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  • Commented on The Ferguson Question
    "How come a nation & people supposedly devoted to "Liberty" have gone under so quietly?" You are mistaking the self-image of (white) Americans for the reality :)...
  • Commented on The Ferguson Question
    "Civilians now go about their business at the pleasure of the military/police/security forces...and at the slightest whim, those forces set up a lockdown in which civilians are effectively treated like people in an occupied country under military rule." The airspace...
  • Commented on The Ferguson Question
    "...so that few black residents are running for office in the first place due to lack of awareness of filing deadlines, etc. which partisan political machines do not address because local elections are almost surely non-partisan in Ferguson." Given the...
  • Commented on The Ferguson Question
    "This all implies that the "Jim Crow" years depended on deliberate breaches of state law. since without the laws, the Federal military would have been irrelevant." In the sense that deliberate insurrection, murder and terrorism were essential to establish the...
  • Commented on The Ferguson Question
    "Yes, there are ethnic minorities in the UK. But they came here because they wanted to be here. Yes, there is racism here in the UK; much of it directed by previous immigrant groups ("white British" just means people of...
  • Commented on The Ferguson Question
    "The Tea Party fills what had been an empty niche in the American poitical matrix: Culture More Control Less Control Economics Less Regulated Republican Libertarian More Regulated Tea Party Democrat" No. The Tea Party is and was a wing of...
  • Commented on The Ferguson Question
    "I’ve noticed a major change recently. These stations still attack/hate/loath Obama but they have now also turned on the rich, bankers and Wall Street. For example, a recent push by the Obama administration for expanded work visas resulted in angry...
  • Commented on The Ferguson Question
    "Ferguson seems too small to be even a one-horse town. They're lucky to have their own leg to stand on." If you read up on the government of Ferguson, you'll see that it's basically funded by police fines. And in...
  • Commented on The Ferguson Question
    "I mean, he got arrested for sitting at a table, writing! Days something about the incredible stupidity & total lack of real training of the cops." It's not bad training, and it's not stupidity. It's quite deliberate and illegal crap...
  • Commented on The Ferguson Question
    "What we're seeing in Ferguson is a force with the tools but not the training that goes with them, and a critical part of the training is how to use the tools to effectively control the crowd and calm the...
  • Commented on The Ferguson Question
    BTW, here's some background on the Ferguson PD. Note that the prosecutors and judges were accomplices. http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/08/15/the-day-ferguson-cops-were-caught-in-a-bloody-lie.html...
  • Commented on The Ferguson Question
    "Citing a list of the tragic accidents doesn't mean that the police, in general, don't attempt to live up to the highest of standards. It means they make mistakes. And when they're armed with guns and they make mistakes, it...
  • Commented on The Ferguson Question
    "In Pennsylvania, where I live, the basic police training course is about 6 months long, full-time. I assume that individual municipalities can add additional requirements as well. In poorer areas, municipal police make as little as minimum wage. In general,...
  • Commented on The Ferguson Question
    When I very occasionally leaf through gun magazines, the level of 'you've got buy this RIGHT NOW OR DIE!' is incredibly strong....
  • Commented on The Ferguson Question
    " The reason for the gun manufacturers' alarm was, ironically, the quality of their older merchandise." I had a late (18)90's Argentine cavalry carbine (Mauser); it was made specially for them, and took a special cartridge. When I went to...
  • Commented on The Ferguson Question
    "Charlie, Would something like Ferguson happen in the Merchant Princes: The Next Generation? I have a hard time imagining that the full blown police state of that time line would even let information about the riots out. Or would they...
  • Commented on The Ferguson Question
    "My current understanding of American Individualism is a bit darker. I feel any more that its current, aggressive form cropped up in the wake of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s. Essentially, the hypothesis is that the...
  • Commented on The Ferguson Question
    "...the protest is being driven by outside activists..." The proper terms are 'Northern Liberals', 'Abolitionists', 'Communist Infiltrators'....
  • Commented on The Ferguson Question
    "Ferguson is something of a special case, which I think gets lost in the reporting and controversy around it -- you can't really use it as emblematic of the country as a whole." No, unarmed black men gunned down under...
  • Commented on Down tools
    "...eating their own dogfood because they don't want to be on the receiving end of nasty firmware-delivered exploits from the USA or Russian gangsters, for that matter) ..." It's more likely that the USA gives them a 'free' gigaton of...
  • Commented on Spoiler Thread
    "Then there's the ultraviolet lights. It's odd that Basil didn't notice them, given that he's a vampire, used to dim light, and has regularly returned to the warehouse to consume his victims." What surprised me is that I had thought...
  • Commented on Spoiler Thread
    "My assumption was that the slayer isn't likely to be a badass normal since that wouldn't just be foolhardy, that would be suicide. That and the neck-snappy thing. Normals can't just snap human necks like that. So there must have...
  • Commented on Spoiler Thread
    (sorry of if this has been covered) "Hmm. One wonders if Mo's violin is particularly unreasonable in wanting Bob dead. After all, the violin probably isn't fully sentient, and it has a very simple remit:"This machine kills demons." 99 times...
  • Commented on Spoiler Thread
    "Damn, that was an entertaining read. A minor nitpick: as an ex-ACN consultant, I can assure you that we work at all hours of the day. I had several clients that loved to drop a 10-hour workpackage on my desk...
  • Commented on Spoiler Thread
    "From this incident, he starts to investigate, and begins to notice that a lot of the same people showing up at executions all over the United States. All arriving and departing by SUVs with tinted windows and Federal agency license...
  • Commented on Competition Redux!
    I like the hearing being scheduled for Friday, at 4:53 PM. My guess is that HR doesn't anticipate a long hearing :)...
  • Commented on Rhesus Chart: blood dripping fresh ...
    " YMMV, but depending upon the leadership, it might actually be better if some of the people running the eventual war effort are the PMCs (or at least the PMC's leadership). Focused on the mission (human societal survival as something...
  • Commented on The Rhesus Chart: Chapter One
    What surprised me is the incredibly bad analysis Mo was spouting[1]. As Bob pointed out, a cold-blooded creature has far smaller energy requirements. And as both know, there are creatures which feed off of information (such as a human mind)....
  • Commented on The Rhesus Chart: Chapter One
    "You might, for instance, manage to establish that use of NHS blood supplies by at least X vampires for at least Y years would have been detected with probability at least 99%." That's the most likely explanation. It's a power...
  • Commented on The Rhesus Chart: Chapter One
    "But as excel runs out of steam well just after a mere millon or so rows doing the actual analysis not so much." How do you get 1 million rows in Excel? Mine runs out after 65K....
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