City On The Edge Of Forever

[wilburbear]

Quote from nitro:

http://www.aclu.org/blog/national-s...erican-citizens-battlefield-they-define-being

It is official. The US sees the future, and the future is of mass riots and revolts because economically the current system is unsustainable. They see a pattern the world over, and the game is up - people realize that they are born into a world as slaves and not free men. So like Rome, the military is the only answer. Conquer more people, bend their wills to yours.

I still don't know what the [economic] answer is, I just know that instilling Marshall Law (it is this just disguised as something else) is not the answer.

The more people you piss off, the more likely your own demise eventually.

What gets us "out" is the normal, long-term march of progress.

Here are just 2 massively positive developments that will happen in this century:

1)Fusion energy - once you light the match it can burn, essentially, forever. The sun burns via fusion energy. If you think about it, coal and other forms of energy, were once life-forms that indirectly derived their energy from the sun. Solar power and others, more directly try to derive energy from the sun. But it's still "once-removed" from the source.

When we can make our own sun, watch out - a new golden age will appear.

Scientists estimate fusion energy in between 9 and 30 years from now.


2)Much of what drove our previous blast of progress was computing power. The quantum computer will change everything for the better. Right now computer systems cleverly use ones or zeros as data. In quantum computing a bit can be a one and a zero, at the same time!

Estimates for a viable quantum computer seem to range from about 6 to 15 years in the future.

 

[Wide Tailz]

Quote from morganist:

15 plus trillion dollars of debt no matter which system is not something you can solve that easily.

It will obviously be written off eventually. No other way.

Considering most of that "debt" is "owed" to US citizens via medicare/caid and social security, it makes sense that the MIC has special weapons and tactics, just for urban warfare................

 

[morganist]

Quote from Wide Tailz:

It will obviously be written off eventually. No other way.

Considering most of that "debt" is "owed" to US citizens via medicare/caid and social security, it makes sense that the MIC has special weapons and tactics, just for urban warfare................

It won't be written off it will be inflated away and will have terrible consequences.

In addition the pension liabilities will cripple the US.

 

[Lucrum]

Quote from Joe Doaks:

... We are gunned and ammoed up on my street, but nobody seems to want to run riot here. We keep hoping.

Ditto

 

[morganist]

Quote from Lucrum:

Ditto

That's right Lucrum start loading your powder musket.

 

[oldtime]

Quote from Joe Doaks:

Not to brag, or anything, but for forty years I worked developing shit that Buck Rogers had wet dreams about. Short of slaging the entire continent, boots and guns on the ground still beat the fanciest technologies. The fucking Afghans are beating us with rusty Enfields.

that's why we are changing. We are abandoning Lyndon Johnsons idea to help the poor, and Ronald Regans idea to make everybody rich, and going back to the old democrat idea of a strong and vibrant middle class.

The exteremists on both sides have had their day and failed. Nothing they can come up with is sustainable.

So the new deal is, what's best for most? Too bad about the poor and the rich. It may get worse for them.

Most people by definition are average, so it shouldn't be too hard to come up with a system that works for most people.

 

[Lucrum]

Quote from morganist:

That's right Lucrum start loading your powder musket.

I use a breech loader.

 

[oldtime]

Quote from Lucrum:

I use a breech loader.

that's a nice looking rifle. Is that a walnut stock? Hopefully it doesn't take any brains to operate. By the way, you say you use it. What do you use it for?

 

[morganist]

Quote from Lucrum:

I use a breech loader.

Sorry. I thought you said you had a compound bow but sold it for a powder musket.

As usual you prove to be a man of good taste. I like the rifle.

 

[Lucrum]

Quote from oldtime:

that's a nice looking rifle. Is that a walnut stock? Hopefully it doesn't take any brains to operate. By the way, you say you use it. What do you use it for?

It is a walnut stock, I posted an internet photo. Mine actually has a walnut forearm as well. Currently only use it for riot control. Years ago I used to hunt with it.

Quote from morganist:
Sorry. I thought you said you had a compound bow but sold it for a powder musket.

That IS true I have .54 cal black powder rifle I just don't use it anymore.