the current economic model, the comment I replied to seems to indicate that Automation was not a threat to demand at all, but if everyone is out of work, demand for non-essential goods will be 0, no one wil
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by the_ancient 11y ago
>>you'll still be buying as much as before, you just probably won't have a job. how will one continue to buy at the same level with no income?
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by the_ancient 11y ago
My Laptop is issued to me by my employer, and I have no control over the security of it.. I have no personal information on it and you bet I have tape over the camera. Not just because of security, but many communications apps simply turn i
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by the_ancient 11y ago
Yes but they gave money to the Linux Foundation so that makes it all betterer... /s
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by the_ancient 11y ago
>>The reality is that every connected device has an ongoing cost to the company that sells it. Not true, that is only the case for devices where the company wants to have exclusive control over the connection and resulting data, The
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by the_ancient 11y ago
Mostly it is because "Connected to the point of bricking" is very new. Most "connected" devices simply have lesser or limited functionality when services they are connected to disappear. It also comes down to Ownership.
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by the_ancient 11y ago
2 Words for people Open Source... and/or Open protocols if you buy into a proprietary systems, with proprietary software and walled gardens, I have no sympathy for you. Consumers need to demand companies adopt open source software and
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by the_ancient 11y ago
If your window is broken and I replace your window but take your TV as payment, did I steal your TV? Maybe you had a different window you wanted, or maybe you did not want to replace it at all. "Paying for services" implies some
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by the_ancient 11y ago
That depends, in general yes. Generally I believe the only persons that should be in "prison" are those that are a clear danger to society Serial Killers for example. Not for punishment, but for the protection of society. I think
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by the_ancient 11y ago
Correct
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by the_ancient 11y ago
>> Imagine if you were cleared of a charge but someone kept re-accusing you over and over, dragging you back to trial again and again. Well that is turning the double jeopardy rule on its head, using that to defend not considering in
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by the_ancient 11y ago
>>Why are you allowed to murder someone in self-defense, but not as a punishment for crimes? The principle of Self Ownership, which is the basis of the philosophy of liberty https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9srplWe_QQ
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by the_ancient 11y ago
Why? Because it is "legal". Do you base your morality on what is legal and what is illegal? How do you define murder?
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by the_ancient 11y ago
I found the mechanical process appalling.
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by the_ancient 11y ago
>>At least that's how it works during trial. That is for the first trial, and the first trial only After that you are guilty, the only thing that matters to the legal system then is their arbitrary rules. The other commenter is
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by the_ancient 11y ago
>>>I'm not against the Death Penalty on general principle grounds You should be... When you kill someone outside the conditions of self defense that is murder and is immoral. I do not care if the government doing it as some ki
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by the_ancient 11y ago
WOW, Just wow... The Authoritarian Statism is Strong with you... Sadly I have no desire tonight to try to purge that immoral belief from you... Maybe one day you will see the light of liberty, but I doubt it The entire concept of being &q
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by the_ancient 11y ago
>No, it's legal. Your soundbite has no place in a serious discussion. Feel free to say it's equitable to theft, or you see it as no different, but we both know it is not actual theft, and all you are doing is avoiding the quest
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by the_ancient 11y ago
>>DUI should be legal unless someone gets hurt? yes.. Scrapping the DWI offense in favor of better enforcement of reckless driving laws would also bring some logical consistency to our laws, which treat a driver with a BAC of 0.08 mu
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by the_ancient 11y ago
I am an absolutist in this regard. no one is an embezzler, conman or contract killer until they have been proven to be beyond a reasonable doubt by a jury of their peers, Until then they are innocent and any taking of their property it imm

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