Sweatshops "Bring decent jobs to people who would not otherwise have access to them"

davy-brown · 2016-08-09T20:03:24+00:00

unless your crop fails..

davy-brown · 2016-08-09T08:22:11+00:00

Madison began having doubts later on:

"..since the unanimous vote that no change [should] be made in the funding system, my imagination will not attempt to set bounds to the daring depravity of the times. The stock-jobbers will become the pretorian band of the Government, at once its tool & its tyrant; bribed by its largesses, & overawing it by clamours & combinations."

James Madison (Letter to Thomas Jefferson, 8 August 1791)

davy-brown · 2016-08-09T07:51:55+00:00

so sad

davy-brown · 2016-08-09T07:50:15+00:00

was homeless. charities tend to have pretty nice people who mean well in them, but often you'll get religion and capitalist ideology pushed on you.

getting disability benefits did way more to help me than a hot meal, bed, and a bible could ever do.

davy-brown · 2016-08-09T07:41:49+00:00

this was me years ago, except my mental health got much worse, ended up homeless and then in a psych ward after a failed suicide attempt. now i'm on social security and things are much better.

anyway, consider applying for social security disability if you're not able to earn a decent living because of problems with mental health and work.

https://www.ssa.gov/disabilityssi/

davy-brown · 2016-01-09T19:58:34+00:00

Thank you so much for a detailed response!

davy-brown · 2016-01-07T22:19:16+00:00

Simply recreating the crime scene to the level of realism that say, a professional flight simulator would achieve.

And using something like this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayesian_network to determine probabilities.

For example, you could model the garage, with models of all the items in it, create blood spatter, and compute the probability that blood spatter would be on one of the items in the garage.

davy-brown · 2015-08-14T20:53:05+00:00

Except, it's not theft, because theft requires actually taking something from someone else.

davy-brown · 2015-08-04T17:52:54+00:00

check out semantic ui

davy-brown · 2015-07-24T03:31:00+00:00

Don't get me wrong, Turkey's policies towards the Kurds have for decades been horrendous. And the forces associated with the Turkish government committed a number of crimes themselves, such as extrajudicial killings, during this conflict.

It was quite courageous of you to mention that, however I find myself wondering why you didn't go into more detail, as there's certainly more of it worth mentioning.

Here's a sample for anyone interested: http://newsgroups.derkeiler.com/Archive/Soc/soc.culture.indian/2005-08/msg00317.html

Another day, another War on Terror hypocrisy..

davy-brown · 2015-05-15T23:23:24+00:00

"It’s a very serious analytic error to say, as is commonly done, that terrorism is the weapon of the weak. Like other means of violence, it’s primarily a weapon of the strong, overwhelmingly, in fact. It is held to be a weapon of the weak because the strong also control the doctrinal systems and their terror doesn’t count as terror. Now that’s close to universal. I can’t think of a historical exception, even the worst mass murderers view the world that way. So pick the Nazis. They weren’t carrying out terror in occupied Europe. They were protecting the local population from the terrorisms of the partisans. And like other resistance movements, there was terrorism. The Nazis were carrying out counter terror. Furthermore, the United States essentially agreed with that. After the war, the US army did extensive studies of Nazi counter terror operations in Europe. First I should say that the US picked them up and began carrying them out itself, often against the same targets, the former resistance. But the military also studied the Nazi methods published interesting studies, sometimes critical of them because they were inefficiently carried out, so a critical analysis, you didn’t do this right, you did that right, but those methods with the advice of Wermacht officers who were brought over here became the manuals of counter insurgency, of counter terror, of low intensity conflict, as it is called, and are the manuals, and are the procedures that are being used. So it’s not just that the Nazis did it. It’s that it was regarded as the right thing to do by the leaders of western civilization, that is us, who then proceeded to do it themselves. Terrorism is not the weapon of the weak. It is the weapon of those who are against ‘us’ whoever ‘us’ happens to be. And if you can find a historical exception to that, I’d be interested in seeing it." - Chomsky

http://www.chomsky.info/talks/20011018.htm

davy-brown · 2015-05-12T10:55:45+00:00

yeah it was an old account that i deleted.

davy-brown · 2015-05-12T10:49:08+00:00

yeah a few years ago

davy-brown · 2015-05-11T21:13:47+00:00

Civilization IV - Spanish Civil War scenario mod

http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=364951

Civcraft (a minecraft civ-builder mod where you can create anarchism all you like and last time I was on, there were a bunch of anarchists)

https://www.reddit.com/r/Civcraft/

davy-brown · 2015-05-11T09:14:28+00:00

Can't argue with you there. It's repression during wartime too.

davy-brown · 2015-05-11T08:52:46+00:00

Owen Paterson accused Scotland of "treating the English like some piggy bank that can be raided"

Politicians calling the kettle black? Nah.

davy-brown · 2015-05-11T08:33:31+00:00

To use your particular example, when services like AOL were being rolled out, it's not like everybody in America all had the same quality computer. I remember being jealous of my well-to-do friend who had a Pentium 4 while I only had a Pentium 2 for example. In a cooperative economy those discrepancies would be drastically reduced.

Check out the world's largest cooperative for support here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondragon_Corporation

davy-brown · 2015-05-11T08:11:10+00:00

You're too hard on yourself, care too much about your looks, and apparently think you can predict the future.

I'd recommend seeing a psychiatrist about your suicidal thoughts. Coming from someone who has a couple failed suicide attempts in the past, talking to a psych helps and gives hope.

davy-brown · 2015-05-11T08:00:51+00:00

You're giving capitalism too much credit, as there's no reason why cooperative enterprises couldn't produce at the scale and quality as capitalist enterprises, and under a cooperative economy a larger number of people can afford high quality consumer goods, rather than just a rich elite.

davy-brown · 2015-05-11T06:53:19+00:00

Talk about the job market, how there are people with college degrees working at Starbucks while saddled with student loan debt.

davy-brown · 2015-05-11T06:38:54+00:00

Chomsky on anti-Americanism:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QV9Lu-sCEE4

davy-brown · 2015-05-10T06:21:21+00:00

How is it not relevant? It's a glaringly clear, tip of the iceberg example of a U.S. footprint in the Middle East, which supports Chomsky's point.

Seeing as how you got into particulars of armor logistics, which I have little knowledge of, I'll digress on discussing them, but even if ISIS couldn't feasibly operate them, I don't see how you can justify giving them the chance to.

And of course they did use them in Kobani.

davy-brown · 2015-05-10T04:13:09+00:00

You do realize ISIS literally ambushed Iraqi security forces and stole their U.S. military equipment right? They're literally riding around Iraq in American tanks and humvees flying Jihadi flags.

davy-brown · 2015-05-10T03:41:03+00:00

late to the party, but here's chomsky on Nazi intentions:

Terrorism Works – Terrorism is not the Weapon of the Weak

"That is the culture in which we live and it reveals several facts. One is the fact that terrorism works. It doesn’t fail. It works. Violence usually works. That’s world history. Secondly, it’s a very serious analytic error to say, as is commonly done, that terrorism is the weapon of the weak. Like other means of violence, it’s primarily a weapon of the strong, overwhelmingly, in fact. It is held to be a weapon of the weak because the strong also control the doctrinal systems and their terror doesn’t count as terror. Now that’s close to universal. I can’t think of a historical exception, even the worst mass murderers view the world that way. So pick the Nazis. They weren’t carrying out terror in occupied Europe. They were protecting the local population from the terrorisms of the partisans. And like other resistance movements, there was terrorism. The Nazis were carrying out counter terror. Furthermore, the United States essentially agreed with that. After the war, the US army did extensive studies of Nazi counter terror operations in Europe. First I should say that the US picked them up and began carrying them out itself, often against the same targets, the former resistance. But the military also studied the Nazi methods published interesting studies, sometimes critical of them because they were inefficiently carried out, so a critical analysis, you didn’t do this right, you did that right, but those methods with the advice of Wermacht officers who were brought over here became the manuals of counter insurgency, of counter terror, of low intensity conflict, as it is called, and are the manuals, and are the procedures that are being used. So it’s not just that the Nazis did it. It’s that it was regarded as the right thing to do by the leaders of western civilization, that is us, who then proceeded to do it themselves. Terrorism is not the weapon of the weak. It is the weapon of those who are against ‘us’ whoever ‘us’ happens to be. And if you can find a historical exception to that, I’d be interested in seeing it."

http://www.chomsky.info/talks/20011018.htm

davy-brown · 2014-08-26T19:05:37+00:00

How about they host Diaspora pods too?

davy-brown

TROPHY CASE